Ministers promise a railway revolution. A 30-year plan to transform rail travel with longer trains that can run closer together using biofuels and even hydrogen power will be set out by the government this month. [News Source]

Still no bird flu in RP (Sun Star) The country's first diagnostic facility that was built by the Department of Agriculture (DA) to detect, monitor and control the spread of avian influenza (AI) and other animal-borne diseases has so far tested 6,680 samples of birds and fowl in various areas of Luzon, which have all tested negative for the presence of this dreaded bird flu virus. [News Source]