Southern Luzon,
Visayas and Mindanao will experience cloudy
skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms becoming widespread over Eastern
Visayas which may trigger flashfloods and
landslides. The rest of the country will be
partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated
rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the
afternoon or evening.
Feed my fish:
Divers feed their fish during the Seventh Celebrate the
Sea Marine Imagery Festival at the Manila Ocean
Park, being held in collaboration with the Department of
Tourism and the
Philippine Sports Commission.
Photo by Rene Dilan
Japan to sell up to 60,000 tons to Manila
The Philippines, one of the world’s largest rice
importers, said Friday prices are softening after Japan offered to
sell rice to Manila amid news of bumper world harvests for 2008.
Prices of goods and services are expected to grow at
their fastest pace this year across the world as a result of higher
food prices and costlier oil, a United Nations report said.
The Sandiganbayan on Friday suspended anew the
arraignment of the graft charges against former Justice Secretary
Hernando Perez and three other co-accused but junked their move to
suspend the proceedings.
With Malaysian peace monitors already pulled out from
Mindanao, a fragile truce holds sway in the island
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Fighting ceased
Friday between Muslim rebels and government troops in the southern
Philippine island-province of Basilan, but tension is still high as
both sides accused each other of violating a fragile truce.
THE country enjoyed a higher
dollar surplus in the first four months this year on strong
remittances, export receipts and the proceeds from a government
borrowing and power plant sale, according to the Bangko Sentral ng
Pilipinas (BSP).
SAN ANTONIO, Texas: Reigning National Basketball
Association champions San Antonio kept their season alive Thursday
with an emphatic 99-80 victory over the New Orleans Hornets.
Yahoo and Carl Icahn dueled Thursday as the corporate
raider vowed to overthrow the firm's board and the Internet pioneer
fired back that the billionaire misunderstood Microsoft's failed
takeover bid.
BASED solely on the first words
the new Chairperson of the
Human Rights Commission Atty. Leila de Lima told media
right after being sworn in by Chief Justice Reynato Puno, we find a
reason to hope that the CHR will henceforth become a more effective
body. The CHR promises be more successful now than before in curbing
human rights abuses by government men and going after abusers who
have been pinpointed by witnesses and victims.
WASHINGTON: The explosive issue of how to handle
America’s enemies detonated into the
US election campaign Thursday after President George W. Bush implied
Democrats want to appease terrorists.
FROM the raw genius of Madame Curie, the brute strength of Grace
O’Malley, the rock-hard leadership of Queen Elizabeth to the sheer
beauty that can launch a thousand ships, Helen of Troy; Women since
time and memorial have shown distinction in almost every field of
endeavor. Indeed it takes a hundred men to make an encampment,
but one woman to make a home. Without a doubt, women deserve as much
adulation and respect for their accomplishments.
