The people's dream of clean air and lesser emission and zero noise are slowly coming into reality. It started with Metro Manila taxi's use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Palawan's introduction of electric powered tricycles and now, LPG powered buses
UPDATE: Motorists are to advised to drive carefully and be on the lookout for road spikes. Incidents of vehicles being disabled because of punctured tires were reported early today along the southbound stretch of EDSA, in front of the Manila
A few days after the president's call on big businesses to help her fight Meralco, and the GSIS started posturing for a corporate battle, the chairman of the power company's controlling company declared that it is open to a government
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Good harvests, subsidies and a mix of government controls have isolated China from the worst of international grain price increases. That is unlikely to last as farmland is lost to urbanization and impoverished farmers flee the land. - Sally Wang
The world is awash in excess funds, large amounts of these in the form of foreign currency reserves, available to bid up prices of critical tradable resources. A key question is how much will China, India, Russia and others be
Claims that China is an emerging superpower overlook the reality that the ineffectually governed country will struggle for decades to get and stay beyond subsistence. The West, rather than fearing China's expansion, should be preparing for a dramatic setback in
India's burgeoning TV industry attracts more than US$2.1 billion in annual advertising revenue allocated largely on the basis of viewing figures produced by two agencies whose survey methods are coming under scrutiny. The stakes are high, with a government minister
Chinese President Hu Jintao's five-day visit to Japan was an important step towards stabilizing relations between the two powers. Clearly, a positive Sino-Japanese relationship serves the interests of the region - and the United States - but territorial disputes, food
Washington is likely to decide that North Korea's delivery of 18,000 documents on its nuclear program suffices to ask the US Congress to remove Pyongyang from an international terrorist list and lift sanctions. Yet the papers are not expected to
At the 60th anniversary of its founding, it could be said that Israel is the happiest nation on Earth. It is one of the wealthiest, freest and best-educated; and it enjoys high fertility and life expectancy rates. The light heart
Hezbollah, in taking its political grievances to the streets, was able to take military control of Beirut in less than 48 hours, while the Lebanese army looked on. The display of force by the opposition Shi'ite group does not leave
The Myanmar junta's botching of cyclone relief efforts is part of a larger trend of authoritarian regimes mismanaging disaster response. The long-term "NGO-ization" that occurred in Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami has the fiddling Neros in Naypyidaw afraid that the
The peace deals between the Pakistani government and militants in the tribal areas have been exposed for what they were, a delaying tactic for the Taliban to send fresh fighters into Afghanistan. The new government in Islamabad, provided it staves
