Northern and Eastern Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rains and isolated thunderstorms. Southern Mindanao will have mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms.
MALAYSIAN Gen.
Abdul Aziz (right) is greeted by his Philippine
counterpart, Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr., during a visit
to Camp Aguinaldo on Thursday. Aziz said Malaysia
remains committed to seeing peace achieved in Mindanao
despite the looming pull-out of Malaysian peacekeepers. AFP Photo
Joker says move will create 11 fiefdoms, kings
Sen. Joker Arroyo said Thursday a new attempt to
amend the 1987 Constitution to switch to a federal system and create
11 federal states would create “11 little fiefdoms and 11 little
kings.”
The Malaysian government will continue with its
role as mediator in ongoing peace talks between the Philippine
government and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Labor Day protest rallies were held yesterday in
various parts of the country, especially Metro Manila, but the
national police chief, Director Gen. Avelino Razon, said no violent
incidents were reported.
Atienza wants all households connected to a
sewage-treatment plant
THE Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) is seeking for ways to save Benguet’s Balili
River and prevent the river from becoming as polluted as Pasig
River.
THE banking industry sustained its profitability
last year despite contractions in trading gains and trust department
income, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said in its Philippine
Financial System report.
CLEVELAND: Caron Butler scored the game-winner with 3.2 seconds to
play on Wednesday as the Washington Wizards beat Cleveland 88-87 to
stay alive in the National Basketball Association playoffs.
MARK May 3 on your calendar because it is the day a groundbreaking
new international treaty, the United Nations Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities, comes into force. The
Philippines, India and Bangladesh are the three countries in Asia
Pacific that have ratified the convention.
EL PASO, Texas: Despite a loud rattling of sabers over Iran in Iraq,
the US military has not embarked on new planning for war, its chief
spokesman said Wednesday.
