Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Department of Agriculture is considering imposing a lower suggested retail price for chicken, considering the huge difference between farmgate prices and actual market prices of the commodity. During Thursday’s National Price Coordinating Council meeting, Agriculture Assistant Secretary…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThough it has been cloudy in recent days, the weather bureau says there is very little chance of rain. Worse, according to forecaster Robert Sawi, temperatures may be expected to rise again on Friday when the clouds are expected to clear. Sawi said the recent cloudy weather was…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines reminded the priests in his diocese on Thursday to refrain from endorsing candidates in the May 10 elections. In a circular letter, Bishop Nereo Odchimar of Tandag, Surigao del Sur, who is also president of the CBCP, said priests and religious…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines Shedding off gains from the previous days, the peso depreciated Thursday from the close recorded Wednesday in what traders said was a sideways movement as the market absorbs positive macroeconomic…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas maintained its key interest rates at historic lows during the policy-setting meeting of its Monetary Board yesterday, but withdrew so-called “crisis-relief” measures earlier implemented to help avert a recession.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NAGA CITY, Philippines The cloud-seeding operation undertaken by the Department of Agriculture appears to have brought rains to Camarines Sur, Albay and Sorsogon provinces in Bicol. ‘It seems that the cloud-seeding operation is already bringing rains but we have to fully determine yet if it is…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines At least four sections of Edsa will be closed to traffic Friday night for the weekly concrete re-blocking operation of the Department of Public Works and Highways, the Metro Manila…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines More poll machines have passed laboratory tests and are ready for use in the upcoming elections in May, the automation partner of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Thursday. Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) president for Asia-Pacific Cesar Flores told INQUIRER.net that 18,000 more precinct count optical scan (PCOS)…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines Fire of still unknown origin destroyed the social hall of an elementary…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
A member of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) has questioned the party’s reported alliance with the Nacionalista Party (NP), saying it did not go through the consultation process as mandated by its…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Department of Health is ‘working on’ another round of drug price cuts before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s term ends next June, according to DoH Secretary Esperanza Cabral. However, Cabral said, they were ‘not making any promises.’ The first two rounds of voluntary price reductions by some 20 local pharmaceutical companies covered over 200 types of drugs and health care…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY JOHN POQUIZ The Manila Electric Co. yesterday asked the Energy Regulatory Commission to allow it to cut its additional generation charge of P1.8298 by 44.46 centavos to spare consumers from a sharp spike in their March billings
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BY PAUL ICAMINA MANILA DE BUGABOS, Agusan del Norte – Joy Carol C. Ardecer teaches peace to Grade 1 pupils. This morning, the lesson plan in mathematics was about time
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesLife could have been easier for Lilia Roseryo had she been a beneficiary of a microfinance program, a government blueprint to ease poverty. But she hasn’t even heard of it
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Manila Electric Co.