Northeastern
Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with
scattered light rains. Southern Visayas and
Mindanao will have cloudy skies with scattered
rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming
widespread rains over Southern 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 mostly in the afternoon or
evening.
Romulo Neri is
besieged by protesters and reporters at the University
of the Philippines.
‘Headache’ may turn into white elephant
After recently winning a petition
on executive privilege at the Supreme Court, Romulo Neri may have to
brace for another battle, this time at the Commission on Higher
Education (CHED).
The Philippines is the least
priority of Japanese firms for their expansion plans in the
Southeast Asian region over the next three years, according to a
Japan External Trade Organization survey.
THE launching of the local edition of Playboy, a
popular international adult magazine, was criticized on Thursday by
a senior member of the Roman Catholic Church.
Pacquiao conferred B’laan tribe Datu Damfel Banwe’
title in Sarangani
GENERAL SANTOS CITY: World boxing champion
Emmanuel “PacMan” Pacquiao was conferred the title of a B’laan
tribe datu in Sarangani shortly after his arrival from Manila.
The uptick in inflation rate is
expected to continue because of high oil and commodity prices, but
may fall within the central bank’s target, Bangko Sentral ng
Pilipinas (BSP) announced Thursday.
BOSTON: Kevin Garnett scored 30 points while Paul Pierce added 27 as
the Boston Celtics defeated Phoenix, 117-97, Wednesday in a National
Basketball Association game.
A Malaysian court has ordered a top blogger and editors of an
opposition newspaper to pay damages over libel claims by a
university head, reports said Thursday.
Children of Formula One greats rise out from their
fathers’ shadows
ERSTWHILE Michael Schumacher nemesis Damon Hill won a Formula One
World Championship in 1996, one short of equaling his father
Graham’s record of two, accomplished almost three decades earlier.
For his part, the colorful Jacques Villeneuve, successfully fending
off Schumacher to win the 1997 F1 crown (remember ‘Jerezgate?’),
fulfilled what his more illustrious father and Ferrari legend,
Gilles, tragically failed to do in his time.
As people celebrate Women’s Month, Moro Times
honors the struggle of Muslim women to right wrongs, fight poverty,
injustice and discrimination, and find peace and development for
their homeland.
BEIJING: Foreign journalists escorted by China into
the Tibetan capital of Lhasa described a charred, tense city still
wrapped in the smell of smoke nearly two weeks after violent riots
erupted.
COMMISSION on Elections
(Comelec)
Chairman Jose Melo does not have to apologize for assuming his job
at his Intramuros office. He has urgent work to do. The commission
needs a leader who can whip it into shape and push the reforms
Filipinos need to give their government and the election system the
respect these institutions deserve.
UNITED NATIONS: Asian governments must devote more funds to
preventing AIDS or face the risk that the disease could kill nearly
500,000 people each year across the continent by 2020, a United
Nations (UN) report says.
Set picturesquely in the mountain vistas of the
Sri Lankan hill capital Kandy and nestled on the banks of the
tranquil Mahaweli River (which is to that lush and verdant country
what the Ganges is to India and the Yangtze is to China) is the
white walled and greenery rich Mahaweli Reach—its seductive
colonial chic setting beckoning guests to unwind at one’s own
pace.
