Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion welcomed the government’s decision to downgrade Metro Manila to Alert Level 3 starting Oct. 16 until Oct. 31, calling it a victory for the private sector that has been tirelessly pushing for the reopening of the economy. Despite this win, Concepcion said the private sector’s campaign is not yet done as they are aiming for Alert Level 1 or a 70-percent capacity for indoor businesses in the last two months of the year. “While we are very happy with the…

For two consecutive years, SM Supermalls was named one of the winners in the prestigious World Retail Awards. This 2021, the country’s foremost chain of shopping malls wins in the Customer Experience Breakthrough category for its #AweSMLearning Phygital Campaign, besting top retail stores from other countries. With play-on-words ‘awesome’, ‘learning’, and ‘SM’, #AweSMLearning is a first-of-its-kind initiative that aimed to address the Filipino parents’ painpoints in Distance Learning brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented shutdown of schools. “Through #AweSMLearning, SM has found a new way to create…

Have you fallen out of love with your partner or special other during the pandemic? For couples, married or not, it is a fact that the quarantine has greatly impacted our lives and relationships with the people around us. And when everything gets too chaotic, the best thing to do is listen in and learn from each other’s experiences during COVID-19 and one place to do so is by tuning in to DJ Chacha and Sam YG’s podcast, “Lecheng Pag-Ibig ‘To!” Sam YG or Samir Gogna, known professionally as Samir…