By YVETTE TAN Most people know Thou Reyes as an actor who’s appeared on TV, in film, and onstage. What not a lot of people know is that this Metro Manila Film Festival New Wave Best Supporting Actor winner is also an entrepreneur. Actor Thou Reyes is the owner of Rice and Shine, a rice and sundry...
AVANT GARDENER Most people know Thou Reyes as an actor who’s appeared on TV, in film, and onstage. What not a lot of people know is that this Metro Manila Film Festival New Wave Best Supporting Actor winner is also an entrepreneur. Reyes is the proud owner of Rice and Shine, a rice retail shop...
By YVETTE TAN Bungkol Elementary School (BES) stands beside Good Food Farm in Calauan, Laguna. It has been a beneficiary of Rise Against Hunger Philippines’ (RAHP) feeding program for almost two years, and has already seen big results. Bungkol Elementary School has been a beneficiary of Rise...
AVANT GARDENER (Part II) last week, Glenn Denning, author of Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet, explained why it is possible to achieve universal food security given current resources. Here, he discusses how that can be made possible. Getting everyone on...
By YVETTE TAN According to an August 2023 survey by Social Weather Stations, about 10.4 percent of Filipino families have experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months. This means that the family has been hungry but did not have anything to eat. Hunger isn’t the only...
Billionaire Andrew Tan’s investment arm Alliance Global Group Inc. (AGI) registered an 18 percent net income growth to P20.1 billion during the first nine months of 2023 from the P17.1 billion earned during the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE),...
Taipan Lucio Tan’s investment holding company LT Group Inc. (LTG) reported a six percent dip in attributable net income to P19.25 billion for the first nine months of 2023 from the P20.41 billion earned in the same period last year due to a drop in profits from its tobacco business. In a...
AVANT GARDENER In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos wanted to assemble the infinity gauntlet so he could eradicate half of all life in the universe because he claimed that genocide is what is needed to restore balance and to keep resources from being depleted by overpopulation. This was not his...
Newport World Resorts (NWR) is poised to elevate Manila’s culinary scene with the arrival of Gordon Ramsay Bar and Grill, marking the acclaimed chef’s debut in the country. “The opening of Gordon Ramsay Bar and Grill within the property by the second quarter of 2024 is part of NWR’s epic...
Billionaire Andrew Tan’s township developer Megaworld Corporation reported a 39 percent growth in net income to P13.5 billion in the first nine months of 2023 as it posted double-digit growth across all core business segments. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the firm said...
Billionaire Andrew Tan’s leisure development business Global-Estate Resorts Inc. (GERI) reported that its net income was up slightly to P1.5 billion in the first nine months of 2023 from the P1.45 billion earned in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE),...
The Ayala Group’s manufacturing arm Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI) reported a net loss of $1.6 million in the first nine months of 2023 from $0.81 million in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the firm said revenues were lower and the...
