MANILA – Presumptive president-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will not quit smoking anytime soon. Aquino was quite defensive about his smoking habit when peppered with questions yesterday about calls made by some…
CFAP partners with APAFS for an Investment Conference in Manila
The Chartered Financial Analyst Society of the Philippines (CFAP), a member of the CFA Institute which is a global, non-profit association for investment professionals, once again partners with the Asia Pacific Association…
The search has begun for the Philippines’ business leaders of tomorrow
The search has begun for the Philippines’ business leadBold Text For the first time, teams of undergraduates from the Philippines are competing in the Global Business Challenge (GBC) organized by the Chartered…
ADFIAP joins APAFS’ Regional Education Forum
The Manila-based Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP), the focal point of 117 development banks and other financial institutions from 42 countries and territories in the region,…
THE SKY SMILES OVER THE PHILIPPINES
THE SKY SMILES OVER THE PHILIPPINES ARCH. CELSO C. NIEVES, FUAP, CAAIF Thousands of Filipinos look up and see the dark nightly sky beaming down and smiling at them. The whole night…
AAPI Health Advocates Join Hundreds on World Hepatitis Awareness Day
(U.S. ASIAN WIRE) The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) and its partners convene today in Washington, D.C. to educate lawmakers and the public on the deadly impact of hepatitis…
Local politics: a reflection
When my friend and I joined the much vaunted automated election, me running as congressman in the First District and him on the Second District in the same City, he told me…
An Open Letter to First-District Antipolenos
It took most of us about 4 to 5 hours of queuing in our respective cluster precints before we were able to get hold of the COMELEC ballot and choose whom we…
ABS-CBN winds two New York festival world medals
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation won two world medals at the prestigious 53rd New York Festivals (NYF) International Television & Film Awards held recently in the United States of America for outstanding TV promo…
People vote today!
PRIMER PAGUNURAN votes today Today is Election Day. When I opened my Facebook, these are the messages that I read which I would wish to share with my friends, acquaintances and all…
Dingdong, Marian movie mobbed
PNS — THE SM theatre where the premiere of “You to Me Are Everything” was held couldn’t accommodate the huge crowd that came to watch. So many people weren’t able to get…
Noynoy should stop acting like a winner
PNS — SEN. Noynoy Aquino should stop acting as if he has already won because surveys are not always right as proven in past elections, political analysts said yesterday after the Liberal…
Bangon Pilipinas draws 1.2M crowd at Luneta May 1 rally
PNS — UNAPARELLED by any other candidate, Bro. Eddie Villanueva did again what other presidential contenders have failed to do — fill up Luneta Park with over a million zealous supporters composed…
Noy wants revenge
PNS — SEN. Noynoy Aquino entered politics because he wanted to avenge his father’s incarceration, according to a newly-released psychiatric report of the Liberal Party presidential candidate. The psychiatric record, purportedly dating…
Tight race for VP, says survey
A recent survey said the vice presidential campaign of Mar Roxas has “appeared to have rammed into a concrete wall” amidst reports that several groups within the Aquino-Roxas camp have dumped Roxas…