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There is no need to buy a camera when you have a good smartphone. 

Top antivirus and Internet security company Kaspersky Lab has unveiled a new version of the Kaspersky Internet Security for Android app that not only offers improved performance speed and protection quality, but also an option for managing protection via Android Wear devices. 

After briefly restaging the Palanca award-winning Maniacal last December and mounting an adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope, titled Schism, last February, the Egg Theater Company is presenting this month its first full-run production: a Filipino translation of Irish playwright Martin McDonaugh’s acclaimed The Pillowman. 

A Department of Tourism (DOT)-organized culinary event, which aims to act as an “appetizer” for this week’s Madrid Fusion Manila 2016 and boost culinary tourism in Region 4A (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon provinces, or Calabarzon), is set to be held at a historic site in Cavite province on Monday. 

We Filipinos love to eat snacks. Whether it’s before lunch or after, we always make time to indulge in our favorite snacks. While most people will say they give in to their snack cravings because of hunger, many admit that snack time is the perfect time to take a break from work or studies and just socialize. 

It has been said multitasking is counterproductive, and that the key to any winning endeavor is focus. At Richmonde Hotel Ortigas, corporate affairs are always designed to be successful, so that clients can concentrate on other important matters—perfecting a presentation, booking a sought-after speaker, or filling the guest list—while the hotel’s efficient and professional banquet team takes care of the …

The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (CPMA), the Philippines’s longest-running literary competition, is again reaching out to all creative writers looking to showcase their talent. 

By Luis Leoncio  Perceptions of pervasive corruption continue to haunt the Philippines in the international community, which is why the business community in Australia is reported to have felt generally relieved that the planned telecommunications venture between local conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) and Australian giant Telstra has been aborted. 

By Lito U. Gagni As the hearings in the Senate wound up last week, with a pivotal closed-door session that the key player, Maia Santos Dequito, head of the Jupiter branch of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., sought and which the Senate probers grudgingly granted, several questions deemed crucial to unravelling the mess that brought down Bangladesh’s central bank head remained …

Even the government think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) says proposals to amend the personal income-tax schedule “appear to be well-justified,” if they are accompanied by measures that would allow the government to recover the revenue loss from lower income taxes.