SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/– — The largest event for small and medium business in Korea — 500 small and medium business in sectors such as biotechnology, electronics, information technology and…
OFW remittances – an economic booster
OFW earnings – an economic booster Next to the exports of goods and services, overseas remittances are the largest foreign exchange sources for the Philippine economy. And empirical results as that undertaken…
Only 3 of 8 new Academicians are scientists
By Flor Lacanilao The Philippine Star reports yesterday (11 Sept) the 8 new members of NAST. It says, “Academician is a title given to Filipino scientists whose significant scientific works have considerably…
Dee Girard, American Musician
Dee Girard is an independent Singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist. His latest album, “Waiting on the Gods” is on sale now everywhere. Dee also has a website that tells of his rise to…
Sports Illustrated hailed for featuring Pacquiao
By Alex P. Vidal/ PNS For the first time in its July 7, 2008 issue, New York-based Sports Illustrated, the world’s most prestigious sports magazine, featured World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion…
Old Man Calling
Still standing, weathered and canted. A thousand winds could not topple this old man. The keeper of Hay, and apples, vineyard Concorde, Purple. Sweet days of buzzing things, The pungent aroma of…
Loren to Meralco: Show conscience
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — SENATOR Loren Legarda stressed yesterday that Manila Electric Company (Meralco) must abide by the term of its franchise requiring it to provide electricity to its captive customers at…
Pacquiao hype about to begin
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — MANNY Pacquiao leaves for the U.S. next week to begin training and take part in a seven-city promotional tour hyping his upcoming mega fight with Oscar dela Hoya….
5 CA justices ‘dirty’
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — FIVE justices of the Court of Appeals were found guilty of impropriety by the three-man panel created by the Supreme Court to investigate the alleged bribery involving the…
Peping vs Art
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — INCUMBENT Jose ‘Peping’ Cojuangco will most likely go mano-a-mano with former Olympian Art Macapagal for the presidency of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC). In a surprise move, former…
SC sacks CA justice
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Supreme Court yesterday sacked a justice of the Court of Appeals and suspended another for committing improprieties in connection with the case involving the Manila Electric Company…
They can’t unseat me – Nograles
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — SPEAKER Prospero Nograles remains unfazed by the reported plot to unseat him, saying he is confident of the support of majority of the congressmen. Nograles said the plan…
PNP on alert during 9-11 remembrance
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — SEVEN years after the deadliest terror attacks on the United States, the country’s security forces remain on strict alert while remembering the day the world froze still and…
Will Singson replace Gonzales as GMA national security adviser?
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — WILL President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s newly installed deputy national security adviser Luis “Chavit” Singson finally assume the sensitive post of national security adviser? Thus rumors spread out in Malacañang…
AFP deny killing civilians
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — ARMED Forces officials, citing an initial report, yesterday said the civilians killed in Maguindanao suffered bullet wounds from M-16 rifles, indicating they were not felled by military fire…