Oil firms hike fuel prices Tuesday morning
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 17:07:55 -0700 | business-news
Major companies Petron and Shell are increasing their prices effective 6 a.m., radio dzBB reported early Tuesday. Gas price monitoring group Petrol Price said PTT is also raising prices of its products. The dzBB report said fuel prices are to...
Metro's traffic situation may now be monitored via smart phones, tablets
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 08:37:21 -0700 | technology-news
Philippines Monitoring the traffic flow in the metropolis' major thoroughfares is now at the motorists' fingertips with the latest addition to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority's digitized traffic information system. That is only if they have smart phones and tablet...
DMCI earnings up 282% in Q1
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 08:04:24 -0700 | business-news
Holdings Inc.'s net income reached P2.7 billion in the first quarter of the year, the company reported Monday. Maynilad Water Services for P12 billion, reducing its interest in the water company from 40.98 percent to 25.24 percent. Consolidated revenues, however,...
Woman shot dead inside restaurant in Paranaque City
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 07:42:17 -0700 | political-news
Philippines A 52-year-old woman was killed Monday afternoon after she was shot at close range by two unknown assailants right inside a restaurant at a subdivision in Paranaque City, police said. Police identified the victim as Josephine Sarmiento, a married...
Felipe F. Cruz, PH's construction pioneer, dies at 93
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 06:30:38 -0700 | business-news
Cruz, 93, best known for establishing one of the country's largest contractors, FF Cruz Co. Inc., passed away late Sunday, people close to him confirmed on Monday. The magnate was among the Philippines's building pioneers having established what is known...
PH approves three new wind farms
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 06:30:33 -0700 | green-news
Philippines The Philippines has approved three wind farm projects that will generate 208 megawatts, enough to power more than 40,000 middle-class homes, an energy official said on Monday. The wind projects will be the first to benefit from an incentive...
PPCRV to investigate slow transmission of vote results
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 06:30:33 -0700 | political-news
Commission on Elections (Comelec) transparency server in Manila. We know precisely which precincts and municipalities are not transmitting because we have the server date. So we can drill down to the municipality, the Church-based watchdog's spokesperson, Ana de Villa-Singson, said...
Heard: Sir Chief on being ‘Papa-ble!'
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 05:03:36 -0700 | entertainment-news
Sir Chief on being Papa-ble!' May 20, 2013 7:49 pm Richard Yap Richard Yap, or Papa Chen/Sir Chief, reveals his secret to being papa-blewhich was why he was chosen C-Lium Fibre endorser even at age 46. I was on the...
Binay seeks medical tests to dispel ‘lupus rumors'
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 05:03:32 -0700 | health-news
Philippines Vice President Jejomar Binay is adamant about undergoing a physical exam to prove that he is not afflicted with the same disease that was reportedly responsible for the rapid deterioration of the late President Ferdinand Marcos' health. The Philippine...
PBA: The Alaska Aces won it the right way
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 03:48:14 -0700 | sports-news
The Alaska Aces won it the right way We've seen it too many times in the past...Powerhouse ball clubs clean out the roster of a franchise on its way out of the PBA...We've seen potentially good rookies uprooted from the...
New mining applications pour in since moratorium lifted — Mines Bureau
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 03:07:51 -0700 | business-news
New mining applications pour in since moratorium lifted Mines Bureau May 20, 2013 5:56pm Applications for a mineral exploration permit totaled 224 since last March when the Mines and Geosciences Bureau lifted the two-year moratorium for mining applications, the bureau...
3 soldiers killed in landmine blast in Albay village
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 02:57:03 -0700 | travel-news
Albay, Philippines Three government troopers were slain while another was wounded when they were hit by shrapnel from a landmine blast set by suspected New People's Army (NPA) rebels in Barangay (village) Maninila, an upland village in Camalig, Albay, Monday...
Peso posts slight gain vs. dollar ahead of US Fed's next move
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 02:47:09 -0700 | business-news
The peso was initially weaker but weekend remittances plus profit-taking strengthened it, the second trader added. Tracking the release of minutes of the Australian central bank's policy meeting, traders expect the peso to move within the P41.10 to P41.30...
Kevin Conroy back to Batman after all in next Arkham game
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 11:35:40 -0700 | political-news
He first voiced Batman in the classic 1992 TV animated serial Batman: The Animated Series, and went on to reprise the character in several other media based on the DC Universe, including the popular Justice League animated series and several...
PSEi ends flat on lack of new leads
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 02:47:09 -0700 | business-news
Losers edged out gainers 83 to 68 while 45 stocks were unchanged. "The market ended flat. Some moments were in the green and the red on lack of new leads," Krizia Syquiatco, analyst at Papa Securities Corp., told GMA...
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