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Physicist Gerry Bagtasa from De La Salle University-Manila posted on his Facebook projected rainfall that the country will experience between 8PM to 2Am:
Gerry’s rainfall projection for 27 July 2011:
Image credit: Gerry Bagtasa’s rainfall projection imagery, used with permission.
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The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration reported that Tropical Storm Juaning (International name: Tropical Storm Nock-Ten) has intensified. It is moving towards Quezon province.
The weather bureau warned that the western seaboard of Southern Luzon would have rough to very rough seas, as well as the seaboards of Visayas. Fishing [...]
Continue Reading →The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) yesterday reiterated its call to the Supreme Court (SC) to order the distribution of Hacienda Luisita to farmer-beneficiaries.
Fr. Edu Gariguez, executive secretary of the CBCP-National Secretariat for Social Action, Justice and Peace, said “in the name of social justice, Hacienda Luisita should be distributed to the [...]
Continue Reading →The proposed budget is higher by 10.4 percent or P171 billion over the current year’s P1.645-trillion National Budget, and represents 16.5 percent of the projected gross domestic product (GDP). It is based on a conservative growth assumption of 5.5 percent, even as the administration continues to strive for 7 to 8 percent growth.
Continue Reading →President Aquino named yesterday retired Supreme Court (SC) associate justice Conchita Carpio-Morales as the new ombudsman in his second State of the Nation Address.
“When the new Ombudsman, former Supreme Court Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales, takes office, we will have an honest-to-goodness anti-corruption office, not one that condones the corruption and abuses in government,” the President [...]
Continue Reading →In the last 20 to 30 years, losses in taxpayers’ money may yet exceed our imagination. The more common causes are: 1) simple theft/malversation, 2) plunder, if R50 M or more, 3) large-scale smuggling of rice, petroleum, luxury cars through BOC;
Tax evasion
4) large-scale evasion of taxes through BIR, mostly by crooks in the [...]
Continue Reading →President Aquino will send Tuesday to Congress a proposed P1.816-trillion budget for 2012 that aims to scale up spending on social services and reduce the budget deficit.
The President Monday finalized his “budget message” in a Cabinet meeting in Malacañang before delivering his second State-of-the-Nation Address (SoNA) before a joint session of Congress.
The proposed [...]
Continue Reading →The Metro Manila Development Authority is reporting multiple collisions along EDSA-Ayala tunnel. Three buses, and four vans collided at the southbound section of EDSA Ayala Tunnel heading towards Makati City. The tunnel is temporarily closed.
Continue Reading →Senator TG Guingona III announced on his twitter that the Senate indefinitely suspends PCSO fund investigation.
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Video and text of President Noynoy Aquino’s State of the Nation speech.
Continue Reading →- Metro Cebu – December 18, 2011
- Metro Davao – December 18, 2011
- Metro Manila – December 18, 2011
