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HP goes wireless
By Dinna Chan Vasquez
HP hosted an extravaganza dubbed ?Engage, Excite, Experience? at the Rockwell Tent complete with a generous buffet spread laid out by Bizu and a light-and-sound show with dancers and models serving as backdrops to the real stars of the show?the printers.
Sweets for the sweet
Signs that you?re a shopaholic
Celebrities add glamour, glitter to Asian Poker Tour
Tokyo tuners wow the crowd
By Dino Ray V. Directo III
Indeed, the show must go on. Amid the dire prospects bedeviling the Japanese car industry, an estimated 250,000 people flocked to this year?s staging of the Tokyo Auto Salon to find out if tuners and custom car makers have something new and exciting to offer. Asia?s biggest custom car and car-related product show was held from Jan. 9 to 11 at the cavernous Makuhari Messe in Chiba City.
Isuzu waxes romantic
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Board Exam Results
Physical and Occupational Therapist Licensure Examination Results (February 2009)
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Manila may slash economic forecasts as outlook worsens
By Clarissa Batino
THE Philippines may cut its forecasts for this year?s exports and inflation as the global recession deepens, forcing the government to increase spending and threatening to widen the budget deficit, an official said yesterday.
Foreign firms park idle ships in Davao, Subic
By Roderick dela Cruz
A GROWING number of foreign shipping companies looking to cut costs amid a global slowdown in trade are laying up their ships in Philippine ports, maritime officials said yesterday.
Govt urged to tread carefully on US prisoner custody issue
Jose Miguel Arroyo: They want to kill me
Expressway link to airport is now ready
P7b set to hire the jobless
?Beware of your Valentine?
Balloon festival kicks off
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Up, up and away. Colorful hot-air balloons take to the sky during yesterday?s opening of the 14th Philippine International Hot Air Baloon Festival in Clark., Pampanga. The festival will run up to Sunday. SONNY ESPIRITU |
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Sale of PBCom readied
By Eileen A. Mencias
Major stockholders of Philippine Bank of Communications have picked the Macquarie Group as financial adviser to the sale of a majority block in the bank, PBCom insiders told the Standard Today.
WB agrees to increase RP loans to $1b a year
By Lawrence Agcaoili
Finance Secretary Margarito Teves said yesterday the World Bank is willing to increase its lending program to the Philippines by as much as $1 billion a year in the next four years despite the controversy surrounding its shelved road project.
Moody?s keeps positive outlook on credit rating
Moody?s Investors Service yesterday kept its positive outlook on the Philippines due to a strong banking system and steady balance of payments position amid the global economic downturn.
Alliance Global allots P5b for stock rights
By Jenniffer B. Austria
Alliance Global Group Inc., a company controlled by businessman Andrew Tan, will allocate up to P5.1 billion to subscribe to the stock rights offering of its property arm Megaworld Corp.
BSP says ?hot money? nets $222m
Foreign portfolio investments, or ?hot money,? registered a net inflow of $221.59 million in January in stark contrast to an outflow in December, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas reported yesterday.
Ernst & Young sends a fireman
 WORRIED about the growing defiance and the increasing media noise being generated by the 15 SGV partners opposed to integration, Ernst & Young has dispatched to Makati its tax managing partner for the Far East region, the Hong Kong-based John Nicolai, to end the revolt within the country?s largest audit firm.
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Cone, Guiao defend Miller
By Rey Joble
IT could happen even to the best of them.
Alaska Milk?s prized-guard Willie Miller, one of the Philippine Basketball Association?s best clutch performers, wasn?t spared when pressure took its toll on him.
Donaire thanks scribes for award
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
WORLD flyweight champion Nonito Donaire said yesterday he was deeply honored by the Philippine Sportswriters Association award he will receive on Feb. 20.
Indon rider makes history, wins a stage in Langkawi race
By Arman Armero
BANDAR BARU BANGI, Malaysia?Indonesian rider Samai Amari of the Malaysian Letua Cycling Team stole the thunder from three-stage winner Mattia Gavazzi of Diquigiovanni-Androni to claim the Melaka-Bandar Baru Bangi Stage 4, sparking a mild shake-up of the overall standings in the Le Tour de Langkawi 2009 here.
Wushu named best national sports association
FOR an outstanding year that saw its athletes dominate both Asian and world stages, the Wushu Federation of the Philippines is the hands-down choice of the Philippine Sportswriters Association as the Outstanding National Sports Association for 2008.
Singapore golfers humble locals
CANLUBANG?Singapore threatened to dominate the WWWExpress-DHL National Amateur Golf Championships as Jerome Ng and Quincy Quek took the 1-2 spots with a pair of 71s in the third round at the north course of the Canlubang golf complex yesterday here.
Equestrienne leads advocacy for peace
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Mar, Noynoy pull a fast one
As the Senate, adhering to its heavily self-promoted image as the chief fiscalizer of government, was continuing its investigations of the Legacy fiasco, the embarrassing World Bank contractor ban, the ZTE broadband scandal and other supposedly crooked transactions, it was also cooking up some anomalous deals of its own. One of these was the approval on the crucial second reading last Feb. 10 of an amendment to the city charter of Malolos, Bulacan that would convert the provincial capital into a lone congressional district.
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Those charges against Mike
Sources of embarrassment
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Alabang Boys? prosecutor rebuked
By Rey E. Requejo and Roy Pelovello
THE three-member committee looking into bribery allegations in the case of the ?Alabang Boys? went on executive session yesterday at the request of the parents of two of the suspects who were willing to open their bank accounts to scrutiny.
Arroyo orders review of drug cases
President Arroyo, invoking her powers as the country?s drug czar, ordered the Justice Department to submit all dismissed drug-related cases to her office for automatic review.
Kampi changes merger tack
By Joyce Pangco Pa?ares
The Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino wants the process of merger with ruling party Lakas Christian Muslim Democrats to begin at the national level.
Bolante ?bagman? seeks habeas writ
A ?resource person? in the P728-million fertilizer scam asked the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus to compel the Senate to justify its action to detain him for contempt.
Justice Azcuna retires
Supreme Court Associate Justice Adolfo Azcuna will bow out of service as a member of the 15-member tribunal when he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70 on Monday.
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Teen idols in Crame for elective drug test
Starstruck?s popular talents led by Mark Herras and Iwa Moto yesterday turned up for voluntary drug tests at the National Police headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City.
Syrian, not Romanian, does Dracula?s role
By Ferdinand Fabella
Count Dracula in, doing his thing at a night club in Makati City but turns out to be a Syrian national who sinks his fangs in the neck of a waitress.
P25-m blaze hits factory in Valenzuela
A fire, caused by an overcharged electric transformer attached to an electric post, destroyed yesterday a plastic products factory, causing damage to property worth about P25 million in Valenzuela City.
Para?aque City tax income rising
Para?aque City collected P1.92 billion in 2008 surpassing the 2007?s P1.75 million and 2006?s P1.61 billion.
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