Robert Kuan, 65, is having the time of his life navigating a second career after a highly successful foray into fast food, Chinese-style. After cashing in his 50 percent equity in ChowKing for a reported half a billion pesos, Robert is now chair of St. Luke’s Medical Center.
As President Benigno Aquino closes his first 700 days in office and begins his last 1,400 days, it has been the best of times and the worst of times.
Resident New Yorkers proudly attest that there is truly only one city that never sleeps—and that’s the Big Apple. Now they are sleepless over a proposal to ban the sale of large sodas which their mayor calls “sugary drinks.”
Targeting 10 million foreign tourists and 35.5 million domestic travelers as the core of a P266-billion tourism master plan is going to strain the country’s tourism infrastructure.
The Department of Tourism (DoT) has more than just hundreds of billions of pesos riding on its blockbuster campaign, “It’s more fun in the Philippines.”
For four days in November this year, the movers and shakers of the country’s advertising industry descended on the once-bucolic province of Camarines Sur (CamSur) for a non-stop bacchanalia that is called the Philippine Advertising Congress.
The spontaneous worldwide outpouring of sympathy for Apple on the death of its iconic founder Steve Jobs is certain to earn it corporate dividends for many years to come.
In a landmark study done in the ’80s, San Miguel Corp. asked customers how they rated companies. The responses were startling.
Mesmerized by the coconut juice craze sweeping the American market (mostly coming from other coconut-producing countries), President Aquino is encouraging Philippine companies to cash in on the fad.
MANILA, Philippines—Acting Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez, an advertising expert, became the darling of headline writers when, in his first press conference, he dished out this sound bite: “It is such an obviously beautiful product, the Philippines should be as easy as selling ‘Chickenjoy,’” referring to the best-selling product of Jollibee, a former client. The new [...]
The World Bank is urging third-world countries to enact laws to encourage good food processing practices and control transfat content in food in the global fight against rising non-communicable diseases (NCD) like high blood pressure. “These efforts, such as more effective legislation on the use of trans-fats and tobacco as well as public education to [...]
