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Toyota. Hiroshi
Ito, president of the Toyota Motor Philippines Corp.,
delivers the welcome remarks during the launching of the
new Toyota Vios in a hotel in Pasay City.
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Plunder raps on P.3-B TCCs |
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THE
Department of Finance will craft a supplemental budget this
year in order to cover the reward that it already approved
for officials of the Bureau of Customs for exceeding
collection targets for 2006. |
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Supreme Court stops PNCC, Radstock deal |
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WITH the
Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) hard-pressed to meet tough
targets, businesses should not be surprised to see an army
of taxmen soon at their doorsteps, as the government
intensifies its tax audits and speeds up the streamlining of
its databases. |
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High-tech passports out by August |
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CONSUMER
prices may reach below expectation by yearend, helped by the
strong peso and the steady supply of food items. |
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BSP
cuts key interest rate, but scraps tiering scheme |
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THE World
Bank has confirmed what every Filipino—educated, uneducated,
rich or poor, man or woman, even children—knows: the quality
of governance in the Philippines, including efforts to fight
corruption, have not improved significantly in the last
decade. |
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Germany extends P1.52-B ODA for environment, econ projects |
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IN order to
develop a solid mathematics and science education program,
the Philippines must concentrate on strengthening the
public-elementary and high-school systems, where 93 percent
of Filipino students are, said a leading academician
Wednesday. |
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Greenpeace blasts ADB energy plan |
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THE almost
slavish mimicking of the eating practices of the Americans
by populations of Southeast Asian and the Pacific island
nations ensure the sharp rise in diabetes cases within three
years, especially if paired with following American
lifestyles. |
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A SALES
associate arranges gold jewelry for display in a
Birmingham, Alabama store in this 2006 photo. Gold rose in
Asia for the fourth day in five as demand increased from
jewelers, the biggest users of the precious metal. Silver
was little changed. Gold demand for the metal from India
and Turkey emerged earlier this week, Goldman Sachs JBWere
analysts, led by Malcolm Southwood, said in a report on
July 10. --BLOOMBERG |
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