Economy

UP Manila to hold health communication training in Davao

The U.P. Manila College of Public Health and National Institutes of
Health in collaboration with its local NGO partner, Akbay Kalusugan
Inc.?a group of U.P. alumni and volunteers committed to serve humanity
through partnership efforts for the advancement of health in the
communities?will conduct a training in Davao City on 29-31 August 2007
to help health/medical workers in the region to communicate
effectively in varied health care settings.
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OFWs told to look at ‘brighter side’ of Philippines economy

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. "

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GMO corn eaten and planted in Philippines potentially toxic, scientists warn

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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Philippines: Local pharma pushes for amendments to existing patent rules

MANILA — The Philippine Chamber of Pharmaceutical Industry (PCPI) urges the
Senate and the House of Representatives to immediately agree on the
common provisions of the proposed bill amending the Intellectual
Property Code (IPC) to bring immediate relief to the people and try to
address the divergence by filing a separate bill in the next Congress.
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Philippines economic growth, stability here to stay, Arroyo tells investors

SINGAPORE (via PLDT) ? Saying that the Philippines is firmly on a “path to permanent economic growth and stability,” President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo urged Saturday foreign investors to invest in her country and partake of its economic surge.

“I hope that the gentlemen and ladies around this table?. and for those of you who are the movers and shakers of the business community, please come and be a part of the profitable part of the Philippines economic surge,” the President said in her speech during the dinner with the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia 2007 at the Shangri-La Hotel here.
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