Business
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - THE GOVERNMENT has raised $1.5 billion from a global bond sale, a result the Finance department said would allow the state to achieve its funding objectives and at the same time manage its liabilities. |
 | Inquirer.net - A vendor sells pork sausage in Manila's farmers market on November 4, 2011. Philippine inflation in December settled at 4.2 percent year on year, its lowest level in 11 months as consumer prices dropped by 0.2 percent in December, according to ... |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The euro fell to an 11-year low against the yen and the weakest level in 15 months versus the dollar on concern Europe's debt crisis is worsening and as reports showed the US labor market is strengthening. |
 | TIME - By AP / DON MELVIN Thursday, Jan. 05, 2012 (BRUSSELS) - Officials from the 27 countries that make up the European Union are beginning Thursday the process of trying to thrash out an agreement on banning the purchase of Iranian oil in the hope of ... |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - The ayatollahs' growing armoury is dwarfed by that of the United States. But any attempt to close the oil lanes is likely to lead to a major conflict. |
 | Inquirer.net - TVI Resource Development (Phils.) Inc. scored an initial victory when a local court granted its request for a preliminary injunction against a provincial ordinance banning open pit mining in Zamboanga del Norte. |
| Inquirer.net - I first worked with Dr. Eduardo (Dodo) Banzon when I was writing on the human right to health for an international publication. When we discussed health issues in the Philippines, I was most impressed that he spoke not just as a technically trained ... |
 | Wall Street Journal - By ALESSANDRO TORELLO The European Union's market for carbon-dioxide emissions permits languished in 2011, with prices hitting a series of record lows late in the year. |
 | Sun.Star - By Katlene O. Cacho BUSINESS Process Outsourcing (BPO) firms should stay focused and continue rendering high-quality services to clients while waiting for developments on a proposed bill filed before US Congress that seeks to discourage US firms from ... |
 | Inquirer.net - AP Large shipments of anteater and turtle parts were seized in the southwestern province of Palawan earlier this week in what authorities said was an indication that the illegal trade in the endangered animals was booming. |
Health
 | Chicago Tribune - Following is a summary of current health news briefs. Czechs say women should replace PIP implants PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech women with silicone breast implants manufactured by a French firm accused of using unapproved industrial-grade material should ... |
 | ABC30.com - FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- If you want your young student to do better in school, the answer may be less homework and more playtime. |
 | Los Angeles Times - Here's some cool news for people who love anything that glows in the dark: Scientists at UC San Diego have figured out how to make millions of fluorescent E. coli bacteria flash all at once, creating a sort of living LED screen. |
 | Huffington Post - For years, state media in Vietnam have followed Nguyen Duy Hai, a 31-year-old man who has suffered since childhood from a steadily-growing leg tumor that recently weighed in at 200 pounds. |
 | Independent Online - Psychologically, the sexes may as well come from different worlds - along the lines of the bestselling book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. |
 | The Atlantic - By Marion Nestle A study that measured what people ate under tightly controlled conditions finally ends the theory that protein is a key factor in weight gain. |
 | ABC News (blog) - Chinese police are investigating whether local billionaire tycoon Long Liyuan was killed by a poison-spiked batch of cat stew in the southern province of Guangdong. |
 | NTDTV - The new central government office building in Hong Kong is now a cause of concern for health officials. It comes after bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease was discovered in the water system there. |
 | DAWN.com - ACHHAM: Padma Biswokarma covers her young son with a blanket as she breastfeeds, a broad smile spreading across her face. Two years ago doctors had given Rohan little chance of survival after he was born weighing just 750 grams, barely a quarter of the ... |
 | CTV.ca - Assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian posing with his 'suicide machine' in Michigan, Feb. 6, 1991. (AP / Richard Sheinwald) The Associated Press LONDON - An independent panel of experts in the UK says there is a strong case for changing British ... |
 | Herald Sun - by: AP From: AP Police outside Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport, England, after the deaths of three patients alledgedly due to the contamination of saline solution. |
 | Sky News - US researchers have unveiled the first three so-called "chimeric" monkeys - created by fusing cells from different rhesus monkey embryos. |
 | USA TODAY - By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay Man's beloved four-legged friends not only respond to the words and ministrations of humans, dogs can understand and anticipate the intentions of their people, researchers are reporting. |
 | New Zealand Herald - The toxin in death cap mushroom (amanita phalloides) stops human cells dividing, affecting organs such as the liver. Photo / Supplied Health authorities in Canberra say the meal which contained death cap mushrooms that killed two people was prepared in ... |
 | Washington Post (blog) - By Delia Lloyd A shaman performs a ritual with the picture of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to wish her good luck and good health for 2012 at the San Cristobal hill in Lima December 29, 2011. |
 | New York Daily News - AP The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered farmers to limit the use of a type of antibiotics they give livestock because it could make people more resistant to a key antibiotic that can save lives, encouraging news for public health ... |
 | TVNZ - Getting high Downunder is more common than anywhere else in the world, according to new research. New Zealanders and their Australian neighbours have been found to have higher levels of marijuana and amphetamine use than any other region. |
 | Skim That - by Marisela Arias on January 5, 2012 A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows progress toward a herpes vaccine but still had disappointing results. |
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