The Sugar Regulatory Administration has formed a Sugar Forum, a gathering of sugar producers, planters and millers, for discussion and dialog on sugar-related topics.

Sugar Board Member Rafael Golez said in a statement that the participants will gather every second Friday of the month, 5 p.m., at the coffee shop of Business Inn in Bacolod City.

Golez said that the Sugar Forum has no membership and is open to all sugar producers. The chairmanship will be on rotation basis.

AMID PILOTS EXODUS
PAL scales back
expansion plans

MANILA - An ambitious one billion dollar six-year expansion plan by national flag carrier Philippine Airlines could be cut back if the airline fails to halt an exodus of pilots seeking better pay elsewhere.

"This is not a problem unique to PAL," Jaime Bautista the airline's president and chief operating officer told AFP in an interview.

"Many airlines throughout the region are facing the same problem. The industry is expanding so fast, especially in India and China, there simply isn't enough experienced pilots to go round.

2-day seminar on
landscaping set in Bacolod

The Landscape Contractors Association of the Philippines will host a two-day landscape seminar in Bacolod City on May 19 to 20, 2006, a press release from the organizers said.

The seminar, which will be held for the first time in Bacolod, has for its theme, "How To Start A Profitable Business in Landscaping."

The resource persons will be association president Ernesto Mendoza, president and seminar director Shirley Sanders, who will speak on the bright prospects of landscaping, plant growing, maintenance, dynamics of lawn business, landscape estimating and other related topics, the press release said.

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