Each of the 285 Typhoon Tino-affected families in Liloan received ₱30,000 in home recovery assistance, bringing the total support for the municipality to ₱8.5 million.

Liloan, Cebu — This Christmas season, the Aboitiz Foundation, through OneAboitiz, is bringing renewed hope to families in the Municipality of Liloan, Cebu, one of the communities affected by Typhoon Tino, by assisting 285 families with home recovery after the disaster completely damaged their houses.

Anyone who has spent the past few days inching through Metro Manila traffic may have noticed something a little unusual weaving between cars. No, it’s not a trick of the headlights or a hunger-induced mirage. That really was a foodpanda partner rider with reindeer antlers sticking out of the delivery bag, plus a box wrapped in fairylights that looks like it came straight from Santa’s workshop.

MANILA — Current laws restricting sales and marketing that reach and appeal to teens are insufficient to thwart the continued rise in vaping among Filipino youth, according to new research released by the Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, echoing concerns raised in a recent statement by the Republic of the Philippines Department of Health.