March, 2023

• 27 March

  SMC water savings reach 33.8 billion liters33.8 liters

  

  On World Water Day, San Miguel Corporation (SMC) reported that its businesses collectively saved some 33,865,901,000 liters of water from 2017 to 2022–equivalent to the annual consumption of over 94,000 households, or the monthly use of over 1.129 million families.  The water savings, part of the company’s long-running “Water for All” water sustainability initiative, represent a 21.65% reduction in the …

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• 27 March

  Womenpreneur Market

  

  In celebration of International Women’s Month, SM Supermalls partnered with the Embassy of France to the Philippines and Micronesia and ACTED Philippines to promote sustainable and inclusive agriculture of Bangsamoro women. This event is in partnership with Philippine Airlines and Airspeed. VIPs: French Ambassador Her Excellency – Michele Boccoz, National Defense Secretary, Carlito Galvez, Jr., MTIT Representative, Director General of …

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• 27 March

  DTI Holds Bagsakan sa Intramuros for Foreign and Local Tourists

  

  As travel and tourism go perfectly with this year’s summer season, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is bringing unique products from across the country closer to tourists through the special Bagsakan sa Intramuros on March 25 to April 2 at the Fort Santiago, Intramuros, Manila City. In time with the grand launch of the DTI’s latest Go Lokal! …

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• 27 March

  BCDA, JICA embark on plan for the Philippines’ model Transit-Oriented Developments

  

  The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) signed a technical cooperation agreement that will help BCDA develop the areas in and around railway stations being built by the Department of Transportation (DOTr). These sites are located in Fort Bonifacio and will serve as models of the Philippines’ Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs), as well as …

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• 27 March

  Land of Sex and Videotapes

  

  Don’t look now but the Philippines is fast becoming the land of sex and videotapes. Or it has long been a country of flesh trade in discursive and metaphorical sense and sexy movies.  It is evident in my new book, “SekSinema (Gender Images in Philippine Sex Cinema Enfolding Pandemia)” where I tackle the employ of sex as a subject in …

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• 27 March

  Literary giant Vim Nadera welcomes back “Performatura” this time on pop

  

  The famed “Performatura,” a festival of written words and performances initiated by literary giant Vim Nadera with the joint collaboration of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), is here again.  After the global invasion of the deadly COVID-19 when entertainment and cultural shows were all put on hold and the viewing public was deprived of diversion and information sourced …

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• 27 March

  Serving the community

  

  Canipan-on 2019 Foundation, Inc., an organization composed of locals from Canipan-on, a small community in Hinunangan town in Southern Leyte, relentlessly works for the betterment of said place and its needy citizens through various humanitarian activities since its founding in 2019. Photo shows its new set of officers who were inducted in Dasmarinas, Cavite on March 25, 2023. They are …

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• 27 March

  Coco Martin is back to Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s arms

  

  It was the last quarter of 2021 when I learned that internationally acclaimed director Brillante Ma. Mendoza was doing a film not on his usual themes and topics on sex, drugs and violence but a food movie.  I got to know it when I called him and he said that he came all the way from Pampanga to shoot a …

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• 27 March

  Richard Quan is Governor Edwin Jubahib of Davao del Norte

  

  It’s official.  Award-winning actor Richard Quan is tapped to play the protagonist in the biopic of Edwin Jubahib of Tagum City, the Governor of Davao del Norte.  After considering John Arcilla who, according to a filmmaker, commanded a whopping P5M talent fee to portray the colorful character and his exploits, the producer of the still untitled film project decided to …

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• 27 March

  They came, they saw, they conquered in ICTSI National Open trackfest

  

  By Robert Andaya Ilagan City—Filipino-American Natalie Uy shone in women’s pole vault, Lauren Hoffman triumphed in women’s 400-meter hurdles and Aira Teodosio ruled the women’s hammer throw on another hot but exciting day in the ICTSI – Philippine Athletics Championships at the Ilagan Sports Complex here Saturday.  Uy, looking fit as a fiddle in her return to competition after four …

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