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Nanette Franco-Diyco
I MUST CONFESS that my tolerance for even the most common pain is zero.
Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco
I MUST CONFESS that my tolerance for even the most common pain is zero.
EXHIBITS
Marc Gaba’s Property of Space is on view at the Artery Art Space until July 9. The artist’s multimedia exhibit dramatizes the tensions that create space in formation of private property. Mr. Gaba, a Palanca award-winning poet, has presented 12 solo shows since 2008. Artery Art Space is located at 102 P. Tuazon Blvd., Cubao, Quezon City. For inquiries, e-mail arteryartspace@gmail.com.
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
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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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.
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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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.