Business
ABS CBN News - 2 hours ago by Cecil Morella, Agence France-Presse MANILA - Philippine authorities confirmed Wednesday that top gaming officials accepted free luxury accommodation from a Japanese tycoon but denied these were bribes to ensure a new Manila casino was built. |
Manila Bulletin - 7 hours ago By JAMES A. LOYOLA MANILA, Philippines - Condominium developer SM Development Corporation (SMDC) posted a 38 percent jump in consolidated net income to P4.18 billion last year from P3.02 billion in 2010 due to strong sales. |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - 9 hours ago CEBU AIR, Inc., the operator of budget carrier Cebu Pacific, has agreed to lease four new aircraft from CIT Group, Inc. in line with plans to launch long-haul flights next year. |
GMA News - 3 hours ago While the composition of the Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PSEi) is unchanged, the PSE will implement effective March 12 two “stability” measures that could alter the index slightly over time. |
Manila Bulletin - 7 hours ago By JAMES A. LOYOLA MANILA, Philippines - Alaska Milk Corporation reported a 39 percent drop in net income last year to P1.1 billion from the P1.8 billion earned in 2010 despite a recovery in sales and profits during the fourth quarter of 2011. |
Journal Online - 4 hours ago CLARK Freeport, Pampanga -- The Alyansa ng Manggagawang Magbubukid sa Asyenda Luisita (AMBALA) and Alyansang Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luzon (AMGL) assailed anew officials of the Cojuangco-controlled Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) for sowing continuous terror ... |
Manila Standard Today - 10 hours ago by Elaine Ramos Alanguilan Philippine Savings Bank, the thrift bank arm of the Metrobank Group, reported a net income of P2 billion in 2011, up by 12 percent year-on-year on higher net interest margins. |
Inquirer.net - 6 hours ago Oil companies raised fuel prices anew Wednesday to reflect the continued uptrend of oil prices in the global market last week. Independent player Eastern Petroleum Corp. |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - 9 hours ago SAFETY NETS for tobacco farmers will be provided by the government should the enactment of a bill raising excise taxes on tobacco products result in their economic displacement, officials yesterday said. |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - 9 hours ago LISTED MINER Benguet Corp. reportedly closed 2011 with just roughly half of the year previous' profits, nevertheless, meeting the company's expectations. |
Inquirer.net - 9 hours ago Metrobank expects remittances to the Philippines to grow by 6 percent this year despite the prolonged crisis in the eurozone, saying sustained demand for Filipino workers in other labor markets will boost the amount of money they send home. |
Manila Bulletin - 7 hours ago By MYRNA M. VELASCO MANILA, Philippines - Given recent developments in the oil market, the Department of Energy (DoE) announced that it will be reloading P1,200 to the “Pantawid Pasada cards', serving as a band-aid measure to financially aid jeepney ... |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - 9 hours ago ONLINE GAME publisher Asiasoft Corporation Public Co. Ltd. plans to set up a local unit as it eyes to corner a significant share in Philippine market, officials said yesterday. |
Business Mirror - 13 hours ago WITH more than 700000 graduates expected to enter the labor market on top of some 564000 other college graduates who are still looking for jobs, the government must start focusing on the development of firm-specific skills to improve employability and ... |
GMA News - 11 hours ago While the world market price of rice is low, National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Angelito Banayo said raising the support price of palay now “could encourage smuggling” and keeps him from recommending the price hike to the NFA Council. |
Manila Standard Today - 10 hours ago THE Clark International Airport Corp. said the bidding on the proposed airport terminal expansion of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport Terminal 1 will start on March 5. CIAC president and CEO Victor Jose Luciano said the expanded Clark ... |
Cebu Daily News - 9 hours ago The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines, operator of the national transmission network, is eyeing to undertake the P36-billion Cebu-Negros-Panay interconnection project to absorb the additional 420 megawatts in new capacity that will be installed in ... |
Wall Street Journal - 37 minutes ago By Ian Talley WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--International Monetary Fund officials said that while a new financing agreement for Greece reached earlier this week can set the ailing economy's debt on a path toward healthy levels, perils in the days ahead could ... |
GMA News - 1 hour ago Unemployment among adult Filipinos has increased to 24 percent, with some 9.7 million Filipinos now without jobs, pollster Social Weather Stations said. |
Manila Standard Today - 10 hours ago by Elaine Ramos Alanguilan The government sold nearly P95 billion worth of retail Treasury bonds during the first day of the offering period Tuesday. |
Health
Inquirer.net - 1 hour ago THE first word she uttered was “Mama” the moment she woke up Monday in the recovery room after surgery to repair a hole in her heart. |
Manila Bulletin - 14 hours ago By TARA YAP CABATUAN, Iloilo, Philippines - The world's only flying ophthalmic surgical and training hospital has landed at the Iloilo airport and is currently conducting for three weeks eye surgical operations for under-privileged patients and ... |
Sun.Star - 7 hours ago By Rizel S. Adlawan THE Cebu Provincial Government announced it will expand the coverage of its health insurance program under the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. |
Philippine Information Agency - 13 hours ago By Hazel F. Gloria CEBU CITY, February 22 (PIA) --- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-7) in Central Visayas continues to distribute relief goods to the earthquake victims in Negros Oriental. |
Herald Sun - 2 hours ago Strand of protein linked to 'body clock' and heart attacks Protein levels control electrical current in heart muscles Related: Work is giving us cancer - study SCIENTISTS say they've uncovered the first molecular proof that the "biological clock" is ... |
Reuters - 1 hour ago By Brent Lang at TheWrap The Motion Picture and Television Fund said on Wednesday that it has taken steps to improve safety and staff training at its long-term care facility in response to a patient's death. |
Hindustan Times - 14 hours ago Stress can lead to several damaging effects on the human body. Many of these effects are acutely felt by the sufferer, but many more go 'unseen', one of which is shortening of telomere length. |
GMA News - 14 hours ago Researchers from Harvard University in the United States have built "DNA origami" nanorobots to hunt down and destroy cancer cells in the body. |
Daily Mail - Feb 20, 2012 By Fiona Macrae IF you are on a diet, look away now. Losing weight is twice as hard as thought, scientists said last night. After factoring in how metabolism slows down as we shed pounds, they announced that dieters' expectations have been too high. |
Jerusalem Post - 1 hour ago By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH 02/22/2012 23:33 New Ben-Gurion University study examined the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among firefighters, how they cope. |
MercoPress - 8 hours ago Argentine Health Minister Juan Manzur confirmed Wednesday morning that the situation on the MSC Armonía cruise ship, which lost a crew member last Friday to a possible flu virus, “was under control” and “normal” after it arrived to Buenos Aires port to ... |
Huffington Post - Feb 21, 2012 More than a third of the US population have their ears pierced -- with about one in seven people having a piercing somewhere other than the ear lobe, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. |
Kaiser Family Foundation - 9 hours ago "South Asian nations are making the least progress in the Asia-Pacific region on meeting key development goals, which they pledged to achieve by 2015," Bindu Lohani, vice president for sustainable development at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), ... |
WBAY - 2 hours ago Experts say people who drank a can of diet soda a day had a 43-percent higher risk of stroke or heart attack than people who didn't drink any. |
Daily Mail - 10 hours ago By Pat Hagan Women who sit for up to seven hours a day may be more at risk of developing type two diabetes, new research shows. It found women who spend the most time sitting down during the week are more likely to show early signs of the disease than ... |
Travel Market Report - 23 minutes ago by Maria Lenhart Insights into forces affecting medical tourism, including the increasingly global nature of healthcare and major trends in how healthcare is funded and delivered, will be shared by two experts at the upcoming Well-Being Travel ... |
San Francisco Chronicle - 13 minutes ago Vivus' weight-loss pill Qnexa won the backing of a US advisory panel as the company seeks to gain approval for the first new obesity drug in 13 years. |
Daily Gossip - 10 minutes ago When taking into account the fact that heart attacks are the number one death cause in women, it becomes all the more important to find prevention strategies that work. |
PR Web (press release) - 1 hour ago Doctors Haeck, Eaves, and Rohrich write joint ASAPS/ASPS statement calling for more research into stem cell facelift and stem cell breast augmentation. |
Medical News Today - 3 hours ago Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar, released a report today highlighting the urgency of treating HIV and multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in their country - Myanmar used to be called Burma. |
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