Luzon and Visayas will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
METRO RAIL TRANSIT
AUTHORITY has announced that peak-hour periods will
be extended and additional trains fielded starting today
to decongest the railway system. Photo by Jessie C. Laureta
Commuters see no respite from jampacked trains
A railway contract that supposedly has put the
government at great disadvantage is delaying expansion plans for the
Metro Rail Transit Line 3, or MRT 3. The railway line runs from
North Avenue in Quezon City to Baclaran in Pasay City.
President Gloria Arroyo seems out to gain
complete control of the energy sector, opposition Sen. Panfilo
“Ping” Lacson said on Sunday. Lacson cited as an indication the
recent appointment by Malacañang of former Pampanga Rep. Zenaida
Ducut as the new chairman of the Energy Regulatory Commission.
THE powerful Commission on Appointments (CA) opened ahead of the
second regular session of the 14th Congress and is scrutinizing the
records of two controversial officials of the Commission on
Elections (Comelec).
Beneficiaries of Energy Development Corporation
willing to bring their sons and daughters into the fray
BACOLOD CITY: What was merely an issue of energy
vs. environment has now exacerbated with opposing parties bent on
using their children to sway government and the courts to their
side.
CEBU CITY: Huaquiao University of China bagged
the 6th Asian University Basketball Championship (AUBC) title after
conquering local bet University of Visayas (UV) 82-76 Saturday night
at the jam-packed Cebu City Coliseum.
Security risks to mobile devices such as mobile
phones, smartphones and personal digital assistants (PDA) are not
yet a major issue these days compared to the 1980s when computer
networks were once vulnerable to such threats.
WITH last week’s surprise rollback, the public is wondering, where
were the oil companies’ supposed underrecoveries? Have they
suddenly evaporated the same way that people’s purchasing power
has diminished with every acceleration in inflation?
SYDNEY: Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Sydney Sunday for one of the
largest Christian gatherings on earth, on a visit set to be marked
by his apology for sexual abuse by priests in Australia.
Beautiful bastards Pure Hybrids, Normal Aberrations explores what it
means to be Filipino
To seek what is purely Filipino to the exclusion
of all that is foreign and modern is futile. A melting pot situated
in the heart of Asia composed of more than 7000 islands, our nation
is intrinsically multicultural.
