Southern Luzon,
Visayas and 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.
The 10th batch of
Filipino peacekeepers to Liberia and Haiti, including
these women
from the military, are sent off at Camp Aguinaldo on
Thursday.
The government proposal to postpone the
elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was a
move aimed at amending the Constitution, Sen. Richard Gordon said on
Thursday.
Muslim separatist guerrillas clashed with government militiamen in
southern Philippines on Thursday despite a breakthrough in
protracted peace talks, a local official said.
ONCE Senate President Manny
Villar concurs with the administration’s programs and policies,
his Nacionalista Party could easily forge an alliance with the
Arroyo administration, House Speaker Prospero Nograles said
Thursday.
Militants consider adding President Arroyo among
respondents
BACOLOD CITY: The Office of the
President may just become the newest respondent to the case filed by
environmentalists against the Energy Development Corporation (EDC),
Environment Sec. Lito Atienza and the Protected Area Management
Board (PAMB).
SOUTHEAST Asia’s largest food and beverage
conglomerate said Thursday that its stockholders gave the green
light to a corporate-wide restructuring program that would allow its
major subsidiaries to list at the local bourse on their own, sell
more shares to the public, and strike strategic partnerships.
World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion
Manny Pacquiao has trimmed down the list of his next possible
opponents to just three—Edwin Valero, Humberto Soto and Oscar de
la Hoya.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference..
Twelve years after the signing of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement
between the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation
Front (MNLF), peace has remained elusive in the Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
One of the most misunderstood showbiz
personalities, Katrina Halilli has finally mustered enough guts to
assert herself, meet her detractors head on and put to rest every
negative issue that has hounded her in the past.
Labor Secretary Marianito Roque
is flushed witoptimism that the country’s goal of one million jobs
for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will be exceeded this year by
28 percent, based on the deployment figures from January to June.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas: Hurricane
Dolly was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday after it tore
into Texas with 160 kilometer per hour winds and left 250,000 people
without drinking water in Mexico.
