Northeastern
Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with
scattered light rains while Mindanao will have
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.
The National Food
Authority in Quezon City saw people wanting to avail
of rice at P18 a kilo, with a buyer limited to 3 kilos.
Agency personnel had repacked rice for Metro Manila.
Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said there is no rice
shortage. Photos by Ruy Martinez
Agri chief Yap: ‘Supervised’ sale will steady
prices
Economists on Friday said opening up rice importation
to the private sector is the most feasible long-term solution to the
supposedly looming “rice crisis” in the country. At present,
only the National Food Authority (NFA) is allowed to source rice
from abroad. In the past several decades or so, similarly authorized
government agencies also acted as sole importers of the staple.
House Speaker Prospero Nograles
on Friday said President Gloria Arroyo has expressed full support
for his proposal that “corporate farming” be adopted as a
government policy to promote food security. Nograles added that
President Arroyo had assured him that reports on a rice shortage are
baseless and exaggerated. He said he had asked Agriculture Secretary
Arthur Yap to conduct a study on his proposal.
As alleged, the suspended mayor planned and
effectively carried out a public uprising
RODRIGUEZ, Rizal: Acting Mayor Jonas Cruz filed
sedition charges against suspended Mayor Pedro Cuerpo and several
members of the municipal council before the Rizal Provincial
Prosecutors Office, saying that the embattled official “planned
and effectively carried out” a public and tumultuous uprising.
THE country’s economy may grow at a slower
pace this year as prices of goods and services are likely to remain
high, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific (UNESCAP) said Friday.
DETROIT, Michigan: The lowly Miami Heat made the Detroit Pistons
battle to clinch their fourth straight National Basketball
Association Central Division title.
Snippets of an Islam-bashing film by Dutch far-right MP Geert
Wilders were causing a stir Thursday on YouTube, where they
triggered cheers and barbs among thousands of viewers.
Official speeches at the Philippine Development Forum on March 26-27
in Clark, Pampanga, praised the Arroyo administration for achieving
phenomenal growth rates and introducing new activities called for in
past PDFs. But participants also chided the administration for not
having been transparent enough and, as a result, failing to achieve
much in combating systemic corruption.
SEOUL: North Korea raised the stakes Friday in its nuclear disputes
with South Korea and the United States, test-firing several missiles
and warning it may slow down work to disable atomic plants.
One of Europe’s greatest rock bands Duran Duran is coming to
Manila for a one-night only concert. Get ready on April 10 as Globe
and MTV Philippines present Duran Duran’s Red Carpet Massacre Live
at the Araneta Coliseum! Catch them perform their classic hits plus
their new sound that proves that the band is not only still around,
but doing better than ever!
