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In a move that highlights its understanding of the significance and value that Filipinos give to personalizing things and to their ties with family and friends, Italian cocoa-spread brand Nutella unveiled late last week its #YourNutella campaign in the Philippines to encourage customers to pay tribute to people they consider special, as well as to express gratitude to them for …

As expected, several well-known entertainers and a few athletes outshone their rivals to emerge victorious in last Monday’s national and local elections. 

Actor Robin Padilla filed before the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) last Thursday charges of online defamation and online libel against one of the Internet users who criticized him after he posted on his Instagram account a photograph of a shaded ballot allegedly taken by him inside a polling precinct on May 9. 

Premier Apple reseller Power Mac Center formally ended its Pixelworkx Cinemansanas digital short film competition last Thursday by honoring 12 entries shot and edited using Apple devices as finalists, with two of these—one, about the coping power of the imagination; the other, an unusual portrait of Filipino millennials— coming out on top.

If you and your friends need to retreat from your busy, energy-sapped lives in Metro Manila and spend a night or two surrounded by sand, sea, slopes and sunlight, there’s really only one place—one that isn’t too far from the metropolis— that comes to mind: Nagsasa Cove in San Antonio town, Zambales province.

German bier bar and restaurant chain Brotzeit has given Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City another terrific place where lovers of good German food and beer can to go when it opened its latest branch at Shangri-La at the Fort last month. 

By Alvin I. Dacanay Four months after introducing its online-streaming service to Filipinos, Netflix said it’s open to showing movies and television shows from other countries, including the Philippines, and to collaborating with local directors and producers in creating original content for it. 

In celebration of May as National Heritage Month, the Cinematheque Centre Manila (CCM), in partnership with the National Film Archives of the Philippines, will screen several classic Filipino films that are regarded as some of the country’s best. 

Marvel fans are in for an exciting treat as Caltex with Techron gives them a chance to win passes for one of the most anticipated superhero prequels of the year: X-Men: Apocalypse.

By Azer N. Parrocha / Philippines News Agency Good news, food-loving tourists: the Philippines’s best regional cuisines are now compiled in one handy culinary-travel guidebook that, according to tourism officials, will entice local and foreign travelers to embark on a gastronomic journey in the country.