Thursday, May 08, 2008 (Philippines)

Anyone who still dares to smoke along the covered walk of the Davao Medical Center must really be asking for it. Just in case they still don't get it, anti-smoking task force chair and city administrator Wendel Avisado unveils a huge billboard that tells them to stop smoking right outside the hospital. (Sun.Star Davao/Rene B. Lumawag) HOUSE Speaker Prospero Nograles met with Moro National Liberation Front (MILF) chair Nur Misuari Tuesday to get the support of the influential Muslim leader for the proposal to shift from the presidential to federal from of government. The two met at a restaurant in Quezon City with Misuari proposing that instead of dividing the country of the into 11 federal states, it should be divided into four, namely: Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and the National Capital Region (NCR). Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo [full story]