Come Join DRAGDEN with Manila Luzon!

You've been watching drag shows left and right online and you ask, why isn't there one in the Philippines? I guess it's time.

Drag Den Philippines is happening soon and of course, that means you've got to audition to get a spot on the show. This is the first drag reality talent competition in the country and will be hosted by iconic Pineapple royalty herself Manila Luzon.

Auditions, will be held in the Tiktok app. All you need is to be 18 years young, be in drag, and do the transformation on video. You can add in a short performance too since you're already there.  Then post the video with the hashtags #DragDenPHAudition and tag @dragdenph @wetvphilippines and fill up the form here bit.ly/JoinDragDen.

And as Manila already said earlier, DRAGdagulan na!

30,000+ TaskUs Employees Benefit from IPO

After baring its plans to go public a few months ago and filing a very successful IPO this June 11th, Santa Monica based company TaskUS is paying cash or equity to their almost 30,000 employees this month. Company leaders were awarded equities while employees are awarded a one time cash bonus as accorded by their tenure in the corporation.

TaskUs CEO Bryce Maddock says "TaskUs exists because of our teammates and support organizations from HR, IT, and Finance. Without their help, there wouldn't be an IPO for the organization. We want to ensure TaskUS employees got their chance to participate with a bonus and continue our investments to support their career growth. We continue to invest in our people with industry leading benefits and career advancement opportunities. This is part of our teammate focused values so everyone gets a great employee experience when they work at TaskUS."

Aside from that, TaskUs also announced a global Tuition Reimbursement and Professional Development Program aimed to support to employees aimed at continuing and further education. TaskUs has been awarded Best Global Culture by Comparably this year and “Best Places to Work” by Business Intelligence. It's just some of their phenomenal achievements for its people-centered culture.

And from the looks of it, they're doing really good!

Huawei Initiates Scholarship for UST ICT Students

Almost the same time last year, Huawei Technologies signed a memorandum of agreement with University of Santo Tomas to provide certification programs, equipment, materials and free training under the HAINA program which authorizes colleges to do Huawei certifcation courses. This year, it's been quite difficult for students to enroll and pay for their tuition fees so Huawei initiated getting scholars this year.

They were welcomed in a virtual event last August 25th wherein Hermil Gerard Calasang, Jia Anette Phi, Kryzha Lei Aguilar, Maricar Auditor and Matthew Gabriel Rabanes were included. They are now officially part of the Huawei family as scholars. College of information and Computing Sciences Dean Jerralyn Padua says "This pandemic has affected so many families and some have no ways to make and earn a living, to put food on the table, let alone send their sons/daughters to school. This will let them continue their studies despite dire situations in the Philippines. We hope this will be just the start of more activities and programs between Huawei and the Universtity of Santo Tomas, to hopefully benefit more students in the future."

Huawei Philippines HR Director Peter Zhang says "Congratulations to everyone! I know you are bound for greater things and will become key individuals that will help other people through ICT. Here's hoping we would have more opportunities to help, have cooperation with UST in the coming years so we could support more deserving students and talented ones so they could drive innovation in the country."

All of them are in their final year. They are also part of 19 scholars from different universities in the Philippines. They plan to do this even more in the future.

BINI and BGYO Hints International Gigs

BIG Plans were just announced for BINI and BGYO. This happened this afternoon during a mediacon with their management and Direk Lauren Dyogi of Star Magic.

Direk Lauren says "When they step on the world stage every Filipino will be proud of them. BINI and BGYO are really working hard, they're soldiers and they're part of Filipino youth that will be big, soon! We already have teasers for singles, it will be included on a new album. BGYO is going to have their The Baddest album out soon, new music videos, major events, trips abroad, concerts together as sibling crews and solo ones once things get better soon. They have invitations already to do it, hopefully sans restrictions it will happen." 

First international gig? Oh, these guys and gals are already packing their bags tonight (because of excitement). Direk adds "One Dream Concert of BINI and BGYO means they'll be back to back singing their songs, we'll see their stamina if they can do it. It's two different repertoir, probably sing around 40 songs and do collabs with other artists. BINI and BGYO are certainly ready for it." Direk Lauren also spills that they will be performing with a live band and collaborations, so that's huge!

 

Here's the mediacon on video earlier:

So stay tuned for the success of BINI and BGYO because yes, it's going to happen!