GENEVA, Switzerland -- Switzerland's glaciers lost six percent of their total volume this year due to a dry winter and repeated summer heatwaves, shattering previous ice melt records, a report revealed Wednesday. This picture taken on September 2, 2022 above Ulrichen shows glaciologist and head of...
PARIS, France -- Even without any future global warming, Greenland's melting ice sheet will cause major sea level rise, with potentially "ominous" implications over this century as temperatures continue to rise, according to a study published Monday. Rising sea levels -- pushed up mainly by melting...
What do you get when you combine Filipino creativity with Japanese ingenuity? Or, in the real estate world, when you combine Japanese building technology and Filipino market knowledge? You only get the best of the best. This is perhaps the reason why two leading real estate companies in their own...
The Korean drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” topped Netflix’s weekly chart for the sixth time to become the most viewed title. Netflix released its weekly Global Top 10 for the most watched shows and films from Aug. 15 to 21. “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” is the No. 1 title on Netflix...
Chinese International School Manila (CISM) and Domuschola International School (DIS), two highly reputed International Baccalaureate (IB) schools in Manila, have entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-based Global Schools Foundation (GSF). GSF schools offering the IB diploma having...
The Marcos administration welcomed anew increases in internet download speeds in both fixed broadband and mobile for the Philippines by Ookla Speedtest Global Index’s July 2022 report. The country’s fixed broadband median speed increased to 75.62Mbps from 68.94Mbps registered the month before....
Nickel miner Global Ferronickel Holdings, Inc. (FNI) registered a 34 percent drop in consolidated net income to P417.4 million for the first half of 2022 from the P640.8 million earned in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said the results are...
In the history of the Philippine real estate industry, only a few names have monumentally changed the landscape and skyline of towns and cities, transforming once barren lands into world-class metropolises where businesses and people thrive. Sitting among that very exclusive list is Federal Land...
Alliance Global Group, Inc. (AGI), the holding company of tycoon Dr. Andrew L. Tan, posted a 3 percent decline in attributable profit to P8.2 billion while reported net income dipped 6 percent to P12 billion. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, AGI said consolidated revenues rose by...
PARIS, France -- The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet over the last 40 years, according to research published Thursday that suggests climate models are underestimating the rate of polar heating. Pixabay The United Nations' climate science panel said in a...
GENEVE, Switzerland -- The thick layer of ice that has covered a Swiss mountain pass for centuries will have melted away completely within a few weeks, a ski resort said Thursday. A picture taken on July 30, 2022 shows crevasses on the Fee Glacier (German: Feegletscher) above the Swiss alpine...
Megaworld subsidiary Global-Estate Resorts, Inc. (GERI), the country’s leading developer of integrated tourism-estates, registered a 32 percent growth in net income to P848 million during the first half of 2022 from P643 million in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine...
