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.
An unidentified man
cleans the Aguinaldo Shrine in preparation for the
celebration of the proclamation of Philippine
independence on June 12. But the outlook appears gloomy,
as experts predict that a “perfect economic storm”
is threatening
the country. PHOTO BY KJ ROSALES
Growth slowing, inflation rising
The Philippine economy faces a “perfect economic
storm” of inflation at nine-year highs as food and oil prices
soar, rising interest rates
and slowing growth, analysts said.
The Government Service Insurance
System (GSIS) criticized the Makati Business Club for making
statements that are allegedly “the height of irresponsibility”
and “immaturity” after the business group condemned the state
pension fund and the Arroyo administration over its moves towards
Manila Electric Co. (Meralco).
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: Four lawmakers were
detained for almost half an hour inside a police checkpoint near the
border of this province and Quirino while on their way to a remote
upland village for an inquiry over alleged abuses of a foreign firm
conducting a
large-scale mining operation in the area.
BOSTON: We need to talk. Those words, quite scary
when it comes to romantic relationships, sum up the guiding
principle behind the Boston Celtics’ defense, the most successful
in the National Basketball Association, when it comes to silencing
Kobe Bryant.
This is the message the
Department of Science and Technology intends to deliver to young
Filipinos in a comic book series and music video it has produced.
WITH a fresh charter and a string of business deals
covering vast landholdings, the University of the Philippines (UP)
may yet break free from the yoke of financial straits that has
prevented it from becoming a true people’s university.
AOMORI, Japan: Eleven nations that guzzle nearly two-thirds of the
world’s energy voiced concern Sunday over record oil prices as
host Japan warned the world could plunge into recession.
Dumb and dumber Belgian experimental theater hits the 2008 Singapore
Arts Festival
It’s postmodern, absurdist and
provocative. But its creator says it isn’t. A play about
stupidity, it might be smart-alecky as well. It gets the last laugh
at its audiences. But even this its director denies.
