Business
 | Manila Bulletin - By CRIS LARANO (DOW JONES) MANILA, Philippines - A benign inflation outlook affords the Philippine central bank the policy flexibility to spur growth in the domestic economy amid global uncertainty, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)Deputy Governor Diwa ... |
 | Manila Bulletin - By JAMES A. LOYOLA MANILA, Philippines - The Aquino government expects to roll out 8 to 16 infrastructure projects worth P80 billion to P142 billion under the Private-Public Partnership (PPP) scheme this year. |
 | New York Times - PARIS - The countries of the European Union have agreed in principle to impose an embargo on Iranian oil, but there are many details to resolve before a decision is taken by heads of state and government at the end of January, European and French ... |
 | Inquirer.net - By Paolo G. Montecillo The chief of the administration's Public Private Partnership (PPP) Center has been appointed head of the Metro Rail Transit Corp. |
 | BusinessWeek - By Clarissa Batino and Jason Webb Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Philippines is selling $1.5 billion of 25-year bonds as policy makers accelerate government spending to support economic growth. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - MARKET confidence, buoyed by upbeat US and German economic data, kept Philippine stocks on a roll on Wednesday. The main index Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) rose for the fourth straight session yesterday, adding 1.48% or 65.55 points to close ... |
 | Manila Bulletin - By ROY C. MABASA MANILA, Philippines - 2011 began, oddly enough, with a meeting between China and the member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). |
 | Inquirer.net - By Philip C. Tubeza The government is assessing the impact of a proposed law in the United States that would discourage US firms from outsourcing their operations, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said Wednesday. |
 | Sun.Star - JUST over two months under new management, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) bared it has uncovered and neutralized a syndicate that ripped off a private firm's multi-million-peso premium payment. |
 | ABC News (blog) - The prime minister of Singapore just accepted a 36 percent pay cut, but is still the highest paid elected official in the world. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong 's US $1.7 million salary is four times more than President Obama earns. |
Health
 | New York Times - With the British government under increasing pressure to follow the French lead in announcing a recall of tainted breast implants, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley ordered British clinics on Wednesday to quickly report the extent to which the implants, ... |
 | The Atlantic - By Frederik Joelving A third of Americans find stem cell research morally offensive -- but how many have unwittingly contributed to it by giving up eggs? |
 | ExtremeTech - By Jason Kennedy on January 4, 2012 at 2:41 pm Genetically engineering e. coli bacteria to do cool things is the latest craze in the science world. |
 | gulfnews.com - By Stephen Pollard Image Credit: AP I have been reading Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's comments about his cancer. It is, apparently, an assassination attempt by America. |
 | AsiaOne - A media briefing chaired by Mr Roy Quek (second left), Deputy Secretary from the Ministry of Health was held on January 3, 2012 on the retesting of DNA samples for criminal cases. |
 | Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - (AGI) Buenos Aires- Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is doing well after her surgery for thyroid cancer. Her papillary thyroid carcinoma was discovered during a routine check-up on December 22. |
 | Chicago Tribune - Some good news on the weight-loss front. Even if you've been a total flop before - regaining all the weight you lost and 10 pounds on top of that - you can be a dieting success. |
 | The Canberra Times - BY BIANCA HALL Canberra's Chinese community is in mourning, with two people dead from suspected liver failure and another in a critical condition after toxic death cap mushrooms were served at a New Year's Eve party. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- An experimental vaccine developed by a Johnson & Johnson unit and the US military protected monkeys against an animal version of the AIDS virus, a study found. |
 | Yahoo! News Canada (blog) - By Jordana Divon By Jordana Divon | Daily Brew - 7 minutes ago The signs can sometimes be hard to distinguish from the regular hallmarks of aging, but a new survey says Canadians wait far too long before checking out the early stages of dementia. |
 | The Guardian (blog) - Around 30000 people go into cardiac arrest each year in the UK, yet many of us are still unsure of how to give CPR. The British Heart Foundation has launched a campaign encouraging people to practise hands-only CPR to the tune of Stayin' Alive, ... |
 | KOCO Oklahoma City - Scientists say they've found a medical breakthrough tonight that is a way to reverse the aging process. They say, old mice injected with young stem cells lived three times longer. |
 | CBC.ca - A new strain of the swine flu virus called A(H3N2) may now be spreading through person-to-person contact, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. |
 | New York Times - SHANGHAI - There was one very disagreeable ingredient in the steaming hot pot of stew that may have killed a Chinese tycoon. And it wasn't the cat meat. |
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