Posts Tagged ‘Manila’
Candidates wind down Philippine election campaign
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Candidates finished campaigning for next week’s Philippine national elections Saturday amid a rush to replace faulty software in more than 76,000 machines that will count the country’s first electronic vote.
Maguindanao massacre ‘nurtured for votes’
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Maguindanao massacre which claimed the lives of 57 people, including 32 journalists November 23 last year, was ‘not the result of a clan feud but of Manila’s deliberate nurturing of a ruthless warlord in exchange for votes,’ an international analyst organization said.
First Pacific acquires 6.6% stake in Meralco
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) The First Pacific Co. Ltd
6.0-magnitude earthquake hits west of Manila
MANILA, Philippines – A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck west of Manila on Thursday, the seismology institute reported, causing buildings in the Philippine capital to shake and sending frightened workers out of their offices. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, and no tsunami alert was issued
Redesign to help Metro cope with climate change, says Angara
MANILA, PhilippinesMetro Manila needs to be reengineered to survive climate change. Sen.
New power outages hit Metro Manila
03/13/2010 An energy crisis in the country triggered by a severe drought deepened yesterday as Metro Manila endured another round of rolling blackouts.
Meralco told to limit generation charge
MANILA, Philippines The Energy Regulatory Commission directed the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) on Wednesday to limit the increase in the generation charge for March to 91.14 centavos per kilowatt-hour, lower than the P1.3852-per-kWh increase proposed by the power distributor. This means that the basic generation charge in customers’ electricity bills this month will be further lowered to P5.8417 per kWh, down from the P6.3154 per kWh proposed by Meralco, according to ERC…
Meralco plans to go back into power generation
MANILA, philippines–The country’s biggest power retailer Manila Electric Co.
BUT CAUTIOUS ON THE TOP TIER –> Meralco: No borrowing plans this year
BY JOHN POQUIZ The Manila Electric Co. has no need to borrow this year, Meralco treasurer Rafael Andrada recently said
El Niño drought feared to cut RP’s rice yields
MANILA, PhilippinesA possible drought caused by the El Niño weather system could slash Philippines rice yields this year, the government warned Tuesday, as Manila prepared to deal with any possible crisis. Government models project 2010 rice harvests would be…
SC strikes down ordinance barring ’short-time’ in motels
WITH Valentine’s Day just around the corner, expect hotels, motels, inns, pension and lodging houses in Manila to be quite full, especially after the Supreme Court yesterday finally struck down as unconstitutional an ordinance prohibiting short-time admissions and wash-up rate promos in such establishments. In an en banc decision penned by Associate Justice Dante Tinga, the SC unanimously affirmed and reinstated the ruling of branch 9 of the Manila regional trial court which declared…
Teodoro tells youth: Up to you to make this country great again
01/17/2010 Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential candidate Gilberto Gibo Teodoro Jr. is getting used to the rock-star welcome on his current tour of leading campuses in Metro Manila.
RP buys Viet rice
1M tons to start arriving February By IRMA ISIP The Philippines has agreed to buy at least one million tons of rice from Vietnam trade sources from Hanoi and Manila said yesterday. The volume accounts for two-thirds of the 1.5 million tons the government earlier announced it will import for the year. Last year the Philippines imported a record 2.3 million tons of rice to plug shortfall in production.
NCRPO, MPD order on reshuffle of police officers rankles Lim
By Pat C. Santos 01/13/2010 Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim yesterday asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the recent reorganization/reshuffle of the station commanders and directorial staff of the Manila Police District on orders of Police Director Roberto Rosales, chief of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), and MPD chief Rodolfo Magtibay, saying the two violated the law when they implemented the order without the consent of the chief executive of the city, a…
