Southern Luzon,
Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly
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.
PRICE CHECK.
Thailand’s Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, with
Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, visits the Guadalupe
Market in Makati City to check on the sale of local
agricultural products. Photo by Rene H. Dilan
Cooking gas hike could be P3 per kilo in June
After cooking-gas prices went up P0.50 per kilo
Friday, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) suppliers announced yet
another increase in June—this time by at least P3 per kilo.
Finance Secretary Margarito Teves admitted Friday that a government
decision to waive import tariffs on crude oil will do little to cut
record-high pump prices.
Australia has hiked its official assistance funds to the Philippines
to P4.4 billion for the 2008 to 2009 fiscal year, the top Australian
envoy to Manila said Friday.
Rizal board accuses Palace of grave abuse and being
partial to the mayo
THE Court of Appeals (CA) has
sustained Malacañang’s order reinstating Rodriguez Mayor Pedro
Cuerpo to his post following an earlier order by the Sangguniang
Panlalawigan of Rizal meting him a six-month suspension.
THE Philippine economy may have grown at a
slower pace in the first quarter of the year owing to skyrocketing
food and oil prices, the National Economic and Development Authority
(NEDA) said.
BOSTON: The Detroit Pistons dealt the Boston Celtics their first
home defeat in the playoffs of the National Basketball Association
with a 103-97 triumph Thursday.
The European Commission said on Thursday it would scrutinise a decision by Microsoft to make its Office programme compatible with a rival document format.
No to the death penalty! We join Commission on Human Rights Chair
Leila de Lima in opposing legislators who are calling to reinstate
capital punishment in our criminal justice system.
NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s junta leader on Friday agreed to allow access
to all foreign aid workers to help with the relief operation after
Cyclone Nargis, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said.
Sure, the whole of China (and the world!) is
excited over the coming Olympic Games to be held in Beijing but a
different Olympics recently took China by storm. It was the annual
Miss Tourism Queen International Beauty Pageant participated in by
112 beautiful delegates from around the world. The latest to make it
to the prestigious group of grand slam pageants, Miss Tourism Queen
International takes its place among the top pageants in the
world—Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss
Earth. It broke its own record of 108 contestants joining last year.
