Business
Manila Bulletin - 5 hours ago By EMMIE V. ABADILLA MANILA, Philippines - Smart Communications, Inc., the country's biggest wireless services provider has partnered with Vodafone, one of the world's largest mobile communications firm, to provide subscribers with innovative mobile ... |
BusinessWeek - 1 hour ago By Karl Lester M. Yap and Michael Munoz Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) -- A strengthening Philippine peso that's helping contain inflation in the Southeast Asian nation has boosted scope for the central bank to cut interest rates for a second straight meeting ... |
Manila Bulletin - 5 hours ago By RHEA SANDIQUE-CARLOS (DOW JONES) MANILA, Philippines - The value of Philippine imports fell in December for the first time since October 2009 on a year-on-year basis, suggesting a softening of domestic consumption and signaling continued weakness in ... |
Inquirer.net - 7 hours ago MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines' biggest umbrella organization of small- and medium-sized businesses took umbrage Tuesday at a US-based casino giant's portrayal of the country as corrupt, saying the country was being made a pawn in a corporate ... |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - 8 hours ago LISTED DEVELOPER Filinvest Land, Inc. has won the contract to develop a state-owned lot in Cebu City into an office complex, adding to a growing list of commercial structures the firm is looking to construct, a disclosure released yesterday showed The ... |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - 8 hours ago AIRASIA PHILIPPINES, Inc., a Malaysian budget carrier's local arm, has lodged requests for permits from six territories to grow its regional flight portfolio, an official yesterday said. |
Manila Bulletin - 5 hours ago By CHINO S. LEYCO MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), the government's main tax agency, posted a 12.34 percent growth in collection last year to P924.1 billion from P822.6 billion in the previous year. |
Business Times (subscription) - 4 hours ago By ANTHONY ROWLEY JAPAN needs to take a long-term view of the prospective gains to be had from membership of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) instead of 'insisting on short-term benefits' and Japanese business needs to take a similar long-term view ... |
Malaya - 6 hours ago MANUFACTURING output in December last year dropped 7.8 percent, a reversal of the 15.3 percent growth during the same period in 2010, due to the significant contraction in nine major sectors, data from the National Statistics Office showed. |
Manila Bulletin - 5 hours ago By JAMES A. LOYOLA MANILA, Philippines - BDO Unibank, Inc. (BDO) posted a 19 percent growth in audited net income to hit P10.5 billion in 2011 from the P8.8 billion net profit earned in 2010, the bank said in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock ... |
Manila Bulletin - 5 hours ago By MYRNA M. VELASCO MANILA, Philippines - To fully replace the capacity that will be dislodged in its supply portfolio due to the expiration of its transition supply contract (TSC) with the National Power Corporation by year-end, power utility giant ... |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - 9 hours ago THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) issued yesterday the operating guidelines on the new compensation scheme for drivers and conductors of public utility buses in Metro Manila. |
Inquirer.net - 6 hours ago A group of prominent economists has backed the government's plan to restructure the excise taxes on tobacco products, saying such reforms are “imperative” for health reasons as well as to boost revenue collection efforts. |
Manila Standard Today - 7 hours ago by Jenniffer B. Austria Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc., the telecommunications unit of JG Summit Holdings Inc. acquired by Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - 8 hours ago STOCKS CLOSED mixed on Tuesday, with the main index gaining on a technical rebound as some investors decided to hunt again for bargains following three consecutive days of negative finishes. |
Business Mirror - 12 hours ago THE British American Tobacco Co. (BATC) which pulled up stakes and left the country in 2009 following a Supreme Court decision that made continued Philippine operations untenable is ready to do battle with competitors again in a cigarette market ... |
Business Mirror - 11 hours ago MINING is an issue that tends to evoke very strong views on either side. It's a rare occasion for the two sides, therefore, to sit across the table and engage in a sober discussion of the issues that divide—and unite—them. |
Inquirer.net - 6 hours ago The Sobrepeña-led Camp John Hay Development Corp. (CJHDevco) and Warbird Security and Investigation Agency denied that they were “squatting” in the John Hay Special Economic Zone, as alleged by the Bases Conversion and Development Authority. |
Philippine Star - 8 hours ago By James Deakin (The Philippine Star) Updated February 29, 2012 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - After months of threats and stiff warnings, the management of the Southern Luzon Toll Road plan on cashing in on their threats by tomorrow. |
Cebu Daily News - 4 hours ago By Miko Morelos The Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 143 has dismissed a petition from Banco Filipino to cite Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Amando Tetangco and two other BSP officials in contempt, ruling that the beleaguered savings bank ... |
Health
Digitaltrends.com - 49 minutes ago Planned Parenthood launched a campaign for users to scan their QR-coded condoms to create a map of where safe sex happens. Condoms are supposed to do everything but spread things around, so it seems rather questionable when Planned Parenthood of the ... |
Manila Bulletin - 12 hours ago By JENNY F. MANONGDO MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Health (DoH) Tuesday welcomed a proposal to convert national hospitals into state-owned corporations to facilitate Private-Public Partnerships (PPP) leading toward improved healthcare. |
ModernMedicine - 6 hours ago New York—ORBIS' Flying Eye Hospital is training eye-care providers and performing surgeries on those who have avoidable blindness and visual impairment via a 3-week program in the Philippines. |
The Australian - Feb 27, 2012 A PRICE tag of up to $14.4 billion has been put on the means-tested public dental scheme the Greens want Julia Gillard to introduce in the budget to honour the deal she made to form government. |
Wall Street Journal (blog) - 1 hour ago By Katherine Hobson A new study suggests that people who take sleeping pills are more likely to die within a couple of years than those who don't, though it doesn't prove that the pills caused people to die before they otherwise would have - and ... |
CBS News - 7 hours ago A single large dose of vitamin D may help women with painful periods feel more comfortable and skip painkillers, Italian researchers report. |
Times LIVE - 13 hours ago A new review of condom research reveals some surprising findings: many people use them incorrectly. "We chronically underestimate how complicated condom use can be," University of Kentucky professor Richard Crosby, who coauthored the study, ... |
ABC News (blog) - 8 hours ago The Turkish man who would have been the world's first recipient of a quadruple limb transplant died Monday after doctors had to amputate the limbs because of “metabolic imbalance,” the hospital said in a statement. |
Tempo - Feb 27, 2012 PHNOM PENH (PNA/Xinhua) - Cambodia's health officials said Sunday that a study found that at least seven species of freshwater fishes in the country can cause human liver cancer if they are not cooked well before eating. |
The Independent - 18 minutes ago What can a little-known health project in rural Ethiopia tell us about discrimination in an all-twee... Second Steppers - those ready to move out of their first home - are finding it difficult to sell or ... According to recent research, ... |
Diets In Review (blog) - 2 hours ago Apparently even today's top of the line technology is no match for old fashioned bike riding and classic outdoor play. A new study revealed that “active” video games won't actually make a kid more active. |
U.S. News & World Report - 7 hours ago TUESDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) -- A new influenza A virus has been discovered in Guatemalan fruit bats, according to scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
ProHealth - 3 hours ago A diet low in the omega-3 fatty acids commonly found in oily fish and fish or krill oil greatly increases the odds that your brain will age faster and lose some of its memory and thinking abilities. |
ABC30.com - 36 minutes ago Glenmark Generics recalled seven lots of generic birth control pills because of a packaging error. (ABCNews Photo / ABC30) By Katie Moisse FRESNO, California -- Less than one month after Pfizer recalled nearly 1 million packages of faulty birth control ... |
The Sun - 7 hours ago By STAFF REPORTER FOREIGNERS will be offered free HIV treatment on the NHS to protect the public, it was revealed today. Migrants are currently barred from the service. |
Chicago Tribune - 1 hour ago NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women on chemotherapy for breast cancer may have tiny memory and thinking impairments compared with cancer-free women more than 20 years after their treatment, Dutch researchers have found. |
WNCT - 1 hour ago The Human Papillomavirus or HPV vaccine has been recommended for girls for years. It was designed as a way to protect them against cervical cancer. |
io9 - 1 hour ago We know there are a few species that don't die of old age, like the giant tortoise and naked mole rat. But those species aren't truly immortal - as they still eventually die. |
Ventura County Star - 1 hour ago Cristina Markiewicz,(far left) Chair of the 24 hour Relay for Life Event held February25th and February 26th at Cal Lutheran University lead the Relay teams in the final lap of the Relay. |
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