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Mobile
software Jojo
Ayson, senior product manager of Microsoft Philippines,
announces during a press briefing in Makati City the
availability of Windows Mobile 6, the latest version of
its mobile software platform, allowing users to operate
their Windows-powered mobile devices with ease and
efficiency. --RHOY
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Senate checks legal flaws in Jpepa |
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SENATE
President Manuel Villar indicated on Tuesday that alleged
“constitutional infirmities” in the Japan-Philippines
Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa) will likely derail
early ratification of the controversial accord, despite
last-minute assurances from Tokyo that the Jpepa would not
be misused to dump toxic waste here. |
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14
firms recruited as Red Cross partners in disasters |
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THE
Philippine National Red Cross has recruited 14
companies—with technological capacity and expertise,
hundreds of employees, and various types of national
networks like sales and technical services—to help the aid
organization during times of need such as after typhoons,
landslides and the like. |
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SC
upholds Sandigan on Oriental |
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THE Supreme
Court on Tuesday affirmed the findings of the Sandiganbayan
that the proposed amendments filed by Oriental Petroleum
Mineral Corp. in the matter of alleged dictator-extorted
shares in the corporation “are substantial and would delay
the adjudication of the case.” |
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Optimism among elites waning |
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A recent
Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed that personal
optimism among the middle and upper crust of Philippine
society has gone down, something unheard of in the past two
decades. |
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WB
fund pays poor to let children study |
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A NUMBER of
poor Filipino families stand to gain from a government and
World Bank collaboration seeking directly to intervene and
break the vicious cycle that keeps millions of households
perpetually poor and dependent on private or public-sector
dole outs. |
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Pagasa’s gospel of hope: Luzon dry spell over |
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THE dry
spell has ended in most of
Luzon, bringing hope of good harvest this cropping season, but the
weather office said the last quarter could be very wet,
indicating it could also bring its own problems. |
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Neda
projects better growth in agri in Q4 |
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“WE see
better agriculture growth in the fourth quarter. The
3.64-percent growth [in the second quarter] is already
closer to the 3.9 percent we projected for the sector this
year.” |
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EU
ups aid by nearly 50% |
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THE European
Commission has increased its bilateral aid to the
Philippines with focus on trade-related assistance by close
to 50 percent to €131 million (about P8.12 billion),
compared to previous grants, to enable local agricultural
industries meet the stricter demands of the rich European
market. |
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Convergys readies 9th facility in Bacolod City |
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CONTACT-center company Convergys announced it will open its
ninth facility in the country by late second quarter of next
year at the San Antonio Park Square in Bacolod City with an
initial 300 employees in a 3,000 square-meter facility, that
is good for 300 employees more. |
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PNOC-EC’s net dips on Malampaya |
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LOW revenues
from the Malampaya gas project have shrunk by a third the
net income of Philippine National Oil Co.-Explorations Corp.
(PNOC-EC) in the first half of the year. |
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GUAGUA town in
Pampanga is once again a virtual Venice after rains spawned
by tropical storm Dodong caused fl ooding in the town as
well as 14 others. The Red Cross has tapped 14 companies as
partners for handling a gamut of disaster-response
activities for, among others, fl oods and quakes, which are
frequent in the country.
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