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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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, …

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, …

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 …

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, …

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 …