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Elianto: Young and fresh
By Dinna Chan Vasquez
Fact: Many Filipinos balk at buying specialty skin care and opt for drugstore brands.
?We do not consider face scrubs or toners essential. Some do not understand the importance of using moisturizers. Sadly, a lot of us think that these extra steps are only time-consuming, unnecessary expenses,? says Abigail Lim, brand manager of Malaysian beauty brand Elianto.
Fashion Q/A
Was that Echo in I ??Betty La Fea?
Lapped in luxury
By Dino Ray V. Directo III
Lexus Manila has opened its modern showroom at the Global City in Taguig, a P280-million edifice that its owner claims to be a reflection of the car brand?s global standard of luxury.
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Dentist Licensure Examination Results (December 2008)
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Govt expects 60,000 job losses in IT sector
By Elaine R. Alanguilan
UP TO 60,000 jobs could be lost in the country?s key electronics sector after Intel Corp. closed its plant in Cavite and Texas Instruments announced a number of layoffs, Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said yesterday.
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Seven years ago. Intel chief executive Paul Otellini is shown here visiting the Cavite plant (bottom), which the US semiconductor giant announced it would be closing down. |
Congress approves stimulus budget
By Roy Pelovello and Fel V. Maragay
CONGRESS yesterday passed a P1.415-trillion budget that includes a massive spending program to stave off recession, officials said.
Rate cut, antidote to slowdown, is forecast
Billboards ordered turned off by 9 p.m.
New Pacific Plans owner to meet with plan holders
Official: Illegal drugs pervasive
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GSIS reviews investments
The state-run Government Service Insurance System said it is reviewing its planned $400-million foreign investment because of uncertainties in the international market.
ERC hikes rates of Meralco consumers by P0.10
By Alena Mae S. Flores
Manila Electric Co. consumers will pay P0.10 more per kilowatt-hour next month as a result of the recent decision of the Energy Regulatory Commission to raise National Power Corp.?s deferred charges for foreign exchange and fuel cost.
Govt eyes 5.8% increase in rice output
By Othel V. Campos
The government expects rice production this year to rise 5.8 percent to 17.81 million metric tons.
Citibank sees consumer business in RP growing
By Eileen A. Mencias
Citibank said it expects consumer business to grow further this year after climbing 15 percent despite the adverse global environment.
Cebu Pacific to get six new planes this year
By Roderick T. dela Cruz
Budget carrier Cebu Pacific yesterday said it will take delivery of six new planes that will enable it to fly 9.3 million passengers this year.
Reagan and the Inquirer
 RONALD REAGAN would have been pleased reading Wednesday?s banner headline of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, ?Good morning, America.?
That it appeared in the leading left-leaning broadsheet-tabloid in a terrorist-plagued Third World country should even warm the cockles of Republican hearts.
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Murakami?s 62 shatters record
By Adrian Flores
STA. Rosa City?A superhuman effort. This described Artemio Murakami?s superb shotmaking and impeccable putting yesterday when he set a new course record of eight-under-par 62 in The Country Club Invitational, backed by the International Container Terminal Services Inc.
Alaska, Talk N Text shoot for clincher
By Reuel Vidal
ONE more to go.
The Alaska Aces and the Talk N Text Tropang Texters both gun for seats in the championship of the KFC-Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup when they meet separate rivals at the Cuneta Astrodome today.
Roach flying to Manila to convince Pacquiao
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
TRAINER Freddie Roach may fly to Manila over the weekend to talk to Manny Pacquiao about his decision to turn down a planned May 2 fight against Britain?s Ricky Hatton after the Filipino champ failed to get the guarantee he wanted.
Player?s pact retains onerous provisions
Batang Pier takes semifinal opener
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Intel outside
If you still don?t believe that the global economic crisis has hit our shores, ask 3,000 newly laid-off workers in Cavite. Intel Corp., the high-tech electronics giant that has been manufacturing computer chips and other electronic hardware in the Philippines since 1974, is closing down its General Trias plant, which only last November employed that many Filipinos.
Conflict of interest
Caught in the crossfire?
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Alvarez-Reyes row triggers change
By Joyce Pangco Pa?ares, Christine Herrera
PRESIDENT Arroyo has assumed the chairmanship of the task force on climate change, replacing Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes.
US offers to help kidnap victims
The United States is prepared to assist the Philippines in its plan to rescue three members of the International Committee of the Red Cross from their abductors in Sulu, Ambassador Kristie Ann Kenney said yesterday.
Health sets random drug test, ignores rights panel
Random drug test on students will push through as scheduled on Feb. 2, and it will cover 85,000 high school and college students from public and private schools in Metro Manila, Davao and Cebu, the Health Department said yesterday.
Anti-crisis economic plan sought
Former Senate President Manuel Villar is pressing for the adoption of a new economic model that will help the Philippines survive the global economic crunch, generate or preserve jobs and spur growth nationwide.
Environment team chalks up a catch
By Othel V. Campos
Barely a month into the job, a team of environmental law enforcers, which Secretary Joselito Atienza formed this month, seized P2.9 million worth of suspected illegally cut narra and assorted lumber products at a lumberyard in Bulacan the other day.
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Road rage: Phillip Salvador attacks bus driver on Edsa
The Mandaluyong City traffic police said actor Phillip Salvador beat up
a bus driver over a traffic dispute on Edsa Wednesday morning.
Muhlach?s reckless driving dismissed
The Quezon City Prosecutor?s Office has dropped the reckless driving case against actor Ni?o Muhlach after the taxi driver, who was hurt in a collision last year, failed to substantiate his charges.
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