Cebu to suffer four-day power shortage
By Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon | May 25, 2014 - 12:00am
A power shortage is expected to hit Cebu starting tomorrow until Thursday.
Cebu News
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Spill the beans: Starbucks launches premium coffee line
By Koji Arsua | May 17, 2014 - 12:00am
The world’s largest coffee house company roasts and brews only the highest-quality arabica coffee. As a result, the coffee is a rich and flavorful experience bursting with the flavors of its source and preparation...
Supreme
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BSP raises banks’ reserve requirements
By Kathleen A. Martin | May 9, 2014 - 12:00am
Monetary authorities delivered yesterday another hike in banks’ reserve requirements to rein in the relatively high liquidity growth, but kept key policy rates steady as inflation expectations remain within...
Business
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IPPs urge DOE to strengthen proposed power reserve mart
By Iris Gonzales | May 1, 2014 - 12:00am
The Philippine Independent Power Producers Association Inc. (PIPPA), the organization of the country’s power producers, is urging the Department of Energy (DOE) to strengthen the proposed reserve market by...
Business
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NGCP told to formulate sked for contracted reserve capacities
By Iris Gonzales | April 14, 2014 - 12:00am
The Department of Energy has asked the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) and the Philippine Electricity Market Corp. (PEMC) to formulate a central scheduling and dispatch of contracted reserve capacities...
Business
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DENR-7 completes boundary delineation of protected areas
By Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon | February 18, 2014 - 12:00am
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-7 has completed the boundary delineation of protected areas in Central Visayas.
Cebu News
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Where do we go from here?

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | November 24, 2013 - 12:00am
President Aquino himself has said if his government was not ready it was because he did not expect the strength and ferocity of Yolanda. That is not an excuse. Whatever preparations he was talking about, these were...
Opinion
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Petilla reiterates need for power reserve market
By Iris Gonzales | September 7, 2013 - 12:00am
Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla reiterated yesterday the need to establish an electricity reserve market, which the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) can tap to avoid power shortages in case of...
Business
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Stock market ends the week in the red

Stock market ends the week in the red

By Jovan Cerda | August 2, 2013 - 7:08pm
Developments in the United States Federal Reserve and slowdown in China caused the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi)...
Business
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NY indictment filed in $6B money-laundering case
By Tom Hays, Javier Cordoba and Raphael Satter | May 29, 2013 - 5:08am
The founder of an online currency transfer business was indicted in the United States along with six other people in a $6 billion money-laundering scheme described as "staggering" in its scope, authorities said...
World
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