PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — MANILA Electric Co. defied a Securities and Exchange Commission order yesterday and elected a new board. At a contentious stockholders’ meeting at the power distributor’s Ortigas head office,…
Month: May 2008
SEC summons Meralco officials
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday ordered the top executives of Manila Electric Co. to explain why they should not be cited for contempt for defying an order…
Palace to cut car fuel use
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — A MALACAÑANG task force is firming up an energy conservation program that would cut the country’s vehicle fuel bill by P140 billion a year. Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita…
Miriam hits senators for moonlighting as talents
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago has asked the Commission on Elections to ban the showing or airing of election campaign materials in the guise of commercial advertisement for consumer…
House flexes muscle to amend power law
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Ruling party Lakas Christian-Muslim Democrats has directed all its members in Congress to ensure the amendment of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act to bar power distributors like…
Palace studies amnesty for Moro rebels
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — MORE than six months after the government announced an amnesty for communist rebels, it is now studying a similar pardon for members of the separatist Moro National Liberation…
Gatchalian eyes new airline
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Plastics king William Gatchalian wants to go back to the airline business two decades after he sold Air Philippines to taipan Lucio Tan, who also owns Philippine Airlines….
Jamby wants NBI to examine aunts will
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — SENATOR Jamby Madrigal, fighting for the fortune left by her late billionaire aunt, has petitioned a Makati court to order the National Bureau of Investigation to examine her…
GMA halts tuition increase in state schools
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — PRESIDENT Arroyo has announced that all state universities and colleges will not increase their tuition this year as she asked the Commission on Higher Education to appeal to…
GMA opens flagship resort
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — President Arroyo will formally open today the first phase of a P5-billion resort that is meant to put La Union at the world map of major tourist destinations….
GSIS gets nod to buy $600m from spot market
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Government Service Insurance System, the pension fund for state workers, has received the go-signal from the central bank to buy as much as $600 million from the spot…
Philippine Madrigal Singers set for 2008 command performances in the U.S
Los Angeles, California/Manila, Philippines – The music and magic of the Philippine Madrigal Singers, one of the best choirs in the world, comes to Southern California and Nevada this summer as part…
Bulalakaw
tanikalang nagniningning minsa’y dumaplis sa paningin mailap…di masaling ..ni sa wari’y di akalaing sasagi.. tama na ba ang minsan ng pagdapo ng alikabok sa palad.. isang kisap na malamang, ay yun na…
Pissed
Ang hirap umasa sa wala Ang hirap gumawa ng wala Sa silong ng kumikinang na kaanyuan Lungkot at sakit ang naging lunduyan Suya na sa kabaliwan Sana’y maabot na ang katapusan Dahil…
Ala-Ala
Ala-Ala Ang saglit na parang walang katapusan… Ilang oras na tila walang hanggan… Sa unang pagkikita naramdaman Nais kong ulitin ang magdamag… Nais kong tawirin ang araw na nagdaan…. Nais kong itamin…