Southern Luzon
and Visayas 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.
Philippine
President Gloria Arroyo salutes while trooping the
line during the AFP-PNP Command Conference in Camp
Aguinaldo in Quezon City.
GMA launches ‘localized peace agreements’
policy
Dureza helps midwife MNLF reunification in Libya;
MILF unfazed by General Esperon’s appointment as peace chief
PROFOUND changes have been happening to the
Mindanao peace process these past months, the latest of which is
President Gloria Arroyo’s almost unheralded launching of a new
policy to “localize peace agreements.”
Nur Misuari, the founder of the Moro National
Liberation Front and “Maas” (old wise man) to many Filipino
Muslims of the Bangsamoro movement, has been restored to his
preeminent place in the MNLF.
As expected, the country’s big petroleum firms increased their
pump prices after independent oil companies gave in to the soaring
prices of crude in the world market on Friday.
SECRETARY Lito Atienza of the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has ordered the agency’s
regional officials in Batangas to survey a disputed
TAIPEI: Taiwan's new President Ma Ying-jeou of the China-friendly Kuomintang
(KMT) party renewed his call on Beijing to set aside sovereignty disputes and reopen negotiations with the island Saturday.
Today’s inward remittances from the 7.76 million Overseas Filipino
Workers account for almost 10 percent of the country’s gross
national product, according to the Philippine Overseas Employment
Administration.
On May 21, migrant workers advocates called on
the Commission on Election (Comelec) to stress the need to refine
the scheme for overseas absentee voting (OAV) and clarify if it will
be included in the Comelec’s agenda to automate the 2010 elections
based on its enabling law, Republic Act (RA) No. 9369, that was
signed into law last year.
First, it was Intel, the world’s largest manufacturer of computer
chips, from which we heard news that it would have to make
China—not the Philippines—its base for expanded activities in
manufacturing more advanced products in Asia. Now, it is the United
Parcel Service (UPS), the world’s largest package delivery
company, which in 2010 will move its intra-Asian hub now at the
Clark Freeport also to China.
It has always been said that the hope of a nation
lies in the hands of the youth. And judging the seven people
recently awarded as Young Market Masters, the prospect of marketing
and sales in the country is brighter, more robust and exciting in
the years to come.
LIFE begins at 40, but for this professor,
mother, and now a cervical cancer prevention advocate, her life
almost took a downturn at what was supposed to be the prime of her
life.
