Evo & Grace: The WanderLusts

Komedya ng Don Galo THE Cultural Center of the Philippines continues its pursuit of “truth, goodness and beauty” with new free performances for its Sinag: Festival of Radiance, happening every weekend starting November 16 until December 15. Last November 16, the Simeona F. Chanyungco Lahing Kayumanggi Mananayaw ng Marikina (SFCLKM) Inc. delighted passersby, tourists and just about anyone who visited the complex with folk dances from the different regions in the Philippines. One of the best performers of the 2018 CCP Band Festival, the General Trias Youth Symphonic Band, under the musical direction of PPO's Frenvee Clarito Andra, plays pop classics and medleys on November 23. PWU Indayog Gongs Witness a traditional komedya on December 8, with Komedya ng Don Galo, the official theatre organization from Brgy. Don Galo in Parañaque City. Established in 2004, the theater group aims to promote, preserve and support the tradition of komedya, a unique form of theater....

PUSO! NorthPine Land leaders, namely (left to right): Erwin Buñag (AVP for Construction Management), Amytis S. Banaag (AVP for HRODA), Benigno A. Tatunay (CFO), Ferdinand M. Macabanti (General Manager), Wilhelmina C. de Ere (VP for Corporate Services), Aileen B. Morales (AVP for Sales Operations) and Paul D. Lamagna (AVP for Project Development) power up NLI Sales Force with Coach Chot Reyes (middle). NorthPine Land , Inc. (NLI), a trusted developer of premium communities to the middle-income market, rallied its team for a strong finish this 2019 through a talk titled One Last Push, PUSO! headed by Chot Reyes, former Gilas Pilipinas coach. Skyrocketing sales and new milestones for 2019 did not stop NLI to further push its sales team to sustain the winning attitude. Being the man behind the Filipino well-loved Battlecry PUSO , Reyes stressed the value of passion in work and pouring one’s heart in order to foster and maintain a winning culture. The multi-awarded coach also highlig...

If one factor is to be named on which today’s business world stands it is undoubtedly the data management system of organization. The significance of data captures and interpretation is such that many make and break of most business organizations and big corporate houses depend on efficient data management. Collecting data known, as capturing data at the first place is indispensable for any business house. All type of trading needs data, to manage both the internal and eternal working of the company. Information about details of products dealt by organization, employees working for the growth of company and the marketing opportunities available each aspect need to be studied carefully and analyzed for business promotion, expansion and even day-to-day normal running of business. Data manipulation and interpretation has been an integral part of enterprises since long only the methods of data entry, storage and retrieval keep on being upgraded to suit growing needs of business world...

Big Tobacco apparently has no intention to reduce sales of cigarettes while aggressively promoting supposedly smoke-free alternative products. According to a new report Big Tobacco’s smoke-free deception: Tobacco trademarks in ASEAN countries uncover the truth, tobacco companies registered more intellectual property (IP) for cigarette brands than for brands of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) or e-cigarettes and Heated Tobacco Products (HTP). The report was launched today by the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA). These past four years in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, Philip Morris International (PMI), Japan Tobacco International (JTI) and British American Tobacco (BAT) filed 533 IP registrations for cigarette brands, compared to only 169 for HTP and ENDS; out of these, 357 cigarette brand registrations have been approved compared to 112 for HTP and ENDS. PMI filed the most trademark applications for both existing and new cigare...

Transcendental  by Atsuko Yamagata THIS 14 November 2019, Thursday, 6pm, the Cultural Center of the Philippines unveils the work of visual artists Mervy Pueblo and Atsuko Yamagata from the recently concluded the 7th international art festival called the Nakanojo Biennale in Japan. The CCP invites visitors to look into the insights of the artists in this exhibition who addresses historical, contemporary and societal specters. Pueblo and Yamagata, visual artists based in Manila, met, created and exhibited their works at the biennale that was held in Japan last September 2019. Working both individually during their artist in residency of the biennale, Pueblo and Yamagata realized projects that respond to the physical and nonphysical realm. Pueblo’s installation is interjected with coded references, creating socially charged mysterious draperies that function as a portrait of our contemporary reality. Yamagata playfully explores animist processes and present...

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