Southern Luzon
and Western Visayas will experience stormy
weather. Central Luzon and the rest of Visayas
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 cloudy
with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
President Gloria
Arroyo, wearing a diving attire, waves before she
went underwater at the Balicasag Island Dive Resort in
Panglao, Bohol in this file photo.
With the President is Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace
Durano.
Malacañang Photo
Sec. Durano fears President’s wish for 5M arrivals
by 2010 will not happen
WHAT at the end of 2008 will the
Philippine tourism industry be? One devastated by a big slump in
tourist arrivals, or one that has suffered a manageable decline, or
an economic sector rejoicing because it has had a 7.5- percent
increase?
MOVE over Macau and Singapore,
the newest Asian entertainment hub is rising in Manila.
Seeing that the country sorely
lacks a recognizable tourism marketing point—like Singapore’s
Sentosa or Hong Kong’s Disneyland—the Philippine Amusement and
Gaming Corp. (Pagcor), led by its Chairman and Chief Executive
Efraim C. Genuino, hatched a plan to convert a reclaimed area of
Manila Bay into a bustling world-class entertainment center.
Kidnapping suspects must be freed, says chief of
Muslim foundation
Mayor Alvarez Isnaji and his son
Haider, or Jun,
who were among those charged with kidnapping-for-ransom in
connection with the abduction of television reporter Cecilia
“Ces” Oreña-Drilon and her crew and a university professor,
must be released from detention because they were illegally
arrested.
Administrator Arreza: “The safety situation at the
shipyard has become alarming”
SUBIC BAY Freeport: The administrator of the Subic Bay Metropolitan
Authority ordered immediate stoppage of construction activities at a
foreign shipyard here on Saturday, a day after a worker was killed
and four others were injured in an apparent accident.
RED BULL attempts to bolster its bid for an outright semifinal berth
while Sta. Lucia fights for a playoff spot as they face each other
Sunday in the 2008 Smart-PBA Fiesta Conference at the Araneta
Coliseum.
WASHINGTON: Presumptive US Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama announced Friday that he and formal rival Hillary Clinton would campaign together on June 27 for the first time.
Maverick real-estate developer and a proud member of the country’s
largest home builder, Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc., Brittany
Corporation is creating a fast-rising community south of Manila.
Migrant worker support groups have kicked off
the so-called Philippine process of the Peoples’ Global Action
on Migration, Development and Human Rights to prepare for the Second
Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD).
YOU’RE not getting flour-coated deep-fried chicken when you watch
the Olympics in Beijing this August, but kung pao chicken—diced
chicken fried with pepper and nuts that go very well with steamed
rice.
They wore anting-antings (amulets), chewed nga-nga (betel nut),
masked their faces with ground coffee and carried native backpacks
filled with vegetables as offering to the bulol (local god) for a
bountiful harvest.
It is the last thing that Mayor Alfredo Siojo
Lim of Manila says during an interview that is most telling. Before
a reporter leaves, he gives his business card—a paper shard as red
as a fire truck in Binondo or a revolutionary flag of the Katipunan,
bold and alarming—and explains, “Para pag may sisita sa inyong
pulis, ipakita ninyo ‘yan. Maraming loko-lokong pulis. [So that
when a policeman flags you down, show them this. There are many
crooked cops out there.]”
