MANILA (Thomson Financial) - Foreign direct investments into the Philippines in January showed a 15.7-percent increase in net inflow to $133 million from a year earlier, the central bank bank said Thursday.
ReutersPresident Arroyo's all-out campaign to ensure rice supplies amid skyrocketing prices risks sowing panic among Filipinos and raising the political and financial heat on her government.Mrs.
MANILA, Philippines: Philippine Airlines said Thursday it will buy up to nine turbo-propeller aircraft from Canada's Bombardier Aerospace to revive its interisland operations.
MANILA, Philippines -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been urged by a local official and opposition leader to declare a state of calamity in the country so that the local governments could use their calamity funds to buy and distribute rice to
MANILA, Philippines -- To ensure that rice being sold by the government will reach the poor and will not be diverted by unscrupulous traders, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has said that she might order its removal from public markets and instead
MANILA, April 10 (Reuters) - Suspected Maoist-led guerrillas attacked a large banana plantation belonging to U.S. food and fruit producer Dole Food Co.