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The biggest tiangge store in Metro Manila, Greenhills proves that they can offer everything you need- from technology and digital gadgets, local jewelry, everyday needs, specialty goods, uniques stuff, fashion, foods and many more. Get ready for Greenhills will be having their much exciting month-long Tiangge Daily sale from March 1 to 31. For retail items, it will be sale on different days.

The schedule is as follows:

• Mobile Monday – discounts on mobile phones and accessories
• Thrifty Tuesday – promos on essentials such as masks, face shields, alcohol, and more
• Wow Wednesday – great deals on local products like pearls, wooden items, and hand-woven products
• Techy Thursday – price off on cameras, speakers, laptops, and tablets
• Fashion Friday – a price cut on shoes, bags, and clothes
• Savory Saturday – special markdowns on delicacies
• Super Sunday – up to 70% off on selected items mall-wide

Feel good and enjoy at Greenhills’ Tiangge Daily Sale!

For more information, you may check their official Facebook pages – Greenhills,  Tiendesitas, Estancia, and Industria.

Economy Class Seat

With the option to purchase up to three vacant adjacent seats on their flight, Emirates Economy Class customers can now experience even more personal private space onboard. All Economy Class passengers with a verified reservation will be given these seats. Customers would not be able to reserve empty seats in advance because they are dependent on availability. Open seats will only be available for purchase prior to flight departure at the airport check-in counter, with prices ranging from AED 200 to AED 600 (US$ 55 to US$ 165) per empty seat, plus taxes due based on the flight market. Based on customer reviews, Emirates has launched this new seat product to meet the needs of a variety of customers who want more security and comfort while still flying in Economy Class. Couples who want the entire row to themselves (maximum of three seats in the same row), parents traveling with in-lap children, or those who just want the added assurance of more room when traveling during pandemic times may all benefit from this.

Throughout response to the current empty seats option, Emirates offers a range of seat items for Economy Class passengers to choose from, depending on their travel needs:

• Extra legroom seats: exit row seats offering additional space but subject to safety requirements;
• Twin seats: seats in a row of two at the back of Emirates’ Boeing 777 aircraft, and on the upper deck of Emirates’ 2-class Airbus A380 aircraft;
• Preferred seats: seats in the first section of the cabin and on the upper deck of A380 2 class;
• Regular seats: all other Economy seats. Such chairs are freely available or at a cost via Emirates.com, Emirate’s customer support, airport check-in, onboard, and through travel agent partners, based on the customer’s Emirates Skywards subscription tier, fare type, travel dates, and other special needs.

For more details, please visit our emirates.com website. Generous discounts on excess baggage rates, is now offered by Emirates to give customers the delight of traveling with their essentials needs on the trip and as they come back home. The baggage rates discounts range from 35% up to 60% off standard charge depending on category and have got to pre-booked and pre-paid for up to 4 hours earlier to flight departure via emirates.com, through contact centers or at an Emirates sales office. Visit our page on emirates.com for more information.

Customers of Emirates should also not worry when travelling for important matter, as they guaranteed that the airline has tighten their health and safety measures for everyone’s safety. Emirates just recently launched their contactless technology to facilitate the customers through Dubai airport. Emirates is pursuing to give into the industry new products and services that directs for the travelers needs during this vigorous time. Customers care such as flexible booking policies, multi-risk insurance cover, helping loyal customers retain their miles and tier status, and a commitment to honoring refunds. Lastly, Emirates gives latest updates on its COVID-19 Information hub, as well as entry requirements, travel restrictions and all its health implemented measure to make the customers safe all through out.

Complete farm fresh produce price list

In this trying times a lot of us been in difficult times, especially to the farmers. As for this Bonifacio Global City, helps them earn a living. They will bring good quality Benguet staples Bonifacio High Street through it’s My Street High Street enterprise, it will be available every weekend for the whole month of March 2021.

BGCitizens can now enjoy a wide selection of fruits and vegetables straight from producers from the North. All-time favorites like the Ube jam from Good Shepherd, brewed coffee, mixed greens, and fresh strawberries are also up for grabs. What’s even greater about it is that there’s no middle man costs involved, which means you can enjoy farm to table goods for a much cheaper price.

Order in advance thru Jhona Bitan at 0961-294-3083 and pick up your items at the My Street High Street booth. Any amount of support will be greatly appreciated!

For more information and updates, you can check out the attached price list and photos below. You can also visit Bonifacio Global City’s official facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/bonifacioglobalcityph!

The COVID-19 pandemic, also referred to as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) triggered by the transmission of coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) extreme acute respiratory syndrome, which was first detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019. In January 2020, the outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international significance, and in March 2020, a pandemic.

January 22, 2020 is the day where a suspected covid case arrived in the Philippines, many people are unaware of the kind of virus even specialists are trying their best to contain this outbreak. March 1, 2020 there are 663 suspected covid case reported in the Philippines and the second week of March quarantine are being implemented in the our country as time goes by many cases have been reported in Manila and eventually there are local transmission reported everywhere and the economy is slowly collapsing because of the (ECQ) Enhanced community Quarantined many business are closed temporarily and some are close for good.

Scientists discover vaccines to help people and to continue the economy of each country. There are 6 companies racing to mass produce a coronavirus vaccine this are Novavax, Astrazeneca, johnson and johnson, Sanofi and Glaxosmithkline, moderna, and pfizer and biontech.

Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX), a small-cap vaccine biotech, has gained production capacity for 2.75 billion doses of its vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373. Praha Vaccines and its manufacturing facility in the Czech Republic were purchased by the biotech in May. The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is a viral vector vaccine that is also known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or AZD1222. Scientists modified an adenovirus that was originally derived from chimps in order to train the immune system to mount a strong response to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19).Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, developed the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, which is a human adenovirus viral vector vaccine. Sanofi is producing the vaccine candidate itself, while GlaxoSmithKline is adding an adjuvant that should enhance immune response. The two companies plan to manufacture up to 1 billion doses of vaccine a year, internally and through external CMO agreements. The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, codenamed mRNA-1273, is a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, and Moderna. Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) is collaborating with German company BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) to develop a COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Like Moderna, the two companies are focused on an mRNA vaccine. That could have serious distribution challenges.

Vaccines mimic the virus or bacteria that causes disease and triggers the body’s creation of antibodies. These antibodies will provide protection once a person is infected with the actual disease causing virus or bacteria.

The most awaited vaccines have already arrived here in the Philippines last February 28, 2021. China’s SinovacBiotech was the first vaccine that was received by our country to treat us against this Covid-19. According to Harry Roque “There is light at the end of the tunnel. That is light at the end of the tunnel”. These vaccines will be the answer to all our prayers, but there are still a lot of doubts if it will be really the solutions to all our problems. Since there are also a lot of side effects shown to other people that have been injected.  They are now starting to inject the vaccines according to the priority list that has been given. The priority groups are the Frontline health workers, seniors’ citizens, indigent population and the uniformed personnel. The priority list is categorized because of the initial limited supply, frontline health workers and uniformed personnel are prioritized since they have higher risk of exposure while on duty and to allow them to continue fulfilling their duties.

As an individual, I have also doubt and fear about these vaccines, because there is also news that shows about the side effects that happened to the individuals that got vaccinated. Some have died, other people have some allergies and some patients have worsened their case. However as time goes by I have been convinced that I should give it a try and be vaccinated to protect myself from this virus. Same as with other people, I hope this vaccine will help us and it turns out well. I still have worries about the side effects of these vaccines but I just hope and pray that everything will go back to normal after this and that vaccines will help us to clear our vision for the future.

Indeed after one year of fighting this pandemic, we are already foreseeing the end of all of these. Everyone around the globe experienced hardships and hurdles. Other people got jobless, the economy collapsed, the students are struggling with their online classes and some businesses got closed for good. But still here we are hoping for the day that we can finally go back to our daily lives and hoping that these vaccines will help us and may it turn out to be a great success.

Are you ready, set and shop til you drop as Ortigas Malls welcomes March with a bang! Every Wednesday when you shop at Greenhills, Tiendesitas and Estancia this month, where you can enjoy deals for as much as 70% off.

Get a chance to enjoy exclusive discounts, awesome freebies and special promos on various home accessories, beauty services, gadgets, travel accessories and more from your favorite retail stores and restaurants on all Wednesdays of the month.

Welcome this month of March the summer season, a perfect way to enjoy everyday.  Whether you’re out to get yourself some clothes, fashion accessories, stuff for the home, or anything else that your heart desires, you’re bound to find bargains galore from all the participating stores.

Treat yourself and your loved ones as you feel good and enjoy every Wednesday at Ortigas Malls. What are you waiting for? Head over to Greenhills, Tiendesitas and Estancia Mall every Wednesday and shop and dine to your heart’s content.

For more information, you may check their official Facebook pages – Greenhills , Tiendesitas , Estancia , and Industria.

Exceptional times demand extraordinary steps for the art world, and what better way to uplift spirits than from the Ortigas Malls’ award-winning and admission-free Ortigas Art Exhibition 2021, to bring art closer to everyone.

Which is in its fourth year, with the aim of creating art open to all, the annual Ortigas Art Festival was first launched in 2018. Ortigas Malls continued to achieve its mission of uplifting the art community and decentralizing art by making the Ortigas Art Festival a yearly celebration, with the success of its first run featuring over 60 local artists from well-known groups. The roster of the festival expanded to over 130 artists from all over the Philippines in 2019 and then grew even bigger with over 200 artists in 2020, including international Southeast Asian artists.

Ribbon Cutting

“The art group has always been sponsored by us at Ortigas Malls. We are able to bring hundreds of highly skilled and even foreign artists together during the Ortigas Art Festival and give them better a forum to share their crafts and motivate people from all walks of life,” says Architect Renee Bacani, Vice President of Ortigas Malls. “This year’s Ortigas Art Festival theme aligns with the Enjoy Daily campaign of Ortigas Malls, which promotes the value of making every day pleasant and seizing every opportunity, considering the many difficulties that life may bring,” adds Bacani.

This year, the fourth iteration of the Ortigas Art Festival went out to film exhibits of photography, paintings, and sculptures from the previous year. In order to keep all kinds of art lovers engaged, exhibition head Renato Habulan, a multi-awarded Filipino artist, and Ortigas Malls promise a hybrid festival with on-ground and virtual events.

Art is an integral aspect of culture, nourishing the soul. The art industry will flourish, he says, as long as the group remains committed to pursuing the craft and enthusiasts continue to help it.

Habulan states, in these tough times, that Partnership and imagination between Key goals remain for musicians. “We are the ones Thank you for maintaining this relationship with Ortigas Malls via the Ortigas Art Festival annually. We are able to cultivate a sense of similarity among artists through events like this, promote learning, and drive the industry together,” adds Habulan.

Exhibit area

Ortigas Malls and the Ortigas Art Festival’s partner artists have taken all the stops to do so. Making the month-long festival as enriching and unforgettable as the years before. Here are the positions, any of the highlights from February 24 to March 31 that everybody can look forward to

1. Agos.studio. The headline gallery at the Ortigas Art Festival 2021. Renato Habulan, headed the Agos.studio. He presented its fluid and borderless art to the world. And still carry on to lead the e-mentoring sessions for those hopeful and habitual artists to uplift their confidence and help them in these hard times. With the Art Relief Mobile Kitchen as their recipient helping them and giving back is most certainly their desire, no matter where the gallery goes.
2. Born in Film. Aside from the traditional forms and elements of the Art Festival each person can also look for the works of Born in Film. Alberto Garcia is included in this non-profit organization. He is the only Filipino photographer that encompases in the Time Magazine and National Geographic’s Most Influential Photos of the 20th century with his Mount Pinatubo picture “Beauty Amidst Disaster”. Alberto Garcia’s works have been displayed in the festival, along with virtual workshops on Visual Storytelling and Creative Composition, as well as Darkroom Developing on Color, Black and White, and Scanning Your Negatives broadcasted via Zoom and on PhotoNation International.
3. The ​Film Development Council of the Philippines’ work together with Ortigas Malls, the festival’s journey to film won’t be wasted and will turn to be known with its first-ever Vertical Cinema Contest, which is open to the public.

These and more excites and give trill to the hopeful artist and enthusiast at the 4th Annual Ortigas Art Festival. Spearheaded by Estancia G/F East Wing in Pasig City to witness the likes of Agos.studio, Art Relief Mobile Kitchen, Born in Film, PhotoNation, Richard Buxani, ArnelBorja, La Maison D’ David Art Gallerie, vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery, and many others showcase art safely in the new normal at the Ortigas Art Festival 2021 from February 24 to March 31.

To know more about the event and online activities, you can check out the Ortigas Art Festival 2021’s Facebook page.

Everyday a lot of baby were being born having a cleft, there are around 540 children being born each day that haved this kind of genetic condition. It can give them so much hardship especially on their eating, breathing, hearing and speaking. In this being said, the world’s leading cleft organization, Smile Train give their services to help these children. As they give 100%- free cleft repair surgery and complete cleft care for children around the globe. A welfare that’s been throw into dissarray if not because of this pandemic. However a big thanks to virtual Telehealth  Program and speech camp that was introduced here in our country that gaves a big help especially on those children with cleft.

Since the start of the pandemic, Smile Train’s Speech Telehealth Program in the Philippines has treated over 100 patients, providing them with more than 700 cleft care-related sessions, including speech therapy, nutritional support, breastfeeding guidance for mothers of babies with clefts, pre-surgical consultations, and psychosocial care. This initiative was recently recognized during the 56th Anvil Awards as the organization bagged the Silver Award.

The Anvil award is a testament of Smile Train Philippines’ efforts to bring uninterrupted care to patients with a cleft palate even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. It also shines the light on the dedication and commitment of the volunteers, healthcare institutions, and corporate partners of Smile Train Philippines to rally support for cleft patients so that they may still receive comprehensive cleft care online.

Launched in April 2020, two weeks into the lockdown, the Virtual Telehealth program is manned by volunteer speech language pathologists. Maximizing technology and social media, the Virtual Telehealth Program made use of Facebook Live, chat applications such as Viber and Messenger, and online discussions to ensure that speech therapy classes continued virtually. More than that, the telehealth program managed to reach cleft patients who live in rural or isolated communities and made its services more readily available or convenient for people with limited mobility, time, or transportation options. When and where possible, Smile Train Philippines also provided phone cards for both the speech language pathologists (SLPs) and the patients to help with connectivity.

”This recognition by our peers in the communication industry is proof that we are making headway in our call for a more efficient telehealth network. A combination of a variety of solutions as encouraged by telehealth will ensure that children and adolescents with special needs do not get left behind, especially during a global pandemic,” said Kimmy Coseteng-Flaviano, Area Director – South East Asia, Smile Train. “For Smile Train, telehealth became not only a lifeline, but a tool for amplifying reach and promoting equity.”

The over 700 sessions given to more than 100 patients were provided from April 1st to December 31, 2020. This is more than double the number of patients who received virtual speech treatment during the same period in 2019.

With a strategy focused on educating, amplifying, and sustaining, Smile Train’s Virtual Telehealth Program garnered widespread coverage in the media, positive public reception, increased recognition for Smile Train and its advocacy, and ultimately saw an increase in speech language pathologists interested in working with Smile Train Philippines.

Smile Train believes that every child is worthy of the opportunity to live a normal life, and is committed to exploring various avenues and utilizing technology to reach more communities in the Philippines. Through the Virtual Telehealth Program, it continues to help its beneficiaries, reach out to its audiences, and, all in all, continue raising awareness about cleft lip and palate – bringing hope to those who need it the most.