Southern Luzon,
Visayas and Mindanao will experience cloudy
skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms becoming widespread over Eastern
Visayas which may trigger flashfloods and
landslides. 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 of shanties
(foreground) near the financial district of Makati City
are obliged by circumstances to look up at even more
high-rises in the area, as they are at the cost of just
about everything else, from world crude to food and
power. AFP Photo
June rate could reach high of 11.2 percent
The worst is yet to come, as the
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) predicted that consumer price
increases will peak in the coming two months before returning to the
single-digit level next year.
Despite regular pump increases
that have driven fuel prices to record levels, the country’s
petroleum industry, believe it or not, supposedly is also taking a
beating from soaring crude prices.
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Muslim rebels
attacked military and government targets in North Cotabato province
as sporadic fighting continue in the South, officials said.
LONDON: Venus and Serena Williams cruised closer to
another Wimbledon final on Tuesday, but they were upstaged by
pint-sized Zheng Jie’s history-making performance.
Japanese mobile telephone content providers are setting up
safeguards to protect young people amid shock after a disgruntled
young man used his phone to document his plans for a stabbing
rampage.
The former Deputy Prime Minister
of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, is a dear friend to many Filipinos. He
is a Rizalian scholar. Like similar Rizalian Malays, including the
founders of the Indonesian Republic, he believes that Rizal is a
model Malay and a pride of the Malay race.
The fully clothed meat eater is
an endangered species. Everybody is professing to be vegan and
taking their clothes off in the process. It’s the latest fad. Role
models for the prim and proper healthy lifestyle such as Borgy
Manotoc and Ornusa Cadness did it. Intellectuals such as Diether
Ocampo and Alicia Mayer have done it too. They join a long list
stars such as Hong Kong’s Maggie Q and India’s Patrick
Ribbsaeter. These days, if you aren’t garbed in nothing but
lettuce or body paint and eat nothing but vegetables and tofu,
you’re a freak.
