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AllStar Weekend in final pop act for Manila fans at Makati Circuit Fest
MANILA, Philippines –This Saturdaymay be the first and last time Filipino fans of AllStar Weekend will see the trio perform their hits as a pop group before their transition into more mature sound. No they are not exactly parting ways, bassist Cameron Quiseng clarified in a recent interview with INQUIRER.net but their new album’s sound has veered away from the usual pop music they ...
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‘This Century’ hopes third time’s a charm with Manila fans
MANILA, Philippines — They say third time’s the charm. And after performing for their Filipino fans in a two-night gig in December, Arizona-based pop rock band This Century of Sound of Fire fame is back for a third. The four-piece group’s guitarist Sean Silverman told INQUIRER.net in a recent interview that they were psyched to be back in a place they saw as an important fan ...
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Ethan Hawke Julie Delpy open to shoot 4th film in Manila
HOLLYWOOD, California - Almost two decades ago, Jesse and Celine, the characters played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, met and fell in love in the movie "Before ...
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Manila less than thrilled at Dan Browns Inferno
Dan Brown has annoyed leaders of Manila in the Philippines with his hellish description of the city in his latest book, Inferno. Photograph: Jim ...
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Brown gets a griller in Manila
Manila , Francis Tolentino, wrote an open letter to the American author, saying that while Inferno is fiction, "we are greatly disappointed by your inaccurate portrayal of our beloved metropolis".Mr Tolentino objected to the "gates of hell" phrase and to Manila being defined by what he calls terrible descriptions of poverty and pollution. He said that the novel fails to ...
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The Killer Inside Me
Of all the films based on the novels of postwar hard-boiled novelist Jim Thompson, whose body of work Meredith Brody described in Film Comment as the most disturbing and the most darkly sadistic of the tough-guy writers, Michael Winterbottoms The Killer Inside Me ...
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Manila confirms boost to military spending
The Philippines is determined to spend $1.8 billion on military upgrades -- mostly naval -- to protect the country against "bullies" in its territorial waters. Philippines ...
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Philippine poll body dismisses election fraud claims
Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Thursday rebutted the so-called "60-30-10" theory, saying he was willing to have all the ballot boxes in the country opened to show that there was no fraud. Brillantes said he was confident that the review by political parties and citizen watchdogs of the source code of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) ...
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Confidence at record high in Philippines
Business confidence in the Philippines hit an all-time high in the second quarter, as the assignment of an investment grade to the Philippines prompted expectations that economic growth would remain robust and would continue to boost corporate earnings. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP or centra bank) on Thursday reported that the business confidence index for the second quarter hit +54.9 ...
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Otto Energy to drill Philippines oil development wells in June
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Otto Energy (ASX: OEL) expects to spud the first of two Galoc Phase II in June with the mobilisation of the Ocean Patriot semi-submersible drilling rig to the Galoc oil field offshore Philippines.The rig is currently under tow from Singapore and is expected to arrive on site in early June. After it is anchored, it will proceed to spud the Galoc-5H and ...
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Filipino rice farmers urged to follow India
MANILA, Philippines--Filipino farmers are starting to use the rice-growing method that has recently made India the world's top rice exporter. The system of rice intensification (SRI) method involves simple changes in farmers' practices such as transplanting younger seedlings singly and at wider distances and drying the fields intermittently, using nonchemical weeding methods and ...
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