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But first New Year greetings from eight of the icons of the Philippine private sector.

The Covidization of leisure and entertainment in the Philippines.

 Lifestyle brands, innerwear-as-outerwear, empowering women with clothes — these are fashion’s biggest buzzwords of the 2020s. But Josie Natori had already created a world with all this and more when she first explored the idea of an embroidered nightshirt that also doubled as a going-out blouse nearly half a century ago.

That’s the title of the second book on ethics to be published by the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX). The first volume titled Ethics: Black, White, or Gray? was released in 2018, and both book projects were spearheaded by FINEX Liaison Director Florencia Gozon Tarriela.

The Italian envoy meets Filipino cultural heroes and the result is ‘Turandot,’ Puccini’s romantic opera, which will stir your emotions this December at the CCP.

It takes a village to mount grand opera so a village will mount this Puccini classic at the CCP in December.

THE Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) gives way to the long-overdue rehabilitation of its Main Building and decides to close its theaters and indoor venues starting January 2023 until December 2024. After more than 50 years, the Tanghalang Pambansa (CCP Main Building) undergoes a major facelift through a three-year…

Partido Federal ng Pilipinas footed 40% of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s campaign bill through party treasurer Antonio Ernesto “Anton” Floirendo Lagdameo Jr., grandson of his father’s close business associate. The remaining cost was covered by today’s opulent names in real estate, retail, construction, and shipping industries.

Leaders and idols about their fervent wishes for this New Year.

IN MEMORIAM Benny Tantoco Sr., portrait by Rupert Jacinto To me the greatest gift of Lolo Benny, Bienvenido Tantoco Sr., (April 7, 1921 – July 6, 2021), to the Filipino is what he and his late wife, Glecy Rustia Tantoco, started in 1952—a window to the world, through which we can reach out and have a piece of the best of the best such a world can offer, whether Italian or French, whether Moroccan or Maltese, and even Filipino, from the regions. In a word, Rustan’s. He had raised an army w...