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Most Filipinos are optimistic about the 2019, said a survey commissioned by Cebu-based financial services company Flexi Finance Asia Inc., with 94 percent of all respondents across gender and age brackets forecasting good times for the new year.

(L-R) Senior Program Manager Nowell Cuanang, First Vice President for Public Affairs Nessa Valdellon, Assistant Vice President Jaileen Jimeno, and GMA News Online Editor-in-chief Jaemark Tordecilla. GMA News and Public Affairs—the most internationally-awarded broadcast news organization in the country— just received an innovation funding grant from the world’s leading online video platform YouTube.

GMA Artist Center proudly welcomed Queen of Creative Collaborations Heart Evangelista into its roster of talents as she signed an exclusive management contract last December 13.

The time just before Christmas - the most wonderful time of the year -- could be horrible. Imagine wading into crowded malls after struggling with the traffic for gift shopping with nary an idea what to buy yet. Perhaps, this list of gift ideas from Flexi Finance could help.

(Winning for two consecutive years the award of International Event of the Year, Princess Galura (center) of Sunrise Events, Inc. leads Lapu-lapu Tourism Officer, Hembler Mendoza, and Cebu Province officials Atty Mark Tolentino and Grace Paulino and DOT 7 Regional Director Shalimar Tamano (second from right) in receiving the award for Ironman 70.3 Asia Pacific Championships from Bob Zozobrado (extreme left), Chairman of Pacific Area Travel Association - Philippine Chapter and Charles Lim (extreme right) Founder and Chairman of Philippine Sports Tourism Awards.) The Asia Pacific Ironman 70.3 inspired event held in Cebu in 2017, resulted in grabbing four plum awards in the prestigious Philippine Sports Tourism Awards (PSTA) held in Savoy Hotel Manila last week.

Santa Clause is coming to town! After the grand launch of Christmas at SM City Iloilo and Santa Clause ushering the holiday season, our most loved Christmas icon will be coming to the mall for a Meet and Greet event.

Bacolod City has come a long way from being the gateway to the Hacienda Sugarlandia of Negros Island to becoming one of the fastest growing service and business process outsourcing hubs in the country.

Freshly foraged from the forest with the juicy, fruity aroma of cranberries, raspberries and blackcurrants, the new, limited edition Berry Bon Bon Collection is enriched with cranberry seed oil from the floodplains of North America. Be Enchanted by Nature this Christmas with gifts from The Body Shop, and give something back with every purchase.

Globe CEO and President Ernest Cu gives thanks to the continuous support of GoWiFi business partners at the annual Partners Night held at Revel at The Palace Globe Telecom marks another milestone in growing partnerships with fellow industry leaders through GoWiFi, the public WiFi hotspot service of the telco. Servicing more than 1,500 locations nationwide including major malls, convenience stores, coffee shops, supermarkets, transportation hubs, hospitals and airports, GoWiFi continues to redefine the customer experience in public WiFi usage.

The Department of Tourism (DOT) Region VI in partnership with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Province of Capiz, Roxas City LGU and Western Visayas Filmmakers Network (WVFN) will launch the 6th CineKasimanwa; Western Visayas Film Festival and the 3rd year of DOT Western Visayas Film Grant Program at Robinsons Place, Roxas City, Capiz on December 8-10, 2018.

Globe Postpaid customers enjoy six months of Amazon Prime Video Globe customers can get six months of Amazon Prime Video access compliments of Globe, with a postpaid plan. With this offer, Globe customers can watch movies and TV shows on Prime Video, including critically acclaimed and award-winning Prime Original series like Homecoming, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Grand Tour, Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, an all new season of The Man in the High Castle, and more.

Globe SVP for Law and Compliance, Chief Compliance Officer and Assistant Corporate Secretary Marisalve Ciocson-Co (3rd to the right) receives the award for Globe at the 2nd ASEAN Corporate Governance Awards Ceremony at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Malaysia Globe Telecom made it to the top 50 publicly-listed companies (PLCs) in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for excellent performance in the ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard (ACGS). This is a testament to the company’s commitment to good governance principles to create shared value for all stakeholders.

It was a weekend of nail-biting matches as rivalries and rematches took center stage at the recently-concluded Globe PPGL Season 3 Grand Finals. The best teams and fighters from all over the Philippines met at the Glorietta 2 Activity Center for a 2-day competition that saw new Esports kings crowned and 9,000 fans come out to watch it all play out.

The Department of Tourism Region (DOT) VI has been assisting the Province of Antique to improve its tourism capacity.

Boracay stakeholders during the marine conservation workshop Boracay may have opened again for international and local tourists to enjoy but local leaders and authorities are still keeping an eye on businesses to ensure that all enterprises remain compliant to environmental policies and that new measures to preserve this highly-popular destination are strictly followed.