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.
The ABS-CBN television
crew that was kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf arrived in
Manila on Wednesday, after being released the night
before. As they disembark from a plane (far right, from
top) Angelo Valderama, Jimmy Encarnacion, Ces Oreña-Drilon
and Sen. Loren Legarda wave to reporters. Photo by
Rene Dilan
Troops ready assault after hostages freed
President Gloria Arroyo ordered
the military to chase after the kidnappers of television journalist
Cecilia “Ces” Oreña-Drilon and her companions.
A well-known television reporter and two other
hostages are safe and well after being freed by terrorists in
southern Philippines amid “betrayal” and suspicion that a huge
ransom was paid to their kidnappers.
THE newly-formed antihuman smuggling panel of
the Department of Justice failed to get a convincing answer from the
Bureau of Immigration on the huge disparity between the number of
entry visas issued and actual arrival of visa holders.
Court of Appeals stops lower court from allowing
creditors of Steel Corporation takeover management
THE move of the higher court to stop the
creation of a management committee to run the country’s largest
manufacturer of flat-coated steel of a lower court came just in a
nick of time, senior lawmakers in the House of Representatives said
on Wednesday.
THE national government earned more last month
not because it spent less but that tax collection had been robust,
the Department of Finance said Wednesday.
BOSTON: After one of the most lopsided losses in National Basketball
Association history, the Los Angeles Lakers could only look to the
future and hope to take some lessons from a historic rout.
SINGAPORE: Sony Ericsson, the Swedish-Japanese phone maker, on Tuesday unveiled a
Wii-like handset which allows users to play games using the phone as a motion sensor.
NEARLY three million Filipinos were jobless as of April 2008, while
the number of the underemployed was estimated at 6.6 million or 19.8
percent of the total employed. These numbers suggest a weakening
economy, the failure of the economic sectors to produce jobs and the
inability of the education system to produce the skills needed by a
competitive economy.
SINGAPORE: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), often
criticized for not dealing firmly with member Myanmar, was
“baptized” by its response to the cyclone in the junta-led
nation and was ready for new responsibilities, the bloc’s chief
said Wednesday.
