The Philippines is the fastest-growing market for smartphones in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), according to a new report from market research company International Data Corporation (IDC). The report indicated that about 3.5 million smartphones were shipped to the country during the first quarter of 2016, reports Asian Journal.
The University of the Philippines (UP) and Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) were named among the 100 top universities in Asia in an annual list by Quacquarelli Symonds, reports Philstar.com.
Freedom lovers gathered at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani—a memorial center built to honor the victims of martial law—to share their experiences under the Marcos dictatorship and make their opposition known to President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to bury him at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, reports Inquirer.net.
Paul Manafort (Source: The Guardian)
Paul Manafort met Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980s, each had something the other wanted. Manafort, then in his 30s, was a hotshot Republican operative who had made his name helping Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, and was pioneering a new form of international political consulting. A Marcos front group hired Manafort to try to help him retain his grip on power, agreeing to pay Manafort’s firm $950,000 a year — one of the first big foreign gigs landed by the firm, reports Politico magazine.
The family of Filipino war veteran US Army Private Juan Sablan received his medals, 74 years after his death. Sablan was killed in action in the Philippines during World War II. The medals include the American Defense Service Medal with a foreign-service clasp, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one bronze service star, and the Presidential Unit Citation with two bronze oak leaf clusters, reports ABS CBN News.
Clint Ramos at the Tonys (Source: Inquirer.net/Photo by Regina Ramos)
New York-based set and costume designer Clint Ramos won the 2016 Tony Award for costume design for “Eclipsed,” a play featuring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”), reports Inquirer.net.
The administration of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has placed Metro Manila’s traffic woes in its crosshairs with a plan to rapidly deploy infrastructure projects aimed at dramatically cutting road congestion in two to three years, reports inquirer.net.
The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) wants to push for the repeal of thousands of departmental circulars and orders and even laws to accelerate improvements in ease of doing business in the country, reports ABS-CBN News.
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