Business
AFP - MANILA - Philippine real estate giant Ayala Land Inc. said Thursday it will spend about 60 billion pesos ($1.4 billion) to revitalise the country's main business district of Makati. |
ABS CBN News - By Cai U. Ordinario and Recto Mercene, BusinessMirror MANILA, Philippines - The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Board, in its first meeting for the year, approved on Thursday a total of 12 projects worth P133 billion. |
The Online Zamboanga Times - MANILA - A “significant impact” to employment - particularly in tobacco farming - is “unlikely” to arise from a reform of excise taxation in the country, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a new report on the restructuring of the Philippine ... |
Written by  in 28,827 Google+ circles TIME - By Harry McCracken | @harrymccracken | March 22, 2012 | + In 2010 Apple released its first iPad. It was far from the industry's first tablet computer, but it was the one that defined the category. |
Bloomberg - Oil traded near the lowest price in a week and headed for a second weekly decline on concern that fuel demand will falter as industrial activity slows in Europe and China. |
Daily Mail - By Tim Shipman Soak-the-rich measures in the Budget were condemned as 'exceptionally badly designed' yesterday by a leading economic watchdog. |
Health
TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - Mr Michael Bloomberg's (picture) charitable foundation will commit US$220 million (S$278 million) over the next four years to fight tobacco use, including for the funding of legal challenges against the industry. |
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - SINGAPORE, 21 March 2012 - Full implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) - particularly provisions on countering tobacco industry influence - is necessary to protect people from the harms of tobacco use. |
Seedol.com (blog) - Like many older buildings, the United Nations headquarters in New York City still contains potentially dangerous asbestos products that are only now being removed as part of a $2 billion renovation project. |
Globe and Mail - US researchers say they have developed a blood test that can pinpoint people who are in imminent danger of a heart attack - giving doctors days or possibly a few weeks to take preventive action. |
Tempo - Doctors in the US has come up with an interesting way to get men to have a vasectomy by offering a free pizza and telling them they'll be able to watch basketball while recovering. |
Baltimore Sun (blog) - BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil will introduce tightened controls on sales of breast implants including lot-by-lot testing, the government said on Thursday, after thousands of defective French implants were sold in the country and across Latin America. |
Yahoo! Philippines News - Nutritionist Keri Glassman, who regularly shares her expertise on Access Hollywood and Access Hollywood Live, is answering your nutrition, diet, and health questions. |
msnbc.com - A report published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine demonstrated that blocking a prostaglandin receptor present in bald scalps allows hair to grow. |
The Province - By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News March 22, 2012 3:56 PM Sandoz Canada Inc. - the drug company at the centre of a drug shortage crisis - is recalling its morphine from across the country after a box labelled morphine was discovered also containing a ... |
Brisbane Times - The reasons behind the demise of the giant animals that once roamed the continent - such as rhinoceros-sized diprotodons, towering kangaroos, marsupial lions and birds twice the size of emus - have long been hotly debated, with hunting, the human use... |
CBS News - (Credit: IStockPhoto) (CBS News) Older adults who a high body mass index (BMI) and a big belly may have less brain power, according to Korean study. |
Oxford Student - By Matt Stokes | Last updated: 22:45, 22/03/2012 Three new studies carried out at Oxford's Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have provided further evidence of the effect of aspirin in fighting cancer. |
Lifesite - by Thaddeus Baklinski VIENNA, Austria, March 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - New research presented at the eighth European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-8) in Vienna yesterday contradicts advice previously given to breast cancer patients that pregnancy ... |
Long Island Press - By Jessica Sinclair on March 22nd, 2012 Bungee jumping is not for the faint of heart, and is something only a few get to experience in their life. |
KOLO - The sunny skies and warm temperatures made it a great day to get outside. Unless you have allergies. And so far, this hasn't been an easy year for allergy sufferers. |
CNET Australia - By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore | March 23, 2012 A law passed late Monday in Israel is not only banning underweight models from appearing in local advertising, it's also requiring publications to disclose when models - male or female - have been digitally ... |
WebMD.Boots.com - Taking an antidepressant while pregnant may increase a woman's risk of high blood pressure, a study shows. But we need more research to confirm this. |
Huffington Post - Marijuana-like drugs can do more for AIDS patients than simply help them with their nausea or loss of appetite, according to a new study. |
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