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                    [Title] => Imports up 16.5% to $4.46B in July on higher oil prices
                    [Summary] => The country’s imports rose 16.5 percent to $4.46 billion in July, reflecting higher crude oil prices, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported yesterday.


 The trade deficit widened to $508 million compared with a deficit of $330 million in July last year.


NSO earlier reported that exports in July had grown 12.9 percent to $3.96 billion.


 Electronics imports, which accounted for 43.6 percent of the total import bill in July, rose 3.1 percent year-on-year to $1.95 billion. The bulk of these imports are parts for the Philippines own electronics exports.

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                    [Title] => Panasonic to resume mobile phone business in RP by 2008
                    [Summary] => Consumer electronics giant Matsushita Electric – known for its flagship Panasonic brand – will resume its mobile phone business in the Philippines by 2008 or earlier as it goes full blast in the production of 3G-capable handsets, top company officials said.


Panasonic Mobile, the wireless unit of the Japanese conglomerate, shut down its Philippine manufacturing plant in Sta. Rosa, Laguna last March 31, citing "severe global competition" in the erosion of its market share in mobile phone sales.


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                    [Title] => December exports rise at fastest pace in more than a year
                    [Summary] => Exports rose in December at the fastest pace in more than a year as companies shipped more computer parts and other electronic goods. 


The National Statistics Office (NSO) reported yesterday overseas sales gained 16.8 percent  to $3.83 billion in December from $3.277 billion in the same period in  2004,


That was the fastest pace since November 2004. Export earnings tumbled 1.6 percent in November last year. 


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                    [Title] => Mepco adopts ‘Panasonic’
                    [Summary] => Beginning this October, all products of Matsushita Electric Philippines Corp. (MEPCO) being marketed under the brands Panasonic and National will carry only one name – Panasonic.


MEPCO says the decision to drop National in favor of Panasonic as its new global brand is a significant strategy for its business operations.


"The Panasonic brand will mean more convenience to consumers," explains Rodolfo Perez, president of National Panasonic Sales Philippines and National Panasonic Battery Philippines, both divisions of MEPCO.


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                    [Title] => Matsushita boosts customer service
                    [Summary] => Matsushita Electric Philippines Corp. (MEPCO), the country’s leading maker and distributor of electronics and electrical appliances, is strengthening its customer service thrusts to further prop up its leadership in the local market.


This was revealed by MEPCO president Yukiharu Kubota during the recent 2003 MEPCO/PCIP Suppliers Commendation Awards as the company embarks on a brand unification campaign, which starts this October.


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                    [Title] => Taiwan bags Pan Pacific crown
                    [Summary] => SUBIC — Chinese Taipei, one of the great baseball powers this side of Asia, crushed the Philippines, 7-0, in a one-sided finals showdown and won the first Pan-Pacific Junior baseball championships yesterday at the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) grounds here.


Chen Who Jann completed a no-hitter that capped the Taiwanese’ four-game sweep, including a 9-4 win over the Philippines earlier,  in this five-day, four-nation meet organized by Philippine Tot Baseball Foundation, Inc. president Rodolfo "Boy" Tingzon, Jr.


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                    [Title] => Rains delay RP clouters bid for Pan - Pacific fina
                    [Summary] => Subic –  The Philippines blanked Japan, 4-0, in the two innings before monsoon rains halted play, putting on hold the Filipinos’ entry to the finals of the first Pan-Pacific junior baseball championships here yesterday.


Inspired by a stunning 3-2 triumph over the same team in the last elimination round match, the Filipinos drew two RBIs (runs batted in) each from Rico Vinuya and Edgardo Cruz in the bottom of the first frame to gain a 4-0 lead before heavy downpour stopped the game.


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 The trade deficit widened to $508 million compared with a deficit of $330 million in July last year.


NSO earlier reported that exports in July had grown 12.9 percent to $3.96 billion.


 Electronics imports, which accounted for 43.6 percent of the total import bill in July, rose 3.1 percent year-on-year to $1.95 billion. The bulk of these imports are parts for the Philippines own electronics exports.

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Panasonic Mobile, the wireless unit of the Japanese conglomerate, shut down its Philippine manufacturing plant in Sta. Rosa, Laguna last March 31, citing "severe global competition" in the erosion of its market share in mobile phone sales.


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MEPCO says the decision to drop National in favor of Panasonic as its new global brand is a significant strategy for its business operations.


"The Panasonic brand will mean more convenience to consumers," explains Rodolfo Perez, president of National Panasonic Sales Philippines and National Panasonic Battery Philippines, both divisions of MEPCO.


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This was revealed by MEPCO president Yukiharu Kubota during the recent 2003 MEPCO/PCIP Suppliers Commendation Awards as the company embarks on a brand unification campaign, which starts this October.


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Chen Who Jann completed a no-hitter that capped the Taiwanese’ four-game sweep, including a 9-4 win over the Philippines earlier,  in this five-day, four-nation meet organized by Philippine Tot Baseball Foundation, Inc. president Rodolfo "Boy" Tingzon, Jr.


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