Say “I Do” to Heritage and Style: Richmonde Hotel Iloilo Inspires Engaged Couples with Bridal Collection Exhibit and Wedding Offers

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ILOILO CITY, PHILIPPINES — Planning a wedding is a journey of turning dreams into reality, and Richmonde Hotel Iloilo is setting the perfect stage for modern couples as they begin their "happily ever after." Last June, the hotel lobby was transformed into a haven of style and local creativity with Richmonde showcasing the stunning bridal fashion exhibit of renowned Iloilo-based designer Peter Gagula, under his celebrated brand Peach Garde.

Running until July 15, the display features an extraordinary collection of wedding gowns and Barong Tagalog reimagined through contemporary design. Every piece celebrates Filipino craftsmanship, heritage, and creativity, utilizing the rich textures of locally sourced fabrics to bring timeless glamour to modern weddings. Beautifully styled by Events by Tanz, the exhibit serves as an invitation to couples planning a dream wedding that blends tradition and unique style.

The Perfect Prelude: "Ready, Set, I Do!" Pre-Wedding Stay

The artistry featured in the lobby is just a glimpse of the seamless experience Richmonde offers soon-to-be newlyweds. Recognizing that the journey to the altar should be filled with joy rather than stress, the hotel presents “Ready, Set, I Do!”—a simple and straightforward pre-wedding stay package designed for chic comfort and effortless preparation.

Couples can enjoy a relaxing night’s rest before the big day in any of the hotel’s spacious, well-appointed accommodations. Whether choosing an Executive Deluxe Room, Premier Room, or a luxurious One-Bedroom Suite, the generous floor areas easily accommodate the bride’s glam team, supportive bridesmaids, and photo/video crews.

Best of all, bookings are highly accessible, priced at the hotel's current best available rates, with no extra charges for in-room bridal preparations, and use of the hotel’s most picturesque public spaces—including the lobby, driveway, guest floor hallway, atrium, and pool deck—providing a convenient and splendid backdrop for the couple's pre-nuptial shots and videos.

Be captivated by the exquisite creations of renowned Filipino designer Peach Garde, featuring avant-garde and reimagined wedding gowns and Barong Tagalogs that beautifully blend tradition with modern artistry.

Refined and Exclusive Banquets: 

Promise to Forever Wedding Package

Beyond the preparations, Richmonde Hotel Iloilo offers an idyllic location for intimate wedding receptions that do not compromise on prestige or charm. The Intimate Wedding Package offers the perfect solution for couples seeking a more private celebration up to a maximum of 150 attendees.

Couples can choose the backdrop that best fits their love story: a sleek, temperature-controlled indoor function room, or the breezy, alfresco pool deck that overlooks the cityscape and presents a magnificent sunset view. Providing meticulous and professional assistance in planning and executing every dream wedding is the hotel’s banquet events team.

To complement the celebration, the hotel’s expert culinary team crafts an array of delectable buffet selections. The curated menu bridges cultures and flavors, featuring international dishes alongside traditional and modernized heirloom Ilonggo recipes—ensuring a feast that guests will remember for years to come.

Begin your journey to “I do” with a pre-wedding experience at Richmonde Hotel Iloilo, then celebrate your forever union with an intimate reception at the hotel’s function room or pool deck.

From the first sketch of the gown to the final toast of the night, Richmonde Hotel Iloilo weaves style, heritage, and heartfelt hospitality into every detail of each wedding journey.

For inquiries regarding Richmonde’s wedding packages, contact (6333) 328-7888 or log on to www.richmondehoteliloilo.com.ph for more information about ongoing promotions. To contact Room Reservations directly, call (63) 917-580-9642 or email stay@richmondeiloilo.com. For Banquet Bookings, call (63) 917 563 3973 or email sales@richmondeiloilo.com.

Lenovo Recognized in the Gartner® Supply Chain Top 25 for 2026

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Lenovo has once again been ranked in the Gartner® Supply Chain Top 25 for 2026, achieving its highest-ever ranking at seventh globally.

Lenovo has once again been ranked in the Gartner® Supply Chain Top 25 for 2026, achieving its highest-ever ranking at seventh globally. The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 is a renowned annual ranking of the world’s superior supply chains. Now in its 22nd year, the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 identifies, celebrates and profiles excellence in supply chain management. Supply chain teams use the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 to benchmark performance, transform operations and lead in the future. Lenovo ranked eighth in 2025, 10th in 2024, and eighth in 2023.

AI Builds Greater Supply Chain Resilience

Global supply chains have faced unprecedented disruption over the past 12 months, driven by tariffs, component shortages, and geopolitical tensions. Lenovo’s strength amid these challenging circumstances has been its ability to build on its AI infrastructure behind its global supply chain, improving resilience, adaptability and execution at speed and scale.

Over the past year, Lenovo has evolved its Supply Chain Intelligence “digital nervous system” to develop iChain, a continuously learning orchestration system that coordinates thousands of suppliers and more than 30 manufacturing sites globally. iChain is delivering tangible results for Lenovo’s supply chain operations, including 60% faster decision-making, near real-time disruption response, and a 90% automation of network simulations that reduces manual analysis from two to three weeks down to two to three hours.

Lenovo remains committed to sustainability and continues to focus on future-proofing its operations by making the supply chain more resilient and intelligent.

“At Lenovo, we’ve always considered our Global Supply Chain as a key pillar of our operational excellence,” said Che Min Tu, Senior Vice President and Group Operations Officer, Lenovo. “Over the past 12 months, the ability to respond quickly to disruption has become essential for every business. By fully integrating AI into our operations, we’ve been able to meet our customer needs more quickly and respond to complex situations. We not only withstand disruption; we become stronger because of it. It’s this approach that’s helped Lenovo navigate changing market conditions, maintain a competitive advantage, and deliver its strongest year in the company’s history.”

Resilience Delivers Measurable Business Results

This resilience is translating into business performance. Lenovo retained its number one position in global PC market share, with the gap to the second-ranked competitor widening to its largest level in 15 years.

At the same time, integrating the Infrastructure Solutions Group supply chain into the broader global network has helped accelerate growth in Lenovo’s infrastructure business, supporting record operating profit and margins.

As global supply chains continue to grow more complex, Lenovo’s model is evolving beyond the high-volume PC business, where a single device can include an average of 2,500 components, to meet hypergrowth demand for AI infrastructure, enterprise solutions, and next-generation workloads. This positions Lenovo to maintain leadership in the global supply chain landscape by scaling AI server manufacturing, expanding liquid-cooled server capacity, and strengthening its global-local manufacturing network.

Lenovo’s Global, Anti-Fragile Supply Chain Strategy

Today, Lenovo’s supply chain spans more than 30 manufacturing sites in 10 markets across Asia Pacific, China, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, North America, and South America. Last year, Lenovo broke ground on a new manufacturing base in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Once operational, the advanced manufacturing facility will manufacture PCs, smartphones, and servers for the Middle East and Africa market, and will include a research and development center, talent enablement programs, and a customer experience center. Lenovo is committed to supporting the creation of thousands of local jobs, enabling knowledge transfer, and driving long-term economic value creation in Saudi Arabia.

In addition, Lenovo’s manufacturing site in Monterrey, Mexico, was recently recognized as one of 12 new additions to the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network, a community of 201 leading manufacturers recognized for applying advanced technologies at scale. It is the second Lenovo site to receive this recognition, following the company’s site in Hefei, China, which was recognized in January 2023.

In September 2025, Lenovo announced a major investment and job expansion at its U.S. manufacturing and fulfilment campus in Whitsett, North Carolina. The three building campus spans more than 800,000 square feet and employs approximately 1,100 people. The site supports server manufacturing, rack integration, and order fulfilment for customers across the United States.

How are companies ranked in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25?

A Top 25 supply chain ranking is based on an equal weighting of business metrics and community opinion.

Business metrics comprise financial and environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. Financial metrics are based on a combination of three-year weighted return on physical assets (ROPA), ROPA change and revenue growth, plus inventory turns across the year. ESG data is derived from trusted third-party sources in the areas of commitment, transparency and performance across each area of ESG.

Community opinion is based on the feedback of peer voters from the community and Gartner experts. Peer voters cast votes for their personal choice of the Top 25 supply chains. They base their decisions on perceived end-to-end supply chain maturity and leadership, specifically the supply chains that are run as strategic assets to deliver business and societal outcomes by partnering beyond their own organizations and that are thriving through uncertainty.

Your Mid-Year Money Reset: Five Ways to Make the Rest of 2026 Count

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There's something about the middle of the year that makes people reassess everything: the routines they've kept, the goals they've quietly abandoned, and the habits they want to change. Money shouldn't be any different.

 

Halfway through 2026 isn't just another milestone on the calendar, it's an opportunity to check whether your financial habits are still helping you get where you want to go. Because the smartest financial plans aren't the ones you never change, they're the ones that evolve as life does.

 

Whether your priorities have shifted or you're simply looking to finish the year stronger, here are six practical ways to give your finances a mid-year reset with Maya, the country's #1 Digital Bank and leading all-in-one fintech platform.

 

1. Ask yourself if you're still saving for the right goal

One of the biggest misconceptions about financial planning is that your goals should stay the same all year; but life changes. The trip you wanted to take may have become an emergency fund, a gadget can wait while home repairs suddenly take priority, or maybe you've accomplished one goal and it's time to start another.

 

That's not falling behind. That's adapting.

With Maya Personal Goals, users can create up to five personalized savings goals while earning up to 8% interest p.a., making it easier to save separately for everything from travel and emergencies to bigger life milestones.

 

2. Give your savings a promotion

If your savings account is simply holding your money, it might be worth asking: Could it be doing more?

 

A mid-year reset isn't just about saving more. It's about making the money you've already saved continue working in the background.

 

With Maya Savings, users can earn up to 15% interest p.a., credited daily, while keeping their funds accessible whenever they need them.

 

For money that won't be needed anytime soon, Maya Time Deposit Plus offers another way to grow savings over a fixed period with rates of up to 6% p.a. and the flexibility to top up funds anytime.

 

Because even small adjustments today can make a meaningful difference by year-end.

 

3. Make every peso do more than one job

One habit worth carrying into the second half of the year? Getting more value from the spending you're already doing. Whether it's rewards, cashback, or perks, everyday expenses don't have to end once you've paid the bill.

 

With the Maya Black Credit Card, cardholders earn up to 10x Maya Miles at Maya Black Preferred merchants, while its Visa-powered acceptance makes it easy to use whether you're dining locally or traveling abroad. Those Maya Miles can be redeemed for vouchers for shopping, dining, and more, helping stretch the value of purchases you've already made.

 

Meanwhile, the Landers Cashback Everywhere Credit Card offers 5% cashback at Landers, 2% cashback on dining, and 1% cashback on most purchases. Cardholders also enjoy a ₱7.00-per-liter fuel discount at Landers-Caltex stations.

 

4. Don't mistake flexibility for falling behind

Not every financial surprise comes from overspending, sometimes expenses simply arrive all at once: a family celebration, repairs, school-related expenses, or even holiday bookings. Even well-planned budgets can feel stretched when timing doesn't cooperate.

 

For bigger purchases that you'd rather spread out over time, Maya's Mini Payments feature lets eligible purchases be converted into 3, 6, 9, or 12-month installment plans at a fixed add-on interest rate at 1% per month, with zero processing fees on Mini Payments created until September 30, 2026.

 

For more unexpected financial needs, Maya Easy Credit[1] offers access to up to ₱50,000, repayable within 30 days. Meanwhile, Maya Personal Loan[2] provides up to ₱400,000 with flexible monthly repayment terms—all within the Maya app and without the usual paperwork or collateral.

 

5. Don’t let predictable expenses catch you by surprise

Some of the biggest expenses each year aren't actually unexpected, they're simply easy to underestimate.

 

Holiday shopping, year-end travel, family celebrations, and school-related costs tend to arrive around the same time, putting extra pressure on monthly budgets.

 

Planning for them doesn't necessarily mean setting aside huge amounts overnight. Giving yourself a few extra months to prepare can make those expenses feel much more manageable when they eventually come around.

 

For longer-term goals, Maya Time Deposit Plus lets users grow their savings with rates of up to 6% p.a., while offering the flexibility to top up funds anytime, making it easier to prepare today for what's already on the horizon.

 

Halfway through the year isn't a finish line or a report card. It's simply a chance to pause and ask whether your money is still supporting the life you're trying to build.

 

Maybe your priorities have changed. Maybe your spending habits have improved. Or maybe the goals you set in January no longer reflect where you are today. That's not a setback, it's part of life.

 

Just as we regularly reassess our work, our routines, and our personal goals, our finances deserve the same kind of attention. A mid-year reset is an opportunity to make sure your savings, spending, and financial habits still align with what matters most today.

 

After all, there's still half a year left to make meaningful progress.

To know more, visit maya.ph or mayabank.ph, and follow @makeyourmoneymaya on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to stay updated. Approval and offer are subject to credit evaluation. Maya Philippines, Inc. and Maya Bank, Inc. are regulated by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. www.bsp.gov.ph. For 24/7 assistance, visit the Help Center in the Maya app or call us from 8 AM to 7 PM daily at +632 8845-7788.

 

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Manulife Philippines Appoints Erwin Go as Chief Corporate Solutions and Alternative Distribution Officer

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Manulife Philippines, the local arm of leading international financial services provider Manulife, has appointed Erwin Go as Chief Corporate Solutions and Alternative Distribution Officer. In this role, he joins the company’s executive committee.

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Go joins the insurer’s executive committee, reinforcing Manulife’s focus on expanding corporate solutions and multi-channel growth

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Go will lead the development and execution of Manulife Philippines’ corporate solutions and alternative distribution strategy, strengthening capabilities across group insurance, partnerships, and emerging distribution channels. His appointment underscores the company’s focus on diversifying growth and enhancing customer and partner experiences.

“Erwin has been instrumental in advancing our Corporate Solutions and Alternative Distribution business, bringing strong commercial leadership and deep industry expertise,” said Rahul Hora, President and Chief Executive Officer, Manulife Philippines. “His ability to drive growth while building high-performing teams and strong client relationships positions us to capture new opportunities and deliver greater value to our customers and partners.”

“I’m honored to take on this role at an exciting time for Manulife Philippines,” said Erwin Go, Chief Corporate Solutions and Alternative Distribution Officer, Manulife Philippines. “We see strong opportunities to deepen partnerships, expand our corporate solutions portfolio, and deliver more relevant, customer-focused offerings that help Filipinos live longer, healthier, and more financially secure lives. I look forward to working closely with our teams and partners to accelerate growth and innovation across the business.”

The Little Zions Pediatric Medical Group: CAMANAVA’s First Child-Friendly Pediatric Clinic with a Dedicated Play Area

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The Little Zions Pediatric Medical Group proudly introduces a first in CAMANAVA: a child-friendly pediatric clinic with a dedicated play area, designed to make healthcare feel less scary and more comforting for children and families.

For many kids, a clinic visit can feel like a big moment. The unfamiliar surroundings, waiting time, and medical procedures can sometimes make them feel nervous even before they meet the doctor. But at The Little Zions Pediatric Medical Group, the goal is to change that experience from something children fear into something they can slowly feel comfortable with.

Instead of the usual clinic setup that may feel too serious or intimidating for young patients, TLZ Pediatrics created a warmer and more welcoming space where children can feel seen, safe, and cared for. At the heart of this experience is its dedicated play area, a feature designed to help kids relax, stay engaged, and feel more at ease while waiting for their consultation.

Making Clinic Visits More Child-Friendly

The idea is simple but meaningful: when children feel comfortable in their environment, the entire healthcare experience becomes better. A playful and child-centered space can help ease anxiety, build trust, and create a more positive association with visiting the doctor.

Through its dedicated play area, TLZ Pediatrics gives children a space where they can enjoy, explore, and feel welcomed. It helps turn waiting time into a lighter and more positive experience, giving families a clinic visit that feels less stressful and more supportive.

This child-friendly approach reflects the clinic’s commitment to pediatric care that goes beyond consultation. It is about creating a healthcare environment where children are not only treated, but also understood.

Care for Children and Families

While TLZ Pediatrics is centered on children’s healthcare, the clinic also provides services that support the needs of families. Its healthcare services include pediatric consultation, adult consultation, in-clinic consultation, ENT consultation, teleconsultation, vaccination, developmental assessment, nebulization, circumcision, animal bite services, intravenous medication, wound suturing, and incision and drainage.

By combining medical care with a warm and child-friendly environment, The Little Zions Pediatric Medical Group continues to redefine what a pediatric clinic experience can be.

More than just a place for checkups, TLZ Pediatrics is building a space where children can feel safe, parents can feel supported, and every visit can become a more positive healthcare journey.

With branches in Gen. T. De Leon, Malinta, and Dalanan in Valenzuela City, TLZ Pediatrics continues to make quality and child-friendly healthcare more accessible to families. Beginning its journey in Valenzuela, TLZ Pediatrics is set to bring its child-friendly healthcare experience closer to more families as it expands across the CAMANAVA area by 2027.

To learn more about The Little Zions Pediatric Medical Group and its child-friendly healthcare experience, visit www.tlzpedia.com.