
Asia’s vendors grapple with rising costs of ever-present plastics
Petrochemical companies mainly in South Korea and Japan have scaled back production capacity, sending the cost of basic goods such as plastic bags surging.
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Petrochemical companies mainly in South Korea and Japan have scaled back production capacity, sending the cost of basic goods such as plastic bags surging.
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Replacement-cost pricing lets companies re-price against a hypothetical future invoice. The rocket’s engine would have a zero inventory lag on the way up.
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Senator Christopher “Bong” Go distributed financial relief and essential goods to 500 tricycle operators and drivers in San Isidro, Davao Oriental to help ease…
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A total of 3,300 families received 10 kilos of quality rice each under First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos’ “Mula sa Puso Para sa Pamilya” initiative, as she capped…
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Forget what we have been taught in school that in a democracy, there are checks and balances. These days, they are called transactions.
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Residents of Quezon City, Makati and Manila have felt the presence and love of First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, who has brought various forms of assistance and…
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But Duterte’s camp won’t outright admit these political ploys, much less admit their fear of what the trial will reveal about the Veep’s baggage of…
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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A court sentenced a former South Korean justice minister on Monday to 25 years in prison for his role in ex-President Yoon Suk…
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia (AFP) — A flamboyant United States-backed lawyer who has never held public office narrowly won Colombia’s polarizing presidential runoff…
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Starmer — in office since July 2024 — conceded he had lost the support of his Labor party.
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‘There will be a rollback despite reports about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz. Even if developments occur today or tomorrow, fuel prices should remain…
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First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos led a rice distribution drive in Barangay Doña Imelda, Quezon City on Monday as part of an initiative aimed at providing food…
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Filipinos are not demanding more elaborate messaging from the government; they are asking for tangible evidence that their daily lives are improving.
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The reason was obscene in its very nature; the Marcos government found a way to profit from a war half a world away.
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Through horse-trading maneuvers, it would attempt to woo the allegiance of the Villar siblings and perhaps even Sen. Loren Legarda, who appears to be among the…
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MORE Power said Wholesale Electricity Spot Market prices surged to P10.30/kWh from P4.45/kWh, more than doubling during the period; the generation rate, which…
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How political lies became today’s consequential ‘triumphant disaster’ predictably will soon preoccupy our historians and social scientists.
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