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Investors and corporate boards are focusing their risk assessments this year not just on the bad news from the world economy, but also on the dangers related to the May election.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-26 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1494358 [Title] => Doubts about China's economic leadership sap confidence [Summary] =>

The fear that gripped financial markets this month is a stark one: That China's economy might be slipping into a decline that could persist for years.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-30 16:14:46 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645203 [AuthorName] => Paul Wiseman [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1254204 [Title] => Undersea tunnel connects Asia to Europe [Summary] =>

The day we drove up the Greece-Turkey border last Tuesday, they inaugurated a 13.6-kilometer rail tunnel under the busy Bosphorus Strait. The $4-billion mega project was a dream project championed by Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan when he was still mayor of Istanbul.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 926091 [Title] => Facebook mulls own smartphone showcasing social network [Summary] =>

Nowadays, Facebook users post more photos, write more status updates and hit the like button more often from mobile devices than they do from computers. So it was almost inevitable that Facebook would introduce a smartphone that put its social network front and center.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-02 11:02:44 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Gadgets [SectionUrl] => gadgets [URL] => http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/5513/facebooksmartphone.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 901373 [Title] => Doubts raised about fairness of Delhi rape trial [Summary] =>

In the court of public opinion, the men being tried in the gang rape of an Indian university student should be hanged in a public square.

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Ricly Lo interviews Suraj Sharma, who played the lead character Pi Patel in the magical-adventure film "Life of Pi" directed by highly-acclaimed director Ang Lee, who also created the epic movie "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon."

[DatePublished] => 2013-01-16 11:50:49 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Video Features [SectionUrl] => video-features [URL] => http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/656/71920808.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 895403 [Title] => Lawyer: 3 Delhi rape suspects to plead not guilty [Summary] =>

Three of the suspects in the brutal rape and killing of a young woman on a New Delhi bus will plead not guilty, their lawyer said Thursday, hinting that police had tampered with evidence in the attack that has transfixed India.

[DatePublished] => 2013-01-10 14:43:53 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 839645 [Title] => Aquino expects good 2nd qtr economic figures [Summary] =>

President Aquino sees good numbers for the second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) as he received a group of business executives, including the author of the boo, Breakout Nations that said the Philippines “is no longer a joke.”

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 822833 [Title] => Little fanfare as P-Noy marks 2nd year in office [Summary] =>

There will hardly be any fanfare as President Aquino marks his second year in office today but Malacañang released excerpts of a book saying the Chief Executive was leading the Philippines to become the next “tiger economy.”

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If we are to believe foreign observers from respected business publications and ratings agencies, we are finally getting our economics right.

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