Insular Life (InLife) said its advocacy that aims to empower women has reached lives of more than 7.6 million Filipinos since its launched in 2019. InLife Sheroes Program Manager Josephine Manankil-Gonzales said movement that aims empower Filipino women has come a long way, having achieved 765...
K-pop boy band Big Bang revealed the title of their comeback song that will be released in April. On March 24, posts were uploaded on social media by YG Entertainment and Big Bang members about the song that will be released on April 5. Big Bang’s upcoming track is titled “Spring, Summer, Fall,...
Just as the country is easing toward a possible nationwide enforcement of the least restrictive Alert Level 1 response, shock waves from the Ukraine-Russia war have disrupted the economy. The rapid surge in oil prices has brought on increases in prime commodity prices. Three hard-hit sectors —...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza ABS-CBN news anchor Bernadette Sembrano’s throw-away line during her extro, “I’m not going back to my old life!” was said with such glee and gusto, it made my day! She did not elaborate, but everyone who heard her knew what she meant. There’s merit in staying...
The Life Underwriters Association of the Philippines (LUAP) launched its first-ever national awards program for the country’s top life insurance advisors and companies. In partnership with the Insurance Commission (IC), LUAP unveiled the Philippine Life Insurance Agents Awards (PhilLIAA). A...
Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos has vowed to continue pursuing programs and reforms designed to uplift the quality of life of the country's teachers, foremost of which is increasing their salaries. A teacher holds an online class during the Covid-19 pandemic (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta How I wish I had asked my grandmothers more about themselves. Both lived in historical times; both survived a yesterday of revolutions and wars of invasion; their today overlapped with mine and they unobtrusively prepared me for a tomorrow of uncertainties. My...
Insular Life (InLife) and leading mobile wallet GCash have vowed to make financial services more accessible to all Filipinos, especially for the unbanked and underbanked. During the formal launch of their partnership on Wednesday, March 9, the local insurer and the largest FinTech platform in the...
"I miss Chiz!" Heart Evangelista has been living the life in Paris, and we couldn't be happier for her as she represents the country. But this trip isn't as easy as it looks. She compiled videos of her saying she misses her. husband Chiz out loud and posted it via Instagram reels on March 9,...
AIA Philippines, formerly AIA Philam Life, is seeking thousands of its policyholders and beneficiaries who have yet to claim their benefits ranging from policy maturities, reinstatements, claims, redemptions, and even refunds. In a statement, AIA Philippines said on Tuesday, March 8, that there are...
(KEITH BACONGCO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) About 45 percent of Filipinos are expecting their quality of life to improve in the next 12 months, according to the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results released on Monday, March 7. The Fourth Quarter 2021 SWS survey was conducted from Dec. 12...
(Photo courtesy: SWS) Forty percent of adult Filipinos believed that their lives "got worse off in the past 12 months," latest survey results of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed. Based on the survey conducted on Dec. 12 to 16, 2021, 40 percent of the respondents said "their quality-of-life...
