{mosimage}YOUNG actress Lovie Poe will not allow controversies to get in the way of her show business career.
Last June 27, Lovi bagged the New Movie Actress of the Year award during the 24th Star Awards for Movies. "I'm very happy of course. I am grateful that they (Philippine Movie Press Club) could see all my effort and hard work, and I thanked them for being there for me since I started. They're al
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{mosimage}DUE to insistent public demand, the much talked about "spooftacular comedy show" entitled "Poohkwang" by Pokwang and Pooh is extended at the Music Museum.
The hit show is extended until July 4 and July 5. Poohkwang became controversial when Annabelle Rama (actress Pokwang impersonates) got disappointed with Pokwang because of spoofing her twins Richard and Raymond Gutierrez. Read more&
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THE Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) held last Friday the 24th Star Awards for Movies award-giving ceremony at Henry Lee Irwin Theater of the Ateneo de Manila University.
Ai-Ai delas Alas outshone her co-nominees Maricel Soriano, Lorna Tolentino, Judy Ann Santos, Bea Alonzo, and Cherry Pie Picache by winning the Movie Actress of the Year for the movie "Ang Cute Ng Ina Mo." In her speech, the comedy quee
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In just a couple of weeks probably, Manny Pacquiao will have to start counting his seven-digit earnings for his sensational knockout victory over David Diaz last Saturday at Mandalay Bay.
Pacquiao refused to answer questions regarding his guaranteed purse for his most recent bout, although previous reports said it’s supposed to be in the vicinity of $5 million or approximately P225 million.
The peso falling a
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TOKYO—Sanyo Electric Co., the world’s largest rechargeable-battery maker, will close a wholly-owned subsidiary in the Philippines as part of a reorganization of its capacitor business.
The company plans to liquidate the unit by April next year, Osaka-based Sanyo said in a statement Monday. The closure of the Tarlac City-based subsidiary, which started operations in August 1999, will have a “very s
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EasyCall Communications Philippines Inc. (ECPI) has settled its arrears worth P14.82 million with the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).
In a disclosure to the stock exchange, ECPI general manager Renato Vicente Martinez said the company has paid NTC the amount, which represents supervision and regulatory fees (SRF), last June 30.
He added that the amount was based on a re-assessment made by the commissi
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There is a pool of uncollected taxes from minimum-wage earners totaling some P500 million that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is not interested in collecting for the moment.
The money represents taxable income that should have been withheld and set aside for the BIR by employers around the country but was eventually dropped as Malacañang issued an executive order stopping the practice of withholding a
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MANILA – Banco de Oro Unibank Inc (BDO), the Philippines' second-biggest bank by value, said on Tuesday its board of directors had approved a plan for the bank to raise at least $150 million from overseas capital markets.
The bank said it has not yet decided what type of instrument to use for the fund raising activity. It also has yet to pick an arranger.
"The board authorized management as appropria
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