Business
Dateline News - The Philippines marked a historic moment in public transportation on Monday, Feb. 27, when the first commercial e-jeepney franchise in the country was formally launched in Makati City. |
New York Times (blog) - By PETER J. HENNING What the Deal Professor described as an “all-out war” between Wynn Resorts and Kazuo Okada, the Japanese pachinko machine magnate who has been ousted as a director and shareholder, is not just a boardroom battle over control of the ... |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - BRITISH AMERICAN Tobacco (BAT) has resumed operations in the Philippines in the belief that a level playing field will be available given the government's push for excise tax reforms. |
Economic Times - NEW DELHI: WikiLeaks has revealed that the US-based intelligence firm Strafor was allegedly tracking activists seeking redressal for the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal. |
Inquirer.net - Manila - Visiting personal finance guru Suze Orman sees the Philippines soon shining in the global community as an investment hub and having more of its households emancipated out of their dependence on overseas remittances. |
San Francisco Chronicle - Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman said Greece is "close" to having no option but to quit the euro as austerity measures imposed on the nation hamper its economic recovery. |
Inquirer.net - By Christine O. Avendaño Malacañang will ask Solicitor General Francis Jardaleza to clarify the two opposing rulings issued by two different divisions of the Court of Appeals regarding Banco Filipino Savings and Mortgage Bank, a Palace official said ... |
The Sun - By STEVE HAWKES, Business Editor THE boss of HSBC has been given a £6million bonus after the bank made almost £14billion profit. |
Health
Herald Sun - A TURKISH patient who underwent what was touted as the world's first quadruple limb transplant has died, the hospital announced. |
ABC Online - A leading local dentist is backing the findings of a national dental review, which calls for a 10 billion-dollar investment by Federal, state and territory governments. |
GlobalPost - An emerging class of flu vaccines could for the first time allow for the first time prevent wide-scale spread of influenza by shutting down the virus' ability to spread and mutate. |
The Press Association - Many young people underestimate how much alcohol they drink even if they have some knowledge of the Government's guidelines on sensible consumption, a study says. |
Written by  Care2.com - Eating lots of citrus fruits may lower the risk of ischemic stroke by as much as 19 percent in women, according to a new study. Ischemic stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain becomes blocked. |
Business Recorder (blog) - Bird flu may be far less lethal to people than the World Health Organisation's assessment of a death rate topping 50 percent, scientists said on February 23 in a finding that adds fuel to the heated controversy over publication of bird flu research. |
New York Daily News - Fast food chains are doing a bad job of making nutritional information of their menu items clear and easy to digest, according to a recent study. |
Sin Chew Jit Poh - Canadian trainer Stephen Sumner (R) assists a Cambodian amputee to use a mirror during the first mirror therapy training session at the Cambodia Trust, a rehabilitation charity for amputees in Kampong Chhnang province, some 90 kilometers northwest of ... |
AFP - KATHMANDU - Her body begins shaking as she mumbles an ancient shaman mantra to the beat of a double-sided drum, coaxing snake spirits out of a young Nepali man who has "lost his soul". |
Indian Express - Women could have the opportunity to give birth with their own eggs later in life as they possess a potentially “unlimited” supply of them, scientists say. |
AFP - WASHINGTON - A new strain of influenza A has been found in fruit bats, indicating for the first time that bats, like birds, can be carriers of the virus, though it is not believed risky to humans, according to US health authorities. |
WHNT - (Reuters) - Virtual boxing, tennis and dancing along with video game systems may not be helping children meet daily exercise requirements, according to a US study. |
MarketWatch (press release) - SAN DIEGO, Feb 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- People are relying on sleeping pills more than ever to get a good night's rest, but a new study by Scripps Clinic researchers links the medications to a 4.6 times higher risk of death and a significant ... |
Huffington Post - NEW DELHI -- India marked a major success in its battle against polio Saturday by being removed from the World Health Organization's list of countries plagued by the crippling disease. |
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