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Overseas Filipino’s cash remittances

MONEY SENT HOME by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) continued to grow in January, sustaining the trend of above $2 billion in monthly inflows in a span of one year as the dollar continued to gain strength, the central bank reported yesterday. Read the full story.

Overseas Filipino's cash remittances

Red Turnip’s virtual reality play reflects real world issues

Theater
The Nether
Produced by Red Turnip Theater
Directed by Ana Abad Santos
Weekends until April 9
The Power Mac Center Spotlight Theater, Circuit Makati

IN A THEATER landscape dominated by musicals, Red Turnip Theater has focused on staging contemporary straight plays. It ends its fourth season in an unusual manner, with a science fiction crime drama, The Nether.

For the love of the game

Book
Philippine Football: Its Past, Its Future
By Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas
Published by the Center for Research and Communication of the University of Asia & the Pacific
232 pages

By Michael Angelo S. Murillo

While his appreciation of football may not be as long-standing as other stakeholders in the country, this did not stop economist Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas from writing a book about “the beautiful game” and how it presents a wide range of opportunities on various levels.

Emma Watson is Belle of the ball in Beauty and the Beast

LOS ANGELES — It is a tale as old as time (or one dating back to the 1990s, at least): Disney dusts off an animated classic, adds bells, whistles and real people, and everyone makes a fortune.

Disney’s lucrative live-action production line rolls on

IN THE EARLY 1990s, Disney began scouring its back catalog for animated classics that it could turn into live-action remakes — a strategy that has so far netted almost $4 billion.

Get who’s coming to dinner

By Noel Vera

Movie Review
Get Out

The Avon Lady’s Makeover

JACI TISCHLER applies her Mary Kay lipstick in her Mary Kay T-shirt behind the wheel of her pink Mary Kay Chevy Cruze.

Manila joins global run to ‘Break the Silence’

Fun Run
Break the Silence
March 19, 6 am.
McKinley West Park, Taguig City

MANILA joins 20 other cities across the globe to “Break The Silence” on March 19, as the Philippine Accessible Disability Services, Inc. (PADS) initiates a solidarity run to stop sexual abuse and exploitation to deaf communities in the Philippines.

Curbing pollution can prevent 3M Chinese deaths a year: study

PARIS — China can avoid three million premature deaths each year if it slashes a type of fine particle air pollution to UN recommended levels, a study said Wednesday.

What to see this week

3 films to see on the week of March 17-24, 2017

TV and digital media for cool Nestlé Temptations

Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco

PASSIONATE LIFE EPICUREANS — this is what Kristia Somera-Requinto, Nestlé Ice Cream consumer marketing manager, calls the target market of the recently launched a television commercial of Nestlé Temptations, the premium ice cream brand of Nestlé Ice Cream in the Philippines. They are identified as those whose independence and income status allow them to pursue their varied interests. “The responsibilities they take on add pressure to their lives — that’s why they look for indulgences to bring them back to their center. The caveat for these experiences is that it should match their zeal for the finer things in life.”

Before, during, and after — what to do when one partner cheats?

Book
Affairs Don’t Just Happen
By Lissy Ann A. Puno

MOST OFTEN in a relationship, it is the female partner who gets cheated on. So Lissy Ann A. Puno, a Singapore-based counseling psychologist and relationship therapist, wrote a book for women who had been victims of relationships wrecked by affairs.