Mindanao will
experience mostly 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.
Science and technology, a sector pitifully
neglected by government this past half-century, is now at last being
given the importance it deserves (see “S&T sector at last gets
proper funding—P5.29B this year” and “DOST creating larger
pool of scientists.”).
Insisting on the gains made in strengthening the economy, President
Gloria Arroyo has expressed confidence that the Philippines is at a
“tipping point” and will reach First World status within a
generation.
San Miguel Corp. turns over 50 hectares of former
Quisumbing estate
After almost two decades of arduous battle to
press their supposedly legal claim to the “Promised Land,”
farmers from Sumilao in Bukidnon province emerged victorious. On
Saturday, they signed an agreement signaling formal handover to them
by San Miguel Corp. of the 144-hectare estate they had been
contesting.
BOSTON, Massachusetts: The Boston Celtics strong-armed another
Western Conference team on Friday, downing the New Orleans Hornets
112-92 in a National Basketball Association contest.
NEW DELHI: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Saturday
appealed to the world community to “please help” resolve the
crisis in his homeland that has been rocked by deadly anti-Chinese
protests.
The moment you enter the city of Parañaque, one would immediately
get a buzz of its cultural appeal that meets young with the old,
modern with traditional, and street smarts with the high life. It is
a melting pot community located at the South of Manila,
surrounded by Pasay City (North), Manila Bay (West), Muntinlupa
(Southeast), Las Piñas (Southwest) and Taguig (Northeast).
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their
families picketed the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA)
and filed applications for reimbursements en masse to demand
immediate repatriation of at least 200 overseas workers and their
family members in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the reimbursement of
their plane tickets.
Local companies are having problems in terms of
keeping their employees in the organization as the demography of
workers in the Asia-Pacific region changes, a human resource
consulting firm recently said.
Locavore. The word comes close to defining this
woman’s appetite. Picked by Time Magazine as seventh on its list
of 10 best buzzwords last year, it means a “person who tries to
eat only foods that are harvested locally.”
