The Active Low
Pressure Area east of Mindanao has intensified
into a Tropical Depression and was named "Butchoy".It
is expected to induce the southwest monsoon and
bring rains over Visayas and Mindanao.
The long wait: Residents
of Labutta town in the Irrawaddy division of southwest
Myanmar who survived cyclone Nargis but lost their homes
now have to cope with the challenge of surviving without
clean water, food or shelter. The tragedy that hit one
of the poorest countries in the world claimed the lives
of some 22,000 people and aid experts on Wednesday
warned of a looming health crisis.
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Moody’s: $80-B Asean fund too unwieldy
Asian economies should make a priority the immediate implementation
of measures to contain high inflation, instead of setting up a
foreign-reserve pool, the US-based credit rating firm Moody’s
Investors Service said.
Record-breaking oil prices have sparked widespread international
concern among consumer nations amid predictions that they could rise
perhaps as high as $200 per barrel.
THE influential Catholic Bishops’ Conference
of the Philippines (CBCP) avoided discussing other social and
political issues beyond its members’ petition to Congress to
extend the agrarian reform program during the Wednesday meeting of
its permanent council.
Rep. Iggy Arroyo says bishops should give up their
landholdings for distribution
BACOLOD CITY: Lashing back at the recent call of
the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) urging
the Department of Land Reform to subject the First Family’s
landholdings to land reform, Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio Arroyo
(5th district) reacted and dared the bishops to distribute
landholdings owned by the Church, too.
FORD ARAO finally shone for San Mig Coffee Wednesday as the Coffee
Kings outlasted the Toyota Otis Sparks, 68-64, and clinched the
fourth and last semis berth in the PBL Lipovitan Amino Sports Cup at
the Oreta Sports Center in Malabon City.
Microsoft China broke ground Tuesday on a 280-million-dollar
research facility in the middle of Beijing's "Silicon
Valley", the software giant said in a statement.
A FUNNY thing happened to the Universally Accessible Cheaper and
Quality Medicines Act on its way to the presidential palace. It got
lost. This is what some Filipinos and the sponsors of the bill
suspect. They fear the bill may have not reached the Office of the
President. Mrs. Gloria Arroyo to this day has not signed the bill.
LABUTTA, Myanmar: Tens of thousands of shocked survivors of cyclone
Nargis’s attack in Myanmar flocked to this town, trekking through
are floodwaters littered with bloated bodies, an Agence France-Presse
reporter said Wednesday.
They are viral—so contagiously funny, embarrassing or outrageous
that you just have to share them with others and spread the word.
Filipinos are gaining both fame and notoriety on the Internet with
video postings on the YouTube.com. In the process we are showing the
world both our wit and our embarrassment.
