By Rose Palacio
The Australian oil and gas exploration firm Tap Oil Ltd. will spend about $10 million (P480 million) for the development of Service Contract (SC) 41 in Sandakan Basin in Mindanao.
Paul Underwood, the company?s managing director, said they are actively pursuing new opportunities in Southeast Asia.
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MANILA — Pearson Education Asia, through its imprint Pearson Prentice Hall, will publish Filipino author Dennis Posadas’ book on technopreneurship and innovation in Asia this June 2007.
MANILA — The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country?s biggest business organization, hailed the strong performance of the first quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 6.9%.
MANILA — In the wake of the reopening of the controversial Rapu-Rapu polymetallic mine in Albay last February, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources recently announced that investments in the mining sector are expected to hit $348 million this year. But whatever benefits such investments supposedly bring would be cancelled out by the severe social and environmental costs of large-scale mining, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (via PLDT) – The Philippines and the Sanitarium Health Food Company (SHFC), a leading New Zealand food manufacturer, have forged a partnership agreement intended to bolster the two-way trade of food items between the Philippines and New Zealand
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