Luzon will
experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered
light rains. The rest of the country will be
partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated
rainshowers or thunderstorms.
Romulo
Neri may be forced to tell the Supreme Court about
his talks with President Gloria Arroyo about the
broadband deal. That issue has sparked calls for the
President to resign, which was repeated during Mass at
the University of Santo Tomas attended by former
President Cory Aquino (third from left) and Rodolfo
“Jun” Lozada Jr. (at her left). Photo By Rene Dilan
Justices need to hear his conversation with GMA
What Romulo Neri refused to tell the Senate
about his conversation with President Gloria Arroyo about the
national broadband deal, he may be compelled to reveal to the
Supreme Court in an executive session.
The Senate blue-ribbon committee will look into
the $932-million SouthRail project after it finishes the inquiry
into the national broadband controversy. Also waiting in the wings
are the TransCo and Cyber Education Project investigations.
SENATOR Mar Roxas on Sunday scoredthe
government for failing to cushionthe impact of high price of oil
products as oil hits its record high of $103 a barrel, the highest
price posted ever.
Authorities largely blamed previous attacks on bars
to the Abu Sayyaf group
ZAMBOANGA CITY: A homemade bomb ripped through a
bar near a military base in the largely Muslim province of Sulu,
wounding six people, officials said on Sunday.
DESPITE its vigilance over the Philippines’
budget deficit-reduction program, the international financial
community may be warming up to government plans to crank up
infrastructure and social spending to weather the US economic
slowdown.
THERE’S no denying the workhorses of Sta. Lucia Realtors of their
only second crown since joining the league in 1993, as they crushed
the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants, 100-88, Sunday in game 7 of the
championship series of the 33rd Smart-PBA Philippine Cup before a
frenzied crowd at the Araneta Coliseum.
PRICES of oil and other commodities in the world market have resumed
their climb to fresh records, threatening to slow down the
Philippine economy this year and even stoke political unrest.
SINGAPORE: Interpol has issued an international red alert for an
alleged Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant leader who escaped from a
detention center in Singapore, the global police body’s website
said Sunday.
Esteemed artist Impy Pilapil’s
exhibit at the gardens of Ateneo de Manila University
features large outdoor interactive sculptures. Known for her glass
sculptures redolent of reflection and images of the sea, her
sculptures reflect what theosophist Rudolf Steiner called the twelve
senses: namely, the ego, thought, word, hearing, balance, movement,
life, touch, warmth, sight, taste, and smell. Art, in its truest
essence, after all should give the audience a full-bodied experience
that also engages the mind.
