Wednesday, February 29, 2012

29 FEB 2012, WED: Bus & Health

Business


Vodafone, Smart Firm Up Partnership

Manila Bulletin - 
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 ...

Philippine Peso's Gain Capping Inflation Boosts Rate-Cut Odds

BusinessWeek - 
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 ...

Imports Decline 6.5% In December

Manila Bulletin - 
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 ...

PCCI hits Wynn's portrayal of Philippines as 'corrupt'

Inquirer.net - 
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 ...

Filinvest Land bags deal to develop Cebu lot

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
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 ...

Local AirAsia unit seeks permits abroad

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
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.

2011 BIR Collection Increases 12%

Manila Bulletin - 
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.

Why Japan should join TPP

Business Times (subscription) - 
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 ...

Manufacturing output dips; apparel up…

Malaya - 
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.

BDO Reports P10.5-Billion Net Income In 2011, Up 19%

Manila Bulletin - 
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 ...

Meralco Securing New Supply Contracts

Manila Bulletin - 
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 ...

Compensation scheme for bus drivers out: DoLE

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
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.

Group backs 'sin' tax changes

Inquirer.net - 
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.

Exchange approves delisting of Digitel starting March 26

Manila Standard Today - 
by Jenniffer B. Austria Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc., the telecommunications unit of JG Summit Holdings Inc. acquired by Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.

Stock Market

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
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.

UK tobacco maker returns to PHL

Business Mirror - 
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 ...

Toward a win-win solution

Business Mirror - 
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.

CJHDevco denies squatting claim

Inquirer.net - 
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.

The truth about speed cameras down south

Philippine Star - 
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.

Banco Filipino suit vs Bangko Sentral junked

Cebu Daily News - 
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


QR-coded condoms want to spread the locations of your sexual escapades

Digitaltrends.com - 
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 ...

DOH Endorses Drilon Hospital Measure

Manila Bulletin - 
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.

ORBIS on 3-week program in Philippines

ModernMedicine - 
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.

Dental scheme priced at $14bn

The Australian - 
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.

Study Suggests a Link Between Sleeping Pills, Early Death

Wall Street Journal (blog) - 
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 ...

Vitamin D may ease painful periods

CBS News - 
A single large dose of vitamin D may help women with painful periods feel more comfortable and skip painkillers, Italian researchers report.

Condom use errors are all too common: study

Times LIVE - 
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, ...

Quadruple Limb Transplant Patient Dies

ABC News (blog) - 
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.

7 species of uncooked freshwater fishes can cause liver cancer

Tempo - 
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.

Hip replacement toxic risk could affect 50000

The Independent - 
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, ...

Active Video Games Actually Won't Make Your Kid More Active

Diets In Review (blog) - 
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.

New Flu Discovered in Guatemalan Fruit Bats

U.S. News & World Report - 
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.

Accelerated brain age & shrinkage linked to low omega-3 status - Framingham Study

ProHealth - 
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.

Birth control pill recall: Second this month

ABC30.com - 
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 ...

Foreigners to get free treatment for HIV

The Sun - 
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.

"Chemo brain" may persist years after treatment

Chicago Tribune - 
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.

Local doctor weighs in on HPV vaccine recommendation for boys

WNCT - 
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.

Could we learn to regenerate our entire bodies, like these immortal flatworms?

io9 - 
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.

Cal Lutheran's first Relay for Life event a huge success

Ventura County Star - 
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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