No-fur Stella McCartney fuses men’s, women’s styles in Paris

AP 03/13/2018

PARIS —In a Fall-Winter season that featured a fair share of fur on the runway in spite of growing resistance, Stella McCartney’s show was the ecological antidote at Paris Fashion Week. Guests including actresses Kristin Scott Thomas…

If you can’t afford luxury, rent it

AFP 11/28/2017

Fancy hitting the town in the latest Dior  dress with an outrageously expensive Louis Vuitton bag on your arm—but haven’t the cash to afford even the clasp? The fantasy is no longer a pipedream for thousands of women…

Paris opens first nudist resto

AFP 11/24/2017

PARIS — Leave your coats, your pants and your inhibitions at the door: a Paris restaurant has begun serving up classic French fare to diners in the nude. Located down a quiet side street in southwest Paris,…

Hayden Kho and Vicki Belo tie the knot in Paris

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 09/03/2017

TWO months after their civil wedding, celebrity doctors Hayden Kho and Vicki Belo got married in a grander setting at the American Church in Paris and then had a dream-like reception–complete with opera singers serenading guests–at Palais…

Lessons from Paris

Radel Paredes 07/08/2017

On a wall in my bathroom is a framed map of the streets of Paris. I placed it there to help me remember the names of the streets, the arrondissements or districts, the iconic buildings and the…

Watanabe bags bronze in Paris Grand Slam judo tilt

Rabboni Centino Borbon 02/12/2017

KIYOMI Watanabe bagged a bronze medal for the Philippines in the Paris Grand Slam 2017 judo tournament held in Paris, France yesterday. The Filipino-Japanese Watanabe, who was born and raised in Cebu, defeated Lucy Renshall of Great…

Cebu-raised Watanabe settles for bronze in Paris judo

Rabboni Centino Borbon 02/12/2017

KIYOMI Watanabe bagged a bronze medal for the Philippines in the Paris Grand Slam 2017 judo tournament held in Paris, France on Sunday. The Fil-Japanese Watanabe, who was raised in Cebu, defeated Lucy Renshall of Great Britain…

Louvre reopens 24 hours after ‘Allahu Akbar’ attack

02/05/2017

Paris, France — The Louvre reopened its doors Saturday, a day after soldiers outside the Paris museum shot and wounded a machete-wielding attacker, suspected of being an Egyptian national. The incident on Friday thrust the issue of…

A wonderful Christmas around the world

PR 12/27/2016

RUSTAN’S offers customers the experience of a lifetime, giving great rewards as each one thoughtfully shops for people on their gift list. From now until Dec. 31, every P3,000 single-receipt purchase entitles shoppers to one (1) e-raffle…

China ratifies Paris climate deal

09/04/2016

Beijing — China announced yesterday that it has ratified the emissions-cutting agreement reached last year in Paris, giving a big boost to efforts to bring the accord into effect by the end of this year. The United…

Europe grapples with security after attacks

07/31/2016

Paris — You can’t put a guard in every church and patrol every beach. But after a wave of attacks in Western Europe, authorities are struggling to protect their people as best they can. The French Riviera…

Digong does a Deng

Jobers R. Bersales 07/20/2016

President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent pronouncement that he would not honor the Paris Accords recalls Deng Xiao Ping’s Growth First Policy, first enunciated in 1978, which propelled China into the industrial superpower that it is today. By deciding…

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