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May 20, 2023
HONOR X9a 5G to be available via Globe Postpaid Plans with Zero Cash-out, 13 GB Data!
SB19 drops new single “GENTO!”
Multi-awarded Filipino boy group SB19 drops their latest
single “GENTO,” giving fans a glimpse of what is to come for the group’s
much awaited “PAGTATAG!” era.
“GENTO” places SB19’s bold talent and confidence into the
spotlight, highlighting their strength and versatility as a group. The song offers a catchy word play, effortlessly
weaving ganito (like this), ginto (gold), and gento, the
Caviteño word for ganito. It delivers a powerful message of their
growth as a group, after years of refinement—just like gold.
For this single, SB19 draws inspiration from transformational
change—how incremental and everyday acts lead to success and change. Often, it
is the little, simplest acts that lead to triumphs.
SB19 continues to set an example of hard work and perseverance as
the group continues their path towards dominating the local, and global, music
scene. Five years since their debut, SB19 continues to test—and break—limits
with their unconventional sound and unbounded talent.
Get ready for SB19 to take you on a journey. The new single sets
the path for the group’s upcoming new EP release “PAGTATAG!” and offers the promise
of new sounds and unexplored genres that will surely pique the interest of
audiences.
This officially marks the start of the “PAGTATAG!” for SB19. Fans
can expect groundbreaking sounds in the days to come—and an exhilarating ride
as the group embarks on their second world tour. The award-winning group is set
to kick-off their world tour at the Araneta Coliseum on June 24 and 25 and will
have multiple stops in cities across the Philippines, United States, and
Canada. Ticket selling will begin on May 21 at 12 noon through TicketNet
outlets nationwide or through www.ticketnet.com.ph.
Are you ready for this? We hope you are. You’re in for a
ride.
“GENTO”
is available now on all DSPs and streaming services via Sony Music
Entertainment. Watch the music video here.
Beko marks 3rd Anniversary in Ph with trade launch, announces business development plans
May 19, 2023
Here's how you can win HONOR devices on the official HONOR Philippines Community Facebook group
HONOR fans, now’s your chance to get exclusive perks and early access to announcements when you join HONOR Philippines’ Official Facebook Community!
“We’re overjoyed with the amount of support from HONOR fans through this initiative. In just over a month, we’ve had over two thousand enthusiastic community members, and we’re glad to see the growth of this avenue where people can easily connect with one another,” said Stephen Cheng, HONOR Philippines Vice President.
TUTORIALS, EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO HONOR EVENTS, AND MORE!
HONOR Philippines has gotten over two thousand members in its Facebook community and countless of shared stories among HONOR fans. Everyday, members share their snaps from their HONOR smartphones, ask questions and entertain queries, and give free tips and tricks on how to maximize their HONOR devices’ capabilities. Outstanding shots also get recognized from time to time, and top contributors also get exclusive invites to HONOR events such as Experience Store Openings.
The Facebook Community has recently marked one of its first milestones, gifting Premium HONOR devices to few acknowledged HONOR fans who have consistently supported the brand’s community. They plan on continuing these celebrations as more people join, and give more exciting prizes through their contests and events.
Join the HONOR Philippines Community on Facebook (bit.ly/HONORPHCommunity) and make sure to
visit HONOR’s website www.hihonor.com or social media platforms: Facebook
(Facebook.com/HonorPhilippines), Instagram (Instagram.com/honorph/) and TikTok:
(Tiktok.com/@honorphilippines) for more information. To check out HONOR’s
complete list of retail stores, go to https://www.hihonor.com/ph/retailers/.
Take care of yourself and the planet with these simple self-care tips
While the pressure to live more sustainably is a huge commitment, it should not deter you from leading a more planet-loving lifestyle. Oftentimes the little things we choose to do can make a lasting impact over time.
With that in mind, here are some simple self-care tips that can benefit both you and the environment.
1. Switch to coffee beans
Nothing beats a good cup of joe in the morning, during work breaks, or even at night. You probably have a line of instant coffee packets in your pantry right now. However, those same coffee packets, which are most often made with non-sustainable materials like plastic, contribute to excessive waste in the environment. Try switching to ground or whole coffee beans and make a delicious cup with the use of a good French press. Not only do they taste (and smell) better than their instant counterparts, but you can also lessen your use of plastic. You also help support local coffee farmers when you buy their produce directly.
2. Explore natural alternatives for your skin
Some of you may like to take the time to relax and give yourselves a mini spa-day at home, with your favorite sheet masks and skincare essentials. But a lot of your favorite skin remedies are packed in plastic – even the sheet masks themselves! Lessen your plastic usage by exploring some natural remedies to try on your skin that you can easily get in your kitchen. Many natural face mask recipes are available online for you to try! So give yourself the spa day you deserve with a tomato face mask for skin brightening or a honey sugar scrub for smoother skin. Better yet, try incorporating these natural ingredients into your diet for a healthier look in the long run.
3. Lather, rinse, and reduce water wastage
Taking long showers is a sure fire hit to help melt away those impurities on your skin, or that stressful day you just had. Those long showers, however, do not help the environment as they waste a lot of water. If you like heated showers, you waste both water and electricity. Save resources by switching off the shower or your faucet when you’re soaping or shampooing. If you’re willing to go the extra mile, finding other alternatives to long showers could also work wonders such as aromatherapy or meditation.
4. Be kind to Mother Earth, choose paper stems for your cotton tips
Cotton tips, or cotton buds if you prefer, are one of the most commonly used self-care tools available today, with their flexible use in everyday hygiene, makeup, first-aid, and even arts and crafts. You may even be using cotton tips right now in your self-care routine, with a full pack of them in your personal drawer. It is not advisable to reuse cotton tips, yet a lot of them are made of plastic, and you may unknowingly be contributing to more excessive plastic waste that could be detrimental for our environment. Luckily, there are now cotton tips available in the market that are made of biodegradable materials with zero plastic. Consider switching to paper-stemmed cotton buds, which can drastically reduce your plastic usage, especially if you use them heavily.
If you are looking for the perfect eco-friendly option for your cotton tips, Babyflo Gentle Buds Eco-Friendly is the first Earth-minded cotton buds now available in the Philippine market. Made of 100% pure cotton tips, unbleached paper stems that come from responsibly managed forests, and biodegradable packaging, families can now make their personal care routine greener.
Make your personal care routine more sustainable with Babyflo Gentle Buds Eco-Friendly, the first Earth-minded cotton buds in the market.
Make that greener choice today and enjoy your self-care routine all while helping save the planet – one bud at a time!
Start your sustainable self-care routine with Babyflo Gentle Buds Eco-Friendly, now available in Mercury Drug, Puregold, Robinsons, Metro Gaisano, and other retail stores nationwide and online. For more information, visit https://philusa.com.ph/ or check out Babyflo’s social media pages www.facebook.com/BabyfloPH and https://www.instagram.com/babyflo_ph/.
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ABOUT BABYFLO
Babyflo is the first company-owned baby brand of PHILUSA Corporation. We are a 100% Filipino-owned company that is engaged in the marketing and distribution of fast-moving consumer goods and pharmaceutical products. The company’s vision is to be the leading Filipino-owned company that provides world-class quality and affordably priced health and wellness, baby care, personal care and home care products, locally and internationally, resulting in being a source of pride for its customers, business partners, employees, and shareholders.
No. 1 OLED laptop brand, ASUS, announces three #IncrediblySlim Zenbook laptops, combines productivity and sustainability
ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED forefronts the 2023 Zenbook series, adhering to ASUS’ commitment to creating products that minimize environmental impact
This new Zenbook lineup is redefining the
meaning of ultraportable, a new chapter in Zenbook’s heritage that boasts
ultra-thin and light features, powerful and uncompromised performance with the
industry-leading 13th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor with Intel® Evo™ verification,
vibrant ASUS Lumina OLED display, durable Military Grade Standard, and a leap to the next generation of
eco-friendly and sustainable technological advancements.
“The new 2023 Zenbook series offers incredible and uncompromised performance designed to empower every Filipino individual to help them achieve their goals. We are confident that the 2023 Zenbook series can provide more with less harm to our environment, adhering to the Zenbook heritage and taking ASUS to a brand new milestone, says ASUS Philippines Country Manager George Su”.
Incredibly Slim and Vibrant Lumina OLED for all
The new 2023 Zenbook series features the new ASUS Lumina OLED Display. It promises a more accurate, adaptive, and reliable laptop experience while giving a visual marvel experience. In addition, users can activate the ASUS OLED Care screensaver to prevent OLED screen aging using the MyASUS app.
ASUS
Lumina OLED technology is available and exclusive across the new ASUS Zenbook
series. It lets you enjoy an incredible viewing
experience with a high contrast ratio, deeper blacks, fast response time, and a
70% less blue light reduction that protects users from eye strain. To know more
about the benefits of this technology, check it here Why ASUS Lumina OLED.
Incredibly Slim for every new gen of Filipino individual
Perfect for on-the-go professionals, the
ultra-thin and light Zenbook S 13 OLED (UX5304) is
the world’s slimmest OLED ultraportable laptop weighing only 1 kilogram with a
1-centimeter thin body.
With the growing trend for work and life
balance, this new Zenbook was designed to have a sophisticated ceramic-coated
look and feel, ideal for people needing a reliable, attractive, and timeless
device anywhere and any time of the day. Slim as a pen, the new Zenbook S 13
OLED is 30% slimmer with more features to give the best user experience, using
fewer materials as compared to the previous models.
Adhering to ASUS’ philosophy of
responsible innovation, ASUS is also joining the movement and leaping to
produce sustainable devices in the long run. The all-new Zenbook S 13 OLED uses
recycled materials in its design, including post-consumer recycled (PCR)
plastics, post-industrial recycled (PIR) aluminum, and PIR magnesium alloy.
This device is the most eco-friendly Zenbook ever made, reducing its carbon footprint by 50%. To complement its longer product life cycle, the packaging of this new Zenbook is 100% recyclable with reusable and compostable materials.
As
a commitment to do more with less through the Zenbook series, ASUS is joining
forces with CORA Philippines,
a non-profit organization founded by celebrity and United Nations Goodwill
Ambassador Antoinette Taus. CORA is dedicated to creating sustainable programs
that help solve issues centered on poverty, hunger, inequality, and climate
change that directly affects underprivileged Filipinos. With this partnership,
ASUS and CORA aim to promote the importance of creating sustainable programs to
conserve the environment and the lives of future Filipinos through a series of
activities.
The
Zenbook S 13 OLED (UX5304)
comes in an eco-friendly Basalt Gray
color with a starting price of PHP
79,995.00. It will be available with up to Intel® Core™
i7 processor,16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of storage.
Truly a unique laptop that could give a
versatile performance, the new Zenbook 14 Flip OLED (UP3404) would
suit you, whether you’re masculine or feminine, because of its convertible and
stylish design.
This new Zenbook is the most versatile
and incredibly slim with its thin and light form factor. It is capable of a
360° hinge that allows the device in four different modes: Laptop, Tent, Stand,
or Tablet, which offers users a wide range of options to work or relax anytime.
Content sharing will now be easier and
faster with the Tablet Mode, keeping up with the demands of the digital world
can be faster using the Stand Mode, convenience is within your fingertips because
of the Laptop Mode, and relaxing after a long day is now possible because of
the Tent Mode.
The Zenbook 14 Flip OLED
also features a touchscreen ASUS Lumina OLED display. making this device a
truly reliable work partner. Upon purchase, the Zenbook 14 Flip OLED will also
come with an ASUS Pen 2.0 to replicate the natural
feeling of having a real-life pen.
The ASUS 2.0 produces the
finest lines and the broadest brush strokes on sketches, and it will also be
easier and faster to work or present anytime time of the day.
The Zenbook 14 Flip OLED (UP3404) comes in a premium Ponder Blue color, and it will be available with a starting price of PHP 74,995.00. It will be available with up to an Intel® Core™ i7 processor,16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of storage.
Incredibly
Slim and compact for every creative digital nomad
One
of the winning products during the 2023 Red Dot Product design, the new Zenbook Pro 14 OLED
(UX6404) is a compact, thin and light creator
laptop packed with features a creative professional needs.
This new creator Zenbook boasts the latest
NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 4060 GPU with NVIDIA Studio Drivers for content creators,
making it a reliable tool for faster rendering, photo or video editing, and a
more efficient multitasking experience.
For
a seamless and precise editing experience for creative professionals, this new
Zenbook Pro has the ASUS DialPad technology customized for Adobe Creative
software, now also compatible with other applications. It also features ASUS
IceCool Pro thermal technology to ensure the device stays cool and efficient
during heavy-duty applications.
As
an additional feature, this new Zenbook Pro Creator laptop will have a
dedicated MUX Switch to reduce the latency and increase the response time for
3D applications, and perfect for casual gaming on the side.
The Zenbook Pro 14 OLED (UX6404) comes
in a premium Tech Black color for PHP
139,995.00. It
will be available with an Intel® Core™ i9 processor, 32 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of
storage.
Incredibly Slim, powerful, and durable
For
an ultimate and powerful laptop experience, these three new Incredibly Slim
Zenbook laptops boast an industry-leading 13th Gen Intel® Core™
Processor and Intel®
Evo™ Certification. With this Intel technology, users are assured that they
will not experience any hiccups at any time of the day.
The
2023 Zenbook series is ultra-durable. For 2023, ASUS doubled the Military Grade
Standard testing, which means these new Zenbook series have a longer lifespan
as compared to the previous models. It underwent 26 rigorous and
ultra-demanding procedures and 12 testing methods to ensure that the device
will survive every environmental condition that you face every day.
Lastly, these new Zenbook laptops will have two years of ASUS Global Warranty, as well as an additional ASUS Platinum Protection warranty for one year starting from the date of purchase, making it perfect for users traveling abroad with their new Zenbooks. ASUS also has 69 service centers nationwide if you ever run into any problems with your new Zenbook.
Availability
& Pricing in the Philippines
The
all-new 2023 Zenbook series will have a starting price of PHP 74,995.00 and will be available through Home Credit with up to
18 months of flexible payment terms with 0% interest in-store for ASUS Fans.
Learn more about these Incredible Slim laptops, you may check the official page
of Where to buy: ASUS OLED
Laptops, or you may follow the official social
media pages of ASUS.
May 18, 2023
Palawan students bag top prize in 'Shell Pilipinas' NXplorers: The Bright Ideas Challenge' for agri innovation idea
May 17, 2023
Services at Qatar Visa Center: What you need to know before you visit Qatar
With some 250,000 Filipinos working in Qatar, the Gulf country remains one of the more popular destinations for Overseas Filipino Workers. Filipinos going to Qatar for work, must obtain a work visa (VRN) through their sponsor in Qatar and subsequently complete their biometric enrollment, undergo medical examinations and sign their work contracts by visiting the Qatar Visa Center in Manila, before traveling to Qatar.
If you’re looking to work in Qatar or are curious about the visa process, here’s a short list of Frequently Asked Questions you may use as a guide in your application process.
What is the role of Qatar Visa
Center?
Qatar Visa Centers are operated under the mandate of the Ministry of Interior, the State of Qatar, Qatar Visa Centers only handle the administrative and non-judgmental aspects of the biometric enrollment and medical services as per the directives and requirements defined by MoI.
What are the services that Qatar Visa
Center offers?
Qatar Visa Center services include facial image capture, iris scan, finger roll, thumbprints, palm scan, medical check-ups covering X-rays, blood checks, eye tests, vaccinations, doctor examinations, and consultations.
What is the referral process? Why do
applicants need to visit partner hospitals/ labs?
Medical examinations and referrals are part of the visa process and depending on the initial visa medical examination, some applicants (Lounge/VIP included) may need to undergo paid/unpaid medical investigations following protocols set by the Qatar Ministry of Health (MoH). Applicants requiring these advanced medical investigations are referred to as Medical Referrals and such investigations are referred to as Medical Referral Tests.
Some applicants may be asked to repeat tests such as X-Rays or do further tests for several reasons and will need to visit an approved external lab or hospital. These facilities are accredited by the Philippine Department of Health and are able to conduct the required tests.
These
re-tests will require applicants to revisit the center and complete the process
at no additional cost to the applicant. Usually revisits only take a day,
however, in special cases, several revisits may be required as medical
approvals depend on a lot of factors including the applicant’s current health
status, guidelines, and protocols defined by the Qatar authorities.
What are the types of Medical
Referrals?
- Additional X-ray images -
Applicants may be required to revisit the Qatar Medical Center (QMC) for
additional X-ray images based on MoH instructions.
- Additional lab tests - If
additional lab tests are required, then blood samples are sent to external
labs for further testing.
- External Specialist tests - Applicants may be referred to specialists at approved hospitals for further tests based on MoH guidelines (may require the collection of referral letter/ document submission)
What are the reasons for an
applicant’s medical status to remain pending?
As a visa-processing center, Qatar Visa Center submits the medical test reports directly to Qatar authorities. It usually takes 10-15 business days to determine whether the applicant is FIT or UNFIT to work in Qatar. In certain cases, the respective Qatar Authorities may take longer for additional investigations which may delay the declaration of results. Applicants may track the progress of their visa application conveniently through the Track Application or Status Check section by visiting our website.
If
your visa application status shows "under process" for longer than
the usual processing time, you can contact QVC customer service for assistance.
They will be able to provide you with more information on the status of your
application and advise you on what steps to take next. As a reminder, the Qatar
Visa Center and the Qatar Medical Center are not involved in the
decision-making process when it comes to visa applications.
What should I do if I cannot reach QVC's call center?
If you cannot reach QVC's call center, you may contact them via email at info@qatarmedicalcenter.com or info.mnl@qatarvisacenter.com, or use the chat option available on the website www.qatarvisacenter.com.
Do applicants need to pay for advanced medical tests?
Yes, applicants may need to pay for advanced medical tests conducted at approved external hospitals or labs and will receive a receipt for the payment. Blood samples may be collected at the center and sent to external labs to ensure security and prevent fraud. Please note that the QVC does not offer expedited processing or guaranteed approval for a fee.
What is the Qatar Visa Center lounge
service?
Our Lounges at the Qatar Visa Centers are designed for patrons who wish for more personalized service in an enhanced atmosphere. The Lounge service entitles the applicant to a one-to-one service with a dedicated staff member ensuring a prioritized biometric enrolment and medical test. To access our Lounge service, kindly inform our reception on the day of your appointment.
The Lounge service at the Qatar Visa Centers is optional and does not affect or guarantee a faster visa or medical processing by the Ministry of Interior, the State of Qatar.
Learn
more about the Qatar Visa Center and how to process your visa application by
visiting www.qatarvisacenter.com.