PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Around 650,000 Korean tourists, many of them honeymooners and students, are expected to visit the different destinations in the Philippines this year, the Department of Tourism said. Maricon…
Month: May 2007
3 Filipinas reach Everest peak
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — FORMER national dragonboat rower Noelle Wenceslao became the first Filipina to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain when she and two other teammates completed their final…
JDV wins
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. yesterday extended the hand of reconciliation after scoring a lopsided victory against his opponent in the fourth district of Pangasinan. “With charity…
Pacquiao losing in political arena
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Praise the Lord, boxing icon Manny Pacquiao won’t be spending his time inside the halls of Congress and giving his two-cents on national issues like E-VAT and Cha-cha….
How much is eBay?
News like YouTube sold for 1.6 billion USD to Google, eBay acquired Skype for 2.6 billion often get all of us so excited and usually make us start to wonder about how…
Customs, BIR revamp looms
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has overturned a plan of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs to defer the implementation of the lateral attrition law,…
Very low turnout for overseas voting
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The official turnout from overseas absentee voting as expected was very low, with 80,000 or about 15 percent of registered voters casting their votes, according to the Department…
Stock market, peso surge
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Shares surged to their highest level in 10 years yesterday, inspired by relatively smooth mid-term elections, while the peso rallied to a new six-year high of 46.95 to…
Observers dismayed by elections
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — INTERNATIONAL observers said yesterday they witnessed threats and vote-buying inside some precincts in the southern Philippines, raising questions about election manipulation in the unsettled region. The criticism came…
Be fair to dispel trending allegations
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — ADMINISTRATION lawmakers yesterday urged media to be fair in reporting the results of the May senatorial race to dispel trending allegations as major outlets continue to highlight areas…
TU working for 12-0 win
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — With a decisive victory looming on the horizon, Team Unity has been working double-time for a 12-0 win of its senatorial ticket in a bid to send most,…
Filipino student creates social networking service
By Erwin Oliva INQUIRER.net Last updated 03:37pm (Mla time) 05/04/2007 MANILA, Philippines –Twenty-year-old student Jerome Uy of the Mapua Institute of Technology is attracting young Filipinos and alike to a social networking…
PLDT profit flat at P8.58b in Q1
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE –Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., the country’s largest communications company, declared yesterday a net income of P8.575 billion in the first quarter of 2007, down slightly from P8.581 million…
Overseas voting posts 9% turnout only
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE –Only 9 percent of the total registered voters overseas have cast their votes, with only six days to go before the end of absentee voting on May 14, the…
SolGen upholds Puno on suspension
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE government’s top lawyer yesterday supported the Department of the Interior and Local Government’s decision to defer the suspension of Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay over corruption charges. In…