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                    [Title] => What Christmas gift would you choose and for whom?
                    [Summary] => 

I love Christmas. It is the time of the year when we make more time to be with our family and loved ones.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136207 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1529529 [AuthorName] => Mons Romulo [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 341699 [Title] => 25 years with First Pacific [Summary] => GRAND! That is how I would describe First Pacific’s 25th anniversary bash and thanksgiving celebration recently held at the Grand Ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong.

First Pacific is a Hong Kong-based investment and management company with operations located in Southeast Asia. Its principal business interests relate to Telecommunications and Consumer Food Products. The company’s investments include PLDT, Indofood, Metro Pacific and Level Up.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135957 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1646915 [AuthorName] => Pepper Teehankee [SectionName] => Newsmakers [SectionUrl] => newsmakers [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275393 [Title] => Party harder! [Summary] => World-class partying in paradise is what it is all about. Team Bigfish led by Domini and Joanne Primero and Pixie Cheah, with the full support of Smart Communications, threw three amazing parties during Holy Week and the weekend after.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135957 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1646915 [AuthorName] => Pepper Teehankee [SectionName] => Newsmakers [SectionUrl] => newsmakers [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231443 [Title] => First Pacific extends HK$10-M loan to RP unit of Metro Pacific [Summary] => First Pacific Co. Ltd. has extended a HK$10-million (roughly P70.9-million) loan facility to its Philippine flagship Metro Pacific Corp. (MPC).

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange yesterday, MPC said the loan facility, which will mature in end-2005, will be used to meet and fund the local units various general working capital requirements.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804021 [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 202079 [Title] => Nenaco hits ‘illegal, libelous’ statements of UFS [Summary] => Negros Navigation Co. (Nenaco), the shipping subsidiary of Metro Pacific Corp. (MPC), lashed out yesterday at special interest group, United Filipino Seafarers (UFS) and its leader, Nelson Ramirez, for making untrue and libelous statements regarding the status of the company’s paid consultants.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 196465 [Title] => Pasig River gets helping hand [Summary] => Students of Western Bicutan National High School in Taguig got their hands dirty yesterday and planted 100 acacia tree saplings in the vicinity of their campus – their share in helping rehabilitate the Pasig River.

The participation would hopefully grow into a commitment.

"The students would be the ones to take care of the trees until they are fully-grown," said David Nugent, vice president for corporate communications of the Fort Bonifacio Development Corp. (FBDC).
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1620721 [AuthorName] => Nikko Dizon [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 194246 [Title] => Sense and sensibility [Summary] => Business journalists can indeed be privileged, since most of the time, they get to be a real "fly on the wall" and be a witness to some of the country’s most interesting corporate stories, and boardroom dramas.

The most recent one, and still developing, has to do with the Philippines’ second-largest shipping company, Negros Navigation Co. (Nenaco).
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134315 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191801 [Title] => Nenaco to raise P1-B for capex, vessels purchase [Summary] => Metro Pacific Corp.-subsidiary Negros Navigation Co. (Nenaco) plans to raise around P1 billion by the second quarter either through a rights offering or private placement, proceeds of which will be used for capital expenditure and acquisition of new freighters.

With the company expected to post a P100-million profit in 2002 from a net loss of P1.36 billion in 2001, Nenaco believes it is now in a position to return to the capital market.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 184166 [Title] => MPC losses mount in first 9 months [Summary] => Property conglomerate Metro Pacific Corp.’s (MPC) losses jumped more than five-fold in the first nine months of 2002 due to a huge loan provision and lower revenues from its subsidiaries.

MPC officials attributed the heavy losses to a one-time, non-cash, extraordinary provision of P7.2 billion made during the first half of the year in an anticipation of a potential loss that may arise should foreclosures occur on its shares in Bonifacio Land Corp. (BLC), the private consortium developing the Bonifacio Global City.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 162023 [Title] => Metro Pacific incurs P521-M loss [Summary] => Despite a P521-million loss in the first quarter, property conglomerate Metro Pacific Corp. remains optimistic of an improvement in its balance sheet over the short term due to its continued debt restructuring program and the favorable performance of its subsidiaries and affiliates.

Company spokesman David Nugent said MPC is in the middle of a transition from a diversified conglomerate to a holding firm for its core business of property development.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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