SSS asks members, employers to keep online login details to themselves

Social Security System (SSS) President and CEO Michael G. Regino today urged members, pensioners, and employers of the state-pension fund to secure their login credentials on the My.SSS portal and other personal information to protect their accounts from fraudulent transactions. (more…)

Year-round coding project transforming next generation into successful tech professionals

Today, StackTrek announced what it’s calling an “ambitious, all-hands-on-deck” Code Your Future initiative to get young men and women in the Philippines coding. This is a joint effort with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the education industry with estimated 150 participating universities, and the private industry, including some of the biggest tech companies in the country. (more…)

M88 Mansion presents Maria Ozawa, One Night Only: Live In Manila

Manila, Philippines, 18 April 2022 – M88 Mansion partner and celebrity entrepreneur Maria Ozawa returns to the Philippines this week for Maria Ozawa, One Night Only: Live in Manila.

This special media event is the first-ever face-to-face event organized by M88 Mansion with Maria Ozawa exclusively dedicated to their collaboration on Maria’s Room. The event will be on the 22nd of April at the Cove Manila, located inside Okada Manila in Parañaque City. Local and international media were invited to this event. The program starts at 5:00 PM. (more…)

SoPa opens Philippines office and elevates VP of Product Design to Country Head to fuel growth momentum in 2022

Manila, 18 April 2022 – Society Pass Incorporated (SoPa) (Nasdaq: “SOPA”), a leading Southeast Asia’s loyalty and ecommerce ecosystem is amplifying its operations across its key VIP (Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines) markets and today announced the opening of its office in Manila along with the appointment of a new Country Head – Arbie Pagdaganan. (more…)

Victory! President Duterte has vetoed the SIM Card & Social Media Registration Act – Democracy.Net.PH

STATEMENT OF DEMOCRACY.NET.PH ON THE VETO OF THE SIM CARD REGISTRATION BILL BY PRESIDENT RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE

On APRIL 15, 2015 – The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, said Thomas Jefferson so long ago. Today, we are reminded of this truism. Today, we were this close to allowing an intrusion into our privacy for what was nothing more than security theater. Today, even in the face of such full-throated bipartisan support for the passage of the SIM Card Registration Bill into law, the President vetoed it not only because the constitutional defects were glaring, but because the passage of this law posed a real and serious threat to our national security.
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