Drug for pain relief listed as ‘dangerous’

MANILA, Philippines – A synthetic opioid used for pain relief has been added to the list of dangerous drugs based on regulations issued by the Dangerous Drugs Board (DBB). According to Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Undersecretary Jose Gutierrez, the DDB issued last December 16, 2010 Regulation Number 1, series of 2010 that classified Nalbuphine Hydrochloride as a dangerous drug effective January 28, 2011. PDEA said Nalbuphine Hydrochloride’s analgesic potency Read more [...]

Drug for pain relief listed as 'dangerous'

MANILA, Philippines – A synthetic opioid used for pain relief has been added to the list of dangerous drugs based on regulations issued by the Dangerous Drugs Board (DBB). According to Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Undersecretary Jose Gutierrez, the DDB issued last December 16, 2010 Regulation Number 1, series of 2010 that classified Nalbuphine Hydrochloride as a dangerous drug effective January 28, 2011. PDEA said Nalbuphine Hydrochloride’s analgesic potency Read more [...]

US reopens door to tech exports

The US on Monday cleared the way for the resumption of high technology defense and aerospace exports to India ending a restrictive control mechanism in place since the Pokhran II nuclear tests in 1998. Nine Indian state-owned defense and aerospace companies were taken off the list of entities to which US companies cannot sell dual-use technology "with both civilian and military uses" without their government's permission. The de-listed entities are Bharat Dynamics Read more [...]

Hove residents kept squatters in school secret

Hove residents kept squatters in school secret 2:30pm Tuesday 25th January 2011 Print Email Share Comments(10) Residents kept quiet about squatters taking over a former school because they preferred them to the idea of developers moving in. A group of about a dozen people are believed to have moved into a section of the vacant Park House in Old Shoreham Road, Hove, in November. But neighbours have remained Read more [...]

BC house prices too high by national and global standards

    It’s not just Vancouver where house prices are way out of line, and it’s not just a Canadian comparison that makes the cost of real estate in BC look so bad.    Four out of four BC cities included in an international survey earned rankings of “severely unaffordable.” Vancouver was judged to be the third-worst of 325 cities in developed countries world-wide. The number of years of annual income required to by a home — between 5.9 and 7.1 — in Victoria, Abbotsford and Read more [...]

Chile Stocks Close 1.1% Lower Tracking Falling US Markets

SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--Chile's select-stock index ended 1.1% lower Tuesday, tracking slumping U.S. markets, while participants waited for local heavyweights to start reporting their fourth-quarter earnings. The Ipsa slipped to 4830.88 and volume totaled 98.4 billion Chilean pesos ($200.0 million), compared to CLP72.4 billion the prior session. As several of the Ipsa's heavier-weighted shares are also listed in New York, the Ipsa tends to track the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In recent Read more [...]

Eastern Branch to pilot Read Like a Library Champion contest

Eastern Branch to pilot Read Like a Library Champion contest SHREWSBURY — The Monmouth County Library’s Eastern Branch has been chosen as a pilot library for the Read Like a NJ Library Champion program . The Eastern Branch is one of 10 libraries from across the state chosen by the New Jersey State Library to participate in the program, which will offer patrons the chance to win tickets to IZOD Center events by reading books. The program is a partnership between the New Read more [...]

Supervisors push delay in sheriff delinquent mobile home tax sale

POPLARVILLE — Saying they were afraid some people might be forced onto the streets in cold weather, supervisors on Monday approved a resolution requesting the tax assessor-collector and sheriff postpone a sale of mobile homes whose owners were delinquent on taxes. At a sheriff’s sale scheduled for Thursday, the county was prepared to auction off 88 mobile homes of owners who owe delinquent taxes on them. The sale now will be postponed for 60 days. The supervisors took the action when board Read more [...]

BizBuySell.com Reports 4Q Business-for-Sale Transactions Rose 3%

SAN FRANCISCO -- BizBuySell.com, one of the largest Internet business for sale marketplaces, recently released its fourth quarter BizBuysell.com Insight Report. The report stated that the number of closed business-for-sale transactions in the U.S., according to business brokers, rose by 3 percent in 2010. And transactions completed in the fourth quarter were up 11 percent versus the 2009 fourth quarter. "Spurred on by a strong showing in the fourth quarter, the business-for-sale market showed Read more [...]