26,135 tons of fertilizers from Japan arrive
JAPANESE Ambassador Makoto Katsura (third from right) turns over the fertilizers to Iloilo Governor Niel Tupas (third from left).
Japan officially turned over 26,135 metric tons of fertilizers to the government in a ceremony in Iloilo City Wednesday between Japanese Ambassador to the country Makoto Katsura and a senior official of the Department of Agriculture.
Asean cities tackle climate change
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Asean, home to about 583 million people, seeks to focus on the region’s carbon-producing cities in its efforts to tackle global warming, it was learned Thursday.
20 years of market rules in ex-communist Euro
The Polish Baltic Sea port of Gdynia was a stronghold of the Solidarity movement in Poland. AFP
Two decades after the collapse of communism, Central European states have undergone an unprecedented metamorphosis from command to market economies that experts say was never guaranteed to succeed.
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US fashion show for poor Filipino kids
Philippine International Aid and Wells Fargo are presenting “Holiday Double Exposure 8,” a fashion show to benefit disadvantaged Filipino youth in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Philippines, on Sunday (November 15) at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
THE legal system in Saudi (here represented by holy city of Mecca) has not been kind to Jonathan Bigas. AFP
OFW overstaying in Saudi jail to go home
Overseas Filipino worker Jose Jonathan Botor Bigas, who should have been sent home after serving his sentence of one year imprisonment and 250 lashes in August 2008, is set to be repatriated, the Philippine embassy in Riyadh said.
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The Pacific Gas and Electric Company-Filipino Employees Association (PGE-FEA) on Nov. 3 gave a $3,000 check to Ayala Foundation for “Ondoy” victims.
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