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Vol. XXVI No. 72 20 Pages, 3 Sections
P18.00 FRIDAY, May 11, 2012
By Christine F. Herrera
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino
III has ordered a crackdown on
smugglers and corrupt govern-
ment ofcials and released P190
million in subsidies to hog and
poultry growers who say a ood
of imported meat is killing their
industry, Agriculture Secretary
Proceso Alcala said Thursday.
Following the Presidents
order, Alcala said, he had initi-
ated a top-to-bottom revamp at
his department and a probe on
smuggling and the over-impor-
tation of meat.
Alcalas order came after
Customs Commissioner Runo
Biazon said his men found an
anomaly in a shipment of meat,
but that inspectors from the de-
partments Bureau of Animal
Industry and National Meat In-
spection Service overruled his
men.
The President wanted to pro-
tect the interest of the local hog
and poultry industries. Com-
missioner Biazon and I already
agreed to put in place measures
that would help protect the local
growers, Alcala told the Manila
Standard.
President Aquino wants the
ooding of imported meat in the
wet markets stopped. Only le-
gitimate importers are allowed
to import. The department and
Customs are now purging the
list to weed out unscrupulous
traders.
MALACAANG on Thursday
shrugged off the turnaround of
two key complainants on Chief
Justice Renato Coronas alleged
$10 million in foreign currency
deposits.
Deputy presidential spokes-
woman Abigail Valte said it was
too early to predict the impact on
the impeachment trial of the ad-
mission of Palace allies former
Akbayan party-list Rep. Risa
Hontiveros and Harvey Keh
that they did not have personal
knowledge of Coronas alleged
dollar accounts.
It is too early to say if Chief
Justice Coronas testimony would
be a waste of time [because of
these developments], Valte said.
It is better to wait for what
the chief justice has to say to the
questions of the prosecutors and
the senator-judges.
Valte said the Palace wanted to
hear nothing but the truth from
the chief magistrate who has said,
through his lawyers, that he is pre-
pared to face the Senate sitting as
an impeachment court.
On Wednesday, Hontiveros
said she did not know how the
Ombudsman came up with the
$10-million gure. She said her
complaint-letter only contained
Joyce Pangco Paares
MALACAANG has not re-
jected outright the possibility of
same-sex marriage in the Philip-
pines, but it is leaving Congress
to decide on the matter, an of-
cial said Thursday.
The issue of same-sex mar-
riage is best left to the sound
discretion of the legislature,
deputy presidential spokes-
woman Abigail Valte said. But
she noted that the Family Code
denes marriage as a union be-
tween a man and a woman.
United States President Ba-
rack Obama on Wednesday said
he supported gay marriage, re-
versing his position on a con-
troversial social issue just six
CIDAHU, IndonesiaRescuers
discovered bodies Thursday near
the shattered wreckage of a new
Russian-made passenger plane
that smashed into the steep side
of an Indonesian volcano during
a ight to impress potential buy-
ers. All 45 people on board were
feared dead.
Due to the remoteness of
the crash site, the bodies will
be placed in nets and lifted by
ropes to a hovering chopper, na-
tional search and rescue agency
spokesman Gagah Prakoso said.
They will be evacuated to the
capital, Jakarta, for identication
by family members.
So far we havent found
any survivors, but we are still
searching, he said as more
soldiers, police and volunteers
hiked through the mist-shrouded
slopes toward the wreck.
I cannot say anything about
the condition of the bodies, said
Prakoso, but he added: A high
speed jet plane hit the cliff, ex-
ploded and tore apart.
JOSE Rizal as the ofcial na-
tional hero has no basis in law,
so that lawmakers by legisla-
tion may tap another person
to take his place as an object
of national admiration for his
noble qualities or outstanding
achievements, the National
Historical Commission said
Thursday.
Teodoro Atienza, head of
the commissions Heraldry
Section, says only four of the
13 national symbols of the
By Florante S. Solmerin
THE cases of kidnapping for
ransom in Metro Manila and
the nearby provinces are rising
again, and most of the victims
are Filipino-Chinese, a group
known for being vocal against
crime said Thursday.
They [kidnap-for-ransom
groups] ought to be taught a
lesson again, said Teresita
Ang-See of the group Move-
ment for the Restoration of
Peace and Order.
They have been crippled,
but now they are hungry again.
Its a vicious cycle---bank rob-
bery, carjacking, kidnapping.
If bank robbery is too hot to
handle, they will switch to car-
jacking and then to kidnapping
if the situation so requires.
Ang-See said her group
was concerned because some
of the victims were refusing to
cooperate with them to deter
the kidnappers.
CHINAS embassy in the Philippines has issued a
safety alert to the Chinese enterprises and its citi-
zens here ahead of a planned protest against China
today over its standoff with Manila on Scarbor-
ough Shoal.
The notice says a massive anti-China demon-
stration is about to happen within days as tension
between the two countries has escalated follow-
ing their dispute over the Panatag or Scarborough
Shoal in the South China Sea.
The embassy advised its nationals to stay alert,
enhance safety awareness and avoid going out. It
urged its citizens to stay away from the protesters,
keep a low prole and abide by local laws.
Various labor groups said Thursday they will
protest against Chinas bullying in the South Chi-
na Sea in front of the Chinese consular ofce in
Makati on May 11. Beijing is suspending some tourism to the
Philippines and has ordered tighter inspections
on imported Philippine fruit such as bananas, of
which China is the single largest buyer.
That follows Beijings summoning of Manilas
charge daffairs three times, while retired and
serving military ofcers have called for a limited
Chinese Embassy issues
safety alert to citizens
Kidnap for ransom
of Chinoys up again
Malacaang downplays
witnesses turnaround
Palace tosses same-sex
union issue to Congress
There ought
to be law on
PH symbols
45 killed
in Russian
jet crash in
Indonesia
Tests fruit imports strictly, suspends tours to Manila
Move zeroes in on meat smugglers, corrupt execs
China deals PH
with trade blows
PNoy orders crackdown at Customs, DA
Tit for tat. Chinese protesters burn the Philippine and American ags outside the Philippine Consulate in
Hong Kong. Filipinos have made similar ag-burning protests outisde the Chinese Embassy in Makati City.
Dwindling arrivals. On the eve of the Filipinos
protests, only a handful of Chinese tourists were
seen lining up at Immigration. ERIC APOLONIO
Showing the way. President Aquino guides Laos Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong during a
welcome ceremony in Malacaang on Thursday. Thammavong is on a three-day visit to the country.
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Putting the squeeze on bananas. China an-
nounced it will increase quarantine and the inspection
of fruits from the Philippines such as pineapples and
bananas as tension between the two countries snow-
balls toward a possible trade war.
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military operation to shore up Chinas credibility
on the mattera potentially explosive move that
could trigger the 1951 US-Philippine Mutual De-
fense Treaty.
The Philippines has registered its own diplo-
matic protests, with Foreign Secretary Albert del
By Maricel Cruz
BEIJINGThe month-long
standoff between China and
the Philippines over a re-
mote South China Sea shoal
is snowballing with hints
of economic retaliation and
sharpening public opinion on
both sidespossibly narrow-
ing the chances for a negoti-
ated settlement.
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China...
Rosario cautioning foreign govern-
ments over what the Philippines
perceives as Chinas looming threat
to freedom of navigation.
The Foreign Affairs Department
is preparing to bring the territo-
rial rifts to international arbitration.
Without offering any specics, a
department spokesman on Thurs-
day conrmed a new diplomatic
initiative to defuse the tension
over the Scarborough Shoal.
The Philippines is also seeking to
shore up its territorial claims with
new warships, ghters jets and ra-
dars from the United States.
China and the Philippines are
among six claimants to the waters
and island groups in the South
China Sea, which has heavily trav-
eled maritime lanes, rich shing
grounds and a potential wealth of
mineral resources.
The latest confrontation between
Beijing and Manila began April
10 when the Philippine Navy ac-
cused Chinese boats of shing il-
legally around Scarborough Shoal,
which Manila claims as part of its
exclusive economic zone but which
Beijing insists has been Chinese for
centuries.
Beijings moves on tourism and
fruit imports are a variation of un-
acknowledged economic pressure
employed in past international dis-
putes.
China International Travel Ser-
vice, one of the countrys largest,
said it was suspending trips from
Thursday based on safety consid-
erations.
Ctrip.com, Chinas largest online
agency, had also suspended trips, an
agent said, citing anti-China senti-
ments in that country right now.
She said the company acted on its
own without ofcial orders.
Beijing Caissa International
Travel Service Co. has also halted
travel tours to the Philippines and
promised to refund tourists that
have signed for tours to the country.
The Shanghai Tourism Bureau
also ordered a suspension, accord-
ing to staff with the Yiyou and
Guojikuaixian travel agencies in
the eastern nancial hub.
None of the agents would give
their names and calls to Chinas na-
tional tourism administration rang
unanswered Thursday.
The suspensions come as Chi-
nas embassy in Manila issued a
safety warning to its nationals in the
Philippines over protests planned
on Saturday. Chinese tourists
make up about 9 percent of the total
arrivals to the Philippines, accord-
ing to the Tourism Department.
The ofcial Xinhua news agency
quoted the travel agencies as saying
they would monitor the situation
and take precautions to ensure the
safety of the Chinese traveling in
the Philippines.
Chinas Vice Foreign Minister
Fu Ying said Tuesday that China
was not optimistic about the Scar-
borough Shoal situation, and was
fully prepared to respond to any-
thing the Philippine side did to es-
calate the dispute.
On Wednesday, Chinas General
Administration of Quality, Super-
vision, Inspection and Quarantine
said China will increase quarantine
and the inspection of fruits shipped
from the Philippines, including
pineapples and bananas, which
were found to contain insects in-
cluding the so-called Aonidiella
comperei McKenzie, it said.
Local bureaus must open more
packages and take more samples
for testing and reject or destroy
disqualied shipments, the agency
said.
The Bureau of Plant Industry
in Manila said the move was po-
litically motivated, adding that the
insect cited was more common to
coconuts.
The bureau was also drafting
an invitation to the Chinese Plant
Quarantine Ofce to visit fruit
packaging facilities in Davao for
bananas, pineapple and papayas,
said Plant Bureau Director Clarito
Baron.
The Trade Department said on
Thursday that dealings with Chi-
nese businessmen will continue de-
spite the recent moves by Beijing.
We continue to deal with Chi-
nese businessmen and corpora-
tions. We have a Chinese desk of-
cer from China and she has not
been recalled, Undersecretary for
Investment Promotion Group Cris-
tino Panlilio said.
But Panlilio declined to say if he
would push through with a plan to
visit key cities in China this year as
part of the governments aggressive
marketing and investment promo-
tion campaign.
Local travel agencies, mean-
while, said the suspension of Chi-
nese tours to the Philippines would
not greatly affect the tourism indus-
try because China was just one of
the Philippines target markets.
Yes, Chinese tourist arrivals to
the country have grown by double
digits. But to put things in perspec-
tive, China is only one of the Phil-
ippines many target markets. Our
top three markets remain Korea,
the United States of America and
Japan, said Aileen Clemente, Phil-
ippine Travel Agencies Association
president.
She said travel agencies were
also seeing increased interest from
countries like Australia, Canada,
Germany, Malaysia, Singapore and
the United Kingdom.
We believe they can augment
whatever it is the Philippines will
lose from Chinese tourist arrivals,
Clemente said.
In the House, Speaker Feliciano
Belmonte Jr. urged the Aquino ad-
ministration to immediately appoint
the countrys envoy to China amid
the worsening relations between the
two countries.
He underscored the need to name
a new envoy to Beijing, a post that
has been vacant since Ambassador
Francisco Benedicto retired over a
year ago.
We need to have an ambassa-
dor. It is one of the most important
posts. Whether or not we have this
crisis, we should have our envoy
there, Belmonte said.
He said that the Aquino admin-
istration should continuously pur-
sue diplomatic negotiations with
China to address the worsening
territorial dispute over the Scar-
borough Shoal.
We should continue our dia-
logue with them, Belmonte said.
Earlier, Eastern Samar Rep. Ben
Evardone, chairman of the House
committee on ways and means,
said the Philippines might be better
off engaging China in economic ac-
tivities rather than a war which the
country had no chance of winning.
This is not to undermine our
claim over the Scarborough Shoal
and the efforts of the government
to assert our rights and sovereignty
over the area, Evardone said in a
statement.
We must, every inch of the
way, ght for our rights over the
Scarborough Shoal. But I believe
we are being bullied by China
precisely because they view us as
a poor country with very little to
offer in the event they engage us
in war.
Iloilo Rep. Jerry Trenas said that
with Chinas increasing need for
oil, natural gas and other fuels to
sustain its rapid industrial expan-
sion, it would not come as a sur-
prise if it used its military might to
impose its will on weak claimants
such as the Philippines.
The Philippines is a soft target
for China because they know pretty
well that we are incapable of repel-
ling even a token Chinese invasion
force, he said.
Western Samar Rep. Mel Senen
Sarmiento, vice chairman of the
committee on national defense, said
the only way for the Philippines to
stop China from using its military
might to assert its claim over the
Spratlys was through a sustained
diplomatic offensive to pressure
Beijing to submit itself to interna-
tional arbitration.
Senator Loren Legarda, mean-
while, expressed optimism that the
ongoing dispute would be resolved
peacefully.
Legarda, chairman of the Senate
committee on foreign relations, said
it was not to the interest of both na-
tions to engage in a shooting war or
in any form of violence.
On Wednesday, Senate President
Juan Ponce Enrile said China was
grabbing the Scarborough Shoal.
The Philippines must prepare and
buy the needed weapons systems to
defend its territory. With the As-
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Eric Apolonio and Bloomberg
Chinese...
The organizers have dubbed
the rally as a global day of ac-
tion to protest Chinas incur-
sion into Philippine territory.
Akbayan, which will lead
the protest action, said all sys-
tems were go.
Everything is set, group
spokesman Emman Hizon
said.
Many organizations and
social movements have com-
mitted to join the event. We are
expecting a large number of
Filipino people to troop to the
Chinese consular ofce.
His group aside, Hizon said,
the Black and White Move-
ment, People Power Volunteers
for Reforms, Kilusan para sa
Makabansang Ekonomiya,
Rebolusyonaryong Alyansang
Makabansa, El Elyon Youth,
Grain New Wine & Oil Min-
istries, Southern Philippines
Muslim Unity & Development
Association, and the Student
Council Alliance of the Philip-
pines will join the event.
Their rallying cry, Stand up
against Chinas bullying, hap-
pens at noon is before the Chi-
nese embassies and consular
ofces around the globe.
Hizon says protest actions
have also been set in Wash-
ington DC, Los Angeles, New
York, Chicago, San Francisco
and Houston in the United
States.
Protest actions will also
be held in Rome, Vancouver,
Hong Kong, Sydney and Sin-
gapore.
The protests in the US are
being led by the US Pinoys for
Good Governance headed by
Loida Nicolas-Lewis, a Fili-
pino-American philanthropist
and socio-civic leader.
Vito Barcelo
Were panicking again because
of the ve consecutive kidnap-
pings, Ang-See said.
Kidnappers are again targeting
Filipino-Chinese. I think these are
not isolated cases anymore.
Ang-See was referring to the
kidnapping case in Divisoria in
Manila in March, which was fol-
lowed by another kidnapping in
Binondo also in Manila. Those
cases were followed by similar
abductions in Antipolo City and
Las Pias City.
Just yesterday we had another
[kidnapping] case in Banawe, Manila.
What is happening? Ang-See said.
Were bothered because the
authorities are not cooperating or
giving us leads. We are not being
updated. This is bizarre because in
the past our coordination with the
police had been very smooth.
Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo
acknowledged Ang-Sees fears.
The kidnapping [cases] in
Metro Manila [are] rising again,
he said.
Weve already alerted the Ma-
nila authorities regarding this mat-
ter. [Ang-See is] right about the
non-cooperation of some of the
victims.
Next week we will be having a
meeting together with the group of
Ang-See and police ofcials to talk
about these things.
Still, National Police spokesman
Generoso Cerbo Jr. said there had
been no surge in the number of kid-
napping cases in the country.
He said four cases were recorded
in the four months through May
this year, and that the police and the
US Embassy in Manila were coor-
dinating to solve the disappearance
of the wife of an American busi-
nessman in Makati City.
As of the moment this particu-
lar case in Makati City is yet to be
validated as a kidnapping-for-ran-
som case, Cerbo said.
We recognize the concern of
[Ang-Sees group] over the issue
of kidnapping, which has plagued
the Chinese Filipino community in
the past.
PNoy...
Ofcials of the Swine Devel-
opment Council and the United
Broiler Raisers Association wel-
comed the Presidents move but
questioned the sincerity behind
the P190-million offer, which
Agriculture Assistant Secre-
tary Dave Catbagan said would
be used to put up two Triple A
slaughterhouses in Batangas and
Bulacan and a P10-million dress-
ing plant in Tarlac.
Is that a joke? A Triple A
slaughterhouse now costs P200
million and the same amount
is needed to put up a dressing
plant, said Gregotio San Diego,
president of the United Broiler
Raisers Association.
Alcala said the Triple A slaugh-
terhouses would be equipped
with upgraded technology, cut-
ting oors and cold storage since
the absence of those facilities
was being used to justify the im-
portation of pork and chicken.
Alcala also said he had recom-
mended to Finance Secretary Cesar
Purisima an increase in the tariff on
offal to 20 percent from 5, and not
40 as demanded by local growers.
We nd 20 percent as rea-
sonable because the government
will provide the infrastructure
such as the cutting oors that are
meant for the local growers to
produce offal, skin and rind, so
there will be no need to import a
huge volume, Alcala said.
But Freddie Dy, council direc-
tor and president of the United
Agri Producers Group, said Al-
cala must have been misled to
believe that there was a huge de-
mand for offal.
We have nowhere to dump our
offal. The offal importers will not
buy them because these cannot
magically become pork, Dy said.
He said dishonet importers were
declaring their choice cuts as offal
to avoid paying the right taxes.
The huge volume of offal im-
portation that was recorded has
misled the government that the
country has a huge need for offal
when these magically turn into
pork and ood our wet markets
nationwide, Dy said.
Agham Rep. Angelo Palmones
hailed President Aquinos crack-
down on smugglers but said the
government must address all the in-
dustrys concerns to revive the sector.
This is a great day for the
countrys swine and poultry in-
dustry. With sustained govern-
ment support and funding, I am
condent that we will slowly
strengthen our food security,
Palmones said. He thanked the
President for the prompt action.
Alcala, who met with Chinese
restaurant owners, grocery stores
and supermarkets Thursday, said
the department had assured them
it would put up farms for Peking
ducks since imports were banned
due to bird u risks.
Catbagan said there were 10
million head of ducks in the
country and that 10 percent of
them were Peking ducks.
Alcala said the dressing plant
would be built in time for the
farmers to have produced a lo-
cally-grown Peking duck.
The only way for these Chi-
nese restaurants to patronize the
locally-grown Peking duck is to
completely stop the smuggling
of Peking ducks. Thats the only
time our farmers will have a mar-
ket for their Peking ducks, San
Diego said.
Reynaldo Quilang, head of
the veterinary quarantine ser-
vice at the Manila International
Container Port in North Harbor,
denied Biazons claim that the
two reefer vans were declared as
offal when the commissioner and
his men saw choice cuts.
Quilang said he already had
explained to Biazon that the im-
portation was beef fat and trim-
mings for Purefoods and Food-
spere, two legitimate importers.
There was really nothing anom-
alous about the import since only
1 percent of the meat got mixed
with the beef fats. And those were
not pork or chicken fat. Those were
beef fat and trimmings, Quilang
told the Manila Standard.
He also denied a Customs claim
that they could not conscate any
shipment without the approval of
the Agriculture Department.
That is not true. Customs is the
rst line of defense. They have the
mandate to conscate and con-
demn imported items found to be
anomalous, Quilang said.
The local growers tagged the
nameless and faceless import-
ers as meat smugglers and eco-
nomic saboteurs and lashed out
at the Alliance of Food Proces-
sors for accusing them of eco-
nomic sabotage.
We want to protect the interest
and survival of the local hog and
poultry industries which are fac-
ing extinction due to the unabated
smuggling of pork and chicken
by unscrupulous importers, said
Rosendo So, chairman of Abono
Party-List and convenor of the
Swine Development Council.
So also denied the alliances
allegation that the sector was out
to blackmail the government by
threatening a ve-day pork holi-
day if it did not make good its
commitment to address the prob-
lem of rampant smuggling.
Its a legitimate concern, not
blackmail. How do you blackmail
a government that is supposed to
have a popular mandate and a will
to institute reform? So said.
Surely we want attention. But
only because many of our back-
yard members have started clos-
ing shop and (smuggling) has
threatened our livelihood for the
longest time, said Daniel Javel-
lana of the National Federation
of Hog Farmers Inc.
With Othel V. Campos
45 killed...
The Sukhoi Superjet-100
Russias rst new model of pas-
senger jet since the fall of the
Soviet Union two decades ago
was in Indonesia as part of a
six-nation tour of Asia aimed at
drumming up new customers.
It was carrying dozens of rep-
resentatives from Indonesian
airlines and journalists on what
was supposed to be a quick,
50-minute demonstration ight
Wednesday. Some excited pas-
sengers snapped pictures of
themselves smiling and waving
in front of the twin-engine jet
before liftoff, quickly posting
them as their proles on Face-
book and Twitter.
Just 21 minutes after taking
off from a Jakarta aireld, how-
ever, the Russian pilot and co-
pilot asked air trafc control for
permission to drop from 10,000
feet to 6,000 feet (3,000 meters
to 1,800 meters), said Daryat-
mo, chief of the national search
and rescue agency.
They gave no explanation,
dropping off the radar immedi-
ately afterward.
It was not clear why the crew
asked for the shift in course,
he said, especially when they
were so close to the 7,000-foot
(2,200-meter) volcano, or if
they got the OK.
Communication tapes will be re-
viewed as part of the investigation.
Soon after, they hit the jagged
ridge on top of Mount Salak, a
long-dormant volcano, leaving a
giant earthy gash along the steep
slope as it stripped trees.
Family members, many of
whom spent a long, sleepless
night at the airport, broke down
in tears on hearing news that
the wreckage had been spotted,
rst by helicopter, then by land
search-and-rescue teams.
Others stared blankly ahead in
disbelief.
The Superjeta 75- to 95-seat-
erhas been touted as a chal-
lenger to similar-sized aircraft
from Canadas Bombardier Inc.
and Brazils Embraer SA.
Potential buyers will scruti-
nize the crash investigation for
signs of aws in the aircraft.
If its a technical fault ... then
obviously that will be very seri-
ous for them, said Tom Ballan-
tyne, a Sydney-based aviation
expert. But if its pilot error or
the fault of air trafc control, it
wont be quite so bad because
theyll be able to say, Well, its
not the airplane.
The Superjetdeveloped
by the civil aircraft division of
Sukhoi with the co-operation
of Western partnershas been
widely considered Russias
chance to regain a foothold
in the international passenger
plane market. The countrys
aerospace industry was badly
undermined in the economic
turmoil following the 1991 col-
lapse of the Soviet Union.
All but 10 of the 45 people on
board were potential buyers and
journalists, said Sunaryo from
PT Trimarga Rekatama, the
company that helped organize
Wednesdays event. The others
were Russians. AP
evidence on Coronas alleged
$2-million deposits that already
had been presented before the
Senate.
Kehs spokesman Jess Loren-
zo said his client was not sure
of the authenticity of the docu-
ments on Coronas supposed
foreign currency deposits.
Both Hontiveros and Keh,
however, expressed willingness
to obey the Senate impeachment
courts summons
Senate President Juan Ponce
Enrile on Tuesday promptly
granted the defenses request
to subpoena Ombudsman Con-
chita Carpio-Morales and other
people in connection with Co-
ronas supposed euro and dollar
deposits.
Enrile also approved the de-
fenses request for a 48-hour
continuance to give them time
to prepare.
House Speaker Feliciano
Belmonte Jr. on Thursday said
Corona would be treated with
dignity once he testied, but
he should be ready for a wide-
ranging cross examination.
Belmonte made his statement
as he welcomed Coronas deci-
sion to testify.
I am very glad about it be-
cause there are many questions
that only him will be in the best
position to answer, Belmonte
told reporters
I am sure he will be treated
with dignity. He will be sub-
jected to rigorous cross exami-
nation, but personally, Id like to
leave it up to the judges.
Belmonte also said the House
leadership supported the Om-
budsmans probe of the $10 mil-
lion in foreign deposit accounts
that Chief Justice is alleged to
have.
Corona has denied the exis-
tence of the $10 million, adding
the Ombudsman had no juris-
diction over impeachable of-
cials such as himself. He dis-
missed the allegations as an act
of retaliation after the Supreme
Court ordered the distribution
of Hacienda Luisita, which is
owned by the Presidents fam-
ily. Joyce Pangco Paares and
Maricel Cruz
There...
Philippines have been of-
cially instituted by law. For
more than a hundred years leg-
islators have neglected to enact
a law ofcially making Rizal
the national hero ofcial, he
says.
Many of our national
symbols taught in schools
are not approved by law but
are based only on tradition,
Atienza said.
The four national symbols
approved by law are the sam-
paguita as the national ower,
the narra as the national tree,
the monkey-eating eagle as the
national bird, and arnis as the
national sport.
The sampaguita and the
narra as ofcial national sym-
bols are based on Proclamation
615 signed by American Gov-
ernor General Frank Murphy.
The Philippine eagle and arnis
became national symbols as
a result of Republic Act 9850
signed by President Gloria Ma-
capagal-Arroyo.
Gigi Muoz-David
Palace...
months before the November
elections.
President Benigno Aquino III
had earlier said that same-sex
marriage should be a personal
choice, but expressed reserva-
tions on allowing gay couples to
adopt children.
It is their choice. Normally
I would say youre adults, you
should be able to do whatever you
want so long as it doesnt hurt any-
body else, Mr. Aquino said dur-
ing an open forum with the mem-
bers of the Asia Society in New
York in September last year.
But if the next step is we want
the right to adopt, then I would
be in a dilemma as to whether or
not the child that will grow up in
this world with a lot of problems
would also have to, from the get-
go, address that particular issue
also at a very young age.
In the Philippines, the New
Peoples Army and the Metro-
politan Community Church have
been allowing same-sex mar-
riages, but those are not recog-
nized by the Catholic Church.
The political party Ang Ladlad,
which espouses equal rights for
gays, lesbians, bisexuals and trans-
genders, ran but failed to get a party-
list seat in the 2010 elections.
Abroad, meanwhile, Chinas
government considered homo-
sexuality a mental disorder until
2001. In Egypt, the laws prohibit-
ing shameless public acts have
been used to imprison gay men in
recent years. With the AP
Malacaang... Kidnap for ransom...
MAY 11, 2012 FRIDAY
A3 News
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Sandiganbayan orders
arrest of land adjudicator
Wife of call center exec
trying to tag abductors
IN BRIEF
Sin tax bill will be passed
by June 7, Belmonte says
Villar
still open
to alliance
proposals
Raps eyed vs owner of razed building
Training for women entrepreneurs readied
Train talk. President Benigno Simeon Aquino III converses with Transportation and Communications Secretary Manuel Roxas
II during a meeting on the Metro Rail Transit 7 (MRT-7) at Malacaan Palace on Thursday. The project consists of a 23-kilometer
railway with 14 stations from San Jose Del Monte to the MRT 3 station on North Avenue in Quezon City. In attendance are Trade
and Industry Secretary Gregory Domingo, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, Energy Secretary Jose
Rene Almendras and other ofcials of the Department of Transportation and Communications.
The sin tax measure will be
approved on second and third nal
reading before we adjourn sine die
next month, Belmonte told reporters.
Belmonte backed the decision of the
House Committee on Ways and Means,
led by Davao City Rep. Isidro Ungab, to
approve on Wednesday House Bill 5727,
authored by Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio
Abaya, without taking into consideration
the 11 other versions of the bill.
The controversial Abaya bill seeks
to impose higher taxes on alcohol and
tobacco products aimed at collecting
P33 billion revenues instead of the
original target of P60 billion.
The funds to be generated will be
used for health care system to take care
of Filipinos, Belmonte said.
But House Minority Leader and
Quezon Rep. Danilo Suarez vowed to
question the committees approval of
the sin tax bill once it is subjected to
debates and discussions in the plenary.
Suarez complained that the panel
approved only the Abaya version of
By Maricel V. Cruz
SPEAKER Feliciano Belmonte Jr. on
Thursday conrmed the sin tax reform bill
will be passed on third and nal reading
before the House adjourns its second regular
session on June 7.
the sin tax bill, while several other
versions of the bill should have been
consolidated with or included in the
Abaya version.
I will raise this issue when we
debate on the bill in plenary, Suarez
told the Manila Standard.
Suarez cited his own bill that seeks
to reduce cigarette classication to a
two-tiered system of rates instead of
four now.
Suarez expressed condence that
they would have enough supporters to
oppose the approval of the bill since
some administrations allies and even
the inuential Northern Luzon Alliance
are opposed to it.
Although the expected revenue haul
from the bill was slashed to P30 billion
from P60 billion, Internal Revenue
Commissioner Kim Henares still
considers the bill a rst step in reforming
the excise tax system of the country.
House Bill 5727 managed to survive
through debates and revisions at
House committee on ways and means
as an urgent legislative priority of the
Aquino administration, but committee
members were able to introduce
changes to the bill that had the effect
of signicantly reducing is revenue-
generating capacity.
The BIR and its allies in the House
managed to bring down to two tiers the
tax rate for cigarettes. The compromise
bill also sets three tiers of rates for
distilled spirits.
In the latest version of HB 5727
provides for the indexation of sin
taxesautomatically raising the rates
by eight percent every two years.
In the original version of the bill by
Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya, the
administration wanted just one rate
for all alcohol and tobacco products of
whatever variant.
By Joel E. Zurbano
SENATOR Manny Villar, pres-
ident of the Nacionalista Party,
dismissed speculations the NP
will be teaming up with the
Liberal Party for next years
elections, but the party remains
open to talks with other parties.
Its too early to say some-
thing about our plans in politics.
But we are willing to talk to oth-
er parties. The NP has the capa-
bility to go for it on its own. But
we are pursuing all options as of
now. Anyway, the elections are
still a long way off and we om
the NP are not rushing our nal
decision, said Villar.
Villar made the statement fol-
lowing reports that Budget Sec-
retary Florencio Abad, the Lib-
eral Party secretary general, is
in talks with NP about forming
a coalition for the next elections.
Villar conrmed that his wife
is running for senator under NP.
The senator ran in the 2010
presidential elections and
placed third behind President
Benigno Aquino III and former
President Joseph Estrada.
Meanwhile, Villar said many
Filipinos still cant afford to
buy medicines due to the gov-
ernments failure to implement
the Cheaper Medicines Law.
Villar, chairman of the Con-
gressional Oversight Com-
mittee on Quality Affordable
Medicines, said the weak im-
plementation of the law had
made it practically impossible
for retailers to bring down the
prices of medicine.
The law is not being imple-
mented properly. We would rec-
ommend that an amendment be
made and there should be one
government agency that will mon-
itor and fully implement the law,
said Villar.
One of the problems, ac-
cording to Villar, is that too
many agencies were involved
or tasked to implement the law.
Consequently, there is chaos
and buck-passing among those
who should be responsible.
There are also committees to
deal with.
By Florante S. Solmerin
THE owner of the building in Butuan City that was
razed on Wednesday and resulted in the death of 17
women employees could face charges for several
violations against municipal laws, the National
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
(NDRRMC) said on Thursday.
NDRRMC Executive Ofcer Benito Ramos said
the owner of the building, who was identied as a
certain Boy Tan, did not have a Safety Inspection
Certicate (SIC).
He said the March 22 Fire Safety Inspection
Report whch showed that Tan was not issued the
certicate because he had not complied with the
required re drills.
The re broke out at around 3:14 a.m. and
trapped the victims in their quarters located at the
second oor. Investigators said the re started at
the Novo Store where garments were being sold.
The building was on Montilla Boulevard.
The NDRRMC identied the fatalities as Rogelyn
Mantubacan, Jonalie Amor, Judelyn Ore, Villa
Rose Dumagpi, Ellenie Ocoy, Prences Grace Sayre,
Anniejoy Lagura, Mylyn Lirazon, Pinky Despolo,
Jessie Davuia, Princess Mae Figueras, Irene Baliquig,
Hazel Cabana, Liezel Dalaygon, Jeba Salbigsal,
Maribel Buico, and Gladys Hope Sabila.
Mylene Tolo, Grace Canoy and Vicky Velez
jumped from the second oor and sustained injuries.
The Bureau of Fire Protection said losses
amounted to P30 million.
Ramos also said Tan also falsely declared the
number of his stay-in workers in the building
because records showed that only 10 people
were allowed to stay inside the building at night
although there were 20 people inside the building
during the re.
But Ramos said there was also information from
Butuan Vice Mayor Lawrence Fortun that no one
is allowed to stay inside the building at night.
Meanwhile, the city government of Butuan City
declared Thursday a day of mourning for the 17
people who died from the re.
Butuan City Vice Mayor Atty. Lawrence Lemuel
Fortun said the city government will conduct its
own investigation and he has already instructed
concerned ofcials to conduct the investigation.
By Gigi Muoz David

AROUND 100,000 women nationwide will
benet from partnership between Coca-
Cola and the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority which aims to provide
opportunities for them to earn or increase the
potentials of their current businesses.
We want Filipino women to be empowered
and for them to excel and to be more relevant
to be part of the solution rather than to be
part of the problem, Tesda director general
Joel Villanueva said.
The National Convergence Program on
Empowering Women Retailers was rmed up in
a MoA signed by Villanueva, Coca-Cola Export
Corp. chief legal counsel Cristina Bernardino,
CCEC-Sustainability and Stakeholders Relations
vice president Diana Garza Ciarlante, Tesda
executive director Ernesto Beltran, Coca-Colas
Manager and Program Lead Gilda Patricia
Maquilan; and Tesda executive director-
Technical Vocational Education Training System
Development Ofce and Public Information
Ofcer Marta Hernandez.
Under the agreement, assistance will be
given to female store owners and those
willing to set up similar enterprises through
various trainings and merchandising support
to be jointly provided by TESDA and Coke.
Ciarlante, for their part, said that the pact
is a unique opportunity for our company to
sustain the community that they serve.
We are fully supportive of efforts to promote
women empowerment through entrepreneurship
and improve their economic opportunities, she
said adding that they are hoping to work with
TESDA for many years to come.
Villanueva, meanwhile, noted that women
can do more and do better than playing their
typical role as homemakers.
Many of them have the condence and
commitment to venture into small business
or micro-enterprise, but dont know how to
go about it. This is where we believe our
intervention is needed, Villanueva said.
Even if women run just a small store, it is
essential to have the know-how on managing
it properly to keep it protable, he added.
Business coaching, marketing goods,
nancial management, choosing the right
business and simple accounting procedures
are among the trainings eyed for the
beneciaries. With Rhiza Flor Camus
THE Sandiganbayan Fifth Division
on Thursday issued warrants of arrest
against Cordillera Autonomous Region
Regional Agrarian Reform Adjudicator
Napoleon B. Baguilat based on two
counts of direct bribery charges for
allegedly extorting money from a real
estate developer in 2001.
The anti-graft court also ordered the
Bureau of Immigration to prevent the
accused, who is an uncle of known anti-
corruption advocate Ifugao Rep. Teddy
Baguilat Jr., from leaving the country.
The case against the agrarian reform
ofcial stemmed from a complaint led
by Miriam Daway, a lawyer for Sta.
Lucia Realty and Development Inc.,
who accused the former of demanding
and and actually receiving money from
her on two occasions.
At the time, she said, the company she
works for had a pending case involving a
development project in Baguio City that
was under Baguilats jurisdiction. She
said that in 2001, she gave the accused
P100,000 and P30,000 on two separate
occasions. John Anthony Concepcion
THE Makati police said on Thursday the
wife of an American call center executive
released by kidnappers early this week
after paying P6.2 million ransom has
started reviewing le photos of possible
suspects.
Police chief Jaime Santos said
investigators were hoping that 27-year-
old Aiko Moore and her driver, Benjalin
Norido, 23, will be able to indentify
any of the two kidnappers, who seized
them at gun point when they stopped
during a trafc incident in Makati on
Tuesday.
We are showing them photos of
kidnappers we have arrested in the past.
We hope we get lucky, Santos said.
Moore and Norido were abducted
by two men riding a motorcycle that
bumped their vehicle from behind at
Pasong Tamo and Amorsolo Streets
at about 8:30 a.m. When Norido went
down to inspect the damage, the two
men drew guns and commandeered
their vehicle.
They were released a few hours later
at a vacant lot in Barangay San Roque
in Marikina after Moores husband paid
ransom of P6.2 million and two Rolex
and Breitling watches, worth P3.2
million. No injuries were reported.
Santos said he believed the crime was
committed by robbers rather than kidnap
for ransom gang.
He said the original ransom demand
was P15 million, which the kidnappers
later lowered to P6.2 million and three
expensive watches. Ferdinand Fabella
Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
mst.lettertotheeditor@gmail.com MAY 11, 2012 FRIDAY
A4
EMBARRASSING is what the recent
2+2 talks in Washington were for the
Philippines.
With hat in hand, Foreign Secretary
Albert del Rosario and Defense
Secretary Voltaire Gazmin met with their
counterparts, US Secretary of State Hilary
Clinton and US Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta, to seek American support in the
countrys territorial dispute with China
over the Panatag or Scarborough Shoal.
Just before the meeting late last
month, the Aquino administrations
obsequiousness toward Washington was
matched only by its braggadocio toward
Beijing. Beware, Mr. Aquino signaled to
the Chinese, we have powerful friends
who will come to our aid if you continue
poaching in our waters. The saber we
rattled was the countrys Mutual Defense
Treaty with the United States, a pact that
dates back to 1951.
But the support Washington was
willing to show fell far short of what Mr.
Aquino had sought. Secretary Clinton,
in fact, made it a point to specify that
the United States would not take sides in
the territorial dispute, while making only
general statements about the American
commitment to a rules-based approach
in resolving competing claims in maritime
areas through peaceful, collaborative,
multilateral and diplomatic processes
within the framework of international
law.
As if this were not bad enough, Gazmin,
whose mission it was to seek US help in
shoring up the countrys defenses, this
week revealed the extent to which Manilas
military requests went unmet.
The United States, Gazmin said, seemed
more interested in showing off its military
might than helping the Philippines build
up its capability for territorial defense
through the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.
In his talks with Panetta, Gazmin said,
the Americans offered no specics on
the kind of military hardware that the
Philippines could acquire from the US,
and only gave a general commitment to
strengthen the alliance between the two
countries.
While Panetta spoke of increased
activities through the yearly joint military
exercises, he offered no assurances that the
US would act on the Philippine request that
a refurbished Hamilton-class cutter that it
will acquire from the Americans would not
be stripped of its weapons systems, just
like the rst such vessel, the BRP Gregorio
del Pilar.
Gazmin admitted that the Gregorio
del Pilar, often described in the press as
a warship, had been stripped of all its
weapons except for one 76mm gun before
it was delivered to the Philippines.
My only request is that [one of] the
cutters... be upgraded [and that] the second
cutter be given with its weapons system
[intact], Gazmin said.
That admission, coming in the wake of
the Presidents tough talk against China,
speaks of a monumental miscalculation by
this administration on what it could expect
from our so-called ally, both diplomatically
and militarily.
We cannot fault Washington for
following the dictates of its own
interests, but we can and should hold
this administration accountable for so
poorly misreading the situation. Unlike
Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Aquino has
spoken loudly while carrying a terribly
small stick.
Carrying a small stick
The nal showdown
AT THE very least, Ombudsman
Cochita Carpio-Morales should be
given credit for standing her ground.
The same cannot be said of three of
the other witnesses summoned by
the Senate impeachment court on the
behest of the lawyers of impeached
Chief Justice Renato Corona, who all
seem to have suddenly lost the courage
of their pro-administration convictions.
Morales has vowed to tell the
Senate all about her allegations that
Corona has $10 million stashed away
in local banks. Carpio-Morales,
President Noynoy Aquinos choice
for Ombudsman,
is apparently also
unafraid to eld
questions in the
Senate about her
familial ties to
Senior Associate
Justice Antonio
Carpio, the
magistrate whom
Corona has accused
of lusting for the
chief justices post
and a co-conspirator
in the palace-led plot to remove him.
However, one by one, party-list
Rep. Walden Bello, Akbayan top
honcho Risa Hontiveros and civil
society leader Harvey Keh have all
quickly backed away from their earlier
positions that Corona has Croesus-
level riches that have not been reported
in his ofcial statements of assets and
liabilities.
Bello said he was clueless about
the charges, while Hontiveros denied
that she made the claims of a cache
of $10 million she and her group sued
Corona for before the Ombudsman.
In the most surreal of all the denials,
Keh said he was merely the discoverer
of a sheaf of documents pertaining to
the purported dollar accounts of the
chief justice and the well-meaning
messenger who delivered them to
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.
And yet, the charges brought before
the Ombudsman against Corona,
which were suddenly given due course
by Carpio-Morales (who asked the
chief justice to reply to them within
72 hours), were supposed to be based
on complaints led by these three
unabashed supporters of Aquino. And
now that the Senate has basically asked
these witnesses to substantiate their
charges before the impeachment court,
they suddenly get cold feet.
To be fair, the charge that Corona
has $10 million squirreled away
somewhere was disclosed by the
Ombudsman herself, with the help of
an administration-friendly newspaper.
The basis of the information was
apparently the shadowy Anti-Money
Laundering Council, which Carpio-
Morales turned to when she started
looking into the allegations made by
Bello, Hontiveros and the others who
sued Corona.
* * *
But now that the pro-Aquino chaff
to has been blown away, the battle
for the fate of Corona will ultimately
boil down to Carpio-Morales
allegations and the chief justices
defense against them in his own much-
awaited testimony. Forget about all
the previous charges made since the
beginning of the year by the House
prosecution, which bungled every
one of them; the face-off between
Corona and his former colleague in
the high court who swore Aquino into
ofce (ably supported by the entire
administration and its sympathizers in
the Senate, media and elsewhere) will
be the equivalent of thermonuclear war
in the impeachment court.
The deployment of the Ombudsman
in the campaign to convict Corona,
after all, is an
appropriate response
to the decision of the
Corona-led Supreme
Court to take away
Hacienda Luisita
from Aquino and
his familythe
must hurtful blow
inicted by the chief
justice so far on his
Tormentor-in-Chief.
It is the surest sign
that the gloves have
really come off in the impeachment trial
and that, from hereon, there will be no
quarters asked or givenand that the
end is nally at hand.
Of course, as we keep hearing from
the Senate, the lawmakers who make
up the court will be the ones who
will decide whether Corona walks
or whether he is convicted. From the
time Carpio-Morales takes the stand to
the end of Coronas testimony, it will
probably become abundantly clear
how the vote will go even before the
rst one is cast.
Outside of the impeachment court,
it will be reasonable to expect the
nal escalation of the propaganda
efforts that have already become
as inescapably a part of the trial as
the announcements of the Senates
sergeant-at-arms. And we shall nally
see if all the deliverables promised
during hush-hush meetings where
deals were offered and cut will tilt the
balance either way.
Clearly, Aquino retains his long-
held advantage going into what many
believe is the nal chapter of the trial.
The administration not only has all the
resources to persuade the senators to
hand down a conviction; the removal
of Corona is also understandably so
important to Aquino that he will do
everything to secure it.
After all, Corona is only ghting for
his own reputation and survival. Aquino,
on the other hand, is seeking to avoid
embarrassing his entire administration
which expended so much time, money
and effort in the campaignand making
himself an irrelevant lame duck for the
rest of his term.
Like any good telenovela, the Corona
impeachment trial promises to end with
a great big bang. And we will not have to
wait very long for the ending.
EDITORIAL
Hope for dying rivers
THERE is still hope for the countrys
dying or even dead rivers like the highly
polluted Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando
River System. This was ranked fth
dirtiest river in the world by the New
York-based Blacksmith Institute when it
conducted a survey of 200 rivers in the
world in 2005.
Experts from the non-prot think
tank Blacksmith Institute are presently
visiting the Philippines to help local
groups to prepare a proposal for a
$50-million loan grant from the World
Bank for an extensive study on the
cleanup of MMORS.
What could serve as an inspiration
to people like Bulacan Governor
Wilhelmino Sy Alvarado and for
businessman/philanthropist Ambassador
Antonio Cabangon-Chua, who have
made the clean-up and revival of
MMORS one of their major advocacies,
is the story of the Cuyahoga River which
gained notoriety when it caught re in
June 22, 1969.
But the Cuyahoga River re, which
is still remembered after more than 40
years, is just part of the story. The full
story is that a river, so heavily polluted
that a Cleveland Mayor once described it
as a sewer that runs through the heart of
the city, is now alive again.
According to reports, the river that
caught re has become a river teeming
with sh and other aquatic species
and people in Northeast Ohio are using
the 100-mile course of the river for
recreation activities.
Blacksmith Institutes preliminary
evaluation of MMORS gives a chilling
picture of the river system. The Institute
says tons upon tons of industrial waste
have been dumped over the years into
the MMORS, an important natural
resource. It is the source of domestic
and agricultural water for more than
250,000 people in and around Metro
Manila.
Blacksmiths assessment of MMORS
said: Substantial contamination comes
from small-scale lead recycling facilities
along the river at Marilao, and from the
many tanneries that dump untreated
haxavalnet chromium into the river.
The pollution of MMORS should
be the concern not only of the province
of Bulacan but of the cities of Metro
Manila, since this river system feeds
directly into Manila Bay. Its efuents
and pollutants contaminate sh and
shellsh in commercial shing areas.
Gov. Alvarado, in a meeting with
Blacksmith Institute experts, showed his
rm understanding of the problem when
he said that a no-nonsense enforcement
of local and national laws to stop the
dumping of industrial and household
waste into the river would have to be rst
carried out before any massive cleanup
effort is started.
Whats heartening is that national
and local government ofcials, as well
as private individuals and entities like
Ecoshield Development Corporation
founded by Cabangon-Chua, have shown
concern about the problem and are doing
something to address it.
Ecoshield and the Bulacan provincial
government and the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources
have entered into an agreement to initiate
the cleanup of MMORS with whatever
resources are already available just to get
this urgent and critical undertaking started.
The all-out effort of Ecoshield to help
out in the revival of MMORS deserves
to be emulated. Of course there are some
detractors who say that Ecoshield is
doing all of these because it will operate
an engineered landll in the area. It is all
business, they say, for Ecoshield.
But Ecoshield is engaged in what is
clearly a socially responsible business
enterprisethere lies the difference.
The engineered landfill it is
building is a flood-proof, state-
of-the-art facility that would be
comparable to similar facilities in
developed countries. As we pointed
out before, criticism against the
Ecoshield landfill could be coming
from an adjacent landfill facility
whose operators are afraid of
suffering from comparison with the
Ecoshield landfill.
Ecoshield is putting its money where
its mouth is by putting resources in place
to support its environment protection
commitment. Among the facilities
visited by Blacksmith experts is the
thriving mangrove nursery of Ecoshield
which is being used for a mangrove
replanting program to be undertaken
jointly by Ecoshield and the Bulacan
local government.
There are other pro-environment
undertakings of Ecoshield. It has donated
a one-hectare property in Meycauyan
to serve as site for a septage treatment
facility where toxic waste dredged
from the river can be treated. It is also
donating two trash boats to remove
garbage oating on the river.
Blacksmith Institute director for
operations John Keith said that based
on the institutes experience in the
cleanup of a major river in New Jersey,
it is possible to clean up MMORS of its
pollutant within our lifetime.
He said the Institute would help not
only get World Bank funding but also to
set up a coordinating body to oversee the
cleanup effort.
Like any good
telenovela, the
impeachment trial
promises to end
with a big bang.
JOJO
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ANITA F. GREFAL Treasury Manager
EDITH D. ANGELES Advertising Manager
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ROGELIO C. SALAZAR President & CEO
A5 Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
mst.lettertotheeditor@gmail.com
IF THERE is anything good that has
come out of the airport brawl between
journalist Mon Tulfo and show
business couple Claudine Barretto
and Raymart Santiago, it is that we
now know that Terminal 3 of the
Ninoy Aquino International Airport
has its shortcomings and that budget
airlines do not deliver on services
expected of them.
Santa banana, the airport terminals
closed circuit television cameras do
not work despite travelers paying
terminal fees. A CCTV footage would
have established what truly happened
on that fateful
day, even as video
clips that have
been uploaded
onto the Internet
show Tulfo as the
victim.
There were
admittedly lapses
by the security
personnel. They
could have
prevented the
melee when
Claudine started
berating the ground personnel. It
was not the airline staffs fault
that the Santiagos luggage was
offloaded.
The courts will determine who
is at fault. In the meantime, the
Aquino administration through
Transportation Secretary Manuel
Roxas II must realize that those
CCTVs at the airport must be xed,
and soon.
Its not fun in the Philippines when
brawls happen at the airport, when
CCTV cameras dont work and when
security guards dont do their job.
***
Another airport problem shows
that President Benigno Aquino III and
Roxas just do not get it at all. I am
talking about congested ights given
one miserable, and short, runway at
the Naia.
Too many budget and international
carriers clog the potholed runway.
Planes spend 30 minutes to one hour
just taking off or landing, wasting
precious gas and occasioning stress
among the passengers.
More fun in the Philippines?
Not with the kind of airport we
have.
And then, what does Roxas do?
He resorts to band-aid solutions like
having ying schools transfer to
Sangley points, and limiting plane
ights. Good grief!
Malacaang and Roxas simply
cant think out of the box. I repeat,
there is an immediate need to relocate
all international ights to Clark and
make domestic and budget airlines
stay at the Naia.
This has been planned for years,
but no president has seen this through.
Actually, they should just do it.
But what is the government doing?
It throws away more than $1 billion
for the remodeling of Terminal 1.
The money could be used to make
Clark the premiere international
gateway to the country.
***
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio
Morales insists on her power to
investigate all public ofcials, even
the chief justice, an impeachable
ofcial like herself. She invokes
her powers to investigate motu
propio or upon a veried complaint
under Section 13, Article XI on
Accountability of Public Ofcers in
the Constitution.
Yes, she believes she has the
power to investigate Corona and
make him explain his alleged $10
million (P430 million) wealth, which
the complainants now claim to have
come from anonymous sources.
Thats a dangerous claim. Suppose
some characters
say that President
Aquino has ill-
gotten wealth?
Will Morales
investigate him,
too?
Speaking of
the powers of
the Ombudsman,
I wonder why
this agency
has not acted
on the veried
complaint against
the negotiated midnight deal of the
government, before former President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo left
Malacaang, with the Reghis Romero
Group to build mixed commercial and
residential buildings on two-thirds of
the Channel 13 lot at Broadcast City,
Quezon City.
Its now over two years since that
anomalous deal was struck. It is
disadvantageous to government and
in violation of the Procurement Act.
Why has Morales not lifted a nger
to investigate it?
Similarly, some ofcers and
employees of the Development Bank
of the Philippines last year led a
complaint before the Ombudsman
against DBP chairman Jose Nuez
for graft and corruption and unethical
acts. Nuez also issued a show-cause
order that was widely believed to
have driven a young bank lawyer to
commit suicide.
Why is Morales quick to act on the
case of Chief Justice Renato Corona
while sitting on other complaints?
Daang matuwid, my foot!
***
With the Philippine-China
standoff at Scarborough (Panatag)
Shoal still raging, President Aquino
still hasnt appointed a competent
and qualified ambassador to Beijing.
This leads many to ask: Doesnt the
President realize the seriousness of
the standoff with China, which is
almost threatening to do something
drastic?
Is the President noynoying again?
Foreign Affairs Secretary
Albert del Rosario wants a career
ambassador to be appointed to the
post, but President Aquino seems to
be deaf. The President should just
name somebodybe it a political
appointee or career diplomat. He
should just do it!
Band-aid solutions
to airport problems
On the road
ID LIKE to congratulate Transportation
Secretary Mar Roxas, Public Works
Secretary Babes Singson and Metro
Manila Development Authority
Chairman Francis Tolentino. The exit
from the South Luzon Expressway
to Edsa has nallyafter nearly
ve yearbeen resurfaced, you can
actually travel smoothly from the fast-
owing (theres a new lane too) SLEX
to the unmitigated disaster of EDSA.
Next step is to close the lower gate
into Dasmarias. The few cars crossing
to take the kids to school is vastly
exceeded by the thousands trying to
transit smoothly. The kids can add ve
minutes to the journey and enter the top
gate.
Third step is to take half the buses
off Edsatheyre all only half full
anyway. So ll them, it can be done.
Ive no doubt many are what is known
as colorum, or with questionable
franchises. The strike last November
2010 already gave sufcient reason to
cancel franchises.
Fourth is draconially enforced
discipline. It can be done. Edsa is
wide enough to ow with intelligent
management.
By the way, does the color coding,
or number coding, or whatever they
call it today actually work? Has
anyone ever done a study? Many
of the people I know have two cars,
they just use the other. And then
there are the absurdities in it. My
wife was ned because she was color
(number?)-coded on her conduction
sticker! A conduction sticker is part of
the number plate control? Do any of
you reading this know that? Do any
of you reading this see any genuine
need for such a draconian absurdity
on such a small number of vehicles?
Assuming 1,200 vehicles are sold
monthly in Manila, getting a license
plate takes about 1 month. So thats
1,200 vehicles, divide by 5Monday
to Fridaythats 240 vehicles, but
not all would want to travel into the
Manila area, so something less than
220 on the roads would make no
difference at all.
How can you obey a law you dont
even know exists?
Why not stop the number coding
for two weeks and see what difference
it makes? If little, cancel it. But if it
is an effective reducer, this will be a
great way to get the skeptics on side:
proof of the pudding is in the eating.
***
We were in Dumaguete last week
for the 92nd birthday of a magnicent
man, Meniong Teves who, it
almost seems, built Dumaguete. A
thousand, or so of his friends and
supporters turned up. Plus children,
grandchildren, great-grandchildren
(I think thats as far down as it went,
they arent that precocious).
What struck most, outside the party,
was Dumaguete itself: Clean, tidy,
with well-paved roads and without
visible squatters. It costs nothing to
be clean and tidy, but the overriding
image of too much of the Philippines
is of neglect, selsh neglect. Smoke a
cigarette, drop the butt. Eat a candy,
throw away the wrapper. Mind you, it
would help if theres somewhere to put
them. Government-provided garbage
cans (rubbish collected daily) should
be everywhere. But thats no excuse, if
theres no where to put it, keep it. You
carried the candy, carry the wrapper.
Ive oft complained of Manilas (all
of GMAthe cities, not the woman)
roads, I cant remember when I last
saw one re-paved. This is a small job
that can be done overnight. The cities
are wealthy enough, why dont they
do it?
And it would take nothing, except
determination to prevent cars parking,
even stopping opposite each other on
narrow back roads that are increasingly
necessary as alternative routes. No
parking at all is often needed, but you
need trafc cops to enforce it.
On trafc congestion, has anyone
given any thought to McKinley? It
now takes more time to get from
Forbes into Makati, a scant 1.5
kilometers away, than from far
(16.1 kilometers) Alabang along the
magnicent Skyway. And with the
Fort racing ahead apace, the trafc
between is going to reach frightening
proportions. Do we need a skyway
there too? Or a tunnel which would be
less disruptive during construction? Or
are there some other roads that could
be re-engineered to be alternative
routes? A solution is needed urgently.
***
I lost a good friend last week.
Vic Vergara. A sailing buddy for a
quarter century. An engineer par
excellence. He ran a small machine
shop in Caloocan designing and
manufacturing oil expellers and other
agri-business machines. And xing all
kinds of things in the most imaginative
ways.
He ran a fully-equipped workshop
with old, but maintained high quality
machines.
Vic wasnt a well-known public
gure or leader in the business world.
He was just one of the unsung heroes
of the country, thats all. A man who
started and ran a small business
quietly, successfully. He founded a
small business, professionally run,
with customers who stayed with
him for decades, loyal to the quality
workmanship he provided.
He was a tinkerer (no higher honor
can be awarded an engineer).
It hurts to lose a friend. Goodbye,
Vic.
MAIL MATTERS
MAY 11, 2012 FRIDAY
PETTER
WALLACE
LIKE IT IS
International adoptions plummet globally
By Margie Mason
HANOI The number of international
adoptions has plummeted to its lowest
point in 15 years, a steep decline
attributed largely to crackdowns
against baby-selling, a sputtering
world economy and efforts by
countries to place more children with
domestic families.
Globally, the number of orphans
being adopted by foreign parents
dropped from a high of 45,000 in
2004 to an estimated 25,000 last
year, according to annual statistics
compiled by Peter Selman, an expert
on international adoptions at Britains
Newcastle University.
Some adoption advocates argue
the decrease is also linked to a set of
strict international guidelines known
as the Hague Adoption Convention.
Devised to ensure transparency and
child protection following a rash of
baby-selling and kidnapping scandals,
critics say the guidelines have also
been used by leading adopting
nations, such as the US, as a pretext
for freezing adoptions altogether
from some countries that are out of
compliance.
It should have been a real step
forward, but its been used in a way
thats made it a force for shutting down
countries, Elizabeth Bartholet, a
Harvard Law professor who promotes
international adoptions. That affects
thousands of children every year.
She says places where international
adoptions are stopped may ultimately
see more children stuck in orphanages
or on the street where they could fall
prey to sex trafckers. I question
whether its ever true where adoption
is all about buying and selling and
kidnapping, Bartholet says.
US adoption ofcials and
international agencies such as
UNICEF say the Hague rules, which
require countries to set up a central
adoption authority and a system of
checks and balances, are necessary
to safeguard orphans and keep prot-
driven players from corrupting a
system that should be purely about
helping unwanted children.
Alison Dilworth, adoptions division
chief at the US Ofce of Childrens
Issues and a strong supporter of the
Hague guidelines, says they shield
adoptive parents from everyones
worst nightmare: God forbid, that
knock on the door ... saying your child
that you have raised and loved and is
fully integrated into your family was
stolen from a birth parent who is
desperately trying to look for them.
Much has changed from a decade
ago, when busloads of would-be
foreign parents ocked to orphanages
in poor countries such as China,
Vietnam and Guatemala to take babies
home following a relatively quick,
easy process.
Waits have become increasingly
longer and requirements stiffer, with
some countries now refusing obese or
single adoptive parents and requiring
proof of a certain amount of cash in
the bank. Countries embroiled in
scandals have pulled the plug on their
programs, or been cut off by the U.S.
and other countries, leaving hundreds
of children caught in bureaucratic
limbo.
Sharon Brooks, 56, of New York,
knows the story all too well. She
waited three and a half years for the
release of a little girl in Vietnam after
the US froze adoptions there in 2008
amid serious fraud concerns. Finally,
in January, Brooks learned the child
she had named Akira-Li would instead
be adopted by a Vietnamese family.
That was my one shot, says
Brooks, who now believes she is too
old to qualify for most international
adoptions. Everything in my life has
been at a standstill.
Vietnam joined the Hague
convention on Feb. 1, and US ofcials
say they are hopeful adoptions will
resume within the next year.
Shutdowns in other countries such
as Guatemala, Nepal and Kyrgyzstan
have coincided with changes in big
sending countries like Russia and
China, which have placed more
emphasis on domestic adoption and
tightened restrictions for foreigners.
China, for instance, stopped
allowing single women to adopt
childrenup to one-third of US
adoptive parents fell into this
category in the late 1990s, Selman
says. Advances in fertility technology
and the increasing number of
couples turning to surrogacy have all
contributed to the global drop.
The US, which historically has
received about half of the worlds
annual international adoptions, saw a
decline of more than 60 percent from
2004 to just over 9,000 last year.
Dilworth, the US adoptions
ofcial, says the economic downturn
is at least partly to blame, with foreign
adoptions typically costing between
$20,000 to $40,000.
But the US freezes on adoptions
from some countries also are curtailing
the supply.
Guatemala used to provide up to
4,000 children a year for international
adoption at its peak in 2006. But the
US will not accept further adoptions
from the country until it has fully
revamped its system to root out
corruption, Dilworth says.
They have incredible problems
with fraud, she says.
In one recent high-prole case,
a Guatemalan court ruled that an
American family must return their
7-year-old adopted daughter to her
birth mother after it was discovered
that the girl was allegedly snatched
from in front of her house ve years
ago. The child remains in the US
Other countries that have seen
large drops in the adoption of foreign
babies include Spain and France,
which fell 48 percent and 14 percent,
respectively, from 2004 to 2010.
Canada remained the same and Italy
actually saw a 21 percent increase
during that period, according to
Selman, who analyzed data from 23
countries that are primary receivers of
adopted orphans.
Last years 25,000 adoptions
globally were the lowest amount since
1996, Selman said.
The global numbers could decline
further as South Korea, one of the
top providers of orphans for foreign
adoption, works to phase out its long-
running program.
Since the 1950s, it has sent more
than 170,000 children abroad, with
the majority ending up in the United
States. Despite having one of the
worlds fast-growing economies,
and growing domestic concern
about falling birth rates that are
already among the worlds lowest,
it continues to rank as a top sending
county. Experts blame this on a strong
cultural stigma against both unwed
Korean women who give birth and
couples who adopt.
But pressure has been mounting
for years for the government to
abandon the program. In recent
years, lawmakers have created new
incentives to help promote domestic
adoption, while quotas have allowed
fewer children to leave.
If the decline in global adoptions
is to be reversed, says Selman, the
source is likely to be Africa, where
Ethiopia has emerged in recent years
as a top source of orphans available
for foreign adoption. Its unclear
whether other African countries will
follow.
If its going to go up, itll be from
Africa, he says. It could be that they
set their pace against adoption, and
that could have a profound effect.
AP
The Manila Standar d Todays May 5 editorial, The tyranny of the season,
barked up the wrong tree in practically accusing President Noynoy Aquino of
premature campaigning for the 2013 midterm election.
Standard Today made a big deal of PNoy endorsing Aurora Rep.
Sonny Angara, Joel Villanueva and former Rep. Risa Hontiveros-
Baraquel as potential senatorial candidates of the administration
next year.
But whats wrong with the President identifying people who can help him
move forward his daang-matuwid aspirations for the nation? Nothing. So,
where was Standard-Today coming from, accusing PNoy of electioneering?
As a people, we have been accused of having a crab mentality.
This editorial does not help any in dispelling this notion. Only those
who are envious of the Presidents endorsements would make a
mountain of this molehill of an issue.
Some months back before PNoy identied some senatoriables, a number of
political personalities, as well as one party posturing itself as the team to beat
in 2013 and 2015, went to town with their own list of senatorial candidates.
Did Standard Today make an issue of electioneering in that
instance? No. Sauce for the goose must also be sauce for the gander.
The paper, which has been critical of the Aquino administration at
the onset, should not display double standards.
ARNEL CIPRIANO
Prk 6. New Cabalan,
Olongapo City
Electioneering
The President
and the
Transportation
secretary just do
not get it.
CYAN MAGENTAYELLOW BLACK
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Kagawaran ng Pagsasaka
KAWANIHAN NG ESTADISTIKANG PANGSAKAHAN
Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
INVITATION TO BID FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF VARIOUS I.T. EQUIPMENT
FOR THE BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS (BAS-GOJ-NAFC & NLP PROJECTS)
(MST-May 11, 2012)
1. The Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS), through its BAS-GOJ-NAFC and National Livestock
Program for CY 2012 intends to apply the sum of FOUR MILLION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY
FOUR THOUSAND PESOS (P4,254,000.00) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC)
to payments under the contract for Procurement of IT Equipment for BAS use. Bids received
in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
2. The Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) now
invites bids for the procurement of Various IT Equipment & Peripherals for BAS-GOJ-NAFC &
NLP. Delivery of the Goods is required within seven (7) days upon receipt of Purchase Order or as
per agreed delivery schedule. Bidders should have completed, within two (2) years from the date
of submission and receipt of bids, a contract similar to the Project. The description of an eligible
bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II. Instructions to Bidders.
3. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using a non-discretionary
pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) 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, and to citizens
or organizations of a country the laws or regulations of which grant similar rights or privileges to
Filipino citizens, pursuant to RA 5183 and subject to Commonwealth Act 138.
4. Interested bidders may obtain further information from the BAS-BAC Secretariat and inspect the
Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 to 5:00 p.m.:
BAS Bids and Awards Committee Secretariat
General Services Section c/o Rebecca R. Coroza or Annabel L. Villa
7
th
foor, Ben-lor Bldg., 1184 Quezon Avenue, Quezon City
Tel. No. 373-6866
A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from May 11 to
June 5, 2012, during offce hours from the address above and upon payment of a nonrefundable
fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of One Thousand Pesos (P1,000.00).
It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government Electronic
Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that Bidders
shall pay the nonrefundable fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their
bids.
5. The BAS Bids and Awards Committee (BAS-BAC) will hold a Pre-Bid Conference on May 22, 2012,
1:30 p.m. at BAS Conference Room, 2
nd
foor, Ben-lor Building, 1184 Quezon Avenue, Quezon
City, which shall be open only to all interested parties who have purchased the Bidding Documents.
6. Bids must be delivered to the address stated above on or before June 5, 2012, 12:00 noon. All
Bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount
stated in ITB Clause 18.
Bid opening shall be on June 5, 2012, 1:30 p.m. at BAS Conference Room, 2
nd
foor, Ben-Lor
Building, 1184 Quezon Avenue, Quezon City. Bids will be opened in the presence of the Bidders
representatives who are required to attend at the address below. Late bids/bidders shall not be
accepted.
7. The complete schedule of activities is listed, as follows:
Activities
SCHEDULE
Various IT Equipment
1.Issuance of Bid Documents May 11 to June 22, 2012
2. Pre-bid Conference May 22, 2012 1:30 p.m.
3. Opening of Bids June 5, 2012 1:30 p.m.
4. Bid evaluation June 6 to 8, 2012
5. Post-qualifcation June 11 to 13, 2012
6. Notice of Award June 20, 2012
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) 4,254,000.00
8. The Bureau of Agricultural Statistics reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the
bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring
any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
9. For further information, please refer to:
REBECCA R. COROZA
Head, BAC Secretariat
BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
7
th
foor, Ben-lor Bldg.,
1184 Quezon Avenue, Quezon City
Telefax: 373-6866
(Sgd.) VIRGINIA A. VILORIA
BAS-BAC Chairperson
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
Region IV-B, MIMAROPA
EDSA, Quezon City
I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
(MST-May 11, 2012)
The DPWH REGION IV-B (MIMAROPA) through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC),
invites contractors to apply for eligibility and, if found eligible, to bid for the following contract:
1. Contract ID : 12 E0 0026__
Contract Name : Concreting of El Nido Taytay Road (K0260+600 to
K0261+300)
Contract Location : Taytay, Palawan
Brief Description: surplus common excavation, foundation fll, embankment (from
excavation), subgrade preparation, aggregates sub-base course
@ 0.20m thick, PCCP @ 0.28m and 0.15m thickness, reinforcing
steel, structural concrete Class B, pipe culverts @ 910mm class
C, grouted riprap class A, stone masonry, coconet with vegeta-
tion, refectorized thermoplastic pavement markings (white and
yellow), mobilization and demobilization of equipments, facilities
for engineers and other general requirements.
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 12,076,226.44
Contract Duration : 90 calendar days
2. Contract ID : 12 E0 0027__
Contract Name : Concreting of PPNR Pancol-El Nido Road (K0221+500 to
K222+000)
Contract Location : El Nido, Palawan
Brief Description: Removal of existing lined canal, surplus common excavation,
foundation fll, pipe culvert and drainage excavation, embankment
(from excavation), sub-grade preparation, aggregates sub-base
course, PCCP @ 0.28m and 0.15m thick, reinforcing steel,
structural concrete Class A and B, pipe culverts @ 910mm
and 1220mm Class C, cleaning pipe in place, groued riprap,
trees, refectorized thermoplastic pavement markings (white and
yellow), mobilization and demobilization, facilities for the engineer
and other general requirements
3. Contract ID : 12 E0 0028__
Contract Name : Concreting of Calapan South Road (Formon Section)
(K0111+586.3 to K0112+293)
Contract Location : Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro
Brief Description: removal of existing asphalt pavement, surplus rock excavation,
surplus common excavation, foundation fll, pipe culvert and
drain excavation, embankment (from excavation), aggregates
sub-base course, PCCP @ 0.28m and 0.15m thickness, reinforc-
ing steel, structural concrete Class B, pipe culverts @ 910mm
and 1220mm diameters, cleaning pipe culverts in place, grouted
riprap class A, stone masonry, trees (furnishing and transplant-
ing), refectorized thermoplastic pavement markings (white and
yellow), mobilization and demobilization, facilities for engineers
4. Contract ID : 12 E0 0029
Contract Name : Concreting of PPNR Pancol El Nido Road (K0233+700 to
K0234+350)
Contract Location : Taytay, Palawan
Brief Description: Removal of existing lined canal, surplus common excavation,
foundation fll, pipe culvert and drainage excavation, embankment
(from excavation), sub-grade preparation, aggregates sub-base
course, PCCP @ 0.28m and 0.15m thick, reinforcing steel,
structural concrete Class A and B, pipe culverts @ 910mm
and 1220mm Class C, cleaning pipe in place, groued riprap,
trees, refectorized thermoplastic pavement markings (white and
yellow), mobilization and demobilization, facilities for the engineer
5. Contract ID : 12 E0 0030
Contract Name : Concreting of Coron-Busuanga Road (K0030+021.50 to
K0032+000)
Contract Location : Coron, Palawan
Brief Description : Surplus common excavation, foundation fll, pipe culvert and
drainage excavation, embankment (from excavation), sub-grade
preparation, aggregates sub-base course, PCCP @ 0.23m and
0.15m thick, reinforcing steel, structural concrete Class B, pipe
culverts @ 910mm and 1220mm Class C, grouted riprap class
A, stone masonry, refectorized thermoplastic pavement mark-
ings (white and yellow), mobilization and demobilization, facilities
for the engineer and other general requirements.
6. Contract ID : 12 E0 0031__
Contract Name : Widening / Improvement of Coron Busuanga Road (K0029+200
to K0030+021.50)
Contract Location : Coron, Palawan
Brief Description : Removal of existing lined canal, foundation fll, embankment (from
excavation), selected borrow (for topping), cas1, aggregates sub-
base course, PCCP @ 0.28mm and 0.15mm thickness, reinforcing
steel, structural concrete class B, 910mm class C pipe culverts,
cleaning culverts in place, grouted riprap, stone masonry, furnish-
ing and transplanting of trees, refectorized thermoplastic pave-
ment marking (white and yellow), mobilization and demobilization,
facilities for engineers and other general requirements
Bidding 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 Letter of Intent (LOI) and must meet the
following major criteria: (a) prior registration with the 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 the ABC. The BAC will
use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check, preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, may submit their application for registration, to the
DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline set for the receipt of LOIs. The DPWH
POCW-Central Offce will only process contractors applications for registration, with complete
requirements, and issue the Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC).
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Receipt of LOIs from Prospective Bidders
Projects # 1, 2 and 4
Projects # 3 and 6
Project # 5
Deadline :
May 11 June 4, 2012
May 11 June 1, 2012
May 11 June 13, 2012
2. Issuance of Bidding Documents
Projects # 3 and 6
Project # 5
May 11 June 8, 2012
May 11 June 5, 2012
May 11 June 19, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference
Projects # 3 and 6
Project # 5
May 24, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
May 23, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
June 7, 2012 @ 10:00
4. Receipt of Bids
Projects # 3 and 6
Project # 5
Deadline :
June 8, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
June 5, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
June 19, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
5. Opening of Bids
Projects # 3 and 6
Project # 5
Deadline :
June 8, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
June 5, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
June 19, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in the Bidding
Documents (BDs) in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst
envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, including the eligibility require-
ments. 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.
Prospective bidders may download the Registration Form from the DPWH Website
www.dpwh.gov.ph . The BAC will issue hard copies of Letter of Intent (LOI) Form at DPWH
Region IV-B, EDSA, Quezon City. Prospective bidders that will download the Letter of
Intent (LOI) shall pay the same amount upon submission of their Bids.
Prospective bidders may also download the bidding documents (BDs), if available, from the
DPWH website. The BAC will also issue hard copies of the BDs at the same address to the
eligible bidders upon payment of the non-refundable fee of Php 10,000.00 for projects #
1, 2 ,3,and 4 and Php 20,000.00 for projects # 5 and 6 . 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 the bid security in any acceptable form in the amount
stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
The DPWH Region IV-B reserves the right to accept or reject any bid and to annul the bidding
process anytime before Contract award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.

Approved by:

(Sgd.) RENATO L. ESCUADRO
(Chairman)
Chief, Planning and Design Division
(MST-May 11, 2012)
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
Bonifacio Drive, Port Area
MANILA
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES
FOR THE CONDUCT OF MASTER PLAN AND FEASIBILITY STUDY OF
FLOOD CONTROL AND DRAINAGE PROJECTS OF SELECTED RIVER BA-
SINS NATIONWIDE, Batch 2
1. The Department of Public Works and Highways, through the GAA 2012 (Item No.
B.I, c.17.b.2, page 908) intends to apply the sum of PhP 67,339,590.00 being the
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for the
Consultancy Services for the conduct of Master Plan and Feasibility Study of Flood
Control and Drainage Projects of Selected River Basins Nationwide, Batch 2
2. The Department of Public Works and Highways now calls for the submission of
eligibility documents for:
Project: Consultancy Services for the Conduct of Master Plan and Feasibility Study of
Flood Control and Drainage Projects of Selected River Basins Nationwide, Batch 2
Location:
Package
No.
Name of River Basins
Regions
Covered
Catchment
Area (km
2
)
Approved
Budget for
Contract (PhP)
Package 1 a. Sta. Rita/Kalaklan
b. Bauang
c. Pamplona
III
CAR & I
CAR & II
102
510
698
23,065,635.00
Package 2 a. Daguitan-Marabong
b. Bago
c. Caguray
VIII
VI
IV-B
292
868
361
24,657,210.00
Package 3 a. Iponan
b. Buayan-Malungun
X
XI & XII
412
1400
19,616,745.00
Objective: The objectives of the Master Plan and Feasibility Studies are the following:
1. To establish the food control policy, strategy, target design food magnitude
and main works for the river basin;
2. To identify alternative food mitigation measures;
3. To formulate a food control project implementation plan; and
4. To prioritize projects based on technical, economic, social and environmental
feasibility
Outputs/Deliverables: Expected Output
River Basin Master Plan and Feasibility Study of Selected Priority Projects
3. Interested consultants must submit their eligibility documents not later than 2:00
p.m on May 24, 2012 at the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) for Consultancy
Services, Room 502-B, 5
th
Floor, DPWH Building, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila.
Applications for eligibility will be evaluated based on a non-discretionary pass/fail
criterion.
The Eligibility Forms will be available at www.dpwh.gov.ph
The BAC shall draw up the shortlist of Consultants from those who have submitted
(Applications for eligibility and shortlist) and have been determined as eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known
as the Government Procurement Reform Act, and its Implementing Rules and
Regulations (IRR). The shortlist shall consist of fve (5) prospective bidders who will
be entitled to submit bids. The criteria and rating system for the shortlisting are:
Applicable Experience - 35 pts.
Qualifcation of Personnel - 40 pts.
Job Capacity - 25 pts.
Total - 100 pts.
4. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-
discretionary pass/fail criterion as specifed in the IRR of RA 9184.

Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships or organiza-
tions with at least sixty percent (60%) interest of outstanding capital stock belonging
to citizens of the Philippines.
5. The Procuring Entity shall evaluate bids, using the Quality-Cost Based Evaluation/
Selection (QCBE/QCBS) procedure. Bids whose technical proposals pass the
minimum technical requirement of seventy fve percent (75%) shall have its fnancial
proposals opened and evaluated. The technical proposal shall carry eighty percent
(80%) weight while the fnancial proposal shall have a weight of twenty percent (20%)
in the evaluation. The criteria and rating system for the evaluation of bids shall be
provided in the Instructions to Bidders.
6. Contract Duration: 12 months for Packages 1 & 2 and 10 months for Package 3
7. The Department of Public Works and Highways reserves the right to reject any and
all bids, annul the bidding process, or not award the contract at any time prior to
contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
Undersecretary RAUL C. ASIS
Chairman, BAC for Consultancy Services
5
th
Floor, DPWH, Central Offce
Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila
Tel. No. (+632) 304-3302
Fax No. (+632) 304-3572
(Sgd.) RAUL C. ASIS
Undersecretary
Chairman, BAC for Consultancy Services
(MST-May 11, 2012)
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
Manila
CLUSTER No. RB34, REHABILITATION/RESTORATION ALONG VARIOUS ROAD
SECTIONS IN IFUGAO I AND MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, CAR, UNDER THE POST
ONDOY AND PEPENG SHORT TERM INFRASTRUCTURE REHABILITATION
PROJECT (POPSTIRP), ROADS AND BRIDGES COMPONENT
1. The Government of the Philippines (GOP) has received a loan (Loan No. PH-
P246) from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, toward the cost of Post
Ondoy and Pepeng Short Term Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project, Roads and
Bridges Component and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to
payments under the contract for Cluster RB34 , Rehabilitation/Restoration
along various Road Sections in Ifugao I and Mountain Province, CAR.
The Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) is PhP34,716,641.67
2. The Department of Public Works and Highways now invites bids for the
rehabilitation/improvement of the above project. Completion of the Works required
is 180 Calendar Days. Bidders should have completed, within ten (10) years
from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a single contract similar to the
Project, equivalent to at least ffty percent (50%) of the ABC. The description of
an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section
II. Instruction to Bidders.
3. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using
nondiscretionary pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Revised Implementing
Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known
as the Government Procurement Reform Act.
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or
organizations with at least seventy fve percent (75%) interest or outstanding
capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
4. Contractors/applicants who are interested in the DPWH civil works are required
to register prior to the set schedule of submission of bid while those already
registered shall keep their records current and updated. Contractors eligibility
to bid on the project will be determined using the DPWH Contractor Profle
Eligibility Process (CPEP) and subject to further post-qualifcation. Information
on registration can be obtained at DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph or CPO,
5
th
foor, DPWH Building, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila from 8:00 A.M. to
5:00P.M.
5. Interested bidders may obtain further information from Bureau of Maintenance
and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m.
6. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders at
Central Procurement Offce, 5th Floor Department of Public Works and Highways
Building, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area Manila upon payment of a non-refundable
fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of Twenty Thousand Pesos
(P20,000.00.).
It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine
Government Electronic Procurement System (phiIGEPS) and the website of
the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding
Documents not later than the set deadline for the submission of bids.
7. The Department of Public Works & Highways will hold a Pre-Bid Conference on
May 15, 2012, 9:00 A.M. at Central Procurement Offce, 5
th
Floor Department of
Public Works and Highways Building, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area Manila, which
shall be open to all interested parties.
8. Bids must be delivered on or before May 29, 2012, 10:00 A.M. at Central
Procurement Offce, 5
th
Floor Department of Public Works and Highways Building,
Bonifacio Drive, Port Area Manila All bids must be accompanied by a bid security
in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in the Bidding Documents,
ITB Clause 18.1.
Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose
to attend at the address above. Late bids shall not be accepted.
BETTY S. SUMAIT
Director III
OIC, Bureau of Maintenance
2
nd
Street, Port Area Manila
Tel. No. (02) 3043618
Fax No. (02) 3043627
10. The Department of Public Works & Highways reserves the right to accept or reject
any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to
contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or
bidders.
(Sgd.) JAIME A. PACANAN, Ph.D., CESO I
Undersecretary for Support Services
Chairman, BAC for Civil Works
Offce of the President
of the Philippines
Malacaang
BIDS AND AWARDS COMMITTEE
(MST-May 11, 2012)
The Offce of the President, through the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), hereby invites all
interested Phil-GEPS registered manufacturers, suppliers and dealers to submit bids for the following
projects, to wit:
Purchase Request
(PR) No.
Project Approved Budget
for the Contract
Non-Refundable
Bid Fees
12-02-4038;
12-02-4039;
12-02-4080;
12-02-4107;
12-02-4156;
12-02-4063;
12-03-4168;
12-03-4169;
12-03-4170;
12-03-4171;
12-03-4190;
12-03-4236;
12-03-4263;
12-03-4335;
12-03-4336;
12-03-4386
12-03-4354;
12-03-4396
12-03-4400;
12-03-4428;
12-04-4553;
12-03-4565;
1. Procurement of One (1) Lot
Supply & Delivery of Various
Informati on Technol ogy (I.T)
Equi pment f or Di ff erent OP
Offces
Php 3,742,000.00 Php3,800.00
12-04-4541 2. Purchase of One (1) Uni t
Asian Utility Vehicle (AUV) for
the Governance Commission for
GOCCs (GCG)
Php 968,000.00 Php 1,000.00
12-04-4540 3. Purchase of Three (3) Units
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) for
the Governance Commission for
GOCCS (GCG)
Php 4,224,000.00 Php 4,300.00
12-03-4493 4. Procurement of One (1)
Lot Assorted Gift Items of the
President for the Head of States,
Foreign Dignitaries and for His
Offcial Travel.
Php 1,679,178.80 Php 1,700.00

Bid Documents are available from May 10 May 31, 2012, upon payment of non-refundable fees
stated above, from 8:00 AM TO 12:00N and from 1:00PM to 5:00PM, Monday to Friday, and up to
9AM on the last day of the issuance and acquisition of bid docs, at the BAC Secretariat Offce, RM
118, First Floor Mezzanine, Mabini Hall Bldg., JP Laurel St., San Miguel, Malacaang, Manila (Tel.
Nos. 784-42-56 loc. 4161).
A pre-bid conference for the purpose will be held on May 17, 2012 at 1:00 PM at the Executive
Secretaries Hall and Gallery, 4
th
Floor, Mabini Hall Building, Malacaang, Manila. Only those who have
purchased bidding documents will be allowed to participate in the pre-bid conference.
Deadline for the submission of the Bid/Tender Documents/Forms is on May 31, 2012, Thursday
at 10:00 AM at the BAC Secretariat Offce, RM 118 First Floor Mezzanine, Mabini Hall Bldg., JP
Laurel St., San Miguel, Malacaang, Manila. The opening of bids will be held on the same day, May
31, 2012, Thursday at 10:05 AM at the Executive Secretaries Hall and Gallery, 4
th
/F Mabini Hall
Bldg., Malacaang, Manila.
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using a non-discretionary
pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic
Act (RA) 9184, otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bids received in
excess of the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
All particulars relative to elgibility screening, bid security, performance security, pre-bid conference/s,
evaluation of bids, post-qualifcation and award of contracts shall be governed by the pertinent provisions
of RA 9184 and its Revised IRR.
The Offce of the President-Bids and Awards Committee reserves the right to accept or reject any bid,
to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby
incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
(Sgd.) Atty. MICHAEL G. AGUINALDO
Chairman, Bids and Awards Committee
(MST-May 4, 11 & 18, 2012)
NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF LICENSE TO OPERATE
OF THE BIBLE LEAGUE
Notice is hereby given that on 22 March 2012 the Board of Directors of
THE BIBLE LEAGUE , a foreign non-stock non-proft corporation based in
Crete, Illinois, USA, and duly licensed to operate in the Philippines since
March 1991, resolved and approved to withdraw its license to carry out its
operations in the Philippines effective the approval by the Securities and
Exchange Commission of its Petition for Withdrawal thereof.
All persons, corporations, patnerships, associations, having an interest
or claims of whatever nature and amount shall notify the undersigned
resident agent of said foreign corporation not later than thirty (30) days
from the last date of publication of this Notice of Withdrawal of License
to Operate which shall be published for three consecutive weeks in a
newspaper of general circulation.
Issued this 30
th
day of April 2012.
(Sgd.) ROSALINDA C.MOLDEZ
Resident Agent
Address: No. 9 Col. Salgado St.
West kamias, Quezon City
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Before the court is a
verifed petition fled by the
petitioner through counsel,
praying that after notice
and hearing, an order be
issued declaring JOSE
NONO REYES absent or
presumptively dead for all
legal intents and purposes,
and ordering such other
relief and remedies, just,
necessary and equitable
under the premises.
Finding the petition to
be suffcient in form and
substance, the hearing of
the same is set on May 23,
2012 at 8:30 oclock in the
morning at which date, time,
and place, all interested
person may come and show
cause, if there be any why
the petition should not be
granted.
Let copies of this petition
be furnished the National
Statistics Offce, the local
Civil Registrar of Porac,
Pampanga, the subject
person of the petition Jose
Nono Reyes c/ /o his father,
Pio Reyes, of M. Pagalaya,
Porac, Pampanga, the
petitioner and Atty. Jose
Eduardo B. Narciso.
Let copies of this Order
be likewise published at the
expenses of the petitioner
for one week in a newspaper
of general circulation in the
Philippines.
SO ORDERED.
Tarlac City, April 12,
2012.
(SGD.) LILY C. DE VERA-VALLO
Presiding Judge
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
Third Judicial Region
Branch 64
Tarlac City
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR
DECLARATIOND OF PRESUMPTIVE DEATH OF
JOSE NONO REYES,
SPEC. PROC. NO. 4840
JULIETA N. SANTOS-REYES,
Petitioner.
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Northern Samar 1
st
Engineering District
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Catarman, Northern Samar
Tel. No. (055) 251-8190
I NVI TATI ON TO APPLY FOR ELI GI BI LI TY AND TO BI D
The DPWH Northern Samar 1st Engineering District, Catarman, Northern
Samar through the Bids & Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply
to bid for the following contract(s):
1. Contract ID: 12IH0046
Contract Name: Construction of Multi-purpose Bldg., Capitol Site
Contract Location: Catarman, N. Samar
Scope of Work: Const. of Multi-purpose Bldg
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php 9,949,025.00
Contract Duration: 130 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) 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.
Only contractors duly registered with the DPWH may be allowed to participate
in the eligibility screening. 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.
Interested contractors shall submit their duly accomplished Expression of
Interest statements upon presentation of their original Contractors Registration
Certifcate in person or through their Authorized Representative as refected
in their CRC to the Chairman, Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), DPWH
Northern Samar 1
st
Engineering District, Catarman, Northern Samar not later
done 2:00 P.M. on May 22, 2012.
1. Receipt of LOIs from Prospective Bidders May 9 21, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.
2. Issuance of Bidding Documents May 9 31, 2012
3. Pre-bid Conference May 28, 2012 for Item 3
4. Receipt of Bids May 31, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.
5. Opening of Bids May 31, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH-NS1st
Engineering District, Cataman, N. Samar, upon payment of a non-refundable
fee of Php 5,000.00 for Item 1 & 2 and Php 10,000.00 for Item 3 for Bidding
Documents . 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.
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 components of the bid, which shall
include the eligibility requirements. The second envelope shall contain 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-NS1st Engineering District 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 by:
(Sgd.) LUCAS N. BACSAL
BAC CHAIRMAN
(MST-May 11, 2012)
Manila
CLUSTER No. RB33, REHABI LI TATI ON / RESTORATI ON OF ALONG ABRA-
KALI NGA ROAD, KM 453+600-KM 470+000, ABRA, CAR, UNDER THE POST
ONDOY AND PEPENG SHORT TERM I NFRASTRUCTURE REHABI LI TATI ON
PROJ ECT (POPSTI RP)
1. The Government of the Philippines (GOP) has received a loan (Loan No. PH-P246)
from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, toward the cost of Post Ondoy
and Pepeng Short Term Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project, Roads and Bridges
Component and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to payments
under the contract for CLUSTER No. RB33, REHABILITATION / RESTORATION
OF ALONG ABRA-KALINGA ROAD, KM 453+600-KM 470+000, ABRA, CAR.
is One Hundred Eighty (180) Calendar Days. Bidders should have completed,
within ten (10) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a single
contract similar to the Project, equivalent to at least ffty percent (50%) of the
ABC. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents,
particularly, in Section II. Instruction to Bidders.
nondiscretionary pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Revised Implementing Rules
and Regulations (lRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the
Government Procurement Reform Act.
organizations with at least seventy fve percent (75%) interest or outstanding
4. Contractors/applicants who are interested in the DPWH civil works are required to
register prior to the set schedule of submission of bid while those already registered
shall keep their records current and updated. Contractors eligibility to bid on the
project will be determined using the DPWH Contractor Profle Eligibility Process
(CPEP) and subject to further post-qualifcation. Information on registration can be
obtained at DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph or CPO, 5th foor, DPWH Building,
Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m.
Central Procurement Offce, 5
th
Floor Department of Public Works and Highways
Building, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area Manila upon payment of a non-refundable fee
for the Bidding Documents in the amount of Thirty Thousand Pesos (P30,000.00.)
Government Electronic Procurement System (PhiIGEPS) and the website of the
Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents
not later than the set deadline for the submission of bids.
th
Floor Department of
Public Works and Highways Building, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area Manila, which
th
Bonifacio Drive, Port Area Manila All bids must be accompanied by a bid security
ITB Clause 18.1.
Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose
to attend at the address above. Late bids shall not be accepted.
BETTY S. SUMAIT
Director III
2nd Street, Port Area Manila
Tel. No. (02) 3043618
Fax No. (02) 3043627
any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject at anytime to contract award,
without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
(MST-May 11, 2012)
Albay 3
rd
District Engineering Offce
Paulog, Ligao City
The Department of Public Works and Highways Albay 3rd District Engineering
Offce, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to
bid for the following contract(s):
Contract lD: 12FO0031
Contract Name: Restoration/Improvement of Damaged Sections along
Llbon-Marocmoc-Pantao Road, Libon, Albay
Contract Location: Libon, Albay
Scope of Work: Restoration/Improvement of Damaged road
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php. 19,600,000.00
Contract Duration: 180 calendar days
Contract 1D: 12FO0032
Contract Name: Rehabi l i tati on/Restorati on/Improvement of Damaged
Sections along Libon-Marocmoc-Pantao Road (Mararag
Section), Libon, Albay
Contract Location: Libon, Albay
Scope of Work: Rehabi l i tati on/Restorati on/Improvement of Damaged
road
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC}: Php. 19,600,000.00
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 (LOl) 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, (e) 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 (or
at least 10% of ABC. The BAC of the DPWH Regional Offce no. V will conduct the
eligibility checking using the Civil Works Registry (CWR) System and the preliminary
examination of bids will be conducted by the BAC of this offce.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the
DPWHPOCW 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.
1. Submission of LOI from Prospective Bidders Deadline: May 21, 2012 until 10:00 A.M.
2. Pre-Bid Conference May 14, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.
3. Issuance of Bidding Documents May 7-28, 2012 until 10:00 A.M.
4. Receipt of payments of Bid Documents Deadline: May 28, 2012 until 10:00 A.M.
5. Submission of Bids May 28, 2012 until 2:00 P.M.
6. Opening of Bids May 28, 2012 starting at 2:01 P.M.
Interested contractor must download the Bidding Documents Including the plans at
DPWH website or PhilGEPS and must submit Letter of Intent (LOl) before the deadline
of submission and must paid php. 10,000.00 for Bidding Documents for each on or
before the deadline for payments of Biddlng Documents at DPWH Albay 3rd District
Engineering Offce, Paulog, Ligao City. Bids must be accompanied by a bid security in
the required amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Letter of Intent should only be submitted by the duly authorized liaison offcer refected
at the CRC, and it must be accompanied with photocopy of CRC, PCAB license and
Tax Clearance, original copy of those documents must be presented for validation/
verifcation. Only those that will passed the validation/verifcation will be accepted.
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 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 Albay 3rd District Engineering Offce, PauIog, Ligao City 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 by:
(Sgd.) ROLANDO G. CATAUAN
BAC Chairman
Noted:
(Sgd.) EFREN C. MANALO, MPA
District Engineer
(MST-May 11, 2012)
BIDS AND AWARDS COMMITTEE
BANGKO SENTRAL NG PILIPINAS
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC),
invites bidders to apply for eligibility and to bid for the hereunder project:
Name of Pr oj ect / Br i ef
Description
One (1) lot supply and delivery of 1,428 kg. Adipate
Polyester Plasticizer, per BSP Technical Specifcations
Approved Budget for the
Contract (ABC)
P2,170,500.00
Completion Period
Within forty-fve (45) calendar days after the issuance
of Purchase Order.

Prospective bidders should have undertaken a similar requirement awarded and
completed from Y2007 to present amounting to at least 25% of the ABC. The
Eligibility Check/ Screening as well as the Preliminary Examination of Bids shall use
non-discretionary pass/fail criteria. Post-qualifcation of the lowest calculated 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 Republic Act No. 9184
and its revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR).
The complete schedule of activities is listed, as follows:
Activities Schedule
1. Issuance of Bid Documents

Starting 11 May 2012
(from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 and 1:00 P.M. to 2:00
P. M. only)
Procurement Offce
Room 212, 2
nd
Floor, Five-Storey Building
A. Mabini corner P. Ocampo Sr. Streets,
Malate, Manila
Tel. No. 708-7701 loc. 2229/Fax No. 708-7117
2. Pre-bid Conference 30 May 2012; 11:00 A.M.; MR2A
3. Opening of Bids 11 June 2012; 2:00 P.M.; MR2A
4. Bid Evaluation These shall be in accordance with the prescribed
periods allowed in the revised IRR of R.A. No. 9184.
5. Post-qualifcation
6. Notice of Award
The ITB and Checklist of Requirements for Bidders may be downloaded from the
website of the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and
the BSP Website (www.bsp.gov.ph). The complete set of the Bidding Documents may
be purchased by interested bidders from the address stated above upon presentation
of the PhilGEPS Suppliers Order Form and payment of a non-refundable fee in
the amount of P1,100.00.
Only bidders who have purchased the bidding documents shall be allowed to raise or
submit written queries or clarifcations.
The BSP assumes no responsibility whatsoever to compensate or indemnify bidders
for any expenses incurred in the preparation of the bid.
The BSP reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to declare the bidding a failure,
not to award the contract, 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 bidders.
Furthermore, the BSP reserves the right to waive any minor defects or formality and
to accept the proposal most advantageous to the agency.
(Sgd.) ENRIQUE C. DOMINGO
Chairman
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
2
nd
St., Port Area, Manila
DPWH ROAD REPAI R ADVI SORY
The public is informed on the following road repairs to be under-
taken on May 11 (10 PM) to May 14 (4 AM), 2012.
Expect traffc build-up/congestion. Please take alternate routes.
NAME of ROADS/LIMITS DPWH OFFICE
TEL. NOS.
1. R. Magsaysay Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila
Sociego to Rotonda
NMED
714-0608
to 12
2. A.N. Lacson St. Sampaloc, Manila
Espaa to Piy Margal
NMED
714-0608
to 12
3. A. Bonifacio Avenue
2
nd
lane (northbound)
QCFED
431-4597
To 98
4. Araneta Avenue .
2
nd
lane (northbound)
QCFED
431-4597
To 98
5. EDSA Quezon City (northbound)
1
st
lane from West Avenue to Quezon Av-
enue
QCFED
431-4597
To 98
6. EDSA Quezon City (southbound)
1st and 4
th
lane from Bansalangin St. to
Brgy. Bungad
QCFED
431-4597
To 98
7. Regalado North
2
nd
lane from Esporza to Bronx St.
QCFED
431-4597
To 98
8. Fairview Avenue (northbound)
3
rd
lane from Atherton to Regalado North
QCFED
431-4597
To 98
9. EDSA (northbound)
Mandaluyong City
FMMED
641-2370
10. EDSA (southbound)
Mandaluyong City
FMMED
641-2370
11. 11. Bonny Serrano Avenue Quezon City QCSED
928-6385
12. Bonny Serrano Avenue
Left lane from EDSA, in front of Veterans
Bank
QCSED
928-6385
13. Bonny Serrano Avenue
Left lane from EDSA, in front of AFPSLAl
Bldg.
QCSED
928-6385

For any concern, complaint, suggestion, recommendation,
observation, please call 165-02; or (02)536-3477 or text DPWH
(space) message then send to 2920.
Thank you.
Department of |Public Works and Highways
2
nd
St., Port Area, Manila
Tel. Nos. (02)304-3713; 304-3620; 304-3700
NICASIO G. TAMBAL
Assistant Regional Director
Offce-in-Charge
(MST-Aug. 5, 2011) (MST-May 11, 2012)
La Union First Engineering District
The Department of Public Works and Highways, La Union First Engineering
District, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC). invite. contractors
to apply to bid for the contract listed below:
1. Contract No. 12AE0053
Contract Name : Repai r/Rehabi l i t at i on of Mani l a Nort h Road,
KO275+000 to KO278+000 with exceptions
Scope of Work : RCA
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P9,900,000.00 (MVUC Fund)
Duration : 30 calendar days
Procurement will he conducted through open competitive bidding
procedures in accordance with RA 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 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/fall criteria in the eligibility check and
preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their application 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:
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective
Bidders
May 10 - June 11, 2012
2. Issuance of Bid Documents May 10 - June 13, 1012
3. Pre bid Conference May 24, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: 12 Noon, June 14, 2012
5. Opening of Bids 2:00 P.M. on June 14, 2012

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH
La Union First Engineering District, Lingsat, City of San Fernando, La
Union, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of P10,000.00, per D.O.
52 Series of 2011.
Prospective bidders may also download the BDs, if available, from the
DPWH website. 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 accompanied by a bid security, in the
amount and acceptable form, as stated in section 27.0 of the Revised IRR.
The Department of Public Works and Highways, La Union First Engineering
District reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bid to annul the
bidding process anytime before Contract award, without incurring any
liability to the affected bidders.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) ISABELO V. LOPEZ, JR.
BAC Chairman
Noted:
(Sgd.) ELPIDIO C. PARAGAS
District Engineer
Fo r f a s t a d r e s u l t s ,
p l e a s e c a l l
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News
ManilaStandardToday
mst.daydesk@gmail.com MAY 11, 2012 FRIDAY
A8

IN BRIEF
Plunder raps led vs mayor
QC dad opposes
redistricting plan
Erap takes Manila
city hall by storm
Certied resident. Former President Joseph Estrada shows off his new residence certicate after moving to Manila,
where he will run for mayor. DANNY PATA
By Macon Ramos-Araneta
WORK at several ofces of the Manila City Hall almost ground to
a halt on Thursday as former President Joseph Estrada showed up
to get his new residence certicate and have his voter registration
transferred from San Juan to Manila.
City hall employees started chanting Suweldo, suweldo [Salary,
salary] and Allowances, allowances when Estrada showed up at
the lobby along with his running mate Vice Mayor Isko Moreno.
The workers were obviously referring to the non-payment or de-
lay in the payment of the allowances and other benets of city hall
employees, including local policemen and public school teachers.
The matter became the main issue that led to the falling out between
Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim and the city council led by Moreno.
Twenty-eight of the citys 38 councilors, who earlier followed
Moreno in joining the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), the coali-
tion of Estradas Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) and the Vice
President Jejomar Binays PDP-Laban, also accompanied Estrada on
his city hall transactions.
I am very happy with the warm reception I have been receiving
from the people of Manila, said Estrada, adding that he and Moreno
will work to augment the income of Manila and increase the wages
of its workers.
As Estrada waited for his residence certicate, the other employ-
ees at the computerized residence certicate ofce jumped on the
chance to have their pictures taken with the former President using
their mobile phones. Other employees outside the ofce continuous-
ly waved at Estrada with the females blowing him kisses.
After getting his residence certicate from the city hall, Estrada,
Moreno and the councillors, all clad in orange T-shirts, marched with
a horde of supporters to the nearby Comelec building where the for-
mer president applied for the transfer of his voter registration from
San Juan to Manila.
This means the President is now a voter of Manila, said Moreno,
amid the peoples chants of their Erap, Erap and Isko, Isko.
By John Anthony Concepcion
A FORMER head of the procurement ofce of
Muntinlupa City has led ve cases of plunder
against Mayor Aldrin San Pedro before the
Ombudsman for his alleged involvement in ve
contracts that were allegedly overpriced and
tainted with irregularities.
Abel L. Sumabat, former head of
the citys Bids and Award Committee
Secretariat, also implicated Vice
Mayor Artemio Simundac, the 12 city
councilors, city ofcials and private
contractors before the anti-graft body last
Wednesday.
According to Sumabat, he furnished
copies of the complaints to journalists
because he was afraid for his safety.
Right now I am admitted at the
Witness Protection Program of the
DOJ as whistle blower, Sumabat
said, saying his fear for his safety
prompted him to file the complaints
last Wednesday.
Sumabat accused San Pedro and the
others of violating Republic Act No.
9284 or the Government Procurement
Reform Act, in entering into the
following contracts:
The P103-million purchase of an
aerial ladder and three retrucks in
April 30, 2008;
The P22-million purchase of 40,000
pieces trolley bags in April 30, 2009;
The P143-million asphalting of
Alabang to Tunasan National Road;
The P21-million asphalting of
Susana Heights Road; and
The P55-million construction
of 3rd and 4th oors of a four-storey
schoolbuilding.
Sumabat claimed that the bidding
process for these contracts were
rigged and were approved with the
concurrence of the public ofcials he
named.
This is the second time San Pedro
has been accused of plunder. The rst
time was in March 2010 when former
city government department head Ariel
Dolleton accused the mayor, councilors
and bidding ofcials of complicity in
11 purportedly-irregular infrastructure
projects worth P238.07 million in
2007.
But the Ombudsman acquitted the
31 Muntinlupa city ofcials, including
San Pedro, in the plunder and graft
case because of insufcient evidence.
The case stemmed from Dolletons
accusations that there was irregularity
in the approval by the city council and
San Pedro of supplemental budgets in
2007 for the infrastructure projects.
The projects approved included
sidewalk improvement, streetlights,
road repairs, bus landing terminal,
water tank and asphalt overlay and
concrete blocking implemented all
over Muntinlupa.
San Pedro said they submitted all
documents including receipts, minutes
of pre-bidding conference, abstract of
bids, contracts and performance bonds
to belie the allegations that there was
anomaly in the projects.
In its decision, the Ombudsman
said Dolleton failed to tender
proofs to controvert the contents
and authenticity of the documents
submitted by the mayor and other
respondents.
ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
San Miguel Avenue, Pasig City
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION FOR
APPROVAL OF THE TRANSLATION INTO
DISTRIBUTION RATES OF DIFFERENT
CUSTOMER CLASSES FOR THE THIRD (3
RD
)
REGULATORY YEAR OF THE ERC-APPROVED
ANNUAL REVENUE REQUIREMENT FOR LA
UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. (LUECO)
UNDER THE PERFORMANCE BASED
REGULATION (PBR) FOR THE REGULATORY
PERIOD 2011-2014
ERC CASE NO. 2012-048 RC
LA UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.
(LUECO),
Applicant.
x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - x
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES:
Notice is hereby given that On March 29, 2012, La Union Electric Company, Inc. (LUECO) fled an application
for approval of the translation into distribution rates of different customer classes for the Third (3
rd
) Regulatory Year
of the ERC-Approved Annual Revenue Requirement (ARR) under the Performance Based Regulation (PBR) for the
Regulatory Period 2011-2014.
In the said application, LUECO alleged, among others, that:
1. Under the Commissions Resolution No. 54, Series of 2006 or the Rules for Setting Distribution Wheeling
Rates (RDWR) for Privately Owned Distribution Utilities Entering Performance Based Regulation, the
PBR-entrant distribution utility will be given an ARR which will be used to derive the Maximum Average
Price (MAP). Said MAP shall then be allocated by the distribution utility in setting the rate schedule for its
distribution, supply and metering charges for each customer class or segment;
2. It was among the entrants at the third (3
rd
) entry point to the PBR Rate Setting Methodology adopted by the
Commission pursuant to Section 43 (f) of Republic Act No. 9136, otherwise known as the Electric Power
Industry Reform Act of 2001. As such, on June 19, 2009, it fled an application for approval of its ARR and
Performance Incentive Scheme (PIS) for the Second (2
nd
) Regulatory Period covering the period July 01,
2010 to June 30, 2014;
3. The Commission issued the Final Determination for the applicant as contained in its Decision dated March
8, 2010;
a. Based on the Final Determinaton, its ARR for the Third (3
rd
) Regulatory Period is as follows:
Building Block
2012
(PhP Million, Nominal)
Return on Capital 70.05
OPEX 102.33
Regulatory Depreciation 24.21
Corporate Income Tax 0.00
Other Taxes .84
Subtotal 197.43
GSL Allowance .99
Resulting ARR Before Regulatory Intervention 198.42
Regulatory Intervention 0.00
TOTAL 198.42
b. The Maximum Average Map (MAP
2013
) that will apply to it at the start of the Third Regulatory Year as
computed based on the Price Control Formula of the RDWR without the Side Constraints is PhP1.5438/
kWh with an X factor of -0.1080;
c. The change in Weighted Index for the Third Regulatory Year of the Second Regulatory Period (CWI) as
calculated in accordance with Section 4.5 of the RDWR is PhP0.0502/kWh;
d. The Performance Incentive Factor (S) for the Third Regulatory Year as calculated in accordance with
Section 4.18.2 of the RDWR is PhP0.0039/kWh; and

e. The Correction Factor (K) for the Third Regulatory Year as calculated in accordance with Section 4.3.2
of the RDWR is PhP0.0648/kWh.
4. In compliance with the requirements under the RDWR and the Final Determinaton for the conversion of the
approved MAP into a distributon rate structure, it applies for the approval of the translaton into distributon rates
of diferent customer classes of its approved MAP for the Third (3
rd
) Regulatory Year of the Second (2
nd
) Regulatory
Period, as follows:
DISTRIBUTION SUPPLY METERING
CUSTOMER TYPE PhP/kW PhP/kWh PhP/Cust/
Mo.
PhP/kWh PhP/Cust/
Mo.
PhP/kWh PhP/kWh
Residential - 1.2055 - 0.2204 5.0000 0.2311 1.6973
Commercial X1 - 1.2313 - 0.1392 - 0.3428 1.7134
Cosmmercial X2 - 1.1411 327.62 - 845.17 - 1.2862
Hospital - 0.8428 188.28 - 485.70 - 0.8598
General Power 451.05 0.5868 340.91 - 1,649.47 - 1.5763
Street lights - 1.1338 231.81 - - - 1.1895
TOTAL 1.5438
The conversion was effected in accordance with the Uniform Filing Requirements (UFR), the relevant
sections of the RDWR, as amended, and the methodology described in Article V of the Distribution
Services and Open Access Rules (DSOAR). It used in its calculations the information contained in the
Final Determination dated March 8, 2010;
5. The Side Constraint Calculation for the Second Regulatory Period which was approved by the Commission
is CWI
t
+ SC
t
. The value of SC

is 13.80% while CWI has been calculated to be 5.02%. Thus, SC
2013
is
18.82%.
((FCR
k,t
/FQ
k,t
)-S
t
) - ((CR
k,t-1
/AQ
k,t-1
)-S
t-1
) <= (CWI
t
+ SC
t
)
(CR
k,t-1
/AQ
k,t-1
)-S
t-1
<= 5.02% + 13.80%
<= 18.82%
6. It has verifed that the resulting MAP
2013
and the converted distribution rates from the said MAP
2013
are
within the Side Constraints Rule in all of the customer classes as follows:
Customer Class (FCR
k,t
/FQ
k,t
)-S
t
(CR
k,t-1
/AQ
k,t-1
)-S
t-1
% Increase
Residential 1.6935 1.4779 14.59% Within Side Constraints
Commercial 1 1.7095 1.4919 14.58% Within Side Constraints
Commercial 2 1.2823 1.1176 14.74% Within Side Constraints
Hospital 0.8559 0.7440 15.04% Within Side Constraints
Industrial 1.5724 1.3718 14.62% Within Side Constraints
Street light 1.1856 1.0329 14.79% Within Side Constraints
Total 1.5399 1.3585 13.35% Within Side Constraints
7. The approval of the instant application will allow the fulfllment of its obligations under the PBR and avoid
irreparable losses, which will ultimately result in the deterioration of its services, to the damage, and
prejudice of the public, in general, and its consumers, in particular; and
8. It prays that the instant application be approved by the Commission authorizing it to adopt its proposed
distribution-related rate structure and rate schedules.
The Commission has set the instant application for jurisdictional hearing, expository presentation, pre-trial
conference and evidentiary hearings on May 31, 2012 (Thursday) at nine oclock in the morning (9:00 A.M.) at
the Municipal Council, Session Hall, San Juan, La Union.
All persons who have an interest in the subject matter of the proceeding may become a party by fling, at
least fve (5) days prior to the initial hearing and subject to the requirements in the ERCs Rules of Practice and
Procedure, a verifed petition with the Commission giving the docket number and title of the proceeding and stating:
(1) the petitioners name and address; (2) the nature of petitioners interest in the subject matter of the proceeding,
and the way and manner in which such interest is affected by the issues involved in the proceeding; and (3) a
statement of the relief desired.
All other persons who may want their views known to the Commission with respect to the subject matter of the
proceeding may fle their opposition to the application or comment thereon at any stage of the proceeding before
the applicant concludes the presentation of its evidence. No particular form of opposition or comment is required,
but the document, letter or writing should contain the name and address of such person and a concise statement of
the opposition or comment and the grounds relied upon.
All such persons who may wish to have a copy of the application may request the applicant, prior to the date of
the initial hearing, that they be furnished with a copy of the application. The applicant is hereby directed to furnish all
those making a request with copies of the application and its attachments, subject to reimbursement of reasonable
photocopying costs. Likewise, any such person may examine the application and other pertinent records fled with
the Commission during the usual offce hours.
WITNESS, the Honorable Chairperson, ZENAIDA G. CRUZ-DUCUT, and the Honorable Commissioners,
MARIA TERESA A.R. CASTAEDA, JOSE C. REYES, ALFREDO J. NON and GLORIA VICTORIA C. YAP-
TARUC, Energy Regulatory Commission, this 16
th
day of April, 2012 at Pasig City.
ATTY. FRANCIS SATURNINO C. JUAN
Executive Director III
(MST-May 4 & 11, 2012)
By Rio N. Araja

CONTRADICTING the view
of Quezon City ofcialdom,
Councilor Jesus Suntay claimed
that creating new legislative
districts would actually be
burdensome to the city.
At least 12 new councilors
and an additional P240 million
will be needed each year if plans
to divide the citys second district
into two or three new districts push
through, according to Suntay, who
represents the fourth district.
The city in general will be
overburdened, Suntay told the
Manila Standard, adding that
two new districts could only lead
to a bigger problem affecting the
citys three million constituents.
Each of the citys four
legislative districts have at least six
councilors, so redistricting would
mean 12 additional councilors and
bringing to the 36 the total number
of councilors in Quezon City.
Each councilor has a budget
of P20 million per year. An extra
12 councilors would mean an
overhead expense of P240 million
a year for the city government,
Suntay said. The citys expenses
would be bigger.
Aside from that, he said the
city will also have to provide
ofces, staff and other needs for
the 12 new councilors.
I dont see any reason why
divide District 2 into three,
Suntay said.
He said District 2 already has six
hard-working councilors, Candy
Medina, Aly Medalla, Godofredo
Liban, actor Roderick Paulate,
Precious Hipolito Castelo and
actor Alfred Vargas, and a veteran
lawmaker, Winston Castelo.
QC ordinance bans
plastic, Styrofoam use
THE Quezon City Council has announced
the approval of a measure banning the
use of plastic and styrofoam inside the
city governments facilities.
Third District Councilor Gian Carlo
Sotto authored City Ordinance No.
2127 which prohibits the use of plastic
and styrofoam at the Quezon City Hall
complex, Novaliches District Center,
Quezon City General Hospital and
Novaliches District Hospital.
The ordinance bans concessionaires
and ambulant vendors in Quezon City
Hall, Novaliches District Center, Quezon
City General Hospital and Novaliches
District Hospital from using plastic bags
as packaging material on dry goods, but
they may be used as packaging for wet
goods provided that the plastic is not
lower than the required thickness of 15
micron.
Also banned is the use of Styrofoam
as packaging container for food produce
and other products and offering or selling
bags to be used as primary or secondary
packaging materials for dry goods.
Rio N. Araja
GMA leaves hospital
for medical check-up
FORMER President Gloria Macapagal-
Arroyo underwent a court-approved
medical checkup at the Makati Medical
Center yesterday.
The 65-year old Arroyo left the
Veterans Memorial Medical Center
(VMMC) in Quezon City in a white
coaster van at about 7:10 am.
The former President has been
complaining of chest pains and
hypertension, prompting her lawyers to
asked Pasay City Regional Trial Court
Branch 112 Judge Jesus Mupas to allow
her to have a medical check-up by her
doctor, Robert Anastacio.
Mupas sala is hearing the electoral
sabotage charges led by the Commission
on Election (Comelec) against Arroyo
in connection with alleged electoral
irregularities in the 2007 senatorial
elections and issued a warrant for her
arrest last year.
MMC Outpatient Director, Dr.
Eric Nubla said the former president
underwent a computer tomography (CT)
scan as part of her cardiograph test.
Nubla said a CT scan is used to check
or study all parts of the patients body as
well as take pictures of body organs such
as the pancreas, liver, intestines, bladder,
lungs and heart. He said that Arroyo is set
to leave the MMC Thursday afternoon
after she completes all the tests.
Ferdinand Fabella
THE Olympic bid of lightweight
Charly Suarez hit a snag after
he suffered a close defeat in the
ongoing Sydney Jackson Memorial
Boxing tournament in Uzbekistan.
After trouncing Uzbek Ismoil
Haitbaex, 18-6, in the rst round,
Suarez lost to another local bet
Faziddin Gaibnazarov, 21-16, to
bow out of contention in this
annual tournament.
With the backing of pound-for-
pound king Manny Pacquiao via a
letter of endorsement sent thru the
International Boxing Association,
Suarez is hoping to get a Wild Card
entry to the London Games.
But Amateur Boxing Association
of the Philippines Executive
Director Ed Picson is unperturbed
about the latest setback of Suarez.
Picson believes Suarez is still
adjusting with the latest scoring
system.
The new scoring system allows
for points even for punches delivered
with 60-70 percent force. Charly
lands bombs and he staggered his
opponent a couple of times. But
they counted for only a point each.
You need to throw more punches
now, said Picson. The good thing
is, Suarez now realizes the nuances
of the system and has vowed to
work on the needed adjustment.
Lightyweight Mark Anthony
Barriga remains the countrys sole
Olympic qualier.
Barriga is also campaigning
in Uzbekistan, where he is the
defending champion and has won
his rst two assignments.
ONE PUNCH AT A TIME. With a
good number of marquee ghts
ahead of him, world yweight
champion Brian Hawaiian Punch
Viloria is focused on his upcoming
opponent and former tormentor
Omar Nino Romero of Mexico.
Vilorias name has been
mentioned as potential opponent to
his more popular fellow champions
namely International Boxing
Federation yweight ruler Moruti
Mthalane of South Africa and
World Boxing Association champion
Hernan Marquez of Mexico.
Also being mentioned as
future foes are Filipino ghters
Milan Melindo, Froilan Saludar
and former world lightfyweight
champion Rodel Mayol.
Mayol is fighting in the undercard
oppositeMexicanJulioCesar Miranda
ina10-roundnon-titlefight.
But in a press conference
Wednesday, Viloria said all he
wants at the moment is to avenge
his defeat to Romero.
Viloria and Romero will duke
it out for the Hawaiians World
Boxing Organization yweight
crown set for 12-rounds this
Sunday at the Ynares Sports
Arena in Pasig City.
The 31-year-old Viloria, who
traces his roots in Ilocos Sur,
will be ghting Romero for the
third time.
Viloria lost via decision in both
ghts held in Las Vegas but the
second one was declared a No
Contest after Romero tested
positive for a banned substance
during the post ght drug testing.
Weve already put 24 rounds
into it so whats another 12
rounds? Were gonna put in our
110% into this ght because thats
why we train everyday for the last
three months, said Viloria.
NO LUCK. Current IBF interim
lightyweight champion Johnriel
Quadro Alas Casimero will
most likely defend his belt behind
enemy lines.
Casimero, who made headlines
when he was ganged up in Argentina
by irate fans, whose hometown bet
Luis Lazarte was stopped by the
Filipino boxer, was expecting the
needed support for him to stake his
crown in the country.
But according to Filipino
promoter Sammy Gello-ani, major
TV stations are offering him less
than what he needs to stage the
title defense in the country.
It was our priority to promote
it here even though weve been
getting substantial offers from
Mexico. The likelihood is we will
accept the offer from Mexico and
just sell the TV rights here in the
Philippines, said Gello-ani.
Gello-ani said Mexican Sammy
Gutierrez has already agreed to the
date and is amenable to ghting
either in Mexico or the Philippines
so long as he gets the opportunity
of ghting for Casimeros belt.
Recently, the IBF has mandated
Casimero as the next challenger
of regular champion Ulises Solis of
Mexico.
TheIBFhasalsoallowedCasimeros
choice defense versus Gutierrez
providedthat thewinner will agreeto
bethenext challengerofSolis.
CAPTAIN HUCK. After his brave
but losing effort in his attempt to
win the heavyweight belt, world
cruiserweight champion Marco
Huck returns to action by defending
his belt opposite British Ola Afolabi.
It will be Hucks rst bout
since losing to WBA heavyweight
champion Alexander Povetkin via
12-round decision last February in
Germany.
Against Afolabi, Huck will again
stake his WBO cruiserweight belt
in a 12-round title ght which will
be shown this Sunday via AKTV on
IBC starting at 12noon.
MAY 11, 2012 FRIDAY
A9 Sports Riera U. Mallari, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
sports_mstandard@yahoo.com
The bill, now on its third reading,
will establish the countrys very rst
Sports High School, which Angara
and 28 other co-authors envision
to become the wellspring of future
athletes, who would carry the
Philippinescontinuing search for its
very rst Olympic gold medal.
The PHSS bill calls for the crea-
tion of a sports school, which will
offer secondary school scholarships
to student-athletes, who will gain
opportunities to participate in high-
level competitions, while ensuring
themselves of quality education un-
der the supervision of a board to be
put up by the Department of Educa-
tion, whose Secretary shall become
the ex-ofcio Chairperson.
Three representatives from sports
associations, societies or the private
sector shall be appointed by the
Grassroots sports gets boost
REP. Juan Edgardo Sonny
Angara of the lone district of Aurora
Province yesterday said the House of
representatives is now close to forging one
of the missing links to the countrys sports
development programs when the bill
known as the Philippine High School for
Sports Act of 2011 is enacted into law.
AFTER sizing up the competition in the kickoff
leg, the Castrol-Tuason Racing School Team
hopes to bounce back and put up a better ght as
the 2012 Philippine GT Championship Series
stages its second leg this Sunday at the Clark
International Speedway.
Multi-titled champion Mike Tuason spear-
heads the title campaign, gunning for the GT300
crown aboard his Mazda Rx7, as he will be
joined by Korean Micky Kim and new recruit
Ross Jackes for the Castrol-TRS Racing Team
powered by Castrol, Bridgestone, Standard In-
surance, Coke Zero, Oakley, Toptul, OMP, C!
Magazine, Speedlab, and Aguila Auto Glass.
Jackes, a pilot, is one of the top products
of last years TRS Ford Fiesta Cup, where
he wound up fourth overall with the support
of Pacic Jet Corp. He will be vying for the
GT130 crown parading a Ford Focus 1800 car.
His debut, hopefully, will swing Castrol-
TRS Teams chances for the better after the
disappointing start of both Tuason and VM
Kaikkonen in the kickoff leg.
Tuason, who captured the overall runner-up
crown two years back, ended a far 14th place in
the Sprint Race and was forced out early in the
GT Main Race. Kaikkonen of Hafele-Tuason
Racing will miss action in this leg as his car got
wrecked following a slight collision that sent
him slamming into the concrete wall.
DENNIS PRINCIPE
SPORTS CHAT
Charlys predicament
President, while the Senate
President and the Speaker
of the House of Repre-
sentatives will also
elect one represent-
ative each.
Members of
the board coming
from the sports
associations and
private sector shall
serve for an equivalent
of two Olympic cycles of
eight years, ensuring the continuity
of their programs.
They will be given a seed fund
of P50 million coming from the
annual earnings of the Philippine
Amusement and Gaming Corp.,
with supplement from the 10 per-
cent of all unclaimed and forfeited
sweepstakes and lotto prizes, but
should not be less than P12 mil-
lion for four years from
the Philippine Charity
Sweepstakes Ofce.
Other countries
have their own
versions of a
sports high
school. We have
lagged behind
for decades in this
area while have
long been trying to
go grassroots. But how
grassroots could we get without
the participation of the student-
athletes? Angara asked.
Angara noted Philippine sports
growing dependence on the
recruitment of Filipino athletes
with foreign blood, calling the
practice as a stop-gap measure that
only hides the true state of sports
development in the country.
Ocampo tops slalom invitational
EMERSON Ocampo of Cabanatuan Auto
Club captured the overall, production and front
wheel best time by clocking 38.64 seconds in
the Shell Helix Slalom Invitational Challenge
in San Fernando, La Union.
The event is the rst of a three-leg Slalom
Invitational Circuit for year.
Ocampos teammate Hans Christian
Melosantos had the novice best time of
38.90, followed Umesh Raimalani (40.80)
and Ein Sanidrin (41.96).
This event was sponsored by Shell Helix
Motor Oils, Outlast Battery, Dubshop
Magwheels, Federal Tyres, with the backing
of Mayor Pablo Ortega, Pacoy Ortega, Ed
and Rica Regala, Monet Ortega, Baguio Auto
Forums, G Tech, Corolla Auto Club Baguio,
VW Club Baguio, Special Stage, Baguio
Makaluma, Bagspeed, Auto Impressions,
Speed Limits, Wholesome Concepts and
Cabanatuan Auto Club. Media partners
are Stoplight TV, C! Magazine, www.
autoindustriya.com and kotse.com.
For details, contact Bing Bang Dulce at
nos. 928-6951, 0918-8119337, 0922-816
5344, email racemotorsportsclub@yahoo.
com, Web site www.racemotorsports.com or
at the events Facebook account.
Castrol seeks
better show
Participants of the Shell Helix Slalom Invitational Challenge are shown prior to the races.
Angara
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
SOUTH MANILA ENGINEERING DISTRICT
8
th
Street, Port Area, Manila
(MST-May 11, 2012)
The DPWH South Manila Engineering District, through its Bids and Awards Committee
(BAC) invites contractors to bid for the aforementioned projects;
Contract I.D. N0. 12OH0058
Contract Name: Proposed Repair/Rehabilitation/improvement along Tejeron
st., Sta. Ana, Manila (Pedro Gil St., Manila-Makati boundaries)
with exceptions
Contract Location: Sta. Ana, Manila
Scope of Work: Repair/Rehabilitation/improvement of road
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Ph P 9,895,721.42
Contract Duration: 120 cal. days
Bid Documents: Ph P 10,000.00
The BAC will conduct this procurement process in accordance with the Revised
Implementing Rules & Regulations (IRR) of the Republic Act 9184. Bids in excess of the
Approved Budget for the Contract shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid.

To apply and to bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI)
signed and submitted by the person authorized in the Contractors License issued by PCAB.
Upon submission of the LOIs, the interested Contractor must also submit the photo copy
and original (for authentication purposes and issuance of Bid Documents) of the following
documents: 1. Class A Documents (Contained in the Contractors Registration Certifcate)
(CRC), 1.1 Legal Documents: a) Department of Trade and Industry Business Name
Registration (DTI) or SEC Registration Certifcate or CDA; b) Valid and Current Mayors
Permit/Municipal License; 1.2) Technical Documents; a) Valid Joint Venture Agreement, in
case of (J.V.) and Eligibility Docs for each member; b) Valid PCAB License and Registration;
c) Certifcate of Materials Engineering Accreditation duly Certifed by the Authorized Managing
Offce (AMO) d) Latest copy of Authorizing Managing Offcer e) Certifcate of Safety Offcer
Seminar from DOLE f) Phil-GEPS Order from (Document Request List) g) CPE's rating
for the 1st Quarter; 1.3) Financial Documents; a) Prospective Bidders Audited Financial
Statement for the preceding calendar which should not be earlier than 2 years from the
date of bid submission; b) Prospective bidders computation of its NFCC. The LOIs shall
be submitted by the Authorized Liaison Offcer as specifed in the Contractors Information
(CI). Submission of LOIs by persons with a Special Power of Attorney shall not be allowed.
The contractor must purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria:
(a) prior registration with the DPWH & PHILGEPS (b) Filipino citizen of 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 contractors submitted
proof of required equipments for the project are subject for inspection. 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 Certifcation of Registration (CRC). Registration
Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.

Issuance of Bidding Documents - - - - - - - - - - - - - - May 10-30, 2012
Pre-Bid Conference - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10:00 A.M. May 18, 2012
Deadline of LOI Receipt from Prospective Bidders- 12:00 Noon May 24, 2012
Deadline of Bid Receipt - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 12:00 Noon May 30, 2012
Opening of Bids - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 02:00 P.M. May 30, 2012
Prospecti ve bi dders may downl oad the LOI Forms from DPWH websi te:
www.dpwh.gov.ph (allowing the fling of Letter of Intent free of charge and prescribing fxed
costs of bidding documents as per D.O. No. 52 dated October 3, 2011).
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at South Manila
Engineering District, upon payment of a non-refundable fee as stated above for bid
documents. 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 bid 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, 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 envelope to the SMED-BAC Chairman; otherwise, it
will be a ground for an outright disqualifcation. The frst envelope shall contain the technical
component of the bid, which shall include a) copy of the CRC; b) if a propose Key Technical
Personnel is an employee of the bidder and working on another project at the time of the
bidding, the bidder shall submit a certifcation that (1) the personnel will be pulled out
from the on-going project once the bidder is awarded the contract, and (2) he/she will be
replaced with another person with equal or better qualifcations, as certifed by the head of
the implementing offce and c) The bidder may propose a Key Technical Personnel who is
not its employee provided that the said personnel is required to submit a certifcation that he/
she will work for the bidder if it is awarded the contract under bidding. 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 South Manila Engineering District reserves the right to accept or reject any or all
bid to annul the bidding process any time prior to Contract Award, without thereby incurring
any liability to the affected bidder/s.
A P P R O V E D:
(Sgd.) ERNESTO P. LEONES
Chief, Planning & Design Section
BAC Chairman
N O T E D:
(Sgd.) MIKUNUG D. MACUD
District Engineer
(MST-May 11, 2012)
Northern Samar 2
nd
District Engineering Offce
Cor. Balite and Garcia Streets
Catarman, Northern Samar
Telephone No./Fax No. (055) 251-8254
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works
and Highways, Nothern Samar 2
nd
District Engineering Offce, through
Government of the Philippines (GOP), invites contractors to bid for the
aforementioned projects:
Contract ID: 12II0034
Contract Name: Rehab/Improvement/Concreting of Poblacion-Las
Navas-Junction (Catubig-Las Navas) - San Jorge Farm
to Market Road.
Contract Location: Las Navas, Northern, Samar
Scope of Work: Portland Cement Concrete Pavement
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 Bids.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI),
purchased 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 for
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 Registration Certifcate (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 Bidding Documents May 10, 2012 - May 31, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference May 18, 2012 - 2:00 P.M. NS 2
nd
DEO
Sub Offces, Brgy. Rawis, Laoang, N.
Samar
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI May 24, 2012 until 5:00 P.M.
4. Receipt of Bids May 31
,
2012 - 8:30 AM-2:00 PM NS

2
nd
DEO Sub Offces, Brgy. Rawis,
Laoang, N. Samar
5. Opening of Bids May 31, 2012 - 2:00 PM - NS 2
n
d
DEO Sub Offces, Brgy. Rawis,
Laoang, N. Samar
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH, NS
2nd DEO Catarman, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of P10,000.00.
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 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 Bidding Documents (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 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
the post-qualifcation.
The Department of Public Works and Highways reserves the right to accept or
reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at any time prior contract award,
without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s.
(Sgd.) ROMULO D. GONZALES
BAC Chairman
InvItatIon to BId for the Supply and delIvery of fourteen (14) lotS
varIouS ItemS for Cf-pavIlIon ItB no. 05-08-2012pav
(MST-May 11, 2012)
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) is inviting all interested bidders
in its forthcoming public bidding for the Supply and Delivery of Fourteen (14) Lots Various Items
for CF-Pavilion.
Approved Budget: (VAT-exclusive, zero-rated transaction)
Description:
LOT DESCRIPTION ABC
DELIVERY
SCHEDULE
1 CARPENTRY AND MASONRY MATERIALS Php 366,976.90
Within 30 calendar
days from the effectivity
date specifed in the
Notice to Proceed
2 LAMINATED BOARDS 172,310.00
3 CARPET TILES 213,000.00
4 FLOOR TILES AND ADHESIVE MATERIALS 46,860.00
5 HARDWARE MATERIALS 83,906.00
6 PLUMBI NG MATERI ALS, PI PES AND
FIXTURES
146,062.00
7 PAINTING MATERIALS 30,521.40
8 ELECTRICAL MATERIALS 201,649.00
9
FI RE ALARM AND DETECTI ON AND
ANNUNCIATOR SYSTEM
54,680.00
10 DOORS 25,541.00
11
SUPPLY AND DELI VERY OF AI R
CONDITIONING UNITS (ACU)
579,000.00
12
SUPPLY, FABRICATION, DELIVERY AND
INSTALLATION OF GLASS DOORS
18,000.00
13
SUPPLY, DELIVERY AND INSTALLATION
OF CEILING
121,550.00
14
SUPPLY, DELIVERYANDINSTALLATIONOF
GRANITE COUNTERTOPS
28,215.00
Source of Fund: Internally Funded

This bidding is open to all suppliers; provided that the winning bidder should be registered with
PAGCOR prior to award of contract. Unregistered suppliers must register at the Suppliers Regis-
tration & Evaluation Section (SRES), Procurement Department (PD), 2nd Floor PAGCOR House,
1330 Roxas Blvd., Ermita, Manila, Tel. No. 526-0573.
Bidders should have completed, within the last three (3) years before the date of submission and
receipt of bids, a contract similar to the Project the description of an eligible bidder is contained in
the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II. Instructions to Bidders. Bidding will be conducted
through open competitive bidding procedure using a non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as
specifed in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 9184, otherwise
known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Post qualifcation of the lowest calculated
bid shall be conducted.
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 Philip-
pines, and to citizens or organizations of a country the laws or regulations of which grant similar
rights or privileges to Filipino citizens, pursuant to RA5183 and subject to Commonwealth Act 138.
All particulars relative to the Pre-Bid Conference, Evaluation of Bids, Post-Qualifcation and Award
of Contract shall be governed by the pertinent provisions of R.A. 9184 and its IRR.
The schedule of activities is listed, as follows:
Activities Schedule
1. Issuance of Bid Documents May 11, 2012 (Fri) to May 29, 2012 (Tue)
2. Pre-Bid Conference May 16, 2012 (Wed) (2:30 pm)
3. Deadline on Submission of Bids May 29, 2012 (Tue) (2:30 pm)
4. Opening of Bids May 29, 2012 (Tue) (2:30 pm onwards)
Complete details of the project are indicated in the bid documents which will be available to
prospective bidders at the BBAC Secretariat BPPS, Casino Filipino-Pavilion, upon payment of a
non-refundable bidding fee which shall be provided by the BBAC Secretariat BPPS upon request.
Prospective bidders may download the bid documents, free of charge, from the website of the
PHILGEPS: www.philgeps.net and the PAGCOR Website: www.pagcor.ph and may be allowed
to submit bids provided that bidders pay the non-refundable bidding fee not later than the date of
submission of bids. The Pre-bid Conference is open to all interested bidders, however, only those
bidders who have purchased the Bidding Documents and presented the PAGCOR Offcial
Receipt as proof of payment, may participate in the discussion at the said conference or
submit written queries or clarifcations. Prospective bidders should present to Finance Section
at the 5
th
Floor of Casino Filipino-Pavilion, Manila Pavilion Hotel, U. N. Avenue, Ermita, Manila either
the Bidding Fee Slip which may be secured from the PPS or a copy of this ITB in effecting payment
for the Bidding Documents. All Bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable
forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18.
PAGCOR assumes no responsibility whatsoever to compensate or indemnify bidders for any
expenses incurred in the preparation of their bids.
PAGCOR reserves the right to accept or reject any Bid, and to annul the bidding process and reject
all Bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected
bidder or bidders.
Please address all communications to Mr. Arturo Joel T. Gonzalez IV, BBAC Chairperson, Casino
Filipino-Pavilion, Manila Pavilion Hotel, U. N. Avenue, Ermita, Manila, Tel No.: 523-3635.
(SGD) ARTURO JOEL T. GONZALEZ IV
Chairperson, BBAC
Casino Filipino-Pavilion
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Manila Standard TODAY
Tomohiko Hoshina, 25, garnered
27 points during his campaigns in
the World Championships, Judo
Grand Slams, Judo Gran Prix and
Asian Judo Championships.
Ranked 97th in the world in his
division (100 kgs), Hoshina became
the third Filipino bet to the July 27-to-
Aug. 12 London Games after boxer
Mark Anthony Barriga and shooter
Brian Rosario. The three will be
joined by representatives from athlet-
ics and swimming, which both have
two mandatory athletes each.
Notwithstanding the weight cat-
egory, Hoshina managed to stay
within Top 12 in the Asian level,
enabling him to make it to the elite
list of judokas, who will earn tickets
to the London games by virtue of the
MAY 11, 2012 FRIDAY
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NBA RESULTS
Riera U. Mallari, Editor sports@manilastandardtoday.com sports_mstandard@yahoo.com
A FILIPINO-Japanese judoka will be
joining the lean Philippine delegation to
the London Olympics, bringing to seven
the total of Filipino athletes battling the
worlds best in the quadrennial event.
WORLD Boxing Organization yweight
champion Brian Viloria is dedicating his title
defense against Mexicos Omar Nino Romero
at the Ynares Sports Center in Pasig City on
Sunday to his close friend and former world
champion Andy Ganigan, who passed away
recently, two years after suffering permanent
brain damage following an unprovoked assault
by a drunken man in Honolulu.
The hard-hitting southpaw of Filipino
descent won the World Athletic Association
lightweight title with a second-round knockout
of Sean OGrady on Oct. 31, 1981 after
dropping the Irishman three times in the round.
The win over OGrady earned Ganigan a shot
at the World Boxing Council lightweight title
held by the great Alexis Arguello of Nicaragua.
Ganigan dropped Arguello in the rst round,
but couldnt put him away and eventually lost
by a fth-round knockout on May 22, 1982.
Ganigan is like an uncle to me. He
taught me how to throw a good body shot
(when Viloria was 13 years old). I practiced
for a few weeks after that, just body shots
alone, Viloria told the Manila Standard.
(Vilorias rst name is spelled Brian,
not Bryan, as what appeared in Thursdays
sports banner. Ed) Ronnie Nathanielsz
Viloria dedicates ght to Ganigan
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CLARKMiko Erich Montano
of JVT Racing and Marvin
Mangulabnan displayed nerves of
steel to survive separate grueling
encounters and capture the top
honors in the second legs of the
2012 Philippine Scooter Racing
Championships and the 2012
Philippine Underbone King
Championships recently at the
Clark International Speedway here.
Montano copped the premier
180cc crown of the 2012 Philippine
Scooter Racing Championships,
while Mangulabnan bagged the
premier 150cc Open title of the
2012 Philippine Underbone King
Championships, both sanctioned
by the Underbone and Scooters
Racing Association and supported
by FDR, the ofcial tires.
Starting from the tailend after
missing the qualifying time trials,
Montano uncorked an amazing rally
with a blistering laptime of 1:10.740
to move up third in the fourth lap and
challenged then front-running Raniel
Resuello on the sixth lap.
Actually, Resuello was almost sure
of victory, but unfortunately, a loose
mufer earned a black and orange ag
that cost him the lead he protected from
the start as race ofcials ordered him to
get back to the pit.
As the tide turned to his favor,
the race ended into a 1-2-3 nish
for the JVT Racing, with veteran
teammate Benjo Mendoza checking
in close second and Batangas
kickoff champion Arlan de la Cruz
claiming third place.
Montano completed 12 laps of
racing in 14 minutes and 20.101
seconds, just a 0.125 lead over
Mendoza. De la Cruz came in 11.103
seconds behind as Ivan Santiago and
Dustin Esguerra ended fourth and
fth, respectively.
Montano, Mangulabnan outlast foes
MEMPHIS, TennesseeThe Memphis Grizzlies believe they nally
played their grinding, bruising style of basketball in the playoffs.
Just in time too.
Marc Gasol scored 23 points and Zach Randolph added 19 as the
Grizzlies avoided elimination by beating the Los Angeles Clippers
92-80 on Wednesday night, forcing a Game 6 in the Western
Conference rst-round series.
Weve had our backs against the wall. We still have them,said Gasol,
who had his best game in this series. We havent done anything yet, and
we want to take it back to L.A. and give them another big battle.
With Gasol and Randolph scoring early, the Grizzlies looked like
the team that knocked off top-seeded San Antonio last spring and
took Oklahoma City to seven games in the conference seminals as
they pulled within 3-2 in this series. AP
Grizzlies stay alive
By Peter Atencio
PANGASI NANMaur een
Emily Schrijvers, a comely
Belgian-Chinese teenager, struck
again.
The 16-year-old, Manila-
born Schrijvers, a St. Stephen
High School graduate, reset
the existing meet mark in the
secondary girls high jump of
the 2012 Palarong Pambansa
athletics meet at the Narciso
Ramos Sports and Civic Center
track stadium in Lingayen.
In Dagupan, it was day of
heartbreaks for Delia Cordero
in swimming after her former
Southern Tagalog teammate
Catherine Bondad denied her
a fth gold by topping the
secondary girls 800-meter
freestyle action.
The 14-year-old Bondad, an
incoming high school freshman
at San Beda-Alabang, snatched
her third gold in 9:50.48, and
later claimed her fourth by
anchoring the 4x200-meter
freestyle relay squad to a record-
smashing gold-medal nish.
Axel Ngui bagged his fth
gold in the secondary boys
100- meter buttery and
became the winningest athlete
of the meet.
Shrijvers, who is on her nal
stint in the national scholastic
sports meet, cleared 1.62 meters
and rewrote the 1.61-meter
feat of Ma. Felice Ellaga of the
National Capital Region four
years ago.
The 56 Schrijvers then went
for the 19-year national junior
record of 1.64 of CherryAnn
Janiva, but her bottom and her
foot hit the bar when she tried to
clear 1.65 meters.
The incoming La Salle-Manila
freshman last broke a record
when she was still a Grade 6
student, shattering Charmaine
Cabales (Northern Mindanao)
26.94-second feat with a 26.7
clocking in the 200-meter
sprints.
Shrijvers now has two golds to
her credit after she also topped
the 100-meter dash in 12.5
seconds.
Kinabahan po ako dahil
nagkamali po ako at nag-foul ako
nang nag-foul, said Schrijvers,
who said she was not in good
shape last year because she was
recovering from dengue.
Shrijvers will go for her third
gold in the 200-meter dash today.
Belgian-Chinese steals Palaro show
PH judoka joins
Olympic squad
scheme called continental quota
being used by the International Fed-
eration of Judo.
Hoshina qualied based on (the
IFJs) world ranking system speci-
cally using the continental quota. He
ranked in the Top 12 in the mens in
Asia regardless of the weight class,
said Philippine Judo Federation
president David Carter.
Some 252 men and women ju-
dokas are qualied for the Olympics
via the continental quota, but only
the Top 12 men and Top 8 women
in each continent will complete the
list for the London games regardless
of their weight categories.
This is a momentous moment
for Philippine judo because Hoshina
is the rst Filipino to qualify in the
Olympics since the International
Judo Federation started applying the
qualifying standards, said Carter.
Were very happy for him and the
PJF will do its utmost best to help
him prepare for the Olympics.
The 2007 Thailand Southeast
Asian Games silver medallist is the
first juduoka to have made the Olym-
pics since the Barcelona Games.
Understanding the stiff qualifying
standards of the Olympics, any addi-
tion to our qualifiers is already by itself
an achievement of our athletes, said
Joey Romasanta, spokesman of the
Philippine Olympic Committee.
NATIONAL Collegiate Athletic
Association champion Univer-
sity of Perpetual Help primed
up for the quarternals with a
straight-set 25-21, 25-17, 25-20
victory over Far Eastern Uni-
versity at the close of the elims
of the ninth Shakeys V-League,
Presented by Smart at The Arena
in San Juan yesterday.
Thai import Kunbang
Pornpimol unloaded 13 attacks
and nished with 17 hits, while
Sandra delos Santos red
12 points and Honey Royse
Tubino chipped in 11 markers
for the Lady Altas, who
nished second to unbeaten
Ateneo (4-0) in Group A, with
a 3-1 card at the end of the
single round elims of the event
sponsored by Shakeys Pizza.
The Lady Altas overpowered
the Tams, 44-30, in spikes
and dominated their rivals on
defense upfront with 10 blocks
against FEUs four.
Guest players Jen Manzano
and Eve Sanorseang had eight
kills apiece to lead the Lady
Tams, who threatened last in the
third at 20-24 from nine points
down as Rosemarie Vargas
scored two straight and the Lady
Altas committed three errors.
But Tubino, who had four
blocks, soared with a kill to
wrap up the match in 1:11
while dealing FEU its second
loss in four games.
Lady Altas
turn back
FEU tossers
PBA All-Star Weekend. Willie Miller (top photo) playfully moves
with one of the Ilocandia Dancers during a welcome dinner hosted
by Gov. Imee Marcos, shown here with PBA Commissioner Chito
Salud (below). The rst part of the festivities of the 2012 PBA All-
Star Weekend in Laoag City rolls today with the Obstacle Challenge
and Three-Point Shootout being held as appetizers to the Greats vs.
Stalwarts game. The Shooting Stars and Slam Dunk contests are set
as curtain-raisers for Sundays All-Star Game. MANNY PALMERO
Swimming school. Learn to swim the fun and safe way with
the top-notch instructors of Bert Lozada Swim School. The 5:1
teacher-to- student ratio assures participants a safe and effective
swimming experience. Programs vary from infants as young as
6-month- old, to specialized programs for adults. Enrollment
is still ongoing in over 40 conveniently located venues around
Metro Manila and in Northern and Southern Luzon areas. For
more information, visit the Website www.bertlozadaswimschool.
com or call (02) 563-5532 / 0917-700-SWIM (7946).
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
CONDITIONING coach Alex Ariza was
pleased no end by what he described as a great
workout Wednesday by Manny Pacquiao at
the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles.
Ariza, who has complained in the past
over Pacquiaos sometimes lackadaisical
attitude to his conditioning routine, told the
Manila Standard it was great.
He said Pacquiao was up as early as 6 a.m.
for his plyometrics and was amazing in his
work on the track oval at the University of
Southern California.
Pacquiao pushed so hard sprinting and
running. He attacked everything and pushed
himself. We didnt have to push him. He did
it himself, said Ariza. He gave us one of
the best workouts in years.
This, Ariza said, augurs well for
Pacquiaos buildup to his World Boxing
Organization welterweight title defense
against undefeated Timothy Bradley at the
MGM Grand Garden Arena on June 9.
Pacmans workout pleases Ariza
Marvin Mangulabnan (center) pulled off a big escape to
emerge the 150cc Open Underbone champion over runner-
up Anthony Roman (left) and third placer Rizaldy Canare.
GRIZZLIES 92, CLIPPERS 80
HEAT 106, KNICKS 94
Smart enters Asia
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LEADING wireless services provider
Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart)
has done the country proud again,
garnering six nominations to the
2012 Asia Communication Awards-
-a program that recognizes Asian
telecom companies and individuals for
their innovations, achievements and
services that help shape the future of
the telecommunication industry.
The only Philippine telco to have
reached this level of achievement,
Smart topped this years nominations,
including a nomination to the
prestigious Operator of the Year
category, followed by Singtel, which
had fve nominations, and Ericsson, a
fnalist in Iour categories. Aside Irom
Operator of the Year, Smart was also
nominated Ior fve other categories.
Nominated under the Innovation
Award category is Smarts Netphone
--the world`s frst smartphone backed
by an operator-managed system.
Powered by Smarts very own
SmartNet platform which provides
cost-effective yet rich mobile internet
access, the Netphone is Smarts line
oI Android-compliant path-breaking
smartphones designed for emerging
markets like the Philippines.
Smarts Green Merchandising Program
is shortlisted under the Green Technology
Award. This program covers Smarts
efforts to utilize eco-friendly resources such
as oxo-degradable plastic and recycled
paper for its merchandising materials.
This, together with other complementary
initiatives such as its tarpaulin recycling
program, enables Smart to help save the
planet, while providing livelihood for
partner communities.
SHINE or Secured Health Information
Network and Exchange, Smart`s
pioneering mHealth service, is a fnalist
under the Emerging Market Initiative
category. SHINE is a hosted electronic
health information and referral system
which can be accessed by a java-capable
phone or a computer with Internet
connectivity. The service enables doctors,
nurses, and midwives to record patient
encounters, easily fnd and retrieve patient
records, remind patients and healthcare
providers, facilitate referrals among
Iacilities, and more eIfciently generate
government required reports.
Jump Experience Centerthe
Philippines` frst multi-dimensional
experience center of Smart and
mother frm, Philippine Long Distance
Telephone Company (PLDT), is
nominated for the Customer Service
Initiative category. The Jump
Experience Center showcases and
communicates products and services
through 100% live gadgets and
devices, and state-of-the-art digital and
interactive content.
Smarts sixth nomination covers
the companys pioneering customer
care initiatives on the worldwide
web. SmartCares, the country`s frst
customer care channel on social media
for a telecommunication company,
is a fnalist under the Social Media
Initiative category.
Together with Smart, vying for
the Operator of the Year Award are
Singapores Singtel and StarHub,
Australias Telstra International,
and Unitel of Laos. The Operator
of the Year Award recognizes a
telecommunication companys
ability to provide innovative service
offerings, quality and reliability of
customer service, and clarity and
strength of strategy, management and
performance during the previous year.
Smart, which is the Philippines
leading wireless services provider,
capped 2011 with 49.0 million
subscribers on its mobile network.
In the same year, Smart launched
game-changing products and
services including the Netphone, its
mHealth solutionSHINE, the Jump
Experience Center, and the Philippines
frst and only Long Term Evolution
(LTE) network. Also in 2011, through
its partnership with the Wholesale
Applications Community (WAC),
Smart pushed for open standard web
technologies to beneft progressive
and emerging markets. In 2011, Smart
launched Chikka TopApp--the world`s
frst WAC application enabling Ioreign
mobile network subscribers to transIer
prepaid credits to Smart mobiles.
No stranger to the Asia
Communication Awards, this is the
second time Smart has reached the fnals
of the prestigious telecommunication tilt.
In 2011, Smart bagged the Operator of
the Year and Green Technology Awards
during the inaugural ceremony of the
Asia Communication Awards.
The Asia Communication Awards,
organized by Total Telecom, is open
to all telecommunication businesses--
whether they are providers, traditional
carriers, service providers, multimedia
content providers, vendors and
other organizations providing a
communication service. Winners of
the 2012 Asia Communication Awards
will be announced on June 19, 2012 at
the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel
in Singapore.
Smart bagged six
nominations to the 2012
Asia Communication Awards,
including a nomination to the
prestigious Operator of the
Year category. In 2011, Smart
launched game-changing
products and services including
the Netphone, the Philippines
rst and only Long Term
Evolution (LTE) network, and a
host of customer care solutions
that allow subscribers to
manage their Smart accounts
anytime, anywhere.
Business
MAY 11, 2012 FRIDAY
B1
Ray S. Eano, Editor extrastory2000@gmail.com
Roderick T. dela Cruz, Assistant Editor
PSE COMPOSITE INDEX
Closing May 10, 2012
5,192.10
22.69
OIL
PRICES
TODAY
P780-P895.00
LPG/11-kg tank
P54.55-P61.02
Unleaded Gasoline
P46.10-P49.90
Diesel
P52.34-P57.85
Kerosene
P38.50-P39.20
Auto LPG
FOREI GN EXCHANGE RATE
Currency Unit US Dollar Peso
United States Dollar 1.000000 42.3880
Japan Yen 0.012563 0.5325
UK Pound 1.614000 68.4142
Hong Kong Dollar 0.0128815 5.4602
Switzerland Franc 1.077470 45.6718
Canada Dollar 1.001803 42.3330
Singapore Dollar 0.798339 33.8400
Australia Dollar 1.001803 42.4644
Bahrain Dinar 2.652731 112.440
Saudi Arabia Rial 0.266660 11.5407
Brunei Dollar 0.795165 33.7055
Indonesia Rupiah 0.000108 0.0046
Thailand Baht 0.032196 1.3647
UAE Dirham 0.272264 11.5407
Euro Euro 1.294000 54.8501
Korea Won 0.000875 0.0371
China Yuan 0.158486 6.7179
India Rupee 0.018605 0.7886
Malaysia Ringgit 0.325945 13.8162
NewZealand Dollar 0.781189 33.1130
Taiwan Dollar 0.034043 1.4430
Source: PDS Bridge
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Thursday, May 10, 2012
PESO-DOLLAR RATE
40
42
44
46
48
P42.390
CLOSE
Closing MAY 10, 2012
5200
4460
3720
2980
2240
1500
1200
VOLUME 964.710M
HIGH P42.380 LOW P42.530 AVERAGE P42.449
IN BRIEF
ICTSIs
profit up
24% in 1
st
quarter
Vista Land tops
realty companies
Market falls as China
suspends tours to PH
VISTA Land & Lifescapes
Inc., a company controlled
by the family of Senator
Manuel Villar, is now
the Philippines largest
homebuilder, according to
a market report prepared
by Colliers International
Philippines Inc.
Based on a market scan
of various vertical and
horizontal residential projects
in the Philippines developed
by 14 major players in the
real estate industry, Vista
Land has captured 22 percent
of the over 80,000 units of
reservation sales in 2011 with
the middle income as their
primary market, Colliers
said in a report dated March
2012.
The advantage of Vista
Land is that they have a good
track record in developing
livable communities in the
country even before the other
players came in, it said.
Vista Land has
condominium and
subdivision projects in over
50 cities and municipalities.
With this wide coverage,
the company is the largest
homebuilder in the country.
Vista Land president and
chief executive Manuel Paolo
Villar said the company
expects strong performance
in 2012. We are projecting
around 20 percent revenue
and earnings growth for 2012
which should result in another
record year for our company,
Villar said. Demand for
housing in the Philippines
continues to be very strong
so we are expecting robust
growth in reservation sales
given our planned project
launches countrywide.
Vista Lands planned
capital expenditure outlay
is projected to exceed P15
billion for 2012.
Jenniffer B. Austria
By Lailany P. Gomez
INTERNATIONAL Container
Terminal Services Inc., the
countrys biggest port operator,
said Thursday consolidated net
income in the rst quarter rose
24 percent to $35.4 million
from $28.5 million year-on-
year.
ICTSI attributed the higher
net prots to the growth in
volume and revenues and low
nancing charges.
Revenue from port
operations rose to $173.8
million, up 12 percent from
$154.9 million on-year.
The company attributed
the increase in revenues in
the rst three months to the
tariff increases in certain key
terminals, higher storage
revenues and ancillary
services, favorable volume
mix and the inclusion of
the new ports in Portland,
Oregon, and Rijeka, Croatia.
Excluding revenues from the
newly-acquired terminals,
organic revenue would have
grown 7 percent.
ICTSI handled consolidated
volume of 1,338,316 twenty-
foot equivalent units in the
first quarter of 2012, up
14 percent from 1,171,969
TEUs in the same period in
2011.
STOCKS fell for the second straight session Thursday,
bringing down the benchmark index below the 5,200-point
mark for the rst time this month, as Chinas decision
to suspend travel tours to the Philippines pulled down
tourism-related stocks.
The Philippine Stock Exchange index, the
30-company benchmark, shed 22 points, or
0.4 percent, to close at 5,192.1, its lowest
level since April 30. All six counters, except
property which closed at, ended in the red.
The heavier index representing all shares
also tumbled 26 points, or 0.8 percent, to
3,422, as losers outnumbered gainers, 134
to 31, with 36 issues unchanged. Some P8
billion worth of shares were traded Thursday.
Shares of Philippine casinos, hotel operators
and airlines fell, after Chinese travel agencies
suspended tours to the nation amid escalating
tension over a disputed area of the South
China Sea.
Alliance Global Group Inc., which owns
the operator of the Philippines biggest casino,
sank 5.6 percent to P12.94, the biggest loss
since Oct. 4. Bloomberry Resorts Corp. was
down 4.2 percent to P9.10.
Hotel operator Waterfront Philippines Inc.
was down 10.4 percent to P0.43 while Acesite
Hotel Corp. fell 10.2 percent to P7.80.
Cebu Air Inc., the nations largest budget
carrier, fell 1.7 percent to P68.80 while PAL
Holdings Inc., operator of Philippine Airlines,
was at at P7.65.
Stocks slid after Chinas state-run Xinhua
News Agency reported Wednesday that
Ctrip.com, the countrys largest online
travel service company, and Beijing Caissa
International Travel Service Co. halted tours
to the Philippines. Ships from the two nations
have been locked in a month-long standoff
over an area in the South China Sea claimed
by both countries. With Bloomberg
New BPO hub. The commercial properties group of SM Land Inc., the property development arm of SM Investments Corp., breaks ground for ThreeE-comCenter
(right). The building is the third installment of a four-structure premier business process outsourcing hub in the Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City. Lowering the
capsule during the groundbreaking ceremony are (from left) David Zaballero of Arquitectonica; Felix Lim of FS Lim & Associates; Lee Meng Kong, SM Land senior vice
president for construction and engineering; and Dave Rafael, SM Land senior vice president and head of commercial properties.
SMDC acquisition
SM DEVELOPMENT Corp. has acquired
the property leasing unit of listed Euro-Med
Laboratories Philippines Inc. for P1.25 billion.
SM Development said in a disclosure to
the stock exchange it signed an agreement to
buy 102 E. Delos Santos Realty Co., a wholly-
owned unit of Euro-Med that has an authorized
capital stock of P220 million.
102 Edsa owns two lots with a total area
of 10,936 square meters along Edsa in
Mandaluyong City, on which Euro-Meds
manufacturing facility is located.
The transaction is expected to be completed
in about 36 months after signing the agreement,
SM Development said.
Euro-Med said in a separate disclosure it
plans to transfer equipment and consolidate
manufacturing operations in its plant in Cavite.
The move is expected to generate operational
efciencies and cost reductions for the company.
SM Development, meanwhile, plans to use
the property for future residential condominium
development.
SM Development plans to spend P20.7
billion in capital expenditures this year.
SM Development reported a 33-percent
growth in net income to P1.21 billion in the
rst quarter of 2012 from P920 million year-
on-year on higher real estate sales.
Jenniffer B. Austria
Investments soar
FOREIGN direct investments soared to $850
million in the rst two months of 2012, nearly
three times higher than $335 million recorded a
year ago, on higher investments in equity and
corporate expansion, the Bangko Sentral said
Thursday.
The respectable growth of FDI reected
favorable investor sentiment as the countrys
macroeconomic fundamentals remained strong
amid continuing concerns over the sovereign
debt crisis in some parts of Europe and the
moderation in global economic activity, said
Bangko Sentral Governor Amando Tetangco Jr.
Gross equity capital placements hit $893
million, nearly 14 times higher than the year-
ago level of $63 million.
Equity capital infusion in the rst two months
of the year came mainly from the United States,
Australia, Japan and Kuwait.
The sectors that beneted from these inows
were the manufacturing, wholesale and retail
trade, real estate, nancial and insurance
services, mining and quarrying, and information
and communication.
Reinvested earnings amounted to $60
million, up 20 percent from $50 million in the
previous year. Elaine Ramos Alanguilan
TRADI NG SUMMARY
SHARES VALUE
FINANCIAL 16,031,899 995,550,855.60
INDUSTRIAL 576,312,500 1,375,314,830.79
HOLDING FIRMS 283,083,680 2,442,313,563.94
PROPERTY 328,264,883 942,701,420.09
SERVICES 212,783,406 885,211,990.45
MINING & OIL 5,784,813,696 1,327,008,707.18
GRAND TOTAL 7,201,290,064 7,968,101,398.04
FINANCIAL 1,266.13 (DOWN) 9.68
INDUSTRIAL 7,888.74 (DOWN) 26.56
HOLDING FIRMS 4,553.42 (DOWN) 42.71
PROPERTY 1,898.19 (UP) 1.59
SERVICES 1,694.17 (DOWN) 12.97
MINING & OIL 24,740.19 (DOWN) 571.36
PSEI 5,192.10 (DOWN) 22.69
All Shares Index 3,422.13 (DOWN) 26.20
Gainers: 31; Losers: 134; Unchanged:36; Total: 201
STOCKS Close
(P)
Change
(%)
Pancake House Inc. 11.90 32.22
Jolliville Holdings 2.77 17.37
Euro-Med Lab. 2.10 10.53
I-Remit Inc. 2.45 6.52
2GO Group' 1.98 5.32
Panasonic Mfg Phil. Corp. 6.65 3.10
Easy Call "Common" 4.52 2.73
Republic Glass 'A' 2.00 2.56
Ayala Land `B' 21.00 2.19
Solid Group Inc. 1.48 2.07
TOP GAI NERS
STOCKS Close
(P)
Change
(%)
LMG Chemicals 2.21 (18.15)
Dizon 38.30 (12.76)
Oriental Peninsula Res. 5.780 (12.69)
IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 0.061 (11.59)
Mabuhay Holdings À' 0.560 (11.11)
Waterfront Phils. 0.430 (10.42)
Acesite Hotel 7.80 (10.24)
Federal Chemicals 10.80 (10.00)
DFNN Inc. 6.40 (8.57)
Philodrill Corp. À' 0.047 (7.84)
TOP LOSERS
Agriculture growth
slowed to 1% in Q1
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High Low STOCKS Close High Low Close Change Volume Trade/Buying
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FINANCIAL
70.00 46.00 Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. 63.75 64.00 63.40 63.60 (0.24) 2,680,710 (90,699,999.50)
76.80 50.00 Bank of PI 72.10 72.90 70.00 72.45 0.49 1,959,660 13,064,626.50
512.00 370.00 China Bank 567.00 595.00 550.00 558.00 (1.59) 31,170 (2,027,290.00)
1.95 1.42 BDO Leasing & Fin. Inc. 1.80 1.80 1.75 1.78 (1.11) 120,000
23.90 12.50 COL Financial 22.70 22.70 22.55 22.70 0.00 118,200
Eastwest Bank 19.46 19.44 18.84 18.90 (2.88) 4,662,800 (28,127,784.00)
22.00 7.56 Filipino Fund Inc. 10.90 10.90 10.10 10.10 (7.34) 15,200
0.95 0.62 First Abacus 0.78 0.78 0.76 0.76 (2.56) 91,000
3.26 1.91 I-Remit Inc. 2.30 2.45 2.26 2.45 6.52 45,000
29.00 3.00 Maybank ATR KE 28.80 29.15 28.80 29.10 1.04 176,400 20,375.00
93.50 60.00 Metrobank 88.75 88.85 86.80 88.00 (0.85) 2,970,170 (8,143,107.50)
3.06 1.30 Natl Reinsurance Corp. 2.08 2.08 2.02 2.02 (2.88) 118,000
126.00 35.00 Phil Bank of Comm 75.00 76.00 75.00 75.00 0.00 1,090
16.85 41.00 Phil. National Bank 74.20 74.20 70.00 71.00 (4.31) 1,121,790 (36,760,084.00)
85.00 57.70 Phil. Savings Bank 82.00 82.00 82.00 82.00 0.00 210
539.00 204.80 PSE Inc. 369.00 379.80 359.00 360.00 (2.44) 52,920 8,428,046.00
44.40 25.45 RCBC À 45.50 45.30 44.10 44.50 (2.20) 477,100.00 2,556,840.00
151.50 77.00 Security Bank 145.00 145.20 143.00 143.50 (1.03) 1,080,780 (7,091,195.00)
1390.00 950.00 Sun Life Financial 980.00 980.00 975.00 975.00 (0.51) 200
140.00 58.00 Union Bank 105.50 105.00 101.00 101.90 (3.41) 309,350 (15,945,792.00)
INDUSTRIAL
35.50 26.50 Aboitiz Power Corp. 34.60 35.00 33.95 34.80 0.58 5,369,400 25,982,450.00
13.58 7.32 Agrinurture Inc. 11.80 12.00 11.50 11.68 (1.02) 42,600 (6,000.00)
23.50 11.98 Alaska Milk Corp. 23.60 23.65 23.60 23.60 0.00 18,000
1.86 0.97 Alliance Tuna Intl Inc. 1.51 1.54 1.47 1.49 (1.32) 1,766,000
54.90 26.00 Alphaland Corp. 31.50 31.50 31.50 31.50 0.00 200
1.65 1.08 Alsons Cons. 1.36 1.40 1.35 1.38 1.47 545,000 27,200.00
Asiabest Group 37.65 38.90 34.55 36.50 (3.05) 55,900
102.80 3.02 Bloomberry 9.50 9.50 9.10 9.10 (4.21) 45,212,400 (12,852,568.00)
2.88 2.24 Calapan Venture 2.30 2.30 2.25 2.30 0.00 51,000 92,250.00
250.00 41.00 Chemphil 290.00 279.00 145.00 279.00 (3.79) 170
144.00 36.00 Conc. Aggr. À 66.00 65.00 65.00 65.00 (1.52) 1,350
3.07 2.30 Chemrez Technologies Inc. 2.63 2.63 2.61 2.61 (0.76) 90,000 131,500.00
8.33 7.41 Cirtek Holdings (Chips) 8.18 8.19 8.00 8.19 0.12 115,500
7.06 4.83 Energy Devt. Corp. (EDC) 5.96 6.00 5.87 5.90 (1.01) 19,575,300 (41,081,829.00)
6.28 2.80 EEI 6.35 6.30 6.10 6.20 (2.36) 490,600 163,480.00
3.80 1.00 Euro-Med Lab. 1.90 2.40 1.98 2.10 10.53 217,000
25.00 5.80 Federal Chemicals 12.00 11.48 10.80 10.80 (10.00) 5,900
15.58 12.50 First Gen Corp. 14.00 14.04 13.60 13.80 (1.43) 580,800 (3,978,150.00)
67.20 51.50 First Holdings A 64.90 64.50 63.50 63.50 (2.16) 623,980 (8,750,241.00)
31.50 22.50 Ginebra San Miguel Inc. 22.40 22.50 21.50 22.00 (1.79) 149,400 (182,250.00)
0.10 0.0095 Greenergy 0.0150 0.0150 0.0130 0.0150 0.00 465,400,000 685,000.00
13.50 7.80 Holcim Philippines Inc. 12.00 12.00 11.94 12.00 0.00 4,600
9.00 4.71 Integ. Micro-Electronics 4.75 4.80 4.75 4.75 0.00 92,000 (171,000.00)
2.35 0.95 Ionics Inc 1.400 1.450 1.340 1.360 (2.86) 161,000
120.00 80.00 Jollibee Foods Corp. 110.30 110.90 109.00 110.90 0.54 278,440 4,381,170.00
8.40 1.04 LMG Chemicals 2.70 2.55 2.21 2.21 (18.15) 589,000 22,500.00
3.20 1.05 Manchester Intl. A 2.01 2.00 1.95 2.00 (0.50) 75,000
3.19 1.08 Manchester Intl. B 1.91 1.92 1.92 1.92 0.52 6,000 11,520.00
24.70 17.94 Manila Water Co. Inc. 25.50 25.55 25.00 25.40 (0.39) 2,444,100 7,724,275.00
6.95 0.75 Mariwasa MFG. Inc. 3.99 3.99 3.99 3.99 0.00 10,000
15.30 8.12 Megawide 17.26 17.00 16.70 16.90 (2.09) 621,900
295.00 215.00 Mla. Elect. Co À 255.00 256.00 253.00 256.00 0.39 125,910 (2,028,976.00)
6.75 4.50 Panasonic Mfg Phil. Corp. 6.45 6.70 6.65 6.65 3.10 2,600
11.00 7.00 Pancake House Inc. 9.00 11.90 11.90 11.90 32.22 100 (1,190.00)
3.00 1.96 Pepsi-Cola Products Phil. 2.76 2.75 2.64 2.70 (2.17) 422,000 125,200.00
17.40 9.70 Petron Corporation 10.56 10.56 10.34 10.42 (1.33) 4,036,500 (2,129,948.00)
14.00 10.30 Phinma Corporation 11.20 11.00 11.00 11.00 (1.79) 800
15.24 9.01 Phoenix Petroleum Phils. 9.38 9.32 9.15 9.32 (0.64) 600,400 (50,600.00)
9.50 5.25 Republic Cement À 8.88 8.45 8.00 8.45 (4.84) 600
2.55 1.01 RFM Corporation 2.66 2.73 2.61 2.70 1.50 4,058,000 1,190,730.00
33.00 27.70 San Miguel Brewery Inc. 29.90 29.90 29.90 29.90 0.00 1,600
132.60 105.70 San Miguel Corp À 114.00 114.30 112.90 113.50 (0.44) 309,690 (278,899.00)
1.90 1.25 Seacem 1.77 1.74 1.73 1.74 (1.69) 641,000
2.50 1.85 Splash Corporation 1.90 1.85 1.85 1.85 (2.63) 17,000
0.250 0.112 Swift Foods, Inc. 0.132 0.132 0.132 0.132 0.00 3,050,000 (7,920.00)
5.46 2.92 Tanduay Holdings 3.79 3.80 3.77 3.79 0.00 196,000
3.62 1.99 TKC Steel Corp. 2.35 2.35 2.20 2.35 0.00 7,000 (2,350.00)
1.41 0.90 Trans-Asia Oil 1.26 1.25 1.23 1.24 (1.59) 3,284,000
68.00 36.20 Universal Robina 68.05 68.05 66.95 67.50 (0.81) 4,467,090 83,748,030.50
1.12 0.285 Vitarich Corp. 0.700 0.700 0.660 0.670 (4.29) 956,000
1.22 0.68 Vulcan Indl. 1.01 1.01 1.01 1.01 0.00 321,000
HOLDING FIRMS
1.18 0.65 Abacus Cons. À 0.73 0.72 0.72 0.72 (1.37) 724,000
59.90 35.50 Aboitiz Equity 52.00 53.20 51.80 52.35 0.67 2,621,880 14,419,424.00
0.019 0.014 Alcorn Gold Res. 0.0150 0.0150 0.0150 0.0150 0.00 146,800,000
13.48 8.00 Alliance Global Inc. 13.70 13.60 12.84 12.94 (5.55) 33,648,200 (232,539,152.00)
2.97 1.67 Anglo Holdings A 2.04 2.03 2.00 2.00 (1.96) 155,000
4.60 3.00 Anscor À 4.75 4.80 4.30 4.75 0.00 230,000
6.98 0.260 Asia Amalgamated A 4.08 4.01 3.75 3.80 (6.86) 298,000
3.15 1.49 ATN Holdings A 1.79 1.79 1.60 1.79 0.00 65,000
437.00 272.00 Ayala Corp À 451.00 451.00 449.00 450.00 (0.22) 779,500 19,156,690.00
59.45 30.50 DMCI Holdings 62.25 63.50 61.05 63.40 1.85 3,703,260 43,515,866.00
4.19 1.03 F&J Prince A 2.66 2.62 2.60 2.62 (1.50) 65,000
5.25 3.30 Filinvest Dev. Corp. 4.20 4.20 4.05 4.20 0.00 1,461,000 263,900.00
GT Capital 502.00 501.00 489.00 493.00 (1.79) 382,220 (14,329,932.00)
5.22 2.90 House of Inv. 4.75 4.70 4.52 4.70 (1.05) 105,000 (22,950.00)
34.80 19.00 JG Summit Holdings 35.50 35.50 33.90 34.50 (2.82) 3,130,200 7,608,015.00
4.19 2.27 Jolliville Holdings 2.36 2.77 2.77 2.77 17.37 1,000
6.95 4.00 Lopez Holdings Corp. 5.60 5.60 5.41 5.45 (2.68) 2,757,600 (4,539,300.00)
1.54 0.61 Lodestar Invt. Holdg.Corp. 1.18 1.19 1.15 1.15 (2.54) 6,352,000
0.91 0.300 Mabuhay Holdings À 0.630 0.570 0.560 0.560 (11.11) 275,000
3.82 1.500 Marcventures Hldgs., Inc. 3.200 3.190 2.980 3.120 (2.50) 11,743,000 2,274,360.00
4.45 2.56 Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. 4.56 4.60 4.31 4.40 (3.51) 44,279,000 (10,971,470.00)
6.24 2.10 Minerales Industrias Corp. 4.97 4.90 4.70 4.88 (1.81) 159,000 70,890.00
0.0770 0.054 Pacica À 0.0540 0.0570 0.0540 0.0550 1.85 10,580,000
2.20 1.42 Prime Media Hldg 1.480 1.460 1.450 1.450 (2.03) 30,000 34,800.00
0.82 0.44 Prime Orion 0.500 0.490 0.490 0.490 (2.00) 637,000
4.10 1.56 Republic Glass A 1.95 2.00 1.95 2.00 2.56 8,000
2.40 0.91 Seafront À 1.39 1.66 1.41 1.41 1.44 12,000
0.490 0.285 Sinophil Corp. 0.355 0.350 0.350 0.350 (1.41) 1,180,000
699.00 450.00 SM Investments Inc. 700.00 701.00 698.00 700.00 0.00 1,020,350 600,914,120.00
1.78 1.00 Solid Group Inc. 1.45 1.60 1.45 1.48 2.07 2,554,000 85,630.00
1.57 1.14 South China Res. Inc. 1.28 1.26 1.24 1.26 (1.56) 10,000
0.420 0.099 Unioil Res. & Hldgs 0.2500 0.2500 0.2400 0.2400 (4.00) 500,000
0.620 0.056 Wellex Industries 0.3700 0.3750 0.3600 0.3700 0.00 4,480,000
1.370 0.178 Zeus Holdings 0.570 0.560 0.530 0.550 (3.51) 2,334,000
P R O P E R T Y
39.00 11.00 Anchor Land Holdings Inc. 46.50 44.50 44.00 44.00 (5.38) 200
2.82 1.70 A. Brown Co., Inc. 2.58 2.51 2.51 2.51 (2.71) 195,000
0.75 0.31 Araneta Prop À 0.720 0.730 0.680 0.690 (4.17) 564,000
0.218 0.150 Arthaland Corp. 0.180 0.179 0.179 0.179 (0.56) 1,000,000
22.40 13.36 Ayala Land `B 20.55 21.15 20.70 21.00 2.19 11,159,000 (82,963,380.00)
6.12 3.08 Belle Corp. À 4.88 4.87 4.76 4.79 (1.84) 5,318,000 (2,379,860.00)
9.00 2.26 Cebu Holdings 7.12 7.20 6.65 7.00 (1.69) 523,100 (1,239,972.00)
5.60 2.00 Cebu Prop. À 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 0.00 39,000
5.66 0.26 Century Property 1.65 1.66 1.54 1.56 (5.45) 7,334,000 (31,450.00)
2.85 1.20 City & Land Dev. 2.44 2.80 2.38 2.45 0.41 891,000 (2,730.00)
1.65 1.07 Cityland Dev. À 1.30 1.28 1.21 1.28 (1.54) 2,000
0.127 0.060 Crown Equities Inc. 0.081 0.082 0.080 0.082 1.23 3,160,000
1.16 0.67 Cyber Bay Corp. 0.85 0.85 0.84 0.84 (1.18) 2,396,000 9,240.00
0.90 0.54 Empire East Land 0.780 0.770 0.740 0.750 (3.85) 37,045,000 3,000.00
0.310 0.10 Ever Gotesco 0.180 0.176 0.175 0.175 (2.78) 1,400,000
3.06 1.76 Global-Estate 2.08 2.05 1.97 2.02 (2.88) 2,941,000 108,000.00
1.35 0.98 Filinvest Land,Inc. 1.38 1.39 1.29 1.34 (2.90) 63,679,000 (3,554,920.00)
3.80 1.21 Highlands Prime 1.87 1.82 1.80 1.81 (3.21) 33,000
2.14 0.65 Interport À 1.15 1.12 1.06 1.06 (7.83) 383,000
2.48 1.51 Megaworld Corp. 2.26 2.26 2.16 2.18 (3.54) 145,735,000 111,374,100.00
0.80 0.215 MRC Allied Ind. 0.2010 0.2000 0.1900 0.1940 (3.48) 7,840,000 (10,000.00)
0.990 0.072 Phil. Estates Corp. 0.7000 0.7100 0.6600 0.6900 (1.43) 11,183,000 25,860.00
0.71 0.41 Phil. Realty À 0.520 0.520 0.520 0.520 0.00 433,000
4.77 1.80 Polar Property Holdings 3.49 3.35 3.31 3.31 (5.16) 7,000
18.86 10.00 Robinsons Land `B 18.00 18.02 17.38 17.86 (0.78) 784,600 (2,537,088.00)
2.70 1.74 Shang Properties Inc. 2.56 2.58 2.52 2.52 (1.56) 310,000
9.47 6.50 SM Development À 7.04 7.04 6.95 7.00 (0.57) 492,500 941,078.00
18.20 10.90 SM Prime Holdings 16.06 16.10 15.76 16.00 (0.37) 10,659,100 (42,978,948.00)
1.14 0.64 Sta. Lucia Land Inc. 0.74 0.73 0.68 0.70 (5.41) 2,613,000 50,700.00
0.80 0.45 Suntrust Home Dev. Inc. 0.560 0.560 0.560 0.560 0.00 303,000
4.30 2.60 Vista Land & Lifescapes 4.320 4.370 4.210 4.280 (0.93) 4,596,000 290,300.00
S E R V I C E S
2GO Group 1.88 2.09 1.88 1.98 5.32 68,000
43.00 28.60 ABS-CBN 38.20 37.50 35.00 36.00 (5.76) 20,100
14.76 1.60 Acesite Hotel 8.69 8.44 7.00 7.80 (10.24) 435,100 444,699.00
0.80 0.45 APC Group, Inc. 0.660 0.690 0.660 0.660 0.00 614,000
0.5300 0.0660 Boulevard Holdings 0.1730 0.1750 0.1670 0.1690 (2.31) 52,430,000 (67,780.00)
98.15 62.50 Cebu Air Inc. (5J) 70.00 70.00 68.50 68.80 (1.71) 943,390 13,527,439.00
9.70 5.40 DFNN Inc. 7.00 7.00 6.00 6.40 (8.57) 274,200 (36,090.00)
5.90 1.45 Easy Call Common 4.40 4.60 3.90 4.52 2.73 57,000
1172.00 11.70 Globalports 32.00 40.00 32.00 32.10 0.31 8,600 (6,600.00)
1270.00 825.00 Globe Telecom 1090.00 1100.00 1053.00 1095.00 0.46 37,010 2,336,675.00
10.34 6.18 GMA Network Inc. 9.90 9.80 9.10 9.75 (1.52) 1,036,600
69.00 43.40 I.C.T.S.I. 74.00 74.00 71.50 73.20 (1.08) 1,683,400 36,186,901.50
0.98 0.34 Information Capital Tech. 0.410 0.410 0.405 0.405 (1.22) 620,000
6.00 4.00 IPeople Inc. À 6.11 6.11 6.11 6.11 0.00 1,000
4.29 2.20 IP Converge 3.17 3.26 3.03 3.23 1.89 328,000
34.50 0.123 IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 0.069 0.072 0.060 0.061 (11.59) 131,930,000 85,960.00
3.87 1.16 IPVG Corp. 1.09 1.08 1.04 1.06 (2.75) 872,000 (379,480.00)
5.1900 2.900 ISM Communications 2.9500 2.9000 2.8000 2.9000 (1.69) 405,000
11.68 5.90 Leisure & Resorts 7.10 7.10 6.93 6.97 (1.83) 387,200 26,410.00
4.28 2.65 Liberty Telecom 2.85 2.85 2.75 2.85 0.00 24,000
2.35 0.92 Lorenzo Shipping 1.77 1.77 1.70 1.70 (3.95) 44,000
3.96 2.70 Macroasia Corp. 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.90 0.00 130,000
3.00 1.00 Manila Jockey 1.55 1.55 1.55 1.55 0.00 4,550,000
21.00 17.20 Pacic Online Sys. Corp. 20.95 20.50 20.05 20.50 (2.15) 10,400
8.58 4.50 PAL Holdings Inc. 7.37 7.66 7.50 7.65 3.87 63,800
3.32 1.05 Paxys Inc. 2.51 2.55 2.46 2.47 (1.59) 927,000 (640.00)
60.00 17.02 Phil. Seven Corp. 44.00 44.00 44.00 44.00 0.00 40,000
17.18 14.50 Philweb.Com Inc. 17.12 17.08 16.80 17.00 (0.70) 297,300 2,155,180.00
6.90 3.80 PLDT Comm & Energy 3.69 3.68 3.58 3.60 (2.44) 38,000 (11,040.00)
2886.00 2096.00 PLDT Common 2520.00 2516.00 2492.00 2508.00 (0.48) 153,345 109,936,890.00
0.48 0.23 PremiereHorizon 0.330 0.330 0.330 0.330 0.00 2,140,000 (66,000.00)
23.75 10.68 Puregold 24.40 24.90 23.10 24.15 (1.02) 2,308,700 5,729,570.00
3.30 2.40 Transpacic Broadcast 2.70 2.75 2.75 2.75 1.85 1,000
0.79 0.26 Waterfront Phils. 0.480 0.465 0.430 0.430 (10.42) 5,500,000 (602,450.00)
MINING & OIL
0.0083 0.0036 Abra Mining 0.0052 0.0052 0.0052 0.0052 0.00 10,000,000
6.20 3.01 Apex À 5.15 5.15 5.10 5.15 0.00 61,800
6.22 3.00 Apex `B 5.13 5.20 5.05 5.10 (0.58) 190,000 (252,500.00)
25.20 14.50 Atlas Cons. À 18.80 18.62 17.98 18.30 (2.66) 3,091,900 (8,589,400.00)
31.00 20.00 Atok-Big Wedge À 30.00 31.00 28.00 29.00 (3.33) 8,500
0.380 0.148 Basic Energy Corp. 0.280 0.280 0.270 0.275 (1.79) 14,320,000 (770,000.00)
30.35 15.00 Benguet Corp À 26.00 26.00 25.00 25.05 (3.65) 54,700
34.00 14.50 Benguet Corp `B 27.00 27.00 25.50 25.50 (5.56) 60,100 (893,630.00)
2.51 1.62 Century Peak Metals Hldgs 1.69 1.66 1.60 1.66 (1.78) 2,026,000 97,600.00
50.85 4.35 Dizon 43.90 43.50 38.20 38.30 (12.76) 5,061,900 3,242,455.00
1.21 0.50 Geograce Res. Phil. Inc. 0.84 0.84 0.78 0.81 (3.57) 27,765,000 (101,500.00)
1.82 0.5900 Lepanto À 1.340 1.340 1.300 1.340 0.00 52,449,000
2.070 0.6700 Lepanto `B 1.380 1.400 1.340 1.340 (2.90) 21,855,000 (10,118,230.00)
0.085 0.035 Manila Mining À 0.0680 0.0670 0.0640 0.0640 (5.88) 214,180,000
0.087 0.035 Manila Mining `B 0.0680 0.0680 0.0650 0.0650 (4.41) 150,920,000 (16,500.00)
34.80 15.04 Nickelasia 30.90 30.90 28.60 30.00 (2.91) 3,849,200 (6,275,430.00)
12.76 2.08 Nihao Mineral Resources 9.99 10.30 7.90 10.06 0.70 27,620,800 4,165,690.00
8.40 2.12 Oriental Peninsula Res. 6.620 6.600 5.780 5.780 (12.69) 20,270,000 (875,914.00)
0.032 0.012 Oriental Pet. À 0.0210 0.0210 0.0190 0.0200 (4.76) 1,309,000,000
0.033 0.013 Oriental Pet. `B 0.0220 0.0220 0.0210 0.0210 (4.55) 47,600,000 (63,000.00)
7.14 5.10 Petroenergy Res. Corp. 6.34 6.39 6.30 6.30 (0.63) 37,200
28.95 17.08 Philex À 24.00 24.00 22.80 23.50 (2.08) 2,572,400 6,032,040.00
14.18 3.00 PhilexPetroleum 27.30 27.00 24.90 25.90 (5.13) 1,648,400 3,127,535.00
0.058 0.013 Philodrill Corp. À 0.051 0.052 0.043 0.047 (7.84) 3,485,980,000 (3,894,830.00)
252.00 161.10 Semirara Corp. 254.60 253.40 246.00 253.00 (0.63) 482,760 (982,412.00)
0.029 0.013 United Paragon 0.0200 0.0190 0.0180 0.0190 (5.00) 383,600,000
PREFERRED
109.80 100.50 First Phil. Hldgs.-Pref. 105.10 105.10 104.90 104.90 (0.19) 17,340
11.02 6.00 GMA Holdings Inc. 9.79 9.70 9.06 9.50 (2.96) 4,356,300 1,799,982.00
116.70 106.20 PCOR-Preferred 115.10 115.30 115.20 115.30 0.17 114,150
6.00 0.87 Swift Pref 1.12 1.12 1.12 1.12 0.00 50,000
WARRANTS & BONDS
1.35 0.62 Megaworld Corp. Warrants 1.23 1.20 1.19 1.19 (3.25) 5,240,000 5,955,000.00
Ang: PAL profitable after 1 year
By Othel V. Campos
FARM output grew just 1.1 percent year-on-
year in the rst quarter, slower than the 4.2-
percent expansion recorded during the same
period last year, as rice and sheries recorded
lower output during the period.
Were expecting farm
output to rebound in the
second quarter. Crops is doing
okay despite a slight decline.
However, it is the 4.0-percent
reduction in sheries [output]
that dampened the total
agricultural performance this
quarter, Agriculture Secretary
Proceso Alcala told reporters in
a press brieng Thursday.
Data from the Bureau of
Agricultural Statistics showed
the crops subsector grew by
just 0.8 percent in the rst three
months, coming from a high
baseline of 8.24-percent growth
a year ago.
Rice, the countrys staple, saw
a 1.1-percent decline in output to
3.99 million metric tons in the
rst quarter from 4.03 million
MT a year earlier.
Continuous rain in the
Cagayan Valley and the
Autonomous Region of Muslim
Mindanao as well as reports
of early harvest in Western
Visayas accounted for the slight
decrease in rice production
during the period.
Corn, the countrys second
staple, posted a 5.4-percent
increment to 2.01 million MT
from 1.91 million MT.
Agricultural ofcials cite
multiple factors for the good
performance of corn harvests,
such as good weather, increased
hectarage planted to corn, and
greater use of hybrid seeds.
Cash crops like coconut,
banana, pineapple and abaca also
exhibited good performance,
increasing by 5.57 percent, 2
percent, 5.95 percent, and 1.99
percent, respectively.
The crops subsector accounted
for 52.8 percent to the total
agricultural production during
the period in review.
Livestock and poultry were
also on the upswing, posting
incremental outputs of 3.17 and
7.06 percent from 0.48 and 3.9
percent, respectively.
The high demand for roasted
chicken in highly urbanized
areas and good prospects for
export opportunities accounted
for the growth while optimized
production of hogs boosted the
performance of the livestock
subsector.
Livestock and poultry
accounted for 15.47 and 14.07
percent of the total agricultural
production.
Exports drop
1.2% on slower
electronic sales
By Jenniffer B. Austria
CONGLOMERATE San Miguel Corp. is condent
Philippine Airlines will return to protability one year
after acquiring a 49-percent interest and taking over
management control over the countrys national ag
carrier.
San Miguel president and chief operating ofcer
Ramon Ang said in an interview at the sidelines of the
annual stockholders meeting of Ginebra San Miguel Inc.
that the airline planned to reduce cost by increasing the
utilization of aircraft from 10 hours to 16 hours a day
and improving the system for selling tickets to get better
yield and pricing.
PAL will make turnaround a year from the time we
invested in the company. We are condent that PAL will
make a turnaround, Ang said.
He said PAL would also y non-stop to New York
within the next three months, Toronto within the year
and Europe within a one-year period.
Ang said the airline would utilize two Boeing 777-
300 ERs to be delivered this year for the ight to New
York and Toronto. Two more Boeing 777-300 ERs are
scheduled for delivery by 2013.
PAL is launching the non-stop ights amid the decision
of US authorities to strip the Philippines of its Category
1 status. Ang expressed hope that the countrys problems
with US and EU aviation authorities would be resolved
soon to enable the carrier to y European destinations
like London, Paris, Frankfurt and Rome.
By Maria Bernadette Lunas
EXPORTS fell for the rst time this
year in March, as electronics shipments
slowed while sales of agricultural and
mineral products posted double-digit
decline, the National Statistics Ofce
reported Thursday.
The NSO said exports contracted
1.2 percent to $4.3 billion in March
from $4.36 billion a year earlier,
with electronics shipments growing
modestly by 1.1 percent to $2.3 billion.
Export receipts from semiconductors,
the top electronic item, actually fell 3
percent to $1.672 billion.
Total exports in the rst quarter,
however, still went up by 4.6 percent
to $12.9 billion from $12.3 billion
during the same quarter in 2011.
Data showed that agricultural exports
tumbled 13.3 percent to $294.77
million in March while earnings from
mineral products dived 48.7 percent to
$133.10 million.
New SMC
projects.
San Miguel
Properties Inc.,
the property unit
of conglomerate
San Miguel Corp.,
is launching
new real estate
projects in Metro
Manila worth P7.7
billion. Unveiling
the projects
during the annual
stockholders
meeting at the
San Miguel
head ofce in
Ortigas, Pasig City
(from left) are
directors Hector
Holea, Minita
Chico Nozario
and Ferdinand
Constantino.
LINO SANTOS
Business
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Ayala
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complex
Palawan tribes sue Lopezs group
WITH many provinces and regions, particularly Mindanao, still
crippled by daily power shortages, the search is denitely on for
alternative energy sources and innovative propositions that would
stave off a power crisis that threatens to engulf the whole country.
Which is rather ironic, considering Manila Electric Co.s recent
announcement about a looming electricity price hike. Mindanao
residents, for instance, are contemplating people power to solve
the energy crisiswith a womens group initiating a drive to
collect P50-donations from 21 million people and raise P1 billion
as a seed fund to buy the Agus and Pulangi hydropower plants.
One interesting development whispered to Happy Hour is
that of giant state-owned China National Technical Import &
Export Corp. reportedly in serious exploratory discussions with
PetroEnergy Resources Corp. for a possible partnership. Beijing-
based CNTIC has vast business interests that include import and
export of technologies, commodity trade, project contracting,
nance investment and other diversied areas. This giant trading
conglomerate was founded in 1952 and to date, has become one
of the biggest government-owned corporations in Chinaactually
ranked at the top three in the list of Chinas 500 largest import and
export corporations. Its global network spans 100 countries across
all continents, and has concluded close to 5,000 projects with a
total contractual value of over $100 billion.
PERC, on the other hand, is a Philippine Stock Exchange-listed
company and is part of the Yuchengco Group. PERC is currently
developing several renewable energy projects, among them the
Nabas wind power project in Aklan under Wind Energy Service
Contract no. 2009-09-02 that took effect in September 2009. A
highly valuable document to have nowadays, according to HH
speakeasy patrons. Interestingly, PERC is also engaged in a joint
offshore oil exploration project covering 307,360 hectares in
Gabon, West Africa.
It wont be surprising if the reported partnership between
PERC and CNTIC would raise skeptical eyebrows from various
sectors such as the powerful coal power lobby groups who might
not welcome any competition from alternative energy/wind
power industry players, among them National Grid Power Corp.
chaired by Big Boy Sy, Ayala Corp.s Northwind, the Lopezes
Energy Development Corp. and the Del Rosario familys Trans-
Asia Renewable Energy Corp. under the Phinma Group.
This China-Philippines would-be partnership should be a
welcome PERC that could give everyone the much-needed
respite from the tensions of the Scarborough Shoal standoff.
Most important of all, of course, is the relief it could bring to
consumers who are reeling from blackouts and rising costs of
energy.

Leg power
Speaking of respite, Filipinos heaved a sigh of relief at the recent
rollback in gasoline and oil prices, although majority have become
jaded, saying the relief is going to be very short-lived. Not that
anyone could blame these cynics, considering the seesaw they go
through whenever oil prices are rolled back by P0.25 or P0.50 then
raised by P1 or more a couple of weeks (sometimes days) later.
Perhaps one suggestion worth imbibing is for people to shift
to bike power, especially now that Filipinos are making a name
for themselves in the international cycling circuit. Partylist
representative Arnel Ty disclosed that the LPG-MA cycling squad
(which bested foreign teams from The Netherlands, Australia,
New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and others in
the recently concluded 2012 Le Tour de Filipinas) will take a
crack at the Giro or the Tour of Italy, the second most celebrated
long distance road cycling race after the Tour de France.
The Giro is a long-distance, three-week road race in and
around Italy for professional cyclists all around the world.
Unlike car and motorbike races that require gazillions of liters
of gasoline, cyclists only need to rely on leg power. Filipinos
generally have small body frames so they should be well
suited for the sport of cycling. Actually, several cities in Metro
Manila such as Marikina and Pasig are encouraging a culture
of cycling by coming out with ordinances and creating bike-
designated lanes to help eradicate pollution. The downside,
however, is the scorching temperature, which has not been
very conducive to bicycling and other outdoor exertions.
Wanted: Grammar Police
Whats wrong with this
picture? A couple of words,
actually. Signs such as
this irritate the Grammar
Police no end. So if you
see ridiculous photos/
billboards/signs etc., e-mail
them to Happy Hour and we
will be more than happy to
oblige.

For comments, reactions,
photos, stories and related
concerns, readers may e-mail
to happyhourtoday2012@
yahoo.com.
Partnership PERCs
ENVIRONMENT advocate
ABS-CBN Bantay Kalikasan
has been charged for illegally
cutting trees, building houses
and cottages, and occupying
and converting a worship place
of the indigenous people in
Brookes Point, Palawan into a
resort.
Regina Paz Lopez, executive
director of ABS-CBN
Foundations Bantay Kalikasan,
and 20 others who invaded
Sabsaban Falls, a sacred
place among the tribesmen in
Barangay Aribungos, are facing
complaints before the National
Commission on Indigenous
People.
Brookes Point Federation of
Tribal Councils, represented by
chieftain Fabio Lagan, owner of
the area, has asked the NCIP last
week to order the defendants to
pay P2.3 million in damages and
litigation fees.
Lagan alleged that ABS-CBN
Foundation through the Bantay
Kalikasan and local government
ofcials entered and occupied
the Sabsaban Falls area on March
25, without rst securing a free
prior and informed consent and
certicate of precondition from
the NCIP.
Lagan added Artiso Mandawa,
a self-proclaimed tribal chieftain
and leader of the Ancestral Land
Domain Watch Network, had
allegedly connived with Bantay
Kalikasan to put up an eco-
academy resort project in the
area.
Bantay Kalikasans actions
run counter to its public-
avowed mission to protect the
environment when it intruded
into the area without permit
from its owner and the NCIP in
violation of the NCIP Law and
issuances, Lagan said.
By Alena Mae S. Flores
POWER producer Energy Development
Corp. said Thursday net income in the rst
quarter nearly doubled to P2.71 billion
from P1.38 billion a year ago, on higher
energy sales.
Recurring net income also
went up by 104 percent to P2.36
billion in the rst three months
from P1.16 billion booked in
the same period last year.
The company attributed the
improvement to the increased
revenue contribution and
lower operating costs of its
subsidiaries.
Green Core Geothermal Inc.,
operator of the 305-megawatt
Palinpinon-Tongonan power
plants and FG Hydro Power
Corp., which owns the 132-
megawatt Pantabangan-
Masiway power plants
contributed an additional
P0.7 billion and P0.6 billion,
respectively, to the groups net
income.
FG Hydro continues to post
strong earnings due to higher
energy sales and offtake from
contingency and dispatchable
reserves.
2010 and 2011 are our
transition years during which we
planted the seeds of growth and
made our balance sheet stronger.
Investments in Tongonan and
Palinpinon Power Plants have
started to yield better results
for the company, said EDC
president and chief operating
ofcer Richard Tantoco.
Our hydro asset is also
performing exceptionally
well this year, thanks to the
high water levels stored in the
reservoir, Tantoco said.
Tantoco said earlier the
company was looking at a net
income guidance of P6.8 billion
to P7 billion this year, as the
Bacon-Manito geothermal
plants in Albay and Sorsogon
start to contribute revenues to
the company.
The consensus of analysts
reports is P6.8 billion to P7
billion for the full year, he
said.
The company reported a
net income of P615 million in
2011, a sharp decline from its
P4.4-billion profit in 2010, due
to the P5-billion impairment
from the Northern Negros
power plant.
In 2011, we had two major
issues. One of that will partially
be there, the loss on income of
Bac-Man [geothermal power
plant], Tantoco said.
EDC suffered a loss of P1.2
billion from steam eld revenues
from the Bac-Man power plant.
The Bac-Man geothermal
complex has a dependable
capacity of 130 MW but it has
not been operating since last
year.
Ultimately, one of the things
[driver of growth] this year is
Bac-Man. Bac-Man will run for
average of about one quarter
because one unit of Bacman
running now, he said.
Tantoco said they also
expected revenues of P1
billion from the supply
contracts signed by Green
Core Geothermal Inc. with the
electric cooperatives.
The company was looking
at capital expenditure of P20
billion this year, of which P6
billion would be allocated for
the planned 86-MW Burgos
wind project.
Tantoco said the company
would nance its capex from
internally generated cash.
We have around P10 billion
in cash...we do not need
additional funding this year,
Tantoco said.
The company also set
aside P14 billion for internal
projects, P1.4 billion for the
Bac-Man rehabilitation, P500
million for Green Core capex,
P2 billion for the acquisition
of two new rigs, P2.2 billion
for the replacement of new
wells, and funding for the
Northern Negros geothermal
project to Nasulo in southern
Negros.
Today we are reviewing
technologies available [for
Northern Negros]. For Nasulo,
we have two adjacent wells
that are drilled over 45 MW but
installed was only 20 MW so
that is an additional capacity for
Green Core to sell, he said.
By Jenniffer B. Austria
PROPERTY giant Ayala Land
Inc. plans to transform the
Plastics City in Valenzuela
City into a mixed-use residential
and retail development, once it
closed a deal to acquire the 60-
hectare property from plastics
king William Gatchalian.
Ayala Land chief nance
ofcer Jaime Ysmael said the
property rm remained in talks
with the Gatchalian group that
owns the countrys biggest fully-
integrated plastic manufacturing
complex in Valenzuela.
The desire is to close the
deal, as soon as possible, so we
could start the development.
That is the preference but it
depends on the negotiations,
Ysmael said.
He said the property was
attractive for residential and
retail development since a lot of
rich families live around the area.
Ysmael said aside from residents
of Valenzuela, the property rm
hoped to lure families within the
Bulacan province.
Theres a lot of economic
activity in the area and people
requiring housing, Ysmael
said, adding Ayala Land had
long been interested in investing
in the area as part of its move
to expand geographically.
Hyundai partners with DoT. Hyundai Asia Resources Inc., ofcial distributor of Hyundai vehicles in the
Philippines, and the Tourism Department have teamed up to reinforce the image of the Philippines at the
forthcoming Expo 2012 in Yeosu, South Korea on May 12 to Aug. 12 this year. Shown are (from left) Hari
chairman emeritus Richard Lee, Hari president and chief executive Ma. Fe Perez-Agudo, Tourism Assistant
Secretary Domingo Ramon Enerio III, and Gwen Batoon, secretary-general of Philippine organizing
committee for Expo 2012 Yeosu.
(MST-May 11, 2012)
INVITATION TO BID
For the Supply of Various Jumper Couplers
under ITB No. 1204-038-01/ PR No. RS2-0312-110
Schedule of Activities:

Pre Bid Conference - May 23, 2012 @ 10:00 A.M.
Cafeteria, LRTA Line 2-Depot, Santolan, Pasig City
Submission and Opening of Bids - June 6, 2012 @ 9:00 A.M.
Cafeteria, LRTA Line 2-Depot, Santolan, Pasig City
TechnicaI Specications:
1) 18 pcs Jumper Coupler (Red) 2) 18 pcs Jumper Coupler (Blue)
Pin Number : 74
Rated Voltage : DC 110 V
Max. Rated Electric Current : 22A
Min. Rated Electric Current : 13A
Connection Type : Insert
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 THIRTEEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED EIGTHY THOUSAND PESOS
ONLY (PhP 13,680,000.00) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the
afore-mentioned contract. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid
opening. Contract period is required on or before 60 Calendar Days upon receipt of Purchase Order.
LRTA now invites bids from Prospective / Interested Bidders with the following details:
Description Approved Budget
for the Contract
Bid Security:
Cash/CC-MC
Bank draft/ guarantee
or ILC (2%)*
Security:
Surety bond
(5%)*
Cost of Bid
Documents
1) 18 pcs Jumper
Coupler (Red)
Php 6,840,000.00 Php 136,800.00 Php 342,000.00
Php 12,500.00 2) 18 pcs Jumper
Coupler (Blue)
Php 6,840,000.00 Php 136,800.00 Php 342,000.00
TOTAL PhP 13,680,000.00 Php 273,600.00 Php 684,000.00
*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.
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 May
11, 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 Php
12,500.00 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
Administration Bldg., LRTA Cmpd., Aurora Blvd. Tramo, Pasay City
Tel. No. 853-0041 50 loc. 8314
Email Address: bacsec_LRTA@yahoo.com
Facsimile No. 853-0041 50 loc. 8417
(Sgd.) Mr. LUTGARDO C. NAVARRO
Chairman, Bids & Awards Committee
(MST-May 11, 2012)
INVITATION TO BID
For The Contract for the Upgrading and Replacement of SCADA System into
Full Operational Capacity for LRTA Line 2 under ITB No. 1204-041-06
Schedule of Activities:
Pre-bid Conference May 23, 2012 @ 10:00 A.M.
Cafeteria, LRTA Line 2-Depot,
Santolan, Pasig City
Submission and Opening of Bids June 6, 2012 @ 9:00 A.M.
Cafeteria, LRTA Line 2-Depot,
Santolan, Pasig City
The Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA), through its Corporate Budget for the Calendar Year 2012,
intends to apply the sum of THIRTY NINE MILLION NINE HUNDRED FIFTEEN THOUSAND SEVEN
HUNDRED NINETY SEVEN PESOS & 52/100 ONLY (PhP39,915,797.52) being the Approved Budget
for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the afore-mentioned contract. Bids received in excess of
the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening. The Contract period is nine (9) months upon
receipt of Notice to Proceed.
LRTA now invites bids from Prospective/Interested Bidders with the following details:
Description
Approved Budget
for the Contract
Bid Security:
Cash/CC-MC
Bank draft/ guarantee
or ILC
(2%)*
Security:
Surety bond
(5%)*
Cost of Bid
Documents
Contract for the
Upgrading and
Replacement of SCADA
System into Full
Operational Capacity for
LRTA Line 2
PhP39,915,797.52 PhP 798,315.95 PhP1,995,789.88 PhP34,000.00
*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.
least sixty percent (60%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders commencing on 11
May 2012 until not later than the deadline for the submission and receipt of bids at the address
below and upon payment of a non-refundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of PhP
34,000.00 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
Administration Bldg., LRTA Cmpd., Aurora Blvd. Tramo, Pasay City
Tel. No. 853-0041 50 loc. 8314
Email Address: bacsec_LRTA@yahoo.com
Facsimile No. 551-5946
(Sgd.) Mr. LUTGARDO C. NAVARRO
Chairman - Bids & Awards Committee
CYAN MAGENTAYELLOW BLACK
Classifeds
ManilaStandardToday adv.mst@gmail.com MAY 11, 2012 FRIDAY
B4
Ilocos Norte Second District Engineering Offce
San Pablo, San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte
Telefax 781-3710 / 781-3709
(MST-May 11, 2012)
Revised DPWH-INFR-07-09
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Ilocos Norte 2
nd
District Engineering
Offce, San Pablo, San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte through ARISP III, invite contractors to
bid for the aforementioned project:
1) Contract ID: 2012-AB-0040
Contract Name: San Agustin-San Lorenzo-Bingao Road
Contract Location: Damilian ARC, San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte
Scope of Work: Concreting of Roads
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 Central Procurement Offce (CPO) before the deadline for the receipt of
LOI. The DPWH Central Procurement 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 time and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
Activities Schedule
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents From : May 11-May 31 , 2012 until 2:00 P.M.
2. Pre-Bid Conference May 18, 2012 at 9:00 A.M.
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
On or before 2:00 P.M. on May 25, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: May 31, 2012 until 2:00 P.M.
5. Opening of Bids May 31, 2012 at 2:00 P.M.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at Department of
Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Norte 2
nd
District Engineering Offce, San Pablo,
San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, upon presentation of two (2) valid IDs and payment of a
non-refundable fee of Ten Thousand Pesos (P10,000.00) for each project. 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 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. Mailed intents shall not be entertained.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in
the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst
envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy
of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid.
Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in
the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The Department of Public Works and Highway , Ilocos Norte 2
nd
District
Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding
process at any time prior contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the
affected bidder/s.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) JIMMY P. TUGAS, SR.
BAC Chairman
NOTED:
(Sgd.) ERNESTO C. FARAON
OIC-District Engineer
Republic of the Phillipines
Region IV-B MIMAROPA
Marinduque Engineering District
Boac. Marinduque
BID BULLETIN NO. 2,s.2012
May 4, 2012
(MST-May 9 & 11, 2012)
Subject: REVISION IN THE BILL OF QUANTITIES, AMOUNT
OF ABC, CHANGE OF PROJECT NAME & REVISED
SCHEDULE SATE OF BIDDING FOR CONTRACT ID
NO. 12EA0002/CONSTRCUTION OF SPORTS OVAL,
STA. CRUZ, MARINDUQUE.
This is to inform all concerned contractors on the changes of
quantities, amount of ABC & change of project name for contract
ID. No. 12EA0002 to suit actual feld condition and that revised
schedule date of bidding will be on May 16, 2012. This is also to
invite all participating bidders for another pre-bid conference on
May 8, 2012.
ORIGINAL PROJECT NAME = Construction of Sports Oval,
Sta.Cruz, Marinduque
REVISED PROJECT NAME = Const ruct i on of Drai nage
Ca n a l / Fl o o d Co n t r o l
Structure, Baliis, Sta.Cruz,
Marinduque
ORIGINAL ABC = 4,990,761.37
REVISED ABC = 5,000,000.000
FROM
Item No. Description Unit Estimated
Quantity
Unit Bid
Cost
Total Bid
Cost
Total Bid
in Words
104 Embankment Cu.m. 2,027.30
506 Stone Masonry Cu.m. 1,309.82
TO
Item No. Description Unit Estimated
Quantity
Unit Bid
Cost
Total Bid
Cost
Total Bid
in Words
104 Embankment Cu.m. 3,328.00
506 Stone
Masonry
Cu.m. 425.70
SPL Mod./Demob L.S 1.00
(Sgd.) ARISTEO L. LINGA
BAC-Chairman
NOTED:
(Sgd.) TUBURCIO L. CANLAS
OIC-District engineer
(MST-May 11, 2012)
Manila
Cluster No. rB41, repair/rehaBilitatioN of Various road seCtioNs iN
NueVa eCija i aNd rehaBilitatioN of MaNCatiaN Bridge (proteCtioN Works
oN exposed piers) iN paMpaNga 2Nd, NueVa eCija aNd paMpaNga proViNCe,
regioN iii, uNder the post oNdoy aNd pepeNg short terM iNfrastruCture
rehaBilitatioN projeCt (popstirp)
1. The Government of the Philippines (GOP) has received a loan (Loan No. PH-P246)
from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, toward the cost of Post Ondoy
and Pepeng Short Term Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project, Roads and Bridges
Component and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to payments
under the contract for Cluster RB41, Repair/Rehabilitation of Various Road
Sections in Nueva Ecija I, and Rehabilitation of Mancatian Bridge (Protection
Works on Exposed Piers) in Pampanga 2nd, Nueva Ecija and Pampanga
2nd, Region III.

is 180 Calendar Days. Bidders should have completed, within ten (10) years
from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a single contract similar to the
Project, equivalent to at least ffty percent (50%) of the ABC. The description of
an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section
II. Instruction to Bidders.
non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Revised Implementing Rules
and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the
Government Procurement Reform Act.
organizations with at least seventy fve percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital
stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
4. Contractors/applicants who are interested in the DPWH civil works are required to
register prior to the set schedule of submission of bid while those already registered
shall keep their records current and updated. Contractors eligibility to bid on the
project will be determined using the DPWH Contractor Profle Eligibility Process
(CPEP) and subject to further post- qualifcation. Information on registration can be
obtained at DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph or CPO, 5
th
foor, DPWH Building,
Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m.
Central Procurement Offce, 5
th
Floor Department of Public Works and Highways
Building, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area Manila upon payment of a non-refundable fee for
the Bidding Documents in the amount of Thirty Thousand Pesos (Php30,000.00.)
Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the
Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents
not later than the set deadline for the submission of bids.
th
Floor Department
of Public Works and Highways Building, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area Manila, which
th
Bonifacio Drive, Port Area Manila. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security
ITB Clause 18.1.
Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose to
attend at the address above. Late bids shall not be accepted.
BETTY S. SUMAIT
Director III
2
nd
Street, Port Area Manila
Tel. No. (02) 3043618
Fax No. (02) 3043627
any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to
contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
(MST-May 11, 2012)
OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Region IX, Zamboanga City
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works and
Highways Region IX, through CY 2012 GOP Budget, invites contractors to bid for
the aforementioned project:
Contract ID : 12JO0033
Contract Name : Upgrading/Concrete Paving of Basilan Circumferential
Road Lamitan-Tipo-Tipo-Sumisip-Maluso Roasd Section
Contract Location : Basilan Province
Sta. 59+840.00 to Sta. 64+980.00 with equation,
exemption & exception
Sta. 77+930.00 to Sta. 81+460.00 with exemption &
exception
Scope of Work : Portland Cement Concrete Paving
Allocation : Php 150,000.000.00
(ABC to be announced during Pre-Bid Conference and
to be posted on the DPWH Website
and Phil-GEPS)
IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected
purchased bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior
registration with the 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
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
www.dpwh.gov.ph.
*
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents May 11, 2012 May 31, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference May 18 (2:00PM)
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective
Bidders
May 25, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids May 31, 2012 (8:00AM- 2:00PM)
5. Opening of Bids May 31, 2012 (2:00PM)
* This schedule is subject to change (Please see DPWH Website and Phil GEPS
for any development)
The BAC will issue soft/electronic copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at
DPWH, Regional Offce IX, Tumaga, Zamboanga City, upon payment of a non-
refundable fee of Php40,000.00. 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 accompanied by a bid security,
in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The
frst envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include
a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component
of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as
determined in the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The Department of Public Works and Highways, Region IX reserves the right
to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at any time prior contract
award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s.

Approved by:
(Sgd.) NENITA A. ROBLES, CEO VI
BAC Chairperson
(MST-May 11, 2012)
OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Region IX, Zamboanga City
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public
Works and Highways Region IX, through CY 2012 GOP Budget, invites contractors
to bid for the aforementioned project:
Contract ID: 12JO0030
Contract Name: Upgrading (Gravel to Paved) of Various Road Section at
Romandler Camp Andres-Tandu Bato Road
Contract Location: along Sulu Transcentral National Road
a. Sta. 26+000-Sta. 26+730 e. Sta. 36+220-Sta. 36+950
b. Sta. 26+680-Sta. 30+410 f. Sta. 37+100-Sta. 37+830
c. Sta. 32+250-Sta. 32+980 g. Sta. 38+000-Sta. 38+730
d. Sta. 35+280-Sta. 36+010 h. Sta. 42+000-Sta. 42+370
Scope of Work: Bridges and Approaches
Allocation: Php 150,000.000.00
(ABC to be announced during Pre-Bid Conference and to
be posted on the DPWH Website and Phil-GEPS)
IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected
purchased bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior
registration with the 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
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
www.dpwh.gov.ph.
*
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents May 11, 2012 May 31, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference May 18 (2:00PM)
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective
Bidders
May 25, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids May 31, 2012 (8:00AM- 2:00PM)
5. Opening of Bids May 31, 2012 (2:00PM)
* This schedule is subject to change (Please see DPWH Website and Phil GEPS for
any development)
The BAC will issue soft/electronic copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at
DPWH, Regional Offce IX, Tumaga, Zamboanga City, upon payment of a non-
refundable fee of Php40,000.00. 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 accompanied by a bid security,
in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The
frst envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include
a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component
of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as
determined in the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The Department of Public Works and Highways, Region IX reserves the right
to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at any time prior contract
award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s.

Approved by:
(Sgd.) NENITA A. ROBLES, CEO VI
BAC Chairperson
(MST-May 11, 2012)

Invitation to Bid
The National Housing Authority (NHA), through the Corporate Budget approved by the
NHA Board for the year 2012 intends to apply the sum of the Approved Budget for the
Contracts (ABCs) to payments for the following contracts:
Ref. No. Projects ABC/ Source of
Funds (P)
Duration Work Description
2012-
029
Supply and Delivery of One (1)
Unit Crossover/ Sports Utility
Vehicle (CUV/SUV) 2012 Model
and Twelve (12) Units Asian Utility
Vehicle (AUV) 2012 Model
11,992,800.00/
Corporate
Receipts
30 days Supply and delivery of
1 unit CUV/SUV (min.
seating capacity for 7
pax) and 12 units AUV
(min. seating capacity for
8 pax) of any 4-wheel
utility type vehicles with
not less than 4 doors and
an engine displacement
not exceeding 2500 cc.
2012-
030
Procurement of Reproduction
Services thru Rental of Three (3)
Units Digital Photocopy Machines
at NHA Main Offce
939,945.60/
Corporate
Receipts
1 year
renewable
subject to
terms and
conditions
Provision of 3 units heavy
duty (output speed-60
ppm/cpm) digital copiers
i ncl usi ve of 3 key
operators. A minimum
volume of 79,120 copies
per mont h i s set f or
computing the monthly
charges.
Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
The NHA now invites bids for the above-cited contracts. Delivery of the Goods is
required within the duration herein cited upon receipt of Notice to Proceed. Bidders
should have completed, within fve years from the date of submission of bids, a single
contract similar to the Project costing at least ffty percent (50%) of the ABC. The
description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in
Section II. Instructions to Bidders.
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-
discretionary pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Implementing Rules and Regulations
(IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the Government
Procurement Reform Act. Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships,
partnerships, or organizations with at least sixty percent (60%) interest or outstanding
A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders starting
on May 11, 2012 from the Offce of the NHA-BAC Secretariat, 3
rd
Floor NHA Main
Building, Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City and upon payment of a nonrefundable
fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of P6,000.00.for Ref. No. 2012-029 and
P2,000.00 for Contract 2012-030. For further information, the NHA BAC Secretariat
may be contacted at Tel/FAX. No. 929-8016.
The NHA will hold a Pre-Bid Conference on May 17, 2012, 10:00 a.m. at the Operations
Center, 3
rd
Floor NHA Main Building, Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City, which shall
be OPEN only to all interested parties who have purchased the Bidding Documents.
Bids must be delivered at the NHA Operations Center on May 29, 2012, not later than
9:00 a.m. All Bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable
forms and in the amount as stated in BDS. Bid opening shall follow immediately after
the deadline of submission of bids at the same venue. Bids will be opened in the
presence of the Bidders representatives who choose to attend at the address below.
Late bids shall not be accepted.
The NHA reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process,
and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any
liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
(Sgd.) FROILAN R. KAMPITAN
Assistant General Manager/
Chairperson, Bids and Awards Committee (BAC)
NATIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
NATIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY
ERRORS & OMISSIONS
In Classifed Ads section must be brought to
our attention the very day the advertisement
is published. We will not be responsible
for any incorrect ads not reported to us
immediately.
Manila
Standard
TODAY
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
San Miguel Avenue, Pasig City
IN THE MATTER OF THE
APPLICATION FOR THE APPROVAL
OF THE SALE OF VARIOUS
SUBTRANSMISSION LINES/ASSETS
OF THE NATIONAL TRANSMISSION
CORPORATION (TRANSCO) TO
PANGASINAN ELECTRIC
COOPERATIVE, INC. (PANELCO I),
AS COVERED BY A LEASE
PURCHASE AGREEMENT (LPA)

ERC CASE NO. 2012-_________
NATIONAL TRANSMISSION
CORPORATION (TRANSCO) and
PANGASINAN ELECTRIC
COOPERATIVE, INC. (PANELCO I),
Applicants.
x--------------------------------------------------x
J OI NT APPLI CATI ON
Appl i cants NATIONAL TRANSMISSION CORPORATION
(TRANSCO) and PANGASINAN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.
(PANELCO I), through their respective counsels, and to this Honorable
Commission most respectfully state that:
(1) TRANSCO is a government-owned-and-controlled corporation
duly created by virtue of Republic Act No. 9136, otherwise known as the
Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA), with principal offce
address at the TRANSCO Main Building, Quezon Avenue corner BIR
Road, Diliman, Quezon City;
(2) PANELCO I is a qualifed distribution utility (DU) organized as
an electric cooperative under Philippine laws, with principal offce address
in San Jose, Bani, Pangasinan, Philippines;
(3) By virtue of Section 8 of of the EPIRA, TRANSCO assumed the
electrical transmission functions of the National Power Corporation (NPC)
and its authority and responsibility for the planning, construction and
centralized operation and maintenance of the high voltage transmission
facilities, including grid interconnections and ancillary services. The
EPIRA also mandates the segregation of the transmission and sub-
transmission functions and assets for transparency and disposal;
(4) Section 8 of the EPIRA and Rule 6, Section 8 (e) of the
EPIRAs Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) likewise provide
that TRANSCO shall negotiate with, and thereafter transfer, its sub-
transmission assets (STAs) and facilities to qualifed DUs connected
to such sub-transmission facilities not later than two (2) years from the
effectivity of the EPIRA or the start of the open access, whichever comes
earlier;
(5) Pursuant thereto, this Honorable Commission promulgated
on 17 October 2003 the Guidelines to the Sale and Transfer of the
TRANSCOs Sub-transmission Assets and the Franchising of Qualifed
Consortiums (ERC Guidelines), as amended by Resolution No. 3, Series
of 2005 (17 March 2005) which set forth, among others, the standards to
distinguish TRANSCOs transmission assets from its sub-transmission
assets and establish the approval process prior to the fnal sale and
transfer of STAs to DUs;
(6) Consistent with the ERC Guidelines, TRANSCO has adopted
its own Guidelines on the Sale of Sub-transmission Assets (TRANSCO
Guidelines) as approved by TRANSCO Board Resolution No. TC-2203-
067 dated 28 November 2003, as further amended by TRANSCO Board
Resolution No. TC-2004-009 dated 16 March 2004;
Copies of the TRANSCO Guidelines and TRANSCO Board
Resolutions Nos. TC-2003-067 and TC-2004-009 are hereto attached
as Annexes A, B and C, respectively,
(7) On 16 July 2011, the ERC issued Resolution No. 15, Series
of 2015 entitled: "A Resolution Adopting the Amended Rules for the
Approval of the Sale and Transfer of TRANSCO's Subtransmission
Assets and the Acquition by Qualifed Consortiums."
(8) In accordance with the aforesaid ERC Guidelines, TRANSCO
has evaluated that the Labrador-Bani 69 kV line meets the criteria for
sub-transmission assets;
Hereto attached as Annexes D, E and F, respectively, are
copies of the Report that the asset for sale meets the criteria for sub-
transmission assets, the List of subtransmission asset/s for sale to
PANELCO I and the Single line diagram;
(9) Pursuant to the aforesaid Guidelines, TRANSCO has evaluated
and established that PANELCO I meets the technical and fnancial
qualifcations to purchase, operate, maintain, upgrade and expand the
subject asset which is located within its franchise area;
Copies of the Technical and Financial Qualifcation Evaluations
conducted by TRANSCO, as well as the Description of the franchise area
being served by the subject asset are hereto attached as Annexes G,
H and I, respectively;
(10) In support of the above, herein Applicants have also attached
hereto the Audited Financial Statements of PANELCO I as of 31
December 2009 and 31 December 2010 (Annex J );
(11) On 05 August 2010, PANELCO Is Board of Directors issued
Board Resolution No. 10-82, Series of 2010 entitled Resolution
to Enter into a Lease Purchase Agreement with the National
Transmission Corporation (TRANSCO) in the Sale and Purchase of 69kV
Subtransmission Line from Labrador to Bani, Pangasinan." A copy of the
said Resolution is hereto attached as Annex K ;
(12) Corollary to the above, TRANSCO and PANELCO I concluded
a Lease Purchase Agreement (LPA) dated 28 December 2010, covering
the subject STA. A copy of the said Contract is hereto attached as Annex
L ;
(13) Under the terms of the said Agreement, PANELCO I shall pay
TRANSCO the amount of TWENTY SIX MILLION TWO HUNDRED
FORTY SIX THOUSAND FORTY SEVEN PESOS and 47/100,
Phi l i ppi ne currency (PhP26,246,047.47) net of adjustments and
deductions;
(14) The said purchase price is fair and reasonable as it represents
the rolled-forward 2009 book value per SKM valuation included in the ERC
Decision and Final Determination on TRANSCO's Second Regulatory
Period Application. However, said value does not include Right-of-Way
(ROW) costs. A copy of the Asset Valuation Computation is hereto
attached as Annex " M."
(15) Furthermore, TRANSCO and PANELCO I hereby respectfully
submit the following additional documents in support of their Joint
Application:
(a) List of directly connected entities and DUs connected to the
subject asset (Annex N );
(b) Draft Deed of Absolute Sale (Annex O ); and,
(c) Third Party Appraisal Report (Annex P );
(16) The proposed sale has satisfed all of the requirements and
criteria set by the EPIRA and its IRR, as well as the ERC and TRANSCO
Guidelines on the Sale of the Subtransmission Assets;
(17) The approval by this Honorable Commission of the instant Joint
Application shall pave the way for the attainment of a reformed electricity
industry under the EPIRA, towards a competitive regime/cost of electricity
through open access and customer choice of supplier of electricity, which
would ultimately best serve the interest of the consuming public.
PRAYER
WHEREFORE, it is most respectfully prayed of this Honorable
Commission that after due notice and hearing, judgment be rendered
APPROVING the sale of TRANSCOs Labrador-Bani 69 kV line to
PANELCO I under the terms set forth in the Lease Purchase Agreement
dated 28 December 2010.
Applicants also pray for such other relief as are deemed just and
equitable under the premises.
Respectfully submitted, Quezon City and Pangasinan City, 15
March 2012.
NATIONAL TRANSMISSION CORPORATION
Counsel for Co-Applicant, TRANSCO
TRANSCO Main Building, Quezon Avenue corner BIR Road,
Diliman, Quezon City
By:

(Sgd.) NOEL Z. DE LEON
General Counsel
IBP No. 826768, 01.12.11, Quezon City
Roll of Attorneys No. 36660
MCLE Compliance No. III-0012070, 04.06.10
(Sgd.) ATTY. LEON T. TAPEL, JR.
Deputy Legal Counsel
IBP No. 869895, 11.05.11, PPLM
MCLE Compliance No. III-0004876
(Sgd.) ATTY. GINA LOURDES D. VALEROS
Manager, Legal Counseling Department
IBP No. 08200 (Lifetime), Quezon City
MCLE Compliance III-110011545, 04.13.10
(Sgd.) ATTY. SOLEDAD T. DE LA VEGA-CABANGIS
Corporate Attorney III
Roll of Attorney No. 45797, 05.24.01
IBP No. 825514 (Lifetime), 04.23.10, Bulacan
MCLE Compliance No. II-0010363
VERIFICATION and CERTIFICATION
of NON-FORUM SHOPPING
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
QUEZON CITY ) SS.
I, ROLANDO T. BACANI, Filipino, of legal age, with offce address
at the National Transmission Corporation (TRANSCO), TRANSCO Main
Building, Quezon Avenue corner BIR Road, Diliman, Quezon City, after
having been duly sworn in accordance with law, do hereby depose and
state that:
1. I am the President and Chief Executive Offcer (CEO) of TRANSCO,
and have been duly authorized to represent it in the above-entitled
case pursuant to Sec. 5.0 of the Revised Manual of Approvals duly
approved by the TRANSCO Board of Directors on 04 February 2010
under TRANSCO Board Resolution No. TC 2010-001. A copy of the said
Manual of Approvals is hereto attached as Annex Q;
2. I have caused the preparation of the foregoing Joint Application;
3. I have read the contents thereof and I attest that the allegations
therein contained are true and correct based on my personal knowledge
and on authentic records;
4. I have not heretofore commenced any other action or proceeding
involving the same issue with the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals
or the different divisions thereof, or any other court, tribunal or agency;
and,
5. Should I thereafter learn of such other similar action(s) or
proceeding(s), I hereby undertake to promptly inform this Honorable
Commission of such fact within fve (5) days therefrom.
(Sgd.) ROLANDO T. BACANI
Affant
(REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES)
(QUEZON CITY ) SS.
SUBSCRIBED and SWORN TO before me this 26
th
day of MARCH,
2012, with affant ROLANDO T. BACANI presenting to me his valid
identifcation document (I.D.) no. 00011-9 issued on ________________
in ___________________, known to me and to me known to be the
same person who executed the foregoing Application which consists
of twelve(12) pages, including the page where this Acknowledgment
is written.
(Sgd.) NYERSON DEXTER TITO Q. TUALLA
Notary Public for Quezon City
Notarial Commission until December 31, 2013
PTR No. 6011909, Quezon City
IBP Lifetime No. 07135, Quezon City Chapter
National Transmission Corporation
TransCo Building, BIR Road cor., Quezon Ave.,
Diliman, Quezon City
Doc. No. 122;
Page No. 26;
Book No. I ;
Series of 2012.
VERIFICATION and CERTIFICATION
of NON-FORUM SHOPPING
ALAMINOS CITY, PANG. ) SS.
I, ROLANDO O. REINOSO, Filipino, of legal age, with offce address at
Pangasinan I Electric Cooperative, Inc. (PANELCO I), San Jose, Bani,
Pangasinan, Philippines, after having been duly sworn in accordance
with law, do hereby depose and state that:
1. I am the General Manager of PANELCO I, who is the duly authorized
to represent it in the above-entitled case, as evidenced by the hereto
attached document which is marked as Annex R;
2. I have caused the preparation of the foregoing Joint Application;
3. I have read the contents thereof and I attest that the allegations
therein contained are true and correct based on my personal knowledge
and on authentic records;
4. I have not heretofore commenced any other action or proceeding
involving the same issue with the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals
or the different Divisions thereof, or any other court, tribunal or agency;
and,
5. Should I thereafter learn of such other similar action(s) or
proceeding(s), I hereby undertake to promptly inform this Honorable
Commission of such fact within fve (5) days therefrom.
(Sgd.) ROLANDO O. REINOSO
Affant
QUEZON CITY ) SS.
SUBSCRIBED and SWORN TO before me this 02
nd
day of
APRIL, 2012, with affant ROLANDO O. REINOSO presenting to me
his valid identifcation document (I.D.) no. 03-670937-9 issued on
______________ in ________________________, known to me and to
me known to be the same person who executed the foregoing Application
which consists of twelve (12) pages, including the page where this
Acknowledgment is written.
(Sgd.) ATTY ALFRED FELIX E. DE CASTRO
NOTARY PUBLIC
IBP O.R. NO. 816591
PTR NO. 0137303
ROLL OF ATTORNEYS NO. 52719
Doc. No. 397;
Page No. 80;
Book No. I ;
Series of 2012. (MST-May 11, 2012)
(MST-May 11, 2012)
Manila
WHEREAS, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has issued resolutions, directing the
Professional Regulatory Boards (PRBs) to require professionals registered and licensed with
or without Board Licensure Examination to take their oath of professionals before they practice
their profession, pursuant to their Professional Regulatory Laws (PRLs);
WHEREAS, PRC Res. No. 93-268, Series of 1993 provides for the guidelines and procedures on
mass oathtaking of new professionals before the PRBs and new members before the accredited
professional organizations (APOs);
WHEREAS, PRC Res. No. 98-545, Series of 1998 requires the PRBs and the corresponding APOs
or accredited integrated professional organizations (AIPOs) that jointly hold the mass oathtaking
ceremonies of professionals to render their reports on such activities.
WHEREAS, there is a need to promulgate new guidelines on the conduct of mass oathtaking of
professionals to address strategic, operational, monetary issues and concerns of the PRBs and
the PRC as well as of the APOs and AIPOs;
WHEREAS, by virtue of the PRL, the oath of professionals has to be administred by the chairman,
vice-chairman, or member of the PRB or any authorized offcial of the PRC pursuant to Par.
(k), Sec. 7 of R.A. No. 8981, called as the PRC Modernization Act of 2000, or any person
authoized under Secs. 2 nd 4, Title I, Book I of the Revised Administrative Code of 1987 as
amended by R.A. No. 6733 or any special law;
WHEREAS, Pars. (c) and (o), Sec. 7 of R.A. No. 8981 and the pertinent provisions of the PRLs
mandate the PRC to exercise administrative control and supervision over the PRBs and their
members;
WHEREAS, Pars. (b), (p), and (y), Sec. 7 of the aforementioned law empower the Commission
to make and promulgate such rules and regulations for the execution, implementation, and
enforcement of its powers, functions, and responsibilities, for the improvement of its services,
and for carrying out the PRLs, executive orders, and administrative issuances;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Commission RESOLVES, as it is hereby RESOLVED, to prescribe, issue,
and promulgate the Revised Guidelines on the Conduct of Mass Oathtaking of Professionals
with the following new provisions:
SEC. 1. Oath of Professionals- All examinees who have succesfully passed the Board Licensure
examinations and those applicants admitted for registration without Board licensure examinations
shall imperatively take an oath of professionals prior to entering upon the practice of the
profession.
SEC. 2. Authorized offcial to administer Oath of Professionals- The Chairman, vice-chairman,
or member of the Professional Regulatory Board (PRB) or any offcial of the Professional
Regulation Commission (PRC) authorized by it, or any offcial or offcer authorized under Secs.
2 and 41, Title I, Book I of the Revised Administrative Code of 1987 as amended by R.A. No.
6733 or any special law, shall administer the oath of professionals. The PRC may deputize, or
delegate to, any of its authorized regional directors/offcials to administer such oath.
SEC. 3. Administration of Mass Oathtaking- The succesful examinees in the Board licensure
examinations and those who are admitted for registration without Board licensure examinations
shall take their oath of professionals in mass oathtaking conducted by PRBs in any specifed
venue in Metro Manila or outside it before its chairman, vice-chairman, or member, or any PRC
authorized regional director or offcial who is duly delegated with or deputized, to administer it.
SEC. 4. Conduct of Simple and Solemn Mass Oathtaking- The mass oathtaking of professionals
shall be organized and supervised by all PRBs in a venue and date which the PRC shall inform
the registrants of, after the release of the results of the Board licensure examination and/or the
approval of the PRB resolution admitting registrants without Board licensure examination. The
said ceremony shall be carried out with simplicity and solemnity. The regional director or offcial
administering the oath shall thereafter submit a written report to the PRC, copy furnished the
PRB.
SEC. 5. Role of the Commission and Regional Offces - By virtue of its dministrative supervision over
the PRBs, Registration Division, and othe concerned divisions/units in the Central Offce and
regional offces shall provide administrative support to the PRBs in the organization and conduct
of mass oathtaking activities.
SEC. 6. Role of the Accredited Professional Organization (APO) or the Accredited Integrated
Professional Organization (AIPO) and the Philippine Association of Professional Regulatory
Board Members, Inc. (PAPRBM) - The PRB may invite the Accredited Professional Organization
(APO), or the accredited integrated professional organization (AIPO),or the Philippine
Association of Regulatory Board Members, Inc. (PARBM) to participate in the mass oathtaking
of new professionals by inducting its new members and by collecting their annual/lifetime
membership fees.
The Philippine Association of Professional Regulatory Board members, Inc. (PAPRBM) may be
tapped by the concerned PRB and/or by PRC to provide its support thereto in the conduct of
the mass oathtaking.
SEC. 7. Creation of a Trust Fund - A Trust Fund from the proceeds of mass oathtaking activities
shall be created for the exclusive and appropriate use for professional development activities
pursuant to provision in the PRC/DOLE Annual Appropriation and/or in R.A. 8981, or any
special/supplementary budgetary law.
SEC. 8. Implementing Procedures, Criteria, and Standards of this Resolution - Within sixty (60) days
from the effectivity of this Resolution, the Commission shall prescribe, issue, and promulgate
the procedures, criteria, and standards that shall guide the PRBs and/or the PRC in the
implementation of the provisions of the herein resolution after consultation with the PRBs,
PAPRBM, APOs/AIPOs, other government agencies, and non-government organizations.
SEC. 9. Guidelines in the Creation, Utilization and Accounting of the Trust Fund - The PRC shall
prescribe, issue, and promulgate the guidelines on the creation, utilization and accounting of
the Trust Fund after consultation with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the
National Treasury, the Commission on Audit (COA), Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), and
other derivative public or private bodies.
SEC. 10. Separability Clause - If any section, provision, or paragraph hereof shall be declared
unconstitutional or not valid, the same shall not invalidate the other sections, provisions, or
paragraphs not affected thereby.
SEC. 11. Repealing Clause - PRC Resolution Nos. 93-268, Series of 1993 and 98-545, Series 1998
arehereby repealed and all other PRC administrative issuances and parts thereof which are
inconsistent with this Resolution are hereby repealed, amended, or modifed accordingly.
SEC. 12. Effectivity - This Resolution shall take effect after ffteen (15) days following its full and
complete publication in the Offcial Gazette or any major daily newspaper of general circulation
in the Philippines.
Let copies of this Resolution be furnished to the Professional Regulatory Boards (PRBs),
the Accredited Professional Organization (APOs), the Accredited Intergrated Professional
Organizations (AIPOs), the Philippine Association of Professional Regulatory Board members,
Inc. (PAPRBM), all offces/divisions/units in the central and regional offces, and the UP Law
Center for their information and guidance.
DONE in the City of Manila this 9
th
day of May 2012
TERESITA R. MANZALA
Chairperson
ALFREDO Y. PO JENNIFER JARDIN-MANALILI
Commissioner Commissioner
RESOLUTION NO. 2012-657
Series of 2012
REVISED GUIDELINES ON THE CONDUCT OF MASS OATHTAKING
OF PROFESSIONALS
Professional Regulation Commission
Manila
(MST-May 11, 2012)
DPWH CENTRAL DISPOSAL COMMITTEE
ITB No. : 008-2012
Date : May 8, 2012
(Re-bidding)
SEALED BIDS in three (3) copies for the sale on AS IS and WHERE
IS basis of one (1) unit 60 Ton Floating Crane subject to the Revised
General Terms and Conditions for the Sale of Government Property dated
January 2, 1997, will be received by the Central Disposal Committee not later
than 9:30 a.m. on May 24, 2012 at the Offce of the Chairman, 2
nd
Floor, DPWH
Head Offce,MIS Bldg., Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila at which place, time
and date the bids will be opened. in the presence of the bidders or their duly
authorized representatives to wit:
ITEM LOCATION GOVERNMENT
MINIMUM SELLING
PRICE (GMSP)
One (1) unit 60 Ton
Floating Crane
Moored at Farola Wharf,
Pasig River, Binondo,
Manila
Php 12,981,824.00
The above-mentioned properties can be inspected at said location during
offce hours (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m.) Monday to Friday.
Invitation to Bid and Proposal Forms can be secured at the Offce of the
Secretariat, DPWH Central Disposal Committee, Bureau of Equipment, 2nd
Street, Port Area, Manila from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. on May 11-23, 2012
upon payment of a non-refundable fee in the amount of Two Thousand Pesos
(Php2,000.00) to defray cost of reproducing the required documents and
publication.
Interested bidders are required to submit their bid proposal and bond in
the amount not less than the Government Minimum Selling Price of the lot
to be bid out in the form of Cash, Cashiers or Managers Check. Attention:
Chairman, Central Disposal Committee, 2nd Floor, MIS Building, DPWH
Central Offce, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila not later than 9:30 A.M. of
May 24, 2012.
Prospective bidders shall submit their bids in two (2) separate bid
envelopes to the CDC Chairman. The frst envelope shall contain the bid bond
and the second envelope shall contain the bid form/bid offer.
All bids will be opened at 9:30 A.M. on May 24, 2012 at the above
mentioned address.
The Department of Public Works and Highways reserves the right to reject
any or all bids, waive any defect contained therein and accept the offer most
advantageous to the government.
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THE
BEAST
FROM THE EAST
THIS WRITER was one of the fortunate few to have
witnessed the re-launch of this iconic sports car in 2008.
As part of Nissan Motors Philippines Inc (NMPI) media
contingent, our job was to become part of automotive his-
tory, as Japan unleashed its super car to do battle with the
Germans and Italians. I remember the activity inside the
massive Makuhari Messe in Chiba grinding down to a halt
as Nissan unveiled the latest version of its iconic super car.
Respect
the badge
Better and faster GTR for 2012
Text and photos by Dino Ray V. Directo III
Cross swords it did, as the
mighty Nissan GTR shattered the
lap record set by the Porsche 911
Turbo at the Nurburgring, and
gradually picked off every Ger-
man, Italian and American sports
car that stood in its way. Four years
down the line and the Nissan GTR
continues to rest on its laurels as
the only Japanese sports car that
can stand on its own against the
best metal on wheels the World
has to offer.
Recently, I was reunited with
this beast from the East in a very
personal way. Godzilla, as the GTR
is popularly called, paid me a visit
one weekend in my digs up in An-
tipolo City. The owner wanted it
tested up in the pristine and twisty
hills of Tanay, Rizal. Although I
was scheduled to attend a reunion
with my friends from college that
day, getting behind the wheel of a
530bhp monster is just too tempt-
ing to pass up.
Quiet riot
My rst question begged to be
answered. Can it do 0 to 60 kph in
less than three seconds? Engaging
the launch control on the center
dash, I released my left foot on the
brake pedal and the GTR pounced
like a Lion who has just seen a prey
up ahead. We hit 60 kph in 2.9 sec-
onds.
Sporty, yet elegant interiors
Advanced gadgetry
AS A SHOW of market condence and to fur-
ther strengthen its foothold in the local mar-
ket, Lexus Manila introduced an upgraded
RX model range early this week at the Lexus
Manila showroom in the Fort Global City.
The 2012 RX exterior has a new, more
elegant and aggressive front end with the
trademark spindle grille design. The invert-
ed trapezoid upper grille and slanted lower
grille have been combined and integrated
into a single element, bridging the bumper
mid-section to create a prominent spindle
shape. Another unique characteristic of the
new RX variants are the clear lens headlamp
clusters, a design which incorporates a choice
of halogen, High Intensity Discharge (HID)
headlamps. The headlamps are underscored
by integral LED Daytime Running Lights
(DRL) which form the L-nesse arrowhead
motif, reinforcing the unique visual signature
of the new RX model range.
Step inside the RX cabin and one can
immediately notice a visual splash of color
schemes, new trim nishes, a new steering
wheel and a revised instrument binnacle.
The RX350 was rst described as the worlds
rst luxury crossover SUV, combining, for
the rst time, all the exibility, practical-
ity and durability of a Sports Utility Vehicle
with the handling, performance and rene-
ment of a luxury sedan. I personally nd that
the RX is not only a crossover in terms of
vehicle class, rather, it is a crossover in that
it crosses-over into all aspects of your day-
to-day routine. From the boardroom to the
greens, from meetings to a round of golf, the
RX integrates itself within your lifestyle and is
a practical partner in your daily life, explains
Danny Isla, President of Lexus Manila.
A higher end version of the RX350 is also
available in a new grade, the Premier option.
The Premier package includes a tilt and slide
moonroof, new 19 aluminium alloy wheels,
drivers seat, steering wheel and side mirror
memory functions, a multipurpose roof rail,
perforated leather seats, power rear door and
a backup camera integrated in the rear view
mirror. Dino Ray V. Directo III
Lexus beefs up line-up
A thumbs up from Isla
Upgraded luxury coach
THE car you drive is per-
haps one of your prized in-
vestments. Maintenance and
protection is paramount con-
sidering the myriad ways a
cars paint may be damaged or
chipped. Not many may know
it, but frequent waxing or de-
tailing is not exactly one of the
best solutions to preserve the
luster and shine of the exterior
paint.
Following the success of
this latest technology in Los
Angeles, Singapore and Indo-
nesia, CS-II paint protection
is now available in Manila. CS-
II is a unique and innovative
ceramic-like polymer coating
that utilizes advanced nano
particles to provide maximum
enhancement and protection
of automotive nishes. CS-
II seals the microscopic holes
on the cars paint, making it
tougher and more resistant to
minor scratches. It also blocks
harmful UV rays which can
bleach the color of the car,
explains Raffy Caeg of CS-II
Philippines.
Protecting your car with
CS-II takes at least two
days. It is a two step
process. First is we
cleanse and ll the
pores of the paintwork
leaving a smooth n-
ish. Second step in-
volves creating a hard
protective skin while
maintaining a smooth
luster nish. Rain, dirt
and the suns harmful UV rays
can no longer penetrate it.
Our warranty is 18-24 months
of paint protection. We actu-
ally remove the accumulated
wax from your car and swirls
caused by frequent washing
and waxing, adds Caeg.
For details on how to get
the right protection for your
car, call 0927-3182516/ 218-
1848or visit the CS-II facility
in 2289 Chino Roces Avenue
Ext., UPRC 3 Bldg inside the
DENSO Shop. You may log on
to www.cs2singapore.com
ON July 31st this year, Isuzu
Philippines Corporation (IPC)
will celebrate its 15th inaugural
anniversary. In line with this im-
portant milestone, the company
famous for class-leading diesel-
engined vehicles has disclosed
its ofcial logo for this special
occasion.
The logo was chosen from
the entries sent in by IPCs
employees to a company-wide
contest announced last January.
Emerging with the winning logo
was Daniel Urian of the Product
Planning Section of Sales Divi-
sion, who incorporated in his
logo design a stylized three-leaf
clover with water dews, symbol-
izing IPCs concern for nature,
and a circular band adorning the
large 15th Anniversary label,
which captures the companys
holistic approach to its advoca-
cy. Urians choice of using blue
and green colors, which com-
plement Isuzus red trademark,
further highlights the environ-
mental theme of IPCs 15th
Anniversary logo. The search
wasnt opened to external sup-
pliers as Isuzu wanted the anni-
versary logo to be designed by a
family membersomeone who
genuinely shares the ideals and
aspirations of the company.
Besides serving as a symbol
of IPCs ecological ways, the
logo is also intended to identify
the series of promotional activi-
ties and special projects lined
up by IPC for its valued cus-
tomers.
The commemoration of
our 15th year will further that
tradition as we fulll our obli-
gation as a Responsible Part-
ner. The logo we have chosen
for our 15th inaugural anni-
versary captures that philoso-
phy by highlighting one of our
most signicant advocacies,
and that is nurturing the envi-
ronment, said IPC President
Ryoji Yamazaki.
For more information, log
on to www.isuzuphil.com.
Isuzu unveils 15
th
inaugural
anniversary logo
Polymer paint protects your car
As I soiled myself silly from
the sheer brutality of the accel-
eration, this R35 GTR, code-
named 12MY-M/C (2012 Model
Year-Minor Change) model is a
reection of Japanese modesty.
What I mean by this is that the
horsepower of this twin turbo 3.8
liter V6 current model boasts of
serious numbers from a previ-
ously measured 485 bhp to an
adrenaline pumping 530 bhp. De-
spite the 45-hp bump up, Nissan
claims that this current model is
fuel efcient. Well, if you have an
extra P6.5 million of chunk change
to spare, does fuel efciency mat-
ter?
One can instantly feel the suspen-
sion tweaks as the GTRs steering is
more precise and straight-line ac-
celeration is more controllable. Ad-
ditional structural bracing all around
the car was visible which greatly aids
in the reduction of exing within the
cars chassis. Obvious changes were
done to the front end, with two
glowing LED eyebrows in the cor-
ners of the front bumpers. The extra
dimples are still present, although
engineers decided to reshape the
chin spoiler to channel more air to
the sides of the car. This increases
the low pressure zone underneath
the nose and reduced aerodynamic
lift. The upper and lower grille were
also reshaped for styling purposes
and from an engineering perspec-
tive, to improve under hood air-
ow and a more efcient way to
cool down the massive Brembo
brakes. The front brake rotors are
15.4 inches in diameter, up from
15.0. The unit that I drove rolled on
run-at Dunlop SP Sport Maxx GT
600s. Nissan says that the tires came
with the development and this set of
Dunlop tires were designed for the
GTR to provide better riding com-
fort and durability.
Like its predecessor, this 2012
GTR does not disappoint in terms
of drivability, cornering and the fun
to drive factor. It accelerates like a
rocket which is surprising for a car
that weighs 3,800 pounds. GTR
fanatics need not despair. Nissan
did not tinker with perfection. In
fact, you will be proud to know that
Godzilla still lives and is getting bet-
ter and quicker with age.
Motoring
Ramon L. Tomeldan, Editor mst.daydesk@gmail.com
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THERE are two things Filipinos are famous for: close family ties and decades of various
traditions that we can proudly call our own. We are bent on keeping traditions alive and by
doing so, families are brought closer together.
During the summer season, opportunities for family
gatherings are abundant. This is the time when the annual
family reunions usually happen and various traditions are
kept alive or are being rediscovered in a different light.
Children are brought together, allowing them to make
memories of their own while the older generations reminisce
and continue to keep family traditions alive.
Beach resorts are ideal sports for these reunions. The
Philippine islands are full of beach resorts that boast the
countrys natural beauty. From frolicking by the beach in the
morning up to partying all through the night, every one will
surely be able to enjoy themselves.
In the south of Luzon, Batangas is considered the home of
the best beaches in that part of the country. Along its pristine
coastline lies one of the oldest beach hotels in the country,
the Matabungkay Beach Hotel.
For more than three decades, Matabungkay Beach Hotel
has been around to keep families and friends closer. This
place has lived up to its tagline Rediscover the tradition for
it is in this beach hotel that a lot of annual family gatherings
and outings are held. Older generations have always relayed
stories to the young of their stay in the beach hotel and have
wanted their children to experience the numerous activities
the beach hotel has to offer.
An ideal escape
Matabungkay Beach Hotel is only two hours away from
Metro Manilaperfect for foreigners and locals who want
to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city, even on a
short notice.
Upon entering Matabungkay, visitors will immediately
feel a friendly vibe that strongly emanates from the place
which makes them feel welcome and immediately at home.
The preserved natural aesthetic of Matabungkay beach,
together with the wooden furniture built by the in-house
staff, give off that laid back and relaxing feeling that will put
the visitors instantly at ease.
Aside from its natural beauty, the Matabungkay Beach Hotel
staff has also put up various amenities that allow its visitors
to maximize and enjoy the 3.5 hectare beach hotel under any
weather and condition. According to Joie Oliveros, Travel,
trade and events marketing manager, the beach hotel has been
going under renovations since the late months of 2011 as part
of their re-branding scheme. We want Matabungkay to be
relatable and youthful. We want people, especially the youth, to
come here and we want to erase the notion that Matabungkay is
bulok . Ms. Oliveros said. Despite its continuous renovations,
Matabungkay Beach Hotel has never shut down its operations.
With the renovations and other improvements still
underway, the Matabungkay Beach Hotel management still
maintains their price rates fairly reasonable. According to
Rober t Cr espo, marketing head of Matabungkay Beach
Hotel, visitors should experience the resort without
regrets and they should experience the value of their money
reasonably as well.
Indoor amenities such as the game room and the
karaoke hub enable the visitors to enjoy themselves when
they want to experience something different along the
beach. These features make Matabungkay unique. As a
mother, personally, when I travel with my kids, I notice
that aside from swimming in the beach, they have nothing
else to do. I want them to experience the fun we had here
when we were kids, said Char ley Ant onio, president of
Matabungkay Beach Hotel.
A place for all r easons and all seasons
Matabungkay is also a place for special occasions such as
weddings. According to Crespo, a lot of foreigners get married
in Matabungkay. There is a corner of the beach where they take
their wedding pictures and these foreigners are frequent visitors
after getting hitched.
The Matabungkay Beach Hotel has started summer 2012
with their Unang Hirit sa Tag-init gimmick last March 31
with a concert main staged by The Bloomelds. Their Beach
Boys inspired version of rock was perfect to kick off the many
summer parties that await the visitors. This kick off party also
celebrated the launch of their new website, matabunkay.net, and
their new logo.
For more information and online booking, visit matabungkay.
net or call +632. 917. 834. 1269. For the latest news and
promos, join the Matabungkay Facebook page at facebook.com/
matabungkay.
REDISCOVER
Matabungkay
By Ed Biado
IF YOU havent experienced having your
baggage lost, stolen, delayed or damaged,
you probably know someone who has. And
they will tell you that it is very frustrating,
agitating and maddening. Youll also feel
quite helpless because there is nothing
anyone can do or say to offer a solution
right there and then.
People who have very little patience will
most definitely flare up. But does that give
anyone the right to berate and cuss at the
airlines ground personnel, as Claudine
Bar r et t o allegedly did? The fact
of the matter is, its futile because
screaming and verbal abuse will
not get your luggage back. We, the
passengers, have no choice but to
file a claim and wait for our stuff
to arrive.
I ndependent Tr avel er. com says t hat
98 per cent of al l mi spl aced l uggage
i s r et ur ned event ual l y, some i n a f ew
hour s and ot her s wi t hi n t he f ol l owi ng
coupl e of days. I nf or m t he ai r l i ne
cr ew i mmedi at el y and f i l l out t he
del ayed baggage f or m, i f avai l abl e. I t s
i mpor t ant t hat you dont f orget t o
i ncl ude your cont act i nf or mat i on
and pr ef er r ed del i ver y addr ess.
Apparently, airlines have the
option to carry our checked bags on
a later flight. This is stated in the
terms and conditions published on
the Cebu Pacific Web site. Clause 13.1.1
(f) reads, Whenever possible, Checked
Baggage will be carried on the same aircraft
as the Passenger. The Airline may decide
for safety, security or operational reasons
to carry it on another flight. If a Checked
Baggage is carried on a subsequent flight,
the Airline will deliver it to the Passenger
unless applicable law requires the
Passenger to be present for clearance by
customs authorities.
This simply means that you have no control
over the whereabouts of your luggage the
moment you check them in. But you can ask
the attendants before take-off if they made
it aboard the same plane. If not, and if you
absolutely need something in your bag when
you land, seek assistance to make the necessary
special arrangements, if airline policy allows.
That way, you wouldnt have to pull a
Claudine (allegedly!) at the airport.
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answers
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29 Daisylike blooms
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ManilaStandardToday
SUMMER is not only a great
time to embark on ones chosen
fun adventure its also the best
moment to aunt ones unique
style, from colorful outts down
to the perfect shoes that complete
the whole look. Res|Toe|Run, the
countrys premiere concept store
for lifestyle footwear brands,
makes shoe-shopping this time
around a loyal customers ticket
to his or her dream Boracay va-
cation via its Summer Burst
holiday promo.
In partnership with FlySe-
air and Best Western Boracay
Tropics, customers who earned
a single receipt purchase worth
P2,000 from March 15 to May
15, 2012 in any Res|Toe|Run
outlet entitle them to one rafe
coupon. Each coupon gives them
the chance to win an all-expenses
paid trip for 3 days and 2 nights
in Boracay. The lucky winners,
whose entries will be chosen via
raffle, also have the chance to
win P5,000 and P10,000 worth
of Res|Toe|Run gift certicates.
In addition to the Summer
Burst promo, Res|Toe|Runs other
tie-up with FlySeair entitles Fly-
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NOKIA kickedoff the develop-
ment of its manufacturing facility
in Vietnam to serve the growing
demand for mobile phones all
over the world. The event was at-
tended by Secretary of the Central
Party Committee, Vice President
of the National Assembly of Viet-
nam, Madam Nguyen Thi Kim
Ngan; Minister of the Ministry of
Science and Technology Vietnam,
Mr. Nguyen Quan; Ambassador
of Finland to Vietnam, Kimmo
Lhdevirta; and high ranking
ofcials from Central authorities
and Bac Ninh province amongst
more than 200 others.
Located in Vietnam-Singapore
Industrial Park (VSIP) in Bac Ninh
province, the Nokia Vietnam manu-
facturing facility is being developed
on an area of 17 hectares. Nokia
expects to start the operations of
this factory in early 2013.
"Thanks to the valued sup-
port from the Vietnamese gov-
ernment, our manufacturing pro-
gram in Vietnam has been pro-
gressing well. The new Nokia
manufacturing plant will pro-
duce and provide new devices
for compelling and affordable,
localized mobile experiences,
particularly in the growth mar-
kets," said Mary McDowell,
executive vice president, Mobile
Phones, Nokia.
Nokia rst opened its doors in
Vietnam in 1996 and, like many
successful multinationals, saw
Vietnam as a growing market
with opportunity and potential.
In light of the respect Nokia has
wherever it operates, the com-
pany has worked hard to quickly
become part of the Vietnamese
community.
Nokia currently operates two
representative ofces in Vietnam:
one in Ho Chi Minh City and
the other in Hanoi. These ofces
carry out marketing and promo-
tion activities for Nokia's handset
business. In 2011, Nokia estab-
lished a branch ofce in Phnom
Penh, Cambodia, increasing its
footprint within the IndoChina
region.
THE countrys largest foreign bank has just
launched Choose Your City, which offers de-
positors the chance to win a free trip for two to the
worlds most vibrant cities.
Simply start a banking relationship with Ci-
tibank and you could be on your way to a vacation
in New York, or Paris, Rome, Sydney, Santorini
or Tokyo. You can open an account with an initial
deposit of P100,000 and get 20 electronic rafe
chances. Every additional P100,000 deposit will
earn you 20 more rafe entries. Open an account
with P4 million and higher and you will also receive
cash credits of up to P6,000.
Citibank is also making it more attractive for
you to sign up for other products and services as
you open your new bank account. If you apply and
get approved for a new credit card, sign up for the
Auto Savings Plan or enroll in Citibank Online,
you will also earn bonus rafe entries. Keep us-
TRAVEL the islands and with your
tongue identify the tastes and avors
that express the culture. With pio-
neering Philippine food writer Doreen
Fernandezs advice in mind, Unilever
Food Solutions Sooo Pinoy team
commenced its series of gastronomic
trips all over the country, kicking off
the Food Trip na Pilipinas Tour in two
of Western Visayas tourist hotspots:
Iloilo City and Boracay.
Bringing together food-lovers and
members from the media, the Sooo Pi-
noy team visited restaurants that ranged
from hole-in-the-wall eateries to five-
star restaurants housed in some of the
most renowned hotels in search of the
best local cuisines served by different
restaurants that cater to the Filipino
palate. The dishes they sampled varied
from traditional cooking to fusion cui-
sine that resulted from the Philippines
diverse cultural heritage. Twenty-two
restaurants and dozens of emptied
plates and bowls later, the Sooo Pinoy
Team unanimously agreed: Iloilo
and Boracay are best explored with a
hungry stomach, ready to take on their
abundant gastronomic delights.
Iloilo
For a taste of the grandeur of the
past, no hotel in Iloilo is more ro-
mantic than the 47-year-old Hotel del
Rio. Lunches in the hotels Igma-an
Restaurant, with its regal view of the
Iloilo River, are best savored with their
best-selling bangus sisig, a avorful
mlange of juicy, sour, and spicy.
Because Iloilo is a culinary des-
tination, its many food-stops and
restaurants serve the cravings of
different pockets. For a taste of au-
thentic local dishes that are easy on
the budget, diners and foodies should
not be intimidated by the famous
Grand Tower Suites. Their Turo-
Turo Express is where one should
go to enjoy a feast of diverse Pinoy
dishes such as dinuguan, bulalo, and
pinakbet without hurting the pocket.
Their bestselling lumpiang hipon, is
both crunchy and juicy.
Ilonggos love putting their own
twist to traditional and foreign cui-
sines and when they do, they make
their versions healthier. The classy
Bauhinia Filipino Cuisine restaurant
made clever use of malunggay and
its many benets by incorporating
it in its heavenly moringa-crusted
sibingan cooked with less oil and
topped with malunggay pesto and
parmesan cheese.
No Ilonggo meal is complete
without soup, which locals consider
a complete meal in itself. Aside from
their famous hot tsokolate, the heri-
tage site of Camia Balay nga Bato
offers visitors sumptuous pancit
molo served in the dining hall of the
147-year-old-house. Here, visitors
can also go on a historical tour of the
Spanish-era house, with its century-
old furniture and antique religious
pieces, and discover stories of its
colorful past straight from host Luth
Camia. Another family-run food
destination is Netongs Original La
Paz Batchoy, located at the heart of
the La Paz Public Market. While
the origin of the La Paz batchoy
remains debatable, many Ilonggos
would agree that Netongs, which
has been serving this delectable
signature dish since post-World War
II, serves one of the best.
Boracay
The diverse backgrounds of
visitors who come to Boracay
to experience the island paradise
have transformed this world-class
destination into a melting pot of
cultures, including its culinary
customs. The hundreds of res-
taurants in the island try to cater
to different tastes by presenting
Just for
MOMS
Sweet, offerings at Aristocrat
Moms will surely cherish the wide selec-
tion of breads and pastries like Torta delos
Reyes and its delightful blend of six layers
of wafers, and nutty butter cream made more
delectable with chocolate ganache, the ulti-
mate chocolate cake Choco Supreme (a six-
layer chocolate cake, with chocolate lling
and icing, adorned with chocolate owers),
Tea Ensaimada (sweet bite-sized ensaimada
balls rolled in cheese shavings), customers
favorite Malolos Ensaimada (a bigger ver-
sion of ensaimada topped with salted egg and
cheese shavings), and Cheese Roll (home-
baked bread stuffed with cheese, denitely
a treat for cheese lovers). For inquiries and
reservations, call us at (+63 2) 524-7671 to
80 or email info@aristocratbakeshop.com.
Healthy Options
for mom
Let Healthy Options, lead-
ing one-stop shop for all-nat-
ural product nds, show how
modern-day moms who juggle
family and careers can go for some revitalizing skin pamper-
ing. Among the top picks at Healthy Options is Andalou
Naturals, which offers 37 different skin, hair and body care
products based on fruit stem cell science. All products also
have a minimum 70 per cent certied organic content in an
aloe vera base.
As a special Mothers Day offer, shoppers can avail of
the exclusive Andalou Naturals skin care set that includes
a body lotion and body butter, plus a complimentary facial
peel, mask, or moisturizer. All wrapped and ready-to-go for
Healthy Options members seeking such a special gift for the
women in their lives, the Andalou Naturals exclusive offer
may be purchased for a special price of P1,000. The offer is
valid until supply lasts. The original retail price before promo
is at P1,800. giving customers savings of P800.
Nothing says I love you and Youre special, Mom
than the gift of beauty. Let your mom pamper herself with an
award-winning skin care set like Andalou Naturals, which
has plant stem cells and other science-backed bioactives like
probiotics, enzymes and superfruits.
Being formulated with premium natural ingredients that
the skin needs, the Anadalou Naturals skin care line as
with other quality brands carried by Healthy Options has
no chemicals like phthalates, parabens and other ingredients
a savvy consumer does not want.
Check out the natural skin enhancers at Healthy Options,
with stores located at: level 1 of Shangri-La Plaza Mall,
Mandaluyong City; Rustans Supermarket, Makati City; level
2 of Festival Supermall, Filinvest, Alabang; ground level of
Ayala Center, Cebu City; lower ground oor of SM City, North
EDSA; level 2 of SM City Manila; level 2 of SM Megamall B,
EDSA, Mandaluyong City; SM Pampanga; SM Mall of Asia;
SM Clark; Bonifacio High Street at the Fort; Trinoma in North
EDSA, Quezon City; SM City Davao; Rockwell-Makati; The
North at SM City Cebu; and at the lower ground oor of Green-
belt 5, Ayala Center, Makati City. For more information, visit
the Healthy Options website at www.healthyoptions.com.ph.
Lavish gifts for mom
at Rustans
Shower your mom with only the nest
that will denitely tickle her fancy. With
the best Mother's Day gift selections,
Rustan's is one with us in celebrating
this special occasion and in making it
extra special and memorable for her!
For timeless fashion pieces, make this day memorable by giving her an
amazing new look from Rustan's chic collections.For everyday outt or a
dinner night out to celebrate the occasion, Sinequanone and T Tahari are
the best brands to go for.
Keep her look up to date with statement pieces that will complete her daily
outt. Select from a wide range of staple yet stylish handbags from Coccinelle,
or one can never go wrong with the all time favorite Longchamp.
Keep mom looking, feeling and even smelling her best with aromatic
scents that will liven up her early mornings. Wild Flowers, Rose, Blue-
bells and Wild Rose fragrances from Cath Kidston will surely cheer up
her days while Grace Coles Fruitworks will denitely invigorate moms
senses as she goes about her every day work. After a long day, give mom
the chance to unwind and pamper the nurturing hands that care for us
with Cath Kidstons Cherry Blossom Hand Cream.For more fabulous
gift choices and promos, you can visit and inquire at all Rustans depart-
ment Store branches: Rustans Makati, 813-3739; Rustans Shangri-la,
633-4636; Rustans Alabang, 850-5532; Rustans Gateway, 911-2401
Pampering escapes at Richmonde Hotel
On May 13, the whole world becomes one in honoring all mothers. On this same day, Richmonde Hotel
Ortigas pours out the love to the most important woman in our lives by declaring it I Heart Mom! Day. Kick
off Mothers Day weekend by indulging Mom with a pampering stay at any of Richmonde Ortigas cozy rooms
and let her choose between a relaxing in-room massage good for two persons, or a scrumptious Mothers Day
Lunch Buffer for two at Richmonde Caf. The Mothers Day Celebration Room Package starts at P6,200nett
and is available only on May 12 & 13, 2012. For further inquiries and reservations, please call 638-7777 or call
Richmonde Cafe at 689-8419. Richmonde Hotel Ortigas is located at 21 San Miguel Avenue, Ortigas Center,
Pasig City. For more information, log on to www.richmondehotel.com.
You may also give her the luxurious indulgences she deserves with Eastwood Richmonde Hotels Mothers Day offer-
ings. Eastwood Cafs culinary team will prepare an array of succulent appetizers, mouth-watering main dishes and blissful
desserts to make her truly feel that its her special day. Mothers Day Lunch and Dinner Buffet is priced at P1,580nett per
person. And if you want to spoil mom with a pampering escape, present her with a relaxing stay with the Mothers Day
Celebration Room Package starting at P 7,400 nett from May 12 to 13. This includes overnight accommodations with
breakfast buffet, choice between Mothers Day lunch and dinner buffet for two on May 13th, plus a beauty treat of Lemongrass & Mint Hair Spa from Basement Salon. Guests
who avail themselves of this package are also entitled to a P200 discount on additional Mothers Day Buffet covers. No-Frills Room Packages, inclusive of overnight accommoda-
tions and buffet breakfast for two persons, are also available on Mothers Day weekend, with rates starting at P5,400 nett. AP200 discount will also be extended to guests availing
themselves of this package. For inquiries and reservations, you may call (632) 570-7777, send an email to erh@richmondehotel.com.ph or log on to www.richmondehotel.com.
Wellness packages and more
at Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn
This Mothers Day, show how much you care by spending time with
her at Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn Manila Galleria. Treat her to a
well deserved vacation and avail of our special Mother's Day room
package valid for the whole month of May. Book at Crowne Plaza for
only P 4, 700++ and Holiday Inn for only P 3,700++. Enjoy inclusions
such as buffet breakfast for two, 10% off on Food and Beverage, wel-
come drinks for two, unlimited complimentary internet access, 15%
discount at Suriya Spa, late check out until 3:00 pm* (*subject to
room availability) and Priority Club Rewards apply. A sweet surprise
awaits moms during their stay with us on Mothers Day. Savor and
Experience the avors of China at Xin Tian Di this Mother's Day,
Executive Chinese Chef
Sam Lee has prepared
several menu options
that features healthy
and detoxifying ingre-
dients. For information
and reservations on our
Mothers Day offerings,
please call Crowne Plaza
at 633.7222 or Holiday
Inn at 633.7111.
Discovery Suites offers the nest
Beginning May 1, Discovery Suites, the premier service apart-
ment in the Ortigas Business District with deluxe hotel services,
opens its doors to families seeking to pamper the special woman of
their lives with
value-laden of-
fers. Discovery
Suites Moth-
ers Day pack-
age starts at P
5,800++ for a
very spacious
One Bedroom
Suite. This in-
dul gence i s
inclusive of a
buffet breakfast
for 2 at Restaurant 5, a complimentary 90 - minute massage at the
Terra Wellness Spa plus a 10 percent discount at 22 Primes Mothers
Day Lunch Buffet spread. 22 Prime will offer a sumptuous family
brunch buffet on Sunday, May 13 from 11:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. 22
Primes Brunch Buffet is priced at P1, 495+ per person. For more
information, please call Discovery Suites at (02) 719.8888 or e-mail
rsvn@discovery.com.ph. Joba Botana
diners with a wide assortment of
cuisines.
Thankfully, many Boracay chefs
and restaurant owners place Filipino
cuisines on top of their menu, intro-
ducing Pinoy dishes to foreigners and
adding gastronomic adventure to local
tourists experiences by preparing
Filipino food in a more exciting way.
The Sooo Pinoy team, armed with
their adventurous appetites, headed
straight to Boracay from Iloilo, not to
soak up the sun like the usual tourists,
but to immerse in the best Filipino
dishes in the island.
Boracay Regency Hotel is one of
the famous landmarks of the bustling
Station 2 and Mesa Restaurant is one
of the reasons why visitors ock to this
hotel. While Mesa is a chain of restau-
rants that is also present in Metro Ma-
nila, delighting in world-class Filipino
dishes amidst a backdrop of a pristine
white beach and the Boracay sunset is a
different story. After a day on the beach,
who wouldnt be willing to get stuffed
with Mesas Filipino dishes such as the
tinapa roll, the spicy hito akes, the two
versions of laing (wet and dry), crispy
boneless pata, and suwahe or shrimps
steamed in lava rocks?
Because Boracay appears in any
Worlds Best Beaches list, it is not
surprising that many of the top-notch
hotels and restaurant can also be
found here, and they proudly cook
Filipino fare for both local and for-
eign tourists. Sur, located in Station
1, gives guests the privilege to have
any dish of their choice cooked by the
chef, but they highly suggest you try
the pan-fried cream dory with garlic
and cheese sauce. The home-made
tanglad and pumpkin sauce of the
pan-grilled boneless bangus at Ka-on,
the Filipino restaurant located at the
rooftop of The Tides, makes one want
to relish more of this sumptuous and
lling treat. The villa setting of the
sprawling Paradise Garden Resort
gives guests a serene dwelling away
from Boracays crowded beach. Their
grilled sh llet stuffed with shrimp
paste is a favorite among their guests.
DMall is not only a place to find
ones beach must-haves and pasalu-
bongs; it also houses some of Boracays
yummiest destinations. Smoke Boracay,
whose bulalo is voted one of the best in
the country, also has its own version of
khao pad (Thai bagoong rice), making
it more Pinoy than Thai. Le Soleil de
Boracay and Deparis, both beachfront
hotels, should be frequented for their
ginataang manok with ubad and sinigang
na hipon na tanglad, respectively.
More Sooo Pinoy dishes will be
discovered and sampled as the Food Trip
na Pilipinas tour travels in more cities and
provinces around the country this year.
The Sooo Pinoy campaign is launched
by UFS to help promote Filipino pride
by spreading the love for Filipino cuisine.
Like the Sooo Pinoy Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/SoooPinoy or fol-
low @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
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of its Vietnam facility
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Bangus Sisig from Hotel del Rio
Ginataang Manok with
Ubod from Le Soleil
A total of 16 days; eight to 12
hours in a day. This was how it
took artist Boboy Canafranca to
nally nish the mural now vis-
ibly adorning Victory Liner Cubao
station. The effect it brings though
to passengers and passers-by is be-
yond measure keeping everyone
feel refreshed, calm and relaxed.
Skillfully and graciously hand
painted directly on the walls of
Victory Liner Cubao terminal, the
mural painting visibly comple-
ments the busy bus terminal,
making travelers and even people
walking by stop for a minute or
two and appreciate the artwork.
Aptly titled the Foliage, the
mural distinctly exhibits a group of
tree leaves neatly painted to create
an illusion of vertical garden. The
artist, Boboy Canafranca, explains
that most people nd green to be
the most soothing color and would
often makes one relaxed.
The concept of the Victory
Liner Cubao terminal stems from
Wu Xing, also known as the Five
Elements in many traditional
Chinese elds. The Five Elements
was used for describing interac-
tions and relationships between
phenomena. It was employed as
a device in many elds of early
Chinese thought, including Feng
Shui, astrology, traditional Chi-
nese medicine, military strategy
and martial arts.
For 66 years now, Victory Liner
has been connecting people and
places providing the best bus
transportation experience pos-
sible. It has reinvented itself and
has introduced a number of rsts
for the service of its many patrons.
Passengers can now entertain
themselves with WI-FI aboard
selected Victory Liner buses. For
more details on Victory Liner, visit
www.victoryliner.com.
Victory Liner Cubao station
sports a new and fresher look
The new station in Cubao
Special treats for moms at InterContinental Manila
InterContinental Manila is all set to roll out the red carpet for moms on Mothers Day, May 13 with a line-
up of exciting offers. Take advantage of the Mothers Day Room Package consisting of an overnight stay in
a Deluxe Room with buffet breakfast for two at Caf Jeepney and a free buffet lunch or dinner for Mom at
Caf Jeepney on May 13 for just P 6,800++. Mom will also get a chance to pick out an item from the lobby
gift display. The package will be offered from April 29 to May 13, 2012 to local residents and expatriates with
valid ACR. The Prince Albert Rotisserie will be open May 12 for dinner and May 13 for lunch and dinner.
Treat Mom to Executive Chef Alisdair Bletchers set menus created with her in mind. The lunch set menu is
priced at P 2,488++ while the dinner set menu is at P 2,688++ per person. Moms partaking of these menus at
full price will be entitled to pick a gift from the lobby gift display. Meanwhile, sumptuous lunch and dinner
buffets with live music entertainment await Mom and the family at Caf Jeepney on May 13. Buffet prices
are P 2,000++/adult and P 1,000++/child below 12 years old. Moms partaking of the buffet at full price will
get a chance to pick a gift from the lobby gift display. Gift sponsors are Shinagawa Lasik & Aesthetics Center,
Clinique, Appetite Magazine, Tefal, Beka, Anne Klein Watches, Nine West, National Bookstore, American
Express, Rowenta and Conair. For bookings or reservations, please call 793 7000.
Mothers Day delights
at Dusit Thani
Delight Mom with a day of
indulgence and merriment at
Dusit Thani Manila! Fill her day
with absolute fun and laughter,
shower her with love and at-
tention and surround her with
mouthwatering international
cuisines at the Mothers Day
Crossover Brunch. Enjoy a
massive collection of culinary
treasures from Basix All-Day
Dining Restaurant for an Asian
and international cuisine, Ben-
jarong Royal Thai Restaurant
for authentic Thai cuisine, To-
sca Italian Restaurant and Umu
Japanese Restaurant, inclusive
of specialty beverage. Available
from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., the
Mothers Day Crossover Brunch
is priced at P1,800 net for adults
and P900 net for 6 to 12 year old
children. Be ensured of a one of
a kind summer experience with
your family and friends as you
avail of the Magically Dusit
Room Package for as low as
P7,000++ for a Deluxe room,
P8,200++ for a Club Room and
P9,200++ for a Grand Room
which includes buffet breakfast
for two persons, access to the
hotels pool and DFiT Fitness
Center and four complimen-
tary day passes to Enchanted
Kingdom for a day of fun-lled
excitement with your loved ones.
Magically Dusit Room Package
is valid until June 30, 2012.
For inquiries and reservations,
please call +63(2) 238-8888 or
e-mail: dtmnrsvn@dusit.com
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gift to youlife. The special day to honor the
woman closest to our hearts is just around the
corner. How sweet it is to celebrate motherhood
and let mom know and feel that she's loved and
appreciated. Read on for some tips on where
you can take mom on her special day.
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formed by the ends of
this puzzles four longest
answers
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62 Sheltered, at sea
63 Mimic
64 Lover of Tristan
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3 Gotten up
4 Choir member
5 The Brady Bunch girl
6 Tin Woodmans saving
grace
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10 Caustic substance
11 I t s meas ur ed i n
alarms
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13 Church areas
18 Suss out
22 Leading a charmed
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pair
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20 Ancient Greek theater
21 Merry old king
22 In a funk
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28 Billy of Titanic
29 Daisylike blooms
32 Pipe dream
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38 Pop
39 Chew out
42 Chic
44 How steak is done
sauce
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a charge
46 Everything but item
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55 Cultural values
57 King of Spain
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Located in Vietnam-Singapore
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"Thanks to the valued sup-
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executive vice president, Mobile
Phones, Nokia.
Nokia rst opened its doors in
Vietnam in 1996 and, like many
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Vietnam as a growing market
with opportunity and potential.
In light of the respect Nokia has
wherever it operates, the com-
pany has worked hard to quickly
become part of the Vietnamese
community.
Nokia currently operates two
representative ofces in Vietnam:
one in Ho Chi Minh City and
the other in Hanoi. These ofces
carry out marketing and promo-
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business. In 2011, Nokia estab-
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Penh, Cambodia, increasing its
footprint within the IndoChina
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TRAVEL the islands and with your
tongue identify the tastes and avors
that express the culture. With pio-
neering Philippine food writer Doreen
Fernandezs advice in mind, Unilever
Food Solutions Sooo Pinoy team
commenced its series of gastronomic
trips all over the country, kicking off
the Food Trip na Pilipinas Tour in two
of Western Visayas tourist hotspots:
Iloilo City and Boracay.
Bringing together food-lovers and
members from the media, the Sooo Pi-
noy team visited restaurants that ranged
from hole-in-the-wall eateries to five-
star restaurants housed in some of the
most renowned hotels in search of the
best local cuisines served by different
restaurants that cater to the Filipino
palate. The dishes they sampled varied
from traditional cooking to fusion cui-
sine that resulted from the Philippines
diverse cultural heritage. Twenty-two
restaurants and dozens of emptied
plates and bowls later, the Sooo Pinoy
Team unanimously agreed: Iloilo
and Boracay are best explored with a
hungry stomach, ready to take on their
abundant gastronomic delights.
Iloilo
For a taste of the grandeur of the
past, no hotel in Iloilo is more ro-
mantic than the 47-year-old Hotel del
Rio. Lunches in the hotels Igma-an
Restaurant, with its regal view of the
Iloilo River, are best savored with their
best-selling bangus sisig, a avorful
mlange of juicy, sour, and spicy.
Because Iloilo is a culinary des-
tination, its many food-stops and
restaurants serve the cravings of
different pockets. For a taste of au-
thentic local dishes that are easy on
the budget, diners and foodies should
not be intimidated by the famous
Grand Tower Suites. Their Turo-
Turo Express is where one should
go to enjoy a feast of diverse Pinoy
dishes such as dinuguan, bulalo, and
pinakbet without hurting the pocket.
Their bestselling lumpiang hipon, is
both crunchy and juicy.
Ilonggos love putting their own
twist to traditional and foreign cui-
sines and when they do, they make
their versions healthier. The classy
Bauhinia Filipino Cuisine restaurant
made clever use of malunggay and
its many benets by incorporating
it in its heavenly moringa-crusted
sibingan cooked with less oil and
topped with malunggay pesto and
parmesan cheese.
No Ilonggo meal is complete
without soup, which locals consider
a complete meal in itself. Aside from
their famous hot tsokolate, the heri-
tage site of Camia Balay nga Bato
offers visitors sumptuous pancit
molo served in the dining hall of the
147-year-old-house. Here, visitors
can also go on a historical tour of the
Spanish-era house, with its century-
old furniture and antique religious
pieces, and discover stories of its
colorful past straight from host Luth
Camia. Another family-run food
destination is Netongs Original La
Paz Batchoy, located at the heart of
the La Paz Public Market. While
the origin of the La Paz batchoy
remains debatable, many Ilonggos
would agree that Netongs, which
has been serving this delectable
signature dish since post-World War
II, serves one of the best.
Boracay
The diverse backgrounds of
visitors who come to Boracay
to experience the island paradise
have transformed this world-class
destination into a melting pot of
cultures, including its culinary
customs. The hundreds of res-
taurants in the island try to cater
to different tastes by presenting
Just for
MOMS
Sweet, offerings at Aristocrat
Moms will surely cherish the wide selec-
tion of breads and pastries like Torta delos
Reyes and its delightful blend of six layers
of wafers, and nutty butter cream made more
delectable with chocolate ganache, the ulti-
mate chocolate cake Choco Supreme (a six-
layer chocolate cake, with chocolate lling
and icing, adorned with chocolate owers),
Tea Ensaimada (sweet bite-sized ensaimada
balls rolled in cheese shavings), customers
favorite Malolos Ensaimada (a bigger ver-
sion of ensaimada topped with salted egg and
cheese shavings), and Cheese Roll (home-
baked bread stuffed with cheese, denitely
a treat for cheese lovers). For inquiries and
reservations, call us at (+63 2) 524-7671 to
80 or email info@aristocratbakeshop.com.
Healthy Options
for mom
Let Healthy Options, lead-
ing one-stop shop for all-nat-
ural product nds, show how
modern-day moms who juggle
family and careers can go for some revitalizing skin pamper-
ing. Among the top picks at Healthy Options is Andalou
Naturals, which offers 37 different skin, hair and body care
products based on fruit stem cell science. All products also
have a minimum 70 per cent certied organic content in an
aloe vera base.
As a special Mothers Day offer, shoppers can avail of
the exclusive Andalou Naturals skin care set that includes
a body lotion and body butter, plus a complimentary facial
peel, mask, or moisturizer. All wrapped and ready-to-go for
Healthy Options members seeking such a special gift for the
women in their lives, the Andalou Naturals exclusive offer
may be purchased for a special price of P1,000. The offer is
valid until supply lasts. The original retail price before promo
is at P1,800. giving customers savings of P800.
Nothing says I love you and Youre special, Mom
than the gift of beauty. Let your mom pamper herself with an
award-winning skin care set like Andalou Naturals, which
has plant stem cells and other science-backed bioactives like
probiotics, enzymes and superfruits.
Being formulated with premium natural ingredients that
the skin needs, the Anadalou Naturals skin care line as
with other quality brands carried by Healthy Options has
no chemicals like phthalates, parabens and other ingredients
a savvy consumer does not want.
Check out the natural skin enhancers at Healthy Options,
with stores located at: level 1 of Shangri-La Plaza Mall,
Mandaluyong City; Rustans Supermarket, Makati City; level
2 of Festival Supermall, Filinvest, Alabang; ground level of
Ayala Center, Cebu City; lower ground oor of SM City, North
EDSA; level 2 of SM City Manila; level 2 of SM Megamall B,
EDSA, Mandaluyong City; SM Pampanga; SM Mall of Asia;
SM Clark; Bonifacio High Street at the Fort; Trinoma in North
EDSA, Quezon City; SM City Davao; Rockwell-Makati; The
North at SM City Cebu; and at the lower ground oor of Green-
belt 5, Ayala Center, Makati City. For more information, visit
the Healthy Options website at www.healthyoptions.com.ph.
Lavish gifts for mom
at Rustans
Shower your mom with only the nest
that will denitely tickle her fancy. With
the best Mother's Day gift selections,
Rustan's is one with us in celebrating
this special occasion and in making it
extra special and memorable for her!
For timeless fashion pieces, make this day memorable by giving her an
amazing new look from Rustan's chic collections.For everyday outt or a
dinner night out to celebrate the occasion, Sinequanone and T Tahari are
the best brands to go for.
Keep her look up to date with statement pieces that will complete her daily
outt. Select from a wide range of staple yet stylish handbags from Coccinelle,
or one can never go wrong with the all time favorite Longchamp.
Keep mom looking, feeling and even smelling her best with aromatic
scents that will liven up her early mornings. Wild Flowers, Rose, Blue-
bells and Wild Rose fragrances from Cath Kidston will surely cheer up
her days while Grace Coles Fruitworks will denitely invigorate moms
senses as she goes about her every day work. After a long day, give mom
the chance to unwind and pamper the nurturing hands that care for us
with Cath Kidstons Cherry Blossom Hand Cream.For more fabulous
gift choices and promos, you can visit and inquire at all Rustans depart-
ment Store branches: Rustans Makati, 813-3739; Rustans Shangri-la,
633-4636; Rustans Alabang, 850-5532; Rustans Gateway, 911-2401
Pampering escapes at Richmonde Hotel
On May 13, the whole world becomes one in honoring all mothers. On this same day, Richmonde Hotel
Ortigas pours out the love to the most important woman in our lives by declaring it I Heart Mom! Day. Kick
off Mothers Day weekend by indulging Mom with a pampering stay at any of Richmonde Ortigas cozy rooms
and let her choose between a relaxing in-room massage good for two persons, or a scrumptious Mothers Day
Lunch Buffer for two at Richmonde Caf. The Mothers Day Celebration Room Package starts at P6,200nett
and is available only on May 12 & 13, 2012. For further inquiries and reservations, please call 638-7777 or call
Richmonde Cafe at 689-8419. Richmonde Hotel Ortigas is located at 21 San Miguel Avenue, Ortigas Center,
Pasig City. For more information, log on to www.richmondehotel.com.
You may also give her the luxurious indulgences she deserves with Eastwood Richmonde Hotels Mothers Day offer-
ings. Eastwood Cafs culinary team will prepare an array of succulent appetizers, mouth-watering main dishes and blissful
desserts to make her truly feel that its her special day. Mothers Day Lunch and Dinner Buffet is priced at P1,580nett per
person. And if you want to spoil mom with a pampering escape, present her with a relaxing stay with the Mothers Day
Celebration Room Package starting at P 7,400 nett from May 12 to 13. This includes overnight accommodations with
breakfast buffet, choice between Mothers Day lunch and dinner buffet for two on May 13th, plus a beauty treat of Lemongrass & Mint Hair Spa from Basement Salon. Guests
who avail themselves of this package are also entitled to a P200 discount on additional Mothers Day Buffet covers. No-Frills Room Packages, inclusive of overnight accommoda-
tions and buffet breakfast for two persons, are also available on Mothers Day weekend, with rates starting at P5,400 nett. AP200 discount will also be extended to guests availing
themselves of this package. For inquiries and reservations, you may call (632) 570-7777, send an email to erh@richmondehotel.com.ph or log on to www.richmondehotel.com.
Wellness packages and more
at Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn
This Mothers Day, show how much you care by spending time with
her at Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn Manila Galleria. Treat her to a
well deserved vacation and avail of our special Mother's Day room
package valid for the whole month of May. Book at Crowne Plaza for
only P 4, 700++ and Holiday Inn for only P 3,700++. Enjoy inclusions
such as buffet breakfast for two, 10% off on Food and Beverage, wel-
come drinks for two, unlimited complimentary internet access, 15%
discount at Suriya Spa, late check out until 3:00 pm* (*subject to
room availability) and Priority Club Rewards apply. A sweet surprise
awaits moms during their stay with us on Mothers Day. Savor and
Experience the avors of China at Xin Tian Di this Mother's Day,
Executive Chinese Chef
Sam Lee has prepared
several menu options
that features healthy
and detoxifying ingre-
dients. For information
and reservations on our
Mothers Day offerings,
please call Crowne Plaza
at 633.7222 or Holiday
Inn at 633.7111.
Discovery Suites offers the nest
Beginning May 1, Discovery Suites, the premier service apart-
ment in the Ortigas Business District with deluxe hotel services,
opens its doors to families seeking to pamper the special woman of
their lives with
value-laden of-
fers. Discovery
Suites Moth-
ers Day pack-
age starts at P
5,800++ for a
very spacious
One Bedroom
Suite. This in-
dul gence i s
inclusive of a
buffet breakfast
for 2 at Restaurant 5, a complimentary 90 - minute massage at the
Terra Wellness Spa plus a 10 percent discount at 22 Primes Mothers
Day Lunch Buffet spread. 22 Prime will offer a sumptuous family
brunch buffet on Sunday, May 13 from 11:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. 22
Primes Brunch Buffet is priced at P1, 495+ per person. For more
information, please call Discovery Suites at (02) 719.8888 or e-mail
rsvn@discovery.com.ph. Joba Botana
diners with a wide assortment of
cuisines.
Thankfully, many Boracay chefs
and restaurant owners place Filipino
cuisines on top of their menu, intro-
ducing Pinoy dishes to foreigners and
adding gastronomic adventure to local
tourists experiences by preparing
Filipino food in a more exciting way.
The Sooo Pinoy team, armed with
their adventurous appetites, headed
straight to Boracay from Iloilo, not to
soak up the sun like the usual tourists,
but to immerse in the best Filipino
dishes in the island.
Boracay Regency Hotel is one of
the famous landmarks of the bustling
Station 2 and Mesa Restaurant is one
of the reasons why visitors ock to this
hotel. While Mesa is a chain of restau-
rants that is also present in Metro Ma-
nila, delighting in world-class Filipino
dishes amidst a backdrop of a pristine
white beach and the Boracay sunset is a
different story. After a day on the beach,
who wouldnt be willing to get stuffed
with Mesas Filipino dishes such as the
tinapa roll, the spicy hito akes, the two
versions of laing (wet and dry), crispy
boneless pata, and suwahe or shrimps
steamed in lava rocks?
Because Boracay appears in any
Worlds Best Beaches list, it is not
surprising that many of the top-notch
hotels and restaurant can also be
found here, and they proudly cook
Filipino fare for both local and for-
eign tourists. Sur, located in Station
1, gives guests the privilege to have
any dish of their choice cooked by the
chef, but they highly suggest you try
the pan-fried cream dory with garlic
and cheese sauce. The home-made
tanglad and pumpkin sauce of the
pan-grilled boneless bangus at Ka-on,
the Filipino restaurant located at the
rooftop of The Tides, makes one want
to relish more of this sumptuous and
lling treat. The villa setting of the
sprawling Paradise Garden Resort
gives guests a serene dwelling away
from Boracays crowded beach. Their
grilled sh llet stuffed with shrimp
paste is a favorite among their guests.
DMall is not only a place to find
ones beach must-haves and pasalu-
bongs; it also houses some of Boracays
yummiest destinations. Smoke Boracay,
whose bulalo is voted one of the best in
the country, also has its own version of
khao pad (Thai bagoong rice), making
it more Pinoy than Thai. Le Soleil de
Boracay and Deparis, both beachfront
hotels, should be frequented for their
ginataang manok with ubad and sinigang
na hipon na tanglad, respectively.
More Sooo Pinoy dishes will be
discovered and sampled as the Food Trip
na Pilipinas tour travels in more cities and
provinces around the country this year.
The Sooo Pinoy campaign is launched
by UFS to help promote Filipino pride
by spreading the love for Filipino cuisine.
Like the Sooo Pinoy Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/SoooPinoy or fol-
low @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
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ing Citibank Online to pay your bills and transfer
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Citibank will also reward you for inviting
family and friends to also open accounts. Suc-
cessful referrals will earn as many as 10 rafe
chances.
Other prizes also up for grabs include
Samsonite luggage sets, Canon SLR cameras
and Sodexho gift certicates. The promotion
started on March 21 will end on June 30, 2012
and is available at both Citibank and Citibank
Savings branches.
With your new Citibank account, experi-
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Citibank Online and Citi Mobile App available
for Apple, Android and Blackberry devices.
For more details and information about this
rewarding offer, visit www.citibank.com.ph.
THE SOOO PINOY
CHRONICLES
Bangus Sisig from Hotel del Rio
Ginataang Manok with
Ubod from Le Soleil
A total of 16 days; eight to 12
hours in a day. This was how it
took artist Boboy Canafranca to
nally nish the mural now vis-
ibly adorning Victory Liner Cubao
station. The effect it brings though
to passengers and passers-by is be-
yond measure keeping everyone
feel refreshed, calm and relaxed.
Skillfully and graciously hand
painted directly on the walls of
Victory Liner Cubao terminal, the
mural painting visibly comple-
ments the busy bus terminal,
making travelers and even people
walking by stop for a minute or
two and appreciate the artwork.
Aptly titled the Foliage, the
mural distinctly exhibits a group of
tree leaves neatly painted to create
an illusion of vertical garden. The
artist, Boboy Canafranca, explains
that most people nd green to be
the most soothing color and would
often makes one relaxed.
The concept of the Victory
Liner Cubao terminal stems from
Wu Xing, also known as the Five
Elements in many traditional
Chinese elds. The Five Elements
was used for describing interac-
tions and relationships between
phenomena. It was employed as
a device in many elds of early
Chinese thought, including Feng
Shui, astrology, traditional Chi-
nese medicine, military strategy
and martial arts.
For 66 years now, Victory Liner
has been connecting people and
places providing the best bus
transportation experience pos-
sible. It has reinvented itself and
has introduced a number of rsts
for the service of its many patrons.
Passengers can now entertain
themselves with WI-FI aboard
selected Victory Liner buses. For
more details on Victory Liner, visit
www.victoryliner.com.
Victory Liner Cubao station
sports a new and fresher look
The new station in Cubao
Special treats for moms at InterContinental Manila
InterContinental Manila is all set to roll out the red carpet for moms on Mothers Day, May 13 with a line-
up of exciting offers. Take advantage of the Mothers Day Room Package consisting of an overnight stay in
a Deluxe Room with buffet breakfast for two at Caf Jeepney and a free buffet lunch or dinner for Mom at
Caf Jeepney on May 13 for just P 6,800++. Mom will also get a chance to pick out an item from the lobby
gift display. The package will be offered from April 29 to May 13, 2012 to local residents and expatriates with
valid ACR. The Prince Albert Rotisserie will be open May 12 for dinner and May 13 for lunch and dinner.
Treat Mom to Executive Chef Alisdair Bletchers set menus created with her in mind. The lunch set menu is
priced at P 2,488++ while the dinner set menu is at P 2,688++ per person. Moms partaking of these menus at
full price will be entitled to pick a gift from the lobby gift display. Meanwhile, sumptuous lunch and dinner
buffets with live music entertainment await Mom and the family at Caf Jeepney on May 13. Buffet prices
are P 2,000++/adult and P 1,000++/child below 12 years old. Moms partaking of the buffet at full price will
get a chance to pick a gift from the lobby gift display. Gift sponsors are Shinagawa Lasik & Aesthetics Center,
Clinique, Appetite Magazine, Tefal, Beka, Anne Klein Watches, Nine West, National Bookstore, American
Express, Rowenta and Conair. For bookings or reservations, please call 793 7000.
Mothers Day delights
at Dusit Thani
Delight Mom with a day of
indulgence and merriment at
Dusit Thani Manila! Fill her day
with absolute fun and laughter,
shower her with love and at-
tention and surround her with
mouthwatering international
cuisines at the Mothers Day
Crossover Brunch. Enjoy a
massive collection of culinary
treasures from Basix All-Day
Dining Restaurant for an Asian
and international cuisine, Ben-
jarong Royal Thai Restaurant
for authentic Thai cuisine, To-
sca Italian Restaurant and Umu
Japanese Restaurant, inclusive
of specialty beverage. Available
from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., the
Mothers Day Crossover Brunch
is priced at P1,800 net for adults
and P900 net for 6 to 12 year old
children. Be ensured of a one of
a kind summer experience with
your family and friends as you
avail of the Magically Dusit
Room Package for as low as
P7,000++ for a Deluxe room,
P8,200++ for a Club Room and
P9,200++ for a Grand Room
which includes buffet breakfast
for two persons, access to the
hotels pool and DFiT Fitness
Center and four complimen-
tary day passes to Enchanted
Kingdom for a day of fun-lled
excitement with your loved ones.
Magically Dusit Room Package
is valid until June 30, 2012.
For inquiries and reservations,
please call +63(2) 238-8888 or
e-mail: dtmnrsvn@dusit.com
NO gift to your mother can ever equal her
gift to youlife. The special day to honor the
woman closest to our hearts is just around the
corner. How sweet it is to celebrate motherhood
and let mom know and feel that she's loved and
appreciated. Read on for some tips on where
you can take mom on her special day.
MAY 11, 2012 FRIDAY
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Isah V. Red, Editor standard.showbiz@gmail.com
showbitz
ISAH V.
RED
SIMPLY RED
Michael and Jake are also
partly from the Bicol region
because their mother hails from
the scenic peninsula down south
of Luzon. Michael just doesnt
know particularly where mom
comes from in the region of sili-
munching people. But I surmised
Mrs. Letts, whose maiden family
name is Robrigado, is from Albay,
particularly the town of Oas where
most of the Robrigados I know
hail.
Michael shakes his head
smiling, I dont know, I never
asked mom.
Jake cant help his brother
either.
But the two are proud to be
members of the national rugby
team. Michael plays fullback,
while Jake takes scrum-half, but
he is also captain of the team
whenever, wherever.
It depends on the game,
he says smiling while the girls
nearby seemed thrilled to see this
goodlooking Bicolano Australian.
We do this for the love
of the sport, at the opposite
side of the table during lunch
at Via Mare recently. It was
hours before Michael hed
proceed to the airport for his
ight back to Australia.
We have regular jobs in
Australia, Jake adds. When
theres a match we y back to
Manila so we could play.
Michael butts in, Most
of us, if not all, are with
professional leagues. Some
are based back in Australia,
others are in Japan or
somewhere else.
Recently, leading
telecommunications company
Globe Telecom hailed the
Philippine Volcanoes national
mens rugby team for their
outstanding win in the recently
concluded Asian Five Nations
Division I Championship.
The win not only propelled
the team into the ranks of the
top ve teams in Asian rugby but
also brought them a step closer to
their quest to qualify for the 2015
Rugby World Cup in England.
Michael and Jake are one in
their dream for the Volcanoes to be
in the World Cup.
It would be amazing, says
Jake, who became very popular
after posing on billboard for a
local fashion clothing brands
undergarments across the Pasig
River from Guadalupe in Makati.
Older brother Michael simply
smiles when asked about it, Some
people just made a big fuss about
it.
Jake adds, Theres nothing
malicious in it. (The brand) was
pushing its undergarments line
and it also helped the team get
awareness.
This time, the Philippine
Volcanoes get the teams much
needed support from Globe.
Globe started supporting the
Philippine Volcanoes last year
to help the team raise awareness
on the sport. We congratulate
the Philippine Volcanoes for a
great nish and for promoting the
Philippines to the Elite Division of
the Asian Five which is composed
of the regions top ve teamsWe
are optimistic that they will sustain
the momentum in their future
games. Globe is proud to throw
our support behind the Volcanoes
and join them in making rugby
a certied Filipino sport, said
Ernest L. Cu, Globe President
and CEO.
Part of the deal is TV
commercial. The Volcanoes are
featured in a new video produced
by Globe in partnership with the
Department of Tourism. The video
shows the Volcanoes inviting
Pinoys to share their own fun
experiences to help make a new
global advertisement to promote
the Philippines. The best ones will
be shown in key cities around the
world. The team was also tapped
by Globe as its ambassadors in
ghting against bill shock.
Rugby rocks Rizal
Since becoming a full member
TRIBUTE to a great lady called
Mama, Mommy, Nanay, Inay,
Nanang, etc. will be presented
the da y be fore Mothers Day.
Ricky has an interview with
Renee Salud called Mama by
his models. Motherhood does
not necessarily mean a female
gure in the house. Even mem-
bers of the third sex like Ricky
and myself, are proud to love and
be loved by people who we give
samples of our nurturing and
guidance, says Renee.
There are separate interviews,
likewise, with two fearless and
feisty Nanays in show business
Lolit Solis and Cristy Fermin .
Andrew de Real is Mamu
or Mother to stand-up and vid-
eoke bar host- singer-comedians.
Find out how Mamu made his
Malate joint The Library a birth-
place of fun and laughter to male
and female comics he treats as
children.
Ricky will share tips on what
to give your mothers on their
special day.
Life and Style is a production of
ScriptoVision, 10 a.m., Saturdays
on GMA News TV Channel 11.
KIDS are going crazy for colors this
summer at SM.
SM Kids launches its Crazy For Colors
bright tees and denims. Fun basic wears
from Justees and Zapped. With a summer
dance party last Saturday, April 21 at the
Music Hall of the SM Mall of Asia. There
was an amazing dance medley with a mix
of hip-hop, krumping, acrobatics and cheer
dance that hyped the event.
Meanwhile, featuring its Justees and
Zapped lines, the Crazy For Colors launch
had the dancing diva, Regine Tolentino
who gave a short dance tutorial on the
Crazy For Colors Dance Craze, Shakeye-
body. The fun continues with different
booths like the Wii Dance Challenge, Get
Spotted, Photo Booth, and the My Own
Music Video Booth.
Jump into the fun by just having any
amount of purchase from the SM Chil-
drens Wear Crazy For Colors line.
The Crazy For Colors dance party will
then bring excitement to the following SM
Malls: SM Sta. Rosa and SM Pampanga
on May 12; SM Cebu on May 13; in SM
Marilao and SM Dasmarias on May 19;
and SM Davao and SM Taytay on May
26.
The Crazy For Colors tees and den-
ims are available at the Childrens Wear
Department in all SM Stores.
People
are talking about
Ella Cruz
This GMA Network discovery is now the new kid on the
Kapamilya block and has been given the biggest break in her
six-year-old showbiz career. Fourteen-year-old Ella, who has
been doing bit roles all her life, top-bills ABS-CBNs newest
fantasy soap, Aryana.
The Road
Of all the recently-made Filipino movies, this GMA Films
production, by far, is the only movie that is making positive
reviews both from the foreign media and audience.
are not talking about
Billy Crawford
He bade goodbye to his friends in the show as he is set to go
to Paris to continue his music career. For all we know, hes been
saying goodbye since last year. We are hoping that this time will
push.
Derek Ramsay
Hes all over the news all for the wrong reasons. Is this how
TV5 doing its best to sustain Dereks massive popularity? What
can we expect from the miniscule station that does not even
know what wonders good PR can do in this kind of situation.
Mothers Day Special on Life and Style
SM Kids Foundation goes crazy for colors
Volcanoes
on TV? Why not?
MICHAEL and Jake Letts are
brothers in arms. Both play rugby
for the Philippine Volcanoes,
the team that won the Asian Five
Championship recently.
The Philippine Volcanoes with the Globe Corporate Communications team. (From left): Jay Crisostomo,
Expo Mejia, Grant Rice, EJ Francisco, Kit Guerra, Marigold Endriga, Jake Letts, Globe Corp. Communication
head Yoly Crisanto, Michael Letts, Anne Tiangco and Cleo Gomez
of the International Rugby
Board in 2008. the edging
rugby nation of the Philippines
has only hosted one premier
Asian Rugby Football Union
(ARFU) tournament at home,
the HSBC ASN Division III
in 2009, which it won beating
Guam and Iran.
The rest of its rare forays
in international rugby
have been away but
have proven equally
fruitful, making
the Volcanoes
statistically the
most successful team in Asia in
recent years next to Japan. Hopes
are high in the Philippines that
this record will continue against
Sri Lanka, Singapore and Chinese
Taipei.
In the past four years since
we became IRB members, we
have only lost once, and that was
a narrow loss lo South Korea, one
of the traditional powerhouses
in Asia, in last years Division I
Semi-nal. Other than that we
have been a success story, says
Malt Cullen. general manager of
the Philippines Rugby Football
Union and manager of the
Philippines Volcanoes.
Starting from Division Four
in 2008, they progressed to
Division I by 2011, a signicant
achievement for a country where
rugby was almost non-existent a
decade ago, and played only Ely a
few expatriates. But with most of
their wins being away, the public
in the Philippines know little
about the game.
Our goal was to win
promotion to the Top 5 and then
to stay there in 2013
,
so that when
the nal qualifying event for Asia
for the World Cup comes around
in 2014, we will be in the mix,
Cullen said.
Another incentive to do well is
their success will bring with it an
increased prole for rugby in the
Philippines.
We have a population of 90
million. The tournament is being
shown live on national television
on ABS-CBN for the rst time. If
we win it will help promote the
game, added Cullen.
Success will bring with it more
interest from sponsors and the
public and this will help us develop
the grassroots of the game in this
country, Cullen said.
About six years since the rst
Philippine mens national rugby
team was formed and three wins
from three matches in and grueling
week of rugby on short rest and in
stiing heat laterthe Philippine
Volcanoes nish rst place in the
Asian Five Nations First Division.
The team defeated Sri Lanka
28-18 Saturday, April 21 proving
it does not only have the talent it
takes to be champions, but the
heart as welt.
The win against Sri Lanka
has earned the team a spot at the
Asian Five Nations Elite Division
In 2013a competition for the
top ve rugby teams in Asia. The
winner of the 2314 Asian Five
Nations will earn an outright berth
at the 2015 World Cup in England.
TV5 distancing
from the Tulfos?
We got this from our e-mail, a
statement from TV 5 management,
after the three Tulfo brothers vented
their anger over the misfortune
that befell their brother, Ramon
Tulfo, at the NAIA 3 terminal last
Saturday. I am reprinting it in full.
News5 assures the public
and all parties concerned that
the statements made by the Tulfo
brothers brothers in its program, T3,
last May 7, 2012, were unscripted,
spontaneous, and do not in any way
reect the stand nor the policy of the
network, its management, staff and
employees. While we understand
the emotions at play during the
broadcast, News5 does not and will
never condone such behavior. It
was not only uncalled for but runs
counter to the established Code of
Ethics that we all strictly adhere to.
We are taking necessary actions
to deal with this lapse in judgment
on the part of the Tulfo brothers
and assure the public that we
remain committed to objective and
impartial journalism.
The Movie and Television Review
and Classication Board (MTRCB)
after being deluged with complaints
on the Tulfo brothers behavior and
pronouncements on their TV show
T3 is, I gathered, preparing necessary
action. Will they be suspended? Or
just reprimanded?
One thing that shouldnt be
condoned is the thug mentality
of any person who has access to
media, whether he or she is popular.
As media personalities, we should
all remember that we should be
of exemplary behavior, whether
or not we are in the most testing
situations. Unless of course our
lives are already being threatened.
Brothers Michael and Jake Letts
Jake as he
appeared in
the Bench
billboard
Regine Tolentino shows her dance moves

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