Extreme Northern
Luzon and Eastern 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.
Soldiers pass by a
village in Sulu following President Gloria Arroyo’s
order to recover broadcast journalist Ces Oreńa Drilon,
her cameraman, and Mindanao State University professor
Octavio Dinampo. Photos by Al Jacinto
Troops seen on the move, even
as police talk with kidnappers
JOLO, Sulu: State security forces fired about a
dozen rounds of cannons toward the hinterlands of Sulu Island, as
truckloads of soldiers were spotted at dawn Sunday leaving a
military base here.
The Justice secretary said the government is
open to negotiating with the Abu Sayyaf leader, Commander Radulan
Sahiron, and is willing to grant some of his demands for surrender.
THE National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) on Sunday said that the
government has allotted P3.5 billion this year for a program that
provides free health insurance services for about five million poor
Filipino families.
Akiddin Abdusalam has long been expelled from the
MILF for criminal activities
SULU: A senior rebel leader of theMoro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) implicated by the military to the spate of
attacks and banditry was killed in a firefight in Zamboanga Sibugay
province, officials said Sunday.
THE Philippine economy may have grown at a
moderate pace in the second quarter of the year owing to soaring
inflation, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
said.
SAN DIEGO: Tiger Woods, hobbled by his painful left knee, pulled off
a remarkable birdie-eagle finish Saturday to seize the third-round
lead in the US Open golf championship.
The Philippines desperately needs a stronger
government body established by law to oversee development of
information and communications technology (ICT) in the country.
TEHRAN: Iran was on Sunday considering an offer from world powers
aimed at resolving the six-year nuclear crisis but hopes of a
breakthrough were dim after Tehran appeared to bluntly reject a key
condition.
Nothing is more insurgent or more infectious
than pop culture. Logos, slogans, cartoon characters and commercials
seep into our subconscious, invade our dreams, infiltrate our
vocabulary and supplant our necessities and desires. The most
assiduous threats are those that don’t look like ones—cute
things, thing we welcome with open arms and want to hug and to hold.
