Vegetable-enriched pancit canton noodles with product label “Proud Harvest” will soon be made available at “Tindahan Natin” outlets, initially in CAR, Regions I, II, and NCR after its launching on July 30, 2008. (more…)
GMANews.TV – MANILA, Philippines – Seventy-five percent of Filipinos believe they are living a more difficult life now than a year ago while two in three (64 percent) Filipinos are pessimistic that their lives would improve in the next 12 months. (more…)
BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) — China doesn’t expect to win the largest number of gold medals at the Beijing Olympics this summer, a senior sports official said here on Wednesday. In several ways, China lags countries such as the United States and Russia, said Cui Dalin, deputy director of the State General Administration of Sport. (more…)
by Barnaby Lo
Restaurant Chain Donates Used Cooking Grease To Help Power Police Cars On Biodiesel
Police patrol vehicles in the Philippines capital are kissing high-priced gasoline goodbye in favor of more cost-efficient biodiesel – made in part with used cooking oil donated by local McDonald’s restaurants. (more…)
In a seeming rebuttal of President Arroyo’s blissful view of the state of the nation, former president Fidel Ramos told a gathering of foreign consuls Wednesday that the Philippines needs to diffuse a number of “ticking time bombs” that could derail the progress of the nation. (more…)
By FIL C. SIONIL – Going back to basics, such as setting priorities and objectives, is imperative for a leader, be it in business and politics, to surmount and survive the current turmoil that pervades the global landscape. (more…)
The men living in the tough Baseco dockside shantytown on Manila Bay carry one of two badges to prove they belong – tattoos for the gang members and surgical scars for the kidney sellers. Built on muck dredged from the bay on the orders of former first lady Imelda Marcos for a visit by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, who never came, the 52-hectare open garbage dump is a grim reminder of the desperate poverty of the Philippines. (more…)
