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Forming new habits is not always easy. It takes determination, strong willpower , and a right environment to start something new. Research has shown that on average, it takes 66 days, equivalent to over two months, for a new behavior to become automatic. Over the past year, with more consumers staying at home as a result of the pandemic, new habits were being formed. According to the Asia Pacific Breakfast Habits Survey 2021 conducted by Herbalife Nutrition to understand the impact of the current pandemic on consumers’ breakfast attitudes and habits as well as the behavior preferences of different demographic groups, two in five (37 percent) Gen Zs and Millennials in the region began eating breakfast more often and half of the respondents who started doing so said they ate breakfast six to seven more days per week. When it comes to positive breakfast habits, they mainly involve two key considerations – the frequency of eating breakfast and the nutrition that goes into it to ma...

Social Media influencer with 4.1 million followers on Instagram, Singer and Actress, Kyline Alcantara is now part of the rising tiger in skin care and cosmetics, Skin Magical with the press launch recently held with the Co-founder and COO of Skin Magical herself, Ghie Pangilinan .     “On behalf of the whole Skin Magical, our distributors and resellers, we are very grateful and honored as a brand and as a company to have Kyline Alcantara as one of our celebrity endorsers. I first saw Kyline on a news sa facebook two years ago and nacurious talaga ako sa kanya. I discovered na she has a lot of followers and super pretty and talented star sa GMA 7. Aside from that, napanood ko din yung vlogs niya with her family and friends. Gustong-gusto ko yung personality niya. She is sweet and strong at the same time. Maganda and Palaban rolled into one! Kaya when I had the opportunity to meet with GMA Artist, isa si Kyline  sa aming only choice to help us in the promotion of Hola ...

Who would have thought that a cum laude nursing graduate would end up selling beauty products and to be this successful instead of landing in a hospital to pursue his career in his chosen profession?   And would eventually be a CEO of his own company at a very young age? Meet Leo Ortiz, CEO of Rising Dragon Beauty and Wellness Trading Corporation. The Rising Dragon Unable to find a nursing job after graduation, Leo joined a network marketing group instead but after two years, he did not earn much. Armed with perseverance and his learnings from this experience, and his realization of great opportunities in marketing, he jumped into another venture. He got his first million selling contact lenses! And this was the start of his successful entrepreneurial journey. He had his share of business ventures which failed, but it never deterred him from pushing forward and looking for next opportunities. Leo now directly oversees 50 employees and hundreds more in various industries, in...

Ms. Gigi Pio De Roda is the President and CEO of FPG Insurance. Before joining FPG, she has over 30 years of financial services expertise, specifically in the banking and insurance industries. She experienced working in both local and foreign banks from which she held various executive positions, the longest being that with HSBC, from 1999 to 2016. Her expertise has been in leading strategic transformational initiatives that turn businesses and companies into profitable and sustainable enterprises. Rising Tigers: Nation Builders , a new business publication to be launch on March 22, 2022,   at the Grand Hyatt Manila at the BGC in Taguig will feature the Top 50 Rising Tigers of the Asia Pacific. They are the best and the brightest individuals in the Philippines and Southeast Asia who never fail to balance commitment to growth with corporate social responsibility, even during the most trying times. Leadership Highlights   “When I was invited to join FPG Insurance, the m...

Two world class fashion designers will flaunt their talent in designing the gowns and suits of the first beauty awards dedicated just for the leaders of this industry. Happy Andrada and Pablo Cabahug accepted this wonderful task and also part of the awards committee. There will be a fashion show, the honourees will show off their designs handling their own products if they have or any paraphernalia from their companies.   The sole beneficiary is Kiwanis Club of Makati where children are the main focus and helping them for more than 100 years already globally while in the Philippines, more than 50 years.   Asia Leaders Awards presents BEAUTY INDUSTRY AWARDS   6-22-22 Grand Hyatt Hotel Fort Bonifacio, Taguig www.asialeadersawards.asia   Beauty industry leaders will be in one roof for the first time under the largest recognition organization in Asia, Asia Leaders Awards. Beauty Industry Awards (BIA) is the grandest health and wellness event that will be at the posh Gran...

Asia Leaders Awards presents: BEAUTY INDUSTRY AWARDS and the organizing committee are very proud for the addition of these two international fashion designers as part of the awards committee. 6-22-22 Grand Hyatt Hotel Fort Bonifacio, Taguig www.asialeadersawards.asia Happy Andrada and Pablo Cabahug are two of the Philippines young and dynamic fashion designers who will dress the honourees with a fashion show for the benefit of the children under Kiwanis Club of Makati. The honourees if not the first time will not just help the indigents but also will have the chance to flaunt the innovative designs of these two award winning fashion designers. Beauty industry leaders will be in one roof for the first time under the largest recognition organization in Asia, Asia Leaders Awards. Beauty Industry Awards (BIA) is the grandest health and wellness event that will be at the posh Grand Hyatt Hotel in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig in collaboration with the biggest brands in Asia Pacific.  ...

Meet one of the featured Rising Tigers at the newest business publication in town, Rising Tigers:Nation Builders magazine, Urban planner Karima Palafox. Karima Palafox , more popularly known as “Karmi,” is a highly experienced urban planner with international experience in strategic planning, economics, urban design and policy. She’s involved in the strategy and development plan of communities, islands, new and historic cities, infrastructure, and public places leading mixed-use, residential and tourism, airports, to post-crisis and post-disaster rehabilitation projects. A chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute in the UK and a licensed environmental planner with the Philippine Institute of Environmental Planners, she led the strategic plans of some well-loved places in the Philippines. She has master's degrees in urban planning and economics, and has been educated in England, the Philippines, Israel and Barcelona. In 2005, Karmi joined Palafox Associates, a hi...

From distributing Tires to Barbie Dolls, that is how Ms. Myrna Yao emerged to be one of the most successful lady entrepreneurs in the Philippines. She is the President and CEO of Richwell Trading Corporation and Richprime Global Inc, the exclusive distributor of Mattel Toys and Barbie, Ollie, Fisher Price Shoes and V-Tech Learning Computer in the Philippines. A multi-awarded entrepreneur and a known women advocate, she has been very busy breaking barriers in the name of equality and women empowerment. Ms. Yao can truly be called a “Nation Builder.” Ms. Yao is one of the Top 50 featured individual in the new business publication “Rising Tigers:Nation Builders” to be launched this coming March of 2022.   From Micro Entrepreneur to Big Enterprise Ms. Yao entered the male-dominated world of commodities trading, working for her father’s copra business. She then ventured into tires distributorship under her Richwell Trading Corporation. When the going gets tough in the Tire bu...

Talented and International Fashion Designer— Happy Andrada is everywhere representing the Philippines for international events and received so many awards already. A world-class designer with designs participated in the London Fashion Week; Paris Fashion Week; Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Amsterdam; Fibre Rome, Milan, Italy; International Fashion and Art exhibit Seoul, Korea; Fashion and Art Exhibition in Beijing China; Women’s Wear Daily Convention in Las Vegas;Topstyl Designer event in Czech Republic; Fashion Art Exhibit in The Netherlands; Animax featured designer in Singapore,and Japan’s Fashion Design Competition; Arts and Fashion Week Toronto Canada; Exclusively by design in Tokyo, Japan, International Fashion Art Biennale Mongolia,PRC; International art and Fashion Biennale Changsha, China.   Happy Andrada For the first time in the Philippines, there will be an award show primarily to recognize the beauty industry and the organizers are very proud to have world class f...

For the first time in the Philippines, there will be an award show primarily to recognize the beauty industry and the organizers are very proud to have world class fashion designers as part of the awarding committee with a fashion show at the gala night of Beauty Industry Awards (BIA). 6-22-22 Grand Hyatt Hotel Fort Bonifacio, Taguig www.asialeadersawards.asia Asia Leaders Awards presents BEAUTY INDUSTRY AWARDS and the organizing committee are very proud for the addition of these t wo international fashion designers as part of the awards committee.   Happy Andrada and Pablo Cabahug are two of the Philippines young and dynamic fashion designers who will dress the honourees with a fashion show for the benefit of the children under Kiwanis Club of Makati. The honourees if not the first time will not just help the indigents but also will have the chance to flaunt the innovative designs of these two award winning fashion designers. Pablo Cabahug  was the one who made the 2...

Lotis Ramin, Country President of AstraZeneca Philippines—the seventh largest ethical multinational pharmaceutical company in the country—returns to Asia Leaders Awards 2022, continuing its streak as a multi-awarded pharmaceutical  company.   Asia Leaders Awards is only the recognition giving body whose awards committee is composed of respected leaders from different chambers, organizations, and embassies like the Embassy of Singapore, the Embassy of Poland, and the Korean Council among others. ALA 2022 Awarding Ceremonies will be on November 22, 2022.   Committing to Saving Lives “Our commitment is for AstraZeneca doses to help save lives and prevent hospitalization through the government’s primary dose and booster program and with the rise of the super contagious Omicron variant,” shared AstraZeneca Country President Lotis Ramin. Indeed, AstraZeneca has delivered a ballpark of 40 million vaccine shots in coordination with all sectors, from government to pri...

Engineer Grace Bondad Nicolas —the woman behind successful shows, an unparalleled civic and multiplatform leader, and adviser to billionaires—assumed the top post as Publisher and Managing Director of business and lifestyle magazine "Rising Tigers: Nation Builders."   This new publishing milestone, another brainchild of the Asia Leaders Awards (ALA) Committee and TAG Media Group, will be launched on March 22, 2022 at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig with the banner story, "Top 50 Rising Tigers in the Asia Pacific." The magazine will feature the best and the brightest in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia, even in the whole of the Asia Pacific region, who never fail to balance commitment to growth and corporate social responsibility, even during the most trying times. In November 2021, she launched ALA's first coffee-table book, Profiles of Excellence, at the Embassy of Singapore in the Philippines during the ultra-exclusive awarding ceremonies. Ro...