Southern Luzon
and Visayas 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.
President Gloria
Arroyo presides over a joint meeting of the Cabinet and
the National Disaster Coordinating Council held at the
Iloilo airport conference room on Tuesday.
Rehabilitation and relief efforts on typhoon-damaged
Panay Island were the major concerns of the meeting. Malacañang Photo
Sulpicio denies keeping official, says Noli’s
charge not helpful
Vice President Noli de Castro said authorities are now looking into
reports that the captain of MV Princess of the Stars is alive and is
in hiding, according to media reports on Tuesday.
De Castro, during a radio interview also on
Tuesday, cited information indicating Sulpicio Lines Inc., the owner
of Princess of the Stars that went down off Sibuyan Island in
Romblon province on June 21, is keeping the ship’s captain,
Florencio Marimon Sr., and at least one survivor in a safe house.
Fertilizer and Pesticides Authority to be questioned
on the lifting of the ban on the pesticide; Sulpicio won’t be
spared
Three Senate committees will hold two separate
hearings on the lifting of the ban on endosulfan, a highly toxic
pesticide, and on its being transported by the ill-fated MV Princess
of the Stars.
Gov. Zayco remains unfazed by Sen. Pia Cayetano’s
call for inquiry
BACOLOD CITY: In an apparent signal to stop
meddling in local affairs, Gov. Isidro Zayco of Negros Occidental
questioned the authority of Sen. Pia Cayetano urging him to defer
the signing of a memorandum of agreement with the Energy Development
Corp. (EDC) with regards to the latter’s geothermal development
expansion into the buffer zone of Mount Kanlaon National Park.
DESPITE the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP)
intervention in the spot market, the peso on Tuesday fell through
the 45-to-a-dollar level on rising fears of runaway inflation after
the central bank’s warning Monday that consumer price increases
last month accelerated to the double-digit mark.
LONDON: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal eased into the Wimbledon
quarterfinals on Monday, but it was charismatic Marat Safin and home
hope Andy Murray who fired up All England Club passions.
Hydrogen-powered cars will not be commercially available on a large scale before 2020, a senior official from Japanese auto maker Mazda said Monday in Spain at an international oil conference.
The need for a second Asian Green Revolution amid a growing world
food and rice crisis became a dominant theme at the Asian-European
Editors Forum recently in Bangkok, Thailand.
BEIJING: China was carrying out a tragic crackdown on dissent ahead
of the Olympic after the police allegedly prevented rights activists
from meeting envoys in Beijing, a leading US congressman said
Tuesday.
Emphysema, a major chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease, has become a buzzword in the Internet lately. This, after
it was reported that critically acclaimed English singer-songwriter
Amy Winehouse was diagnosed with early signs of the ailment.
