Eastern 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.
Evidently peeved,
Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile (left) gives Hubert D’Aboville,
JFC spokesman, a stern warning at the Senate hearing
Friday. “Don’t ever think that the Senate is
something you can push [around].” Photos by Rene Dilan
Meralco, other utilities have until November to
comply
The Energy Regulatory Commission has ordered
private distribution utilities, or DUs, which include giant utility
Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), to refund with interests their
customers’ deposits for electric meters by November this year.
The Philippine economy is likely to expand in
the second quarter of the year as the composite leading economic
indicator movement recorded at a faster pace, the National
Statistical Coordination Board said Friday.
As the opening of classes nears, the Department of
Education gets a timely boost as the Australian Government has
earmarked approximately P494 million to the agency to provide larger
financial support for the department’s Basic Education Basic
Sector Reform Agenda (Besra).
The rebel group wants Manila to honor its commitment
to the peace process and respect the rights of Muslims
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Muslim rebels negotiating peace
with Manila warned Friday that a fragile truce they signed with the
government could be in peril once the remaining international truce
observers pulled out of Mindanao.
BOSTON, Massachusetts: A tenacious and physical Boston defense kept
Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant at bay Thursday in a 98-88
victory to open the National Basketball Association Finals.
Japan's top film rental chain Tsutaya on Thursday unveiled a download-on-demand broadband service, letting customers rent titles from home without going to the store.
The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary
or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston, whom Justice Secretary Raul
Gonzalez called a “muchacho” who should not be given any
importance, on Monday told the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council
of the good work the Arroyo administration has done to bring about
improvements in the handling of human rights abuses.
WASHINGTON: Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton held a
hush-hush meeting late Thursday as Obama kicked off his campaign for
the White House and amid speculation over his vice presidential pick.
There is something glamorous and sexy about the
Cannes Film Festival that the Oscars can never hope to have—the
excitement, class, and high-life of the French Riviera.
