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Seda Ayala Center Cebu Celebrates the Past and Embraces the Future at their 5th Anniversary Event, Pagpadayun
Seda Ayala Center Cebu opened its doors to locals and international travelers on August 19, 2018. Five years since its opening, the hotel looks back on its history and its contributions to Cebu City’s growth and its dynamic location in Cebu Business Park. The hotel offers a range of comforts and conveniences essential to the The post Seda Ayala Center Cebu Celebrates the Past and Embraces the Future at their 5th Anniversary Event, Pagpadayun appeared first on Cebu Daily News......»»
7 delinquent employers caught in Alabang
The Social Security System reported over the weekend that they have served notice of violations to seven establishments in Ayala Alabang and Muntinlupa City for being delinquent employers, under the agency’s Run After Contribution Evaders campaign. In a statement sent to Daily Tribune, SSS said that it’s Alabang-Zapote Branch conducted the RACE operations and found the seven incurring P4.32-million delinquencies consisting of P3.88- million unpaid contributions and over P442,000 penalties that affected the SSS coverage of 84 employees. The violators were involved in value-added reseller of outside plant, engineering services, restaurants, spa activities, petroleum products retailers, construction management and consultancy activities. The nature of delinquency of the seven employers is the non-remittance of SSS monthly contributions. Highest of them was incurred by the restaurant establishment amounting to P1.53-million unpaid workers’ contributions and more than P39,000 in penalties. Based on SSS Alabang-Zapote Branch records the establishment failed to remit the social security contributions of its 33 employees from February 2014 to April 2022. The SSS RACE campaign is being conducted to ensure employers are complying with their obligation as stipulated in Republic Act 11199 or the Social Security Act of 2018. The post 7 delinquent employers caught in Alabang appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
SSS catches 7 delinquent employers in Alabang, Muntinlupa
The Social Security System reported over the weekend that they have served notice of violations to seven establishments in Ayala Alabang and Muntinlupa City for being delinquent employers, under the agency's Run After Contribution Evaders campaign. In a statement sent to Daily Tribune, the SSS said that its Alabang-Zapote Branch conducted the RACE operations and found the seven firms incurring P4.32 million delinquencies consisting of P3.88 million unpaid contributions and over P442,000 penalties that affected the SSS coverage of 84 employees. The violators were involved in value-added resellers of outside plants, engineering services, restaurants, spa activities, petroleum products retailers, construction management, and consultancy activities. The nature of delinquency of the seven employers is the non-remittance of SSS monthly contributions. The highest of them was incurred by the restaurant establishment with P1.53 million in unpaid workers' contributions and more than P39,000 in penalties. Based on SSS Alabang-Zapote Branch records, the establishment failed to remit the social security contributions of its 33 employees from February 2014 to April 2022. The SSS RACE campaign is being conducted to ensure employers are complying with their obligation as stipulated in Republic Act No.11199 or the Social Security Act of 2018. The post SSS catches 7 delinquent employers in Alabang, Muntinlupa appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Aya Fernandez, Pat Tingjuy make debut in volleyball film ‘Rookie’
Rookie, an entry to the ongoing Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, is not only the first Filipino volleyball movie but also the big screen debut of its lead actors Aya Fernandez and Pat Tingjuy. Aya plays Jana, the team captain of a high school volleyball team, and Pat takes on the part of awkward new player Ace who falls for Jana. aya and Pat went through several rounds of audition before they got their roles in this coming-of-age queer movie directed by Samantha Lee and written by Natts Jadaone under ANIMA Studios. “We were paired with different beautiful women,” recalled Aya at an after-party dinner celebrating ANIMA Studios’ seventh anniversary. They then emerged as the perfect pair. Having known each other for a long time surely helped the onscreen partners be at ease and connect well while working. “We went to the same grade school,” said Aya, now 25 years old, and gestured to Pat. “She was our star volleyball player.” Pat could only blush in shyness. Yes, Pat went on playing volleyball, like for the University of Santo Tomas’ College of Architecture’s team, but she’s now embarked on an acting career. “This is my first time ever to be exposed like this. Acting was harder for me than playing volleyball.” For Aya’s part, the Mutya ng Pilipinas 2018 winner admitted volleyball is not her main sport. “So I had to train for almost more than a month to really correct and master the form, as well as immerse with the volleyball players,” she explained. “I’m privileged to be friends with the volleyball players.” Aya, a contract artist of Star Magic talent agency, drew from her acting experience in past ABS-CBN teleseryes Ang Sa Iyo Ay Akin, Ang Probinsyano and A Family Affair, as well as in her current projects Stand-in Love and Nag-aapoy na Damdamin in playing her character. She then found acting while playing volleyball “a new form of art,” in which “you can never fake your reaction.” She then said of Rookie, “Through this film, we hope to show that to play like a girl means to compete like a champion.” Catch Rookie at Cinemalaya XIX: IlumiNasyon, which runs until 13 August at the Philippine International Convention Center and select cinemas of Ayala Malls Manila Bay, Glorietta, UP Town Center and Trinoma. The post Aya Fernandez, Pat Tingjuy make debut in volleyball film ‘Rookie’ appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Gen Z café owners open 90th branch in Fairview
The first black soft-serve ice cream in the Philippines, Black Scoop Cafe, finally opened a branch in Fairview, Quezon City, last 7 July. Since its inception in 2018, with the first outlet in Maginhawa Street, Quezon City, Black Scoop Cafe has branched out to 89 locations all over the Philippines, making the Ayala Fairview Terraces’ garden in Fairview more memorable as the 90th branch of the cafe. The cafe’s owners are the youngest merchants of all store owners in the mall. They are there not just to sell and earn but for a more meaningful reason — to bolster Gen Zs taking over the business field. Black Scoop Cafe in Ayala Fairview Terraces, co-owned by chief executive officer RK Peralta, 23, and his partner and chairman of the cafe, Jason Dublin, 24, envision themselves taking over the business but, more importantly, Gen Zs to take over the business industry. “There’s like a connotation that Gen Zs aren’t capable of doing these things, so this is a testament that we are capable,” Peralta said. Even up to the employees, Peralta and Dublin hired Gen Zs, showing a more powerful testament to their primary goal of uplifting the status of the current generation in the business sector. “Gen Zs are ready to take over. I believe that everything can be learned naman, so I’m confident also with the staff, with the team that we have,” Peralta explained when asked about their biggest challenge. Black Scoop Cafe offers a variety of sweet and savory food and beverage options that everyone can indulge in. Menu includes (tea drinks) frappe, coffee, cream cheese lattes; (food) pancakes, rice meals, pasta, wings, sandwiches/wraps. The café also serves a “secret menu” — known only to loyal patrons — the Biscoff collection. It includes a Biscoff-flavored milk tea and frappe. The post Gen Z café owners open 90th branch in Fairview appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Special twinbill: ‘Lungs’ and ‘Every Brilliant Thing’
Three years after it was abruptly halted by the Covid-19 pandemic, The Sandbox Collective returns with a twinbill show featuring Duncan Macmillan’s plays Every Brilliant Thing and Lungs. With Sandbox Festival 2023, patrons will have the opportunity to purchase a single, same-day ticket good for both shows. The shows will run one after the other, with a 20-minute interval in between. From 17 June to 15 July, the plays will run at the Zobel de Ayala Recital Hall, second floor of the Maybank Performing Arts Theater, 9th Avenue cor. 26th Street, BGC, Taguig City. The Sandbox Collective’s managing artistic director, Toff de Venecia, hopes that Sandbox Festival 2023 will give audiences a fresh perspective on how one experiences theater. Twinbills are not an entirely new concept in theater; however, spending three hours at the theater might be unfamiliar to some Manila theatergoers. “I’m very excited for the twinbill experience of Duncan Macmillan’s works, and see how these award-winning one-act plays will resonate with each other, adding to how the world has changed dramatically since we first staged them in 2018 and 2019, thereby impacting the audience’s overall experience and takeaway,” DeVenecia said. Interactive play Every Brilliant Thing is a one-act, interactive play that follows the story of a young child growing up with a parent suffering from mental illness. The show has been staged in multiple countries and has also been translated into different languages, such as Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish and Hebrew. Taking on the challenge once again in Every Brilliant Thing is actress, model and TV host Teresa Herrera, who will alternate performances with theater actress, multimedia host, entrepreneur and Gawad Buhay awardee Kakki Teodoro. For the 2019 run of Every Brilliant Thing, both Herrera and Teodoro picked up Gawad Buhay nominations for Outstanding Female Lead. Jenny Jamora, who directed all its previous runs, will once again step in as director. She, too, won Outstanding Stage Direction for a Play at the 12th Gawad Buhay Awards. Meanwhile, multimedia comedy artist and master impersonator Jon Santos will bring a Filipino-translated performance of Every Brilliant Thing to the local stage. Tasked with the play’s Filipino translation is award-winning playwright, translator, actor and director Guelan Luarca, the recipient of the 2022 Gawad Rolando Tinio Translator’s Prize by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Changed world In March 2020, Lungs was set to be staged, and the actors and The Sandbox Collective’s creative team sought to answer the topical questions, “What world are we leaving the future generations?” and “Even if I wanted children, with everything going on around us, what kind of world would I be leaving them?” Three years down the road, the world has changed in exactly the way the play’s characters feared. On the heels of those questions comes a new one, brought on by the current state of our society: What does it mean to stage a play with characters so fearful of a far-off future in our present time, now that so many of those fears have come true in the real world? Lungs received seven Gawad Buhay nominations during its original 2018 run, including Female Lead Performance in a Play for returning cast member Sab Jose. For this festival, Jose will be joined by Gawad Buhay-nominated theater actor Reb Atadero, who was last seen in Breakups & Breakdowns and Ang Huling El Bimbo. [caption id="attachment_137900" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Sab Jose, Brian Sy, Justine Peña and Reb Atadero.[/caption] The 2023 run will also welcome theater actors Brian Sy and Justine Peña as they step into the shoes of Lungs’ anxiety-ridden characters. Peña’s performance in Uncle Jane earlier this year was lauded by critics and theatergoers alike, while Sy’s turn in Coriolano garnered him a Gawad Buhay Award for Best Male Featured Performance in 2020. Serving as the show’s assistant director in 2018 and 2020, Gawad Buhay awardee Caisa Borromeo now takes the reins as director for Lungs. The post Special twinbill: ‘Lungs’ and ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
DoT seeks satisfying world’s foodies
The Department of Tourism will expand aid to local government units or LGUs for food programs to spur Michelin-starred restaurants offering Filipino cuisine and make the Philippines the ultimate food destination in Asia. “There must be provision of assistance to LGUs to transform their destinations into Creative Cities for Food and Gastronomy,” Tourism Undersecretary Myra Paz Abubakar said last Thursday in an email to the Daily Tribune. She explained, “The ultimate objective is to establish Filipino restaurants that can compete with Michelin-starred restaurants across the world and position the Philippines as the ultimate food destination in Asia.” As the Filipino Food Month, celebrated every April, comes to its end, Abubakar said the support for food programs in LGUs will also ensure Filipino foods will not be forgotten amid the sprouting restaurants serving foreign dishes, such as Korean and Japanese. Gastronomic joys lined up She said the assistance measures are part of the department’s Philippine Experience Program: Culture, Heritage and Arts Caravans. “The program will include Food and Gastronomy destinations and activities in various thematic caravan tours that will be launched in all regions of the country.” Abubakar said new projects under the program will include Market Tours which takes food entrepreneurs and enthusiasts to traditional food markets or palengke where they can buy and learn about local goods and crops. She had said the tourism department will include a Food Map in the upcoming Tourism Mobile App. Although Abubakar was not able to give a target date for the app’s launch, she said the app is taking shape. Before the caravans, the tourism department has been organizing Kain Na! and Food and Travel Festival in partnership with Ayala Malls to spark interest in local cuisine among Filipinos and foreigners. “This food and travel festival has generated awareness and interest in the culinary dimension of the country’s destinations, featuring iconic dishes, local produce, interesting foodie experiences,” Abubakar. A total of 20 food and travel festivals have been conducted since their launch in 2018. The post DoT seeks satisfying world’s foodies appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Maynilad, MWC shelve rate adjustments for 2021
Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) and Manila Water Company, Inc. are forgoing some water rate increases they are qualified to implement in the coming year, including the next tranche of the rate rebasing adjustment as well as the mandated Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustment. This was announced separately by both companies on Tuesday. In a text message, Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Chief Regulator Patrick Ty said the MWSS-Regulatory Office (MWSS-RO) has been discussing this matter with both Maynilad and Manila Water since the start of this year. “We just received the proposals of the two Concessionaires and we are currently evaluating them,” Ty said. In a statement, Maynilad said that with this deferral, the company “hopes to alleviate the day-to-day struggles of its customers as they and the whole country strive to recover from adversity and rise stronger than before, ready to start anew”. “During these difficult times when no one is spared the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Maynilad is one with the government in finding ways to help our countrymen make the situation more manageable,” it also said. Manila Water, on the other hand, said “in the spirit of Bayanihan and to alleviate the plight of our customers due to the pandemic, Manila Water will not be implementing the rate adjustment in 2021 under the approved 2018 Rate Rebasing.” Done every five years, rate rebasing is review of water utilities’ past performance and the projection on their future cash flows. It is supposed to set the water rates at a level that would allow both Maynilad and Manila Water to recover their expenditures and earn a rate of return. For 2020, Maynilad and Manila Water also volunteered to defer the implementation of the next tranche of annual rate hike approved under the current rate rebasing period, which started in 2018. Their decision came as both companies were being scrutinized by no less than President Rodrigo Duterte for their allegedly onerous contracts with MWSS. To be implemented in tranches from 2018 to 2022, the approved increase in Maynilad’s rates under the fifth rate rebasing period would be P5.73 per cubic meter (/cu. m.). For this year, it was supposed to increase its rates by P1.95/cu.m, then another P1.95/cu.m in 2021. As for Manila Water, the increase in its rates under rate rebasing would play around P6.22 to P6.55/cu.m. This year, it was supposed to increase its rates by P2/cu.m, and another P2/cu.m by 2021. By 2022, depending on the medium-term water sources project that the company will be allowed to pursue, the Ayala-led firm could charge its customers an increase of P0.76/cu.m up to P1.04/cu.m. The CPI adjustment, on the other hand, is the annual inflation adjustment and takes place every January. Maynilad is the largest private water concessionaire in the Philippines in terms of customer base. It is the agent and contractor of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) for the West Zone of the Greater Manila Area, which is composed of the cities of Manila (certain portions), Quezon City (certain portions), Makati (west of South Super Highway), Caloocan, Pasay, Parañaque, Las Piñas, Muntinlupa, Valenzuela, Navotas and Malabon all in Metro Manila; the cities of Cavite, Bacoor and Imus, and the towns of Kawit, Noveleta and Rosario, all in Cavite Province. Meanwhile, Manila Water caters to the East Zone concession area covering the Cities of Makati, Mandaluyong, Pasig, Pateros, San Juan, Taguig and Marikina. It is also in charge of the southeastern parts of Quezon City, and Sta. Ana and San Andres in Manila. In the Province of Rizal, MWCI services the City of Antipolo and Municipalities of San Mateo, Rodriguez, Cainta, Taytay, Teresa, Angono, Baras, Binangonan, and Jala-jala......»»
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Oplan Harabas yields 3 drivers positive for drugs
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Ati tribe fenced off in Boracay
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DOTr: 2.2 million more plastic cards to be delivered
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DOF: GFIs can seek extended relief after Maharlika infusion
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Filinvest Invests P16B in Ciudad BTO Project
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Solon bats for expansion of motorcycle taxis outside Metro Manila
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Shohei Ohtani says interpreter stole money, denies knowledge of gambling debts
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Stop motorcycle taxi expansion, Marcos urged
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ICT spending in AsPac reaches $1.3 trillion in 2023
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PUBG Mobile continues steady rise in Philippines
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