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The Sy group’s SM Investments Corp. (SMIC) will put up a multibillion-peso development project linked to the sprawling Asia Mall in PasayCityinvolving a 60-hectare complex envisioned to become a premier business and tourism destination in the Philippines.

SM Investments Corp. (SMIC) has embarked on a multi-billion peso development project for the construction of a 60-hectare mixed use complex envisioned to become a premier business and tourism destination in the

SM Prime Holdings Inc. (SMPH.PH), the Philippines’ largest mall operator by sales, is gearing to expand into China, SM Prime Executive Vice President Teresita Sy said Tuesday. ‘We’re definitely expanding in China.

Female high school graduates will undergo training at the Punlaan School under the SM Foundation Inc. scholarship program. In a memorandum of agreement signed by SM Foundation represented by executive director Debbie Sy and executive director for education Carmen Linda Atayde and Punlaan School executive director and CEO Luz M. Falmer, SM Foundation will fund the full tuition of the scholars who will pursue the two-year dual training program in food and beverage services.

Deutsche Bank, through the Deutsche Bank Asia Foundation, is partnering with SM Prime Holdings Inc. (SMPHI), Philippines largest mall operator to fun the construction of a two-storey building at Llano Elementary School in Caloocan, a city north of Manila and the country’s third most populous city.

The building of an SM branch in this city has been delayed after the country’s largest mall chain decided to redesigned the establishments from a “hypermarket�? to a “full mall�?.

Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago has filed a proposed measure banning the collection of parking fees by malls, hotels and other commercial establishments from their customers.

SM Investments Corp. has renamed its 60-hectare reclaimed property in Paay City fronting the Manila Bay as Mall of Asia Complex.

SM Investments Corporation (SMIC), the holding company of the SM Group of Companies, has signed a deal with the leading global fitness company Fitness First Philippines, Inc. (FPPI), to house the latter’s 16th club in its OneE-com Center.