How do you add $28 trillion to the global GDP?Harness the power of women.
By Dinna Louise C. Dayao
What would happen if women truly held up half the sky? The world would be richer by $28 trillion in 2025, said a report by think tank McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the research arm of consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
Zoe Saldana: the action heroine who takes no prisoners
LOS ANGELES — She is emerging as the go-to star for big budget action blockbusters, knocking human and alien heads together in Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Trek.
Idris Elba talks Star Trek and beyond
BRITISH ACTOR Idris Elba was honored to play a hostile, menacing alien in Star Trek Beyond and praised the franchise for pushing the boundaries of racial diversity in Hollywood.
Last month was hottest June on record
WASHINGTON — Last month was the hottest June in modern history, marking the 14th consecutive month that global heat records have been broken, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Tuesday.
Netflix scores a bull’s eye with Stranger Things; HBO better do better than Vice Principals
By Kevin McDonough
OUR RETURN to the 1980s continues with the eight-part drama Stranger Things, now streaming in its entirety on Netflix.
Firefly-watching on Buhatan River
By Camille Anne M. Arcilla
THE SIGHT of a swarm of fireflies sparkling in a dark night may seem like a scene from a fantasy movie or one of those teleseryes where the leading lady closes her eyes and whispers her wish on a firefly. But the scene was no fantasy — rather, it was the perfect finale to the first day of a media tour through the Bicol region’s Almasor (Albay, Masbate, Sorsogon).
HIV infections level off at ‘worrying’ 2.5M a year: study
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA — Some 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate and patients live longer than ever, a global AIDS study said Tuesday.
Perfume makers spend $800 million on ads that apparently stink
LITTLE EVER CHANGES in the perfume industry. Shoppers still get spritzed as they walk through department stores, sexy ads are still the norm, and scents that are big hits usually stay that way.
E. Asian shipping emissions kill tens of thousands
PARIS — A sharp rise in shipping emissions in east Asia is killing tens of thousands of people in the region every year and adding to global warming, a study said Monday.