MANILA — Overseas Filipino workers? (OFWs) remittances coursed through banks in February recorded over a billion mark at US$1.1 billion, expanding year-on-year by 25.4 percent. This brought the year-to-date level of remittances to US$2.2 billion, or 22.6 percent higher than the US$1.8 billion recorded a year ago. Remittances coursed through banks are expected to grow by 10 percent to US$14.0 billion in 2007.
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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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.
[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).
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.