Celine Dion, a world-renowned singer, has announced that she will head overseas this summer with her highly anticipated LIVE 2018 Tour to perform in seven cities across the Asia-Pacific region. Scheduled to kick-off 26 June in Tokyo, the CELINE DION LIVE 2018 Tour will see Celine return to cities she hasn’t performed in for ten years, including Tokyo and Macao, and cities she will perform in for the first time ever, including Singapore, Jakarta, Taipei, Manila and Bangkok.

Tickets for CELINE DION LIVE 2018 in Manila will go on sale to the public beginning 18 January at 10 a.m. Members of TeamCeline will have access to purchase tickets before the public through an advance pre-sale from 16 January to 17 January. The tour is produced by AEG Presents and co-produced by Ovation Productions in Manila.

Tickets for CELINE DION LIVE 2018 Tour in Manila will go on-sale to the public beginning 18 January.

For tickets and information visit celinedion.com and smtickets.com.

CELINE DION LIVE 2018 Tour Dates:

26 June Tokyo Tokyo Dome
29 June Macao Cotai Arena at The Venetian Macao
3 July Singapore Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom
4 July Singapore Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom
7 July Jakarta Sentul International Convention Center
11 July Taipei Taipei Arena
13 July Taipei Taipei Arena
19 July Manila Mall of Asia Arena
23 July Bangkok Impact Arena

One of the most immediately recognized, widely respected and successful performers in pop music history, Celine Dion has sold almost 250 million albums during her over 30-year career. She has earned five Grammy Awards, two Academy Awards and seven American Music Awards. In 2004, Celine received the Diamond award at the World Music Awards recognizing her status as the best-selling female artist of all time. In 2016, the Billboard Music Awards presented her with the lifetime achievement Icon Award. Celine continues to break records with her ongoing Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace which has played over 1,000 shows to more than four million fans.

AEG Presents is one of the largest live music companies in the world. The company is dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performances, including producing and promoting global and regional concert tours, music events and world-renowned festivals. AEG Presents promotes more than 8,000 shows annually worldwide. For more information, visit aegpresents.com.

Ovation Productions is a pioneer concert promotions company in the Philippines operating since the 1970s headed by veteran promoter Renen de Guia. It directly buys, promotes, and handles all production of its concerts ‘in-house’. The company has expanded the concert market for international artists by breaking into and developing provincial cities in the Philippines aside from Metro Manila. For more information, visit ovationproductionsmanila.com.

So, will you watch or you will watch!

Kicking off the year with a dramatical and inspirational movie, Mama's Girl, with Sylvia Sanchez and Sofia Andres. The movie tackles two situations of today's generation, the generation gap and the millennial life.

Having 4 generations in todays society it is just right that this movie helps in the bridg8ling the gap. And it also a benefit to the older generations to learn life of the millennials and also to provide advises.

"We want to start the year right by giving our audience something that will inspire them more to embrace change, make more time for the people who matter the most and live life to the fullest," according to Ms Roselle Monteverde. Mama's Girl will be shown in cinemas this January 17, 2018.

As for Sylvia Sanchez, she considers this movie as a blessing as she starts 2018. According to her viewers will see a different mother role, a martyr and a fighter.

Sylvia is very much confident that a lot of people, especially moms and daughters, will be able to relate themselves to the characters. She said that through the film, parents and their millennial kids will understand each other's journey.


The movie is under the direction of Connie S.A. Macatuno. Also starring in Mama's Girl are Diwgo Loyzaga and Jameson Blake. Completing the cast are Yana Asistio, Heaven Peralejo, Karen Reyes, Arlene Mulach, Allan Paule, Alora Sasam, among others.

Don't miss on January 17 Mama's Girl!

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One of the best gift to welcome the holidays is winning the grand prize of a promotion or contests. I, for one would be very much delighted if it happened to me, unfortunately it did not happened to me last holiday season. But for the lucky LBC customers it did happened to them as LBC brought joy to them in various parts of the globe and that is when they awarded the grand prizes of the promotions they conducted in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Now isn't it wonderful!

For the LBC-Hong Kong customers who did participate in the Stampadala promo which is transacting sea and air cargo and money remittances was given a chance to win prizes by simply sending their “padala” to loved ones in the Philippines.

Each qualified transaction corresponded to a single stamp, regardless of amount. After completing the required number of stamps, customers could exchange these for scratch cards which won for them instant prizes from LBC. It also served as their raffle coupon for the monthly and grand draws.

For the monthly raffle, winners received free remittance passes and free mini-box and medium box shipments to the Philippines. For the Grand Draw, ten lucky winners were each given an android phone. Another set of ten winners won grocery packages enclosed in LBC boxes, ready for sending to recipients in the Philippines.

Meanwhile, many hardworking OFWs in Singapore and Malaysia were also given appreciation by LBC when it awarded the grand winners of its promo billed “ May Instant Holiday Ka sa ‘Yong PADALA” last December. The tilt, held between September 1 and December 1, 2017, was a collaboration with Philippine Airlines (PAL).

To qualify and get a raffle entry, LBC customers in the two countries only needed to make sea or air cargo transactions.

For Singapore, PAL roundtrip tickets were each given to the two grand draw winners. The 2nd prize winner took home a 32-inch TV while the 3rd prize winner received an android phone. For Malaysia, one lucky LBC patron won a PAL roundtrip ticket, while the 2nd and 3rd prize winners were awarded with a 32-inch TV and android phone, respectively.

With the dual success of “Stampadala” and “May Instant Holiday Ka sa ‘Yong PADALA”, LBC is looking forward to launching more promotions this year to show how much they value their loyal customers, wherever they may be.

ABOUT LBC

LBC is the Philippines’ market leader in retail and corporate courier & cargo, money remittance, and logistics services. With a growing network of over 6,400 branches, hubs & warehouses, partners, and agents in over 30 countries, LBC is committed to moving lives, businesses, and communities and delivering smiles around the world. Listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange through LBC Express Holdings, Inc., LBC aims to deliver value to all of its stakeholders, as it has for over 60 years. Founded in 1945 as a brokerage and air cargo agent, LBC pioneered time-sensitive cargo delivery and 24-hour door-to-door delivery in the Philippines. Today, it is the most trusted logistics brand of the Global Filipino. LBC can move it for you: visit www.LBCexpress.com, or call telephone +632 8585 999 (Metro Manila), 1 800 10 8585 999 (Provincial), +632 9086 522 (Solutions) and follow LBCExpress (Facebook and Twitter).

Privacy matters and perhaps this is the main intention of Vivo when they presented at CES 2018 in Las Vegas the world’s first ready-to-produce in-display fingerprint scanning smartphone. Who wouldn’t want to protect their private details? Well hopefully there are none who would let the entire world know their personal details. This innovative breakthrough from Vivo will surely draw great attention in the global market, the futuristic Vivo in-display fingerprint scanning smartphone offers consumers an unprecedented mobile experience as it defines the new era of mobile interaction.

We all want a bigger picture about this so you can read on below to know more about this showcased gadget from Vivo.

World’s First In-Display Fingerprint Smartphone Ready for Mass Production
At CES 2018, Vivo shows the world the first ready-to-produce smartphone featuring in-display fingerprint scanning technology, demonstrating its continued commitment to bringing an extraordinary user experience to consumers. This latest fingerprint scanning technology delivers a whole new mobile experience by enabling users to unlock their smartphone through one-touch fingerprint scanning directly on the smartphone display, while solving the industry’s challenge of providing a better and more convenient fingerprint authentication experience in future smartphones.
According to statistics from global consultancy Canalys, smartphone vendors shipped 22 million full-screen smartphones worldwide in the second quarter in 2017, up from 700,000 in the first quarter of this year. UBI Research predicted that bezel-less displays will grow in market share from 20% in 2017 to over 50% by 2020. Fingerprint recognition has long been one of the most common and well-known biometrics used to secure smartphones. As the industry moves into a new era of full-screen displays, it is natural that the fingerprint scanning technology needs to evolve to accommodate new user habits and demands for bigger screens without sacrificing user experience.

“With our efforts in extensive consumer research and long-term R&D investment, Vivo is well positioned to pioneer the development of fingerprint scanning technology. We first presented a prototype of our fingerprint scanning solution at MWC Shanghai 2017 based on an ultrasonic sensor, and have remained committed to realizing our vision for future smartphones,” said Alex Feng, Senior Vice President of Vivo. “Today’s showcase of a ready-to-produce in-display fingerprint scanning smartphone featuring an optical fingerprint sensor is a big leap forward in bringing consumers this long-awaited, futuristic mobile experience. We are very excited to make it available to consumers soon.”

Innovation that Delivers a New Level of User Experience
Vivo’s full-production smartphone is equipped with the industry-leading, world’s first in-display fingerprint scanning technology supported by global partner Synaptics.
Vivo In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology supports various usage scenarios beyond unlocking the smartphone, and is only activated when needed. A graphical UI will show up on Vivo’s smartphone screen in any scenario that fingerprint recognition is required, such as when the screen is off, during software unlocking, or even mobile payment authentication. Users can press the fingerprint graphic on the screen to perform unlocking, payment and other operations. When fingerprint recognition is not required, the UI will be invisible and will not disrupt the overall visual experience. Vivo In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology outperforms other authentication solutions available for full-screen smartphones in many aspects. Compared to fingerprint sensors on the back of smartphones, Vivo In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology offers a more convenient operation without sacrificing the sleek and unified design of the smartphone. It also enables quick and secured authentication.

Full-screen displays are set to deliver a more immersive user experience for consumers as various interactions will be integrated and consolidated on the display. Vivo In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology replaces the physical fingerprint button on the screen, laying the foundation for a truly immersive experience.

The showcasing of the world’s first in-display fingerprint scanning smartphone ready for mass-production marks a significant leap forward in the industry’s development, taking users’ smartphone experience to a new level. The availability of Vivo’s first in-display fingerprint scanning smartphone will be announced in early 2018.
For more information about Vivo’ s innovative smartphones check out www.vivo.com/en.

Or you can visit the Vivo website at www.vivo.com/ph or check out their Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/VivoPhil), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vivophil/), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/vivo_phil) accounts.

Well aware that movies created by Star Cinema is a hit and much more is when its actors are known to be a box office hit maker like Vice Ganda, for this yuletide season a reason to hit cinema and a new reason to be fun and merry with the adventure-comedy film "The Revenger Squad".

From the Unkabogable Star Vice Ganda with Daniel Padilla, and introducing 2015 Miss Universe Ms. Pia Wurtzbach in her comeback film role after her win, "The Revenger Squad" is one of the movie entry for the 43rd Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) under the label of Star Cinema and Viva Films.

The Revengers Squad marks the coming together of Vice Ganda, Padilla, Wurtzbach, and director Bb. Joyce Bernal – a certified dream team composed of talented members who are individually considered as four of the country’s biggest entertainment icons.

There are 3 reasons that we have realized why "The Revenger Squad" is a hit with the kids and I'm sure you would want to know it.


First reason, "The Revenger Squad" implores a vey vibrant colors that kids are easily attracted with. They show much attention when they are given a photo of video with vibrant, warm and active colors.

Second reason, Vice Ganda is a hit maker and idolized by kids, Daniel Padilla is also an idol and lastly Pia Wurtzbach is a beauty queen idol. Now who wouldn't want to see them together as they play they funny antics, drama and adventure. Kids love to see their idols and when they watch the movie it is not just them that will watch but the whole family as well.

Lastly, Kids easily laugh and their innocence make it more convincing to encourage others to watch the movie. No money is not an option when it comes to the little ones. Parents would love to see their kids happy, especially during the holidays and to add "minsan lang sila bata."

Adding color to the lineup of stars is Wurtzbach, who created international headlines when she was crowned Miss Universe in the historic Miss Universe 2015 pageant. She snatched the coveted title and brought a well-deserved honor to the Philippines and to every Filipino in the most dramatic of fashions, transcending her status from celebrity to the exhilarating level of both national hero and national treasure.

Under the helm of Bernal and written by Danno Mariquit, “The Revenger Squad” marks a lot of firsts for Vice, Padilla, and Wurtzbach. This is the first time that Vice Ganda and Padilla will be doing a superhero film, with the latter also trying his hand in comedy the first time. Meantime, this is the big screen debut of Wurtzbach after her big win.
The story of “The Revenger Squad” revolves around makeup and rags reseller Emy (Vice Ganda) who, despite his faulty memory, never forgets to guard his younger brother Chino (Daniel Padilla) from harm – to the point of becoming overprotective of his younger brother. The fun begins when Chino turns 21 and Emy remembers the truth about them – that he is the superhero Gandarra and that Chino’s super abilities will soon activate now that he is an adult. Wanting to shelter Chino from the dangers of being a superhero, Emy keeps the truth from his brother and becomes even more protective.
This, until a new superhero emerges, Rapiddo, who Emy discovers is his younger brother Chino. He then decides to become Gandarra again to secretly help and protect his brother. Together with Emy’s super best buddies, Gandarra and Rapiddo become a squad of superheroes who treat each other as family.

The conflict begins when the eccentric superhero Kweenie (Pia Wurtzbach) enters their lives and drops the truth that could break their family.
Completing the team of Gandarra, Kweenie, and Rapiddo are the motley group of lovable super heroes namely Barna (Carla Estrada), Higopa (MC Calaquian), Flawlessa (Lassy Marquez), Pospora (Wacky Kiray), and Enrique Heal (JJ Quilantang).

What makes a hero super? Is it special abilities and superpowers? Or is it the innate ability of the hero to love? Will love, laughter, and joy save the day from the forces of evil?