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Aquino allies question
figures cited in report
How our taxes will be spent. Budget Secretary Florencio Abad presents
to Speaker Feliciano Belmonte the proposed P2.006 trillion budget for 2013.
MANNY PALMERO
New Chinese city. The Chi-
nese ag utters in front of the
administration building in the
newly-established city of Sansha
on a remote island in the South
China Sea that is also claimed by
Vietnam. A Chinese Army attack
helicopter hovers during a ight
demonstration on the outskirts
of Beijing.
How they work. Miguel Avila (3rd from right) of Smartmatic demonstrates to law-
makers how to operate the vote-counting machine. MANNY PALMERO
What was glaring for me---and Id
like to check this out---was when he
said that crime rates have gone down,
Cayetano said.
Contrary to that claim, he said, ev-
erywhere he went village captains,
mayors, governors and congressmen
had been telling him of the worsening
peace-and-order situation in their re-
spective jurisdictions.
Cayetano also said there was a possi-
bility that the number of people coming
forward to report crime had dropped,
even though the actual crimes were still
rising.
In his speech, the President said the
number of crimes had gone down since
he assumed ofce, citing 2011 gures,
even though data for the rst half of
2012 showed that crime was on the up-
swing in Metro Manila.
Deputy presidential spokeswoman
Abigail Valte acknowledged the 2012
gures for Metro Manila, but said those
were incomplete and could not be com-
pared with the gures from the previous
year.
In Metro Manila the rate is up, but
overall, our gures are still lower, she
said.
You cant do an apples-to-apples
comparison if you use the 2012 data be-
cause it is incomplete.
A police spokesman on Tuesday
MANILA on Tuesday issued another diplomatic protest against
China over its recent announcement that it was building a mili-
tary garrison in the newly-established city of Sansha.
Chinas State Council or Cabinet expanded Sanshas control
over the islands in the South China Sea (Western Philippines
Sea) despite strong objections from Manila and Hanoi.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said the
Philippines had expressed grave concern and strong pro-
test over Beijings latest actions.
Del Rosario also asked the Chinese government to exer-
cise self-restraint to avoid any further escalation over the
disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
We hope that China, as a responsible country, will ex-
ercise self-restraint on the conduct of activities that would
complicate or escalate disputes and affect peace and stability
in the region, he said.
The Philippine had protested the establishment of San-
sha city in early July, saying the expansion of the city vio-
lated Philippine sovereignty rights over the Kalayaan Island
Group and Bajo de Masinloc and infringed on Philippine
sovereign rights over the waters and continental shelf of the
West Philippine Sea.
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Manila
Bishops
saddened
by PNoys
RH slant
JBC starts screening chief justice aspirants
Senate okays
PH-Australia
military drills
Palace submits record-high
P2-trillion budget to House
New NBI director appointed
Poll machine warranty only 1 year
By Macon Ramos-Araneta and Christine F. Herrera
SENATE Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano
on Tuesday questioned the accuracy of the sta-
tistics presented by President Benigno Aquino
III in his State-of-the-Nation Address Monday,
particularly those related to crime and health
coverage, but a Palace spokeswoman denied any
sugar coating of the facts.
Manila protests
Chinese garrison
in Shansa City
By Maricel V. Cruz
THE House of Representatives will
deliberate on the Palace-sponsored P2-
trillion national budget for 2013 next
month both at the committee level and
in plenary, ofcials said on Tuesday.
House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte
and Minority Leader and Quezon Rep.
Danilo Suarez led the turnover ceremo-
ny for the record-high budget bill with
Budget Secretary Florencio Abad.
We intend to have extensive hear-
ings as we did in the previous years,
Belmonte told reporters.
We would like, [on] the third year
of the Aquino administration, to say that
at the time the year ended, we already
have the budget at hand.
Suarez said that the House minority
bloc will scrutinize every centavo con-
tained in the national expenditures pro-
gram to ensure transparency.
At the Senate, Senator Franklin Dri-
lon praised the early submission of next
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has
appointed lawyer Nonnatus Caesar
Rojas, who has been ofcer in charge
of the National Bureau of Investigation
since January this year, as the agencys
new director, Executive Secretary
Paquito Ochoa said Tuesday.
He said he forwarded Rojass ap-
pointment to Justice Secretary Leila
de Lima in a letter dated July 20.
Rojas replaced former director
Magtanggol Gatdula, who was red
after he was accused of involvement in
the kidnapping and extortion case led
by Noriyo Ohara, a Japanese national.
The case is pending in court.
A native of Vigan City, Ilocos Sur,
Rojas nished law at the San Beda
College and passed the bar examina-
tions in 1984. He is the son of former
NBI deputy director Mariano Rojas.
Before joining the NBI, Rojas served
as state prosecutor and then regional
prosecutor of the Justice Department in
San Fernando, La Union. He was also
former regional chairman of the Na-
tional Prosecutors League of the Philip-
pines. Sara Susanne Fabunan
THE Catholic Church on Tuesday
expressed disappointment over
President Benigno Aquino IIIs ref-
erence to responsible parenthood
in his State-of-the-Nation Address,
and even though he did not mention
the reproductive health bill that re-
mains pending in Congress.
In a statement, the Catholic Bish-
ops Conference of the Philippines
said the RH bill was disguised as
a health measure but was actually
a population control program that
ran contrary to the Churchs stance
against articial contraception.
We are deeply saddened and dis-
appointed about it, CBCP-Episcopal
Commission on Family and Life ex-
ecutive secretary Melvin Castro said.
The Church said the Aquino ad-
ministration should focus on good
THE Elections Commissions controver-
sial purchase of 81,000 used vote-counting
machines from Smartmatic Corp. for P1.8
billion is going to cost the Filipino tax pay-
ers more, a congressional committee was
told on Tuesday.
Marlon Garcia, Smartmatics product
development specialist, told the House com-
mittee on electoral reforms and suffrage that
the Comelec would have to make additional
payments for the spare parts to be used to re-
pair the defective precinct count optical scan
machines bought by the poll body.
We will either replace or repair for
free the defective PCOS machines during
the one-year warranty, Garcia said in re-
sponse to the questioning by ACT Teachers
THE Senate voted 17-1 in approving
Resolution No. 788, the Philippines-
Australia Status of Visiting Forces
Agreement, on the second day of the
third regular season of the 15th Con-
gress on Tuesday.
Senator Joker Arroyo was the lone
dissenter of the 18 senators who were
present during the plenary session.
There were no abstentions.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago,
who was sick, and Senator Bongbong
Marcos did not attend the session.
Both later voiced their opposition to
the VFA.
Arroyo said he was convinced that
the SOVFA would not be benecial to
the country. He noted that its passage
was delayed for two years because
they did not see the need for it.
We have not ratied the SOVFA
between Australia and the Philippines
for two years because we did not see
the need for it, Arroyo said.
By Rey E. Requejo
THE Judicial and Bar Counci has started
screening the candidates to the position of
chief justice of the Supreme Court despite
the unresolved legal squabble over Con-
gress representation in the seven-member
body, ofcials said on Tuesday.
Senator Francis Escudeo and Iloilo Rep.
Neil Tupas, who were former JBC mem-
bers, asked for reconsideration of a Supreme
Court ruling that reduced Congress mem-
bership to one and tossed to the legislature
the problem of who will be retained.
Tupas said he had been allowed to rep-
resent the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, but no decision had been reached on
who would be Congress permanent repre-
sentative to the council.
The Constitution provides for a seven-
member JBC, including only one repre-
sentative from Congress. But the councils
members increased to eight after the Senate
and the House appointed their respective
representatives to the body.
Former Solicitor General Frank Chavez
questioned before the Supreme Court JBCs
membership, which he described as uncon-
stitutional. The Court supported his petition
to cut Congress membership to one.
Tupas and Escudero tossed the blame to
the framers of the 1987 constitution for what
they called their oversight in specifying
that the JBC would have seven members.
The composition of the JBC as a seven-
member body was envisioned by the fram-
ers of the 1987 Constitution on the operat-
ing premise that our Congress would be a
unicameral one, the National Assembly,
Tupas said.
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CUSTOMS Commissioner
Ruffy Biazon has ordered the in-
vestigation of those responsible
for smuggling thousands of sacks
of imported rice worth P42 mil-
lion that his men seized at the
Subic Freeport Friday last week.
Biazon said his men had
told him that a Danny Ngo
and a Bobbit Borja were the
contacts of the rice smugglers
from Dagupan Street in Divi-
soria, Manila, who had tried
to smuggle in 420,000 sacks
of rice that were declared as
construction materials.
It appeared that Borja was
formerly assigned to the Ofce
of the Commissioner during the
time of Commissioner Angelito
Alvarez, and then was desig-
nated as an ordinary clerk at the
Ofce of the Customs Police.
Ngo acted as broker.
Biazon said the two alleg-
edly received P5.2 million from
the smuggling syndicate in ex-
change for the smooth release
of the rice shipment.
Biazon on Sunday ordered
his men at the Subic Bay Met-
ropolitan Authority to investi-
gate the attempt to smuggle the
sacks of rice that were shipped
as bulk but did not have import
documents.
He said Customs would le
charges against Borja and Ngo
if it was proven that they were
conniving with smugglers.
Manila...
The Philippines does not
recognize the Sansha City and
the extent of its jurisdiction, and
considers recent measures taken
by China as unacceptable, Del
Rosario said
Hanoi had made a similar pro-
test through its Foreign Ministry
spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi.
Chinas establishment of the
so-called Sansha City violated
international law, seriously vio-
lating Vietnam sovereignty over
the Paracel and Spratly archi-
pelagos, Nghi said.
China ignored both protests and
recently formed a legislative body
that elected the citys new officials.
According to Chinas ofcial
website, the legislative body on
Monday elected the citys rst
mayor, director, deputy mayors,
head of the citys intermediate
peoples court and members of
the procuratorate.
Elected as mayor was 51-year
old Xiao Jie, while the 56-year
old Fu Zhang was chosen as the
director of the standing com-
mittee of Sansha Municipal
Peoples Congress, the citys
legislative body.
The new ofcials were voted
by the 45 deputies who made up
the Municipal Peoples Congress.
The new mayors jurisdic-
tion could cover a huge part of
the West Philippine Sea (South
China Sea) which affects parts
of the Philippines, Vietnam, Tai-
wan, Malaysia and Brunei.
Manilas protest was the 11th
note verbale it sent to the Chinese
Embassy, which followed a simi-
larly strong-worded protest when
China deployed 29 fishing vessels, a
supply ship and two maritime ships
near Kagitingan and Zamora reefs
off Palawan province.
The deployment of the Chinese
eet in the Spratlys was more of
a political statement than an eco-
nomic one as claimed by Chinese
analysts.
On Tuesday, though, Beijing
showed off to a group of foreign
media in Tongzhou base its lat-
est military hardware, including
brand-new attack helicopters,
which western experts said was
part of its increasingly aggres-
sive stance in asserting its over
the South China Sea.
Our militarys aim is to pro-
tect peace. The training exercis-
es we carry out are normal and
in line with what we always do,
Zhang Zhilin, commander of the
Army Aviation 4th Helicopter
Regiment, told reporters.
Zhangs unit operates Har-
bin Z-9 attack helicopters, a
licensed-built version of the Eu-
rocopter Dauphin II, and older
Russian Mi-17 transport heli-
copters, which also ies Chinas
astronauts back to base when
they return to Earth.
A month ago, China presented
its rst modern modern military
attack helicopter, the Z-10, which
experts say is developing into one
of the worlds most modern and
capable combat helicopter.
Although way behind in its mil-
itarys modernization program,
the Philippines has also started
boosting its arsenal and plans to
acquire refurbished C-130 planes,
Huey helicopters, combat heli-
copters, communication equip-
ment, ries and mortars, cannons,
personnel carriers and frigates.
Later this year, the countrys
newest Hamilton class cutter, the
BRP Ramon Alcaraz, is expected
to drop anchor and join the BRP
Gregorio del Pilar in policing
Manilas maritime territories.
In his State-of-the-Nation Ad-
dress, President Aquino, had said
his government would continue to
pursue and defend its sovereign
rights over the 200-nautical miles
exclusive economic zone provid-
ed by the United Nations Conven-
tion on the Law of the Sea.
There are those who say that
we should let Bajo de Masinloc
go; we should avoid the trouble.
But if someone entered your yard
and told you he owned it, would
you agree? Would it be right to
give away that which is rightfully
ours? Mr. Aquino said.
This is not a simple situation,
and there can be no simple solu-
tions. Rest assured: we are con-
sulting experts, every leader of our
nation, our allieseven those on
the other sideto nd a resolu-
tion that is acceptable to all.
This is not about picking up a
ght or showing off. This is not
about bullying. This is about at-
taining peace. This is about our
capability to defend ourselves.
But anti-Philippine sentiment
in Beijing appears to be high.
The Chinese Daily has urged
Beijing to stop extending aid to
Manila.
The newspaper said it [the
Philippines] does not deserve
too much attention from China.
Another China daily, the
Global Times, said in its edi-
torial that there is no need to
dole out generous aid to the
Philippines.
Sara Susanne D. Fabunan,
with the AP
Senate...
But because of our problem with China
which claims some islands in the West
Philippine Sea, which are ours, we sud-
denly want to ratify it.
Arroyo said the Senate vote might send a
wrong message to China that the Philippines
had other powerful countries as allies aside
from the United States.
But Senator Teosto Guingona III argued
that the SOVFA with Australia was simply
a training and education agreement.
He said the agreement would not lead to
the establishment of military bases in the
country or deprive the Philippine courts of
their jurisdiction to try cases like murder,
rape, sexual harassment and the like led
against the Australian Visiting Forces.
Let us not mislead the Filipino people
into believing that the SOVFA will give us
an automatic ally in times of armed conict.
This is not the objective of SOVFA, Guin-
gona said.
Sponsored by Senator Loren Legarda,
the VFA was ratied by President Noynoy
Aquino as urgent on Dec. 23, 2010. Ma-
con Ramos-Araneta
Investigate
smugglers,
Biazon says
Bishops...
governance and address poverty
instead of listening to dramatic
allegations about the increase in
maternal deaths.
In his third State-of-the-Nation
Address Monday, Mr. Aquino
mentioned responsible parent-
hood while talking about a short-
age of textbooks and classrooms.
We are ending the backlogs
in the education sector, but the
potential for shortages remains
as our student population contin-
ues to increase. Perhaps respon-
sible parenthood can help address
this, Mr. Aquino said in an ap-
parent reference to his adminis-
trations watered-down version of
the RH bill.
While the remark drew loud ap-
plause from the supporters of the
RH bill, Mr. Aquino said nothing
more on the topic.
But Castro chided the President
for using population control as a
solution to the challenges facing
the education sector.
We do not see any connection
between the education problem
and the RH bill or his responsible
parenthood because these are
about promoting and funding of
contraceptive usage, he said.
Despite the lack of a clear en-
dorsement by the President, a
Liberal Party lawmaker on Tues-
day called for a party vote in sup-
port of the RH bill.
Eastern Samar Rep. Ben Evar-
done urged the party president,
Manuel Roxas II, to call a special
meeting of the 87 LP members
in the House as a response to the
Presidents support for the bill.
The party leadership should
take a stand, Evardone said.
I think its about time to take a
party stand because the President
has already expressed his support
for the measure. It is a major poli-
cy statement.
Earlier, Speaker Feliciano Bel-
monte Jr. said the RH bill would
still have a chance of being
passed, and even though Majority
Leader Neptali Gonzales II had
said time was running out.
Evardone acknowledged that
lawmakers were having a dif-
cult time passing the bill because
of the heavy Church lobbying
against it, and with elections set
for next year.
A group supporting the RH bill
on Tuesday said there should be
no further delay in putting the
contentious bill to a vote.
Philippine Legislators Com-
mittee on Population and Devel-
opment Foundation Inc. director
Rom Dongeto said the Presidents
endorsement of responsible par-
enthood in his address Monday
was a strong message for legis-
lators to act on the bill.
This poses a challenge to
the leadership of the Senate
and the House of Representa-
tives to put the RH bill to a
vote after Aquinos endorse-
ment of the responsible par-
enthood, which is equivalent
to the reproductive health and
responsible parenthood mea-
sures pending in both Houses
of Congress, Dongeto said.
He said passing the bill was
even more urgent with the in-
crease in the maternal mortality
rate and in teenage pregnancies.
Vito Barcelo, Maricel Cruz and
Macon Ramos-Araneta
Palace...
years budget, saying that
would allow them to re-
view it thoroughly.
In the past two years, we
were able to pass the Gen-
eral Appropriations Acts
before December 31 of each
year, and if we were able to
do it then, I am condent
that we can do it again, said
Drilon, chairman of the -
nance committee.
Cavite Rep. Joseph
Emilio Abaya, chairman of
the appropriations commit-
tee, said next years budget
will be passed on time.
Our goal is to have the
budget signed on Decem-
ber 30, 2012, Abaya said,
adding the higher amount
was based on a higher
growth assumption of 6 to
7 percent.
In crafting the 2013
budget, the Aquino admin-
istration was determined to
build on the gains we have
so far posted, Abad said.
At the same time, we
recognized the need to
widen citizen engagement
in designing next years
budget. With Macon Ra-
mos-Araneta
Poll...
party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio
on the warranty on the vote-
counting machines acquired by
the Comelec.
Beyond the warranty period,
Garcia said, any spare parts
needed to x any defective ma-
chine would be supplied for a
fee, but he was quick to add
that the Comelec and his com-
pany had yet to reach an agree-
ment on the matter.
Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy
Casio and Gabriela Rep.
Luz Ilagan said in separate
interviews that Garcias
revelations showed that the
P1.8-billion purchase of the
machines had not been prop-
erly audited to ensure that
those machines were work-
ing machines.
Now that this deal has been
closed and perfected, the Fili-
pino people will have to pay
for the spare parts of the defec-
tive PCOS that should not have
been at all included in the trans-
action, Casio said.
He said that even if it had
bought used counting ma-
chines, the Comelec should
have included a major provi-
sion in the purchase contract
that any defective unit would
be repaired by Smartmatic be-
fore it was turned over to the
government.
Apparently, the Comelec
bought the PCOS machines
from Smartmatic for the last
elections regardless of whether
they were working or defective
units, Ilagan said.
A defective unit is a piece of
junk. Maricel V. Cruz
Tense wait. Lawyer Andres Bautista and Justice Secretary Leila De Lima wait for their turn to be
interviewed by the Judicial and Bar Council, which is vetting the nominees to the position of Supreme
Court Chief Justice. DANNY PATA
JBC...
But the Supreme Court, in its
decision which was for immediate
execution but subject to appeal,
said: It is clear... that the Consti-
tution mandates that the JBC be
composed of seven members only.
Thus, any inclusion of another
member, whether with one whole
vote or half of it, goes against that
mandate.
Depite the legislators appeal
to the Supreme Court, the JBC
started interviewing six of the 22
candidates who will be included in
a shortlist of nominees to be sub-
mitted to President Aquino for ap-
pointment to the post vacated by
Supreme Court Chief Justice Re-
nato Corona, who was impeached
by the Senate on May 29.
Among those who went before
the panel was Justice Secretary
Leila de Lima, who deed a Su-
preme Court Temporary Restrain-
ing Order last year that should
have allowed former President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to trav-
el and seek treatment abroad.
Illegal orders and decisions
are not worthy of obedience, De
Lima told the panel presided by
Supreme Court Justice Diosdado
Peralta, who said her interpreta-
tion of the implementation of the
Courts order was conditional.
If you think the TRO was not
in consonance with the rules, are
we not supposed to follow orders
rst and le a motion later? Per-
alta said.
De Limas deance of the TRO
became the basis of a disbarment
complaint led against her by law-
yers Ricardo Rivera and Agustin
Sundiam, and it could lead to her
disqualication by the JBC.
De Lima also brushed aside crit-
icisms that she lacked post-gradu-
ate degrees compared with the
past chief justices and the other
candidates, who have masters; and
doctoral degrees from prestigious
institutions such as Harvard Uni-
versity in the United States.
Its not a matter of having
numerous academic credentials.
What matters is the character of
the person, De Lima said.
Peralta asked De Lima about
her moral tness to lead the ju-
diciary and what she would do if
something embarrassing about
her past comes out, and she re-
plied: I will do the right thing.
Another candidate, Andres Bau-
tista, chairman of the Presidential
Commission on Good Govern-
ment, proposed that the Supreme
Court Chief Justice must serve a
term of only seven years similar to
elected ofcials.
The four other candidates inter-
viewed by the JBC included law-
yer Soledad Cagampang-De Cas-
tro, De La Salle Univeristy law
dean Jose Manuel Diokno, Solici-
tor General Francis Jardeleza, and
womens rights lawyer Katrina
Legarda.
Misleading...
acknowledged that crime was
up in Metro Manila and other
urban areas this year.
We admit that percentage-
wise, the crime volume in
populated areas like Region
3, 4A, 7 and Metro Manila is
high, said Chief Supt. Gen-
eroso Cerbo Jr.
Police data showed that
from January to June this
year, there were 29,231
crimes recorded in Metro Ma-
nila, or 10,000 more than the
incidents reported over the
same period in 2011.
Cerbo attributed the rising
crime rate to the presence of
organized crime groups, but
said the crimes in the prov-
inces had gone down.
Cayetano, meanwhile, also
questioned the Presidents an-
nouncement that 85 percent of
the population were already
registered with the state-
owned Philippine Health In-
surance Inc.
Citing the low level of en-
rollment in his bailiwick of
Taguig, he added: I dont
know if it is only in our place
where so many people are not
PhilHealth members.
He also said that while the
President spoke of ending
the shortage of classrooms
by 2013, he said nothing of
having enough teachers and
books, not to mention com-
puters that other countries al-
ready had.
Cayetano said the President
was so popular he should tell
Filipinos the true state of the
nation and talk about its prob-
lems honestly.
If he will tell the truth, he
will get sympathy and they
will help him, Cayetano said.
Two lawmakers on Tuesday
called for an investigation of a
P1.2-billion gun procurement
contract, saying the President
might have been misled into
announcing that the police
had acquired 74,600 9mm
pistols even though the bid-
ding for those had not been
completed.
Antipolo City Rep. Rey-
naldo Acop and Agham Rep.
Angelo Palmones said the
Presidents announcement of
a winning bid was premature
given the number of com-
plaints and alleged anomalies
surrounding the deal.
When this administration
began, 45 percent of our po-
lice carried no guns and prob-
ably relied on magic charms
as they chased criminals,
the President had said in his
speech.
But now... we have com-
pleted the bidding and we are
now testing the quality for an
order of 74,600 guns, which
we will provide our police, so
that they may better serve and
protect the nation, our com-
munities, and themselves.
But Acop and Palmones, in
a House resolution, noted that
the winning bidder had been
disqualified and the next clos-
est bidder also failed to com-
ply with the required eligibil-
ity documents.
We want to know who has
been misleading the President
and giving him wrong infor-
mation to make it appear that
the President was trying to
issue a marching order that
the winner be given the P1.2-
billion contract when the sup-
posed winner was disquali-
fied and the other bidder also
failed to comply, the law-
makers said in a statement.
Palmones said he was par-
ticularly interested in find-
ing out why the President
announced that some 74,600
pistols would be distributed
when the contract was for
only 59,904.
Was the President being
made to believe that the P1.2-
billion contract would deliver
the police force some 74,600
pistols when only 59,904 will
be actually delivered as pre-
scribed in bid documents?
Palmones said.
Where will the rest of the
14,696 pistols go? Do we
sense some kind of ghost de-
livery here?
Mr. Aquinos speech Mon-
day also drew the ire of Mi-
grante International, which
criticized him for failing to
acknowledge the role of over-
seas Filipino workers despite
their substantial contributions
to the economy.
Despite his promises and
posturing, without doubt
Aquino is cut out of the same
mold as a modern-day slave
trader, said Garry Martinez,
chairman of Migrante Interna-
tional. He said the President
had done nothing to end the
countrys labor export policy
by creating domestic jobs.
Valte, however, said the
Aquino administration was
providing equal and neces-
sary attention to the needs
and development of various
sectors of the society, par-
ticularly the overseas Filipino
workers, who are one of the
major players in sustaining
the economic progress of the
country.
With Sara Susanne D.
Fabunan, Florante S. Sol-
merin and Vito Barcelo
Student loan board sought
JULY 25, 2012 WEDNESDAY
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Australia, Canada hit for meddling
IN BRIEF
e-mail scam targets nurses
Oil prices
surge amid
Gulf fears
Binay
presses for
realtors
arrest
PHs biggest crocs habitat in critical condition
Arroyo, ex-PCSO men
barred from leaving
By Merck Maguddayao

THE Sandiganbayans rst division has issued a
hold departure order against former president Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo and nine former ofcials of the
Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Ofce in connection
with the P365 million plunder case led against them
by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales.
Among those who are barred from leaving the country
are former PCSO chairman Sergio Valencia, former
GM Rosario Uriarte and former board of directors.
Included in the charge sheet were former COA
chairman Reynaldo Villar and former head of COAs
Intelligence/Condential Fund Audit Unit Nilda Plaras.
First Division chairman Justice Efren de la Cruz
scheduled a hearing on the motions of Arroyo and the
other respondents on July 26 at 8:30 a.m.
Arroyos lawyers led a motion for the suspension of
the hearing on the case.
No warrants of arrest were issued against the respondents.
The former president, detained at the Veterans
Memorial Medical Center, and co-accused were charged
with plunder for allegedly misusing P365 million from
PCSOs intelligence fund from 2007 to 2010.
Recycling. A Comelec custodian arranges ballot boxes at a warehouse in Manila on Tuesday. Poll ofcials will recycle these ballot boxes to
save on costs. DANNY PATA
Canada and Australia were
meddling in the renegotiation
for an extension of the quanti-
tative restrictions on rice when
they are not even traditional ex-
porters of the grain, said
Rosendo So, Abono party-list
chairman and Swine Develop-
ment Council director. Why are
they meddling? They have no
right to do so, said the Abono
chairman.
The Philippines should reject
the pressures exerted by Canada
and Australia because the coun-
try has been very cooperative in
fullling its commitment with
the WTO and the ASEAN Free
Trade Area, So said.
The Philippines is seeking anoth-
er extension for such restrictions to
achieve some control in protecting
local rice producers and consumers
from the inux of imported rice by
allowing the government to impose
higher tariffs on rice imports beyond
a certain volume.
Hog farmers and poultry sector
advocates have expressed support
for the position of the Department
of Agriculture not to use those sec-
tors as bargaining chip in nego-
tiating with the WTO.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso
Alcala had assured hog-and-
poultry industry leaders that the
interest of the local industries
would not be sacriced in rene-
gotiating for the extension of the
qualitative restriction on rice.
Livestock and poultry sectors
represent 25 percent of the coun-
trys agriculture with a combined
production value of P320 billion
annually.
Daniel P. Javellana Jr., chair-
man of the National Federation
of Hog Farmers, shared the senti-
ments of So even as he objected
to the reduction of tariff rates for
chilled swine and frozen meat
from the current 30-40 percent
rate to 5 % or a net reduction of
25-to 35%.
So believed that it is better
for the Philippines to maintain a
strong trading relationship with
ASEAN rice producing countries
than Canada or Australia, which
are not traditional rice exporters.
As a member of the ASEAN
Free Trade Area, the Philippines
has already committed to tariff
on imported rice at 40% in 2014
and 35% in 2015, So pointed
out.
Under the ASEAN-China Free
Trade Area, the Philippines has a
commitment to China where tar-
iff on imported rice will be 50%
starting January 1, 2015.
So also cited Executive Or-
der 627 where the Philippines
lowered its tariff on imported
mechanically deboned meat of
chicken as a concession to the
extension of the QR on rice up to
June 30, 2012, even without con-
sulting with the local livestock
and chicken industry.
So made the statement even as
he asked the Canadian trade au-
thorities to explain the disparity
in its pork exports to the Philip-
pines in 2011 as compared to the
pork import records of the coun-
try in the same period. According
to So, Canada may be guilty of
unfair trade practice.
By Rey E. Requejo

LOCAL hog raisers on Tuesday blasted
Canada and Australia for opposing the
Philippines bid at the World Trade
Organization for a three-year extension
of the countrys quantitative restriction
on rice after it ended June 30, 2012.
By Florante S. Solmerin
THE Agusan marshland is in critical con-
dition due to unabated cutting of trees, the
Anti-Illegal Task Force said on Tuesday.
The AILTF made the observation after
conducting an aerial observation of the
area. The task force said if unchecked,
this could lead to heavy siltation that
could trigger more destructive ashfoods
to lowland populated areas.
The Agusan marsh is where Lolong,
certied by the Guinness Book of Re-
cords as the worlds biggest crocodile in
captivity, was captured.
If we talk of the CARAGA area, there
was aggressive cutting of trees which is
very alarming especially in the PICOP (Pa-
per Industries Corp of the Phil (PICOP) area
where there was no government presence.
The forest condition in the region though is
relatively okay except for the Agusan marsh-
land area and the PICOP area. The Agusan
marshland is a very critical area; it is one of
the best marshlands in the world where the
specie of our very Lolong thrives, the big-
gest crocodile in the world. It is practically a
big marshland area on top of a plateau. We
should stop cutting trees within and outside
the marshland area to preserve this beauty
of nature or else siltation is just around the
corner, AILTF Executive Director Renato
Miranda said.
PICOP, a company engaged in the
pulp business, went bankrupt because
of mismanagement and its conces-
sion area in CARAGA was seized by the
Landbank of the Philippines (LBP) be-
cause the company reportedly owes the
bank billions of pesos in loan.
The area (PICOP) is right now con-
trolled by the LandBank, which is not
capable of managing [it], Miranda said.
PICOP owns properties in Surigao del
Sur, Agusan del Sur Sur, Davao Oriental
and Compostela Valley, but the bulk of its
operation was in Surigao del Sur and its
center of trade was located in Bislig City.
A large part of the marshland is located
in Agusan del Sur where the 51,000-hect-
are Agroforestation Complex of the Mano-
bo tribe is found, which is also in danger
of ecological destruction because of illegal
logging and mining activities.
The marshland is so big that it stretches
up to Compostela Valley. When I say big, its
almost half of Metro Manila. When we say
marshland, it is abundant with trees but dur-
ing our aerial survey we found out traces of
cutting activities. There is a potential threat
of siltation, the retired Marine general said.
This situation of the marshland, I think,
should be given to the experts for study.
I dont know what to suggest but I think
the situation there right now is the natural
habitat is really in danger, he said.
Aside from illegal loggers, slash-and-
burn farming (kaingin) is also prevalent
in the area. Miranda said the marshland is
slowly turning into a wild, wild West.
The area is a public domain or owned by
the government but whats happening is that
everybody now wants a piece of the land.
There is this so-called NCIP (National Com-
mission on Indigenous People) lots, kainge-
ros lots, illegal loggers domain, and so on
and so forth. The government is at a loss and
maybe that is the reason why there is aggres-
sive cutting of trees. That is why Im strongly
recommending that the government should
take hold of the PICOP area, Miranda said.
By Alena Mae S. Flores
FOR the third consecutive week,
pump prices on Tuesday went
up by as much as P1.80 per liter
owing to renewed fears of vio-
lence in the Persian Gulf.
Total Philippines, Petron
Corp., Pilipinas Shell Petroleum
Corp. and Seaoil Philippines is-
sued separate advisories on the
price increase that came after
President Aquino delivered his
State-of-the-Nation.
Premium and unleaded gas-
oline went up by P1.80 per liter
while regular gasoline became
costlier by P1.65 per liter.
Kerosene went up by P1.35
for liter and diesel rose by
P1.20 per liter to reect the
movements in the international
oil market, Petron said.
Totals price increase for the
past three consecutive weeks
amounted to P4.45 for regular
gasoline, P4.35 per liter for
premium plus gasoline, P3.10
per liter for diesel, and P1.70
per liter for kerosene.
With the latest increase, premium
plus unleaded gasoline currently
sells at a range of P53.47 to P58.47
per liter, unleaded gasoline at P48.50
to P56.71 per liter and regular gaso-
line, P47 to P56.50 per liter.
Diesel sells at P41.60 to
P45.60 per liter while kerosene
now cost P48.35 to P53.35 per
liter. Prices vary depending on
the brand, location of the sta-
tion and market forces.
The oil rms uniformly
raised prices at the same time
and the same level except for
Shell and Seaoil which carried
out a P1.20 per liter increase
for diesel as compared to the
P1 per liter increase imple-
mented by the other oil rms.
The Energy Department said
that fears of violence in the Per-
sian Gulf pushed prices higher
as the Iranian leaders reportedly
threatened to block the key ship-
ping channel if Western sanc-
tions against Iran continue.
AN Australian hospital denied it was ac-
cepting Filipino nurses after the Philip-
pine government discovered an online
scam recruiting Filipino medical profes-
sionals on Australia.
Philippine Overseas Employment Ad-
ministration chief Hans Cacdac exposed
the e-mail scam targeting Filipino nurses
and other medical practitioners supposed
employment in a hospital in Australia.
The POEA received another recruit-
ment e-mail, supposedly coming from
Sydney Adventist Hospital, this time
charging a fee of P3,750 for a two-day
British English training and jobs.
This is similar to the one allegedly
sent by Stevenson Memorial Hospital
in Canada which offers Visa Interview
Coaching for a fee of P3,888, Cacdac
said. Vito Barcelo
THE Arroyos in the House of Repre-
sentatives on Tuesday urged Congress to
speed up the approval of a measure pro-
posing the creation of a national student
loan board that will help fund the tertiary
education of poor but deserving students.
Former president and Pampanga Rep.
Gloria Macapaga-Arroyo and son, Ca-
marines Sur Rep. Diosdado Macapagal
Arroyo penned House Bill 6121, oth-
erwise known as the National Student
Loan Program for the Poor Act of 2011
that calls for the creation of a National
Student Loan Program for the Poor.
Under the bill, the program will be under
the Ofce of the President and in close co-
ordination with the Department of Educa-
tion (DepEd) and the Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DSWD).
The Arroyos underscored the need for a
national student loan board given the high
incidence of poverty in the country, mak-
ing easy access to higher education oppor-
tunities elusive especially for the poor.
In the country, a little over 11 percent
of the labor force has a college educa-
tion. Moreover, in our college-age popu-
lation, less than 50 percent are enrolled
in tertiary educational institutions and
about 70 percent live below the poverty
line, Arroyo said. Maricel Cruz
VICE President Jejomar C.
Binay on Tuesday prodded the
police and the National Bureau
of Investigation to step up
their efforts to capture Deln
Lee, the fugitive property de-
veloper who is charged with
syndicated estafa.
The Vice President issued
the appeal after lawyer Willie
Rivera, Lees counsel, said in a
television program that his cli-
ent is still in the Philippines but
is in hiding. Lees lawyer also
likened the case of his client to
Senator Panlo Ping Lacson,
who went into hiding during
the Arroyo administration.
Deln Lee is no Ping Lacson.
Senator Lacson was a critic of the
Arroyo regime, while Lee de-
frauded Pag-Ibig Fund of almost
P6 billion by using fake borrow-
ers and fake documents and de-
stroyed the dreams of thousand of
working Filipinos, Binay said.
I am appealing to the PNP
and NBI to double their efforts
to locate and arrest Deln Lee.
Now that we know that he is
still in the country, he must be
found and put behind bars at
the soonest, Binay said.
The Vice President also de-
bunked the lawyers claim that
there is no syndicated estafa
against Lees company Globe
Asiatique, citing the January 30,
2012 resolution of the Makati
Regional Trial Court that ordered
the Home Development Mutual
Fund (HDMF or Pag-Ibig Fund)
to comply with the contract provi-
sions on replacement buyers.
The Vice President said the
Makati case ruling did not ab-
solve Lee from criminal liability.
He cited the Court of Appeals
decision of April 16, 2012, penned
by Associate Justice Franchito
Diamante, which ruled that re-
gardless of the nal ruling on the
Makati civil case, it will not serve
to extinguish the criminal liability
of Lee and his co-accused.
Binay is the Chairman of
the Housing and Urban Devel-
opment Coordinating Coun-
cil (HUDCC). He is also the
Chairman of the Board of Pag-
Ibig Fund.
Lolongs lair. The Guinness-certied biggest saltwater crocodile, Lolong, thrives in Agusan
marshlands.
Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
mst.lettertotheeditor@gmail.com JULY 25, 2012 WEDNESDAY
A4
FOR all his talk of change, President Benigno
Aquino III demonstrated this week that one
thing remains constant and immutable: our
leaders lie to us.
For an hour-and-a-half Monday, we had to
endure Mr. Aquinos self-congratulatory litany
of so-called achievements, fulsome praise for
his Cabinet members, his predictable casting
of blame on the previous administration, and
petulant complaints about the negative press
that he has been receiving.
At one point, it almost seemed like he was
talking about the media when he said, Even
as I speak, there are those who have gathered
in a room, whispering to each other, dissecting
each word I utter, looking for any pretext to
attack me with tomorrow.
As it turned out, he was referring to his po-
litical enemieseven though it is the job of
an unfettered and independent press to dissect
each word uttered by public ofcials and to
hold them accountable.
This discipline applied to Mr. Aquinos
third State-of-the-Nation Address exposes in-
tellectual dishonesty on several scores.
First, Mr. Aquino regaled us with stories on
how the Philippines, after posting a 6.4-per-
cent growth in the rst quarter, is now the
darling of foreign investors, and no longer the
sick man of Asia.
Once, we were the debtors; now, we are
the creditors, he crowed, clearly referring
to the countrys decision to commit $1 bil-
lion of its dollar reserves to the International
Monetary Fund, but neglecting to say that it
was the administration of his predecessor, for-
mer President Gloria Arroyo, that prepaid the
countrys debts to the IMF in 2006, turning the
Philippines from a net debtor to a net creditor.
Those of us who are familiar with Mr. Aqui-
no know that he is quick to heap blame, but
never credit, on the previous administration,
even where it is justied. In this regard, he
stayed true to form in his latest address.
Second, Mr. Aquino boasted about the expan-
sion of his administrations ill-conceived condi-
tional cash transfer program, a straight dole to
poor families that creates no new jobs but uses
hard-earned taxpayers money to encourage
mendicancy. Can it truly be called an achieve-
ment to expand the programs coverage to 3 mil-
lion families this year, when he really should be
helping these poorest of the poor to nd work
that will lift them from poverty?
To cover this failure, Mr. Aquino said his
administration had reduced unemployment,
unable or unwilling to grasp that his own
boasts of 3 million registered poorest of the
poor families laid bare the big lie in the gov-
ernments labor statistics. After all, if there are
at least 3 million poor people who must be
unemployed to qualify for government doles,
how can Mr. Aquino in good conscience and
honesty claim an unemployment rate of only
6.9 percent of the labor forceor about 2.8
million people?
Mr. Aquino also deceived us with numbers
when he took credit for the rapid expansion
of the business process outsourcing industry,
comparing its start with only 5,000 jobs in
the year 2000, to 2011, his rst year in ofce,
with 638,000 employed. Did half-a-million
new BPO jobs suddenly spring up during Mr.
Aquinos rst year of ofce, as he would have
us believe, or were those numbers built up dur-
ing the intervening years of the Arroyo admin-
istration? If Mr. Aquino were honest, he would
have stated that under the Arroyo administra-
tion, the countrys BPO industry had already
provided employment to about 523,000 people
and surpassed India in 2010, a feat that cannot
be accomplished overnight.
Finally, Mr. Aquino threw a bone to his
progressive supporters by citing the need for
responsible parenthood yet invested no po-
litical capital to gain passage of an honest-to-
goodness reproductive health bill, which is
what the country really needs. He also made
an empty promise to complete the agrarian re-
form program that began under his mothers
administration, without mentioning his own
familys attempt to subvert the very same in its
Hacienda Luisita sugar estate.
Mr. Aquino fashions himself as an honest
President but his words expose him for the de-
ceiver that he truly is.
Lies the President told us
Talking a
good game
NIXON Kua, a former colleague in the
original Manila Standard who writes a
column for a Manila-based tabloid, died
the other night from a gunshot wound
to the head. Kua was waylaid inside an
exclusive subdivision in Calamba, La-
guna over the weekend by robbers who
apparently knew that he was bringing
cash to pay some workers.
Kuas death gives the lie to Presi-
dent Noynoy Aquinos claim in his
State of the Nation Address last Mon-
day that crime has gone down sig-
nicantly during his administration. It
most certainly has not.
But at least Aquino mentioned his
so-called anti-crime campaign, re-
gardless of how
detached from re-
ality it was. To the
dismay of local
and international
advocates, the
President totally
ignored the claims
of rights groups
concerning the in-
creasing and docu-
mented attacks on
activists, ranging
from enforced
disappearances to
murder.
And its not just
the local militants
and media practi-
tioners who disappear or get killed with
impunity under this supposedly righ-
teous administration. Foreigners who
are longtime missionaries, priests and
aid workers and even visiting journal-
ists like that most recent kidnap victim
of the Abu Sayyaf Group in Basilan
simply disappear or turn up dead.
Nobody ever gets caught or pros-
ecuted, except in the mind of Aquino
and in the crime-solution statistics
submitted to him by his police of-
cials. Perhaps the proliferation of
crimes and the impunity enjoyed by
criminals are also the fault of the pre-
vious administration something that
has somehow gotten worse despite
the best efforts of Aquino to reverse
the trend during his watch.
* * *
President Noynoy Aquinos Sona
was long, lasting almost 90 minutes.
Regardless, a lot of people found the
speech overly abbreviated on actual
accomplishments and concrete plans
and programs going forward.
One of those who observed the dispar-
ity between Aquinos long recitation of
supposed achievements and the paucity
of actual gains was the Manila-based eco-
nomic analyst Ben Kritz. In his analysis
of Aquinos speech, Kritz noted that the
President recited a litany of achieve-
ments in his rst two years in ofce, but
disappoint[ed] business and political in-
terests with a lack of clear objectives for
his government in the coming year.
Only about one-third of the speech
highlighted specic achievements of
Aquinos administration, while his
agenda for the remainder of his term
was limited to a mere 850 words,
Kritz wrote. This [drew] sharp criti-
cism from backers of several key po-
litical initiativesamong them a pend-
ing bill on Reproductive Health, the
Freedom of Information Act, develop-
ment of ICT, and proposed changes to
the economic provisions of the coun-
trys Constitution that were notice-
ably omitted from the speech.
Kritz broke down the claimed
achievements of Aquino in his speech
and made a short list of key initiatives,
both of which he critiqued, based on a
technical report released by Malaca-
ang together with the English trans-
lation of the Tagalog peroration.
Kritz said that when Aquino cited
the excellent performance of the Phil-
ippines stock market as proof of the
effectiveness of his economic and
investment policies, there is little to
suggest that Aquino is not simply con-
fusing correlation with causation. In
other words, the lo-
cal market may just
be benetting from
the weaknesses of
others in the rest of
the world.
Kritz also noted
that Aquinos fa-
vorite borrowed
poverty-alleviation
program, the Con-
ditional Cash Trans-
fer, may have gotten
less credit from the
President for rea-
sons that have noth-
ing to do with presi-
dential modesty.
Neither the speech
nor its Technical Report provide many
details about the program, which will
see its budget climb from P39.44 bil-
lion this year to P45 billion next, or
nearly two-thirds of the entire budget
of the Department of Social Welfare
and Development, Kritz wrote. It is
entirely possible that whatever Aquino
had planned to say about the CCT
program was preempted by the recent
controversy that has erupted in the
wake of allegations of widespread em-
bezzlement by DSWD personnel and
a scathing report by the Commission
on Audit that revealed, among other
things, several billion pesos worth
of misallocated funds and potentially
thousands of ineligible recipients.
The American analyst also noted
that the other achievements trumpet-
ed by Aquino in health care, increased
educational funding and big-ticket in-
frastructure are highly debatable and
fraught with controversy. Overall,
Kritz concludes that [a]lthough there
has been some progress, there is little
sense of continuity or an overall plan.
[The Aquino administration] is reac-
tive rather than proactive, which may
simply be reective of the personal-
ity of the leaderone who continues
to focus on the perceived misdeeds
of his long-departed predecessor, yet
who seems to be unable to break away
from the Philippine tradition of a rhe-
torical, short-term, and piecemeal ap-
proach to governance.
In other words, even foreign analysts
already know that Aquino talks a good
gameand for a long time. But wheth-
er or not hes doing a lot more than talk-
ing is always a matter of debate.
EDITORIAL
The Hague or the Senate
AT THE risk of being called a mongol-
oid, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile
hinted that Senator Miriam Defensor
Santiago should vacate her Senate seat
and assume her post as a judge in the In-
ternational Criminal Court in the Hague.
The sharp-tongue senator from
Iloilo earlier called all those who had
been urging her to resign as mon-
goloids. She later apologized for the
politically incorrect reference to the
mentally challenged.
Enrile was quite circumspect in his
call for Santiago to resign, careful not
to incur the wrath of his feisty col-
league. The venerable Senate Presi-
dent pointed out the crucial presence
of the 24th member of the Senate, cit-
ing one missing vote in the verdict in
the impeachment trial of Chief Justice
Renato Corona .
An absent vote was in effect a
Novote for the chief justices re-
moval, Enrile pointed out. The same
situation could happen in the event the
Senate has to vote for ratication of an
important treaty.
Im not saying Senator Santiago
should resign. But she sought the po-
sition and won election. Its up to her
whether to resign her Senate seat or
not, Enrile said.
Commission on Elections chairman
Sixto Brilliantes also prefers that San-
tiago decide so the Comelec can start
printing the ballots for the 2013 sena-
torial elections containing all the candi-
dates names, to include the slot to be
left vacant by the senator.
But Santiago seems bent on staying
put until the ICC summons her to report
for duty at The Hague, Netherlands.
Earlier she said she would only stay on
until the conclusion of the Corona im-
peachment trial.
As they say, its a womans pre-
rogative to change her mind. In one in-
stance, Miriam had said I lied when
confronted with a change of her posi-
tion on an issue. If theres anything to
be learned in dealing with Miriam, its
that the lady does not want to be pushed
into doing anything. She will do it in
her own good time and on her terms. In
between the Hague and the Senate, the
senator is making the rounds of the stu-
dent circuit, regaling her audience as a
stand-up comedienne.
Meanwhile, Enrile who did an ex-
cellent job of steering the Senate im-
peachment trial of Corona, is going
to be rewarded with removal from
the top Senate post. The knives are
out. There is a reported plot to replace
Enrile with Senator Franklin Drilon.
There are moves, according to Palace
and Senate sources, that the Liberal
Party is talking to the Nacionalista
Party of Senator Manny Villar and the
Nationalist Peoples Coalition to mus-
ter the votes to install Drilon as Senate
President.
The LP senators are Drilon, Francis
Pangilinan, Ralph Recto and Teosto
Guingona III. To topple Enrile, the
ruling party has to win over NP Sena-
tors Villar, Alan Peter and Pia Cayet-
ano, Antonio Trillanes IV and Ferdi-
nand Marcos, Jr.
Enrile belongs to the triumvirate
behind the United Nationalist Alliance
of Vice President Jejomar Binay and
former President Joseph Estrada. Bi-
nay has made it no secret he plans to
use the party as a spring board for his
2016 presidential bid.
However, Enrile is puzzled about a
story that the LP is including his son,
Cagayan Rep Juan Jack Enrile in its
senatorial lineup.
I dont know where that story
came from. I havent talked to Presi-
dent Aquino about it nor he to me,
Enrile said as he disclaimed son Jack
is being pirated away from UNA.
Why indeed, when theres the report
of a possible Enrile ouster and his re-
placement by Drilon? Still, stranger
things have happened in politics before,
Enrile, if the reported plot is true,
would be left with the support of Sen-
ators Jinggoy Estrada , Vicente Sotto
III and and Gringo Honasan, known
political acolytes of the Cagayan sen-
ator. All three have acknowledged En-
rile as their mentor whose experience
and tutelage beneted them
Enrile has made known that if and
when all these come to pass, he would
have no rancor, knowing he has served
his country well. He is almost nished
with his autobiography, temporarily ti-
tled With God and Guts. It be should
an interesting read as Enrile chronicles
his life in government as Secretary of
Finance, Justice, Defense and Senate
President presiding over the historic
rst impeachment of a sitting chief jus-
tice of the Supreme Court.
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Although
there has been
some progress,
there is little sense
of continuity or
an overall plan,
says one analyst.
A5 Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
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AS I watched President Benigno
Aquino IIIs State of the Nation Ad-
dress last Monday, where he enumer-
ated the details of his achievements
for the past two years, I had the
strange feeling that he was talking
about another planet.
If what he was saying were true,
we should be in paradise!
But how come we are not? Indeed
the statistics used in his presentation
were far from reality.
There were those who praised and
hailed the President for his speech. I
am not surprised. These are the same
people who have been applauding
Mr. Aquino from Day One.
Even as this administration has
managed to charge
former President
Gloria Arroyo of
electoral sabotage
and plunder, and
oust former Chief
Justice Renato
Corona, does it
mean that there has
been change in the
graft-and-corrup-
tion situation in the
country?
We have ob-
served several
times that the President applies the
law selectively. There is one set of
rules for his political enemies, and
another for his partymates, class-
mates and shooting buddies.
What about hunger, joblessness,
the lack of security? He claims crime
has gone down has he not been
watching television?
Mr. Aquino mentioned the boom-
ing tourism and credited Tourism
Secretary Ramon Jimenez for it. I
wanted to laugh then. There are re-
ports that as many as three crimes
are committed daily against tourists
at the so-called tourist belt in Ermita,
Manila.
And then he said he was ready to
defend the country from incursions
of China into Philippine territory in
the West Philippine Sea. He cited
the modernization of the military, the
purchase of more helicopters and the
grant of another frigate from the US.
Defending the country from Chinas
incursion into our territory, my foot!
With what? Its all words and brag-
gadocio.
The President must realize once
and for all that his tough talk will not
resolve our territorial dispute with
China. Only diplomacy will. But,
then he does not realize thats the job
of diplomats, not his. Did we ever see
or hear the president of the Peoples
Republic of China rant against the
Philippines?
I must admit, however, that to a
certain extent, President Aquino was
right in boasting about the econo-
my. He must in turn admit that his
predecessor left him good economic
fundamentals. Now it is up to him
to ensure we keep the momentum.
For example, he can build on the
6.4-percent growth in gross domes-
tic product with the much-vaunted
Public-Private Partnership program.
Whether he will actually do so is an-
other matter.
What the President failed to do,
however, is to lay down an economic
roadmap. Foreign investors need to
be assured of consistency and growth
sustainability.
I did not expect him to talk about
Charter change since he is regrettably
against changing the severely awed
1987 Constitution. It is a legacy of his
late mother. If it aint broke, why x
it? Aquino said in response to Sen-
ate President Juan Ponce Enrile and
House Speaker Sonny Belmontes
push for charger change, specically
on the Jurassic economic provisions
of the charter which restrict foreign
investors from owning more than 40
percent of an enterprise.
Doesnt the President realize that
no less than the UP Law Center has
enumerated at least 27 basic aws of
the 1987 Constitution?
I have always said that Charter
change is inevi-
table just when
and by what mode
will come in due
time. I believe
however that now
is the best time
to do it by hav-
ing each chamber
of Congress enact
the specic change
by a three-fourths
vote, and have the
change ratied by
a plebiscite called
for that purpose. This way, those in
ofce can allay the publics fears that
changes are not being introduced for
self-serving purposes.
The Constitution is not cast in
stone. It can be changed when the
need arises. Other countries have
changed theirs so many times. Only
a President who doesnt trust mem-
bers of Congress will oppose charter
change. If we must have a meaningful
change under the Aquino administra-
tion, its time to go for it.
* * *
The Marilao-Meycauayan-Oban-
do River System has been labelled
as one of the most polluted rivers
worldwide. Meycauayan tanner-
ies and the noted Bulacan gold and
silver jewelry industry generate
wastes that find their way to the
river system that flows all the way
to Manila Bay.
With the help and vision of former
Ambassador Tony Cabangon Chua,
an adopted son of Bulacan, with his
technology-savvy Ecoshield Devel-
opment Corp., MMORS is being
revived into a productive river sys-
tem.
In fact, more than 100,000 man-
grove seedlings have been planted
since last year. They have now grown
into fully mature trees, promising suc-
cess for a multi-sectoral campaign to
clean up the river system. Ecoshields
mangrove-planting project comple-
ments the river cleanup.
The mangrove-planting project is
led by Bulacan Gov. Wilhelmino Sy
Alvarado with the help of his wife,
Bulacan Rep. Maria Victoria Sy Al-
varado, in coordination with the De-
partment of Environment and Natural
Resources. With the implementation
of the project comes the prohibition
on the use of plastic bags and con-
tainers.
Its time for Charter
change
Do we really care about the Constitution?
Part II
IN THIS column, we shall (as promised
in Part I) talk about the 1987 Constitu-
tion, how it came to be, and why so much
controversy has dogged it until now. This
has a prologue, and it weaves into the last
days of President Ferdinand Marcos and
Benigno Ninoy Aquino Jr.
The basic facts are well-known to
many readers, but we may need to
restate them for the post-Marcos gen-
eration.
In 1972, Marcos declared martial
law to turn back the communist re-
bellion. He had Ninoy Aquino and
other opposition leaders arrested on
suspicion of supporting the rebellion.
In 1977, a military tribunal sentenced
Ninoy to death for subversion, mur-
der and illegal possession of rearms.
Ninoy refused to recognize the tribu-
nals legal existence.
Three years later, Marcos allowed
Ninoy to travel to Boston for a heart sur-
gery. In 1983, Ninoy decided to come
home. Through then-Defense Secretary
Juan Ponce Enrile, Marcos tried to tell
him he might have some personal secu-
rity problem at home. That did not af-
fect his decision.
Traveling under an assumed name,
Ninoy ew to Manila from Taipei via
China Airlines on August 21, 1983.
It was a calm and otherwise unevent-
ful Sunday afternoon. A lone assassin
wearing an airline maintenance uniform
gunned him down as he descended from
his plane, before he could set foot on the
tarmac of the airport that now bears his
name. The assassin was in turn killed
by airport security men.
Marcos was instantly blamed for the
murder. He was much too intelligent to
have planned anything that would au-
tomatically be blamed on him, but the
public outrage left little room for much
clear thinking. No mastermind has been
identied until now, and some conspir-
acy theorists had begun to theorize that
Ninoy was terminated by external actors
precisely to bring down the dictator.
Ninoys assassination provoked mas-
sive street protests and capital ight.
After a while, Marcos was forced to de-
fault on the servicing of all government
loans, and to announce a snap presi-
dential election a full year ahead of the
scheduled 1987 presidential election.
Cory Aquino ran against Marcos
and lost in that Feb. 7, 1986 presiden-
tial election. But the Catholic Bish-
ops Conference of the Philippines
denounced the results as a fraud, say-
ing the polls were without parallel in
the fraudulence of their conduct, and
that Marcos had consequently lost his
moral authority to govern. For her part,
Cory called for a nationwide boycott of
all consumer products of the so-called
crony corporations.
This gave some military reform-
ists a window to stage a coup. But their
plot was quickly discovered, and some
ofcers were captured after penetrating
Malacaangs defense perimeter.
Marcos tried to react, but Defense
Secretary Enrile and Armed Forces
Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Fidel Ramos
withdrew their allegiance from their
commander-in-chief, taking with them
a signicant portion of the Armed Forc-
es of the Philippines.
Then Jaime Cardinal Sin, archbish-
op of Manila, called on the Catholic
faithful to protect the military from
the strongman.
The bloodless Edsa uprising
lasted from February 22 to 25, 1986.
On the last day, Cory Aquino took her
oath as president at Club Filipino in
Greenhills, San Juan, while Marcos
took his at Malacanang. On Feb. 26,
the US Air Force ew Marcos and his
family out to Hawaii.
On March 25, 1986, Cory Aquino
formally declared a revolutionary gov-
ernment by abolishing the 1973 Consti-
tution and replacing it with a so-called
Freedom Constitution. She then an-
nounced that within sixty days, she
would appoint a constitutional com-
mission (concom) of not less than thirty
but not more than fty members to draft
a new Constitution.
Why appoint, rather than elect?
Because, as I heard Cory explain it
then, she could not imagine the Filipi-
no electorate voting for someone like
Commander Dante (Bernabe Buscay-
no, the New Peoples Army supremo)
as a delegate.
For someone who owed her presi-
dency to people power, I found
that rather unusual. But that remark
ultimately proved irrelevant because
Dante was never appointed as a del-
egate. Yet the appointive nature of the
commission has hounded the Consti-
tution since.
On June 2, 1986, Cory formally
constituted the concom by naming
48 delegates. All were natural born
Filipino citizens, of recognized pro-
bity, known for their independence,
nationalism and patriotism, accord-
ing to the provisional constitution. A
political ofcer of the US Embassy
sat in all the sessions and managed to
be known as the 49th member. The
concom nished its nal draft on Oc-
tober 15, 1986, and Cory submitted it
to a plebiscite on Feb. 2, 1987.
Enrile, whom Cory had earlier
appointed, then cashiered as her de-
fense chief, used all three months of
the ratication campaign to expose
the defects of the draft Constitution.
I joined Enrile in that campaign. We
tried to show the aws, from the ap-
pointment of the delegates to the sub-
stantive issues in the document.
Twenty-ve years after its ratica-
tion, the known defects of the Consti-
tution have been conrmed, and some
purported reforms have turned out
to be the exact opposite. Yet the
greatest sin against the Constitution
is that it has been and continues to be
routinely violated with impunity by
those in power.
In my next piece, we shall examine
specic provisions.
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Philippines leads Asian ascent with youth
EMIL
P. JURADO
TO THE POINT
By Karl Lester M. Yap, Keiko
Ujikane and Shamim Adam
JOSE Winylito Tanquis has reason to
be proud as he raises a flag to signal
the launch of the 58,000- ton Ocean
Symphony in the Philippines. Not
only did he help build the cargo ves-
sel, his son John now works at the
yard.
Now, he can buy his own stuff,
like shoes and clothes, said Tanquis,
47, a foreman at Tsuneishi Holdings
Inc.s yard in Balamban on Cebu Is-
land. At 21, John is the eldest of six
siblings who will enter the workforce
in the next decade.
The so-called demographic divi-
dend from a rising supply of young
workers is one reason Japans second-
largest shipbuilder expanded in the
Philippines, where workers are on
average half the age of its Japanese
employees. Tsuneishi is considering
Indonesia, the Philippines and Myan-
mar for another shipyard, said Hitoshi
Kono, chief of the companys local
operation.
Asias manufacturing powerhous-
esJapan, South Korea and China
are among the fastest-aging countries
in the world, while developing na-
tions in Southeast Asia are among the
youngest in the region. As factories,
jobs and investment ow south to tap
cheaper labor, growth in the 10-mem-
ber Association of Southeast Asian
Nations is poised to accelerate, pro-
pelling the areas currencies and fu-
eling consumer and property booms,
Bank of America Corp. says.
The demographic dividend is
over for Japan and Korea, and it will
be over for China soon, said Yoshi-
masa Maruyama, chief economist at
Itochu Corp., Japans third-largest
trading company. Its happening
now in the Asean area, and it will
continue for some time.
Parrotsh llet
For Cebu, famous for its luxury
beach resorts, that means regional
authorities are building another four
10,000 square- meter (108,000 square-
foot) factories this year. Krispy Kreme
Doughnuts Inc. unveiled its rst out-
lets on the island in October, while
7-Eleven Inc. chose July 11 to open its
rst two Cebu convenience stores.
Two hours drive from the Shan-
gri-La Mactan Resort & Spawhere
tourists enjoy parrotsh llet and
black-pepper squid overlooking the
oceanTsuneishi has launched 11
ships this year, supporting more than
15,000 workers. The company has two
shipyards in Japan and one in China.
Mitsumi Electric Co., with more
than 14,000 staff on Cebu, is among
businesses looking to move more
manufacturing out of China, said Yo-
shitsugu Murakami, a spokesman in
Tokyo for the electronic-parts maker.
Labor costs in China have been
rising, Murakami said. Its good for
us to shift production to the Philip-
pines little by little. Its easy to recruit
talented workers.
Standout winner
The Philippines is a standout
among countries set to benet from
a bigger labor pool, with its rate of
economic expansion likely to rise as
much as 1.5 percentage points during
the next decade, according to Chua
Hak Bin, an economist in Singapore
at Bank of Americas Merrill Lynch
division.
The International Monetary Fund
predicts Chinas growth will slow to
8.5 percent by 2017 from 9.2 percent
last year, while the Philippines will
expand 5 percent compared with 3.7
percent, and growth in Vietnam will
reach 7.5 percent from 5.9 percent,
according to projections published in
April.
Domestic demand will more likely
grow at faster rates if the labor force
is going to grow more quickly, and
that will spur the exchange rates as
well, said Chua, who previously led
the Singapore central banks external
economies division.
Standard & Poors this month
raised the Philippiness credit rating
to one level below investment grade,
its highest since 2003. In January,
Moodys Investors Service elevated
Indonesia to investment grade for the
rst time since 1997.
First jobs
There were practically no jobs
before, none; nothing was happening
until Tsuneishi came, said Renold
Macasi, 34, a general foreman at the
shipyard. Tanquis, whose next two
eldest children are in college, said he
hopes all his sons and daughters will
get their rst jobs there.
The Balamban works built its rst
vessel in 1997, and the company fore-
casts the yard will have 35 billion pe-
sos in sales in 2012, more than double
ve years ago.
In many ways, the town mirrors the
port in Japan after which the company
is named, where its original yard be-
gan building wooden boats in 1917.
Tsuneishi was a very small town
just like Balamban, said Kono, 52,
who was born in a house overlooking
the docks. Balamban now, too, is a
shipyard town; everybody gets their
happiness from the ships.
Bloomberg
FRANCISCO S.
TATAD
FIRST THINGS FIRST
MAIL MATTERS
The
Constitution
is not cast in
stone. It must be
changed when
the need arises.
IN THE interest of the Commission
on Population, an institution of the
government responsible in coordinat-
ing the management and implemen-
tation of the Philippine Population
Management Program, in particular
the regional office in Bicol, I would
like to clarify the article written by
Mr. Florencio P. Narito and published
in Manila Standard Today on July 19.
2012.
I hereby delared the following:
1.There was a Youth Forum as part
of the celebration of the World Popu-
lation Day at the Charisma Resort,
Guinobetan, Albay last July 10, 2012.
2.That I was invited as resource
person to present the Albay Youth
situation. Mr. Miracle B. Bolanos was
asked to discuss the effects of rapid
population growth;
3.That there was a press conference
over lunch;
4.That in the said press confer-
ence, I did not make any statement as
quoted by Mr. Narito to wit Presi-
dent Aquino favors the natural fam-
ily planning method and could not be
expected to support a bill that seeks
to allow the use of contraceptive pills
as a means to curb runaway popula-
tion growth...and PNoy is okay with
the natural family planning method, .
. adding that even under the adminis-
tration of Cory Aquino, Mr, Aquinos
mother, her agency had been ordered
to go natural.
5.That the above quoted state-
ments did not come from me. In fact,
I remember saying that the Aquino
administration supports all methods
of family planning and recognizes
the rights of couples to choose any
method based on informed choice
and decision. I added that Pnoy is
supporting the reproductive health
bill and in fact encouraged the Leg-
islative-Executive Development Ad-
visory Council to include it in its
agenda.
6. That the other members of the
panel present during the said press
conference could attest to the mis-
quoted article making it appear as my
opinion and statement;
7. That the anchor and facilitator
of the said press conference, Mr. Cet
Dematera could further attest to this;
8. That Mr. Paolo Fernando, project
officer of the said youth forum, could
attest that there was no statement from
me as quoted and published.
MAGDALENA G. ABELLERA
ATTESTED BY:
MIRACLE B. BOLANOS
Information Officer I
Commission on Population
Department of Health
I did not say that the President favored the natural method
ADELLE
CHUA
CHASING HAPPY
Miss Chuas column will resume
this week.
News
ManilaStandardToday
mst.daydesk@gmail.com JULY 25, 2012 WEDNESDAY
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Public access to info unlikely

IN BRIEF
PH receives China ights diverted by storm
Biazon names chief of anti-smuggling unit
Nixon Kua dies; 4 suspects
surrender to Laguna police
Marikina watershed renewal pushed
By Eric B. Apolonio

AT least 12 large commercial aircraft
were diverted to the Ninoy Aquino
International Airport and Clark Inter-
national Airport on Tuesday due to
stormy weather in China, according to
airport authorities.
International ight CX 829 from To-
ronto, Canada and CX 270 from Am-
sterdam, Netherlands were diverted to
the NAIA while eight cargo planes of
UPS and two commercial ights were
sent to Clark International due to heavy
rain in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
NAIA authorities said Flight CX829
was allowed to y back to HKIA us-
ing a replacement crew and new air-
craft while ight CX270 was allowed
to leave NAIA at 10:30 a.m. after re-
fuelling the aircraft.
While Dragon Air KA931 from
Hong Kong to Manila and KA932
from Manila to Hong Kong was can-
celled due to ight rotation.
At Clark, eight aircraft of the
United Parcel Service, including
two Beoing 757, four Boeing 767,
one MD-11 and one Being 747 and
commercial carriers of Hong Kong
Express A-287 and Jet Aviation F-
900LX, arrived before dawn of Tues-
day amid the heavy rain on the Asian
mainland.
Chinas National Meteorologi-
cal Center issued an orange alert for
Typhoon Vicente, the second highest
warning level in Chinas four-tier ty-
phoon warning system, while twelve
ights were cancelled and over 200
ights was delayed last night in Hong
Kong, aviation authorities said.
Bad weather in China forced the
eight cargo planes of UPS and two
commercial aircrafts to land at Clark
Airport, heavy rains also occurred in
Taiwan, and Hong Kong, said Clark
International Airport Corp. president
Jose Luciano.
This only showed that Clark In-
ternational Airport is ready 24/7 to
accommodate diverted ights be-
cause we have complete navigational
facilities, he added. Clark Airport
can even accommodate 40 aircrafts
in our wide parking space here, Clark
Airport is always ready.
He said that navigational facility
such as the Instrument Landing Sys-
tem as well as the Doppler Very High
Frequency Omni-Range work round
the clock to guide all types of air-
crafts landing at Clark International.
Luciano however added that the
navigational facilities of the airport
will soon be upgraded with the P200
million that was alloted by the CIAC
management.
Eastern Samar
Rep. Ben Evard-
one, chairman of the
House committee
on public informa-
tion, said he was
worried that the
controversial Free-
dom of Information
bill may just fall off
the legislative mill
and be forgotten
during the current
Congress because
of President Beni-
gno Aquino IIIs apparent lack
of support for the proposal.
But a Deputy Presidential
Spokeswoman Abigail Valte
claimed that the FOI bill is
important to the Palace, and it
does not necessarily mean that
a matter is unimportant if the
President did not mention it in
his State of the Nation address.
We have spoken to Repre-
sentative Ben Evardone and he
assured us that the FOI bill will
soon be reported out of his com-
mittee and passed on to the ple-
nary, said Valte.
It doesnt follow that what
wasnt mentioned is not im-
portant. If we consider that the
Presidents speech took an hour
and a half, we would still be lis-
tening to the speech if he men-
tioned everything, Valte added,
without elaborating however if
the Palace is actively shepherd-
ing the measure through the dif-
ferent stages of congressional
legislation.
The window
of opportunity (for
its passage) is very
limited, Evard-
one said. We
need to approve it
on third and nal
reading by August
or September be-
cause we will be
busy on plenary
discussions of the
national budget by
September.
Evardone also disclosed that
Camiguin Rep. Pedro Romualdo
appears to be amenable to give
up his proposal to include infor-
mation from private companies
in the FOI bill, a provision that
was deemed discouraging to for-
eign investors.
But Nueva Ecija Rep. Ro-
dolfo Antonino is insisting the
inclusion of a right to reply
provision, which is more strin-
gent than those embodied in the
laws of Western countries and
which media fear may be used
to defeat the very purpose of the
proposed law.
Yung ROR nakausap ko na
si (Congressman) Romualdo
and I think hes no longer pur-
suing the inclusion of the pri-
vate entities in the FOI. Pero si
Cong Antonino tuloy pa, said
Evardone, who vowed to wrap
up discussions on the bill with
or without a compromise to so
many pending versions.
By Maricel V. Cruz and Sara D. Fabunan

LAWMAKERS are concerned that
reforms allowing public access to in-
formation kept and maintained by the
government would likely not be ap-
proved during the 15th Congress be-
cause Malacanang is lukewarm to the
pending measure.
Evardone
By Gigi Munoz-David
MARIKINA City and the De-
partment of Environment and
Natural Resources will start this
coming weekend a reforestation
activity that aims to restore the
Marikina Watershed, the river
basin that mitigates ooding in
Metro Manila and was recently
proclaimed a protected area.
The activity will involve
planting trees on 20 hectares of
the 26,125-hectare watershed
area at Sitio Kayrupa, Barangay
San Rafael in Rodriguez, Rizal.
Marikina Mayor Del de Guz-
man said the city government
asked the DENR to allot the 20
hectares and provide 10,000 in-
digenous forest tree seedlings
that will be used in the tree-
planting activitiy on July 28,
Aug. 10, 24 and Sept. 8.
In this activity, the DENR,
city government of Marikina,
and Barangay San Rafael in
Rodriguez, Rizal will cooperate
with each other in planting and
taking care of the trees planted.
We have to make sure that each
tree seedling will survive to
make the activity successful.
De Guzman is also asking the
DENR to give an additional 10
hectares to the city government
for its local tree planting activi-
ties as well as 5,000 more tree
seedlings.
The Marikina Watershed
is named after our city as it is
our primary protection against
oods. Thats why we believe
that the city government of
Marikina should actively take
part in its restoration, De Guz-
man added.
Local government ofcials
recommended the declaration
of the watershed as a protected
area last September and the
mayors of Marikina, Quezon
City, Antipolo, Pasig, Cainta,
San Mateo and Rodriguez have
pledged support in rehabilitat-
ing the watershed.
The mayors also vowed to
develop a buffer zone and social
fence against urban sprawl and
pledged to provide alternative
livelihood to settlers and indig-
enous people in the area to dis-
courage activities that may con-
tribute to deforestation.
Save the Marikina Watershed. Environmental activists hold a small tree-planting activity at the Marikina Watershed in Rodriguez,
Rizal ahead of the bigger event that the Marikina City government will host in cooperation with the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources this coming weekend.
MMDA, SOMCO desilt creeks. Workers of the Metro Manila Devel-
opment Authority and the Skyway operator, Skyway O&M Corporation
watch over the desilting Pasong Diablo, Pasong Pari and Pasong Kapre
creeks in Muntinlupa City. Meralco, PLDT and other telecom companies
extended their assistance in this activity by permanently relocating their
cable lines higher to give way to the MMDA equipment.
By Joel Zurbano
CUSTOMS Commissioner Ruffy Bi-
azon has designated Rico Reyes as
head of the Task Force React, the bu-
reaus special task force against smug-
gling, replacing Teodoro Sagaral who
stepped down due to health reasons.
Biazon announced the appointment
of Reyes, was the chief of the moni-
toring unit of the bureau under former
Customs commissioner Napoleon
Morales, even as he denied that Saga-
ral was replaced because of his poor
performance.
(Sagaral) led a leave (of absence)
for health reasons. He was not around
for quite some time, the Customs
chief said. We talked about his con-
dition upon his arrival. Perhaps, a less
stressful assignment is better for him.
He also denied the task force is about
to be abolished due to the reported cor-
ruption linked to its members. It will
not be disbanded. Reyes will take over
as ofcer in charge. The task force will
continue its operations, he stressed.
The Customs bureau formed the
group in May to closely monitor the
entry of illegal imported goods in all
ports nationwide. It is also in charge of
valuation and examining importations.
Biazon said the team is tasked
to gather information from outside
sources that will lead to the apprehen-
sion of smuggled items.
Early in June, the task force seized
over 100,000 pieces of illegally-import-
ed digital video disc movies, cellphones,
laptop accessories, and sacks and drums
of unidentied chemicals worth P10 mil-
lion. The items were found to have been
misdeclared as houseware.
Biazon said the one 40-footer con-
tainer van of contraband came from
Guangzhou, China and was consigned
to a Quezon City-based trading com-
pany named Riichow Trading.
THE four suspects in the robbery-
killing of newspaper columnist and
former tourism ofcial Nixon Kua
surrendered themselves to the Laguna
police on Monday several hours before
Kua died of the injuries he sustained
in an apparent robbery at his brothers
home in Calamba City.
Calamba City police chief
Superintendet Leovegildo Manaig
identied the three suspects as John
Rey Cortez, Darwin Samiano and
Noel Garcia surrendered to ofcials
of the Barangay Maunong, where they
live, while the fourth suspect, Michael
Molino, surrendered two hours later.
The four suspects denied involvement
in the robbery but they were positively
identied by members of the Kua
family who were present during the
attack. They also faced arrest warrants
for previous cases, among them a gang
rape, Manaig said.
The four were detained at the
regional headquarters of the Criminal
Investigation and Detection Group here,
which was also part of the police Task
Force Nixon.
The police are still looking for a fth
suspect who may have informed the four
suspects that Kua was carrying money
when he visited his brother
Kua, 49, died 10:35 p.m. Monday
at the Calamba Medical Center after
sustaining gunshot wounds in the face.
His brother Allyxon was also shot but is
out of danger.
His remains lie in state at the
Sanctuarium on Araneta Avenue, near
Quezon Avenue, in Quezon City.
3 police generals named
THE National Police Commission
has approved the promotion of four
senior ofcers, including three new
generals.
Among those promoted was
Chief Supt. Alexander Roldan, the
acting deputy inspector general of
the Internal Affairs Service, a posi-
tion that has the rank of director, or
two-star general, Napolcom chair-
man Jesse Robredo said.
Promoted to chief superintendents,
or one-star general, were Senior Supt.
Federico Castro Jr., acting deputy
director for administration of the
Criminal Investigation and Detection
Group; Nestor Fajura, acting chief of
the PNP Human Rights Affairs Ofce;
and Ismael Lapira, acting regional di-
rector of the Regional Internal Affairs
Service, Police Regional Ofce 4A.
Ferdinand Fabella
Cine-Phone lm festival
kicks off at La Salle
THE Metro Manila Development
Authority will kick off a prelude of
the Metro Manila Film Festival, its
rst-ever cell phone lm festival,
at the De La Salle-College of St.
Benilde in Manila on Thursday.
Chairman Francis Tolentino said
the Cine-Phone Film Festival will
start to go around different schools to
promote the festival which is open to
all high school and college students
duly endorsed by their respective
schools or universities, he said.
Entries must be three to ve min-
utes long lmed through the use of
mobile phone cameras, and must be
in sync with this years theme of re-
storing road courtesy among motor-
ists and pedestrians. Sixty entries will
be selected, 20 each from Luzon, the
Visayas, and Mindanao, and 10 per
category in high school and college.
Six regional winners will be cho-
sen and awarded P25,000 each during
the MMFFs Gabi ng Parangal set on
Dec. 27. Tolentino said he has tasked
lm director Paul Soriano to head the
committee screening. Rio N. Araja
A7 Sports Riera U. Mallari, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
sports_mstandard@yahoo.com
No way Kobe Bryant is
buying it.
A game against the USthe
team that beat them for the Ol-
ympic basketball gold medal
four years earlierthis time in
front of their own crowd? The
Spanish players are supposed to
be OK with losing, because its
only an exhibition?
Theres not a chance, Bryant
said Monday. Its not just prac-
tice. Its impossible.
Bryant might have come away
with a different opinion if hed
listened to Spains players talk
on the same Palau Sant Jordi
oor about an hour earlier. They
are excited about the game Tues-
day night and will try to win, but
not at the expense of their prepa-
rations for London.
Its an exhibition game. I
think both teams are going to
try to (use) different lineups,
going to try maybe different
stuff, but at the end of the day
you know youre not going to
show a lot of things to the other
team, Spain guard Jose Cal-
deron of the Toronto Raptors
said. Youre not going to have
a medal if you win or if you lost
tomorrow.
The US held off Spain 118-
107 in Beijing to win gold in
what US coach Mike Krzyze-
wski called one of the great
games in international basket-
ball history. The Americans
pulled away after leading by
just four with under 2 min-
utes left to win their first ma-
jor title since the 2000 Olym-
Boss Jaden scores in PCSO race
Spanish team a great
test for US five, Kobe
BARCELONA, SpainMaybe Spain
can convince its home fans that the game
doesnt matter.
IN BRIEF
Amputee, 5 others lauded
LONDON-BOUND long-distance run-
ner Isidro Vildosola is upbeat about his
chances of coming up with another med-
al nish when he joins the 14th Summer
Paralympics Games next month.
Vildosola, an amputee who lost right
arm when he was just 13, expressed his
condence Sunday when he joined four
other honorees of the Eton International
School-8th Foundation Day Olympics at
the Palacio de Maynila in Malate, Manila.
I am now doing a lot of conditioning
so that my body will be prepared when
the Olympics come, said Vildosola.
The 37-year-old Vildosola, who has been
running competitively for the last seven
years, was a bronze-medal nisher in the
2006 Asian Paralympics in Kuala Lumpur in
the 1,500- meter run, and later took the silver
medal four years later in Guangzhou.
Vildosola, who was rescuing his cous-
in at their familys rice mill in Koronadal
when he met an accident, later gave an
inspirational talk and taught kids how to
run properly during the days festivities,
with school directress Jacqueline Mar-
zan-Tolentino encouraging him.
The Philippine Azkals national foot-
ball team, led by team skipper Emilio
Chieffy Caligdong, teammates Marvin
and Marwin Angeles, were also feted.
Olympian Elma Muros Posadas, retired
basketball player Johnny Abarrientos, for-
mer tennis star Dyan Castillejo and race
car driver Marlon Stockinger, who was
represented by his mother, Egin, were hon-
ored as well. Peter Atencio
THE son of a champion scored over
the trial race winner in last Saturdays
Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Ofce
at Santa Ana Park, Naic, Cavite.
Jockey Jeffrey Bacaycay steered
lawyer Sixto Esquivias IVs Boss
Jaden over 1,200 meters to win the
race for local 2YO.
Herminio Esguerras Super Whaaa,
who won the July 3 trial, came in
second, followed by SC Stockfarms
Boss Jay in third.
Esguerra still went home with
a trophythe coveted breeders
prizefor having come up with the
serendipitous cross that produced
Boss Jaden on his Herma Farm and
Stud ranch in Lipa, Batangas.
Boss Jaden is out of the broodmare
Tereshkova and was sired by
Esguerras champion Real Spicy. A
hot property during his racing years,
this horse by American champion
Real Quiet out of Spicy Tale garnered
practically all the available stakes
honors3rd leg Triple Crown 2005,
PCSO Presidential Gold Cup 2006;
PCSO Silver Cup 2006 and 2008; and
many other prestigious races.
Real Spicy also holds time
records, coincidentally tied with
another noted stayer, Mandaluyong
mayor Benhur Abaloss Ibarra: in the
1,750 meters, 1:48, and in the 2,050
meters (the longest race distance in
the country), 2:09.
The next PCSO Special Maiden
race, a 2YO Open, will be held Aug.
11 at the Manila Jockey Clubs San
Lazaro Leisure Park. Fifteen runners
were nominated for the 1,400-meter
event. The trial was held yesterday.
More on that next week.
* * *
The PCSO has other big races
on its calendar. Its Committee on
Races under its chairman lawyer
Jose Malang, supported by the
Draw and Races department under
manager Carlos Castillo, recently
announced the declared runners
for the PCSO National Grand
Derby on Aug. 19.
To be held at the Philippine
Racing Clubs Santa Ana Park on
the 4th Mayor Ramon D. Bagatsing
Memorial Cup day, the PCSO Derby
will be run for the rst time as such
and is a revival of the grand races of
yore termed derbies, reminiscent
perhaps of its famous counterparts
such as the Epsom and the Kentucky.
Six colts were entered the in the
mile battle, among them coupled
entries:
Post Position #1: Francis Lims
Yes Yes Yes, 3YO, jockey Patricio
Dilema, 54.5 kgs;
#2: Joseph Dyhengcos Darleb,
5YO (Jeffril Zarate, 55.5);
Coupled entries of Mayor Benhur
Abalos: #3: Barkley, 4YO (Kelvin
Abobo, 55) and #3A: Hagdang Bato,
3YO (Fernando Raquel Jr., 54.5);
Coupled entries of Herminio
Esguerra: #6: High Voltage, 4YO
(John Alvin Guce, 55) and #6A:
Purple Ribbon 3YO (Rodeo
Fernandez, 54.5).
I was surprised to see Hagdang
Batos name in this lineup.
The colt has just come off a
grueling campaign, capping his rst
semester efforts by sweeping the
Philippine Racing Commission 3YO
Triple Crown series, the rst to do so
in 11 years (the last being Patrick Uys
Silver Story in 2001).
Generally, horses that have
undergone such ordeals are spelled
for several months rest and recovery.
On the other hand, this colt has so
much going for it.
First, impeccable lineage
Hagdang Bato is by Quaker Ridge
(an Esguerra-Herma Farm stallion)
out of Fire Down Under (Abaloss
own mare), and is half-brother to
champion and dual-record holder
Ibarra (an island-born by Yonaguska).
Second, superb condition
Hagdang Bato ran the last split of
the 3rd leg of the Triple Crown in 26
seconds, mighty fast considering that
this is the longest leg at 2,000 meters.
Third, Hagdang Bato will face
only ve opponents that I believe he
outclasses.
The prize money offered by PCSO
isnt too shabby either: P1.5 million
for rst, P500,000 for second place,
P300,000 for third, and P200,000
for fourth.
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GLOBE Telecom named Philip-
pine Air Force left winger and
national football team vice captain
Emelio Chieffy Caligdong as its
newest ambassador for sports.
Caligdong will help drive the
companys advocacy on sports
development and advancement,
specically on the promotion of
football as a national sport.
A native of Barotac Nuevo,
Iloilo, Caligdong got his rst
international debut as a football
player when he played at the
2004 Tiger Cup Qualiers, scor-
ing three goals, leading the rst-
ever victory of the Philippines in
the Asean Football Champion-
ship against Timor-Leste.
In the 2011 Long Teng Cup,
Caligdong emerged as the top
scorer in the tournament, earn-
ing him the Golden Boot tro-
phy. A year later in the 2012
AFC Challenge Cup, Calig-
dong scored a goal that was
named as one of his careers
best goals.
We are very excited to wel-
come Chieffy as part of our roster
of ambassadors. Chieffy will play
a very signicant role in driving
our sports advocacy of support-
ing Philippine sports teams from
the grassroots and sporting events
with meaningful social devel-
opment goals, said Ernest Cu,
Globe president and Chief Execu-
tive Ofcer.
Chieffy is a living proof that
a homegrown talent can gure
prominently in the international
sports arena, giving all of us Fili-
pinos the pride and honor of be-
ing represented by a passionate
sports icon like him, Cu added.
Starting last year, Globe has
reinforced its commitment to
helping Philippine sports with its
support to Rugby and the Philip-
pine Volcanoes.
On top of his role as Globe
sports ambassador, Caligdong
will provide mentorship sup-
port to the Green Archers Globe
Footbal Club, a national football
team supported by Globe. He
is expected to share his exper-
tise and experience in the sport,
which will denitely give the
team members the motivation
and inspiration when they play in
the next United Football League.
Ronquillo rules Drift Manila
RAYMOND Ronquillo won
Drift Manila at Kings Play-
ground in FTI Taguig, with Al-
vin Dayrit and Boodie Dabasol
emerging as rst and second
runners-up.
Jesus Romero Salas topped
the novice division, followed
by Radrich Albano and Tin Tin
David, the only female racer in
the tournament organized by Car
Porn Racing Director Ian King.
Drift Manilas second leg was
joined by 25 drivers in both the
novice and pro categories, who
were all itching to practice be-
fore the actual event.
By lunch time, the bleach-
ers were packed and the driv-
ers were happily showing off
their skills making the crowd
go wild.
Even Car Porn Racings Kim
Garcia and Struan Wallace got
behind the wheel and took spec-
tators on shotgun rides.
The event was hosted by Issa
Litton and attended by celebri-
ties, such as Azkals Team Cap-
tain Ally Borromeo and Anton
Del Rosario. Also in attendance
was Joey Mead-King, who took
videos of her husband Ian King,
driving with half his body out
the window.
Ryan Agoncillo was the com-
mentator of the day, with George
Ramirez, Kevin Tayao and Brent
Co acting as judges.
The drifting sport is growing
in Manila and Im proud to say
Victoria Court is at the helm of
its rise. Keep drifting fun. We are
people passionate with the sport.
We do it for the love and the ex-
hilaration of going sideways. Its
what we live and breath. Its in
our blood, said King.
The event was supported by
Victoria Court, Sohotel, Good-
year Tires, Liqui Moly, Auto-
Guard, Sun Guard, DC, Tough
Jeans, Brembo, Bose, Rota and
Wreckless Inc.
Chieffy is Globe ambassador
JENNY
ORTUOSTE
THE HOARSE WHISPERER
JUVIC Pagunsan re-joins the International Container
Terminal Services Inc. Philippine Golf Tour, heading
a star-studded cast in the P1 million ICTSI Iloilo Golf
Challenge ring off today at Sta. Barbara in Iloilo City
and hoping to put in use the lessons learned from his
stint in last weeks British Open.
Although he wound up way down in 72nd in his
rst stint in a golng major, Pagunsan, 34, said it was
a good experience and vowed to vie for a berth in a
major next year.
But he stressed the need to be more focused and to prac-
tice more while expressing his elation over the rare chance
of playing alongside former two-time US Open champion
Retief Goosen in the nal round.
I saw so many shots from him (Goosen) and gave me
some good advice, said Pagunsan.
That makes him the marked man in a stellar roster that
includes the top 10 players in the current Order of Merit
rankings, including frontrunner Tony Lascuna, No. 2 El-
mer Salvador, Jay Bayron, Marvin Dumandan, Angelo
Que, Clyde Mondilla, Jun Bernis and Elmer Saban.
No. 3 Miguel Tabuena, winner of two of the rst six legs
of the 16-stage circuit organized by Pilipinas Golf Tourna-
ments, Inc., is also in the fold, eager to resume his hunt for
a third crown and the top P200,000 purse after missing last
weeks ICTSI Negros Occidental Classic in Bacolod.
Juvic returns as PH
tour goes to Iloilo
Paragua boosts bid
GRANDMASTER Mark Para-
gua has been one of the most
celebrated players in the coun-
try since barging into the local
chess scene as a child wonder in
the late 1990s.
Hes been an international
chess star, a triple gold med-
al winner in Southeast Asian
Games, a super GM, and an
inspiration to the golden gen-
eration of Philippine chess.
But hes never been a national
champion.
After beating GM Richard Bi-
toon in 29 moves of Catalan on
Monday, Paragua primed him-
self to become one.
Paragua pushed his total to
18.0 points after 12 rounds to
join International Master Oliver
Dimakiling on top in the 2012
National Open Chess Champi-
onships at the Cabagnot Train-
ing Center in Old Buswang, Ka-
libo Aklan.
Dimakiling managed only a
draw opposite IM Emmanuel
Senador in their rook and pawn
endgame.
GM Darwin Laylo stalemated
GM Roland Salvador to move
into solo third place with 15.5
points, followed by GM Julio
Catalino Sadorra, who halved
the point with top seed GM Oli-
ver Barbosa to raise his output
to 14.5 points.
The old dogs of local chess
were still in the hunt with 14.0
points apiece GM Eugene
Torre after his conquest of
Giovanni Mejia and GM Rog-
elio Joey Antonio after losing
to FIDE Master Haridas Pascua.
The event offers three outright
seats in the mens national team
competing in this years World
Chess Olympiad in Istanbul,
Turkey on August 27 to Sep-
tember 10 as well as P655,000
total prize.
Top Filipino player GM Wes-
ley So is already assured of a
slot, while the National Chess
Federation of the Philippines,
headed by chairman/president
Prospero Butch Pichay Jr. has
the option to pick the fth play-
er of the mens team.
Meanwhile, Woman Inter-
national Master Catherine Per-
ena downed Akiko Charmaine
Suede to maintain solo leader-
ship in the womens division
with 19.0 points.
Woman National Master
Janelle Mae Frayna kept the
leader in sight after toppling
Mira Mirano.
pics and are ranked No. 1 in
the world.
Spain is No. 2, and nobody
would be surprised to see them
play a gold-medal rematch on
Aug. 12. Thats the one the
Spanish are aiming for, they say,
and wont go all out for a victory
Tuesday if it means giving away
any secrets they would use when
it counts.
Itll denitely be a great
test, Spain star Pau Gasol said.
We believe in our chances, but
its just a friendly game. Obvi-
ously wed rather lose tomorrow
and win in London.
Bryant and Gasol are team-
mates with the Los Angeles Lak-
ers, and Gasol said hes looking
forward to meeting up after they
havent seen each other since
their season ended in Oklahoma
City in the second round of the
NBA playoffs.
Bryant said Gasol is like
a little brother, and that big
brothers dont let little broth-
ers win.
He doesnt like to lose against
anyone, but Id like to maybe let
him win tomorrow and maybe
beat him in London, Gasol said.
Thatll be ideal.
Bryant countered that theres
no way Pau is thinking this is
just another game. And if its
another tight one like the Beijing
battle as they head into the nal
minutes Tuesday?
Theres no way Paus sitting
down, Bryant said.
An NBA team would rarely
have its top players on the oor in
the nal minutes of its last presea-
son game. And Spain, which has
had to deal with injuries to Marc
Gasolwhose left shoulder was
wrapped in ice after practice
Juan Carlos Navarro and Rudy
Fernandez on top of already los-
ing Minnesota point guard Ricky
Rubio, has plenty of reason to be
cautious. AP
Ababa trails by one shot
SARAH Ababa bounced back from a so-
so stint in last weeks Womens North
and South Amateur Championship,
shooting a three-under 69 to trail Abbey
Newton by one at the start of the Wom-
ens Trans National Golf Championship
in Columbia, South Carolina Monday.
Ababa, who took an early exit at Pinehu-
rst with rounds of 82 and 76, hit four bird-
ies against a bogey to put herself in conten-
tion for medal honors in the 36-hole stroke
elimination phase of the annual event fea-
turing the worlds leading junior players.
The top ICTSI-backed bet shared sec-
ond place with Breanna Elliott, just one
stroke behind Newton, who showed the
94-player eld with a solid four-under 68
at the Members Club at Woodcreek.
Princess Superal matched par 72 for joint
ninth with Jessica Alexander while Dottie
Ardina and Jayvie Agojo both carded 74s.
Ernest Cu (second from left), Globe president and Chief Executive Ofcer, welcomes football star Chieffy
Caligdong as the rms newest ambassador for sports. They are joined by Rob Nazal (left), Head of Globe
CSR and Monchu Garcia (right), team Manager of Green Archer Globe Football Club. EY ACASIO
Sports
JULY 25, 2012
Manila Standard TODAY
WEDNESDAY
A8
Spoelstra coming back to PH
MIAMI Heat head coach Erik Spoel-
stra is headed back to the Philippines
this summer, the National Basketball
Association announced on Tuesday.
Spoelstra will be in Manila from
Aug. 2 to 5 for the NBA Trophy Tour
presented by Gatorade.
Spoelstra led the Miami Heat to the
2012 NBA Championship and became
the rst ever Head Coach of Asian de-
scent or heritage to win an NBA Cham-
pionship. He returns to the Philippines
next month for the third time with the
NBA and its partners.
Following a press conference on Aug.
2, the NBA Trophy Tour presented by
Gatorade will take place at SM North
Edsa on Aug. 4 (The Block Atrium, 2
to 3 p.m.), SM Megamall on Aug. 5
(Event Center, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.) fol-
lowed by SM Mall of Asia on the same
day (Music Hall, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.).
Fans will be able to get up close
to the Larry OBrien Championship
Trophy and see Coach Spoelstra as
he makes an appearance and chats
with fans.
During his visit, Spoelstra will also
conduct an NBA 3X Clinic for teen
boys and girls at the Jose Rizal Uni-
versity on Aug. 2 in preparation for
NBA 3X that will take place at the SM
MOA from Aug. 17 to 19.
As part of his trip to Manila, Spoels-
tra will host an interactive viewing party
at the SM MOA Center Stage, where
the NBA will air an NBA Finals game
and fans will be treated to a once-in-a-
lifetime viewing experience.
The NBA Finals game will be
shown on the large movie screen while
Spoelstra provides his personal com-
mentary, insights, and inside informa-
tion about the game. Fans will also
get a chance to interact with Spoelstra
and ask questions during the viewing
party. To determine which game will
be aired, fans can log onto the NBA
Philippines Facebook page at www.
facebook.com/philsnba and vote for
either Game 3 or 4 of the NBA Finals.
Voting will run from July 27 to Aug.
2. Voters are encouraged to share the
poll with their Facebook friends and
20 lucky voters who do so will win a
pair of tickets each to the interactive
viewing party.
Hidilyn Diaz hopes
to carry that weight
LONDONWeightlifter Hidi-
lyn Diaz strode into the dining
hall with a smile on her face,
ready to embrace the huge chal-
lenge ahead as she makes her
second foray into the worlds
biggest sports gathering a few
days from now.
Over a late lunch with coach
Tony Agustin and two Team
Philippines ofcials, Diaz talked
lengthily of her experience in the
three-week training camp leading
to the 30th Olympic Games, which
begins Friday (Manila time) as
well as the gains she hopes will do
her good when the battles begin.
According to Diaz, the camp
gave her a big chance to adjust to
the typical London blend of rain
and sunshine and the environment.
Adjusted na po ako ngayon
(to the weather and environ-
ment). Maganda na feeling at
bumalik na ang lakas ko, said
Diaz as Agustin, chief of mission
Manny Lopez and administrative
ofcer Arsenic Lacson listened.
Imagine kung ngayon ka lang
darating. Mahihirapan ka sa
klase ng weather, added Diaz,
who saw action in the 2008 Bei-
jing Games as a young girl of 17.
Shes 21 now, someone whos
not easily frightened anymore by
the enormity of the challenge.
Okay lang. Anong malay natin?
Sa tagal ko na po naglalaro, hindi na
ako takot sa laban,she said.
Hidilyn, the countrys rst fe-
male ag-bearer in the opening
ceremonies this Friday, wrapped
up another long training still over-
weight by one kilo, but her coach
said heres nothing to worry about.
Madali lang tanggalin yun.
No problem. Matagal pa na-
man ang competition niya, said
Agustin, a many-time national
player whos now into his ninth
Her best effort since coming over
to the Athletes Village early last
week was 84 kilos in the snatch
and 107 kilos in the clean and
jerk, still off her personal high of
219 kgs which she set in a trium-
phant campaign in the Philippine
National Games three months
ago in Dumaguete City.
The duo said doing that per-
sonal best will not be a prob-
lem. In fact, they submitted to
the organizers a target of 225
kgs, which sent her competing in
Group A, where podium nish-
ers will likely emerge.
sports@manilastandardtoday.com sports_mstandard@yahoo.com Riera U. Mallari, Editor
PH Archers
serious in
games bid
LONDONBetween them, ar-
chers Mark Javier and Rachel
Ann Cabral have red around
1,900 arrows since arriving here
last week as they hit the closing
stage of their training for the
30th Olympic Games, which
begins on Friday (Manila time).
The number of arrows red
from their imported, expensive
bows tells of how serious, how
determined Javier and Cabral
are in their quest to make good
in the biggest stage of all.
But although they left nothing
to chance in their buildup un-
der a dependable South Korean
coach, both Javier and Cabral re-
fused to predict about what lies
ahead.
Its hard to predict. Lets just
wait for the competitions to be-
gin, Javier politely answered,
before joining the rest of his
teammates for the bus ride to the
Philippine embassy for a dinner
with the ambassador.
Like Javier, Cabral also begged
off to tell what the future holds for
her, except saying they will give
their best shot from the moment
they re their rst arrows.
Ill do my best. Thats for
sure, Cabral said.
And like his athletes, Korean
coach Chung Jae-hun has not
said a word about their chanc-
es, smiling only everytime one
asked the same question.
Maybe, their bows and ar-
rows will do the talking when
they start stepping onto the hal-
lowed grounds of the Lords
Cricket for the ranking round
on the same day the worlds
biggest sports event opens with
a glitzy welcome
party on July 27.
NBA NEWS
Sta. Cruz, Laguna hosts 2 NCAA games
THE Letran Knights and the
Arellano University Chiefs clash
against separate rivals today in a
bid to move ahead in the stand-
ings of the 88th National Colle-
giate Athletic Association mens
basketball tournament.
The Knights take on the
Emilio Aguinaldo College Gen-
erals at 1 p.m., while the Chiefs
meet the College of St. Benilde
Blazers at 3 p.m. in two historic
road games to be played at the
San Luis Sports Complex in Sta.
Cruz, Laguna.
This will be the rst time that
the countrys oldest collegiate
cagefest will hold out-of-town
games, to be hosted by Laguna
gov. ER Ejercito.
The NCAA,
through management
committee chairman
Fr. Victor Calvo and
the province of La-
guna, through Gov.
Ejercito, inked the memorandum
of agreement last Monday.
Under the agreement, the
league will donate the gate re-
ceipts of the games to the sports
development program of the
province.
The Knights and the Chiefs are
in a three-way tie (2-3) at fth
place, along with idle Mapua.
They are behind
leaders Jose Rizal
University, San Se-
bastian College and
San Beda College (4-
1), and University of
Perpetual Help Sys-
tem Dalta (4-2).
The Knights were supposed
to meet the defending champion
San Beda Red Lions last Satur-
day, but the showdown was post-
poned due to inclement weather.
They are, however, considered
as the heavy favorites against
the Generals, who are struggling
with a four-game losing streak.
Behind Kevin Alas heroics, the
Knights ended a three-game slump
by beating the Cardinals, 66-60,
last week. Alas is Letrans top gun-
ner with his averages of 20 points,
6.2 rebounds and 4.2 assists.
After losing its rst three
games, Arellano banked on the
impressive showing of Fil-Am
rookie James Forrester to beat
Letran and Lyceum.
Forrester made it to the
leagues Top 10 in scoring with
a 14.7 point-clip for the Chiefs.
Peter Atencio
Painters eye 2-0 lead
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However, everyone knows it
will not be that easy as Rain or
Shine expects a better stand from
B-MEG, which tries to avoid a
0-2 hole when the two resume
their highly physical series today
at 6:45 p.m.
In Game 1, the Elasto Painters
were able to impose their physi-
cal style of play on the Llamados
en route to a 91-80 triumph.
For a team with no nals ex-
perience, Rain or Shine coach
Yeng Guiao is pleased with how
his team handled the game.
I am really proud of how the
boys are handling the pressure of
the nals, said Guiao. When
By Jeric Lopez

AFTER a masterful Game-1 win, Rain or
Shine has a golden opportunity to take a gi-
ant step closer to its rst title as the Painters
gun for a commanding 2-0 series lead in
the 2012 Philippine Basketball Association
Governors Cup best-of-seven champion-
ship series at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum.
we were able to settle down
and soak up the atmosphere, we
were okay. I hope we can keep it
that way. Malaking bagay iyong
Game 1 sa kumpiyansa namin
going to the next game.
Knowing what a 2-0 lead means
to Rain or Shines chances of
bagging it all, Guiao hopes that the
energy his wards brought in Game
1 carries over today.
Im hoping for another big
game, said Guiao, who also be-
lieves that the two protagonists will
benet from the two-day break
heading to todays important game.
In Game 1, we were more fresh
since they (Llamados) still played a
knockout game. This time, they are
rested after two days in between and
malaking bagay iyon. I expect them
to come out harder and more pre-
pared. The two-day break did both
of us good.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Chito
Salud, after reviewing the chair-
throwing incident by B-MEG men-
tor Tim Cone in Game 1, decided
to impose a ne of P3,400 on the
American for his fourth techni-
cal foul and an additional ne of
P20,000 for serious disrespect for
the game that could be misinter-
preted as inciting further chaos and
outbursts from the fans.
This behavior clearly consti-
tutes agrant misconduct on the
part of Mr. Cone, said Salud.
Cone, who was displeased at
Rain or Shines physical play,
said all he can hope for is for his
team to do what it has been doing
consistently the entire season
bounce back.
Well do what we can to play
better and bounce back, said
Cone.
After failing to keep his tem-
per in check, Cone, frustrated
with the physicality of the Elas-
to Painters and the ofciating,
threw a monoblock chair in the
middle of the oor with eight
minutes left in Game 1, thereby
earning him an ejection.
The Best Player and Best Im-
port of the Conference awards
will be handed out today prior to
the start of Game 2.
Competing for the Player of the
Conference citation are Baran-
gay Ginebras Mark Caguioa,
Powerades Gary David, James
Yap and Marc Pingris from B-
MEG and Paul Lee of Rain or
Shine.
Jeson nips
Indonesian
in Indian tilt
JESON Patrombon of the Phil-
ippines eked out a 6-0, 4-6, 7-5
triumph over Indonesian Da-
vis cup rival Aditya Hari Sa-
songko in the ongoing $10,000
IOC-BNC International Tennis
Federation F11 Futures Tour-
nament at the SDAT stadium
in Chennai, India.
It took the 889th-ranked Pa-
trombon three hours to get past
Sasongko, a member of the Indo-
nesian team, which he and mem-
bers of the national team will meet
in the third round of their Davis
Cup tie this September.
This match was very impor-
tant to us mentally because we
are aware of the coming Davis
Cup tie between the Philippines
and Indonesia this September,
said coach Manny Tecson in an
email to the Manila Standard.
Tecson noted that another
member of the Indonesian
squad, team skipper Bonit
Wiryawan, also watched the
match against another Davis
Cupper Elbert Sie.
Patrombon hit the ball very
aggressively all throughout the
match and put Sasongko most-
ly on the defensive end.
This enabled Jeson to win
crucial points with his serve
in the third set and keep the
pressure on the left-handed Sa-
songko. Peter Atencio
Team Philippines joins ambassador Enrique Manalo (sixth from left) and other embassy ofcials for a souvenir shot behind a double decker
with Its More Fun in the Philippines written on its sides right after dinner hosted by the embassy on Monday. To Manalos right is chief of
mission Manny Lopez.
Games Today
(San Luis Sports Complex
in Sta. Cruz, Laguna)
1 p.m. Letran vs EAC
3 p.m. Arellano vs CSB
Spoelstra
CHICAGOKirk Hinrich is back with the
Chicago Bulls. The team announced the
move Monday, bringing back a player
they drafted in the rst round nine years
ago and giving themselves a reliable
point guard while Derrick Rose recovers
from knee surgery. Hinrich played his
rst seven seasons with the Bulls before
being traded to the Washington Wizards
in 2010 and later being sent to the
Atlanta Hawks. AP
Business
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IN BRIEF
Consunji firm joining
SMCs Metro road bid
Ray S. Eano, Editor extrastory2000@gmail.com
Roderick T. dela Cruz, Assistant Editor
New planes, routes
to save PAL $300m
HSBC
sees no
further
rate cuts
San Miguel Brewery may delist shares
Vista Land launches housing projects in Vigan, Palawan
PSE COMPOSITE INDEX
Closing July 24, 2012
5,159.74
20.34
OIL
PRICES
TODAY
P584-P695.00
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 42.0260
Japan Yen 0.012758 0.5362
UK Pound 1.552500 65.2454
Hong Kong Dollar 0.128912 5.4177
Switzerland Franc 1.010816 42.4806
Canada Dollar 0.983284 41.3235
Singapore Dollar 0.793147 33.3328
Australia Dollar 1.025536 43.0992
Bahrain Dinar 2.652590 111.4777
Saudi Arabia Rial 0.266667 11.2069
Brunei Dollar 0.790014 33.2011
Indonesia Rupiah 0.000106 0.0045
Thailand Baht 0.031466 1.3224
UAE Dirham 0.272272 11.4425
Euro Euro 1.213900 51.0154
Korea Won 0.000869 0.0365
China Yuan 0.156583 6.5806
India Rupee 0.017883 0.7516
Malaysia Ringgit 0.315259 13.2491
NewZealand Dollar 0.788208 33.1252
Taiwan Dollar 0.033239 1.3969
Source: PDS Bridge
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
PESO-DOLLAR RATE
40
42
44
46
48
P42.045
CLOSE
Closing JULY 24, 2012
5200
4460
3720
2980
2240
1500
1200
VOLUME 927.410M
HIGH P41.995 LOW P42.100 AVERAGE P42.037
By Jenniffer B. Austria
DMCI Holdings Inc. may team up with
conglomerate San Miguel Corp. to build
a road project that will connect two major
expressways in the country.
DMCI president Isidro
Consunji said in an interview
Tuesday the company planned
to tie up with San Miguel, which
has proposed a 14.2-kilometer
elevated road project linking
North Luzon Expressway and
South Luzon Expressway.
We may partner with San
Miguel for the connector road
project, Consunji said.
San Miguel and partner Citra
Metro Manila Tollways Corp.
earlier proposed to construct
the elevated six-lane tollway
from Buendia Avenue in Makati
to Balintawak in Quezon City.
It will have exits in Quirino in
Manila and Plaza Dilao, Aurora
Boulevard, E. Rodriguez Ave.,
Quezon Boulevard, Sgt. Rivera
and Balintawak in Quezon City.
The project is part of the 30-
kilometer Metro Manila Skyway
project package approved by the
government in 1995.
The project aims to
help decongest Edsa by
accommodating a bigger vehicle
capacity and providing more
entry and exit points for a more
exible intercity travel.
San Miguel and Citra last
year formed a joint venture
company, called Atlantic Aurum
Inc. Citra owns 54 percent while
San Miguel controls 46 percent
of the joint venture, which has
secured control of the Metro
Manila Skyway, the SLEX and
the Southern Tagalog Arterial
Road.
DMCI, through its construction
arm, DM Consunji Inc., was the
contractor for Skyway phase 2,
which involved the construction
of an elevated expressway
connecting Bicutan in Paraaque
to Alabang in Muntinlupa. DMCI
is also San Miguels partner in
the construction of the Tarlac-La
Union Toll Expressway project.
San Miguel-Citras connector
road is different from the 21-
km. project proposed by Metro
Pacic Investments Corp.
Metro Pacic earlier submitted
an unsolicited proposal with
the Transportation and Public
Works Departments to build the
project.
The project, which is now up
for Swiss challenge, involves
the construction of an elevated
road via the Philippine National
Railway tracks within the Manila
Central Business District, from
the end of NLEX at C3 to
the beginning of Skyway 1 at
Buendia.
The connector is part of the
P38 billion worth of road projects
that Metro Pacic Tollways plans
to do over the next ve years.
By Julito G. Rada
LISTED homebuilder company
Vista Land & Lifescapes Inc.
of the family of Senator Manny
Villar will soon start three
housing projects this year in
Vigan in Ilocos Sur, Tagbilaran
in Bohol and Puerto Princesa in
Palawan.
Vista Land said Tuesday it had
earmarked over P2 billion for
the projects, all located in prime
tourist destinations.
The projects, which will
cover 34 hectares, involve the
construction of about 2,400
housing units and will have a
market value estimated at P5
billion. They are among the
residential subdivisions that Vista
Land plans to launch this year.
The company last year launched
23 projects worth a combined
P21 billion.
All three projects are under the
Camella brand, the agship of
the Vista Land group.
Camella Homes Tagbilaran
is located in Barangay Bool,
at about 150 meters above sea
level, providing a scenic view of
the Mindanao Sea.
The Camella project in historic
Vigan, which has been declared
a World Heritage Site by the
Unesco, sits on a 15-hectare
property in Barangay Cabaroan
in Bantay town at the heart of the
city, where Plazas Salcedo and
Burgos, the St. Pauls Cathedral
and the nearby Calle Crisologo
and Plaridel Street are the favorite
tourist spots.
Camella Puerto Princesa,
meanwhile, is an ideal living
space for those who put great
premium on vacationing or
retiring, with the beaches and
resorts just two kilometers away.
Western Unions
prepaid card.
Western Union, Visa
International and Union
Bank of the Philippines
have teamed up to
launch the Western
Unions Gold Prepaid
Card in the Philippines.
The card provides a
safer alternative to
carrying cash. The
Philippines is the rst
in the Asia Pacic to
launch the prepaid card.
At the launching event
are (from left) Justo
Ortiz, chairman and
chief executive of Union
Bank of the Philippines;
Peter Maher, Visa
International group
country manager
for South Asia and
Australasia; Drina
Yue, Western Union
managing director and
senior vice president
for Asia Pacic; and
Mukesh Bubna, prepaid
card director for Asia
Pacic and Japan.
TEDDY PELAEZ
SAN Miguel Brewery Inc.,
a joint venture between
conglomerate San Miguel
Corp. and Kirin Holdings
Co. Ltd., may delist its shares
from the stock exchange.
SMB chairman Ramon
Ang told reporters Monday
night that Kirin ofcials
had declined to reduce the
companys holdings in the
brewery unit to 38 percent to
meet the 10-percent minimum
public oat requirement of the
Philippine Stock Exchange.
Kirin does not want to
scale down its shares, so we
might as well delist. If the
PSE tells us to delist, then we
will delist, Ang said.
He said SMB would have
complied with the limit if
the PSE agreed to treat listed
and preferred shares as one,
which are both listed.
The PSE requires publicly-
listed companies to have
a minimum public oat of
10 percent. A six-month
suspension awaits companies
that do not comply with
the rule by Jan. 1, 2013.
The suspension can lead to
delisting if the non-compliant
company fails to increase the
public oat during the six-
month suspension.
SMCs beer unit earlier said
that it planned to remain listed
with the PSE and comply with
the 10-percent minimum public
oat of the exchange.
SMBs public oat is
currently at 0.6 percent of the
total capital. SMC owns 51
percent of the beer unit while
Kirin holds 49.4 percent.
SMB, a major source of
revenues for San Miguel, has
been a long-time leader in
the Philippine beer industry,
accounting for 96 percent of
the local market.
The beer unit currently has six
main production facilities in the
Philippines, which produce well-
known brands, including San
Miguel Pale Pilsen, Red Horse
Beer and San Mig Light.
Lailany P. Gomez
FLAG carrier Philippine
Airlines expects to cut operating
cost by as much as $300 million
annually, as the airline realigns
its routes using new aircraft such
as the recently delivered Boeing
777-300ER passenger jet.
PAL president Ramon Ang said
the arrival of Boeing 777-300ER
plane would bolster the companys
eet modernization. He said the
wide-bodied Boeing 777 series
was consuming 20 percent less
fuel than its older counterpart
B747. The new plane can also
accommodate 33 percent more
cargo and carries 370 passengers.
Ang, speaking to reporters
during a cocktail he hosted at the
Shangri-La Makati in celebration
of the arrival of Boeing 777, said
PAL needed the right aircraft for
right destinations if it wanted
to reduce operating expenses.
He said the realignment of
ights would occur by October,
including domestic operations.
The proper realignment will
give us at least $300 million in
savings a year, he added.
PAL incurred P79.39-billion
operating expenses in its scal year
ending March 2012, or 10.9 percent
higher than the P71.57-billion
expenses recorded a year ago. This
resulted in a net loss of P3.63 billion,
a reversal of the previous years net
income of P2.53 billion.
Ang said once the airline
rearranged the routes using
the new aircraft, the company
may post prot again. Our
number one priority is to turn
around PAL by tapping into the
strengths of San Miguel Corp.
and the Lucio Tan Group of
Companies. Our growth strategy
for Philippine Airlines is simple:
the modernization of its eet,
the expansion of its network,
and improvements in passenger
service, Ang said.
Ang said the airline would
replace its aging B747 to
accommodate more passengers
and launch a direct ight from
Manila to New York.
Our plan is to modernize the
eet and improved the services
to expand our network and we
intend to raise up to $1 billion
into equity, as we already had
$500 million and the intention
is to raise the balance of another
$500 million, said Ang. Eric B.
Apolonio, Lailany P. Gomez
PH lifts Aussie ban
THE Philippines lifted its temporary ban on
poultry products from Melbourne in Victoria,
Australia due to negligible risks.
Based on the evaluation of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, the risk of contamination from
importing poultry and poultry products from
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is negligible,
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said in an
order he signed on July 2.
Alcala said Australias Ministry of Agriculture,
Fishery, and Forestry submitted an ofcial report
to the Ofce Internationale des Epizooties, stating
the avian inuenza incident in Melbourne in
Victoria had been resolved.
He noted that the disinfection of premises was
completed on March 6 and that no further cases of
avian inuenza had been detected.
Appropriate surveillance has been completed
to demonstrate that the outbreak of low
pathogenic avian inuenza has been contained
and eradicated, said Alcala.
The Philippines imposed the ban on poultry
products from Melbourne in January after
Canberra conrmed the presence of the virus in a
duck meat grower farm. Othel V. Campos
Stable July ination
BANGKO Sentral Governor Amando Tetangco
said Tuesday ination rate in July could settle
within the range of 2.6 percent to 3.5 percent,
from the actual 2.8 percent in June.
Higher utility rates and increased international
oil prices could have been offset by the peso
appreciation and the decline in the domestic
price of [liqueed petroleum gas]. These reect
that ination remains generally manageable,
Tetangco said.
He said he expects the average ination in
the medium term to stay at the lower end of the
central bank target range.
Our current view is that there is some scope
to adjust monetary policy settings to protect the
ination target on the downside, said Tetangco.
The BSP will continue to monitor develop-
ments particularly movements in international
commodity prices, shifts in investor appetite that
capital ows and any changes in growth pros-
pects across the globe as these would impact on
our domestic price and growth dynamics, said
Tetangco. Anna Leah G. Estrada
By Anna Leah G. Estrada
A FOREIGN bank expects the
Bangko Sentrals Monetary
Board to keep the overnight
borrowing rate steady at record
low of 4.0 percent on Thursday,
warning a further rate reduction
could stoke ination and push
the peso higher.
While some market
participants are expecting a
rate cut, especially with the
Bangko Sentral governor
sounding more dovish, we
reiterate our call for a hold on
Thursday, HSBC economist
Trinh Nguyen said.
HSBC foreign exchange
strategist Dominic Bunning
also said a cut will only have
a short-term effect, as ows
are due to strong fundamentals
rather than speculative in
nature.
With ination on the rise
and the effects of the cut likely
ephemeral, the BSP will keep
rates steady and resort to other
administrative measures should
it become necessary, Bunning
added.
The Monetary Board will
meet Thursday for its policy
meeting. The board kept the
interest rates unchanged in its
last meeting, after the gross
domestic product grew 6.4
percent in the rst quarter.
Ination rate stood at 2.8
percent in June.
The HSBC economists said
while the Bangko Sentral was
signalling against too much
peso appreciation, we do
not believe a rate cut would
cause the peso to sell off on a
sustained basis.
Much of the Philippine
pesos strength in June came
from foreign investment into
the local equity market. If a rate
cut were to further support the
already buoyant equity market,
this could actually encourage
inows, they said.
The foreign bank, which
handles foreign funds going
to the Philippines, also denied
that the peso has been subject to
inows from a carry trade.
Yields are actually close
to historic lows, while bond
market ows appear to have
been negative. This does
not back up the idea that the
Philippines is subject to foreign
investors searching for yield,
it said.
TRADI NG SUMMARY
SHARES VALUE
FINANCIAL 16,910,116 1,015,382,114.10
INDUSTRIAL 101,412,936 977,374,287.79
HOLDING FIRMS 152,661,644 1,294,249,856.54
PROPERTY 193,072,002 680,033,512.17
SERVICES 94,537,256 749,719,369.00
MINING & OIL 453,915,030 201,085,496.51
GRAND TOTAL 1,012,508,984 4,917,844,636.11
FINANCIAL 1,280.73 (down) 0.50
INDUSTRIAL 7,846.30 (up) 24.38
HOLDING FIRMS 4,351.62 (up) 39.08
PROPERTY 1,881.06 (up) 1.55
SERVICES 1,768.89 (down) 1.48
MINING & OIL 23,163.09 (down) 101.10
PSEI 5,159.74 (up) 20.34
All Shares Index 3,432.76 (up) 7.92
Gainers: 63; Losers: 79; Unchanged:52; Total: 194
Market rebounds;
Ayala, SMIC climb
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52 Weeks Previous % Net Foreign
High Low STOCKS Close High Low Close Change Volume Trade/Buying
MST BUSINESS DAILY STOCKS REVIEW
TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2012
M
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T
FINANCIAL
70.50 46.00 Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. 61.55 61.50 61.00 61.25 (0.49) 5,745,550 (188,784,127.50)
76.80 50.00 Bank of PI 72.50 72.50 71.85 72.00 (0.69) 1,540,240 (9,343,040.50)
1.82 0.68 Bankard, Inc. 0.71 0.71 0.71 0.71 0.00 41,000
595.00 370.00 China Bank 480.00 481.00 476.00 477.00 (0.63) 94,980 (502,290.00)
28.50 27.80 Citystate Savings 28.00 28.50 28.50 28.50 1.79 3,600
23.90 12.98 COL Financial 22.75 22.75 22.20 22.75 0.00 75,600
20.70 18.50 Eastwest Bank 18.54 18.72 18.54 18.70 0.86 1,498,900 (3,535,060.00)
22.00 7.56 Filipino Fund Inc. 10.24 10.20 10.20 10.20 (0.39) 600
89.00 50.00 First Metro Inv. 75.00 79.50 71.00 78.00 4.00 3,070
681.00 450.00 Manulife Fin. Corp. 451.20 452.00 452.00 452.00 0.18 10
39.20 3.00 Maybank ATR KE 37.00 37.00 37.00 37.00 0.00 5,000
98.00 60.00 Metrobank 93.00 95.40 92.10 95.30 2.47 3,617,190 7,209,830.00
3.06 1.30 Natl Reinsurance Corp. 1.97 1.96 1.96 1.96 (0.51) 40,000
77.80 41.00 Phil. National Bank 73.00 72.00 70.05 71.50 (2.05) 170,730 (4,574,934.00)
95.00 63.50 Phil. Savings Bank 86.00 86.00 83.10 86.00 0.00 560
500.00 204.80 PSE Inc. 355.00 355.00 354.20 355.00 0.00 17,550 2,861,300.00
45.50 25.45 RCBC À 44.00 44.00 44.00 44.00 0.00 135,900.00 3,718,000.00
155.20 77.00 Security Bank 138.00 136.30 135.00 136.30 (1.23) 727,540 (56,118,728.00)
1240.00 890.00 Sun Life Financial 910.00 920.00 900.00 920.00 1.10 410
140.00 58.00 Union Bank 99.50 99.50 98.95 98.95 (0.55) 91,520
2.06 1.43 Vantage Equities 1.75 1.74 1.72 1.74 (0.57) 3,100,000
INDUSTRIAL
35.50 26.50 Aboitiz Power Corp. 34.20 34.55 34.00 34.10 (0.29) 2,792,800 37,692,670.00
13.58 8.00 Agrinurture Inc. 8.60 8.60 8.54 8.54 (0.70) 43,000
23.90 11.98 Alaska Milk Corp. 20.00 19.70 19.50 19.70 (1.50) 3,800
1.70 0.97 Alliance Tuna Intl Inc. 1.42 1.42 1.39 1.42 0.00 29,000
1.65 1.08 Alsons Cons. 1.43 1.43 1.40 1.40 (2.10) 966,000 (61,730.00)
Asiabest Group 28.00 28.85 27.40 28.40 1.43 122,900
2.96 2.12 Calapan Venture 2.43 2.43 2.30 2.43 0.00 17,000
250.00 41.00 Chemphil 180.00 179.00 150.10 156.00 (13.33) 240
3.07 2.30 Chemrez Technologies Inc. 2.54 2.53 2.53 2.53 (0.39) 180,000
9.70 7.41 Cirtek Holdings (Chips) 8.95 9.45 9.45 9.45 5.59 100
7.00 4.83 Energy Devt. Corp. (EDC) 6.03 6.12 5.99 6.10 1.16 18,721,300 40,961,012.00
6.75 2.80 EEI 6.80 6.86 6.75 6.86 0.88 1,580,900 99,280.00
18.00 12.50 First Gen Corp. 18.10 18.80 18.08 18.46 1.99 8,457,800 39,076,666.00
78.55 51.50 First Holdings A 76.15 79.15 76.20 78.90 3.61 1,603,330 6,849,255.50
30.90 22.50 Ginebra San Miguel Inc. 20.50 20.20 19.80 20.00 (2.44) 99,000
0.02 0.0099 Greenergy 0.0140 0.0140 0.0130 0.0140 0.00 40,000,000 23,800.00
12.36 7.80 Holcim Philippines Inc. 11.60 11.60 11.60 11.60 0.00 100,000 770,240.00
7.40 3.80 Integ. Micro-Electronics 4.07 4.10 4.07 4.10 0.74 78,000
2.35 0.74 Ionics Inc 0.640 0.640 0.630 0.630 (1.56) 135,000
120.00 80.00 Jollibee Foods Corp. 106.50 107.00 104.00 106.00 (0.47) 875,500 5,430,121.00
Lafarge Rep 8.80 8.30 8.30 8.30 (5.68) 20,000
91.25 25.00 Liberty Flour 43.50 42.50 42.50 42.50 (2.30) 300
8.40 1.04 LMG Chemicals 2.01 2.03 1.96 1.99 (1.00) 837,000 (19,700.00)
1.90 1.11 Mabuhay Vinyl Corp. 1.49 1.46 1.46 1.46 (2.01) 38,000
26.00 18.10 Manila Water Co. Inc. 25.10 25.30 25.10 25.25 0.60 1,201,400 13,496,895.00
15.30 8.12 Megawide 16.20 16.10 15.98 16.00 (1.23) 2,389,400 44,800.00
295.00 215.00 Mla. Elect. Co À 258.00 268.00 256.00 260.00 0.78 319,060 28,247,618.00
3.00 1.96 Pepsi-Cola Products Phil. 2.89 2.90 2.87 2.90 0.35 1,652,000 1,066,790.00
17.40 9.70 Petron Corporation 10.00 10.00 9.94 10.00 0.00 1,895,700 199,300.00
13.70 10.20 Phinma Corporation 11.00 10.46 10.46 10.46 (4.91) 3,000
14.94 8.05 Phoenix Petroleum Phils. 8.80 8.80 8.69 8.80 0.00 28,000
3.78 1.01 RFM Corporation 3.28 3.30 3.25 3.28 0.00 420,000
6.50 2.90 Salcon Power Corp. 5.30 5.20 5.20 5.20 (1.89) 11,000
33.00 26.50 San Miguel Brewery Inc. 33.90 34.00 33.80 33.90 0.00 211,000
132.60 110.20 San Miguel Corp À 113.00 113.00 112.00 112.00 (0.88) 500,860 3,297,206.00
1.90 1.25 Seacem 1.94 1.92 1.90 1.92 (1.03) 3,101,000
2.44 1.80 Splash Corporation 1.83 1.82 1.82 1.82 (0.55) 34,000
0.250 0.112 Swift Foods, Inc. 0.140 0.140 0.140 0.140 0.00 300,000
5.30 3.30 Tanduay Holdings 4.50 4.53 4.49 4.50 0.00 785,000 (139,530.00)
1.41 0.90 Trans-Asia Oil 1.22 1.21 1.17 1.18 (3.28) 8,696,000
69.20 37.00 Universal Robina 57.75 59.00 57.50 58.10 0.61 1,846,760 (45,086,789.50)
5.50 1.05 Victorias Milling 1.16 1.23 1.15 1.18 1.72 1,165,000 (94,920.00)
1.12 0.310 Vitarich Corp. 0.610 0.600 0.600 0.600 (1.64) 51,000
1.22 0.70 Vulcan Indl. 0.93 0.94 0.94 0.94 1.08 80,000
HOLDING FIRMS
1.18 0.65 Abacus Cons. À 1.00 1.03 0.94 0.94 (6.00) 78,029,000 555,300.00
59.90 35.50 Aboitiz Equity 48.40 48.95 47.30 47.30 (2.27) 2,694,000 (2,243,660.00)
0.019 0.014 Alcorn Gold Res. 0.0160 0.0180 0.0170 0.0180 12.50 36,800,000
13.70 8.00 Alliance Global Inc. 11.40 11.60 11.40 11.52 1.05 11,677,600 (35,418,116.00)
2.97 1.80 Anglo Holdings A 1.99 2.00 1.98 1.99 0.00 150,000
5.02 3.00 Anscor À 4.60 4.71 4.70 4.70 2.17 130,000
6.98 0.260 Asia Amalgamated A 5.00 5.14 4.90 5.14 2.80 12,200
3.15 1.49 ATN Holdings A 2.32 2.45 2.32 2.43 4.74 876,000
4.16 2.30 ATN Holdings B 2.72 2.70 2.34 2.34 (13.97) 5,000
485.20 272.00 Ayala Corp À 410.20 421.00 405.00 415.00 1.17 1,196,240 (174,607,074.00)
64.80 30.50 DMCI Holdings 56.30 57.50 55.20 57.05 1.33 1,784,180 (27,268,265.00)
5.20 3.30 Filinvest Dev. Corp. 4.08 4.09 4.06 4.09 0.25 36,000
0.98 0.10 Forum Pacic 0.270 0.275 0.250 0.265 (1.85) 230,000
520.00 455.40 GT Capital 530.00 530.00 525.00 527.00 (0.57) 99,200 (354,130.00)
5.22 2.94 House of Inv. 5.06 4.98 4.70 4.98 (1.58) 41,100 (37,182.00)
36.20 19.00 JG Summit Holdings 31.80 31.95 31.75 31.80 0.00 1,636,500 2,982,080.00
4.19 2.27 Jolliville Holdings 2.85 2.99 2.87 2.95 3.51 211,000
6.21 4.00 Lopez Holdings Corp. 5.83 6.00 5.79 5.90 1.20 736,100 (3,408,600.00)
1.54 0.61 Lodestar Invt. Holdg.Corp. 1.09 1.14 1.08 1.09 0.00 1,492,000
3.82 1.790 Marcventures Hldgs., Inc. 2.45 2.47 2.42 2.42 (1.22) 1,169,000
4.65 2.56 Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. 4.16 4.17 4.12 4.12 (0.96) 11,055,000 (21,857,470.00)
6.24 2.55 Minerales Industrias Corp. 5.38 5.40 5.20 5.31 (1.30) 86,500 26,250.00
7.50 1.22 MJCI Investments Inc. 6.20 6.15 5.40 6.15 (0.81) 200
0.0770 0.045 Pacica À 0.0560 0.0560 0.0560 0.0560 0.00 500,000
2.20 1.20 Prime Media Hldg 1.600 1.520 1.520 1.520 (5.00) 16,000
0.82 0.44 Prime Orion 0.460 0.480 0.460 0.480 4.35 40,000
4.10 1.56 Republic Glass A 2.12 2.12 2.12 2.12 0.00 4,000
0.490 0.285 Sinophil Corp. 0.335 0.335 0.335 0.335 0.00 40,000
750.00 450.00 SM Investments Inc. 715.00 740.00 712.50 740.00 3.50 267,320 (3,329,015.00)
1.78 1.00 Solid Group Inc. 1.49 1.50 1.49 1.50 0.67 70,000
0.420 0.101 Unioil Res. & Hldgs 0.2260 0.2300 0.2260 0.2300 1.77 110,000
0.620 0.620 Wellex Industries 0.3200 0.3300 0.3100 0.3100 (3.13) 670,000
1.370 0.185 Zeus Holdings 0.450 0.450 0.440 0.440 (2.22) 790,000
P R O P E R T Y
48.00 18.00 Anchor Land Holdings Inc. 21.40 21.35 20.00 21.30 (0.47) 2,300 4,260.00
0.83 0.38 Araneta Prop À 0.600 0.570 0.570 0.570 (5.00) 18,000
0.218 0.150 Arthaland Corp. 0.175 0.175 0.175 0.175 0.00 200,000
22.85 13.36 Ayala Land `B 19.90 20.20 19.70 19.94 0.20 13,929,700 (61,881,671.00)
5.62 3.08 Belle Corp. À 4.99 4.98 4.91 4.96 (0.60) 1,318,000 257,900.00
9.00 2.26 Cebu Holdings 5.80 5.80 5.63 5.64 (2.76) 10,900
5.66 0.80 Century Property 1.42 1.43 1.42 1.43 0.70 182,000
2.90 1.20 City & Land Dev. 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 0.00 16,000
0.127 0.060 Crown Equities Inc. 0.077 0.077 0.077 0.077 0.00 20,000
1.11 0.67 Cyber Bay Corp. 0.83 0.85 0.83 0.83 0.00 1,272,000 166,000.00
0.90 0.54 Empire East Land 0.870 0.930 0.870 0.910 4.60 100,539,000 (1,002,420.00)
0.310 0.10 Ever Gotesco 0.185 0.167 0.162 0.162 (12.43) 730,000
3.06 1.63 Global-Estate 1.98 2.00 1.96 1.99 0.51 677,000 (183,100.00)
1.44 0.98 Filinvest Land,Inc. 1.29 1.30 1.27 1.30 0.78 3,474,000 4,282,090.00
3.80 1.21 Highlands Prime 1.72 1.79 1.68 1.79 4.07 51,000
4.50 1.50 Keppel Properties 1.94 2.00 1.94 1.94 0.00 175,000 (243,950.00)
2.33 1.51 Megaworld Corp. 2.12 2.17 2.10 2.13 0.47 45,400,000 (21,711,600.00)
0.42 0.168 MRC Allied Ind. 0.1620 0.1630 0.1610 0.1610 (0.62) 3,120,000
0.990 0.080 Phil. Estates Corp. 0.6500 0.6500 0.6400 0.6400 (1.54) 2,141,000
18.86 10.00 Robinsons Land `B 18.12 18.92 18.14 18.80 3.75 3,490,500 (36,786,518.00)
7.71 2.51 Rockwell 3.09 3.15 3.05 3.09 0.00 134,000 6,200.00
2.70 1.80 Shang Properties Inc. 2.58 2.57 2.52 2.57 (0.39) 31,000
8.95 6.00 SM Development À 6.18 6.15 6.12 6.14 (0.65) 3,286,600 (2,152,500.00)
18.20 10.94 SM Prime Holdings 13.48 13.60 13.14 13.26 (1.63) 7,000,100 13,109,170.00
1.03 0.64 Sta. Lucia Land Inc. 0.70 0.70 0.69 0.69 (1.43) 755,000
4.55 1.80 Starmalls 4.03 4.05 4.02 4.05 0.50 43,000
0.80 0.45 Suntrust Home Dev. Inc. 0.520 0.540 0.510 0.540 3.85 1,100,000
4.50 2.60 Vista Land & Lifescapes 4.220 4.250 4.180 4.220 0.00 3,942,000 1,218,410.00
S E R V I C E S
42.00 28.60 ABS-CBN 36.60 36.40 35.20 35.20 (3.83) 700
18.98 1.60 Acesite Hotel 1.55 1.65 1.48 1.54 (0.65) 2,256,000 32,960.00
0.78 0.45 APC Group, Inc. 0.630 0.630 0.630 0.630 0.00 30,000
10.92 7.30 Asian Terminals Inc. 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 0.00 50,000
102.80 4.12 Bloomberry 9.58 9.98 9.56 9.95 3.86 3,875,900 (1,195,874.00)
0.5300 10.2000 Boulevard Holdings 0.1280 0.1320 0.1250 0.1250 (2.34) 8,000,000
24.00 6.66 Calata Corp. 8.35 8.35 8.08 8.21 (1.68) 517,800 (602,607.00)
86.90 62.00 Cebu Air Inc. (5J) 67.60 67.75 67.40 67.60 0.00 322,490 (3,884,888.00)
9.70 5.40 DFNN Inc. 5.89 5.87 5.85 5.87 (0.34) 26,000
5.90 1.45 Easy Call Common 2.54 2.54 2.54 2.54 0.00 5,000
1270.00 831.00 Globe Telecom 1149.00 1192.00 1127.00 1180.00 2.70 46,595 25,919,850.00
11.00 6.18 GMA Network Inc. 10.28 10.30 10.26 10.28 0.00 529,600
77.00 43.40 I.C.T.S.I. 70.70 71.20 70.50 70.65 (0.07) 1,637,510 (16,131,170.00)
0.98 0.36 Information Capital Tech. 0.440 0.435 0.415 0.435 (1.14) 350,000
6.80 4.30 IPeople Inc. À 6.60 6.60 6.60 6.60 0.00 2,000
4.70 2.00 IP Converge 2.44 2.43 2.25 2.43 (0.41) 37,000
34.50 0.036 IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 0.039 0.039 0.038 0.038 (2.56) 64,800,000 156,000.00
3.87 1.00 IPVG Corp. 1.05 1.05 1.05 1.05 0.00 50,000
0.0760 0.042 Island Info 0.0470 0.0500 0.0500 0.0500 6.38 100,000
5.1900 2.550 ISM Communications 2.8500 2.8500 2.8100 2.8500 0.00 5,000
11.12 5.90 Leisure & Resorts 8.50 8.57 8.30 8.50 0.00 810,900 (67,000.00)
3.85 2.60 Liberty Telecom 2.74 2.76 2.73 2.76 0.73 44,000 (30,030.00)
3.96 2.70 Macroasia Corp. 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.80 0.00 9,000
0.84 0.57 Manila Bulletin 0.75 0.75 0.75 0.75 0.00 256,000
3.15 1.10 Manila Jockey 2.46 2.49 2.45 2.49 1.22 1,180,000 (2,483,000.00)
8.58 4.60 PAL Holdings Inc. 7.28 7.29 7.25 7.26 (0.27) 14,600
3.32 1.05 Paxys Inc. 3.00 3.02 3.00 3.02 0.67 381,000
60.00 18.00 Phil. Seven Corp. 60.00 60.00 57.10 60.00 0.00 4,050
17.88 12.10 Philweb.Com Inc. 14.60 14.80 14.02 14.80 1.37 2,000,500 (15,979,992.00)
2886.00 2096.00 PLDT Common 2688.00 2690.00 2672.00 2680.00 (0.30) 131,215 41,233,370.00
0.48 0.25 PremiereHorizon 0.320 0.330 0.320 0.320 0.00 2,250,000
30.10 10.68 Puregold 26.05 26.05 25.75 25.90 (0.58) 4,140,000 (29,725,820.00)
4.75 3.30 Touch Solutions 3.70 3.60 3.60 3.60 (2.70) 1,000
3.30 2.40 Transpacic Broadcast 2.73 2.75 2.42 2.74 0.37 85,000
0.79 0.27 Waterfront Phils. 0.430 0.435 0.430 0.435 1.16 320,000 8,600.00
MINING & OIL
0.0083 0.0038 Abra Mining 0.0042 0.0042 0.0041 0.0042 0.00 25,000,000
6.20 3.01 Apex À 5.25 5.25 5.15 5.25 0.00 46,400
6.22 3.00 Apex `B 5.29 5.28 5.19 5.25 (0.76) 213,700
25.20 14.50 Atlas Cons. À 17.60 17.50 17.48 17.48 (0.68) 172,800 (1,478,808.00)
0.380 0.148 Basic Energy Corp. 0.255 0.255 0.250 0.255 0.00 3,070,000 (76,500.00)
30.35 19.98 Benguet Corp À 23.05 25.00 23.10 24.95 8.24 35,100
34.00 14.50 Benguet Corp `B 23.05 23.80 23.00 23.80 3.25 10,000 (161,220.00)
2.51 1.62 Century Peak Metals Hldgs 1.28 1.28 1.27 1.27 (0.78) 132,000
61.80 5.68 Dizon 31.50 32.00 31.20 31.60 0.32 71,300 (31,500.00)
1.21 0.50 Geograce Res. Phil. Inc. 0.60 0.61 0.59 0.60 0.00 4,004,000 (36,000.00)
1.82 0.9000 Lepanto À 1.270 1.260 1.230 1.230 (3.15) 13,901,000
2.070 1.0200 Lepanto `B 1.330 1.330 1.290 1.320 (0.75) 5,259,000 (264,810.00)
0.085 0.042 Manila Mining À 0.0680 0.0680 0.0660 0.0670 (1.47) 60,410,000
0.087 0.042 Manila Mining `B 0.0680 0.0670 0.0660 0.0670 (1.47) 62,920,000
36.50 15.04 Nickelasia 28.50 28.50 28.00 28.35 (0.53) 481,200 (998,755.00)
12.84 2.13 Nihao Mineral Resources 9.88 9.98 9.72 9.88 0.00 397,200 (23,616.00)
1.100 0.008 Omico 0.7000 0.7000 0.7000 0.7000 0.00 10,000
8.40 2.99 Oriental Peninsula Res. 5.000 4.990 4.890 4.890 (2.20) 735,200
0.032 0.012 Oriental Pet. À 0.0180 0.0180 0.0170 0.0180 0.00 6,900,000
0.033 0.014 Oriental Pet. `B 0.0180 0.0190 0.0190 0.0190 5.56 200,000
7.05 5.10 Petroenergy Res. Corp. 6.00 6.02 5.95 6.02 0.33 43,000
28.95 18.50 Philex À 21.60 21.85 21.50 21.65 0.23 846,700 (3,869,720.00)
48.00 3.00 PhilexPetroleum 37.75 38.65 35.50 37.70 (0.13) 1,335,300 132,750.00
0.062 0.017 Philodrill Corp. À 0.051 0.051 0.050 0.051 0.00 176,190,000 255,000.00
69.00 46.00 PNOC Expls `B 39.00 40.00 40.00 40.00 2.56 900
257.80 161.10 Semirara Corp. 221.00 226.20 220.00 226.00 2.26 259,140 (8,842,316.00)
0.029 0.014 United Paragon 0.0170 0.0170 0.0160 0.0160 (5.88) 91,200,000 (400,000.00)
PREFERRED
47.90 27.30 ABS-CBN Holdings Corp. 32.50 33.80 32.40 33.80 4.00 4,800 (23,120.00)
First Gen G 102.00 102.00 102.00 102.00 0.00 4,850
11.02 6.00 GMA Holdings Inc. 10.22 10.22 10.12 10.16 (0.59) 91,100 318,650.00
116.70 107.00 PCOR-Preferred 110.00 110.30 110.20 110.30 0.27 13,000
80.00 74.50 SMC Preferred 1 74.90 75.25 74.90 74.90 0.00 1,000
1050.00 1000.00 SMPFC Preferred 1016.00 1020.00 1020.00 1020.00 0.39 500
GERRY GERONIMO
THE TRUST GURU
An advocates initiation
into mediation
STOCKS rebounded Tuesday, as signs
Chinas manufacturing is beginning to
recover provided respite from Europes
deepening debt turmoil.
The Philippine Stock Exchange
index rose 20 points, or 0.4 percent,
to close at 5,159.74 on thin trading
of just P4.9 billion.
The heavier index, representing
all shares, also picked up 7 points,
or 0.2 percent, to 3,432.76, even
as losers outnumbered gainers, 79
to 63, with 52 issues unchanged.
Global markets slid the day
before as Spains borrowing costs
soared, raising the risk that it will
require a nancial bailout that
Europe probably cant afford.
Ayala Corp., the most actively
traded stock, advanced 1.2
percent to P415, following a
4.6-percent drop a day earlier.
Property unit Ayala Land Inc.
also rose 0.2 percent to P19.94.
Other holdings rms also
advanced Tuesday. SM
Investments Corp. jumped 3.5
percent to P740 while First
Philippine Holdings Corp. went
up 3.6 percent to P78.90. Unit
First Gen Corp. increased 2.0
percent to P18.46.
Meanwhile, better data on
Chinas manufacturing helped
Asian markets nd a oor though
gains were muted and Japans
benchmark lost ground amid
strength in the yen, which hurts
its powerhouse exporters.
Preliminary results of HSBCs
monthly survey of Chinese
manufacturers showed the
contraction in manufacturing
eased in July. The banks
Purchasing Managers Index
which combines various
measures of manufacturing
activity rose to 49.5 from 48.2.
Readings above 50 denote
growth. The individual gauge
of factory output showed an
expansion in production.
HSBCs chief China economist
Hongbin Qu said the survey
suggests Beijings attempts to
stimulate the worlds second-
biggest economy are starting to
work. This calls for more easing
efforts to support growth and
jobs, he said in a statement. A
more meaningful improvement of
growth is expected in the coming
months when these measures fully
lter through.
Japans Nikkei 225 stock av-
erage was down 0.2 percent at
8,493.10 while South Koreas Ko-
spi added 0.3 percent to 1,794.63.
Hong Kongs Hang Seng rose 0.1
percent to 19,073.25. The markets
opening was delayed until early
afternoon as a typhoon brought
strong winds and heavy rain to
the city, shutting down ofces and
bringing business to a standstill.
Australias S&P/ASX 200
gained 0.1 percent to 4,134.
Chinas Shanghai composite
climbed 0.5 percent to 2,153.08.
Benchmarks in Singapore and
Thailand also rose.
The tentative gains reected
underlying unease about Europes
prolonged debt crisis.
Analysts at DBS Bank in
Singapore said the crisis among
the 17 countries that use the euro
could be reaching a crunch point as
the size of the jump in Spains two-
year borrowing costs was similar to
the alarming increase in two-year
US Treasury yields when Lehman
Brothers collapsed in September
2008. With Bloomberg, AP
FISH out of the water was how I felt. For as far
back as I can remember, I had always been at the
trenches at one side or the other, never (except in
disputes among family members) sitting on the
fence in between. In the classrooms of Lakan
Dula Elementary School on Solis Street, at the
Ampil Annex of Torres High on Juan Luna, be-
neath the roofs that covered the basketball of the
Ateneo High School in Loyola Heights, Quezon
City, in the activity rooms of the College of Lib-
eral Arts and Sciences, as well as in the canteen of
the School of Law at Padre Faura, Manila, there
were always causes to ght for or ght against, ar-
guments to espouse or rebut; never was neutrality,
on issues of importance, an option, ever mindful
of Dante Aleghieris pronouncement on for whom
the hottest places in Hell are reserved.
But at the Court of Appeals, on Wednesday to
Friday last week (July 18-20, inclusive), in the
course of attending the Specialized Mediation
Training: skills-building seminar workshop for
Court of Tax Appeals mediator-trainees, I was led
to a change of mind, to a sort of conversion, at the
very least to openness to the idea of mediation as a
means of settling disputes.
The overview of the course that we were tak-
ing, our expectations, adult-learners that we
are, of the exercise and of one another, and in-
troductions of the participants were facilitated
by the Honorable Divina Luz Aquino-Simbulan,
presiding judge of Branch 41 of the Regional
Trial Court in San Fernando, Pampanga. The
good judge was to later on handle the meatier
parts of the course: (a) Conict Theory: Nature,
Stages, Approaches, Sources and Intervention
and the Spectrum of Conict Resolution in Al-
ternate Dispute Resolution and (b) Mediation as
Essentially Assisted Negotiation. Very alert and
sensitive to the nuances and direction changes in
the discussions, she also oversaw the very chal-
lenging role playing session in the afternoon of
the third day.
Two sessions in the morning of the rst day
were handled, ttingly, by no less than the ac-
knowledged father of alternate dispute resolution
in the Philippines, Prof. AlfredoTadiar. With age
and wisdom very manifest in his voice and move-
ment, Prof. Tadiar walked the participants to the
Shift From Adjudication (which was the route of
the court room) to Multi-Door Justice System, a
new paradigm premised on the proposition that
justice is achievable, also, through routes other
than the courts.
Like approaching Rome, the single destination,
through various roads leading to its many gates, the
aforesaid change needed, according Prof. Tadiar,
Shifting from a Legal to a Problem Solving Mind-
set. The distinction between the two approaches
is highlighted by the difference between a letter
of demand and an invitation to talk, negotiate and
settle. Both are a show of hands; but while the rst
is a st clenched for conict, the second is a palm
opened for a handshake.
The packed afternoon of the rst day ended with
Dean Pacico Agabin, showing the participants
the way to Writing Compromise Agreements and
Comm. Linda Malenab-Hornilla explaining the
importance of Ethics in Mediation.
The morning of the second day was devoted
to a close look at the legal environment in which
mediation needs to take place in the proceedings
at the Court of Tax Appeals. The Honorable As-
sociate Justice Juanito Castaeda gave an exhaus-
tive lecture on the Relevant Internal Revenue and
Customs Laws and Peculiarities of Mediation in
the Court of Tax Appeals.
In the afternoon, Prof. Tadiar showed how he
much abreast he was with the ow of the discus-
sions on the oor. Noticing that the participants
were engrossed with that crucial portion of the In-
terim Guidelines for Implementing Mediation in
the Court of Tax Appeals (CTA En Banc Resolution
No. 07-2010), namely, the authority of the govern-
ment representative to offer, negotiate, accept, de-
cide, and enter into a compromise agreement right
then and there at the mediation room (without be-
ing encumbered by the need to get the approval
of his or her principal), Prof. Tadiar giving way to
the eruption of views dispensed with the discus-
sion of the rest and zeroed in on encapsulating in
clear terms the sentiments of the participants. That
demonstrated that, notwithstanding straight as he
was, he was not wearing a straight-jacket.
No facilitator could have handled the afternoon
subjects of Communication Stills in Negotiation/
Mediation and Important Tools in Negotiation/
Mediation better than Atty. Rita Linda Jimeno.
She was at home in communicating to large pub-
lics handing out legal advice. For eight years, she
hosted Saklolo Abogado at Radio Veritas, and
later concurrently at DZXL RMN. She had a pub-
lic service television show at IBC 13 and later at
ABC 5. On television, she hosted Mom Ko to
for 2 years on ABC 5.
Demonstrating that negotiation and mediation
are activities conducted on the ground level, Dr.
Fredrick Boholst, a clinical and organizational
psychologist in private practice, ended the after-
noon of the second day with a stimulating lecture
on the Social and Cultural Context in Negotiation/
Mediation.
The third day was similar to the threading of a
needle. Everything that was imparted to the par-
ticipants by the very able facilitators during days 1
and 2 was drawn out in day 3 in two well-crafted
role plays. The morning role play was conducted
by participants randomly selected; the rest watched
the process unfold, as if looking into an aquarium.
The afternoon session divided the participants in
the three groups, and each group conducted its own
role play. The plenary session was an eye-opener:
each group addressed the same dispute differently
from the others, demonstrating once again, that
many roads can indeed be taken to arrive at the
same Rome.
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DURING President Noynoy Aquinos third State-of-the-
Nation Address Monday, certain Cabinet members were
included in the honor roll for the sacrices they are doing in
the name of public service. The President named friends and
former classmates from the warring factions in his Cabinet
which probably explains why he has two spiritual advisers,
Fr. Catalino Arevalo and Sister Agnes Guillen, whom he
also publicly thanked.
Self-confessed bean counters monitored a lot of things
including the number of times people applauded the SONA,
which portion received the longest applause, whose face was
ashed most onscreen and other trivia, but Happy Hour has
yet to hear if anybody computed the percentages for Balay
and Samar special mentions.
But the person that Happy Hour friends and readers most
waited for was not named. Although his face was ashed
several times as he was happily clapping while the Presidents
speech went on, political adviser Ronald Llamas was not
included among the honorable mentions.
He should have been named, Happy Hour pals insisted, if
only in recognition of the sacrices Llamas must have been
making, resisting the urge to buy pirated DVDs and steering
away from events like the Defense and Sporting Arms Show
held at SM Megamall where the gun happy Cabinet adviser
was conspicuously absent. Since Llamas was not llamado in
the SONA, does that mean he is not in among the members
of President Noynoys KKK clique?
Deadly killer
Heres bad news for smokers: Every 15 seconds, someone
is most likely to drop dead due to Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease or COPD, according to the World
Health Organization. This information was highlighted by
a landmark survey called EPIC Asia (Epidemiology and
Impact of COPD in Asia) undertaken by Takeda, Japans
largest pharmaceutical company where over 112,000
households across countries in Asia including China,
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and
the Philippines were screened.
COPD is a persistent lung disease marked by difculty
in breathing, excessive production of sputum and chronic
coughing. But since it is under-diagnosed, a lot of people
are unaware about this silent killer whose favorite agent
of death is smoking. WHO says about 65 million people
all over the world suffer from COPDcurrently the fth
leading cause of death but could seen be elevated to number
three by 2030.
Experts say the underlying cause of COPD is inammation
of the airways (usually triggered by smoking or inhalation of
pollutants), with management of the condition having been
dependent on drugs that are more indicated for asthma and
other conditions. Takeda, however, has developed a new drug
known as roumilast which is an oral, once daily tablet
specically indicated for COPD.
According to the EPIC Asia survey, 62 percent of
respondents from the Philippines have missed out on work
by an average of 11 days due to their condition, with the
suffering intensied due to lung attacks where symptoms
(especially coughing) worsen and could last for more than
a week. Aside from hospitalization, these lung attacks
could lead to death.
Happy Hour Special: Bikinis, Texas
Heres some interesting news for guzzlers: Breastaurateur
and self-made millionaire Doug Guller whose claim to fame
is owning a chain of restaurants called Bikinis (where
the biggest draw are unarguably the bikini-clad female
waitresses) plans to turn a small Texas ghost town into a lively
and spirit-lled place.
Guller has just bought the two-acre town of Bankersmith
which during its heyday in the 1920s boasted a population of
50. Today, the gure is probably zero, with just a house and
a bus which Guller plans to convert into a bar. The towns
new owner though is condent it will become a world-class
destination, saying it will literally put Bikinis, his restaurant
chain, on the map. No doubt with a lot of help from his bikini-
attired restaurant servers.
For comments, reactions, photos, stories and related

concerns, readers may e-mail to happyhourtoday2012@
yahoo.com.
Security Bank
award.
Leading nancial
publication
Finance Asia
announced the
winners of its
12th annual
poll on Asias
Best Managed
Companies,
naming Security
Bank Corp. as
the Philippines
Best Mid-Cap
Company. The
annual poll
engages the
participation of
investors and
analysts in voting
for the best
companies in
Asia, recognizing
their excellence in
various categories
that promote
stakeholder rights
and interests.
Security Bank
president and
chief executive
Alberto Villarosa
(left) receives the
award on behalf
of Security Bank
from Ramon
Arnaiz, chairman
of Maybank
ATR Kim Eng
Financial Corp.,
co-presentors of
the Finance Asia
awards.
By Alena Mae S. Flores
POWER Sector Assets and Liabilities
Management Corp. will bid out the operation
and maintenance contract for the 650-
megawatt Malaya Thermal Power Plant in
Pililla, Rizal for a budget of P555.83 million.
PSALM said in an invitation to
bid the operation and maintenance
service contract for the Malaya
thermal power plant was good
for one year.
SPC Power Corp. currently
operates the Malaya thermal
plant but its contract will expire
in October. SPC Power, formerly
Salcon Power Corp., operated
the 203.8-MW Naga Power Plant
Complex in Colon, Naga, Cebu.
The Malaya plant serves as a
must-run unit if supply is short in
the Luzon grid.
PSALM said bidders must
have completed a similar contract
in the last ve years.
The agency said it would conduct
the auction under the governments
procurement policy.
The bidding is open to local and for-
eign companies. PSALM will hold the
pre-bid conference on Aug. 2 and open
the bids on Aug. 17.
PSALM president Emmanuel
Ledesma, meanwhile, expressed
condence in privatizing four
power barges next month, one
of the stop-gap measures aimed
to address the power shortage in
Mindanao.
We are condent that interested
investors will nd match in the
assets that PSALM is privatizing
under the terms that we have
adopted, Ledesma said.
Four investor groups have
submitted letters of interested in
the sale of diesel-red Power Barge
Nos. 101, 102, 103 and 104.
Ledesma said he could not
say if the price of the power
barges would be affected by
governments decision to transfer
them to Mindanao.
The nal outcome is up to the
bidders. We cannot speculate how
the bidders will value the transfer
of the barges to Mindanao but
PSALM does require the bidders
to disclose those strategies, he
said.
Ledesma said he also could
not say if the barges would be
moved to Mindanao in time for
the anticipated power shortage
during the dry months next year.
The timeline of the transfer
will have to be determined in
consultation with Secretary [Jose
Rene] Almendras, he said.
The sale of the power barges
includes three packages: Package
1 combines barges 101 and 102;
Package 2 includes barge 103;
and Package 3 covers barge 104.
The bidding rules require
bidders to submit offers for each
of the three packages.
Deadline for the submission of
bids is on Aug. 15 with the evaluation
of bids to follow immediately.
Commissioned in 1981,
barges 101 and 102 are currently
stationed at Bo. Obrero in Iloilo
City. Barges 103 and 104, which
began operation in 1985, are
moored in Botongon, Estancia,
Iloilo, and at the Holcim
Compound, Ilang, Davao City,
respectively.
By Othel V. Campos
FERTILIZER manufacturer
Universal Harvester Inc. said
sales rose at a robust pace to
P6 billion in 2011, despite the
volatile fertilizer prices in the
world market.
Our company continues to
post incremental output and
sales over the last four years,
said company executive vice
president Milagros Ong-How
at the sidelines of the launching
of the search for Outstanding
Farmers of the Philippines 2012
in Quezon City.
How said 2011 was one of
the best years for the company,
prompting it to expand operations
and construct another plant by
the end of 2012. The company
currently operates two plants in
Calamba and Canlubang.
Universal Harvester is a
Filipino fertilizer company
that manufactures, imports and
distributes fertilizers for all
types of crops. It sells urea, the
widely-used petroleum-based
fertilizer.
Meanwhile, the Junior
Chamber International-
Philippines and Universal
Harvester launched the search
for the most noteworthy
achievers and achievements in
the agriculture sector.
By Anna Leah G. Estrada
PHILIPPINE Savings Bank, the
consumer banking unit of the
Metrobank Group, said net income
surged 50 percent year-on-year in
the rst half, led by a double-digit
increase in trading gains and loans.
The thrift bank said net income
in the rst six months reached
P1.4 billion, up by P459 million
from P920 million a year ago.
Net revenue jumped to P5.9
billion or a P2.2-billion increase
compared to the previous year as
the bank recognized gains from
its investments in government
securities as well as a 7-percent
growth in its interest income on
loans, the bank said.
Gross loans rose 14 percent
to P67 billion, with double-
digit growth rates coming from
consumer loans as well as large
enterprise group loans. Corporate
loans were up 28 percent.
Automotive and mortgage
loans increased by 15 percent and
14 percent, respectively owing
to higher demand and improved
penetration in PSBanks branch,
dealer and developer channels.
We are pleasantly surprised
by the strength of loan demand,
particularly for mortgage loans.
New loan releases for acquisition
of houses and condominiums have
surged by 50 percent from last
year. If this pace holds up in the
second half, our loan portfolio will
be 18 percent to 20 percent higher
than previous year, said PSBank
president Pascual Garcia III.
However, while loan demand
is robust, margins are declining
due to competitive loan pricing
by banks. This, coupled with
less trading opportunities, may
moderate prot growth in the
second half, he added.
(MST-July 25, 2012)
INVITATION TO BID
Supply of Signaling Items under ITB No. 1207-175-01 and
PRs No. RS1-0412-143, RS1-0412-144 & RS1-0412-148
Schedule of Activities:
Pre-bid Conference - August 1, 2012 @ 10:00 A.M.
Cafeteria, LRTA Line 2-Depot
Santolan, Pasig City
Submission and Opening of Bids - August 15, 2012 @ 9:00 A.M.
Cafeteria, LRTA Line 2-Depot,
Santolan, Pasig City
PR NO. DESCRIPTION & QUANTITY Approved Budget for
the Contract (ABC)
1) RS1-0412-143
Supply of 10 pcs. Balise (50/100/850kHz) for ATP
Trackside
Php5,935,070.90
2) RS1-0412-144
Supply of 5 pcs Balise (50/100/850kHz) for ATP Vehicle
on Board
Php2,967,535.45
3) RS1-0412-148 Supply of 5 pcs Drivers Cab Device Php1,498,473.35
The complete technical specifcation is available in the Bidding Documents.
The Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA), through its Corporate Budget for the Calendar Year 2012,
intends to apply the sum of a Total of Ten Million Four Hundred One Thousand Seventy Nine and
70/100 Pesos Only (Php10,401,079.70) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments
under the afore-mentioned contract/s. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected
at bid opening. Delivery period is required on or before 6 months upon receipt of Purchase Order.
LRTA now invites bids from Interested Bidders with the following details:
Description
Approved Budget for
the Contract
(ABC)
Bid Security:
Cash/CC-MC
Bank draft/ guarantee
or ILC
(2%)*
Security:
Surety bond
(5%)*
Cost of Bid
Documents
10 pcs. Balise (50/100/850kHz) for
ATP Trackside
Php5,935,070.90 Php118,701.42 Php296,753.55
Php9,000.00
5 pcs Balise (50/100/850kHz) for
ATP Vehicle on Board
Php2,967,535.45 PhP59,350.71 PhP148,376.77
5 pcs Drivers Cab Device Php1,498,473.35 PhP29,969.47 PhP74,923.67
Total Php10,401,079.70 Php208,021.60 Php520,053.99
*Only those issued by universal or commercial banks
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using a non-discretionary pass/
fail criterion as specifed in the Revised mplementing Rules and Regulations (R-RR) of Republic Act
(RA) 9184, otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act.
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least
sixty percent (60%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
Acomplete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders commencing on July 25,
2012 until not later than the deadline for the submission and receipt of bids at the address below
and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of PhP9,000.00 only.
Only prospective bidders who have secured bidding documents will be allowed to participate in the
Pre-Bid Conference.
Submission and Opening of Bids will publicly be opened in the presence of the Bidders authorized
representatives who choose to attend. Late bids shall not be accepted. All Bids must be accompanied
by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in the Instructions to Bidders
and the Bid Data Sheet.
LRTA reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids, 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.
For further information, please refer to:
Mr. Eduardo A. Abiva
Head, BAC Secretariat
Administration Bldg., LRTA Cmpd., Aurora Blvd. Tramo, Pasay City
Tel. No. 853-0041 50 loc. 8314
Email Address: bacsec_LRTA@yahoo.com
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To farm and back:
Youth a vital link
Pantabangan power
disconnected over
P80-million in bills
Two shermen rescued off Puerto Princesa
Calamba City Mayor Joaquin Chipeco Jr. (left) joins TOFARM search, principals Milagros Ong How, Universal Harvester executive vice president;
Lanie Anatacio, JCI national executive director; and Rommel Cunanan, project manager. MANNY PALMERO
By Oliver Samson
Calamba Mayor Joaquin
Chipeco hosts the Laguna
plants of ecozone locator
Universal Harvester, main
driver of the search for The
Outstanding Farmers, in
a mission to challenge the
youth to make a difference
in the agriculture sector.
It is time to help our farmers, he said,
noting that young people could do a lot to put
more food on the table.
There is no need to go far because land
here can be made productive.
Milagros Ong-How, Universal Harvester
executive vice president, recalled an anecdote
about Calambas most famous son, national
hero Jose Rizal, who saw nobility in tilling
the soil.
Exiled to Dapitan in Mindanao, he
found time to write his elder sister Lucia,
recounting parallel pursuits outside of his
medical practice.
We cannot all be doctors; it is necessary
that there would be some to cultivate the
soil, read his letter on Feb. 12, 1896.
Ong-How said she has given full support
to revive TOFARM which was last held in
2003, drawing inspiration from farmers
who strive to increase yields through better
agricultural inputs.
Young people love challenges and are risk
takers, she said. They are also idealistic.
There are opportunities in farming that will
appeal to their love for solving problems.
According to Ong-How, farming has a
direct bearing on our self-sufciency as a
nation.
If the young choose this eld, they will be
directly contributing to the countrys welfare
and be in a position to help their fellow
Filipinos, she said.
Managed by JCI Philippines, TOFARM
will start accepting nominations from Aug. 1
to Sept. 30 <info.tofarm@gmail.com> with
awarding to be held in December.
Project manager Rommel Cunanan
said the search consists of the individual
category: Farmer, sherfolk, livestock, agri-
entreprenuer, agricultural innovator and urban
farmer; and group: Agriculture cooperative,
farming family, local government unit,
agriculture initiatives and peoples choice.
An IT expert, Cunanan said the organizers
would be tapping the social network to widen
the interest on the search among the youth
segment of the population.
Summing up TOFARMs ethos, he said
the search aimed to get the young to take up
careers in the agriculture discipline, attract
investments to the sector, help achieve food
security.
FIRST Gen Hydro Power
Corp., owner-operator of the
132 megawatt Pantabangan-
Masiway hydro complex, said
it is looking for ways to source
electricity to public schools
in Nueva Ecija after it cut off
supply on Monday to the local
power distribution rm.
First Gen Hydro said
Pantabangan Municipal Electric
Services had not paid its bills
amounting to more than P80
million.
The company said it is
constrained to take such measure
after PAMES again failed to
honor its obligations under
the terms of a March 16, 2012
restructuring agreement to settle
its accounts dating to 2008.
We have continuously
expressed willingness to
assist PAMES in looking for
alternative power supply.
We are also looking at way
to provide temporary power
to some public schools in
Pantabangan, in the meantime,
FG Hydro vice president
Dennis Gonzales said.
First Gen Hydro said it has
continuously been serving
PAMES since December
2006 despite the expiry of
the power supply agreement
in December 2008 due to its
concern for the welfare of
Pantabangan residents and
other PAMES consumers
which is acknowldged by the
municipal government.
After efforts to collect since
2007 remained unheeded, the
company sent a disconnection
notice to PAMES last Feb. 8
which was not served after
Mayor Romeo Borja Sr.
Appealed for an extension.
We have also accommodated
them previously by way of
an offsetting agreement, their
arrears versus our local taxes.
But they reneged on that,
Gonzales said.
He said First Gen Hydro also
entered into a restructuring
agreement under payment
schedules which the provincial
government proposed.
But when they failed to
perform their obligations under
the restructuring agreement,
we were constrained to act
decisively, the company said.
We are duty bound to ensure
the continuing viability of
our operations for the benefit
not only our stakeholders but
other paying customers.
First Gen Hydro acquired
the Pantabangan and Masiway
plants from the government in
2006.Alena Mae Flores
By Dexter A. See
BANAUERetail giant
SM has signed up with the
Cordillera Heritage Weekend
Warrior Caravan Run to restore
the famous rice rice terraces in
Ifugao province, which were
recently delisted as a World
Heritage.
The advocacy is organized by the
Philippine Tour Operators Associa-
tion and photographer John Chua to-
gether with Canon Philippines and
other corporate volunteers called
weekend warriors.
Working at the side in Batad
with other conservationists were
assistant program director Nona
Reyes, of SM Cares-Yes Tourism
committee joined by SM Baguio
manager Marc Janssen Pe, and
SM Baguio public relations
manager Karren Padilla.
The growing corporate social
responsibility projects being
done by various corporations in
the rice terraces areas has greatly
helped in awakening the Ifugao
youth to work for the preservation
and protection of our identied
heritage sites, Gov. Eugene
Balitang told Manila Standar d
after receiving commitments
from multinational rms to help
maintain the 2,000-year old
scenic wonder.
Farm tools and other
equipment were turned over by
the SM Prime Holdings team to
the local government.
Padilla said this is the
second time that SM joined
the movement, with Chua
being a long-time corporate
partner starting with the
companys project for people
with disabilities, among other
programs.
We believe heritage sites
can help spur tourism, Reyes
said, adding that Ifugao remains
an eco-tourism destination
continuing to attract visitors.
Philtoa will feature UNESCO
World Heritage Sites at the 23rd
Philippine Travel Mart on Aug.
10 to 12 at the SMX Convention
Center in Pasay City.
Earlier, the Laguna-based
Toshiba Electronics adopted
portions of the Batad rice
terraces and donated funds and
farming equipment to improve
yields of tinawon and sustain
native rice production as the
major source of income of tribal
communities.
SM restoring
rice terraces
A TEAM from the Coast Guard and
the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic
Resources onboard the Fisheries
Bureaus MCS 3002 rescued two
fishermen whose boat capsized in
Honda Bay in Palawan.
Lt. Commander Hostillo Cornelio said
the two were adrift 4.5 nautical miles
east of Fudeado Island in the waters off
Barangay Tinabog in San Rafael, Puerto
Princesa City.
He identied them as Oscar Lique, 53,
and Jason Leonilo, 39, both residents
of Barangay Mandaragat also in Puerto
Princesa.
Investigation showed that their motorized
banca, F/B Irish,
left Green Island
at around 5 p.m.
last July 19 and
sank 2 a.m. the
following day
amid rough
waters.
D u r i n g
the typhoon
season, 8 out
of 10 casualties
are usually
shermen. This
is why our patrol vessels are always ready
to help distressed shing boats and crew,
said lawyer Asis Pere, Fisheries
director.
He said shermen have to fend
for their families but they must also
heed warnings and not to venture
out of the sea in bad weather.
Perez commended the quick
response of the MCS 3002 crew
in retrieving the survivors with
the support of volunteers of the
Bantay Dagat and local police.
Lique and Leonilo reunited with
their three companionsJuling
Almoraje, Bentot Bartolay and
Julan Leonilowho were rescued earlier
by Bantay Dagat. Othel V. Campos
TO MAKE its medical and health-
related services accessible, the
Philippine Charity Sweepstakes
Ofce has opened a branch
ofce in Barangay Pagasa ,
Olongapo City.
Director Aleta Tolentino
said the branch will provide all
services from releasing prizes to
processing assistance.
It has a budget of P 1.2
million a month for individual
medical assistance such as
hospitalization, dialysis, and
chemotherapy, among others.
Lotto winners may claim
prizes here of P5,000 to P3,000
but bigger amounts have to be
claimed at the PCSO head ofce
in Pasay City.
The inauguration ceremony
was attended by general
manager Jose Ferdinand
Rojas II, assistant general
manager of operations
for online lottery sector
Remeliza Jovita Gabuyo,
and North and Central Luzon
lottery sector manager
Josefina Sarsonas.
Also present were Olongapo
City ofcials headed by Mayor
James Gordon Jr.
Tolentino said the opening of
a new branch follows President
Benigno Aquino IIIs directive
to make sweepstakes services
accessible.
We are putting up sub-
ofces so that patients will no
longer have go to Manila and
ask assistance from PCSO,
Tolentino said. Kami na ang
lalapit sa inyo.
This is the third branch ofce
PCSO has opened so far this
year.
Branches were inaugurated in
Cagayan Province and Samar
earlier.
There are 38 lotto agents in
Zambales and 37 in Bataan.
At the launch, Rojas awarded
P693,000 to Olongapo City as
its share of the charity fund for
July to December last year.
Sweepstakes branch
opens in Zambales
No shortage.
Truckloads of
cabbage are
ofoaded at the La
Trinidad Vegetable
trading post in
Benguet amid
stable price and
supply despite
three weeks of rain
in the Cordilleras.
DAVID CHAN
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Dinna Chan Vasquez, Assistant Editor
JULY 25, 2012
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Its synonymous with fun, frivolity and carefree laughter.
It conjures up visions of jaw-dropping stunts, mind-bog-
gling tricks and a cacophony of sights and sounds that audi-
ences, no matter the age, look back on with a happy smile.
It makes you want to be 10 again.
Sneak peek
You can imagine our anticipation when we got the in-
vite to watch Cirque du Soleils Saltimbanco in Hong
Kong and a behind-the-scenes peek into the traveling cir-
cus troupe, before it comes to the Philippines next month.
Having been dazzled by the technological and artistic
wizardry of another Cirque du Soleil production, Varekai,
which performed to sellout crowds in Manila last year, we
knew we were in for a treat.
We arrived just in time for the rehearsals of Russian
Swingarguably the most gasp-inducing part of the show.
Performed by the House troupe, it features a series of grav-
ity-defying jumps. The stunts are so dangerous, the lights
are turned down and camera ashes are forbidden so as not
to disturb the performers concentration.
Its the only actual training we do with no show
lights, everything is dark, says Maxim Charbon-
neau, the troupes publicist, as he guided us inside
the circus tent.
During trainings theyre attached (to a harness) but
during performances they are free y (unattached). As you
can see the artists are fully involved in their own safety and
security. Theyre the ones setting up their own apparatus.
Theres a technical team working with them, but theyre in
charge of their own safety, he explains.
SALTIMBANCO FACTS:
Most of the Saltimbanco cos-
tumes are made of spandex but some
of them incorporate silk and cotton
fabrics. Over 300 artisans are em-
ployed in the costume workshops.
Most artists have three to ve
costumes each which can include up
to 12 individual pieces. There are
more than 80 different kinds of but-
tons that are used to maintain the cos-
tumes on-tour.
Over 3,000 costume items travel
from city to city in more than 50 road
cases.
There are more than 250 pairs
of custom-made shoes. Shoes for the
Chinese pole act are repainted before
each performance.
The tour travels with its own
washing machines, using biodegrad-
able detergent.
The entire costume department
can be packed and ready to go in less
than one hour.
All artists have their own make-
up station that travels with the show.
All artists apply their own show
make-up. They are given a book that
contains a detailed step-by-step pro-
cedure along with pictures to help
them complete their make-up. It
takes approximately 90 minutes for
each artist to apply their make-up.
Four wardrobe employees trav-
el full time with the tour and two or
three people are hired locally in each
city.
The stage is 34 meters long (110
CIRCUS
The
words by Gianna G. Maniego
images by Jorem Catilo
CIRCUS is a very powerful word.
It reduces full grown men and women to a state of juvenile excitement; where
the mere blurting of The circus is in town causes a seismic wave of expectation
among the crowd.
Maxim Charbonneau, Saltimbancos publicist
Saltimbanco, from the Italian saltare in banco, which
literally means to jump on a bench, is the oldest touring
show of the Montreal-based entertainment company. It is
the smallest of the touring companies in the Cirque du So-
leil stable, with less than a hundred members, 51 of whom
are performers (including one Fil-Canadian, Adrian An-
dres, who plays guitar in the band).
It is also the most well-travelled, having toured over 270 cit-
ies on ve continents, including Africa. The whole production
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feet) by 20
meters wide
(65 feet).
There
is more than
183 meters
(600 feet) of
trussing to
hold the ac-
robatic grid,
the rigging
and all the
lighting ele-
ments above
the stage.
The aerial acrobatic is 9 meters long
(30 feet) and is suspended 14 meters (45
feet) above the stage. Its main purpose
is to hold the trapeze and bungee rigs.
The poles that are used in the Chi-
nese pole act are 7.3 meters long (24
feet).
The equipment on tour totals 180
tons (360,000 pounds).
Costumes are laundered everyday.
One of the seamstresses who travel
with the troupe.
Masks are an integral
part of Saltimbancos
costumes.
The House Troupe showing a little swagger on the Chinese Poles, one of the showstoppers in
Cirque du Soleils Saltimbano
b
a
c
k
is in town
WHEN SHARING ISNT FUN
In todays thriving social media culture, there are two types of people:
those who participate in the fun, the conversations and the adventures,
and those who document the fun, the conversations and the
adventures other people are having.
ANSWER
TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
ANSWER TOMORROW
71 Bench clearer
72 Pickup shtick
73 Lchaim! is one
74 Seafood serving
75 Author Blyton
76 Els of the PGA
Down
1 Unruly do
2 Cry after Real Madrid
scores
3 With the order switched
4 Give the slip
5 1990 Robert Frost Medal
recipient Levertov
6 Zero, in Real Madrid
scores
7 Fuming state
8 Super stars?
9 Twisted balloon shape,
often
10 Christian bracelet letters
11 Weed whacker
12 Muse for Yeats
13 OB/GYN test
14 Boxer with a cameo in
The Hangover
20 Produce offspring
22 Floor installer
25 Tureen utensil
Across
1 In tears, say
6 NPRs Totenberg
10 Pasta grain
15 Greenish shade
16 Hemoglobin mineral
17 Like healthy soil
18 Pie nut
19 *Casual-wear brand
since 1873
21 Work on lm
23 Betwixt
LOS ANGELES
TIMES
CROSSWORD
24 Familia member
25 *Ent er s a wi t ness
protection program, say
29 Maine __ cat
30 Unbeatable service
31 Morlock prey
32 Sister of Rachel
34 More than serious
36 Presaging times
38 Skin-care brand with a
For Men line
42 *Compromised choice
46 Take off the TiVo
47 Encrust, in a way
48 Goddess of discord
49 Obi-Wan portrayer
52 On the road
54 Imagine that!
55 Wyomi ng ci t y near
Yellowstone
58 *Wedding shop array
61 Distortion, perhaps
62 Little songbird
63 City on the Aare
64 Song that first topped
the charts on 4/13/1957
... or how its singers name
appears in the answers to
starred clues
68 Blink of an eye
26 Less chummy
27 De __: from square one
28 Feudal estates
29 Onion kin
33 Sufx with oct-
35 History test section,
often
37 Start to fast?
39 Zachary Taylor, by birth
40 The senior Saarinen
41 Beasts of burden
43 Sargasso Sea denizen
44 Trumpet effect
45 Toothbrush choice
50 The Ar agn i s a
tributary of it
51 Southern language
53 Hollywoods Mimieux
55 Holding device
56 Refueling ship
57 St r eet of ma ny
mysteries
59 Finalize, as a cartoon
60 Program problem
62 Timely question
65 Patch, say
66 Prex with corn
67 Xing one
69 Popular CBS procedural
70 Parisian season
WEDNESDAY C2
JULY 25, 2012
Gianna Maniego, Editor
Dinna Chan Vasquez, Assistant Editor
sha.re/
By Ed Biado
YOU tweet about your daily
activities. You Instagram your
meals. You pin your outfits.
You check-in everywhere.
Thats your life. In characters
and in pixels. Theres nothing
wrong with thatwere all
nosy and love a good TMI.
But sometimes, too much is
too much. Especially when
youre supposed to be having
fun and not tweeting that
youre having fun.
A s
an over-
sharer, you
have no
problems
informing
everyone
w h a t
youre up
to. But not everyone is like you.
Before you broadcast all over
social media that your friend Sally
just arrived, check with Sally
rst if she wants other people to
know. She might be hiding from
someone and youre on the verge
of blowing her cover by tagging
her on your check-in.
When youre on vacation,
you might want to share
everything with your followers
by live-tweeting (with Twitpics,
natch!). And answering
everyones questions about the
exotic destination youre at. But
isnt that taking away from the
vacation? How can you enjoy
that beautiful beach sunset if
youre too busy trying to get
the perfect shot? If youre with
other people, it irritate them that
you have to take your phone out
every hour to go online?
As a photo spammer, you
spend 10 minutes trying to take
the best picture of every plate
and every course on the table.
But what if your date Jimmy is
so hungry and he cant wait 10
minutes? Thats ne if you do it
one or two times, when the plate
presentation is pretty, but not
every time you and Jimmy go out
to eat.
When youre out with
friends, you interrupt the
conversation and tell everyone
to smile for the camera because
you want to capture the
moment. Perfectly acceptable,
right? No. Because youre there
to talk with your friends, not
take pictures of them talking
(or take pictures of yourself
while theyre talking). Worse,
you already took pictures 20
minutes ago. And 20 minutes
before that. And every single
time your group got together
within the last six months.
Yet, you stay on your device
all night editing the pictures,
posting them all over your
social networking sites, tagging
everyone and responding to
comments. Youre not part of the
conversation anymore. Its like
youre not even there.
In todays thriving social
media culture, there are
two types of people: those
who participate in the
fun, the conversations and
the adventures, and those
who document the fun,
the conversations and the
adventures other people are
having. The question is, which
one are you?
When
sharing fun
makes you
not fun
ONE of the factors we consider when getting
a mobile handset is whether it is compatible
our lifestyle. All you have to do is choose with
one suits you best. If you have a busy work
schedule and want to be productive in and out
of the ofce, the Nokia Lumia is your perfect
business buddy.
Aside from its entertainment and social
capabilities, Nokia Lumia allows you to get
your work done with the fast and easy Outlook
Mobile. You can check your email accounts
in seconds while on the road as Nokia Lumia
smartphones support multiple POP/IMAP and
ActiveSync accounts . You just need to input
your email address and password, or in some
cases your username and domain, and you are
good to go. You may also organize appointments
from different accounts in one view and have it
color-coded.
Another reason to get a Nokia Lumia is it
helps you accomplish more tasks with great
business apps. Its business-relevant apps
such as messaging, productivity, document
management and viewing, news and
information, CRM and eld force automation
fare are all available at App Highlights. Some of
the recent additions are LinkedIn with exclusive
functionalities and Good Technologys Good
for Enterprise app, which brings secure access
to corporate email, contacts, and calendar.
With Lumia, you can organize your contacts
with People Hub and Live Tiles allowing
you to merge all your contacts and address
books from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
in one accessible tile. Create groups for your
contacts, and pin those tiles to your start screen
to see real-time updates and notications on
messages.
The Ofce Hub, on the other hand, lets you
work convenniently wherever you are. With
just one tap of the Ofce icon, you can access
business documents even outside the ofce.
Create, read or edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint
documents with the Ofce Mobile and keep
track of things, whether its personal or work-
related, with OneNote. It lets you take a photo,
choose an image from your photo album, or
even record voices and sounds, which you can
then keep on your phone for future reference, or
share right away with your team.
The Security and Device management
feature is also helpful when your device gets
stolen as you can wipe or lock your phone
via SMS so that condential information
is not accessed by others. It also has leak
protection with Microsoft Information Rights
Management, which secures your email and
encrypts Ofce documents, adding another
layer of business security.
The Nokia Lumia range consists of Lumia
900, Lumia 800, Lumia 710 and Lumia 610.
These devices are designed for business-
minded people, and are packaged depending on
your budget and style. Joba Botana
Bending like Beckham
Perfect
mobile handsets
for the busy you
The circus....
From C1
has been converted to an arena-type company, which performs in
smaller, established venues like convention centers, velodromes, etc. and
takes 10 to 12 hours to set up (compared to Big Top-type troupes that bring their
own Big Top and take 10 to 12 days to erect.) It takes 16 container truckslling
two 747 cargo planesto transport the whole set from venue to venue.
Its about evolution
At its heart, Saltimbanco is a story about evolution. Its about the coming
together of different cultures in a modern society. Created in 1992 when
immigration was a big issue, it highlights the different colorful characters
that make up mega cities.
The show was created in the 1990s, when people were migrating from
the countryside to the big cities. Its about evolution, bringing people
together. Yet each character retains its own individuality. Thats the
storyline, says Maxim. Saltimbanco has remained simple, but in a
good way. It doesnt require as much technology as some of the other
shows. Its colorful and alive and full of energy. And thats what people
like about it.
Simple yet amazing
To fully appreciate the impact that Saltimbanco has on the audience,
however, one has to experience it live, and thats what we got to do later
that night.
I have to say, as awesome as Varekai is, this
show i s def i ni t el y more ent ert ai ni ng.
The whole vibe is a throwback
t o o l d s c ho o l s t r e e t
perf ormances where
Baroque charact ers
mill around the stage, s p o n t a n e o u s l y
bursting into song, while setting up the various acts
in humorous ways.
We had expected to be impressed by dexterous juggling
acts and incredible gravity-defying acrobatic stunts, but we
did not expect to be bowled over by the humor, and for
that credit goes to the characters.
It is simple, yes, if simple means most of the
performers rely on skill and dexterity alone to
execute their acts (no technological
wizardry involved). But it is no less
amazing.
Of all the acts, we were most
impressed by the Russian Swing,
the Chinese Poles (performed by the
same House troupe, but with a lot more
swagger), the Hand to Hand (which involves a lot
of muscle control and head-sharingyes, that, for
lack of a better term), and Eddie the Clown, who
has audio skills you would not believe.
From the hilarious opening act, which owes a lot to
audience participation (you have to be game to get over
the secondhand embarrassment) to work, to the
nal bungee jump, which conjures up images of
angels in ight, Saltimbanco is wall-to-wall fun
and entertainment.
Its worth watching over and over again.
** Manila will soon enjoy
the Saltimbanco experience
live when it stops by from
Aug. 9 to 19 at The Arena
at the SM Mall of Asia.
Ti cket s are avai l abl e
www.cirquedusoleil.com/
saltimbanco, www.hoopla.
ph or www. smt i cket s.
com. Better yet, call 320-
1111 or 470-2222 to make
reservations. VIP seats go
for P10,500, while general
admission seats are priced
at P1,200.
Fil Canadian Adrian Andres
plays in the band
The Baron
Neelanthi Vadivel, Saltimban-
co's creative director
Bending like Beckham
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Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Misamis Occidental 2
nd
District Engineering Offce
Tangub City
I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
(MST-July 23 & 25, 2012)
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Misamis Occidental
2
nd
District Engineering Offce, Tangub City, invites contractors to
apply to bid for the projects:
[1] Contract ID : 12KJ0051
Name of Project : Wi deni ng/Improvement of Ozami z-
Oroquieta Road
Location : Clarin-Sinacaban Section K1705+979 -
K1721+184 with exceptions
Brief Description : Widening of Road
Approved Budget For the Contract P 27,616,870.00
Contract Duration : One Hundred Thirty (130) CD
Cost of Plans & Bid Documents : P 20,000.00
Name of Project : Road Leading to Tourism Destination
(Upgrading of Road)
Location : Brgy. Banglay, Tangub City to Brgy. Gala,
Ozamiz City
Brief Description : Upgrading of Road (from Gravel to
Concrete)
Contract Duration : One Hundred Forty (140) CD
Cost of Plans & Bid Documents P 20,000.00
(Upgrading of Road)
Location : Road Leading to Bokagan Hill, Ozamiz
City
Concrete)
Contract Duration : One Hundred Fifty (150) CD
(Upgrading of Road)
Location : Sta. Maria-Capalaran Road, Tangub City
Concrete)
Contract Duration : One Hundred Forty (140) CD
(Upgrading of Road)
Location : Capalaran-Villaba Road, Tangub City
Concrete)
Contract Duration : Ninety (90) CD
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with
the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations 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, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least
equal to the ABC, or credit line commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The
BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check
and preliminary examination of bids.
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 procurement activities are
shown below:
Activities Schedule
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents July 19, 2012 to August 9, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference July 27, 2012 at 10:00 AM
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
August 03, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids August 09, 2012 until 10:00 AM
5. Opening of Bids August 09, 2012 at 02:00 PM
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at
DPWH-Misamis Occidental 2
nd
District Engineering Offce, Tangub
City, upon payment of a non-refundable fee as stated 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 DPWH-Misamis Occidental 2
nd
District Engineering Offce,
Tangub City reserves the right to accept or reject any bid and to annul
the bidding process at anytime prior contract award, without incurring
any liability to the affected bidder/s.
(Sgd.) RAMISIS JAIMAR Y. BICOY
Engineer III
BAC-Chairman
NOTED:
(Sgd.) DARIO C. PUSOD
OIC-District Engineer
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
Region IV-B, MIMAROPA
Mindoro Oriental District Engineering Offce
Masipit, Calapan City 5200, Oriental Mindoro
Tel. No. (043) 288-2365
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DPWH INFRA-07 Standard Advertisement Revised IRR
(MST-July 25, 2012)
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH, Mindoro Oriental
District Engineering Offce, through the Government of the Philippines 2012, invites
contractors to bid for the following projects:
1.) Contract ID : 12ED0067
Contract Name : Repair/Reconstruction of Calero Seawall Along
Calapan South Road
Contract Location : Calapan City. Oriental Mindoro
Scope of Work : Repair & Reconstruction of 152 L.m. Seawall
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 6,999,994.78
Contract Duration : 180 calendar days
2.) Contract ID : 12ED0069
Contract Name : Construction of Poblacion Drainage System Along
National Road (NCR)
Contract Location : San Teodoro, Oriental Mindoro
Scope of Work : Construction of 1.102 L.m. Drainage
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 8,811,000.00
Contract Duration : 120 calendar days
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, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least
equal to ABC, or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC
will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary
examination of bids.
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.qov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below;
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents July 23,2012 to August 14, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference July 31, 2012
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
August 08, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids August 14, 2012 up to 10:00 A.M.
5. Opening of Bids August 14, 2012 @ 2:00 P.M

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at BAC Offce,
DPWH, Mindoro Oriental District Engineering Offce, upon payment of a non-
refundable fee of Ten Thousand Pesos ( P 10,000.00 ). Prospective bidders may also
download the BDs from the DPWH web site, 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 bid Documents. The Pre-Bid Conference shall be open only
to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must be 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 DPWH, Mindoro Oriental District Engineering Offce reserves the right to
accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at any time prior to contract
award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) ALEXANDER D. MALITAO
BAC Vice-Chairman
(MST-July 25, 2012)
Department of Public Works and Highways
REGION IV-B MIMAROPA
Southern Mindoro District Engineering Offce
Roxas, Oriental Mindoro
The DPWH Southern Mindoro District Engineering Offce, through its Bids
and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the following
contract(s):
1. Contract ID : 12EI0076
Contract Name : Construction/Improvement of Bongabong River
Control (Upstream of Abutment A of Orconuma
Bridge), Brgy. Oconuma along Bongabong Sagana
Roxas San Aquilino Road,
Contract Location : Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro
Scope of Work : Construction of 56.0 L.M. Gabions (9 layers w/
Matress); 103 L.M. Gabions (Additional 2 layers).
Approved Budget
for the Contract (ABC) : P 8,541,044.66
Bid Document Amount : 10,000.00
Contract Duration : 120 Calendar Days
2. Contract ID : 12EI0077
Contract Name : Construction of Sumagui River Control along Calapan
South Road, Brgy. Sumagui,
Contract Location : Bansud, Oriental Mindoro
Scope of Work : Construction of 32.0 L.M. Gabions (7 layers w/
Matress); 158 L.M. Gabions (6 layers w/ mattress).
Approved Budget
for the Contract (ABC) : P 15,667,909.70
Bid Document Amount : 10,000.00
Contract Duration : 150 Calendar Days
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in
accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations.
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, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line
commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/
fail criteria in the eligibility check, preliminary examination of bids.
to the DPWH Southern Mindoro District Engineering Offce before the deadline for
the receipt of LOI. The DPWH POCW - Central Offce will frst 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 procurement activities are shown below:
BAC Activities Schedule
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents From July 23, 2012 to August 14, 2012
2. Pre Bid Conference July 31, 2012 @ 10:00 AM
3. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders Deadline : August 8, 2012 until 5:00 PM
4. Receipt of Bids August 14, 2012 until 10:00 AM
5. Opening of Bids August 14, 2012 @ 2:00 PM
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH Southern
Mindoro District Engineering Offce, Roxas, Oriental Mindoro, upon payment of a
non-refundable fee stated above. Prospective bidders may also download the BDs,
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 bid Documents. Bids
must accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated
in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
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 DPWH, Southern Mindoro District Engineering Offce reserves the right
to accept or reject any or all bid and to annul the bidding process anytime before
Contract Award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.
Approved :
(Sgd.) ARLEEN R. RECTO
Asst. District Engineer
(Caretaker)
BAC Chairman
(MST-July 25, 2012)
Republika ng Pilipinas
KAGAWARAN NG PAGAWAIN AT LANSANGANG PAMBAYAN
South Cotabato District Engineering Offce
Koronadal City, South Cotabato
July 23, 2012
The DPWH-South Cotabato District Engineering Offce, through its Bids and
Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the following
contract(s):
1. Contract ID No. : 12MG0053
Name of Contract : Construction of Single Lane Slab Bridge Halilan
River connecting brgys. Halilan and Lower
Maculan, Brgy. Halilan
Location : Lake Sebu, South Cotabato
Brief Description : construction of Single Lane Flat Slab Bridge (12.0
LM)
Total Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P 5,404,000.00
Contract Duration : 210 C.D.
2. Contract ID No. : 12MG0054
Name of Contract : Repair/Rehabilitation.Impvt. along Cotabato
Marbel Road, Bo. 6, Km. 1719+800 Km. 1720+200
Location : Banga, South Cotabato
Brief Description : concreting of additional paved width
Total Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P 9,900,000.00
Contract Duration : 125 C.D.

Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in
accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations.
To bid for the contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) 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
with PCAB License applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (c) completion
of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (d)
Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment
for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the
eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
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 procurement activities are shown below:
1. Issuance of Bid Documents From: July 25 August 14, 2012
2. Pre-bid Conference August 1, 2012 @ 2:00PM
3. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders Deadline: August 8, 2012 until 5:00P.M.
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: August 14, 2012 @ 10:00 AM
5. Opening of Bids August 14, 2012 @ 10:00 AM
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at the South
Cotabato District Engineering Offce, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of
P=10,000.00 each for Item Nos. 1 & 2. Prospective bidders may also download the
BDs, if available, from the DPWH web site. Prospective bidders that will download
the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission
of their bids. Bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any acceptable form in
the amount stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.

envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which will include the
eligibility requirements. 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 the post-qualifcation.

The DPWH-South Cotabato District Engineering Offce reserves the right to
accept or reject any or all bid and to annul the bidding process any time before
Contract Award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.

Approved by:
(Sgd.) MARCIAL B. CARDENAS
Engineer III
BAC Chairman
Noted:
(Sgd.) EDDIE M. AMIR
District Engineer
The City Government of Makati, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites registered suppliers /
manufacturers / distributors / contractors to bid for the hereunder projects:
NO. NAME OF PROJECT AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION LOCATION APPROVED BUDGET
1 3-Way Stopcock and other medical supplies for the use of
Ospital ng Makati
OSMAK P7,365,539.40
2 Sterile Disposable Syringe and other medical supplies for the
use of Ospital ng Makati
OSMAK P3,449,764.00
3 Arm Slings and other medical supplies for the use of Ospital ng
Makati
OSMAK P2,426,389.00
4 Amoxicillin (as trihydrate) and other medicines for Medical
Consultation Program of the Makati Health Department
MHD P3,016,875.00
Prospective Bidders should have experience in undertaking a similar project with an amount of at least 50% of the
proposed project for bidding. The Eligibility Check/Screening as well as the Preliminary Examinations of Bids shall use
non-discretionary pass/fail criteria. Post-Qualifcation of the Lowest Calculated Bid shall be conducted.
All particulars relative to Eligibility Statement and Screening, Bid Security, Performance Security, Pre-Bidding
Conference(s), 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).
The complete schedule of activities is listed, as follows:
ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE
1. Pre-Bidding Conference at BAC Conference Room, 9th Floor August 02, 2012 (02:00 P.M.)
2. Opening of Bids at BAC Conference Room, 9th Floor August 16, 2012 (02:00 P.M.)
Bidding Documents will be available only to Prospective Bidders upon payment of a non-refundable amount of
______________________to the City Government of Makati Cashier.
(fee for Bid Documents) (Procuring Entity)
The City Government of Makati assumes no responsibility whatsoever to compensate or indemnify
(Procuring Entity)
bidders for any Expenses Incurred in the preparation of the bid.
The City of Makati reserves the right to disqualify any or all proposal, to waive any defects or informalities therein
and to accept such proposal as may be considered most advantageous to the Government.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) MARJORIE A. DE VEYRA
Chairperson

Bids and Awards Committee
J.P. Rizal St. corner F. Zobel St., Makati City
Tel. No. 870-1000 Fax No. 899-8988
www.makati.gov.ph
INVITATION TO BID
REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS
LUNGSOD NG MAKATI
(MST-July 25, 2012)
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
Nueva Ecija 1
st
District Engineering Offce
La Torre, Talavera, Nueva Ecija
(MST-July 25, 2012)

The DPWH Nueva Ecija 1st DEO, through General Fund FY 2012 RA
10155, invites contractors to apply to bid for the following contract(s):
a. CONTRACT ID: 12CE0103
b. Contract Name: Slope Protection along Daang Maharlika Road
Carranglan, Nueva Ecija, KO 189+200-KO
189+250; KO 195+010- KO 195+110
c. Contract Location
d. Fee for Bid Documents Php10,000.00
e. Scope of Work FHR
f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php14,113,520.36
g. Conctract Duration: C.D. 273.00
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding
procedures in accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing
Rules and Regulations.

To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent
(LOI) 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 with PCAB License applicable to the type and
cost of this contract, (c) completion of a similar contract costing at least
50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (d) Net Financial Contracting
Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment for at least 10%
of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility
check and preliminary examination of bids.
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 procurement activities are
shown
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders
Deadline:
9:00 AM August 14, 2012
2. Issuance of Bid Documents
8:00am - 2:30pm
From:
July 24, 2012
To:
August 14, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference
Time and Date
10:00 a.m.
August 2, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids
Deadline:
10:00 a.m.
August 14, 2012
5. Opening of Bids
Time
10:00 a.m.
Date:
August 14, 2012

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH, Nueva
Ecija 1st District Engineering Offce, Talavera, Nueva Ecija upon payment of a
non-refundable fee as indicated above.

Prospective bidders may also download the BDs, if available, from the DPWH
web site. 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. Bids
must be accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as
stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include the
eligibility requirements. 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 the post-qualifcation.
The DPWH Nueva Ecija 1st DEO reserves the right to accept or reject any
or all bid and to null the bidding process anytime before Contract award, without
incurring any liability to the affected bidders.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) AMADO M. GUEVARRA
BAC Chairman
Noted:

(Sgd.) RAMIRO M. CRUZ
District Engineer

DPWH INFRA-07 Standard Advertisement-Revised IRR
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Isah V. Red, Editor standard.showbiz@gmail.com
showbitz
ISAH V.
RED
SIMPLY RED
Today is the day for devoted, life-
time followers of the former child star
of Sampaguita Pictures Trudis Liit, as
The Healing, opens today in theaters
nationwide. Will the horror picture
directed by Chito Roo has enough
muscle to go against The Dark Knight
Rises, which, last week, dominated the
screens at most multiplexes?
Naturally, Star Movies execu-
tives, which produced the movie, say,
Vilma naman yan, it has a ghting
chance, while keeping their ngers
crossed tightly.
Okay, for the sake of the local
movie industry, lets offer novenas to
all the saints in the Catholic Church
with the intention of making the
movie earn big bucks. Amen.
Then again, the Hollywood movie
has an undue advantage. Apart from its
technical superiority, it had earned un-
wanted publicity, thanks but no thanks
to the mass murder inside a theater in
Colorado while screening the movie.
Oh, thats too negative a thing; lets just
focus on Vilmas movie.
Janice De Belen and Pokwang
complete the cast of Vilma Santos
rst-ever suspense-horror lm.
The movie is also Santos rst
project with De Belen, Pokwang, and
Kim Chiu.
Faith healers and the Filipinos
habit to consult them for treatment of
ailments are the focus of the movie.
Pokwang said at one point that
Santos dedication inspired most of
them. Shes an amazing actor. Youll
learn a lot from her. In fact, I got from
her the idea that its best that you work
hard for everything that you do.
Kr is Ber nal tur ns 23
at Seventh High
Kapuso Networks certied sweet-
heart Kr is Ber nal recently celebrated
her birthday with a big bash to re-
member at Seventh High at Bonifa-
cio High Street, The Fort.
THE Embassy of Japan celebrates the annual Philippines-Japan Friend-
ship Month with music and movies at the SM Mall of Asia this moth
A joint project of the Embassy of Japan, the Japan Foundation Manila,
the SM Mall of Asia, and SM Cinema, the two-day event commemorates
56 years of longstanding cooperation between Japan and the Philippines.
The Philippines-Japan Friendship Month is celebrated every July with
July 23 as Japan Day.
The Grand Finals of the J-pop Anime Singing Contest on the Music
Hall, on its fourth year and with freestyle as theme, was a venue for Fili-
pino amateur performers of all ages who could sing their favorite J-pop or
anime songs in Japanese.
Theres more young fun ahead with the awarding of a Mini-Cosplay
Contest wherein 15
finalists will have the
chance to dress up as
their beloved anime
characters, an anime
making demonstra-
tion by Toei Anima-
tion Philippines, and
meet and greet ses-
sions with Doraemon
and Nobita.
The Japanese Em-
bassys will also per-
form during the event,
which includes Japa-
nese food tasting by
Yoshinoya.
Japanese animated lms created magic at the mall with the screenings
of Full Metal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos and Detective Conan:
The Last Ship in the Sky on July 22 at Cinema 6.
FullMetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos is about a fictional
world where alchemy is fully accepted. It tells the story of a young
alchemist named Fullmetal and his adventures with his brother, who
wants to restore their bodies after a failed attempt to bring their mother
back to life through alchemy.
Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky is about Jimmy Kudo, a
young detective who was transformed into a child after being poisoned.
The movie chronicles Kudos battles with mysterious bacteria that he
must prevent from spreading.
These events were co-organized by the Embassy of Japan, Japan Foun-
dation Manila, the SM Mall of Asia, and SM Cinema. It had support from
the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Philippines, the
Nihongo Center Foundation, the Animation International Licensing Phil-
ippines, Center for Pop Music, Toei Animation Philippines, Yoshinoya,
Ajinomoto, Canon, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, and Yakult.
HERO TV was the media partner.
VIVA Concerts and Events present The
Greatest Hits at the Newport Perform-
ing Arts Theater of Resorts World Manila
starring Hajji Alejandro, Marco Sison
and Rico J. Puno on Aug. 3 at 8 p.m.
One of the most succesful and long-
running shows in local showbiz history,
The Greatest Hits features balladeers
from the 70s and 80s eras performing
their enduring hit songs.
Rico J. Puno, known as the Total En-
tertainer played a major part in the Ma-
nila Sound explosion of the 70s era and
made a lot of hits. Among these were
Kapalaran, Buhat, Damdamin,
Sorry Pwede Ba, Together Forever,
Lupa, May Bukas Pa, Macho Gu-
wapito, Ang Taoy Marupok, Gan-
yan Pala Ang Magmahal, and others.
He also became a star in lms, Bawal Na
Pag-ibig and Silang Mga Mukhang Pera,
and of television, The Rico J. Puno Show.
He remains one of the biggest draws in
concert circuits, both here and abrod.
Dubbed as the Kilabot ng mga Kole-
hiyala during his heydays, Hajji Ale-
jandro still cuts a striking gure on stage.
He started his career as one of the vocalists
of the famed Circus Band. He launched
his solo career in 1976 with the hit songs
Panakip Butas and Tag-araw. These
were later followed by May Minama-
hal, Nakapagtataka, Ang Lahat Ng
Itoy Para SaYo, and Ryan Cayaby-
abs Kay Ganda Ng Ating Musika, the
rst winner of the Metro Manila Popular
Song Festival in 1978.
Marco Sison, the Romantic Ballad-
eer was the winner of a talent contest in
the variety show Student Canteen. His
good looks and smooth singing style
resulted in motion picture and televi-
sion appearances and lots of hit songs.
Among these are Make Believe, My
Love Will See You Through, Al-
ways, Ill Face Tomorrow, Mahal,
Ibigay Mo Sa Aking Ang Bukas, and
Si Aida, Si Lorna at Si Fe.
Rico J, Marco and Hajji will perform
all their hits in the show and will also
dish out lots of duets and trios featuring
timeless favorites.
Tickets to The Greatest Hits are now
available at the Resorts World Manila
box ofce (908-8888), at Viva Concerts
(687-7236) and at Ticketworld (891-
9999). Ticket prices are VIP P3,500; Pre-
miere Left/Right P3,500; Deluxe Left/
Right P3,000; Balcony Center, Left/Right
P2,500; and Upper Balcony P2,500.
VILMA
SANTOS
in Chito Roos
horror lm
WHAT can I say, but the governor of
Batangas has found time to shoot a movie.
Indeed, Vilma Santos cant seem to
forget that she is an entertainer more than
a politician. Every now and then she has
to nd time to be on camera, either as a
subject of an interview for television or as
an actor playing a character in a drama.
Dressed to the nines in her Fr ancis
Libir an-designed dress, Kris who just
turned 23, showed off her best assets as
she smiled and welcomed all her guests
that evening.
The celebrity truly beamed with so
much joy as she claimed she has never had
such a fantastic party tendered for her.
A small press conference was held
right outside The Club of Seventh High.
Kris answered questions from the
recovery of her very valuable bag and
wallet stolen recently, to intriguing
questions about her and Mar k Her r as,
her leading man in Hiram na Puso.
Friends from way back before she
joined StarStruck, media, and fellow
Kapuso stars greeted her and partied
the night away.
Kris was surprised when the club
showed a video of Aljur Abrenica, her
leading man at one time, sending best
and sweetest wishes as he was unable
to attend the gathering.
Kylie Padilla, Bella Padilla, John
Sweet Lapus, Chariz Solomon, Lexi
Fernandez and Mikee Bustos were spot-
ted enjoying the free-owing drinks.
High on rock
The cast of Atlantis Productions
version of the Tony-award winning
Broadway play Rock of Ages surpassed
critics expectations.
The musical went on stage on June 15.
So, what better venue to celebrate a
successful opening night of their outra-
geous production than Seventh High
itself, specically its newly-renovated
APEX Loungewhere the dining and
entertainment go hand in hand.
In the play, a young boy named
Drew, played by Nyoy Volante, dreams
of being a rockstar while he works at
the famous The Bourbon Room.
He comes to Sherries rescue, played
by Vina Mor ales, when her records are
stolen, then gets her a job at The Bour-
bon Room as well. They fell in love
then lose each other when she came
face to face with the wild, over-the-top
rockstar, Stacee Jaxx, played by inter-
national singer, MiG Ayesa.
The evening saw the top-billers of the
musicalVolante, Morales, Aiza Seguer-
ra, Jett Pangan of The Dawn, and inter-
national singer Ayesa of Rockstar INXS
fameas well as the rest of the ensemble
and production crew wine and dine in the
comfort of The APEX Lounge.
The APEX Lounge has played host
to a number of notable local and in-
ternational acts, the most recent being
Dashboar d Confessional frontman
Chr is Car abba and the tour dancers of
Lady Gagas Monster Ball.
With its calm and sleek interiors,
APEX is the perfect chill-out place where
you can have great food and revel in the
best live entertainment in town.
For reservations and event inquiries, call
(0917) 585-2164 or 856-1786. You may
also email us at theofce@7thhigh.com.
Drew, the athlete
Kapuso TV host Drew Arellano
was part of Team Unilab, which partici-
pated at Tri United 2 at the scenic Playa
Laiya in San Juan, Batangas.
Arellano has been into triathlon
since 2005 and has pursued actively the
sport while harnessing his passion in
the entertainment industry.
Unilab Active Health organized Tri
United in partnership with Raul Cue-
vas of Bike King. For its second leg
this year, about 640 triathletes joined
the two-day event.
Mall of Asias celebration
with music and movies
Greatest hits show goes to Resorts World
Vilma Santos
in a suspense-
horror lm,
The Healing
Janice de Belen Kim Chiu Pokwang
Tri United 2 runner Drew Arellano
Anim Singing Contest last years winner Heiki

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