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Manila dropped two spots to 19th in a ranking of city investment prospects in the Asia Pacific for 2021, the joint report from the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers showed. â PHILIPPINE STAR/MIGUEL ANTONIO N. DE GUZMAN
MANILA dropped two spots to 19
th in a ranking of city investment prospects in the Asia-Pacific for 2021, a joint report from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said.
The 2021 Emerging Trends in Real Estate report released on Tuesday said that Manilaâs prospects as a real estate investment destination have dropped over recent years. The Philippine capital ranked as high as third in 2017, then dropped to 18
THE artist in her studio in Aravaca, Madrid MANNY MIÑANA
Homage of Life, one of the paintings featured in the Retrospective at the MET MANNY MIÑANA
The Artist’s Studio in Makati MANNY MIÑANA
IT IS believed that we are a sum of our surroundings. Judging from portraits of her by other artists (including one by Fernando Amorsolo), Betsy Westendorp, one of the grandes dames of Philippine art, had been and continues to be a beautiful woman at the age of 93. She was surrounded by beautiful people and beautiful things, and in such a setting, nothing else but beauty is expected. The rarefied world that Ms. Westendorp lived in seemed to be a set path: to paint society portraits; then paint something beautiful; then see those hung on either the homes or the offices of the powerful she painted. Her works then serve as a salve, and an escape from this world, and an exercise in the purpose of beauty.
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Rick Santos, CEO of Santos Knight Frank, is optimistic that with the continuous partnership of the private sector and the government, the economy would be revitalised. Though badly hit, the tourism, leisure and hospitality industries are seeing an increase in volumes of deals, according to Santos.