Luzon and
Visayas will experience cloudy skies with
scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming
widespread rains over the Central and Southern
Luzon and Western Visayas including Palawan
which may trigger flashfloods and landslides.
Mindanao will be partly cloudy to cloudy with
isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in
the afternoon or evening.
Justice Secretary
Raul Gonzalez tells President Gloria Arroyo (right) that
his department has already filed charges against 13 rice
hoarders during her visit to the Justice department. Photo by KJ Rosales
Villafuerte hits utility’s alleged ghost delivery
The Lopez Group will not hand
over control of its giant utility Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) to
the government without a fight—or without first filling its
pockets full if it stands to lose the battle.
Billions from the Internal
Revenue Allotment shares of local government units will be used for
the rice self-sufficiency program of the government, Agriculture
Secretary Arthur Yap said late Tuesday.
Palace confirms that President Arroyo had meeting
with ZTE officials in 2006
The Senate blue-ribbon committee
has set a hearing for the new witness in the national
broadband scandal, who has photos of President Gloria Arroyo’s
“secret visit” to ZTE headquarters in Shenzhen, China six months
before she witnessed the signing of the firm’s $329-million
contract for the scandal-plagued project.
Nueva Vizcaya governor orders quarrying activities of
Oceana Gold Phils. stopped
KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya: Tension
mounts at Didipio gold and copper mines as Gov. Luisa Lloren
Cuaresma ordered provincial authorities to stop quarrying
activities at the mine site Wednesday morning.
PRICES of Yum burger and Chicken Joy may rise
anew, as the bell weather for the average Filipino’s penchant for
fast-food plans another round of increases across all its brands to
cope with soaring raw material costs.
DETROIT: Richard Hamilton scored 31 points and the
Detroit Pistons advanced to the National Basketball Association
semifinals for the sixth year in a row by defeating Orlando 91-86
Tuesday.
THE gravest threat to national
stability, after the Moro Islamic Liberation Front secessionism and
deteriorations on the rice and food front, is the nearly forty-year
insurgency being waged by the New People’s Army/Communist Party of
the Philippines in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
CHARLESTON, West Virginia: Hillary Clinton celebrated
her rout of Barack Obama in West Virginia on Tuesday, but it was a
bittersweet victory colored by her Democratic rival’s daunting
lead in the nomination race.
Party hardy The man with the dream job reveals the right stuff
It’s every man’s fantasy:
owning the most happening bar, all the drinks any time you want,
right smack in the middle of the finest white sand beach on earth,
with the sunset view for an office view and the beautiful people
clad in bikinis, golden tans and not much else for customers. For
39-year-old Christopher Jude Lee, it’s all happening at Hey Jude!
