Eastern Visayas
and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies
with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
The rest of the country will have partly cloudy
to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or
thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or
evening.
A FLAG THE SIZE OF
GREAT. A bird’s-eye view of Baguio City’s
Athletic Bowl on Thursday gives emphasis to the
giant-sized Philippine flag unfurled on the country’s
110th anniversary of the proclamation of independence.
Measuring 100 meters by 200 meters, it took an equally
huge crowd of young and old people to help spread the
flag to its fullest. Photo By Harley Palangchao
Families of victims talking directly with kidnappers
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Abu Sayyaf
militants are reportedly demanding as much as P50 million for the
safe release of a kidnapped television news crew on the southern
island of Sulu.
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Suspected rebels
have captured two Marine intelligence agents on Basilan island,
where security forces are fighting Abu Sayyaf militants blamed for
terrorism and kidnappings in southern Mindanao.
IT took almost two decades for lawmakers to pass
on third and final reading a measure to develop renewable energy
sources for the country’s energy needs, which is expected to
generate some $1.2 billion in energy savings and economic benefits
for Filipinos in the next 10 years.
HOUSE SPEAKER PROSPERO NOGRALES asked 57
Mindanao and Palawan lawmakers to consolidate all their district
development projects into an integrated Mindanao development program
to boost the country’s food security in response to the peace and
order problem.
AMID higher inflation and eroding incomes,
pessimism will run deep among consumers for the rest of the year,
according to the latest survey of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).
LOS ANGELES: Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett must
bounce back from horrible shooting performances if the Boston
Celtics are to keep the Los Angeles Lakers from leveling the
National Basketball Association Finals.
Microsoft's touch-screen Surface computers have debuted in a Las Vegas casino bar giving Sin City partiers high-tech tools for flirting and concocting cocktails.
BEIJING: China and Taiwan began their first formal talks in a decade
here Thursday, their latest step in a rapprochement that is likely
to see the long-time rivals quickly deepen trade and tourism ties.
You’re a government official or head of a public agency who
received advanced money for a trip, a workshop or a similar official
activity. You are supposed to account for it or “liquidate” it
on the completion of the project, right? Not if you are a Filipino
bureaucrat or lawmaker. You take your time explaining how you spent
every centavo. Or you don’t submit any liquidation report at all.
JAKARTA: Less is more in Asia as petty corruption was
found to be causing a massive drain on the region’s economic
growth and hits the poor hardest, a major UN report revealed
Thursday.
Without him we would have no Panday, Joaquin Bordado, Kamandag,
Bakekang, Totoy Bato, Andres de Saya and Angela Markado. He has given us a blacksmith-turned-swashbuckling hero, a
comical henpecked husband, an oppressed ugly
duckling-cum-triumphant-stage-mother and so much more. His comic
books have become movies, television series. His works are
masterpieces of Pinoy pop literature, without which our culture
would be much less.
