CEBU CITY -- THE WORLD CAME crashing down on the laborers of Pacific Traders and Manufacturing Corp. in 1997 when the Cebu-based furniture and wood products export company told them the grim news that it was letting them go because it could no longer pay

May 27 (Bloomberg) -- China plans to make it easier for foreign banks such as HSBC Holdings Plc to set up rural operations as the government seeks to boost funding for farmers, said two people with knowledge of the matter.

THE frenzy to determine—and curb—the extent to which value-added taxes (VAT) have been imposed on the power sector has seized both houses of Congress.

Solar Promotion International GmbH is pleased to announce details about its conference program for Intersolar North America at the Moscone Center West building and, lying directly next door, the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco, California.

Church-supported program assists Haiti food crisis >Jul. 29, 2008 NOTE: Photographs are available at http://umns.umc.org . >A UMNS Report By Jan Dragin* Struggling in the grip of a worsening world food crisis, Haitians in the island nation's remote Artib