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)
By Robert J.A. Basilio, Jr.
Not every coffee-table book is offered free to the public.
But this one is.
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.
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.
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.
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
BRITISH-FILIPINO MODEL Georgina Wilson faces a new milestone as she becomes makeup brand Maybelline’s newest endorser in the Philippines.
By Michael Angelo S. Murillo
A “BOUNCY” EXPERIENCE awaits guests to the latest family entertainment attraction to hit the metro.
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.
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.
Ads & Ends — Nanette Franco-Diyco
SAN MIGUEL’S omnibus beer advertising campaign stands way above the beer commercials that we have long been exposed to — and must I say, that we have all gotten used to.
