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 The Manila Times
Foreign tourists spend $1 billion in early 2008
| THE Department of Tourism claimed that the domestic tourism industry generated some $1 billion during the first quarter of 2008. | Foreign tourist arrivals in the first quarter of the year rose marg... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Billion Government Philippines Photos Slideshow Tourism |
 The Manila Times
Airline price war heats up as PAL unveils promo rates
By Darwin G. Amojelar, Reporter | WITHIN a week after its main domestic rival offered "free" flights to travelers, Philippine Airlines (PAL) said it cut fares to all local destinations as well as majo... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Aerospace Business Philippine Photos Transport |
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 Canada Dot Com
PM unveils new food-label rules
| BEAMSVILLE, Ont. - New guidelines for applying the Product of Canada label to food - closing loopholes in existing legislation that made it possible to confuse or misle... (photo: NATO)
Agriculture Canada Food Minister Photos |
 The News International
India's food crisis
Thursday, May 22, 2008 | Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar | Indians are outraged by President Bush's claim that rising food consumption in India and China has sent world fo... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
China Food India Photos US |
 The Star
Arcelor-Mittal buys Macarthur Coal stake
| PERTH: Arcelor-Mittal, the world’s top steel maker, has entered talks about a transaction with Australia’s Macarthur Coal after paying US$604mil for a near 15% stake in... (photo: AP Photo / Robert Meyers)
Business Coal New Zealand Photos Steel |
 The Times
Levels of donations are not just based on commercial factors
| Charity begins at home. And for HSBC, at least, China is home. Founded in Shanghai in 1865, the bank generates 40 per cent of its profits from China and has 34,000 empl... (photo: Creative Commons / OLAMB )
Bank Burma China Market Photos |
 The Guardian
'Choose growth or accept poverty for billions'
| Stark warning in blueprint for emulating model countries | The world will contain 4 billion people living in abject poverty by 2050 unless the poorest countries adopt p... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
Economy Growth Market Photos Poverty |
