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Big gathering. Separatist Muslim guerrillas salute during a gathering of the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front at their Camp Darapanan headquarters in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao.
Impressive prop. This retruck looks
ready to go, but aviation ofcials say many
of them will not even start.
Sneaky drone. The drone looks harmless, but it can drop bombs
with pinpoint accuracy.
Fire trucks in major
airports dont work
MAYOR Edward Hagedorn
on Sunday declared a state of
emergency in Puerto Prince-
sa in the wake of the failure
of the Palawan Electric Co-
operative to choose a power
supplier for the second time.
He said he declared the
emergency in response to
the demand of various stake-
holders to prevent prolonged
blackouts that could dam-
age the tourism industry and
cripple the citys businesses.
The mayor has called an
emergency meeting of the
citys Power Commission
comprising the representa-
tives from the electric co-
operative, the business and
I am shocked, Bayan
Muna Rep. Teddy Casio
said.
He said the seven re
trucks at the Davao airport,
some of them 30 years
old, were being used only
as props because none of
them worked, while the
NAIA had to rely on the
nearby Paraaque re sta-
tion in case of re.
Casio demanded a con-
gressional investigation,
saying the government was
putting public safety, lives
and property at risk in vio-
lation of international air-
port safety standards and
obligations.
Citing a December 2010
internal report from the Civil
Aviation Authority called
Evaluation Report on Avia-
tion Fireghting and Rescue
Vehicles, Casio faulted the
authorities for violating the
By Francisco S. Tatad
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino
IIIs decision to stop talking
to China through the mass
media appears to be the rst
sane decision to come out of
Malacaang in its troublesome
handling of the prolonged mar-
itime standoff between Philip-
pine and Chinese vessels in
Scarborough Shoal.
The decision comes a little
too late, but it could be an in-
dication that the President has
nally realized that the Scarbor-
ough problem cannot be handled
the way he had so far tried to
handle it. It is important for him
to remember that his job is not
to provide screaming headlines
to the newspapers.
By instructing the members
of his Cabinet not to telegraph
the governments moves on
China, he has spared them the
trouble of telling him to be
discreet himself. His spokes-
men have all been uniformly
disappointing, but until now
the Presidents spontaneity has
been the real problem.
The President has provided
the most surprising quotes on
matters where his best contri-
bution would have been his ab-
solute silence. He has led the
completely avoidable word war
with unnamed spokesmen of the
Chinese government.
Trillanes
joins NP,
eyes slot
in coalition
Asean meet
opens amid
tensions in
S. China Sea
Communist rebels free 3 mining workers
Blackouts imperil tourism in P. Princesa
NY paper says US forces
used drones in Mindanao
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Palace set
to defend
in court EO
on mining
The Presidents folly
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By Florante S. Solmerin
THE leftist Bagong Alyansang
Makabayan on Sunday pressed
the government to conrm or
deny a report published in The
New York Times claiming that
American forces stationed in the
Philippines had used drones in
a military strike in 2006 against
terrorist groups in Mindanao.
The article, The Drone Zone
by Mark Mazzetti, was pub-
lished July 6 and comes in the
wake of the recent statements by
President Benigno Aquino III
that the Philippines might ask
the United States to deploy spy
planes to monitor the incursions
in the West Philippine Sea.
According to three current and
former intelligence ofcials I spoke
to, in 2006 a barrage of Hellre mis-
siles from a Predator hit a suspected
militant camp in the jungles of the
Philippines in an attempt to kill the
Indonesian terrorist Umar Patek,
Mazzetti wrote.
The strike, which was re-
ported at the time as a Philippine
military operation, missed Patek
but killed others at the camp.
In a statement released Sun-
day, Bayan secretary-general
Renato Reyes urged the gov-
ernment to disclose the whole
truth about the drone strike.
Is the Philippine government
allowing US drone strikes to be
conducted in the Philippines in vio-
lation of our Constitution and sov-
ereignty? Reyes said
NACIONALISTA Party presi-
dent and Senator Manny Villar
on Sunday swore in Senator
Antonio Trillanes IV as the
newest member of the politi-
cal party in ceremonies at the
Makati Shangri-La hotel in
Makati City.
Villar said Trillanes was an
asset to the party, which is pre-
paring for the 2013 elections.
Former Las Pias Rep. Cyn-
thia Villar, Senators Alan Peter
Cayetano, Pia Cayetano and
Ferdinand Marcos, Cavite Rep.
Boying Remulla, Las Pias Rep.
Mark Villar, and Taguig Mayor
Lani Cayetano witnessed the
oath-taking ceremony.
Trillanes, who won the
mandate of over 11 million
Filipinos during the 2007
senatorial elections, ran on
an anti-corruption advocacy
while in detention.
The 105-year-old NP is the
countrys oldest political party.
Cebu Rep. Eduardo Gullas,
meanwhile, said the emerging
By Joyce Pangco Paares
MALACAANG on Sunday
said it was prepared to go to
court to defend an executive
order spelling out the gov-
ernments mining policies
following the opposition to it
by some stakeholders.
We are ready to defend
the EO, deputy presidential
spokeswoman Abigail Valte
said of the much-awaited
EO 79, which was reportedly
signed by President Benigno
Aquino III on Thursday last
week.
Presidential spokesman
Edwin Lacierda on Saturday
conrmed that the order had
been signed, but declined to
give details until the press
conference of Environment
Secretary Ramon Paje at the
Palace today.
This was the product of
consultation with stakehold-
ers. This EO aims to give a
more comprehensive mining
policy, Valte said.
Among those who were
consulted by the government
were large- and small-scale
mining associations, the joint
foreign chambers, civil soci-
ety, religious groups and the
academe as well as represen-
tatives from the League of
COMMUNIST guerrillas have
freed a gold mining company
ofcer and two other employ-
ees after two days of captivity in
Mindanao, ofcials said Sunday.
A rebel spokesman said they
had been questioning the three
about company weapons.
The three, who included the
company owners son, were re-
leased unharmed late Saturday by
the New Peoples Army rebels out-
side Rosario town in Agusan del
Sur, said regional Army spokes-
man Maj. Eugene Osias.
Army troops suspended a
manhunt to allow ofcials to
safely negotiate the hostages re-
lease, he said.
About 30 guerrillas attacked
the VTO mining rm Thursday,
abducting the three and seizing
at least 17 ries, shotguns and
pistols, Osias said.
THE 45th meeting of the Asso-
ciation of Southeast Asian Na-
tions Foreign Ministers opens
in Phnom Penh today, when
the ofcials are expected to
discuss the tension in the South
China Sea and how to go about
resolving it.
The friction over the com-
peting claims in the region is
expected to be the hot issue
as the 10-member Asean start
their talks today before open-
ing the meetings to the 27 in-
vited countries.
US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton will join the regional fo-
rum on Thursday after the Ase-
ans ministers have opened the
meeting with their counterparts
from Japan, China, Korea and
Australia.
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By Christine F. Herrera
A LAWMAKER on Sunday expressed shock that the coun-
trys major airports, including the Ninoy Aquino International
Airport and the Davao International Airport, did not even
have re trucks that could respond to a runway emergency
within three minutes, putting thousands of lives at risk daily.
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Biazon: I did not defy Palace
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CUSTOMS Commissioner Ruffy Biazon
has rejected his critics claims that he
did not implement a Malacaang order
dismissing seven Customs ofcials for
alleged extortion.
He said over the weekend that
the seven officials were able to
appeal their case to Malacaang,
and that since they were covered
by security of tenure, they could
continue reporting for work
pending a decision by the Palace
on their appeal.
Biazon said he would imple-
ment Malacaangs order im-
mediately once it had made its
final order. He said it was only
former Deputy Commis-
sioner Gregorio Chaves, who
was appointed by the previ-
ous administration, who was
no longer reporting for work
since Customs had already ap-
pointed his replacement.
The other officials dis-
missed by the Palace were
Chavezs staff Christopher Dy
Buco, Edgar Quinones, Fran-
cisco Fernandez Jr., Alfredo
Adao, Jose Elmer Velarde,
Thomas Patrick Relucio and
Jim Erick Acosta. They were
accused of trying to shake
down steel importer Sanyo
Seiki Steel Corp. for P10 mil-
lion.
Despite the dismissal, Bia-
zon said, Customs legal of-
ficers would summon them to
testify in court as first-hand
witnesses so as not to jeopard-
ize the smuggling cases filed
in court during Chavezs time.
Biazon said he was confi-
dent that the dismissed offi-
cials had a sense of responsi-
bility and were loyal to their
duty even if they were no
longer attached to the agency.
He said he wanted his legal
unit to ensure the conviction
of smugglers to tell them he
meant business.
The dismissed officers
claim that Malacaangs or-
der against them is unfair and
have insisted that Sanyo Seiki
is a big-time smugglers of
steel products.
THE International Associa-
tion of Business Communica-
tors Philippines will honor top
business and organizational
leaders at the 2012 CEO EX-
CEL Awards Night on July 12
at Grand Ballroom of the Inter-
Continental Manila.
The awardees will be con-
ferred the honor for using
excellent communication in
achieving their business objec-
tives. They are exemplars of
responsible corporate citizen-
ship and good governance, in-
spiring others and serving the
greater good.
The award recognizes top
Philippine-based leaders who
masterfully and effectively
championed the use of excel-
lent communication as a busi-
ness strategy to help achieve
organization targets, establish
collegiality and esprit de corps
among internal audiences,
build relationships of trust, re-
solve crises, and uphold the or-
ganizations reputation among
its various stakeholders.
The CEO EXCEL is the
highest individual award of
communication excellence
given by IABC Philippines.
Attending the awards night
are the top-level executives
of private, government and
NGOs, the IABCs board of
trustees led by its chairman
Elpi O. Cuna, IABC past
presidents, IABC officials,
members and communica-
tion professionals from major
corporations, the government,
academe, non-profit organiza-
tions and the media.
TO COMMEMORATE the
66th founding anniversary of
the Beta Sigma Fraternity, the
groups members will lead a
nationwide tree planting activ-
ity dubbed Alay ng Kapatiran
sa Inang Kalikasan on July
14, which will involve student
organizations and civil society
groups in support of the Na-
tional Greening Program.
Ismael Tumaru, president
of the Beta Sigma Fraternity
National Assembly, said their
whole-day activity would be
just the start of a massive tree-
growing campaign involving
their 15,000-strong members.
At the University of the Phil-
ippines, where the fraternity was
founded as the Brotherhood of
Scholars, Environment Secre-
tary Ramon Paje, Agriculture
Secretary Proceso Alcala, and
Defense Secretary Voltaire Gaz-
min will join the kick-off cer-
emonies for the tree-planting
marathon at 7 a.m. to be joined
by at least 20 campus organiza-
tions in the Diliman campus.
Tumaru said Paje and Alcala,
two of their alumni members,
were leading the national con-
vergence initiative for the Na-
tional Greening Program, which
aimed to spur citizens to plant
1.5 billion trees in 1.5 hectares
for six years. Gazmin on
the other hand, has championed
the militarys efforts to green all
military establishments nation-
wide.
Initially, the Beta Sigmans
are targeting the planting of
100,000 indigenous and fruit-
bearing trees in at least 26 areas.
Beta Sigma to lead
tree planting July 14
CEO EXCEL
Awards set
on July 12
New party member. Senator Manny Villar, Nacionalista Party president, welcomes senator Antonio
Trillanes IV as the newest member of the oldest political party in the country in oathtaking in simple
ceremonies at the Shangri-La hotel in Makati.
NY...
Is the US unilaterally con-
ducting these drone strikes in
violation of our laws and of the
VFA [Visiting Forces Agree-
ment ] itself? From the looks of
it, the claim that the US in not
engaged in direct combat in the
Philippines is a patent lie being
perpetuated by both the US and
Philippine governments.
While the government must
deal decisively with suspected
terrorists, it is unacceptable to
allow a foreign power to con-
duct combat operations in our
country.
The US was said to have
launched another drone strike
in Sulu in February that killed
suspected terrorist leaders. US
and Philippine governments
later said the strike was caused
by a smart bomb from the US
that was dropped by Philippine
planes.
The military denied the re-
port and said the bombing sor-
ties were launched by the Phil-
ippine Air Force using OV10
surveillance planes equipped
with bombs.
Citing the New York Times
article, Reyes said the US Joint
Special Operations Command
ran part of the US drone pro-
gram, and had its own target
list.
Palace...
Cities and League of Provinces
of the Philippines.
Presidential Communica-
tions Secretary Ramon Caran-
dang said the order under-
scored the need to increase the
royalties and taxes levied on
mining firms.
Mr. Aquino earlier said that
the taxes and royalties collected
by the government from min-
ing operations now amounted
to only 10 percent of the total
revenues of mining firms.
Carandang said the execu-
tive order also upheld the pri-
macy of national laws over lo-
cal laws and ordinances. That
policy was earlier questioned
by some 40 governors includ-
ing Albay Gov. Joey Salceda,
an ally of the President.
The governors have threat-
ened to challenge the execu-
tive order before the Supreme
Court once it is signed by the
President.
Salceda has said that the or-
der will allow the national gov-
ernment to override the anti- or
pro-mining policies of local
executives.
There will always be peo-
ple who would question the
EO, but we believe it will be
acceptable to most of the rea-
sonable stakeholders, Caran-
dang said.
Mr. Aquino has said that
the 1987 Constitution is very,
very clear that national laws
will always take precedence
over local laws.
Trillanes...
coalition between the Liberal
Party and the NP was perfectly
legitimate.
It makes a lot of sense for
the two parties to be aligned
ahead of the mid-term elections.
Looking way back, the LP used
to be the liberal wing of the
NP, Gullas, an NP executive
committee member, said.
He recalled that the late Pres-
ident Manuel Roxas, the grand-
father of Liberal Party chief and
Transport Secretary Mar Roxas,
ran for the countrys highest post
as the candidate of the NPs lib-
eral wing in the 1946 national
elections before he eventually
bolted the Nacionalista Party to
establish the Liberal Party.
The combined forces of the
two parties, together with the
Nationalist Peoples Coalition,
would be formidable, said Gul-
las, who heads the Alayon Party,
the NPs Cebu chapter.
Gullas, a former governor,
said the NP was seeking four
slots in the budding LP-NP-
NPC coalitions unified senato-
rial ticket.
We confirm that the NP is
asking for four slots, with the
first two going to [former] Las
Pias City Rep. Cynthia Villar
and re-electionist Senator Alan
Peter Cayetano, he said.
The NP has not reached a
decision as to who will be enti-
tled to the partys two other slots
in the joint senatorial lineup.
Gullas described the pos-
sible inclusion of re-electionist
Senator Loren Legarda in the
alliances senatorial lineup as
logical.
Legarda was the vice presi-
dential running mate of NP chief
Senator Manuel Villar when he
ran for president in 2010.
The inclusion of re-election-
ist Senator Francis Escudero in
the coalitions senatorial ticket
would also be logical, Gul-
las said. Escudero ran as NPC
member the first time he got
elected to the Senate in 2007.
Gullas said next years polls
would be a good fight between
the LP-NP-NPC coalition and the
United Nationalist Alliance.
UNA, a coalition between
former President Joseph Estradas
Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino and
Vice President Jejomar Binays
Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-
Lakas ng Bayan,is also set to field
a common senatorial slate.
But actually, the NP alone is
much larger than PMP, or PDP-
Laban. We have more members
in Congress and in local govern-
ments, Gullas said, adding the
PMP had only three members in
the House.
Communist...
Rebel spokesman Jorge
Madlos said they suspected
the mining firm had a stockpile
of weapons. The rebels have
asked mining companies not to
keep lots of weapons that they
say could be used by security
men to commit human rights
abuses and harass villagers.
The guerrillas did not plan
to abduct the three, Madlos
said. The rebels were asking
the employees about the al-
leged cache of weapons when
they were told that Army troops
had been seen nearby, prompt-
ing them to take the three to a
rebel encampment to continue
the questioning.
The New Peoples Army,
which is listed by Washington as
a terrorist group, has intensified
attacks on mining companies
and banana plantations in the
south in recent years, accusing
them of exploiting the coun-
trys resources and workers. The
rebels are estimated to number
slightly more than 4,000 AP
Blackouts...
tourism sectors, the heads of
departments, non-government
organizations and other stake-
holders on July 6.
He has also asked President
Benigno Aquino III to help the
city, saying emergency power is
a must for Puerto Princesa.
We appeal to the President
to help us end the blackouts
that are giving not only Puerto
Princesa but the entire country
a black eye. We urge his as-
sistance in this hour of need,
Hagedorn said.
Energy Secretary Rene Al-
mendras on Sunday said power
shortages were inevitable if Pala-
wans electric cooperative could
not sign a power supply agree-
ment as a result of a court order.
We are waiting for a formal
advice so that we can help re-
solve the situation, Almendras
said.
Like Mayor Hagedorn, I
want to ensure that there will be
an ample supply [of electricity]
especially with the growth being
experienced by Palawan.
Bayan Muna party-list Rep.
Teddy Casio on Sunday called
for a revamp of the Energy De-
partment, Philippine National
Oil Co., Power Sector Assets
and Liabilities and Management
Corp., and other agencies in-
volved in the power and energy
industries as a result of what he
described as the recurring power
shortages and rising oil prices.
He said the officials of those
agencies were sleeping on the
job.
Most of these executives
lack the knowledge and experi-
ence in handling energy matters
while some are serving as the
stooges of the big players in the
energy industry, Casio said.
Hagedorn said that, with the
state of emergency in force, he
could act with dispatch in se-
curing power supply to stop the
blackouts from crippling Puerto
Princesa
He said that since the city
was now one of the countrys
top tourist destinations, the Presi-
dent should not allow the internal
problems of Palawans electric
cooperative harm the city.
Hagedorn declared the state
of emergency after the citys co-
operative failed to approve the
so-called Competitive Selection
Process for the power supplier,
thus preventing the new power
players from securing a Power
Supply Agreement from the En-
ergy Regulatory Commission.
Asean...
Manila has been trying to
persuade China to sign a code of
conduct in the South China Sea,
where tensions flared recently as
a result of the completing claims
there by China, the Philippines
and Vietnam.
Beijing last week said the
Asean meetings was not the right
venue for the Philippines to raise
the issue of the standoff at the
Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal.
Chinas Foreign Ministry
spokesman Liu Weimin said the
meeting as an even aimed at en-
hancing mutual trust among the
member-countries.
The Chinese side believes
that the [meeting ] is an im-
portant platform for enhancing
mutual trust and strengthening
cooperation, not the right place
to discuss the South China Sea
issue, Liu said in a statement.
He made his statement fol-
lowing the claims by Chinese
newspapers that the Philippines
was planning to fuel tensions
during the Asean meeting.
Liu said the Chinese govern-
ment had no intention of discuss-
ing the month-long standoff on
the shoal, but would exchange
views on China-Asean relations,
East Asia cooperation, Asia-
Pacific security cooperation,
regional and international con-
cerns, and the preparations for
the coming East Asian Summit
in November.
Meanwhile, as 200 demon-
strators, some displaying ban-
ners and chanting the names of
the disputed Spratly and Paracel
islands in Vietnamese, marched
through Hanois streets for a
second Sunday in a row to pro-
test Chinas claims in the South
China Sea.
Protesters marched from the
citys colonial-era opera house
accompanied by a large police
presence. Police and other of-
ficials, some wearing protective
headgear, manned a barricade to
prevent the marchers access to
a square where the Chinese em-
bassy is located.
Tensions between China and
Vietnam escalated after Viet-
nams parliament passed a mari-
time law June 21 that reasserted
its sovereignty over areas also
claimed by China, including the
Paracel and Spratly groups.
China summoned Vietnams
ambassador the same day the
law was passed to protest the
move, with Vice Foreign Min-
ister Zhang Zhijun saying Viet-
nams actions werent condu-
cive to peace and stability.
Vietnam on June 26 called on
state-owned China National Off-
shore Oil Corp. to cancel a June
23 invitation for foreign oil and
gas companies to explore nine
blocks in the South China Sea
that Vietnam says lie entirely
within its 200-nautical mile ex-
clusive economic zone.
The region is estimated to
have as much as 30 billion tons
of oil and 16 trillion cubic me-
ters of gas, which would account
for about one-third of Chinas
oil and gas resources, according
to the state-run Xinhua News
Agency. China has 2 billion tons
of proven oil reserves and 99
trillion cubic feet of natural gas
reserves in 2010, according to
BP Plc.
Fire...
policies and guidelines of the
International Civil Aviation Or-
ganization.
Davao, an international air-
port, must have at least three
firefighting vehicles with a com-
bined usable water capacity of
24,300 liters, a produced foam
discharge rate of 9,000 liters per
minute, and 450 kilograms of dry
chemical powder or other sup-
pressants, Casio said.
But the Civil Aviation Au-
thority report says none of the
airports seven fire trucks will
even start, and their firefighting
systems suffer start-up delays
of up to three minutes, which is
deemed unacceptable because
international guidelines say re-
sponding emergency vehicles
must be able to reach any part of
the airport in three minutes.
One of the fire trucks was de-
scribed as useful only as a water
tanker because it is unable to
discharge a foam solution, says
the report, a copy of which was
obtained by the Manila Standard.
There was not even a blinker
or a sprinkler, Casio said.
All seven fire trucks were found
to have major air leaks in their
brake systems, the report says.
The newest addition to the
fleet, a truck from New Zealand,
has a pump reading of only 32
hours, indicating that the vehicle
has performed very little opera-
tional use, the report says. Offi-
cials recommended it be shipped
back to New Zealand for repairs.
On another vehicle, the wa-
ter pump was removed some six
years ago and sent to Manila and
has not been seen again, the re-
port says.
Casio said the findings in the
December 2010 report had not
been corrected.
As of Sunday, July 8, 2012,
nothing has been done and the
December 2010 findings stand,
he said.
Transport Secretary Manuel
Roxas II said he was unaware of
the condition of the fire trucks in
the Davao airport but promised
to look into the matter.
He said civil aviation officials
had told him there were enough
fire trucks at the Ninoy Aquino
airport. He said three more trucks
were up for public bidding at the
Manila airport.
Interior Secretary Jesse Ro-
bredo says the Bureau of Fire
Protection does not lend its fire
trucks to Ninoy Aquiino airport.
Casio also raised an alarm over
the dubious termination of a P243-
million contract for fire-fighting
equipmentboots, helmets, gloves,
coats and trousers, and allegedly to
favor the Bureau of Fire Protections
regular suppliers.
Government should imme-
diately look into this anomaly. It
appears that our firefighters and
the public are being held hostage
to the infighting and jostling for
juicy contracts in the Bureau of
Fire Protection, Casio said.
In the lastest bidding,
Kolonwel Trading, a new en-
trant, submitted the lowest bid,
but the bids and awards commit-
tee took an entire year to process
the deal because of afterthought
requirements that the losing
bidders, Panpisco Technologies
Inc. and 911 Alarm, brought to
the panels attention.
These suppliers did not avail
of the prescribed protest mecha-
nism as prescribed by the Pro-
curement Law, but raised their
concerns through mere letters to
BFP Officer in Charge Samuel
Perez, Casio said.
On the strength of these let-
ters, Perez withheld the awarding
of the contract to Kolonwel, and
later declared a failure of bidding
two months after the bids and
awards committee had declared
it the winner.
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P2.3 billion released for key projects
Comelec witness accepted bribes from military
Study grants open
to govt employees
Migrant workers urged: Sign up with Philhealth
No noon break
Legazpi City Mayor Carmen Geraldine
Rosal said out-for-lunch break is no
longer allowed.
To make it easy (for people) to trans-
act business, we have made it a policy
that there should be No Noon Break,
she said when she launch launched the
citys Web site <www.legazpicity.gov.
ph> along with the blessing of the re-
ception hall.
Rosal said getting the city government
on Internet was to comply with the full
disclosure requirement of the Department
of Interior and Local Government.
The occasion included the unveiling
of timekeeping kiosks with biometric
equipment to showcase high technology
in public service.
Former mayor and now administra-
tor Noel Rosal demonstrated how the
modules record attendance and allowed
ofcials and employees to draw their
pay from a built-in automated teller ma-
chine. Florencio P. Narito
Workers welfare pushed
TO ensure full compliance with laws
on contracting and subcontracting for
workers protection, the Department
of Labor and Employment formed a
monitoring team top cover the National
Capital Region.
According to DOLE-NCR Director
Alan Macaraya, the team was created
after the consultative assemblies of
the NCRs Tripartite Industrial Peace
Council whose members agreed on the
composition of members to police the
implementation of the directive.
Macaraya sits as chairman with
NCR Assistant Regional Director Benjo
Santos Benavidez as alternate.
The tripartite monitoring team
shall aim at ensuring labor standards
compliance and implementation of the
provisions of DO 18-A, she said.
Section 31 of DO18-A provides for the
establishment of a region-based tripartite
monitoring team on the observance of
labor standards in contracting and sub-
contracting arrangements.
It shall be constituted as a sub-
committee and required to submit a
quarterly regional monitoring report to
the DOLE secretary and to the Council.
Jonathan Fernandez
IN BRIEF
THE Technical Education and
Skills Development Author-
ity (TESDA) announced at the
weekend a total of 176 foreign
study grants for government
employees and 69 applicants
have been accepted.
TESDA Director-General
Joel Villanueva said the schol-
arship programs, which are in-
tended to enhance the manage-
rial and technical competence
of civil servants, are also open
to non-government organiza-
tions.
We are grafteful to the for-
eign funders who continue to
pour in money for the scholar-
ships of our government em-
ployees, Villanueva said.
Since 2007, TESDA has
been administering short term,
non-degree foreign scholarship
and training grants. The venue
of the grants are in the host
country.
Last year, Japan offered the
most number of 97 scholar-
ships followed by Singapore,
21; India, 15; Thailand and
Malaysia, 14 each; India, 7;
Colombo, 5; South Korea and
Indonesia, one each.
Villanueva said the schol-
arships are offered to gov-
ernment agencies and non-
government organizations,
but national and local gov-
ernments may nominate their
employees.
He said government work-
ers need to be exposed to cur-
rent trends and practices in
other countries to learn how
development programs and
projects are implemented so
they can appreciate its appli-
cation.
As the biggest employer
in the country, the govern-
ment must provide the means
to continuously develop the
knowledge and skills of public
servants, and TESDA is help-
ing facilitate this through the
foreign study grant program,
Villanueva said.
Some of the training
programs are focused on
strengthening the capabili-
ties of uniformed personnel,
health, public administration,
governance and law, environ-
ment management, social se-
curity, information and com-
munication technology, and
urban and regional develop-
ment. Gigi Munoz-David
By Macon Ramos-Araneta
and Gigi Muoz David
THE Philippine Health Insurance Corp called on
overseas workers at the weekend to register as mem-
bers so their dependents may avail of medical cover-
age, including prenatal, maternity and newborn care
benets.
Philhealth President and Chief Executive Eduardo
Banzon said membership for overseas workers require
a small amount, but it would benet the pregnant wife
left at home while the husband works abroad.
Philippine pays P8,000 for every normal delivery
(or a total of P32,000 for up to four deliveries), which
covers pre-natal expenses, hospital charges, and pro-
fessional fee of attending physician or midwife, Ban-
zon said.
Annual membership contribution for overseas Fil-
ipinos is P1,200. Next year, it will be raised to P2,400
effective in January next year.
More than half of the estimated ve million over-
seas workers are male and most of them are married.
Philhealth has covered 2.52 million overseas workers
with 2.48 million dependents.
Banzon said the benets of the wife would not
prejudice the rest of the familys coverage and for in-
stance, should another dependent of the OFW is hos-
pitalized due to dengue fever or or any other ailment
while the spouse is giving birth to a baby, Philhealth
will still pay for their respective benets.
Our additional P1,750 newborn care benet also
ensures the infants screening for potentially harmful
or fatal disorders that are not apparent at birth, eye
prophylaxis, vitamin K administration, weighing,
BCG vaccinaion, initial dose of hepatitis B immuni-
zation, and hearing test, Banzon said.
Philhealth helps pay for the room, medicines,
laboratory examinations, operating room and profes-
sional fees for every hospital connement of not less
than 24 hours, Banzon said.
All told, the OFW and his or her family here will
be able to save a lot if they enlist with Philhealth.
They will be shielded against unforeseen hospital
and other medical expenses, in return for a premium
contribution of less than P7.50 per day for the whole
household, he said.
Qualied dependents of OFWs who are active
Philhealth members are entitled to separate coverage of
up to 45 days conrement per calendar year, but the 45
days allowance is shared among all dependents.
Eligible dependents include the legal spouse, who
is not a Philhealth member, or whose membership
is inactive, minor children, and parents who are 60
years old and above.
We are always looking for ways to deliver greater
value to our members. For example, under our case
rate and no-balance billing policy, the OFWs spouse
or dependent may check out of hospital without hav-
ing to worry about extra charges that they have to
pay, the ofcial said.
Thermal Scan. An airport nurse uses thermal scanner to check the body temperatures
of arriving passengers at the Ninoy Aquino Internatioal Airport following reports of un-
known respiratory disease that killed 61 children in Cambodia. DANNY PATA
A link to the past. Jose Rizals great granddaughters, Sanya and Andrea, look at their lolos urn during their visit at Intramuros.
DANNY PATA
Budget Secretary Florencio Abad
said 543.5 million was earmarked for
preparatory activities of the Daang
Hari-South Luzon Expressway Link
Road Project and the Ninoy Aquino In-
ternational Airport Expressway.
Support for right of way claims for
roads and ood control structures is
crucial at this point, given that the gov-
ernment is vigorously expanding its in-
frastructures base and several projects
are already in full swing, Abad said.
The Daang Hari project involves con-
struction of a four-kilometer, four-lane
By Joyce Pangco Panares
President Aquino has approved the release of
P2.39 billion for right-of-way acquisitions and
preparatory activities for ood-control and two key
projects under the governments Public-Private
Partnership program, a senior ofcial said on
Sunday.
toll road from the junction of Daang
Reyna in Las Pinas and Daang Hari in
Bacoor, Cavite to the South Luzon Ex-
pressway. A total of P177.3 million was
set aside to pay right-of- way claims and
P35.2 million for widening of a bridge
at Susana Heights Interchange.
The amount of P284.33 million will
be used for the Ninoy Aquino Inter-
national Airport Expressway project.
But P1.85 billion, the bulk of the fund,
will used to support nationwide road
and ood control right-of-way claims.
Abad said the rest of the funds will
used for consultancy fees and advance
improvement works of Alabang-Sto.
Tomas Development, Inc.
The Administration is laying down
the proper groundwork for our private
sector engagements so that project
implementation will proceed seam-
lessly, Abad said.
The fund release will enable the
public works and highways depart-
ment to work out the preliminary
requirements for both projects to
facilitate quicker and more efficient
project execution, he said.
Abad said the initial release for the
Ninoy Aquino airport would cover
payments for right-of-way claims of
affected properties, resettlement of
squatters, and clearing of unwanted
structures.
Improving access to the airport
is important to the administrations
campaign to invigorate the tourism
industry and ultimately, to increase
the countrys economic viability and
competitiveness, Abad said. Abad: Crucial projects
THE main witness against former
Commission on Elections Chair-
man Benjamin Abalos, who was
accused by the Administration
of electoral sabotage, received
at least P2 million from the mili-
tary intelligence service, Abalos
lawyer Abaraham Espejo said on
Sunday.
Espejo said former election
ofcer Yogie Martirizar admitted
in court last July 4 she received
the money totaling P2 million
from 2007 to 2011 from Intelli-
gence Service of the Armed Forc-
es of the Philippines Capt. Peter
Reyes.
Martirizar is not a credible
witness. She admitted in court
that she was paid by the ISAFP
to testify against Chairman Aba-
los, Espejo said.
In her previous testimony,
Martirizar pointed to Reyes as
the mastermind of the production
and distribution of fake election
returns in North Cotabato dur-
ing the 2010 senatorial elections.
She said unidentied armed men
under orders of Reyes seized
the original election returns and
forced her to sign tampered elec-
tion returns.
In 2011, Martirizar was admit-
ted under the Witness Protection
Program of the governemnt and
implicated Abalos to the electoral
sabotage case led against her
and Reyes, who is still at large.
Abalos has been under detention
and has led a petition for bail.
During Abalos peititon for
bail hearing last July 4, Mar-
tirizar turned back on her allega-
tions against the former Comelec
chairman and denied she rigged
the election results and tampered
election documents.
In one stroke, Martirizar dis-
qualifed herself as state witness
when she contradicted what was
stated in the information led
against Abalos, Espejo said.
Martirizar claimed she was
intimidated to do things again-
sst her will, and yet she admit-
ted receiving P2 million from the
ISAFP, Espejo said.
The court has given the pros-
ecution ve days to submit their
evidence and after the defense
les their comment the case will
be submitted for resolution.
Gigi Muoz-David
Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
mst.lettertotheeditor@gmail.com JULY 9, 2012 MONDAY
A4
THE Aquino administration may
well go down in history as the
government in which laws and
rules were applied selectively as
a matter of course, depending on
political expediency and personal
connections.
George Orwell, in Animal Farm,
summed up this approach with the
maxim All animals are equal, but
some animals are more equal than
others, which was adopted by
the pigs who led a revolt against
the humans in his allegorical tale.
In the story, the second clause
was added to the commandment
on equality to reect the special
treatment that the pigs enjoyed as
leaders of the revolution.
In this administration, Justice
Secretary Leila de Lima stands
out as a shining example of how,
indeed, some animals are more
equal than others.
While we are all expected to obey
the Supreme Court, the secretary
dared to defy it, refusing to carry
out its temporary restraining order
last year because she deemed it
legally insufcientand because
her patron, the President, would
have been inconvenienced by
it. This she takes as a sign of
independence, while the rest of
the country sees it for what it is:
blind subservience to her master
in the Palace.
Now, the secretary has accepted
the nomination to be chief justice
after testifying as a government
witness in the impeachment trial
that ousted the previous occupant
of that post. The decision puts into
sharp focus the doubts about the
secretarys motives for testifying at
the trial in the rst place and reeks
of conict of interest. But never
one to balk at the unpleasant odor
of politics, the Justice secretary
was adamant about making a bid
for the countrys highest judicial
ofce, bringing divine intercession
by the Lady of Manaoag to sanitize
a decision she had made a long
time ago.
The secretary, who has said
several times that she serves at
the pleasure of the President, even
ignored a statement from the Palace
that the Chief Executive would
prefer her to remain at the Justice
Department, yet another sign that
she sees nothing wrong with the
unequal application of the rules
when her own well-being is at stake.
I n k e e p i n g wi t h t h i s
administrations penchant for
unequal treatment, the Judicial and
Bar Council, which vets nominees
and submits a shortlist to the
President for the nal selection,
has seen t to bend its own rules
in the secretarys favor, allowing
her to stay in the running despite
several disbarment cases filed
against her.
Section 5 of Rule 4 of the council
rules on disqualication clearly
states that those with pending
criminal or regular administrative
cases are disqualied from being
nominated, yet the council has
allowed her name to stay on its
roster of candidates, in effect
giving her time to settle all her
cases before its deadline to submit
names to the President. We may
quibble over when nomination
actually begins but in ordinary
parlance and in the realm of
common sense, that process has
already begun.
But hope is slim that the council
will hew to the rules more closely,
given the facility by which its
own members dismiss even
the Constitution. Faced with a
constitutional provision that the
council must have only one,
not two representatives from
Congress, Rep. Niel Tupas Jr.,
one of the two lawmakers on the
council, only had this to say in
his defense: The drafters of the
Constitution erred. They forgot to
change the phraseology, he said.
What kind of justice, then, can
we, the lesser denizens of this
animal farm expect, if the next
chief justice believes that she, like
this administration, is above the
law? This is a question the Judicial
and Bar Council needs to examine
more closely before it decides to cut
the secretary any more breaks.
More equal than others
They who set our
hearts afire!
WERE not our hearts are as he
explained the Scriptures?, thus
asked the disciples each other as
they wondered about the Stranger
who had joined them on the road to
Emmaus and taught them like none
other hand before. The Stranger,
they discovered later, turned out to
be Jesus, he who was, for those who
hung on his every word, Teacher
during the period of his public
ministry. Good teachers do not just
pass on information. They set the
hearts of their students are with
the passion to learn even more. Bad
teachers do the opposite: they
smother whatever spark of interest
in the subject there may be in their
students. Of the thousands who have
since left school and have foresworn
it, a good number will claim to have
found relief from the sheer tedium
and boredom that mediocre teachers
mercilessly visited on them. It was
the passion with which my father
spoke of the law and its intricacies
that moved me to do advanced
studies in law and jurisprudence even
if I did not choose to be a member of
the Philippine Bar. I have no doubt
that it is the same inspiration that lies
behind my brother Jets career in law
that has landed him on the Bench as
a regional trial court judge.
The Legal Education Board
has launched the search for the
professors of law whose names will
be inscribed in the Hall of Fame of
Law Professors. The Boards Chair,
Justice Hilarion Aquino, a retired
member of the Court of Appeals,
himself a law professor of several
years (the founder in fact of the
College of Law of the University of
the Cagayan Valley)whose ofcial
title for me is daddybelieves
that recognizing the excellent
inspires others to excellence,
besides bestowing honor on whom
it is due. For this project, the Board
has partnered with the Philippine
Association of Law Schools that has
Dean Amado Valdez as its president
and the Ateneo Law School with a
spirited and intrepid dean at its helm,
Sedfrey Candelaria. The Selection
Committee that includes Justice
Adolf Azcuna, incumbent Chancellor
of the Philippine Judicial Academy,
Dean Amado Valdez, former Dean
Antonio Abad, Dean Perry Pe,
former Dean Alex Monteclar of
the University of San Carlos and
Justice Aquino is chaired by retired
Chief Justice Reynato Puno who,
without doubt, has been among the
most scholarly of the High Courts
helmsmen in recent decades.
Only ten will be named to the
Hall of Fame. Considering that there
are many, in Manila and also in the
provinces, who have distinguished
themselves by brilliant careers
as law professors, the ten will
indeed be the most resplendant
lights in the rmament of legal
education. Nominees must meet
ve basic requirements. First, the
candidate must have taught law in
a law school for at least twenty-ve
years, cumulatively at least. One
who has taught that long, impressing
not only the rst generation of
students but succeeding batches
with erudition and effectiveness as
a teacher is one who has refused to
yield to the inertia of repeating the
same lessons year in, year out but
has constantly updated both content
and strategy. Second, the candidate
must not be less than sixty-ve
years old. There are, to be sure,
younger professors who have done
well, but the Board is eager to honor
senior professors rst, as is only
proper. Henry VIII is rumored to
have told the wives who came after
the star-crossed Ann Boleyn: You
will have your time. The younger
professors will have their time, but
for now, the seniors must be ttingly
honored. Third, no administrative,
criminal or disciplinary case
involving moral turpitude must
taint the candidates reputation and
embarass the Board that will award
the distinction. However, ever
cognizant of the insidious ways
of human malice, the Selection
Committee reserves for itself the
right to admit as candidates those
against whom cases are led
precisely to disqualify them from
the honor! Fourth, the nominee
must not have been found guilty or
liable by nal judgment of any court,
administrative body or disciplinary
authority of having abused or
exploited his or her position or
ascendancy, or engaged in intellectual
dishonesty as a professor of law in
any way whatsoever. Integrity, after
all, remains a telling quality of a
truly credible professor. You cannot
set hearts are when you turn people
off by egregious behavior. Finally,
the nominee must be endorsed by
the law dean or the law school where
he or she taughta criterion that
members of the Selection Committee
have had serious reservations about,
considering that many who may
very well deserve the distinction
will be unknown to the present
generation of deans. But, really,
excellent professors are never
unknown. The legends they inspire
are told and re-told, passed from
one generation to the next. Criteria
for selection include recognition
of the professors authority in one
eld of law or another, as well as
the acclaim bestowed on him by
students who gratefully attest to the
passion, method and effectiveness of
the teacher. Wishing to develop a
culture of research among law professors
EDITORIAL
Villanuevas violation
THE feisty Senator Miriam Defensor
Santiago should make sure that her
landmark Senate Bill No. 1967, more
popularly known as the anti-epal bill,
is passed before she resigns from the
Senate and joins the International
Criminal Court.
There are many, like us, who believe
that Santiagos bill which seeks to ban
the names and photos of politicians
from billboards on government projects
is as important as the RH bill that she is
pushing.
In fact, the bill has a more
popular public support base than the
controversial RH bill. It would in
fact save the country hundreds of
millions of pesos if politicians and
other government ofcials are banned
from putting up those costly billboards
claiming credit for projects built with
public funds.
Epal of course is street jargon
from mapapel or pumapapel from
the root word papel (paper) referring
to people who wants to claim credit
(papel) for some accomplishments in
something successful or popular.
The nuances of epal or maepal is
hard to explain in English but basically
the term refers to attention grabbers,
scene stealers and those who try to claim
undeserved credit for some imagined
and blown-up achievements.
Santiagos anti-epal bill is popular
because it gives vent to the widespread
public frustration with politicians
and bureaucrats who claim credit for
projects funded by taxpayers money.
In fact, those credit-grabbing
billboards are a double whammy for
the taxpayers. Not only are those
politicians and public ofcials trying
to get recognition for a publicly-funded
project. They are spending additional
millions for those billboards.
Santiagos anti-epal bill is formally
titled An Act Prohibiting Public Offers
from Claiming Credit through Signage
Announcing a Public Works Project.
In the bills explanatory note,
Santiago notes that It is prevalent
practice among public ofcers, whether
elected or appointed to append their
names to public works projects which
were either funded or facilitated through
their ofce.
The bill imposes a jail term of
between six months and one year on a
public ofcial who would have his or
her name or image printed on a signage
announcing a proposed or ongoing
public works project.
To send an even stronger signal
that such waste of public funds is
a criminal offense that should be
penalized, perhaps Santiago should
consider expanding the coverage of
the anti-epal bill to television and
radio advertising, billboards, posters,
and other promotional materials of
government agencies that gives credit to
the head of those agencies from project
accomplishments of these agencies.
A perfect example that Santiago
can cite is Secretary Joel Villanueva
of the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority who has gone
on a multi-million-peso advertising and
promotions binge using Tesda funds to
promote his supposed accomplishments
with the billions of taxpayers money
allocated to Tesda.
Isnt what Villanueva is doing as bad
as, or worse than, the practice of putting
up billboards for public works projects
that Santiagos anti-epal bill wants to
ban and penalize?
Villanuevas self-promotion
campaign using Tesda funds includes
not only traditional billboards (anyone
who passes through NLEX cannot
miss Tesdas billboard featuring a
huge photograph of Villanueva) but an
expensive electronic billboard on Edsa
as well.
There are even buses where
Villanuevas photos are prominently
featured as part of the Tesda ad. We saw
Villanuevas Tesda epal bus ad in the
back of a JAM transit when we went
to Laguna last week and we wondered
how much Tesda spent to put up those
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A5 Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
mst.lettertotheeditor@gmail.com
ON March 26 and April 2 of this year, I
wrote articles warning the public about
an aberration in the Mitsubishi Montero
vehicle which causes accidents arising
from the vehicles sudden unintended
acceleration. The mystery of this pe-
culiar aberration presented itself to me
when a friend of our familys encoun-
tered a weird accident. He and his wife
got into their parked Montero. When
he started the vehicle and commenced
to drive it, it suddenly surged forward
at full throttle and would not stop de-
spite his having stepped on the brakes.
His Montero hit a parked car across the
street as well as several dog cages and
the faade of a pet shop. His wife had
a fractured nger and he sustained in-
juries.
A number of readers who read my
articles wrote me saying that they ex-
perienced exactly the same frightening
phenomenon with
their Mitsubishi
Montero. In particu-
lar, a certain Jaime
Victa emailed me a
long letter explaining
how he and a group
of other profession-
als have complained
with Mitsubishi
about their Monteros
sudden unintended
acceleration but the
car dealer and the manufacturer refused
to own up to any defect. Blogs contain-
ing reports of about 36 similar accidents
involving the Montero showed the very
same pattern.
The mystery lies in this: Mitsubishi
claims its Montero has no mechani-
cal defects; that all the accidents were
caused by driver error. Yet, of late,
the blogs against Montero have been
disappearing, one by one. I learned
from sources that Mitsubishi quietly
settled off the victims claims but the
complainants were made to sign con-
dentiality agreements and required
them to remove the blogs. Meanwhile,
Mitsubishi maintains its ofcial line:
the accidents were caused by driver
error. But, is it believable and statisti-
cally possible that all the 36 or more
accidents involving the sudden unin-
tended acceleration of Monteros in the
Philippines, were invariably caused
by driver error? Does this car model
then require special training before it
can be driven? And why, of all vehicle
models, is Montero the one always
guring in accidents of this nature?
Recently, I received a very informa-
tive letter from an independent electri-
cal engineering consultant based in the
UK, Dr. Anthony Anderson, who gave
me the permission to use his study on
the cause of sudden unintended accel-
erations of vehicles. He said he read my
articles online and wanted to share with
me and all interested readers his ndings.
He was asked to testify as an expert wit-
ness in New Zealand in a case involving
the sudden unintended acceleration of a
Mitsubishi Outlander, a vehicle manu-
factured in the same technology as the
Montero. The accident involved a wom-
an-driver whose Mitsubishi Outlander
was parked on a street in a commercial
district. When she started her car, from
a parked position, and started to drive, it
suddenly lunged with such high speed
that her vehicle dragged a pedestrian
and hit the glass display window of a
store. The woman insisted that she ap-
plied brakes but the vehicle would not
stop. She was charged for a felony by
the police, concluding she must have
stepped on the accelerator rather than
the brakes.
In his study of that vehicle, Dr. An-
derson found that the brake rotor was
broken while the tire rim remained in-
tact. This indicated that the breakage
of the brake rotor was not due to the
impact of collision but rather to the ap-
plication of brakes by the woman, Dr.
Anderson said.
In his intensive analysis of the ve-
hicle that was involved in the accident,
Dr. Anderson wrote a report which he
submitted to the New Zealand court.
His report explains that a vehicle in-
stalled with an electronic throttle sys-
tem can malfunction electronically, that
is, its electronic throttle system moves
to a fully open position un-commanded,
or without the accelerator being stepped
on, under certain conditions. And, since
the cause is electronic, the defect leaves
no trace when tested.
On this theory,
he said that a weak
battery or decient
power supply can
lead to two possible
causes of the vehi-
cles malfunctioning.
The rst possibility
is that the power of a
weak battery can be
completely depleted
when car parts re-
quiring power are
used, such as, wipers and headlights.
When a car which has an electronic or
computer-like throttle is re-started later,
it may contain incorrect values because
of the temporary brownout. This con-
fuses the electronic or computer-like
throttle and causes a sudden unintended
acceleration.
The second possibility, explained
by Dr. Anderson, is that during the
time of the brownout because of a
weak battery, the engine control sys-
tem and the alternator voltage control
(which charges the battery when the
engine is running) compensate for the
brownout. To charge the battery, the
engine has to speed up and open the
electronic throttle. This then causes
the sudden acceleration of the vehicle,
un-commanded. Dr. Anderson ex-
plained that this problem in vehicles
installed with the electronic throttle
system is not unique to Mitsubishi
cars. However, other car brands have
immediately responded to solve the
problem when accidents of this nature
started to happen. Toyota Camry, for
instance, introduced the kill switch
as a failsafe device to stop the car
from surging in full throttle.
What seems to be the inescapable
conclusion is that Mitsubishi should
stop its deplorable business policy of
denying that its Montero brand, espe-
cially the 2009 to 2011 models, whether
automatic or manual, could malfunction
electronically, at any time; even beyond
its warranty period. This clearly puts
its users at grave risk. It should start
installing fail safe devices in new units
and offer to current owners of Montero
a replacement of their vehicles. Human
lives are on the line here. Prot consid-
erations should give way to a legal obli-
gation and social responsibility.
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A deplorable
business policy
Adhocracy and lap mentality
GOOD news greeted the week President
Aquino marked two years in ofce.
One raft comes courtesy of the Social
Weather Stations which made public the
result of its second quarter survey.
First is that the GNPGutom na
Pilipinois down to 18.4 percent of
total number of families from the 23.8
percent recorded in March.
Second, membership in the Tambay
Republic has apparently gone down,
with the jobless rate plunging to 26.6
percent from 34.4 percent a quarter ago.
Third, 4 percent of families have
updated their status to poor no more,
bringing down the number of self-con-
fessed mahirap to 51 percent from 54
percent in the rst quarter.
On top of this trifecta of good tidings
from the pollster are the low ination
rate of 2.8 percent in June and the one-
notch credit rating upgrade by Standard
and Poors.
On the face of it, this scorecard is al-
ready impressive. Palace drumbeaters
dont, however, trust the gures to speak
for themselves, so they immediately went
to town amplifying these achievements.
But lost in the din of the thumping
of the tomtom drums are the numbers
which should jolt us into pondering the
hard work which needs to be done.
Although unemployment is down, the
fact is that close to 11 million Filipinos
raring to work cannot land a job.
The GNP percentage, when
translated to the number of Filipinos,
means that 19 million occasionally
go on a forced diet.
As to the families who rate them-
selves poor, their actual number10.3
millionrepresents a majority, the po-
bre millions in this land of many Forbes
billionaires.
These are probably the reasons why
in spite of the SWS numbers which may
have warmed the cockles of the hearts
of those in power, they did not send the
hearts of the ordinary folks uttering
that the good times are here.
The truth is we have not reached
the tipping point. We may be inching
our way there but just as one swallow
doesnt make a summer, one quarter of
good performance doesnt mean that we
are on a roll.
We hope the slew of positive devel-
opments will be sustained and will sig-
nal the start of an irreversible trend.
Otherwise, the latest polls would
have merely captured the peak of our
rollercoaster ride only to slide down to
the valley of disconcerting numbers the
next time a survey is taken.
But even if the next edition of eco-
nomic numbers will not be to our lik-
ing, we should not despair. There may
be corrections, dips and slippages. The
important thing is that the overall trend
is that of a general improvement.
Although I recognize the value
of a survey in periodically gauging
performance, my only beef is that it
leads those who are being measured
to develop a xation for stop-gap and
short-gestation measures calculated to
be implemented on a y so they can be
captured in the next polling cycle.
Our truncated electoral calendar has
already bred a culture of adhocracy.
We are governed by men whose plan-
ning horizon does not go beyond the
156 weeks (three years) that they are
in ofce.
Because they have a job review
(election) every three years, they are
forced to resort to gimmickry to bag
a contract extension from their bosses
(the electorate.)
Out of this imposed myopia is a type
of governance which sets the completion
timeline for projects at 36 months, in
time for the proponent to claim bagging
rights when his tenure is about to expire.
Like canned sardines, government pro-
grams have best before labels.
The result is a preference for retail
projects and an aversion for big-ticket
undertakings. It is bad politics to stand
for re-election with uncompleted project
hanging over your head.
The rule is that a project must be in-
augurated within the term and to deny
your successor the privilege of blessing
what you groundbroke.
The result is that our leaders lurch
from quarter to quarter, election to elec-
tion. This lap mentality, of the refusal to
view the long haul, is probably the rea-
son we are lagging behind in the race for
prosperity with our neighbors.
I am making this point to stress the
fact that our vision must extend beyond
the next quarter or so, in fact, beyond the
next elections. We must plot our course
in generational terms.
For example, by 2020, our basic
education enrolment will reach 35.6
million, 14.1 million more than what
we have today. This means that in seven
years we must be able to build 352,000
classrooms, the same number of teach-
ers, add 14.1 million chairs and stock up
on 70 million books.
I hope the preparation is being done
now. Otherwise, when 2020 comes
around and it will be bedlam in schools,
our leaders will dissect with 20/20 hind-
sight what went wrong when. They
could have used their brilliance in pre-
paring for that predictable future.
(Continued from page 1)
That is neither statecraft nor diplo-
macy, and it has left so many men and
women of longer experience red in the
face. It has not enhanced Mr. Aquinos
prestige as a head of state either. Nor
has it served any veriable national in-
terest.
Many are hoping the Presidents
moratorium on his own public state-
ments would give him the time to study
at greater depth some of the more im-
portant issues relative to the conict,
which seem so far to have remained un-
noticed.
Many are hoping he would see that
the present tension is driven not just by
conict on the ownership of the clus-
ter of islets, reefs and rocks and waters
known as the Spratlys or Scarborough
Shoal, and claimed by Malaysia, Brunei,
Vietnam, Taiwan, China and the Phil-
ippines. The territorial dispute seems
merely to provide the cover, but there
seems so much more underneath.
At bottom, the real conict appears
to be primarily geopolitical. It has to do
with Chinas rise as a world economic
and eventually political and military
power, and the apparent effort of the
United States, the worlds lone super-
power, to manage or slow it down.
Where the Philippines stands in that
interplay of two powerful forces is what
seems to rile Beijing.
Although very few will agree that the
South China Sea is an internal Chinese
lake, fewer still will deny Chinas legiti-
mate desire that the area fall within its
own, rather than Americas, sphere of
inuence.
On the other hand, the US, having
been a Western Pacic power for so
long, has no desire to be dislodged from
that position. China sees all this, and
for good or not so good reason sees the
Aquino government as one that is eager
to support and defend the US position.
China showed no sign of alarm when
Aquino ran to the US State Department
and the Pentagon to ask for a hand-me-
down coast guard cutter to beef up the
Philippines naval patrol units within its
archipelagic waters. Or when the US an-
nounced a grant of $30 million in en-
hanced military assistance to the Phil-
ippine government.
But Beijing was visibly pissed when
a Malacaang spokesman revealed that
Aquino was considering asking the US
to send in a spy plane to conduct surveil-
lance of Scarborough and the Spratlys
for the Philippines.
No more irresponsible statement
could have been made by a government
ofcial, and the President was compelled
to publicly deny it. But whether or not
China believes the denial, the image of
a spy plane has already entered the pic-
ture, and this can only poison further the
relations between the two neighbors.
The spy plane rst came into exis-
tence during the Cold War. It was devel-
oped by the US as a high-altitude plane,
beyond the reach of Soviet radar and
anti-aircraft re, to collect intelligence
on military installations within the So-
viet Union. It is safe to assume that its
technology is even more advanced now,
and that it continues to y regular mis-
sions for the US.
China must suspect that these planes
continue to collect intelligence on its
military sites even now. That would be a
fact of international political life beyond
its power to prevent or control. But for a
third country to talk casually about using
a US spy plane to conduct surveillance
over the South China Sea is obviously
unacceptable.
One can have no illusion that such a
plane would be taking videos of Chinese
shermen taking out giant clams and en-
dangered sharks from the disputed wa-
ters, and using the same video to support
the environmentalist lobby that China
stop serving shark ns soup in restau-
rants and private homes.
It was the height of folly that a gov-
ernment spokesman should mention it,
even in levity, in any on-the-record or
off-the-record conversation with the
press. But together with all the bellicose
statements from the President and his
spokesmen, this unveried image of a
spy plane scouring the South China Sea
and beyond may have convinced Beijing
that Mr. Aquino, as previously reported
elsewhere, has joined those who sup-
port the idea of building a ring around
China, and some euro-American politi-
cians who are eagerly pushing for war.
The spy plane story may have alarmed
the Americans themselves. It is not far-
fetched to suggest that an important
American source may have suggested to
Mr. Aquino to stop talking about Scar-
borough, and to maintain a Sphinx-like
silence instead.
Some Western analysts have sug-
gested that the trans-Atlantic powers
need a big war to solve, among other
things, the global economic recession.
The analysts suggest that if they cannot
create one in the Middle East, they will
probably try to do so in Asia, and that
it would be a global war against China
and Russia.
This is perhaps just one more con-
spiracy theory. But it may have acquired
a life of its own, and the Aquino govern-
ment cannot afford to be seen as being
part of it.
Because the Philippines renounces
war as an instrument of national policy,
it cannot legally go to war. Except in
self-defense. But even in self-defense, it
may not have the wherewithal to wage
one. All of its closest neighbors are bet-
ter armed, from the smallest, which is
either Singapore or Brunei, to the big-
gest, which is undoubtedly China.
To be able to stand on its own, the
country needs to develop some palpable
defense capability. It will have to come
up with a well-dened and coherent
defense policy, and then some military
capability.
For starters, it will have to acquire
at least a radar surveillance capability
to detect any intrusion into its air space
and territorial waters. Then an air force,
and a navy, capable of deterring such in-
trusion, and dealing with it if and when
it occurs.
On land it will need an army with a
capability and morale equal to its consti-
tutional duties and responsibilities.
For the state to go to war, for what-
ever reason, assuming the constitutional
bar could be overcome, it needs so much
more muscle than it has got. It has vir-
tually nothing now.
Under a previous administration, sev-
eral billions of pesos meant for military
modernization simply disappeared and
has remained unaccounted for until now.
And while the government is eager to
participate in the eurozone bailout and
be called a creditor nation by lending
$1 billion to the IMF, it cannot seem to
add so much more to the $30 million in
enhanced military assistance from the
USwhich is not quite half of Congress-
man-boxer Manny Pacquiaos earnings
from the ringfor its defense program.
That is a grave handicap, indeed,
but the graver problem is political. The
government seems to be run by political
charismatics who seem to have no sense
at all of when to shoot and when to keep
their powder dry.
Mitsubishi
should realize that
human lives are on
the line here.
RITA LINDA
V. JIMENO
OUT OF THE BOX
ANALYSIS
PASTOR APOLLO
QUIBOLOY
PLUMBLINE
and law students, the Board has also
required that candidates have, to
their credit, authorship of books, or,
in the very least, articles published
in reputable journals of law, or
papers read at learned international
or national conferences and
convocations. Finally, the candidate
must have inspired students by
a worthy life and irreproachable
conduct. The award is not meant for
saints, although that would not be bad
at all; but it is reserved for those who
truly inspire, and who have been an
inspiration, in word and deed.
I spent the past week at San Pablo
Seminary, the regional college seminary
of Northern Luzon, in Baguio City, in
the company of a wonderful group of
priests headed by the present rector
(actually a rector-returnee), Fr. Liberato
Ortega. I tried to set the hearts of the
seminarians I taught are with the
passion for philosophy: not that kind of
philosophy that demands that students
memorize the teachings, no matter how
bizarre, of a litany of philosophers, but
that kind that engages them in critical
reection of their own lives and of
the world in which they live. I had a
wonderful time. The third and fourth
year students were not only a responsive
lot; they were warm and enthusiastic. It
is no easy thing for a college philosophy
student to read from primary sources,
because philosophers are notorious
for torturing those who desire to read
them by language and style that truly
beguile. But they gamely went through
the paces of reading Gadamer and
Ricoeur, no matter that classes would
stretch to three-hour periods! But the
time I spent did me much good too. I
had earlier requested my Archbishop
to keep me from of any engagement
with a parish so that I could be free to
devote myself to teaching, particularly
in seminaries. Fr. Liber, as soon as he
had been named rector, lost no time
in inviting me to teach. Living with
seminarians, following their regimen
of prayer, study and bonding, was a
refreshing and renewing experience for
me as a priest, something I shall look
forward to, each month. Here too, in
my own way, I hope I set some hearts
are, as the seminary community has
lit a re in me!
rannie_aquino@sanbeda.edu.ph
r a n n i e _ a q u i n o @c s u . e d u . p h
rannie_aquino@yahoo.com
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Villanuevas violation
ads and how much the agency is paying
monthly for those bus ads.
There are also TV commercials of
Tesda again promoting Villanueva. It
would not be surprising if there are radio
and print ads that give Villanueva credit
for Tesdas accomplishments.
What gives people a bad taste in
the mouth at seeing the expenditure
of millions of Tesda funds to promote
Villanueva is the fact that Villanueva
is running for a Senate seat. He is not
only engaged in what appears to be
early campaigning but he is using public
funds for it.
Santiago is right when she points
out that public ofcials must not
claim credit for projects funded by
taxpayers money stressing that the
practice is not only unnecessary and
highly unethical.
The public is right to expect that
Villanueva, who was the three-term
representative of the anti-corruption party
list Citizens Battle Against Corruption,
should be the rst to understand that
using public funds to get credit and
recognition for Tesda projects is a gross
violation of the anti-epal principle.
Even Malacaang has expressed
support for Santiagos anti-epal bill.
President Benigno Aquino III frowns
on self-promotion in projects built with
public funds. Thus it is a surprise that
Malacaang is allowing Villanuevas
expensive self-promotion.
The Presidents folly
News
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A6
2 million elvers seized at airport
9 councilors
seek Lims
assistance
Justice
reporters
evicted

IN BRIEF
Urban Governance. Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista, lone Philippine delegate, ex-
changes pleasantries with Sri Lankan Rohan Seneviratne in the 1st Temasek Foundation Lead-
ers in Urban Governance Programme in Singapore, gathering 33 leaders from 10 cities in eight
Asian countries on developing livable communities. Inset shows Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte
rallying retailers, public and private market administrators and members of different vendor
associations to follow regulations on plastic bags in a forum organized by Councilor Dorothy
Delarmente (extreme left). Joining them are Councilor Gian Carlo Sotto, market administrator
Dony Matias, environment head Frederika Rentoy and Payatas Operations Group head Jameel
Jaymalin.
Bogus peso printer
Alcala: Focus on reforms
DEPARTMENT of Agriculture Secretary
Proceso Alcala has ordered more focus on
reforms to mmeet yield targets in response
to Malacanangs call for food security.
Let us not be complacent, he said.
The presidents encouraging words should
be take as a challenge to us, he said.
Alcala said President Benigno Aquino
III has commended the department on its
programs to improve harvest and better
income for farmers.
An integral part in pushing for produc-
tivity is the National Irrigation Adminis-
tration for upgrading its facilities in sup-
port of the action for economic reforms.
We give the assurance that we in the
agriculture sector will work harder to-
ward higher yield, Administrator Anto-
nio Nangel said.
The irrigation system is being up-
graded to ensure sufcient water to meet
the cropping seasons and requirements of
improved rice varieties.
Gigi Muoz David
Aquabest opens scholarship
LEADING water franchise leader,
Aquabest is expanding its Corporate
Shared Values drive by offering scholar-
ships to the children of employees.
The company has always placed an
emphasis in the welfare of its employees
and their families, said Carson Tan, pres-
ident and cheif executive of GQWEST,
parent rms of Aqyabest.
This is driven by the companys real-
ization that its people are its prime assets
and as part of its Christian values.
This year, the GQWEST Scholar-
ship Grant was awarded to Pearl Grace
Salvador, Grade II at Caloocan Bethel
Christian School. Other recipients in-
clude Ricky Mae H. Olmedo, Grade IV at
Francisco F. Benitez Elementary School
and Ivan John Rosal, third year at Araullo
High School.
Every year the company sets aside
funds to help with the education of its
employees in good schools that offer
quality education, Tan said.
With the scholarship grants, the chil-
dren of its employees get to realize their
dreams and reach their full potential.
JUSTICE Secretary Leila de Lima has approved
the eviction of the reporters from their press of-
ces on the second oor of her departments
main building on Padre Faura Street in Manila,
calling them a security nightmare.
He order affects the Justice and Court Report-
ers Association and the Justice Reporters Orga-
nization whose members have been covering the
department for more than 40 years.
The press ofce housing the Justice and Court
Reporters Association has been in the building
since 1977, and the Justice Reporters Organiza-
tion since the the mid-1980s.
Justice Undersecretaries Jose Vicente Salazar,
Francisco Baraan III and Leah Armamento told
the reporters that they had agreed to heed the rec-
ommendation of the National Intelligence Coor-
dinating Agency to restrict the reporters move-
ments in the main building because they posed a
threat to the security of Justice ofcials.
The Aquino administration is talking about
transparency in government, and yet here is a
Justice secretary agreeing to restrict information
from the public by limiting the access of the me-
dia from her and other Justice ofcials, one the
reporters said.
This is a subtle form of media censorship.
Rey E. Requejo
Nine of the 28 councilors identied with
Vice Mayor Isko Moreno have sought
the help of Mayor Alfredo Lim in getting
their PAGCOR funds in full.
This was learned from chief of staff and media bureau direc-
tor Ric de Guzman, who said the nine councilors have asked the
mayors intercession since the monthly assistance they get from
PAGCOR, which passes through the city council, is being slashed
by P18,000 per head.
De Guzman said each of the 38 councilors are entitled to P90,000
a month but in the case of the said 28 councilors, they get only
P72,000 each, compared to the nine councilors allied with Lim who
get their share in full.
Citing records from the ofce of city treasurer Marissa de Guz-
man, he named the nine as Edward Tan, Cristy Isip, Irma Alfonso-
Juson, Ian Nieva, Robert Ortega, Luisito Chua, Ruben Buenaven-
tura, Re Fugoso, Beth Rivera, who appear top have drawn their full
PAGCOR funds last June 15.
The amount received by the nine councilors, according to trea-
surer De Guzman, amounted to P1.4 million in all.
The chief of staff noted that the said councilors who have sought
the mayors help were among those who recently led a blotter re-
port against the mayor, accusing him of threatening them.
Ipinakikita lang nito na kay Mayor Lim talaga walang masa-
mang tinapay. Basta makakatulong, tutulong siya (This only shows
that Mayor Lim bears no ill will. If he can be of any help, he will
lend a hand), he said.
Meanwhile, the P18,000 being deducted from each of nine coun-
cilors monthly PAGCOR funds reportedly represents payment for
the one in charge of doing their liquidation.
THE Bureau of Customs and the
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic
Resource seized on Sunday some
2 million eel fry at the Ninoy
Aquino International Airport.
BFAR Director Asis Perez
said 46 boxes containing the el-
vers were brought to the Mias-
cor Cargo Center for shipment
to Hong Kong on Cathay Pacic
ight CX 904.
The forwarder of the 940 ki-
los of elevers was identied as
Expertrans Phils Inc.
The shipment from Ca-
gayan de Oro aroused suspicion
among Customs and quarantine
staff because of the Perishable
ItemsFoodstuff labels and
the lack of papers like BFAR
permits, clearances and health
certicates.
Ben Curativo, NAIA sheries
quarantine ofcer, said export
of eel fry has been banned since
May on ndings that stocks are
being depleted at source.
He said baby eels fetched
about P22,000 per kilo in the
market.
Inspection showed that the
contraband was sealed in eight
plastic bags per box.
Authorities said the fry
would be raised in Hong Kong
to be served in restaurants when
they reach maturity. Gourmands
consider eel exotic cuisine and
an aphrodisiac.
Perez said trafcking of el-
vers violated Fisheries Admin-
istrative Order 242 Series of
2012 and punishable by up to
eight years imprisonment or a
ne equivalent to double the ex-
port value of the shipment.
The seized ngerlings will be
brought to the BFAR hatchery
in Tanay, Rizal, for custodial
care. Vito Bar celo, Fer dinand
Fabella and Er ic Apolonio
A JOINT Team of the National
Bureau of Investigation and the
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas staff
raided a retail store engaged in
printing and selling fake peso
bills and arrested its owner in
Sampaloc, Manila, it was re-
ported on Saturday.
The NBI identied the arrest-
ed suspect as Aeries Villaruel,
with aliases Irish and Aires, 29,
of C.M. Recto Avenue.
Charges for violation of
Forging Treasury or Bank Notes
or Other Documents, and Ille-
gal Possession and Use of False
Treasury or Bank Notes and
Other Instruments of Credit of
the Revised Penal Code were
led against the suspect before
the Manila City Prosecutors
Ofce.
On June 6, the BSP received
reliable information that the
suspect was allegedly involved
in the manufacture and print-
ing of counterfeit Philippine and
US currency notes at his rented
store in CM Recto Avenue.
Operatives went to the store
and saw the fake P1,000 and
P500 bills on top of a table and
various printing paraphernalia.
Macon Ramos Ar aneta
Organic market.
Paraaque Mayor
Florencio Bernabe Jr.,
Youth and Sports Adviser
Carlo Bernabe and City
Councilor Benjo Bernabe
join city hall employees
in buying newly-
harvested vegetables
in celebration of 38th
Year of the Nutrition
Month at the city hall
grounds. The produce
was raised in backyards
by beneciaries of
Project FRESH, a joint
undertaking of Save the
Children, Kraft Foods
Philippines, city hall
and the Department of
Education-Paraaque
Division of City Schools.
Baby eels swim in a plastic bag in one of several conscated boxes. AARON FAVILA AP
JULY 9, 2012 MONDAY
A7 Sports Riera U. Mallari, Editor
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Donaire dull and unimpressive, if not a bore
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NONITO Donaire Jr. won, yes, but
he has to re-invent himself more if
he wishes to hit the big time.
And big time means getting
megabuck money from PPV
(pay-per-view) and other perks
as a result of a ght achieving its
much-ballyhooed thrill.
Yesterdays Donaire bout in
Carson City, California, was a
sorry spill its promised thrill
more of a dull than a real deal.
For, although Donaire won
by a unanimous decision, the
worlds scarred watchers of box-
ing werent that totally satised
with his performance.
Me, too, if I may be allowed to
be that brutally frank.
True, Donaire, 29, knocked
Heffrey Mathebula, 33, down in
the fourth round.
But, alas, that was all there is to it.
After Mathebula, 28-3-2
with 14 KOs before yester-
days ght, beat the count
with glassy eyes, and was
mercifully saved by the bell,
he managed to hang on till
the 12th and last round
not because he was tough,
but more because of Donaires
unimpressive performance than
anything.
At 511, Mathebula was taller
by ve inches but look, he was
slow, dull of reexes and with
cotton-soft punches.
The ght was a real mismatch
and yet, Donaire, now 29-1 with 18
KOs, couldnt extract the expected
knockout win from a totally out-
classed foe, whose awkwardness
was a sure recipe for disaster.
Yes, Donaire won all 12 rounds,
but the third. Still, he sorely lacked
the wallop needed to create that
impact necessary to make a ghter
exciting and fun to watch.
Manny Pacman used to be
like that until he stopped stop-
ping his foes. Pacquiaos last ve
ghts alone from 2010 were but
virtual victories via boring deci-
sions.
Before Donaires ght yes-
terday, he could also merely
score victories on points against
Omar Narvaez in 2011 and Wil-
fredo Vazquez only last Febru-
ary. Worst, Donaire, the ash in
his hands strangely missing, nar-
rowly escaped with a split deci-
sion win over Vazquez, already
an aging warrior.
And yet, before those ghts,
Donaire stopped in spectacular
back-to-back fashion, Vic Darchin-
yan and Fernando Montiel.
The three judges yesterday
scored it 117-110, 118-109 and
119-108 all for Donaire.
I had the same score of 119-
108 as judge Deon Dwartes.
Dwarte and I gave Mathebula
Round 3 and the rest to Donaire.
Donaire now owns both the
World Boxing Organization and
International Boxing Federation
superbantamweight titles (122
lb). He said hed soon capture
the 122-lb crowns from World
Boxing Association champ
Guillermo Rigodeaux of Cuba
and World Boxing Council title-
ist Toshaki Nishioka of Japan.
I wish him luck, but before he se-
riously embarks on those twin mis-
sions, he should rst re-learn the art
of winning ghts the explosive way.
This should be the unwritten
rule, especially if your foe is as
patsy as Mathebula.
* * *
THE DAY OF THE GENER-
AL. He is not hurting anymore
and to Gen. Patrick Madayag (re-
tired), he said he was leaving it
all in Gods hands.
Madayag, a distinguished
PMAer, recently absorbed a be-
low-the-belt treatment by a TV
show that somehow put a dent
to his reputation he had painstak-
ingly built as a decorated soldier
during his 37 years of service in
the military.
It all started when he began ini-
tiating drastic reforms at the Vet-
erans Golf Club, where he is now
the general manager. In the pro-
cess of rehabilitating the course
and refurbishing the image of
VGC, some toes he must have
stepped on along the way cooked
up a demolition job designed to
discredit him.
To his horror, the very same
people he had trusted planted the
seed of recrimination, plotting an
evil deed to picture him as one
not worthy of his new job.
I play at VGC and my legman
there tells me some sectors badly
want Madayags position, thus,
the need to sabotage his leader-
ship and his accomplishments.
But they are all wrong, said
my legman. The Generals feet
are rmly planted on the ground.
They cant build a case and, if at
all, his detractors are merely r-
ing blanks.
My legman says even Defense
Secretary Gazmin has a com-
plete trust and condence in the
ability of General Madayag to
put order at the VGC.
My counsel to the General: If
you are in the right and your con-
science is clear, there is nothing
to fear.
* * *
ALL IN. Malaya M. Sadiwa,
the wife of Ricky and Mom of
Mayasoh and Ikap, is celebrating
today. Happy birthday!
THE University of Santo Tomas
Growling Tigers, who have a tall
lineup this season, are aiming
for a higher nish in the 75th
University Athletic Association of
the Philippines mens basketball
tournament.
With 66 veteran slotman
Karim Abdul getting help from
a 67 rookie, a tall mainstay and
a returning veteran big man, the
Tigers are shooting for a Final
Four nish or the nals when
the season starts on July 14 at the
SM Mall of Asia.
Kailangan, mas mataas pa sa
Final Four ang maabot ng team,
said coach Pido Jarencio, who is
seeking to improve on the teams
seminal nish last season.
Abdul, who averaged 10.6
points and 9.9 rebounds, will be
backed up at the slot not only by
64 Paolo Pe and 65 Kenneth
Mamaril but also by Perpetual Help
transferee 67 Robert Hainga.
The Growling Tigers slotmens
skills will be tested not only by
Ateneo slotmen Greg Slaugher
and Justine Chua, but also by
the seasoned veterans of other
opposing squads.
Mamaril is back after missing
the season last year due to
academics. He could also provide
the numbers in the shaded lane,
and his presence with Abdul,
Pe and Hainga will make the
Growling Tigers a fearsome title
contender this early in the season.
During its pre-season sorties, UST
averaged 70.6 points and ranked
fourth behind the National University
Bulldogs, the Far Eastern University
Tamaraws and the Adamson Falcons
in terms of scoring.
They also ranked as the second
best in rebounding with a norm
of 40 boards per game, giving
the Growling Tigers a lot of
condence going into the season.
Basta kami, ready na kami to
compete, said Jarencio. Peter
Atencio
DAGUPAN CityWilson
Maningkil topped the mens
division, while Lany Cardona ruled
the womens category Sunday in
the 21-k second leg of the 36th
National Milo Marathon held in
Dagupan City.
Some 9,700 runners registered
for the race leg.
Maningkil dominated the
course with a time of 1:15:28,
leading the second batch of
qualiers in the mens division.
Ive been training two hours
everyday. Our real aspiration for
training so hard is to defeat the
Kenyans, he said.
Not to be outdone was Cardona,
who hurdled the at cemented
course with ease despite a minor
injury. She crossed the nish line
in 1:38:58 to pocket the P10,000
elimination prize.
They will join the 28 runners
led by Hernani Sore and Cristabel
Martes, both of whom passed
the rst qualifying race held in
Baguio City last Sunday, and the
11 qualiers from the Dagupan
leg in the National Finals on Dec.
9 at the SM Mall of Asia grounds
in Pasay City.
By Peter Atencio

US AMBASSADOR Harry Tho-
mas, who is in the last year of his
three-year tour of duty in the Phil-
ippines, came to the Rizal Memo-
rial baseball stadium all dressed
up as a New York Mets fan.
Donning his white and blue striped
Mets shirt, black Manila Jaycees cap
and red sneakers, Thomas watched
and cheered as Team Smokey Moun-
tain played against the Philippine
Barakos-Bronco 11 squad.
Team Smokey Mountain lost
to the Philippine Broncos, 1-7, in
one of two friendly games played
during the occasion of the Philip-
pine-American Friendship Day.
Thomas said he is still happy
with the way the team played.
This is because members of the
squad wore uniforms and used
equipment donated by the Fil-
American community of San
Francisco, which coursed their
donation through the ambassador.
Thomas later hurt the left side of
his neck when he made a ceremo-
nial pitch before the start of another
friendly game between the national
team and the Baseball Philippines
Selection. But he recovered after he
received rst aid treatment.
They learned to play, win with
honor, and lose with dignity. This
was about giving them the opportu-
nity to play the game, said Thomas
after he received his treatment.
Thomas, who pulled a left neck
muscle after throwing the ball,
leaves the country next year. He
hopes that help will continue to
pour in for the impoverished com-
munity of Smokey Mountain in
Tondo through sports.
Weve supported them since De-
cember 2010 and we will continue to
support them. My successor may not
like baseball, but we would like to work
with organizations so that the program
can be sustained, said Thomas.
RACING on a borrowed bike
was hardly a factor for 22-year-
old Jason Banate in his drive for
excellence as he joined Swiss
lady guest rider Nora Senn in
ruling the grueling 90-kilometer
road yesterday en route to being
named overall male and female
champions in the two-day second
Aboitiz Power Tour of Subic held
at the Subic Bay Freeport.
Competing in the category 3,
Banate, who is a tricycle driver,
but is a feared mountain-bike rid-
er in Balayan, Batangas, zoomed
away using the challenging
10-kilometer uphill climb located
at Barangay Mabayo in Morong
leading to a solo nish.
Mountain biker ako at nan-
analo ako sa mga local races
sa Batangas, pero bihira ako
sumali sa road race. Nanghiram
pa ako ng bisikleta at hindi pa
nagagamayan ito. Pero alam
kong kaya kong mauna sa aky-
atan at ito nga ang nangyari,
said Banate, a father of two
kids and represented the Arts,
Business and Science Profes-
sionals Partylist in this bikefest
organized by Bike King in co-
operation with the Subic Bay
Metropolitan Authority Tourism
Department and presented by
Aboitiz Power.
Banate negotiated the race
in two hours, 27 minutes and
28 seconds and was three min-
utes and 28 seconds ahead of
Ricky Calla of Team Von Dutch
(2:30:56). At third was Robert
delos Reyes of VG and E Trad-
ing with a 2:30:56 clocking.
The victory atoned for his
40th place in the criterium race
held Saturday. He was among
the 66 cyclists who crossed the
nish line rst with identical
times of 55:14, but settled for
the lowly place as he needed to
slow down to avoid risking him-
self to injury.
Naputulan ng rayos yung nau-
una sa akin at dahil dikit-dikit kam-
ing dumarating, minabuti ko na na
huwag ng rumemate baka madis-
grasya pa, explained Banate.
The 34-year-old Senn, an ac-
complished triathlete, trail run-
ner and ultra-marathoner, was
totally way ahead of her rivals
as she bagged two gold medals
in three races she competed in.
FORMER Philippine Basket-
ball Association star Ricky
Brown is back in Manila for
the rst time in 22 years to
touch base with his fans and
renew ties with his old hard-
court colleagues and mentors.
It is truly the thrill of a life-
time to return to the Philippines
after so many years. Some of
the best years of my life were
spent on the hard courts of the
Araneta Coliseum and Ultra in
front of the greatest basketball
fans ever, said Brown
Brown, whose trip to Ma-
nila was made possible by
the PBA, Robinsons Malls,
Crowne Plaza, Luxor Interna-
tional, Chevrolet Philippines,
San Miguel Corp. and Hawai-
ian Airlines, was the rst-ever
naturalized Filipino-Ameri-
can to suit up for Philippine
National Team during the
1980 Jones Cup in Taiwan.
While in Manila, Brown
will be the Guest of Honor of
the Philippine Sportswriters
Association Forum on Tues-
day and will attend Meet &
Greet events organized for his
fans on Thursday at the Rob-
insons Mall (Manila Midtown
Level 3 Lobby). He will be
given his PBA jacket and will
personally receive his PBA
Hall of Fame award from
PBA Commissioner Chito
Salud.
KENYAN journeyman
Benjamin Kipkazi, chased by
Southeast Asian Games veteran
Eduardo Buenavista from start
to nish, took the top honors in
the mens 21-kilometer event
of the rst Hypersports Get Fit
Run 2012.
The 35-year-old Kipkazi,
a veteran of many footraces
throughout the Southeast Asian
region, was 50 meters ahead of
Buenavista when he reached
the Quirino Grandstand nish
line in one hour, nine minutes
and one second.
Buenavista, who joined his
second 21-kilometer race in
two years, was eight seconds
behind Kipkazi, who was part
of a three-man group pursuing
Kenyan runner Denis Isika in
the rst 10 kilometers.
Gumaganda na ang time
ko at nag-iimprove na ako
sa training ko, Buenavista,
who used the race to get ready
for the Tarlac leg of the 36th
Milo Marathon next week.
Add a defensive stopper, a potent
scorer off the bench, and one of the
NBAs most explosive athletes, and
the U.S. is certain it has a powerful
Olympic basketball team.
Better even than the one that
won gold four years ago.
We feel like were denitely a
great team. We have all the pieces
that we need, forward Carmelo
Anthony said. Weve got to put
it together, but we feel like were
the best team out there.
The Americans rounded out
their roster Saturday, adding Blake
Grifn, Andre Iguodala and James
Harden to the nine players who al-
ready seemed secure long before
training camp began.
They earned the nal three spots
that opened after a rash of injuries
knocked out at least four play-
ers who would have been on the
team. They beat out Eric Gordon,
Rudy Gay and No. 1 draft pick An-
thony Davis of New Orleans, who
couldnt scrimmage this week be-
cause of a sprained ankle.
Also heading to London for
the defending gold medalists are:
Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Kevin
Durant, Russell Westbrook, Tyson
Chandler and Kevin Love.
The Americans never had a
close game four years ago until the
championship game, when they
pulled away in the nal two min-
utes to beat Spain 118-107. Even
with Dwight Howard, Dwyane
Wade and Chris Bosh unable to re-
turn from that team, the Americans
think this one can be even stronger.
When I think about 08, we
were really good then. But like me,
LeBron and D-Will, all of us talk
about, youve got to think about
how much better all of us are now
than we were in 08, Paul said.
All of us as players, we shoot
the ball better. Guys are more ath-
letic, guys are more condent.
One through 12, no question were
deeper than we were in 08.
USA Basketball Jerry Col-
angelo acknowledged the adver-
sity the team faced with all the
injuries in his remarks before the
players were introduced during
a press conference, all wearing
their white USA jerseys - James
and Anthony even looking game-
ready in white headbands.
But as the dust settles, Im
proud to say that weve put to-
gether in my opinion a terric
team with great athleticism and
great versatility and we believe
were going to be successful,
Colangelo said.
Grifn showed he was healthy
again after being slowed by a
knee injury during the playoffs,
putting on an impressive dunking
display following practice Sat-
urday. Harden, the NBAs Sixth
Man of the Year with Oklahoma
City, gives the Americans more
scoring punch off the bench, and
Iguodala is a defensive specialist
who can guard multiple positions.
The Americans lost Howard,
Derrick Rose, Wade and Bosh to
injuries in recent months, forcing
them to scrap plans to name their
12-man roster on June 18. They
asked the US Olympic Com-
mittee for a roster extension and
added Harden and Davis to their
original pool of nalists chosen in
January. AP
Thomas: Support for PH baseball continues
Mountain
biker, Swiss
veteran top
Power Tour
Maningkil, Cardona show
wares in Milo Marathon
UST Tigers aiming for stint in finals
DE LA SALLE Universitys
Team Proto and Team Mileage
of the Technological Institute of
the Philippines came away with
two special off-track awards to
cap the Philippines campaign in
the Asian leg of the Shell Eco-
marathon Challenge at the Sepang
International Circuit in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia Saturday.
La Salle took the Technical In-
novation plum for its cars inno-
vative battery management sys-
tem and cruise control function.
They had the most advanced
telemetry system I have seen at
the Shell Eco-marathon Asia,
said judge Lee Grant of La Salles
entry in the four-day event held
to help solve the looming global
energy crisis among student-par-
ticipants from 117 teams from 18
countries across Asia.
TIP, on the other hand, copped
the Best Team Spirit award for
its collaborative spirit, positive
dynamics and highly enthusiastic
attitudes. Both teams received a
cash prize of $1,000 each.
In the Prototype category of the
competition, Team Philippines
DLSU-Team Proto set a record of
270km traveled with their Electric
battery-type vehicle and nished
seventh.
In the Diesel type, TIPs Team
Mileage logged 164km, while La
Salles Team Ice ranked eighth in a
eld of 20 in the Gasoline type with
255kms.
In the Urban Concept category,
Team University of the Philip-
pines ended up third for the Bat-
tery-electric type with 73km. All
vehicles were tested to run the
furthest on an equivalent of 1 liter
of fuel.
Other members of Team PH
were Team University of the
Philippines-Diliman, Team La-
hutay from the University of San
Carlos-Cebu, and the Golden En-
gineers from TIP-Quezon City.
Thailands Team Luk Jao Mae
Khlong Prapa of Dhurakij Pud-
bit University topped the Proto-
type category with a record of
2,903kms for the Gasoline type
while Team Cikal Cakrasvarna
from Indonesia took the Urban
Concept title with the highest
mileage in the Gasoline type, run-
ning a total of 196.3km.
La Salle, TIP bag eco-marathon titles
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PBA SCORES
AT TUASON and Mark Francis
Tanlu stood strong amidst the
pressure-packed deciding races
to capture the overall champion-
ships in their respective divisions
recently in the third and nal leg
of the 2012 Castrol Champions
of the Future Series at the Car-
mona Racetrack.
Tuason swept both the Pre-Final
and Final races to score an upset
for the Expert crown, while Tanlu
amassed enough points to clinch
the Novice plum of this event pow-
ered by Castrol, Tuason Racing
School, BMW, Automobile Asso-
ciation Philippines, AUTSRacing,
Standard Insurance, PIKA, OMP,
Industria Racing, Carmona Race-
track, Lifeline, The Philippine Star,
Has Travel.com, K-Zone, 99.5RT
and Timezone.
Tuason proved himself a wor-
thy heir to carry on the champi-
onship legacy of his grandfather
racing legend Arthur Tuason and
equally multi-titled father JP with
his feat.
Trailing by two points behind
Flynn Jackes prior to this leg,
Tuason showed courage and con-
dence to dominate the Pre-Final
race over Wils Casequin, Jackes
and Tyger Espino and gain a three-
point lead in the title race.
Jackes put up a stronger ght
to regain lost ground in the Final
race as he quickly moved up sec-
ond on the third lap and too close
for comfort behind Tuason.
A few laps later, he managed
to wrest the top spot from Tuason
and appeared headed for the title
win only to be spoiled by a sud-
den misfortune of a loose chain
that forced him to slow down at the
main straight of the track.
Tuason got the lead back and
held on to his post all the way to
claim the checkered ag and seal
the Expert plum with 82 points,
10 points ahead of Jackes.
Even the Novice class wasnt
spared from shocking twists as
Tanlu, who dominated the rst
two rounds, found himself in an
unfamiliar spot running third be-
RAIN OR SHINE 99Cornley
21, Lee 16, Buenafe 10, Belga
8, Chan 8, Ibanes 8, Norwood
7, Arana 7, Quinahan 6, Cruz 5,
Rodriguez 3.
MERALCO 86West 33,
Cardona 19, Ross 15, Reyes 11,
Hugnatan 4, Bulawan 2, Mercado
2, Macapagal0, Taulava 0.
Quarters: 26-13, 45-44, 68-71,
99-86
Painters move closer to finals
Williams sisters win Wimby doubles
Gandioco,
Superal lead
PH charge
Cardinals face Generals
Junior featherweight champion Nonito Donaire Jr. displays the IBF and WBO belts he unied following a 12-round unanimous decision win over South
African Jeffery Mathebula at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California. CHRIS FARINA/TOP RANK
Newcomers Jacob Paolo Ang (center) and EJ Coseteng (left) grabbed the
limelight as they emerged champion and runner-up in the nal leg over
Mark Francis Tanlu, who despite nishing third, still captured the overall
Novice crown in the 2012 Castrol Champions of the Future Series. With
them are (from left) TRS president JP Tuason, AAP Steward Jun Espino, AUTS
Racing team manager Martin Alvendia and San Miguel Corporation top
honcho Ramon Ang, who came to support his son Jacob.
South African judge Deon
Dwarte scored the ght for
Donaire by the widest margin of
119-108, while US-based Filipino
Jonathan Davies had the Filipino
Flash ahead, 117-110. American
Steve Morrow scored it 118-109,
also for the WBO champ, who
improved to 29-1 with 18 knock-
outs. Mathebula dropped to 26-4-
2 with 14 knockouts.
Round 4 knockdown
Donaire dropped Mathebula
with a left hook in the dying sec-
onds of the fourth round, with the
IBF champion beating the count,
but looking wobbly before stag-
gering to his corner after being
saved by the bell.
Most TV commentators at ring-
side doing the various international
broadcasts, including ABS-CBN
and The Filipino Chanel, believed
that if the knockdown came a little
earlier, Donaire would have ended
the ght.
At the start of the ght, Donaire
jumped on the lanky Mathebula,
who was almost ve inches taller,
staggering the South African with
several quick combinations. The
IBF titlist weathered the onslaught
in the second round, but was tagged
by Donaire several times with his
handspeed making the difference.
Mathebula became wary of
Donaires power after the fourth-
round knockdown and tried to
fend off the Filipino by using his
longer reach and a jab that con-
nected many times, but lacked
any real sting.
Looking for a big nish,
Donaire came charging out of
his corner and landed some solid
blows in the fth round, even as
trainer Robert Garcia cautioned
him not to be too excited and
asked him to get closer, cut the
distance and work to the body.
Mathebula, who never really
looked to be in the same class as
Donaire, tried to reverse the one-
sided bout in the middle rounds with
some occasional urries but the IBF
champions punches were delivered
more in a slapping fashion.
And although Donaire, in the
end, showed some welts under his
left eye and pufness in his face, he
was never hurt by Mathebula.
The knockdown in Round 4
was the dening moment of the
ght and although Mathebula re-
covered, he put himself in survival
mode the rest of the ght, drawing
occasional boos from ght fans
for refusing to engage as Donaire
chased him around the ring, trying
desperately to score a knockout
and help enhance his reputation.
Cracked tooth, broken jaw
In the penultimate round,
Donaire landed a vicious right to
Mathebulas jaw that reportedly
cracked one of the teeth of the
South African, even as there were
unconrmed reports he might
have suffered a broken jaw.
He (Mathebula) didnt expect
it. Once he got hit with that, he
was like everyone else. He kept his
hands up the rest of the night, said
Donaire, who, however, still
commended Mathebula. He
was a tough guy, I didnt expect
him to be... He was faster than I
thought. It was difcult to coun-
ter him with the right. If it would
have been easy to counter him, it
wouldve been an easy ght. He
got me off that jab really well.
Hes a great champion.
Japanese World Boxing Coun-
cil Diamond Belt champion
Toshiaki Nishioka stepped into
the ring at the end of the bout to
congratulate Donaire. He later
told the Manila Standard he
wants to ght Donaire.
By Jeric Lopez
AN explosive payoff period
propelled Rain or Shine to a 99-
86 victory over Meralco as the
Elasto Painters moved closer to
a nals berth in the 2012 Phil-
ippine Basketball Association
Governors Cup at the Smart-
Araneta Coliseum yesterday.
Jamelle Cornley came up big
after the halftime break. He reg-
istered 20 of his team-high 21
points in the second half, while
also grabbing 14 rebounds for a
double-double to pace the Elasto
Painters.
As a result, Rain or Shine is
now a win away from its rst-ev-
er nals appearance in franchise
history as it improved to 9-2.
I think were assured of at
least a playoff for the nals, but
the magic number is still 10,
said Guiao, who was ejected
from the contest after being
whistled for two consecutive
technical fouls with only 2.9
ticks left in the rst half.
The Bolts were ahead, 71-68,
going into the fourth but the de-
termined Elasto Painters deto-
nated a 21-7 blast, capped by a
basket by Cornley, in the rst
seven minutes of the fourth pe-
riod to grab control of the game,
89-78, with just 4:58 left.
That run proved to be the
dagger as Meralco never again
threatened.
Meralcos second straight de-
feat was costly. They fell to 4
wins, 7 losses and are now out
of the running for a nals ticket.
Paul Lee added 16 markers
and Ronjay Buenafe 10.
After non-call on what be-
came a Lee turnover just be-
fore halftime, Guiao erupted
and shouted choice words at
referee Maui Maurillo right in
his face to earn to successive
technicals that sent him out of
the game.
TOUGHENED by a series of
competitive stints the past two
months, Gio Gandionco and Prin-
cess Superal lead the Philippine
campaign in the annual Callaway
Junior World Golf Championsips
starting Tuesday (Wednesday in
Manila) at 11 different venues in
San Diego, California.
The Cebu-based Gandionco
will be competing in the center-
piece boys 15 to 17 years for
the second time at Torrey Pines
with his game much better after
a long summer campaign, when
he afrmed his status as the
countrys best junior player.
Superal steps on a new turf def-
initely not wanting in talent as she
plays for the rst time in the 15 to
17 age-group also at Torrey Pines.
Gandionco and Superal are
two of the 12 players own
into California for free by the
countrys ag-carrier Philippine
Airlines as champions in their
respective divisions during the
national qualifying last May at
Manila Southwoods.
The others are Raymart To-
lentino and Mia Legaspi in the
13 to 14 years group; Christo-
pher Popp and Harmie Constan-
tino in the 11 to 12 years, Josh
Jorge and Bernice Ilas in the 9
to 10 years, Jed Dy and Arnie
Taguines in the 7 to 8 years.
I believe we have a strong
team and we look forward to
some of our players joining
the winners circle this coming
week, said Luigi Tabuena, presi-
dent of the Junior Golf Founda-
tion of the Philippines and head of
the PH delegation supported by
the International Terminal Con-
tainer Services, Inc.
The 37 local players will join
the parade of nations Sunday
(Monday in Manila), play their
nal practice rounds Monday
and plunge into action Tuesday.
The Philippine delegation:
Class A (Torrey Pines South/
North): Boys-Gio Gandionco,
Santiago Lorenzo, LJ Go, Jama
Reyes; Justin Quiban, Girls-
Princess Superal, Andie Un-
son, Marvi Monsalve, Felicia
Medalla
THE Mapua Cardinals are look-
ing forward to scoring another
win when they meet the Emilio
Aguinaldo College Generals at
4 p.m. today in the 88th National
Collegiate Athletic Association
mens basketball tournament at
The Arena in San Juan.
Cardinals coach Chito Vic-
tolero foresees keen competition
between the perimeter shooters of
the two teams as they seek their
second triumph in three matches.
We have a good matchup here.
Their perimeter players are as good
as ours, said Victolero after the Car-
dinals beat the College of St. Benilde
Blazers, 64-55, last Thursday.
The Letran Knights will play
without Jam Cortes when they
meet the College of St. Benilde
Blazers at 4 p.m.
Cortes was suspended for one
game after committing agrant
fouls in the second and third
quarter during the Knights 67-77
defeat at the hands of the Chiefs
at The Arena in San Juan.
The Cardinals have the same
1-1 record as the University of
Perpetual Help Altas, while the
Knights hold a 1-2 slate with
EAC and CSB. Peter Atencio
WIMBLEDON, EnglandOne
Wimbledon title wasnt enough
for Serena Williams.
About ve hours after Wil-
liams won her fth singles title
by beating Agnieszka Radwan-
ska, she and sister Venus were
back on Centre Court to beat
Czech duo Andrea Hlavackova
and Lucie Hradecka 7-5, 6-4
Saturday in the doubles nal.
It was their fth Wimbledon
doubles title together, and came
shortly after Venus watched her
little sister win the singles nal.
I was denitely inspired by
Serenas singles performance,
Venus said. Obviously its
wonderful to play on the court
with her. I couldnt have done it
without her, so its great.
Both sisters have battled
health issues over the last two
years, with Venus having been
diagnosed with an energy-sap-
ping illness and Serena over-
coming blood clots in her lungs
and two operations after cutting
her feet on glass in 2010.
This was their rst doubles
tournament together in two
years, and they looked as if they
hadnt missed a beat.
Shes such a ghter, you
never say die, Venus said about
her sister. I dont think either
of us believe that we can be de-
feated by anything. Nothing has
defeated us yet, so were going
to keep that track record.
Serena was the last woman to
win both the singles and doubles
titles at Wimbledon, in 2009.
Playing under the closed roof,
Venus Williams served out the
match less than 15 minutes be-
fore the 11 p.m. deadline for the
end of play on Centre Court.
Had the match gone to a third set,
they probably would have had to
come back and finish it off on Sunday.
I told Venus on the court, it
doesnt matter, Serena said. We
werent really racing the clock, we
were just playing our opponents
who were playing really tough and
really good. AP
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
CARSON CITYWorld Boxing
Organization super bantamweight champion
Nonito Donaire added the International
Boxing Federation belt in his rst step
towards total unication in the 122-pound
division with a lopsided 12-round decision
over South African Jeffrey Mathebula at
the Home Depot Center in Carson City,
California, Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
hind two younger newcomers
10-year-old Jacob Paulo Ang and
Eduardo EJ Coseteng Jr.
The three, together with lady
karter Jelly Ann Knapp, engaged
in a tight four-way battle for the
lead in the early goings, but toward
the dying laps, the Novice race
was clearly a tight duel between
Ang and Coseteng. Ang eventually
swept both races to claim overall
third place with 52 points, against
Coseteng who wound up close
overall fourth place with 50.
Games Today (The Arena in
San Juan)
12 nn Letran vs LSGH (jrs)
2 p.m. EAC vs Mapua (jrs)
4 p.m. Letran vs CSB (srs)
6 p.m. EAC vs Mapua (srs)
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
Business
Manila Standard TODAY
JULY 9, 2012 MONDAY
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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
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Ray S. Eano, Editor extrastory2000@gmail.com
Roderick T. dela Cruz, Assistant Editor
IN BRIEF
BSP curbs peso speculation
Henares
eyes tax
record of
big firms
Property developments in PH monitored
Alsons Group plans 8 hydro projects
PNOC Exploration gets
CNG station in March
Power contract. SN Aboitiz Power-Magat Inc. signed an agreement to purchase the output of the 6-megawatt Baligatan
hydroelectric power plant of the National Irrigation Administration. Signing the contract are NIA administrator Antonio Nangel
(third from left) and SNAP-Magat president and chief executive Emmanuel Rubio (fourth from left). The production from the
plant will supplement the output of SNAP-Magats 360-MW Magat hydroelectric power plant in Isabela. With them (from
left) are Helsey Bermudez, operations manager, NIA-Magat River Integrated Irrigation System; Roberto Suguitan, NIA deputy
administrator; and Michael Hosillos, vice president of SNAP-Magat.
By Bernadette Lunas
THE Bureau of Internal Revenue
has started auditing the nancial
records of big companies in the
Philippines after noting reduced
collections from large income
taxpayers in May.
BIR Commissioner Kim
Henares told reporters
over the weekend the audit
would determine if the large
companies led the proper
taxes after its Large Taxpayers
Service unit reported lower
collections amid reports of
an increase in the combined
net income of countrys listed
companies in the rst quarter.
Collections by the BIR unit
in May fell to P63.17 billion
from P74.25 billion in April.
The LTS group handles the
payments of large companies,
which account for about 60
percent of BIRs total tax
collections.
The Philippine Stock
Exchange said the combined
net income of listed companies
in the Philippines grew 24
percent to P134.66 billion in
the rst three months of the
year from P108.60 billion a
year earlier.
Four out of the stock
markets six sectoral indices
posted year-on-year gains
the nancials, industrial,
property sector and holding
companieswith their growth
primarily attributed to higher
revenue or improved sales.
The large taxpayers
reported decline presumably
because the prots of the
companies decreased, but
according to the PSE, all
listed companies [net income]
went up by 24 percent. So,
we are going to look at that,
Henares said.
By Alena Mae S. Flores
PNOC Exploration Corp., a
unit of state-owned Philippine
National Oil Co., will fully
take over and operate the
compressed natural gas station
of Pilipinas Shell Petroleum
Corp. in Mamplasan, Laguna
by March, a company ofcial
said over the weekend.
Silvestre Punsalan III, PNOC
Exploration vice president
and compliance ofcer, told
reporters the companys bidding
committee extended the auction
date for the supply and delivery
of equipment for the Mamplasan
CNG station.
The bidding will be on July
10 [instead of July 3]. There are
seven companies interested to
join the bid for the equipment
that will be used for the station
in Mamplasan, Punsalan said.
Punsalan said PNOC
Exploration would evaluate the
bids over a two-week period after
the submission of documents.
The post-qualication process
will take another two weeks
before committee recommends
the winning bidder to the board.
PNOC Exploration
will completely take over
Mamplasan by March. Once
we get equipment ready and
installed, we will take over the
gas station in Mamplasan,
Punsalan said.
This is why it is important for
us to succeed [in the bidding].
There are currently 37 buses
running on CNG. If it moves up
to 60 to 80, most likely we will
open the next gas station in the
Philippine Ports Authority in
Batangas port, he said.
Punsalan said PNOC
Exploration would likely build
a third CNG station once the
number of CNG buses hit 200.
PNOC Exploration already
issued a notice for the supply
of the CNG equipment package
for a daughter station in
Mamplasan.
The equipment package,
estimated to cost P77.6
million, comprise of nine
major equipment, namely gas
compressor, storage cylinder,
CNG dispenser, air compressor,
auxiliary equipment, tube-type
cylinder cascade, trailer and
transformer.
By Anna Leah G. Estrada
THE Bangko Sentral plans to prohibit foreign
funds from investing in its special deposit accounts
that contributed to the peso-dollar exchange rate
volatility, Governor Amando Tetangco said over
the weekend.
Tetangco said the Bangko Sentrals
Monetary Board in its meeting last
week approved the renement on rules
by which SDA is traded.
He said the Bangko Sentral would
soon require banks to certify that
investments in SDAs were not sourced
directly or indirectly from non-
residents. He did not say when the new
rule would be implemented.
While SDA is principally a tool for
managing liquidity, it has also become
an entry point for foreign monies
desiring to participate in the price
actions in the peso-dollar market,
Tetangco said.
Existing regulations dont provide
restrictions on non-resident investors.
It has, therefore, attracted carry trade,
he added.
In a carry trade, an investor makes
money by borrowing in a country
with low interest rates, converting the
money to a currency where borrowing
costs are higher and lending the amount
at that higher rate.
The SDA facility consists of
xed-term deposits by banks and
trust entities of banks and non-bank
nancial institutions with the Bangko
Sentral.
The Bangko Sentral uses SDA as a
tool to mop up excess liquidity in the
nancial system and prevent inationary
pressures from building up. Depositors
in SDA accounts are assured of an
interest rate of about 4.1 percent, higher
than the rates in regular savings accounts
and the Treasury bill rates.
The Bangko Sentral expanded access
to the SDA facility in April 2007 by
allowing trust entities to deposit in the
facility.
Investments in SDA accounts
exceeded P1.6 trillion this year, as
many investors parked their excess
liquidity in the facility to guarantee
steady returns.
This story about policy action
regarding speculative capital ows is an
example of how BSP policy responds
to the operating environment, he
said.
Large funds from abroad contributed
to the 5-percent rise of the peso this
year, the best performer among Asias
11 most traded currencies tracked by
Bloomberg. It climbed to 41.6 per
dollar on July 4, the highest level since
April 2008. With Bloomberg
THE Bangko Sentral said over the weekend it is
closely watching the rise in vacancy rates in certain
segments of the real estate sector, but assured there are
still no signs of asset price bubbles in the industry.
The rise in vacancy rates in certain market
segments in the real estate sector necessitates
close monitoring, said Bangko Sentral Deputy
Governor Diwa Guinigundo.
Guinigundo said based on reports by Colliers
International Research, there was a recent increase
in capital and rental values, driven by demand for
ofce space from the business process outsourcing
industry and expatriate demand for luxury three-
bedroom units in Makati.
He said the supply of high-rise residential
condominium units continued to surge across Metro
Manila, mostly in the middle-income segment and were
broadly located outside the major business districts.
Major property developers such as Ayala Land
Inc., SM Development Corp., Megaworld Corp.,
DMCI Holdings, Eton Properties Philippines
Inc., Robinsons Land, Filinvest Development
Group, Shang Properties, Vista Land, Brittany
Corp., Century Properties, Moldex Realty Inc. and
Anchor Land are constructing high-rise ofce and
residential buildings across Metro Manila to take
advantage of the increasing purchasing power of
the Filipino middle-class.
Guinigundo said capital and rental values
of ofce space and residential units in Makati
remained below the peak levels reached in 2008.
He said the number of new supply of housing
units were still not enough to satisfy the estimated
housing demand in the country based on the number
of licenses to sell issued by the Housing and Land
Use Regulatory Board and the estimated demand
for housing units for the period 2007-2010.
Anna Leah G. Estrada
ALSONS Energy Development
Corp. of the Alcantara
Group plans to develop eight
hydroelectric power projects in
Mindanao and the Visayas with
an estimated combined capacity
of over 50 megawatts.
Alsons has pending
application with the Energy
Department to develop the
Siguil 1, 2, and 3 hydro projects
in Maasim, Sarangani. The
Siguil 1 project is capable of
generating 8.7 MW while Siguil
2 and Siguil 3 are expected to
produce 3.2 MW and 4.8 MW,
respectively.
Alsons also sought the
approval of the department to
develop Kalaong 1 hydro plant
in Maitum, Sarangani with a
capacity of 12 MW; Kalaong
2, 6 MW; and Kalaong 3, 4
MW.
It is pursuing hydro projects
in Negros Occidental, namely
the 4-MW Bago 1 project in
San Carlos City and the 10-
MW Bago 2 in Don Salvador
Benedicto. Hydropower projects
are estimated to cost around $2
million per MW.
Alsons Consolidated
Resources Inc., the holding
company of the Alcantara Group,
plans to put up several projects
that will increase the companys
generation capacity to 455 MW
by 2016 from the current 155
MW.
These include the 104-MW
and the 100-MW coal-red
power plants in Sarangani
and Zamboanga peninsula,
respectively. Alena Mae S. Flores
New SEC commissioner
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has
appointed former Sycip, Gorres, Velayo & Co.
chairman David Balangue as commissioner of
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The President also appointed University of
the Philippines Economics professor Emmanuel
Esguerra as acting deputy director-general of the
National Economic and Development Authority.
Balangue replaced former SEC commissioner
Raul Palabrica whose term ended more than three
months ago while Esguerra succeeded Augusto
Santos as Neda deputy director-general.
Prior to his appointment to the top brass of
the corporate watchdog, Balangue was director
of the audit and risk management committee of
Roxas Holdings Inc. He was also a director-
member of the Trans Asia Oil and Energy
Development Corp.
Balangue holds a masters degree in
management from the Northwestern University
in Illinois.
He placed second in the 1972 board
examinations for public accountants.
Esguerra is a professor at the University of
the Philippines School of Economics and holds
a doctorate degree in agricultural economics
from the Ohio State University.
Joyce Pangco Paares
Globe gets court relief
THE Pasig City regional trial court has
dismissed a case led by a unit of Philippine
Long Distance Telephone Co. against rival
Globe Telecom over the latters services in the
Bonifacio Global City.
Judge Paz Esperanza Cortes of Branch
271 of Pasig City RTC, in a resolution dated
March 30, dismissed the case led by PLDT-
led Bonifacio Communications Corp. against
Globe, its subsidiary Innove Communications
and Fort Bonifacio Development Corp.
The court said the National
Telecommunications Commission should
decide on the case, because it had the technical
knowhow to go over the issue. The court
effectively sided with Globes position that the
NTC had exclusive jurisdiction over the case.
PLDT and BCC earlier led a motion
to prohibit Globe from providing
telecommunication services within the
Bonifacio Global City, citing the exclusive right
to install, construct and own the communication
infrastructure within the district, after PLDT
entered into agreement with Fort Bonifacio
Development Corp. in 2002.
However, the NTC in May 2002 declared
Bonifacio Global City as a free zone where any
duly franchised public telecommunications
entity would be allowed to provide high-speed
networks and connectivity. Lailany P. Gomez
PSE COMPOSITE INDEX
Closing July 6, 2012
OIL
PRICES
TODAY
P584-P695
LPG/11-kg tank
P47.15-P53.07
Unleaded Gasoline
P38.40-P41.05
Diesel
P40.30-P52.20
Kerosene
P27.20-P31.00
Auto LPG
FOREI GN EXCHANGE RATE
Currency Unit US Dollar Peso
United States Dollar 1.000000 41.6890
Japan Yen 0.012516 0.5218
UK Pound 1.552500 64.7222
Hong Kong Dollar 0.128961 5.3763
Switzerland Franc 1.031779 43.0138
Canada Dollar 0.985902 41.1013
Singapore Dollar 0.790952 32.9740
Australia Dollar 1.027116 42.8194
Bahrain Dinar 2.652590 110.5838
Saudi Arabia Rial 0.266667 11.1171
Brunei Dollar 0.787836 32.8441
Indonesia Rupiah 0.000107 0.0045
Thailand Baht 0.031626 1.3185
UAE Dirham 0.272272 11.3507
Euro Euro 1.239300 51.6652
Korea Won 0.000882 0.0368
China Yuan 0.0157334 6.9427
India Rupee 0.018198 0.7587
Malaysia Ringgit 0.316456 13.1927
NewZealand Dollar 0.802568 33.4583
Taiwan Dollar 0.033468 1.3952
Source: PDS Bridge
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Friday, July 6, 2012
PESO-DOLLAR RATE
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42
44
46
48
P41.790
CLOSE
Closing JULY 6, 2012
5,362.68
7.30
VOLUME 908.660M
HIGH P41.760 LOW P41.835 AVERAGE P41.802
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I REMEMBER a brief encounter with a western
expat, ve years ago in Glorietta. He said the
Philippines is interesting, because everyday there
are always new things happening. He was referring
to the scandals in politics and show business and
the crimes reported by media. In this world of so
much confusion brought about by commercialism
and greed, the integrity and maturity, especially of
the youth, are always under scrutiny.
Integrity is about self-valuation or the value
we place on ourselves. Maturity is expressing
own feelings and keeping in consideration
others feelings. It is about respect for people,
organization and authority. It takes experience
and self-valuation to gain maturity. These two
words when put together make a matured person
of integrity.
Compensating for family deciencies
The youth are well-informed about latest trends
in fashion and entertainment brought about by
media advertisements and promotions. But they
are less informed about moral integrity. Parents
of today are more givers of material things to
compensate for lack of time due to work. On
weekends, family bondings are spent at malls and
commercial establishments. But, fewer families
are in Sunday masses. Fewer families spend time
in parks, museums, art exhibits or concerts that
promote creativity and appreciation of history and
culture.
The Filipino mano tradition as sign of greeting
and respect for the elders is being replaced by the
western ways. Indeed, there are problems about
the values of the youth in our society. Now, how
do we compensate family deciency on value
formation?
The schools may provide the best venue to educate
and reinforce moral values and responsibility.
About half of the students lives are spent in
schools. In DLS-CSB-School of Hospitality and
Institutional Management, the faculty members are
required to include values and social responsibility
in classroom discussion. The challenge is how one
can integrate them in the courses like accounting,
nutrition, butchery, Filipino and international
cuisine and other courses.
In accounting courses that I handle, it is quite a
difcult job to discuss the Enron case or Madoff
nancial scandal. For one, the students cannot
understand these examples because these are
special interest topics. They love to hear actual
and ordinary peoples experiences more than
book theories and concepts. It takes experience
and internalization of the topics about people and
environment to deliver them effectively. To break
the formal lectures and discussions, video clips of
common interest like the nancial crisis, global
warming, and environmental issues are part of my
classroom activities.
Education for change
School discipline, when observed and enforced
correctly and reasonably, makes a difference.
Students are trained to respect others and those in
authority. A simple I am sorry when reporting
late in class, stopping for and observing the
angelus prayer and in and out of campus, greetings
to and from faculty members are few of the many
examples having great impact on students values.
Students (Christian or non-Christian) are asked to
lead and respect the class prayers.
Education for change may be done in many
different ways in or out of school. In places like the
supermarkets or the restaurants, given a chance, I
talk with people whom I feel I may be able to share
information that enlighten them about issues and
opportunities especially about higher education
scholarship offered by DLS-CSB. As educator, I
have the power to make a vital difference.
Robert Lao is a part-time accounting faculty
member of DLS-CSB/Shrim. He is a student in
the DBA program of the Ramon V. del Rosario
College of Business of De La Salle University.
His experiences include local and international
work assignments in auditing, nance and
entrepreneurship. He has traveled places as an
amateur photographer. Fund-raising through art
for Greenpeace Philippines and Circle of Friends
Foundation Inc. are his other activities.
The views expressed above are the authors
and do not necessarily reect the ofcial position
of De La Salle University, its faculty, and its
administrators.
Business
ManilaStandardToday
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JULY 9, 2012 MONDAY
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The power to make a difference
WEEKLY MOST TRADED
STOCKS VOLUME
Philodrill Corp. `A 7,344,040,000
Manila Mining `A 1,315,620,000
IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 1,218,600,000
Megaworld Corp. 734,376,000
Manila Mining `B 405,880,000
Greenergy 397,900,000
Oriental Pet. `A 260,200,000
MRC Allied Ind. 234,820,000
Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. 211,387,000
Lepanto `A 188,827,000
STOCKS VALUE
PLDT Common 2,247,197,330.00
Megaworld Corp. 1,668,257,980.00
SM Investments Inc. 1,550,963,265.00
Metrobank 1,270,870,060.50
Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. 906,849,350.00
Bloomberry 867,330,763.00
Ayala Land `B 837,623,255.00
Manila Water Co. Inc. 830,493,675.00
Ayala Corp `A 767,573,928.00
Alliance Global Inc. 766,419,390.00
M
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T
WEEKLY STOCKS REVIEW
JULY 2-6, 2012 JUNE 25-29, 2012
STOCKS CLOSE VOLUME VALUE CLOSE VOLUME VALUE
FINANCIAL
Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. 63.65 11,124,030 708,739,394.50 63.40 5,107,840 322,644,487.00
Bank of PI 75.95 6,748,320 509,294,339.00 74.60 8,238,740 608,391,256.00
Bankard, Inc. 0.73 914,000 657,340.00 0.70 467,000 326,810.00
China Bank 490.00 45,420 22,323,822.00 491.00 47,020 23,188,182.00
BDO Leasing & Fin. Inc. 1.85 269,000 488,380.00 1.78 34,000 59,350.00
Citystate Savings 28.00 500 14,000.00
COL Financial 22.5 1,446,100 32,186,210.00 23.2 311,900 7,224,440.00
Eastwest Bank 18.78 7,242,900 137,267,426.00 18.9 7,632,800 143,821,844.00
Filipino Fund Inc. 10.02 5,700 58,004 10.50 17,900 184,107
First Abacus 0.71 285,000 202,650.00 0.76 100,000 76,000.00
First Metro Inv. 82 2,010 162,405.50 85 11,120 891,180.00
I-Remit Inc. 2.78 17,519,000 47,519,360.00 2.77 2,152,000 5,850,770.00
Manulife Fin. Corp. 455.00 650 298,750.00 491.80 1,430 651,552.00
Maybank ATR KE 38.1 83,400 3,201,355.00 38.35 122,500 4,689,250.00
Metrobank 96.00 13,175,240 1,270,870,060.50 92.50 20,973,160 1,936,786,927.50
Natl Reinsurance Corp. 1.98 2,393,000 4,782,500.00 2 2,530,000 5,031,640.00
Phil Bank of Comm 65.00 2,630 170,950.00 67.00 1,440 93,740.00
Phil. National Bank 75.00 3,846,380 289,168,048.00 72.30 1,660,160 118,598,445.00
Phil. Savings Bank 86.00 550 47,273.00 83.80 17,630 1,488,140.00
PSE Inc. 360 27,260 9,873,916.00 360 20,980 7,462,142.00
RCBC `A 43.8 3,197,900.00 139,663,595.00 43.9 4,255,800.00 184,573,610.00
Security Bank 143 4,132,550 590,680,334.00 142.4 2,986,820 414,629,306.00
Sun Life Financial 908.50 1,230 1,116,875.00 902.00 1,480 1,341,830.00
Union Bank 102.00 660,740 66,893,643.00 100.00 758,960 75,918,909.00
Vantage Equities 1.87 477,000 880,990.00 1.83 6,049,000 11,236,420.00
INDUSTRIAL
Aboitiz Power Corp. 34.6 17,114,500 589,718,195.00 34.15 22,605,800 776,780,105.00
Agrinurture Inc. 8.83 262,000 2,314,952.00 8.96 123,100 1,090,004.00
Alaska Milk Corp. 16 33,500 521,480.00 16.5 121,600 1,912,532.00
Alliance Tuna Intl Inc. 1.45 7,371,000 11,021,900.00 1.43 1,264,000 1,773,160.00
Alphaland Corp. 29.2 12,400 358,210.00 28.6 6,400 182,420.00
Alsons Cons. 1.34 1,479,000 1,945,400.00 1.35 991,000 1,295,900.00
Asiabest Group 35.8 3,177,000 102,731,820.00 25.2 775,300 18,813,885.00
Bloomberry 10.46 86,538,400 867,330,763.00 9.51 107,141,400 974,851,507.00
C. Azuc De Tarlac 17.40 1,100 19,150.00 17.50 25,800 435,530.00
Calapan Venture 2.35 102,000 238,530.00 2.4 930,000 2,381,900.00
Conc. Aggr. `A 80.00 810 65,710.00 79.50 290 22,930.00
Chemrez Technologies Inc. 2.70 735,000 1,963,300.00 2.66 1,971,950 1,265,490.00
Cirtek Holdings (Chips) 8.99 324,800 2,920,489.00 9.28 680,900 6,220,061.00
Energy Devt. Corp. (EDC) 6.24 115,148,100 713,967,236.00 6.03 76,621,900 461,511,318.00
EEI 6.65 13,952,000 91,474,519.00 6.38 7,786,200 48,667,022.00
Euro-Med Lab. 2.20 185,000 390,420.00 2.09 67,000 127,280.00
Federal Chemicals 11.16 50,300 536,052.00 10.58 11,000 114,166.00
First Gen Corp. 17.84 18,848,400 336,314,528.00 17.66 28,169,100 493,777,058.00
First Holdings A 77.5 6,074,500 469,826,362.50 75.6 6,740,730 504,997,946.00
Ginebra San Miguel Inc. 21.00 115,200 2,408,490.00 20.90 48,100 988,015.00
Greenergy 0.0140 397,900,000 5,555,500.00 0.0140 529,400,000 6,916,200.00
Holcim Philippines Inc. 11.68 388,700 4,523,158.00 11.90 1,496,100 17,508,116.00
Integ. Micro-Electronics 4.1 204,000 827,010.00 4 87,000 348,000.00
Ionics Inc 0.790 428,000 327,500.00 0.780 599,000 468,890.00
Jollibee Foods Corp. 105.10 1,588,220 169,023,538.00 104.20 2,037,350 216,412,325.00
Liberty Flour 51.00 1,670 85,300.00 52.50 220 11,550.00
LMG Chemicals 1.7 2,793,000 4,782,290.00 1.61 3,925,000 6,521,600.00
Mabuhay Vinyl Corp. 1.51 82,000 123,130.00 1.47 70,000 104,850.00
Manchester Intl. A 2.42 365,000 907,690.00 2.6 687,000 1,631,670.00
Manchester Intl. B 2.65 42,000 109,730.00 2.55 70,000 167,320.00
Manila Water Co. Inc. 25.35 32,616,900 830,493,675.00 24.55 7,495,800 183,935,625.00
Mariwasa MFG. Inc. 2.81 163,000 495,090.00 2.63 20,000 52,600.00
Megawide 17.44 205,200 3,572,526.00 17.50 923,700 15,910,122.00
Mla. Elect. Co `A 266.00 2,039,610 533,861,388.00 253.40 2,522,980 629,467,382.00
Pancake House Inc. 11.36 8,100 85,252.00 10 1,100 11,000.00
Pepsi-Cola Products Phil. 2.82 26,714,000 74,893,350.00 2.77 4,491,000 12,398,030.00
Petron Corporation 10.20 11,827,800 121,380,950.00 10.00 10,870,600 109,474,345.00
Phinma Corporation 10.60 15,500 159,194.00 10.30 15,300 157,034.00
Phoenix Petroleum Phils. 8.40 2,035,400 17,019,616.00 8.40 720,600 5,855,291.00
Republic Cement `A 8.65 188,700 1,599,491.00 8.40 469,700 3,947,306.00
RFM Corporation 3.38 20,331,000 71,366,000.00 3.58 34,372,000 111,076,010.00
Roxas Holdings 2.85 138,000 389,440.00 2.5 31,000 77,450.00
Salcon Power Corp. 5.26 342,600 1,921,826.00 6.51 1,191,700 7,969,859.00
San Miguel Brewery Inc. 31.00 497,600 14,850,020.00 29.00 7,500 216,760.00
San Miguel Corp `A 114.90 1,614,400 185,327,394.00 114.00 1,930,510 222,151,939.00
San MiguelPure Foods `B 950 290 275,500.00
Seacem 1.79 54,415,000 96,292,000.00 1.76 61,249,000 106,015,780.00
Splash Corporation 1.88 411,000 763,090.00 1.88 155,000 291,360.00
Swift Foods, Inc. 0.128 1,930,000 248,680.00 0.128 13,720,000 1,800,760.00
Tanduay Holdings 4.40 7,571,000 33,522,230.00 4.50 15,694,000 70,951,520.00
TKC Steel Corp. 2.12 182,000 390,340.00 2.16 13,000 28,050.00
Trans-Asia Oil 1.23 5,223,000 6,362,470.00 1.22 2,533,000 3,074,420.00
Universal Robina 63.00 8,182,390 516,189,714.50 62.95 9,845,120 608,772,839.50
Victorias Milling 1.36 10,159,000 14,046,070.00 1.41 18,233,000 26,497,470.00
Vitarich Corp. 0.660 9,057,000 5,833,190.00 0.630 9,225,000 6,008,880.00
Vivant Corp. 10.50 52,900 564,042.00 12.10 50,900 625,628.00
Vulcan Indl. 0.95 170,000 163,700.00 0.93 735,000 705,150.00
HOLDING FIRMS
Abacus Cons. `A 0.72 937,000 666,010.00 0.72 8,040,000 5,769,060.00
Aboitiz Equity 49.45 5,388,200 265,867,910.00 48.95 12,473,900 591,986,425.00
Alcorn Gold Res. 0.0170 41,500,000 680,900.00 0.0160 703,700,000 11,809,100.00
Alliance Global Inc. 11.82 65,105,000 766,419,390.00 11.54 159,458,300 1,869,780,516.00
Anglo Holdings A 2.00 1,259,000 2,548,500.00 2.00 1,295,000 2,590,290.00
Anscor `A 4.82 608,000 2,849,280.00 4.49 151,000 687,980.00
Asia Amalgamated A 5.10 639,900 3,524,320.00 5.15 486,700 2,512,417.00
ATN Holdings A 2.38 120,000 264,610.00 2.44 3,778,000 9,115,160.00
ATN Holdings B 2.72 24,000 62,980.00 2.67 560,000 1,483,730.00
Ayala Corp `A 480 1,603,140 767,573,928.00 469.2 2,002,160 941,852,454.00
DMCI Holdings 59.20 12,710,910 743,164,979.50 56.90 13,761,810 781,371,337.00
F&J Prince A 2.75 98,000 250,020.00 2.74 72,000 178,840.00
Filinvest Dev. Corp. 3.96 1,276,000 5,056,710.00 3.90 1,363,000 5,327,110.00
Forum Pacic 0.201 450,000 90,550.00 0.200 270,000 57,750.00
GT Capital 514 1,024,180 526,511,205.00 505 929,080 464,764,845.00
House of Inv. 4.80 1,992,000 9,487,950.00 4.50 271,000 1,184,240.00
JG Summit Holdings 34.65 6,708,100 233,597,495.00 34.90 7,917,000 276,057,730.00
Jolliville Holdings 2.88 151,000 431,520.00 2.95 6,000 15,450.00
Keppel Holdings `A 4.8 1,000 4,800.00 3.8 3,000 11,400.00
Lopez Holdings Corp. 6.1 18,303,700 112,073,878.00 5.95 26,729,900 158,188,121.00
Lodestar Invt. Holdg.Corp. 1.29 56,619,500 103,146,830.00 1.28 46,191,000 56,846,890.00
Mabuhay Holdings `A 0.495 320,000 138,450.00 0.450 1,160,000 512,300.00
Marcventures Hldgs., Inc. 2.66 14,393,000 38,364,510.00 2.56 6,534,000 16,529,940.00
Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. 4.30 211,387,000 906,849,350.00 4.17 101,722,000 424,415,130.00
Minerales Industrias Corp. 5.68 2,710,800 15,215,231.00 5.31 1,927,000 9,894,079.00
MJCI Investments Inc. 6.6 244,200 1,602,098.00 6.3 907,500 6,042,382.00
Pacica `A 0.0570 40,830,000 2,362,870.00 0.0570 82,460,000 4,629,320.00
Prime Media Hldg 1.320 265,000 364,700.00 1.500 321,000 455,570.00
Prime Orion 0.470 3,240,000 1,523,050.00 0.460 400,000 182,150.00
Republic Glass A 2.2 3,000 6,600.00 2.2 18,000 38,610.00
Seafront `A 1.58 84,000 115,630.00 1.33 52,000 69,370.00
Sinophil Corp. 0.340 11,730,000 4,112,100.00 0.345 3,470,000 1,160,250.00
SM Investments Inc. 745.00 2,098,050 1,550,963,265.00 730.00 2,061,670 1,489,953,735.00
Solid Group Inc. 1.45 4,255,000 5,197,640.00 1.40 8,348,000 12,046,350.00
South China Res. Inc. 1.21 278,000 353,190.00 1.20 170,000 203,900.00
Transgrid 450.00 20 9,000.00 425.00 170 74,750.00
Unioil Res. & Hldgs 0.2850 11,680,000 3,177,000.00 0.2150 1,210,000 263,480.00
Wellex Industries 0.3500 9,140,000 3,156,900.00 0.3450 12,710,000 4,385,000.00
Zeus Holdings 0.540 5,885,000 3,087,090.00 0.510 4,943,000 2,569,460.00
P R O P E R T Y
Anchor Land Holdings Inc. 22.00 55,500 1,241,835.00 22.00 44,400 1,045,035.00
A. Brown Co., Inc. 2.54 526,000 1,428,860.00 2.83 4,317,000 12,729,380.00
Araneta Prop `A 0.750 38,000 28,980.00 0.670 305,000 205,120.00
Arthaland Corp. 0.174 2,520,000 437,740.00 0.171 4,460,000 768,540.00
Ayala Land `B 22.40 37,546,700 837,623,255.00 21.60 43,082,800 925,629,535.00
Belle Corp. `A 5.14 142,078,200 749,308,780.00 5.25 122,168,700 627,846,295.00
Cebu Holdings 5.7 924,500 5,225,026.00 5.55 1,174,800 6,990,021.00
Cebu Prop. `B 5.05 10,000 50,500.00
Centennial City 1.42 7,551,000 10,845,750.00 1.45 8,469,000 12,324,780.00
City & Land Dev. 2.70 446,000 1,104,480.00 2.40 180,000 431,640.00
Cityland Dev. `A 1.20 243,000 292,600.00 1.19 52,000 61,800.00
Crown Equities Inc. 0.076 3,960,000 297,640.00 0.077 6,830,000 518,870.00
Cyber Bay Corp. 0.82 2,925,000 2,407,550.00 0.83 1,817,000 1,468,450.00
Empire East Land 0.800 162,102,000 131,632,640.00 0.760 46,306,000 35,060,060.00
Ever Gotesco 0.183 10,000 1,830.00 0.175 1,820,000 315,020.00
Global-Estate 2.05 80,572,000 159,990,980.00 1.80 20,570,000 36,643,520.00
Filinvest Land,Inc. 1.31 104,064,000 135,116,590.00 1.28 63,286,000 80,015,760.00
Highlands Prime 1.80 247,000 450,930.00 2.07 856,000 1,756,360.00
Interport `A 1.14 1,666,000 1,876,410.00 1.16 1,490,000 1,715,810.00
Keppel Properties 2.00 11,000 21,900.00 1.92 6,000 11,750.00
Megaworld Corp. 2.26 734,376,000 1,668,257,980.00 2.19 830,165,000 1,785,398,670.00
MRC Allied Ind. 0.1680 234,820,000 41,172,790.00 0.1950 317,270,000 62,410,940.00
Phil. Estates Corp. 0.6800 17,107,000 11,779,160.00 0.6900 172,549,800 14,107,010.00
Phil. Realty `A 0.490 5,240,000 2,435,200.00 0.450 250,000 114,650.00
Phil. Tob. Flue Cur & Redry 14.90 1,000 14,900.00
Polar Property Holdings 4.46 608,000 2,695,630.00 4.45 4,130,000 17,945,090.00
Primex Corp. 3.50 1,199,000 4,000,500.00 3.00 158,000 465,680.00
Robinsons Land `B 17.90 12,465,000 221,243,028.00 17.42 5,954,800 102,577,682.00
Rockwell 3.55 1,976,000 6,545,910.00 3.1 1,108,000 3,445,910.00
Shang Properties Inc. 2.58 1,022,000 2,596,940.00 2.54 270,000 675,740.00
SM Development `A 6.25 18,770,000 117,537,900.00 6.15 7,219,600 43,885,469.00
SM Prime Holdings 13.32 50,079,000 659,960,672.00 13.02 37,579,400 486,152,888.00
Sta. Lucia Land Inc. 0.69 16,868,000 11,656,210.00 0.7 5,010,000 3,594,890.00
Starmalls 4.3 1,671,000 7,323,150.00
Suntrust Home Dev. Inc. 0.550 1,416,000 789,710.00 0.550 1,044,000 554,690.00
Vista Land & Lifescapes 4.150 36,446,000 151,481,710.00 4.200 24,222,000 99,861,870.00
S E R V I C E S
2GO Group 1.9 54,000 103,870.00 1.94 57,000 100,700.00
ABS-CBN 35.75 63,600 2,234,985.00 34.8 78,900 2,744,775.00
Acesite Hotel 3 3,207,000 11,039,410.00 4.08 1,462,000 6,281,430.00
APC Group, Inc. 0.660 4,005,000 2,719,060.00 0.700 4,549,000 3,064,560.00
Asian Terminals Inc. 9.2 199,900 1,800,199.00 9 210,400 2,023,737.00
Boulevard Holdings 0.1400 98,380,000 14,157,960.00 0.1390 68,450,000 9,559,250.00
Calata Corp. 9.94 22,396,900 213,740,243.00 9 10,141,500 92,232,611.00
Cebu Air Inc. (5J) 68.90 2,051,480 141,887,498.50 68.90 5,361,760 367,829,454.00
Centro Esc. Univ. 10 10,000 10,000.00 10.4 7,800 81,120.00
DFNN Inc. 6.09 1,191,200 7,214,306.00 6.04 452,600 2,754,993.00
Easy Call Common 3.05 29,000 89,150.00 3.20 10,000 32,000.00
FEUI 1000 3,310 3,295,390.00 975 70 68,250.00
Globalports 27 3,500 93,550.00 22 200 4,400.00
Globe Telecom 1164.00 348,950 402,676,045.00 1115.00 402,365 443,692,775.00
GMA Network Inc. 10.64 10,996,100 118,319,152.00 10.58 11,002,200 115,907,140.00
I.C.T.S.I. 74 9,986,440 740,768,870.50 73.5 9,717,660 701,613,900.00
Information Capital Tech. 0.405 220,000 89,950.00 0.415 890,000 367,650.00
Imperial Res. `A 8.50 1,000 8,500
IPeople Inc. `A 6.7 316,100 1,980,018.00 6 51,700 311,210.00
IP Converge 2.53 6,281,000 15,559,460.00 2.33 4,228,000 9,536,270.00
IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 0.038 1,218,600,000 48,294,500.00 0.041 431,500,000 17,079,800.00
IPVG Corp. 1.1 3,900,000 4,265,260.00 1.03 3,205,000 3,339,750.00
Island Info 0.0500 12,190,000 1,044,090.00 0.0530 15,230,000 780,460.00
ISM Communications 3.0000 363,000 1,086,670.00 3.0700 804,000 2,335,640.00
JTH Davies Holdings Inc. 2.5 967,000 2,506,730.00 2.65 20,291,000 50,770,830.00
Leisure & Resorts 8.50 76,340,200 666,497,749.00 8.26 54,069,700 416,489,473.00
Liberty Telecom 2.85 134,000 369,700.00 2.75 557,000 1,572,900.00
Macroasia Corp. 2.80 135,000 385,850.00 2.85 235,000 664,450.00
Manila Bulletin 0.71 149,000 103,480.00 0.68 223,000 150,540.00
Manila Jockey 2.4 4,184,000 10,265,180.00 2.45 8,004,000 19,893,840.00
Metro Pacic Tollways 7.38 200 1,476.00 6.51 1,100 7,161.00
Pacic Online Sys. Corp. 14.6 123,800 1,837,640.00 14.58 640,300 13,518,322.00
PAL Holdings Inc. 7.40 355,000 2,642,617 7.37 384,800 2,830,946
Paxys Inc. 3.07 18,207,000 56,940,290.00 2.94 17,215,000 52,411,450.00
Phil. Racing Club 9.5 1,007,100 9,565,910.00 9.5 1,081,400 10,269,364.00
Phil. Seven Corp. 57.50 296,740 15,716,040.50 48.80 1,744,200 77,216,310.00
Philweb.Com Inc. 12.28 1,584,200 19,561,812.00 12.70 661,300 8,548,546.00
PLDT Common 2754.00 813,545 2,247,197,330.00 2650.00 1,649,755 4,407,309,400.00
PremiereHorizon 0.325 11,980,000 3,745,300.00 0.315 4,050,000 1,311,100.00
Puregold 29.50 12,859,900 372,165,765.00 27.15 7,919,000 216,220,760.00
Touch Solutions 3.69 40,000 147,900.00 3.77 21,000 75,320.00
Transpacic Broadcast 2.8 178,000 480,950.00 2.69 53,000 134,340.00
Waterfront Phils. 0.440 1,760,000 745,600.00 0.440 1,320,000 565,300.00
MINING & OIL
Abra Mining 0.0042 85,000,000 349,800.00 0.0041 314,000,000 1,317,400.00
Apex `A 5.40 2,740,600 14,680,055.00 5.15 282,300 1,457,771.00
Apex `B 5.40 963,100 5,188,845.00 5.05 197,000 1,013,900.00
Atlas Cons. `A 17.98 2,233,500 39,950,750.00 17.98 4,995,100 90,675,672.00
Atok-Big Wedge `A 29.70 3,700 108,700.00 29.80 25,600 759,775.00
Basic Energy Corp. 0.265 14,160,000 3,731,700.00 0.265 84,010,000 23,746,850.00
Benguet Corp `A 23.9 15,700 377,600.00 25.5 401,900 9,612,025.00
Benguet Corp `B 25 1,500 37,500.00 24.95 25,000 582,060.00
Century Peak Metals Hldgs 1.35 4,679,000 6,232,110.00 1.35 3,065,000 4,268,790.00
Dizon 35.85 5,730,900 199,440,250.00 33.00 8,466,900 304,215,065.00
Geograce Res. Phil. Inc. 0.73 38,104,000 27,530,030.00 0.7 10,119,000 7,102,620.00
Lepanto `A 1.470 188,827,000 265,685,540.00 1.390 67,271,000 92,877,200.00
Lepanto `B 1.570 122,972,000 184,853,620.00 1.480 46,765,000 68,952,120.00
Manila Mining `A 0.0750 1,315,620,000 94,975,410.00 0.0700 1,543,850,000 107,437,610.00
Manila Mining `B 0.0780 405,880,000 29,912,260.00 0.0710 639,900,000 45,070,080.00
Nickelasia 30.45 5,578,600 167,531,130.00 29.9 3,988,200 120,785,585.00
Nihao Mineral Resources 10.14 17,306,300 169,845,764.00 9.09 19,260,500 171,500,113.00
Omico 0.7300 918,000 661,180.00 0.7000 1,624,000 1,133,150.00
Oriental Peninsula Res. 5.480 9,123,500 49,670,772.00 5.450 11,941,800 63,440,050.00
Oriental Pet. `A 0.0190 260,200,000 4,821,900.00 0.0180 871,200,000 15,513,400.00
Oriental Pet. `B 0.0200 129,200,000 2,568,700.00 0.0190 133,800,000 2,613,400.00
Petroenergy Res. Corp. 6.00 131,200 787,370.00 6.00 85,400 509,140.00
Philex `A 23.85 11,007,600 262,829,255.00 23.85 17,591,800 423,310,190.00
PhilexPetroleum 44.15 5,624,400 248,833,695.00 46.15 10,896,800 487,411,570.00
Philodrill Corp. `A 0.055 7,344,040,000 380,873,050.00 0.048 4,305,810,000 207,321,760.00
PNOC Expls `B 50.5 20 1,010.00
Semirara Corp. 218.00 967,820 211,937,646.00 218.20 1,315,410 286,667,126.00
United Paragon 0.0190 164,500,000 3,125,900.00 0.0200 318,400,000 6,159,600.00
PREFERRED
ABS-CBN Holdings Corp. 36.45 1,786,400 61,568,090.00 37 154,700 5,335,715.00
Ayala Corp. Pref `A 544 150 111,660.00
Benguet Corp. Con. Pref 30.2 15,800 476,080.00
First Gen G 101.2 57,160 5,786,427.00 101 241,160 24,624,626.00
First Phil. Hldgs.-Pref. 103.40 18,300 1,914,983.00 104.50 111,660 11,622,414.00
GMA Holdings Inc. 10.68 14,795,300 158,770,582.00 10.5 20,170,400 209,677,756.00
PCOR-Preferred 110 249,080 27,345,164.00 110 385,190 42,371,730.00
SMC Preferred 1 76.05 17,550 1,335,725.00 74.5 1,040 78,830.00
SMPFC Preferred 1020 39,305 40,064,760.00 1019 39,205 39,924,175.00
Swift Pref 1.14 349,000 381,460.00 1.05 154,000 161,700.00
WARRANTS & BONDS
Megaworld Corp. Warrants 1.26 15,881,000 19,751,330.00 1.18 4,230,000 4,809,910.00
Omico Corp. Warrant 0.0670 250,000 16,750.00 0.0670 110,000 7,370.00
Stock index seen
to test 5,400 level
ROBERT
LAO
GREEN LIGHT
PMAP meeting.
PMFTC Inc. president
Chris Nelson was
the guest speaker
during the 577
th

General Membership
Meeting of the
People Management
Association of
the Philippines
at the Hotel
Intercontinental,
Makati City. He
congratulated PMAP
for the timely holding
of the event with this
years theme, The
Strategic Importance
of Human Resources
in Companies.
PMFTC employs 4,000
personnel.
By Julito G. Rada
THE stock market may test the 5,400-
point level this week, depending on good
news from the domestic front, an analyst
told Manila Standar d over the weekend.
The market is ripe for
consolidation, maybe hovering
between 5,200, 5,300 and over.
But positive developments in
the local front could push it up
to test the 5,400 level, Astro
del Castillo, managing director
of brokerage rm First Grade
Finance Inc., said in a phone
interview.
The Philippine Stock
Exchange index hit a record
level last week, closing at
5,362.680 on Friday, after
Standard & Poors Ratings
Services upgraded the countrys
sovereign rating by one notch.
Del Castillo said one
development that could affect
the market would be the
announcement of the new policy
on mining industry, which was
expected early this week.
If that [mining policy] could
be favorable to the industry,
then we can expect the market
testing the 5,400 level, Del
Castillo said.
He said news from the
global front could still be
important factors, such as the
developments in the United
States and Europe, which could
still dictate the trend of the
market this week.
Justino Calaycay Jr. of
Accord Capital Equities
Corp., for his part, said
investors would remain
optimistic, entering the 28th
week of trades, as the balance
of considerations tilted toward
the domestic front.
The local economy has
been producing numbers in line
with, if not better than, ofcial
targets making market watchers,
stakeholders and analysts a
seemingly conservative lot, he
said.
Calaycay said such numbers
have provided a buffer against a
still uncertain global environment
and growth prospects.
At the middle of the just-
concluded week, the country
received a largely-expected
credit rating upgrade from
the Standard & Poors to a
notch below investment grade
and at par with Southeast
Asias largest and progressive
economy, Indonesia, Calaycay
said.
Calaycay said although S&P
cited several risk factors that
may derail the push to investment
grade, it has kept the outlook
stable.
Business
ManilaStandardToday extrastory2000@gmail.com JULY 9, 2012 MONDAY
B3
Poultry growers cull chicken
early to improve local prices
Rules on seafarer
certication issued
Canadian miners invest more
Greece turns to privatization
to raise revenues, lure capital
First in Laguna. China Bank Savings executive vice president Jaime Valentin Araneta (from left), party list Rep. Homer Mercado and branch
head Corazon Leung led the inauguration of the newest China Bank Savings branch in Barangay Landayan, San Pedro, Laguna. The branch is
China Bank Savings rst in Laguna and is part of the banks nationwide expansion.
ATHENSGreeces three-party
coalition government will try to get
the economy out of its deep recession
by encouraging private investment
and making privatizations its highest
priority, finance minister Yannis
Stournaras said Saturday.
The privatization program aims at
attracting important international capital
that will be invested mainly in property
development and infrastructure, Stournaras
told parliament on the second day of the
debate on the new governments policy
platform.
He said the government plans to give
priority to 28 privatizations, including
the state natural gas, water and betting
companies, the development of the
former Athens airport, other airports,
yacht marinas, the state railways and the
sale and leaseback of 28 state properties.
The privatization of Public Power
Corporation will come at a later stage,
Stournaras said.
Earlier, the leader of Greeces main
opposition party accused the countrys three-
party coalition government of wanting to sell
Greeces resources and public companies on
the cheap.
The prime ministers policy statement
was nothing more than a for sale sign
put on Greece, Alexis Tsipras, head of
the Coalition of the Radical Left party,
known as Syriza, told Parliament. He said
he was especially warning those who want
to grab state property on the cheap. He
added would-be buyers of state property
might lose all their money and face criminal
proceedings.
Tsipras proposed a moratorium on the
payment of Greeces debt until the country,
mired in a deep recession, returns to growth.
He predicts his party will soon come to
power because the coalition government
will fail. When it comes to government, he
said, it would x nances by taxing the rich
and going after tax evaders.
Evangelos Venizelos, the socialist leader
and a former nance minister, whose party
is part of the coalition, ripped into Tsipras
payments moratorium proposal, saying this
was tantamount to the country declaring
bankruptcy.
The country can take no more
demagoguery, he said.
The newly-elected parliament will stage
a vote of condence on the government at
midnight Sunday.AP
TWO Canadian mining companies signed an investment
agreement that will pave the way for joint ventures over
two major mineral projects in the Philippines.
TVI Pacic Inc. and Mindoro Resources Ltd.
announced the signing of an agreement on TVIs
strategic private placement in Mindoro as well as the
possibility of a joint venture over the Agata nickel
project in Surigao del Norte and Pan de Azucar project
in Iloilo.
Both Canadian miners are focused on gold,
copper and nickel production and exploration in the
Philippines.
We are very pleased with the planned strategic
investment from TVI Pacic, and the proposed joint
ventures, with such a successful Philippines mine and
processing plant operator, said Mindoro president
and chief executive Jon Dugdale.
The proposed joint ventures optimize the
opportunity for Mindoro to achieve direct shipping
ore cash flow production in the near term, as well
as maintain a substantial stake in a potential major
processing project down the track, said Dugdale.
TVI said under the agreement, it would infuse
C$3.15 million in Mindoro Resources Ltd. and would
have the exclusive right or option to enter into joint
venture arrangements with Mindoro with respect to
Agata and Pan de Azucar projects.
TVI will be the operator of all joint ventures signed
between the two companies.
Agata nickel project has measured and indicated
resource estimates of 42.76 million tons at 1.01
percent nickel for 430,000 tons contained nickel, and
inferred resource estimates of 2.435 million tons at
0.99 percent nickel.
TVI said under the agreement, it would advance
a bridge loan of C$968,969 pursuant to a limited
security promissory note.
It will also subscribe to 63,115,559 common shares
of Mindoro through a private placement for C$0.05
per share, or a total of C$3.15 million.
TVI will commit to 100 percent of the required
expenditures to establish a direct shipping ore
operation with the intention of generating early cash
ow for the joint venture.
Once the project starts a DSO operation, TVI
would earn a 60 percent, subject to TVI having
expended a minimum of C$2 million within 12
months and achieving DSO operation within three
years of entering into the joint venture agreement
with TVI.
TVI will also commit to 100 percent of the required
expenditures to complete a denitive feasibility study
on nickel processing for the Stage 2 Agata nickel
project.
It said in the event a proposed sale of Mindoros
Tapian San Francisco project to Red Mountain Mining
Ltd. did not push through, the agreement provides
that TVI will have an exclusive option to form a joint
venture with Mindoro on terms and conditions suitable
for an early stage exploration prospect.
By Othel V. Campos
POULTRY raisers resorted to early
culling of chicken to improve prices
amid rising imports, industry sources
said over the weekend.
Raisers said the early culling, or the
harvesting of chicken for meat at an
early stage, was part of a strategy to cut
back on production cost and increase the
farmgate price of chicken.
DOC [day-old chicken] producers
have started this practice. Those who are
afraid that prices will continue increasing
have started early culling. This is a cycle
that usually happens whenever chicken
prices drop, United Broilers and
Raisers Association president Gregorio
San Diego said.
San Diego did not disclose how many
poultry stocks were killed and how many
were still up for culling.
Raisers and producers were
complaining of production losses due
to high cost of feeds, haggling and
smuggling.
Industry data showed that chicken
imports in the rst quarter reached 30.65
million kilos, up by 1.2 percent from
30.29 million kilos a year ago.
This, however, does not reect the
real data. There were imported chicken
that were unaccounted for. There
were those that sell cheaply in the
supermarkets and wet markets. We have
suggested measures to the Bureau of
Customs, but they do not listen to us,
said San Diego.
Farmgate price of chicken currently
ranges from P70 to P80 a kilo while
retail price at wet markets and groceries
is between P140 and P160 a kilo of
dressed whole chicken.
Data released by the industry showed
that rampant smuggling and excessive
importation of chicken choice cuts had
displaced as much as P10.34 billion of
local production in 2010.
The poultry sector is still estimating
foregone revenues in 2011, although they
claimed that 14,906 poultry workers lost
their jobs.
The group noted the glaring
discrepancy in government data that
accounted for a difference of 12,000 MT
between the allowed poultry imports
within the minimum access volume and
the actual imports.
It said that while the allowed volume
was only 23,500 metric tons in 2011,
data from the Bureau of Animal Industry
showed poultry imports of 28,352 MT
during the same year.
The minimum access volume
committee, for its part, claimed utilization
of only 16,233 MT in minimum access
volume.
The difference can only be justied
as having been imported outside the
minimum access volume or out-quota
volume. But out-quota is subject to
higher tariff of 40 percent instead of 35
percent for in-quota volume, said San
Diego.
By Lailany P. Gomez
THE Maritime Industry
Authority said Friday it has
completed the implementing
rules and regulations on an
international treaty setting the
standards for the certication of
seafarers.
Marina acting administrator
Nic Conti said the rules averted
a possible delisting of the
Philippines from the International
Maritime Organization white list.
Conti said the agency
nalized the rules on Executive
Order No. 75 designating the
Transportation Department as
the single administration to
implement the 1978 International
Convention on Standards of
Training, Certication and
Watchkeeping for Seafarers.
The agency issued the rules
in response to the call of the
European Maritime Agency,
which conducted a performance
audit and threatened to submit
an unfavorable recommendation
to the European Commission
on the Philippines compliance
with the STCW for seafarers.
Because of this swift measure,
EMSA deferred its submission of
unfavorable recommendation to
the EU, which could also result in
the Philippines delisting from the
International Maritime Organizations
White List, said Conti.
He said the withdrawal
of EUs recognition of the
STCW certicates issued by
the Philippine government
and delisting from the IMO
white list would result in the
displacement of about 80,000
Filipino seafarers onboard EU-
registered ships.
These Filipino seafarers working
for European vessels contribute
about P4.5 billion in remittances to
the Philippines every year.
There were also concerns that
if the European body led the
recommendation, even other
major ship-owning countries
such as Japan, Korea, Hong
Kong, Singapore and the United
States, would no longer employ
Filipino seafarers.
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON NATURALIZATION
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF
SONIA RAMCHAND CHANDIRAMANI
SCN CASE NO. ___________
to be naturalized as Filipino citizen pursuant
to Republic Act No. 9139.
x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - x
PETITION
Pursuant to the provisions of Republic Act No. 9139,
petitioner hereby submits a petition for naturalization to
become a citizen of the Republic of the Philippines and
respectfully declares:
1. My full name is SONIA RAMCHAND CHANDIRAMANI but
I have also been known since childhood as _____N/A_____
, or I have been judicially authorized to use the alias name(s)
______N/A______.
2. My present place of residence is 2205-B F. Zobel St.,
San Miguel Village, City/Municipality of Makati, Province of
Manila, and all my former places of residence are (please
indicate periods of residence):
252 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., West of Ayala Condominium,
Makati (2003-2009)_________________________
1129 Concepcion St., Gotesco Tower-A Ermita ____
Manila (1999-2003)_________________________
3340-A Ibarra St., Palanan, Makati (1996-1999)____
1580 F.T. Benitez St., Paco, Manila (1987-1996)____
1851 Maria Orosa St., Malate, Manila (1982-1987)__
3. I was born on Sept. 17, 1982, in Manila, , I have been
a resident of the Philippines since birth. At present, I am a
citizen or subject of India.
4. My father's name is RAMCHAND CHANDIRAMANI
and he was born on April 5, 1939, in India. He is a citizen or
subject of India My mother's name is Maya Chandiramani
and she was born on Sept. 21, 1949, in India. She is a citizen
or subject of India.
5. My trade, business, profession or lawful occupation
is _TUTORIAL_ and from which I derive an average annual
income of P 120,000.00_, inclusive of bonuses, commissions
and allowances. My wife's/husband's trade, business,
profession or lawful occupation is N/A and from which she
derives an average annual income of P _N/A_.
Petitioner's signature and right thumbmark
(Where the above does not apply): I am exempt from
the requirement of lucrative trade or occupation and from
submitting income tax returns for the past three (3) years
because I am a college degree holder [please state (1)
degree obtained: _N/A_, (2) name of school:_N/A_ and (3)
years graduated:_N/A_] who cannot practice my profession
(the practice of which requires a government licensure
examination) by reason of my citizenship.
6. My civil status is Single. I was married on N/A in N/A.
My wife's/husband's name is N/A and she/he was born on
N/A in N/A. She/he is a citizen or subject of N/A and presently
resides N/A.
7. I am legally separated from my spouse; my marriage
was annulled, per decree of legal separation/annulment
dated N/A granted by N/A. (please indicate the particular
court which granted the same). I am a widower/widow and
my spouse died on N/A in N/A.
8. I have N/A child/children, whose names, dates and
places of birth and residences are as follows:
Name Date of Birth Place of Birth Residence
N/A N/A N/A N/A
9. I received my primary and secondary education from
the following public schools or private educational institutions
duly recognized by the Department of Education, Culture
and Sports (DECS), where Philippine history, government
and civics are taught and prescribed as part of the school
curriculum and where enrollment is not limited to any race
or nationality:
Name of School Place of
School
Dates of
Study
Highest
Grade
Completed
St. Scholastics College Manila 1988-1994 Grade 5
St. Mary's of the Woods School Makati 1994-1995 Elementary
St. Mary's of the Woods School Makati 1995-1999 High School
Assumption College Makati 2001-2004 Bachelors
Degree
10. I am able to read, write and speak Filipino and/or any
of the following dialects of the Philippines: Tagalog.
11. I have enrolled my minor children of school age in the
following public schools or private educational institutions
duly recognized by the Department of Education, Culture
and Sports (DECS), where Philipine History, government
and civics are taught and prescribed as part of the school
curriculum and where enrollment is not limited to any race
or nationality:
Petitioner's signature and right thumbmark
Name of Child Name and Place of
School
Date of
Enrollment
N/A N/A N/A
12. I shall never be a public charge. I am of good
moral character. I believe in the principles underlying
the Philippine Constitution. I have conducted myself in a
proper and irreproachable manner during the entire period
of my residence in the Philippines in my relations with the
constituted government as well as with the community in
which I am living. I mingled socially with Filipinos and have
evinced a sincere desire to learn and embrace the customs,
traditions and ideals of the Filipino people. I have all the
qualifcations and none of the disqualifcations under Republic
Act No. 9139.
am not opposed to organized government or affliated
with any association or group of persons who uphold and
teach doctrines opposing all organized governments. I
am not defending or teaching the necessity or propriety
of violence, personal assault or assassination for the
success and predominance of one's ideas. I am not a
polygamist nor a believer in the practice of polygamy.
I have not been convicted of any crime involving moral
turpitude. I am not suffering from mental alienation or from
any incurable contagious disease. The country of which
I am a citizen or subject is not at war with the Philippines
and grants to Filipinos the right to be naturalized citizens
or subjects thereof.
13. It is my true and honest intention to become a citizen
of the Philippines and to renounce absolutely and forever
all allegiance and fdelity to any foreign prince, potentate,
state or sovereignty, and, particularly, to India of which at
this time I am a citizen or subject. I will reside continuously
in the Philippines from the date of the fling of this petition
up to the time of my admission to Philippine citizenship.
14. My character wi tnesses are BERNARDINA
ESPARAGOZA and NARCISA V. MARZAN both Filipino
citizens, of legal age, and residing at 1465 D. Oliman St.,
San Miguel Village, Makati and 1049 Dagupan St., Tondo,
Manila respectively, who have executed sworn statements
attached hereto in support of my instant petition, together
with: (a) brief biographical data about themselves; (b)
detailed statements on the dates they frst came to know
me, the circumstances of our initial acquaintance and the
reasons and extent of our continuing familiarity; and (c) the
number of times they have acted as character witnesses
in other petitions for naturalization.
15. Attached hereto as annexes and made part of this
petition are the duplicate originals or certifed photocopies
of the following documents (please check the appropriate
box):
[ / ] a. Petitioner's birth certifcate
[ / ] b. Petitioner's alien certifcate of registration (ACR)
[ / ] c. Petitioner's native-born certifcate of residence
(NBCR)
[ ] d. Petitioner's marriage certifcate, if married
[ ] e. Death certifcate of his/her spouse, if widowed
Petitioner's signature and right thumbmark
[ ] f. Court decree annulling his/her marriage or
granting legal separation, if such was the fact
[ ] g. Birth certifcates of petitioner's minor children
[ ] h. ACRs of petitioner's minor children
[ ] i. NBCRs of petitioner's minor children
[ / ] j. Affdavits of fnancial capacity by the petitioner,
dul y support ed by bank cert i f i cat i ons,
passbooks, stock certificates, or proof of
ownership of other properties
[ / ] k. Affdavits of at least two (2) credible witnesses
who must be Filipino citizens of good reputation
in petitioner's place of residence
[ / ] l. Medical certifcate from a government hospital
stating that petitioner is not suffering from
mental alienation or a user of prohibited drugs
or otherwise a drug dependent and that he/she
is not afficted with acquired immune defciency
syndrome (AIDS), or any incurable contagious
disease.
[ / ] m. School diploma and transcript of records of the
petitioner from the school/s he or she attended
in the Philippines
[ ] n. Certifications stating that petitioner's minor
children are enrolled in public schools or private
educational institutions duly recognized by the
DECS, where Philippine history, government
and civics are taught and prescribed as part of
the school curriculum and where enrollment is
not limited to any race or nationality
[ / ] o. Petitioner's income tax returns for the past three
years
[ / ] p. Petitioner's receipts of payment of income tax
for the past three years
16. Other documents submitted by the petitioner in
support of his/her petition:
NBI CLEARANCE, BARANGAY CLEARANCE
POLICE CLEARANCE, COURT CLEARANCE

PRAYER
WHEREFORE, it is respectfully prayed that petitioner be
conferred Philippine citizenship pursuant to the provisions
of Republic Act No, 9139.
Dated at Makati City, Metro Manila, this 2nd day of
May, 2012.
SONIA RAMCHAND CHANDIRAMANI
Name and Signature of Petitioner
Address: 2205-B F-ZOBEL ST.
SAN MIGUEL VILLAGE, MAKATI
Telephone Number: 0917-9900742/
8368071
Petitioner's signature and right thumbmark
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES)
CITY/MUNICIPAL OF MAKATI) S.S.
I, SONIA RAMCHAND CHANDIRAMANI, of legal age
and a resident of 2205-B F. Zobel St. San Miguel Vill.
Makati, after being duly sworn, depose and say that I am
the petitioner herein, that I have read the foregoing petition
and know the foregoing petition and known the contents
thereof, and that the same is true of my own knowledge.
SONIA RAMCHAND CHANDIRAMANI
Name and Signature of Petitioner
SUBCRIBED AND SWORN to before me at CITY OF
MAKATI this 2
nd
day of May, 2012.
SCN FORM NO. 1
(R.A. NO. 9139)
(MST-June 25, July 2 & 9, 2012)
Right Thumbmark
of Petitioner
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
SOUTH MANILA ENGINEERING DISTRICT
8
th
St., Port Area, Manila
INSTALLATION OF METAL FURRING AND ACCOUSTIC BOARD CEILING
AMONG THE VARIOUS NATIONAL BUILDING WHICH IS FOR REPAIR/
REHABILITATION WORKS IS THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE
PHILIPPINES, LOCATED AT TM KALAW ST., MANILA. THE WHOLE
ROOFDECK IS NOW UNDERGOING WATERPROOFING WORKS WHILE,
THE JAIME C. DE VEGA HALL IS FITTED WITH NEW CEILING UNDER
THE SUPERVISION OF SOUTH MANILA ENGINEERING DISTRICT OFFICE.
INSTALLATION OF WATERPROOFING FILM AND ADHESIVE
(PAID ADVERTISEMENT) (MST-July 9, 2012)
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Mechanization key
to food sufciency
Plastic scrap swapped
for rice, school items
Developer
told to
face suits
THE Bases Conversion and
Development Authority said it
will collect more than P3 billion
in rental arrears of the Camp
John Hay Development Corp.
CJHDevCo earlier led a
complaint against the BCDA
Board for violations of the
Code of Conduct and Ethical
Standards for Public Ofcials
and Employees, and the Civil
Service Law at the Ofce of the
Ombudsman.
In light of the ardent and
determined pursuit of BCDA to
enforce the governments rights
over Camp John Hay, BCDA
questions the motive, timing, and
frequency by which numerous
cases are being led against its
Board of Directors, BCDA
president and chief executive
Arnel Paciano Casanova said.
BCDA remains steadfast
in its goal of collecting the P3
billion indebtedness
of CJHDevCo
to the Philippine
g o v e r n m e n t
which is for use in
development projects
that will benet the
City of Baguio and the
Filipino people. Out
of the total amount,
a guaranteed P750
million will go to the
City of Baguio.
Cassanova viewed
the cases led by
CJHDevco as part of a
continuing harassment
campaign against
BCDA to deter it from
performing its duty to
uphold and protect the
rights and interests of
the Government and
the Filipino people.
The string of cases
led against BCDA
in the past four
weeks suspiciously
comes after BCDAs
termination of
CJHDevCos Lease
Agreement because
of its refusal to pay
its lease rentals, he
said.
I believe we have
clearly taken the
common position of
pay up or ship out,
Casanova said.
According to the
BCDA, CJHDevCo has
yet to show signs that
it is willing to fulll its
contractual obligations
to the government.
But we are not giving
up in saving the John
Hay project as we
continue to explore
all legal options to
attain a logical and
justiable solution
to this problem, the
state-owned rm said.
Bulacan harvest. A farmer in Pulilan town makes hay while the sun shines.
The Aquino administration is targetting rice sufciency through improved seed
varieties, mechanization, well-maintained irrigation and other infrastructure in a
strategy to create jobs and reduce property as well. DANNY PATA
By Oliver Samson
NAGA CITYMayor
John Bongat is making an
offer too difcult to refuse:
Swap plastics for rice and
school supplies.
While other executives enforce a
ban with penalties, he wants to reward
compliance to implement solid waste
management in the citys 27 villages.
The environment ofce in 2010
recorded 85.8 tons of solid waste
produced by at least 176,178 residents.
Plastics that do not get sold to junk
buyers like candy wrappers, food
packages, shampoo sachets, discarded
tarpaulins, and
cellophane bags will
be exchanged for rice
and school supplies,
Bongat told Manila
Standar d.
He said the local government would
handle the rice swap alongside the
barangay and tie up with parents and
teachers associations on the school
items.
Bongat said waste segregation
remained a key to a successful
management of garbage applying
the principle of reduction, reuse and
recycling.
Mayor Aldrin San Pedro of
Muntinlupa City banned the use of
plastics and styrofoam in January last
year, amid ndings that discarded
packaging clogged waterways and
worsened ooding.
Other localities followed suit,
requiring biodegradable subsitutes
with penalties such as nes and closure
of business for non-compliance.
Bongat said food scrap and other
residual waste would be brought to
the Balatas dump while plastic scrap
will be processed into construction
materials.
The incentive will be dovetailed
with other activities such as awarding
the cleanest communities and other
environmentm,easures under the Happy
Go Linig campaign. Linig means clean
in the Bicol tongue.

By Dexter A. See

TABUK CITYAn agriculture expert called on authorities
to step up mechanization to achieve food sufficiency and
help uplift lives in the countryside.
Rex Bingabing, director of the Philippine Center for
Postharvest Development and Mechanization, said the
upgrade is also meant to tap markets abroad.
Compared to neighboring countries, the Philippines
is low in agricultural mechanization resulting in low
productivity, poor product quality and high postharvest
losses, he told Manila St andar d.
In terms of horsepower per hectare, Bingabing said the
countrys level of mechanization was 0.52 hp/ha compared
to Japans 7 hp/ha, Chinas 4.1 hp/ha, Vietnams 1.56 hp/
ha and Thailands .7hp/ha.
To feed the growing population that is expected to hit the
100 million mark in 2016, yield must be maximized and
loss minimized, he said.
PhilMech, an attached bureau of the Department of Agriculture,
aims to provide equipment on an 85/15 percent counterparting
scheme between government and irrigators associations along
with cooperatives and other farmers groups.
We need to change some of our agricultural
practices and technologies to achieve self-sufficiency,
Bingabing said.
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VOLUME
The payneta is
reincarnated with Goodys
Volume Boost Comb,
which comes in blonde
and brunette choices to
match your hair color.
THE CONFIDENCE
PROJECT
The Rexona Condence
Project is a search for
a team of two ladies
who will be the brands
ambassadors of
condence.
I JUST had to put these together,
these two recent events sound like
they would really make a perfect
pair. But, dont be misled, their
respective target markets are at
opposite ends of the age spectrum.
Heres why.
BabyGAP shower
The GAP store in Bonifacio
High Street Central reverberated
with warm greetings and laughter
as friends of my nephew,
Paolo Lobregat, and his pretty
bride Katrina, celebrated
their forthcoming bundle of joy.
Decked in pink and green, made
even more colorful with oral
prints, the place was swarming
with happy people who wrote,
for the coming baby, special
messages to hang in a cute pink
paper mache tree, matching the
pink lemonade that was served
to everyone.
Based on Katrinas wish list
in the babyGAP Registry, guests
gave her and the coming baby
presents wrapped in a special
packaging exclusive to babyGAP.
Katrinas sister, Bea Tantoco took
on the emceeing chores, as she
welcomed guests and family to the
happy occasion, and got everyone
to join the games.
For parents expecting a new
member of their family, you can
visit the nearest babyGAP outlet to
register your baby shower wish list,
which will show in the outlets at
SM Mall of Asia, Shangri-La Plaza,
Glorietta 4, Bonifacio High Street,
SM Megamall, and Abreeza Mall
in Davao. Registrants will get a free
diaper tote bag and invitation cards
for the planned baby shower.
Grey goose invitational
This years 4th Grey Goose
Invitational attracted Manila
societys nest golf enthusiasts to
the upscale Sta. Elena Golf Club, in
spite of initially overcast skies, but
this eventually cleared towards mid-
morning. This annual event added
a new dimension to the game, with
competing players forming their
own teams, making Grey Goose a
natural t, as its image res up the
competitive spirit and the passion
for the gentleman sport.
Bobby Campos, Grey Goose
Philippine Commercial Manager,
explained that the brand is nely-
crafted vodka that originates from
Cognac, France, home to the
worlds most respected experts
in spirit making. It is made from
nest French wheat and employs
an exclusive ve-step distillation
process to produce its exceptional
avor. Pure spring water, naturally
ltered through champagne
limestone, is then blended with
the spirit, making it lush, smooth,
rounded, and melts in the mouth
with a lasting and satisfying nish.
Danny Morales was the
Champion for the Class A Division;
Andrew Budiman, for the Class
B Division; and Noel Sebastian,
for the Class C Division. Raymond
Sangil was the Lowest Gross
Champion and had the Longest
Drive, while Paul Salvador got
Closest To The Pin. The Team
Champion was Bond Urban Pub.
The fun lasted well into the
evening at the Sta. Elena Guest
House grounds, as the program,
which was emceed by Jinri
Park, was made more exciting
with valuable rafe prizes from
Singapore Airlines, Jaguar, Land
Rover, Fred Perry, Airgurus Ltd.,
Eskaya Beach Resort & Spa, Club
Car, Acca Kappa, and Balance
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BORN in 1861, Philippine national hero Jose Rizal wouldve celebrated his
150
th
birthday last year. This hallmark event was commemorated by various
institutions throughout the country, particularly the National Historical Institute.
The celebrations havent ended, though, as many organizations still have
Rizal@150 activities this year, aimed to impress more widespread awareness
about the life and times of the national hero and encourage discussions on history
and nationalism. Since the launch of Rizal@150, Rizal-inspired merchandise
has also been popular among the buying public.
SM Kultura, the countrys premier retailer of all things
Filipiniana, recently unveiled the latest designs from silver
accessories brand Yzabelle. In 2011, when it was rst launched,
the Women of Rizal collection by Yzabelle boasted of pieces
inspired by the many loves of RizalLeonor Rivera, O
Sei San, Nellie Boustead, Suzanne Jacoby and his mother,
Teodora Alonso. Earlier this year, the collection expanded to
include creations paying homage to sister Olympia and niece
Emiliana Rizal and sweet foreigner Josephine Bracken.
Yzabelle is the brainchild of two of Rizals descendants, great-
grandnieces Barbara Gonzales and Mia Faustmann, who are
also the brands designers. They were mainly inspired by the
unforgettable line, Only love will work wonders, from their
ancestors novel, El Filibusterismo, when designing the pieces in
the Women of Rizal line.
The current collection is composed of jewelry sets (rings,
earrings, necklaces and bracelets) named after Teodora Alonso,
Saturnina Rizal, Nellie Boustead and Leonor Valenzuela.
The Teodora range revolves around the black onyx stone, a
strong statement. It is surrounded by feather-like details to soften
its appearance and provide a sense of femininity. The combination
speaks of Alonsos impressive educational background, profound
inuence in shaping the mind of the young Rizal and strength as a
mother, teacher and role model.
Delicate curve designs dictate the Saturnina range.
Looking both like a flower and a heart, this set is inspired
by Rizals eldest sister are a reflection of her love for
family. The cubic zirconia stone at the heart of every piece
symbolizes the diamond ring she sent to younger brother
Jose to help in his financial troubles.
The updated Nellie Boustead range, on the other hand, is
a collection of crosses that serve as an afrmation of faith and
spirituality. Pendants for black silk cord necklaces come in three
variations: a simple cross, a prayer book and a combination of the
two. This design mirrors the fact that religion played a role in why
Rizal and Boustead didnt end up togetherhe was a Catholic
while she was a Protestant.
The last range is Leonor Valenzuela. Everyone knows about
Leonor Rivera, but Valenzuela is often forgotten. Yzabelle is now
reminding us of the other Leonor, the lady whom Rizal wrote love
letters to using invisible ink, which can only be read when heated
over a candle. This tidbit is expressed through ame-shaped
mother-of-pearl set in silver.
Yzabelle is exclusively available at SM Kultura.
Rizals
women
By Ed Biado
(AND THE JEWELRY THEY INSPIRED)
Bea Tantoco, Hindy Weber Tantoco and Katrina Lobregat
GAP Onesies
Maritess Tantoco-Enriquez, Krie Lopez
and Nina Huang
Tata Garcia, Trinchie Garcia and Inez
Lobregat
Team Championship went to Bond Urban Pub-Nico Santiano, Roman
Mojica, Vince Lauron, Raymund Sangil, Michael Floro, Paul Salvador
and Aian Arcilla with host Jinri Park
Ale Tiaoqui, Jere Fregil, RJ Lista
and Sam Gan
Eric Heng-general manager, Shell
Global Managed Services; Jacky Chan-
president and chief executive ofcer of
Siemens Phils. And Singapore Airlines
Andrew Budiman-general manager-
Philippines, Guam and USTT
Team Taverna Verdes Marc Naval, Jon Naval,
Jody Yujuico, Raj Moreno, Neil Castillo, J a y c e e
Dee, Edwin Dazo and VJ Vergel de Dios
Rep. JV Ejercito with
Masterminds-Asias
Sunny Ku
Teodora Alonzo
Saturnina Rizal
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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
ANSWER
TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
ANSWER TOMORROW
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61 Part of ABA: Abbr.
62 Mouse pad?
63 Hai r-rai si ng
64 GOP ri val s
65 Receiving customers
66 Qui ts
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2 Sunscreen addi ti ve
3 They may be pool ed
4 Wal l cl i mber
5 Poke fun at
6 On e y o u mi g h t
5-Down
7 Mi dni ght Cowboy
rol e
8 Star qual i ty
9 I t. i s there
10 What s l eft
11 Doubl es
12 Potter s practi ce
13 Hi t on the rear
18 Twofol d
23 Bi g name i n gol f
cl ubs
24 Summer cool ers
25 East of Eden twi n
26 F or mer Yugos l av
Across
1 Pi g __
6 Out of the cool er?
10 Street pretti fi ers
14 Ki cki ng partner
15 Maker of Ol d Worl d
Styl e sauces
16 Wet bar
17 On e c o n c e r n e d
LOS ANGELES
TIMES
CROSSWORD
wi th Ti mes changes
19 Senate wrap
20 Roundabout band
21 Country cl ub costs
22 Rel ated
23 Offensi ve bl uepri nt?
27 Di amond
30 Di sney gi r l wi t h a
seashel l bi ki ni top
31 Di eter s catchword
32 Stomach di scomfort
33 Li ttl e devi l
36 Beetl e Bai l ey s boss
41 Navy VI P
42 Wal l St. deal s
43 Vi ntner s prefi x
44 Br i t i s h Pet r ol eum
took maj ori ty ownershi p
of i t i n 1978
46 Answers the cal l
49 Tonal i ty i ndi cator
52 Cond __: Vogue
publ i sher
53 Carvey of SNL
54 URL-endi ng l etters
57 Rock endi ng
58 T our na me nt t ha t
b e g i n s t o d a y ( a n d
col l ecti vel y, words that
begi n 17-, 23-, 36- and
l eader
27 To whom Ri ck sai d,
The Ger mans wor e
gray. You wore bl ue
28 Cal l for
29 Mi nor l eagues
32 Gol d meas.
34 Wor d af t er f i l e or
edi t
35 Al ka-Sel tzer sound
37 K-12
38 I t s not __ deal
39 Mi dday
40 Dogi e catcher
45 Some bl enders
46 Pol l en bearer
47 Fast-swi mmi ng fi sh
48 Wi pes cl ean
49 Work wi th dough
5 0 W o r d s o n a
Wonderl and cake
51 Fred s fi rst partner
5 4 F i r s t n a me i n
archi tecture
5 5 P r o b l e m f o r a
pl umber
56 Versati l i ty l i st
58 Even i f, bri efl y
59 Short tri p
60 Hanoi New Year
MONDAY C2
JULY 9, 2012
Gianna Maniego, Editor
Dinna Chan Vasquez, Assistant Editor
ManilaStandardToday
#lovemy
standardlifestyle@gmail.com
fashion beauty health wellness
However, one evening, Miki thought enough was enough
when that friend began saying things like Mikis life was bet-
ter than hers because she was pretty and skinny. Miki gave
her a dose of reality, and told her Life is not always fair. But
you have to nd it in yourself to ignore the haters and just
move on. Be proud of who you are.
However, when her advice blew up in her face and her
friend got mad. Miki asked me whether she did the right thing
or if she should have kept quiet. I am not exactly the Fountain
of Wisdom, I told her that if her friend could not nd it in her-
self to look past her weaknesses and gain some condence in
her strengths then, then she could be a hopeless cause. Unless
she starts to think differently and lets her friends help her, she
may not make much progress in terms of coming to terms
with herself.
Of course, we cannot say that we are all brimming with
condence. We have our own emotional hang ups and prob-
lems that bring us down. Although, self-condence comes
from accomplishing things we can be proud of and being
people who are worth emulating sometimes we forget how
wonderful we all are. That is why it does not hurt to have a
friend to be there to not only support you, but go that extra
mile to run beside.
The Rexona Condence Project has exactly this is in mind.
Last June 11, the Rexona Condence Project team ofcially
launched the search for a perfect pair of ladies between the
ages 18-25 to send in videos to audition for
the part of the Rexona Condence Girls.
Their slogan: Why not?
We have asked ourselves time
and time again why we should
do anything. But the Rex-
ona Condence Girls
will become
ambassadors
of this philos-
ophy. Instead
of asking ourselves
Why? we should ask our- selves Why not?
The videos were due last June 17, but even if you decided
not to join, I say it would be a treat to like their Facebook
page atwww.facebook.com/rexonaphilippines. Not only do
they post news on the challenges and the contest but post a
lot fun things and little challenges you can do in your spare
time to accomplish that can help with make you feel more ac-
complished. Such as reading a book we have always wanted
to read or helping out in a charity.
The winning pair was announced on June 25. And, from
June 29, 2012 to July 29, 2012, the pair will be accept chal-
lenges around and out of the metro.
For complete details log on to www.facebook.com/rex-
onaphilippines
beauty
memo
beauty
memo
By Dinna Chan Vasquez
WE used to call it payneta and in high school, all
the girls wore it, whether they had long or short
hair. I am glad that Good Simple Styles
is bring the payneta back, except they
are calling it Volume Boost Comb.
There are blonde and brunette
choices to match your hair col-
or, you don't need a trip to
a salon for a pumped and
pretty hairstyle.
Take the front section
of the hair and part in
two horizonatlly. Gen-
tly backcomb the rear
section and slide the vol-
ume boost into the hair to support
and boost root height. Comb the front section of
hair over the volume boost and gather into a po-
nytail.
The Goody Simple Styles Volume Boost
Comb comes with oval shaped teeth that seure
your hairstyle comfortably while the specially
engineered spacing ensures the best hold. It aalso
has a contoured shape to t snugly to the head.
The lightweight resin will not weigh down hair
and provide an invisible lift..
The Volume Boost Comb is available at lead-
ing department stores nationwide for P569.75.
ONE of the countrys most admired companies, Monark Equipment
Corp., recently celebrated its 25th anniversary as the sole authorized
dealer of Caterpillar equipment in the Philippines.To celebrate this milestone,
Monark hosted a gala night for its customers at the NBC Tent in Bonifacio
Global City last May 25.
The event started with cocktails at the registration area, complete with beautiful
and friendly ramp and commercial models, who took care of the ushering and guest
relations duties for the night.
Adding luster to the occasion were sultry actress and product endorser Paloma
Esmeria and chanteuse Girl Valencia, whose rendition of timeless songs and favor-
ite hits, accompanied by live piano music, struck a chord among the crowd.
Looking back, Monark had faced a lot of challenges and opportunities in the past
25 years. We had our share of successes and failures; but whats important is that, in
every step of the journey, we strive to be better and smarter, says Edmidio Ramos,
Jr., Monark president.
"Surviving 25 years is truly an achievement for many companies; but to stay
committed that long to something worth doing is another. Monark Equipment is one
By Ed Biado
WE get it that a huge chunk of the
Filipino female population want a
lighter complexion. A lot of them
think that theyll look more at-
tractive. Others are trying to get
rid of the blemishes and uneven
skin tone. We get it that many girls
want to have rosy white cheeks and
underarms that arent dark. Skin
whitening products for women
are popular because they claim to
have the ability to give impression-
able young girls something they
desirefair kutis artista that will
make them stand out.
Filipino men, on the other hand,
dont have that concept. Weve
been brought up to believe that
the perfect gentleman is tall,
dark and handsome. Culturally
speaking, having really light skin
is seen as not masculine. I did
a quick informal survey among
my female friends to validate this
and the consensus is
that the ideal guys
skin tone should be
darker than the girls.
So why would Pinoy
guys want to lighten
their skin?
According to one sk-
incare brand, men need
skin whitening products because
they spend a lot of time outdoors.
Their communications speak to
guys who are active and always
on the go. They say that the suns
harshness equates to dark areas,
blotches and marks, and that whit-
ening is needed to even those out.
Thats actually quite a sane ratio-
nale.
However, another brand has
a different angle. Their
recent series of ads is
saying that if youre 10
percent lighter, then
youre 100 percent more
sosyal, 100 percent ap-
proved by your future
in-laws and, when youre
out clubbing, youll get
100 percent more [phone] num-
bers. What does that say about
all the other guys whose skin are
not light? That theyre not sosyal,
that theyre bad husbands and that
theyll be ignored at the club?
Comparison is an advertising
ploy. Sometimes, it works, like
if youre claiming that someone
with awless skin looks better
than someone with pimples and
blackheads. But its just bad if your
blanket statement is an uneducated
attack on a certain group of people,
especially if you dont have statis-
tics to back it up.
The worst part is they succeeded
in creating buzz by offending a lot
of people while miserably failing
to give their target market a com-
pelling reason to buy their product.
(But if their consumers are brain-
less supercial arrogant social-
climbing jerks, then maybe they
did succeed.)
Pump up
the volume
The
CONFIDENCE
PROJECT
By Lica Valdez
JUST recently, my friend Miki asked me for advice about another friend who
is incredibly insecure about being overweight. She would compare herself to
pretty girls who are skinnier or more beautiful than her. Every day, my
friend would comfort her and try to build up her condence.
Men and skin whitening
of the few who have been steadfast in its own commitment and have
been rewarded handsomely. Being Committed to Your Success, ac-
tually thrives in this day and age, afterall," he adds.
Celebrating 25 years of success
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JULY 9, 2012 MONDAY
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Page Compositor: Diana Keyser Punzalan
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA
The Health Sciences Center
Taft Avenue, Manila
Tel. # 554-8400 loc. 3025/3026; 526-4359
E-mail Address: bacI.upm@gmail.com
INVITATION TO BID
(MST-July 9, 2007)
Offce of the President
of the Philippines
Malacaang
BIDS AND AWARDS COMMITTEE
I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
(MST-July 9, 2012)
The Offce of the President, through the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC),
hereby invites all interested Phil-GEPS registered manufacturers, suppliers, dealers,
automotive manufacturer and authorized franchised dealers to submit bids for the
following projects, to wit:
Purchase
Request (PR)
No.
Project Approved
Budget for the
Contract
Non-
Refundable
Bid Fees
12-06-5046;
12-06-5163;
12-06-5199;
12-06-5200;
12-06-5078RB;
12-06-5085RB
1. Procurement of Various I.T.
Equipment, Software and
Peripherals
Php1,376,000.00 Php1,400.00
12-05-5002RB 2. Procurement of Vehicle Parts
& Accessories for Installation
to Security Vehicles (Supply
and Installation of Automotive
Electronic Parts and
Accessories)
Php2,499,825.00 Php2,500.00
12-06-5027RB 3. One (1) Lot Vehicle Repair,
Parts & Maintenance for the
Twenty Eight (28) Security
Vehicles of the President
Php1,538,044.23 Php1,600.00
Bid Documents are available from July 9 July 26, 2012, upon payment of non-
refundable fees stated above, from 8:00AM to 12:00N and from 1:00PM to 5:00PM,
Monday to Friday, and up to 9AM on the last day of the issuance and acquisition of
bid docs, at the BAC Secretariat Offce, RM 118, First Floor Mezzanine, Mabini Hall
Bldg., JP Laurel St.,San Miguel, Malacaang, Manila (Tel. No. 784-42-86 loc. 4161).
A pre-bid conference for the purpose will be held on July 12, 2012 at 1:00 PM at
the Executive Secretaries Hall and Gallery, 4
th
Floor, Mabini Hall Building, Malacaang,
Manila. Only those who have purchased bidding documents will be allowed to participate
in the pre-bid conference.

Deadline for the submission of the Bid/Tender Documents/Forms is on July
26, 2012 Thursday at 10:00AM at the BAC Secretariat Offce, RM 118 First Floor
Mezzanine, Mabini Hall Bldg., JP Laurel St.,San Miguel, Malacaang, Manila. The
opening of bids will be held on the same day, July 26, 2012, Thursday at 10:05AM
at the Executive Secretaries Hall and Gallery, 4
th
/F Mabini Hall Bldg., Malacaang,
Manila.
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using a
non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Revised Implementing Rules
and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 9184, otherwise known as the Government
Procurement Reform Act. Bids received in excess of the Approved Budget for the Contract
(ABC) shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
All particulars relative to eligibility screening, bid security, performance security,
pre-bid conference/s, evaluation of bids, post-qualifcation and award of contracts shall
be governed by the pertinent provisions of RA 9184 and its Revised IRR.
The Offce of the President-Bids and Awards Committee reserves the right to accept
or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to
contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
(Sgd.) Atty. MICHAEL G. AGUINALDO
Chairman, Bids and Awards Committee
1. The University of the Philippines Manila (UPM) hereby invites UPM-PGH
registered suppliers and interested parties to participate in the bidding for
the supply of the following commodities as funded by UPM and PGH Fund
164, 184, and 648-101:
Description Contract Duration Approved
Budget
Dropping/Opening
until 9:00 AM/10:00
AM
Equipment for Little Theater
(CAS) REBID)
Single Bid only 536,600.00 23 July 2012
Chemicals and Reagents
(Pharmacy) (NEGO)
April 2012-March 2013 5,655,110.00 23 July 2012
Dental Drill Hand piece and
Assor t ed Maxi l l of aci al
Surgical Retractors (NEGO)
Single Bid only 242,150.00 23 July 2012
Supply of Medical Supplies
(REBID)
April 2012-March 2013 11,316,191.51 23 July 2012

2. Interested parties not registered with UPM-PGH can secure application
for registration at the BAC I Secretariat, Purchasing Offce, PGH, any time
during offce hours.
3. Prospective bidders should have undertaken a similar project within the last
two (2) years amounting to at least 50% of Approved Budget for the Contract.
The Eligibility Check/Screening as well as the preliminary Examination of
Bids shall use non-discretionary "pass/fail" criteria. Post-qualifcation of the
lowest calculated responsive bid shall be conducted.
4. All particulars relative to Eligibility Statement and Screening, Bid Security,
Performance Security, Pre-Bidding Conference, Evaluation of Bids, Post-
Qualifcation and Award of Contract shall be governed by the pertinent
provisions of R.A. 9184 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR).
5. Application for Eligibility and bidding documents containing general conditions
and specifcations including the schedule of pre-bid conference shall be
issued starting 09 July 2012 at the PGH Purchasing Offce any time during
offce hours upon payment of a non-refundable amount to be determined
upon issuance to the UP Manila Cashier's Offce.
6. Sealed bids in triplicate copies of the respective commodities shall be
received on or before 9:00 A.M. of 23 July 2012, at the UP Manila Internal
Audit Offce, 8
th
Floor, Central Block Building, PGH, Manila, Late bids will
not be accepted.
7. Sealed bids will be opened on 23 July 2012 at 10:00 A.M. at the Bidding
Room, Purchasing Offce, 2
nd
Floor, Right Service Wing Bldg., near Ward
8, Philippine General Hospital, Taft Avenue, Manila by the Bids and Awards
Committee I in the presence of the attending bidders.
8. The University of the Philippines Manila hereby reserves the right to reject
any/and or all proposals, or to waive any formality therein and/or accept the
bids or not to make an award as may be considered most advantageous to
UP Manila.
9. For further information, prospective bidders may call the BAC-I Secretariat
and look for Mrs. Teresita T. Venturina at Tel. Nos. (02) 554-8400, local 2257,
2250.
(Sgd.) Dean VICENTE O. MEDINA, III, D.DM, Ph.D.
Chair, Bids and Awards Committee I
Republika ng Pilipinas
Department of Agriculture
Pambansang Pangasiwaan ng Patubig
(National Irrigation Administration)
Urdaneta, Pangasinan
Tel./Fax No. 075-568-2308; 568-8442; 568-4876
(MST-July 9, 2012)
The National Irrigation Administration through the General Appropriation Act of
2011 now invites bids for the REHAB./RESTO. OF SUYO-TAGUDIN-STA. CRUZ NIS under
GAA 101. The project is located in Sta. Cruz, Ilocos Sur. Bids received in excess
of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
Contract Ref. No.
Approved
Budget for the
Contract (ABC)
Description of
Work
Contract
Duration
Pre-bid
Conference
Opening of
Bids
Location of
Pre-bid &
Opening of
Bids
A. 1
st
Tranche
R1-ISIMO-12-06-155 Php 8,075,948.04
Temporary
Diversion Works &
Canalization
150 c.d.
August 3, 2012 at
10:00 AM
August 17, 2012
at 10:00 AM
NIA-Reg. Offce
Conf. Room,
Urdaneta City,
Pangasinan
B .2
nd
Tranche
R1-ISIMO-12-06-156 Php 8,072,164.74 Canalization 150 c.d.
August 3, 2012 at
10:00 AM
August 17, 2012
at 10:00 AM
NIA-Reg. Offce
Conf. Room,
Urdaneta City,
Pangasinan
1. Bidder must have an experience of having completed, within a period
ten (10) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a single
contract that is similar to the contract to be bid, must be at least 50% of
the ABC. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding
Documents, particularly, in Section II, Instructions to Bidders.
2. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures
using non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Implementing
Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise
known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bidding is restricted
to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with
at least seventy fve percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock
belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
3. Interested bidders may obtain further information from National Irrigation
Administration, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan (offce of the Head, BAC
Secretariat) and inspect the Bidding Documents from 8:00 A.M to 5:00 PM:
4. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested
Bidders from the above address and upon payment at the NIA Cashier of
a non-refundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of EIGHT
THOUSAND PESOS (Php8,000.00) per package.
5. Issuance & Availability of bidding documents is from the frst day of
advertisement/Posting of Invitation to Bid/ Request for Expression of
interest until submission and receipt of bids. Late bids shall not be
accepted.
6. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable
forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18.
7. All bids must be accompanied by a Certifcate of Site Inspection issued
by the implementing offce.
8. The National Irrigation Administration reserves the right to reject bids,
declare a failure of bidding, and not to award the contract without incurring
any liability if the funds/allotment for the project to be bid has been withheld
or reduced through no fault of its own.
9. Awarding of Contract shall be held in abeyance prior to receipt of the
Agency Budget Matrix (ABM) or Special Allotment Release Order (SARO)
for the full cost of the project.
For further information, please refer to:
ENGR. MYRNA C. MARTINEZ - Head BAC Secretariat
NIA-Regional Offce No. 1
Barangay Bayaoas, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan
Telefax No: (075)568-8442
E-mail address: niaengineeing@yahoo.com
(Sgd.) ROBERTO Q. ABULE
BAC Chairman
INVITATION TO BID
REHAB./RESTO. OF SUYO-TAGUDIN-STA. CRUZ NIS
Republika ng Pilipinas
Department of Agriculture
Pambansang Pangasiwaan ng Patubig
(National Irrigation Administration)
Urdaneta, Pangasinan
Tel./Fax No. 075-568-2308; 568-8442; 568-4876
(MST-July 9, 2012)
The National Irrigation Administration through the General Appropriation Act
of 2011 now invites bids for the CONSTRUCTION OF BOLO CIP under GAA 101.
The project is located in Labrador, Pangasinan. Bids received in excess of the
ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
Contract Ref. No.
Approved Budget
for the Contract
(ABC)
Description of
Work
Contract
Duration
Pre-bid
Conference
Opening of
Bids
Location of
Pre-bid & Opening
of Bids
A. Package 1
R1-PIMO-12-06-180 Php 4,252,484.60
Access Road &
Diversion Works
120 c.d.
August 3, 2012
at 10:00 AM
August 16,
2012 at 2:00
PM
NIA-Reg. Offce
Conf. Room,
Urdaneta City,
Pangasinan
B . Package 2
R1-ISIMO-12-06-181 Php 3518,218.66
Canal Structures
& Canal Lining at
Main Canal
90 c.d.
August 3, 2012
at 10:00 AM
August 16,
2012 at 2:00
PM
NIA-Reg. Offce
Conf. Room,
Urdaneta City,
Pangasinan
1. Bidder must have an experience of having completed, within a period
ten (10) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a single
contract that is similar to the contract to be bid, must be at least 50% of
the ABC. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding
Documents, particularly, in Section II, Instructions to Bidders.
2. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures
using non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Implementing
Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise
known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bidding is restricted
to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with
at least seventy fve percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock
belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
3. Interested bidders may obtain further information from National Irrigation
Administration, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan (offce of the Head, BAC Sec-
retariat) and inspect the Bidding Documents from 8:00 A.M to 5:00 PM:
4. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested
Bidders from the above address and upon payment at the NIA Cashier of
a non-refundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of FOUR
THOUSAND PESOS (Php4,000.00) per package.
5. Issuance & Availability of bidding documents is from the frst day of adver-
tisement/Posting of Invitation to Bid/ Request for Expression of interest
until submission and receipt of bids. Late bids shall not be accepted.
6. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable
forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18.
7. All bids must be accompanied by a Certifcate of Site Inspection issued
by the implementing offce.
8. The National Irrigation Administration reserves the right to reject bids,
declare a failure of bidding, and not to award the contract without incur-
ring any liability if the funds/allotment for the project to be bid has been
withheld or reduced through no fault of its own.
9. Awarding of Contract shall be held in abeyance prior to receipt of the
Agency Budget Matrix (ABM) or Special Allotment Release Order (SARO)
for the full cost of the project.
For further information, please refer to:
ENGR. MYRNA C. MARTINEZ - Head BAC Secretariat
NIA-Regional Offce No. 1
Barangay Bayaoas, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan
Telefax No: (075)568-8442
E-mail address: niaengineeing@yahoo.com
ROBERTO Q. ABULE
BAC Chairman
INVITATION TO BID
CONSTRUCTION OF BOLO CIP

Please be informed that the following accountable forms of
INVESTORS ASSURANCE CORPORATION (IAC) have been
lost:

TYPE OF POLICY SERIES FROM SERIES TO

(GPPA) Voluntary Group PA
204336 205000
205001 206000
209056 209256
210001 210059

Should you have any of the foregoing IAC forms in your
possession, please coordinate with our offce immediately and
bring the said form/s to our offce within thirty (30) days from the
date of this publication, for possible replacement of the form/s or
reimbursement of payments, if warranted. IAC reserves the right
to require presentation of other adequate proof of issuance and/or
payment in addition to the presentation of the original form/s.


INVESTORS ASSURANCE CORPORATION
Unit 1/20th Floor, BDO Plaza, Paseo de Roxas near cor. Makati Avenue,
Makati City 1200
Tel Nos.: (632) 822-4000 / 822-5000 / 891-0994 / 891-0996 / 891-0976



NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
(MST-July 9, 2012)
ERRORS & OMISSIONS
In Classified Ads section must be brought to our attention the very day the
advertisement is published. We will not be responsible for any incorrect ads not
reported to us immediately.
(MST-July 8, 9 & 10, 2012)
The AFP-Retirement and Separation Benefts System (AFP-RSBS) invites
interested parties to purchase, by way of sealed bid, the following properties
on as-is basis.
Description Location Min. Floor Price
197 Residential and 16 Commercial
Condominium Units (as one lot) with
TFA: 16,512.19 sqm, with TCT No.
227367 (TLA: 1,179 sqm)
Lot 1961 (TLA: 10,947 sqm) with
TCT No. T-326756
143 Yakal St., Brgy.
Kayamanan A, Makati
City
Sta. Rosa, Laguna
Php404,330,400.00
Php18,609,900.00
Interested bidders may obtain bidding documents with property descriptions
upon payment of P10,000.00 (for Makati property) and/or P500 (for Sta. Rosa
property) starting July 9, 2012 at the Marketing and Sales Department, G/F
AFP-RSBS Bldg., 424 Capinpin Ave., Camp Aguinaldo, Q.C. All bids must be
accompanied by a bid deposit equivalent to 10% of the minimum foor price. A
pre-bidding conference is scheduled on July 17, 2012 at 10 am, at the Galang
Hall, AFP-RSBS Bldg., 424 Capinpin Ave., Camp Aguinaldo, Q.C. Bids will
be opened in the presence of the bidders or their representatives on July 27,
2012 at 10 am in the same venue. For inquiries, please call Ramir or Wendell
at 912-0056 or 911-0313.
(Sgd.) MGen Daniel R Casabar, Jr AFP (Ret.)
Chairman, Real Estate Asset Bidding Committee
AFP-Retirement and Separation Benefts System
424 Capinpin Avenue, Camp Emilio Aguinaldo, Quezon City
INVITATION TO BID
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works & Highways
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Daet, Camarines Norte
INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works and
Highways, Camarines Norte Engineering District, invites contractors to bid for the
aforementioned projects:
Contract ID : 12FC0109
Contract Name : REHAB./IMPROVEMENT WITH SEAWALL OF CORY
AQUINO BOULEVARD
Sec. 1. Upgrading of Gravel to Concrete of President
Cory Aquino Boulevard (Bagasbas to Talisay
Section)
Sec. 2. Upgrading of Gravel to Concrete of President
Cory Aquino Boulevard (Bagasbas to Mercedes
Section)
Contract Location : Brgy. Bagasbas, Daet Cams. Norte
Scope of Work : Road with Seawall, 558 M PCCP and 178 M Seawall
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 28,576,200.00
Contract Duration : 158 C.D.
Source of Fund :
Tender Documents : Php 20,000.00
Contract ID : 12FC0110
Contract Name : REPAIR/REHABILITATION/IMPROVEMENT OF CORY
AQUINO BOULEVARD FORMERLY BAGASBAS
BOULEVARD (SAN JOSE SECTION)
Contract Location : San Jose, Talisay Cams. Norte
Scope of Work : 1,450 M Roads
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 29,100,000.00
Contract Duration : 210 C.D.
Source of Fund :
Tender Documents : Php 20,000.00
Contract ID : 12FC0111
Contract Name : REHABILITATION OF ROADSLIPS ALONG BAGONG
SILANG-CAPALONGA ROAD (PHASE I)
Contract Location : Talagpucao, Capalonga Cams. Norte
Scope of Work : Slope Protection, 180m
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 19,400,000.00
Contract Duration : 210 C.D.
Source of Fund :
Tender Documents : Php 10,000.00
Contract ID : 12FC0112
Contract Name : WIDENING/IMPROVEMENT OF DAANG MAHARLIKA
ROAD (Vinzons-Talisay-Daet-Basud Section)
Camarines Norte
Contract Location : KO339+000-KO340+000 (With Exceptions)
Scope of Work : Roads, 310 m both sides
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 5,614,360.00
Contract Duration : 113 C.D.
Source of Fund :
Tender Documents : Php 10,000.00
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised
IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected
at the opening of bid.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchase
bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration
with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation,
cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of
this contract, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within
a period of 10 years, (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC,
or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC, and (f) Prospective Bidders
must submit complete List of Equipment to be used for above Projects. The said List
of Equipment must be owned/leased by the bidder itself, (g) all interested Bidder/s
who wish to participate in this competitive bidding are required to have an Actual Site
Inspection (ASI) on the above mention projects.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration
to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the receipt of LOI.
The DPWH-POCW Central Offce will only process contractors applications for
registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certifcate of
Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website
www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurements activities are shown below:
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents From JULY 06 - 27, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference JULY 13, 2012 @ 2:00 P.M.
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
JULY 13, 2012 until 10:00 A.M.
4. Receipt of Bids JULY 27, 2012 until 10:00 A.M.
5. Opening of Bids JULY 27, 2012 @ 2:00 P.M.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at the Offce of the
BAC, DPWH, Daet, Camarines Norte, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of
(see cost of tender documents above). Prospective bidders may also download
the BDs from the DPWH website, if available. Prospective bidders that will download
the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission
of their bids Documents. The Pre-Bid Conference shall be open only to interested
parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in
the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in
the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst
envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy
of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid.
Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in
the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The Department of Public Works and Highways, Camarines Norte Engineering
District reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at
any time prior contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected
bidders.
(Sgd.) RICARDO L. PACARDO
OIC-Asst. District Engineer
BAC Chairman
Noted:
(Sgd.) SIMON N. ARIAS
OIC-District Engineer
(MST-July 9, 2012)
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Isah V. Red, Editor standard.showbiz@gmail.com
showbitz
Manila Standard TODAY
ISAH V.
RED
SIMPLY RED
The Rotary Club of Manila
recently named it TV5 Televi-
sion Station of the Year in its
annual Journalism Awards.
University of Asia and the
Pacic School of Communi-
cation recognized two of the
networks campaign at schools
Tambuli Awards.
And Atty. Ray C. Espinosa
couldnt help but express more
than thanks, saying, Beyond the
recognition we receive, these awards
conrm that TV5 is on the right track.
As the media business involves public
trust, we are committed to serve the in-
terests of Filipinos even better now more
than ever.
Espinosa is TV5 president and CEO.
He added, The award-giving body
recognized News5s thrust of delivering
truthful, balanced and responsible jour-
nalism, which was quickly and aggres-
sively executed through the use of lead-
ing edge technology in news reporting.
In his acceptance speech, TV5 Executive
Vice president and COO Rober to V. Bar reiro
stressed that News5 is progressively tapping all
possible platforms to deliver news relevant to
the public. We are not a television network
alonein fact, we are a content creator. We
will push the content to any medium, to any de-
vice anytime, anywhere, said Barreiro.
This was made possible by the networks
cross-platform perspective which spans free-
to-air TV (TVS), UHF-TV (Aksyon TV), radio
(Radyo Singko 92.3 News FM), online (lnter-
aksyon.com) and mobile (Trafc Navigator, In-
terAksyon and Weather apps).
On the other hand, the Tambuli Awards
recognized two of TV5s campaigns, PBA
Kampihan Na and Higit sa Balita, Aksyon.
The former, the brand campaign of TV5s sports
channel AKTV, won gold for Best Insights and
Strategic Thinking Campaign. On the other
hand, TV5 News and Informations ongoing
campaign, Higit sa Balita, Aksyon, bagged
bronze for Best Media-initiated Campaign.
TV5 has an advantage over the two leading net-
works in the evening newscast. While TV Patrol
is still the leading newscast nationwide 24 Oras
in Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, GMA and
ABS-CBN should not remain complacent that
TV5 could remain a far third for a long time.
I will not be surprised if one of these days,
News5 emerges as the dominant news organiza-
tion in the entire archipelago.
Ruffa leaves Paparazzi
On a Saturday, Ruffa Guttierez would be
up and about prettifying herself. And she had
to be on the set of Paparazzi along with Cr isty
Fer min and Dolly Ann Car vajal for an hour or
so of showbiz talk.
Three Saturdays ago, she walked out and
never came back.
Two Saturdays later, she was in Aracama at
The Fort with members of the press relaunch-
ing her website and Roof a Child Foundation.
She said she was happy. And when one member
of the press asked about her resignation from
Paparazzi, Ruffa asked him, Didnt you get a
copy of my ofcial statement? and ordered her
publicist to make sure the guy gets one.
The statement was circulated on the net and
we got one in our e-mail. Here are excerpts:
My life is not without scandal or controversy.
I cannot erase my past, but I can certainly re-
write my future. This is what I have strived to
do since I became a mother to Lorin and Ven-
ice. I have made an effort to right the wrongs in
my life because I knew that as I got older, it was
far more important for me to imbibe the right
values for my children and it begins by being a
good example to them of what a woman should
be. I am not perfect. I have made many mis-
takes and I am sure that I will make more. But
when faced with something that is contrary to
the principles I have learned to embrace, I will
stand up for myself and for the people I love.
Last June 23, 2012, Paparazzi, a showbiz-
oriented talk show on TV5, which I was a host
of, planned a birthday celebration for me. I was
happy, excited and was truly looking forward to
what the presentation would be. I was briefed
before the show with a simple overview of the
program ow but was not provided with details.
No specic questions, no line up of guests, etc.
As most TV shows go, surprises are done for
birthday celebrations. As such, not everything
is cascaded to the birthday celebrant to be
able to get an honest reaction on air. First they
showed a video message of Habitat for Hu-
manity spokesperson and an Avon top execu-
tive, then birthday cards from Lorin and Venice
were given to me which I read on air.
The second part of the celebration was a
Bulungan portion. Right before going on air,
one of the shows creative team members, Noel
Ferrer told me to just be game in answer-
ing the questions. My other co-hosts seconded
the motion. I was feeling a little panic, still not
knowing what the questions would be, but I
went on with it as we were about to go on air.
The portion referred to male actors I have been
linked to in my late teensZoren Legaspi,
Robin Padilla and Aga Muhlach who are all
now happily married with their own children.
The segment started with the rst question
whispered in my ear. I was absolutely appalled
at the sexual content of the question most es-
pecially since their wives are my friends. I
showed my discomfort immediately but tried to
be a good sport and played along. But as the
segment wore on, the rest of the questions whis-
pered in my ear got worse pertaining to male
private parts and sexual behaviorall of which
are denitely not appropriate content for air-
ing on national television, most especially at a
wholesome hour (lunchtime) with my children,
my parents, my family and friends and other
peoples children, family and friends watching.
I refused to dignify the lewd and offensive ques-
tion with an answer. I was mortied, upset and
it was beginning to show behind my smile. No
one has a right to ask those questions to any-
one on air or even off air. The questions may
have been whispered, but they were resonating
loudly as offensive, vulgar and degrading to a
person. As a TV personality and as a profes-
sional I composed myself and smiled through
my disgust, stomaching those inane questions
to nish the show.
As soon as the show nished, I felt that my
dignity and integrity as a person along with the
rest of my womanhood were violated. I knew
right then and there that I would never come
back to Paparazzi. I may not be faultless but I
know where to draw the line between degrad-
ing and entertaining.
After evaluating the direction that the show
has been geared towards as of late, I strongly
feel that the values and the principles that the
show stands for are no longer aligned to what
I wish for myself and for my children and even
the causes I stand for . Hence as of June 27,
2012 I have formally submitted my resignation
letter to Perci Intalan, Entertainment and Cre-
ative Head of TV5.
So, thats it. No more questions, please.
JOSEPH
PETER GONZALES
SHTICKS
Lovi and
Jake
LOVI Poe claries rumor
about her and J ake Cuenca.
Our status now is not the
type which after doing one
project together, the end. In
our case, whats good is that
after My Neighbors Wife, our
communication lines remained
open. We continued nourish-
ing the friendship we started.
We treat it as something spe-
cial. she reveals. Sorry to
disappoint the speculators but
at this point, Jake and I are
just good friends.
The two are starring in a lm
together.
Its an indie project titled
Lihis. The story tackles a
delicate theme: a bizarre love
triangle among a woman and
two gay men. With us is Bar-
on Geisler .
Shes a Kapuso and Jake is
a Kapamilya. It seems that the
network war does not exist be-
tween them.
I noticed that! Ha-ha-ha!
Im proud that even if Jake and I
belong to rival stations, we still
get to do lms together. Thats a
rare opportunity for stars these
days. Its cool, ends Lovi.
Car l and Kr is
Car l Guevar r a admitted
hes courting Kr is Ber nal. The
girl is attered.
Who wouldnt be, she
says. I think any girl would
feel the same way if she knows
theres a certain guy whos
showing her extra attention and
treats her special.
The petite actress stresses
this doesnt mean shes al-
ready prepared to give her
sweet Yes!
At this point, I just want to
enjoy the feeling. There should
be no rush. Whats important is
for me to know Carl better rst.
It would all start there. I think
its also an effective gauge if he
would be patient enough to wait
for my answer, right?
Many ask what good
characteristics Carl have
which strike her.
You know, hes kind,
thoughtful and sweet. I dont
want to compare him with the
other guys who are showing
interest on me at present but
Carl is different. I can see and
feel his seriousness. For one,
he doesnt expect anything in
return with all the good things
he is showing me. Hes a real
gentleman.
So whats taking her from
answering Carl?
Perhaps, we just need some
little more time to bond together
so that well get to know each
other better. From there, who
knows, right? Kris says.
JON Santos, the master im-
personator does it again. On
the second night of his four-
night sold out Jon Santos:
In.Person.Nation at the Te-
atrino, the demand for a re-
peat of the highly successful
comedy outing was already a
huge clamor.
The producers had no re-
course but to give in to the
overwhelming request and
announced that In.Person.
Nation has been extended
for three nights moreon
July 13, 20 and 28also at
the Teatrino.
Jon has returned to his
favorite showplace, the Te-
atrino, for his newer and
fresher spoof show Jon San-
tos: In.Person.Nation from
June 15, 16, and then again
on 22 and 23. He, once
again breathed life into his
and your favorite characters
from showbiz and politics in
his greatest hits.
Watch him extend the les-
sons until next month as he
goes back to his favorite class-
roomthe live stage. He and
his battalion of stars will be
at Teatrino at Promenade in
Greenhills on the remaining
shows on July 13, 20 and 28.
The show, directed by
Char i Arespacochaga and
Johann Dela Fuente, brings
back the creative team be-
hind Jon Santoss every suc-
cessful stand-up comedy act,
spearheaded by writers Jon
Santos, Enr ico Santos and
Joel Mercado. Joining Jon
in all shows is his special
guest, The Whiplash.
With Jon Santos:
In.Person.Nation, Jon re-
connects with the queens
from his closetMiss Dion-
ing Sapakyaw, the queen of
GenSan; Ate Vi, the queen
of Batangas; Armida Si-
guion Macareyna, the queen
of OPM; Miriam Defensive,
the queen of the Senate;
Krissy Anino, the queen of
all media; Miss Lady Gaga,
the queen of music; Sham-
cey, the queen of beauty; and
Vicky Below, the queen of
pagpapabyuti.
Jon also welcomes the
chance to take his greatest
hits to the next level with
Jon Santos: In.Person.Na-
tion from Love in 3D (Three
Divas) at the Resorts World,
to Life in 4S (the S issues:
Scarborough, Supreme Court
sessions, Showbiz scandals
even Sanchez, Jessica) also
at the Teatrino. All these and
more for a fun night that is
truly 4S, star-studded,
spooftacular, satirical and
sosyal!
STATION
of the Year
Jon Santos: In.Person.
Nation, the repeat
DONT blink now.
TV5 is getting noticed.
AS an institution which strongly
believes in holistic learning,
Academy of Rock (AOR) pro-
vides a conducive environment
for students to build and develop
their character, inspire creativity
and forge lasting relationships
through the process of learning.
In the ve years that it has
been in operation in Singapore,
AORs successes and achieve-
ments have exceeded all expec-
tations. In 2011, it was awarded
the Promising SME 500 2012
from Small Medium Business
Association (SMBA), Sin-
gapore. The Academy distin-
guishes itself from many other
music institutions by ensuring
that its teachers are internation-
ally certied to conduct music
lessons. It is part of AORs
culture to expose students to a
diverse range of musical expe-
riences as such our students are
given opportunities to perform
at world-class art venues lo-
cally as well as abroad.
It also has its very own retail
department with the AOR Mu-
sic Store, which will market its
own range of instruments. These
instruments have been carefully
selected to cater to the beginners
and their quality in construction
and nish will prove to be the
instrument of choice for any
new music prodigy.
Experience the joy of play-
ing the music of today as well
as strumming to the beats of the
past, with a structured learn-
ing system that is systematic
yet tailored to the individual.
Be pampered with the choice
to pursue your academic aspi-
rations with the leading Rock
Music Examination board in the
worldRockschool UK. And
get inspired to showcase your
talents on the stage or screen.
This year, it has been
presented with an opportunity
to stretch its arms beyond the
shores of Singapore. AOR had
the system, the strength and the
network of support to share its
expertise with the land of musical
talentsthe Philippines. It is
with pride that the latest addition
to the AOR family is presented
the Academy Of Rock Phils, Inc.
The successful launch on June 22
was capped with a show, which
featured Yeng Constantino and
Sandwich.
Great musicians are born here
Ruffa Gutierrez: Out of
Paparazzi, but not TV5
Santos does a repeat of his show.