MORE than half of those belonging to Generation Z, or those born between 1997 and 2015, prefer to get many “gigs” or part-time work, rather than settle into a more permanent job, a recent study showed. The study conducted by health maintenance provider PhilCare, showed that 53 percent of Gen …
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At the UN, women find ways to battle inequality, poverty, violence and digital illiteracy
Illustration courtesy of the Commission on the Status of Women, Philippines NEW YORK CITY — Every year, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) gathers thousands of individuals from governments, civil society organizations, experts and activists at United Nations Headquarters in NYC to discuss the most pressing issues facing …
Read More »Elevated Aurora Festival 2024 comes to Clark
The Aurora Music Festival, one of the most-anticipated concerts in the Philippines, is finally taking place on April 6 and 7 in Clark Global City, Pampanga.” Presented by FWD Life Insurance and EPIC Events, Aurora Music Festival 2024 is on its third and finest installation, featuring a spectacular lineup of …
Read More »Cancer can’t keep this Brampton teen from his hockey dream
Brampton’s Eli Craig says nothing can keep him from his dream of playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs — not even radiation and chemotherapy for a rare form of cancer. Eli Craig, 13, plays for Brampton 45s U14 and has a rare form of cancer. Eli Craig says nothing can …
Read More »Prostate cancer cases to double over 2 decades — study
Magnified “cancer” text from a newspaper./Image by PDPics from Pixabay PARIS, France — The number of new prostate cancer cases around the world will more than double over the next two decades as poorer countries catch up with the aging of richer nations, according to a Lancet report published Thursday. …
Read More »Striking image of Quebec wildfire fighter amid burnt landscape wins World Press Photo award
Charles-Frédérick Ouellet’s photo of a Quebec forest firefighter standing on top of a rock amid burnt trees has won the North and Central American Single Photograph at the 2023 World Press Photo contest. Charles-Frédérick Ouellet’s photo of firefighter embodies ‘grief and gravity’: jury. Standing on top of a massive boulder, …
Read More »Officiating my grandma’s funeral was one of the toughest moments as a minister
When her grandma asked Bonnie Sutherland to officiate her funeral, she felt caught between her roles of granddaughter and minister, and mourner and comforter. I felt caught between roles as a granddaughter, minister, mourner and comforter. This First Person article is the experience of Bonnie Sutherland, who lives in Kingston, …
Read More »World’s oldest man dies at 114
Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, also known as Tio Vicente (Nicolás Maduro via Twitter) CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan Juan Vicente Perez Mora, certified in 2022 by Guinness World Records as the oldest man in the world, died at the age of 114, officials and relatives said. “Juan Vicente Perez Mora has …
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The attendees of the special concert commemorating the closing of the ‘Splendor: Juan Luna, Painter as Hero’ exhibit A fitting culmination to Ayala Museum’s ‘Splendor’ On Thursday, March 21, the Ayala Museum held a special concert titled Universelle to commemorate the closing of the critically acclaimed exhibition, Splendor: Juan Luna, …
Read More »GOSSIP GIRL: From fat bullied kid to buffed matinee idol – The authenticity of Marco Gallo
Marco Gallo Actor Marco Gallo has opened up about fake people with rehearsed answers in local showbiz industry. “I was a fat kid from Italy, bullied and shat on, kids telling me I was never going to make it in anything I do. I never thought I would make it …
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