Eastern Visayas
and Bicol region will experience stormy weather.
Rest of Visayas and the rest of Southern Luzon
will have rains and gusty winds and the coastal
waters along these areas will be moderate to
rough. The rest of the country will be mostly
cloudy with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms.
The Philippine
National Police on Friday released this photo showing
(from left) Haider “Jun” Isnaji, Vice Gov. Lady Ann
Sahidulla of Sulu province, Mayor Alvarez Isnaji of
Indanan town, undercover agent Willy Quidato and the
alleged P5-million ransom. AFP Photo
Abu Sayyaf given P2M, P10M unaccounted for
Ransom was paid in exchange for the safe release
of television reporter Cecilia “Ces” Oreña-Drilon and her crew
and a university professor, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez
disclosed Friday.
Worse, Gonzalez said, pieces of evidence now in
the hands of government investigators showed that Alvarez Isnaji,
the mayor of Sulu province’s Indanan town and the appointed
negotiator with the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf that had kidnapped
Drilon’s group, partook in the loot.
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Former Muslim separatist rebels
have stood behind one of their leaders accused of involvement in the
kidnapping of a television reporter and three others on the southern
island of Sulu.
International expert links loss of biodiversity with
the food crisis; Asean biodiversity body sets actions
THE United Nations Convention on Biological
Diversity (Uncbd) is targeting zero deforestation by year 2020, a
visiting top executive of the international agency based in
Montreal, Canada said on Friday.
Sec. Dureza does not discount Mayor Isnaji’s high
rank but insists that evidence is what will matter
Malacañang hopes that the case filed against
Mayor Alvarez Isnaji of Indanan, Sulu, will not affect the
relationship between the government and the Moro National Liberation
Front (MNLF) particularly the ongoing tripartite review of the 1996
peace agreement.
DIVIDENDS remitted by government-owned and
-controlled corporations to the national government fell sharply in
the first five months of the year, the Bureau of Treasury said
Friday.
WITH barely five weeks left before the Beijing
Olympics, national athletes Harry Tañamor, Sheila Mae Perez and
Ryan Rexel Fabriga are slowly but surely making themselves ready for
their quest for the Philippines’ first gold medal.
Television viewed on mobile phone handsets could be a huge revenue generator for the telecoms sector but significant hurdles stand in the way, industry players and analysts said Thursday.
The Department of Education on Wednesday announced that the training
of 2,168 high school teachers on the use of lesson guides in
teaching English had been completed.
PARIS: Wars around the globe killed three times more
people during the second half of the 20th century than previously
estimated, according to a study released Friday.
On a recent trip to New York, I had the chance
to meet up with my college classmate whom I hadn’t seen in
decades. A native New Yorker after living there for 20 years, George
Gozum had acquired an artist-chic look including its predominantly black colour palette.
