Money sent home by Filipinos abroad — a key driver of household spending that contributes nearly 70% to the economy — grew at a markedly slower pace in May from the preceding month and from a year ago, supporting official expectations of a cumulative increase this year that could be the smallest the country has seen in years. Read the full story.
AS YOU MAY have suspected, your car is spying on you. Fire up a new model and it updates more than 100,000 data points, including rather personal details like the front-seat passenger’s weight. The navigation system tracks every mile and remembers your route to work. The vehicular brain is smart enough to help avoid traffic jams or score parking spaces, and soon will be able to log not only your itineraries but your Internet shopping patterns.
LOS ANGELES — The four lead actresses of the new Ghostbusters are out to prove that women can fight supernatural entities just as well as their male predecessors.
MONEYGRAM, a global money transfer company, has renewed its contract with actor Robin Padilla as its global ambassador in line with the brand’s continuous efforts to be far-reaching.
ON AVERAGE, Filipinos take 22 minutes to reach the nearest financial service centers for their transactions. According to data from the first National Baseline Survey on Financial Inclusion released by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas last year, this averages at P43 in fares round trip.
PARIS — Multivitamins and mineral supplements in pregnancy are an “unnecessary expense” with no proven benefits for most well-nourished women or their babies, said a review of science data Tuesday.
BERLIN — Germany’s Energiewende or energy transition is its biggest infrastructure project of the post-World War II era, and its greatest national challenge since reunification in 1990.
Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco
THE LATEST TIDE commercial of Procter & Gamble is far different from the usual detergent commercials that have virtually toppled in frequency the various product categories on television year in and year out.
by Richard Roeper
MOVIE REVIEW
Marauders
Directed by Steven C. Miller
YOU’RE PROBABLY NOT going to catch Marauders in theaters because it’s hardly flooding the markets this weekend, but some night in the not-too-distant future when you’re exploring your On Demand titles, or you click to a cable channel and you’re given the option to “Start Program From Beginning,” give it a whirl.
