Business process outsourcing jobs: many, but no longer the most lucrative

March 19, 2017 | 11:38 pm

At more than six in every 10 in the market, business process outsourcing (BPO) jobs remain the most available to fresh graduates, according to a Jobstreet.com survey released last week. But after topping the list for two years, entry-level BPO work no longer offers the highest pay, as job offers for graduates of law, health care and journalism have overtaken it.

K-12: Transition and Transformation

March 17, 2017 | 1:30 am

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

Progressive education reform is good, but it does not follow that the transition will be smooth. While adding two more years to the country’s traditional education system was done in good faith, there has been a seemingly unforeseen glitch in the K-12 system: the temporary closing of some college courses as an effect of the junior-senior high school transition period.

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Overseas Filipino’s cash remittances

March 16, 2017 | 11:58 pm

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.

Red Turnip’s virtual reality play reflects real world issues

March 16, 2017 | 11:37 pm

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.

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For the love of the game

March 16, 2017 | 11:36 pm

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.

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

March 16, 2017 | 11:34 pm

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.

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Disney’s lucrative live-action production line rolls on

March 16, 2017 | 11:33 pm

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.

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Get who’s coming to dinner

March 16, 2017 | 11:32 pm

By Noel Vera

Movie Review
Get Out

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The Avon Lady’s Makeover

March 16, 2017 | 11:32 pm

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

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Manila joins global run to ‘Break the Silence’

March 16, 2017 | 11:32 pm

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.

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

March 16, 2017 | 11:32 pm

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.

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What to see this week

March 16, 2017 | 11:31 pm

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

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