Mayor Jejomar Binay of Makati City announced yesterday that is ready to run for President in the 2010 elections. He, however, told the media that he will give way if opposition leader and former President Joseph Estrada decides to run again for president.

President Macapagal Arroyo announced yesterday through an official letter read by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita that oil extration from a Galoc oil field off the northwest shore of Palawan has started production as of 10:45 am yesterday.

It was mentioned by secretary Ermita that the Galoc oil find is seen to provide about six percent of the daily local demand of 300,000 barrels per day. Drillers said they could extract 17,000 to 20,000 barrels of oil per day in the first 90 days of operation.

With this new development it will positively reduced the country’s annual oil importation of US$6 billion from other country.

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has designed a Txt Philhealth project to provide all interested cellphone users who want to get updated information on Philhealth concerns.
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The Bureau of Internal Revenue made an earlier announcement about the system downtime of their eServices:
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