Amaia Steps Mandaue’s cleverly laid-out units, plush facilities, and strategic location make it a fine choice for investment-savvy millennials, travel enthusiasts, professionals and couples planning to start a family.

Amaia Steps Mandaue offers cleverly laid-out units, posh facilities, and strategic location. Studio, deluxe and premier units, with sizes ranging from 24.04 square meters to 41.08 square meters, are just the right fit, with some units convertible into one-bedroom or two-bedroom units.

Featuring an L-shaped configuration in its design, Tower 2 of Amaia Steps Mandaue offers 288 units to prospective homebuyers who will likewise appreciate the development’s array of leisure facilities: a swimming pool, a multi-purpose hall, a serene landscaped courtyard, and a children’s play area.

As in all Amaia projects, Amaia Steps Mandaue, which is on Plaridel St. corner U.N. Avenue in Barangay Alang-Alang, Mandaue City, is located near schools and retail establishments. Restaurants, hospitals, and churches are close by, as are transport hubs for jeepney, buses and shuttle services.

It is also within comfortable driving distance to Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Ayala Center Cebu, and Maayo Hotel.

Amaia makes it easy for aspiring Filipino homeowners to buy a home in Amaia Steps Mandaue through flexible payment schemes such as cash, deferred cash and bank financing.

For inquiries about Amaia Steps Mandaue and other Amaia properties, check out www.amaialand.com or like www.facebook.com/AmaiaLand.

Fans gathered in full force at the SM City North Edsa The Annex Cyberzone during the action-packed Grand Finals weekend of the Thunder Esports Tour last 31 August to 1 September.

Presented by Coca-Cola Philippines’ Thunder Super Soda and organized by MET Events, the Thunder Esports Tour is a nationwide esports tournament for all aspiring Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) players in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

With a prize pool of P1 million, the Thunder Esports Tour kicked-off at SM CdO Uptown in Cagayan De Oro, followed by legs held at SM City San Fernando in Pampanga and SM Seaside Cebu, with players battling it out for the chance to compete in the Grand Finals.

“Globally, the company has been on a journey with the eSports stars, athletes, and fans as early as 2010. At that time, Coca-Cola was one of the first global brands that supported the non-traditional sport,�? said Jessie Ericta, Coca-Cola Philippines senior brand manager for Thunder Supersoda.

The Grand Finals featured two action-filled show matches for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and DOTA 2 featuring popular MLBB streamers Akosi Dogie and Chixni Dogie, as well as the All-Filipino professional DOTA 2 team, TNC Predator facing off against the Thunder Pinoy All-Stars.

Emerging as over-all champions in the MLBB category, STI Olympians, took home P130,000. The CS:GO champions, Bren Esports, took home P100,000. Lastly, taking home P210,000 as champions in the Dota 2 Grand Finals were the Sterling Global Dragons.

Atimonan One Energy, Inc. (A1E) recently initiated a three-day workshop to help local officials of Barangay Villa Ibaba in Atimonan, Quezon create a barangay development plan.

The plan gives local officials a more solid roadmap on how they can maximize the benefits that the residents will get from a 1,200-megawatt (MW) high efficiency, low emission (HELE) coal-fired power plant that A1E will be building in the area.

Under the ER 1-94, power plant developers are mandated to allot one-centavo per kilowatt-hour of its electricity sales to its host communities which they can use for electrification of communities that have no access to electricity, environment enhancement, livelihood, reforestation and watershed management, and health-related projects.

More than P80 million is expected to be remitted to the host communities — from the region up to the resettlement area — through ER 1-94 each year. Of the total, Barangay Villa Ibaba is expected to get an allocation of about P17 million.

The barangay is also expected to benefit from A1E’s payment of local taxes.

barangay Villa Ibaba Councilor Rogelio Zatarain asks Quezon 4th District Board Member Isaias Ubana II how to properly allocate budget to different programs.