MANILA, Philippines — Two boys’ choirs have once again proved to the world the Filipinos’ innate musicality when they bested peers from more than 30 countries at the 5th World Choir Games in Graz City, Austria, according to the Philippine embassy there. Read the rest of this entry »
2 RP boys’ choirs win golds in Austria
July 15, 2008
RP boosts competitive ranking, now 40th
July 15, 2008
The Swiss-based organization Institute of Management Development (IMD) has ranked the Philippines 40th among a total of 55 countries in its 2008 World Competitiveness Yearbook. Read the rest of this entry »
Dagupan coed is Asia’s Sudoku champ
July 14, 2008
A 14-year-old coed from a school in Dagupan City bested math wizards from other parts of the Asia- Pacific region when she topped the international “sudoku” challenge held in Singapore over the weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
Breathing space
July 10, 2008
Under the Corporation Code (Section 6 © P.D. 902-A as amended by PD 1799), the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) may suspend the proceedings of any collection suit filed before any court by a creditor against a corporation, partnership or association placed under management or receivership. But is this rule applicable to a secured creditor? This is the issue raised by a tourism development company (PICTD). Read the rest of this entry »
US puts RP on ‘trade review’ for labor killings
July 10, 2008
MANILA, Philippines — The United States Trade Representative (USTR) will keep the country under “active scrutiny” for possible violation of international labor standards in its “no union, no strike” policy in special economic zones that has allegedly resulted in the rise of killings of labor leaders between 2001 and 2007, an official from an international watchdog said Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Another RP designer wins acclaim in London
July 10, 2008
MANILA, Philippines—It is always a happy occasion when one chances upon a winner, and an even happier occasion when that winner happens to be a Filipino. Read the rest of this entry »
4 nabbed for cybersex den operation
July 9, 2008
ORANI, Bataan — Four persons, including a minor, were arrested by police authorities for allegedly operating a cybersex den Saturday.
Supt. Warren F. de Leon, chief of Bataan CIDG, said members of the Bataan CIDG and the Provincial Police Office, accompanied by DSWD personnel, nabbed Omar John Pinili, 22, Lawrence Aquino, 19, Ian Aquino, 19, and a male minor in a suspected cybersex den in Barangay Talimundoc. Read the rest of this entry »
Filipino team wins Java award for medical solution
July 8, 2008
MANILA, Philippines — A team of students from UP Diliman won an award from Sun Microsystems for a Java application that runs on a mobile device and helps doctors treat poisoning cases faster. Read the rest of this entry »
Filipino physicist wins Asean top science award
July 8, 2008
A Filipino physicist who pioneered in the Philippines research on cutting-edge photonics won the top prize in an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Science and Technology competition. Read the rest of this entry »
A faxed document is not electronic evidence
July 7, 2008
The age-old problem of the theory of knowledge has been that of certitude. Are we ever certain? Obviously, it seems we are certain about a number of things—and our universe of certainties is in direct proportion to our credulity. But the question that has nagged philosophers has been “the right” to be certain. Ultimately, what bothers us, or at least the reflective among us, is how we know that we know. Read the rest of this entry »
