Australian giant monitor lizards trained to avoid eating toxic toads

January 8, 2016 | 12:01 am

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Australian scientists on Wednesday said they had devised an “innovative method of conservation” through feeding giant monitor lizards small cane toads so they won’t be killed by larger-sized amphibians.

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

January 8, 2016 | 12:01 am

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.

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Panel discussion, art activity mark World Thalassemia Day

January 8, 2016 | 12:01 am

DURING the 11^th 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.

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Talking with Lorenzo

January 7, 2016 | 6:40 pm

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

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The Fruit Juice Factory

January 7, 2016 | 6:37 pm

“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

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Sight, taste | New Zealand wines

January 7, 2016 | 6:35 pm

A visit to Waiheke Island’s Stonyridge Vineyard.

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Taste | Sear and dear

January 7, 2016 | 6:08 pm

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Self-rated poverty rate lowest in four years – SWS

January 6, 2016 | 4:52 pm

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

January 6, 2016 | 2:59 pm

“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

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Favorite Things | Dispelling stress in a puff of smoke

January 6, 2016 | 2:15 pm

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

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Income inequality in the last 20 years

January 5, 2016 | 5:38 pm

Mindanao power supply to stabilize, needs more renewables in mix

January 5, 2016 | 4:31 pm

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.

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