Central and
Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will
experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered
rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the
country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies
with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms
mostly in the afternoon or evening.
Members of a US
Marine band debark from the USS Peleliu to play in
shipside ceremonies at Manila’s port Monday. The
Peleliu, a multipurpose amphibious ship, is in the
Philippines to deliver humanitarian supplies and assist
in civic projects. Photo by Rene Dilan
The small band of gunmen holding
Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi as a hostage slipped through the
blockade set up by the military in Zamboanga Sibugay, a senior
military official said Monday.
Maj. Gen. Ben Mohammad Dolorfino
said Bossi’s kidnappers were no longer in a heavily forested area
of Naga town.
The group, believed to be led by
Madz Zacaria, “is in another province in mainland Mindanao,”
Dolorfino told a press briefing in Camp Aguinaldo.
Resignations from the heads of corporations and
financial firms owned or run by the government poured into the
Office of the President Monday as Malacañang carried out the first
phase of a sweeping reorganization of the bureaucracy.
CONVICTED child rapist and former Zamboanga del Norte
representative Romeo Jalosjos may be serving the rest of his prison
term at the New Bilibid Prison’s Maximum Security Compound for his
own good, according to Director Vicente Vinarao of the Bureau of
Corrections.
STRONG overseas Filipino worker (OFW)
remittances and foreign investments in the local stock market and
other peso-denominated financial assets allowed the country to
exceed the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) dollar surplus
forecast for this year seven months ahead of schedule.
OAKMONT, Pennsylvania: Argentina’s Angel Cabrera
became the first South American to capture the US Open golf
championship on Sunday, edging superstar Tiger Woods and former
champ Jim Furyk by one stroke.
I don’t have much time to chill out these days, no
thanks to numerous tasks at work and the stress of the daily
commute. I had been praying for a chance to reenergize my body, and
the answer came in the form of a phone call.
GAZA: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas’s new
emergency cabinet, basking in the support of the West, held its
first meeting on Monday since the bloody seizure of Gaza by Hamas
fighters.
LAST week (“Pinay with Flexed Muscles, Pinoy with
Fluttering Eyelashes”), I wrote about how the contemporary
Filipino woman has assumed a stronger disposition and a tougher
demeanor as presented on mainstream Filipino films, at least in the
romance dramas and romantic comedies of the leading film outfits,
notably Star Cinema.
