Southern Luzon,
Visayas and Mindanao will experience cloudy
skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms becoming widespread rains over the
western sections of Visayas and Mindanao which
may trigger flashfloods and landslides. The rest
of Luzon will be partly cloudy to at times
cloudy with isolated rainshowers or
thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
The breakwater
in Zamboanga City suggests that Typhoon “Butchoy” is
no pushover. Small vessels and fishing boats are warned
not to venture out to sea as Butchoy makes waves. Photo by Al Jacinto
Senate braces for ‘The Clash of the Titans’
The Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) and the
Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will face off in what
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago had billed as “The Clash of the
Titans” as the Joint Congressional Power Commission (PowerCom)
starts its inquiry today into the high power rates prevailing in the
country.
The national weather bureau on Sunday warned residents in Southern
Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao to brace for landslides and flash
floods that Typhoon “Butchoy” (international code name: “Rammasun”)
may bring.
Transport groups led by the 200,000-member
Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (PISTON)
and the 35-organization Oil Transport Forum will definitely push
through with their nationally coordinated transport strike on Monday
to push for a stop to oil price increases.
PHILIPPINE economic growth in the first three
months of the year will match the record attained in the same period
last year, the Department of Finance said.
CLEVELAND, Ohio: LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers made the
most of the comforts of home Saturday, routing the Boston Celtics
108-84 in the National Basketball Association playoffs.
But retains solid performance and reliability as
their main features
Fort Ilocandia, Ilocos Norte: Riding on the wave of fashionably chic
notebook computers, Toshiba recently launched a new range of good
looking Satellite and Portégé models but kept in mind that solid
performance and dependability are key factors in maintaining
saleability.
PATHEIN, Myanmar: Myanmar’s junta held a referendum on a new
constitution Saturday, despite warnings more people would die unless
it focused on delivering emergency aid for survivors of last
week’s cyclone.
You know a cultural festival is hip and
happening when a modernized play on an epic Bangsamoro oral
tradition rivets mall rat spectators and earns the hearty applause
of the very people from whom the tale originated—the Maranaos
themselves. You know art is alive when a traditional oratorical
debate from the Tagalogs of Bulacan floors with laughter an audience
in Cagayan de Oro for whom the language is not the lingua franca.
