Mindanao will
experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered
rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the
country will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy
with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms
mostly in the afternoon or evening.
QUADRUPLETS IN
MANILA. As a typhoon brings the experience of death
to hundreds, with hundreds more reported still missing,
a young mother gives birth to quadruplets at the
city-run Ospital ng Maynila on Saturday. While one of
the four babies died, another baby, whose mother had
irresponsibly thrown her out of a taxicab, survived with
minor injuries. Ironies happen everyday.
Photo by KJ Rosales
Official blames high prices of fertilizers for crisis
Barely recovering from a rice crisis, the
country faces a major corn shortage that could cause a domestic
shortfall in meat products and force the closure of firms involved
in the livestock and poultry industry.
NEW DELHI: The biofuel policies pursued by the rich countries are
pushing millions of people in the developing world into poverty, an
Oxfam study said, according to the Hindustan Times Thursday.
216 American congressmen support passage of the
long-awaited legislative measure
American legislators have assured
President Gloria Arroyo that the Veterans Equity bill would be
passed by the House of Representatives before the US presidential
elections in November this year.
Armed men sighted at the boundary of Maitum and
Malibong
MAITUM, SARANGANI: Villagers held captives by
suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) combatants were
reportedly freed Wednesday evening as military reinforcements backed
with helicopter gunship arrived at the coastal town of Maitum in
Sarangani, Thursday.
THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) warned
that foreign investments—both direct and portfolio inflows—would
ease this year due to higher inflation and a global economic
slowdown.
RING experts expect a hostile
atmosphere when World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion
David Diaz and Manny Pacquiao clash on Saturday (Sunday in Manila)
at the Mandalay Bay Resort Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
The Thai capital will offer 500,000 people free Wi-Fi access starting Thursday, in a pilot project that will provide 15,000 hotspots for them to get online, Bangkok's municipal government said.
No denying that Eugene Domingo is hot, hot, hot!
Not only is she regarded as the ‘intelligent comedienne,’ but
she is also one of our most credible dramatic actors around.
HONG KONG: German and Japanese machines whir endlessly in one of
Hong Kong’s few remaining spinning mills as the droning sound of
raw US cotton being spun into thread for clothing made in China hums
24 hours a day.
BEIJING: North Korea was expected to finally deliver
an overdue account of its nuclear activities Thursday, the next step
in years of international talks to get the secretive country to
abandon atomic weapons.
