Mindanao 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 in the afternoon or evening.
PRESIDENT GLORIA
ARROYO (center) witnesses the merger of the ruling
political parties on Friday, when SWS released the
results of a survey showing her net satisfaction rating
fell to an all-time low. Photo by
Harley Palangchao
Gasoline, other fuels also increase as oil rebounds
Oil firms are set to impose the sharpest
increase in diesel prices today to recover losses incurred from the
previous months.
An industry official said Seaoil Philippines
Inc., Unioil Petroleum Philippines Inc. and Eastern Petroleum Corp.
are set to increase prices at the pump by P3 per liter for diesel,
P1.50 per liter for kerosene and P1 per liter for gasoline.
Six out of 10 Filipinos are not satisfied with the performance of
President Gloria Arroyo, according to the results of a Social
Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Friday.
Sultan’s representative stresses Mayor Isnaji and
son
are still presumed innocent of charges against them
INDANAN, Sulu: The Sultanate of
Sulu and North Borneo on Friday appealed to the authorities in
Manila for the temporary release from detention of this town’s
chief executive, Mayor Alvarez Isnaji so that he may be able to
campaign for elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)
on August 11.
THE Philippines raised billions
of pesos on Friday with the auction of retail Treasury bonds (RTBs),
which are IOUs meant to be sold to small investors.
SAN DIEGO: Dottie Ardina captured a third title in the Callaway
Junior World championships after beating Alina Ching of Hawaii in a
sudden-death playoff for the girls’ 13 to 14 years division at the
Oak Glen course of the Sycuan Resort on Thursday (Friday in Manila)
here.
Nintendo said Thursday that its globally popular Wii has become the top-selling video game console in the United States, a crown coveted by rivals Microsoft and Sony.
On Thursday the government
announced that there has been a breakthrough in the effort to resume
stalled negotiations for a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF). The former Armed Forces of the Philipines
Chief of Staff, Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, Jr., who is President
Gloria Arroyo’s new Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process,
told the press that on Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur the government and
the MILF had agreed to resume the talks that the MILF had abandoned
in December 2007.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s opposition insisted Friday
that their leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is under investigation on
sodomy charges, would not give a DNA sample for fear it could be
manipulated.
Summer has come and gone, and with the cool
crispness of the rainy season setting in, we welcome a pleasant
fashion opportunity to wear ensembles otherwise deemed unthinkable
during the scorch of previous months.
