Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BATANGAS CITY, PhilippinesA motor boat with about 10 passengers on board suffered a broken hull and was carried away by the waves as it drifted off Fortune island in Nasugbu Saturday….
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, PhilippinesNacionalista Party standard bearer Senator Manuel Villar arrived here on Saturday for the second day of his slate’s barnstorming in Eastern Visayas.
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
HE SAYS 03/10/2010 New Musical Express magazine described it as a lusty bellowing of a statement of facts about New York, the city that has become the subject of many songs, which after Sinatras New York, New York, has again hogged the limelight courtesy of Alicia Keys, whose soulful chorus in the two different versions of the Empire State of Mind one with rapper Jay-Z and another of her own would become my LSS, or the last song syndrome to replace Manny Villars political jingle. Ms. Keys, who was born and grew up in Harlem, described her place as such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
03/10/2010 The Adidas TS Supernatural Basketball Shootout gave everyone a chance to play for the chance to fly to the US to witness the Orlando Magic face off against the Chicago Bulls on March 11! All Adidas stores and participating sport shops gave customers a chance to…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
CITY OF MALOLOS, PhilippinesIf unseated Bulacan Gov. Joselito Mendoza fails to get a temporary restraining order by Monday, he would have to step down and yield his post to Roberto Pagdanganan, the provincial election supervisor said Saturday. Sabino Mejarito, Bulacan election supervisor, said he will implement on Monday the writ of execution on the Commission on Elections’ March 4…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
CEBU CITY, Philippines Deposed President Joseph Estrada has declared that personal issues are off-limits to media scrutiny in his second presidential campaign. Estrada, whose reputation as a womanizer became a big issue in his first run for president in 1998, lost his cool when reporters noted the presence of former starlet Laarni Enriquez and…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA — Utilities officials said Thursday that the city of Manila and several neighboring provinces will experience blackouts in the coming days as the energy crisis worsens in the Philippines. Officials of Meralco, the private company that supplies electric power to Manila, the capital, said the power outages will occur in several areas of the city on a rotating basis and should last no more than an hour.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
DAVAO CITY, PhilippinesHundreds of residents in the east coasts of Malita in Davao Del Sur, Mati City in Davao Oriental, and Tandag in Surigao Del Sur moved to higher ground following the tsunami alert issued by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) hours after the massive earthquake in Chile. Superintendent Victorina Mendez, police chief of Malita in Davao Del…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANDAUE CITY, PhilippinesNacionalista Party standard-bearer Manuel Villar proposed on Saturday that the government condone the multi-billion-peso debts farmers have incurred from irrigation fees amid the worsening drought that has dried up farms nationwide. ‘I believe that the loans of the farmers incurred from irrigation fees should be condoned…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe US embassy on Saturday praised Philippine authorities for their arrest of a Filipino Muslim extremist wanted for the kidnapping and murder of American tourists after nine years on the run. “We applaud the efforts of the armed forces of the Philippines to bring terrorists to justice,” embassy…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NAGA CITY A suspected communist guerrilla was killed in a clash between government troops and suspected New People’s Army rebels…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines — Operatives of Task Force Masbate collared a village chief with a caché of high powered assault rifles and ammunitions Sunday evening at his residence in Placer town in Masbate, a police official said Monday morning.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
LUCENA CITY, Quezon, PhilippinesThe head of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Calabarzon (Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon) region appealed to politicians to not hang campaign posters and streamers on trees.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
DAVAO CITY, Philippines - Government troops overran a major camp of the New People’s Army in a remote village in Agusan del Sur Friday dawn, an army regional spokesperson said. The fall of the…