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.
CAUCUS FOR CARP.
Bishops, legislators and representatives of government
and civil society on Tuesday agreed to push for the
extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program,
but this time with specific reforms. The caucus was held
at the Pope Pious XII Center in Manila. Photo By Jessie C. Laureta
Tetangco: Prices soon to revert to steady levels
Prices of goods and services in April rose at
their fastest pace in three years on costlier food and electricity,
the government reported on Tuesday.
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, the chairman of
the joint oversight committee Power Commission, on Tuesday said
Congress is compelled by law to back government control of Meralco
should it result in cheaper power costs.
THIRTY-FIVE bishops and members of the House
Committees on Agrarian Reform and Appropriations urged for the
extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to
address “what still remains as one of the most crucial and urgent
issues of justice, peace and development in our country.”
High Court orders Korean firm to pay a subcontractor
in Davao International Airport project
THE Supreme Court (SC) has ordered controversial
Korean firm Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co., Ltd. (Hanjin)
liable for the delay in the construction of the Davao International
Airport project.
HIGHER food prices and a global slowdown will
damp growth in the Philippine telecommunications industry this year,
according to industry players and analysts.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana: Chris Paul scored 30 points and added 12
assists to power the New Orleans Hornets past defending National
Basketball Association champion San Antonio 102-84 here Monday.
China has launched an investigation into online
mapping services by Internet giants including Google and Sohu in an
effort to protect state secrets and territorial integrity, state
press said.
At last, the No. 1 Economist of the Arroyo administration has begun
to sound less eager to please the outside world and come back to the
essential virtue of patriotism. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
did so in her speech last Friday at the general assembly and
induction of officers of the Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI).
YANGON: The Myanmar cyclone has killed more than 22,000 people, the
secretive nation said Tuesday, amid fears thousands of others are
also dead in one of Asia’s worst natural disasters.
The kayak’s nose shot up into the air and, for
a moment, paused, giving time to realize how sincere the peril of
the moment was. Then the roiling water beneath fell, much like a
path plummets into a ravine.
