PLDT Global Enterprise Receives Award from Alibaba Cloud for Esport Project

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PLDT Global Enterprise, through its Asia Pacific team, recently received “Project of the Year Award” from Alibaba Cloud - the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group – further fortifying its partnership with the latter. 

In 2019, PLDT Global Enterprise and Alibaba Cloud collaborated to provide digital and cloud solutions for Esport matches during the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, ensuring athletes a seamless and world-class gaming experience. 

PLDT leveraged its wholly owned Ethernet Private Line (EPL) service—through its international cables APCN2 and ASE—to bring Alibaba Cloud’s computing services coming from its Point of Presence (PoP) in Singapore.  

With this, PLDT Global Enterprise received the “Project of the Year Award” from Alibaba Cloud for the successful partnership, as well as it being a national project with Philippines hosting the 30th SEA Games. This prize is from Alibaba Cloud HTK region that covers Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines.

Vic Tria, PLDT FVP & Enterprise Revenue Group Head, highlighted his appreciation. "We are honored to receive such recognition from Alibaba Cloud. We at PLDT Global Enterprise pride ourselves on being able to connect leading technology providers such as Alibaba Cloud to the Philippines while enabling them to capitalize on the country’s thriving digital economy growth.” 

Jeff Mendoza, PLDT Enterprise Asia Pacific Regional Head, projects an uptrend in cloud requirements in the Philippines. “This partnership milestone also marks the first Alibaba Cloud - PLDT Enterprise’s GTM collaboration in the Philippines. As the enterprise and public sector's cloud requirements anticipate an impressive growth trajectory in the country, we anticipate a stronger partnership with Alibaba Cloud while exploring other venues of cooperation,” he stated. 

Allen Guo, Country Manager for the Philippines, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, extended his well wishes saying, “We would like to congratulate

PLDT Enterprise with the ‘Project of the Year Award’. It has been a pleasure collaborating with PLDT Enterprise to speed up the digital transformation of businesses in the Philippines and we look forward to working together further in future projects." 

The PLDT Group has been at the forefront in providing digital solutions to support and strengthen the country’s ESport endeavors, which helps build capabilities of Filipino athletes and enabling them to globally compete. 

PLDT boasts of an extensive roster of clients and partners throughout the Asia Pacific, US, and Europe—making it the ideal partner for global enterprises looking to bring their businesses to the Philippines and other global markets. PLDT also owns vast international submarine cable assets spanning across the globe while complementing these with  globally certified data centers in the Philippines,  to serve the hyperscalers and global internet companies with their digital infrastructure requirements.

R/GA Singapore brings new perspective to wellness with dance and pop culture for Prudential’s ‘WeDO’ campaign

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R/GA Singapore is pleased to support Prudential Corporation Asia’s (Prudential) launch of their new ‘We DO’ social media-focused campaign that aims to bring people together to learn about the multiple dimensions of wellness in a fun, fresh and interactive way.

The campaign kicks off with the premiere of ‘We DO’ – a new hit single and music video by K-pop supergroup SuperM created in partnership with Prudential. It will be followed by an ongoing series of wellness activities such as dance challenges in collaboration with SuperM on social media channels. The campaign is now live regionally across Prudential’s Asian markets.

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused countries across the globe to go into prolonged lockdowns, leading to a spike in loneliness and social isolation, and for some, lower fitness levels. Millennials and Gen Z, in particular, are feeling pressure across various dimensions of wellness. Prudential wanted to bring a new perspective to health and wellness to help people become holistically healthier. Based on insights that the desire for empathy, togetherness and connectedness are at an all-time high and personal health thrives with a group effort, R/GA Singapore contributed and formulated ideas around the concept of dance, which led to the We Do Dance creative idea. The idea for co-wellness is in line with Prudential’s ‘We DO’ spirit, reflecting on the company’s focus on health and wellness and its commitment to support people at every stage of their lives.

Leveraging R/GA’s creative and experiential capabilities, the campaign aims to make co-wellness more dynamic, digital and united. R/GA tapped on the phenomenal rise of new behaviour in the social world: dance and used it to move people towards wellness collectively. Through K-pop, a genre of music that’s inherently unifying, fun and social, R/GA worked with SM Entertainment on the lyrics, choreography and production of SuperM’s new single and music video ‘We DO’ and also coordinated the launch between SM Entertainment and Prudential across Asia. The single, launched today, kicks off with wellness activities, including dance challenges in collaboration with SuperM on social media channels, to help people get better together. The first challenge goes live on 10 April, Saturday, and SuperM members will view shortlisted video submissions.

“Our partnership with Prudential has always been a fulfilling one, and this partnership was an exhilarating challenge of building connected human experiences that we’re uniquely geared to meet. Not many can say that they’ve created a new hit single and music video with a K-pop phenomenon, so we’re very glad to be able to make this happen together with Prudential,” said Dorothy Peng, Managing Director, R/GA Singapore.

“Our mission is to make engagement between brands and people easier, more fun & rewarding, so we’re really excited to have launched this campaign for Prudential to redefine health and wellness together,” she added.

Anthony Shaw, Chief Marketing and Consumer Officer, Prudential Corporation Asia, said, “As part of our commitment to helping people get the most out of life, we are delighted to launch the ‘We Do Dance’ series with SuperM. We want to inspire the young and young at heart to get healthy and have fun doing it. We are delighted to work with R/GA Singapore and tap into their creative expertise and leverage their insights to engage our young consumers.”

ABS-CBN news team tailed by Chinese missile boats

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For all the bravado and machismo that a lot of our “leaders” have boasted about, who do we see in the West Philippine Sea?

A woman who just exposed how we are being bullied by China within our premises.

Chiara Zambrano and the ABS-CBN News team have more guts than President Duterte and all the men flexing macho in the Cabinet.

ABS-CBN News' Chiara Zambrano reported that she and her crew were supposed to visit Ayungin Shoal, where the Philippine Navy maintains its presence through BRP Sierra Madre.

The Filipino boat, however, failed to even get near the shoal.  The Chinese are harassing us in our own waters!! Where is freedom of navigation!?

ABS-CBN’s Chiara Zambrano checked their boat’s location, and they were only 90 nautical miles from Palawan. That’s almost just as far as going to Cavite from Tarlac.

Clearly, they were within our Exclusive Economic Zone, and yet, China’s war vessels brazenly charged in their direction. Iyan ba ang magpapark lang ng barko kasi masama ang panahon?

Pinalibutan na tayo sa sarili nating teritoryo. Tayo pa ang takot sa sarili nating kapuluan.

Ang humabol sa team ni Chiara Zambrano ay hindi ordinary ships, but an attack ship it of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy. 

Motto ng China: “Lahat ng naaabot ng paningin ko ay SA AKIN”. F*cking retard clowns. Syempre, no comment si pagong diyan. BFF eh.

Is this what you call "bilateral ties" ? China's vaccines for our seas? They're harvesting our resources and threatening our people.

Still no reaction from our coward, traitor leader. Mahiya ka Araw ng kagitingan pa naman nung nangyari! No show pa sa mga commemorative activities ng Day of Valor.

Kung DDS ka pa rin, puwede ba magsama-sama na lang kayo sa China at hindi sa West Philippine Sea. Doon sa mainland kayo maghimuran ng puwet.

Buti pa si Chiara Zambrano nakarating na ng west Philippines sea kahit hindi nangako, pero yung isa dyan mag je jetski daw pero gang ngayon hindi pa rin ginagawa...

Sinasalakay na tayo ng China sa sarili nating bansa. Si Duterte tahimik pa rin. Tahol ka naman jan kung buhay ka pa.

Syempre mag lalabas na naman ng walang kamatayan diplomatic protest si Teddy Boy Locsin, at mag post sa Twitter ng mabulaklaking salita, tapos end na. Yun lang kaysa niyang gawin in defense of the Philippines.

Kawawa na naman ABS-CBN. Ginalit na naman nila si Duterte. Good luck na lang sa franchise ninyo. You just provoked his close friend - The f*cking Chinese!

This kind of reporting. Brave. Clear. Immediate. So proud of this news team. I've always looked up to daring news peeps as the ideal journalists. Their courage to report the enraging events at West Philippine Sea is absolutely outstanding. Can't imagine how terrifying it must have been to be there.

They had more balls in covering what the heck China is doing in our territory more than a president who promises to come and face the Chinese Navy in said disputed territories "while riding a jetski holding the Philippine flag."

These past few months, a columnist has been writing articles praising Duterte and Go, even to the point of justifying the shutdown of ABS-CBN. Clue: This "journalist" writes for an obscure broadsheet and teaches ethics at a prestigious university.

Tiglao from Manila Bulletin has been praising Duterte to the highest heavens while villifying his critics for years now. Mahilig kumutak pero di naman nangigitlog ng ethics. Char!

He's a notorious paid troll, laging sinisiraan si PNoy at Mar.

Gagu. So nasa bahay mo ung magnanakaw, kailangan umalis ung may ari dahil mapoprovoke sila? Ulul. DDS. 

Just yesterday this paid troll said #PatayNaBa is bad, now he's saying the Chinese Navy should've just killed Chiara Zambrano. 

DDS paid trolls really are evil.

It is almost like the military is asking the Filipino journalists "what were you doing there?" even when the better question might be aimed at the AFP: What were you not doing there? 

What were you NOT doing in the West Philippine Sea?! 

Now THAT is the better question to the military.

Has the government sold us already to China? Why aren't there any coast guard in our EEZ?

China should pull her Navy and Coast Guard outside the Philippines' EEZ to prevent any incident that might lead to further escalation in a disputed area that is already a powder keg in the region.

This latest provocation only proves that China knows she can never win diplomatically or legally in our territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea, hence, she is desperately resorting to the threat of using deadly force.

The ABS-CBN crew risked their lives to report on China's encroachment on our EEZ, yet the DDS troll farm still has the nerve to blame them for being chased away by a Chinese vessel.

Araw ng Kagitingan kahapon, pero asal-MAKAPILI sila 

Kawawa ang Pilipinas. Tama si Heneral Luna, Pilipino ang papatay sa kapwa Pilipino.

I know my anger has to be directed toward Duterte and the admin, but man... fuck the people who put him into power. More so, fuck the people who told us to shut up about telling what Duterte is. Fuck them for telling us we were lying 

When the time calls for it and if we get attacked - may the West PH Sea be split in the middle like in the time of Moses and then swallow the whole Chinese Armada and all their infrastructure, weapons, warships and soldiers. Nothing is impossible. Pinatubo took down US Bases. Nature will be on our side.