Eastern and
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.
Sen. Miriam
Defensor-Santiago during her privileged speech on
Monday accused the Lopezes of hatching a demolition job
against her. She has been endorsed by President Gloria
Arroyo to the International Court of Justice. Photo by Rene H. Dilan
She says enemies using ABS-CBN to hit back at her
An irate Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago on Monday
called on the Energy Regulatory Commission to order the Manila
Electric Co. (Meralco) to show cause why it should not immediately
give the refunds to consumers as ordered by the Supreme Court.
The plot seems to get uglier, if the state
pension fund is to be believed.
On Monday, eve of a stockholders’ meeting of
the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), the Government Service Insurance
System (GSIS) revealed an alleged plan of the Lopez-owned utility to
heckle and discredit its general manager and president, Winston
Garcia.
Senator tells former Speaker that not testifying at
this point can create suspicions
“Don’t back off!” Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano
urged former Speaker Jose de Venecia Monday on reports that de
Venecia was still looking for the “proper time” to talk about
the aborted $329-million national broadband network contract with
ZTE, a Chinese firm.
Muslim rebel group accused of violating ceasefire
agreement for the duration of peace negotiations
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is
facing a ceasefire violation complaint filed by the military before
the Joint Committee on Ceasefire and Cessation of Hostilities (JCCCH)
for allegedly starting the fighting in Basilan on Sunday.
THE Department of Finance said any changes to
the government’s borrowing mix would have to wait given the
volatile economic environment. The agency made this announcement
after an auction of one-year Treasury bills saw the yield on the
short-term government debt paper fall despite attempts by banks to
bid up the rate on account of rising inflation.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas: The reigning National Basketball Association
champion San Antonio Spurs battled back into their playoff semifinal
series Sunday with a 103-84 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.
Samsung Electronics Co, the world's largest computer chip maker, said Monday it has developed a new solid-state drive which is expected to replace hard disk drives in laptop computers.
Mitsubishi Motor Philippines introduces all-new
Lancer EX with driving event at the racetrack
THERE were no dancing girls. No boring speeches.
No parlor games. In introducing the much-awaited all-new
ninth-generation Lancer (now appended with EX) to the local
automotive journalists, Mitsubishi Motors Phils. held on May 8 a
genuine driving event at the Subic International Raceway with the
single-minded purpose of demonstrating the qualities of its newest
model. The carmaker apparently knows the car can stand on its own
merits and needed no icing to further sweeten its filling goodness.
YOU don’t need the report of the think tank Institute for
Economics and Peace to conclude that the Philippines is one of the
most violent countries in the world.
SEOUL: Nuclear power North Korea may give out a declaration of its
atomic activities during US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill’s trip
to Beijing this week or shortly afterwards, a report said Monday.
The Eraserheads may have danced their “Huling
El Bimbo” in 2001, but still we can’t get enough of them.
Really. Tributes, covers and remakes of the band’s old hits aired
in the radio and so far fans still insist, “Nothing beats the
original.” Maybe this is the reason why each E-head are very
successful in their own respective careers.
