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Story and photo by Leilani S. Junio  Philippines News Agency The Department of Health (DOH) last Thursday signed a memorandum of agreement to enhance the basic interventions needed to address existing gaps in the Philippines’s mental healthcare services.

True productivity is now wedded to accessibility and affordability after leading computer-store chain PC Express introduced its line of budget-friendly personal computers (PCs), installed with genuine copies of the Windows 10 operating system under its new PCX brand, to answer customers’ growing need for high-quality, yet inexpensive desktops.

The Suzuki Celerio, one of Suzuki Philippines’s (SPH) best-selling cars, clinched the top spot for fuel efficiency in the gasoline-engine category at the first Euro 4 Fuel Economy Run organized by the Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with Petron Corp.

Fiber-cement technology leader James Hardie Philippines recently signed an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract with JGC Philippines Inc. for the James Hardie Line 2 Project that will expand its manufacturing plant in Cabuyao town, Laguna province.

Sharp’s new washing machines make laundry time manageable, as well as save on water and electricity. 

Canberra—Breastfeeding should be encouraged over feeding newborns with baby formula, as an overreliance on formula could put the health of children and their mothers “at risk” in the future, researchers from Australian National University (ANU) said last Thursday. 

Germany-based software firm SAP introduced last week the SAP Health Engagement technological solution, which directly connects patients to physicians and health-program managers. 

Flash, a mobile-phone brand under China-based TCL Communication, last week struck another partnership with online-shopping company Lazada Philippines to launch its new flagship phone, Flash Plus 2, on May 31. 

Chinese multinational technology firm Vivo unveiled in the Philippines on May 16 its Vivo V3 Max smartphone, which boasts of “faster than faster” performance and premium features that include faster fingerprint-unlocking, faster battery-charging, a quick-launch camera, and a smart split function. 

Flash-storage solutions provider SanDisk Corp. has unveiled its improved, next-generation mobile storage device designed to instantly free up space on iPhones and iPads, called the iXpand Flash Drive.