Southern Luzon,
Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly
cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms becoming widespread rains over
Eastern Visayas and Northeastern Mindanao. The
rest of the country will be partly cloudy to
cloudy with isolated rainshowers or
thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or
evening.
MEMBERS of
Anakpawis offer candles and prayers in front of the
Congress plenary hall for the late labor leader, Crispin
Beltran, who is the group’s party-list representative
in the House of Representatives. Photo By Ruy Martinez
President forms group to look at lowering rates
The word war between the Government Service
Insurance System (GSIS) and the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco)
continued during a Cabinet meeting in Bohol on Tuesday. GSIS
President Winston Garcia said Meralco could reduce power cost by 6
centavos to P3 per kilowatt-hour, should the power distributor stop
its “abusive measures.”
Anakpawis Party-list Rep. Crispin Beltran died Tuesday, when he fell
from the roof of his house in Bulacan province and sustained severe
head injuries.
Modernization of old transmission lines of TransCo
can help stabilize power rates
WITH no more legal impediments, an
administration lawmaker on Tuesday expressed optimism that Congress
can soon grant the legislative franchise to the winning bidder of
the National Transmission Corporation (TransCo).
Those opposed to geothermal development are not
convinced
BACOLOD CITY: The forum between the proponents
as well as those opposed to the geothermal development expansion of
the Philippine National Oil Company-Energy Development Corp. (PNOC-EDC)...
SOARING food and fuel prices have begun hurting
consumer firms, squeezing their margins, as they compete to keep,
much less grow, their share of the market at a time when basic
commodities are eating up a bigger portion of people’s incomes.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana: Manu Ginobili scored 26 points and Tim
Duncan added 16 points and 14 rebounds Monday to lead San Antonio
into the National Basketball Association semifinals by beating New
Orleans 91-82.
International investigators have busted a vast Internet fraud network and charged 38 suspects, most of them Romanians living in the United States, the Justice Department said Monday.
The inauguration yesterday of Ma Ying-jeou as president of Taiwan
will vastly improve relations between Beijing and Taipei and raise
them to a high level of cooperation never seen before. After eight
years, the Kuomintang or Nationalist Party has again become the
leading political and ideological force on the island. The
pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been
rejected by the people.
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s new president Ma Ying-jeou called in his
inaugural address Tuesday for a resumption of high-level talks with
China, underscoring his priorities for his first four years in
power.
It’s all over the news. Penile enlargement was
once the stuff of bawdy jokes and spam emails. It elicited snickers
from those who rather not know too much—the mental images that
such a topic conjures was unpalatable—and on the other hand
discreet silence from those who knew only too well—having
undergone or contemplated it themselves. After all, few men would
admit such shortcomings.