Western Luzon
will experience mostly cloudy skies with
scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. 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.
President Gloria
Arroyo (middle) and Dr. Emmanuel Angeles (right)
unveil a portrait of the late Dr. Evangelina Macaraeg
Macapagal at Angeles University Foundation in Pampanga
on Wednesday. Angeles is said to be eying to be CHED
chairman. MALACAñANG PHOTO
Public transport fare hike postponed until Monday
Oil
giants Petron Corp. and Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. and industry
minnow Flying V each will roll back their gasoline prices by P1 per
liter effective today.
President Gloria Arroyo will meet with members of the
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to discuss
the clergy’s proposal to review the Oil Deregulation Law and to
lift the value-added tax on oil.
Inquiry Board prepares to counter petition filed by
Sulpicio Lines
The probe on the MV Princess of
the Stars tragedy was stalled anew on Wednesday, as the Board of
Marine Inquiry prepared to answer the petition for a temporary
restraining order (TRO) filed by the Sulpicio Lines Inc. before a
Manila Regional Trial Court.
Bogged down by soaring jet fuel
prices, Air Philippines, the budget airline unit of Philippine
Airlines, yesterday cut some of its flight routes
in Mindanao.
THE Philippines won the men’s
trios gold medal in record fashion Wednesday in the 2008 Asian
Tenpin Bowling Championships in Hong Kong Bowling City lanes.
Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the
foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on
the World Wide Web.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition figurehead Anwar
Ibrahim on Wednesday filed a complaint in the Islamic court that
challenges a young male aide who accuses him of sodomy to prove his
allegations.
