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Exhibits, conferences and a bike ride to mark Climate Week

TWO MONTHS before the major climate change gathering in Paris, France highlights the role of civil society in climate negotiations in the Philippines and abroad through a Climate Week in Manila.

Manulife, Sarah Geronimo take first steps together

THE PHILIPPINE branch of Canada-based insurance company Manulife Financial Corp. recently launched its newest brand campaign, focusing on encouraging people to “take the first stem in making their dreams come true,” according to a press statement.

Ned Weeks: the Heneral Luna of the gay rights movement

By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
Theater
The Normal Heart

Fish scales to fangs: Surprising tale of how teeth got their bite

WASHINGTON — The origins of the enamel that gives our teeth their bite is no ordinary fish tale.

Traveling alone… and not lonely

Text and Photos by Lea T. Dalawis

IT WAS IN 2003 when I had my first taste of international travel. After that trip, I knew that I was bitten by the proverbial travel bug. I’ve been to several other countries since then.

Your weekend guide

October 2-25, 2o15

Ready for SEA Games 2019

By Michael Angelo S. Murillo

FROM its humble beginnings in the late 1950s when it was still known as the Southeast Asian Peninsula Games, the Southeast Asian Games has gone on to become a much-awaited sporting event in this side of the world.

(1) New Notification: Your candidate is now online

By Pola E. del Monte   

YOUR CANDIDATE is now online. Political campaigning has expanded beyond the realm of TV, radio, and print media. Today, candidates are on the internet, delivering their platforms via network bandwidth, projecting their image through bytes of data.

Me, me, me, again!

Theater
No Filter 2.0
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz, Reporter

Mystery author Agatha Christie was queen of poison

TORQUAY, UNITED KINGDOM — Throughout her prolific career, mystery author Agatha Christie killed off hundreds of characters by bullets, daggers, even a blow of the cleaver. But her ultimate weapon, and the one she was most fond of, was poison.

Fall movie preview

By Richard Roeper

CONVENTIONAL movie wisdom says summer is for superheroes and sequels, reboots and R-rated comedies — but come autumn, it’s time for the potential classics, the Oscar contenders, “grown-up” movies.

Under the sea

By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
Exhibit
A Glass of the Sea: An Exhibition on the Coral Triangle