Palawan, Bicol
region, Visayas and Mindanao will experience
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.
Dispute over land
reform takes on a level of violence on Friday when
security guards at the Department of Agrarian Reform
confront protesting farmers from the Southern Tagalog
region. Photo By Jessie C. Laureta
Economists: Leave Meralco in hands of private sector
A government takeover of Manila
Electric Co. (Meralco) may lower power rates, but it might make the
Philippines’ largest electric company debt-ridden like the
state-owned National Power Corp. (Napocor), economists warned on
Friday.
BANTAYAN ISLAND, Cebu: The
government should not be in business.
This was the reason cited by the
head of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) in apparently
refuting reports that the pension fund wants to wrest control of
Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) from the Lopezes.
Malacañang said the government
is ready to distribute a sugar hacienda in Negros Occidental
province allegedly owned by First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo to
sugarcane farmers claiming the land.
Need to address power shortage within the shortest
possible time stressed
BACOLOD CITY: With the constant
brownouts and with no immediate solution at hand, Negros Occidental Gov. Isidro Zayco had no
recourse but to seek the help of Malacañang to send one power barge
to bring relief to residents and businesses who have been severely
affected by the acute power shortage in the province.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas: Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili
scored 31 points apiece Thursday as the San Antonio Spurs finally
posted a victory over New Orleans in their National Basketball
Association playoff series.
The United States warned China Thursday that it risked
"technological isolation" for developing unique technical
standards of its own that also are shutting out foreign competition.
Most keen observers of the
Kremlin are convinced that Vladimir Putin will continue to be
the paramount leader of Russia. He is, officially, only the head of
government as prime minister. But his protégé, Dmitry Medvedev,
himself, who succeeded him Wednesday as Russia’s elected president
and head of state, referred to himself and Putin as a ruling
“tandem.”
BANGKOK: Desperate survivors of the Myanmar cyclone
are facing serious
health worries one week after the disaster, with everything from
disease to snakebites putting some 1.5 million people at risk, aid
groups say.
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