Global media and technology company Comcast today launched Xfinity Asia Internet destination (Xfinity.com/Asia), an online portal that brings together Asian-Pacific entertainment content from a variety of sources in one, easy to navigate location.
Select Macy’s locations in the U.S. will honor the contributions of Asian-Pacific Americans to American culture and pop music by hosting the platinum-selling Far East Movement (FM) in performances and appearances in six markets across the country in commemoration of Asian Pacific Heritage Month.
The Ad Standards Council (ASC) has recalled the clearance given for the airing of a TV commercial for a diaper, which had spoofed the Battle of Mactan as having been triggered by the gift of low quality diapers.
Bloomberry Resorts Corp., the first gaming firm to open at the country’s future gaming hub Pagcor City, is set to join the 30-company local equities barometer Philippine Stock Exchange index effective March 11.
Not a few people were surprised when word appeared on social media that the Bureau of Internal Revenue has offered a P150-million reward for anyone who could provide “prima facie evidence” that supports what appears to be the agency’s ongoing probe of Cosmetique Asia Silka Papaya (yes, the firm that makes that whitening soap product).
So there was this big television and movie star who recently took a vacation overseas. She must have done a lot of shopping because, according to our source, she showed up at the airport for her flight back home with a lot of baggage—a lot more than what she had with her when she left for her vacation. (For the sake of our source, we won’t be revealing this destination. Suffice it to say that the location is a lovely country where a major Philippine airline flies to regularly.)
In a span of just two years, the Newport Performing Arts Theater of Resorts World Manila (www.rmanila.com) at the Villamor Complex, Pasay City, has chalked up significant accomplishments.
The gaming and entertainment mecca rising on a reclaimed area south of Manila is the latest playground of the country’s billionaires.
Macau casino giant Melco Crown Entertainment has committed to invest up to $580 million in a Philippine entertainment complex as a strategic partner of tycoon Henry Sy, becoming the single largest investor in a “world-class” entertainment complex jumpstarted by Belle Corp.
The group of tycoon Henry Sy is in talks to bring in Melco Crown Entertainment, operator of Macau’s City of Dreams entertainment complex, aboard the $1-billion casino-hotel project of leisure estate and gaming unit Belle Corp.
Formula One fans who will watch the world’s only Formula One night race in Singapore can also catch pop idol Katy Perry up close on race day this coming September at the Padang stage area on a specially demarcated “Fan Zone” located near the performance stage.
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) chair Manuel V. Pangilinan is confident that a deal to acquire GMA Network Inc. will be forged before the end of the year.
