Works like magic; (Editor's note: Disappearance of imported pork has become a habit according to the author.).
Byline: Romeo V. Pefianco LAST week the more forceful but sensitive suggestions were presented to a coffee shop crowd of analysts and fence-sitters. Preventing theft at BoC warehouses The idea is how to prevent the disappearance from BoC's warehouses of large chunks of...

RP IX massacres Malaysia.
Byline: eddie alinea TOO BAD, you canat throw a towel in baseball. In a game that will be remembered for its ruthlessness, the Philippines devastated Malaysia, 38-0, yesterday at the start of the baseball competition in the 23rd Southeast Asian Games. The Rizal...

Makati receives TESDA award; Binay cited for leadership.
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) conferred three awards to the Makati Training Placement and Livelihood Consortia (MTPLC) including a citation for Makati Mayor Jejomar C. Binay during the recent Trainees Day celebration held at TESDA Complex in Taguig. TESDA cited Binay for his dynamic...

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Emirates launches RP page in its website Emirates, the Dubai-based airline, has introduced a full suite of online services in the Philippines, offering passengers the option and convenience of travel planning, booking, and checking in for their flights via the internet. Winner of TTG Asiaas...

5th Street Market makeover to begin.
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard The evolution of Eugene's Fifth Street Public Market is speeding up, with the shopping venue's 93-year-old east building - a former chicken-processing plant - about to be transformed from artsy cubbyholes to glitzy retail space. The market's Galleria area, encompassing...

Butt out, public.
Byline: The Register Guard When it comes to planning the future of public lands, the Bush administration is always happy to hear from its friends in the timber, mining, oil and gas industries. But if you're an environmentalist or just an interested member of the general public,...

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Ormoc fire victims buried today ORMOC CITY, Leyte -- The bodies of the 24 victims of a fire in a mall here last Christmas Day will be interred today at the mass grave of the 1991 Ormoc flashflood victims at the public cemetery in this city. ...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Put blame on the real murderers Jim Schmidt says "that there will be civilians killed or injured during time of war is a sad reality" and "it is the deliberate killing of civilians that is the issue here" (letters, June 17). ...

Shoppers warned against 'hot meat'.
Byline: WILLIE L. CATAPAT and RAUL V. GONZALES Authorities have warned Metro Manila residents of the proliferation of ahot meata in public markets with the approaching Christmas and New Year festivities - a time of the year when unscrupulous traders floo Authorities have warned Metro Manila residents...

UAE okays local entity as Halal certifier.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT The United Arab Emirates has approved a local entity, that would oversee the manufacture of beef/goat and poultry products under the Halal rules paving the way for the country's Halal foods to penetrate the huge Muslim consumer base of 1.5 billion people and a...