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Dealing with firecrackers, injuries and tetanus

Medicine Cabinet — Reiner W. Gloor

THE AUTHOR wishes all the readers a happy holiday season and is sad and perplexed that during these festivities, many children suffer from injuries due to fireworks, firecrackers and even bullets raining from the sky as people shoot into the air not thinking that the bullets will eventually come straight down and could possible hurt someone. I almost got hit like this once. I sat at my lanai and just after I left the chair I heard a strange sound hit the roof. When I checked it out, I found a bullet which pierced through the roof and landed on the chair I had just been occupying moments ago.

Thompson Reuters / INSEAD Asian Business Sentiment Survey

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Public satisfaction with President Benigno S.C. Aquino III

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Overseas Filipinos’ cash remittances

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The Human Development Report 2015

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Foreign direct investments in the Philippines: Jan-Sept 2015

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Consumption fuels job gains

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Merchandise export and factory output performance

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Love wins at the MMFF

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

Love is the name of the game at this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). This time around, the fantasies — and horror perennial Shake, Rattle, N’ Roll — which have dominated recent iterations of the film festival are taking a backseat. Instead, at the forefront are romantic comedies: My Bebe Love, Walang Forever, and All You Need is Pag-ibig (love).

Technically a knockout

Movie Review
Creed
Directed by Ryan Coogler
By Noel Vera

Seven’s the charm for Stallone

By Angela Dawson, Front Row Features

PHILADELPHIA — It’s been 40 years since an underdog boxer named Rocky Balboa jogged up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and subsequently became an international cultural phenomenon. Now, Sylvester Stallone, the writer and legendary star of that iconic film (which has become a lucrative and enduring franchise) returns for yet another round of heartwarming drama and boxing-as-metaphor for never giving up in Creed.

Chinese online retailer YiLinker joins Philippine fray

AND THEN there were more.