By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Positive news for the nation’s struggling iron and steel industry turned up this week: Seven domestic banks have pooled a P4.4-billion syndicated loan to finance the construction in Plaridel, Bulacan of a modern reinforcing-steel-bar rolling mill, with an annual capacity of 1.2 million metric…
Day: October 17, 2015
Ph one of world’s biggest rice importers, as food producers go hungry
“It is ironic that the rural people who are the primary food producers are the ones who are experiencing lack of food and drastic hunger.”
World Rural Women’s Day | Peasant women decry landlessness, hunger, poverty
The destitute condition of peasant women in different countries shows the effects of global massive land grabbing and resource plunder.
Port workers slam Japanese firm for stalling talks
“SUMIFRU’s actions are downright disrespectful of the union.”
Elections, information, and governance
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld It’s that time again, the filing of certificates of candidacy that’s the prelude to the months-long extravaganza-cum-freak show that we call elections. Thanks to the media focus on who’s running for such national offices as the Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, and the Senate, an observer unfamiliar with the…