Bicol region,
Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly
cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms. The rest of the country will be
partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated
rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the
afternoon or evening.
Residents buy
government rice at the National Food Administration
warehouse in Manila on Thursday. Authorities have
deployed police to crack down on rice hoarders and
soldiers to assist in rice distribution. AFP photo
Warehouse owners and traders in the Philippines found
to be hoarding rice will be charged with “economic sabotage, which
carries a life sentence, or plunder,” Justice Secretary Raul
Gonzalez said Thursday.
The influential head of the
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) blamed the
looming rice shortage on the government’s apparent mismanagement
of a multimillion-peso fertilizer fund.
Records show the High Court paved the way for
government to enter into mining deal with ZTE
A Supreme Court ruling has inevitably paved the
way for government to negotiate with controversial Chinese firm ZTE
Corp. for a mining exploration project in the 8,100-hectare Mount
Diwalwal Gold Rush Area in Mindanao.
On the eve of her 61st birth anniversary, GMA is
guest of honor at the inauguration of the expanded DMIA
CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga: “This is a clear
indication of President Gloria Arroyo’s vision to see the
Philippines as a first world country by the year 2030.”
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called
on the Philippines to raise tax rates to fund the government’s
medium-term infrastructure plan, sustain the country’s economic
growth, and stem the departure of skilled Filipinos.
JAKARTA, Indonesia: The country’s title-retention bid in the
SoutheastAsian Basketball Association (SEABA) Club Championship gets
underway on Friday when RP-Harbour Centre faces Thailand at the
Britama Arena here.
A fund set up by Yahoo to atone for revealing "cyber
dissidents" to Chinese officials is aiding people jailed there
for human rights views posted on the Internet, its overseer said
Wednesday.
BEIJING: China announced Thursday that foreign tourists will be
allowed to travel into Tibet again from May 1, after the Himalayan
region was sealed off following violent unrest there last month.
Six archbishops and 23 bishops, including Cardinal Archbishops
Gaudencio Rosales of Manila and Ricardo Vidal of Cebu and President
of CBCP Archbishop Angel Lagdameo of Jaro, have written a joint
letter to Rep. Elias Bubut (Apayao), the chairman of the House’s
committee on agrarian reform. The letter appeals to Congress to
urgently pass “a bill to extend the life of the Comprehensive
Agrarian Program and to institute progressive reforms that would
truly benefit our poor farmers who remain landless.” If not
extended, CARP will expire this June.
BUCHAREST: NATO’s European members were set Thursday to rebuff US
efforts to bring Ukraine and Georgia into the fold, a move that
would ease Russian concerns about the alliance closing in on its
borders.
Imagine no religion The God Delusion is a must read for believers and
atheists alike
BIOLOGIST Richard Dawkins is a zealous atheist,
as fiery as his dogmatic religious. But unlike them, he declares
that if there was proof finally that there is a God, he would
renounce his current beliefs right away. Because that is what a
scientist does—follow the evidence to their ultimate logical
conclusion, no matter where it may lead. He is asking us to do the
same with his book The God Delusion.
