August, 2024

• 9 August

  SM Foundation acquires new Mobile Clinic

  

  SM Foundation has acquired another mobile clinic to boost its medical and dental missions and assistance to its Operation: Tulong Express response program during calamities. The new mobile clinic brings the number of mobile clinics at the disposal of SM Foundation for its corporate social responsibility programs to six (6).  The new mobile clinic has added features like the canopy …

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• 9 August

  GSIS is extending its loan restructuring and condonation program until May 2025

  

  Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is extending its Restructuring Program for Service Loans (RPSL) until May 19, 2025. The extension offers a good opportunity for borrowers to benefit from longer and more affordable payment terms. “The GSIS offers a restructuring and condonation program for all past due loans. This underscores our commitment to help members and pensioners manage their financial well-being …

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• 8 August

  Award-winning films focus on Southeast Asian folklore in Tingin film festival

  

  A project of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the Tingin Southeast Asian Film Festival is back this year with a roster of award-winning films that celebrate the region’s diverse myths, legends, and folklore. Supported under NCCA’s Culture and Diplomacy program, Tingin is the country’s longest-running and only film festival dedicated to Southeast Asian cinemas. Tingin aims …

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• 8 August

  Mondelez International values snacking right

  

  How do you snack right? Mondelēz International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MDLZ) empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world with 2023 net revenues of approximately $36 billion, MDLZ is leading the future of snacking with iconic global and local brands such as OREO, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids …

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• 8 August

  FL Liza Marcos thanks UAE for donation to flood victims

  

  First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos expressed her gratitude to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for donating a cargo flight loaded with assorted goods to the Philippines to assist those severely affected by Super Typhoon Carina and the ongoing Habagat season. “Thank you to  the United Arab Emirates for their generous humanitarian aid for flood victims of typhoon Carina,” the First Lady …

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• 8 August

  Salaries of MIC must be ‘performance based’

  

  By Rose de la Cruz Finance Secretary Ralph Recto, who sits as chair of the Maharlika Investment Corp., the new sovereign wealth of the country, is not convinced that officials and technical staff must be getting an unusually high salary. Instead he proposed that such compensation should be ‘result oriented and performance-based’ rather than atrociously high. This, considering that MIC …

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• 8 August

  BSP Lifts Moratorium on Establishment of Digital Banks

  

  The Monetary Board has approved the lifting of the moratorium on the grant of new digital banking licenses starting 01 January 2025 and allowed a maximum of ten (10) digital banks to operate in the country. The grant of new digital bank licenses, which include the conversion of an existing bank’s license to digital bank license, aims to continuously harness …

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• 8 August

  BingoPlus, DigiPlus, BingoPlus Foundation magnify carnival celebration with grand donations

  

  Through an incredible partnership, BingoPlus, your comprehensive entertainment platform in the country, witnessed the BingoPlus Foundation donating a total of Php 15 million to the community during the BingoPlus Day Cebu Carnival last July 27, 2024. Out of the Php 15 million donation, the BingoPlus Foundation dedicated Php 10 million to the families and individuals affected by the recent typhoon …

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• 8 August

  Over 500 businesses operate in fragile Marikina watershed

  

  By Rose de la Cruz For decades, the local governments surrounding the fragile Marikina Watershed have been playing blind to businesses that have been sprouting like mushrooms in that ecosystem. Not surprisingly, profits and tax revenues have been their priorities. Now the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has prepared and would be issuing 540 show cause orders to these …

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• 8 August

  Landers Superstore opens 13th store in Naga A premium shopping experience comes to Bicol 

  

  Naga City, Camarines Sur – It’s Naga’s turn to experience MORE!  Landers Superstore, the fastest-growing membership retailer chain in the country, celebrates another milestone with the grand opening of Landers Naga, the 13th store overall and the very first in the Bicol region.  Grand opening highlights The exclusive media launch, held last July 30, was graced by esteemed guests of …

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