Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesTalk of the Town is running the stand of presidential candidates on a number of issues, starting with the country’s fast-growing population, now estimated at more than 92 million. We asked the candidates the following questions: * Under your administration, what would be your population policy?
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY GERARD NAVAL THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) will create special polling precincts in detention cells – a first in the country’s electoral system – to uphold the rights of the inmates to vote on May 10. “It’s been decided that we’ll set up special polling…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY ANGELA LOPEZ DE LEON BRACE for hotter days. Weather forecaster Rommel Yutuc yesterday said temperatures this month would be hotter than usual, reaching about 37 degrees Celsius or higher
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines diagnosed 143 people with HIV in January — a national high — and the country's health secretary said on Thursday she would seek more public funds to distribute condoms among high-risk groups. The number of people diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is the highest reported since the disease first surfaced in the country in 1984, said…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
A Philippine Parks and Wildlife worker looks at fake elephant tusks at left… A Philippine Parks and Wildlife worker points with his foot, fake elephant…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
03/02/2010 Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales yesterday announced that the government will undertake earthquake drills nationwide to make the public prepared in the event of an earthquake hitting the country, just like that of what had struck Chile and Haiti recently. On the matter of earthquakes, we have made some schedules (for drills). We have started our table…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines(UPDATE) The first tsunami waves as high as one meter are expected to reach the country’s coastal provinces facing the Pacific Ocean between 1 p.m.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines For families who have long been waiting for a chance to come home to a place they can call their own, BPI Direct may just be the answer. From March 1 to 31, BPI Direct, the country’s first and only Internet bank will offer the…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines Appointive government officials are deemed resigned from their positions once they accept nominations to become representatives of partylist groups for the polls in May, an official of the Commission on Elections said Friday.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
2010/02/19 MANILA A Filipino member of an Al Qaeda-linked group wanted for the kidnapping and murder of American tourists has been arrested in the Philippine capital after nine years on the run, authorities said Friday. Jumadail Arad was arrested Thursday while trying to enter a crowded Manila seaport where he planned to board a ferry bound for the troubled south of the country where his Abu Sayyaf militant organisation is based, the…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines The continuous privatization of government power assets as part of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) is to blame for power shortage experienced by the country today, a militant group said Friday. In a statement, Renato Reyes Jr.,…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesLocal drug firm United Laboratories Inc.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines — Petron Corp., the country’s biggest oil refiner and retailer, is seeking to further enhance its market dominance as it undertakes major capital investment projects this year, focusing mainly on an aggressive retail expansion and refinery upgrades. In a statement issued on Monday, the oil company said it has been working to raise at least P5 billion from its preferred share issuance to help finance projects aimed…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
02/14/2010 The financial crisis of 2009 taught a lot of companies to spend prudently and invest wisely in training programs.
