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                    [Title] => DBP allots P12B for biofuel projects
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The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has set aside P12 billion for lending for biofuel and biomass projects this year, a ranking official said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 326672 [Title] => New NCFP head vows reforms [Summary] => Rep. Prospero "Butch" Pichay Jr., newly-elected president of the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP), said he would initiate reforms and programs that would bring back the nation’s old stature in world chess..

"We want to bring back the supremacy of the Filipinos in the field of chess," said Pichay.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 309172 [Title] => RP hosts in-line marathon [Summary] => More foreign sports enthusiasts are expected to come to the country even long after the Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) is over.

Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano said thousands of foreign athletes and sports enthusiasts, particularly from South Korea, are coming here for the 2005 Philippine International in-line marathon.

The marathon will include three categories — open division for certified in-line skaters aged 13 years and above, the masters’ division which is for amateur skaters and the beginners division.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 99000 [Title] => Unilab to reduce prices of 65 essential drugs [Summary] =>

As government prepares for the first shipment of cheap imported drugs from India, United Laboratories, a Filipino-owned drug company, announced yesterday that it is reducing the prices of 65 essential drugs.

not_entUnilab, the single biggest local drug manufacturer in the country, accounts for some 20 percent of the local pharmaceutical market and Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II welcomed the initiative to lower drug prices.

In the list are anti-infectives such as amoxicillin [DatePublished] => 2000-05-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 100443 [Title] => 'iecep 2000' gets DOTC's full support [Summary] =>

Undersecretary for Communications Agustin Bengzon has expressed his full support for this year's major telecommunications and information technology, "iecep 2000," which will be held on Sept. 4-7 at the Philippine International Convention Center. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 101411 [Title] => NFA to bid out license for export of sugar [Summary] =>

The National Food Authority is scheduled to bid out next week the license to export to the world market 25,000 metric tons of locally produced sugar.

The move is in response to a presidential directive for the NFA to export a total of 100,000 metric tons of local sugar in order to mop up excess stocks and prop up sagging domestic sugar millgate prices.

Domestic sugar prices plunged to as low as P600 per bag (or even lower than production cost) and have remained in this vicinity for sometime now compared to P800 per bag in September, due to unabated smuggling of cheap imported [DatePublished] => 2000-01-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )

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