Bicol region, Visayas including Palawan 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.
Filipino deportees
from Sabah make do at a government shelter in Zamboanga
City on Sunday. Malaysia has deported more than 7,000
illegals since January, and the crackdown in the
oil-rich state continues. Photo By Al Jacinto
Rollback comes after appeal from President Arroyo
A day after imposing a steep price increase in
diesel, a number of oil firms rolled back half of their adjustments
after Malacañang asked companies to temper their price hike.
Petron Corp., Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp.
and Eastern Petroleum Corp. will be implementing a P1.50 per liter
cut in their diesel prices today.
ZAMBOANGA CITY: More than 300 Filipinos arrested
in Sabah have arrived here, as Malaysia continued its crackdown on
undocumented workers in the oil-rich state.
THE Department of Transportation and
Communications (DOTC) cannot, on its own, purchase additional light
rail vehicles or trains under its emergency relief measure without
prior consultation with the Metro Rail Transit Corp. (MRTC),
according to the Department of Justice.
Small- and medium-scale sugar farmers seek urgent
national government intervention
BACOLOD CITY: About a thousand small- and
medium-sugar planters from nine farmers’ organization all over
Negros Occidental trooped to the streets on Saturday, July 19, to
seek Malacañang’s intervention against the exorbitant cost of
fertilizers.
THE privatization of the Calaca coal-fired power
plant risks hitting another snag after the facility’s winning
bidder scored state-owned National Power Corp.’s (Napocor)
artificially low rates.
As concerned citizen to help the police and military
neutralize explosives
A Philippine Navy reserve officer and former
dean of the Mapua Institute of Technology’s School of Mechanical
Engineering has led an R & D team in that school in developing
an affordable robot to defuse and remove bombs planted by
terrorists...
STANDARD & Poor’s Ratings Service put it best when it said
that the Philippines’ subsidies for food and fuel purchases of its
poor would only compound the country’s existing economic
difficulties. With the unabated rise in prices, the government would
be caught in a spiral of ever increasing subsidies, which would not
only bloat its budget deficit but also widen the country’s trade
gap.
SINGAPORE: Regional rogues North Korea and Myanmar will top the
billing at Asia’s main security forum this week, but the inflation
crisis and disaster response have emerged as critical new concerns.
Survival means more than day-to-day subsistence.
What matters more than our own lives is the hope we nurture for our
children. Amid poverty and chaos we dare dream brighter days for
them. There is lyricism in this struggle, a story worth telling on
stage.
