Author: Team Orange

Miss Venezuela Maria Gabriela Isler was crowned Miss Universe 2013  during the coronation night held at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia earlier today. The 25-year-old fashion model is the third Miss Universe from Venezuela in 6 years. She bested 85 rivals including Miss Spain Patricia Yurena (1st runner-up); Miss Ecuador Constanza Baez (2nd runner-up); Miss Philippines Ariella Arida (3rd runner-up); and Miss Brazil Jakelyne Oliveira, 4th runner-up. With Gabriela Isler’s win, Venezuela has produced seven victories in the history of the Miss Universe pageant, maintaining its status as the second most successful entity at Miss Universe. Her win also meant that Venezuela has won three…

PANDORA’s signature glass charms, hand-spun from Italian Murano glass, are skillfully updated with the addition of delicate bubbles and catwalk colours. Individually handcrafted from coloured glass and set on an inner ring of sterling silver, the pretty charms contain delicate bubbles, adding iridescent sheen to each. The addition of sparkling cubic zirconia stones adds a touch of luxury to the feminine charms. Versioned in the season’s catwalk colour story – pink, purple, blue and classic white – the bubble effect charms are a luxurious and playful addition to any bracelet as well as on-trend accessory ensuring you’ll stay right on…

Continuing the success of PANDORA’s pavé charms, this season sees the launch of a new colour to the popular collection. Inspired by the beauty of the forest, PANDORA’s new sparkling green pavé charm awakens the senses, bringing to life the rich splendour of nature. A treasured keepsake and elegant addition to any bracelet, 94 dark green cubic zirconia are pavé set by hand on the sterling silver charm. Lending texture and sparkle to your chosen look, the beautiful green charm is stunning alone or as a vibrant seasonal statement when mixed with PANDORA’s colourful pavé charm collection. Pandora can be found…

Top arms and ammunition manufacturer Arms Corporation of the Philippines (Armscor) recently visited Honduras to forge a stronger partnership with La Armeria, the company’s biggest client in the Central American country. La Armeria, a government-owned entity in charge of all military hardware including firearms, firearms spare parts, ammunition and ammunition components both for the civilian and military markets, made it possible for Armscor to have a strong presence in Central America with its annual orders for Armscor products ranging from US$1 million to US$1.2 million.

The theme for Seattle’s Best Coffee 2013 Christmas evokes a “Christmas Inside a toyshop” feel. It reminds people of the feeling that they had when they were kids during Christmas. Seattle’s Best Coffee will be decorated with alphabet toy blocks, SBC Drummer boy and toy train displays to create a warm and joyful ambience this season. The Seattle’s Best Coffee 2014 Dream Journal comes in four colors: purple, charcoal gray, brown, and peach. Features and content of Seattle’s Best Coffee 2014 Dream Journal: Monthly Freebies Monthly Calendar One Music CD Compilation One Coaster One Metal Bookmark Notepads Stickers Writing And…

Marvel Studios’ “Thor: The Dark World” thundered to the top of the Philippine box office this week, lifting the All Saints/Souls Day weekend frame (October 30 to November 3) to the highest in history – a staggering Php 199.84-million in five days. The epic sequel on the Mighty Avenger also hammered the record for the biggest October opening day ever at Php 43.4-million (established Oct 30, 2013) and biggest November opening weekend all-time surpassing previous holder “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II’s” P197-million. This was announced today by Victor R. Cabrera, managing director of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Philippines.…

The delicate and transient beauty of feathers comes to life in PANDORA’s new feather jewellery. Rendered as a necklace pendant, cocktail ring and drop earrings, the feather’s graceful beauty and feminine fragility is immortalized in sterling silver. The delicate fringes are embellished with pavé set cubic zirconia, lending a feeling of luxurious elegance to the symbolic motif. A treasured keepsake or a striking statement, PANDORA’s feather jewellery is an enduring symbol of life and freedom. Pandora can be found at Adora Greenbelt 5, Glorietta 4, Bonifacio High Street Central, Newport Mall at Resorts World Manila, The Podium, Lucerne at Shangri-la Plaza,…

BPI Family Savings Bank (BFSB) strengthens its partnership with top entrepreneurship advocate, Go Negosyo, at the 12th Filipino Franchise Show at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. With the commitment of encouraging Filipinos to engage in entrepreneurship, BFSB – through BPI Family Ka-Negosyo Loans – brings affordable financing closer to more Filipinos as it supports the Go Negosyo advocacy. For more information on how you can start your own business, visit www.bpiloans.com or any of the more than 800 BPI and BPI Family Savings Bank branches nationwide. In this Photo: Ramon Lopez and Joey Concepcion of Go Negosyo, BFSB…

Qatar Airways, recently celebrated the launch of non-stop daily flights to Clark Manila International Airport in the Philippines on October 28, 2013. Flight QR930 touched down at Clark International Airport at 09:20 local time to a traditional water salute welcome.  A ceremony followed which was attended by airport and government officials including the Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Philippines, His Excellency Jassim A. Al Obaidli, together with members of the local business community, travel trade and media. Qatar Airways Senior Vice President Commercial Operations – Network, Woo Yew Seong was joined by the Ambassador of the…

Is there more to life? Do you sometimes question what you’re doing? Do you wonder why you’re here? Best-selling author Robin Chaddock draws on her extensive experience as a life coach to help you find the answer by providing step–by–step instructions to uncover your primary passions and greatest strengths, and then provides a framework for discovering how to use them to achieve satisfaction and fulfillment. Each person has a God–created purpose in life-—a “divine assignment” that will fulfill their deepest longings. Once you discover this, you can. *  nurture and improve your strengths *  use your talents and gifts to improve…

In a world that relies profoundly on fast and efficient transmission of information, the need to put brands’ commercial messages on air through a secure, cost-efficient and reliable process becomes more critical. Sadly, the communication technology and transmission infrastructure in the Philippines has not kept pace with the frenetic progress of communication and information exchange. As a case in point, we can look at the multi-billion peso Philippine advertising industry, where brands still dub digitally produced TV commercials into analog Betacam tapes and send these via messengers to TV stations for broadcast. This is obviously an archaic process that compromises…