Electronics Still Top Philippines Export — NEDA

MANILA — Electronics remained the country?s top exports product in February accounting for 63.5 percent of income from exports. Semiconductors led the electronics group with a 48.45-percent share totaling $1.79 billion worth of export earnings.

?The global demand for electronics has supported exports in Asia, including the Philippines,? Socioeconomic Planning Secretary and NEDA Director General Romulo L. Neri said.

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Protection against H5N1 avian influenza

For Immediate Release
Contact: Evan Lipstein
Tel: +1-212-688-5600
E-mail: Info@HylineSafety.com

NEW YORK CITY, NY- April 17, 2007- HYLINE SAFETY COMPANY today announced it has established a new distributorship with Safe Life Corporation based in San Diego, CA. Starting on March 1, 2007, HYLINE SAFETY COMPANY will be responsible for product sales of The SAFE LIFE CORPORATION www.safelifecorp.com line of disposable respirators designed to provide increased protection against airborne viruses, including avian flu.

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Philippines: SMART Signs MOA with DepEd to Include More Schools in ICT Program

[MANILA/APRIL 2007] Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) will expand the Smart Schools Program to include 50 more public high schools and 30 public elementary schools nationwide this year.

The expansion of the Smart Schools Program was formalized during the signing of an addendum to a Memorandum of Agreement between SMART, the Department of Education and the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP).

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Philippines: New Baguio Lawyer Shares Secrets in Topping Bar Exams

Topping the bar is ?doable? even for reviewees from outside Metro Manila as proven by Noel Neil Q. Malimban, the 2006 bar topnotcher, who hails from the University of the Cordilleras (UC) in Baguio. In the presence of journalists, he shared his secrets of how he topped the bar: ?good grasp (of the subjects), good English, good penmanship, and prayer.?

BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
Northern Dispatch
Posted by Bulatlat

Topping the bar is ?doable? even for reviewees from outside Metro Manila as proven by Noel Neil Q. Malimban, the 2006 bar topnotcher, who hails from the University of the Cordilleras (UC) in Baguio.

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Philippines: Bird Flu Is a Children?s Concern, Says Unicef

DAVAO CITY — Bird Flu is a children?s concern, which has prompted the United Nations Children?s Fund to join the information drive to keep the Philippines free from the pandemic and save the Filipino children.

Nilo Yacat, an information officer from UNICEF Philippines in a seminar workshop with Philippine Information Agency (PIA) information officers, bared the extent of harm that the Avian Influenza (AI) had done to children population.

He said one-half of the reported cases and one-third of the reported deaths worldwide due to AI, were children.

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