What to see this week

June 24, 2016 | 12:01 am

1 film to see on the week of June 24-July 1, 2016

Go With Me
(aka Blackway)

When a young woman, Lillian (Julia Stiles), returns to her hometown — a Pacific Northwest logging community — after her mother’s death, she finds herself stalked by Blackway (Ray Liotta), a crazed ex-cop turned violent crime lord. Advised by the local sherrif to leave town, she instead allies herself with a retired logger (Anthony Hopkins), who carries his own beef against Blackway, and a young, introverted friend (Alexander Ludwig). The threesome set out for justice and revenge against the sociopathic Blackway. “People keep suggesting to Lillian that she just move away and never come back, which seems like a fine idea. If only Blackway — and ‘Blackway’ — would do the same,” writes the Seattle Times’ unimpressed Moira MacDonald.

MTRCB Rating: R-13

The miracle of Dreyer’s crib

June 24, 2016 | 12:01 am

By Noel Vera

DVD Review

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Directed by Preston Sturges

Ordet
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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France’s new ‘Disneyland of wine’ sets heads spinning

June 24, 2016 | 12:01 am

PARIS — It has already been dubbed an “adult Disneyland” and “the amusement park of our dreams” by US college students.

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Simpático

June 24, 2016 | 12:01 am

Getting The Edge In Professional Selling
Terrence A. Hockenhull

OVER THE LAST two months, I have bought two wristwatches from a well-known Internet site.

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The cost to end poverty

June 23, 2016 | 9:03 am

Mining stock bleed

June 22, 2016 | 10:06 am

Stocks of listed miners on June 21 succumbed to news that President-elect Rodrigo R. Duterte offered the post to Regina Paz “Gina” L. Lopez, trustee of the Lopez Group Foundation, Inc. and chairman of the ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, Inc., the corporate social responsibility arm of media giant ABS-CBN Corp. that lists a “No to Mining Campaign” among its key advocacies. Read the full story.

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Real wages stagnant even as jobs, productivity grow

June 21, 2016 | 9:15 pm

Relaxed labor laws, improved worker skills, and greater ease of doing business would open up high quality and well-paying jobs for Filipinos in order to alleviate poverty, the World Bank said in a new report.

In a report titled “Labor Market Review: Employment and Poverty in the Philippines,” the multilateral lender pointed out the gnawing problem of underemployment in the country, with a big chunk of Filipinos remaining poor despite holding jobs. Read the full story.

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Aquino government satisfaction slips

June 21, 2016 | 9:00 pm

PUBLIC SATISFACTION with the performance of outgoing President Benigno S.C. Aquino III’s administration dipped — though it remained “good” — as it entered its last three months in office, according to the latest Social Weather Stations survey that showed a big drop in Metro Manila as well as in two of three tracked socioeconomic classes. Read the full story.

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Tourism’s economic contribution marks new milestone in 2015

June 21, 2016 | 8:53 pm

Philippine tourism became more fun in 2015, as its contribution to the economy breached a trillion pesos to hit its highest in the final full year of the Aquino administration. Read the full story.

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House prices rise nearly 10% from January to March

June 21, 2016 | 8:31 pm

The Philippines is far from seeing a property bubble even as housing prices rose by nearly a tenth annually last quarter, according to findings of the central bank’s new index for tracking such prices nationwide. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Deputy Governor Diwa C. Guinigundo bared the results of the new residential real estate price index (RREPI) on June 3 that showed, among others, a 9.2% overall rise in housing prices in January-March from the comparable year-ago period. Read the full story.

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‘Hot money’ flows back in May

June 21, 2016 | 8:17 pm

FOREIGN portfolio investments — also known as “hot money” for the ease with which they go through markets — turned around to a net inflow in May following “orderly” national elections, among others, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said in a June 16 statement. Read the full story.

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When age does matter: On IVF, surrogacy, and Obando

June 17, 2016 | 12:10 am

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman, Reporter

People’s eyes are now on Scarlet Snow. Her every move is documented and shared, whether her adventures at a baby play center or when she is simply just being cute. At the tender age of one year, the baby superstar has amassed hearts, followers, and likes on her very own Instagram account — @scarletsnowbelo — which currently has 121,000 fans (and counting).

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