Fully foreign-owned investment houses will be allowed to operate in the country as the government will remove the restriction under the soon-to-be-released latest foreign investment negative list (FINL), report Inquirer.net.
The Philippine Ice Hockey Team (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP)
The Philippines avoided a mid-game collapse to win the inaugural ice hockey gold medal at the Southeast Asian Games over Thailand, 5-4, on Thursday, August 24 at Empire City Mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reports Rappler.
Patrick Rosal
Patrick Rosal’s book Brooklyn Antediluvian (Persea Books, 2016) has received the $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Awarded by the Academy of American Poets since 1994, for the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year, reports the Academy of American Poets.
Julian Cadman (Source: gofundme.com)
Three more victims of the van attack in Barcelona, including a 7-year-old Julian Cadman who has been missing since the rampage Thursday, have been identified. The Australian, Philippine and British governments said that the 7-year-old son of a woman seriously injured in the attack had become separated from her and was missing, reports CBS News.
San Francisco’s historic Old Mint building (88 Fifth Street), is the venue for Undiscovered SF, an innovative new monthly night market that celebrates the evolution of Filipino cuisine, commerce and culture and highlights SOMA Pilipinas as the city's Filipino Cultural District (Inquirer.net).
Fil-Am teacher Yvette Felarca
A Filipina American schoolteacher in Berkeley, California faced assault charges in court Thursday, Aug. 10, for punching a neo-Nazi, but she says assault charges against her should be dropped, reports Inquirer.net.
In the face of the first-ever outbreak of avian, or bird flu, markets in Metro Manila have reported slumping prices of dressed chicken and chicken meat, as well as eggs, reports InterAksyon..
Ingemar Macarine (Source: inquirer.net)
Environmental lawyer Ingemar Macarine, also known as the “Pinoy Aquaman,” was about 3.8 km (2.3 miles) from this southeastern coastal town on Sunday morning when he was made to stop because of bad weather, reports Inquirer.net.
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