MANILA -- On the third floor of Starmall, a shopping center owned by Philippine billionaire Manuel Villar, three movie theaters were shuttered in July and are being converted into television studios. On the second floor, a new radio studio recently went live.
Billionaire Manuel Villar at the AMBS Media Center in Mandaluyong on July 30 in a photo from his Facebook page. His rise to become the Philippines' new media mogul took shape only at the beginning of this year.
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