UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr. Raymund W. Lo Recently, my equanimity was shattered by a development arising out of my medical practice. I have been performing paternity testing for the past 32 years and have had to testify in court as an expert witness in over 100 paternity cases so far. All my...
The University of the Philippines (UP) will offer a free guided tour at the Vargas Museum from Feb. 14 to 18 in celebration of National Arts Month. Courtesy of UP Vargas Museum The exhibitions on display are: You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It; the Vargas Museum Permanent...
The Keepers Holdings, Inc., the liquor importation and distribution business of Lucio Co, has acquired cocktail mixer brand Island Mixers from Diageo Philippines, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Keepers said Island Mixers is a non-alcoholic cocktail...
Bank of the Philippine Islands has upsized the issue size of its Peso Fixed-Rate Bonds due 2024 to P20.3 billion over four times the initial target of P5.0 billion to meet strong investor demand. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the bank said the bonds, called BPI Reinforcing...
Israel Ambassador to the Philippines Ilan Fluss has called on the people not to forget the horror of The Holocaust, which killed millions of Jewish people in an attempt to annihilate the population. Fluss made the call as the Israel Embassy in Manila and the Office of the Vice President...
Benchmark yields for short-term loans went down on the back of strong demand. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Jan. 30, the national government raised P15 billion as programmed after total demand reached P61.85 billion The 91-day Treasury bill rate declined to 4.152 percent from 4.211...
K-pop group Tomorrow X Together (TXT)’s new album topped the weekly chart with 1.92 million copies sold. TXT dropped “The Name Chapter: Temptation”, their fifth mini-album, on Jan. 27. It recorded 1.86 million copies in sales on the first day of release, their highest one-day tally. Tomorrow...
'All Quiet on the Western Front' guns for nine Oscars A number of war movies have won best picture at the Oscars namely, Apocalypse Now (1979), Platoon (1986), Schindler’s List (1993), Braveheart (1995), The English Patient (1996), and The Hurt Locker (2009). Apocalypse Now and Platoon were both...
Korean actor Park Bogum, known for the dramas “Reply 1988” and “Encounter,” has chosen his new agency. Back in December, his exclusive contract with Blossom Entertainment expired and he decided not to renew it and has been looking for a new agency. Korean actor Park Bogum (Instagram) Park...
WALA LANG OIL ON OAK Adoration of the Kings, Jan Gossaert (National Gallery of Art, London) The Three Kings arrived in Bethlehem bringing to the Child Jesus gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Everyone knows gold but frankincense and myrrh? Used in religious ceremonies, they came from faraway...
FROM THE MARGINS And just like that, time flew by and January is ending. January was named for the Roman god Janus, who has two faces: one looks into the past and the other looks into the future. Just like January, which straddle the ending and beginning of each year. I felt a bit like Janus a few...
The composition of the Philippine Stock Exchange’s 30-stock benchmark, the PSE index (PSEi) will see some changes starting Feb. 6, 2023. In a statement, the bourse said DMCI Holdings, Inc. (DMC) and Union Bank of the Philippines (UBP) will be included in the PSEi, replacing Megaworld Corporation...
