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.
Sleep testing:
An unidentified policeman dozes off at Ramon Magsaysay
High School in Quezon City as the Philippine National
Police conducts an examination for its Lateral Entry
Program. More than 4,200 nationwide took the exam
Sunday. Photo by Ruy Martinez
Malacañang said it supports the
continuation of the investigation of the P728-million fertilizer
scam and the extradition of the former Agriculture Undersecretary
Jocelyn “Jocjoc” Bolante, who remains detained
in a US prison.
The public’s right to
information is expressly guaranteed by the 1987 Constitution and
affirmed by the judiciary. Yet access to data held by state agencies
not only remains limited, it has become nil in some cases,
apparently because of the current Senate scrutiny of particular
government projects.
THE GOVERNMENT is still looking
for other options aside from cutting
the rice tariff amid skyrocketing commodity prices in the
global market, the Department of Finance said.
CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur: While the ongoing
festivities mark the 110th anniversary of the city, “Ikkis ti
Candon” or the Cry of Candon, which was when Ilocano
revolutionaries continued the struggle for Philippine Independence,
the current tobacco festival is in recognition of the tobacco
industry as the savior of the city’s economy.
DESPITE the US credit crunch and
the resulting economic slowdown, inflation is likely to become the
bigger threat for financial markets in the second quarter, according
to analysts.
DETROIT: The Detroit Pistons continued their bid for
best record in the East Saturday with a victory over Cleveland, but
the Cavaliers still nabbed their National Basketball Association
playoff spot.
Text-based Braille browser will enable
the blind
to do all the good things people use the Internet for
A team of computer engineering
majors, just graduated on March 29 from the Ateneo de
Manila University, has developed a system to enable the blind to use
computers to become Braille-literate and fully utilize the Internet
the way other people do.
THE reversal in the
Philippines’ external trade to a deficit in the first month this
year from a surplus last year underscores the country’s
susceptibility to global commodity price swings at a very bad time
for the domestic economy.
BEIJING: China braced against further protests on
Sunday as it prepared for the arrival of the Olympic torch amid
reports of fresh disturbances in the riot-torn Tibetan capital Lhasa.
Summer art workshops really work The end of the academic year and the theater season
is the time to begin exploring your artistry
SUMMER workshops do more than
give youths something to do between school years and theater, music,
dance companies something to earn between theater seasons. Enrolling
in a course may lead you to discover talents worth seriously
pursuing. And for the art guilds, academic institutions and museums
conducting these workshops, it may lead them to discover talents
worth taking in.
