Net personal optimism
FILIPINOS’ optimism over quality of life and the economy in the year ahead stayed “very high” in President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s first quarter in...
Top five agriculture imports
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has ordered the revocation of all import permits for agricultural products issued by the agency as an anti-smuggling measure....
Philippine gross domestic product performance
THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY last quarter expanded at its quickest pace in three years, allowing the country to remain the fastest-growing among Asia’s emerging markets....
Lighting the way for women
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
While top politicians in the US and the Philippines are busy objectifying a woman, either “grabbing her by the...
Window dressing
By Zsarlene B. Chua
IT WAS -- at first -- a somber affair as while guests happily greeted one another, there was an undercurrent of...
Mostly magical reviews for Fantastic Beasts but is it too dark?
NEW YORK — British author J.K. Rowling has conjured up her Harry Potter magic in the spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find...
Christmas comes alive
ACROSS THE CITY, yet another Christmas tradition has come to life as the Ortigas Center formally opened this year’s “Christmas on Display,” an animatronic...
Vitamin D levels tied to breast cancer survival
FOR WOMEN diagnosed with breast cancer, high vitamin D levels in the blood may be tied to better odds of surviving and having tumors...
China to burn, not bury, as it tackles trash challenge
WUJIANG, CHINA — Thousands of tons of urban waste are hidden behind scrubbed white walls at a new power plant on the outskirts of...
How the Muggles brought the Wizarding World to 1926 New York
WITH SETTINGS around the UK from London to Hogwarts Castle, the Harry Potter books came to the big screen with the fantastical production design...