Extreme Northern Luzon will have stormy weather with rough to very rough seas while the rest of Northern Luzon will have rains and gusty winds with moderate to rough seas. The rest of Luzon and the whole of Visayas will experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming frequent rains over the western sections which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. Mindanao will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
It appears that
Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (center) is
taking renewed attempts to discredit him, at best,
laughable, as he leaves the anti-corruption agency
headquarters in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur on
Wednesday. Accused of sodomizing a male aide, Ibrahim
was arrested outside his home, his lawyer said. AFP Photo
Parties agree on ancestral domain issue – Esperon
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Philippine peace negotiators and Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) rebels reached an agreement late Wednesday
on the issue of ancestral domain, a breakthrough in the
seven-year-old peace talks aimed at putting an end to more than four
decades of bloody fighting in southern Mindanao.
Philippine peace adviser Secretary Hermogenes
Esperon Jr. said both panels agreed on the deal at the end of the
meeting in Malaysia, which is brokering the negotiations.
The Senate minority bloc will insist on amending
the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) even if the House
Committee on Energy headed by Rep. Mikey Arroyo of Pampanga had
initiated moves to shelve it.
Atienza recalls Manda’s authority to issue
environmental permits
ENVIRONMENT and Natural Resources Secretary Lito
Atienza on Wednesday recalled the power of the Laguna Lake
Development Authority (LLDA) to oversee the implementation of the
environmental impact statement (EIS) system and issuance of all
environmental compliance certificates (ECC) for development projects
within the Laguna de Bay region after receiving complaints of
inefficiency.
NEW YORK: Michael Young drove in the winning run with a sacrifice
fly in the 15th inning, giving the American League (AL) a 4-3 win
over the National League (NL) and capping the longest all-star game
in history.
A Brazilian company is claiming to be the first to have found a way to unlock Apple's new iPhone 3G, getting around restrictions that require users to sign up for calling plans with exclusive carriers, reports said Tuesday.
Inveterate haters of President Gloria Arroyo complain that she never
fulfills her promises.
When asked to list all her unfulfilled promises, most will only be
able to name one: Her vow, made on December 30, 2002, in her Rizal
Day speech, not to seek the presidency in the 2004 election.
SYDNEY: The scandal over child sex abuse by Catholic priests flared
again Wednesday as Pope Benedict XVI prepared to take center stage
at the world’s biggest Christian festival in Sydney.
Transformer
There’s more to Ramon Bautista than meets the eye
Ramon Bautista—if that name rings a bell, its
because he had been invaded MTV with his very own show, staring in
various music videos for local bands, endorsing products here and
there, hosting the Pasyal television travel show for Studio 23, and
the Brewrats radio program for Campus FM 99.5. This guy who claims
bumming is his passion has a lot of work on his hands.
