Business
The Online Zamboanga Times - DAVAO CITY - Militant drivers and operators of public utility transport in this city will not stage a transport strike tomorrow, March 15, but instead hold a march rally to denounce the unending oil price increases. |
Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - Ayala Corporation is planning to raise P8 billion to P10 billion through a public offering of fixed rate bonds to help fund its P91-billion capital expenditure program for 2012. |
Vancouver Sun - The Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Scotland in 1768, said it will end publication of its printed editions and continue with digital versions available online. |
Philippine Star - By Aurea Calica (The Philippine Star) Updated March 15, 2012 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - Malacañang maintained yesterday that Recto Bank off Palawan is within Philippine territory and oil exploration in the area is non-negotiable with other ... |
Inquirer.net - The Philippine government has apparently backtracked on its original plan to let the private sector import the entire 500000-metric ton rice buffer requirement for 2012. |
Bloomberg - Oil traded near the lowest price in more than a week in New York as investors bet that supply is ample after US crude stockpiles rose and Saudi Arabia pledged to make up for any shortage in shipments from Iran. |
CBS News - NEW YORK - Sometimes, giving two weeks' notice just isn't enough. The Goldman Sachs muppet manifesto - a departing executive's lengthy and very public screed against the company's blind pursuit of profits - is only the latest example of taking ... |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - PORT OPERATOR International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has signed deal to start talks for a container terminal in Nigeria. |
Financial Times - The latest round of US stress tests, conducted under the aegis of the Federal Reserve, has confirmed what was already known about the health of American banks. |
Health
Los Angeles Times - On Monday, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health released study results showing that red meat consumption was associated with a higher risk of early death. |
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - (AGI) Washington- Higher taxes on cigarettes and forbidding their sale to minors together with anti-smoking campaigns saved at least 800000 lives between 1975 and 2000 - 550000 men and 240000 women. |
Inquirer.net - WASHINGTON—Rats are smart, that's a well-known fact. But US researchers on Tuesday said a series of tests had shown they might be just as good as humans at juggling information in order to make the best decision. |
Examiner.com - New HIV infections have increased 5 percent in 2011 as compared to the previous year in Russia according to the Federal Consumer Protection Service chief Monday. |
msnbc.com - ALBANY, NY - The US Department of Agriculture will offer schools choice in ground beef buys amid growing concern over an ammonia-treated filler critics call "pink slime. |
New York Daily News - By Lindsay Goldwert / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A study out of the University of California, San Francisco, has linked low sperm counts with a diet high in saturated fats. |
CBS News - (Credit: iStockPhoto) (CBS News) Next time you workout, try keeping something cool in your hands - at least, that's what a new study suggests. |
CBC.ca - Women who have had a caesarean section can lower the risk of death and serious complications for their next baby and themselves if they deliver the same way again, an international study concludes. |
UPI.com - BOSTON, March 14 (UPI) -- Men who drink a sugar-sweetened beverage a day have a 20 percent higher risk of heart disease than men who avoid sugary drinks, US researchers say. |
Voxy - Keep yourself well this winter. If you have asthma or another respiratory condition - get your free flu vaccine now The Asthma Foundation is strongly advising people with respiratory illnesses to ring their GP's surgery about a free influenza ... |
Imassera News - The tallest man in the world, Sultan Kosen, has undergone gland surgery to try and make him stop growing. March 14, 2012- Sultan Kosen is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's tallest man. |
MarketWatch - An ancient rainforest remedy for toothache discovered by a professor among an indigenous tribe in Peru is being readied for market. |
Sleaford Today - LINCOLNSHIRE Co-operative is urging smokers to spring into action and stub out their cigarettes on March 14 with assistance from its local pharmacies as part of No Smoking Day. |
The Press Association - A woman who was given PIP breast implants that ruptured has recouped the full cost of the surgery from her credit card company. She said Lloyds TSB refunded her £3700 on the grounds that she was sold faulty goods. |
Health24.com - There is "unequivocal evidence" that stemmed metal-on-metal hip replacements fail at much higher rates than other types of hip implants and should therefore be banned, researchers say. |
National Post - By Dan Neutel Can a pill stamp out racism? Researchers in the United Kingdom appear to think so. A newly released report from the department of experimental psychology at the University of Oxford looked into the idea that racism is strongly connected ... |
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