|
|
|
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
|
|
|
Broadband petitions
junked |
|
Govt to critics: Accept High Court ruling |
|
By William B. Depasupil, Reporter
The Supreme Court on Monday
junked three petitions questioning the validity of the controversial
$330-million National Broadband Network (NBN) project that the
Philippine government had awarded to China’s ZTE Corp.
The High Tribunal, voting 11-3,
said the issue became moot and academic when President Gloria Arroyo
decided to scrap the project during her visit to China in October
2007.
|
|
 Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
O T H E R R E P O R T S
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Oil prices down in
Asian trade but decline will be brief
|
|
SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell in
Asia on Monday after supply worries helped push prices to a record
high last week.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
President: Fiscal
tack best shield vs. crisis
|
|
President Gloria Arroyo said
successful implementation of fiscal measures by her administration
is the country’s best shield against the current global economic
crisis.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
‘Helen’ forces
emergency landing of Defense chief
|
|
Heavy rains caused by tropical
storm Helen that fell on Metro Manila and parts of Luzon victimized
even the powerful, as a helicopter carrying Defense Secretary
Gilberto Teodoro made an emergency landing in Marikina City...
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
More
Pinoy kids out of school–study
|
|
One in six school-age children in
the Philippines is being deprived of education and the number is
rising steadily, the government said on Monday.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
NAIA 3 opens July
23 despite court order
|
|
Despite a court order and a row
with investors, the government will still open the Ninoy Aquino
International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 for domestic service on July
23.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Biofuels have
little impact on food supply
|
|
To help promote recycling and
waste management in his locality, Mayor Benhur Abalos of Mandaluyong
City unveiled Monday a locally produced pulverizing machine that can
turn plastic waste products...
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
FEATURE
|
|
Local pulverizing
machine can solve waste issue
|
|
To help promote recycling and
waste management in his locality, Mayor Benhur Abalos of Mandaluyong
City unveiled Monday a locally produced pulverizing machine that can
turn plastic waste products like candy...
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
