Botanists warn on threats to world’s plant kingdom

LONDON — Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens warned Tuesday about the threats facing the world’s plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind...

Sun Life promotes financial literacy through board games

By Carmencita A. Carillo DAVAO CITY -- First he got retrenched. Then, he had to be hospitalized. In desperate need of money, he resorted to...

Hamilton adored by scalpers too with $12.5-million windfall

THE BROADWAY HIT Hamilton is making millions. It could be making millions more if not for scalpers snapping up seats and hawking them for...

Cuba scrambles to keep pace with US-fueled tourism boom

HAVANA -- The number of US visitors to Cuba has nearly doubled this year, its tourism minister said on Wednesday, as the island races...

Saul surfer

By Noel Vera DVD Review Son of Saul Directed by Lazlo Nemes LAZLO NEMES’ extraordinarily shot and executed debut feature Son of Saul answers a question I (and...

South African firms bet on coffee and donuts despite slowdown

JOHANNESBURG -- A fortnight after the first Starbucks in South Africa opened in a trendy Johannesburg district, queues still snaked onto the pavement, a...

What to see this week

5 films to see on the week of May 13-20, 2016 The Angry Birds Movie In this 3-D animated movie based on the popular game app,...

Justin Timberlake returns with cheery pop

NEW YORK — Pop superstar Justin Timberlake returned Friday with his first new song in three years, a cheery pop number that will appear...

What young Wall Streeters see in American Psycho The Musical

By Amanda Gordon, Bloomberg ELEVEN Yale business school students spill out of a Broadway theater after a performance of American Psycho The Musical. They’ve just...

A mountain bike trail in Tagaytay

TAGAYTAY’S Twin Lakes -- the country’s first vineyard resort township community -- has added a mountain bike trail to its attractions. The new off-road track...

Early Birds at Early Bird

Ads & Ends Nanette Franco-Diyco MY FAMILY AND I were at our precinct at 6:00 a.m. on Monday and promptly cast our votes with ease. When...

Radiohead inches back to rock roots on bleak new album

NEW YORK — Radiohead, the band for two decades synonymous with experimentation, has inched back to its rock roots on a long-awaited album that...