Anti-Visiting Forces
Agreement activists and anti-rape feminists troop to the
Court of Appeals on Thursday to ask justices not to
yield to pressure to acquit and set free US Marine Lance
Corporal Daniel Smith. He was found guilty of raping a
Filipino woman named only as “Nicole” in December
2005. Smith is in the custody of the United States
Embassy in Manila. Photo by Jessie C. Laureta
Consumers file case before DOJ for meter, bill
deposits collected
A consumer group on Thursday filed charges of
large-scale estafa before the Department of Justice against top
executives of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco).
The National Association of Electricity
Consumers for Reforms alleged that the utility misappropriated
hundreds of millions of pesos in interests earned from the
consumers’ meter and bill deposits.
Members of an organization keeping watch over the infamous Subic
rape case involving a US Marine and a 22-year-old Filipina known
only as “Nicole” staged a picket Thursday in front of the Court
of Appeals.
Members of the Task Force Subic Rape are asking
justices not to yield to pressure to acquit Lance Corporal Daniel
Smith, whom a lower court found guilty of raping “Nicole” in
2005.
A network of national media organizations on
Wednesday assailed the decision of the Cebu Court of Appeals to
indefinitely stop the prosecution of the suspected masterminds in
the 2005 murder of journalist Marlene Esperat in Tacurong City,
Sultan Kudarat.
The attack coincided with sporadic fighting between
Muslim rebels and soldiers in nearby Basilan
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Three people were killed and at
least 18 others injured on Thursday when suspected terrorists
detonated a bomb outside an air force base, the military said.
THE government on Thursday said the country’s
first-quarter economic growth slowed, warning Filipinos of a
difficult environment this year due to rising food and oil prices.
BOSTON: Kevin Garnett scored 33 points and Ray Allen chipped in 29
as the Boston Celtics defeated the Detroit Pistons 106-102 Wednesday
in Game 5 of the National Basketball Association semifinals.
Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang said Wednesday that Microsoft is "no longer interested" in buying the pioneering Internet firm, but is considering "other partnerships."
The Third World Halal Forum was recently held in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. The event was attended by hundreds of delegates from more
than 40 countries from the Middle East, China, Southeast Asia,
Central Asia, the United States, Europe, and Africa.
After withdrawing his libel suit in court when
Lolit Solis made her retraction and apologized to him and his buddy
Piolo Pascual, Sam Milby says that ugly chapter has now found its
closure. “Lessons have been learned and I’m glad the truth won
in the end.”
A HISTORIC meeting is taking place in Beijing where Chinese
President Hu Jintao is hosting Wu Poh-hsiung, chairman of the
Kuomintang Party of Taiwan, to discuss relations between Beijing and
Taipei and prospects for greater peace across the Taiwan Strait and
in East Asia.
KATHMANDU: Nepal celebrated a new era as the world’s youngest
republic Thursday after consigning its centuries-old monarchy to the
history books and ordering god-king Gyanendra to quit his palace in
two weeks.
“The Faith of a Writer” by Joyce Carol Oates
is an attempt to dissect and demystify the life of a working writer.
One of the most preeminent female writer in America, Oates uses her
personal writing history as a tool in shedding light to such
writers’ issues as inspiration, craft and failure.
