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What to see this week

4 films to see on the week of Mar. 18-25, 2016

The guides of El Nido

LITTLE HAS CHANGED in Bacuit Bay, home of three of the four El Nido Resorts (ENR), in the last millennium. Its craggy limestone cliffs have been that way for the last 250 million years. All that might have changed in the 1960s and ’70s when commercial logging and fishing became the area’s main sources of revenues but because the bay was declared a turtle sanctuary and eventually a protected area, its biodiversity and natural balance has been maintained.

The Circle of Life: from Les Miz to Miss Saigon and back again

By Zsarlene B. Chua

Theater
Les Miserables’

The creative energy of Jollibee

Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco

I WAS SCANNING the Internet, carefully noting down links to Lenten recollections, spiritual readings, and inspirational talks to recommend to my family for our Holy Week vacation, when I came across a most delightful 5-minute digital video that thoroughly made me declare an intermission from the very serious task I had assigned myself.

Which Asian country is the happiest? Hint: it’s not the Philippines

How do Asian countries rank in World Happiness?

Unemployment drops to 10-year low

THE number of jobless Filipinos last January dropped to a 10-year low. Based on the preliminary results of the latest quarterly Labor Force Survey (LFS) of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the unemployment rate fell to 5.8% from 6.6% in January of last year, thinning the ranks of the jobless to 2.469 million.

Read the full story here.

Foreign direct investments in the Philippines

Check out the performance of foreign direct investments in the Philippines for the whole year of 2015.

‘We’re not asking for it’

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

He was holding it, caressing it. A man, a stranger, wearing short shorts, sunglasses, and cap, was masturbating in a jeepney I was riding in Manila. The other passengers were all women. Some were oblivious, but I, I was sitting in front of him and saw him doing it. As quick as I could, I hopped off. I didn’t call anyone for help, but only texted a friend to tell her the story. It was infuriating, at the same time frightening.

John Oliver is the voice of sanity for these troubled times

The Binge
Jessica Zafra

EVERY GENERATION has its voice of sanity.

Kraft Mac & Cheese recipe change good for big food

FOR MOST CONSUMERS, “better for you” is good enough.

British retailers invite rival brands to fill their empty spaces

AS ONLINE DELIVERIES surge and shop sales fall, Britain’s retailers are looking to refit their once bustling superstores with new attractions such as rivals’ fashion brands to fill empty spaces and keep shoppers coming through the door.

Humorous ads targeting Muslim stereotypes debut on NY subway

HUMOROUS ADS for a documentary film that aims to promote understanding and tolerance of Muslims went up in New York subways on Monday after the movie’s production company won a legal battle with the city’s transit authority.