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Monday Morning
Starting a Business Can Improve Older Workers’ Quality of Life
By Maria Minniti, Teemu Kautonen & Ewald Kibler
The average age of the global population is increasing. Aging individuals are not always able to find...
How to Get Men Involved in Gender-Parity Initiatives
When it comes to programs aimed at increasing gender parity, diversaity officers struggle to engage men.
In a paper recently published in Organization Science, we...
Top News
H1 2017 growth in SEA arrivals outpaces global rate–UNWTO
THE Philippines pushed further cooperation in Asian tourism initiatives to continue to boost the growth in visitor arrivals in the region.
Speaking at the roundtable for ministers at the Global Tourism Forum of the recent...
Army deploys ‘green’ warriors
In the northern side of Central Luzon, some 1,600 kilometers away from the besieged city of Marawi in the south where soldiers are currently waging a courageous battle against terrorism, the Philippine Army has...
Beefing up network security
MACAU—In an era of mobile, cloud and Internet of Things (IoT), experts from global enterprise networking solutions provider Aruba warned businesses that security threats are everywhere—including their very own backyard—so they need to act...
Perspective
How to Win a War on Drugs
LISBON, Portugal—On a broken-down set of steps, a 37-year-old fisherman named Mario mixed heroin and cocaine and carefully prepared a hypodermic needle. “It’s hard...
The real campus scourge
By Frank Bruni | New York Times News Service
Across the country, college freshmen are settling into their new lives and grappling with something that...
Amendments to food-safety law sought
The National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) is urging Congress to amend Republic Act (RA) 10611 to revert the regulation of prepackaged food and processed-meat products to the Department of Agriculture (DA).
NMIS Executive Director Ernesto...
Rice production seen hitting 3.36 MMT in Q3
Despite the projected reduction in palay harvest area and yield, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said paddy-rice output in the July-to-September period would still reach 3.36 million metric tons (MMT).
In its report published on...
The World
Sports
The Broader Look
INTERRACIAL marriages in the country have existed long before the advent of air travel and the Internet. It is defined as “a marriage between spouses who belong to different races”.
Interracial marriage was historically a taboo in the US and outlawed in South Africa. It was formally declared legal in...
Intricacy as simplicity
‘MY eye was accustomed to see beautiful things,” the incomparably chic Carolina Herrera declared, recalling her growing-up years in Caracas as the daughter of...
Life
A tribute exhibit at León Gallery and charities at The Magnificent...
León Gallery (www.leon-gallery.com) celebrated the legendary Philippine Art Gallery, ground zero for Manila’s avant-garde in the 1950s, with a special show, titled Mid-Century Moderns:...
Tips to convert a spare room into a multifunctional walk-in closet
By Melissa Rayworth / The Associated Press
Longing for a bigger closet?
Remember that rooms in your home don’t have to be used the way they were...
NL-1331 Philippines: Asia’s first ever
THERE was a sense of pride as we saw it for the first time. The smooth black exterior, decorated with official signs and emblems,...
Tourism
Bask in the stillness of the countryside
Have you ever suddenly stopped in the middle of typing that business letter, or whatever you were doing? Stared at the window and wished...
Health & Fitness
Sleep: How much you really need?
WHY sleep? At one time, a kid asked, “Why do we need to sleep? Can we stay awake all the time?” Good questions.
The thing is: “Sleep is a vital indicator of overall health and well-being,” the National satnitation foundation points out. “We spend up to...
Green
Biodiversity
Is there life after mining?
‘I am especially fond of gardening, taking care of plants at home,” said Melita Cuaton, a 44-year-old mother of six from Sitio Campandan, Barangay Talavera,...
Science
Cool August restrains melt of Arctic sea ice
WASHINGTON—Arctic sea ice this summer dropped to its eighth lowest level on record, new federal data show. That’s far below average, but considerably above...
Faith
Bishop lays out plan for Fr. Chito’s recovery
A Catholic bishop said Fr. Teresito “Chito” Suganob would undergo a post-captivity reintegration process, as he hopes for the priest’s complete recovery and resume...
Business Sense
As interest in flying cars continues to swell, one of the most prominent startups working on the technology has gained a big new backer.
Lilium Aviation, a German company that held a successful test flight of the Eagle, its two-seat electric jet at its Munich base this year, announced recently...
BM Reports
AN iPhone X can pay for the property tax of nearly 19 houses in Quezon City.
That is how it will come to if one believes Apolonia B. Lucido, a retiree. She told the BusinessMirror she has recently paid P2,724.43 ($53.42) for her three-story house in Barangay Tatalon, Quezon City,...
Motoring
It’s more than just driving
AFTER all those years telling the stories of different people, I finally decided that it was time to write about the man who has...
Riveting action in the Vios Cup
Story & photo by Randy S. Peregrino
WITH the fourth season approaching to an end, competing teams and its individual racers are becoming more and more...
Progress propels Cebu motorization; PAL expansion up
THE City of Cebu is fast becoming to be the Metro Manila of the Visayas. As the place now teems with people, it follows, almost,...
