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 landslides and flashfloods. The rest
of the country will have partly cloudy to at
times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or
thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or
evening.
At the National Press
Club forum Thursday, Gov. Ed Panlilio of Pampanga said
he will seek reelection in 2010 to keep “trapos”
like former Gov. Mark Lapid and the Pinedas from
returning to power in the province. Photos by Jessie C. Laureta
Rates could hit $150 per barrel in trading today
LONDON: The price of oil rocketed to a record high past $146 a
barrel here Thursday owing to falling reserves of US crude,
simmering tensions over Iran and a weak dollar, traders said.
Gov. Ed “Among” Panlilio of Pampanga said he
will seek reelection in 2010 if the same old, traditional
politicians, like the Lapids and the Pinedas, will again try to
wrest the top provincial post.
THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Thursday said that
more than 18,000 workers have benefited from its inspection blitz
that corrected labor standard violations in various worksites all
over the country.
LONDON: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal moved to within one win each
of a third successive Wimbledon final showdown after cruising
through their quarterfinals on Wednesday.
BlackBerry mobile devices do not pose a security threat and no permission is needed from the Indian government to make the service available, an official said Wednesday, according to media reports.
Today a momentous event happens between the China Mainland’s
People’s Republic of China or PRC and its province of Taiwan
(which goes under the formal name of the Republic of China or ROC).
Regular flights between the two are restored after 59 years.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has reportedly blasted the United States for
questioning its handling of sex accusations against Opposition
Leader Anwar Ibrahim and said he was a “snitch” for America.
Unburdened Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being
To love promiscuously without the yoke of guilt,
to savor the illicit, to free sex from love and to find ecstasy in
rebellion, one can hardly stand being unfettered and unbound. The
Unbearable Lightness of Being, French/Czech novelist Milan Kundera
most notable work written in 1982, explores four lives intertwined
in tumultuous times.
