The manufacturing sector sustained its strong performance in the fourth quarter of 2017 even as its growth slightly weakened in December, the latest Nikkei Philippines Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) showed. Last month, the PMI score slightly…
INAYAWAN LANDFILL A private consultant tapped by the Cebu City government to help plan the future of the landfill in Barangay Inayawan, ordered permanently closed last December, has started to gather data for the “closure project” which…
MORE research and development initiatives are needed to help increase the production of mangoes per hectare. Justin Uy, president and chief executive officer of Profood International Corp., said that this is a way to address one of…
The passing away of Dr. Thelma B. Kintanar, erstwhile feminist and scholar, “visionary and doer” as former president Jose Abueva called her, three weeks ago reminded me of the work on women and cultural literacy, which I…
Could wine have a protective effect on the brain? A team of researchers at the Institute of Food Science Research in Madrid, Spain, have studied the process by which compounds in red wine have an anti-aging effect…
High school student Arianwen Ledesma-Rollan saw how her grandmother waged, and lost, a costly and painful battle against pancreatic cancer. The pain of losing a loved one fueled her search for an inexpensive cure for cancer. She…
FOUR faculty members of the University of the Philippines Cebu will present the results of their research tomorrow at the university’s audiovisual room on Gorordo Avenue, Lahug, Cebu City. Presenters and their topics are lawyer Francis Michael…
