Cambodia gets road safety data right
THE World Health Organization (WHO) was part of a partnership that developed the road traffic injury information system in Cambodia. The system began in...
When hunger strikes
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman, Reporter
It’s part of our culture to tidy things up when a visitor is expected. When foreign leaders and...
‘Instagramable’ parties
By Zsarlene B. Chua, Reporter
PARTIES — OF ALL SORTS — can now ascend to whole new “Instagram-able” levels as London-based party supplies and stationery...
Let the client decide
Getting the edge in professional selling
Terence A. Hockenhull
I wouldn’t be far off the mark if I suggested that 95% of all salesmen offer solutions...
Pairing off with Coca-Cola
Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco
Working for Coca-Cola, creative agencies McCann Worldgroup, Ogilvy One, and Visual Latina have all come up with different executions which together...
Walk beyond the wall
By Marifi S. Jara
BERLIN is not quite in the league of London, Paris, Rome, or Amsterdam in terms of making it to people’s bucket...
Quiet battle for the sound of silence in UK shops
LONDON — Nigel Rodgers is in hell. A campaigner against piped music for decades, he stands in a shoe shop on London’s Oxford Street...
Beer and loafing in Laos
By Robert JA Basilio, Jr.
VIENTIANE, the capital of Laos, had me worried.
No, it wasn’t the socialist government nor the state-controlled media.
It was the city’s...
Good, better, best advice for parents on children’s work
Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco
THERE IS THIS book entitled Good, Better, Best (published by Scepter Publishers of New York in 2013) that has been such...
Bar-hopping in Dallas after Orlando
By Joseph L. Garcia
SEVERAL NEWS OUTLETS reported on the haunting din of the ringing of mobile phones on the early morning of June 12...
Don’t be pushy
Getting The Edge In Professional Selling
Terence A. Hockenhull
GOOD SALESPEOPLE are able to sell effectively because they listen to their customers and take the time...
Philippine Travel Mart focuses on the peripatetic Millennial
By Zsarlene B. Chua
GET READY ONCE MORE for long lines snaking around the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City as the Philippine Travel Mart...