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.
Indanan Mayor Isnaji
Alvarez updates reporters on the status of TV journalist
Ces Oreña-Drilon, cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion and
professor Octavio Dinampo, who were kidnapped in Sulu by
the Abu Sayyaf. The kidnappers released another
cameraman, Angelo Valderama (inset), late Thursday.
SULU: Abu Sayyaf rebels holding a Philippine
television news crew and a university professor on the southern
island of Sulu have cut off communication lines with government
negotiators, leaving the fate of the hostages at the mercy of their
captors.
“We have been trying to get in touch with the
kidnappers, but all their cell phones have been turned off,” said
Indanan town Mayor Isnaji Alvarez, who is negotiating with the Abu
Sayyaf, a Muslim group tied to the al-Qaeda terror network.
The Philippine government recently won a landmark decision in the
United States when the US Supreme Court ruled against the close to
10,000 victims of human-rights abuses during the reign of former
strongman Ferdinand Marcos in a dispute over ownership of the
$35-million Arelma account kept at Merrill Lynch’s New York
office.
Upper chamber did not support House resolution
extending land acquisition and distribution until end of 2008
HOUSE Speaker Prospero Nograles on Friday
slammed the Senate for its inaction on Joint Resolution 21 that
maintains the effectivity of the land acquisition and distribution
(LAD) component of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law or Republic
Act 6657.
Party-list Representative Casiño says CA ruling in
favor of Oceana Gold is a temporary setback for environmental
protection
PARTY-LIST Rep. Teddy Casiño of
Bayan Muna on Friday assured the people of Nueva Vizcaya his full
support as he labeled a Court of Appeals (CA) decision preventing
its provincial government from implementing an order that halts
mining operations in the area as “a temporary setback for
environmental protection, local governance and the defense of
national patrimony.”
FILIPINOS ain’t seen nothing yet, as the
Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) forecast that consumer price
increases will accelerate further in the next four months.
LOS ANGELES: The Boston Celtics pulled off one of the
greatest comebacks in National Basketball Association history,
rallying from a 24-point hole Thursday to beat the Los Angeles
Lakers 97-91 in the NBA Finals.
Democrat Barack Obama has shown the stunning power of the Internet for political fundraising. Now he is fighting its darker side as a vehicle for "smears" against his bid for the White House.
This afternoon the Sixth Jose Rizal Awards for Excellence will be
given to outstanding Tsinoys. The awardees are all Filipinos of
Chinese descent who have proved themselves to be paragons of the
virtues of industriousness, acumen, devotion to duty, patriotism and
excellence in their personal and professional lives.
BEIJING: China and Taiwan signed historic agreements on Friday
expected to see thousands more people travel every day between the
two traditional rivals in the coming months.
FRESH from the red carpet where she has been
promoting the record smash Iron Man and before she sets off for the
Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow
flew to Rome to collaborate with two time Academy Award-nominee
Dennis Hopper on a short film for Tod’s.
