Northern and
Central Luzon and Mindanao will experience
mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers
and isolated thunderstorms. The rest of the
country will be partly cloudy to cloudy with
isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in
the afternoon or evening.
President Gloria
Arroyo along with Agriculture Secretay Arthur Yap (left)
examines rice grown at the International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Laguna, with IRRI
president Robert Zeigler
(right) briefing them on developments.
Time for Meralco to give special treatment to poor
President Gloria Arroyo on Friday
said she wants the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) to bring down its
electricity rate to P3.52 per kilowatt hour (kWh) from the current
P6 to P10 per kWh.
Lopez-controlled Manila Electric
Co. (Meralco) said the head of the state pension fund Government
Service Insurance System (GSIS) is seeking control of the
country’s largest distribution utility.
Lawmaker says police must conduct deeper probe of
blast
A neophyte lawmaker on Friday urged Philippine
National Police (PNP) to conduct further investigations on the
Batasan bombing incident, hinting that the alleged mastermind is
still at large.
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: Gov. Luisa Lloren Cuaresma ordered an
Australian-owned mining firm “to cease and desist” its quarrying
activities in the remote Didipio village of Kasibu town.
PHILIPPINE economic managers are set to revise
downwards the peso-dollar exchange rate assumption incorporated in
their macroeconomic targets this year, a government source said
Friday.
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: TheDetroit Pistons booked
their second-round berth in the National Basketball Association
playoffs on Thursday with an emphatic 100-77
victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.
Today is World Press Freedom Day. Credible and respected
international organizations like the United Nations (whose General
Assembly in 1993 proclaimed May 3 as World Press Freedom Day),
Freedom House and the Committee to Protect Journalists, take the
occasion to tell the people of the globe of violations of the basic
right to freedom of expression. They remind them that many
journalists brave death or jail to bring people their daily news.
HEFEI: A mass intestinal virus infection in Fuyang
City in east China’s Anhui Province has hit 2,477 children and
killed 21 others, a provincial government spokesman said Thursday.
The gods must be crazy, in a munificent way that
is! While the spirited participants for this year’s NESTEA Beach
2008 were already blistering from Bora’s intense summer sun,
Ganymede’s gift for the hard-line athlete chilled with ice,
Nestea, was served to everyone’s delight.
