Bicol region,
Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly
cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms becoming widespread rains over
Northeastern Mindanao which may trigger
flashfloods and landslides. The rest of the
country will have partly cloudy to at times
cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or
thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or
evening.
UN asks member states, urges agencies to work more
effectively to improve globalroad safety
On April 25, the United Nations
General Assembly, driven by the worsening global road safety
situation—despite action taken by various UN agencies through the
decades—passed “Resolution 62/244 Improving global
road safety.”
The MMDA’s Metropolitan Road Safety Unit (MRSU)
observes that “motorcycles are becoming one among the favorite
transportation means.” This is because of its mobility,
affordability and being seemingly the answer to the problem of
escalating fuel prices.
MANILA: The
Philippine Embassy in Nigeria is looking into the arrest
of 15 Filipinos on Friday for allegedly stealing crude
oil from the Niger Delta, the Department of Foreign
Affairs said Saturday.
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay: Sen. Francis
“Chiz” Escudero told Catholic Church leaders in the country to
stop intervening in the government’s population policy because
they are not demographers.
QUNU, South Africa: Former South African President
Nelson Mandela, fresh from being feted at home and abroad on his
90th birthday, was to host a banquet for the new generation of South
African leaders as well as hundreds of friends.
Interior designs evoking the spirit of cool Britannia
and the global flair of Modern Makati are coming to life at The
Knightsbridge Residences, the second condominium rising at the
3.4-hectare integrated development, Century City.
The Philippines and Malaysia will
have the opportunity to discuss the status of Filipino workers
and refugees in Malaysia as the country hosts the 5th RP-Malaysia
Working Group on Migrant Workers on July 21 to 22.
Today is the actual World Youth Day
(WYD 2008) in
Sydney. Vicariously, since Tuesday, Filipinos and more than a
billion and a half other TV viewers (It’s live on Mother
Angelica’s EWTN.), radio listeners and newspaper readers in the
rest of the world, have been with the Sydneysiders, the pilgrims and
Pope Benedict XVI in spirit. We have been enjoying the fellowship,
good feeling and aura of Godliness in Sydney. This atmosphere has
also characterized every weeklong WYD pilgrimage and festival since
the first one that Pope John Paul II the Great inaugurated in 1986.
Culinary arts in the Philippines may be a budding
industry as compared with its Western counterpart. But that will not
be for long as Filipino chefs are just as competitive as the rest of
the world as proven by the convincing win of the students from the
Center of Culinary Arts, Manila (CCA Manila). This was proven at the
prestigious Food and Hotel Asia (FHA) Culinary Challenge held in
Singapore recently.
Celebratethe Flame Tree Festival of Intramuros as the
huge trees—once only saplings planted way back in 2008—color the
craggy adobe battlements with a leafy crown of vermillion and
verdant green. Share a romantic evening walking atop its walls under
a string of tasteful lamplights that trace the outlines of the
Walled City like a string of pearls in the night. Savor the historic
cobblestone streets of Intramuros riding on faithful recreations of
the horse-drawn street railway of the Compania de los Tranvias de
Filipinas. Taste authentic Spanish period cuisine and travel to a
lost era on an epicurean adventure with your palate. Cherish the
fine commemorative china and baroque bookends patterned after
genuine relics of Intramuros. Marvel at an astounding collection
ecclesiastical artworks at the reconstructed San Ignacio Church and
Convent.
