WHILE the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic keeps travel off of most people’s plates, Hong Kong is reminding potential visitors why it should be on their menu once travel restrictions ease up and tourism starts.

In PREPARATION for the holiday season, Discovery Primea has unveiled its selection of festive offers with Early Bird discounts.

THE SEPTEMBER Online Sale (SOS) of the Hotel Sales & Management Association (HSMA) back — and Crimson Resort and Spa, Boracay is all set to deliver.

IN PRINTMAKING, the inked or painted design is transferred to a surface such as paper, or cloth, or wood. Multiple copies of the design can be made — each image in the multiple copies is considered an original — but often these are limited to editions. Thus, one can see a print with a marking like 4/100, meaning it is the fourth print from an edition of 100 prints of the same image.

A DANISH artist has pocketed 534,000 kroner ($84,000) in cash that he received from a museum to incorporate into an artwork and changed the name of the installation to Take the Money And Run.

GOING to beaches as a child and becoming aware of the concerns for the environment led 17-year-old photographer Ganden Medved-Po to publish a photography book focusing on the ocean.

NEW YORK — R. Kelly was convicted by a federal jury on Monday in his sex trafficking trial, where prosecutors accused the R&B singer of exploiting his stardom over a quarter-century to lure women and underage girls into his orbit for sex.

COPENHAGEN — A cassette tape recording of an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, including a never released song, made while they visited Denmark in 1970 will be auctioned in Copenhagen on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES — An attorney for Britney Spears on Monday stepped up demands for the swift suspension of the singer’s father from his role as her guardian, saying he had “crossed unfathomable lines” by reportedly bugging her phone and bedroom.

BALLET Philippines (BP) now has a podcast series called BP Barre Talks where the discussion features ballet and beyond, “bringing to light messages of relevance, hope, and inspiration.”

National Artist for Literature Bienvenido “Bien” Lumbera passed away on the morning on Sept. 28, 9 a.m., due to “complications of stroke,” said his family. He was 89 years old. 

A MUSICAL comedy about a struggling musician, a drama on the difficult realities of immigration, and a detective-style documentary about a Spanish painter’s missing skull are a few stories included in this year’s PELÍCULA Spanish Film Festival, which will be held online for a second year.