Book
XYZ Files: An Anthology of Controversies and Issues, Anecdotes and Trivia about
Fidel Valdez Ramos
Published by the Ramos Peace and Development Foundation and Media Touchstone Ventures Inc.
356 pages
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
A week before the 31st celebration of the People Power Revolution, former President Fidel V. Ramos, one of the event’s major players, launched a book called the XYZ Files and pushed for the long-overdue EDSA Learning Center.
PARIS — By 2030 life expectancy for South Korean women could top nine decades, an average lifespan long thought to be out of reach, researchers said Wednesday.
GENEVA — Invisible particles washed off products like synthetic clothing and car tires account for up to a third of the plastic polluting oceans, impacting ecosystems and human health, a top conservationist body warned Wednesday.
By Michael Angelo S. Murillo
LOOKING TO strengthen its recall among its target customers, multivitamin supplements brand Rogin-E recently held its first “man convention” (ManCon) at the Metro Walk Tent in Pasig City.
LONDON — Superbug bacteria found in people, animals and food across the European Union (EU) pose an “alarming” threat to public and animal health having have evolved to resist widely used antibiotics, disease and safety experts warned on Wednesday.
Book
Broken Mirror: Inside a Chinese Marriage
By Aurora Teo Mei Ling and Coylee Gamboa
By Zsarlene B. Chua
While the title — Broken Mirror — might give the impression that the biography would be highly depressing (and in some ways it is), at its core it’s a story of how one woman continually picked up the pieces and tried to find a better life despite how many times she had been broken.
Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco
I LIKE THE commercials done with James Reid as the major talent or endorser. I think he acts his natural self and gives his all to whatever brand he has chosen to embrace: his Jollibee Burger Steak, Century Tuna, even Judge chewing gum TV commercials were declared undeniable hits by their target market.
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — As the 70th anniversary of a bloody political purge in Taiwan looms, a new horror video game set during the island’s “White Terror” is winning rave reviews.
PARIS — Tiny natural ponds pose an overlooked danger for speeding up global warming, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
FOUR YEARS after the devastation brought about by typhoon Pablo visited Barangay Cabinuangan in New Bataan, Compostela Valley, the barangay has seen much improvement — homes have been repaired, crops replanted, the boulders and debris from landslides have been removed, and major infrastructure made operational. Still, the shadow of typhoon Pablo hangs over the barangay.
