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Pulse Asia: Preferred candidates as of March 2016

These are the leading candidates based on results of Pulse Asia survey conducted March 8-13.  

The top Philippine universities’ top subjects

Three Philippine universities featured in this year’s QS World University Rankings by Subject. Here are the top schools’ best subjects and ranking brackets from 2015 to 2016.

Judging a book by its cover

By Joseph L. Garcia

It’s a skill to make someone fall in love with you for your looks, but let’s see you try that with a whole nation.

Popsicle shades for Caronia summer line

BECAUSE THIS summer’s palettes are all about pastels, local nail polish brand Caronia recently came up with four pastel shades for their summer collection, two of which serve as their entry to the matte nail polish game.

Amazon seeks patent for buying items with a look

SAN FRANCISCO — Online retail colossus Amazon is seeking a US patent on using selfies — instead of passwords — for shopping when using smartphones.

George Clooney returns to Coens fold

By Angela Dawson, Front Row Features

HOLLYWOOD — George Clooney, who starred in Joel and Ethan Coens’ 1930’s-set comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? in 2000, reconnects with the sibling filmmakers, starring in their latest comedy, Hail, Caesar! a tongue-in-cheek homage to Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Caesar salad

By Noel Vera

Movie Review
Hail, Caesar!
Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

New Lee Kum Kee sauces coming to the Philippines

LEE KUM KEE, the Hong Kong-based Asian sauces brand widely credited for creating oyster sauce, announced that it is bringing more of its products to the Philippines, as part of expansion plans in Southeast Asia.

HOLI in Manila

THE Asia Society Philippines and SM by the Bay present the 4th annual Holi Festival in Manila on March 20 at SM by the Bay Central Park, Mall of Asia, Parañaque City.

Fashion’s holy grail would be an Instagram ‘Buy’ button

AS FASHION month drew to a close, with Paris the last stop, there was only one talking point: which designers would follow Burberry and move to a “see now, buy now” model.

The Bibliophibian’s Backlog: Book lovers are essentially hoarders with better excuses.

By Jessica Zafra

BOOK LOVERS go by many names — bibliophiles, bibliomaniacs, bibliolaters, Larry (McMurtry, the Pulitzer and Oscar-winning author who runs a bookstore and has a personal library of 30,000 books). I prefer bibliophibians, which suggests that the species lives partly in the “real” world and partly in books, like salamanders with overdeveloped imaginations. If you belong to the species, or associate with them, you will have noticed certain behavioral patterns seemingly incompatible with an addiction to books. For instance, you would assume that when they walk into a well-stocked bookstore, they are vibrating with lust. After all, this is what they live for: being surrounded by books, knowing each book intimately, committing the literary equivalent of wanton adultery by reading several books at once.

Davao’s ‘Bat Mama’ firming up plans to build artificial bat cave in Samal

By Maya M. Padillo

DAVAO CITY — Don’t call her Batwoman, although like the DC Comics character, she is a kind of heroine — one who advocates environmental awareness and a culture of peace through the promotion of bats and their role in the ecosystem.