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.
UNDER ONE FLAG.
Students from Cavite province carry a 60-foot flag on
Sunday during the first Wagayway Festival in Imus, south
of Manila. This town claims to be the flag capital of
the Philippines. The giant flag will be raised Wednesday
in Alapan. Photo by KJ Rosales
Solgen ready to help recover P14B
Different government agencies seem to be circling their forces
around the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco).
Solicitor General Agnes Devanadera said Sunday
her office is ready to help the Government Service Insurance Service
(GSIS) get back the P14-billion in unrefunded meter deposits
collected by Meralco from its customers.
The word war between the Lopez Group and Winston
Garcia appears to be headed to a showdown during Tuesday’s annual
stockholders’ meeting of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco).
An unprecedented 94.8 percent of uniformed personnel
have been deployed on the streets vs. crime
The Philippine National Police has ordered its
uniformed personnel manned to desk or office jobs to go out on the
streets so as to deter the prevention of crimes.
BASILAN ISLAND: At least ten government soldiers
were wounded infierce fighting Sunday with Muslim rebels in the
southern Filipino island of Basilan, officials said.
AMID rising prices and the anticipated slump in
the domestic economy, the Philippines’ two largest broadcasting
companies are faced with a possible top line squeeze, as diminishing
revenues from big ad-spenders force them to look elsewhere for
growth.
DETROIT, Michigan: The Boston Celtics finally found a way to win on
the road in the National Basketball Association playoffs Saturday,
posting an emphatic 94-80 victory over the Detroit Pistons.
The present number of Internet addresses in the
world is expected to run out soon; therefore there is a need for
steps to tackle this issue by migrating to IPv6, the technical
standard that will enable continued growth of Internet use in the
future.
THE standoff at the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) between the
Lopez-led management and state-run Government Service Insurance
Service (GSIS) will probably draw to a close this Tuesday, ending
what has been an acrimonious word war between the two insider groups
at the Philippines’ largest electricity distributor.
SINGAPORE: East Timor hopes to join the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (Asean) by 2012 but not as a “basket case” which
might embarrass Myanmar, President Jose Ramos-Horta said.
More than just a fiesta, Pahiyas is a riot of
colors and an agricultural fertility celebration with roots that may
go well before the advent of Christianity in the Philippines.
“Pahiyas festival is staged in honor of San Isidro as a form of
thanksgiving,” explains Vice Mayor Mando Abutal. But even this
veneer of Christianity has magical roots.
