Palawan, Visayas
and Mindanao will experience cloudy skies with
scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms while
Bicol region will have mostly cloudy skies with
scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The
rest of the country will be partly cloudy to
cloudy with isolated rainshowers or
thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or
evening.
GET THE HOARDERS!
Rice traders accused of hoarding rice had the privilege
of having no less than President Gloria Arroyo making
sure that they were formally charged for the crime. The
President met with Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, NFA
Administrator Jessup Navarro, and NBI Director Nestor
Mantaring at the Justice Department on Thursday. Photo By Rene H. Dilan
Power firm says it’s ‘sick of this business’
The president of the Government
Service Insurance System (GSIS), Winston Garcia, on Thursday said
they considered taking over the Lopez-controlled Manila Electric Co.
(Meralco) after the power distribution company’s chairman, Oscar
Lopez, expressed his intention to give back the company to the
government.
AROUND 50 private elementary
schools in the National Capital Region (NCR) have already filed
their application with the Department of Education-NCR to increase
their tuition fee this coming school year.
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: Gov. Luisa Lloren Cuaresma,
apparently slighted by the seeming disregard of a foreign mining
firm for the provincial government’s “cease and desist order,”
on Tuesday advised officials of the Australian mining firm to just
leave the province if it could not pay the taxes and fees being
collected by her administration.
DESPITE the soaring price of fuel, Filipinos
kept buying gas-guzzling motor vehicles like pickup trucks, vans,
and sports utility vehicles (SUVs), with sales of these models in
the first four months this year jumping a fourth from a year ago,
according to local assemblers.
LOS ANGELES: Kobe Bryant accepted his Most Valuable Player trophy
Wednesday, then poured in 34 points to lead the Los Angeles Lakers
to a 120-110 victory over Utah Jazz in the National Basketball
Association (NBA) playoffs.
As US technology giants including Google place a multi-billion dollar bet on
WiMAX, backers of the wireless data-streaming format say it will radically change mobile Internet use.
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI described the Beijing Olympic Games
as “an event of great importance for the entire human family” as
he received the China Philharmonic at the Vatican on Wednesday.
Myanmar needs massive help—and
Yangon is getting it. From the Philippines—a partner in the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)—a team of doctors
and nurses will soon fly to the former Burma to help ease suffering
and pain.
MOSCOW: Russia’s Vladimir Putin was to be confirmed Thursday as
prime minister, a day after his aide Dmitry Medvedev became
president in a power shift that raises questions over who will
really be in charge.
