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Business confidence in Philippines reaches new heights
Philippines has soared to an all-time high after the country was awarded investment grade credit ratings. The central bank said the overall confidence index rose 54.9 per cent from the first quarter's 41.5 per cent. "This is the highest reading since the start of the nationwide survey in the fourth quarter of 2006," said the central bank. The confidence index is the percentage ...
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Carpio PHL should appeal Chinas 9-dash Rule to world opinion
Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has said that even if the Philippines wins in the arbitral dispute it has lodged against China on the West Philippine Sea, the decision would most likely go unenforced. In a speech he delivered before graduating law students of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Carpio noted that under the United Nations Charter, a winning state in a ...
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Report Domination of LP coalition in senate race a personal victory for PNoy
The domination of the administration Liberal Party-led coalition in the 2013 midterm senatorial election was a "personal" victory for President Benigno S.C. Aquino, a television report on Thursday ...
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Ex-Pangasinan mayor treasurer get up to 18 years for malversation
A former mayor in Pangasinan province and his co-accused were sentenced to 10-18 years imprisonment after they were found guilty of malversation of public funds by the Sandiganbayan First Division on Thursday.The case against Marius Ladio, former mayor of Layug town, and Virgilio Arquero, OIC municipal treasurer, stemmed from the unaccounted P787,700 government money that was illegally released ...
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Leni Robredo to first focus on LGU-related laws as congresswoman
Congresswoman-elect Leni Robredo said she plans to continue initiatives her late husband, the late Interior Sec. Jesse, started, especially with regard to legislation on local government units ...
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Dan Browns Inferno Upsets Philippines
Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in his new novel Inferno has provoked anger in the Philippines. The plot of his latest work includes a character who is visiting the capital, and while doing so is shocked by the poverty, crime and sex trade. Brown's vivid description of the city has incurred an angry response from the Philippines, where the book ...
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Pope Francis may visit Philippines in 2016—CBCP
Pope Francis. AP FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippines may just be on Pope Francis' travel itinerary in 2016, the head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said on Thursday. Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma, CBCP president, said Church officials were hoping Pope Francis would be able to visit in January 2016 after the Vatican asked that the date for a major ...
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Metro Manila takes first steps into the 'future'
The greater region of Manila, Metro Manila, will in a few years posses a futuristic community that its developers claim will redefine the way humans live, providing a glimpse of what is to come in terms of the integration of technology with lifestyles and sustainable environmental practices. The community will essentially be “future-ready” according to developers, but the details on how this will be achieved are murky.
Metro Manila is one of the most populated and developed regions of the country, with the capital city, Manila, responsible in large part for the regions progress compared to the rest of the Phillipines. It makes sense then that the Greenfield Development Corporation and Cisco have teamed up to develop the most futuristic residential community in the country ever. Read more
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