Aboitiz Power Corporation (AboitizPower) said its consolidated net income declined 23 percent to P3.7 billion for the second quarter of 2015, citing revaluation of dollar-denominated liabilities. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the AboitizPower said the movements in the peso-dollar exchange rate resulted to a P154 million nonrecurring loss versus last year’s […]
An injured deer is recovering at a wildlife rehabilitation facility after three Mt. Pleasant police officers rescued it Sunday.
Berkeley County deputies charged a North Charleston teen in connection with a drive-by shooting that wounded three other teens this weekend.
A total of 2,098 organizations with 1,079,407 individuals participated in the metro-wide Metro Manila Shake Drill held on July 30, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Here are a few scenes:
July 30 (Infostrada Sports) - Line-ups for the second and final Test between Bangladesh and South Africa on Thursday in Mirpur, Bangladesh Bangladesh won toss and decided to bat Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim (capt), Shakib Al Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Liton Das, Mohammad Shahid, Mustafizur Rahman, Jubair Hossain South Africa: Dean Elgar, Stiaan van Zyl, Faf du Plessis, Hashim Amla (capt), Temba Bavuma, Jean-Paul Duminy, Dane Vilas, Vernon Phil
BEIJING, July 30 (Reuters) - The People's Bank of China is strengthening internal risk controls to weed out potential corrupt practices, a unit of the Communist Party's graft watchdog within the central bank said on Thursday.
HONG KONG, July 30 (Reuters) - Chinese developer Country Garden Holdings Company Ltd said on Thursday a subsidiary had obtained regulatory approval to issue an up to 6 billion yuan ($966.3 million) onshore bond.
Air safety investigators have a "high degree of confidence" that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared...
Hong Kong, China | AFP — Asian markets mostly rose Thursday, tracking a second straight rally in New York, while the dollar also pushed higher after the Federal Reserve upgraded its outlook on the US economy. With the mood on global markets a little more upbeat than at the start of the week, oil prices edged up although […]
By Yeawon Choi SEOUL, July 30 (Reuters) - Seoul shares slipped by midday on Thursday because of worries over the earnings outlook for coming quarters after some disappointing results were released for the April-June period, with shares in market heavyweight Samsung Electronics down. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) was down 0.2 percent at 2,033.89 as of 0238 GMT. "Local shares have priced in lukewarm earnings for the second quarter, but investors are still worrying over
A University of Cincinnati police officer who shot a motorist during a traffic stop over a missing front license plate was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge, with a prosecutor saying the officer "purposely killed him"...
My parents paid good money for me to eat in my college’s cafeteria, where the steam tables were stocked with nutritionally sound roast turkey slices, baked cod filets and green beans. Actually, I’m guessing here. The only food I really remember from college is greasy tater tots splashed with hot wing sauce, a specialty of an...
Hot and breezy summers at the live music venue The Windjammer on the Isle of Palms are always packed with popular local and touring acts and special events. This weekend, one of the liveliest annual get-togethers of the season will kick up as Charleston-based groove-rock band Sol Driven Train, an ever-evolving troupe of skillful players who dabble...
On a sunny afternoon last fall, the six members of Media Reform SC sat around Faye Steuer’s kitchen table, talking about all the Federal Communications Commission hoops they’d have to jump through over the next few months.
HOLLYWOOD — One more miracle, that’s what goes through Josh Long’s mind as he follows reports of the Florida teens lost at sea, another miracle like the fisherman who came across him and Troy Driscoll after six days adrift 10 years ago.
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There won’t be any stemming the tide this week.
Here’s Hillary Clinton’s “answer” to a question about whether she supports or opposes the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline at a townhall in New Hampshire today.
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While the federal health care program is still a long way from providing insurance to every American who needs it, the program is apparently pretty good at covering people who…
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Charleston’s gay community heard from the seven people who want to be the city’s next mayor during a forum Wednesday night where candidate Ginny Deerin said she’s long been a supporter of gay rights.
TAIPEI, July 30 (Reuters) - Taiwan stocks rose on Thursday in line with an upbeat performance in other regional markets after the U.S. Fed noted strength in the world's largest economy.
I started my career as a foreign correspondent in Beirut in 1979. I didn’t know it at the time, but 1979 turned out to be one of the great vintage…
Читать дальше...A Dorchester County deputy was arrested Wednesday morning after he was found lying in a ditch.
The South Carolina Highway Patrol is working the scene of a fatal accident on S.C. Hwy. 61 that has left one person dead and both lanes of traffic blocked.
At 72 years old Iain Sinclair shows no sign of slowing down, either as an author or filmmaker; this is his second book of 2015. He would probably smile wryly at his activities being described as a literary career; nevertheless, if the word is used as a verb, meaning ‘to move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way’, rather than as a noun, the description fits. Much of Sinclair’s best-known writing is a one-man infantry charge generating a stream of prose, partitioned between different covers but really part of one vast meta-book... Читать дальше...
