Central and
Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will
experience cloudy skies with scattered
rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming
widespread rains over Palawan 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.
WBC Lightweight
champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao waves to fans
before attending Mass at Quiapo Church in Manila on
Friday. Photo By Jessie C. Laureta
June’s 11.4% rate exceeds forecast by central bank
Rising food and fuel prices pushed the
country’s inflation to a 14-year high of 11.4 percent in June,
exceeding the forecast by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) earlier
this week.
Boxing icon Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao has been chosen to carry the
Philippine flag at the opening parade of next month’s Beijing
Olympics, despite being a professional athlete and unable to fight
in the 2008 Games.
Board of Marine Inquiry to probe the two firms over
non-declaration of pesticide shipment as ‘toxic and dangerous’
THE Board of Marine Inquiry on Friday said it
will summon officials of Del Monte Philippines Inc. and Bayer
Philippines in its investigation of the June 21 MV Princess of the
Stars sea tragedy.
MNLF denies urging government to scrap or postpone
ARMM elections on August 11
ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF) ordered its forces to stay out of Filipino elections as
campaign begins for next month’s polls in the Muslim autonomous
region.
STANDARD & Poor’s Ratings Services
(S&P) said the Philippines is likely to end the year with a
budget deficit amounting to one percent of the domestic economy.
LONDON: Venus and Serena Williams, who boast six Wimbledon titles
between them, will clash for the third time in an All England Club
final on Saturday.
These last several years, a
Fascist esprit de corps has become vividly observable. If the
administration and its instrumentalities do not actually have a
Fascist mentality, then they at least have a tendency for fascism.
PARIS: Freed Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt said she had
stared into the “abyss” during her six-year hostage ordeal as
she headed to Paris for a meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy on
Friday.
