Tropical
Cyclone Update
Issued at: 11:00 a.m., 01 June 2008
Typhoon "ENTENG" has maintained
its strength as it continues to track northward
towards the southeastern islands of Japan.
The whole country will experience partly cloudy
to at times cloudy skies with isolated
rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the
afternoon or evening.
Marilyn Mabulay,
principal of the Aguinaldo Repiedad Integrated School in
Banga, Aklan, displays recently delivered textbooks. VERA Files photos
Skyrocketing prices could reverse gains in
eradicating poverty in RP
Surging oil prices could reverse gains in
eradicating poverty in the Philippines, and if oil reaches $200 a
barrel—as some are predicting—even the most affluent Filipino
families are vulnerable.
THE Department of Justice (DOJ)
is being swamped with calls to speed up the preliminary
investigation of fraud charges filed against top executives of the
Manila Electric Co. (Meralco).
CEBU CITY: The Bureau of Immigration region 7 is renewing its drive
against human trafficking to lessen, if not eradicate, the
increasing number of undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs),
who are suffering abroad, reported the Philippine News Agency.
THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) warning that inflation is
nearing the double-digit territory is cause for worry. This means
the government can no longer rely on monetary authorities to help it
prop up the economy at a time when the Philippines’ biggest export
market, the US, is slowing down.
WASHINGTON: Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said
Saturday he has quit his long-time Chicago church, following a
string of racially tinged rhetoric by preachers from its pulpit.
Bringing the Pinoy back into festivities In with the old, out with the new
Imagine life without advertisements. No one
knows what’s hot and what’s not. They are three-minute skits in
our everyday entertainment life, but these small breaks are becoming
uncontrollably viral, even our cultural heritages are being
infected.
