Visayas and
Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies
with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
The rest of the country will have partly cloudy
to at times cloudy skies with isolated
rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the
afternoon or evening.
His predicament is
nothing to be taken lightly, yet former Justice
Secretary Nani Perez is all smiles at the Sandigabayan
on Monday as he sits with his lawyers during his
arraignment. Photo by Ruy Martinez
Health official sees concerted effort to stop law’s
signing
Foreign pharmaceutical giants in
the Philippines might throw a monkey wrench into the signing into
law of a congressional bill batting for lower-priced medicines.
The Sandiganbayan on Monday postponed the arraignment
of former Justice Secretary Hernando “Nani” Perez for a
robbery-extortion case filed against him.
THE United Opposition (UNO) said
Monday that the Arroyo administration is passing the blame to the
private sector, particularly to the Lopez family and the Manila
Electric Company (Meralco), for its alleged failure to implement
reforms in the power sector and keep the cost of electricity down.
THE Philippines’ largest
electricity distributor said profits in the first quarter rose by
double-digits from last year on the back of lower expenses and
higher distribution revenues.
LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles Lakers, led by Kobe
Bryant’s 38 points, launched their National Basketball Association
second-round playoff series Sunday with a 109-98 victory over the
Utah Jazz.
MADRID: Finance ministers from the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) as well as China, Japan and South
Korea agreed Sunday on the minimum scale of a regional
foreign-reserve swap to prevent a recurrence of the 1997 to 1998
Asian financial crisis.
Cebu calling The Cebuano musical invasion produces an album on
nationhood
We are currently in the midst of
a Cebuano musical invasion. Urban Dub, Jr. Kilat, Sheila and the
Insects, Faspitch, Ambassadors and Cueshe are just some of the band
that have continued to dominate the nations’ airwaves or earn the
accolades of critics the past few years.
