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Need a last-minute hotel booking? There’s an app for that.

By Zsarlene B. Chua

​HONG KONG-based last-minute booking hotel app, Hotel Quickly, formally launched its entry into the Philippine market last month, boasting of more than 1,500 hotel partners in the country.

Panel discussion, art activity mark World Thalassemia Day

DURING the 11th World Thalassemia Day celebration on Jan. 9, children with thalassemia and their families from Manila and nearby provinces will be converging at the Lung Center of the Philippines to voice the need for policies in the Philippine health care system that will support basic care for thalassemic patients.

Talking with Lorenzo

Excerpts from High Life’s conversation with the Swiss art impresario

The Fruit Juice Factory

“It might be unconscious, but this is what we are: dislocated, and translating the dislocation  of our everyday life into our art practice.”  — Isabel Aquilizan

Sight, taste | New Zealand wines

A visit to Waiheke Island’s Stonyridge Vineyard.

Taste | Sear and dear

Self-rated poverty rate lowest in four years – SWS

Self-rated poverty rate

Lorenzo Rudolf, the man with ‘a head of stone’

“I will never be Asian. I will never be part of Asian culture but sometimes, it’s an advantage to see something from the outside.”  — Lorenzo Rudolf, founder and director of Art Stage Singapore

Favorite Things | Dispelling stress in a puff of smoke

David Chen, CEO of Kata Digital, on why decisions are better made after a cigar break.

Income inequality in the last 20 years

Income inequality - Palm Ratio

Mindanao power supply to stabilize, needs more renewables in mix

By Carmelito Q. Francisco
Correspondent
DAVAO CITY — When President Benigno S. C. Aquino III took his oath as the President of the Philippines in 2010, Mindanao didn’t have enough power.

Hot stock on election year

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