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  • Otto Energy to drill Philippines oil development wells in June

    (MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Otto Energy (ASX: OEL) expects to spud the first of two Galoc Phase II in June with the mobilisation of the Ocean Patriot semi-submersible drilling rig to the Galoc oil field offshore Philippines.The rig is currently under tow from Singapore and is expected to arrive on site in early June. After it is anchored, it will proceed to spud the Galoc-5H and ...

  • Filipino rice farmers urged to follow India

    MANILA, Philippines--Filipino farmers are starting to use the rice-growing method that has recently made India the world's top rice exporter. The system of rice intensification (SRI) method involves simple changes in farmers' practices such as transplanting younger seedlings singly and at wider distances and drying the fields intermittently, using nonchemical weeding methods and ...

  • Kiram standoff site in Sabah now offers turtle conservation to attract tourists

    The site of a deadly standoff between followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and Malaysian forces earlier this year is now one of the areas where Sabah authorities are promoting turtle conservation to attract tourists. A report by Malaysia's state-run Bernama news agency said Sabah's Tourism, Culture and Environment Ministry is intensifying promotions on smaller tourism products. ...

  • Slain Taiwanese was ‘good to Filipino fishermen’

    Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng’s boat, the Kuang Ta Hsing No. 28, is checked by Taiwanese officers after arriving at Liuqiu port in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Taiwanese boat owner Steven Liao said the damage to the Guang Ta Hsin 28 costs around NT$8 million (P11 million). AP PHOTO TAIPEI--Filipinos in Pintung county, where the Taiwanese fisherman ...

  • Philippines cemetery provides Manilas poor a place to live among the dead

    Every morning, Alberto Lagarda Evangelista, 71, leaves the two-storey, lemon-yellow home he has lived in for the past decade and walks to work at the cemetery next door. As a caretaker of about 20 graves, Evangelista earns just 20,000 pesos (315) a year, a sum so small that he must share his house with seven other people - all of whom are dead.Evangelista lives and works in the Cementerio del ...

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The Lady Vanishes [DVD]

The Lady Vanishes [DVD]

In The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, his in-depth examination of each of Hitchcock's films, Donald Spoto notes that The Lady Vanishes is the one Hitchcock film that may be most fully enjoyed without analysis. This is not to say that the film cannot support analysis (in fa ... ...

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  • Luzon names Israel squad for home finals

    "This is a hard day for me," said coach Guy Luzon after naming his final 23-man squad for this summer's UEFA European Under-21 Championship on home ...

  • Business confidence in Philippines reaches new heights

    Philippines has soared to an all-time high after the country was awarded investment grade credit ratings. The central bank said the overall confidence index rose 54.9 per cent from the first quarter's 41.5 per cent. "This is the highest reading since the start of the nationwide survey in the fourth quarter of 2006," said the central bank. The confidence index is the percentage ...

  • Carpio PHL should appeal Chinas 9-dash Rule to world opinion

    Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has said that even if the Philippines wins in the arbitral dispute it has lodged against China on the West Philippine Sea, the decision would most likely go unenforced. In a speech he delivered before graduating law students of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Carpio noted that under the United Nations Charter, a winning state in a ...

  • Report Domination of LP coalition in senate race a personal victory for PNoy

    The domination of the administration Liberal Party-led coalition in the 2013 midterm senatorial election was a "personal" victory for President Benigno S.C. Aquino, a television report on Thursday ...

  • Ex-Pangasinan mayor treasurer get up to 18 years for malversation

    A former mayor in Pangasinan province and his co-accused were sentenced to 10-18 years imprisonment after they were found guilty of malversation of public funds by the Sandiganbayan First Division on Thursday.The case against Marius Ladio, former mayor of Layug town, and Virgilio Arquero, OIC municipal treasurer, stemmed from the unaccounted P787,700 government money that was illegally released ...

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