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Pakistan: Gunmen kill 7 teachers, aid workers

January 2, 2013 - 1:44pm

Gunmen on motorcycles sprayed a van carrying employees from a community center with bullets Tuesday, killing five female teachers and two aid workers, but sparing a child they took out of the vehicle before opening...

World

Gunmen kill 5 female teachers in Pakistan

January 2, 2013 - 2:47am

Gunmen in northwest Pakistan killed five teachers and two aid workers from a non-governmental organization yesterday as they were driving home from work. The group's director said they may have been targeted...

Suicide attacker kills 2 policemen in Pakistan

October 28, 2011 - 4:07pm

Pakistani police say a suicide attacker has killed a police officer and his guard in the country's northwestern.

Another suspect revealed in Times Square bomb case

May 28, 2010 - 3:20pm

A Pakistani official says another man has been detained in connection with the main suspect in the Times Square attempted car bombing.

Save RP forests, says ADB

July 5, 2005 - 12:00am

Sustainable forest and other natural resource management must be tackled to reduce poverty and ensure livelihoods in the Philippines. Speaking at the first Philippine Forestry Development Forum hosted at the Asian...

Banking

ADB supports RP energy restructuring

By Ted P. Torres | September 14, 2004 - 12:00am

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) called the country’s power sector reform program as "appropriate" and expressed support for its privatization efforts. ADB Director General for Southeast Asia Shamshad...

Business

ADB set to cancel $50-M project loans to RP

By Ted P. Torres | January 27, 2004 - 12:00am

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is considering the cancellation of as much as $50 million in project loans to the Philippines by June due to the continued delays in their implementation. Last year, the Manila-based...

Business

Gov't urged to go slow on PSE demutualization

By Rocel Felix | April 3, 2000 - 12:00am

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said legislating the demutualization of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) will not guarantee the improvement of the stock exchange. In a recent forum on the Philippine capital...

Business