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Cheating mars police exams
Farmers wont get cash
from coconut levy funds
Padaca starts polls job,
promises fair decisions
Two share Nobel Prize
for stem cell research
Roxas vows to clean up PNP
PH, US troops kick off
10-day military drills
Foreign hand in peace deal questioned
Twits netizens
for silence on
e-vandalism
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Vol. XXVI No. 201 16 Pages, 3 Sections
P18.00 Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Govt cant stop hackers
Bound for glory. In this April
2009 photo, Kyoto University
professor Shinya Yamanaka,
left, and British researcher John
Gurdon attend a symposium on
induced pluripotent stem cell in
Tokyo. AP
Detractors. Members of the National Press Club march on the Supreme Court to slam
the Cybercrime Prevention Act. EY ACASIO
Visitor. Personnel of the US submarine USS Olympia prepare for mili-
tary exercises with Filipino soldiers. DANNY PATA
Believers. Supporters of the Cybercrime Prevention Act trooped to the Senate on Mon-
day to declare their belief in it. EY ACASIO
Milestone. President Benigno Aquino III holds up a copy of Singapores New Straits Times an-
nouncing the peace deal between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
By Florante Solmerin
SEVERAL hundreds of Philip-
pine and American troops took
to the deck of a United States
assault ship on Subic Bay on
Monday to launch massive mili-
tary exercises in Palawan and
Zambales provinces, near the
disputed territory claimed by
China, the Philippines and sev-
eral countries in Asia.
Navy chief, Vice Admiral Al-
exander Pama, said during the
opening ceremony on board the
USS Bonhemme Richard that
kicked off the 10-day maneuvers
that the exercises will lead to an
enduring partnership between the
two countries.
I am condent that the exer-
cises will result in enduring part-
nership ... we shall be prepared to
jointly face the present and emerg-
ing martime challenges in this part
of the region, Pama said.
He also announced that another
US-made cutter, which has been
tted with new guns and will be
christened BRP Ramon Alvarez,
was due to arrive in the country in
January or February next year.
In addition to the existing 76
mm guns, we added new equip-
ment, which cost $5 million.
STOCKHOLMBritish re-
searcher John Gurdon and Shin-
ya Yamanaka of Japan won this
years Nobel Prize in physiology
or medicine on Monday for dis-
covering that mature, specialized
cells of the body can be repro-
grammed into stem cells a
discovery that scientists hope to
turn into new treatments.
Scientists want to harness that
reprogramming to create replace-
ment tissues for treating diseases
like Parkinsons, diabetes and
for studying the roots of diseases
in the laboratory.
By Joel E. Zurbano
NEWLY designated Elections
Commissioner Grace Padaca
started working at the commis-
sion on Monday and promised
that her decisions on election-
related cases would be honest
and impartial.
I will just be myself. I will
just be Grace Padaca, and Grace
Padaca is one who respects the
truth, she said.
That is why I did not post bail
and I was ready to be arrested be-
cause I was protesting my case.
The former governor of Isabela
was referring to her graft case be-
fore the Sandiganbayan anti-graft
court for approving a P25-million
loan to nance the hybrid rice
project of a non-government or-
ganization that was not subjected
to a public bidding.
President Benigno Aquino
III had posted her P70,000 bail,
saying her case did not prevent
her from being appointed to a
government post. He tapped
Padaca to replace Augusto Lag-
man who was not reappointed to
the post in April.
By Christine F. Herrera
THE Palace on Monday rejected
the demand of some lawmak-
ers and farmers to distribute to
some 3.4 million coconut farm-
ers P57.6-billion in coconut levy
funds, saying the money was in-
tended for the rehabilitation and
development of the coconut in-
dustry to benet farmers.
The money can only be
used to rehabilitate and develop
the coconut industry and for the
welfare of coconut farmers,
Budget Secretary Florencio
Abad told the Manila Standard.
The Kilusang Magbubukid
ng Pilipinas, Kaisahang Pam-
bansa ng mga Magsasaka sa
Koprahan, Anakpawis Rep.
Rafael Mariano, Gabriela Rep.
Luz Ilagan, and Kabataan Rep.
Raymond Palatino demanded
that the coconut levy fund be
distributed in cash.
If distributed, the P57.6 bil-
lion would translate into P16,941
for each of the 3.4 million coco-
nut farmers.
We need to study the most
benecial way the funds can be
used to achieve the objectives,
Abad said.
Would netizens wait until they are
affected by these hackings before they
speak up? Is that the kind of attitude
that we want? presidential spokesman
Edwin Lacierda said.
The e-vandals are doing damage
not only to the Philippine government.
The citizens should break their silence
on this, he added.
Lacierda also defended President
Benigno Aquino III for supporting the
online libel provision of the Cybercrime
Prevention Act that critics have singled
out as being restrictive and draconian.
Can one sue a person for libel on
By Macon R. Araneta and
Joyce Pangco Paares
SENATOR Miriam Defensor-Santia-
go on Monday warned against at least
two amendments that would have to
be made to the Constitution to al-
low the creation of the Bangsamoro
region agreed to by the government
and Muslim rebels.
As chairperson of the Senate
committee on constitutional amend-
ments, Im very concerned about the
release of the so-called framework
agreement, Santiago said, referring
to an accord announced by President
Benigno Aquino III Sunday.
Santiago said the participation
of Malaysia and other states in the
negotiations with the Muslim rebels
was questionable because these in-
volved amendments to the Consti-
tution and were therefore a matter
of sovereignty.
She added that the agreement
would require two amendments to
the basic law of the land one to
allow a parliamentary form of gov-
ernment in the Bangsamoro entity
distinct from the presidential form
of government in the rest of the
country, and the other to create a
federal system with respect only to
the Bangsamoro area.
Under such a setup, she said, lo-
cal government units would have
fewer powers than the Bangsamoro
entity, which would take the form
a dependent state or non-sover-
eign state.
It cannot exercise power on ex-
ternal defense, on security and for-
eign policy. It cannot exercise pow-
ers over coinage and monetary, over
citizenship and naturalization and the
postal service. But otherwise, it is a
completely independent state, San-
tiago said.
Santiago said negotiators have
tied the government and the Filipino
By Ferdinand Fabella
THE National Police Commission an-
nounced on Monday that it had uncovered
massive cheating in the police entrance
examination held in April last year, where
387 examinees produced the same pattern
of answers in their test papers.
Napolcom Vice Chairman Eduardo
Escueta said they had already invali-
dated the test results of the 387 passing
examinees as they launched a full-scale
investigation into the source of the pos-
sible leak of test answers.
Escueta said that, aside from invali-
dating the result of the tests taken by the
387 applicants, the Commission would
also ban them from taking a similar ex-
amination for life.
He added that he would ask the PNP
to terminate the 387 police applicants,
who were already undergoing training.
After analyzing the answer patterns,
the Commission found out that 387
examinees were found to have a high
percentage, ranging from 50 to 100 per-
cent, of homogenous wrong answers,
Escueta said.
While saying that the irregularity was
still being investigated, Escueta pointed
out that the examinees high percentage
of similar wrong answers was regarded
as prima facie evidence of the existence
of examination cheating, in violation of
Section 4 of Republic Act No. 9416, or
By Florante S. Solmerin
INTERIOR and Local Government Sec-
retary Manuel Roxas II on Monday de-
clared war against political patronage
and bata-bata system in the Philippine
National Police.
Tapos na ang araw ng mga padrino,
tapos na ang araw ng palakasan at pag-
papapogi at the expense of the institution
and of others. Ang inyong promosyon
ay susukatin batay sa inyong perfor-
mance, sa inyong disiplina, dedikasyon
sa katungkulan at katapatan sa serbisyo,
Roxas told PNP ofcials and personnel
during his rst ag raising ceremony
Monday at Camp Crame. (The days of
New job. Interior Secretary Mar Roxas
presides over a command conference
meeting at the police headquarters in
Camp Crame. MANNY PALMERO
By Joyce Pangco Paares
and Rey E. Requejo
HIGHLIGHTING the
governments inability
to stop a spate of hacker
attacks on its Web sites
after the passage of the
Cybercrime Prevention
Act, Malacaang on
Monday urged ordinary
citizens to launch pro-
tests against electronic
vandalism.
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ManilaStandardToday [email protected] OCTOBER 9, 2012 TUESDAY
A2
THE University of the Philip-
pines-Los Baos celebrates its
94th Loyalty Day and Alumni
Homecoming on Oct. 10.
Those along with the host
programs and traditional ac-
tivities have always been about
commemorations, merrymak-
ing and reunions, and this year
will have plenty of those mo-
ments and memories.
In recent years, however,
Loyalty Day has become more
than just a happy gathering
of faculty, staff, students and
alumni. It has become a plat-
form for the school to make
a statement, and in particular
about its role in society.
Last year, for instance, the
school carried the theme UPLB
Leads Green to signify its sup-
port to the National Greening
Program. In 2010 it validated its
role as an agent of social change.
Loyalty Day
on Oct. 10
Onions this time. Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon shows
off P14 million worth of smuggled onions from China that Customs
ofcials found in six 40-footer vans. The onions were declared pears
and house decors. (Story on A8)
Padaca...
Still, Padacas critics had
expressed reservations about
her as a result of her affili-
ation with the administra-
tions Liberal Party, which
they said could jeopardize
her independence from the
Executive branch.
As a commissioner, I will do
the same thing I am protesting
against. Just watch my deci-
sions, Padaca said.
She was assigned to sit as a
member of the commissions
Second Division along with fel-
low Commissioners Elias Yu-
soph and Lucenito Tagle.
We are now complete,
Elections Commission Chair-
man Sixto Brillantes Jr. said.
Weve been waiting wait-
ing for Grace, and finally she
is here. Let me reiterate that
we are now complete, so we
will now start working al-
ready.
Brillantes had earlier said
that Padacas graft case was not
enough to disqualify her as a
poll commissioner.
The case has no effect [on
her appointment]. You are not
disqualied just because you
have a case, Brillantes said.
He said Padaca, a certied
public accountant, would be a
big help in the commission due
to her accounting skills.
Padaca said she was set to re-
sign as a member of the admin-
istrations Liberal Party.
I have not resigned yet. Any-
time I can do that. And even
from [the group] Kaya Natin,
Padaca said.
But I will not resign from
working for good governance
and ethical leadership.
Padaca said she would attend
the commissions rst en banc
meeting today.
Brillantes said two commis-
sioners--Rene Sarmiento and
Armando Velasco---will be
retired in February last year,
so Padaca would most likely
handle the cases that had been
assigned to them.
She can sit down and join
us immediately as soon as she
comes, Brillantes said. With
Rey E. Requejo

Cheating...
the Anti-Cheating Law of 2007.
The Napolcom said it was sta-
tistically improbable that more
than 300 examinees who passed
the tests had similar wrong an-
swers on the same test questions.
Of the 18,996 applicants who
took the Philippine National Po-
lice Entrance Examination on
April 17, 2011, a total of 1,643
passed, the lowest passing rate
ever recorded by the Napolcom
in recent years.
Twenty-one other examinees
were disqualied after being
caught with cellular phones in-
side the testing centers in direct
violation of Napolcom rules.
Those who passed the entrance
test were given an initial appoint-
ment of Police Ofcer 1 in the
police force.
The Napolcom will also ask
the PNP to terminate the 387 po-
lice applicants who were already
undergoing training.
In order to maintain the
credibility and integrity of the
police examinations and to en-
sure that honesty, integrity and
merit and tness principles are
observed as requirements to en-
ter police service, the Commis-
sion is committed to exercise its
power and authority by weed-
ing out anyone who undermines
the sanctity and integrity of the
police examinations, Escueta
said.
Escueta warned applicants
of the PNP entrance and pro-
motional examinations against
committing any form of ex-
amination irregularity, such as
cheating, impersonation, per-
jury or violation of examination
rules, since the Napolcom has
a computer system that keeps
track of the answer patterns of
examinees.
Napolcom, the government
body that exercises supervisory
and administrative control over
the national police, conducts en-
trance and promotional exami-
nations in the PNP twice a year.
Ferdinand Fabella
Roxas...
political patronage and self-pro-
motion are over. Your promotion
will depend on your performance,
discipline, dedication to duty and
trustworthiness in service).
Roxas said that he would not
hesitate to promote and reward de-
serving police personnel based on
their performance and discipline.
There will be no bata-bata
system during my watch. If you
perform and deliver, you will
have my support. That is the
basis of my leadership. We will
measure performance objec-
tively and give incentives and
rewards based on performance,
nothing less, nothing more. Bi-
lang inyong pinuno, ito ang lan-
das na inaasahan kong tatahakin
nating lahat, he said.
[As your leader, this is that
path that we will all follow].
Roxas ofcially assumed his
post as DILG chief on October 1,
replacing the late Sec. Jesse Ro-
bredo who died in a plane crash on
August 18 off the coast of Masbate.
Roxas said that one of his
priority programs was to curb
criminality.
Madalas sabihin ng Pangu-
long P-Noy, the rst freedom is
the freedom from hunger. Sa pani-
wala ko ang ikalawang kalayaan
naman ay nasa sa inyong mga
kamay, freedom from fear takot
sa karahasan, takot sa krimen, at
takot sa pang-aapi at pang-aabu-
so. Iyan po ang pangunahing tung-
kulin ng kapulisan, to serve and to
protect, he added.
[t is my belief that the second free-
dom is freedom from fear freedom
from violence, fear, crime and abuse.
This is the main duty of the police
to serve and to protect.]
Roxas also scored the po-
lice for the rising criminality in
the metropolis, saying that the
worsening crime situation in the
country has a tremendous impact
on society and on the people.
Lets do a quick scan. First and
most immediate is the worsening,
rising criminality. Metro Manila
alone experienced a 57 percent
increase in crime as of June 2012.
Second and on medium term, is
the upcoming election and our
emerging role in support of the
peace process. Third and most in-
tractable and recurring, are the pe-
rennial problems of jueteng, illegal
drugs and illegal logging. All of
these contribute at the core of the
PNPs low public approval rating,
Roxas said.
The increase in the crime index
was registered during the term of
Police Director Alan Purisima as
head of the National Capital Re-
gional Police Ofce. Purisima was
promoted head of the PNP Direc-
torial Staff recently.
Purisima has been touted to
succeed PNP Director General
Nicanor Bartolome who will
reach his mandatory retirement
age of 56 in March next year.
Roxas also reminded the PNP
ofcials of their continuing duty
to cleanse the organization from
kotong cops and tiwali and
as well as on how to restore the
good image of the department.
He also warned the police on the
pitfalls of succumbing to tempta-
tions of political inuence in next
years upcoming midterm polls.
Lastly, he pointed out that ev-
ery policeman who violates the
PNP mandate will suffer the con-
sequences of his action.
Wala tayong ibang hinahangad
kundi ang lumaganap sa buong
kapulisan ang isang sistema kung
saan nabibigyan ng parangal ang
mga gumagawa ng tama. At pinapa-
rusahan ang mga lumalabag sa
mandato. Bubuwagin natin ang
imahe ng pangaabuso at katiwalian.
Buburahin natin ang pagdududa at
agam-agam ng taumbayan sa kapu-
lisan. Manalig kayo, susuklian ito ng
tamang pagkilala ng ating pamaha-
laan, Roxas said.
Govt...
print, on radio, on television, and
then exempt cyberspace [sic] if
one writes something libelous?
That is what the President wants
to say, the Palace ofcial said.
What is sauce for the goose
should be sauce for the gander,
Lacierda said.
Earlier, the National Union
of Journalists of the Philippines
slammed Mr. Aquino for support-
ing the online libel provision, say-
ing it was tantamount to an open
declaration of war on Filipinos.
We call on all Filipino jour-
nalists and news organizations
to stand up to this brazen attempt
to wrest away our rights and lib-
erties. We call on the Filipino
people to stand up and defend our
right to freedom of expression,
the NUJP said.
While he defended the inser-
tion of a libel provision in the
Cybercrime Prevention Act, Mr.
Aquino said he was open to low-
ering the penalty for online libel,
which is six to 12 years in jail.
If the penalty is too much,
then let us amend this law. If the
procedures are too arbitrary, there
is still no Implementing Rules
and Regulations. We can work
it out so there is no abuse on the
powers that the state will be exer-
cising, the President said.
Civil rights groups, journalists
and the online community oppose
the law on the grounds that it al-
lows persons to be charged twice
for the same charge of libel, once
for the online defamation under
the new law and another time un-
der the Revised Penal Code. They
also reject the harsher penalties
that the new law imposes on on-
line libel, as well as a provision
that allows the Justice Depart-
ment to shut down Web sites on
the mere suspicion that they are
breaking the law.
Fifteen petitions questioning the
law have already been led with the
Supreme Court, which is scheduled
to discuss the issue today.
The Department of Justice has
also set a dialog with various
stakeholders on the implement-
ing rules and regulations of the
law today at the Land Bank build-
ing in Manila at 9 a.m.
The rules will be drafted by the
Justice Department, the Information
Communication Technology Ofce
of the Department of Science and
Technology, and the Department of
Interior and Local Government.
On Monday, Bayan Muna Reps.
Neri Colminares and Teddy Casino
led the 13th and 14th petitions
questioning the constitutionality of
several provisions of the law.
During their en banc session today,
the magistrates led by Chief Justice
Maria Lourdes Sereno are expected
to take action on the appeal of the pe-
titioners to stop the government from
imposing the new law.
Rep. Sigfrido Tinga, the chair-
man of he House committee on
information and communications
technology, will open the forum
on the new law with ofcials of
the DOSTs Information and
Communications Technology Of-
ce sitting in the panel.
Agencies under the DOJ such
as the National Bureau of Inves-
tigation, National Prosecution
Service and the Public Attorneys
Ofce will also join the forum.
Those expected to participate
in the forum are: Internet Soci-
ety Philippines chapter, PH Net
Foundation, UP College Of Law,
La Salle Institute of Governance,
Foundation for Media Alterna-
tives, Globe Telecommunica-
tions, Imperium Technologies,
Philippine Software Industry As-
sociation, Business Processing
Association of the Philippines,
Philippine Computer Emergency
Response Team, IdeaCorp Philip-
pines, National Security Council,
National Defense College of the
Philippines, and the Freelance
Writers Guild of the Philippines.
The forum will have streamed
live on the Justice Departments
Web site (www.doj.gov.ph).
Last week, 12 petitions seek-
ing to stop implementation of the
anti-cybercrime law were led
before the high court.
The petitioners were a group of
journalists belonging to Alab ng
Mamahayag; businessman Louis
Biraogo; a group of bloggers and
Internet law experts led by Jose
Jesus Disini Jr. of the Internet
and Society Program of the UP
College of Law; Sen. Teosto
Guingona III; another group of
journalists, bloggers and lawyers
led by UP law professor Harry
Roque Jr.; a group of lawmakers,
members of the academe and stu-
dents led by Kabataan Party-list
Rep. Raymond Palatino; militant
groups led by Bagong Alyansang
Makabayan; the Ateneo Human
Rights Center; journalists led by
the National Union of Journal-
ists of the Philippines; a group
of lawyers led by Paul Corne-
lius Castillo and Ryan Andres; a
group of bloggers led by Anthony
Ian Cruz; and ofcers of the Phil-
ippine Bar Association.
Like the earlier petitions, the
latest challenges to the law also
attacked the online libel provi-
sion and the takedown powers of
the Justice Department, saying
these infringed on the fundamen-
tal right of free speech.
Also on Monday, an associa-
tion of Catholic schools joined the
growing number of groups calling
for the repeal or amendment of the
Cybercrime Prevention Act.
The Catholic Educational As-
sociation of the Philippines de-
scribed the law as disturbing
because it compromises basic hu-
man rights with the issue of na-
tional security.
Some of its provisions may be
precedent to another era of suppres-
sion of liberties by the state, similar to
what happened during Martial Law,
the association of 1,345 Catholic
schools said, as it urged lawmakers
to immediately repeal the objection-
able provisions of the law.
Senator Loren Legarda on
Monday led a bill to repeal the
libel and takedown provisions
of the law, saying she hoped to
eliminate the chilling effect that
may impose undue boundaries
on the peoples exercise of free-
dom of expression.
Another senatorial candidate,
Cagayan Rep. Juan Ponce Enrile
Jr., warned that unless the law was
amended, it would be prone to
abuse by the authorities and could
lead to a suppression on the peo-
ples right to free expression. With
Macon Ramos-Araneta and Vito
Barcelo
Farmers...
Malacaang made its decision known even as a
group of coconut farmers on Monday led graft and
plunder charges against San Miguel Corp. chairman
Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. and eight other San Miguel
ofcials in connection with the coconut levy fund.
The farmers claimed that more than 750 million
government shares in San Miguel were sold to the
company at P75 a share when the shares market
price were P110 each.
On Sunday, lawmakers and coconut farmers
slammed the Aquino administrations decision
to take P8.64 billion from the coconut levy fund
through special provisions in this years na-
tional budget.
They demanded that the entire amount in the fund
about P57.6 billionbe distributed in cash to the 3.4 mil-
lion coconut farmers instead of only P16,941 to each.
Malacaang has formed a Task Force on the Coco
Levy Funds to study how the funds could be maxi-
mized to benet the farmers.
With Merck Maguddayao
Two...
The prize committee at Stock-
holms Karolinska Institute said
the discovery has revolution-
ized our understanding of how
cells and organisms develop.
Gurdon showed in 1962 the
year Yamanaka was born that
the DNA from specialized cells of
frogs, like skin or intestinal cells,
could be used to generate new tad-
poles. That showed the DNA still
had its ability to drive the forma-
tion of all cells of the body.
In 1997, the cloning of Dolly
the sheep by other scientists
showed that the same process
Gurdon discovered in frogs
would work in mammals.
More than 40 years after Gur-
dons discovery, in 2006, Ya-
manaka showed that a surpris-
ingly simple recipe could turn
mature cells back into primitive
cells, which in turn could be
prodded into different kinds of
mature cells.
Basically, the primitive cells
were the equivalent of embryonic
stem cells, which had been em-
broiled in controversy because to
get human embryonic cells, hu-
man embryos had to be destroyed.
Yamanakas method provided a
way to get such primitive cells
without destroying embryos.
The discoveries of Gurdon
and Yamanaka have shown that
specialized cells can turn back
the developmental clock under
certain circumstances, the com-
mittee said. These discoveries
have also provided new tools for
scientists around the world and
led to remarkable progress in
many areas of medicine.
Just last week, Japanese scien-
tists reported using Yamanakas
approach to turn skin cells from
mice into eggs that produced
baby mice.
Gurdon, 79, has served as a
professor of cell biology at Cam-
bridge Universitys Magdalene
College and is currently at the
Gurdon Institute in Cambridge,
which he founded. Yamanaka,
50, worked at the Gladstone In-
stitute in San Francisco and Nara
Institute of Science and Technol-
ogy in Japan. He is currently at
Kyoto University and also afli-
ated with the Gladstone Institute.
Yamanaka is the rst Japanese
scientist to win the Nobel medi-
cine award since 1987.
Prize committee member Ju-
leen Zierath said Gurdon and Ya-
manakas discoveries, which also
earned them a Lasker award for
basic research in 2009, could hold
immense potential, including in
developing treatments for Parkin-
sons disease and in making cells
that produce insulin. However, she
added that therapeutic implications
are still far away.
The idea of reprograming cells
has also been put to work in ba-
sic research on disease, through
an approach sometimes called
disease in a dish.
The reprogramming allows
scientists to create particular
kinds of tissue they want to study.
AP
PH...
In general, we improved its
communication and electronics
capabilities, Pama said.
The BRP Ramon Alvarez
is the second US-made cutter
bought by the Philippines from
the US. The rst cutter, the BRP
Gregorio del Pilar, arrived in
the country last year.
At least seven US Navy ships
a submarine, the USS Bon-
hemme Richard, a helicopter
carrier, and destroyerswill
take part in the maneuvers
dubbed as the PH-US Amphibi-
ous Landing Exercises 2013.
At least 1,200 Filipino sol-
diers will link up with the 2,200
US Marines on the USS Bon-
homme Richard for the exercis-
es, which will also include the
Army, the Navy, Air Group and
Special Operation Group.
Brian Goldbeck, US Depu-
ty Chief of Mission, gave an
overview during the opening
ceremonies of the activities in
almost two weeks of exercises
while the entire port was abuzz
with preparation work.
A US military ofcer, who
talked to reporters on condition
that his name is withheld, said the
presence of American forces in
the Asia Pacic region served as
a deterrent to bullying by China
of its smaller neighbors.
Basically, we are here to
protect the small countries such
as the Philippines, Malaysia
and Japan, he said.
Foreign...
people down by requiring the
constitutional amendments to be
passed.
We will be made to answer...
[if the amendments are not
passed]. Thats not fair to the Fili-
pino public, Santiago said.
She added that the participa-
tion of Malaysia in the discus-
sions was tantamount to having
a foreign entity and a rebel entity
compel the people to pass amend-
ments to the Constitution.
We cant even pass the amend-
ments to the so-called economic
provisions only because of the
cacophony of discordant voices,
but here comes another amend-
ment, which is virtually imposed
on us so Im very, very surprised
and concerned, she said.
House ofcials, on the other
hand, said they were ready to
take steps to amend the Constitu-
tion in support of the framework
agreement.
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte
Jr. and House Minority Leader
Danilo Suarez agreed on Mon-
day that amending the Consti-
tution to provide an enabling
law for the peace agreement
was a high priority.
There is no debate there. We
in the minority bloc support the
peace agreement. Everybody
wants peace, Suarez told the
Manila Standard. So if Char-
ter change is a must to make the
peace happen, so be it.
Belmonte said the amendments
would be very simple changes,
which [would have] far-reaching
consequences for the good of the
country.
With Florante S. Solmerin,
Joel E. Zurbano, Eric Apolonio
and Francisco Tuyay
OCTOBER 9, 2012 TUESDAY
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Osmeas British connection bared
IN BRIEF
Umalis on a homerun
Tabaco top cop axed
Ecija bets unopposed
Green Zone. Employees of Baguio Country Club plant strawberry seedlings as well as vegetables at a designated
area of the club. Members and guests are encouraged to contribute to the greening of the Pines Citys oldest
country club. RICK REYES
CALAPAN CITY-Reelectionist brothers, Oriental Min-
doro Gov. Alfonso Umali Jr. and second district Rep. Rey-
naldo Umali will run unopposed in the 2013 polls.
Last-term rst district Rep. Rodolfo Valencia has
dropped plans to challenge Umali Jr. while former air-
port executive Alfonso Cusi failed to le his certicate
of candicacy to run against Reynaldo.
Valencia, who turns 69 this December, ends his nine-
year term to complete 25 years in politics. His youngest
son, Nico, 37, is lined up to replace him.
The Liberal Party named Calapan City Mayor Salvador
Leachon as its ofcial congressional bet in the rst district.
The United Nationalist Alliance of Vice President Je-
jomar Binay, took Nico its ofcial opposition candidate
while the elder Valencia retains his LP membership.
Former Rep. Renato Leviste of the Nationalist Peo-
ples Coalition, will join the fray to challenge Nico and
Leachon. Robert A. Evora
LEGAZPI CITYNational Police Chief Nicanor Bar-
tolome has ordered the dismissal of Supt. Nilo Berdin
Jr., former regional director of the Criminal Investiga-
tion and Detection Group in the Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao, now chief of Tabaco City police.
He and co-accused SPO2 Johnson Mamalinta were
found guilty of serious neglect of duty over the theft of
7,000 rounds of assorted ammunitions which were seized
from the suspects in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre.
The administrative case was against them was led
by Supt. Cornelio Barrios, chief of Investigation Divi-
sion, CIDG- ARMM.
The dismissal order was signed on Sept. 17, 2012.
Florencio P. Narito
CABANATUAN CITY--A two-term congressman and two
town mayors are unchallenged in next years elections.
Rep. Joseph Gilbert Violago runs unopposed in the sec-
ond distrit which covers the cities of San Jose and Muoz
and the municipalities of Carranglan, Llanera, Lupao,
Pantabangan, Rizal and Talugtog.
Violagos younger sister is reelectionist San Jose
City Mayor Marivic Belena who squares off with
former vice mayor Mario Salvador. Ferdie G. Domingo
Solons add more teeth
to anti-trafcking law
New rules
on SALNs
out soon
Lawmakers, business and academe upbeat
The tirades against Osmena
came from party-list lawmaker
Teodorico Haresco, who in a
privilege speech, blasted the sen-
ator for hiding his real motives.
Haresco described as a de-
coy Osmenas personal ti-
rades against the former to
shield British Supplier, Balfour
Cleveland aka, Balfour Beat-
ty, aka Cleveland Bridges UK,
from allegations it defrauded
taxpayers and the Philippine
government some P10 billion
in cost overruns.
Earlier, Osmea charged the
Arroyo administration for or-
chestrating the grandmother of
all scam by allowing his cohorts
to overprice by at least P20 bil-
lion the bridge program.
He said that the Bridge to No-
where project used to be under
the supervision of Haresco, local
representatives of a supplier to
the project.
Haresco in turn cited a Com-
mission on Audit (CoA) report,
citing Balfour Cleveland for its
P10 billion cost overrun, which
resulted in 242 bridges out of 256
bridges, with an original contract
price of P2.48 billion.
At the end of the project term,
Balfour Beatty, who by then had
changed its name to Balfour
Cleveland Consortium incurred
project cost overruns as much as
P5.43 billion or 96 percent, said
Haresco.
Earlier, Osmea accused
Haresco of being directly in-
volved in the bridge projects
that spanned the administra-
tions of Presidents Fidel V. Ra-
mos, Joseph Estrada and Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo.
Haresco dared Osmea to visit
the bridges that the latter claimed
have no connecting roads, adding
that the issue was rehashed and
that had been resolved by the Of-
ce of the Ombudsman.
Osmena should grateful that
a bridge exists to save him from
the raging river currents and
that it is there so his vehicle can
speed him back to the safety of
his posh Makati home in a vil-
lage for the rich and famous,
Haresco said.
For the record, it is easy to
make any bridge seem like a
bridge to nowhere, as long as
photographers know how to take
an innity shot, he added.
Originally, Balfours per lin-
eal meter cost was P555,000
but because of overruns, the ef-
fective cost was P1,088,000 per
lineal meter.
Despite its poor perform-
ance, Haresco said he was
puzzled why Balfour was not
investigated.
Yet no investigation has ever
taken place, although the British
rm has changed its name yet
again to Cleveland Bridge. Three
names, one entity, he said.
By Maricel V. Cruz
SENATOR Sergio Osmena has come
under re for allegedly protecting the in-
terest of a British supplier whose local
unit is accused of padding by P10 billion
the bridge projects in the country.
Ex-beauty queen turns to politics
CABANATUAN CITY-A former beauty queen is
facing of the politically-entrenched Josons in the rst
congressional district of Nueva Ecija.
Estellita Suansing, 48, wife of Customs Deputy Commission-
er Horacio Suansing Jr., is allied with Gov. Aurelio Umali under
Unang Sigaw Partido Pagbabago against Quezon Mayor Mari-
ano Cristino Joson of the Nationalist Peoples Coalition-Bagong
Lakas ng Nueva Ecija and comebacking former congressman
Renato Diaz, who is running as an independent.
Erstwhile Iloilo beauty queen, Ging, to friend and foe
alike, swept the 2010 polls with the highest number of votes,
besting even Board Member Emmanuel Antonio Umali.
She will go on a three-cornered ght a district com-
posed of Aliaga, Cuyapo, Guimba, Licab, Quezon, Sto.
Domingo, Talavera and Zaragoza. Ferdie G. Domingo
By Macon Araneta
THE SENATE approved on
third and nal reading a bill
which seeks to add more teeth to
the campaign against trafck-
ing in humans.
Co-sponsored by Senators
Pia Cayetano, Loren Legarda,
Franklin Drilon and Ferdinand
Bongbong Marcos, Senate
Bill No. 2625, or the Expand-
ed Anti-Trafcking in People
Act of 2010, was approved
unanimously.
Senate President Juan Ponce
Enrile commended the passage
of the bill but warned the gov-
ernment must remain vigilant in
its commitment to ght trafck-
ing in human.
Among the amendments to
Senate Bill No. 2625 is the
inclusion of the crime of at-
tempted trafcking, whether
by recruiting, transporting,
selling, buying, and forcing
women and children to engage
in prostitution or any other de-
grading means.
Penalty includes 15 years of
imprisonment and a ne ranging
from P500,000 to P1,000,000.
An important provision in
proposed anti-trafcking law
will prohibit the disclosure of
the name and personal circum-
stances of victims of trafcking.
But the identity of the accused
will now be made public to warn
possible victims, Cayetano said
The lifting the condentiality
provision favoring the accused
while maintaining the protection
intended for trafcking victims,
enables the government, as well
as media and other NGOs, to
disseminate information to the
public and warn them of persons
who might victimize them into
this illicit global enterprise.
An earlier study commis-
sioned by the U.S. Department
of State entitled Trafcking in
Persons Report has identied
the Philippines as one of the
countries that have had little
progress in its ght to stop hu-
man trafcking.
The Philippines has since
then been delisted from the US
State Departments watch list in
its 2011 Trafcking in Persons
Report, Cayetano noted.
THE governments new peace
agreement with the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front on Monday drew
mostly favorable reactions from
various sectors in government,
politics, the academe and business,
both here and from abroad.
The new peace accord, which is
set to be signed on Oct. 15, would
pave the way for the creation of the
Bangsomoro autonomous political
entity in Mindanao, which will also
cover the disarmament and reinte-
gration of MILF rebels in several
phases until 2016.
The new entity will include six
municipalities in Lanao del Norte,
several barangays in six municipal-
ities in North Cotabato, Cotabato
City, and Isabela City in Basilan.
The agreement is seen to nally
end two decades of conict in the
countrys southern region.
Vice President Jejomar Binay
said the framework agreement was
a milestone in our search for peace
and development in Mindanao.
With this framework, which is
within the bounds of the Constitution,
we should all be optimistic that the
conict that has affected thousands
of Filipinos, Muslims and Christians
alike, is nearing its end, Binay said.
In Congress, lawmakers crossed party-
lines in supporting the new peace pact.
House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte
Jr., Mandaluyong Rep. Neptali Gonzal-
es II, Basilan Rep. Jim Hataman-
Salliman, Maguindanao Rep. Simeon
Datumanong and Quezon City Rep.
Winston Castelo all agreed that the
creation of Bangsamoro autonomous
political entity in the countrys south-
ern region, replacing the Autonomous
Regio in Muslim Mindanao was a wel-
come development.
Hataman-Salliman, vice chair of
the House committees on Mindanao
affairs, described the accord as a a
qualitative leap to peace process.
Datumanong, a former peace
negotiator and opposition stalwart,
backed the Presidents relentless
efforts in pursuing peaceful resolu-
tion to the MILFs armed struggle.
With the creation of the Bang-
samoro political entity, the image of
the former ARMM as the cheating
capital would be erased, said Charlie
Lais, secretary general of the Bangsa
Moro Solidarity Movement.
From the academe, University of
the Philippines Institute of Islamic
Studies dean Julkipul Wadi said the
agreement would pave the way for
lasting peace in Mindanao, as both
the government and MILF can work
together for the betterment of the
Bangsamoro people.
He explained that with Bangsam-
oro, the Moro rebel group will no
longer be a threat to national security.
Businessmen also weighed in on the
issue, with the Philippine Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, the largest
business organization in the country,
saying that the creation of a Bang-
samoro autonomous political entity in
Mindanao will result in an improved
economic condition in the South.
Sergio Ortiz-Luis Jr., PCCI chair-
man, told Manila Standard on Monday
that the business community had been
waiting for this very important event to
happen to help the people in the South.
Everybody wants this to happen
because the agreement will help a
lot in terms of tourism and manu-
facturing in Mindanao. We think
of this [agreement] positively. We
look forward to it, Ortiz-Luis said.
Other Mindanao-based compa-
nies also weighed in on the issue.
Benjamin Bitanga, CEO of mining
rm MRC Allied which owns sev-
eral mining rights in Surigao del Sur,
South Cotabato and Davao Oriental,
said he expects that the new Muslim
political entity will help spur fresh in-
vestments in Mindanao.
This will also motivate us to in-
vest more in our projects without
worrying about being disrupted by
the MILF, said Bitanga.
Steve Antig, a representative of
an association of banana growers
and exporters in the region, said that
the proposed framework may prove
benecial to the country, but the
plan should also take into consid-
eration the voices of the people who
are directly involved in the proc-
ess. Maricel Cruz, Sara Susanne
Fabunan, Jonathan Fernandez,
Julito G. Rada, Othel V. Campos
and Lailany P. Gomez
Up in arms. Employees of the Department of Social Welfare and Developments head ofce stage a walkout before holding a rally to decry
managements unfair labor practices on Monday. MANNY PALMERO
THE special ve-member panel
led by Bohol Rep. Erico Aumen-
tado is ready to submit a draft of
the new rules and procedures on
the statement of assets, liabili-
ties and networth of lawmakers,
ofcers and employees of the
House of Representatives.
We will le the committee
report when Congress resumes
session and after all the com-
mittee members shall have
signed the SALN rules and
regulation, he said.
Once the report is submitted
to the plenary, House Majority
Leader and Mandaluyong City
Rep. Neptali Gonzales II, chair-
man of the House committee on
rules, will call for a vote.
Aumentado, also chairman of
the ethics committee, said the rst
draft was approved last Sept. 12
even while the House was busy
over the 2013 P2.006-trillion
General Appropriations Bill for
second reading. Maricel Cruz
Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
[email protected] OCTOBER 9, 2012 TUESDAY
A4
THE Philippine Constitution
has a provision guarding against
political dynasties. According to
Article II, Section 26, The State
shall guarantee equal access to
opportunities for public service,
and prohibit political dynasties as
may be dened by law.
But while the charter hints
at preventing the establishment
or proliferationof
political dynasties, it abandons
to lawmakers the task of
dening what a dynasty is and
consequently prohibiting it.
As a result, 25 years after the
Constitution took effect, the
provision has become merely
decorative. Lawmakers, after
all, are part of the group which
political dynasties help thrive.
Why should they craft something
that would undermine their hold
on power?
Many Filipinos believe that
blood relations and familial
afliation are enough to guarantee
what a leader is made of. Thus,
national and local ofcials
sharing the same family name
have become common faretoo
common that the phenomenon
does not occasion disgust or even
discomfort.
This propensity to eld
spouses, offspring or sibling is not
unique to any one political party.
Whatever the political color, our
ofcials seem to think that their
relatives are entitled to immediate
acceptance without rst having to
prove their credentials, much less
their character.
And as the May 2013 election
draws near, there seems to be no
let-up. No less than a member of
President Benigno Aquino IIIs
family has tried to put a positive
spin into the term political
dynasty. Presidential cousin
Paolo Benigno Bam Aquino IV,
who is running for senator under
the Liberal Party, says he believes
his family has a history of public
service instead, and that he is
proud to be a member of it.
Similarly, the mayor of
Caloocan City has defended his
son who is running to replace
him. Mayor Recom Echeverri,
who is eyeing a seat in Congress,
said he was not calling it dynasty
but, rather, destiny.
What arrogance. Those who
see their government jobs as
their destiny dangerously open
themselves up to doing whatever
they see thowever skewed
their vision is.
Aquino and Echeverri are only
two of perhaps thousands who
are aficted with the same belief.
Unfortunately, because of name
recall and all other associations,
valid or not, they will most likely
prevailif not in this election, then
the next one, or the one after that.
It is impossible for Filipinos
to rely on any law being crafted
to dene and prohibit dynasties.
We could then do the next best
thingreject candidates whose
claim to greatness hinges on the
stuff their families are made of,
nothing else.
The chosen ones
EDITORIAL
A dangerous President
YOURE the president of a country of
nearly a hundred million people. Midway
into your term, you still dont have a lot
to show for all the awesome powers you
enjoy. Luckily, youre able to ride the
momentum of economic reforms put
in place by your feisty but unpopular
predecessor, enhanced by a ood of hot
money eeing the deeply troubled West,
and spiced up by an obsequious media
who gladly broadcast to the masses
your frequent diatribes against your
predecessor alternating with periodic
gossip about your love life.
Its a formula that seems to be
working, judging from your popularity
ratings, and thanks to the indefatigable
efforts ofnot one, but threeCabinet-
level communications czars. But still,
you want it all! You want everyone to
love you!
And so it sticks in your craw that
theres a large and growing segment
of the populacenamely, the online
cybercommunitythat refuses to be
bamboozled by the blandishments
of your acolytes. Its not for want of
tryingafter all, you employ a legion
of laptop lapdogs who do nothing but
roam all over cyberspace singing your
praises. But the online opprobrium
keeps coming at you, and youre feeling
more and more like the little Dutch boy
who stuck his thumb into the dyke,
trying to hold back the enormous tides
of the World Wide Web.
What to do, what to do with this y
in your yellow ointment? Suddenly the
answer comes to youeureka!while
youre hunched over your favorite
PlayStation game. You decide to push,
through your allies, a new cybercrime
law that will, among other things:
Levy much more severe penalties
for libel compared to traditional media
Criminalize even the innocent act
of liking an online comment (take
that, you viralling viragos!)
Authorize government to monitor
and even shut down online sites without
a warrant
Its a law thats patently intended
to scare your cybercritics into silence.
And yet you can dress it up with the
professed good intentions of ghting
cybercrime and cyberterrorists. What
in the world any of these crimes have
to do with libel, though, youd be hard-
pressed to explainand so you cross
your ngers that people dont notice,
and wait for your yellow newspapers
and yellow networks to once again work
their magic on an ever hopeful, ever
trusting citizenry.
***
Addressing the new charge of
plunder leveled against his predecessor
in connection with Philippine Charity
Sweepstakes Ofce condential
intelligence fund (CIF) disbursements,
President Aquino the other day said,
with a perfectly straight face: We dont
le a case that we dont believe to have
strong evidence.
Yeah, right.
For the benet of those not enfeebled
of mind, heres a rundown of some of
what former President Arroyos defense
lawyers may have to say about this
supposedly strong evidence:
The disbursement vouchers
attached to the PCSO complaint conrm
that Mrs Arroyo had no participation or
involvement in any of the acts alleged.
A very senior COA auditor, after
receiving additional documents requested,
went ahead to issue the credit advices
approving the liquidation of the PCSO
CIF (for her pains, that auditor found
herself included among the co-accused!)
Apart from Mrs Arroyos approving
the requests for CIFsomething a
president is required by law to dono
evidence at all was presented to show
that she took part in an alleged grand
conspiracy to plunder the PCSO
fundslet alone that a single centavo of
those funds went into her own pockets.
Mysteriously, the original resolution
of the Ombudsmans ofce absolving
Mrs Arroyo of the plunder charge has
gone missing from the paper trail. All
the court will see is a revised, later
resolution that reinstated the charge.
Her lawyers have already demanded
that the original resolution be produced.
What does all this have to do with
you, dear reader? Well, if you like what
Aquinos trying to do to Arroyo through
the courts, wait until he starts to come
after you over the Internet.
***
In 1968, during my very rst
semester in UP, I was approached to join
a fairly new, not very well-known, and
avowedly pacic fraternity called Alpha
Sigma. Founded in the early sixties by
some of the same young men who later
helped resurrect the Communist Party,
it was originally intended to serve as a
youth wing of that party, the precursor
of later, noisier organizations like the
KM and SDK.
By the late sixties, however, a lot
of that political heat had dissipated,
with the fraternitys more bookish
brods setting a quieter tone for a group
whose Greek initials, after all, stood
for Advocates of Scholarship. But
the street drama of the First Quarter
Storm of 1970 was lurking just around
the corner, and in anticipation of that,
I managed to play a role in returning
the frat to its roots when it joined the
new leftist youth groups in supporting
my candidacy for the 1969 UP student
council.
The seventies were a busy time for the
frats activists, who now styled themselves
as Alay sa Sambayanan, allegedly
scholars no more. But throughout the
ensuing decades, as the fever of activism
waxed and waned during and after martial
law, as the sandals-shod provincianos
from the sixties were replaced by good-
looking spice boys from exclusive
boys schools in the eighties onward,
one common denominator has linked the
brods across the generationsa common
passion, and an uncommon ability, to
excel at whatever is deemed worth doing.
Tomorrow evening, 10 October, the
UP Alpha Sigma fraternity celebrates
its golden anniversary. All brods are
commanded to attend the anniversary
festivities by ve decades of Lord
Chancellors, living and otherwise.
Dial into our e-groups for all the
details.
[email protected]
GARY
OLIVAR
BYPASS
A President who
is never wrong
JOJO
A. ROBLES
LOWDOWN
ITS what the President wants, and,
by God, its what hes going to get.
He is, after all, Presidentand the
President is never wrong.
President Noynoy Aquino once
again showed how stubborn he can
be in the past week, when he dug his
heels against those protesting both
his administrations enactment of the
Cybercrime Prevention Act and his
appointment of former Isabela Gov.
Grace Padaca to
the Commission
on Elections.
Aquino will
simply not back
away from these
two decisions
and there seems to
be no way for him
to back away from
them anymore.
A q u i n o
justied his
administrations
support for
Republic Act
10175, the
cybercrime law
by saying that he could be impeached
for dereliction of duty if he does
not implement a statute that has
already been enacted. This is either
the most stupid or the most cynical
remark ever made by this President
because it suggests that he can no
longer do anything to prevent the
implementation of the new law.
But it is also a bald-faced lie.
Aquino can certainly do several
things, if he is actually considering
amending or repealing the law that
has sparked widespread protests
among Filipino netizens.
Unfortunately, signicantly
revising the new lawor scrapping
it altogetheris not on the table.
Aquino has made up his mind that
there is nothing wrong with the law,
and there is nothing anyone can do
about it.
If Aquino was so concerned that his
hands would be tied once he signed
RA 10175, then why did he afx his
signature to the law in the rst place?
And even if Congress had already
passed the law, could he not have
exercised his power of presidential
veto, if he was really concerned over
the provision on online libel that so
many have found obnoxious?
Of course, Aquino would not have
vetoed a measure passed by Congress
that he himself had wanted passed. That
is the only reason why Aquino will not
budge on the Cybercrime Law.
Aquinos defense of the odious
law also follows the unbelievable
narrative that his spokesmen rst
foisted upon the citizenry, to the
effect that the country needs a law to
ght crime online. But this is a glib
statement, because it lumps together
all the other provisions of the law that
no law-abiding netizen has any quarrel
with, together with the only part of
the statute that they nd unacceptable
the broad, unconstitutional and
obviously unconsidered provision on
online libel.
Even if up to now, when no one
can clearly say where the online libel
provision really came from, Aquino
has decided that there will be no
amendment, no veto and no other
major revisions to his pet law. And
even after even his own spokesmen
have agreed that the problem with
RA 10175 cannot be cured by the
implementing rules and regulations
that will accompany it, Aquino insists
that this is the proper way to go.
Ah, basta, he seems to say to his
critics. This is the law we wanted, and
this is the law they are going to get.
* * *
The case of
Padaca follows
a similar pattern
of unconsidered
inception and sloppy
preparation and staff
work, culminating
in presidential bull-
headedness in the
face of obvious
aws that should
have been uncovered
almost every step of
the way. Here was a
proposed presidential
appointee with a
standing warrant of
arrest for corruption
issued last May;
no one apparently told Aquino that
Padaca was unt for the position
she was being considered for, if only
because of her pending graft case.
Aquino appointed Padaca anyway.
And when her brush with the law
became common knowledge, Aquino
himself put up the money for her
bail from his own pocket as if the
President dipping into his inheritance
for an favored appointees temporary
freedom made everything all right.
Ah, basta, the hacienda heir said.
Padaca will be the next appointee to
the Commission on Elections, even
if I have to spend my own money to
make sure she doesnt land in jail, one
can almost hear Aquino say.
And Aquino once again showed
his contempt for the law and legal
processes by declaring that he was
appointing Padaca because he believes
that she is a victim of politics and
is not guilty. What message, pray
tell, is this un-presidential statement
relaying to the Ombudsman?
More than likely, what happened
was that Aquino was once again the
victim of his stupid and spineless
staff, who either did not know what
effect the appointment of Padaca to
the Commission on Elections would
have or were too scared to say no to
the wishes of the President.
The passage of RA 10175 and the
appointment of Padaca are just the
latest instances of a President who
cannot admit to making a mistake, as
if such an admission would expose
him as someone who does not stay the
course in the face of adversity. But isnt
it more presidential to accept that errors
have been made, and that corrective
measures will immediately be taken?
Whats so wrong with being
mistaken on occasion? Ah, basta, this
President is never wrong; only the
people who perennially nd fault in
Aquino think he is.
Isnt it more
presidential to
accept that errors
have been made,
and that corrective
measures will be
taken?
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PRESIDENT Aquino proudly intones
that newly-appointed Commission on
Election commissioner, former Isabela
Governor Grace Padaca, is innocent
of the graft charges led against her
before the Sandiganbayan. Because of
that, the President paid P70,000 from
his own pocket to bail out Padaca.
She was accompanied by no less than
Interior and Government Secretary
Manuel Roxas II when she posted bail.
This seems to
say that as long as
you are a friend,
a favorite and a
political ally of the
President, you can
do no wrong.
It also means
that the President
himself can bail
you out so long as
you are a member
of KKK
kaklase, kapartido,
k a b a r i l a n
( c l a s s m a t e s ,
p a r t y m a t e s ,
shooting buddies).
Take note that it was the president of
the Liberal Party himself, Roxas, who
accompanied Padaca to court when she
posted bail. Indeed it was the height of
stupidity and idiocy for Malacaang to
bail out a Comelec commissioner who
is supposed to be independent.
For her part, Padaca showed an utter
lack of delicadeza when she accepted
the favor. She compromised herself.
That denitely gave her failing marks
in her rst test of independence.
The worst part of it all is that Mr.
Aquino insists on the innocence of
Padaca, who is said to have violated
the Procurement Act in bidding for a
project. Has the President also taken
over the Sandiganbayan that he now
can rule on the innocence or guilt of
Padaca?
***
I predicted that the autobiography
of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile
would generate a lot of controversy.
Many, mostly his political enemies,
and those who were victimized by the
Marcos regime during martial law,
have been distorting history for their
own benet and in pursuit of their own
agenda. They would not take Enriles
claims at face value.
For instance, there is that issue
over the beginnings of martial law
and why Proclamation 1081 was
issued. While some claim that Enrile
staged his own ambush in Wack Wack
Subdivision to make martial law
declaration a necessity, Enrile himself
denied that the ambush precipitated
martial law. Why should I fake an
ambush when martial law was an
ongoing fact?
There are also controversies on why
exactly martial law was proclaimed.
Some dispute Enriles claim that there
was a need for a strong government
to arrest growing unrest from the
communist insurgents in Luzon and the
Visayas, and the Muslim separatists in
Mindanao. There were also pockets
of violence among private armies
nationwide.
There are claims of suppression
of civil rights, freedom of speech and
expression. Enriles book seeks to
prove these wrong.
Santa Banana, this is why there is a
need for a Truth Commissionto place
hisorty in its proper perspective. Enrile
himself told me that he was in favor
of such a commission for the sake of
future generations, for them to know
what really happened.
In his book, Enrile said that he had
no monopoly on truth. It is often said
that history serves those who write it.
This is why there is a need for such a
commission.
The book, Juan Ponce Enrile: A
Memoir has become a bestseller.
My good friend Roy Sinfuego of the
Bulletin who hails from Barangay
Mabalodbalod, Tigaon, Camarines
Sur, asked this question: Whose life
deserves to be read
in schoolJesse
Robredos, or
Enriles?
Good question.
***
I follow the
developments on
the forthcoming
Democrat and
Republican ght for
the United States
presidency. The
two candidates,
incumbent President
Barack Obama
and his challenger,
Mitt Romney, have clear platforms
that separate them on issues like the
economy, health care, immigration, the
war in Afghanistan and others.
Here at home, however, there are
no clear differences between our
candidates both national and local.
***
Things are getting interesting in
Dagupan, Pangasinan where there are
plans for current Vice Mayor Belen
Fernandez to take up the mantle and
run against incumbent Mayor Benjie
Lim.
So far, Lims term seems to have
been plagued by anomalies. In the Awal
land deal, the city paid P16 million
for a property worth P7 million. Yet
according to records, the city never
received the title or deed from the
erstwhile owner of the land in question.
The MC Adore and Calasiao land
deals are also going to prove interesting
for those who follow Dagupan politics.
Lim was given blanket authority to
sell those properties on behalf of the
city. But, my gulay, without having
to go through the mandated bidding
processes?
There are also other questions,
like who charged the city P11 million
for the completed construction of
the Daongan ed Dawel, and unbid
project of the city?
Santa Banana, is it true that the
Ofce of the Mayor charged the P7
million bangus esta to the city despite
the Ofce of the Ombudsman already
cracking down on this spurious practice
in neighboring municipalities?
For her part, Vice Mayor
Fernandez has made use of her last
two terms to promote community
service in various sectors. Also a
keen supporter of small enterprises,
Fernandez has sponsored the Sari-
Sari Store Fair year in and year out,
garnering for her the moniker Ate
Belen among sari-sari store owners
in Dagupan. She also ran the bangus
festival for three years to critical
acclaim and success. Fernandez also
sponsors the daily operational needs of
no less than 27 day care centers.
That, to me, separates the vice
mayor from the incumbent mayor.
Setting
history aright
A giant leap for peace
AFTER decades of waiting and failed
experiments, the Government of the
Philippines and the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front nally forged a peace
agreement last Sunday, October 7, 2012,
providing a framework for a process
and a roadmap towards comprehensive
peace in Mindanao. Paraphrasing the
famous words of Neil Armstrong when
he became the rst man to step into the
moon, with this agreement, announced
no less by President Aquino and to
be signed next week, the country and
Mindanao has not only taken a step
forward but a giant leap for peace.
The framework agreement provides
for a transition from the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao to the
New Autonomous Political Entity that
both parties agreed to set up under
the Decision Points on Principles
signed last April 24. This is a breath
of fresh air considering that the often
interrupted on-again-and-off-again
peace process, initiated by several
administrations, seems to have been
dragging interminably for a very long
period of time now. At times it gives the
impression that the differences between
the parties are simply insurmountable
and the problem in Mindanao incapable
of a peaceful solution. In the meantime,
the sufferings of the Mindanawons
became more unbearable as warring
factions continue to engage in armed
confrontation. This landmark peace
pact will hopefully silence the guns
permanently and give the inhabitants
of the conict areas their well-deserved
peace and prosperity after years of war.
Numerous episodes of failed peace
negotiations underline the difculty
of coming up with a peaceful solution
to the conict in the South. It is a
complicated process that attempts
to resolve centuries-long historical
injusticesfrom, annexation of the
Moro h, numerous policies that led to
the minoritization of the peoples in the
region unjust practices and policies by
the State which are being perpetuated
up to the present. This very same
history of injustice has created deep-
seated bias, prejudice and animosity
among all stockholders including the
State, indigenous minorities and the
Christian communities. The conict is
marked by the sheer density of interests,
and no simple model of solution can be
proposed.
As early as 1976, the Tripoli
Agreement signed on 23 December
1976, establishing in the 14 provinces
of Southern Philippines including
Palawan. experiment failed when both
the and the MNLFfailed to on . In 1987,
Republic Act No. 6734 was passed
by Congress which provided for the
creation of the Autonomous Region
of Muslim Mindanao empowering the
Muslim minority and addressing their
grievances. The experiment, however,
proved to be an unadulterated let
down when it failed to create any
positive impact in resolving the root
causes of the Mindanao conict.
The FPeace Agreement also suffered
the same fate when both contracting
parties differed in its implementation.
Instead of resolving their conict, the
parties became more ever, with both
trading angersand blaming one or
the other for its failure. Perhaps the
lowest point in the countrys quest
for peace in the region involved
the of Understanding on Ancestral
Domain asco. The MOA-AD was
initialed on July 27, 2008. The formal
signing of the MOA-AD was aborted
on August 5 when the Supreme
Court issued a temporary restraining
order. Subsequently, it was declared
unconstitutional by the high court.
Despite inherent difculties in
negotiating a peace settlement, the GRP
and MILF Panelsled respectively
by the brilliant, imaginative and
disciplined Marvic Leonen (guided by
Peace Adviser Secretary Teresita Deles
and supported fully by a President who
paid attention to the details) and the
passionate, articulate and visionary
Mohagher Iqbal (supported by able and
experienced like the legendary Michael
Mastura and inspired by a courageous
and hard-nosed MILF leadership)
overcame the challenges of historical
repetition. The successful conclusion of
this painstaking process could only have
been achieved with tons of patience,
perseverance, willingness to submit to
reason and most of all sincerity of both
sides. We can only congratulate the
negotiators from both sides for good
work done.
What is required now is the
political will to see through this
program of governance. There is no
room for spoilers, naysayers, skeptics
and cynics. The key ingredient to the
success of the whole process is to
muster the support of all stakeholders.
In his speech on the newly signed
framework agreement, President
Aquino emphasized that tframework
agreement is about rising above
our prejudices. It is about casting
aside the distrust and myopia that
has plagued the efforts of the past;
it is about learning hard lessons and
building on the gains we have achieved.
It is about acknowledging that trust
has to be earnedit is about forging a
partnership that rests on the bedrock of
sincerity, good will, and hard work.
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EMIL
P. JURADO
TO THE POINT
DEAN TONY
LA VIA
EAGLE EYES
WE HAD loads of fun last week as our
media networks paraded the people
who would most likely end up being
declared as nuisance candidates by the
Commission on Elections. Television
reporters and most everyone else
dismissed them with derision. The
presidential sister who must not be
named in this column openly called one
of them, the one that listed himself as her
husband in his certicate of candidacy,
crazy.
Oh, the fun we had mocking them as
we ticked off their preposterous claims
and their bogus credentials. Most of
them were not even named as if the
general label of loonies was more
than enough to identify them.
Salam Tageam was the person
who claimed ownership of the whole
Philippinesall 7,100 islands including
the Spratlys. He claimed to be a
descendant of Rajah Soliman. Dante
Magtira was the man who listed himself
as husband of the presidential sister
who must not be named in this column.
Melito Lagata was that man in red curly
hair that proposed marriage to a TV
Reporter. I didnt catch the name of the
others including the two who engaged
in a sticuff inside a Comelec ofce
because they happened to share the
same name.
We called them foolish for making
grand promises they could not
possibly fulll. We laughed at their
tawdry attempts at calling attention to
themselves. We derided their shameless
efforts at doing whatever will afford
them ten minutes of fame. We rolled
in laughter as they acted like clowns
and as they parroted big meaningless
political slogans.
But in the same newscast, we
cheered on the parade of candidates who
basically did the same thing as Tageam
and company, perhaps even worse.
Annabelle Rama, the feisty talent
manager and mother of the Gutierrez
siblingsshe who has had very public,
very ugly cat ghts with a long list
of celebrities, the same woman with
pending cases in court including
child abuseled her certicate of
candidacy to become representative of
the north district of Cebu. She led her
candidacy accompanied by her children,
her wards, and their various supporters.
It was a very entertaining.
Actor Aga Muhlach came with an
ati-atihan performing group. Richard
Gomez and Lucy Torres also arrived
with their supporters. The candidates
of the united opposition marched to
the Comelec from the Manila Hotel in
coordinated getups. Thankfully, they
junked the idea of having a brass band
and street dancers to accompany them.
The candidates of the Liberal Party did
a variation of the same thingin yellow
and green. Everyone, in fact, tried to
call attention to themselves. They put
on costumes, got supporters to drum
up interest in themselves, preened for
the cameras, and regurgitated the same
gibberish as everyone else.
They are all part of the same circus,
but why do we look down on the bit
performers? They are all doing the
same thingbeing clowns, masters of
illusion, acrobats, cheap entertainers
but why do we limit our disdain for
the nameless few who are probably
the more earnest in their desire to help
the country and their fellow Filipinos?
At least Tageam and company had no
pretensions of submitting themselves to
a popular clamor; they are not packaging
themselves as reluctant messiahs who
are merely responding to a draft or the
call of duty.
I am not saying Tageam and
company deserve to be elected into
ofce. But if we come to think about
it, so do many others who sit in the
Senate and in Congress and in the
various seats of power in this country.
The truth is that we have been electing
fools to various positions of power in
this country for more than two decades
already. Why limit our derision to the
marginalized?
Perhaps Shakespeare was right all
along? The fool doth think he is wise,
but the wise man knows himself to be
a fool.
***
I know I will be ghting an almost
losing battle but I will, in my own
ways, campaign against candidates
who: 1) Voted in favor of the Anti-
Cybercrime Law and continue to
insist that we should be grateful
that they did so; 2) Are already
campaigning heavily this earlymost
specially senatorial candidates who
have already started airing television
ads. Those in the rst group have no
compunctions about taking away the
most basic of all human freedoms
and therefore do not deserve to be an
elected ofcial. Those in the second
group are people who contravene the
law. People who cannot obey laws
have no business making them.
A parade of fools
We refer to the article by-lined
by Mr. Merck Maguddayao entitled,
P100b goes down the drain, says
CoA which appeared on 6 October
2012
Mr. Maguddayao referred to our
Audit Performance Summary Report
which was submitted to the President
and to Congress on 27 September 2012.
Given the A total of P100 billion
in taxpayers money was lost by the
government last year because of graft
and corruption, Mr. Maguddayao
must have referred, in particular, to
Table II.7-A of our Report, in which we
itemized Common Audit Findings.
In no part of this Report, however, did
we state that the amounts reported in
the Table were lost to graft, much
more, last year.
A careful reading of our Report
would have readily disclosed to Mr.
Maguddayao that the subject matter
thereof were audits completed in
2011, but not necessarily covering the
same year. In fact, many of the audits
covered prior years. For example,
the audits of the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao, the
Province of Maguindanao, selected
Municipalities of Maguindanao, and
Department of Public Works and
Highways-ARMM, which revealed
billions of pesos in pecuniary loss,
covered the years 2007 to 2009 - and
we so stated in the Report.
Similarly, we stated in our Report
that our findings on the Bureau
of Customs (involving about P35
billion in the aggregate relating to
drawbacks, tax credit certificates,
warehousing charges and
outstanding accounts of surety
companies) have been recurring
in previous years. The same goes
true for our finding of uncollected
receivables of the Department of
Transportation and Communications
and the National Labor Relations
Commission cash bonds, which were
accumulated from prior years. The
cases referred to the Ombudsman
involving about P4.674 billion also
relate to transactions prior to 2010,
e.g., the Fertilizer Fund Scam, the
Palawan Malampaya Fund Share,
Purchase of Helicopters and Pump
Boats, Quedancor Swine Program.
As for unliquidated cash advances,
the amount reported in Table II.7-A
of our Report is as of 31 December
2011 - again, indicating that this is an
accumulation from prior years.
Indeed, the pecuniary loss that
we have found from our audits
amount to great sums, and should be
appropriately addressed. Towards
this end, proper attribution to those
accountable should be made and
generalizations avoided. Pecuniary
loss does not necessarily result from
graft, and it is only the courts that
can make a judgment of graft. Our
duty is to refer to the Ombudsman
our audit findings, and this we have
also stated in our Report.
It is regrettable that a
conclusion such as that made by
Mr. Maguddayao in his Article has
apparently been so made on the basis
of Table II.7-A alone. It is certainly
not fair, especially to most of the
agencies that have been found to
have improved on their financial
discipline and accountability to the
people. This is shown in Tables
II.4-A to C of our Report, where
we noted an increase in unqualified
and qualified opinions across
agencies in 2011 as compared to
2010 and 2009. As we explained
in our Report, unqualified and
qualified opinions indicate that the
financial statements are generally
in order and compliant with
applicable accounting rules and
regulations. These refer to audits
of 2011 transactions, NOT prior
years - ergo, under the Aquino
Administration.
In the interest of fairness, we
ask that this letter be published
immediately in your paper. The
people have the right not only to
fair and balanced reporting but more
importantly, the truth. We thus
encourage all your readers to read our
Report in full at www.coa.gov.ph.
MARIA GRACIA M. PULIDO TAN
Chairperson, COA
***
I have read and re-read the 111-
page report and affirm the validity of
my story.
I also would like to thank the
Commission on Audit for the detailed
clarification. Rest assured that my
reportage will remain factual, and
that I will always welcome any
clarifications and criticisms.
MERCK MAGUDDAYAO
Reporter, Manila Standard Today
BONG C.
AUSTERO
ARE WE THERE YET?
The future
generation must
know what really
happened.
Reporter made wrong conclusions on audit ndings
MAIL MATTERS
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IN BRIEF
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Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Davao del Norte District Engineering Offce
Km. 48, Brgy. Canocotan, Tagum City
i nvi tati on to Bi d
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works
and Highways (DPWH) Region XI, Davao del Norte District Engineering Offce,
through the FY 2013 Reg. Infrastructure Program, invites contractors to bid for the
aforementioned projects:
1. Contract ID: 12LC0169
Contract Name: Pr event i ve Mai nt enance, Tagum- Panabo
Circumferential Road Km. 1463+000-Km. 1463+736
Contract Location: Davao del Norte
Scope of Works: Replacement of Damaged PCCP & Asphalt Overlay
Approved Budget for the Contract ( ABC ): Php. 15,265,738.00
Cost of Bid Documents: Php. 10,000.00
Contract Duration: 58 Calendar days
Contract Name: Widening of Surigao-Davao Coastal Road Km. 1821+(-)
412-Km. 1822+821
Contract Location: Apokon Section, Tagum City, Davao del Norte
Scope of Works: Concreting of Additional 2 lanes
Contract Name: Pr event i ve Mai nt enance Tagum- Panabo
Circumferential Road Km. 1505+243-Km. 1505+766
Contract Location: Davao del Norte
Scope of Works: Asphalt Overlay
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 contact, 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 with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract,
(c) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10
years, and (d) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line
commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail
criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the
DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH-
POCW-Central Offce will only process contractors application for registration with
complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC).
Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The Signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents October 5, 2012 to October 25, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference 10:00 a..m on October 12, 2012 at the
District Engineer Conference Room
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
12:00 Noon, October 16, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids 2:00 p..m. on October 25, 2012
5. Opening of Bids 2:00 p.m. on October 25, 2012
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents ( BDs) at DPWH-Davao del
Norte District Engineering Offce upon payment of non refundable fee. Prospective
bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on
or before the submission of their bids Documents. The Pre-Bid Conference shall be
open only to interested parties who have purchase the BDs. Bids must accompanied
by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in section 27.2 of
the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in the
BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst
enveloped 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, Davao del Norte 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.) LIBERATO S. TAN, JR.
Asst. District Engineer
( BAC Chairman )
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intercepted in Manila
Region VII
Bohol 2
nd
Sub-District Engineering Offce
Ubay, Bohol
(MST-Oct. 9, 2012)
INVITATION TO BID
The Department of Public Works and Highways, Bohol 2
nd
Sub-District Engineering Offce,
Ubay, Bohol, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to
bid for the following contract(s):
Contract ID : 12HC0016
Contract Name : Replacement/Rehabilitation/Strengthening of Permanent
Bridges
a) Baboy Bridge along Tagbilaran North Road
(Tagbilaran-Getafe Section), Burgos, Talibon, Bohol
b) Buli Bridge along Tagbilaran North Road
(Tagbilaran-Getafe Section), San Roque, Talibon,
Bohol
c) Tulay Bridge along Tagbilaran North Road
(Tagbilaran-Getafe Section), Poblacion, Trinidad,
Bohol
Contract Location : Talibon and Trinidad, Bohol
Scope of Works :
a) BABOY BRIDGE ALONG TAGBILARAN NORTH ROAD
(TAGBILARAN-GETAFE SECTION), BURGOS, TALIBON, BOHOL
ABC = P 6,276,900.00
A.1 Facilities for the Engineers
Item 101(2) Removal of Concrete Bridge Structure (Superstructures)
Item 101(3) Removal of Existing Pavement
Item 104 Embankment for Detour
Item 200 Aggregate Sub-Base Course
Item 201 Aggregate Base Course
Item 401 Bridge Railings
Item 404 Reinforcing Steel Bar (Major Structure/Superstructure)
Item 405 Structural Concrete Class A
Item 500(1e) Pipe Culverts, 1220mm dia. (48)
Item 505 Grouted Riprap
Item 603 Metal Guardrails (Metal Beam) including Post
SPL1 Mobilization/Demobilization
SPL2 Provide Project Sign Board
SPL3 Construction Safety and Health
b) BULI BRIDGE ALONG TAGBILARAN NORTH ROAD
(TAGBILARAN-GETAFE SECTION), SAN ROQUE, TALIBON, BOHOL
ABC = P 4,561,900.00
Item 101 Removal of Existing Bridge Structures and Obstructions
Item 101(2) Removal of Existing Concrete Pavement
Item 103(2) Bridge Excavation AOWL
Item 104(1) Embankment for Detour
Item 311(2) Reinforced Portland Cement Concrete Pavement, .230mmtk
Item 400(4) Precast Concrete Piles Furnished
Item 400(16) Precast Concrete Piles Driven
Item 400(20) Pile Shoes
Item 401 Concrete Railing
Item 404 Reinforcing Steel Bar (Bridge Structures and Other Major Structures
c) TULAY BRIDGE ALONG TAGBILARAN NORTH ROAD
(TAGBILARAN-GETAFE SECTION), POBLACION, TRINIDAD, BOHOL
ABC = P 4,527,600.00
Item 101 Removal of Existing Bridge Structures and Obstructions
Item 101(2) Removal of Existing Concrete Pavement
Item 103(2) Bridge Excavation AOWL
Item 104(1) Embankment for Detour
Item 311 Portland Cement Concrete Pavement, Plain t=230mm
Item 311(2) Reinforced Portland Cement Concrete Pavement (Link Slab)
Item 400(4) Precast Concrete Piles, Furnished
Item 400(14) Precast Concrete Piles, Driven
Item 400(16) Test Piles, Furnished and Driven
Item 400(20) - Pile Shoes
Item 401 Concrete Railings
Item 404 Reinforcing Steel Bar (Bridge Structures and Other Major Structures
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : P 15,366,400.00
Contract Duration : 220 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
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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
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Tax lobby. Senator Pia Cayetano receives a stuffed toy from young cancer patients
who, alongside with their parents, were made part of a lobby urging senators to immedi-
atelypass the sin tax bill. EY ACASIO
The National Democratic
Front of the Philippines vigorous-
ly denounces the arrest of NDFP
Consultant Benjamin Mendoza,
61, on 6 October 2012 by ele-
ments of the 2nd Infantry Division
of the Aquino regime. Mendoza is
among the principal NDFP con-
sultants for the Southern Tagalog
region in the GRP/GPH-NDFP
peace negotiations. He was ar-
rested together with his wife, Jo-
sephine Mendoza, and two other
companions, NDFP chief Luis
Jalandoni said in a statement.
He said the continuing arrests
of NDFP consultants grossly vio-
lated the safe conduct pass that
were granted to peace negotiators
in 1995.
The Mendoza couple are the
latest to be arrested after Tirso
Alcantara, Alan Jazmines, and
Renante Gamara.
NDFP Consultant Jaime
Soledad was rearrested after hav-
ing been released in July 2011.
Furthermore, nine other NDFP
Consultants languish in the re-
gimes prisons in violation of the
JASIG, Jalandoni said.
According to a statement re-
leased by the Southern Luzon
Command, the Libya-military
trained Mendoza had a P5.6 mil-
lion bounty on his head.
The Mendoza couple and two
other companions were arrested
at their safe house along Aurora
Boulevard in Quezon City at
around 12:15 a.m. Saturday.
The military said Mendoza
was a member of the Communist
Party of the Philippines Central
Committee and secretary of the
Southern Tagalog Regional Party
By Florante S. Solmerin
THE communist National Democratic
Front of the Philippines on Monday as-
sailed the government in connection with
the arrest of one of its peace consultants
by the military.
Committee. His wife, the military
said, was an executive committee
member of the STRPC.
Meanwhile, Presidential
Spokesman Edwin Lacierda ex-
pressed hope that the NDF and
its armed New Peoples Army
will return to negotiations on
ending the 43-year communist
insurgency.
Lacierda said the talks were
stalled because of the groups
demand for a new list of mem-
bers to be covered by the Joint
Agreement on Safety and Im-
munity Guarantees, the prelimi-
nary agreement on safe conduct
passes.
Its their insistence on this
precondition that makes it dif-
cult for us to move forward.
But certainly, we would like to
believe that if they drop that pre-
condition, then I think things can
move forward, Lacierda said.
The NDF has been demanding
the release of arrested comrades,
who they claim are included in
the list covered by the 1995 agree-
ment on safe conduct passes, but
Lacierda said the soft copy of
the list which is being kept by a
Dutch bishop in the Netherlands
was found to be corrupted and
could not be decrypted.
Canine hero goes
abroad for surgery
By Rio N. Araja

WITH its 61,332 big businesses,
Quezon City has the highest num-
ber of registered enterprises, May-
or Herbert Bautista said in his third
State of the City address.
The mayor said the number
also increases by 12,000 every
year and represent a pool of
capital of more than P284 bil-
lion, which grows by P5.43 mil-
lion each year. Altogether, these
enterprises paid business taxes of
P4.56 billion in 2011 and P4.16
billion as of end of September.
From January to September
this year, the city was able to gen-
erate P1.51 billion in real prop-
erty taxes.
Altogether, we expect total
revenue collections to reach over
P11.3 billion by end of 2012,
Bautista said.
Citing statistics from the
Building Ofcial, he said the val-
ue of construction of private es-
tablishments and residential units
was estimated at P198 billion
with the generation of 132,024
direct labor opportunities.
He said Quezon City is well-
positioned in the business pro-
cess outsourcing industry, con-
tinued expansion of the health
and wellness industry, wide-scale
growth of environment0-bsed in-
dustry and aggressive promotion
of tourism.
Several information technol-
ogy giants are in Quezon City.
We can even spread the welcome
mat even wider. IBM Philippines
has chosen the locality as its
headquarters, he noted.
The worlds largest telecom-
munications rms, Nokia Sie-
mens, is also in the city, he said.
He took into account the high
quality medical treatment the city
can offer, such as the rst stem cell
therapy initiated by the National
Kidney and Transplant Institute
and St. Lukes Medical Center.
I aspire for our city to become
the Global Growth Generator,
the 3G city, he added.
To attract more foreign and
local investors, he said they have
made registration of businesses
easier by reducing transactions to
a 20-minute process.
By Eric B. Apolonio

KABANG, the dog credited for saving the lives
of two children, left Monday night on board PAL
ight PR102 for reconstructive surgery in the
United States.
The canine hero was accompanied by veteri-
narian Anton Mari Lim for treatment at the Univer-
sity of California Davis-Veterinary Medical Teach-
ing Hospital for maxilla facial operation, according
to Team Kabang spokes-
woman, Mona Consunji
of the Animal Welfare
Coalition.
Kabang made news
but lost most of his snout
after the motorcycle hit
him instead of the chil-
dren in Dec. 2011 in
Zamboanga City.
In Los Angeles, Lim
and Kabang will be welcomed by Team Kabang
USA led by Karen Kenngott of the AWC-USA,
Michael Foley of Global Animal Transport and
representatives of the University of California.
Consunji thanked the Philippine Airlines Foun-
dation, sponsors and donors who raised the fund
for the operation through <www.careforkabang.
comb> of Team Kabang.
By Joel E. Zurbano
CUSTOMS agents at the Manila
International Container Port inter-
cepted six 40-foot container vans
loaded with smuggled onions
from China worth P40 million.
The two shipments, according
to Commissioner Ruffy Biazon,
arrived at the Manila North Har-
bor on separate dates last July
and August and was consigned
to RSG Marketing and Adier
Enterprise Trading.
Both importers will be held
responsible for technical smug-
gling for misdeclaration of the
shipments, Biazon said
Biazon said RSG Marketing
declared its onion shipment in
their entry as fresh pears while
Adier Enterprise Trading declared
its shipment as household decor.
Biazons men from the MICP
Customs Intelligence and Investi-
gation Service, headed by its chief
Bienvenido Rubio, intercepted
the shipments following informa-
tion about the arrival of smuggled
onion shipment from China.
Had these container vans of
illegal onion shipment been re-
leased and had it reached the lo-
cal market, thousands of our local
onion raisers could be spending a
bleak Christmas, said Biazon.
The onset of the Christmas
season is usually the time of the
year when the bulk of food and
agricultural products importa-
tions peak. But this is also usu-
ally the time when attempts to il-
legally sneak such products into
the country happen the most.
Baclaran stumps ofcials
THE Metropolitan Manila Development
Authority urged Paraaque and Pasay
City ofcials to help stop illegal vending
in and around Baclarans Redemptorist
Church.
Chairman Francis Tolentino ap-
pealed for more cooperation from local
ofcials, particularly barangay offcials,
to closely monitor sidewalk vendors
and other trafc obstructions within the
areas.
He said the illegal vendors were
cleared last week but have since re-
turned, prompting Jose Edgardo Lara,
chief of the Roadway and Sidewalk
Clearing Operations Group, to say they
cannot do the job alone because of lack
of workforce. We appeal for help from
the ofcials in the area, he noted.
Rio N. Araja

School contracts signed
THE Department of Education signed
on Monday agreements with two
winning consortia over the construction
of close to 10,000 classrooms in a build-
lease-transfer partnership under the
DepEds Public Private Partnership for
School Infrastructure Project.
The agreement was signed at Bulwa-
gan ng Karunungan at the DepEd Com-
plex in Pasig City, led by Education
Secretary Armin Luistro; Bayani Fer-
nando of the BF Group of Companies;
BF Corp. president Tala Fernando; en-
gineer Reynaldo dela Cruz, BF Corp.-
Riverbanks Development Corp.; Louie
Ferrer, Citcore Investment Holdings-
Megawide Construction Corp. presi-
dent; Michael Cosiquien, chief execu-
tive ofcer; Edgar Saavedra, president;
and Oliver Tan, chief nance ofcer
all three of Megawide Construction
Corporation. Gigi Munoz David
Shell students art tilt
COLLEGE students who stood out
through their creative explorations in
the visual arts will be honored at the
awards ceremony of the 45th Shell
National Students Art Competition on
Oct. 10 at Ayala Museum in Makati.
Artists of the top-scoring entries will
receive cash prizes up to P50,000 each,
award plaques, and gifts. Schools of the
grand prize winners will be presented a
special grant in support of the Faculty
Development Program.
A7 Sports Riera U. Mallari, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
[email protected]
The clamor for MVP
WITH the present dismal state into
which Philippine sports has fallen,
the best man to help resurrect the
glory days of the past and to provide
a leadership of integrity and genuine
concern for our young athletes is
without a doubt Manny Pangilinan.
His passion for sports is legendary.
His care and concern in developing
several sports is well known. Besides,
he doesnt take, he gives, unlike some
of those in the hierarchy of the Philip-
pine Olympic Committee.
While there is a reported clamor
for MVP to run against Jose Peping
Cojuangco, who is seeking a third
term as POC president, we strongly
believe it is time for the various
National Sports Association leaders,
who are well aware of the debacles in
Philippine Sports, to have the cour-
age to speak up and request Mr. Pan-
gilinan to run.
Cojuangco, an old political hand
used a worn out ploy when he an-
nounced that he is for open balloting
after Go Teng Kok, a one-time sup-
porter- turned Cojuangco opposition-
ist, spread the word that he plans to
challenge the re-election bid of the
incumbent POC president.
What Cojuangco is trying to do is
to identify those who will vote against
him so he could go after them. And if
the NSAs dont take a strong stand
against his plan and come out openly
and endorse a bid by Pangilinan, then
all is indeed lost for Philippine sports.
Its a typical scare tactic resorted
to by Cojuangco, making some
weak souls believe that because he
is the uncle of President Benigno
Aquino III, they could be in trou-
ble. That, to us, is terribly unfair to
President Aquino.
How, for heavens sake, can the
President feel comfortable about
the fact that Peping is the secretary
general of the UNA, which is, to
all intents and purposes considered
the opposition, with Pepings wife
Margarita Tingting Cojuangco
running on the UNA senatorial
slate. Thats adding insult to injury.
We are condent that President
Abaniel eyes world title
Amisa, Crowne Plaza top FDG Cup
La Salle pulls away from Ateneo
Dapitan to host
Mindanao leg
IN BRIEF
Tenorio named best cager
LA Tenorio is still in the process of fully ad-
justing to a new system in Barangay Gine-
bra. His indomitable will to win is tiding
him and his team in the meantime.
The heady playmaker proved this by twice
coming up big in the crunch for the Gin Kings,
helping them open the Philippine Basketball
Association Philippine Cup with back-to-back
wins and earning for himself the Accel-PBA
Press Corps Player of the Week for the extend-
ed period Sept. 30 to Oct. 7.
None is happier than Kings coach Siot Tanqu-
ingcen. He showed why he is considered one of
the top, if not the top, point guards of the league.
He does so many things, he said of the 28-year-
old acquired in a pre-season trade from Alaska.
BEFORE there was former
World Boxing Organization ju-
nior featherweight champ Ana
The Hurricane Julaton, there
was Gretchen Abaniel, who was
both a World Boxing Council
and Womens International Box-
ing Association winner.
Abaniel, Team Insider Boxing
Gyms top female boxer, won
the WBC International mini-
mumweight crown via a unan-
imous-decision triumph over
Thai Lilly Kokietgym in 2007,
before adding the vacant WIBA
title against another Thai ghter
in Nongbua Lookprai-aree two
years later. She successfully de-
fended her WIBA title in 2010
against Fahpratan Looksaikong-
din, before losing it last year to
Samson Tor Buamas.
Abaniel showed that she is
ready for a shot at another world
title after pummeling Christine
Latube in a unanimous-decision
win at the Brunsmick in Bal-
ibago, Sta. Rosa City, Laguna
recently.
Using crisp jabs and per-
fectly timed combinations, the
27-year-old Puerto Princesa,
Palawan native mauled her to-
tally outclassed foe in six rounds
and expressed her readiness
to grab the vacant Pan Asian
Boxing Association minimum-
weight crown against a still un-
named foe in Japan next month.
Tamang-tamang tune-up
ght ito for me, said Abaniel,
who has a record of 11 wins, 2
KOs and four losses.
Abaniel is one of several pro
boxers under the wing of Team
Insider Boxing Gym, owned by
businessman Jonathan Thorp,
who has made the Philippines
his home the past 25 years. The
gym, located along Kalayaan
Avenue (near Burgos St.) in
Makati, sits atop the Howzat
Sports Bar, which the Briton
also owns.
PSC chairman Richie Gar-
cia said this yesterday, on the
eve of the start of the North-
ern Luzon leg, which kicks
off today at the Narciso Ra-
mos Sports and Civic Center
in Lingayen, Pangasinan.
Garcia said the event was orig-
inally scheduled in Cagayan de
Oro City from Nov. 7 to 10.
But, lack of coordination
with concerned local gov-
ernment units compelled the
agency to nd a new venue.
Promising athletes aged
15 years old and below are
expected to showcase their
skills in the Oct. 10 to 13
meet in Lingayen, where 12
sports offer qualifying slots
for the national champion-
ship at the end of the year.
Oriental Mindoro will host
the Southern Luzon qualify-
ing on Oct. 24 to 27, while Ta-
cloban City, Leyte is the host
for the Visayas qualier on
Nov. 21 to 24.
Lingayen earlier hosted this
years Palarong Pambansa, and
the meet is set to feature raw
talents from the region in arnis,
athletics, badminton, boxing,
chess, karatedo, lawn tennis,
swimming, taekwondo and ta-
ble tennis, aside from providing
the stage for the national nals
of cycling and baseball.
Athletics and badminton will
be played at NRSCC, arnis at
Pangasinan State University,
boxing at Lingayen plaza, taek-
wondo at Pangasinan training
and development center.
Table tennis will be at the
Alley building, chess at Pan-
gasinan provincial library,
baseball at Capitol beach
front, cycling on Maramba
Blvd. while swimming will
be held in Dagupan City.
TEAM Amisa and Crowne Plaza fashioned
out two victories in the six-level invitational
side to share the spotlight in the FDG Cup
Open Badminton Championships at Powers-
mash in Makati over the weekend.
Percival Francisco and Gilbert Millado out-
lasted the Robinsons Manila pair of Ramil
Calangi and Patrick Laud in a thrilling 24-22,
24-22 victory to claim the Level A crown for
Amisa, which also ruled Level C through Sir
Luck Bantugan and Estie Singson.
The Bantugan-Singson tandem dominated
Jun Gallardo and Rom Ycaza, also of Rob-
insons Manila, 21-6, 21-13, in the event held
in honor of Robinsons Land Corp. president
Frederick D. Go and backed by HCG 80,
Davies Paints, Supreme Steel Pipe Corp.
and Sycwin Wires and Cables.
Crowne Plaza, meanwhile, took the Levels
D and E crowns as Beth Herrera and Sheila
Salumbides trounced Eddie Cobankiat and
Egay Cruz of Team Sapphire, 21-14, 21-4,
in Level D nals of the even graced by world
No. 5 Simon Santoso to outlast world No. 4
mixed doubles pair of Tontowi Ahmed and
Liliyana Natsir, who played two exhibition
matches with Go and Kennevic Asuncion.
Jovy Caranza and Allen Gamallo defeated
Ronald Aguilera and Ivy Malibiran of Amisa,
21-13, 21-13, to pocket the Level E crown.
LA Salle-Taft turned an erstwhile close ght
with Ateneo into a decisive breakaway, tak-
ing a commanding 41-point lead after 54
holes in the seniors division of the ICTSI-
JGFP Interschools golf tournament at the
hazard-laden Aguinaldo layout recently.
Marvin Mendoza picked up from where
Nico Monsalve left off by topscoring with 52
points as La Salle-Taft pounced on Ateneos
lethargic scoring to nally pull away after
the Ateneans managed to keep it close in the
rst two rounds.
The score now stands at 434 for La Salle
and 393 for Ateneo, with the La Sallians
posting a 147 counting the 48 of Allan
Bumagat and 47 of Eric Gallardo.
Ateneo was simply outscored with the
trio of Raffy Tolentino (41), Rocco Sumabat
(40) and Moshe Baldo (37) all struggling at
the military course.
Over at Valley, Ateneo encountered its
biggest challenge yet from Xavier, but re-
mained 34 points ahead after three rounds
of the tourney featuring 250 junior players
with the major backing of the International
Container Terminal Serives Inc.
Meanwhile, the Interschool series also
supported by Philippine Airlines, Pancake
House Group, Sizzlin Pepper, Pancake
House and Golf Depot became even bigger
with the organizing Junior Golf Foundation
of the Philippines adding a Mindanao leg on
Nov. 24 and 25 at Del Monte.
JGFP president Luigi Tabuena said that the
new leg is in response to a clamor by schools
in the south for a similar exposure stint.
Aidric Chan submitted his best score of 54
but still needed the support of Ateneo team-
mates Carl Jano Corpus (47) and Marc Cor-
rales (46) to match the 147 thrown at them
by the Xavier boys.
Theres a lot of catching up to do for Xavi-
er (400) as it remained far behind Ateneos
434 total. Nathan Kapweng led the Xavier
assault with a 51 while Kendrick and En-
rique Diaz made 49 and 47, respectively.
THE Mindanao leg of the 2012 Philippine Olympic
Committee-Philippine Sports Commission Batang
Pinoy Games will now be held in Dapitan City.
Red Bull skydiver eyes history
AFTER more than 50 years, a man will try
to make history by becoming the rst one
to successfully make a free fall dive from
120,000-feet high.
To be carried by a stratospheric balloon,
Austrian renowned skydiver Felix Baumgart-
ner makes the jump on Oct. 9 (Oct. 10 Manila
time) at a site location in Roswell, New Mexi-
co, USA. The historic jump was originally set
a day earlier but was reset to another day due
to the windy condition.
Baumgartner is part of the entire Red Bull
Stratos team, a team composed of a unique as-
sembly of professionals and NASA ofcers,
that also has retired US Air Force Col. Joe
Kittinger, who in 1960 established the record
breaking skydive from 102,800 feet.
The team is aiming to write history in trying to
complete the highest manned balloon ight, lon-
gest time in free fall, reaching supersonic speed in
free fall and free fall from highest altitude.
The Red Bull Stratos team will share its
data from its mission with leading govern-
ment agencies in America and associated
partnersNASA,USAF, and David Clark
company, the suit developer.
RONNIE
NATHANIELSZ
INSIDE SPORTS
Why Ateneo defeated
UST in Game 1
DURING Game 1 of the Univer-
sity Athletic Association of the
Philippines basketball nals on
Saturday at the Mall of Arena in
Pasay, Ateneo and University of
Sto. Tomas each posted 11-point
margins.
In the end, the Ateneo Blue Ea-
gles prevailed, 83-78.
While UST didnt know how
to protect its 11-point advantage,
Ateneo did.
Ateneo had more spunk than
UST, handling pressure with nesse.
When Ateneo saw its 11-point
bubble pricked to trail, 63-64, with
6:57 left to play, the Eagles didnt
panic.
In no time, Ateneo was back on
the drivers seat, 71-66.
When UST threatened at 70-71,
Ateneo remained calm like a river
that runs deep.
In no time, Ateneo replied with
clutch baskets, mostly coming
from Ryan Buenafe, Juami Tiong-
son and, yes, Kiefer Ravena.
That is why after the game, Nico
Salva downplayed his overall bril-
liant performance (30 points) by
acknowledging the trios timely
tossing of shots that helped turn
back USTs mighty rally.
That is why Ateneo coach Nor-
man Black readily gave credit to
Buenafe, describing the 2010 Fi-
nals MVP as being there when his
team needed him most.
He is a money player, Black
said of Buenafe. He comes up
big when the game is on the line.
Buenafe red 8 of his 10 points
in the dying minutes of the game,
including a four-point play trig-
gered by his triple from deep left
with enemy arms almost covering
his line of sight. The feat made it
77-70, cushioning the impact of a
UST rally that brought the Growl-
ing Tigers to within 70-71.
After Buenafes four-point
bomb, it was Tiongsons turn at
the artillery.
When UST closed in at 75-79,
Tiongson drove through heavy traf-
c to make it 81-75 for Ateneo, 40.9
seconds remaining in the game.
And then after Jeron Teng fol-
lowed a three with another three
to push UST to within 78-81,
Ravena, ever the trusted closer
like the Lakers Kobe Bryant,
banged home a jumper to se-
cure Ateneos 83-78 victory in
the best-of-three series.
It was Ateneos 14th win in
16 games in the 75th season
and the Eagles second triumph in
three meetings against the Tigers
in the tournament.
But more importantly, the vic-
tory moved Ateneo to within a
game of clinching its fth straight
UAAP title.
It can happen on Thursday,
when Ateneo and UST go to Game
2 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Another victory would place
Ateneo alongside University of the
East as the only schools to score ve
straight championships. The UE
Warriors did it from 1965-1969.
Actually, UE did it seven
straight seasons ending in 1971,
with the legendary Baby Dalupan
as coach.
Thus, the question is now be-
ing askedthis early: Can Ateneo
equal, if not surpass, UEs seven-
straight championship dominance?
But before even thinking of
that, Ateneo must rst get the job
done.
The future looks rosy, but the
Eagles can not afford to be com-
placent.
Remember 2006, when UST ral-
lied from a Game 1 loss to Ateneo
by winning the next two games to
pocket the UAAP crown?
History is sometimes cruel, as
in that oft-repeated saying, His-
tory repeats itself.
But for UST to say history could
be on its side, it must rst defeat
Ateneo in Thursdays Game 2.
Thatd be a tall order. However,
if UST can easily erect an 11-point
margin and can also easily erase an
11-point decit, then resolve to do it:
Win Game 2.
Otherwise, Ateneo seems poised
to creating a history of its own.
* * *
ALL IN Congrats to Marlene
Ochoa, the vice president for com-
munications of the Manila North
Tollways Corp., for having been a
recipient recently of a Dangal ng
Lahi award in Bulacan for com-
munity services. If theres one
Bulakenya today worthy of the
accolade, that should be Marlene,
my eating partner in Bangkok
some time ago. Cheers!
AL S. MENDOZA
ALL THE WAY
Aquino will not go after anyone, who
junks his uncle for a far better choice,
especially if it is a gentleman of the
proven caliber of Pangilinan, whose
contribution to Philippine sports and
to the economic growth and develop-
ment of the country itself is certainly
immeasurable compared to whatever
Cojuangco has done, if hes done
anything substantial at all.
We believe President Aquino, no
matter what anybody believes, is not
a vindictive person. Surely, he is not
blind to the abysmal record of the
POC in recent years including the
back-to-back debacles in the South-
east Asian Games in Laos and Indo-
nesia, where we nished sixth behind
such Atiny nation as Singapore.
He also is almost surely aware that
hard-earned taxpayers money chan-
neled by the Philippine Sports Com-
mission to various NSAs hasnt been
properly spent and certainly not cor-
rectly accounted for.
This goes back to the huge amounts
dispersed for the 2005 SEA Games
that have not been acceptably liqui-
dated and even resulted in charges
being led with the Ombudsman but
which, regrettably, appear not to have
been acted upon up to now.
Time is of the essence if Philip-
pine sports is to be saved. When
the nation calls, all good menand
womenmust respond, no matter
what the risks or the consequences.
We believe another four years un-
der Peping Cojuangco who has noth-
ing to show for the eight years he has
held on to the post of POC president
will be a source of disenchantment
for our young athletes, who have
been quietly hoping that a change
will come soon and a savior of Philip-
pine sports will accept the challenge.
What is even more distressing is Co-
juangcos statement that the POC elec-
tion is not anything that will affect the
lives of the people. What a comment
from someone who should encourage
our youth to engage in sports because
it does affect the lives of our people in
many ways. If it doesnt affect the lives
of the people, why does he crave for
another four-year term?
Its not MVP alone who can
achieve what we as a nation are
hoping for. It must be all sectors of
Philippine society, who believe that
sports and youth development are
a cornerstone to building a vibrant,
strong nation imbued with the values
and virtues of discipline, hard work,
integrity, fair play and sportsmanship.
The time to act is now, otherwise
Philippine Sports will be destined to
rot in the mire of mediocrity.
Bulldogs, Engineers win
THE National University Bulldogs and the
Technological Institute of the Philippines En-
gineers repulsed their rivals to bag quarter-
nal seats in Group A of the 10th Fr. Martin
Division 2 Cup.
Alfred Aroga and Jay Alejandro dished
out 21 and 20 points respectively to power
the Bulldogs to a 74-60 ogging of Ange-
les University Foundation for their seventh
consecutive win in the eliminations at the
TIP gymnasium in Quiapo, Manila.
The TIP Engineers, led by Jeffrey Yanes
with 20 points, won over the Mapua Cardi-
nals, 80-63, their fth win in eight games
in this cagefest supported by Gerrys Grill.
In the junior action, Chiang Kai Shek-
A walloped AUF, 113-47, to march to their
fth straight triumph blasted San Benildo,
79-48, for win no. 3.
Bodivance. Philippine
boxing team coach Roel
Velasco (second from left),
impressed with the positive
feedback from boxers who
tried Bodivance, a new high-
tech product for athletes
and tness enthusiasts, has
tied up with the company
on a personal capacity as a
product dealer. Shown with
Velasco are former national
boxer Ernesto Coronel (left),
who also agreed to try the
product, Velasco, Bodivance
Business Development Of-
cer Eugene Ciudad (third
from left), and Bodivance
Assistant Marketing Support
Manager Rudielynn Gracilla.
Team Insider Boxing Gyms top lady boxer Gretchen Abaniel (center) with her stablemates Roman Canto (left) and
Ricky Dulay. BONG BOADO
A8
Mendiola rules national slalom
DR. Peewee Mendiola of Big
Chill Racing Team once again
bagged the overall and rear
wheel production best time with
a clocking of of 35.88 seconds
in the eighth leg of the Shell
Helix National Slalom series at
Robinsons Starmills Parking lot.
Meanwhile, Milo Rivera of
FERN C Racing Team nished
at second place with 36.10,
while Noel Rivera wound up
third with a clocking of 36.72.
Jerwin Joson of Cabanat-
uan Auto Club Racing Team
placed fourth (36.86) and also
won the Front Wheel produc-
tion best time, while Dax San-
tiano of DKC Racing Team
ranked fth at 37.02.
Estefano Rivera, also of
FERN C Team, ruled the nov-
ice category.
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Sports
Manila Standard TODAY
[email protected] [email protected] Riera U. Mallari, Editor
BELINGON KAYOES RUSSIAN
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
CELEBRATED trainer Freddie
Roach believes Fighter of the Decade
Manny Pacquiao needs to regain his
killer instinct when he faces Mexican
legend Juan Manuel Marquez for a
fourth time at the MGM Grand in Las
Vegas on Dec. 8.
Referring to their three pre-
vious ghts in which Pacquiao
dropped Marquez three times in
the opening round of their rst
ght, once in the second and
none in the third, Roach was
quoted by boxingscene.com as
saying: He just lost that killer
instinct. In the rst ght, he was
trying to knock him out, but
Marquez was very resilient also.
You have to take that factor in
also. We need to bring back that
killer instinct, where he nishes
guys like he used to.
Roach believes that after three
close and controversial endings,
both boxers are going to pursue
a knockout ending, even as he
believes that an aggressive ght
will create more opportunities
for Pacquiao to get a knockout.
Marquez will be more hit-
table and not so much a coun-
ter-puncher. I think we need a
knockout to secure his no. 1
spot in the world. He needs to
be impressive and a knockout
would be impressive, the Hall
of Fame trainer said.
Pacquiaos strength and con-
ditioning coach Alex Ariza
told Yahoo Philippines that
Pacquiao must rely on vol-
ume (of punches), put on re-
lentless pressure and be resil-
ient and overwhelming.
His formula is simple.
Pacquiao must go in there
and be relentless. Go in there
and tear his (Marquezs) head
off. He must say to himself I
dont care how Im going to do
it, but Im going to get it done,
said Ariza, who also quoting
legendary Mexican Julio Cesar
Chavez, said the problem with
Manny is he thinks too much
and when he does some things,
he gives Marquez time. But
when Manny loosens up and lets
it go, Marquez looks lost. He
didnt know what to do at times.
Thats Manny Pacquiao.
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FILIPINO ghter Kevin Belingon pulled off
a rst-round technical knockout of Russian
opponent Yusup Saadulaev in the ONE
Fighting Championship before at the Sin-
gapore Indoor Stadium recently. Saadulaev
went down in 3:18 minutes of the rst
round on a series of blows, allowing Belin-
gon to bounce back from two consecutive
setbacks in the bantamweight grand prix.
Belingon has so far won nine ghts, two of
them by KO, three by submission, and four
by decision. He also has a loss. Peter Atencio
Pacquiao
must be
relentless
VERGEL Menses readily
concedes that he is not ex-
pecting anything more than
gaining experience from their
upcoming stint in the Philip-
pine Basketball Association
Developmental League. But
the coach of the Jose Rizal
University Heavy Bomb-
ers promises that his troops
would give the opposition a
run for their money.
The Heavy Bombers are
scheduled to play the Per-
petual Help College of Rizal
Altas in a knockout game on
Thursday with the winner
earning a spot in the National
Collegiate Athletic Associa-
tion Final Four.
But this early, Meneses and
his chargers are already look-
ing forward to next season.
A former PBA most valu-
able player, Meneses said
JRU is participating in the
coming season of the PBA
D-League which opens
late this month -- to expose
the players to high level of
competition and develop the
chemistry of the team.
Alam naming malalakas
ang team dito (sa D-League)
kaya naniniwala kami na
magandang preparasyon para
sa next season ng NCAA ang
pagsali namin dito. Kung
maka-tsamba at makarat-
ing sa playoff mas maganda.
Pero ang tiyak, bawat game
pukpok ang mga players ko,
Meneses said.
Other teams seeing action
in the third season of the
PBA D-League are three-
time champion NLEX, Big
Chill, Cebuana Lhuillier,
Blackwater Sports, Boracay
Rum, Caf France, Cagayan
Rising Suns, Erase Plant-
centa, Informatics/Phiten
and HTC Phils.
Meneses believes their
youth and enthusiasm will
enable his players to com-
pete at high level but points
to their lack of experience as
their downside.
Well just do the best we
can. Hopefully, being an un-
derdog and a new team will
serve us in good stead.
Meneses
Bombers
join PBA
D-League
By Jeric Lopez
PHILIPPINE Basketball Association
commissioner Chito Salud suspended
a referee, who whistled a questionable
foul on Painters Gabe Norwood in the
crucial stages of the Ginebra-Rain or
Shine game Sunday.
Referee Jun Marabe is suspended
upon review of the call he made on Gabe
Norwood late in the game between Gine-
bra and Rain or Shine on Sunday, Oct. 7,
because of non-observance of the game
ofcials respective areas of jurisdiction
to make a call and his disregard of the
leagues ofciating guidelines on loose
ball situations, said Salud.
With the Painters down by three with
under 20 seconds left, Norwood snatched
the ball away from Gin King LA Teno-
rio and was called for a foul, resulting to
free throws on the other end with Ginebra
eventually winning, 98-94.
The replay video, however, showed that
his swipe was obviously a clean one.
Referee Marabe is thus being suspend-
ed for a period of three weeks or a total of
11 gamedays, said Salud.
Meanwhile, Barangay Ginebra coach
Siot Tanquincen earlier said that it will
take some time before his team plays to
its full potential.
But after just two games, its hard to
argue that the Gin Kings, especially their
explosive backcourt, are not nding their
comfort zone this early.
Tenorio and Mark Caguioa are now
showing that they are the leagues best
backcourt tandem as the two heralded
spitres showcased their wares individu-
ally, while playing great together as well.
Caguioa, the reigning Most Valuable
Player, scored a season-high 22 points,
while Tenorio had 20 markers of his own,
including the go-ahead basket with half-
a-minute left in Ginebras tough second
win at the expense of Rain or Shine Sun-
day night.
In fact, the duo joined hands to score
10 clutch points in the final minutes
of the said game to lift Ginebra to an-
other victory.
Referee suspended; backcourt duo is Kings edge
By Peter Atencio
THE defending champion San Beda Red Cubs, led by Joshua Caracut, Franz
Abuda and Arvin Tolentino, turned back the San Sebastian Staglets, 66-61, to
take the no.1 seeding in the Final Four yesterday in the National Collegiate
Athletic Association junior basketball eliminations at the Arena in San Juan.
The Red Cub, with Tolentino leading with 20 points and 12 re-
bounds and joining Abuda in scoring crucial baskets in the last
2:25, topped the elims with 17 wins and a loss.
The Staglets, with Ryan Costelo making 12, settled for the sec-
ond seeding at 16-2.
The Letran Squires, led by John Quinto and Rey Nambatac,
turned back the Mapua Red Robins, 79-61, to arrange a playoff for
the no. 3 seeding in the Final Four.
Quinto showed the way with 22 points and 19 rebounds, while
Nambatac red 18 points and had 14 rebounds for the Squires, who
nished the elimination round sharing the same 13-5 record with
the Red Robins in third position.
Cubs claim no. 1 seed
COMMISSIONER Ato Ba-
dolato tries to clear the air re-
garding the controversy that
marred the ongoing Universi-
ty Athletic Association of the
Philippines mens basketball
nals between defending
champion Ateneo and Uni-
versity of Santo Tomas at the
Philippine Sportswriters As-
sociation Forum in Shakeys
Malate.
Ofciating in the best-of-
three title series came under re
Saturday shortly after Game
1, which the Eagles won, 83-
78. UST coach Pido Jarencio
criticized game ofcials later
on for what he perceived were
questionable calls made on the
Tigers in the stretch run of the
thrilling encounter.
Joining Badolato in the
forum aired live over DZSR
Sports Radio 918 and pre-
sented by Smart, the Philip-
pine Amusement and Gaming
Corporation, and Shakeys,
are FilOil Flying V general
manager Joey Guillermo of
the 2012 IPPCA Pre-Season
Football Cup, and newly
crowned NAASCU cham-
pion St. Clare, led by school
president Dr. Jay Adalem and
coach Janno Manansala.
PSA to tackle
officiating in
college finals
THE ninth Zhengzhou China In-
ternational Shaolin Wushu Festi-
val will be held from Oct. 20 to 25
in Zhengzhou, China.
Zhengzhou, the birthplace of
Shaolin Wushu, has successfully
held the festival on eight occa-
sions since 1991. It is aimed to
foster friendship, communi-
cation and common progress
among the participants.
Federation of School Sports
Association of the Philippines
President David Ong has invited
members of the FESSAP Execu-
tive Committee to attend the Inter-
national Shaolin Wushu Festival
as observers, while exploring the
possibility of including the event
in the FESSAP calendar.
The Philippine delegation is
composed of Armando Que, Head
of Delegation; Tsang Hin Chung
Dionisio, Team Manager; Luo
Mei Cheng, Head Coach; Elena Ti
Dionisio and Juliet Barje as Secre-
tariat Members; Henry Liao, Pub-
lic Relations director; and athletes
Ralph Arjanea Sanico, Fernando
Cervantes, Marissa Villanueva,
Gladys Sia, and Victoria Il Canon.
Athletes from more than 60
countries and regions all over
the world have taken part in this
grand festival.
The Shaolin Wushu Festival is
a comprehensive festival compris-
ing of Wushu, business and trade,
tourism and cultural exchange.
The festival is an excellent fo-
rum to foster friendship and ca-
maraderie, exchange martial arts
skills, and have a better under-
standing of the Chinese culture.
Various activities are being
arranged by the Zhengzhou City
Organizing Committee. In addition
to the Wushu competitions, there
will be the Taolu competitions,
Sanda, Wushu performances,
Chinese Martial Arts Duan Wei
Exam, Chinese Martial Arts training
and exchange, grand evening party,
Greeting ceremony in Dengfeng,
sightseeing of Shaolin Temple, Zen
Music Shaolin Grand Ceremony,
and other cultural activities.
PH delegation off to wushufest
Ginebras Mike Cortez (11) and Billy Mamaril try to stop Rain or Shines Gabe Norwood from scoring
inside in a PBA Philippine Cup game won by the Gin Kings, 98-94.
Dr. Peewee Mendiola steers his car to the best time of the day in the
Shell Helix National Slalom series at Robinsons Starmills Parking lot.
Business
B1
Ray S. Eano, Editor [email protected]
Roderick T. dela Cruz, Assistant Editor
IN BRIEF
World Bank ups growth target
A Brown sells shares, raises P722.5m Ecozone investments
rise 5.4% to P128.2b
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Meralco hikes October billing by P0.12 per kWh
BPO has
room for
further
growth
By Anna Leah G. Estrada
THE World Bank on Monday
raised the countrys growth
forecast to 5 percent this year
from the 4-percent forecast
made in June.
The Washington D.C.-based multilateral lender
upgraded its estimate for the countrys gross
domestic product growth despite the fragile external
environment in the East Asia and Pacic region. It
said GDP growth in 2013 would also be around 5
percent.
Ample liquidity has been feeding buoyant credit
growth in the Philippines and Indonesiaboth
countries with low credit over GDP and loan over
deposit ratiosand has reignited credit growth in
China in recent months, the World Bank said.
Its growth forecast for the Philippines,
however, represents the lower end of the
governments 5- to 6-percent growth target
for the year. Actual GDP growth reached 6.1
percent in the first half.
The World Bank said economic growth in the East
Asia and Pacic region might slow down by a full
percentage point from 8.2 percent in 2011 to 7.2
percent this year, before recovering to 7.6 percent in
2013.
Growth in Indonesia is seen at 6.1 percent this year
and 6.3 percent next year. Vietnam is expected to
grow by 5.2 percent for 2012 and 2.7 percent for 2013
while Malaysia is forecast to grow by 4.8 percent this
year and 4.6 percent for next year. The World Bank
sees Thailand expanding 4.5 percent this year and 5
percent next year.
In the Philippines, the acceleration of government
infrastructure spending has contributed to the strong
growth performance in the rst half, while revenue
growth is supported by tax administration reforms as
well as strong GDP growth, the World Bank said.
Several banks, including the Asian Development
Bank and the International Monetary Fund, earlier
raised the growth outlook for the Philippines.
Barclays Capital said in its Emerging Markets
Research after the 2013 elections, reforms in the
country were expected to further pick up thus,
supporting their view that the Philippines will
receive its rst ever investment grade rating in H2
2013.
The ADB also upgraded the growth forecast to
5.5 percent this year, taking into account the higher-
than-expected outcome in the rst half and moderate
growth projected in the second half. For next year,
the multilateral lender expects the country to grow 5
percent.
The impact of the 2012 rebound in government
spending will fade in 2013 though capital spending
will increase and net exports will likely weigh on
GDP growth, as growth in imports is projected to
outpace that for exports, the ADB said.
By Jenniffer B. Austria
A BROWN Co. Inc., a listed
company owned by businessman
Walter Brown, has raised P722.5
million through a private
placement to fund existing and
future projects.
A Brown said in a disclosure
to the stock exchange its board
approved the sale of 250 million
shares consisting of 173.63
million treasury and 76.36 million
common stocks owned by Brown,
the companys chairman.
The shares, which were crossed
at the PSE Monday, were sold
at P2.89 million apiece, a 3.34-
percent discount from Fridays
close of P2.99.
Brown will subscribe to
the same number of shares
the company sold during the
private placement.
The shares that will be
issued to Brown will come
from a proposed increase in the
companys authorized capital
stock to P1.62 billion from P1.32
billion. The shares constitute
5.5 percent of the companys
outstanding capital stock.
The board approved the planned
capital increase on May 2 and by
shareholders on June 1.
A Brown said it would le
with the Securities and Exchange
Commission an application for the
proposed capital increase and with
the Philippine Stock Exchange for
the listing of the shares.
The proceeds to be received
by the corporation from the sale
of the treasury shares held by it,
as well as from the subscription
of the facilitating stockholder
will be used by the corporation to
form part of its working capital
as well as for investment in its
present and future projects, the
company said.
A Brown hired the Private
Clients Group of COL Financial
Group Inc. to act as sole
coordinator and private arranger
of the offering.
A Brown last month teamed up
with conglomerate Ayala Corp.
to put up a 135-megawatt coal
power plant in Iloilo province that
is estimated to cost P12.5 billion.
The plant, which will utilize the
so-called clean coal technology, is
set to break ground within the last
quarter of 2012 and scheduled to
be operational by 2015.
By Julito G. Rada
INVESTMENT pledges in the
countrys economic zones grew 5.4
percent year-on-year in the rst nine
months, lower than the agencys 12-
percent full-year growth target.
Philippine Economic Zone Au-
thority promotions group head El-
mer San Pascual said the agency
approved P128.2 billion worth of
investments in the nine-month pe-
riod, up from P121.6 billion a year
ago.
He said the investments were
expected to generate 64,107 in
direct employment and export
sales of $5 billion.
San Pascual said Peza was
still optimistic of meeting its
targets this year of 12-percent
growth for investments, exports
and employment.
Peza is aiming for P323 bil-
lion worth of investments in
2012, a 12-percent increase over
P288 billion in 2011.
San Pascual noted that despite
the decline in electronic exports,
investment commitments still
managed to grow, as other sectors
were bullish of better performance
in the coming months.
We are still waiting for a
number of big investments in the
remainder of the year, he said,
adding this represented 50 per-
cent of the bulk of investments
scheduled to come in the country
this year.
By Alena Mae S. Flores

MANILA Electric Co., the
countrys biggest power
distributor, said Monday its
October billing will go up by
P0.12 per kilowatt-hour due to
higher generation, transmission
and other pass-through costs.
Meralco said in a statement the
October generation charge rose
to P5.50 per kWh from P5.40
per kWh in September while
transmission and other rates
increased.
Following a P1.73 per kWh
reduction in power prices in
September, a residential customer
with a consumption of 200 kWh
will see a P0.12 per kWh increase
in their electric bill this October
as a result of higher generation,
transmission and other pass-
through costs, Meralco said.
A P0.12 per kWh hike
translates into an increase of P24
in the electricity bill of Meralco
customers with a monhtly
consumption of 200 kWh.
The company attributed the
higher generation charges to
increased charges of P1.16
per kWh from the Wholesale
Electricity Spot Market. WESM
acts as the trading oor for
electricity supplies.
Meralco said electricity
consumption in September
increased after the holidays
while rainy weather in August
depressed the demand for power.
The reduction in the available
generation capacity and
restriction in the output of coal-
red plants due to repairs and
maintenance eventually led to
increases in WESM prices.
Meralco said the higher
WESM charges were partly
offset by lower prices from its
independent power producers,
whose rates decreased P0.09 per
kWh, and National Power Corp.,
which registered a decrease of
P0.22 per kWh.
Meralcos IPPs includes First Gen
Corp., Quezon Power Philippines
Ltd. and DMCI Power Corp.
The WESM, IPPs and
Napocor contributed 6.9 percent,
44.1 percent, and 49 percent,
respectively, to Meralcos
power supply for the month of
September.
Meralco said the transmission
charge also went up by a slight
P0.04 per kWh, mainly because
of higher ancillary generation
costs, which are affected by
WESM charges.
Renewable
energy developer.
The Board of
Investments approved
the application of
PhilCarbon Inc. for scal
incentives as developer
of windpower energy
resources. PhilCarbon is
in the pre-development
phase of the Sagada-
Besao and Bulalacao
wind power projects.
PhilCarbon president
Ruth Yu-Owen (third
from left) receives her
companys certicate
of registration as a
new renewable energy
developer from Trade
Undersecretary and
BoI managing head
Adrian Cristobal Jr.
With them (from left)
are PhilCarbon director
Peter Pembleton, Energy
Undersecretary Josena
Patricia Magpale-Asirit,
PhilCarbon chairman
Runo Bomasang and
PhilCarbon director Jose
Samonte.
THE countrys business process
outsourcing sector has great
potential for further growth,
given the right infrastructure
and incentives, industry players
said during the International
Outsourcing Summit in Makati
City Monday.
Vikas Bhalla, executive
vice president and head
of outsourcing for EXL, a
provider of outsourcing and
transformation services, said
incentives, like tax breaks,
will kick-start the industry
to make it competitive in the
global market.
But investments should be
supported by infrastructure,
Bhalla said in a panel discussion
during the outsourcing
summit.
Bhalla said the Philippines
remains in the top rankings of
BPO global players because of
Filipinos communication skills
and adaptability to different
cultures.
He said the country needs
also to cater to non-English
speaking markets to sustain
growthor the multi-lingual
BPOincluding the Chinese
market. There is tremendous
potential in those markets,
Bhalla said.
Bhalla said the Philippines
needed to continue tapping
the nancial and healthcare
services, given the ageing
world population. The
Philippines has a demographic
edge here, he said,
pinpointing the countrys
younger workforce in the
BPO industry.
Julito G. Rada
Mindanao power outages
STEAG State Power Inc., operator of the 210-
megawatt coal power plant in Misamis Oriental,
is reviewing an option to shorten its maintenance
shutdown to lessen outages in Mindanao.
Energy Undersecretary Josena Asirit said she
met with STEAG ofcials on Monday to discuss
the companys maintenance shutdown lasting
until November 10.
STEAG, which operates the coal plant through
a build-operate-transfer, closed down unit 1 with
a capacity of 105 MW starting Oct. 6 to Nov. 4
and scheduled a shutdown of unit 2 (105 MW)
from Oct. 29 to Nov. 10.
They [STEAG] gave assurance of nishing
maintenance within time given and will try even
earlier so that overlap may be minimized, Asirit
said.
Electric cooperatives in Mindanao with no
supply contracts with Therma Marine Inc., which
owns two power barges in Mindanao with a
capacity of 192 MW, and those that were unable
to nd other power sources are now suffering up
to two-hour brownouts.
Asirit earlier said around 140 MW of the
capacity of the Therma Marine power barges
were being utilized. She said the cooperatives
could tap 52 MW to address the impending
shutdown of STEAGs plant.
Alena Mae S. Flores
Coconut water producer
THE Board of Investments approved the
application for incentives of a P202.26-million
facility of Filipino-owned company SC Global
Food Products Inc. in Barangay Caridad, Baybay,
Leyte.
The agency said Monday the facility would
produce non-traditional coconut-based products such
as coconut water and coconut meat-derived products.
The BoI said in a statement the project would
boost the countrys exports of coconut water.
The BoI said the project would have an annual
capacity of 18.72 million liters of coconut water
and 14,257 metric tons of coconut-meat derived
products for exports. SC Global Food will export
coconut water production to the United States
and other markets.
The company will also produce virgin coconut
oil, coconut our, coconut cream and white
coconut meat. The project will start commercial
operations in January 2014 and will employ 200
workers.
Data from the Philippine Coconut Authority
and the United Coconut Associations of the
Philippines showed coconut water exports in the
rst half of 2012 reached 10.2 million liters, or
nearly double year-on-year. Julito G. Rada
Business
ManilaStandardToday
[email protected]
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FINANCIAL
70.50 46.00 Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. 65.95 65.90 64.15 64.30 (2.50) 1,108,690 (36,628,829.00)
77.45 50.00 Bank of PI 80.60 80.60 78.50 79.10 (1.86) 9,045,220 3,930,954.50
1.82 0.68 Bankard, Inc. 0.72 0.73 0.73 0.73 1.39 403,000
595.00 370.00 China Bank 53.65 53.70 53.35 53.60 (0.09) 264,720 427,560.00
2.20 1.42 BDO Leasing & Fin. Inc. 1.97 1.96 1.95 1.95 (1.02) 12,000
23.90 13.80 COL Financial 20.00 20.45 19.94 20.00 0.00 111,400 860,000.00
20.70 18.50 Eastwest Bank 23.30 23.50 23.10 23.10 0.86 892,800 5,625,300
89.00 50.00 First Metro Inv. 73.00 76.00 74.00 75.00 2.74 2,520
3.26 1.91 I-Remit Inc. 2.82 2.81 2.79 2.80 (0.71) 10,000
650.00 420.00 Manulife Fin. Corp. 505.00 480.00 475.00 480.00 (4.95) 130
39.20 3.00 Maybank ATR KE 24.30 23.95 23.85 23.90 (1.65) 10,800 (2,395.00)
102.50 60.00 Metrobank 92.90 93.00 91.90 92.45 (0.48) 2,474,000 30,956,894.00
3.06 1.30 Natl Reinsurance Corp. 1.94 1.95 1.90 1.95 0.52 1,173,000
77.80 41.00 Phil. National Bank 74.50 74.35 73.45 73.50 (1.34) 212,030 (8,807,405.00)
95.00 69.00 Phil. Savings Bank 84.20 86.10 84.30 86.10 2.26 670
500.00 210.00 PSE Inc. 373.00 372.40 369.20 369.40 (0.97) 8,110 284,892.00
45.50 29.45 RCBC À 45.45 46.50 46.00 46.30 1.87 83,200.00 1,961,165.00
155.20 77.00 Security Bank 164.10 164.00 162.20 162.90 (0.73) 521,810 (12,209,390.00)
1100.00 879.00 Sun Life Financial 950.00 955.00 951.00 951.00 0.11 90
140.00 58.00 Union Bank 105.90 106.20 105.00 105.90 0.00 15,090 845,525.00
2.06 1.43 Vantage Equities 1.90 1.93 1.91 1.91 0.53 332,000
INDUSTRIAL
35.50 26.50 Aboitiz Power Corp. 33.90 34.00 33.60 33.90 0.00 1,832,800 1,783,235.00
13.58 8.00 Agrinurture Inc. 8.55 8.55 8.36 8.42 (1.52) 57,200
23.95 11.98 Alaska Milk Corp. 19.00 19.04 19.00 19.00 0.00 7,400
1.70 0.97 Alliance Tuna Intl Inc. 1.72 1.74 1.72 1.73 0.58 1,812,000
48.00 25.00 Alphaland Corp. 29.50 29.50 29.50 29.50 0.00 200
1.62 1.08 Alsons Cons. 1.43 1.43 1.41 1.43 0.00 799,000
Asiabest Group 20.95 21.60 20.05 20.95 0.00 37,500
2.96 2.12 Calapan Venture 3.01 3.10 3.02 3.10 2.99 56,000
2.75 2.30 Chemrez Technologies Inc. 2.79 2.80 2.79 2.80 0.36 397,000 14,000.00
9.74 7.41 Cirtek Holdings (Chips) 11.76 11.92 11.80 11.90 1.19 3,500
6.41 4.83 Energy Devt. Corp. (EDC) 6.33 6.32 6.23 6.30 (0.47) 15,114,400 (31,246,706.00)
7.77 2.80 EEI 8.66 8.70 8.50 8.63 (0.35) 710,700 (6,960.00)
3.80 1.00 Euro-Med Lab. 1.85 1.88 1.88 1.88 1.62 3,000
25.00 5.80 Federal Chemicals 10.96 9.98 9.98 9.98 (8.94) 5,000
19.40 12.50 First Gen Corp. 20.20 20.40 20.00 20.20 0.00 3,250,100 (5,187,720.00)
79.30 51.50 First Holdings A 80.50 80.65 80.35 80.35 (0.19) 266,800 4,302,519.00
27.00 17.50 Ginebra San Miguel Inc. 18.00 18.00 17.80 17.80 (1.11) 7,100
0.02 0.0110 Greenergy 0.0160 0.0180 0.0160 0.0180 12.50 1,775,000,000 (2,352,700.00)
13.10 7.80 Holcim Philippines Inc. 12.80 12.86 12.80 12.86 0.47 45,700 (122,100.00)
6.00 3.80 Integ. Micro-Electronics 4.00 4.04 4.00 4.00 0.00 6,000
2.35 0.61 Ionics Inc 0.620 0.640 0.620 0.640 3.23 140,000
120.00 80.00 Jollibee Foods Corp. 103.40 105.50 102.00 105.00 1.55 529,830 (4,793,136.00)
Lafarge Rep 9.29 9.30 9.03 9.29 0.00 258,300 18,580.00
91.25 25.00 Liberty Flour 42.90 43.00 42.90 43.00 0.23 27,500
8.40 1.04 LMG Chemicals 2.12 2.10 2.00 2.06 (2.83) 618,000 (874,840.00)
1.90 1.11 Mabuhay Vinyl Corp. 1.51 1.51 1.51 1.51 0.00 1,000
3.19 1.08 Manchester Intl. B 2.56 2.56 2.56 2.56 0.00 6,000
27.45 18.10 Manila Water Co. Inc. 28.80 29.80 28.80 29.00 0.69 3,309,200 (31,518,520.00)
18.10 8.12 Megawide 17.000 17.000 16.940 16.940 (0.35) 45,100
280.60 215.00 Mla. Elect. Co À 277.00 284.00 276.60 277.00 0.00 395,030 42,812,144.00
12.20 7.50 Pancake House Inc. 7.80 7.74 7.60 7.65 (1.92) 19,500
3.65 1.96 Pepsi-Cola Products Phil. 4.30 4.32 4.17 4.29 (0.23) 1,107,000 (100,810.00)
16.00 9.70 Petron Corporation 11.00 11.10 10.90 11.04 0.36 2,399,900 (5,657,730.00)
13.70 10.20 Phinma Corporation 10.20 10.20 10.20 10.20 0.00 8,900
14.94 8.05 Phoenix Petroleum Phils. 8.18 8.18 8.05 8.05 (1.59) 2,241,200
4.42 1.01 RFM Corporation 3.96 4.13 4.01 4.03 1.77 1,920,000 2,768,890.00
34.60 26.50 San Miguel Brewery Inc. 34.35 34.30 34.30 34.30 (0.15) 85,000
129.20 110.20 San Miguel Corp À 109.90 110.00 109.60 110.00 0.09 18,720 5,489,848.00
2.62 1.25 Seacem 2.42 2.52 2.39 2.49 2.89 10,868,000 (874,540.00)
2.44 1.73 Splash Corporation 1.82 1.82 1.80 1.82 0.00 271,000
0.196 0.112 Swift Foods, Inc. 0.215 0.220 0.173 0.179 (16.74) 188,510,000 (188,250.00)
14.66 3.30 Tanduay Holdings 12.04 12.06 11.90 11.96 (0.66) 1,652,300 4,022,530.00
2.88 1.99 TKC Steel Corp. 2.07 2.09 2.03 2.09 0.97 4,000
1.41 0.90 Trans-Asia Oil 1.20 1.22 1.20 1.22 1.67 2,178,000
69.20 37.00 Universal Robina 71.00 72.00 69.00 72.00 1.41 1,072,320 40,493,341.50
5.50 1.05 Victorias Milling 1.25 1.26 1.24 1.26 0.80 611,000 (80,600.00)
0.77 0.320 Vitarich Corp. 0.930 1.020 0.920 1.010 8.60 22,936,000 201,720.00
18.00 2.55 Vivant Corp. 8.00 10.00 8.00 9.20 15.00 45,800
1.22 0.77 Vulcan Indl. 0.93 0.95 0.95 0.95 2.15 2,000
HOLDING FIRMS
1.18 0.65 Abacus Cons. À 0.73 0.73 0.71 0.73 0.00 2,067,000 3,600.00
59.90 35.50 Aboitiz Equity 48.80 49.00 48.80 49.00 0.41 1,171,200 12,277,890.00
0.019 0.014 Alcorn Gold Res. 0.0460 0.0690 0.0510 0.0690 50.00 6,218,400,000 6,812,000.00
13.70 8.00 Alliance Global Inc. 14.50 14.50 14.02 14.28 (1.52) 15,909,100 8,521,898.00
2.60 1.80 Anglo Holdings A 2.00 2.00 1.98 2.00 0.00 11,000
5.02 3.00 Anscor À 5.12 5.30 5.12 5.27 2.93 195,600
6.98 0.260 Asia Amalgamated A 5.12 5.78 5.10 5.40 5.47 1,849,900 138,200.00
2.98 1.49 ATN Holdings A 1.39 1.48 1.39 1.45 4.32 184,000
4.16 2.30 ATN Holdings B 1.60 1.60 1.45 1.60 0.00 361,000
485.20 272.00 Ayala Corp À 445.00 450.00 438.40 440.40 (1.03) 425,820 (38,755,950.00)
64.80 30.50 DMCI Holdings 57.90 58.15 57.50 57.90 0.00 973,160 (3,619,308.00)
5.20 3.30 Filinvest Dev. Corp. 4.24 4.22 4.19 4.21 (0.71) 196,000 588,000.00
556.00 455.40 GT Capital 557.00 556.00 555.00 556.00 (0.18) 69,060 3,220,900.00
5.22 2.94 House of Inv. 5.85 5.89 5.65 5.80 (0.85) 67,000
36.20 19.00 JG Summit Holdings 34.55 34.90 33.65 33.80 (2.17) 1,018,700 (2,054,970.00)
4.19 2.27 Jolliville Holdings 3.94 4.02 4.00 4.00 1.52 17,000
6.21 4.00 Lopez Holdings Corp. 5.51 5.50 5.36 5.50 (0.18) 3,586,800 (11,535,402.00)
1.54 0.61 Lodestar Invt. Holdg.Corp. 1.16 1.19 1.15 1.17 0.86 4,764,000 2,192,510.00
3.82 1.800 Marcventures Hldgs., Inc. 2.20 2.19 2.16 2.16 (1.82) 1,397,000
4.65 2.56 Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. 4.21 4.29 4.21 4.22 0.24 24,457,000 (4,998,410.00)
6.24 3.40 Minerales Industrias Corp. 5.00 5.19 5.00 5.00 0.00 504,300 329.00
0.0770 0.045 Pacica À 0.0520 0.0510 0.0450 0.0490 (5.77) 3,350,000
2.20 1.20 Prime Media Hldg 1.310 1.310 1.300 1.310 0.00 102,000
0.82 0.44 Prime Orion 0.520 0.490 0.490 0.490 (5.77) 50,000 20,090.00
4.10 1.56 Republic Glass A 2.83 2.83 2.83 2.83 0.00 3,000
2.40 1.01 Seafront À 1.46 1.60 1.46 1.59 8.90 101,000
0.490 0.285 Sinophil Corp. 0.330 0.325 0.325 0.325 (1.52) 500,000
760.00 450.00 SM Investments Inc. 805.00 822.00 804.50 819.50 1.80 279,520 56,604,370.00
2.71 1.08 Solid Group Inc. 2.11 2.15 2.09 2.12 0.47 831,000 (85,200.00)
1.57 1.14 South China Res. Inc. 1.14 1.15 1.15 1.15 0.88 20,000
0.420 0.101 Unioil Res. & Hldgs 0.2550 0.2410 0.2400 0.2400 (5.88) 300,000
0.620 0.082 Wellex Industries 0.3200 0.3250 0.3150 0.3200 0.00 2,380,000
0.980 0.380 Zeus Holdings 0.400 0.400 0.395 0.395 (1.25) 1,180,000
P R O P E R T Y
48.00 18.00 Anchor Land Holdings Inc. 17.46 17.44 16.52 17.40 (0.34) 3,400 19,920.00
3.34 1.70 A. Brown Co., Inc. 2.99 3.08 2.90 3.00 0.33 1,594,000
0.195 0.150 Arthaland Corp. 0.170 0.179 0.178 0.179 5.29 70,000
24.15 13.36 Ayala Land `B 23.40 23.90 23.30 23.40 0.00 5,331,100 13,374,380.00
5.62 3.08 Belle Corp. À 5.15 5.18 5.06 5.07 (1.55) 4,080,200 2,654,362.00
9.00 2.26 Cebu Holdings 5.05 5.05 4.98 5.05 0.00 70,900
2.85 1.35 Century Property 1.49 1.49 1.47 1.47 (1.34) 6,067,000 2,595,310.00
2.91 1.20 City & Land Dev. 2.75 2.71 2.60 2.70 (1.82) 45,000
1.50 1.05 Cityland Dev. À 1.14 1.10 1.10 1.10 (3.51) 23,000
0.092 0.060 Crown Equities Inc. 0.066 0.066 0.066 0.066 0.00 200,000
1.11 0.67 Cyber Bay Corp. 0.86 0.87 0.84 0.84 (2.33) 1,894,000 (43,000.00)
0.94 0.54 Empire East Land 0.860 0.900 0.850 0.880 2.33 44,068,000 258,000.00
3.80 2.90 Eton Properties 3.70 3.80 3.68 3.68 (0.54) 22,000
0.310 0.10 Ever Gotesco 0.209 0.210 0.202 0.202 (3.35) 4,610,000
2.74 1.63 Global-Estate 1.90 1.90 1.88 1.88 (1.05) 1,183,000 436,110.00
1.44 0.98 Filinvest Land,Inc. 1.39 1.39 1.37 1.37 (1.44) 24,311,000 (3,333,210.00)
3.80 1.21 Highlands Prime 1.90 1.71 1.71 1.71 (10.00) 6,000
2.34 1.51 Megaworld Corp. 2.36 2.45 2.34 2.41 2.12 115,537,000 67,118,010.00
0.36 0.150 MRC Allied Ind. 0.1650 0.1950 0.1670 0.1850 12.12 111,690,000 793,600.00
0.990 0.089 Phil. Estates Corp. 0.6900 0.7300 0.7000 0.7100 2.90 6,863,000 (42,600.00)
0.67 0.41 Phil. Realty À 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.00 90,000
4.33 2.10 Primex Corp. 3.41 3.03 3.03 3.03 (11.14) 3,000
19.94 10.00 Robinsons Land `B 19.46 19.46 19.12 19.32 (0.72) 469,500 (2,107,168.00)
7.71 2.51 Rockwell 3.38 3.45 3.36 3.38 0.00 424,000
2.85 1.81 Shang Properties Inc. 2.79 2.79 2.72 2.79 0.00 121,000 165,920.00
8.95 6.00 SM Development À 6.07 6.14 6.07 6.12 0.82 2,053,800 827,950.00
18.20 10.94 SM Prime Holdings 13.98 13.98 13.90 13.92 (0.43) 6,351,000 (45,184,024.00)
0.91 0.64 Sta. Lucia Land Inc. 0.69 0.70 0.67 0.69 0.00 511,000
4.55 1.80 Starmalls 3.70 3.99 3.61 3.72 0.54 82,000
0.64 0.45 Suntrust Home Dev. Inc. 0.530 0.520 0.520 0.520 (1.89) 10,000
4.66 2.60 Vista Land & Lifescapes 4.750 4.850 4.750 4.790 0.84 663,000 848,180.00
S E R V I C E S
42.00 24.80 ABS-CBN 32.80 33.50 32.85 32.90 0.30 440,500
18.98 1.05 Acesite Hotel 1.40 1.43 1.34 1.39 (0.71) 366,000 6,750.00
0.78 0.45 APC Group, Inc. 0.620 0.650 0.610 0.630 1.61 473,000
10.92 7.30 Asian Terminals Inc. 9.24 9.25 9.05 9.25 0.11 6,100 56,310.00
102.80 4.45 Bloomberry 12.58 12.86 12.58 12.78 1.59 8,604,900 6,759,232.00
0.5300 0.1010 Boulevard Holdings 0.1510 0.1550 0.1450 0.1490 (1.32) 27,600,000
24.00 5.20 Calata Corp. 6.08 6.10 5.90 5.98 (1.64) 3,165,700 (210,898.00)
82.50 60.80 Cebu Air Inc. (5J) 58.00 58.00 56.55 57.00 (1.72) 321,750 (11,678,691.00)
9.70 5.44 DFNN Inc. 5.60 5.95 5.40 5.75 2.68 152,800
1270.00 831.00 Globe Telecom 1127.00 1127.00 1119.00 1122.00 (0.44) 72,775 (9,008,000.00)
11.00 6.18 GMA Network Inc. 8.20 8.32 8.17 8.32 1.46 589,000
77.00 43.40 I.C.T.S.I. 71.00 71.65 71.00 71.45 0.63 1,998,010 76,052,279.00
0.98 0.36 Information Capital Tech. 0.405 0.440 0.410 0.435 7.41 840,000 21,700.00
4.70 1.75 IP Converge 2.20 2.25 2.20 2.25 2.27 148,000
34.50 0.036 IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 0.020 0.023 0.020 0.022 10.00 183,900,000 (19,800.00)
3.87 1.00 IPVG Corp. 1.00 1.01 1.00 1.01 1.00 397,000
0.0760 0.042 Island Info 0.0470 0.0480 0.0480 0.0480 2.13 1,800,000
5.1900 2.550 ISM Communications 2.9300 2.9300 2.8500 2.9200 (0.34) 102,000
10.30 5.90 Leisure & Resorts 8.77 8.80 8.45 8.60 (1.94) 876,700 (10,560.00)
3.70 2.60 Liberty Telecom 2.50 2.51 2.50 2.51 0.40 19,000
2.65 1.03 Lorenzo Shipping 1.38 1.38 1.38 1.38 0.00 13,000
0.84 0.57 Manila Bulletin 0.68 0.69 0.68 0.68 0.00 21,000
4.08 1.21 Manila Jockey 2.92 3.09 2.90 3.03 3.77 3,671,000 175,800.00
22.95 13.80 Pacic Online Sys. Corp. 14.00 14.00 13.94 14.00 0.00 171,200 1,400,000.00
8.58 5.35 PAL Holdings Inc. 5.48 5.80 5.50 5.79 5.66 189,700 (88,360.00)
3.39 1.05 Paxys Inc. 2.75 2.75 2.73 2.75 0.00 191,000
71.00 18.00 Phil. Seven Corp. 71.40 71.00 71.00 71.00 (0.56) 4,000 174,660.00
17.88 12.10 Philweb.Com Inc. 17.04 17.06 16.92 17.02 (0.12) 522,100 3,759,950.00
2886.00 2096.00 PLDT Common 2752.00 2794.00 2752.00 2760.00 0.29 60,540 (33,238,250.00)
0.39 0.25 PremiereHorizon 0.315 0.320 0.315 0.320 1.59 250,000
30.15 10.68 Puregold 29.00 29.90 29.00 29.70 2.41 1,426,300 3,438,820.00
STI Holdings 1.80 1.89 1.80 1.86 3.33 37,000
3.30 2.42 Transpacic Broadcast 2.50 2.61 2.39 2.61 4.40 56,000 120,000.00
0.79 0.34 Waterfront Phils. 0.460 0.460 0.460 0.460 0.00 20,000
MINING & OIL
0.0083 0.0038 Abra Mining 0.0048 0.0055 0.0049 0.0051 6.25 2,023,000,000 148,300.00
6.20 3.01 Apex À 4.60 4.60 4.50 4.60 0.00 28,000
20.80 14.50 Atlas Cons. À 17.38 17.40 17.36 17.38 0.00 297,100 938,954.00
48.00 20.00 Atok-Big Wedge À 26.95 26.95 24.55 26.95 0.00 600 (2,695.00)
0.345 0.170 Basic Energy Corp. 0.280 0.300 0.270 0.300 7.14 66,960,000 (320,600.00)
29.00 19.98 Benguet Corp À 24.45 24.50 24.45 24.50 0.20 38,100
34.00 21.20 Benguet Corp `B 23.95 24.00 23.90 24.00 0.21 3,200
2.23 1.05 Century Peak Metals Hldgs 1.05 1.07 1.06 1.07 1.90 197,000
61.80 6.96 Dizon 20.15 20.70 19.94 20.00 (0.74) 142,800 (10,100.00)
1.21 0.50 Geograce Res. Phil. Inc. 0.57 0.58 0.57 0.57 0.00 1,545,000
1.81 1.0600 Lepanto À 1.130 1.150 1.110 1.120 (0.88) 23,599,000
2.070 1.0900 Lepanto `B 1.210 1.220 1.200 1.210 0.00 4,405,000 1,421,600.00
0.085 0.042 Manila Mining À 0.0510 0.0520 0.0490 0.0500 (1.96) 154,590,000
0.840 0.570 Manila Mining `B 0.0500 0.0520 0.0500 0.0500 0.00 56,370,000 75,000.00
36.50 15.04 Nickelasia 17.32 17.40 17.28 17.40 0.46 734,800 513,172.00
12.84 2.91 Nihao Mineral Resources 7.49 7.68 7.25 7.30 (2.54) 196,200 (73,000.00)
1.100 0.008 Omico 0.6300 0.6300 0.6200 0.6200 (1.59) 111,000
8.40 2.99 Oriental Peninsula Res. 4.480 4.500 4.350 4.410 (1.56) 514,000
0.032 0.014 Oriental Pet. À 0.0190 0.0200 0.0190 0.0200 5.26 418,700,000
0.033 0.014 Oriental Pet. `B 0.0210 0.0200 0.0200 0.0200 (4.76) 12,800,000
7.05 5.10 Petroenergy Res. Corp. 6.04 6.02 5.97 6.00 (0.66) 45,100
28.25 18.40 Philex À 14.08 14.14 14.06 14.10 0.14 1,730,100 (4,687,728.00)
48.00 3.00 PhilexPetroleum 24.85 24.50 23.50 23.55 (5.23) 160,700 664,955.00
0.062 0.017 Philodrill Corp. À 0.047 0.048 0.045 0.046 (2.13) 1,107,700,000 178,100.00
257.80 161.10 Semirara Corp. 224.80 224.80 223.60 224.80 0.00 259,410 9,614,656.00
0.029 0.015 United Paragon 0.0150 0.0160 0.0150 0.0160 6.67 96,600,000
PREFERRED
50.00 23.05 ABS-CBN Holdings Corp. 32.55 32.50 32.20 32.30 (0.77) 2,023,200 (20,671,625.00)
580.00 535.00 Ayala Corp. Pref À 530.00 530.00 530.00 530.00 0.00 300
103.50 100.00 First Gen G 104.00 104.00 104.00 104.00 0.00 900
11.02 6.00 GMA Holdings Inc. 8.03 8.14 8.06 8.14 1.37 552,800 (1,662,080.00)
116.70 108.90 PCOR-Preferred 108.00 107.90 107.90 107.90 (0.09) 5,000
SMC Preferred A 75.00 75.00 74.90 75.00 0.00 1,364,670 (37,500,000.00)
80.00 74.50 SMC Preferred B 76.50 78.50 76.50 78.50 2.61 9,500 (153,000.00)
SMC Preferred C 75.00 75.00 75.00 75.00 0.00 36,830 825,000.00
1050.00 1000.00 SMPFC Preferred 1011.00 1010.00 1007.00 1010.00 (0.10) 270
6.00 0.87 Swift Pref 1.80 1.80 1.40 1.40 (22.22) 62,000
WARRANTS & BONDS
1.31 0.62 Megaworld Corp. Warrants 1.34 1.42 1.39 1.41 5.22 16,539,000 11,013,700.00
1.38 0.67 Megaworld Corp. Warrants2 1.28 1.28 1.28 1.28 0.00 1,000 (1,280.00)
TRADI NG SUMMARY
SHARES VALUE
FINANCIAL 16,682,044 1,177,358,338.45
INDUSTRIAL 2,042,353,774 929,774,387.502
HOLDING FIRMS 6,288,305,874 1,469,462,512.595
PROPERTY 605,002,141 1,403,192,348.01
SERVICES 241,230,213 916,035,924.59
MINING & OIL 3,970,976,074 290,915,648.632
GRAND TOTAL 13,164,550,120 6,186,739,159.778
FINANCIAL 1,364.28 (down) 16.31
INDUSTRIAL 8,392.69 (up) 32.31
HOLDING FIRMS 4,684.59 (up) 5
PROPERTY 2,067.18 (down) 2.66
SERVICES 1,794.5 (up) 7.35
MINING & OIL 19,656.7 (down) 98.25
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TOP GAI NERS TOP LOSERS
CHIN WONG
DIGITAL LIFE
SONY last week introduced two powerful tablets
that can also be used as full-edged computers.
The models on display at the Mind Museum
during the launch of the Vaio Duo 11 and the Tap
20 were impressive, incorporating some of Sonys
hardware wizardry (beautiful touch screens, and, on
the Duo 11, a slider that hides the keyboard away
underneath the slate when you dont need it) with
software designed to take advantage of Microsofts
new touch-enabled Windows 8 operating system.
Sony is apparently ready to sell the tablets but
its agreement with Microsoft means it will have to
wait until Windows 8 is launched (Oct. 26 in the US
and Oct. 30, here) before making them available.
As I watched demos of how an American
family might use the 20-inch Tap 20 slate at
homeleaving text and video messages for each
other, doodling or playing multi-player gamesI
thought maybe there is an untapped market for a
multi-user tablet in the wake of the iPad stampede
created by Apple. Trying out the new tablets on
display during the launch, I also realized that the
only way Windows 8 makes sense is if youre
running it on a new, powerful (the Sony tablets
use Intel Core 3, 5 or 7 processors) touch-enabled
computer.
Sure, you can run it on your existing desktop
computer or notebook and use a mouse or trackpad
instead, but that would be quite literally missing the
point.
As a Windows 7 user, I am perfectly happy to stay
where I am because the operating system is fast,
stable and suited to my needs. Given my existing,
non-touch-enabled hardware, there is simply no
compelling reason to upgrade to Windows 8 and
learn how to get things done on my computer all
over again.
Microsofts campaignbuy a Windows 7 PC
today and upgrade it to Windows 8 for only $14.99
(about P620) might be very attractive in terms of
price, but will do little to entice savvy Windows 7
users. In fact, it does little except assure buyers that
they can, if they want to, get the latest Microsoft
operating system with their new hardware purchase
even though the computer might not be touch-
enabled.
Earlier this year, I passed on another upgrade
opportunity when I decided not to move my
Macbook Air from Lion (OS X 10.7) to Mountain
Lion (10.8), even though the $20 price was very
attractive, and I met the hardware requirements of
Apples latest OS.
As a Mac user for a few years now, I was
extremely satised when I upgraded from Leopard
(10.5) to Snow Leopard (10.6), but much less so
when I made the jump to Lion.
Reading through the new features of Mountain
Lion, I had to stie a yawnthere was absolutely
nothing there for me. Better integration and
synchronization with other Apple devices like the
iPhone and iPad? Not interested because I dont
own either device and dont plan to buy them
anytime soon. Nor am I thrilled with the prospect
of making Mac OS X look and feel more like iOS.
Its just not the way I work. It didnt matter if the
upgrade was $20 or freeit just wasnt worth my
time and effort.
On my main home computer, an Ubuntu Linux
desktop PC, I make upgrade decisions every
six months, which is how often new versions of
the operating system are released. Because the
operating system is open source, price is never a
considerationits always free.
But even free software has a costit takes time
and considerable effort to go through an upgrade and
to make sure that all your favorite applications still
work. Often, it takes me days to tweak a new Linux
setup to my liking. Will the new features be worth
the extra trouble of upgrading? Thats a question I
ask every time a new version is released.
Notwithstanding the ap over Ubuntus new
Unity interface (some people hate it), Ive resisted
the temptation to try other avors of Linux because
it still isnt very difcult to customize the user
interface.
Ive always found it important to be able to
customize a system to t the way that I work.
With the help of third-party utilities, I enjoyed this
same exibility on my old Windows XP computer
years ago and on my Windows 7 desktop now. But
Microsoft seems dead set on sticking users with
the tiled interface previously known as Metro
that makes sense only on a touch-enabled device.
Users who must use Windows 8 on their desktops,
however, can take heart as third-party utilities such
as Classic Shell (http://classicshell.sourceforge.
net) can bring back some semblance of interface
sanity in this touch-pad-crazy world.
Column archives and blog at:
http://www.chinwong.com
STOCKS fell Monday, in line with the
movement of regional markets as investors
expressed concern anew over Europes
debt crisis ahead of a meeting by European
nance ministers.
The Philippine Stock
Exchange index, the 30-company
benchmark, shed 5 points, or
0.1 percent, to close at 5,434.13
on Oct. 8, with three of the six
subsectors ending in the red.
The heavier index representing
all shares closed at at 3,590.80,
as gainers led losers 82 to 77,
with 47 issues unchanged. Value
turnover amounted to P6.2
billion.
Banks posted the biggest
decline Monday. Bank of the
Philippine Islands, the most
actively traded stock, lost
1.9 percent to P79.1 while
Metropolitan Bank and Trust
Co., shed 0.5 percent to P92.45.
Security Bank Corp. was down
0.7 percent to P162.90.
Alcorn Gold Resources Corp.
climbed anew by the maximum
limit of 50 percent to P0.069.
The stock of the oil and gas
explorer trebled in the past two
weeks.
Several property developers
traded higher Monday.
Megaworld Corp. rose 2.1 percent
to P2.41 while Bloomberry
Resorts Corp. increased P1.6
percent to P12.78.
Meanwhile, Asian stocks fell
as Europes debt crisis continued
to roil markets and the World
Bank cut its growth forecasts for
Asia.
Investors were also
disappointed by falling
commodity prices and a mixed
nish on Wall Street on Friday
despite positive employment
news. There was also some
frustration regarding mainland
Chinese shares, which opened to
losses after a weeklong holiday.
That worried investors that
we might have hit the top of
the recent rally and we might
see some correction in the short
term, said Jackson Wong, vice
president of Tanrich Securities in
Hong Kong.
Hong Kongs Hang Seng fell
0.6 percent to 20,879.40. South
Koreas Kospi lost 0.8 percent to
1,980.33 and Australias S&P/
ASX200 dropped 0.3 percent
to 4,480. Mainland Chinas
Shanghai composite index shed
0.8 percent to 2,070.52 and the
smaller Shenzhen Composite
Index lost 0.8 percent to 847.39.
Benchmarks in Singapore,
Taiwan and Thailand also fell. New
Zealands rose. Markets in Japan
were closed for a public holiday.
The World Bank cut this years
growth outlook for developing
Asia-Pacic economies to 7.2
percent from its May forecast
of 7.6 percent. The bank cut its
forecast for China, the regions
biggest economy, to 7.7 percent
from Mays 8.2 percent. The
bank cited weak global demand
due to the lackluster US recovery
and Europes recession.
Andrew Sullivan, principal
sales trader at Piper Jaffray in
Hong Kong, said protests in Spain
and IMF concerns over Greece
continue to worry investors.
Tens of thousands of people
marched in 56 Spanish cities
Sunday to protest government
budget cuts in a country
experiencing its second recession
in three years and record high
unemployment.
With Bloomberg, AP
(MST-Oct. 9, 2012)
Surigao del Sur 1
st
Engineering District
Tandag City, Surigao del Sur
I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH Surigao del Sur
1st Engineering District Ofce, Tandag City through the SARO N0. , invites
contractors to bid for the aforementioned projects:
Contract ID : 12NH 0055
Contact Name : Road Upgr adi ng (Gr avel t o Paved)
Intermittent Section along Surigao-Davao
CoastaI Road
Contract Location : CarrascaI, Surigao deI Sur
Scope of Work : Earthworks, PCCP, Catch Basin & Line
Ditch, Bio-Engineered Coco Fiber Net &
others
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php 9,758,069.55
Contract Duration : 56 C.D.
Cost of Bidding Documents : Php 10,000.00
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the
Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be
automatically rejected at the opening of bid.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI),
purchase bidding 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 similar contract
costing at least 50% of ABC within period of 10 years, and (e) Net Financial
Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment for at
least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the
eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for
registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the
receipt of LO. The DPWH-POCW Central Offce will only process contractor's
applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the
Contractor's Certifcate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be
downloaded at DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown
below:
Activities Schedule
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents October 06 - October 25, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference October 12, 2012@ 10:00 a.m.
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
October 22, 2012 @10:00 a.m.
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: October 25, 2012 @ 8:45 a.m.
5. Opening of Bids October 25, 2012 @ 9:00 a.m.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BD's) at DPWH
Surigao deI Sur 1st Engineering District Ofce. Prospective bidders may
also download the BD's from the DPWH website, if available. Prospective
bidders that will download the BD's 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 BD's. Bids must be accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and
acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as
specifed in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC
Chairman. The frst envelope shall contain the technical component of the
bid, which shall include a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall
contain the fnancial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the
Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and
the post-qualifcation.
The DPWH - Surigao deI Sur 1st Engineering District Ofce reserves
the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at any time
prior to award of contract, without thereby incurring any liability to affected
bidder/s.
Approved by:
(Sgd) AGUSTIN R. ESTAL, MPA
Engineer III
(BAC-Chairman)
Compostela Valley District Engineering Offce
Nabunturan, Comval Province
Tel. No. & Fax No. 084-376-1040
(MST-Oct. 9, 2012)
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works & Highways,
Compostela Valley District Engineering Offce, Nabunturan, Comval Province, invites contractors
to bid for the:
1. Contract ID: 12LA-0031
Contract Name: Widening of Daang Maharlika (Agusan-Davao Road)
Contract Location: Poblacion Section, Montevista, Comval Province
Station Limit: Km. 1410+800.00 - Km. 1414+540.00
Description: Facilities for Engineer, Other General Requirement,
Earthworks, Sub Base & Base Course, Surface Course,
Drainage Construction, Drainage & Slope Protection
Structure Mi scel l aneous Structure, Mobi l i zati on &
Demobilization, Signs for Worksite, Traffc Control Services
Approved Budget for Contract: Php 39,199,186.16
Cost of Bid Documents: P20,000.00
Source of Fund: CY 2013 Regular Infra
Contract Duration: 140 Cal. Days
Contract Name: Widening of Daang Maharlika (Agusan-Davao Road)
Contract Location: Linoan Section, Montevista, Comval Province
Station Limit: Km. 1414+540.00 - Km. 1417+810.00
Earthworks, Sub Base & Base Course, Surface Course,
Structure Mi scel l aneous Structure, Mobi l i zati on &
Approved Budget for Contract: Php 36,749,613.14
Contract Name: Widening of Surigao-Davao Road,
Contract Location: Maca Section, Maco, Comval Province
Station Limit: Km. 1813+145.00- Km. 1813+700.00
Earthworks, Sub-Base & Base Course, Surface Course,
Structure, Miscellaneous Structures, Mobilization &
Approved Budget for Contract: Php14,410,319.18
Contract Name: Widening of Surigao-Davao Road,
Contract Location: Anislagan Section, Maco, Comval Province
Station Limit: Km.1813+700.00- Km. 1814+000.00
Description: Facilities for Engineer, Earthworks, Sub-Base & Base Course,
Surface Course, Miscellaneous Structures, Mobilization &
Approved Budget for Contract: Php8,080,095.48
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised IRR
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 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 ten years, (e) Net Financial Contracting
Capacity at least equal to ABC, or Credit Line Commitment issued by reputable Commercial
Bank at least equal to 10% of the ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in
the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit application for registration to the DPWH-
POCW, Central Offce before the deadline for the receipt of LOL The DPWH-POCW Central
Offce will only process contractor's application for registration with the complete requirements
and issue Contractors registration Certifcate (CRe). Registration forms can be download at the
DPWH Website.www.dpwh.gov.ph.
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents : October 9, 2012- October 30, 2012

2. Deadline of Receipt of LOI : October 24,2012 @ 12:00 Noon
3. Pre-Bid Conference : October 17,2012, @ 10:00 A.M.
4. Receipt of Bids : until October 30, 2012 @ 1:30 P.M.
5. Opening of Bids : October 30, 2012@ 2:00 P.M.
Pre-bid conference will be held at DPWH, Conference Room, Compostela Valley District
Engineering Offce, Nabunturan, Comval Province
The BAC will also issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BD's) at the BAC Secretariat,
DPWH, Nabunturan,Comval Province upon payment of the said fees
Prospective bidders may also download the BD's from the DPWH website if available.
Prospective bidders that will download the BD's from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees
a day before the submission of their bid documents. The Pre-bid conference shall open only to
interested parties who have purchased the BD's. Bid must be accompanied by the Bid Security,
in the amount and acceptable form, at stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in the BD's in
two (2) separate sealed bid envelope to the BAC Chairman. The First envelope shall contain the
Technical component of the bid, which included a copy of CRe. The second envelope shall contain
the fnancial component of the bid. These envelopes shall be enclosed in one single envelope
submitted to the BAC Chairman. Late bids shall not be accepted. Contract will be awarded to the
Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determine in the Bid Evaluation and Post Qualifcation.
The Department of Public Works and Highways, Compostela Valley District Engineering
offce, Nabunturan, Comval Province reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul
the bidding process anytime prior to Contract Award, without thereby incurring any liability to
the affected bidders.
For further information please refer to:
EDWIN M. ORTIZ
Engineer II
Head-BAC Secretariat
e-mail address:[email protected]
(Sgd.) EVA M. DEL FIERRO
Engineer III
BAC Chairman
INVITATION TO BID
No. 2012-021
First Metro ManiIa Engineering District
Rosario, Pasig
(MST-Oct. 9, 2012)
INVITATION TO BID

The Department of PubIic Works and Highways-First Metro ManiIa
Engi neeri ng Di stri ct, 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: 0120B0207
Contract Name: Construction of Tipas-Napindan Road to C-6 Road,
Taguig City
Contract Location: Taguig City
Scope of Work: Construction
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P71,273,624.21
Contract Duration: 180 Calendar Days
Contract Name: Repair of Collapsed Revetment Wall along Pasig River
at Brgy. Buayang Bato, Mandaluyong City
Contract Location: Mandaluyong City
Scope of Work: Repair of Collapsed Revetment Wall
Contract Name: Improvement/Construction of Gravity Wall (with Gabions
as Foundation) at Intermittent Section along Sto. Rosario
River, from Sta. 0+000 to Sta. 0+600, Taguig City and
Pateros, Metro Manila
Contract Location: Taguig City and Pateros, Metro Manila
Scope of Work: Improvement/Construction of Gravity Wall
Contract Name: Construction/Rehabilitation of Gravity Wall along
Intermittent Section of Ilog Pugad River, Sta. (0+600
to Sta. 1+100 (Both Sides), East Side of Manggahan
Floodway, Taytay, Rizal
Contract Location: Taytay, Rizal
Scope of Work: Construction/Rehabilitation of Gravity Wall
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in
accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised ImpIementing RuIes and ReguIations.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) together
with their CIass "A" 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 with PCAB license applicable to the type and
cost of this contract, (c) completion of similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC
within a period of 10 years, and, (d) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal
to ABC, or credit line commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-
discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to
the DPWH-POCW CentraI Ofce before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH
POCW-CentraI Ofce will only process contractor's applications for registration, with
completes requirements, and issue the Contractor's Certifcate of Registration (CRC).
Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders October 09 - 22, 2012
2. Issuance of Bidding Documents October 09 - 30, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference October 16, 2012 at 2:00 PM
4. Receipt of Bids October 30, 2012 until 10:00 AM
5. Opening of Bids October 30, 2012 at 2:00 P.M.
Prospective bidders may download the LOI Forms from DPWH website:
www.dpwh.gov.ph. (allowing the flling of Letter of ntent free of charge and prescribing
fxed costs of bidding documents as per D.O. No. 52 dated October 03, 2011).
The BAC, will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BD's) at First Metro
ManiIa Engineering District, Westbank Road, Manggahan FIoodway, Rosario,
Pasig City, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of TEN THOUSAND PESOS TO
THIRTY THOUSAND PESOS ONLY (Php10,000.00-Php30,000.00). Prospective
bidders may also download the BDs, if available, from the DPWH website. Bidders that
will download the BD's from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before
the submission of their bid documents. Bid 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 BD's in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst
envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall 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.
Interested contractors are also required to present the original copies of the
following documents for authentication and issuance of Bid Documents: (PCAB
License; b) Contractor's Registration Certifcate; c) Certifcate of Materials Engineer
Accreditation; d) Latest Copy of Authorizing Offcer; e) Certifcate of Safety Offcer
Seminar from Dole, f) Phil-Geps Order Form (Documents Request List), g) 2011CPES
Rating.
The First Metro ManiIa Engineering District assumes no responsibility
whatsoever to compensate or indemnity bidders for any expenses incurred in the
preparation of the bid.
The First Metro ManiIa Engineering District 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 incurring any liability to the affected bidders or Bidders.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) MARIO E. ALCANTARA
OIC-Chief, Maintenance Section
Engineer III/BAC Chairman
NOTED
(Sgd.) ROBERTO S. NICOLAS
District Engineer
Business
ManilaStandardToday [email protected] OCTOBER 9, 2012 TUESDAY
B3
Exportbank sale set on Oct. 18
Batangas addresses coconut infestation
Merck and RiteMed partnership. Merck Sharp and Dohme, a global leader in healthcare, and RiteMed, the leading unibrand of
medicines in the country, signed an agreement to launch a nationwide campaign to provide Filipinos better access to quality and affordable
essential medicines and vaccines. Shown during the recent signing of memorandum of understanding are (from left) Allan Marx Ancheta,
MSDs director for sales, operations, business intelligence and development; and Nicandro Salud, RiteMeds sales and marketing head.
By Anna Leah G. Estrada
STATE-RUN Philippine Deposit
Insurance Corp. said Monday it will hold
the bidding for the closed Export and
Industry Bank and its 80 branches on
Oct. 18.
PDIC ofcials said the
rst tranche of the auction
will include the banks assets
including its 80 branches as well
as the assumption of liabilities
amounting to P24 billion.
The book value of the banks
assets was placed at P12 billion,
or just half of its total liabilities,
according to the PDIC.
The bid will reect the
recovery to the uninsured
depositors and other ordinary
creditors of the Export and
Industry Bank, the deposit
insurer said.
Several banks, including
BDO Unibank Inc. which was
in talks with Exportbank before
the latter was closed, expressed
interest in the bidding.
The PDIC, however, did
not disclose the identities and
number of qualied bidders due
to condentiality purposes.
It said the winning bid for
Tranche 1 would be the one
offering the highest amount
of recovery for depositors and
ordinary creditors.
The bidding for the second
tranche will involve the banks
commercial bank license, but the
PDIC said it had yet to nalize
the details for this.
The PDIC said the bid of
interested parties should represent
the amount they were willing to
pay for the uninsured deposits
and other ordinary credits of the
bank. The repayment of terms
will also be indicated.
Bids are to be expressed in
present value terms using a
discount rate of 5 percent and
will be valid for a period of 60
days from submission of bid.
The PDIC said under the
bidding procedures, its board
would determine the reserve
price, or the amount the PDIC
determined as the minimum
amount of recovery that depositors
and ordinary creditors should
receive, considering the net value
of the free or unencumbered assets
and the net benets to the acquirer
of the rehabilitation.
It gave interested parties to
submit pre-bid documents by
Oct. 9. Evaluation of bids will
be until Oct. 17.
PDIC said the consent from
the uninsured depositors should
also be submitted until Nov. 9.
The PDIC so far received the
consent of only 40 percent of the
banks depositors.
There are critical requirements
to see through and implement the
rehabilitation of the bank. These
are support from the strategic
third-party investors that will
bid for the rehabilitation of
the bank, consent of majority
of stockholders, consent of
all creditors and uninsured
depositors, successful bidding,
and approval of the PDIC and
Bangko Sentral, the PDIC said.
By Othel V. Campos
THE Philippine Coconut
Authority reported Monday the
scale insect infestation which
affected the coconut industry
in Batangas province was
successfully addressed.
We are happy to know that the
measures that we are undertaking
to combat scale insect infestation
are effective. Continuous support
from our farmers and local
government units is needed,
PCA administrator Euclides
Forbes said.
The PCA said it released P5.2
million for the treatment of the
coconut scale insect infestation
which involved the pruning,
spraying and fertilization
activities.
It said 252,967 leaves
were pruned in the affected
municipalities while in some
areas, spraying and pruning were
still ongoing.
Provincial technical people
and farmers observed that after
leaf pruning, coconut trees fully
recovered when salt was applied
as fertilizer.
Fertilizer and Pesticide
Authority director Norlito Gicana
said there was no registered
pesticide on coconut infestation
yet and advised farmers to
be more cautious in spraying
pesticides on infected coconut
trees because it may leave residue
on nuts.
Experts including those
from PCA in Albay and Davao
Research Centers said while scale
insects had existed for decades,
this was the rst time that an
outbreak happened.
Experts said in addition to
leaf pruning, mass rearing of
predators (bio-control agents)
for subsequent release to affected
sites was another means to
combat the spread of the scale
insect.
B4
IN BRIEF
WORLD
Israeli jets fly mock
raids over Lebanon
Venezuelas Chavez wins
Syria,
Turkey
exchange
gunfire
Libyas new prime minister ousted in no-condence vote
Obama makes joke;
Romney eyes speech
Putins 60
th
birthday
celebrated in fanfare
Chinese tech giants pose threatUS
CARACASPresident Hugo Chavez
won reelection and a new endorsement
of his socialist project Sunday, surviving
his closest race yet after a bitter campaign
in which the opposition accused him of
unfairly using Venezuelas oil wealth and
his near total control of state institutions to
his advantage.
A long wait for the results
produced high tensions,
including a Twitter hashtag
called BitingNails that became
the most popular in the country.
Finally, reworks exploded
over downtown Caracas amid a
cacophony of horn-honking by
elated Chavez supporters waving
ags and jumping for joy outside
the presidential palace.
With 90 percent of votes
counted, Chavez had more
than 54 percent of the vote
to 45 percent for challenger
Henrique Capriles, an athletic
40-year-old former state
governor who unified and
energized the opposition while
barnstorming across the oil-
exporting nation.
But Capriles promises to
seriously address violent crime
that has spun out of control,
streamline a patronage-bloated
bureaucracy and end rampant
corruption proved inadequate
against Chavezs charisma, well-
oiled political machine and a
legacy of putting Venezuelas
poor rst with generous social
welfare programs.
Chavez rallied thousands of
supporters from a balcony of the
presidential palace, holding up
a sword that once belonged to
19
th
century independence hero
Simon Bolivar.
The revolution has
triumphed! Chavez told the
crowd, saying his supporters
voted for socialism.
The crowd responded chanting
Chavez wont go!
Chavez will now have a freer
hand to push for an even bigger
state role in the economy and
continue populist programs.
He pledged before the vote
to make a stronger push for
socialism in the next term.
Hes also likely to further limit
dissent and deepen friendships
with US rivals.
A Capriles victory would
have brought a radical foreign
policy shift including a halt
to preferential oil deals with
allies such as Cuba, along with
a loosening of state economic
controls and an increase in
private investment.
It was Chavezs third re-
election in nearly 14 years in
ofce. It was also his smallest
victory margin. In 2006, he won
by 27 percentage points.
I cant describe the relief and
happiness I feel right now, said
Edgar Gonzalez, a 38-year-old
construction worker.
He ran through crowds of
Chavez supporters packing the
streets around the presidential
palace wearing a Venezuelan ag
as a cape and yelling: Oh, no!
Chavez wont go!
The revolution will continue,
thanks to God and the people
of this great country, said
Gonzalez. AP
BEIRUTIsraeli warplanes swooped low over Lebanese villages
Sunday in a menacing show of force apparently aimed at the
Hezbollah guerrilla group after a mysterious raid by an unmanned
aircraft that was shot out of Israeli skies over the weekend.
Israel was still investigating Saturdays incident, but Hezbollah
quickly emerged as the leading suspect because it has an arsenal
of sophisticated Iranian weapons and a history of trying to deploy
similar aircraft.
The Israeli military said the drone approached Israels southern
Mediterranean coast and ew deep into Israeli airspace before
warplanes shot it down about 20 minutes later. Israeli news reports
said the drone was not carrying explosives and appeared to be on a
reconnaissance mission.
Military ofcials would not say where the drone originated or
who produced it, but they ruled out the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by
Hamas, a group not known to possess drones. That left Hezbollah
as the most likely culprit and suggested the drone may have own
with the blessing of Iran. Tensions are high between Israel and Iran
over Tehrans suspect nuclear program. AP
AKCAKALE, Turkey
Turkey and Syria red artillery
and mortars across their volatile
border for a fth consecutive
day on Sunday, in one of the
most serious and prolonged
are-ups of violence along the
frontier.
The exchange of re stoked
fears that Syrias civil war
will escalate into a regional
conagration drawing in Nato
member Turkey, once an ally
of President Bashar Assad but
now a key supporter of the
rebels ghting to topple him.
Turkish Foreign Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu had warned
on Saturday that Ankara would
respond forcefully to each
errant Syrian shell that lands
on Turkish soil.
Ankaras warning was
coupled by an apparent
diplomatic push by the Turkish
leadership to promote Syrian
Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa
as a possible gure to head a
transitional administration to
end the conict in the country.
In an interview with Turkish
state television TRT Saturday,
Davutoglu said that al-Sharaa
was a gure whose hands are
not contaminated in blood and
therefore acceptable to Syrian
opposition groups.
It was not clear whether the
Turkish stance was coordinated
with other allies, but the
candid remarks by Davutoglu
suggested some consensus
might be emerging over a
future role for him.
Al-Sharaa, 73, a close
associate and longtime loyalist
to the Assad family, has been a
controversial gure since the
start of the uprising.
He appeared in public in
late August for the rst time in
weeks, ending repeated rumors
that he had defected. The regime
has suffered a string of prominent
defections in recent months,
though Assads inner circle and
military have largely kept their
cohesive stance behind him.
Early on in the uprising, the
Syrian president delegated to
al-Sharaa, a skilled diplomat,
responsibility for holding a
dialogue with the opposition. A
Sunni from the southern town
of Daraa, birthplace of the
Syrian uprising, al-Sharaas
silence since the start of the
uprising made him a prime
candidate for rumors that he
broke with the regime. AP
LOS ANGELESPresident
Barack Obama is looking to
entertainment friends in California
for cash one last time before the
Nov. 6 election and Republican
challenger Mitt Romney readied
for a major foreign policy speech
Monday.
Speaking on Sunday before
thousands of supporters on a trip
expected to raise several million dollars
for advertising efforts on the nal
stretch, Obama took a good-natured
shot at his own underwhelming debate
performance, marveling at how his
entertainment friends could turn in
awless showings every time.
I cant always say the same,
Obama said. It was his most direct
acknowledgment that Romney
thoroughly won their debate
Wednesday as a tight race rolled
into its last month.
Obama appeared on stage after
comments by actor George Clooney
and performances by Katy Perry,
Stevie Wonder and Jon Bon Jovi--and
before a night-capping dinner where
he told those who had paid $25,000
to see him that he intends to win. Im
a big believer in closing the deal,
Obama said in the dimly lit environs of
Wolfgang Pucks WP24 restaurant.
The Republican presidential
nominee, meanwhile, sought to
build on the momentum from a
debate performance last week
that even Democrats conceded
was masterful. Campaigning
in up-for-grabs Florida, Romney
told a crowd of about 12,000 in
Port St. Lucie that he had enjoyed
himself, ticking off a list of Obama
shortcomings he said he had
exposed during the rst debate.
AP
Venezuelas President Hugo Chavez (inset) greets his supporters at the Miraores presidential palace
balcony in Caracas, Venezuela. Other supporters gather next to the palace as they celebrate his reelection.
AP
MOSCOWKremlin ofcials like
to insist Russian President Vladimir
Putin does not care for big birthday
bashes and said he was spending his
60
th
on Sunday quietly celebrating
with close friends and family in his
home city, St. Petersburg. However,
the presidents supporters didnt
appear to receive the memo, and
so the day saw an unprecedented
exhibition of Putin-idolatry
reminiscent of some of the worlds
oddest cults of personality.
Much of it, like it the fawning, up-
close-and-personal prole on Kremlin-
friendly television channel NTV,
looked like propaganda. Some of the
praise was so extreme as to appear
almost like a subtle form of satire on
Putins heroic representations in state
media. And some Putin opponents
used the occasion to poke fun.
The pro-government Mestniye
youth movement held a sports
contest in a central Moscow square under the slogan Do Your Best
for Putin. Organizers said the slogan symbolizes their gratitude
for Putins efforts to boost the popularity of sports by personally
indulging in a healthy lifestyle. The black-belt judoka has over the
years been shown horse riding, swimming, scuba-diving, playing
ice hockey, and indulging in outdoor hunting. AP
A giant Russian President
Vladimir Putin billboard
reading Good that you
came. Happy Birthday set up
by a group of an unknown
movement on a building,
which faces the Kremlin , is
seen in downtown Moscow
early Sunday. AP
Romney Obama
TRIPOLILibyas parliament
ousted the countrys new prime
minister in a no-condence vote
on Sunday, the latest blow to
hopes that political factions could
agree on a government charged
with restoring stability after last
years civil war.
Mustafa Abushagur was the
rst prime minister to be elected
after the 2011 overthrow of
dictator Moammar Gadha. He
represented an offshoot of the
countrys oldest anti-Gadha
opposition movement, and
was considered a compromise
candidate acceptable to both
liberals and Islamists.
But his proposed Cabinet was
struck down by a legislature
representing dozens of divided
tribes, towns, and regions across
the country, many of whom feel
they are owed the spoils of victory
over Gadha. He was forced to
withdraw his rst ministerial
line-up under pressure and his
second attempt to submit one
resulted in his ouster.
In a short statement on Libya
al-Wataniya TV after the vote,
Abushagur said he respected the
decision made by the General
National Congress as part of
Libyas democracy but warned
of instability if it takes too long
to elect his replacement.
There should be quickness in
the election of the prime minister
and formation of the government
so the country does not slip into
a vacuum, he said.
He had 25 days from his Sep.
12 appointment by parliament
to form a Cabinet and win the
legislatures approval, but that
deadline expired on Sunday.
The Congress voted 125 to 44 in
favor of removing him as prime
minister, with 17 abstaining from
voting. He had just put forth 10
names for key ministerial posts
Sunday when the no-condence
vote was held. AP
WASHINGTONAmerican
companies should avoid doing
business with Chinas two leading
technology rms because they
pose a national security threat
to the United States, the House
Intelligence Committee is warning
in a report to be issued Monday.
The panel says US regulators
should block mergers and
acquisitions in this country
by Huawei Technologies Ltd.
and ZTE Corp, among the
worlds leading suppliers of
telecommunications gear and
mobile phones.
Reecting US concern over
cyber-attacks traced to China, the
report also recommends that US
government computer systems
not include any components
from the two rms because that
could pose an espionage risk.
China has the means, opportunity,
and motive to use telecommunications
companies for malicious purposes,
the report says.
The recommendations are
the result of a yearlong probe,
including a congressional
hearing last month in which
senior Chinese executives of
both companies testied, and
denied posing a security threat.
A US executive of one of
the companies said the rm
cooperated with investigators,
and defended its business record.
Huawei is a globally trusted
and respected company, said
William Plummer, vice president
for external affairs. AP
Etihad, KLM team up
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
Rapidly expanding Gulf carrier Eti-
had Airways says it and Air France-
KLM have agreed to market some of
each others ights as the rst stage
of a larger strategic alliance.
Alongside the deal announced
Monday, Etihad says the Franco-
Dutch airline operator is launching
a similar codeshare deal for ights
between France and Germany with
Air Berlin. The United Arab Emir-
ates-based Etihad bought nearly 30
percent of Air Berlin last year.
Codeshare deals, in which pas-
sengers can buy a single ticket for
multiple airlines, allow carriers to
expand their reach without having
to operate additional routes. AP
Einsteins God letter
LONDONA letter in which
Albert Einstein dismissed the idea
of God as a product of human
weakness is being sold on eBay for
a starting price of $3 million.
The letter, handwritten in 1954, a
year before Einsteins death, was ad-
dressed to philosopher Eric Gutkind.
In it, Einstein discussed his views on
religion, including calling the Bible
a collection of honorable but still
primitive legends which are never-
theless pretty childish.
An anonymous collector who
bought the letter in 2008 is putting
it on sale on online auction site
eBay from Monday. The auction
closes Oct. 18.
Eric Gazin, a spokesman for the
sale, said Sunday: With the interest
in Einstein, along with the questions
this [letter] touches on, we feel it is
well worth the price. AP
Wellington renamed
WELLINGTONNew Zea-
lands capital Wellington will re-
name itself The Middle of Mid-
dle-earth when it hosts the world
premiere of The Hobbit movie tril-
ogy next month.
Middle-Earth is the ctional set-
ting for the movies.
Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-
Brown says the city will spend
1.1 million New Zealand dollars
($900,000) on a red-carpet celebra-
tion for the Nov. 28 premiere of The
Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at
the downtown Embassy Theatre.
The movie is the rst of three
prequels to The Lord of the Rings
movies. Its directed by Wellington
resident Peter Jackson and is shot
in New Zealand.
The city will also host Hobbit
artwork and an artisan festival. AP
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ARE YOU A
CYBERSTALKER?
Cyberstalking is not a crime in
many places, but there is legislation
against the act in some countries,
including the United States,
Australia and the United Kingdom.
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TOWARD ENGLISH EXCELLENCE
Despite being one of the most widely-
known English-speaking countries in Asia,
the Philippines is home to Filipinos who,
even after being taught English throughout
elementary and high school, still lack
prociency and uency in the language.
dotcom
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Dinna Chan Vasquez, Assistant Editor
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TUESDAY OCTOBER 9, 2012
Authentic avors
of Spain, Mexico
RELISH in a Spanish-Mexican food festival
as Appetite magazine brings the authentic
avors of these two countries in its eight an-
niversary issue.
This October, Appetease brings the
unique taste of Mexico with four mouthwa-
tering recipes, while Kitchen Classics will
teach readers how to create traditional Span-
ish menu. You can also try to create a variety
of tapas, discover how to make a saucy salsa
recipe, and transform a conventional callos
in a very unconventional way.
MORE often than not, a womans condence comes
from a vulnerable place that is usually left out of public
discussion. Its better to just see it come to life through
a womans careless stride and free spirit.
Aging gracefully
BEAUTY is ageless, and MEGA fashion
magazine lays out all the reasons to face
aging gracefully in its Age issue.
Gracing its October issue is Angel
Locsin, who at a relatively young age of
27, has achieved so much in her career.
One of the main highlights of the October
issue is the fresh beauty offerings that will
surely keep everyone looking young and
radiant with beauty secrets revealed from
the A to Z of anti-aging.
This months fashion section takes a
cue from the age of decadence, drawing
attention to intricate embellishments and
lavish details in Return to Innocence. And
learn the mechanics of defying the rules
of age dressing in Fashion Feature.
Transform your home
GET ready to transform any living space
you call home into a place your heart de-
sires with diverse and timeless styles pre-
sented by the 12th Anniversary issue of
MyHome magazine this October.
Walk inside ve different houses with
styles and trends nding freshness and com-
fort amidst nature. Transform your bedroom
with elegant accents and get a stylish remix
from chic choices. You can also discover how
the heart of the home has changed to adapt to
modern lifestyles, and learn to set the mood
with soothing and rejuvenating melodies for
the bathroom.
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than just showing what youve got and more, its also about giving in to the
temptations of an extra boost of condence which can give you the utmost
feeling of being at your sexiest and most womanly state.
When you want it to, the Wonderbra can do wonders for you. But though
wearing a daring piece of delicate underwear may help a woman feel more of
who she is, its really the inner condence which makes a woman truly sexy.
Its knowing what you want and nding the right ways to get it.
But sometimes though, a womans condence must be aunted in a manner that
would make her feel as sexy as a woman can ever be at her nest inside and out.
Thats when a woman in need of a literal condence boost utilizes the wonders a
piece of delicate clothing can do.
Cue in music, and the wonders of the Wonderbra reveals itself to all women in
need of an extra boost of condence in a cup!
With the help of models from the Mega Fashion crew,
a jaw-dropping fashion show was held to introduce
the latest lines from Wonderbra, the internationally
known brand of premium and classy push-up bras.
The show featured designs takes from the
Three Degrees of Hotness lines which allow
women to select from three degrees of cleav-
age to reach their maximum condence and
sexiness level, without really trying too
hard.
Wonderbras Three Degrees of Hot-
ness features premium push-up bras
which answer every possible need of
a woman who wishes to amplify what
shes got.
The rst degree style called 1 De-
gree Hot features lightly lined push-
up bras with dainty embroidered lace
overlay on the cup. Its the perfect
piece for those who want to share a
little more of what theyve got in a
subtle way.
For those who have what others
are looking for but still want a little
extra, the second degree of style 2
Degrees Hotter gives just the right
cup of condence with their State-
ment Makers featuring pieces
in bold and bright prints and col-
ors that can easily be mixed and
matched. A second look will de-
nitely merit any woman aunting
the second degree style.
Now for the third degree style
theres the 3 Degrees Sizzlin,
where women rediscover what
sexy is all about! It would be more
ACCLAIMED London-based
Filipino designer Lesley Mobo
will be staging his rst-ever gala
show in Manila this year. One of
todays most celebrated designers
in the global fashion scene, he will
come home to his mother country
to showcase his newest collection
and to inspire his fellow Filipinos
with his talent that has taken him
all over the world.
Mobo, fueled by his passion
and drive to succeed, has emerged
into the limelight as one of the few
Filipino designers whose creations
have reached across several conti-
nents. Not only has he made it big
in London where he is based, but
also in other European, American
and Asian cities.
His eye-catching designs have
been featured and sold by popular
international clothing brands. In
fact, his capsule collection called
Lesley Mobo by Diesel was sold
out in the brands agship stores in
London, Milan, Paris, New York,
Antwerp, Berlin and Tokyo. He
has also worked as a senior design-
er and head designer for Jasmin di
Milo, a womans clothing brand in
London. Just recently, Mobo was
also appointed as the creative di-
rector of the London-based fashion
label Ghost.
His designs have been acclaimed
and worn by popular British ac-
tresses like Anna Walton, Jemime
Rooper, Kelly Osbourne, Lois
Winstone and Talulah Riley. His
growing number of clientele also
includes Hollywood celebrities and
music icons such as Anne Hatha-
way, Christina Ricci, Amy Ad-
ams, Saldana Avatar, Evan Ra-
chel Wood, Christina Aguilera,
Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
Bringing his undeniable talent
and unwavering dreams, he ew to
London to study at the prestigious
Central Saint Martins. After a few
years, he was able to complete his
B.A. in Fashion with rst class de-
gree, followed by his M.A. in Fash-
ion which he nished with distinc-
tion. It was through his education
that he acquired the discipline and
learned the technical skills that he
needed for his career.
It was only in 2008 that he nal-
ly returned to his roots and shared
his world-renowned fashion ex-
pertise with the Philippines. Mobo
was one of the artists honored in
the Bravo Filipino Festival, a trib-
ute to Filipino artists which was
sponsored by the Ayala Group of
Companies. During the said event,
he gave a special preview of his
Matavanero collection, which was
also one of the events highlights.
Proving that he is a well-versed
and versatile designer, he also
made his own underwear collec-
tion in collaboration with Bench.
This year, Lesley Mobo will
once again set foot on Philippine
soil. Cignal and Colours, are col-
laborating with Philippine fash-
ion advocate Kaye Tinga and ace
fashion director Ariel Lozada, to
put together Mobos strictly-by-
invitation gala show on October
29, 2012 at the SM Mall of Asia
Arena.
Watch out for Mobos unique
and fabulous creations and see
for yourself why many people
all over the world consider him a
true fashion royalty.
MOBO gala in Manila
Mobos
eye-catching
designs have
been featured
and sold
by popular
international
clothing
brands.
TUESDAY C2
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Gianna Maniego, Editor
Dinna Chan Vasquez, Assistant Editor
ManilaStandardToday
dotcom
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fashion beauty health wellness
THE quickly-evolving techno-
logical world is always tougher
on the software side, as more
complex programs and systems
are being introduced with inad-
vertent aws. The good news is,
community building among hob-
byists and advocates is already
becoming a trend such that sev-
eral small groups would sprout
out, organize their own events
and gatherings as a venue to
share knowledge and learn from
each other. Webgeek, a commu-
nity of Filipino geeks, develop-
ers and designers, recently or-
ganized the Webgeek DevCup
Hackathon that encouraged its
participants to Build an App to
Solve a Filipino Problem.
Chikka Philippines, creator of
the worlds pioneering instant
PC-to-mobile messenger, to-
gether with other local IT leaders
like Smart DevNet, IdeaSpace,
RIM Blackberry, Mozilla Philip-
pines, Sulit.ph and many more
are very keen on supporting such
events. In fact, each of the com-
panies sent their best geeks to
share some handy hacker tips.
Chikka associate director
for Research and Development
Melvin Fetalvero imparted some
pointers to help his fellow web
geeks to enhance their code-
writing speed and skills through
free web-based tools.
Once a notorious term for
information-stealing and breach-
ing computer privacy with mali-
cious intent, the word hacking
is quickly regaining its original
meaning of working around
problematic systems. Events
like the WebGeek DevCup
Hackathon help web and mobile
app developers work towards
improving the quality of todays
programs and social networking
platforms.
There were 38 teams of the
countrys promising programmers
at the DevCup Hackathon wherein
24 teams were able to successfully
beat the 6-hour deadline and gen-
erated functional hacks. Team AP-
PNimbus was awarded rst place
for their outstanding app Bukas
Palad. The app focused on man-
aging donations and resources for
disaster management organization
systems.
Team TKO with their
Fund3Lives app, and Team
TBD with their Sagip app
claimed second and third places,
respectively. Winning the Most
Popular App award was Team
Audrey and their iTeks app.
This is the rst time weve re-
ceived sponsorship to hold events
outside schools. Were thankful for
tech companies like Chikka who are
one with us in our aim to further im-
prove the Philippine web develop-
ment community, said WebGeek
Philippines founder John Arce.
Despite being one of the most
widely-known English-speaking
countries in Asia, the Philippines is
home to Filipinos who, even after
being taught English throughout
elementary and high school, still
lack prociency and uency in the
language.
Traditional English classes are
focused on teaching us denitions
and the basic rules, says John
Robert Powers English Learning
Program director Grace Saqueton.
Students graduate knowing what
a verb or a noun is, but theyre not
comfortable speaking the language
because theres no room for prac-
tice.
This is where JRPs English
Learning Program (ELP) comes in.
Acombination of teacher-led class-
es and other interactive sessions, the
ELP helps individuals master not
only the technical English know-
how, it also allows them to apply
what theyve learned in order to
become effective communicators
of the language.
Saqueton, a former instructor in
the academe, saw rsthand how
the Filipinos grasp of the Eng-
lish language has weakened. The
Philippines, being one of the best
English-speaking countries, is not
completely true anymore, she
pointed out. And a lot of it stems
from the Filipinos notion that their
grasp the language in their earlier
years is enough. I used to handle
Information Technology and En-
gineering students, and they would
often say that they dont really need
English classes because the nature
of their work wont require them to
be uent in it.
However, she continues, many
of them discover that the issue
isnt so much knowing the differ-
ence between an adjective and an
adverb, but becoming comfort-
able in using the language in ev-
eryday situationsnot just within
the four walls of the classroom.
When I became an English
Psychologist Seth Meyers, an
expert on addiction, tells ABC
News that these three indicators
are the top three signs of being
an online stalker. Cyberstalking
is not a crime in many places,
but there is legislation against
the act in some countries includ-
ing the United States, Australia,
and the United Kingdom. Even
if it isnt explicitly outlawed in
other parts of the world, the act
Chikka helps
hone Pinoy skills
at WebGeek DevCup
Work your way to English excellence
By Ed Biado
DO you stay on the Internet
for long periods of time only
to follow one persons every
move online through different
social media websites, quietly
and secretly lurking to wait for
their updates? Are you miss-
ing important events on your calendar be-
cause you lose track of time doing that? And
do you keep this activity to yourself? If you
answered yes to all the questions, then you
might be a stalker in the virtual world.
can still be considered a form
of harassment, stalking, abuse
and/or cybercrime.
We throw the word stalking
around loosely and we use it to
describe activities that involve
looking up a person on the In-
ternet, like a celebrity or real-life
crush, an ex or someone we just
want to know more about. How-
ever, cute can transform quickly
to creepy when it becomes an
obsession. At which point, pro-
fessional help might be needed to
break the addiction.
A cyberstalker may argue
that theyre not really stalk-
ing their victim and the infor-
mation theyre searching for
are publicly available online.
That may be true, but Internet-
based obsession is a downward
spiral and can easily translate
to the offline world. Further, if
youre tracking someone us-
ing false pretenses, like fake/
anonymous social media ac-
counts and identities or under
the guise of friendship when
your real motive is not that
simple, then you are exhibit-
ing predatory behavior that
could classify you as a stalker.
According to websafety-
forparents.org, cyberstalking
can lead to physical stalking,
harassment and other [non-
Internet-related] crimes. This
means that victims, on the other
hand, should be extra cautious
to prevent the situation from es-
calating. If you think someone
is stalking you on the Internet,
take necessary precautions by
ltering your list of Facebook
friends, Twitter followers and
other online connections, set-
ting your accounts security to
private and moderating the fre-
quency of your posts.
Traits of a
CYBERSTALKER
IN todays highly-connected and
social world, you need to be con-
stantly updated with the latest
goings on within your circle of
friends. You text your high school
buddies one Friday night to ask
them their whereabouts hoping to
catch up over drinks. You call up
your college blockmates one by one
to check if they can drive to Tagay-
tay for a quick weekend getaway.
Finally, you log on to Facebook to
update your Singapore-based BFF
on the latest details about the Cy-
bercrime Prevention Act so you can
explain why your prole photo sud-
denly turned black.
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Page Compositor: Diana Keyser Punzalan
Eastern Samar District Engineering Ofce
Brgy. Alang-Alang, Borongan, Eastern Samar
Tel. No. (055) 560-9423
Fax No. (055) 261-2196
INVITATION TO BID
DPWH INFRA-07 Standard Adversitement-Revised IRR
(MST-Oct. 9, 2012)
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Eastern Samar District Engineering
Offce, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the
following contract(s):
1. Contract ID: 13IB0007
Contract Name: Upgrading Access Road Borongan-Llorente Closed Canopy
Forest Area
Contract Location: Maydolong, Eastern Samar
Scope of Work: Construction of PCCP, 2,949.45 ln.m. length, w=6.10m. t=0.23m
and 1.0m road shoulders at both sides and other scope of work
per approved POW
Major Items of Work: Items 311(1) and 201
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P 48,904,452.88
Contract Duration: 118 CD
Cost of Bidding Documents: P 20,000.00
2. Contract ID: 13IB0008
Contract Name: Upgrading of Access Road to Brgy. Lalawigan (jumpoff point
to Divinubo Island).
Contract Location: Borongan City, Eastern Samar
Scope of Work: Const. of PCCP, Divinubo Island to Paroloa (L=135.7m,
w=1.0m, t=0.23m) & (L=513.9m, w=1.5m, t=0.23), Lalawigan
Access Road (L=125m, w=5m, t=0.23m) with multi-purpose
pavement of t=20m, w=20m, t=0.23 with shet piles foundation,
Divinubo canal with total length of 200 m with 1.12m height
of revetment Divinubo Access road to tourist area L=367.5m,
w=4.0m, t=0.15m and other scope to tourist area L=367.5m,
w=4.0m, t=0.15m and other scope of work per approved POW
Major Items of Work: Items 311 (1), 509, 505 & 405
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P 15,652.998.26
Contract Duration: 113 CD
Cost of Bidding Documents: P 10,000.00
Bidding will be conducted through open, competitive bidding procedures in accordance with R.A.
9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations. 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) signed by the person authorized
in the Contractors License issued by PCAB. The LOIs shall be submitted by the Authorized Liason
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 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 ten 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.
Interested Contractors are also required to present the originals of their (a) PCAB license (b)
Contractors Registration Certificate (c) Certificate of Materials Engineers Accreditation (d)
Certifcate of Safety Seminar from DOLE (e) PhilGEPS Order form (Document Request List) (f)
2011 CPES Rating.
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).
1. Receipt of LOI from prospective Bidders Deadline: Oct. 24, 2012; 5:00 p.m.
2. Issuance of Bidding Documents Oct. 9 - 30, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference Oct. 19, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Oct. 30, 2012 until 10:00 a.m.
5. Opening of Bids Oct. 30, 2012 @ 2:00 p.m.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at Department of Public Works and
Highways (DPWH), Eastern Samar District Engineering Offce, upon payment of a non-refundable
fee of as stated above for Bidding Documents. Prospective Bidders may also download the BDs, if
available, from DPWH web site and PhilGeps. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from
the DPWH website and PhilGeps shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of their bid
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 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 Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Eastern Samar District Engineering
Offce reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bid and annul the bidding process anytime
before Contract award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) RUDYARD M. LIM
BAC CHAIRMAN
Noted :
(Sgd.) RICARDO D. ODITA
OIC District Engineer
Bacolod City District Engineering Offce
Zardonyx Street, City Heights,
Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod City
Invitation to Bid for the Improvement of Drainage Canal along
Bacolod Circumferential Road along Purok Riverside, Brgy Banago,
Bacolod City
(MST-Oct. 9, 2012)
The DPWH, Bacolod City District Engineering, through the FY
2012, RA 10155 (SR 2012-08-006653), intends to apply the sum of
Five Million Six Hundred Seventy Four Thousand Five Hundred Pesos
(P5,674,500.00) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC)
to payment under the contract for the Improvement of Drainage Canal
along Bacolod Circumferential Road along Purok Riverside, Brgy Banago,
Bacolod City (12GC0072). Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be
automatically rejected at bid opening.
The DPWH, Bacolod City District Engineering Offce, now invites
bids for the structure excavation, riprap & grouted riprap, dredging and
construction safety & health. The contract duration is one hundred ffty
(150) calendar days. The Bidder should have completed, within ten(10)
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 of the Instruction 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 RA 9184, otherwise known
as the Government Procurement Reform Act.
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizen/sole proprietorships,
partnerships, or organizations with at least seventy fve percent (75%)
interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
Interested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH, Bacolod
City District Engineering Offce and inspect the Bidding Documents at
the address given below from 8:00 AM to 5:00PM starting October 8-26,
2012).
A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested
Bidders from the address below and upon payment of a non-refundable
fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of P10,000.00.
It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the
Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and
the website of DPWH (www.dpwh.gov.ph), provided that bidders shall pay
the fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their
bids.
The DPWH, Bacolod City District Engineering Offce will hold a Pre-
Bid Conference on October 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM at the BAC Conference
Room, which shall be open to all interested parties.
Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before October
29, 2012 at 9:00 AM at Zardonyx Street, City Heights Subdivision, Brgy
Taculing, Bacolod City. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in
any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18.
Bids will be opened on October 29, 2012 at 2:00PM in the presence of
the bidders representatives who choose to attend at the address below.
Late bids shall not be accepted.
The DPWH, Bacolod City District Engineering Offce 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.
For further information, please refer to the BAC Secretariat at DPWH,
Bacolod City District Engineering Offce, Zardonyx Street, City Heights,
Brgy Taculing, Bacolod City at telefax number (034) 707-7188.
(Sgd.) RAMON S. BELLEZA, JR
BAC Chairman
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
Manila
(MST-Oct. 9, 2012)
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE CONSULTANCY
SERVICES FOR IMPROVING COST ESTIMATION IN THE DPWH (LCS-IC-07)
1. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), through the National Roads
Improvement and Management Program, Phase II (NRIMP-2) intends to apply the sum of
twenty fve million nineteen thousand three hundred thirty eight pesos and ffty centavos (PhP
25,019,338.50) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the
contract for Consultancy Services for Improving Cost Estimation in the DPWH (LCS-IC-07).
Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of the fnancial
proposals.
2. The DPWH now calls for the submission of eligibility documents for:
Project: Consultancy Services for Improving Cost Estimation in the
DPWH (LCS-IC-07).
Location: DPWH, A. Bonifacio Drive Port Area Manila
Objective: The purpose of the Project is to establish in DPWH:

QuantityandCostEstimatingMethodology
O
Recommend and implement a quantity and cost
estimating methodology.
CostEstimationProceduresandApplications
O
Review and redesign, as deemed necessary, the
cost estimation processes for civil works (roads,
bridges, and food control).
O
Implementation of improved cost estimation
processes for civil works (roads, bridges, and food
control).
O
Pilot and implementation of a cost estimation
application that will be used in preparing systematic
and accurate cost estimates for use in planning and
budgeting; as well as the Agency Estimate.
Outputs/ Deliverables: Expected Outputs
1) Cost Estimation Process Improvement Report
2) Custom developed Cost Estimation Application
(CEA)
3) CEA Design Report
4) CEA System Documentations
5) Cost Estimation Manual
6) Cost Estimation Trainer Guide
7) Final Report
3. Interested consultants must submit their Application for Eligibility and Shortlisting on or before
October 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM at the address below:
Attention: Undersecretary Raul C. Asis
Chairman, Special BAC for Consultancy Services & Goods, NRIMP-2
Address: c/o Carlos G. Mutuc
Offce of the Director, NRIM-PMO Building,
2
nd
Street, Port Area, Manila, Philippines
Applications for eligibility will be evaluated based on a non-discretionary pass/fail criterion.
The eligibility forms can be downloaded from www.dpwh.gov.ph, under Doing Business.
4. The SBAC shall draw up the short list of consultants from those who have submitted Application
for Eligibility and Shortlisting and have been determined as eligible in accordance with the
provisions of Republic Act 9184 (RA9184), otherwise known as the Government Procurement
Reform Act, and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). The short list shall consist of
six (6) prospective bidders who will be entitled to submit bids. The criteria and rating system
for short listing are:
Applicable Experience 35 points
Qualifcation of Personnel 40 points
Job Capacity 25 points
TOTAL: 100 points
5. 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 organizations with
at least sixty percent (60%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the
Philippines.
6. All bidders who have initially responded to the Invitation to Bid/Request for Expression of Interest
and have been declared eligible or short listed in the previous biddings shall be allowed to
submit new bids.
7. 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 in the evaluation.
The criteria and rating system for the evaluation of bids shall be provided in the Instructions to
Bidders.
8. The contract shall be completed within twenty-four (24) months.
9. The DPWH 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.
10. For further information, please refer to:
Undersecretary Raul C. Asis
Chairman, Special BAC for Consultancy Services & Goods, NRIMP-2
NRIM-PMO Building,
2
nd
Street, Port Area, Manila, Philippines
Tel Nos. (632) 304-3779
(Sgd.) RAUL C. ASIS
Undersecretary
Chairman, SBAC for Consultancy Services & Goods, NRIMP-2
Zamboanga Sibugay 1
st
District Engineering Offce
Diplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay
(MST-Oct. 9, 2012)
INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works
and Highways, Zamboanga Sibugay 1
st
District Engineering Offce, through FY
2013 DPWH Regular Infrastructure Program, invites contractors to bid for the
aforementioned projects, viz.;
I. a. Contract I.D. No. : 12JI0029
b. Contract Name : I mprovement/ Asphal t Overl ay of
Lanao-Pagadian-Zamboanga City Road,
K1725+029.00 to K1726+246.00 and
K1726+246.00 to 1728+884.00
c. Contract Location : Zamboanga Sibugay
d. Scope of Work : Asphalt Overlay
e. ABC : Php 30,135,980.00
f. Contract Duration : 70 Calendar Days
g. Cost of Bidding Documents: Php 20,000.00
II. a. Contract I.D. No. : 12Jl0030
b. Contract Name : Rehabilitation of Road Slip along Jct.
Imelda-Alicia Road, Baluran Section,
Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay, K1751
+690.00 to K1751 +742.00
c. Contract Location : Brgy. Baluran, Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay
d. Scope of Work : Rehabilitation of Road Slip
e. ABC : Php 6,860,000.00
III. a. Contract I.D. No. : 12Jl0031
b. Contract Name : Rehabilitation of Road Slip along Jet.
Imelda-Alicia Road, Baluran Section,
Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay, K1754+
731.00 to K1754+ 740.00
e. ABC : Php 1,000,000.00
g. Cost of Bidding Documents: Php 1 ,000.00
IV. a. Contract I.D. No. : 12Jl0032
b. Contract Name : Rehabilitation of Road Slip along
Jct. I mel da-Al i ci a Road, Bal uran
Section, Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay,
K1756+807.00 to K1756+824.000
e. ABC : Php 4,900,000.00
V. a. Contract I.D. No. : 12JI0033
Lanao-Pagadian-Zamboanga City Road
Boyugan Section, Buug, Zamboanga
Sibugay, K1725+000.00 to K1725+024.00
c. Contract Location : Brgy. Boyugan, Buug, Zamboanga Sibugay
e. ABC : Php 4,900,000.00
VI. a. Contract I.D. No. : 12Jl0034
Lanao-Pagadian-Zamboanga City Road
Boyugan Section, Buug, Zamboanga
Sibugay, K1725+763.00 to K1725+789.00
c. Contract Location : Brgy. Boyugan, Buug, Zamboanga Sibugay
e. ABC : Php 3,000,000.00
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with
the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be
automatically rejected at the opening of bids.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI),
purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior
registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino Citizen or 75% Filipino-Owned Partnership,
corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to
the type and cost of this contract. (d) completion of a similar contract costing at
least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years. And (e) Net Financial Contracting
Capacity at least equal to ABC. or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of
ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in, the eligibility check
and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for
registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the
receipt of LOI. The DPWH-POCW Central Offce will only process contractors
applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors
Certifcate of Registration (CRC). Registration forms may be downloaded at the
DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown
below:
Issuance of Bidding Documents October 9, 2012 - October 30, 2012
Pre-Bid Conference October 17, 2012 10:00 A.M.
Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
October 23,2012 until 3:00 P.M.
Receipt of Bids October 30, 2012 1:30 P.M.
Opening of Bids October 30,2012 1:30 P.M.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at the
Department of Public Works and Highways, Zamboanga Sibugay 1
st
District
Engineering Offce (DEO), Diplahan. Zamboanga Sibugay. Upon payment of
a non-refundable fee. Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from
the DPWH website if available. Prospective Bidders that will download the Bid
Documents 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 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, Zamboanga Sibugay 1
st
District Engineering Offce. Diplahan. Zamboanga Sibugay reserves the right to
accept or reject any bid. to annul the bidding process at anytime prior contract
award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) CAYAMOMBAO D.DIA
Asst. District Engineer
(BAC-Vice-Chairperson)
Noted:
(Sgd.) REYNERIO P. ALCACHUPAS
OIC-District Engineer
NOTI CE OF LOSS
Notice is hereby given that
JURIST REALTY, INC. Stock
Certificate No. 7 for 494 no.
of shares under the name of
registered owner THENES
DEVELOPMENT, INC. was
reported lost as per Doc. No.
499; Page 101; Book No. LIX;
Series of 2012 before Atty. Felipe
I. Iledan, Notary Public of Makati
City
(MST-Oct. 9, 16 & 23, 2012)
ERRORS & OMI SSI ONS
I n Cl assi f i ed Ads secti on must be
brought to our attention the very day the
advertisement is published. We will not
be responsible for any incorrect ads not
reported to us immediately.
(MST-Oct. 9, 2012)
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
Region VI - Western Visayas
ILOILO 1
st
ENGINEERING DISTRICT
Fort San Pedro Road, Iloilo City
Tel. Nos. 337-60-98 * 337-91-16
I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
No. 12-0007
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Iloilo 1
st
District Engineering Offce, Fort
San Pedro, Iloilo City, through the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites Contractors classifed as
Small B to bid for the herein-mentioned projects:
1) Contract ID : 12-GF-0017
Contract Title : Repair/Rehab./Impvt. of Guimbal-Tubungan Road, Km.
30+000 Km. 40+000 with exception
Major Category : Roads-New Construction-PCCP
ABC : P9,900,0000.00
Source of Fund : SR 2012-06-005300
Contract Duration : 90 CD
Cost of Bidding Documents: P10,000.00
2) Contract ID : 12-GF-0018
Contract Title : Repair/Rehab./Impvt. of Guimbal-Tubungan Road, Km.
20+-230 Km. 29+820;
Km. 38+433 Km. 38+633; and
Km. 38+513 Km. 38+663 w/ exception
Major Category : Roads-New Construction-PCCP
ABC : P9,900,0000.00
Source of Fund : SR 2012-06-005302
Contract Duration : 77 CD
Cost of Bidding Documents : P10,000.00

The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised Implementing Rules
and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (R.A. 9184). Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be
automatically rejected during the opening of bids.
To bid for the 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 the 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. A Bidder shall comply with the terms and conditions stipulated
in the Instruction to Bidders (ITB) attached in the Bidding Documents (BDs). Failure to comply shall be
ground for the Bidders disqualifcation. 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
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents From October 5 - 26, 2012
2. Pre-bid Conference 2:00 p.m., October 11, 2012
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOIs from Prospective Bidders Until 4:00 p.m. October 18, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Until 10:00 A.M. October 26, 2012
5. Opening of Bids 2:00 P.M. October 26, 2012
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at the BAC Secretariat, Iloilo 1
st
DEO,
Fort San Pedro, Iloilo City, upon payment of a non-refundable fee, as specifed above, to the Cashier Iloilo
1
st
DEO, Fort San Pedro, Iloilo City. 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 Bidding 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 of RA9184.
Mailed Intents shall not be accepted.
In order to avoid unnecessary delay during the eligibility processing and post-qualifcation, the following
shall be observed (As per Department Order No. 09, s. of 2012):

a) Key Technical Personnel:
Pursuant to Section 34, Rule 10 of the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184, the Lowest Calculated Bid
shall undergo post-qualifcation, which include verifcation of pledged key technical personnel. If a
proposed Key Technical Personnel is an employee of the bidder and working in another project at
the time of the bidding, the bidder shall submit a certifcation that: (1) the personnel will be pulled
out from the ongoing 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.
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 bidders it is awarded
the contract under bidding. The Certifcation/s shall be included in the frst envelope of the sealed
bid.
b) Equipment
Also to be verifed during post-qualifcation is the set of equipment pledged by the bidder. The
Bidder should specify in the submitted bid the location of equipment, where they can be inspected
and for other data required in the prescribed format, Annex B attached to the Bidding Documents.
If any piece of equipment is not in specifed location during inspection, then the Bidder shall be post-
disqualifed.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in 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, as well as a copy of the CRC. The second envelope
shall contain the fnancial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated and
Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The DPWH, Iloilo 1
st
District Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids
and to annul the bidding process anytime before Contract award, without incurring any liability to the
affected bidders.

APPROVED BY:
(Sgd.) NINFA M. ENRIQUEZ
Engineer III
BAC Chairman
Iloilo 1
st
DEO, Fort San Pedro, Iloilo City
Telefax No. (033) 337-9116
N O T E D:
(Sgd.) MANUEL L. TICAO, JR.
OIC District Engineer/Head of Procuring Entity
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Isah V. Red, Editor [email protected]
showbitz
ISAH V.
RED
SIMPLY RED
Dermatologist and TV
personality Dr. Vicki Belo
Milby has been the skincares com-
pany endorser in the last six years.
According to the owners of Diana
Stalder, which manufactures Derm-
ablend Papaya Orange soap, the actor
has been very effective as endorser. It
doesnt matter if unlike the other skin-
care line we use a male endorser, says
the owner. The fact that our product is
doing very well in the market speaks a
lot about Sam as endorser.
Milby has the face and body any
woman can tirelessly stare for a long
time, or even dreamily touch them. He
is an epitome of a disciplined health
buff, not to mention that he has this
rare magnetic boy-next-door charm.
Who would not recognize Sam
Milby?
Hes local show business gorgeous
star who always manages to be on the
right track, health-wise and career-
wise. Apart from the good looks and
well-chiseled physique, Milby also
has an enviable complexion, which
never fails to wow women.
Now you know why many say he is
the ultimate dreamboat.
Despite a hectic lifestyle, juggling
showbiz and personal commitments,
he makes sure he maintains the ar-
tista look by following a healthy
routine, which includes skin care
regimen. He considers the skin as an
indicator ones health and wellbe-
ing. He consistently takes tried and
tested skin care measures, customized
for men that gives him the positive
results needed to maintain that look
that makes women turn their heads
when he passes by. His skin care ap-
proaches, surprisingly, is not made up
of complex foreign brands or services,
which many might assume he resorts
to with his high prole stature.
Milby says theres only one skin
secret that he likes to share with ev-
eryone and that is his trust and con-
dence towards Dermablends Papaya
Orange soap blend, which helps main-
tain his clear and light complexion.
Also known and experienced by
other men, as well, for its evident
whitening effects, Dermablend Pa-
paya Orange Soap, is also proven to
inject a glow on masculine skin. The
combination of Papaya and Orange is
the perfect blend in skin whitening.
To help him maintain skin clarity
and a youthful appearance, he admits
to undergoing regularly customized
treatments in the long-trusted skin
care center in the Philippines, Diana
Stalder, which is known to have de-
velop the most unique formulations
and treatments catering more skin
types, in both men and women deliv-
ering The Promise of a Better You.
Jericho Rosales
celebrates love
His newest solo album, Korona
was launched in Asap 2012.
According to Jericho Rosales, who
wrote seven in his nine-track album, his
latest musical treat to fans is mostly all
about love and giving back to God.
The idea of giving the album the
title Korona (crown) came from our
photographer Xander Angeles shot
of a raindrop that bounced back from
the ground, which created an image of
a crown. For me, it signied some-
thing like giving back or bringing
all the glory back to Him, he says.
I share this album with all my fol-
lowers and I offer it to God. It is
His. We named the album Korona
because He is the real King.
Released by Star Records, the al-
bum features OPM songs including
Kasama Ka; Halaga; Pusong
Ligaw, which was co-written with
Butch Elizalde; Bumuhos Man
ang Ulan, produced and arranged
by Gabriel Valenciano; Dahil sa
Pag-ibig, the theme song of Rosa-
less latest drama series of the same
title with Piolo Pascual; another
version of Paboritong Tag-ulan
a duet with OPM singer Julianne;
and the carrier single Paboritong
Tag-Ulan, by Rosales and album
co-producer and Star Records au-
dio and content manager Jonathan
Manalo.
The album also highlights
Rosaless revival of the Fred-
die Aguilar hit Kamusta
Ka Aking Mahal and
Sugarfrees Makita
Kang Muli, theme
song of ABS-CBNs
2005 drama Ang Pan-
day that starred the
singer-actor.
Korona is avail-
able at music and vid-
eo stores nationwide
for only P199. Digital
tracks can also be down-
loaded via www.mymu-
sicstore.com.ph.
ChildHauss
new home
When a door closes, a win-
dow opens. Thats what hap-
pened to ChildHaus.
On Sept. 20, the temporary
shelter for underprivileged parents
and their cancer-stricken children
who are undergoing medical treat-
ment in Manila moved to a new and
permanent home at No. 90 Mapang-
akit St., Pinyahan, Quezon City.
The seven-room bungalow can
accommodate 100 patients and
their guardians.
The property, refurbished and
donated to ChildHaus by Hans Sy,
president of SM Prime Holdings, is
the answer to Ricky Reyes prayers
for his nine-year-old endeavor. Here
comes an angel who gave me a lasting
home for these children, Reyes said
of Sy in an interview.
The relocation ended months of
search. Fully restored to its 70s look,
the house has large windows that let
in natural light and a lot of air; seem-
ingly symbolic of Gods grace and
love pouring down on Reyes and the
beneciaries.
Reyes couldnt thank Sy enough.
Reyes, who got his break in all the
SM Malls through him, knew that
there again, God was using the same
instrument for another miracle. Reyes
asked him, Whats my obligation?
Sy simply handed him the keys, and
said, Take over.
ChildHaus or the Center for Health
Improvement and Life Development
has served 9,000 patients, some of
whom stayed with them for up to 18
months.
Life at ChildHaus is an example of a
community that thrives on compassion
and care not only among its residents
but also from people who have been
moved to help them
not only through cash and kind but
moral support as well.
Reyes donates a portion of his
earnings from his chain of salons to
ChildHaus, even as the Ricky Reyes
Foundation subsidizes the medical
needs of hundred of the young cancer
patients every year. Here, the spirit
of volunteerism is felt with parents
of the patients doing the household
chores, teachers coming over to give
academic lessons to the children, nu-
tritionists creating balanced meals of
vegetables, rice and sh under the
supervision of project director Dr.
Rachel del Rosario.
Reyes believes that helping these
people is a calling bigger than any-
thing in his life. The most important
thing is to do the work for Him, he
always says.
It all started by an incident thats
forever etched in Reyes heart. One
day, at Philippine General Hospital,
he saw a child crouching in pain after
chemotherapy. Moved by the sight,
he blessed the child with care not
knowing until later on that in doing
so, he had blessed himself more and
will spread the love to others many
times over in the years to come.
Some call it philanthropy; others
call it compassion. But ask any of the
young cancer patients, and theyll tell
you its ChildHaus.

Townshend in
The Today Show
Pete Townshend of The Who
drops by The Today Show to pro-
mote his autobiography, Who I
Am: A Memoir.
The rock stars attempt at getting
his skeletons out of the closet is the
main scheme of the book. His long-
awaited memoir is intimate and utter-
ly straight to the point, and will give
audiences a closer look at the Town-
shends different side.
Also, the girls of the hit series DC
Cupcakes dish out info about their latest
book, Sweet Celebrations.
Katherine Kallinis Berman and
Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne
gave up their careers in
fashion and venture
capital to pur-
sue their
pas s i on
f o r
b a k -
i n g
and
opened Georgetown Cupcake in
Washington, DC.
Also on the show is the Scotto
family and their sumptuous cooking.
Watch as they astound you with their
cooking segment on the Today Show.
The Scotto family is well-known for
Frescoa restaurant in New York serv-
ing delectable Italian dishes. Plus, this
episodes Joys Diet S.O.S. will once
again answer viewers weight-loss
and tness questions.
The Today Show! airs Monday to
Friday 9 to 11 p.m. via satellite with
next day replays at 4:30 a.m. and 3
p.m. on TalkTVCh. 16 on SkyCa-
ble, Ch. 28 on Destiny and Ch. 21 on
Cignal and Ch. 12 on Cable Link.

Arnold in
The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
guests former California Governor Ar-
nold Schwarzenegger to talk about his
new book entitled Total Recall recol-
lecting his days back when he and wife
Maria Shriver decided on whether he
should run for ofce or not.
Part of the book also reveals his
supposedly hot affair with former
Red Sonja co-star, Brigitte Nielsen.
Whats with PGA professional
golfer Bubba Watsons play on the
Ryder Cup as he leads off the morn-
ing foursomes against Justin Rose
and Ian Poulter with his partner
Webb Simpson. And also, dont miss
out on a live TV performance from the
Grammy-winning group The Wall-
owers as they play a song off their
latest album, Glad All Over.
Tomorrow, American actor and
House of Payne television producer
Tyler Perry makes an appearance on
the show to discuss his exclusive
deal with OWN (Oprah Winfrey
Network) to produce shows
exclusively for Oprah Win-
freys cable network. He talks
about the multi-year agree-
ment with media proprietor
Winfrey, and how this smart
move benets both.
Also on the show is
South Africas Olympic
and Paralympic runner
Oscar Pistoriusthe man
dubbed Blade Runner
to talk about his participation
in an upcoming amateur tournament
with a host of non-golf sportsman
competing alongside professionals at
the prestigious Alfred Dunhill Links
Championship. Plus, watch out for the
guys who are known for their songs
1,2,3,4 and Hey There Delilah.
Keep an eye out for Plain White Ts
as they rock the stage on the Tonight
Show with Jay Leno.
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
airs Tuesdays to Saturdays 1-2 p.m.
via Satellite with same day replays at
12 m.n. on TalkTV.
SUN Cellular welcomes singer-actor
Sam Concepcion as one of its newest
endorsers.
At the contact signing held at
Galleria Corporate Center in Quezon
City, Sam ofcially assumed his role
to represent the pioneer of Call and
Text Unlimited and one of the leading
telecommunications companies in
the Philippines.
As one of the most promising stars
in the entertainment industry, Sam
is denitely a good choice for Sun
Cellular. His recent musical comedy
movie I Do Bidoo Bidoo which was
released on Aug. 29 earned favorable
reviews from movie critics.
Currently, Sam is taping ABS-
CBNs TV show Angelito and soon,
he is set to release a new album for
Universal Records.
Multi-talented heartthrob Sam is
also the good choice for the network
as he embodies the brand Sun
Cellularyouthful and energetic.
Along with Sam, two new
endorsers of Sun Cellular are college
basketball player Kiefer Ravena
and young entrepreneur Marco
Lobregat.
DR. Vicki G. Belo, will be
one of the guests of honor at
this years conference of the
Institute of Internal Auditors-
Philippines (IIA-P). This was
announced by IIA-P presi-
dent Juancho B. Robles.
The Institute of Internal
AuditorsPhilippines is
the acknowledged leader
and principal educator of
internal audit professionals
in the country with more
than 1,200 members. In-
ternationally, IIA has over
170,000 members in more
than 80 countries.
Belo will deliver a talk on
how to enhance and effec-
tively harness image to im-
prove the effectiveness and
efciency of a companys
operation. The 65
th
annual
conference will be held in
Boracay from Oct. 23 to 25
with current IIA-P president
Robles overseeing the affair.
Belos talk, Perception
vs Reality, will encompass
the following: understanding
the cause of image problem;
how to better align percep-
tion with reality; turning
stakeholders into true be-
lievers of services you pro-
vide; knowing the creative
approaches that can be used
to get heard; and learning
strategies to get the message
across stakeholders.
IIA-P couldnt have got-
ten a better expert on the sub-
ject than the Belo Medical
Group president, who is also
an internationally renowned
speaker. Belo challenged the
status quo, and moved the
aesthetic beauty industry to
its current highly regarded
state with her innovative
leadership skills. Her talk is
one of the most awaited in
this conference.
Robles said that the
three-day seminar will not
only be about experiential
learning and soft skill de-
velopment but also about
fun camaraderie and net-
working to sustain our
journey and build our rela-
tionships, as he puts it.
not obsessed with looks
SAM MILBY
I AM vain to a point, but not to the
extent that I am obsessed with my looks,
says Filipino American actor Sam Milby
over lunch at Marios recently where
he renewed his endorsement deal with
Diana Stalder.
Belo shares leadership insights Sam Concepcion is
Suns new endorser
Jericho Rosales
album out now
Milby: Dermablend
model for six years

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