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.
President Gloria
Arroyo seems to be in an animated talk with another
woman on Friday, eve of International Women’s Day, in
Malacañang. Former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. asked
her to resign from Lakas and Kampi on also on Friday. Malacañang Photo
President should focus on her job, JdV argues
Ousted House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. went on
the offensive Friday, calling on the President to resign from the
ruling Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats and from the party she
founded, the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi).
Malacañang lashed out at Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. for
rejecting the Supreme Court’s compromise formula that allows
Romulo Neri to reappear in a Senate inquiry into the controversial
national broadband deal.
The Philippines, along with Indonesia, is to
receive the bulk of the aid allotted by the US State Department for
the East Asia and Pacific region for the fiscal year (FY) of 2009.
Rebel raid on a Apex Co. was in response to unmet
demand to stop its mining operations
ZAMBOANGA CITY: The military mounted a new
operation against communist insurgents who raided a mining firm in
Compostela Valley, officials said Friday.
AFTER consumer price increases accelerated to a
16-month record, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said it will
revise its inflation forecast for the next two years, citing
costlier crude and food items.
The US Defense Department said Thursday it is
forbidding Google from filming and depicting in detail its military
bases, after officials found precise imagery of a Texas base on the
Google Maps website.
March is Women’s Month in the Philippines and the world.
Since Monday, March 3, throughout the country,
the national government and the governments of many towns and cities
have held convocations, art exhibits, forums, recognition and
awarding ceremonies and other activities to celebrate Women’s
Month....
BANGKOK: Notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, branded the “Merchant
of Death” for feeding weapons to conflict zones around the world,
was paraded handcuffed by Thai police Friday after his capture in a
dramatic sting operation.
