Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Western 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 mostly in the afternoon or evening.
After being mothballed
for six years, Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino
International Airport began partial operations on
Tuesday with 16 domestic flights. Pending court cases
prevent the terminal from going full blast. AFP Photo
Gordon, Comelec chairman against rescheduling
polls
President endorsed postponement of the August 11 elections in the
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to propel a recent
breakthrough in peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF), Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said Tuesday.
The endorsement is a reversal of an earlier
stand by Palace officials, who had said the MILF must ask Congress
for a postponement.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) sees slower-than-expected growth
for the Philippines this year, as the Manila-based lender trimmed
forecasts for the region and said the days of cheap food are over.
Senate President Manuel Villar expressed
confidence Tuesday that the Senate would be most productive in the
Second Regular Session which convenes next week, and that pending
priority measures would be passed before the House transmits to the
Senate the proposed 2009 national budget.
Former lawmaker Jacinto Paras says issues raised
against Rep. Limkaichong are better left for the
Court to settle
THE Supreme Court (SC) is now the new
battleground of two powerful political families fighting over the
first congressional district of the province of Negros Oriental.
MAJORITY control over the Philippines’ largest
oil refiner has shifted to foreign hands, after a London-based group
that earlier bought Saudi Aramco’s stake in Petron Corp. secured
more than 50 percent of the company’s shares.
With a mobile phone you can make calls on the go, shoot photos and pinpoint your position on a map. And who knows, maybe one day you'll be able to grow your phone in a pot, if the futuristic ideas of technology researchers come true.
Foreign ministers of the 10 member countries of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are gathered in Singapore for talks
on regional security concerns. Tomorrow (July 24), they will attend
the main event, the Asian Regional Forum (ARF), together with
representatives of the United States, 15 other countries of Asia and
the European Union.
NEW DELHI: India’s parliament on Tuesday was to hold a
make-or-break confidence vote that could bring down the government,
lead to early elections and end a controversial nuclear energy deal
with the US.
On August 30, the
Eraserheads—the iconic band that sang the anthems of a
generation—reunites for one night only at the Cultural Center of
the Philippines for a free concert. The event is a revival in more
ways than one. The concert will mark the 601st day since vocalist
Ely Buendia suffered a heart attack. Yet the man rocks on.
