Ancient giraffe relative had thick legs, curly horns
PARIS, FRANCE — An ancient relative of the giraffe was a huge, heavy animal with thick legs, a flat face and massive, curly horns...
Coming soon: Mövenpick Boracay
By Zsarlene B. Chua
MÖVENPICK Hotel and Resorts have added another Philippine property to their portfolio as they are set to open Mövenpick Boracay in...
New Year’s health resolutions
Medicine Cabinet — Reiner W. Gloor
I wish you a belated happy new year in this, my first column for 2016. May you enjoy good...
Your weekend guide (January 15, 2016)
EXHIBITS
Formal Elements, an exhibit of works by Irma Lacorte, is on view at Galleria Duemila until Jan. 30. The exhibit features a series of...
The Sam Smith Saga
Getting the Edge in Professional Selling — Terence A. Hockenhull
APROPOS OF NOTHING, I believe Sam Smith visited the Philippines in 2015, and at his...
Gravitational wave rumors ripple through science world
MIAMI — Rumors are rippling through the science world that physicists may have detected gravitational waves, a key element of Einstein’s theory which if...
Why the wealthy give
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
Book
The Giving Way to Happiness
By Jenny Santi
Published by Penguin Random House
DONATING to charity can make people happy. This...
What to see this week
4 films to see on the week of Jan. 15-22, 2012:
Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin
ANDOY RANAY, Chris Martinez, and Mark Meily direct the three...
$20 oil no longer a mirage as world confronts 12-year low
THE WORLD mostly ignored Ed Morse 11 months ago when the head of commodities research at Citigroup said oil could drop as low as...
A little bit of this, a little bit of that…
By Richard Roeper
FOR A manic-depressive, alcoholic, washed-up political consultant of a certain age who’s dealing with altitude sickness in strife-torn Bolivia, and, oh yeah,...
The ‘better’ of 2015
By Noel Vera
I PARTICIPATED in two End-of-the-Year surveys: Film Comment’s and Sight and Sound’s, the latter having the advantage of making every voter’s list...
Export drop persists in November, though smallest in eight months
By Kia B. Obang
Senior Researcher
THE DECREASE in sales of the country’s goods to foreign markets persisted in November last year in the face of...