Analysts’ Q1 GDP growth estimates

May 16, 2016 | 9:23 am

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Average year-on-year inflation rates by region

May 13, 2016 | 2:13 pm

Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) member stocks

May 13, 2016 | 1:57 pm

Favorite Things | My hair lady

May 13, 2016 | 10:18 am

It’s fun being a dame.

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Noontime nip and tuck

May 13, 2016 | 9:50 am

Look years younger in under an hour.

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Of cherry blossoms and earthquakes

May 13, 2016 | 12:10 am

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

To see the sakura (cherry blossoms) in full bloom was the main reason we booked a trip to Japan in April, when parks and sideways are abloom.

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China curbs Baidu health care ads business after student’s death

May 13, 2016 | 12:05 am

BEIJING — Chinese regulators have imposed limits on the number of lucrative health care adverts carried by Baidu, Inc. following the death of a student who underwent an experimental cancer treatment which he found using China’s biggest Internet search engine.

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Ingredients are assembled for summer movie magic

May 13, 2016 | 12:04 am

By Richard Roeper

In the 2010s, the key ingredients for the Summer Blend Recipe for Movies are as follows:

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Hamilton: The romance of history, rendered in hip-hop

May 13, 2016 | 12:04 am

The Binge
Jessica Zafra

WHAT A COMFORT it is after an intense and contentious election to hear a musical that makes you want to give standing ovations to the idea of nationhood. The hairs on my arms rose, there were icy sparks down my backbone, and an irresistible force propelled me out of my seat to applaud this work. And I was all alone in my room.

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Web video redefines itself as TV to win bigger slice of ad pie

May 13, 2016 | 12:04 am

WITH THEIR SIGHTS set on a $63-billion TV advertising market, streaming video services like Hulu and Crackle are now defining themselves as TV networks, arguing they’re just as prevalent in the living room as ESPN and MTV.

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Heavier is now ‘healthier’ than in 1970s: study

May 13, 2016 | 12:04 am

MIAMI — Being on the heavier side may not be as dangerous as it was in the 1970s, at least when it comes to the risk of dying, according to a study on Tuesday.

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Botanists warn on threats to world’s plant kingdom

May 13, 2016 | 12:03 am

LONDON — Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens warned Tuesday about the threats facing the world’s plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind aimed at drawing attention to often-overlooked species.

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