Luzon and
Visayas will experience mostly cloudy skies with
scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
Mindanao will be partly cloudy to cloudy with
isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in
the afternoon or evening.
Under a microscope:
President Gloria Arroyo (left) peeks into a microscope
during her visit to the Science Laboratory of the Lucena
West 1 Elementary School in Quezon on Wednesday. Her
visit was seen as signifying her wish to inculcate
knowledge and skills among students in English, Science
and Mathematics. Malacañang Photo
Regulator demands explanation
The Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) ordered the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) to
explain its defiance of a cease-and-desist order that the government
regulator issued during the power firm’s stockholders’ meeting
Tuesday.
Not backing down from his foe’s
defiant stance, Winston Garcia is pushing harder for the takeover of
the biggest power distributor in the Philippines by filing another
case with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to nullify
the votes cast by shareholders Tuesday.
Faster passage of measure seen without need to hold
bicameral hearings
The House adopted Wednesday the Senate version
of the bill granting tax exemption to minimum wage earners and
increasing personal and additional exemptions of individuals,
assuring the faster passage of the Malacañang-certified measure.
THE Philippines has put off a government plan to
balance its budget this year, the country’s economic managers said
Wednesday. Besides postponing its fiscal program, the Development
and Budget Coordinating Committee (DBCC) also cut the country’s
economic growth target in light of rising inflation and a slowdown
in its largest export market, the US.
BATANGAS CITY: Harbour Centre defied pressure
and went on to rewrite history by bagging a record fifth straight
title Wednesday in the 2008 Philippine Basketball League Lipovitan
Amino Sports Cup.
THE accusation that members of the Batangas Police Provincial Office
may have summarily killed three to four suspects in the Rizal Commercial Banking
Corp. Cabuyao, Laguna, branch robbery sounds familiar. Police
officers have been implicated in similar killings before.
LONDON: The world needs to maintain pressure on China for human
rights reform after the Beijing Olympics, the head of Amnesty
International told Agence France-Presse Wednesday after the group
published its annual report.
