A remittance campaign champions sari-sari store owners

July 15, 2016 | 12:03 am

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.

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Pregnancy multivits ‘unnecessary’ for most: experts

July 15, 2016 | 12:03 am

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.

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Five questions on Germany’s green energy shift

July 15, 2016 | 12:03 am

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.

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Singing in the Rain with Tide

July 15, 2016 | 12:02 am

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.

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Pulp fiction

July 15, 2016 | 12:02 am

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.

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Refrains in a song

July 15, 2016 | 12:02 am

By Noel Vera

Video
Dung-aw
Directed by Lino Brocka

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Manila Hotel enters the 21st century

July 15, 2016 | 12:02 am

Text and photos by
Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

There are two kinds of history: one is written and preserved on books and the other is more tangible; right before our eyes. The Manila Hotel is the latter.

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Attempting to use Pokemon GO in the Philippines

July 15, 2016 | 12:02 am

By Zsarlene B. Chua

FOR PEOPLE who grew up in the 1990s, Pokemon was a fixture in their lives. Our generation played with the cards and video games, and watched the cartoons. (My brother and I played Pokemon Red and Blue in Japanese using our Gameboy Color.) This all involved finding, training, and pitting “pocket monsters” against each other.

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The Wave, How to Get Away with Murder, Workaholics, more on home entertainment

July 15, 2016 | 12:01 am

By Angela Dawson
Front Row Features

INSPIRED by true events, an inescapable tsunami engulfs a seemingly idyllic Norwegian tourist destination in The Wave now available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD from Magnolia Home Entertainment. Directed by Roar Uthaug (the upcoming Tomb Raider), the effects-laden thriller depicts events that every Norwegian fears may one day happen: the country’s largest unstable mountainside plummets tons of rock and earth into the fjord below. Its path of destruction causes a nearly 300-foot high wave that gives the people of the small town of Geiranger mere minutes to leave their homes and reach higher ground.

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What to see this week

July 15, 2016 | 12:01 am

3 films to see on the week of July 8-15, 2016

Imagine You & Me

A romantic comedy helmed by Mike Tuviera starring the immensely popular love team of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza, Imagine You & Me revolves around an OFW that believes in romance and destiny who is drawn to a jaded young man who rejects the very idea of fate.

MTRCB Rating: G

Dukot

An action thriller directed by Paul Soriano, Dukot shows what one family is willing to do when one of their own is kidnapped and held for ransom. The film stars Christopher de Leon, Enrique Gil, and Shaina Magdayao.

MTRCB Rating: R-13

Uber users get an ice cream treat

July 15, 2016 | 12:01 am

UBER RIDERS can enjoy special ice cream delivery service curbside today as the ride sharing app holds a promotion called Uber Ice Cream.

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‘Brexit’ sends tourists flocking to London to ‘Buy, Buy, Buy’

July 15, 2016 | 12:01 am

By Andrew Roberts, Monami Yui
and Sam Chambers

BY VOTING to leave the European Union (EU), Britons have delivered a potential windfall to tourists eager to snatch up Burberry trenchcoats, Harrods Stilton, and Liberty scarves on the cheap.

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