Southern Luzon,
Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly
cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms becoming frequent rains over the
Western Visayas. The rest of the country will
have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated
rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the
afternoon or evening.
A woman looks
at packs of rice displayed in a supermarket in Bangkok
on Sunday. Rising prices of commodities have been blamed
on higher energy and fertilizer costs, greater global
demand, and droughts, among other factors. AFP Photo
‘Equalization fund’ will favorless developed
autonomous states
A P100-billion “Federal Equalization Fund”
administered by a Federal Equalization Council will assist less
developed federal states and enable them to catch up with
economically advanced states, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino
Pimentel Jr. said on Sunday.
HONG KONG: Rationing, subsidies, price-fixing cartels, export
curbs—you name it, governments across the world are trying it out
as they seek to shield their populations from the soaring prices of
rice.
SEN. Panfilo Lacson on Sunday rapped Sen. Alan
Peter Cayetano for declaring that he would come out with a report on
the aborted $329-million national broadband network (NBN) scandal
even before members of the
Amb. Beckingham, experts are arriving
to help restart stalled negotiations
ZAMBOANGA CITY: The
Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group, Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), praised Britain for its offer to
send experts to help in peace negotiations across the strife-torn
region of Mindanao.
FACED with a June deadline to roll out its
network, one of four telecommunication companies with a license to
offer 3G (third generation) has bowed out of the business amid
lackluster demand for a service that had been touted as the
industry’s next growth driver.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana: David West scored a playoff career-high 30
points to spark the New Orleans Hornets past San Antonio 101-82
Saturday in the opener of their National Basketball Association
playoff series.
The new open source package will have two editions
Software programmers at the Advanced Science and
Technology Institute of the Department of Science and Technology are
now putting the finishing touches to the latest version of Bayanihan
Linux.
THE latest increase in prices at the pump shows for the umpteenth
time the insensitivity of oil companies to the average Filipino’s
plight. The announcement—if we could call it that—was made close
to midnight, by which time most of us were already at home, winding
down after a long hard week at work. Needless to say, many of us
hardly had the energy to get up from bed or our couches and drive
all the way up to the nearest station to gas up.
YANGON: Myanmar residents awoke Sunday to devastation after tropical
cyclone Nargis tore through swathes of the country, battering
buildings, sinking boats and causing unknown casualties, officials
said.
Editorial art
A Filipino opinion editorial cartoonist pushes past
boundaries
His art bites. An opinion editorial cartoonist
for The Sydney Morning Herald, 59-year-old Australia-based Filipino
artist Eduardo Aragon recently exhibited three genres in three
different venues in an event dubbed Tres Kantos.
