Eastern Visayas
and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies
with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to
at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers
or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or
evening.
THE
OBLATION, now a symbol of ideological militancy,
will most likely be more identified with the marriage of
business and industry with the National University.
UP joins world of commerce zestfully
It’s now a National University under a new charter
militants don’t like
THE University of the Philippines
has a new charter that proclaims it a “national
university”—just as the world’s top-ranking universities are.
The new charter allows UP to be fiscally independent so that it can
increase the salaries of its professors, which are lower than those
paid by the Ateneo and La Salle.
THE signing of the University of
the Philippines’ new Charter of 2007, or Republic Act 9500, by
President Arroyo on April 29, 2008, was the culmination of intense
work that spanned three Congresses. The more than seven years that
it took to enact the UP Charter is worth it. And it has become more
meaningful because it became a law while UP celebrates its
centennial.
PARIS: Top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland will play triple
defending champion Rafael Nadal of Spain in the French Open final on
Sunday, the third straight year the pair have met for the title.
AOMORI, Japan: The United States and Asia's four largest economies called here Saturday for a "gradual" end to fuel price subsidies, but India and China signaled they would not move soon.
It is a widely accepted belief that real estate in Makati is the
ultimate high-yield investment. It is, after all, still the
epicenter for social, economic, and cultural life in the
Philippines. However, while most of us dream of someday having their
very own home in the nation’s most desired metropolis, costs have
become too restrictive and as a result, many prospective urban
dwellers have either had to settle for suburban houses, or less than
ideal projects in the city.
Some 100 additional Filipino police officers are
to be deployed to the Darfur region in Sudan to join the United
Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations there.
There are no boring moments for students from Tarlac State
University (TSU) who are undergoing the innovative
on-the-job-training (OJT) program offered by Smart Communications
Inc. called SWEEP (Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program).
Up close and personal, veteran stage and film
actor Fernando Josef talks like a loving uncle—unpretentious,
caring and abounding with wisdom. For an artist of his stature,
Josef, better known as “Tata Nanding,” is noticeably devoid of
pride and self-importance. Josef has more than three decades of
experience in the field as a performer, director and writer and is
among the new breed of Filipino artists who believe that art can be
harnessed as a potent tool for social reform.
