Diamond Hotel • November 5

MANILA, Philippines - Diamond Hotel Philippines officially began the celebration of the holidays with the lighting of its 25-foot Christmas tree decorated with festive ornaments and dolls dressed in the national costumes of the Asia Pacific Economic Forum (APEC) participating and visiting economies. The hotel honored the APEC event in Manila with a Christmas theme similar to "It’s A Small World" to celebrate peace and unity among nations.

The hotel’s charity beneficiary for this year is “A Class of Your Own Scholars” of CENTEX, a project of Children’s Hour. With each donation of P200, a handcrafted Christmas ornament will be placed on the Christmas tree bearing the name of the donor. This will represent the donor’s contribution to the education of 179 student scholars of CENTEX.