Business
Sun.Star - By Ma. Elena Catajan GOLD Fields Limited chief executive officer Nick Holland announced the acquisition of its 40-percent share interest in the Far Southeast Project in the Mankayan town's Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) site. |
Bloomberg - The Standard & Poor's GSCI gauge of 24 commodities gained 1.1 percent to 703.33 at 4:41 pm in New York. Silver, wheat and crude oil led the advance. |
Gulf Today - By Manolo B. Jara MANILA: Philippines President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino is firmly against a bill calling for a $3.50 legislated daily wage increase for workers which was filed by militant members of the House of Representatives, a Malacanang Palace ... |
ABS CBN News - WASHINGTON - The World Bank announced Friday three candidates to succeed outgoing president Robert Zoellick in the first challenge to the US monopoly of the top job in history. |
The Independent - Senior Conservative MPs yesterday expressed anger over George Osborne's Budget raid on pensioners suggesting the Chancellor had been politically inept in his handling of the issue. |
China Daily - WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank on Friday. Obama said Kim has the development experience needed to lead the organization when he announced the selection at the White House ... |
Health
Bangkok Post - SINGAPORE : All 10 Asean member states will be made smoke-free environments as the region moves towards an integrated Asean Community by 2015. |
New York Daily News - By Josh Max / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Smoking while driving with a child in the car can now get you a $50 fine in Maryland. Maryland became the latest state to ban smoking while driving with a child underneath the age of 8 years old in the car, ... |
Marketing - by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, 23 March 2012, 12:19pm The Body Shop, the L'Oréal-owned brand, has named supermodel Lily Cole as its global brand ambassador, as it launches the 'Beauty with Heart' campaign, alongside a new retail offering called Pulse... |
Daily Mail - By Daily Mail Reporter Drinking a daily glass of beetroot juice could be the key to preventing high blood pressure, researchers say. |
Times of India - US researchers have found oddly-shaped blood cells in heart attack patients, indicating that a blood test could help predict whether a patient is at risk of an imminent cardiac emergency. |
AFP - HANOI - Vietnam has approved a new 23-million-dollar fund to tackle bird flu after new strains of the virulent disease emerged in the communist country this year, the health ministry said. |
Park Record - Henefer Mayor Randy Ovard, above, delivers a meal to Veda Brooks as part of the Mountainland Association of Governments Mayors-on-Meals Day in conjunction with its Meals-on-Wheels program. |
China Digital Times - China has pledged to abolish the practice of taking transplant human organs from condemned prisoners within three to five years, a senior health official said Thursday. |
Times of India - MUMBAI: Another Mulund resident tested positive for the H1N1 virus on Friday, a few days after it was detected in her six-year-old grandson. |
The News International - The number of cases of Tuberculosis (TB), a highly contagious disease that usually infects the immunosuppressed host, is continuously on the rise across the country and the problem is getting intensified with the increase in number of cases of drug ... |
Times of India - NEW YORK: Global pharma major Roche is all set to slash the price of two expensive cancer drugs in India, as part of efforts to strengthen its position amid rising competition from generic drug makers, says a media report. |
Huffington Post - By Amanda Gardner It's long been known that elderly people are more prone to depression and other mental-health problems if they live on their own. |
Mirror.co.uk - Ultrasound surgery is better than the surgeon's knife for removing breast cancer lumps, tests have revealed. The non-invasive technique - which blasts tumours with waves of ultrasound - is more accurate than traditional surgery where surgeons “feel” ... |
U.S. News & World Report - FRIDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Offering smokers free nicotine patches and telephone counseling does not improve their chances of quitting, according to a new study. |
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