The Manila Times Surging food prices bite across Asia | From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring prices of food are breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the specters of hunger and unrest, experts warn. | A billi... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
The Manila Times Transport groups to hold strike; govt ready By Nora O. Gamolo, Senior Desk Editor and Ruben D. Manahan 4TH and James Konstantin Galvez, Reporters | Transport groups led by the 200,000-member Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nati... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
The Australian UBS commits to local operation | AUSTRALIA'S largest investment banking operation is "absolutely" not for sale and its owner, Switzerland's UBS, will not spin off its global investment bank division despite speculation following $U... (photo: AP Photo) AustraliaBankingCompanyInvestmentPhotos
The Australian Markets to play it safe ahead of budget | AUSTRALIAN share traders are expected to remain cautious ahead of tomorrow night's federal budget and the mid-week release of quarterly wage data. | Despite another sizeable loss on Wall Street on F... (photo: AP / Mark Baker) AustraliaEconomyFinanceMarketPhotos
The Australian Deadly power of 'delicate daffodil' | NARGIS, the name of the killer cyclone that has devastated Burma, was revealed by Indian officials yesterday to be an Urdu language word meaning "delicate daffodil". | ... (photo: AP Photo / Pavel Rahman) ClimateDisasterNaturePhotosSociety
The Australian Grief is compounded by desperation | BURMA'S great Irrawaddy river runs flat and muddy. It twines and forks through kilometres of rich delta and has always given nurture and good fortune to the people of s... (photo: US Marine Corp / Ezekiel R. Kitandwe) AidBurmaDisasterPhotosSociety
The Australian US help could save thousands of lives | ONE April day in 1991, the world awoke to the news that a devastating cyclone and tidal wave had struck the coast of Bangladesh. As bodies washed ashore by the thousand... (photo: US Navy file/PHAN Nicholas Morton) AidDisasterPhotosSocietyUS
The Australian Give generals the boot, it's the only way | THE United Nations this week said the refusal of Burma's Government to allow workers into the country's devastated agricultural region was unprecedented in the history ... (photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein) BurmaDisasterMilitaryPhotosUN
The Australian News of USA's demise greatly exaggerated | Will Hutton, in The Observer, on why it is a bit premature to concede the 21st century to China or India | THE fashionable view is that the US economy is a busted flush... (photo: AP Photo / kalpana) ChinaEconomyIndiaPhotosUS
