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The chairman
of the 30th Consultative Committee for Standards and
Quality (ACCSQ) Aye Myint (left), Trade Secretary Peter
Favila and the secretary-general for International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) Alan Bryden have a
chat during the opening ceremony on Monday of the 30th
Asean Consultative Committee for Standards and Quality
held in Renaissance Hotel in Makati City.
--NONIE REYES |
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Metro wage board OKs P12 hike |
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METRO
Manila’s Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB)
completed on Monday its deliberations on the P75 wage
petition by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP),
decreeing a P12 increase in their daily take-home pay.
Organized labor quickly denounced the amount as “measly,”
and accused the government of colluding with employers.
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Harvard biz school dean: Similarities, not differences,
propel top brands among cultures |
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SINGAPORE—Dove
was a tired old name before it hit on a key message that
underpins most of the world’s top brands: common threads
running through the diversity of cultures. |
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Hiroshima remembered |
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THE United
States leveled Hiroshima with the atom bomb on August 6,
1945, but the history-making news didn’t reach the
Philippines until two days later. American troops there,
like my father, were waiting apprehensively for plans to
invade the Japanese home islands. |
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Dry
spell prompts lower target |
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THE
Department of Agriculture (DA), owing to the near-drought
conditions, is tempering its projection of a 4-percent to
5-percent increase for the farm sector this year, but did
not give any new specific growth percentages. |
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Old
media, new media: Credibility is still king |
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SINGAPORE—Al
Jazeera, the upstart global news network, didn’t miss the
chance to point out a major irony in the jam-packed Global
Brand Forum hosted by this city-state. |
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Ex-PSE
head: Investor fatigue a risk |
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FORMER stock
exchange president Ramon T. Garcia wants the bourse to study
the possibility of regulating the number and intervals of
public offerings and additional sale of shares, to prevent
investors’ fatigue from these capital-raising activities. |
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GMA
ally files resolution for Palace emergency powers |
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DESPITE
strong opposition from several sectors, a congressman has
filed a resolution seeking to grant President Arroyo limited
emergency powers to address the drought facing agriculture. |
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Mattel: Sorry for lead in recalled toys |
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AMERICAN toy
maker Mattel Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd. has voluntarily
recalled some products all branded “Fisher-Price” toys made
by a contract manufacturer in China that were produced using
a nonapproved paint pigment containing lead, in violation of
applicable United States standards, as well as the company’s
own standards. |
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Beijing minister makes plea for White Rabbit |
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BEIJING
has lodged a diplomatic appeal for the
Philippines
to lift the ban on the popular White Rabbit candy that was
found to contain cancer-causing formaldehyde, a chemical
used to embalm and preserve laboratory specimen. |
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Frontier’s
latest. Universal
Motors Corp. launched Monday its totally new Nissan Frontier
model, the Navara, with which it hopes to reclaim the top
spot in the local pickup truck market. Elizabeth Lee,
Universal Motors executive vice president for marketing,
graced the launch, along with the company’s president,
Richard Lee.
--NONIE REYES |
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