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                    [ArticleID] => 842689
                    [Title] => Suchero: A healthier way to satisfy a family's sweet cravings
                    [Summary] => 

 Until recently, parents trying to control the sugar intake of their children fought a losing battle. With the wide assortment of sugar-loaded products on the market, they could only resort to deprivation with feeble results.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 683645 [Title] => Customs to slap 38% tariff on refined sugar premixes [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) plans to slap a 38 percent tariff on refined sugar with other ingredients, or refined sugar premixes with very high sugar content.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 611678 [Title] => Sugar import arrivals reach 217,814 metric tons [Summary] =>

The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) reported yesterday that a total of 217,814 metric tons of imported sugar has arrived as of Sept. 8. The stocks are intended to fill the supply gap during the lean months.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 556662 [Title] => Who SAYS jeans CAN'T keep you cool? [Summary] =>

The intense heat of summer makes dressing up to keep your cool more challenging. Lighter fabrics are first that come into mind. But who says jeans can’t keep you cool this season?

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Shopping Guide [SectionUrl] => shopping-guide [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 526726 [Title] => Government to distribute sugar this weekend [Summary] =>

The Department of Agriculture will distribute bags of refined sugar to government stores starting this weekend due to the shortage of the commodity, officials said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 17641 [Title] => BIR suspends implementation of new VAT rules on refined sugar [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-10-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804708 [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 319217 [Title] => Shemberg embarks on P100-M expansion program [Summary] => MANDAUE CITY, Cebu –Tough times call for tough decisions. In the last year, while other seaweed processors have chosen to downscale their operations due to escalating fuel costs, Shemberg Marketing Corp. (Shemberg), the world’s biggest carrageenan producer and exporter, took a different and risky route.

It embarked on a P100-million expansion program in mid-2004 that included retooling its facilities and replacing its bunker-guzzling boilers with cheaper indigenous fuel alternatives.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 312913 [Title] => Tried by fire [Summary] => You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us as silver is refined. – Psalm 66:10

"The main end of life is not to do but to become," F. B. Meyer said. And for this we are being prepared every day. As silver is refined by fire, the heart is often refined in the furnace of sadness. The Psalmist said in his sorrow, "We went through fire" (Psalm 66:12).
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 303959 [Title] => Shemberg is now world's top carrageenan supplier [Summary] => The recent closure of Denmark-based multinational seaweed processing plant has put Cebuano-owned Shemberg Marketing Corporation as the world's number one supplier of refined carrageenan.

This development would mean increased demand for raw seaweed requirement, and employment opportunities especially for the Cebuanos.

Shemberg president and chief executive officer (CEO) Benson U. Dakay said the company now captures 30 percent of the total refined carrageenan market globally, rest of the demand are served by other seaweed processing plants across the globe.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 190174 [Title] => BIR to tighten VAT collection on sale of refined sugar [Summary] => The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is tightening its collection of value added tax (VAT) on the sale of refined sugar by requiring both sugar producers and sugar refiners to pay their taxes in advance to make it difficult for them to skirt their tax obligations.

The BIR has issued a new revenue regulation setting the VAT parameters for all classes of refined sugar, such as washed sugar, direct consumption sugar, plantation white sugar, standard sugar, improved raw sugar, premium improved raw sugar and premium sugar.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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