Sunday, January 29, 2012

29 JAN 2012, SUN: Bus & Health

Business


Oil firms roll back fuel prices

GMA News - 
Motorists got some relief from rising fuel prices after some oil firms rolled back prices of their products early Sunday. The latest rollback reflected recent adjustments in world prices of oil, according to a report on dzBB rado.

Reserve Requirements Review Finished; Changes No Major Impact On Banks

Manila Bulletin - 
By LEE C. CHIPONGIAN MANILA, Philippines - The central bank's review of the reserve requirement framework and the changes in the reserve ratio policy have been completed but with some clarifications still to be done, according to sources at the Bangko ...

Tampakan resource estimates upgraded

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
KORONADAL -- The Tampakan copper-gold project -- threatened by a South Cotabato provincial government ban on open pit mining -- covers significantly higher mineral resources than initially estimated, Australia's Indophil Resources NL announced on ...

Marcos Baguio mansions up for auction again

Inquirer.net - 
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines—The sequestered Baguio houses, which were reputedly owned by the family of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, are again being offered for public bidding in March after previous government auctions failed to draw buyers, ...

Iran to debate bill on EU oil ban today

Times of India - 
TEHRAN: Iran's parliament is to discuss a bill on Sunday that seeks to halt its oil exports to the EU. The bill calls for a ban of oil exports to the EU as early as next week, Hossein Ebrahimi, deputy head of Majlis (parliament) national security and ...

VP Binay lauds local gov't

Tempo - 
Manila, Philippines - Vice President Jejomar Binay lauded the Quezon City government for promoting public-private partnerships that enable the poor to have a chance of having decent shelters.

Baguio crisis

Philippine Star - 
Tourists and residents have started to feel the growing tension in the Summer Capital's Camp John Hay. The city has become nervous over reports that officials of the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) have already started to build up an ...

Clark Aims For Huge Investments

Manila Bulletin - 
By FRANCO G. REGALA CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga, Philippines - Clark Development Corporation (CDC) will be targeting huge investments that will create more employment this year, CDC President Felipe Antonio B. Remollo said Saturday.

SSS extends contribution deadline for OFWs

GMA News - 
The Social Security System (SSS) is extending the deadline they set for contributions of its members who are overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), to give them ample time to make their remittances.

CEBU AIR INC : CEB holds select domestic seat sale as low as P288 for February ...

4-traders (press release) - 
The Philippines' largest national flag carrier, Cebu Pacific (PSE:CEB) continues to offer the best low fare option to passengers with a seat sale as low as P288 from January 28 to February 2, 2012.

Ginebra buys bottling firm

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
LIQUOR MAKER Ginebra San Miguel Inc. on Friday acquired East Pacific Star Bottlers Philippines, Inc. for P200 million in a bid to expand capacity, disclosure to the local bourse showed.

Shares bounce back, trim down weekly loss

Philippine Star - 
MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - The stock market bounced back today after three days of successive declines. Bargain hunting sent the bellwether Philippine Stock Exchange index rallying by 1.48 percent or 68.21 points to 4679.89.

World faces 600m jobs challenge, warns ILO

Nation on Sunday - 
The world faces the “urgent challenge” of creating 600 million productive jobs over the next decade in order to generate sustainable growth and maintain social cohesion, according to the annual report on global employment by the International Labour ...

'Sendong' survivors join 'hope fest'

Sun.Star - 
By Michael Andrew W. Yu MORE than a hundred youth survivors of Tropical Storm Sendong joined Friday the “Kabataan Paglaum Fest” conducted by the National Youth Commission (NYC) at Liceo de Cagayan University in Cagayan de Oro.

Gov't acts against marine pollution

Philippine Star - 
MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - The government assured today that measures were being implemented to address the problem of pollution threatening the country's fish supplies.

Health


Paraguayan President cleared of cancer

Zee News - 
Sao Paulo: Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo who was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 2010 has overcome the disease, his doctors said.

Wood-based industries seen to prosper in Year of Dragon

Manila Bulletin - 
By MALOU M. MOZO CEBU CITY, Cebu, Philippines - Wood-based industries are perceived to be successful in this Year of the Water Dragon, a feng shui expert said.

America's Five Coldest Cities Are. ...

Indiana's NewsCenter - 
A report by Weather.com, which used 30 years worth of data from the NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, ranks the top five. Want to be in the know for the next weather event, the next school closing or the next big breaking news story?

Cholera fight in DR Congo receives $9 million boost from UN fund

UN News Centre - 
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) received $9.1 million today from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to fight off cholera, which has affected more than 22000 people and killed 500 over the past year in the central ...

Corrie actress reveals breast hell

The Sun - 
A CORRIE actress has told how her faulty PIP breast implant swelled to the size of her HEAD - then exploded. Vanessa Halstead, 29, who played a cocktail waitress in the soap and has also appeared in Hollyoaks, suffered "unbearable" pain when her right ...

Stop and Shop recalls some Aunt Jemima frozen pancakes

The Patriot Ledger - 
Quincy-based Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC, following a recall by Pinnacle Foods Group, announced that it removed from sale several varieties of Aunt Jemima Frozen Pancakes.

Heart help down to a tea

The Canberra Times - 
BY JOHN VON RADOWITZ HEART disease rates could be reduced by 10 per cent if everyone took to drinking large amounts of tea, an Australian study suggests.

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