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Analyst’ April inflation rate estimates

INFLATION likely inched upward in April to sustain an uptrend for a sixth straight month, analysts said in BusinessWorld poll, but still leaves some room for the central bank to keep rates steady. Read the full story.

Analyst' April inflation rate estimates

Celebrating Beauty | Gilda Cordero-Fernando

Spas in the city

A guide to pampering yourself.

Celebrating Beauty | Betsy Westendorp

Life after 70, going on a hundred

Talking with Ari Seth Cohen, founder of Advanced Style.

Celebrating Beauty | Agnes Arellano

Favorite Things | The matchy-matchy dandy

Philippe Charriol on loving prune and being chic.

Adult joblessness rate

THE COUNTRY marks its first labor day under the administration of President Rodrigo R. Duterte with steady joblessness and a slightly lower — though “high” — net optimism on job availability in the year ahead, according to results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey. Read the full story.

Adult joblessness rate

Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts

By Zsarlene B. Chua

How to fasten your seat belt, how to operate a life jacket, and how to use the oxygen masks — these (and more) are standard information given whenever one boards an airplane. So standard and often tedious that people tune out once the captain says “presenting the safety features of this airplane” monologue and then turns on the safety video or the flight attendants perform the shtick for the thousandth time.

Moral choices lead to unexpected ends

Video Game Review
PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness
PC (via Steam)

By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong

At first glance, PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness does very little to distinguish itself from other Visual Novels. Lacking English voices and sporting confusing default configurations, booting up PSYCHO-PASS did not leave a very good first impression. On PC, especially, playing around with the settings should be a player’s first priority in order to have a comfortable experience.

Guardians 2: ‘Not as funny’ but eyeing box office jackpot

LOS ANGELES — Three years ago, Guardians of the Galaxy arrived as a breath of fresh air, a smart corrective to the self-important pomposity of many superhero movies, and proved a box office smash.

Cases of hepatitis B and C hit 325 million: WHO

GENEVA — An estimated 325 million people are living with hepatitis B or C and few are aware of their condition, with death tolls from the viruses rising, the UN said last week.