President Aquino wants a more modern national prison by the end of the year. The national prison will be transferred to Laur, Nueva Ecija inside Fort Magsaysay. The project will be a private-public partnership with a 40 billion peso budget.
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Sandiganbayan to read Napoles, Revilla arraignment
The arraignment of Janet Lim Napoles and Senator Ramon Revilla is scheduled for today. Here is the update from Eagle News reporter Meanne Corvera.
NFA rice will lower rice prices in the market
As the number of NFA rice released to the market doubles, the price of rice will lessen due to competition, according to the NFA.
Brownout in West Crame
Residents in West Crame experienced brownout after a transformer exploded when the cables of two electric posts got entangled in a passing container van, the driver of which didn’t notice the wires because of the heavy rains.
Singapore expresses support on arbitration
Although not involved in the maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea, Singapore has declared its support to fellow ASEAN member, Philippines efforts to solve the territorial dispute through arbitration.
Philippines to import rice
Due to low harvests, the Philippines will import 800,000 metric tons of rice. The NFA will also release additional cheap rice in the market to prevent panic buying.
Rice prices less two pesos
The price of rice in the market goes down by two pesos per kilo by retailers in Metro Manila due to the price cut implemented by the new NFA administrator.
PAGASA monitors LPA in Philippine Area of Responsibility
Weather bureau PAGASA is monitoring a low-pressure area inside the Philippine area of responsibility. Located in eastern Mindanao, where there is also currently an intertropical convergence zone, causing rains in Visayas and Mindanao.
Free ride for Filipino seafarers
In celebration of the “Day of Flipino Seafarers” as declared in Proclamation No.. 183, the MRT and LRT will give free rides to Filipino seafarers from 5pm-7pm.
Egypt jails Al Jazeera journalists, U.S. calls sentences ‘chilling’
(Reuters) – Three Al Jazeera journalists were jailed for seven years each by an Egyptian judge on Monday, in what Washington called “chilling, draconian sentences” that must be reversed. Cairo defended the journalists’ convictions – for aiding a “terrorist organisation” – and rejected the widespread condemnation as “interference in its internal affairs”. The three, who all denied the charge of working with the now banned Muslim Brotherhood, included Australian Peter Greste and Canadian-Egyptian national Mohamed […]
Estrada seeks SC intervention anew
Detained Senator Jinggoy Estrada has again sought intervention from the Supreme Court to stop the Sandiganbayan from hearing the graft and plunder cases against him.
Educators protest move to drop Filipino subjects in revised curriculum
Educators and advocates of the Filipino language have expressed anger over plans to drop mandatory Filipino subjects in the revised general education curriculum of the Commission of Higher Education.
