Relief Caravan for Eastern Samar President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo watches the loading of relief goods and medicines as she sends off the ‘Sagip Tulong ni PGMA’ caravan for the calamity victims of Eastern Samar Thursday, March 6, 2008, at the Villamor Airbase, Pasay City. With the President are (from left) Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro, Eastern Samar Gov. Ben Evardone, Camarines Sur Gov. Luis Raymund Villafuerte, and Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation Chairman Efraim Genuino.
55,112 set to take career service exams on Sunday
A total of 55,112 examinees will take the career service professional and sub-professional written examinations scheduled Sunday, March 9, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) announced yesterday. The tests will be held nationwide in 30 testing centers, covering 56 school sites.
Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno said yesterday the Supreme Court (SC) will decide immediately on the case involving the President’s executive privilege on the basis of the pleadings filed and the oral arguments aired on the petition lodged by former Socio-Economic Planning Secretary Romulo L. Neri.
Speaking through lawyer Jose Midas Marquez, assistant court administrator and chief of the SC’s public information office (PIO), Puno said the decision of the High Court would only be on the validity of the President’s invocation of her executive privilege on the three questions which Neri...
Oil price scales new record above $ 105 in London trade
LONDON, Mar. 6 (AFP) — Oil prices surged past 105 dollars for the first time on Thursday as traders reacted to a surprisingly sharp fall in US crude reserves and the plunging US dollar, analysts said.
Marquez applies lessons from first Pacquiao fight
LOS ANGELES — The first time Juan Manuel Marquez faced Filipino dynamo Manny Pacquiao in May 2004, he did not have the luxury of sparring with left-handers and that may have cost the Mexican a clear-cut victory.
Eastern Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rains. Visayas and Mindanao will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming widespread rains over eastern Visayas and Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides.
