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PMFTC Inc. leads the change to a smoke-free future

An agriculture and consumer products company, PMFTC Inc., the local affiliate of Philip Morris International is now leading the change across the Philippine tobacco industry to a smoke-free future. An employer of choice, a major tobacco leaf buyer, taxpayer and a partner to law...

Consumer groups support tobacco harm reduction

Consumer groups across the Asia-Pacific region want tobacco harm reduction (THR) to be acknowledged as a human right and public health strategy to help smokers reduce the harm caused by the smoking epidemic. THR aims to provide alternatives to reduce risks caused by smoking...

The rise of smoke-free alternatives to cigarettes in the Philippines

Filipino smokers are turning to electronic cigarettes, heat-not-burn (HNB) or heated tobacco products (HTPs) and other novel smoke-free products as a way to find better alternatives to combustible cigarettes. Demand for these products grew out of smokers’ desire to try better options to smoking...

PMFTC opens IQOS stores in the Philippines

PMFTC Inc., an affiliate of Philip Morris International (PMI), opened its first five IQOS stores in Metro Manila last month to provide smoke-free alternatives to adult Filipino smokers who would otherwise continue to use cigarettes. PMFTC President Denis Gorkun said the opening of the...

Switching to the right financial mindset

JJ Atencio on using the quarantine to reexamine one’s wealth & develop an entrepreneurial mindset If there’s anything the COVID-19 pandemic revealed, it’s the fact that an economic standstill renders everyone’s finances limited, or worse, at risk of depletion. Corrolarily, it has become more...

Father the griffin

A year before he died in 2002, a documentary was made on the life and times of national artist for literature Francisco Arcellana, part of the Kuwadro series funded by the CCP on select national artists at the time. Titled ‘A life of...

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Navigating the Global Arena 

CITEM Executive Director Leah P. Ocampo cites geopolitical factors as the ultimate challenge to Philippine merchandise exports penetrating the global market.        Apart from global...

A last look at 2020

Australian bushfire A raging bushfire engulfed Australia’s Kangaroo Island on Jan. 3. For five months, from October 2019 until March 2020, several bush fires blazed...

Order your copy of the 98th Anniversary Issue of the Philippines Graphic today!

You can still catch the June 2025 98th Anniversary issue of the 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜! Featuring: Latest news on the 2025 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards (NJLA)...

Training the youth in good governance

In the City of Sto. Tomas, Batangas, the National Children’s Month is now celebrated with a Child Representative Election, where the youths elect their...