The Unlawyer

• Philippine revenue officials are not that enthusiastic in giving more tax relief to Filipino taxpayers.
• Crude oil prices may go up in the coming business week as Nigerian rebels threaten anew to disrupt that country’s production.
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) says that industry, not services, is still the Philippines’ best bet for robust economic growth.
• Garbage remains the lifeblood of at least 30,000 residents of Quezon City’s infamous Payatas dumpsite.
• Increased production of hybrid rice varieties encourages rice millers to invest in new mills.
• Learn more about Six Sigma – from a Filipina no less – at the Six Sigma Blog. The blog author tells us: Six Sigma isn’t just for the big boys (H/T: Ideologic).
• Kicking Over My Traces adopts shopping guru Paco Underhill’s bricks-and-mortar advice to websites in A Reason to Return, Interception Rate, and Display Windows (H/T: Frugal Underground).
• Over at OpinionJournal, Paco Underhill himself suggests five good books on consumer culture.
• While on the subject of business books, Brand Autopsy does us all a favor and sifts the wheat from the chaff – from a marketer’s perspective, that is – with its Worthy Reads/Worthless Reads series.

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