Visayas,
Mindanao and Bicol region will experience cloudy
skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms. Rest of the country will have
partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with
isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms.
After introducing
electric passenger jeeps in June, Makati City now tries
a patrol car that runs on a mixture of 40- percent
diesel and 60-percent cooking oil from a fast-food
chain. AFP Photo
S&P forecast much lower than govt’s
Credit rating firm Standard & Poor’s
(S&P) projected that Asian countries, including the Philippines,
are likely to sustain economic growth in 2008 and 2009.
Small countries suffer as the United States and other world trade
giants fight, Philippine officials said on Wednesday after global
trade talks collapsed in Geneva.
A study by the
University of the Philippines showed the Manila Electric Company (Meralco)
was charging its customers nearly a peso more per kilowatt-hour,
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago charged Wednesday.
THE Rizal Provincial Board announced on Wednesday that the Court of
Appeals upheld their decision to suspend Mayor Pedro Cuerpo of
Rodriguez for six months.
THE Philippines’ stalled power-sector
privatization program received a fresh shot in the arm, after the
Aboitiz group on Wednesday won the bid for the Tiwi-Makban
geothermal facility.
JOSE RIZAL UNIVERSITY leaned on James Sena’s
jumper in the final 1.4 seconds to beat Philippine Christian
University 60-58 Wednesday in the 84th National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) men’s basketball tournament at the Cuneta
Astrodome.
Yahoo and technology giants Intel and Hewlett Packard on Tuesday announced an alliance to advance "cloud computing," backing a trend that would reduce reliance on packaged software.
President Gloria Arroyo, in her state of the Nation address (SONA)
Monday, drew the picture of how the Philippines, facing a “better
and brighter future” in 2007, suddenly found itself in the grip of
an economic storm caused by the fuel and food crises.
PHNOM PENH: Turnout in Cambodia’s weekend election was a “good
figure” at 75 percent, the country’s election committee said
Wednesday, amid opposition rejections of the results and demands for
a re-vote.
IT was like a scene taken from the Bible itself.
The fringes of the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene—Quiapo
Church—festering with all that is pagan and unchristian. Fortune
tellers and prayers-for-hire, rainbow colored candles, brass Masonic
talismans, stone pyramids, glass orbs, jade Taoist and Buddhist
zodiac symbols as well pirated DVDs, many sold by local Muslims.
