New Year’s Day may have come and gone—and your resolutions may have already fallen by the wayside—but it’s not too late to start building a healthier relationship with physical activity. Regular exercise is associated with a host of benefits, from a lower risk of death from heart disease and cancer to a better overall mood. …
According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, roughly 15 percent—or 37.5 million—Americans aged 18 and over experience some trouble hearing. More often than not, it comes with age, but not all who have some hearing loss can already qualify for a hearing aid. Some people’s hearing loss may not be severe enough to…
It might come as a surprise, but no car that can be purchased from a dealer lot today is capable of truly autonomous driving. Even though carmakers use terms like “Autopilot,” the fact remains that every automobile that is sold to the public—regardless of if it’s a Tesla or a brand new Super Cruise-equipped Cadillac—can’t…
Snickers, M&Ms, Twix bars. These candies might be found in kitchen cupboards, but their prime ingredients come from much farther away. In fact, Mars Wrigley, the largest chocolate producer in the world, gets most of its cocoa, or 400,000 tons annually, from Côte D’IVoire, Ghana, and Indonesia. As the third biggest cocoa powerhouse in the…
The word “audiophile” carries a lot of weight when writing about speakers and headphones. Even for tech-savvy people—or, perhaps, especially for them—it serves as a warning sign and window into a highly technical, often aspirational world. It’s a world where it is not enough for the sound that comes out of your speakers to sound…
SEN. Sherwin Gatchalian on Saturday, January 22, said the creation of Heritage Zones in Carcar City, Cebu and in San Vicente, Ilocos Sur will help local tourism bounce back amid the Covid-19 pandemic.Republic Act (RA) 11644 declared the City of Carcar as a heritage zone, while RA 11645 established a heritage zone within the Municipality…
Presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. THE camp of presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (BBM) on Saturday hit back at an online news network over its apparent attempts to discredit its campaign by using a “disinformation network to take down what it alleged as a disinformation network.”Lawyer Victor Rodriguez, Marcos chief of staff and…
SENATORIAL aspirant Harry Roque Jr. vowed to continue the fight for the 40 percent rightful share of income for the province of Palawan from the Camago-Malampaya natural gas project if he gets elected into office in the May national polls.The Palawan province administration has been attempting to collect its 40 percent share of the Malampaya…
SAADA: At least 70 people were killed in an airstrike on a prison as Yemen’s long-running conflict suffered a dramatic escalation Friday that drew condemnation from UN chief Antonio Guterres.The Houthi rebels released gruesome video footage showing bodies in the rubble and mangled corpses from the attack, which leveled buildings in the prison in their…
BACOLOD CITY: Two women who presented fake reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results at the Bredco Port in Bacolod City on Thursday, January 20, tested positive for Covid-19, Dr. Zephard Caelian, head of the Provincial Incident Management Team, said.The two women are set to face appropriate charges, said Caelian who did not release…
