Author: Team Orange

Rex Alloro, a roving security guard assigned on Center Avenue, Araneta City, is being acclaimed in social media for his honesty in returning a lost wallet containing more than P60,000 in cash. While making his usual rounds in the morning of April 12, Alloro found a wallet in front of Julie’s Bakeshop at the Center Avenue Arcade. Upon opening the wallet, Alorro noted it contained several bank cards, ID cards and a thick wad of cash. Without hesitation, Alorro went to the Famers Market administration office and surrendered the wallet to his superiors. The wallet turned out to contain P60,180…

AirAsia has mounted at least six chartered cargo flights to Manila since last weekend in support of emergency response initiatives in the country. Transported goods include over 600 boxes of Personal Protective Equipment amounting to over 3,000 kilograms from Shenzhen, China. Essential food items, such as tropical fish, were also brought to Manila amounting to nearly 5,000 kilograms from Bali, Indonesia. AirAsia has directed its resources to transporting cargo in view of travel restrictions following the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon, including other parts of the country. AirAsia Philippines CEO Ricky Isla said, “Air cargo is vital in the fight…

Going through quarantine checkpoints in the entire Metro Manila area is about to become easier for frontline personnel and other people authorized to travel under the COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions. To achieve this, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-MEID) are expanding the RapidPass Project, an online registration service for frontliners, to cover the whole of Metro Manila. Developed by DevCon Philippines and the DOST, RapidPass.ph is a website that provides for free a unique QR code that serves as authorization…

A new limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, HOLLYWOOD follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost. Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day.

vivo is providing a free warranty extension for smartphones purchased in official stores nationwide. This will automatically be applied to handsets with warranties expiring from March 16 to 30, 2020. With utmost customer safety as its priority, especially in light of the enhanced community quarantine, the company encourages its customers to stay at home to protect themselves and their families. #StayHomeStaySafe #vivoCares

To celebrate the Earth Day, Google releases an interactive Doodle experience in which users can guide bees to pollinate flowers while learning fun facts about bees and their importance to sustaining the Earth. Bees are an important part of our ecosystem. According to Guillermo Fernandez, Founder and Executive Director of The Honeybee Conservancy, “One in three bites of food we eat and are vital to healthy ecology. There are 20,000 species of bees around the world who do this essential work. In North America alone, currently 1 in 4 of the 4,000 native bee species are at risk of extinction. On a…

515 is Mobile Legends: Bang Bang’s global wide campaign which is celebrated annually as a festival on May 15 featuring in-game, online and offline activities. But this year, due to the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), all on-ground activities have been converted to online events to make sure everyone will stay at home while participating in a series of events from April 17 to May 17, 2020. Moonton also takes this opportunity to provide happiness and extend assistance to those in need. In close partnership with Save The Children Philippines, Moonton dedicated an event called Crazy Legends: Charity Homestand, to help…

With the recent extension of the Enhanced Community Quarantine in Luzon to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Century Pacific Food, Inc. (CPFI), the country’s biggest canned food maker, continues to provide aid to those who have been greatly affected by the crisis. As thousands of healthcare frontliners bravely work to combat COVID-19 cases, CPFI showed support for them by providing food supplies to hospitals in Luzon. A total of 250 medical staff in Victoriano Luna Hospital and another 600 in Perpetual Help Medical Center–Biñan received donations that include food products from CPFI brands such as Century Tuna, 555, Birch Tree…

Ogie Alcasid finds reassurance in God’s abundant love amidst today’s pandemic with his newly released single “Live for Jesus,” his first collaboration with Regine Velasquez and couple Jaya and Gary Gotidoc. “It is my hope and prayer that this song inspires us to keep believing that despite the crisis, we will survive this,” Ogie said. “Jesus is our answer. It is also during these times that we are weak when our savior is strongest. How His grace is sufficient for us.”

Everyone’s favorite Jollibee Chickenjoy just got closer to home! Jollibee’s Marinated Frozen Chicken Cut-Ups is now available in select Alfamart stores. The pre-marinated Chickenjoy cut-ups are seasoned with Jollibee’s signature spices, so all you need to do is thaw, coat in egg and flour, and deep fry.

With Internet usage rising due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PLDT wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) is further upgrading its mobile data service by boosting the capacity of its 4G/LTE network throughout the country. This month, Smart is reallocating its assigned 1800 MHz frequencies from 2G to 4G/LTE. This shift will impact on a large share of Smart’s LTE sites throughout the country and will increase the volume of data traffic that these facilities can handle. This reallocation program began in the Visayas region on April 12 and will continue across the country over the next two weeks. LTE is…