MG Philippines continues its longstanding bid to support Filipino athletes, with the announcement of its latest brand partnership with the Ateneo De Manila Blue Eagles Men’s and Women’s collegiate volleyball teams. The Ateneo Blue Eagles are renowned all over the Philippines for their championship pedigree and now, with this latest collaboration with MG Philippines, the team aspires to even greater …
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With the theme Whole-of-Nation, Whole-of-Government for Senior Citizens of the Philippines, the Constitution and Convention of the National Advisory Body rolled off here at the Sunshine Place in Bel Air, Makati City. Atty. Franklin Quijano, Chairman of the National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) broke the ice with a short talk about the …
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The National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) has recorded its first milestone by reaching the 20,000 benchmark with its aggressive senior citizen online registration campaign through the official ncsc.gov.ph website. The record feat was achieved last December 8, barely 10 days after it was officially launched on Nov. 28 that also resulted in identifying four more centenarians from various regions of the …
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Superstar Nora Aunor is still phenomenal and controversial after all these years. Precisely. It is the Nora Aunor mystique that draws people to her as if the world has revolved back to its seventh decade ago. Imagine as frivolous yet commercially marvelous as selling homemade sardines, dried and smoke fish could be a source of controversy between her and adopted …
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Have you heard of the word “blockchain”? “Blockchain,” says Wikipedia, is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack or cheat the system. It is a digital ledger of transactions that is duplicated and distributed across the entire network of computer systems. In other words, the contents, infinite of them, are …
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Must an entertainer give in to the clamor of fans to perform even if he/she isn’t feeling well yet? If anything untoward happens to the performer, is he/she liable in his/her action? Or should the blame be put on the insistent fans? This is still the question left hanging as singer Jovit Baldovino recently died of aneurism before he was …
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The Philippines was again voted as the “world’s best country tourism destination” in the 2022 Uzakrota Global Travel Awards, cementing its position as a top-of-the-mind travel spot even during the pandemic. The country bested other countries nominated with 721 votes, bagging the award for the second time since it held the title in 2020. The initiative was led by the …
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Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) will now oversee the operations of the Clark International Airport. CIAC officer-in-charge Darwin Cunanan said that Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista directed the agency to exercise “regulatory supervision and oversight of activities occurring within the Clark Civil Aviation Complex, including CRK,” beginning last November 7, 2022. As DOTr implementing arm, CIAC will exercise oversight functions of …
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Philippine Airlines (PAL) will resume commercial flights to Baguio beginning Dec. 16, using the 90-seater De Havilland Dash 8 Series 400 next generation aircraft, operating the Cebu to Baguio and vice versa route. The Cebu-Baguio route is the latest addition to PAL’s network of domestic flights connecting the Queen City of the South to various cities in Luzon, Visayas, and …
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Japanese tourists are invited to visit and experience the now fully opened Philippines. The government had been doubling efforts to attract more Japanese to the country, who were the fourth top market prior to the pandemic. Arrivals from Japan reached 682,788 in 2019 but figures dramatically went down to 136,664 in 2020 and 15,024 last year as coronavirus compels countries …
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