Eastern Luzon
will experience mostly cloudy skies with
scattered rains. Visayas and Mindanao will have
cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms becoming widespread rains over
Eastern Visayas and Eastern Mindanao which may
trigger flashfloods and landslides. The rest of
the country will be partly cloudy to at times
cloudy with isolated rainshowers or
thunderstorms.
Go girl:Female
members of the Special Action Force unit of the
Philippine National Police train at a police camp in
Laguna, south of Manila, Thursday. Formerly an all-men
group, the unit currently
has 289 woman recruits. Photo By Rene Dilan
SINGAPORE: Oil edged close to $105 a barrel in Asian
trade on Thursday, touching another new record high after an
unexpected drop in US stockpiles and OPEC’s rejection of calls to
increase output.
The Supreme Court, not the Senate, will still have
the last word on the matter of Romulo Neri.
That is, until the High Tribunal
resolves a petition of Neri on his right, or lack of it, to invoke
executive privilege in snubbing a Senate inquiry into an allegedly
graft-tainted telecommunications project.
Agreement signed with China in 2004 comes under fire
from Senate
Add one more item on the long
list of Senate inquiries—the agreement
between the Philippines and China for a joint exploration in the
South China Sea, including the disputed Spratly Islands.
Peace negotiator Mohagher Iqbal says Muslims need to
know the progress of the 7-year-old negotiations
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Thousands of Moro
Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF) rebels are expected to gather in Mindanao to discuss the slow
progress
of the peace talks with Manila.
THE Development and Budget
Coordinating Committee (DBCC)
has recommended halving the annual subsidy given to government-owned
and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) and government financial
institutions (GFIs).
BOSTON: Kevin Garnett cored a season-high 31 points
Wednesday as the Boston Celtics steamed into the National Basketball
Association (NBA) playoffs with a 90-78 victory over Detroit.
BRUSSELS: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
wound up a brief Middle East trip after apparently yielding towards
a ceasefire so as to resume peace talks that were suspended by the
Palestinians after an Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip that cost
many lives.
TOP Colombian chef David Pardo de Ayala shares
grilling secrets to
achieve the perfect steak, if there is such a thing. Chef David
calls the shots in the kitchen of the newest food outlet of the
Discovery Suites, called 22 Prime.
