Nothing enrages me more as a female motoring journalist than a basic right of women—that is, the right to drive—stifled. Three days ago, I read a story about a Saudi Arabian woman sentenced to 10 lashes for defying a ban on women behind the wheel.
Property insurers can thank one record-breaking weather phenomena for the marked increase in the takeup of their insurance policies as well as the change in mindset of property owners.
While the color blue connotes a feeling of sadness and gloom, one new destination in Cebu will give you all the reasons to feel everything but that.
Today’s homeowners are spending significantly more time and money on making their home much more appealing. And one way of increasing aesthetics is either using actual stones or better, manufactured stone wall cladding.
Twelve thousand men, 1,000 elephants, 22 years. Rumors have it that he planned to build a replica for himself across the river, but his son incarcerated him for the sins of love—squandering the treasures of his kingdom to build a final resting place for his beloved. After his third wife passed away, the Mughal emperor spent the rest of his years professing his undying love through the construction of one of the world’s most graceful structures. In 1983 Unesco declared the Taj Mahal a World Heritage Site.
Did you know that rabies kills more people each year than severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the bird flu (H5N1) and the dengue fever combined?
Despite initiatives to improve the current state of the Philippine healthcare system, 60 percent of Filipinos who succumb to sickness die because quality healthcare remained elusive to them.
There was a time when a phone was just a device you used to contact someone. These days phones aren’t just used to talk to someone, they’re also devices that allow people to text, take photos, shoot video, get on the Internet, send e-mails, calculate a restaurant bill, provide a current location and keep time.
Last week, we discussed in this column the powerful healing effect of forgiving other people who may have wronged us in whatever way. I received quite a number of feedback through my e-mail and via text messages.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on Friday said that the exposure of Philippine banks to the crisis-stricken euro zone was insignificant and local financial institutions were likely to sustain profit growth this year. A recently concluded survey conducted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said that as of June 30, the amount of euro-denominated securities [...]
Most local stocks rose for the third straight session Friday, perking up the main index by 3.15 percent, on the back of combined bargain-hunting and quarter-end window-dressing. The main-share Philippine Stock Exchange index recovered 122.02 points to finish at 3,999.65. Despite a sluggish start on Monday, the index has gained 113.69 points or 2.9 percent [...]
Local fastfood giant Jollibee Foods Corp. has cemented its leading position in the highly competitive quick-service restaurant industry by taking over the Philippine operations of American chain Burger King. The deal allows JFC to gain a foothold into the premium segment of the hamburger category in the fast-food business as the group was expecting the [...]
