Philippine imports’ annual performance
PHILIPPINE exports of electronics in the coming months may be in for a retreat after imports of components used in the assembly of the...
Korea targets conventioneers with hallyu and modern facilities
By Krista Angela M. Montealegre
A quiet afternoon at the branch of coffee chain dal.komm in Incheon was interrupted by a busload of foreigners, hoping to...
NBS collaborates with blogger
FROM COLLABORATING WITH National Artist BenCab, to personalities like Rajo Laurel and Daphne Oseña-Paez, National Bookstore has come up with another collectibles collection including...
Florence Foster Jenkins: tone-deaf but adored
LOS ANGELES — When opera lovers ask New York’s Carnegie Hall for souvenir concert programs, they’re not usually interested in Maria Callas or Joan...
Reading the Signs: How eyewear pushes courage
IN MARCH 2007, Ray-Ban, the eyewear icon, told its consumers to “never hide.” On one of its global campaign posters, we see two men,...
The sound of silence
By Zsarlene B. Chua
Film Festival
10th International Silent Film Festival
Aug. 25 to 28
Shang Cineplex, Shangri-La Plaza Mall, Mandaluyong City
MUSIC AND SILENT FILMS are inseparable, and...
Why pay for a salesperson?
Getting The Edge In Professional Selling
Terence A. Hockenhull
I’M RIGHT IN the middle of ordering additional company brochures, completing layouts from new flyers and pamphlets, and printing...
It’s a dog’s life
By Richard Roeper
MOVIE REVIEW
The Secret Life of Pets
Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney
TALK ABOUT a split personality.
If I broke down The Secret Life...
Shellfishness
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
The Lobster
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
YORGOS LANTHIMOS’ The Lobster is his unique brand of bizarre deadpan humor translated into feature-length English. The...
Israeli scientists say they can block melanoma spread
JERUSALEM -- Israeli scientists have uncovered how the most severe form of skin cancer spreads to other organs in a discovery that could revolutionize...
Giant cruise ship heads to Arctic on pioneering journey
LOS ANGELES -- It is a voyage explorers only dreamed of not so long ago.
But thanks to climate change, a luxury cruise ship has...