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Visiting Duterte country

Text and photos by Zsarlene B. Chua

THANKS to Rodrigo Roa Duterte, the Davao City mayor who ran for and won the presidency, the spotlight is now on his city. As news stories abound on how the city’s hotels are now at full capacity thanks to people eager to meet — and perhaps curry favor — with the president-elect, it may be a good idea to hurry through Davao City’s Francisco Bangor International Airport and go directly to the many tourist offerings one can find in the city’s outskirts and the rest of the region.

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Calvin Klein underwear ad causes stir

NEW YORK — A new Calvin Klein underwear ad has caused a stir in America because it features a photo taken from underneath a woman’s skirt, focused on her crotch.

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Healthy aging has little to do with age: study

MIAMI — When it comes to maintaining health in one’s older years, age means little and obesity may not be so bad after all, according to a US study released on Monday.

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At sea, scientists drill into crater for dino clues

MEXICO — Sharks swim around a platform of Mexico’s east coast as scientists drill deep into the ocean floor, extracting the remains of the asteroid widely blamed for the demise of the dinosaurs.

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Back to the future

DVD Review
Peppermint Candy
Directed by Lee Chang-dong

By Noel Vera

Lee Chang-dong’s sophomore feature Peppermint Candy (1999) is perhaps his most formally innovative, starting with a man’s suicide going backwards — an idea borrowed from Harold Pinter’s play and later film Betrayal, and executed contemporaneously alongside Christopher Nolan’s Memento.

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Can tai chi help relieve knee joint pain?

TAI CHI may work as well as traditional physical therapy for easing pain in people with knee osteoarthritis, a small study suggests.

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Finding Big Brother in Davao City: a newbie’s impressions of Digong’s home

THE FIRST THING a passenger might notice after disembarking then exiting Davao’s Francisco Bangor International Airport is the presence of the city mayor, now incoming president Rodrigo R. Duterte, in the form of a standee — a life-sized cardboard cut-out of a person, usually of a celebrity.

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Glass beads found in Australia point to huge asteroid hit

SYDNEY — Australian scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid they say slammed into Earth some 3.46 billion years ago — making it the second oldest known to have hit the planet and larger than the one blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs.

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The X-Men are back, this time fighting Apocalypse

HOLLYWOOD stars Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy reprise their roles as powerful mutants in X-Men: Apocalypse, this time joining forces against a new supervillain.

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Freedom to choose the better egg

Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco

WE ARE NOT talking about politics here. This column is devoted to perfectly good eggs.

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Beyond cows and hobbits

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman, Reporter

New Zealand is often associated with two things: dairy products and The Hobbit. But there’s more to this country than cows and fantasy movies.

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Bacteria the yin and yang of dandruff, says study

PARIS — Dandruff is not caused by a fungus, as many believe, but by an imbalance between two competing bacteria that naturally colonize the human scalp, according to a study released last week.

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