Peace dances in the Philippines (Asia Times)
Peace – of a different sort – comes dropping slow, as per the William Butler Yeats poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree . Were the poet alive today and composing from a southern Philippine island, Yeats’ muse might not be as placid – or introverted – as in the pacific west of Ireland surrounds of his original lyric.
Filipino-American Sisters Vie with the Big Boys in Natural Gas Trading
Filipino Americans Suyen Encarnacion Pell and her sister and business partner Theresa Encarnacion Gendron are fast rising in the male-dominated field of natural gas trading as founders and heads of An…
5 kidnap suspects killed in clash with cops
FOUR former soldiers and one alleged accomplice were killed in a clash with policemen in Dagupan City early Wednesday as the group purportedly conducted surveillance on their next kidnap target, polic…
Philippine President Seeks US Commitment on Peace, Economy
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo and President Obama will hold their first meeting in Washington Thursday, July 30. One of the staunchest supporters in Asia of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, Mrs. Ar…
Obama names Philippines as key link of US with Asean (Asia News Network)
US President Barack ObamaThursday (early Friday in Manila) announced the appointment of the Philippines as chief coordinator between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).
Politics mars Nat l Artist selection again
M alacañang on Wednesday announced the names of 7 individuals to be conferred the Pambansang Alagad ng Sining awards this year. And the list confirmed the worst fears that many artists had en…
Prices of critical medicines slashed by 50% in Philippines
Manila: The Philippines president, bowing to pressure to reduce the cost of critical medicines, has slashed the price of five essential drugs by half, after pharmaceutical manufacturers ignored an app…
New Meridian Further Defines the Letter of Intent to Purchase All of the Shares of Philippine Metals Corp.
Calgary, Alberta–(marketwire – July 29, 2009) – Not For Disemination In The United States Or For Distribution Via Us Newswire New Meridian Mining Corp. (“new Meridian” Or The “corporation”) (nex:nw…
Climate Change Commission OK’d
L egislators took one step closer to scrapping two climate change bodies which, critics said, have fallen prey to politics. The Joint Congressional Committee on Climate Change on Wednesday fin…
RP”s swine flu death toll rises to 6
Philippine health officials say three more people have died of A(H1N1)- or swine flu-related illnesses, bring the country’s death toll to six. Lyndon Lee Suy said Thursday that officials have c…
