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.
Electricity consumers in the
capital region are going to get a break from the Manila Electric
Company (Meralco), which announced a rollback of rates by about 50
cents per kilowatt-hour in June.
Sen. Jamby Madrigal: Proceedings of Commission on
Appointments were illegal
The Commission on Appointments
confirmed on its last session day Wednesday 102 presidential
appointees led by five Cabinet members. This constitutes the biggest
number of appointees confirmed in a single day.
The hospital ship sails to Samar for a series of
medical missions
ZAMBOANGA CITY: A US medical
mission in the southern Philippines was halted after an attack on
one of its helicopter while ferrying patients near Cotabato City.
AMID widening risk aversion,
foreign investors have pulled their money out of the local stock
market in the first five months this year, reversing last year’s
exuberant buying of shares of listed companies.
LOS ANGELES: An aggressive 36-point performance
from National Basket ball Association (NBA) Most
Valuable Player Kobe Bryant powered the Los Angeles Lakers past
Boston 87-81
Tuesday in the NBA Finals.
Three major Internet provides have agreed to block access to
websites and online discussion groups featuring child pornography,
New York state attorney general said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON: Republican White House contender John
McCain is reaching back through history to portray Barack Obama as
an old-fashioned tax-and-spend liberal who would destroy jobs and
growth.
He was a doctor, a novelist, a
poet, a sculptor, a painter and a lothario. He was also a swordsman,
deadly with both rapier and arnis sticks; a highly regarded pistol
marksman; a body builder with experience in wrestling and judo; a
freedom fighter and a wanted man. Our National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal,
hailed, as “The Pride of the Malay Race” was a Renaissance man.
Yes, Rizal honed his brawn and his blade as much as he did his wit
and his word.
