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…
STAC-J launches Tuloy-Aral Kompyuter (Batch 18)
by RJC Have you always wanted to learn about computers and the internet at the time and place convenient to you? Don’t fret, TAC-K is the answer! TAC-K or the Tuloy Aral…
Of Birds and the Bees: Celebrating Life, the Feline Way
By Ellen Taleon In Japan, I am now living life as a foreigner with my three increasingly Japanized children, my husband, two cats and two hamsters as part of our household ensemble….
Peso’s gain is OFW’s bane
By LEO J. SANTIAGO, JR. and JULIE JAVELLANA-SANTOSwww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA – IN A remittance slip, there was an additional US$50 that Cesar Dimasupil’s daughter Arlene sent from London. But he remained stoic. “That…
BPI joins fray to capture remittance from Pinoys in Eur
by WILLIAM ALZONAwww.ofwjournalism.net MAKATI CITY–BEFORE sliding to third position in the Philippine banking industry, Ayala family-led Bank of the Philippine Islands set its eyes on the profitable remittance market that Philippine National…
Remittances help foil Asia Crisis repeat -WB study says
by ISAGANI DE LA PAZwww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA – ACROSS the East Asia region sweeps the wind of prosperity and cash remittances as well as knowledge capital by migrant workers has helped economies become…
GMA brokers Chavit, Defensor patchup
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Two Team Unity senatorial candidates patched up their differences yesterday during a reconciliation talk in Malacañang that was brokered by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis…
GSIS to invest in property
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — After cashing in on its equity investments over the past few weeks, state-run pension fund manager Government Service Insurance System said yesterday it is venturing aggressively into the…
Peso surges to 47.365:$1; reserves hit $25b in April
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The peso yesterday surged to a new six-and-a-half-year high against the US dollar supported by a string of positive news on the domestic front and prospects of a…
ADB and Japan dishonor Kyoto — Greenpeace
7 May 2007, Kyoto, Japan — Greenpeace expressed shock at the statement delivered by the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board Chair, Japan’s Finance Minister Koji Omi, on the penultimate day of the…
DILG chief to face probe over Binay case
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — JUSTICE Secretary Raul M. Gonzalez said Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno could face sanctions for failing to enforce the order of the Ombudsman to suspend Mayor…
Ping linked to ‘bugs’
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE wiretapping equipment seized by police near the home of former President Corazon Aquino last week was very similar to the bugging devices used by agents of the…