" MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed Monday an executive order imposing a 50-percent price cut on five commonly used medicines whose prices the pharmaceutical companies refused to bring down....
opinion by Babel-Fish | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 249 views | 14 recommendations | 2 comments
"Employers cut 533K jobs in Nov., most in 34 years Dec 5, 2008 Economy Dec 5, 3:22 PM (ET) By JEANNINE AVERSA WASHINGTON (AP) - Skittish employers slashed 533,000 jobs in November, the most in 34 years,...
created by gdg | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 168 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Asian stock markets surge after Fed rate cut; South Korean index up 12.7 percent HONG KONG (AP) -- Asian stock markets rallied Thursday, led by a 12 percent jump in South Korea, after the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to help revive the world's largest economy...
created by danheil | 3 years ago 135 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
Governments in Asia are pumping in big funds to fight off the credit crunch emerging out of global crisis. Governments are also cutting down cash reserve and interest rate to make more liquidity. Hong is cutting its key interest rate by 100 basis points effective Thursday....
The gruesome beheading in Canada must now share media space with a gruesome beheading in a wind-swept beach town in the Cyclades islands of Greece. A man murdered and beheaded his girlfriend, throwing the severed head at police before trying to escape in a stolen police...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1555 views | 17 recommendations | 5 comments
The few getlemans with the power to control the prices of the fuel don't stop to raise the prices days after days. We all have seen here (Vancouver) how the prices has raised in only two month 20cent per litre....
created by altrugon | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 216 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
US and UK diplomats were held at gunpoint yesterday by Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's forces, threatening to exascerbate the already out of control situation in that conutry."Panic as diplomats are held at gunpoint Driver beaten up and tyres slashed Furious Miliband lays...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 147 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorIn the World of Foodies, wanna be chefs like myself who religiously watch Food Network and Iron Chef are always looking for new and interesting foods created by others,...
created by Barry ORegan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 4002 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Life imitates Art. A woman scorned, a samurai sword, a winter scene in a small town are all the makings of a "KILL BILL" remake. For one man "Fantasy became Reality", his swashbuckling girlfriend...
created by Barry ORegan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1044 views | 20 recommendations | 6 comments
With an eclectic blend of 21st Century high-speed travel and the
19th-century gothic architecture of the St Pancras railway station,
this Eurostar system will surely revitalize the romance of railway
travel....
created by merrie | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 811 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
Hollywood gossip site Perezhilton.com is reporting that hollywood star Owen Wilson has been hospitalized after an apparent suicide attempt. Wilson is reported to have sliced his left wrist and...
created by phrolen | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 33713 views | 3 recommendations | 2 comments
"Morocco, which has slashed cannabis cultivation by nearly half over the past four years, hopes to eradicate the main remaining area of cultivation in the northern Rif mountains by opening up the region and introducing substitute crops.
The eradication programme encourages...
"ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The streets of this gambling capital have become more dangerous for prostitutes -- with a serial killer on the loose and several streetwalkers having been strangled, smothered, slashed and set ablaze.
So far this year, six prostitutes are...
"A grandmother of a newborn girl stolen from a rural home pleaded Saturday for the baby's safe return, as authorities searched for an abductor who stabbed and seriously injured the infant's mother before fleeing with the child.
"The family's in agony," Raylene Ochsenbine said...