Central and
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.
A QANTAS plane
bound for Melbourne made an emergency landing at the
Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila on Friday
following a rupture in its fuselage. AFP Photo
Court issues 20-day restraining order
A regional trial court stopped state-run
Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) from taking over the
compulsory third-party liability (CTPL) insurance for motor vehicles
in the country.
Judge Carlos Valenzuela of Mandaluyong City on
Friday issued a 20-day temporary restraining order (TRO) prohibiting
not only the government pension fund but also the Department of
Transportation and Communications and other parties from
implementing an order of the department that takes away the
third-party insurance business from the private sector.
A Qantas Boeing 747 flying to Melbourne made an emergency landing in
Manila on Friday after a dramatic mid-air rupture that left a
“gaping hole” in its fuselage, officials and passengers said.
HIGH ranking officials of the Office of the
Special Prosecutor on Friday finally broke their silence and openly
asked Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa-Ignacio to resign from the
Office of the Ombudsman.
Rep. Datumanong says only Congress through
appropriate legislation can defer the political exercise
JOLO, Sulu: Opposition to the postponement of
elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)
scheduled on August 11 has increased that it has now reached this
capital town of the province of Sulu, one of the provinces belonging
to the ARMM.
PHILIPPINE imports in May rose to double-digit
owing to soaring costs of fuel and rice purchases abroad, the
National Statistics Office (NSO) reported Friday.
TORONTO: No. 2 Rafael Nadal and third-ranked Novak Djokovic were
smelling blood Thursday, less than 24 hours after Roger Federer’s
untimely second-round ouster at the Association of Tennis
Professionals (ATP) Toronto Masters Series event.
We laud Senator Richard Gordon for opposing
moves to postpone the elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM) scheduled to be held on August 11. This stand
happens to be also that of all opposition figures who have spoken on
the subject—including Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr.
and Sen. Rodolfo Biazon.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Foreign Minister Rais Yatim Friday demanded
the United States stop “interfering” in an investigation into
sodomy allegations against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
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