The tastes of the Last Frontier

By Zsarlene Chua PALAWAN — often called the Philippines’ “Last Frontier” as the province still maintains more than 50% of its original forest cover and is...

Thai e-retailer iTrueMart spending $150 million on Southeast Asia plans

THAI online retailer iTrueMart says the Philippnes is only the first stop on the company’s $150-million expansion plan, which will cover much of Southeast...

Opportunities to Cross-Sell

Getting the Edge in Professional Selling By Terence A. Hockenhull WHEN your company sells limited product lines, it is a simple matter to allow the...

Tide leaves demo for AlDub dance

ADS & ENDS NANETTE FRANCO-DIYCO THIS BRAND is definitely one of the market leaders in laundry detergents and perhaps the longest known in the country. This advertisement...

Julia Roberts is a paler pretty woman in Secret in Their Eyes

By Angela Dawson HOLLYWOOD -- Pretty Woman Julia Roberts tackles the role of a woman haunted by the brutal murder of her teenage daughter in...

In retail slump, HK jeweler lets clients try before they buy

HONG KONG — Online luxury jeweler Plukka is going door-to-door to beat the worst retail downturn in more than a decade in Hong Kong,...

Deadwood: Guns, Goons, Gold, and Genius

The Binge Jessica Zafra “Pain and damage don’t end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then you’ve got...

Have diabetes, hypertension, or lung disease? Get a pneumonia vaccination

SMOKERS and people with chronic respiratory illness, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases have a greater risk of catching pneumonia. Adults with diabetes have two to six...

More than a guessing game

By Richard Roeper WHEN JULIA ROBERTS’ Jess is told by a friend, “You look like you’re a million years old” in Secret in Their Eyes,...

Whales under threat as climate change impacts migration

PUERTO LOPEZ, ECUADOR -- The sight of thousands of whales surfacing, jumping and playing off the coast of South America as they migrate toward...

I believe I can fly: Victor Maguad on becoming Peter Pan

By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz BALLET Peter Pan Presented by Ballet Philippines Dec. 4 to 1 Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater), Cultural Center of the Philippines, Roxas Blvd., Pasay...

Women should worry more about heart disease

“It’s not just breast cancer that kills women,” said Dr. Maria Adelaida Iboleon-Dy, chairman of the cardiology department at St. Luke’s Medical Center in...