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  Location can make or break a business. This must have been an important consideration for a number of new entrepreneurs who chose to get their startups off the ground at SM Malls. Start Up Market, the hub for emerging small businesses, will be up and running in these regional and premier malls in key cities across the country: SM North Edsa, SM Mall of Asia, SM Southmall, SM Pampanga, SM Clark, SM Grand Central, SM Sta. Rosa, SM City Cebu, SM Iloilo, SM Bacolod, SM CDO Downtown Premier, and SM Lanang Premier. SM Megamall kicked off the opening of the Start Up Market last December 15, highlighting a wide variety of product categories. From innovative brands that sell comfort food, health and wellness, to tech, home essentials and many more. Having launched their businesses online, most of these small entrepreneurs consider the hub as a chance to have a physical stall where they can have a face-to-face interaction with their clients. The Start Up Market not only helps startup...

      MANILA, PHILIPPINES, December 14, 2021  – If you have ever noticed messages in work and marketing emails encouraging you to consider the environment before printing, you are well aware of the perception that printing output, and its associated hardware, produce waste that finds its way into landfills. Paper waste alone makes up between 7% and 23% of municipal solid waste depending on whether it is a low-, middle-, or high-income country.   While printer energy consumption, paper waste, ink usage, and cartridge replacement have an environmental impact, consumers may be largely unaware of the advances that have been made to reduce the printer output, materials and accessories that find its way to landfills. Consumers in Asia Pacific are becoming more conscious of whether the products they are buying are green, or clean, as their sustainability sophistication grows in each market. Businesses are also devising ways to achieve more circular models to encourage ...

  And just like that, Negros Season of Culture rounds out another year. This time, three inspiring features tug at heartstrings of those who long to be home. Each, carefully selected to represent Integrity, Industry, and Innovation, core values that have carried Negrenses through adventures high and low, near or far. Home furnishing designer Christina Borromeo-Gaston of Hacienda Crafts in Manapla, Negros Occidental, has collaborated with the Carmelite nuns of CM Bamboo Craft Centre based in Iloilo. With over half a century of creative work between them, these two design houses, habitues of Manila FAME shows, are launching a collection of Christmas tree ornaments. The artistic manipulation of bamboo veneers into Filipino-motif vignettes makes these holiday trims unique – what a way to bring country to cosmopolitan living! Curated into themed collections, 18 hand-crafted ornaments attest to the integrity of the bamboo and the desire to tell the story of Philippine rural life. It is a...

  Vibal Foundation’s (VF) Philippine Cartography 4th edition won the 2020 Gintong Aklat Awards for Social Sciences category. The awarding ceremony was streamed live on the Facebook pages of the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP) and Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) on Wednesday afternoon, November 17. VF’s Program Director Kristine E. Mandigma, book editor Dr. Carlos Madrid, and Ms. Denden Quirino, daughter of the book’s author and National Artist Carlos Quirino, gave their acceptance speeches. Established in 1871, Gintong Aklat Awards is conferred bi-annually by BDAP. The outstanding Philippine books are chosen based on overall excellence—from the quality of production, design, and printing to the quality and significance of content.  Philippine Cartography 1320-1899, Fourth Edition National Artist Carlos Quirino recounts how the concept of the Philippines emerged as a vague grouping of islands in the early fourteenth century and evolved in fits and s...

  FPG Insurance, a major player in the non-life insurance industry, inks partnership with GCash to offer retail insurance products within the mobile wallet. This deal marks FPG Insurance as the  first non-life insurance company to partner with the fintech giant. Under GInsure, the fintech’s insurance product offerings, users can now purchase insurance coverage for Compulsory Third-Party Liability  (CTPL)  insurance   and   personal accident protection. “This timely partnership is a testament of our steadfast commitment to make insurance available and accessible to all. The key to bringing insurance products closer to more people is to tap the potent digital community of GCash and this is only the beginning of many  exciting  things to watch out for,”  said FPG Insurance President and CEO Gigi Pio de Roda . With GCash’s latest addition to its insurance product offering, motorists can now buy CTPL Insurance, a mandatory vehicle registration req...

  Did you know that surrounding yourself with art makes you healthy and productive?   Studies show that looking at art reduces stress and induces relaxation. Feel-good hormones are released and a wave of positive energy courses through our bodies.   Would you believe you can also get good vibes from biscuit cans that feature beautiful artwork?   Rebisco’s Special Designer Tin Cans are hot collector items these days because not only are they filled to the brim with high quality Rebisco biscuits, they feature the colorful art of renowned and budding Filipino artists.   Paintings of two very sought after Filipino artists celebrate Filipino heritage, life and culture on the special cans. Paete-born Dominic Rubio, famous for his figures of men and women with elongated necks dressed in traditional Filipino attire, conveys the proud history and heritage of Filipinos. Award-winning Aljo Pingol from the University of Santo Tomas’ Fine Arts program provides an optimistic ...

         ●       Korea’s popular K-Pop dance team, Lachica, have                  launched a series of Online and in real life              experiences on Airbnb Guests can learn the step-by-step dance choreography of some of the well-known K-Pop songs Those who participate will also get the opportunity to make their own music video Manila, Philippines, December 10, 2021 -  Lachica, Korea’s well known K-Pop choreography team and stars of popular Korean TV show,  Street Woman Fighter , have launched a K-Pop dance Experience on Airbnb. Gabee, Rian, and Simeez from Lachica will host Online and in-real-life Experiences for guests from all over the world. Lachica captured the hearts of Koreans when they appeared on the dance competition series,  Street Woman Fighter . Since then, Lachica has earned a reputation as one of Korea's best K-Pop dance choreogr...