Southern Luzon,
Visayas and Mindanao will experience cloudy
skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms becoming widespread rains over the
western sections of Visayas and Mindanao
including Palawan. The rest of the country will
be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated
rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the
afternoon or evening.
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Speaker Prospero
Nograles, with photos of the members of the House of
Representatives behind him, maintains cordial ties with
the opposition. Photo by Rene Dilan
IF former Speaker Jose de Venecia had the
“Pangasinan Express”—which included a lot of northern Luzon
congressmen—Speaker Prospero Nograles has the “Mindanao Bloc.”
MANILA: The Philippines recorded 9,176 cases of dengue fever
nationwide from January 1 to April 5 this year, almost a 34 percent
increase of over the same period last year, the health department
said Saturday.
Bishop: Malaysian pullout tells Manila alone can
solve insurgency
A Roman Catholic bishop from Basilan on Saturday said the pullout of
Malaysia as a truce observer from the country’s southern Mindanao
region should serve as a reminder to the Philippine government that
it alone could bring peace there.
SALT LAKE CITY: Carlos Boozer scored 27 points with 20 rebounds
Friday as the Utah Jazz defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 104-99 to
climb back into their National Basketball Association playoff
series.
OSAKA: Chinese President Hu Jintao concluded a five-day historic
state visit to Japan, known as a “warm-spring” tour, and left
Osaka for home Saturday.
If you’ve always longed to live in luxury that feels like a resort
set apart by the beauty and bounty of nature and the things you need
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Senate President Manuel Villar rapped the
decision of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to
suspend its pre-departure loans to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs),
saying it has left them at the mercy of loan sharks and shattered
the hopes of the poor from working abroad.
THE government-Meralco war fails to electrify the country because
most of the issues are way above the head of the consumers. Apart
from their concern with rising electricity costs, the people have
difficulty relating to the other issues enveloping the controversy.
There can be no better icon of motherly
affection than the act of breastfeeding. Since time immemorial,
breastfeeding has connoted the pure and unadulterated love of a
mother to her child. Sadly, this loving and healthy practice has
entered an unabated decline in the last few decades.
