Cobonpue named APEC dinner creative director

By Carlo S. Lorenciana | November 12, 2015 - 9:00am

Cebu-based international furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue has been tapped as creative director for the welcome dinner of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting happening in...

LOOK: Banaue Rice Terraces-inspired dinner setup for 21 world leaders

LOOK: Banaue Rice Terraces-inspired dinner setup for 21 world leaders

November 11, 2015 - 11:54pm

Having such a strongly rooted yet global background, Kenneth Cobonpue, creative director for the APEC Economic...

Arts and Culture

The Philippines' 6.6% GDP growth rate (Part 1)

By Nigel Paul Villarete | April 11, 2013 - 12:00am

Or so, as had been widely reported in the newspapers and acclaimed by sympathizers and critics alike.

Freeman Opinion

Reigning 'world's ugliest dog' dies in California

March 15, 2012 - 9:52am

When a beloved pet dies, good manners usually dictate saying something nice about the departed companion.

Moves like Jedi

Moves like Jedi

By Katrina Ann Tan | February 17, 2012 - 12:00am

In college, students are persuaded to take a course based on what will ensure their future (read: financial security) even...

Teaching an old 'dougie' new tricks

Teaching an old 'dougie' new tricks

By Tony Montemayor | January 17, 2012 - 12:00am

Feeling a little hip hop recently, I tried to convince my children and their cousins that I knew who the Cali Swag District...

Health And Family

The grapes of youth

By DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia | November 9, 2006 - 12:00am

If science subscribed to the way politics or entertainment fed the media about its breakthroughs, the press conference on the latest on the human quest for the fountain of youth will probably look like this....

Science and Environment

Bark my blues away

By Kathy Moran | July 30, 2005 - 12:00am

I admit one of the hardest things for me to do is leave my doggies at home. No day passes without me wishing I could take them all with me – wherever I go. Gorby, the youngest of the bunch, has become my...

‘Star Wars’ means business

By Rod Nepomuceno | May 30, 2005 - 12:00am

I’m not a diehard Star Wars fanatic. Neither am I a sci-fi movie geek. Sure, I like the Star Wars sexology (I’m assuming that’s what the six movies are collectively called. Triplet is to trilogy, and...

Lifestyle Business

Eat, drink, swim and surf the (Net) in Boracay

By Kathy Moran | February 7, 2004 - 12:00am

A cool December breeze was blowing in Boracay the morning we arrived. And even if the waters looked inviting as the reflection of the sun shone on them whenever the sun peeked through the clouds, taking a dip had...