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Do you think there will be price hikes in basic needs this month?
As the year 2006 has started, ordinary Filipinos have raised their concerns and fears of another rise in basic commodities, oil, water, utilities, electricity, and fares. But the government says otherwise.
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BLESSING FOR THE NEW YEAR (Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during the Te Deum prayer in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on New Year’s Eve. Pope Benedict gave 2005 a bitter-sweet farewell on Saturday as he looked back at the year that saw him elected to lead the Catholic Church after the death in April of John Paul II.
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Former SC Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma passes away at 92
Former Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma, the High Court’s first woman justice and the head of the 1987 Constitutional Commission, died yesterday at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City.
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New Year’s resolutions
MAKING New Year’s resolutions is a fairly widespread custom, presumably due to the needs of the human psyche. Humans are self-conscious beings. People reflect on events, look back at the past, and evaluate themselves. Invariably people decide to make changes for the better.
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Talent search on for Asian Games
GOLD medal winners in the 23rd Southeast Asian Games are not shoo-ins for the 2006 Asian Games, the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) said yesterday. |
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Today not special holiday — Palace
A total of 32.9 million people return to work today after three consecutive non-working days capped by the joyous and noisy welcome of the New Year on Saturday night.
Some 1.1 million of the returning workers are in government service while the rest are in private establishments all over the...
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PSE starts today new industry classification
The Philippine Stock Exchange will start using a new industry classification for listed firms starting January 2, 2006 to make it easier for stock market investors to track down their Philippine stocks.
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91-day treasury bill rate falls to 4.961% from 5.146%
Treasury bill rates fell sharply across-the-board at the first auction this year yesterday after the government decided to downsize its offer for the first quarter of 2006, the Bureau of Treasury said.
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2006 another year to hope
DURING the holidays we have a certain way of living that gets to be excessive and we are buried to the neck in "shoulds.’’ We should be nice to everyone and show them our love. We should not be eating too much and we should be spending more time exercising to shake off the excess calories. In fact, New Year’s resolutions are really the "shoulds’’ in our lives that we hope to carry out in the new year.
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It’s Morales over Pacquiao – The Ring
ERIK MORALES will repeat over Manny Pacquiao.
This is what The Ring magazine said in its analysis of the highly-anticipated rematch set to explode on Jan. 21 at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas. |
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AT NEW YORK’S TIMES SQUARE (Reuters)
Close to a million people fill Times Square in New York City as fireworks go off over Central Park after the clock strikes midnight marking the start of the New Year. Times Square has traditionally been the centerpiece of New Year celebrations across the United States.
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The eastern section of Luzon and Visayas will experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and isolated thunderstorms. The rest of the country will be mostly cloudy with rain-showers and isolated thunderstorms.
Moderate to occasionally strong northeasterly to easterly winds will prevail over northern Luzon with moderate to occasionally rough seas.
Manila Bay will be slight to moderate.
Temperature range – 23.0°C – 30.0°C
Tides
High:11:14 p.m., 1.34 m.
Low: 7:15 a.m., -0.45 m.
Sunrise — 6:21 a.m.
Sunset — 5:38 p.m.
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