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  • Filipino-American Sisters Vie with the Big Boys in Natural Gas Trading

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on July 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Filipino Americans Suyen Encarnacion Pell and her sister and business partner Theresa Encarnacion Gendron are fast rising in the male-dominated field of natural gas trading as founders and heads of An...

    FDC opposes impending ADB loan approval for coal power plants

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on July 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    T he Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), in partnership with several environmental lawyers in Cebu, expressed in the strongest possible terms its opposition to the impending approval by Asian Developme...

    Bank of Philippine Islands earnings up 38% in first half of year

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on July 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), one of the country's largest commercial banks, posted a net income of 5.3 billion pesos (about 110 million U.S. dollars) in the first half of the year, up 38.4 pe...

    Peace dances in the Philippines

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on July 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    By Simon Roughneen Peace - of a different sort - comes dropping slow, as per the William Butler Yeats poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Were the poet alive today and composing from a southern Ph...

    Landslide kills 2 in Philippine mountain city

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    A Philippine official says heavy rains have triggered a landslide that killed a 4-year-old girl and her grandmother.Disaster-response administrator Joey Marco says two hours of rain loosened the groun...

    Bomb threat disrupts work at DA office

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    A bomb threat disrupted operations at the Department of Agriculture office in Quezon City on Thursday, a month after an improvised explosive device (IED) was found within the vicinity. A GMA Flash ...

    Lito Lapid fails to get ‘wish’ with Obama

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    IMPOSSIBLE DREAM? Lito Lapid's (short-term) dream of having his picture taken with US President Barack Obama did not push through as planned. GMANews.TV

    LPGMA to roll back prices by P10 per 11-kg tank

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on July 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Citing lowered world contract prices, independent liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers said Friday they will roll back prices at P10 per 11-kg tank in August. LPG Marketers Association (LPGMA) pre...

    Full transcript of Arroyo-Obama remarks during the White House press briefing

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on July 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    FINALLY. After rumors of being snubbed by Barack Obama shortly after his inauguration in November, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has met the US president at the White House. Ivan Mayrina

    Philippines punches above its weight

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on July 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    FINALLY. After rumors of being snubbed by Barack Obama shortly after his inauguration in November, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has met the US president at the White House. Ivan Mayrina