manila - bloomberg - The Philippine central bank is considering adjusting so-called special deposit accounts in an effort to manage costs so it has room to cool currency gains. “We would like to consider ways to make the SDA function more as a monetary instrument rather than an investment ...

MANILA - Taiwan's Lin Wen-tang battled to a memorable victory at the Solaire Open in Manila on Sunday, his sixth Asian Tour title, after staging a comeback on the last two holes. Lin, who trailed Thailand's Thammanoon Sriroj heading into the 17th hit his tee shot into the woods but calmly punched ...

MANILA - Taiwan's Lin Wen-tang held on to his lead in the third round of the Solaire Open in Manila Saturday despite dropping two shots in the last three holes. Lin, a five-time Asian Tour winner, bogeyed holes 16 and 17 for a round of two-under-par 70, at the inaugural $300,000 event at the ...

MANILA - US golfer Dodge Kemmer grabbed a first round lead with a six-under-par 66 at the Solaire Open in Manila on Thursday, after studying psychology in an effort to keep his emotions in check. The Asian Tour qualifying school graduate holed six birdies to hold a two-shot advantage over ...

MANILA - Plain clothes “secret marshals” have been deployed on public transport in Manila with orders to shoot down armed robbers in a crackdown against violent crime, the city’s newly appointed police chief said Friday. In a message to armed criminals who victimise bus and public ...

LAHORE - International experts in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) converge in Manila on October 18-19, 2011 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel for the 10th Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (AFCSR), the largest and most significant conference on CSR in Asia, says a press release. This ...

The American aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, from where Osama bin Laden's body was buried at sea, left the Philippines on Thursday with no untoward incident that took place, police said. National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Police Chief Superintendent Alan Purisima said that the ...

Police say at least 17 people have been killed in a fierce clash between officers and a group of suspected robbers in a Manila suburb. Metropolitan Manila Police Chief Leopoldo Bataoil said on Saturday that officers were trailing the suspects in two cars when the gunmen sensed the surveillance and ...

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Muslim fighters in the southern Philippines will sign a pact with Manila on Tuesday giving them control of large swathes of land, the Malaysian Prime Minister's department said. The agreement grants the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) an autonomous region, which will ...