BERLIN, GERMANY — Better known for its electronic music and street art, Berlin is now also home to a budding graphic novel scene in a country that has treated illustrated stories as children’s literature.
THERE ARE A SLEW of Hello Kitty-themed events happening around the metro this yuletide season.
PARIS — In the 19th century, before the advent of antibiotics, Listerine mouthwash was marketed as a cure for gonorrhoea. More than 100 years later, researchers said Tuesday the claim may be true.
Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco
A FEW CHRISTMAS ADS this year in the country have selected to lean strongly on values. Topping these is the station ID of ABS-CBN, conceptualized and produced by the Creative Communications Management Division (CCM), headed by Robert Labayen in cooperation with the Marketing Division.
IKITSUKI, JAPAN — Japanese rice farmer Masatsugu Tanimoto doesn’t think of himself as a Christian, and you’d almost never find him in a church. But every so often, he and others meet to recite prayers drawn from another time and place.
BEYOND the cityscapes and cosmopolitan escapades, there is more to Hong Kong than what instantly meets the eye. The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) wants visitors to discover what the city has to offer exactly what any local would know, and just in time for the holiday season.
PARIS — Pregnancy causes “long-lasting” physical changes to a woman’s brain, with significant, but seemingly beneficial, grey matter loss in parts of the crucial organ, a study said Monday.
NEW YORK — Industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails on Friday last week announced their first release in three years — an EP that frontman Trent Reznor described as “impenetrable.”
IT’S BEEN A YEAR since AccorHotels’ Novotel brand opened in Quezon City’s commercial center, Cubao and what a year it has been for the 401-room Araneta Center hotel.
Getting the edge in professional selling
Terence A. Hockenhull
THINGS OFTEN go wrong on major projects. The best will in the world is not going to prevent delays, mistakes, or unforeseen events interfering with what was originally promised to the client. The salesman who refuses to take calls from the client to explain what has gone wrong (and what is being done to address the problem) is creating more problems for himself and the client.
PARIS — Nanoscale fluorescent probes that switch on in the presence of cancer cells helped surgeons remove tumors in mice without harming healthy tissue, according to a study published Monday.
