Singapore dollar, won, peso tumble on growth outlook Inquirer | SINGAPORE -- The Singapore dollar hit a five-month low and the South Korean won fell 1.0 percent on Friday as Asian currencies succumbed to the broad strength in the US dollar and heightened economic worries. | Other Asian currencies, such as the Philippine peso and Taiwan dollar also dropped more...
Manila oil firms to cut prices by P1 per liter Inquirer | Two oil companies in Manila announced another round of rollback of gasoline prices yesterday. These firms however had no branches in Cebu. | SeaOil will be reducing its price by P1 per liter effective 2 p.m. Thursday, according to Glenn Yu, SeaOil president, while Eastern Petroleum president Ferna...
Protests mark Myanmar anniversary CNN | YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Twenty years after it violently suppressed a bid by more than a million peaceful protesters to restore democracy, Myanmar's military junta was on high alert Friday with riot police guarding the country's main city and detain...
Cebuano pride Inquirer | Greetings to one and all on the 439th Founding Anniversary of the province of Cebu last August 6th! In the long line of male governors since Miguel Lopez de Legaspi ruled as Gobernador y Capitan General de Isla de Cebu from Aug. 6, 1569 through Jun...
SC cites newspaper publisher for indirect contempt Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines -- The Supreme Court has cited a newspaper publisher for indirect contempt stemming from a series of articles he wrote against a lady member of the high tribunal. | In its 49-page decision, the high court ordered Malaya's Amado ...
Myanmar's bloody "8-8-88" uprising remembered Canada Dot Com | YANGON (Reuters) - Cowed and afraid, people in Myanmar marked exactly 20 years on Friday since the army crushed an "8-8-88" democracy uprising with the loss of an estimated 3,000 lives, although the only protests were outside the country. | After l...
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Oil firms reduce gas prices by P1 The Philippine Star | Oil companies rolled back anew the prices of petroleum products by P1 per liter following the continued downward trend in prices of world crude. | Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp....
Motorola finds sophistication among mass market buyers Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines -- The mobile phone business in the Philippines is largely being sustained by the entry-level market. Phones nowadays must have a mass appeal to stay in the i...
Arroyo leaves for Beijing to attend Olympics opening Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines—With the 29th Olympic Games as backdrop, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is scheduled to arrive in China on Thursday for bilateral talks with Chinese Presid...
Oil firms cut gasoline price anew Sun Star MANILA -- Oil companies on Thursday reduced again the price of their gasoline as prices in the international market continue to drop. | Seaoil Philippines and Unioil Petroleum Philippines, Inc. took the lead in slashing by P1 per liter the price of g...
French firms join Agrilink trade show Manila Bulletin Eight big European firms are joining the Philippines’ biggest and most prestigious international trade show on agribusiness, food and aquaculture. | This was announced by Le Club, the French Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines, which confirmed t...
Early reward for early birds Manila Bulletin DON’T look now, but those who get into agri pojects ahead of others get their reward early. Just like the couple Undas and Sabel Utap of Brgy. Apopong, a remote barrio of General Santos City. They are the only ones in their barrio who have a commer...
McDonald's Helps Philippines Cops Go Green CBS News Written for CBSNews.com by Barnaby Lo, reporting from Manila.Police patrol vehicles in the Philippines capital are kissing high-priced gasoline goodbye in favor of more cost-efficient biodiesel - made in part with used cooking oil donated by local McDonald's restaurants. | With oil prices at an all-time high, the project, spearheaded by the Makati ...
Government presses Shell on public share-sale The Manila Times By Euan Paulo C. Ańonuevo, Reporter | AMID record oil prices, the Department of Energy is pressing Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. to comply with a law requiring the refiner to share its windfall to the public through the sale of the company's stocks. | In a letter to Ed Chua, Shell country chairman, Energy Sec. Angelo Reyes asked the refiner about...
