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In October 2017, Myntra partnered with the Ministry of Textiles to promote the handloom industry. [31] [32] In April 2017, the company acquired InLogg, a city-based technology platform for the e-commerce sector. [33] In April 2018, Myntra acquired Bengaluru-based start-up Witworks, a maker of wearable devices, to strengthen its technology team ...
Mukesh Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur and author known for his contributions to digital commerce, wellness, and technology.A 1997 computer science graduate from IIT Kanpur, he began his career at Deloitte before moving to Silicon Valley in 1999, where he worked at Nextag, Centrata, and newScale, gaining expertise in technology and strategy.
Carmen Planas – known as "Manila's Darling", was the first woman to be elected to any public offices in the Philippines when she was elected councilor of Manila by general suffrage in 1934. She would later serve as the capital city's Vice Mayor from 1940 to 1941 and again from 1946 to 1951.
Henry Sy, also known as Sy Chi Sieng in Philippine Hokkien (Shī Zhìchéng in Mandarin), [3] was born in Jinjiang in Fujian, [7] then still under the Republic of China (ROC), on October 15, 1924. [ 8 ] [ 6 ] At age 12, he and his family moved to the Philippines during the Commonwealth Era under American colonial period , where his father set ...
Signage in Los Baños showing its nickname. This partial list of city and municipality nicknames in the Philippines compiles the aliases, sobriquets, and slogans that cities and municipalities in the Philippines are known by (or have been known historically by), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders, or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
Locals and tourists are known to embark on a what is called as a Binondo Food Crawl [16] to sample the cuisine along Ongpin Street. Chinese New Year; Lucky Chinatown Mall; Chinatown Arch; Jones Bridge; One Financial Center Manila Chinatown by Anchor Land is a 45-story Grade-A office at 531 Quintin Paredes Street, Binondo, the tallest in Manila.
The City of Manila administrative entity was created, composed of Binondo, Ermita, Intramuros, Malate, Pandacan, Quiapo, Santa Cruz, Barrio San Nicolas, San Miguel, San Fernando de Dilao (modern day Paco), Sampaloc and Tondo. The capital of the Philippines was relocated to Manila from Malolos. Arsenio Cruz-Herrera became mayor.
Detail of an illustration from Jean Mallat's 1846 book "The Philippines: history, geography, customs, agriculture, industry, and commerce of the Spanish colonies in Oceania", showing "a Tagalog couple pounding rice." The mortar depicted is known as a lusong, a large, cylindrical, deep-mouthed wooden mortal used to de-husk rice.