Author: Team Orange

Our beloved wooden puppet wobbles to life this August as six talented young actors embody the lead role of the upcoming Repertory Philippines musical, Pinocchio. “Each Pinocchio we’ve chosen from a pool of 18 auditionees brings an endearingly unique touch of their own personality to the title character,” said director Joy Virata. “Children are often challenging to work with, but these kids are delightfully brilliant and professional.”  Ranging from ages eight to eleven, the young thespians come from a variety of backgrounds: Eight-year-old Albert Silos is the youngest of the bunch. According to him, it was his dream to play…

Japanese director Keishi Otomo and actors Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei and Munetaka Aoki are flying to Manila to grace the Asian Premiere of “Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno,” as previously announced by William Ireton, President & Representative Director of Warner Entertainment Japan Inc., and Francis Soliven, General Manager of Warner Bros. Philippines. The invitational red carpet premiere is scheduled on Wednesday night, August 6 at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong. The Japanese talents are also expected to interact with the media and fans in a public press conference Thursday, August 7 at the Glorietta Activity Center in Makati. In making the announcement, Ireton stated, “We are…

For most people, chocolate is a guilt pleasure.  From plain milk chocolates to dark, to nuts, with fillings… chocolates have indeed become part of everybody’s food lifestyle.  Nothing beats the pure bliss and delight in every creamy bite of the world’s most popular comfort food. With so many products and variations offering the same sweet pleasure, it is truly best to look for a brand that offers authentic chocolate taste made from only the finest quality ingredients.  Discover the exquisite art of chocolates with Valor. From the purest ingredients crafted to perfection…  take a trip down memory lane and experience…

In the latest Canstar Blue survey in Australia of small business owners and the printers they use, Epson has won the prestigious “Most Satisfied Customers Award – Printers, Small Business Award” for 2014. Canstar Blue is one of the leading customer satisfaction research and ratings businesses that launched in July 2010 with the core purpose of helping consumers make better purchase decisions. Based on independent research conducted by Colmar Brunton, over 90,000 customers have rated their customer satisfaction across more than 100 different categories. Canstar Blue is focused on product and service excellence. According to Canstar Blue, Epson not only…

As the Philippines prepares to beglobally competitive as we draw closer to the forthcoming ASEAN Integration, iACADEMY School of Continuing Education (iSCE) aims to provide working professionals and companies a significant advantage by helping them transform and succeed in the global economy. With the launch of two new centers of excellence– The Center for Process Improvement (CPI) and The Center for Organizational Transformation (COT), business organizations will exceedingly benefit by maximizing productivity, cutting costs, reducing wastes and improving over-all performance.

SpongeBob Squarepants leaves his world behind in the first trailer for Paramount Pictures’ and Nickelodeon Movies’ comedy adventure “SpongeBob: Sponge Out of Water”. In the film, SpongeBob SquarePants, the world’s favorite sea dwelling invertebrate, comes ashore to our world for his most super-heroic adventure yet. Based on the series “SpongeBob Squarepants” created by Stephen Hillenburg, “SpongeBob: Sponge Out of Water” Directed by Paul Tibbitt and the writers are Stephen Hillenburg, Paul Tibbitt, Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger.

Max’s Restaurant continues to drum up support for these modern-day heroes as Gilas Pilipinas inches closer to the most awaited and prestigious competition in Spain slated for August. Max’s recently launched the “Gilas Favorite Delivery Treat,” an offering of one whole Max’s sarap to the bones fried chicken with a free bottle of banana catsup and a limited edition Gilas Pilipinas Eco Bag for only P299.00. Fans may now share the thrill of watching their favorite basketball team while enjoying Max’s world famous, crispy-on-the-outside-and-tender-on-the-inside fried chicken. Max’s Gilas Favorite Delivery Treat is valid until July 31, 2014 for both online and delivery transactions anywhere in…

From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and the Company of Dwarves. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure,…

Tublay Mayor Ruben Paoad, US Ambassador Philip S. Goldberg, UN World Food Programme (WFP) Representative and Country Director Praveen Agrawal, and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Mission Director Reed Aeschliman visit the women coffee farmers of Tublay, Benguet, who have been assisted by the US Government through WFP for the disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation (DRR/CCA) programme. The US Government has announced an additional US$340,000 assistance to the province of Benguet to further improve disaster resilience in the area. Photo credit: WFP Philippines/Anthony Chase Lim

Traveling to the city known as the “Little Rome of the Philippines” is now easier and faster with the road improvements in the Southern Tagalog region.The SLEX extension or the Toll Road 3 connects the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) to the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road Tollway (STAR Tollway), cutting down travel time by bypassing the usually congested Maharlika Highway. Motorists can now reach Lipa City exit in a matter of minutes from SLEX. As a bastion of the Catholic faith, Lipa City is home to several Catholic churches, convents, seminaries, catholic schools, and retreat houses. Lipa hosts an annual national…

The south part of the metro specifically Alabang in Muntinlupa City continuous to develop with lots of food establishments being built in the city. And if you’re looking for a new gastronomical adventure to entice your taste buds, you may not look any further as you can experience that at Acacia Hotel Manila. The three-year old Filipino five-star hotel in Alabang has fast become the go-to place of local residents and business men due to its convenient location, great service and amenities. One thing that makes this hotel unique is that Acacia Hotel Manila is the only hotel in the South…