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The Sam Smith Saga

Getting the Edge in Professional Selling — Terence A. Hockenhull

APROPOS OF NOTHING, I believe Sam Smith visited the Philippines in 2015, and at his long-awaited concert, he sang a number of his greatest hits. Now, let me tell you a tale of an ongoing saga that kicked off in 2014 and ended a few short weeks before Christmas.

Gravitational wave rumors ripple through science world

MIAMI — Rumors are rippling through the science world that physicists may have detected gravitational waves, a key element of Einstein’s theory which if confirmed would be one of the biggest discoveries of our time.

Why the wealthy give

By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz

Book
The Giving Way to Happiness
By Jenny Santi
Published by Penguin Random House

DONATING to charity can make people happy. This is the thesis of the book The Giving Way to Happiness by New York-based Filipina Jenny Santi, a philanthropy advisor to some of the world’s richest people.

What to see this week

4 films to see on the week of Jan. 15-22, 2012:

$20 oil no longer a mirage as world confronts 12-year low

THE WORLD mostly ignored Ed Morse 11 months ago when the head of commodities research at Citigroup said oil could drop as low as $20.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that…

By Richard Roeper

FOR A manic-depressive, alcoholic, washed-up political consultant of a certain age who’s dealing with altitude sickness in strife-torn Bolivia, and, oh yeah, she’s just taken up smoking again, Jane Bodine sure looks amazing.

The ‘better’ of 2015

By Noel Vera

I PARTICIPATED in two End-of-the-Year surveys: Film Comment’s and Sight and Sound’s, the latter having the advantage of making every voter’s list (mine in particular) available online.

Export drop persists in November, though smallest in eight months

By Kia B. Obang
Senior Researcher

THE DECREASE in sales of the country’s goods to foreign markets persisted in November last year in the face of a continued slump in global demand, even though that drop was the smallest in eight months.

Are the good times over for equities?

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Interactive: Oil crisis then and now

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Read the special report.

Click it: Marketing to the mobile Filipino

Marketing mobile

Budget balance back in surplus as state spending still falls short

ByKeith Richard D. Mariano
THE NATIONAL government’s budget balance swung back to a surplus in November, with spending continuing to fall below target even as it expanded by double digits from a year ago, data released yesterday showed.