Headline inflation rates in the Philippines, all items
PRICES of consumer goods and services rose at a slightly slower pace in August on the back of a weaker push from the heavily...
ASEAN manufacturing purchasing managers’ index, August
PHILIPPINE FACTORIES outshone their Southeast Asian peers in the just-ended ghost month, after they ramped up production in what promises to be a strong...
Walk beyond the wall
By Marifi S. Jara
BERLIN is not quite in the league of London, Paris, Rome, or Amsterdam in terms of making it to people’s bucket...
Your Weekend Guide (September 2, 2016)
EXHIBITS
Galleria Duemila presents There, Not There and On The Way, by Australian artist Tony Twigg. The exhibit opens on Sept. 3 and will be...
Pete’s dragging
DVD REVIEW
Pete’s Dragon
Directed by David Lowery
By Noel Vera
Walt Disney Studios, in case you haven’t noticed, has been remaking its movies with mostly dire results....
Quiet battle for the sound of silence in UK shops
LONDON — Nigel Rodgers is in hell. A campaigner against piped music for decades, he stands in a shoe shop on London’s Oxford Street...
Beer and loafing in Laos
By Robert JA Basilio, Jr.
VIENTIANE, the capital of Laos, had me worried.
No, it wasn’t the socialist government nor the state-controlled media.
It was the city’s...
Good, better, best advice for parents on children’s work
Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco
THERE IS THIS book entitled Good, Better, Best (published by Scepter Publishers of New York in 2013) that has been such...
Bar-hopping in Dallas after Orlando
By Joseph L. Garcia
SEVERAL NEWS OUTLETS reported on the haunting din of the ringing of mobile phones on the early morning of June 12...
Kidney donation: the gift of life
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
A WIFE wails as she begs for a spare organ to save her husband whose own kidneys are failing....