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.
LAGOS, Nigeria: Authorities here paraded 15 Filipinos arrested last
week for allegedly stealing crude oil from the country’s oil-rich
Niger Delta, a military spokesman said Friday.
The Sandiganbayan First Division on Friday
junked a plea of former Justice Secretary Hernando Perez for the
dismissal of graft charges filed against him by the Office of the
Ombudsman.
Is former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.
timing his testimony on the $330-million National Broadband Network
project with the lapse of the one-year ban on the filing of
impeachment complaints against President Gloria Arroyo?
ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF) on Friday asked the government to postpone next
month’s regional elections in southern Mindanao until after both
sides sign a peace agreement.
SYDNEY: Pope Benedict XVI warned Christian leaders Friday that the
push to unite Christian churches was at a “critical juncture,”
as Anglicans met to avert a schism over the ordination of women and
gays.
The Supreme Court has ruled with finality to
dismiss a petition by Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel 3rd against the
proclamation of Juan Miguel Zubiri as senator after the last
national elections in May 2007.