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'Tito Roby'…Page 9 ABS-CBN Lauded at CG Training… NOVEMBER 2018 www.lopezlink.ph Story on page 2. http://www.facebook.com/lopezlinkonline www.twitter.com/lopezlinkph Innovators take the spotlight at LAA 2018 IN Negros Oriental, slash-and-burn farmers become protectors of the forests they used to mindlessly burn. In Marawi, journalists uncover the stories of a people isolated and displaced by armed conflict. In Leyte, typhoon victims transform from jobless into members of an empowered community who run their own businesses and are able to send their children to school. Turn to page 6 Social worker ABS-CBN lauded at The Rockwellist: …page 3 gives back for Beauty’s best CG training …page 12 ‘Tito Roby’…page 9 Lopezlink November 2018 Biz News Lopezlink November 2018 With built-in apps, PVR, companion app and more ABS-CBN lauded at corporate SKY upgrades PH cable TV viewing Climate change with new SKY On Demand box governance training By Carla Paras-Sison SKY gives cable TV viewing Tube, and SKY On Demand, digital era, making it a relevant ABS-CBN Corporation was Transpar- in the country a boost as it its online streaming service ex- product in Filipino homes. lauded by former deputy priva- ent is the enemy launches its all-new SKY On clusive to SKY subscribers. “Online viewing is gaining cy commissioner Dondi Mapa M a p a By Carla Paras-Sison Demand box that promises to The SKY On Demand box also ground in the Philippines given at the corporate governance said being inability of the delayed central bank action on in- give Filipino families a better promises convenience for sub- the growing internet penetra- training held for directors and transparent country to link terest rates to ease exchange rate TV viewing experience. scribers as they no longer have to tion over the past three years. officers of publicly listed com- and working its foreign pol- movements, inflation expecta- As a first-of-its-kind HD switch from one gadget to another However, research shows that panies (PLCs) associated with closely with icy to domestic tions and push for higher wages.” digibox in the Philippines, the to watch their favorite shows. Filipinos still enjoy watching the Lopez Group. the NPC is requirements. Highest in ASEAN SKY On Demand box allows Claudia Suarez, business content on TV, whether for In his executive briefing on among best Unity party As a result, “Philippine in- subscribers to enjoy premium unit head of SKY’s Consumer legacy delivery of TV programs the Data Privacy Act of 2012, practices in Carlos fa- flation is now the highest in cable TV channels and stream Product Group, says the SKY from cable boxes or streamed Mapa gave extensive examples local data vors the shift to ASEAN.” De Dios considers shows and movies with its On Demand box matches via the internet. It is still an en- of data privacy requirements protection. Seated, l-r: First Balfour president Anthony Fernandez, LRMC president Juan Alfonso and MRAIL president a parliamentary inflation as a “tax” that affects built-in access to Netflix, You- the needs of consumers in the joyable family bonding activity. and breaches around the world, ABS-CBN Ferdinand Inacay at the contract signing government to all citizens, regardless of in- The new SKY On Demand box saying data privacy protection is reached out Former deputy privacy commissioner Dondi Mapa; and strengthen the come, “but especially the poor.” simplifies this viewing experi- a global issue. In the European to all affect- ICD trustee Atty. Teodoro Kalaw IV political party A 2008 study found that a 10% ence of Filipinos by enabling Union, companies that don’t ed customers system and en- increase in food prices increased LRMC, First Balfour-MRAIL content preferences to be ac- protect their customers from and successfully advised them tors (ICD), advised about “Sus- able parties to poverty incidence by 11%. He cessible on TV using just one data breaches may be fined as on next steps. For six custom- tainability in the Boardroom” compel disci- described this as an “uneven device,” she says. much as 4% of their annual ers that didn’t give their email and shared the results of his Dr. Emmanuel de Dios and Dr. Clarita Carlos pline among trade-off, which means that an JV sign pact on LRT-1 project Suarez adds that the SKY global revenue. or mobile numbers, registered study on sustainability among its members. She increase in inflation hurts more By Dolly Pasia-Ramos On Demand box also serves Proactive management mail was sent instead to their top-ranked PLCs. “WE are fighting one enemy, identified the Hugpong political than the increase in growth that as the company’s way of giving Mapa twice mentioned the addresses. Based on the 17 sustainable and it’s called climate change.” group organized by Davao City it buys.” LIGHT Rail Manila Corpo- power distribution and moni- expansion project, and com- back to SKYcable’s loyal sub- proactive management of ABS- The law requires organiza- development goals set by the This was the declaration of Mayor Sarah Duterte as a poten- De Dios said the country ration (LRMC) has signed an toring system will significantly pleted the design-and-build scribers. CBN of an attack on its online tions that employ over 250 United Nations General As- Dr. Clarita Carlos, executive tial unity party. should revisit its strategy for agreement with the First Bal- improve the reliability and ef- contract of the LRT-1 North “SKYcable would not be SKY- shopping facility. ABS-CBN people or process the personal sembly in 2015, Kalaw said director of Strategic Research “It will take three generations addressing slow-onset climate four-MRAIL joint venture on ficiency of one of the busiest Extension project through a cable without the trust of our temporarily took down The ABS- information of at least 1,000 sustainability is as much about Foundation Inc. and retired to change individual behavior events, find a way to promote the P650-million Light Rail mass railway transit systems in joint venture with DMCI in subscribers. We are constantly in- CBN Store and the UAAP Store individuals, such as customers planetary resilience, or going political science professor of via the core values approach. A agricultural productivity which Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) recti- Metro Manila. With its passen- 2010. novating so we can give our SKY websites on September 19, 2018 or beneficiaries, to register with green, as it is about promoting ger journey increasing to half a In 2017, the company was Promos & offers kapamilya a convenient and high- the NPC and appoint a data an inclusive and equitable soci- the University of the Philip- quicker way to change behavior can address both poverty and fier substation rehabilitation following a report of a data breach. pines (UP), at the Lopez Group is to change the environment to inflation, and seek to revive its project. million a day since it became awarded with the largest single quality viewing experience wheth- Personal information and credit protection officer. Consent for ety as a means to achieve global economic and political briefing favor the actions you want to declining export sector, particu- A design-and-build contract, operational in the 1980s, this contract awarded for the exist- Speed up with SKY’s 200Mbps er on cable or online streaming card details of about 200 custom- the control and processing of peace. held on October 29. see,” Carlos said. larly in trade in goods. the project aims to replace ma- new project is a major compo- ing line, the LRT-1 structural unli fiber broadband bundle services,” she elaborates. ers were affected. The company personal information may be While the Securities and Ex- Carlos said this to support She lamented the lack of He said if the country is un- jor equipment in the rectifier nent towards enhanced passen- rehabilitation project. The whole family can go online at the same time trouble-free with Besides the new built-in fea- immediately reported the breach obtained in electronic, written change Commission will require her argument that nationalism strategy in government action, able to attend to “unfinished substations such as electrical ger safety. LRMC is a joint venture SKY’s 200Mbps unlimited fiber broadband bundled with premium tures and a multifunction personal to the National Privacy Commis- or recorded form. sustainability reports from PLCs is bad because it is “inward- as well as the lack of strategy in long-term business,” then the switchgears, rehabilitate its su- Undertaking the project with of Metro Pacific Investments HD cable TV. The new plan, priced at only P5,499, is now part video recorder or PVR, the SKY sion (NPC) even as an investiga- Replying to a query, Mapa by the end of the year (2018), looking” while the country has any proposed alternative gov- Philippines will continue on a pervisory control and data ac- First Balfour is MRAIL, a sub- Corporation’s Metro Pacific of the One SKY Fiber bundled portfolio that offers unlimited in- On Demand box boasts of an en- tion on the matter continued. said employees must be in- Kalaw said directors of PLCs long-standing commitments to ernment. disruptive process where “rev- quisition or SCADA systems, sidiary of Meralco. Light Rail Corporation, Ayala ternet with an HD cable TV premium plan, SKYcable Gold with hanced user interface, a built-in Jay Gomez, ABS-CBN’s formed about closed-circuit may find opportunities for sus- ASEAN integration and a bor- “What does a revolutionary enue generation may have to install new fire detection and One of the leaders in trans- Corporation’s AC Infrastruc- 22 HD and 96 SD channels.
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