Quench Your Geek Thrist With Summer Toy Fest At Estancia

With the recent superhero films like Shazam! and Avengers Endgame out now and more in line for the coming months, the need for collectors to get their hands on merchandise, toys and action figures is a need for them. Summer is also a great time with kids who are now on a summer break which means more time for bonding and play time. However with some toy conventions not yet in season, it seems like drought for geeks (like me) to get their hands on toys and collectibles.

Piip Mobile, continuing growth with more partnerships, deals, and a unique shopping experience

Photo caption: From L to R: J.Rowell L. Recinto, Management
 Consultant of Araneta Center Inc.; Alexander Sporri , CEO
 and Founder Piip Mobile AG; Hildegarde Maea Atger,
Vice President Strategic Business Development, Piip Mobile
 AG; and, John B. Castelo, SVP Business Development,
 Araneta Group of Companies

Piip Mobile, the go-to mobile application for the best location-based promos and deals, recently renewed its partnership with The Araneta Group, building on the trust, success, and opportunities that both brands have achieved together since 2017.

This renewed partnership entails more collaborations between the Araneta Group and Piip, following the successful engagements from 2018.  Piip will continue to provide more support to Araneta Center merchants with the app proactively marketing their products and services, making them more visible to their target consumers.

FEU And The Heritage Conservation Society Set For "Significance In The Details" Lecture On May 4

For the first time since the merry month of May was dubbed National Heritage Month, the Heritage Conservation Society (HCS) has swung into the mood of things for National Heritage Month, organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and partnered with Far Eastern University (FEU) for an afternoon of learning, capped by a light hearted concert, a tribute to Broadway, at the university’s auditorium.

The heritage event, entitled, “Significance in the Details: Identifying Values in Heritage Sites and Structures” is comprised of two lectures and a highly informative walkabout talk through the 91- year old university.

The talks are sequenced in such a way that the audience will be taken from a basic understanding of the Heritage Law, ( The Significant Other: The Heritage Law Beyond Presumptions by HCS President, Atty. Mark Evidente) to a virtual experience ( The Relevance of Digital Scanning in Documenting Heritage Structures by Conrad Alampay, HCS trustee and President of Digiscript Inc.), and finally a tactile experiencing of structural details, with a walkabout led by FEU’s Director of the President’s Committee on Culture, Martin Lopez, as he points out the well-preserved Art Deco details of this 91 - year old declared heritage structure.

Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore Win Top Awards in UrbanConcept Mileage Challenge

ITS Team Sapuangin, race number 501, from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember,
Indonesia, winners of the UrbanConcept - Gasoline category during day three of
Shell Make the Future Live Malaysia 2019 at the Sepang International Circuit
 on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, south of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Joining the team
 in victory is Shell General Manager for External Relations–Asia Pacific
Xiaowei Liu (tenth from left) and Ministry of International Trade and Industry
 Deputy Minister Dr. Ong Kian Ming (eleventh from left).

11 student teams from the Philippines part of the Shell Eco-Marathon Asia

The Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2019 (SEMA) yesterday capped the exciting UrbanConcept Mileage Challenge competition at the Sepang International Circuit, the same venue where SEMA was first held 10 years ago. SEMA is the world’s longest running student mileage competitions that challenge teams to design, build and test ultra-energy efficient vehicles.

Eleven student teams from the Philippines made it to this year’s SEMA and UP- Dagisik finished 8th in the UrbanConcept Mileage Challenge. Other participants from the Philippines were:    

New Posters Arrive for "Gemini Man," "Ma" and "Rocketman"

United International Pictures has released the new one-sheet artworks for three of its highly anticipated films of the year -- the action-adventure Gemini Man, the suspense thriller Ma, and the Elton John biopic Rocketman.

Check out the posters below and watch Rocketman in Philippine cinemas on June 19, followed by Ma on July 10, and Gemini Man on October 2nd.

Rocketman, Ma, and Gemini Man are distributed in the Philippines by United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures.  Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/uipmoviesph/; Twitter at https://twitter.com/uipmoviesph  and Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/uipmoviesph/ 

LGBTQ Community Finds Ally With ACTS-OFW

Despite the modern age of progress and acceptance, there is still a long way to go in terms of the rights of the LGBTQ people and communities.  The Anti-Discrimination Bill SOGIE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression) Equality Bill is still waiting to be passed by congress. There is a need for it to be passed quickly due to the limited number of days needed to complete the process.

With legislation a very important part of building laws and legislative intervention for the progress of the Filipino society. The role of both houses is to pass these laws but without support from individual congressmen and senators, these key bills would not be passed and implemented.

A Girl is Bailey's New Mission in Sequel "A Dog's Journey"

In Universal Pictures’ new inspiring drama A Dog’s Journey, the sequel to the heartwarming global hit A Dog’s Purpose, beloved dog Bailey finds his new destiny and forms an unbreakable bond that will lead him, and the people he loves, to places they never imagined.

(Watch the film’s trailer at YouTube - https://youtu.be/dxl2Rp74MMU.)