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FACT CHECK: What the candidates got wrong during the first presidential debate

BusinessWorld Research fact-checked what the presidential bets said during the Commission on Elections’ first presidential debate and here are some points that each candidate got wrong. (Click the image to see the larger version)

Never forget, never again

By Robert J.A. Basilio, Jr.

Not every coffee-table book is offered free to the public.

But this one is.

Warner Bros., Smart take on Batman v Superman

ONE OF THE year’s most anticipated superhero movies has partnered with a local telecommunications company to broaden the user experience from beyond the silver screen “to their fingertips,” said a company press release.

Advertisers :( cannot use new Facebook ‘reactions’ to target viewers

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK — Facebook, Inc. advertisers love the idea of using the social network’s new anger, humor and other emoticon buttons to better target audiences, but they are 🙁 that the company is not letting them do so right away.

Culture shock and awe: A diary of National Arts Month

By Jessica Zafra

ON SUNDAY we ran into Grace at the ballet at the Cultural Center, and on Wednesday we saw her again at the opening of the Art Fair. “Uyy, culture!” she said, and there has been an unusual number of arts and culture events in February. I know, because otherwise I would’ve seen Deadpool five times (You snobs don’t know what you’re missing. My favorite line: “Of course looks matter! Ever heard David Beckham speak?”). For a few weeks it felt like Manila was a Culture Capital, fairly teeming with plays, screenings of classic Filipino movies, art expositions, even opera.

Love and pain are neighbors

By Johanna D. Poblete

Theater Review
Almost, Maine
Repertory Philippines
Feb. 19 to March 13
8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays;
and 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays
Onstage Theater, Greenbelt 1, Ayala Center, Makati City

Maybelline debuts ‘Make it Happen’ campaign with Georgina Wilson

BRITISH-FILIPINO MODEL Georgina Wilson faces a new milestone as she becomes makeup brand Maybelline’s newest endorser in the Philippines.

Jump around!

By Michael Angelo S. Murillo

A “BOUNCY” EXPERIENCE awaits guests to the latest family entertainment attraction to hit the metro.

Religious tourism

By Zsarlene B. Chua

WHILE FRANCE welcomes millions of tourists each year, many visit this center of culture as part of a more all-encompasing European tour. Now, the French tourism department seeks to entice travelers to view France not as an “along the way destination” but rather THE destination.

FVR on the future

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

“I’ll be around in 2030, I don’t know about you,” former President Fidel V. Ramos told reporters on Feb. 19, six days before the 30th anniversary celebration of the 1986 People Power Revolution, during the launch of a new book. Stood on a stool to elevate himself over the heads of the attendees at Kamuning Bakery’s Pandesal Forum, he held up the book called 2030: One World, One Community, One Family, which is a collection of his essays and speeches.

Flat fashion

By Richard Roeper

Movie Review
Zoolander 2