Star Wars comes to Hong Kong Disneyland
STAR WARS comes to Hong Kong Disneyland this summer, with a dogfight in space, lightsaber battles, and encounters with characters from the movies.
Accessible transportation
By Michael Angelo S. Murillo
THE PHILIPPINES has already laws concerning the plight of persons with disabilities (PWDs). Unfortunately, compliance to them has not been as wide as hoped.
Scientists find new earthlike planets, novelist imagines living there
IT’S a staple of science fiction: A city-size starship leaves our solar system, its passengers propagate on a trip that spans multiple generations and settle a planet several light years from home. Alpa Centauri, the nearest star system, is often featured in these stories. The sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson made Tau Ceti, nearly three times as far away, the destination for a generation ship in his 2015 novel, Aurora, because he thought the system was more likely to have a habitable environment.
Rapper Drake releases long-awaited album Views
WASHINGTON — Drake, one of the most successful rappers of the moment, last week released his long-awaited new album, Views — an ode to his hometown Toronto.
Adult extensions make good sense
Call this column a Part II of last week’s, where I dealt with the new adult extensions of Nestlé’s established products.
All kinds of mothers in Mother’s Day
MOTHERS of all kinds get their due in Mother’s Day, a romantic comedy about everyone’s first love.
Tarsiers in Tagum
TAGUM CITY — Considered to be the world’s smallest primate, tarsiers are usually found in the province of Bohol in the Visayas region.
Japan wants foreign tourists to avoid ‘public flatulence’
TOKYO — A Japanese tourism board has called on foreign tourists to refrain from public “belching or flatulence” in an etiquette guide which was hastily rewritten, reportedly after complaints from a Chinese resident.
EU court upholds new tobacco laws on packaging, menthol cigarettes
LUXEMBOURG — The European Union’s (EU) top court on Wednesday, ruled that the bloc’s new laws on plain tobacco packaging and a ban on menthol cigarettes were legal, rejecting a challenge by tobacco giant Philip Morris and others.
US top court rejects POM Wonderful appeal over ads
WASHINGTON — Businesses better have good evidence to back up claims of health benefits from their products, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Monday, after the Supreme Court rejected POM Wonderful’s challenge to FTC findings that the juice maker’s advertising was misleading.
All the way to the (Music) Bank
By Cecille Santillan-Visto
SEOUL — There are several music television shows in Korea that pit K-pop groups against each other.