Philippines – Philippines Exports Drop Further In May

Philippines Exports Drop Further In May
(RTTNews) – Friday, a report by the Philippines National Statistics Office said exports dropped 27% year-on-year in May, slower than a revised 35.2% fall in the preceding month. Economists expected a…

UN agency suspends food rations to Philippines
Manila: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) suspended on Wednesday its delivery of food rations to hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the southern Philippines after a series of bom…

Bomb threat in Metro unverified – Arroyo aide
MANILA, Philippines — The possibility that the bomb attacks in the south would spill over to Metro Manila are based on raw information, but the threat should not be dismissed outright, the country’s …

Telstra drops Philippines call centre
A Telstra spokesman on Wednesday said the Philippines-based service, which had operated for about six months, had not satisfied Telstra’s Australian customers. “The change is being made because o…

UN suspends operation in S Philippines due to terror attacks
The spate of bombings in the southern Philippines that killed eight people and injured 100 others forced the United Nation’s World Food Program to suspend their operation in the restive area, a UN-WFP…

Six Killed In Philippines In Twin Bomb Blasts
(RTTNews) – More than six persons were killed and over 40 others wounded by twin bomb blasts in the Philippines Tuesday by suspected al Qaida-linked militants, reports say.The first bomb exploded in …

Philippine police, military on full alert after fatal blasts
Philippine police and military have been placed on full alert in the country’s capital of Manila as well as the restive south after a spate of bombings rocked Mindanao, killing 12 civilians and woundi…

2 war-displaced Japanese Filipinos meet with cousins+
NAHA, Japan, July 9 (AP) – (Kyodo) Two Filipinos, whose Japanese father went missing during World War II, met their Japanese relatives for the first time Thursday in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture. The…

Blasts in southern Philippines kill 2, dozens wounded
By Chris BuckleyURUMQI, China (Reuters) – Chinese President Hu Jintao abandoned plans to attend a G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday, returning home early to deal with ethnic violence that has left at le…

law entitles workers to free family planning services
A nationwide employers’ group has acknowledged that a lot of big companies are violating the labor code’s requirement for them to provide free family planning services to employees, and th…

4% Deficit Acceptable; 3.2% Possible
-(Dow Jones)- A budget deficit of 4% of gross domestic product in 2009 would be “acceptable,” even though a 3.2% budget gap is still achievable, Philippine Budget Secretary

CA staff charged over Subic rape case leak
MANILA, Philippines – A staff of a retired Court of Appeals justice is facing administrative charges for allegedly leaking the draft ruling on the acquittal of Subic rape case suspect, Lance Corporal …

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