Visayas and
Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies
with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to
at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers or
thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or
evening.
The vegetable section
of a Manila market on Friday draws few buyers. The
government warned that the 17-year-high inflation rate
of 12.5 percent in August could impact economic growth
targets for this year. AFP Photo
August rate at 12.5%, growth targets in peril
Inflation surged to 12.5 percent in August, a 17-year high, the
government said Friday, warning that the rise could impact economic
growth targets for this year.
President Gloria Arroyo urged Congress on Friday to pass a
P1.415-trillion ($30.2-billion) budget providing more money for
infrastructure and food aid amid a global economic downturn.
Malacañang told the Senate to close its probe
on the controversial national broadband network deal after the
Supreme Court ruled Thursday that former Socio-economic Planning
Secretary Romulo Neri cannot divulge his conversation with the
president on the project.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY: The official spokesman of World Boxing
Council lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao said on Friday that
allegations of a comeback fight between him and incumbent Rep.
Darlene Antonino-Custodio in 2010 is misleading.
THE country’s dollar reserves fell slightly
last month as the value of local gold holdings slipped in line with
recent weakness in the price of the precious metal, the Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said Friday.
NEW YORK: For Roger Federer to win his fifth US Open
title in a row, the Swiss second seed must prove he still has what
it takes to beat Novak Djokovic, this time in a semifinal rematch of
last year’s final.
"Spore", the eagerly-awaited computer game five years in
the making allowing people to play God by re-creating the universe,
hits stores worldwide this week.
AS the drumbeat for an enlarged Autonomous Muslim Region or a
Bangsamoro Juridical Entity grows louder in Mindanao, the Lumad
people have begun to press Malacañang for self-rule. Other
minorities in Mindanao, and the Visayas are eyeing
self-determination, spurred by the demands of the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front and worried by possibilities that a Bangsamoro
entity would swallow up Mindanao’s teeming ethnics.
BANGKOK: Thai Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday to pass the first
reading of a public referendum bill aimed at breaking the current
political impasse in the country.
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