President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has assured the 120,000-strong Filipino community here that the tough fiscal reforms her government has initiated are meant to keep the economic momentum going "with the hope that someday, working abroad would be a matter of a choice and not a necessity. "
MANILA — Bilateral relations between the Philippines and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea are expected to be boosted with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?s state visit to that West African nation on Tuesday.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed grave concerns for the future of media independence in Nepal, after the abduction of yet another Nepalese journalist, and the suspension of a newspaper publication.
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THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) 11 is urging all small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the region to join the upcoming trade fair in New Jersey. The trade fair, tagged as ?Philippine Fiesta,? is slated on Aug. 18 to 19 Meadowlands Exposition Center (MEC) in Secaucus, New Jersey, USA.
Greenpeace demands immediate market withdrawal, moratorium on GMO approvals
MANILA — Another genetically-modified (GM) corn variety,
approved for food, feed, processing, and propagation in the Philippines
has been shown by studies to be potentially toxic to humans. The new
research, carried out by a French scientific research institute(1),
involves biotech firm Monsanto?s NK603 GMO corn (marketed commercially
under the name Round-up Ready) which was approved as food and feed in
the country in 2003, and for propagation in 2005.
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