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MANILA – Three Philippine companies made it to the “Best Under A Billion” list for 2010 by Forbes Asia, according to an article in the magazine’s September issue.
It listed Lopez Holdings (broadcasting, cable and satellite, and entertainment programming); Pacific Online Systems (develops and manages computer systems for gaming industry); and Philweb (online gambling services to the public) as among the top-performing 200 firms from close to 13,000 publicly listed Asia-Pacific companies with actively traded shares and sales between $5 million and 1 billion.
MANILA – Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. on Thursday said that the House of Representatives will not mind if Saranggani Representative Manny Pacquiao’s role as legislator takes a backseat this time as he begins training for a boxing bout in November.
Even when out of the hall of Congress and in the boxing ring, Belmonte said he believed Pacquiao is still doing the nation an important service.
MARINA BAY, Singapore—Controversy could hound the two teams picked by the producers of “The Amazing Race Asia” to represent the Philippines in its newest season.
The first team, Lani Pilinger, 27, and Jacinta James, 27, were both born and raised in Australia. Pilinger’s mom hails from Bicol, and James, Pilinger’s best friend, is 100 percent Australian. Both contestants just happen to reside in the Philippines at the moment.
MANILA – With the Asian Development Bank (ADB) providing a loan of $400 million, up to 1 million Filipino families among the country’s poorest households will receive monthly cash grants of P1,400 each by the end of this year, Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman announced Thursday.
The number of beneficiary families is expected to hit 2.3 million by the end of 2011, Soliman said.
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union—Upland communities in at least 10 towns of the Ilocos region have increased their forest and fruit tree density using a P12-million agro forestry livelihood assistance fund, according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources regional office here.
“Agro forestry provides direct income to the upland communities at the same time makes idle lands productive,” said Samuel Peñafiel, DENR Ilocos region director.
MANILA – The “flying eye hospital” of a United States-based charitable organization has returned to the Philippines to give the gift of sight to needy Filipinos.
Aboard Orbis International’s flying hospital, which touched down on August 27 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, was a team of dedicated eye-care professionals, nurses, and technicians, as well as aviators, who travel from one developing country to another to provide free eye surgery and training.
LEGAZPI CITY – A kidney ready for transplant was wasted on its way from Legazpi to Manila while another one is feared to have been rendered unviable after a pilot of the Cebu Pacific Airlines denied transport to a medical team from Legazpi City.
The team came from Cagayan De Oro City and passed by Cebu City on the way to Legazpi City before proceeding to Metro Manila.
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