Extreme Northern 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.
DISASTER DRILL.
It may not be hard to imagine space invaders coming to
town, but the suited men are rescue workers taking part
in an earthquake-response exercise at Army headquarters
in Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City on Thursday. Situated
on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines is prone to
frequent tectonic activity. AFP Photo
First four months see 43.5% decline, says central bank
Foreign direct investments in the Philippines plunged 43.5 percent
from a year earlier to $820 million in the four months to April, the
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas reported Thursday.
April’s figure, however, rose more than
four-fold from a year earlier to $269 million, a statement from the
central bank said.
A day after an independent oil firm initiated a
rollback in gasoline prices, the Department of Energy warned that it
will be closely monitoring oil firms’ pump adjustments to make
sure these are solely driven by “market forces.”
The Senate must proceed with the amendment of the Electric Power
Industry Reform Act (Epira) even if the House is no longer
interested in the endeavor, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino
“Nene” Pimentel Jr. said Thursday.
Leonardo Leonida said he is being unduly criticized
for being ‘an unknown’
A NEWLY appointed commissioner in the Commission on Elections (Comelec)
yesterday denounced a smear campaign being waged by certain
unscrupulous sectors out to scuttle his appointment to the poll
body.
UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST demolish National
University 82-69 on Thursday to gain an early lead in the 71st
University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s
basketball tournament at the Philsports Arena.
The iPhone 3G makes its international debut Friday in an eagerly-awaited launch expected to boost Apple's fortunes along with its share of the booming "smart phone" market.
Some women cannot live without love. Romantic
love, that is. Not Ara Mina.
The fearless and voluptuous actress has been
devastated by love several times in the past but she tells us that
these experiences have only made her a more resilient woman.
BEIJING: China’s trade surplus fell nearly 12 percent in the first
half of 2008, official data showed Thursday, as a slowing global
economy, rising yuan and the impacts of a devastating earthquake hit
exporters.
The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) has raised the concern that
our country may be producing more nurses than can be employed
locally and abroad. Its president, Dr. Leah Samaco-Paquiz, said that
because of this trend, nursing has ceased to be a lucrative
profession. The notion that being a nurse is a “passport to
greener pastures” abroad is, according to her, a serious mistake.
You can thank Arnold Arre, The Manila Times’ own resident graphic novelist and winner
of the Manila Critics Circle and National Book Awards, for cluing in
Neil Gaiman on the abundance of artistic talent in the Philippines
and on the rich treasure trove of primordial myths and contemporary
urban legends.
