Newsletter: Boracay’s Quiet Advantage: How Xpress Super App Is Rewriting Island Mobility

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Xpress Boracay is transforming island travel with a seamless, app-based mobility system built around green electric e-trikes. Visitors can book rides with fixed pricing, cashless payments, and built-in insurance for both passengers and drivers. With the launch of XPASS, travelers can skip multiple queues by paying environmental fees, boat fares, terminal fees, and even their e-trike ride in one go—then simply scan a QR code upon arrival. Foreign tourists can use international credit cards directly in the app, unlocking smoother spending and higher driver earnings. Add flexible e-trike day tours, and Boracay becomes a model for modern, frictionless tourism mobility.

Newsletter: GCash expands livelihood opportunities with the new GCash Pera Outlet Plus, bringing financial access closer to Filipino communities

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GCash Pera Outlet Plus turns sari-sari stores into digital finance hubs—letting retailers earn more while serving their communities

GCash, the Philippines’ leading finance super app with the largest cashless ecosystem, announced the official launch of the GCash Pera Outlet Plus. Designed to economically empower Nano, Micro and Small (NMS) businesses, such as sari-sari stores, carinderias, and other community-based retail shops, by becoming a local hub for daily digital financial transactions, such as cash-in, cash-out, load purchase, and bills payment in their communities.

Newsletter: Xpress’ RXP Program: Empowering Riders, Creating Jobs, and Building Financial Freedom

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In a bid to foster economic empowerment and job creation, Xpress is proud to announce the significant impact of its innovative RXP (Rider Xpress Program) initiative. Designed to provide aspiring moto taxi riders with the opportunity to own their motorcycles, the RXP program is transforming lives and paving the way for financial freedom.

Newsletter: Balut vendor, weaver from La Union find hope through Bikes for Livelihood

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Last August 7, Donate A Bike, Save A Job Founder Gretchen Ho, together with the Provincial Government of La Union, PLDT, Smart, and the PLDT-Smart Foundation, turn over bicycles to some residents from La Union.

With one Facebook post, residents of La Union saw a glimpse of hope in the form of bicycles. Sangguniang Panlalawigan Board Member Joy Ortega and Donate A Bike, Save A Job Founder Gretchen Ho partnered with PLDT, Smart, and PLDT-Smart Foundation to bring ‘joyful’ bikes to La Union. 

Newsletter: Why Igorots in Metro Manila directly source goods from farmers

09/24/2020 11:45:55 PM

Author's note: Imagine buying local goods. Wait, that may sound really vague. Let me get this straight.

Moreover, imagine buying low-priced products straight from the farm. Here lies the stories of how some of our fellow countrymen – the ones we call Cordillerans or Igorots – are buying goods directly from the farmers of Cordillera. 

And why should we emulate their example more than just showing support to our locality and homegrown offerings. Read the story below in this edition of newsletter: 

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See Pasig's handicraft goods at the Neighborgoods Bazaar at Ayala Malls The 30th!

08/29/2019 10:30:21 AM

Support local has been showing up more evidently at Ayala Malls recently as Pasig City Government and Ayala Malls The 30th staged the week-long bazaar featuring the community's homegrown products recently.