Overseas Filipinos’ cash remittances

June 16, 2016 | 10:05 am

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Philippine performance QS University rankings: Asia 2016

June 15, 2016 | 9:44 am

Underemployment: A bigger problem?

June 14, 2016 | 10:09 am

Merchandise export and factory output performance

June 13, 2016 | 9:52 am

Labor force survey

June 10, 2016 | 1:57 pm

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Awareness, trust ratings of Duterte, Robredo

June 10, 2016 | 1:23 pm

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‘We are not contagious’

June 10, 2016 | 12:10 am

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

In a country that worships white flawless skin, the Philippines is a big runway for peacocking: show off your porcelain skin in skimpy garments and get admiration. Those with less than perfect skin are left hiding in the shadows.

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Bloodline: A family drama gets swamped in the telling

June 10, 2016 | 12:06 am

The Binge
Jessica Zafra

FLASH-FORWARD is the new flashback. On every episode of Bloodline, we are reminded that the good son John Rayburn (Kyle Chandler) will dispose of the body of the bad son Danny Rayburn (Ben Mendelsohn) on a boat in the Florida Keys. Did John kill Danny? The very first words we hear on the show are: “Sometimes, you know something’s coming. You feel it in the air. In your gut… Something’s going to go terribly wrong.” The opening credit sequence says as much: clear blue skies over a sun-bleached beach giving way to dark clouds, thunder, lashing rain. Accompanied by a cover of a Metallica song. “Please don’t judge us,” says John. “We’re not bad people, but we did a bad thing.”

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The wisdom of the hive mind

June 10, 2016 | 12:06 am

By Camille Anne M. Arcilla

Both tech geeks and the clueless will enjoy this gadget store that allows them to choose from curated items displayed from one to ten ranking.

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Heroic lunacy

June 10, 2016 | 12:05 am

By Noel Vera

Video
Heneral Luna
Directed by Jerrold Tarog

Jerrold Tarog’s Heneral Luna caps, if you like, the decades-plus quest of Filipino filmmakers to retell the Philippine Revolution and its direct aftermath, the Philippine-American War, in two distinct styles, from the more traditional Gone With the Wind-type epic storytelling (Marilou Diaz-Abaya’s Jose Rizal, Mark Meily’s El Presidente) to more eclectic independent efforts (Raymond Red’s extended poems Bayani [Hero] and Sakay; Tikoy Aguiluz’s cinema-verite Rizal sa Dapitan [Rizal in Dapitan]); Mike de Leon’s Magritte-ish essay film Bayaning Third World (Third World Hero); Mario O’Hara’s speculative fantasy Sisa, and Dreyer-like courtroom drama Ang Paglilitis ni Andres Bonifacio (The Trial of Andres Bonifacio).

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Road show promotes Taiwanese products

June 10, 2016 | 12:05 am

THE BEST of Taiwanese technological products are once again front and center as the Taiwan Excellence campaign kicks off for a third year.

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No Trump ads: BuzzFeed says candidate ‘hazardous’

June 10, 2016 | 12:04 am

WASHINGTON — BuzzFeed has terminated an advertising deal with the Republican Party, saying presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump is “hazardous to our health,” the digital news group said Monday.

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