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                    [Title] => Globalport tops Thailand’s Kuppa Cup
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The Philippine-Globalport polo team, led by sports patron Mikee Romero and skippered by 2007 SEA Games veteran Antonio Veloso, bested a tough field to rule the 2012 Thailand Kuppa Gold Cup championship in Pattaya, Thailand last weekend.

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AACTC has asked the Makati Regional Trial Court to order a suspension of its payments on its debt amounting to $17 million representing a primary debt from the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank.
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Merrill Lynch is one of the Philippines' leading broking, investment banking and wealth management companies.
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Merrill Lynch is one of the Philippines' leading broking, investment banking and wealth management companies.

Merrill Lynch’s Philippine research team was recently ranked No. 1 in Institutional Investor’s All Asia ex-Japan Research Team Survey for the second straight year. [DatePublished] => 2001-06-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Globalport tops Thailand’s Kuppa Cup
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The Philippine-Globalport polo team, led by sports patron Mikee Romero and skippered by 2007 SEA Games veteran Antonio Veloso, bested a tough field to rule the 2012 Thailand Kuppa Gold Cup championship in Pattaya, Thailand last weekend.

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[DatePublished] => 2003-09-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 152310 [Title] => Did RCBC lose a bundle in Code NGO deal? [Summary] => A position paper released under the name of Malacañang speechwriter and DBP director Alex Magno asserts that "it was RCBC, not government, that bore the cost of the P1.8-billion windfall that was enjoyed by Code NGO." Alex didn’t really write the paper but he is the President of the Foundation that tasked its executive committee to produce the paper.
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[DatePublished] => 2002-02-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 137970 [Title] => Hong Kong buckles up for economic turbulence [Summary] => This time around, the tigers around us are being hit by the economic downturn. Singapore and Hong Kong, the most aggressive of the regional tigers are mobilizing their resources to meet the crisis. Last Tuesday, a government trade development delegation from Hong Kong briefed us on how the former Crown colony is buckling up for the economic turbulence. I have to admit I was impressed and was left wondering why our own government isn’t doing as much.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 133611 [Title] => All Asia Capital seeks debt relief [Summary] => All Asia Capital and Trust Corp. (AACTC) has applied for debt relief while the future of its subsidiary – All Asia Life Assurance Corp. (All Asia Life) – hangs in the balance.

AACTC has asked the Makati Regional Trial Court to order a suspension of its payments on its debt amounting to $17 million representing a primary debt from the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank.
[DatePublished] => 2001-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 94057 [Title] => Maybe Land Bank should be privatized! [Summary] => Land Bank and Metrobank are supposedly wondering if they should put up an asset management company with some foreign banks to take care of the non performing accounts of the two local banks. At about P29 billion each, the two local banks can indeed benefit from some cleaning of their books. The problem is, Land Bank shouldn't have even been in all of those deals. Land Bank's reason for being a government bank is supposedly to help agrarian reform take root.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1254507 [AuthorName] => DEMAND AND SUPPLY [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 95666 [Title] => Maybe Land Bank should be privatized! - DEMAND AND SUPPLY [Summary] => Land Bank and Metrobank are supposedly wondering if they should put up an asset management company with some foreign banks to take care of the non performing accounts of the two local banks. At about P29 billion each, the two local banks can indeed benefit from some cleaning of their books. The problem is, Land Bank shouldn't have even been in all of those deals. Land Bank's reason for being a government bank is supposedly to help agrarian reform take root.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 92694 [Title] => Merrill Lynch won’t close RP operations [Summary] => In response to what they described as inaccurate reports in the local Philippine media, Merrill Lynch chairman for Asia Pacific Raymundo Yu said yesterday that Merrill Lynch has a strong franchise in the Philippine market and that the firm has no plans to close its Philippine operations.

Merrill Lynch is one of the Philippines' leading broking, investment banking and wealth management companies.
[DatePublished] => 2001-06-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 95392 [Title] => Merrill Lynch won’t close RP operations [Summary] => In response to what they described as inaccurate reports in the local Philippine media, Merrill Lynch chairman for Asia Pacific Raymundo Yu said yesterday that Merrill Lynch has a strong franchise in the Philippine market and that the firm has no plans to close its Philippine operations.

Merrill Lynch is one of the Philippines' leading broking, investment banking and wealth management companies.

Merrill Lynch’s Philippine research team was recently ranked No. 1 in Institutional Investor’s All Asia ex-Japan Research Team Survey for the second straight year. [DatePublished] => 2001-06-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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