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PNoy open
to naming
2 senators
to Cabinet
Palace sets meet
over land reform
Three outsiders nominated as chief justice
Hog, poultry raisers criticize
Biazon on import manifest
Media to seek
Aquinos veto
of Privacy Bill
Abalos walks out
of court over bail
New poll cheat case
eyed against Arroyo
THE hog growers and poultry
raisers on Wednesday said Cus-
toms Commissioner Runo Bi-
azon might be unwittingly pro-
tecting smuggling syndicates by
refusing to provide them and the
Agriculture Department with cop-
ies of the inward forward manifest
that contain the details of imported
items and their ports of origin.
The hog and poultry raisers
By Joyce Pangco
Paares and Rey
E. Requejo
PRESIDENT Benigno
Aquino III on Thursday
said he saw no reason for
Justice Secretary Leila de
Lima to decline a nomina-
tion as the next chief jus-
tice of the Supreme Court
or inhibit herself from de-
liberations of the Judicial
and Bar Council if she was
nominated.
The Presidents defense
of De Lima came after he
insisted that another possi-
ble nominee, Internal Rev-
enue Commissioner Kim
Henares, was qualied for
the top post in the Judicia-
ry, even though she has not
served as a judge.
Nobody can question
their competence, integrity
and probity, presidential
spokesman Edwin Lacierda
said.
Earlier, Senator Miriam
Defensor Santiago said De
Lima and Henares had dis-
qualied themselves mor-
ally by testifying against
impeached Chief Justice
Renato Corona. If either
were included in the coun-
cils shortlist, they should
decline the nomination.
As an ex-ofcio member
of the council by virtue of
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino
III has said he is open to ap-
pointing Senators Francis Pan-
gilinan and Panlo Lacson to
his Cabinet after their terms
expire next year.
If we reach an agreement
[we will get them], Mr. Aqui-
no said in an interview in Lon-
don on Wednesday.
Number one, we will not
force anyone to accept any po-
sition. We will talk to them. If
they have advocacies that they
think they can serve as member
of the Executive, then we are
open to getting them.
But Mr. Aquino declined to
say what positions he might ap-
point Pangilinan and Lacson to
if they agreed to join his team.
I have not talked to them
yet fully, he said.
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III on
Wednesday reiterated his commitment to
land reform and said he planned to meet the
Roman Catholic bishops who have criti-
cized his administrations slow distribution
of land to farmers under the Comprehen-
sive Agrarian Reform Program.
He told reporters before leaving London
for the United States that he had ordered
his Cabinet to meet with the farmers group
Task Force Mapalad and Auxiliary Bishop
Broderick Pabillo to discuss the problems
By Christine F. Herrera
THE rst ever media consultation
was held Thursday after Congress on
Wednesday ratied the data privacy bill
that press groups have described as un-
constitutional and asked President Beni-
gno Aquino III to veto.
But the journalists appreciated the ef-
fort of House Assistant Majority Leader
and Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo, the
principal author of the bill in the House, to
painstakingly explain that safeguards had
been put in place to protect the media.
Taguig City Rep. Sigfrido Tinga,
chairman of the House contingent to the
bicameral conference committee, which
is also co-chaired by Senator Edgardo
Angara, the principal author of the Sen-
ate version of th bill, failed to show up
at the luncheon meeting held at Anabels
restaurant in Quezon City.
Romulo single-handedly took the
blows from the journalists, who felt slight-
ed that the consultation came a little too
By Rey E. Requejo
JUSTICE Secretary Leila de
Lima on Thursday said former
President and now Pampanga
Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
was not yet off the hook over the
allegations she cheated in the
May 2004 presidential elections
even if the Ombudsman had
dropped the bribery and graft
charges against.
De Lima said Ombuds-
man Conchita Carpio-Morales
dropped the charges on the basis
of insufciency of evidence.
It does not preclude the l-
ing of another case... if and when
there is sufciency of evidence,
De Lima said.
She said she had been wait-
ing for the report of the Senate
committee that investigated the
alleged poll fraud during the
2004 polls, adding that a joint
probe conducted by her depart-
ment and the Commission on
Elections covered only the 2007
mid-term elections.
In a resolution approved on
May 25, the ombudsman said
the evidence against Arroyo and
six others was insufcient be-
cause the complaint contains
bare allegations and pieces of
evidence that are unsubscribed,
unauthenticated and recanted af-
davits or statements.
Also cleared were former
elections commissioner Virgilio
Garcillano, former Civil
Aviation Authority of the
Philippines director general and
Philippine Ports Authority gen-
eral manager Alfonso Cusi, PPA
manager Efren Bollozos, former
Justice secretary Agnes Deva-
nadera, former Shariah Circuit
Court judge Nagamura Moner,
By Ferdinand Fabella
FORMER elections commis-
sioner Benjamin Abalos stormed
out of a court hearing Thursday,
accusing the presiding judge of
deliberately delaying the resolu-
tion of his petition for bail.
Accompanied by his son, Man-
daluyong City Mayor Benhur Ab-
alos Jr., Abalos left the courtroom
of the Pasay City Regional Trial
Court Branch 112 while the court
was still in session.
This is a grave injustice, he
told reporters outside the court-
room.
I asked to be excused because
I could not continue hearing what
was transpiring in this sham pro-
ceeding.
Abalos said Judge Jesus Mu-
pas wanted to hear the petition of
former North Cotabato elections
supervisor Yogi Martirizar to be
discharged as a co-accused in the
two counts of electoral sabotage
case and serve as a state witness,
even while the issue at hand was
his petition for bail.
Abalos, 77, said Mupas was try-
ing to muddle the proceedings by
allowing Martirizars testimony.
That is not allowed, he said,
claiming his bail petition, led last
The President up close. Filipinos mob President Aquino at Andrews Air Force Base. Inset shows US Department of State Proto-
col Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall escorting the president during his arrival.
Father and son affair. Beleaguered former Commission on Elections
Chairman Benjamin Abalos (right) gets support from his son, Man-
daluyong Mayor Ben Hur Abalos, in answering questions from reporters
outside the court. JUN DAVID
US Senate calls
for increased
PH security ties
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READY TO
RUMBLE
DEAD SERIOUS. Manny
Pacquiao and Timothy
Bradley looked ready
to rumble when they
posed for photogra-
phers at MGM Grand
in Las Vegas. They will
ght for the WBO World
Welterweight title on
Sunday, Manila time.
(The story is on A10).
Philippine Ambassador to the
US Jose Cuisia said the US Senate
unanimously approved a resolution
on Tuesday stressing American
commitment to the Philippines un-
der the Mutual Defense Treaty.
This is a very positive devel-
opment that futher underscores
the importance the United States
places on its alliance with the
Philippines, Cuisia said.
The Filipino people greatly ap-
preciate this gesture by our friends
in the United States Senate.
Resolution 481, which the as-
sembly approved on the eve of
President Aquinos arrival from
London for a three-day visit, was
sponsored by Sen. Richard Lugar
(Republican, Indiana).
The resolution was approved
in connection with the coming
commemoration of the 60th an-
niversary of the Mutual Defense
Treaty, which was signed on Au-
gust 30, 1951. The treaty requires
both nation to support each other
in case of external attack.
Cuisia said the US Senate called
on Manila and Washington to
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By Eric Apolonio and Maricel Cruz
THE United States Senate has called for increased defense
and security cooperation between the Philippines and Amer-
ica, citing their shared interests as the key in addressing the
emerging security environment in the [Asia-Pacic] region,
the Philippine Embassy in Washington said on Thursday.
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Onions this time. Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon shows reporters onions from Hong Kong
worth P2.8 million that his men seized at the Manila International Container Port.
Abalos...
December, should be given
importance over other pend-
ing motions. He returned to the
courtroom an hour later to listen
to Martirizars testimony after
composing himself.
Court ofcials would not com-
ment on Abalos allegations.
Under direct examination
by the prosecution, Martiri-
zar told the court that Abalos
ordered the election supervi-
sors in Mindanao to ensure the
12-0 win of the Team Unity
senatorial candidates of for-
mer President Gloria Macapa-
gal-Arroyo.
During this alleged meet-
ing on April 25, 2007, he said,
Abalos repeatedly mentioned
FG, which he said referred
to former rst gentleman Jose
Miguel Arroyo.
Mupas is hearing two counts
of electoral sabotage charges
against Abalos, who was also
charged with the offense at
Branch 117 of the Pasay RTC.
RTC 117 Judge Eugenio
Dela Cruz has allowed Abalos
to post a bail bond of P2.2 mil-
lion for 11 counts of electoral
sabotage charges.
With Gigi Muoz- David
PNoy...
Lacson is being tipped to re-
place Interior Secretary Jesse Ro-
bredo, and Pangilinan to take over
from Agriculture Secretary Pro-
ceso Alcala.
Joanne dela Cruz, Robredos ex-
ecutive assistant on Thursday de-
nied that Lacson had replaced her
boss, but said they would respect
Malacaangs decision to that effect
if it ever came.
Agriculture Undersecretary An-
tonio Fieta denied reports that his
department has a new head.
These are just rumors. We have
not yet heard any new appointment
from Malacaang, Fieta said.2
Presidential spokesman Edwin
Lacierda on Thursday said Lacson
and Pangilinan would be joining Mr.
Aquinos Cabinet.
They have been very supportive
of the bills of the President [in the
Senate], so we certainly welcome
them, he said.
We know that Senators Pang-
ilinan and Lacson will end their term
in 2013. Are there any positions that
are going to be offered to them? The
President is keeping it close to his
chest.
But Lacierda refused to say if
Lacson would be replacing Ro-
bredo and Pangilinan would get
Alcalas job.
That has not been talked about
yet, Lacierda said.
I will not divine the thoughts of
the President until he has spoken.
We have not discussed that yet, ac-
tually.
Pangilinan thanked Mr. Aquino
for considering him.
I am thankful for the vote of
condence expressed by Pnoy, and
I leave it to the President to decide
where he believes I can be of help in
his administrations reform agenda,
he said. Joyce Pangco Paares,
Jonathan Fernandez and Othel V.
Campos
Three...
her ofce, De Lima has already in-
hibited herself from the selection
process in anticipation of being
nominated to the vacant post.
Senator Panlo Lacson also
said De Lima was not qualied
to be the next chief magistrate
because of a pending disbarment
case against her.
The case before the Integrated
Bar of the Philippines stemmed
from a complaint by private law-
yer Agustin Sundiam, who took
De Lima to task for calling Co-
rona a lawless tyrant.
So far, three outsiders had been
nominated to replace Corona,
council member Jose Mejia said.
They were Katrina Legarda, So-
licitor-General Francis Jardeleza,
and Ateneo De Manila College of
Law Dean Cesar Villanueva.
Automatically nominated to
the post are the ve most senior
associate justices of the Supreme
Court: acting Chief Justice Anto-
nio Carpio and Associate Justices
Presbitero Velasco Jr., Teresita
Leonardo-de Castro, Arturo Bri-
on, and Diosdado Peralta.
The nominations for the next
chief justice opened on June 6 and
will end on June 18.
Carpio, who heads the JBC as
ex-ofcio chairman, has inhibited
himself from the selection process.
A founding partner of the Vil-
laraza Cruz Marcelo & Angangco
Law Ofces, and known as The
Firm, Carpio graduated from the
University of the Philippines Col-
lege of Law and placed sixth in the
1975 Bar exams.
Jardeleza, nominated by UP
College of Law Dean Danny Con-
cepcion on Wednesday, was a law-
yer and executive of San Miguel
Corp. who earned his masters
degree from Harvard University.
He was deputy ombudsman for
Luzon before he was named so-
licitor general in February. He
also nished his law degree from
the University of the Philippines.
Legarda is known as a defender
of abused women and children.
She was lead counsel in the statu-
tory rape case led by an 11-year-
old girl against then Zamboanga
del Norte Rep. Romeo Jalosjos.
Her battered women syn-
drome argument led to the ac-
quittal of a woman who had been
sentenced to death for killing her
husband. The high court has since
accepted that as valid legal de-
fense.
Villanueva is a recognized au-
thority in Philippine commercial
law. He placed second in the Bar
exams in 1981.
De Lima on Wednesday said
her nomination was uncertain, and
that she was not particularly inter-
ested in the post.
Personally, I am not interest-
ed. If no one nominates me, then
thats ne. Ill have a quieter
life. If I will be nominated, then
thats the time I will decide, she
said.
Reacting to criticism of her
possible nomination, she added:
Now those making comments,
especially columnists in news-
papers, are a bit offensive al-
ready. I think they should hold
their horses.
Senators, meanwhile, disagreed
over whether interviews with
nominees should be televised,
with Senate President Juan Ponce
Enrile and Senators Vicente Sotto
III and Franklin Drilon in favor
and Senator Ralph Recto against
the idea.
Enrile, Sotto and Drilon said it
would be better if the public was
aware of the selection process of
the Judicial and Bar Council.
But Recto warned against
turning the search for the next
chief justice into another Amer-
ican Idol. He said the selection
process should be conducted
without fanfare to preserve its
integrity.
Senator Francis Pangilinan, a
former Senate representative to
the council, urged members of the
panel to amend its rules in favor of
transparency.
Transparency is key in ensur-
ing accountability from our public
ofcials, Pangilinan said.
When we establish transpar-
ency from the start of the selection
process all the way through the
voting, we will have the trust of
our people.
The council is expected to give
the President a list of nominees
from which he will choose the
next chief justice. The Constitu-
tion says the vacancy must be
lled within 90 days.
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Hog...
have been complaining about
what they describe as the con-
tinuing smuggling of meat
and poultry that they say is
killing their industry.
The [Agriculture Depart-
ment] needs these IFMs to
check if the cargo [is legal
or smuggled], said Abono
chairman and Swine Develop-
ment Council director Rosen-
do So.
Without the IFM, inspect-
ing the reefer vans would be
like looking for a needle in a
haystack. But up to now the
Bureau of Customs has delib-
erately refused to provide the
[department] copies of these
IFMs, So said.
But Biazon said it was not
his agency that was tasked to
provide the manifests.
If Sos group wants to get
copies of the IFMs, they have
to ask the shipping company
and not our ofce, Biazon
said.
IFM is a document. What
Im offering is their direct
participation and oversight.
We have been urging Sos
group to send their represen-
tatives to help us examine im-
ported meat, but they have not
been listening.
Biazon crossed swords with
So even as the onion growers
called for stricter guidelines
on the issuance of import per-
mits to prevent the recycling
of used permits and stop the
smuggling of onions into the
country.
Farmers belonging to the
Sibuyas ng Pilipinas Ating
Alagaan, Inc. or SIPAG said
traders had been reusing im-
port permits issued last year
to bring in cheap imported
onions.
We are calling on the Depart-
ment of Agriculture to investi-
gate the rumored recycling of IPs
and to help us engage the assis-
tance of the Bureau of Customs
to stop the entry of smuggled
onions to the country, SIPAG
president Francisco Collado told
reporters Wednesday night.
The group claims that smug-
glers are using the ports in
Mindanao and the Visayas to
smuggle onions from China
and India.
In fact, smuggled red
granex and white creole on-
ions are being sold in the
open at the public markets in
Divisoria in Manila, Carbon
in Cebu, Cagayan de Oro and
Davao, Collado said.
He said a signicant vol-
ume of smuggled onions were
being kept in cold storages in
Metro Manila.
Collado said the continuing
smuggling of imported onions
was affecting the local indus-
try that 35,000 farmers and
500,000 workers depended
on. He said the supply of on-
ions for the second and third
quarters were enough, so that
there is no need to issue more
IPs for the coming months.
The Philippines consumes
about 96,000 metric tons of on-
ions annually. Christine F. Her-
rera and Othel V. Campos
New...
and the former presidents husband Jose Miguel Arroyo.
But the police on Thursday said they were ready to arrest Mr.
Arroyo and former police chief Jesus Verzosa if the Sandigan-
bayan ordered it in connection with the graft case led over the
2009 sale of used helicopters that were passed off as new.
Arroyo and Verzosa aside, 20 other police ofcials were impli-
cated in the controversial deal, and of whom seven have retired.
Mr. Arroyo has denied any wrongdoing in the case, saying he
had nothing to do with the sale of the helicopters.
Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo said the active police of-
cers and personnel involved in the anomalous transaction
would be either dismissed or suspended in line with the om-
budsmans June 1 decision.
The ombudsman has dismissed from the service 14 active
and retired police ofcers and personnel and suspended six oth-
ers for their involvement in the transaction.
At the same time, it absolved of graft charges former Interior
secretary Ronaldo Puno, former Interior assistant secretary Os-
car Valenzuela, National Police Commission director Conrado
Sumanga Jr., Napolcom commissioners Miguel Coronel and Celia
Sanidad-Leones, and former National Police director general and
Napolcom commissioner Avelino Razon Jr. for lack of probable
cause. With Florante S. Solmerin and Jonathan Fernandez
Media...
late, and considering that the
bill was ratied and up for the
Presidents signing even if it did
not undergo proper consultation
from affected stakeholders like
the media.
So whats next? This seems to
be a done deal already unless ve-
toed by the President, said Rol-
lie Estabillo, a Philippine Press
Institute trustee and publisher of
the Manila Standard.
Yes, the next best thing is for
the President to veto the bill and
subject it to further discussion,
said Vergel Santos, PPI trustee
and chairman of the editorial
board of the BusinessWorld
newspaper.
Malou Mangahas of the Phil-
ippine Center for Investigative
Journalism seconded Estabillos
and Santos position and pushed
for the approval rst of the
long-delayed Freedom of Infor-
mation.
You ratied rst a bill that
restricts the journalists report-
ing and discourages whistle
blowers than pass FOI that
guarantees transparency in gov-
ernance, Santos said.
We have a case here of a
privacy bill that penalizes the
sources and was ratied ahead
of the FOI that supposedly pe-
nalizes those who withhold or
deny access to information.
Romulo said the privacy bill
was not meant to suppress press
freedom and curtail information
freedom but to guarantee pro-
tection for private corporations
and individuals.
It was also meant to guaran-
tee the integrity and conden-
tiality of the information that
was being processed by the IT-
business process outsourcing
industry as part of condence
building, he said.
It was never our intention to
harm the media. This is to lure
foreign investments to generate
jobs, Romulo said.
We have to have a law to
assure foreign investments that
any information coming from
them would be protected.
When there is prior restraint,
then that is unconstitutional,
Santos argued.
Romulo said the House and
the Senate deleted the provision
directly penalizing the journal-
ists with hefty nes and impris-
onment of up to ve years if
they commit breach of con-
dentiality and claried the am-
biguous ones.
Romulo also said Congress
added a new provision for the
protection of the condentiality
of journalists and their sources
embodied in Section 5. Pro-
tection Afforded to Journalists
and their SourcesNothing in
this Act shall be construed as
to have amended or repealed
the provisions of Republic Act
No. 53, which affords the pub-
lishers, editors or duly accred-
ited reporters of any newspaper,
magazines, or periodical of gen-
eral circulation protection from
being compelled to reveal the
source of any news report or
information appearing in said
publication which was related
in any condence to such pub-
lisher, editor, or reporter.
The exceptions make the
law, said Jullie Yap-Daza of
the Manila Bulletin and Sama-
hang Plaridel.
So you will punish those
who will release condential
information to us. You are dis-
couraging and killing the sense
of whistle blowing in this coun-
try at the same time that you
withhold the passage of the FOI
bill. You make things difcult
for us, Santos said.
It is the function of these
private companies to place their
data under lock and key. Why
make a law for them at all? said
Amado Macasaet, PPI president
and publisher of Malaya.
Mangahas said the privacy
bill became a catch-all bill for
private rms when its authors
intended it only to cover com-
panies in the medical and BPO
industries.
She said incumbent govern-
ment ofcials and politicians,
while exempted from getting
protected from the bill, could
be private individuals the next
time and back again in govern-
ment service.
Romulo suggested that Con-
gress was open to amendments
to further address those con-
cerns.
Former Press Secretary Je-
sus Dureza, who is now a PPI
trustee, said the consultation
should have been done earlier
because a veto from the Presi-
dent would send a wrong signal
to the foreign investors.
The other journalists who
attended the luncheon meet-
ing were Veronica Uy of Inter-
aksyon.com and Rowena Para-
an, spokeswoman and secretary
general of the National Union
of Journalists of the Philippines,
respectively; Rey Hulog, execu-
tive director of the Kapisanan
ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas,
Ed Lingao of the PCIJ, Alwyn
Alburo of GMA 7 and NUJP;
Melanie Pinlac of the Center for
Media Freedom and Responsi-
bility; Ariel Sebellino, PPI ex-
ecutive director; and Joyce Pan-
gco Paarez, president of the
Malacaang Press Corps.
US...
continue high-level consul-
tations aimed at enhancing
security ties, which could re-
sult in more support for the
Philippine militarys mod-
ernization, more rotational
presence of US forces, and
increased humanitarian and
disaster relief and prepared-
ness activities.
Cuisia said Washington
would assist Manila in mar-
itime security and maritime
domain awareness, which
many Filipinos considered
signicant because of the
rising tension between Chi-
na and the Philippines as a
reult of their territorial dis-
pute over the Panatag Shoal
in the West Philippine Sea.
The US-Philippine alliance
continue to serve as a pillar
and source of stability in the
region, the resolution said.
The co-sponsors of the
resolution were Senators John
Kerry (Democrat, Massachu-
setts), James Inhofe (Repub-
lican, Oklahoma), Jim Webb
(Democrat, Virginia), Kelly
Ayotte (Democract, New
Hampshire), Tad Cochran
(Republic, Mississippi), and
Daniel Inouye (Democract,
Hawaii).
In the Philippines House
of Representatives, anti-
American lawmakers called
for a pullout of US troops in
the country to give way for an
all-out diplomatic solution to
the conict between the Phil-
ippines and China over the
Panatag Shoal.
Bayan Muna party-list rep-
resentatives Neri Colmenares
and Teddy Casio said the
presence of US troops had ag-
gravated the tension and hin-
dered a diplomatic solution to
the territorial dispute.
In their resolution 2362,
Casio and Colmenares said
the joint US-Philippine war
exercises at the West Philip-
pine Sea was an invitation to
the United States to meddle
in the regional dispute.
While the Philippines
raised diplomatic protests
and has announced it would
bring the issue to the Inter-
national Tribunal on the
Law of the Sea, President
Aquino was also quick to
call on the United States
to interfere in the rgional
dispute and come to aid the
Philippines against China,
citing the unequal 1951
Mutual Defense Treaty,
the resolution says.
Colmmenares and Casino
demanded the expulsion of
the US forces involved in
the US-Philippine Balikatan
exercises because they were
using the Philippines to ad-
vance their imperialist interest
in Asia and China.
Palace...
and submit to him their recommen-
dations.
They will meet with the con-
cerned bishop or bishops before I
get back to present to me a list of
doables already, Aquino said.
So by the time we get to meet the
bishops, we can commit specic ac-
tions and specic time frames.
The president was reacting to the
harsh comments of Bishop Pabillo,
who had criticized the poor record of
the Aquino Administration as the low-
est CARP accomplishment when com-
pared to all CARP administrations.
Malacaang said Presidential
spokesman Edwin Lacierda, Agrar-
ian reform Chief Virgilio de los
Reyes, Budget Secretary Flroen-
cio Abad, Social Welfare Secretary
Corazon Soliman, and Agriculture
Secretary Proceso Alcala would
meet Pabillo and the farmers a the
Palace on Friday.
Aquino said he had instructed Al-
cala to complete the implementation
and meet the time schedule of the
CARP program.
Lacierda said the government
distributed 111,889 hectares of land
in 2011, which was higher than the
59,495 hectares given away in 2009.
He said P2 billion had been allot-
ed for support services to the agrar-
ian reform communities.
In the Southern Tagalog region, a
group of farmres questioned Mala-
canangs declaration of full agrarian
reform implementation before 2016,
which they said was a publicity stunt.
Katipunan ng mga Samahang
Magbubukid sa Timog Katagalu-
gan secretary general Axel Pinpin
said the Aquino-Cojuangco family
shows no clear signs of sincerity to
distribute the Luisita estate among
tenants and farm workers. Pinpin
said. Joyce Pangco Paares
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Double standard in Cabinet slammed
Northern Alliance junks watered-down sin tax bill
Housing department
OKd; reforms pushed
Officials warn: Pagcors loss, Macaus gain
Government units confused on plastic ban, says study
House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez of Quezon and Rep.
Milagros Magsaysay of Zambales said that the government should
pursue, with the same vigor and passion, all cases of graft and
corruption, and not only against Mr. Aquinos political enemies
but also his allies.
Suarez made the statement in reaction to the pending graft and
corruption cases, grave misconduct and disobedience led against
Land Transportation Ofce chief Virginia Torres for her refusal to
pay the information technology provider of the LTO, the Stradcom
Corp., the IT fees in accordance with the build-own-operate
agreement.
Apart from Torres, other controversial members of the
Aquino Cabinet are Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, Finance
Undersecretary Guillermo Parayno Jr., and Presidential Adviser
Nereus Acosta.
Purisima and Parayno are both facing graft charges led by
employees of the Bureau of Customs for their roles in the alleged
proliferation of smuggling activities and the continued operation
of E-Konek, an internet service providing electronic lodgment of
import and export entries for the bureau - without any legal contract
and public bidding.
Suarez said there should not be a double standard display of
justice towards erring ofcials of the Aquino Cabinet.
To show good faith and transparency, President Aquino should
re all ofcials who have been found guilty of corruption or those
who are facing graft cases, Suarez said.
Magsysay deplored the Aquino administrationss display of
partisan politics.
As political enemies are focused upon using all the resources and
might of the Philippine government while allies are merely given
slaps on the wrist for serious violations or complainst are simply
places on the backburner, Magsaysay said.
Siquijor Rep. Orlando Fua, a senior opposition member, said
that favoritism is fast becoming a monopoly of the Aquino
administration.
By Maricel V. Cruz

OPPOSITION lawmakers have asked
the Ofce of the Ombudsman headed
by Conchita Carpio-Morales to speed
up the resolution of cases involving
political allies and friends of the
Aquino administration.
By Joyce Pangco Paares
THE multinational Nestle Inc. will expand its
operations in the Philippines, targeting to supply
80 percent of its coffee needs by 2020.
They want to reverse the balance of
sourcing from the Philippines versus sourcing
from abroad, President Benigno Aquino III
said in an interview after meeting with Nestle
representatives in London.
Right now, they are getting about 30 to 35
percent of their coffee needs from the Philippines.
They want to raise that to between 75 percent and
80 percent by 2020, Mr. Aquino said.
Nestle also invited Agriculture chief
Proceso Alcala to visit their headquarters in
Switzerland and their agriculture research
facility in France, Mr. Aquino said.
Nestle Philippines earlier announced that it would
be putting up more buying stations nationwide. It
identified an additional 11 sites in Mindanao.
The countrys coffee requirement last year
reached an annual volume of 64,000 metric tons
with an estimated value of P5 billion.
Nestle, which supplies about 80 percent of
the countrys requirement, produces a soluble
coffee brand and is currently the countrys
biggest buyer of raw coffee beans from at
least 30,000 coffee farmers.
The agriculture department has also allocated
as much as P163 million for planting materials,
post-harvest facility assistance and capacity-
building programs to help coffee farmers
improve their yields.
By Joel E. Zurbano
OFFICIALS of the Philippine Amusement
and Gaming Corporation warned of a
proposal to abolish Pagcor, saying that the
move will blunt the competitive edge of
local casinos against major gaming havens
in Singapore, Macau and Malaysia.
A bill led in the Senate by Senator Ralph
Recto proposes to rprivatize the gaming
agency and in its stead create the Philippine
Amusement and Gaming Commission or
Pagcom, which will serve as regulator of
gaming operations in the country.
But Pagcor president-chief operating ofcer
Jorge Sarmiento said one major concern
was that the measure, SB 3178, would
put Philippine operators at a disadvantage
compared to their regional competitors like
Macao, Singapore and Malaysia. The bill
also proposes to impose a regulators fee of 5
percent in gross revenue tax plus an additional
50 percent tax on aggregate gross earning.
Appearing in a public hearing of the games
and amusement committee, Sarmiento said that
at present, Pagcor only charges from 2 to 15
percent on gross gaming revenue for non-high
roller gamers; 15 percent on high rollers and
junket tables; and 25 percent on slot machines.
Sarmiento said the present rate is just within
the range of the rates of the regional competitors
such as Singapore, Malaysia and Macau.
Data provided by Pagcor show that
countries that are cashing in billions from
their lucrative casino operators are charging
far less GGRs to include Singapore, which
charges 5 to 15 percent; Malaysia, 25
percent; and Macau, 39 percent GGR.
The existing regulatory fee rate will
substantially increase to 55 percent as proposed
in Senate Bill 3178 which is far higher than those
offered by our competitors, said Sarmiento.
For his part, Pagcor Chief Legal Counsel
Jay Daniel Santiago voiced concerns about the
economic dislocation of about 12,000 Pagcor
employees, many of whom have been with the
gaming agency for more than 20 years now.
Santiago asked for a mitigation package
and regular retirement/separation benets to
offset their economic burden of workers who
face losing their jobs at their advance age.
Recto justied his bill saying Pagcor currently
serves as regulatory body and at the same time
operates its own casinostwo distinct functions
that he said should not be placed in one agency.
The government has no business running
gambling facilities. Instead, the government
should adopt the policy that its role should
only be steering and not rowing, Recto stated
in his explanatory note.
But Liberal Party Rep. Ben Evardone
of Eastern Samar opposed the Recto bill,
saying that the move would kill the goose
that lays the golden eggs.
Pagcor, throughout the years, has been a
major source of revenues for the government.
Aside from that, Pagcor has been assisting
nancially other government and private
agencies and institutions in carrying out
its social-related functions in the areas of
health, education, environment, sports and
other related elds, said Evardone.
THE lack of clear guidelines on the ban
on plastic bags has resulted in confusion
among consumers and small vendors
while some of the local government units
themselves have different interpretations
of the ordinance.
These are some of the ndings
of the study conducted by the Solid
Waste Management Association of the
Philippines (SWAPP) on four LGUs
that ban plastic bags for dry goods and
restrict their use for wet goods.
For one, there is confusion and different
interpretations of the products classied as
either dry or wet goods and this affects the
enforcement of the ordinance, it said.
The SWAPP study, funded by the
Ayala Foundation, covered four local
government units (LGUs) where a ban is
now in effect: Los Banos, Calamba, San
Pablo in Laguna, and Muntinlupa city.
Even the members of the
monitoring team seem to have different
interpretations of the law, hence,
creating further confusion among
the targeted sectors, the study said,
adding that LGUs should clarify which
types of plastic are to be prohibited or
regulated and which are exempted.
Consumers, for instance, complain
that market vendors use newspaper to
wrap dried sh, which is not hygienic
as the packaging sticks to the dried
tinapa. In one city covered by the study,
a barangay ofcial penalized all stories
using plastic bags, including those
selling wet goods like food, fruits, etc.
The local plastic industry has warned
against the use of recycled paper as substitute
packaging material for food, saying this
has dioxins that are harmful to ones health.
Rather than a ban, it is urging authorities to
give consumers a choice between plastic and
paper or other alternative materials.
Some shoppers covered by the
study said it was more expensive to
use the alternatives compared to the
free plastic bags being given away by
stores. Others have complained about
the durability of paper bags and the
impracticality of carrying them around
especially when it is raining.
By Macon Araneta
SENATOR Ferdinand Marcos
Jr on Thursday pushed for the
creation of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development
to enable it to address housing-
related issues and mobilize
public and private resources.
Before Senate adjourned Wednes-
day night, it approved on second
reading Senate Bill No. 3199.
Marcos said his proposed
measure to attend to the
increasing demand for urban
poor housing would be approved
on third reading after the Senate
resumed its session in July.
He said the bill also regulates
urban growth and prevent
deterioration of the environment.
Marcos said the powers and
functions of the Housing and
Land Use Regulatory Board
will be transferred to the new
department.
He said the HLURB shall also
be converted into the Adjudication
Commission for Housing, Land
Use and Urban Development.
He said the creation of DHUD
will afford the government
to address needed problems
through the formulation and
implementation of the necessary
reforms, sector policies and
program interventions that will
mobilize public and private
resources and ensure their
synchronization.
The Legislative-Executive
Development Advisory Council
listed SB 3199 as a priority
measure because of the huge
housing backlog, Marcos said.
Statistics show that as of
December, there were 580,000
families of informal settlers or
squatters. Of the number, 105,000
families were living in disaster
prone areas, he said.
Meanwhile, an additional
district will be added to Palawan
if a proposal under House Bill
No. 5608 was approved.
The proposed House measure
sought to reapportgion the province
of Palawan legislative districts.
The senate approved on third
and nal reading during a plenary
before its adjournment last July 6.
Marcos explained that Pala-
wenos deserve an additional seat
in the Lower House after having
complied with the mandates set
by the Constitution, requiring a
representative district consisting
of contiguous, compact and adja-
cent territory.
The new district would
comprise of Puerto Princesa City
and the municipality of Aborlan.
Nestle expands,
sweetens coffee
prospects in PH
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LAWMAKERS opposing the
Aquino administrations effort
to restructure the countrys
excise tax system on Thursday
decried the failure of the House
of Representatives to address
the inequities in the approved
version of House Bill 5727
by rejecting the proposed
amendments from the House
members from the countrys
tobacco-producing regions.
This developed as the
House approved a watered
down version of the Palace-
backed sin tax measure which
reflects a significant decrease
on the proposed tax increase
on tobacco products, while a
slight reduction for alcoholic
drinks.
Northern Luzon congressmen
led by La Union Rep. Victor
Ortega had proposed on the oor
Wednesday night a three-tiered
tax system for cigarettes as
part of a compromise proposal
that would take into account
the plight of over 2.9 million
Filipinos dependent on the
tobacco industry.
But proponents of the sin
tax reform bill thumbed down
Ortegas proposal, and instead
adopted their own amendments
to the bill.
Ortega said that they remained
hopeful that their proposal for
a three-tiered tax rates would
be considered in the bicameral
conference committee.
Zambales Rep. Milagros
Magsaysay said that having
low-priced cigarettes edged out
of the market as a result of the
absurd tax system will open the
oodgates to untaxed, smuggled
cigarettes and counterfeit brands
in the country.
The resurgence of cigarette
smuggling in both industrialized
and developing countries that
have imposed excessive tax hikes
on tobacco products prove that
high taxes are counterproductive,
Magsaysay said. Maricel V. Cruz
Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
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A4
DESPITE some empty posturing during
the recent impeachment trial of Chief
Justice Renato Corona, the senators have
done precious little to defuse the danger
that a vindictive administration might
misuse the vast resources of government
to persecute its political enemies.
In fact, this is clearly what happened
when some unseen hand used leaked
reports from the Anti-Money Laundering
Council to crucify the chief justice, rst
by pretending that the nancial records
came from anonymous whistleblowers
who slipped the condential bank records
into a lawmakers hand, or who left them
dangling from another congressmans gate.
When this cloak-and-dagger approach
proved incredible, the powers that be
dispatched the Ombudsman, presumably
an independent entity, to the Senate
impeachment court to admit that the
condential bank records she waved
before them came from none other than
the Anti-Money Laundering Council and
therefore had to be accurate.
But the Ombudsmans actions also
exposed the extent to which the Anti-
Money Laundering Council had gathered
nancial information on an individual who
was never under investigation for any of
the crimes that the agency was authorized
to investigate. The Ombudsman also
admitted that she obtained the bank reports
from the council without the requisite
court order that the law requires.
Some of the senators at this point
suggested that the councils actions paved
the way for the administration to use
condential nancial information against
its political enemies with no regard for
their privacy rights. They even suggested
that this indiscretion might endanger
legislation aimed at expanding the
councils powers.
These same senators also expressed
concerns that an information-sharing
agreement between the Bureau of Internal
Revenue and the Anti-Money Laundering
Council would violate individual privacy
rights.
Yet, after the smoke of the impeachment
trial had cleared and the chief justice had
been convicted, the same senators voted
unanimously to pass amendments to the
Anti-Money Laundering Act to give the
council even more power, including the
right to look into the bank accounts of
suspicious individuals even without
informing them.
The amendments also expand the
institutions to be covered by the council,
and enables courts other than the Court of
Appeals to freeze bank accounts.
The recent trial and conviction of
the countrys highest judicial ofcer
shows that the Anti-Money Laundering
Council is a loaded gun in the hands
of an Executive department that is not
above bending the rules to get its way.
In giving the council more powers while
doing nothing to enhance the protection
of individual privacy rights, the senators
have merely replaced the weapon with
one of an even higher caliber, trusting
in blind faith that the same will not be
aimed at them next.
Loaded gun
Llamas must be
probed
THE appointment of outgoing Senator
Panlo Lacson to the Cabinet will put
enormous pressure on Justice Secretary
Leila de Lima to leave, either by running
for the Senate herself of getting appointed
to a top judicial post like the chief
justiceship. If De Lima stays on in the
Cabinet after Lacson joins it, purportedly
as secretary of the Department of Interior
and Local Government, she will just be
setting herself up for embarrassment.
The nomination of
Lacson, whom De
Lima hotly pursued
when the senator
was still running
from murder
charges, conrms
the closeness of
Lacson to President
Noynoy Aquino
who has pointedly
ignored De Limas
efforts to arrest him
before and who has
appointed him to a
top post now, even
before his Senate term has ended.
If De Lima stays on, it wont be the
rst time she has been bitch-slapped
in public by her bossand then came
back for more. So, dont hold your
breath waiting for her resignation as
justice secretary.
* * *
Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz
has accused a top administration ofcial
of trying to nd ways to silence
him for his views critical of President
Noynoy Aquino. Presidential political
adviser Ronald Llamas, whom Cruz
identied as the ofcial, has denied
any involvement in such a plot or even
of having on his staff a person also
named by the retired archbishop as the
one instructed to nd out how to do the
actual work of silencing.
Unfortunately for Llamas, there are
few who will believe his protestations
of innocence. Cruz, on the other hand,
has credibility to spare from his long
years as a lonely crusader against the
illegal numbers game of jueteng.
I dont think Cruz would have any
reason for accusing Llamas (or any
other person) of working to shut him
up. The bishop does not have a record
of making statements that he cannot
back up with facts.
Llamas, however, has cultivated
a reputation of being some kind
of shadowy consiglieri of this
administration, aside from being its
high-level deal-maker, trouble-shooter
and all-around xer. His background
of leading leftist organizations that
purportedly hold undue sway over
Aquino and the embarrassing incidents
that have involved him in the past (and
the eventual efforts to cover them up)
have not helped him develop the aura
of a truth-teller, either.
Cruz accusations against Llamas
should not be allowed to die without
being investigated. The retired bishop
is simply too valuable to be silenced,
especially at a time when principled, non-
partisan dissent to this administration
is starting to become as rare as an
opposition member in Congress.
Certainly, any ofcial investigation
into Cruz claims against Llamas will
have very little chance of ferreting out
the truth, given the proven inuence
of the political adviser over his boss.
The last time Llamas was investigated
(for purchasing pirated DVDs at a
downmarket Quezon City mall) led
only to his absolution, on the shaky
ground that he was only technically a
buyer of stolen intellectual property
instead of being a pirate himself.
If it were some other, less-inuential
ofcial who had been caught doing
what Llamas did,
the punishment
would have been
a lot harsher. But
Llamas, who got
embroiled in the
pirated DVD
scandal soon after
his bodyguards
had been nabbed
for joyriding in his
ofcial SUV with
his AK-47, got off
scot-free, with nary
an admonition.
* * *
Still, the charges hurled by Cruz
cannot be explained away by Llamas
not having a direct hand in the matter
(like the AK-47 joyride) or because he
was engaged in a harmless, if stupid,
pastime (like buying pirated DVDs).
And even if any investigation into
the accusations made by the bishop is
almost certain to lead to yet another
ofcial absolution of Llamas, it has to
be done, if only because it will send the
message that dissent has not yet been
outlawed by this administration.
And because Aquino has never been
known to look kindly on the people
who oppose him, Cruz allegations
deserve more than a cursory, out-of-
hand dismissal. Simply on the off-
chance that the operators of Aquino
may indeed be plotting to silence
people he doesnt like, with or without
his consent, deserves a congressional
investigation, at the very least.
But no one be truly surprised if the
authorities and the usual Congress
busybodies act as if they never heard
of Cruz, Llamas or any move to
stie anti-Aquino sentiment. And
ifheaven forbidsomething does
happen to Cruz because of ofcial
neglect of the very serious allegations
that he has leveled against a top palace
apparatchik, what then?
How much will it cost Congress
or the Aquino administration to take a
serious look at Cruz charges against
Llamas? Very little, considering the
good will that would be generated by
such a move.
If, after all, the Aquino government
is as popular as it says it is and has
no need for the sort of skullduggery
that Cruz says Llamas is bent on
perpetrating, the authorities will have
nothing to fear. And, who knows, even
the other critics of this administration
may be reassured that the Goebbels-like
government propaganda machinery is
not backed up by a Gestapo that will
permanently silence dissenters.
EDITORIAL
The President in Britain
LONDONIf President Benigno
Aquino III had come to London with
the express intention of being absolutely
discreet, his rst ofcial visit here may
be considered to have been a smashing
success. There was not the slightest
ripple of it in the British press. No one
could accuse him of having inicted
himself on the British public.
His scheduled meeting with Prime
Minister David Cameron, lunch with
Minister Jeremy Browne and the Lord
Mayor of London Alderman David
Wooton at an appropriate venue, lunch
with Prince Andrew at Buckingham
Palace, and meetings with private
British investors, in the company of
his eight Cabinet secretaries and 15
Filipino business executives, went fairly
unnoticed. Many Filipinos had heard of
his visit but had no way of conrming it.
Aquino came when all of Britannia
was so deeply immersed in paying
homage to their Queen for the past 60
years, when BBC commentators and
newspaper editorialists fawned and
gushed over their monarch like the
conscript media of a developing country
dripping with saccharine over its own
political favorite. They regretted Prince
Philips sudden connement for a bladder
infection, which caused his absence from
the royal concert on Monday evening,
the Queens thanksgiving service at St.
Pauls, her open carriage-ride down The
Mall, and the royal family standing at
the balcony of Buckingham Palace and
waving to the crowds.
Amid Britains own crisis, which
has prompted the Chancellor of the
Exchequer to draw up plans to use
the money of small savers to boost the
countrys growth prospects, several
investment agreements worth over $1
billion were said to have been signed
between some big British rms like
Rolls Royce, Shell and Nestle and their
Filipino partners. These were obviously
the result of prior negotiations between
the parties involved, and not the instant
product of the Presidents lightning
visit. What may have happened is that
the Filipino businessmen had asked the
President to witness the signing of their
business agreements, and the President
gamely obliged. But the visit itself did
not achieve anything substantial at
government-to-government level.
Therefore, whoever advised the
President to visit London at this time did
not serve his best interests. But who will
claim that great achievement? I do not
want to suggest that the Foreign Ofce
was responsible, but it should have
advised the President to visit a foreign
country ofcially only when he is assured
of being adequately well received. He
owes it to his position and to the people
he had earlier described as his bosses.
It is safe to assume the Philippine
embassy at the Court of St. Jamess
did not fail to inform Manila that
London would be too busy to receive
any President for ofcial conversations
during the Queens diamond jubilee, and
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario
should have persuaded the President to
do it at a more auspicious date. But not
even our simplest diplomatic problems
are always easy to manage.
One saw this in full color at the 7th
World Meeting of Families with the
Holy Father in Milan last week, which
was an ofcial Vatican event. There,
the Philippine Catholic hierarchy was
represented by Archbishop Socrates
Villegas of Dagupan-Lingayen, who
is a member of the Pontical Council
of the Family, Bishop Gabriel Reyes
of Antipolo, who heads the Episcopal
Commission on Family and Life of the
Catholic Bishops Conference of the
Philippines (CBCP), and Frank and Gerry
Padilla, the lay couple from Couples for
Christ who sit on the Pontical Council
with Archbishop Villegas. Bishop
Gilbert Garcera of Daet came as one
of the speakers at the pastoral and
theological congress, and a number of
priests and laymen and women ew in
from the Philippines for the congress.
But while South Koreas ambassador
to the Holy See Thomas Hong-Soon Han
and his wife stayed for the duration of the
congress, our own embassy at the Vatican
failed to honor the all-important event. I
briey chanced upon Ambassador Merci
Tuason at the premises of La Scalla
Theatre after the Beethoven concert for
the Pope, but at no time during the week-
long congress did I notice any ofcial
embassy presence. The fact that the
ambassador of a non-Catholic country
found it necessary to attend makes one
wonder whether our ambassador to the
Holy See has not quite grasped what her
job is all about.
The Holy See is the most learned
and erudite listening post in the world,
bar none. It presides over the moral
governance of at least a billion Catholics.
Its pronouncements on faith and morals
form part of Church teaching, which the
embassies at the Vatican have a duty to
study, analyze and report to their respective
governments. That duty becomes even
more acute if the ambassador comes from
a country dominated by Catholics. But for
years now, many of our ambassadors to
the Vatican had had little or no preparation
for the job. Some were not even legally
qualied anymore to be named ambassador
for reason of age, under the Foreign Service
Act. Hardly anybody notices this until an
unnecessary embarrassment arises.
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Archbishop
Cruz wont accuse
Llamas of working
to silence him up if
he wasnt backed up
by facts.
JOJO
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A5 Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
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JESSICA Sanchez, the half-Filipino,
half-Mexican, runner-up in the
celebrated American Idol series, will
sing the American national anthem in
the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley
bout this coming Sunday (Philippine
time) in Las Vegas.
Jessica, whose mother hails from
Samal, Bataan, rivaled the impeachment
trial of ousted Chief Justice Renato
Corona for the nations attention.
Filipinos worldwide, especially in the
United States, went gaga over her. They
were elated that she went that far in the
AI series.
But I believe Jessica is more American
than Fil-Am in spirit. She will, after all,
sing the American national anthem. We
Filipinos should just forget her and rely
on homegrown international celebrities
to be proud oflike Lea Salonga,
Charice and many others.
***
In several poll surveys, at least
10 senatorial candidates of the UNA
(United Nationalist Alliance) of Vice
President Jejomar Binay and former
President Joseph Estrada have been
mentioned as probable winners in the
2013 mid-term elections.
They are not necessarily in this
order: Senators Chiz Escudero,
Loren Legarda, Greg Honasan, Koko
Pimentel and Alan Peter Cayetano.
Thats ve among the re-electionists.
Returning senators like Migz Zubiri
and Dick Gordon are also mentioned,
and also with newcomers Jackie Ponce
Enrile, son of Senate President Juan
Ponce Enrile, and Rep. JV Ejercito,
Eraps son by Guia Gomez, mayor of
San Juan City. That makes it nine.
That leaves four slot open to
wannabees, like Rep. Mitos Magsaysay,
also in the UNA senatorial ticket,
together with Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia,
who they say can command at least a
million votes among the Cebuanos.
I intentionally did not list Joey
de Venecia, an UNA senatorial bet,
because I dont believe he can make it.
I also believe that re-electionist Antonio
Trillanes, who is running under the
administration ticket, can win because
he has been showing a lackluster
performance as a senator.
There is Customs Commissioner
Ruffy Biazon, who carries the name
of his former senator father, now
Muntinlupa Rep. Pong Biazon, and
Aurora Rep. Sonny Angara, who
thinks his name by recall is also a
prescription to the Senate. His father,
Sen. Edong Angara, is on his last term.
This early, with one year to go
before May 2013, I can predict that the
next Senate will be composed of young,
energetic and ambitious senators,
replacing the oldies like Enrile and Sen.
Joker Arroyo, who are also on their last
term. Sen. Miriam Santiago will soon
leave for the International Criminal
Court at The Hague. I say we will miss
her. There can only be one Miriam in an
otherwise boring chamber.
The next Senate with no less than 10
shoo-ins from UNA promises to be a
lively one. The incumbents are Senators
Bongbong Marcos, TG Guingona,
Ralph Recto, Bong Revilla, Jinggoy
Estrada, Tito Sotto, and Pia Cayetano,
who are also young.
Santa Banana, since every senator
thinks he or she can become president,
the Senate is an institution to be watched!
***
With the next Senate controlled by
young, energetic and ambitious senators,
the question is, where does President
Aquino come in?
Note that even now, the President is
hard put in lling up the administration
ticket of Liberal Party members. Only
four so far have been endorsed by
the President: Biazon, Angara, Tesda
Director General Joel Villanueva and
former partylist Rep. Riza Hontiveros
Baraquel, a defeated senatorial candidate
in the 2010 polls.
The only probable winnerthat is, if
he runsis DoTC Secretary Mar Roxas.
But he wont top the race with Chiz
Escudero and Loren Legarda around.
Still, he will likely land in the rst ve.
The burning ambition of President
Aquino, as shown in his xation to
control the Supreme Court with the
ouster of Renato Corona, is also to
control the Senate. But I guess that
will not be, with no less than 10 UNA
candidates quite certain of winning.
The President already has control of
the House of Representatives, and with the
Senate as its lapdog, and with the Supreme
Court headed by a friendly and submissive
chief justiceSanta Banana, Malacaang
has it made! The President can now do
whatever he wants to do.
Now comes a question which is in the
minds of political observers and analysts:
What lies ahead for President Aquino,
with the UNA in control of the Senate?
UNA will control
the Senate
Congrats to TOPS
THIS will be my last column in
the Standard, after eight years of
commenting on whatever took my
fancy. Id like to thank the owner Mr.
Ferdinand Romualdez, publisher Mr.
Rollie Estabillo and top executives
led by Mr. Rogelio Salazar, president
& CEO, and editors particularly Adelle
Chua for her perseverance and tolerance
for their support of my diatribes. Id
also especially like to thank Jullie Yap
Daza who prodded me into this in the
rst place.
Its been a fascinating and
challenging experience for someone
who never thought he was destined to
be a writer.
The Manila Standard Today is
an example of whats best in the
Philippines: Freedom. I was given the
freedom of writing what I liked, even if
management had a different viewpoint.
Chinese activist Chen should move
here.
Im leaving because I was offered
a slot in the Inquirer and after much
reection, I decided to take it. My rst
column there will be next Thursday
(June 14), and each Thursday thereafter.
I hope you all continue to subscribe to
the Standard for the opportunity it gave
me.
Now as I go, let me talk about
something nice.
I get to judge the beauty contest in
Pagsanjan each year. Governor Ejercito
seems to think Im some kind of expert
on the subject. Well, if you see my wife,
youd agree. I do know how to choose
well.
Metrobank Foundation seems to
think Im some kind of expert on war,
too. They asked me to help choose
the top soldiers of the year. I was
happy to do so. Ive gotten to know a
number of soldiers over the years and
Im impressed with their dedication
and commitment. The poor reputation
comes from a few, those I have not met.
Metrobank agrees with me. For the
past 13 years, itin partnership with
the Rotary Club of Makati Metro which
initiated the program in 1994has held
the TOPS (The Outstanding Philippine
Soldiers) awards to choose the best
ofcers and enlisted men in each of the
branches: Army, Navy, Air Force. And
the academe. Next Monday, they will
announce the winners for this year.
Listen to this: I want the people
to know that soldiers are willing to
sacrice their lives so that others may
live in harmony and peace. I want them
to know that their soldiers are good
soldiers. Another nominee said Every
soldier is also a human being. More
than anything else, a soldier is also
hurt by reports of alleged brutalities
committed by the military. One thing for
sure; a soldier will always uphold the
Constitution and be the protector of the
people. These were written by soldiers
who epitomize whats best in the Armed
Forces of the Philippines.
Heres what the other TOPS nalists
said:
If there is one aspect every Filipino
should know about their soldiers is that
we are very much dependable.
Integrity, service above
self, teamwork, excellence and
professionalism coupled with
competence, character and caring for
others, these are all character/wisdom
of a good Filipino soldier.
Personally, I am also looking
at bringing something back to the
community. An interest and engagement
with the community where I could also
help young people to succeed and
choosing the right path to success.
Almost universally their concern
was to look after their kids, to ensure
they got a good education and were
free to choose the career theyd like
to pursue. Some encouraged following
dads footsteps, some didnt. But almost
all, particularly the non-commissioned
ofcers, were concerned how to pay for
it. The winners in TOPS have just had
that one answered, they win P300,000
to go with the award.
And listen to this: I would say that I
am presently blessed in all facets of my
life. I am fortunate to have a wonderful
family, have a small business and a
professional military career. I could not
ask for more. Perhaps the challenge is
to contribute more for the community
and to be a blessing to our less fortunate
brothers/sisters. We should all have
such an attitude. The world might be
a better place. And remember, this is
a soldier, someone whos supposed to
kill people to protect his nation if he
has to.
On that subject when are we going
to win the war against the New Peoples
Army, a thoroughly discredited
ideology. The NPA is one of Asias
longest-running insurgencies.
I dont consider this a failure of
the AFP, but of the various Philippine
governments. They havent solved the
poverty problem. Educated young men
with a job wont join a revolutionary
movement. The economy will kill the
NPA, not the armed forces.
As to the Muslim uprisings, I dont
believe these will ever be resolved.
There is no reason a particular religion
should get special treatment. Muslims
should abide by the laws of the country,
study the curriculum of the nation, abide
by the social mores of the society. If
they wish to have some special mores,
this should be in the connes of their
church. This is a secular state that must
treat all equally.
So the ghting is pointless. Sadly,
its killing peopleon both sides.
The AFP has to ght both these
insurgencies. It does so heroically
with insufcient support. Our defense
spending is a measly 1.1 percent of
GDP. Singapore allots 4.7 percent,
Malaysia 3.6 percent, Cambodia 3.2
percent, and Thailand 2.8 percent.
The TOPS award gives a little bit of
recognition to soldiers valiantly ghting
wars that shouldnt even exist.
What the TOPS award brings to the
forefront is the strong social role the
AFP plays. They get involved in local
communities, build schools, and rescue
people when catastrophes hit. When
you listen to them talk you realize here
are some people who care, who want
the betterment of society, it cant but
impress you. My hats off to Metrobank
and Rotary Club of Makati Metro for
recognizing the positive role soldiers
play in our society, and rewarding them
for doing so.
After Ondoy in 2009, there was a
news item about Pfc Venancio Ancheta,
Jr. who was washed away by a massive
wave as he pushed a civilian onto the
shore. His body was found the next day.
Hed saved 20 people.
Soldiers get paid little, and once
gone, their families are left destitute,
and theyre inevitably young families,
kids still in school. So I decided
to help. Through the Management
Association of the Philippines (MAP),
we established a foundation, A LIFE
FOR OTHERS, to provide a donation
to the families of soldiers who lose
their lives saving civilians. Weve
supported seven families to date.
Wed much welcome your donations
so we can increase and extend the
benets we offer.
Again, my thanks to the Standard.
JUNE 8, 2012 FRIDAY
LIVESTOCK raising is one of the few
remaining local industries that have
survived the competition of imports from
China and other countries with cheap
labor, protective governments and the
advantage of economies of scale.
However the livestock industry,
especially hog raising, is facing serious
threats from rampant dumping of imported
meat by smugglers disguised as legitimate
importers.
The dire situation of hog growers is
such that already the deluge of cheap
pork imports has killed off 20 percent of
the backyard hog raising industry directly
affecting, according to estimates, more
than two million people.
Meat importers enjoy undue advantage
over local producers who must undergo
a rigid screening process. Importers
circumvent the process by resorting to the
ploy of declaring their products as offal
or livestock innards and are to be used
only as extenders by food processors but
instead sold as prime meat.
Faced with unfair competition from
meat importers, the hog growers cannot
be accused of economic sabotage when
they threatened to declare a pork holiday
to pressure the government to seriously
address the problem of unabated technical
smuggling of meat products to the country.
Its good that the Aquino administration
acted to avert a crisis by instituting initial
measures to address the problem.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala
has implemented a revamp of the National
Meat Inspection Service and the Bureau of
Animal Industry, the ofcials of which are
suspected to have connived with the meat
product-smuggling syndicates.
Customs Commissioner Ruffy
Biazon has also done some action, albeit
reluctantly claiming that his men did not
have the expertise to classify meat imports.
Swine Development Council director
and Abono party list Rep. Rosendo So said
Customs personnel have the expertise since
they have been doing it for many years
already. We do believe that experience
can teach them how to effectively deal with
the technical smuggling, misdeclaration or
undervaluation of imported meat, if they
really want to, he stressed.
To immediately check the smuggling
of pork meat, So suggested that the
Bureau of Customs and the Department
of Agriculture should conduct 100 percent
inspection at Customs premises and not at
the warehouses of the importers located
outside of the point of entry.
If 100 percent stripping is conducted
inside Customs premises, it would
effectively check misdeclaration and
undervaluation involving imported meat,
thus, helping the government collect an
average of P1.2 million in customs duties
per container, instead of P26,000 to P45,000.
This is one way of plugging the revenue
collection loopholes at BOC, So said.
The most important move taken by
Alcala and the Department of Agriculture
to control the unmitigated ood of
imported meat products is to revise the
reference price of meat imports to make
them more realistic.
The reference price of pork was raised
to $2.97 a kilo from 80 cents and $1.23 a
kilo from 54 cents.
The meat importers reacted by bullying
the Aquino administration and warning it
that it is antagonizing the United States
by raising the reference price without
consulting the US and other trading
partners where meat imports are sourced.
They said the Philippine government
should have made the US agree to the
tariff increases.
The meat importers led by ofcials of
the Alliance of Food Processors, Providers
and Stakeholders are demanding that the
government impose a moratorium on the
implementation of the new reference rate.
They say that the imposition of the new
rates could also hurt consumers by raising
the cost of processed meat products.
SDC chairman So is opposing the
moratorium and said meat importers
never had it so good for the longest time,
and we were left reeling from the death of
20 percent of the backyard industry and
annual losses amounting to P8.9 billion.
Durian Tan, council director and
treasurer of the National Federation of
Hog Farmers, says the local hog and
chicken industries are not against the
legitimate importers but are ghting the
unscrupulous traders that ood the wet
markets with imported meat by passing
them off as fresh meat.
Agham Rep. Angelo Palmones said
Alcala was right in imposing the increase
in reference prices because these were also
based on the price being imposed by the
US in their country.
Secretary Alcala is correct to base the
tariff rate from the US meat prices to curb
meat smuggling, Palmones said.
The problem with the big meat
processors is they want to continue paying
a pittance for their raw materials to enjoy
windfall prots. Thats why they want
imported meat. They even buy it cheaper
from smugglers, Palmones added.
Stop the slaughter of the local hog industry
ADELLE
CHUA
CHASING HAPPY
ITS always a pleasant surprise when I
take a break, sink into my living room
couch, turn the television onand nd
that one of my favorite comedy shows,
Modern Family, is airing. (The other one
is Big Bang Theory.)
Sixty-something Jay has two grown
children, Claire and Mitchell, from a
previous marriage. Jay is now married to
Colombian Gloria who is about half his
age. Gloria has a son, Manny, from her
own previous marriage but Jay has taken
over and treats Manny as his own child.
Claire is a wife in the suburbs; her
husband Phil works in real estate and
always tries to be a cool dad. They deal
with the challenges of raising two teenage
daughters and a younger son.
Mitchell is a gay lawyer who lives
with his partner, Cam. They have adopted
a girl from Vietnam.
The characters are constantly brought
together by traditional occasions like
Halloween, Christmas, birthdays, crises,
and simply by their familial ties. The
conict situations bring to fore their
issues both trivial and profound.
In the end, the problem is resolved
and everybody feels warm and fuzzy
towards everybody else.
***
Why am I talking about my favorite
comedy? News of the celebration of the
World Meeting of Families, this year held
in Milan, Italy, has captured my attention.
The Web site catholic.org denes the
fundamental identity of the familya
communion of love founded upon marriage
and called to be a shrine of life, a small
Church, a cell of society.
Statements, too, that the proposals
for reproductive health, divorce and
especially same-sex marriages threaten
the integrity and sanctity of the family
disturband angerme greatly.
Indeed the word family has been
used and misused too many times.
Yes, it is the basic unit of society. Yes,
it is sacred. But how is family to be
dened? Is it a structure, or something
more substantive? If it is not founded in
marriage, is it not a family anymore?
In elementary school, we learned that
families are either nuclear or extended.
Nuclear is when there is a mother and a
father and a child or children. Extended
families include grandparents, aunts and
uncles, cousins and others.
Since then, however, we have become
exposed to many other arrangements that
may not necessarily t into either of the
molds taught us as children.
The migrant-worker phenomenon
has given rise to a generation of
children growing up without one or both
parents. The kids are instead cared for
by relatives, with only pictures, voice
recordings, monthly remittances and the
packages of chocolates and rubber shoes
as a reminder of their parents presence.
The Internet seems to have bridged this
gapbut seems is the operative word.
There are single-parent families due
to separationsor to the absence of a
formal union to begin with.
In contrast, we have heard tales of
married couples putting up a show of
togetherness when they in fact have
grown apart and have ceased to bring
each other happiness.
See many wives enduring an abusive
physical, verbal or otherwise
relationship for fear of the social stigma
attached to being a broken family.
See many dutiful husbands, providing
well for their families, driving their wives
to and from church, doing errands left and
rightbut leading a double life by having a
lover, or a string of ings on the side.
And yet these same people pooh-
pooh the prospect of recognizing the
union of same-sex couples, deriding it as
unnatural and an insult to the sacrament.
Pray, tell, how can two consenting
adults in a committed, monogamous,
loving relationship be any worse than a
heterosexual couple where one or both
habitually violate the covenants of trust
and respect?
These are the same people who
proclaim that the family is sacred, that its
integrity is inviolable. They think they
know what is best for you, or judge you
for making the choices you did. In fact,
they are talking above their heads.
Yes, the family is threatenedbut
not by divorce, by the availability of
reproductive health options, not by
homosexual unions and other so-called
controversial measures.
The real threats to the family are
bigotry, hypocrisy and non-acceptance.
A family is meant to bring out the
best in you. It can only be whole when
the individuals in themregardless of
sex or ageare whole. It is what we
come home to, what give us strength and
purpose, and what enables us to feel how
good it is to be alive.
Then again, I celebrate too those families
founded in marriage that remain intact for
the right reasonsgenuine love, mutual
respect, honesty and kindness.
Heres to families who take on all
shapes and sizes but remain sound and
solid and beautiful at the core.
[email protected]
Modern families
PETTER
WALLACE
LIKE IT IS
Manila
Standard
TODAY
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
Republic of the Philippines ANNEX A
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Isabela City Sub-District Engineering Offce
Tabuk, Isabela City, Basilan
INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH, Isabela City Sub-
District Engineering Offce, invites contractors to bid for the following contracts:
1. Contract ID: 12JH0005
Contract Name:
REPAIR/REHABILITATION/IMPROVEMENT
LAMITAN-TIPO TIPO NATIONAL ROAD
K035 + 300 TO K036 + 600 WITH
EXCEPTION
Contract Location: BASILAN
Scope of Work: SLOPE PROTECTION
Appropriation: Php 10,000,000.00
Contract Duration: 75 CD
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding
procedures in accordance with the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in
excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI),
purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior
registration with the DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership,
corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to
the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at
least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting
Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of
ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check
and 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:
BAC Activities Schedule
1. Issuance and Availability of Bidding
Documents
June 4, 2012-June 25, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference June 13, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.
3. Receipt of LOIs from prospective Bidders Deadline on June 18, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids June 25, 2012 at 8:00 A.M. to 10:00
A.M.
5. Opening of Bids June 25, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH
Isabela City Sub-District Engineering Offce, Tabuk, Isabela City, Basilan, upon
payment of a non-refundable fee of Php 10,000.00. Prospective bidders may
also download the BDs from the DPWH website, if available. Prospective bidders
that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on
or before the submission of their bid Documents. The Pre-bid Conference shall
be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must be
accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in
Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed
in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The
frst envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include
a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component
of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as
determined in the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The DPWH Isabela City Sub-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:
(Sgd.) MUNAIRA L. SANGKULA
BAC Chairman
NOTED:
(Sgd.) BENSALI A. KASIM
OIC-District Engineer
(MST-JUNE 8 & 11, 2012)
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
REGION IV-A
Quezon 1
st
District Engineering Offce
Lucban, Quezon
INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH, Quezon 1
st

District Engineering Offce, Lucban, Quezon through savings of 2011 Regular
Infrastructure Project, under SARO-SR2011-08-005428 dtd. August 31, 2011,
invites contractors to bid for the aforementioned project;
I-
Contract I.D. - 12-DK-0077
Contract Name - Construction of Water Impounding @ Barangay Anoling
Contract Location - General Nakar, Quezon
Scope of Work - Concrete Pavement with Slope Protection
Approved Budget for
the Contract (ABC) - P5,196,345.00
Contract Duration - 75 calendar days

The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with
the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the BAC shall be
automatically rejected at the opening of Bid.
purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria : (a) prior
registration with the DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership/
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 (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, may submit their applications for
registration to the DPWH, Quezon 1
st
District Engineering Offce, Brgy. Abang,
Lucban, Quezon, before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH POCW-
Central Offce, will only process contractors applications for registration with
complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certifcate of Registration
(CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.
gov.ph
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below
:
1. Issuance of Bidding Document -June 07-June 26, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference -June 14, 2012 @ 10:00 A.M.
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders -June 19, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids -June 26, 2012 @ 2:00 P.M.
5. Opening of Bids -June 26, 2012 @ 2:15 P.M.

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) DPWH, Quezon
1
st
District Engineering Offce, Lucban, Quezon upon payment of non-refundable
fee of Ten Thousand Pesos for the Bid Documents. Prospective bidders may also
download the BDs from the DPWH web site if available. Prospective bidders that will
download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the
submission of their bids Documents. The Pre-Bid Conference shall be open only to
interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must accompanied by a bid
security, in the amount acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
in the Bidding Documents (BDs) in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the
BAC Chairman. The frst envelope shall contain the technical component of the
bid, which shall include a copy of 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, Quezon 1
st
District Engineering Offce, reserves the right to
accept or reject any bid and to annul the bidding process anytime prior contract
`

(Sgd.) HELEN O. ASINAS
BAC Chairman
Tel No.-042-540-4158
NOTED :
(Sgd.) JULIETA A. DESEO
OIC- District Engineer
(MST-JUNE 8, 2012)
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
OFFICE OF THE OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR
REGION VII, CEBU CITY
INVITATION TO APPLY FOR ELIGIBILITY AND TO BID

The Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Offce 7
(DPWHRegional Offce 7), through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites
contractors registered with and classifed by the Philippine Contractors Accreditation
Board (PCAB) to apply for eligibility and if found eligible, to bid for the contract to wit:
Contract I.D.: 12H00061
Contract Name: Rehabilitation of U.N. Avenue
Location of Project: K0009+631.16-K0010+604.75, Mandaue City
Contract Duration: 180 Calendar Days
Approved Budget for
the Contract: PHP 31,018,025.19
Bid Documents: Php 20,000.00
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in accordance
with R.A. 9184 known as Government Procurement Reform Act, and its Revised
Implementing Rules and Regulations. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be
automatically rejected at bid opening.
To be eligible to bid for this contract, a Contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI)
together with their Class A 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 with PCAB License applicable to the type and
cost of this contract, (c) completion of a similar project/contract costing at least 50% of
ABC within a period of 10 years, (d) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal
to ABC, or credit line commitment from a reputable universal and commercial banks for
at least 10% of ABC. (e) Letter of Authority for the representative /Liason Offcer (As
refected in the CRC) to submit LOI and Bids, Have key personnel and equipment owned
and or leased listed in the Eligibility Forms available for the prosecution of the project.
Letter of Intent (LOIs) sent thru mail or fax will not be accepted. The DPWH BAC will
use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check, preliminary examination of
bids, evaluation of bids and post qualifcation.
Unregistered contractors, however, may submit their applications for registration, to
DPWH-POCW , Central Offce before the deadline for the receipt of LOIs. The DPWH-
POCW Central Offce will process only, the contractors applications for registration
with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certifcate of Registration
(CRC) before processing their LOIs. The DPWH Central BAC-TWG will process only
those with complete registration requirements.
All particulars relative to Eligibility Statement and Screening, Bid security, Performance
Security, Pre Bidding conference(s) , Evaluation of Bids, Post Qualifcation and
Award of Contract shall be governed by the pertinent provisions of RA 9184 and its
Implementing Rules and Regulation (IRR).
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown be below.
Issuance of Bidding Documents From: June 6, 2012 June 25, 2012
Pre Bid Conference June 13, 2012 -10:00 A.M.
Deadline of LOIs from Prospective bidders Deadline: June 22, 2012 until 3:00 P.M.
Receipt of Bids June 25, 2012 -10:00 P.M-10:30 A.M.
Opening of Bids June 25, 2012-10:30 A.M.
Prospective bidders may download the Registration and LOI Forms from the DPWH
website www.dpwh.gov.ph. Prospective bidders shall submit their accomplished
LOIs and obtain the results of the eligibility check at the same address.
Prospective bidders may also download the Bidding Documents (BDs), if available,
from the DPWH web site. Bidders that will download the BDS from the DPWH
Website shall pay the said fees as stated aboved 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. The BAC will also issue
hard copies of the (BDs) at the same address upon payment of a non-refundable
fee as stated above. Interested Bidders may obtain further information and inspect
the bidding Documents at the same address.. Bids will be opened in the presence of
the bidders representatives who choose to attend and late bids shall not be accepted.
The __DPWH Regional Offce 7__ reserves the right to accept or reject any bid and
to annul the bidding process anytime before Contract award, without incurring any
liability to the affected bidders and no responsibility whatsoever to compensate or
indemnify bidders for any expenses incurred in the preparation of their bids.

Approved by:

(Sgd.) Atty. AYAON S. MANGGIS
BAC Chairman
(MST-JUNE 8, 2012)
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
2
nd
St., Port Area, Manila
DPWH ROAD REPAIR ADVISORY
The public is informed on the following road repairs to be
undertaken on June 08 (10 PM) to June 11 (4 AM), 2012.
Expect traffc build-up/congestion. Please take alternate
routes.
NAME of ROADS/LIMITS DPWH OFFICE
TEL. NOS.
1. A.H. Lacson St. Sampaloc, Manila
Espaa Blvd to Piy Margal
2. Legarda St., Sampaloc, Manila
Estero Alix to J. Figueras Street
NMED 714-0608
DE Rogelio S. Crespo
(0915) 215-8102
3. Bonny Serrano Avenue, Quezon City
Corner EDSA right lane
QCSED
928-6385
DE Ramon P. Devanadera
(0927) 474-5987
4. A. Bonifacio Avenue Quezon City (southbound)
Between 8
th
Avenue and Old Balara, 2
nd
lane
5. Araneta Avenue Quezon City (northbound)
Between Calamba St., and NS Amoranto, 2
nd
lane
6. Regalado North Quezon City
Bristol St. Regalado North Intersection
QCFED
431-4597
DE Roseller A. Tolentino
(0906) 479-1800
For any concern, complaint, suggestion, recommendation,
observation, please call 165-02; or (02) 536-3477 or text
DPWH (space) message then send to 2920.
Thank you.
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
2
nd
St., Port Area, Manila
Tel. Nos. (02)304-3713; 304-3620; 304-3700
(Sgd.) REYNALDO G. TAGUDANDO
Regional Director
(MST-JUNE 8, 2012)
INVITATION TO BID
June 6, 2012
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH, Regional Offce No. VIII, Baras, Palo,
Leyte, through the GOP/GAA 2012 (DPWH Bridge Construction/Replacement Project under
Spanish Government Financing), invites contractors to bid for the following projects:
1. Contract ID : 12IO0036
Contract Name : Region VIII: Contract Package 6 (CP 6)
1. Construction of Listing Bridge and Approaches,
San Isidro, Leyte
2. Construction of Tugas Bridge and Approaches,
Tabango, Leyte
3. Construction of Lawis Bridge and Approaches,
Tabango, Leyte
4. Construction of Belen Bridge and Approaches,
Leyte, Leyte
5. Construction of Consuegra Bridge and
Approaches, Leyte, Leyte
Contract Location : Leyte
Scope of Work : Construction of Substructure consisting of 2 -spill thru
type of concrete abutments supported by 16/18 -HP
305mm x 95kg/m- Steel H -Piles / 2- 1.20m dia. x 18m
Bored Piles; assembly/erection of 1- Steel Girder at
20m/30m span (Centunion Modular Steel Girder
Bridge); construction of approach roads including
road surfacing; construction of bridge deck slab and
surfacing of the deck; construction of drainage and
slope protection structures, and appurtenant
structures.
Approved Budget for
the Contract (ABC) : Php 116,727,634.18
Contract Duration : 365 Calendar Days
Cost of Bidding Documents : Php 40,000.00
Contract Name : Region VIII: Contract Package 6 (CP 6B)
1. Construction of Hibatian Bridge and
Approaches, Silago, Southern Leyte
2. Construction of Lawaan Bridge and Approaches,
Silago, Southern Leyte
3. Construction of Bagacay Bridge and
Approaches, Silago, Southern Leyte
4. Construction of Bil atan Bridge and Approaches,
San Ricardo, Southern Leyte
5. Construction of Pinut an Bridge and Approaches,
San Ricardo, Southern Leyte
Contract Location : Southern Leyte
Scope of Work : Construction of Substructure consisting of spill thru/
wall type of concrete abutments supported by 2 1.20m
dia. x 9m-20m Bored Piles at Abutments; assembly/
erection of 1 -Steel Girder/Truss at 20m 40m span
(Centunion Modular Steel Girder Bridge); construction of
approach ads including road surfacing; construction of
bridge deck slab and surfacing of the deck; construction of
slope protection works and appurtenant structures.
Approved Budget for
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 standard form DPWH -INFR -15 Letter of Intent (LOI),
purchased bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: a) prior registration with
DPWH, b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino- owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint
venture, c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, d) completion of
a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and e) Net Financial
Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment 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. The BAC will only accept/process LOIs signed by the person authorized
in the Contractors License issued by PCAB and shall be submitted only by the Authorized
Liaison Offcer as specifed in the Contractors Information (CI). Letter of Intent (LOI) sent
thru mail or fax and submission by persons with a Special Power of Attorney shall not be
accepted. Bidders shall submit their bids through their duly authorized liaison offcers.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the DPWH-
Central Procurement Offce, Manila before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH-Central
Procurement Offce will only process contractors application for registration with complete
requirements and issue the Contractors Registration Certifcate (CRC). Registration Forms may
be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents JUNE 8- 28, 2012
2. Pre -Bid Conference JUNE 15, 2012 (2:00 PM)
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders JUNE 25, 2012 (Until 5:00 PM)
4. Receipt of Bids JUNE 28, 2012 (Until 1:30 PM)
5. Opening of Bids JUNE 28, 2012 (1:35 PM)

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at the BAC Secretariat, DPWH,
Regional Offce No. VIII, Baras, Palo, Leyte, upon payment of a non refundable fee as stated above.
Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the DPWH website, if available. Prospective
bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before
the submission of their 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 form 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 CRC. The second envelope shall contain the
fnancial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid
as determined in the bid evaluation and post -qualifcation.
The DPWH, Regional Offce No. VIII, Baras, Palo, Leyte, 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.) EDGAR B. TABACON, CEO VI, CESE
Assistant Regional Director
(BAC Chairman)
NOTED:
(Sgd.) ROLANDO M. ASIS, CESO III
Regional Director
( MST-JUNE 8, 2012
INVITATION TO BID
June 6, 2012
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH, Regional Offce No. VIII,
Baras, Palo, Leyte, through the SARO-ABM-BMB-A-12-0006415, dated 2 January
2012, FY 2012 RA 10155 Regular 2012 Current, invites contractors to bid for the
following projects:
Contract Name : Concreting/Upgrading of Gaps along Lapinig
Arteche Road, K0860+000 K0867+685.52,
Northern Samar
Contract Location : Northern Samar
Scope of Work : Concrete Paving of 6.82552 Kms. Roadway
(Thickness = 0.23M., Width = 6.70M.);
Construction of CHB Lined Canal; Installation of
RC Pipes Cross Drainage (0.91M Dia.) and
Provision of Coconet on Cut/Embankment
Slopes with Coco Log/Fascine and Vegetation.
Approved Budget for
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 standard form
DPWH- INFR -15 Letter of Intent (LOI), purchased bid documents and must meet
the following major criteria: a) prior registration with DPWH, b) Filipino citizen or
75% Filipino- owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, c) with
PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, d) completion of a
similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and e) Net
Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment 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. The BAC will only accept/
process LOIs signed by the person authorized in the Contractors License
issued by PCAB and shall be submitted only by the Authorized Liaison Offcer
as specifed in the Contractors Information (CI). Letter of Intent (LOI) sent thru
mail or fax and submission by persons with a Special Power of Attorney shall
not be accepted. Bidders shall submit their bids through their duly authorized
liaison offcers.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to
the DPWH -Central Procurement Offce, Manila before the deadline for the receipt of
LOI. The DPWH -Central Procurement Offce will only process contractors application
for registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Registration
Certifcate (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website
www.dpwh.gov.ph.
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents JUNE 7- 26, 2012
2. Pre -Bid Conference JUNE 14, 2012 (2:00 PM)
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders JUNE 22, 2012 (Until 5:00 PM)
4. Receipt of Bids JUNE 26, 2012 (Until 1:30 PM)
5. Opening of Bids JUNE 26, 2012 (1:35 PM)

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at the BAC Secretariat,
DPWH, Regional Offce No. VIII, Baras, Palo, Leyte, upon payment of a non-
refundable fee as stated above. Prospective bidders may also download the BDs
from the DPWH website, if available. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs
from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of their
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 form 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 CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid.
Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in
the bid evaluation and post -qualifcation.
The DPWH, Regional Offce No. VIII, Baras, Palo, Leyte, reserves the right to
accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at any time prior contract
Approved by:
(Sgd.) EDGAR B. TABACON, CEO VI, CESE
Assistant Regional Director
(BAC Chairman)
NOTED:
(Sgd.) ROLANDO M. ASIS, CESO III
Regional Director
( MST-JUNE 8, 2012
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS & HIGHWAYS
OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Regional Offce No. VIII
Government Center, Baras, Palo, Leyte
Telephone Nos.: (053) 323-5553
Email Add: [email protected]
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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS & HIGHWAYS
Regional Offce No. VIII
Government Center, Baras, Palo, Leyte
Telephone Nos.: (053) 323-5553
Email Add: [email protected]
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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLI C WORKS AND HI GHWAYS
OFFI CE OF THE DI STRI CT ENGI NEER
I l oi l o 3r d Di s t r i c t Engi neer i ng Of f i c e
Bar ot ac Vi ej o, I l oi l o
INVITATION TO BID
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Iloilo 3rd
Engineering District, Barotac Viejo, Iloilo, through its Bids and Awards
Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the following contract(s):
1. Contract ID No. : 012GH00029
Name of Contract : Reconstruction of Iloilo East Coast
Capiz Road
Location : Ajuy, Iloilo
Brief Description : Reconstruction of Iloilo East Coast
Capiz Road
Approved Budget : Five Million Five Hundred Thousand
for the Contract (ABC) Five Hundred Sixty and 74/100
(P5,500,560.74)
Contract Duration : Sixty (60) calendar days
Name of Contract : Reconstruction of Iloilo East Coast
Capiz Road
Location : Ajuy, Iloilo
Brief Description : Reconstruction of Iloilo East Coast
Capiz Road
Approved Budget : Five Million Thirty Nine Thousand Pesos
for the Contract (ABC) (P5,039,000.00)
Name of Contract : Road Upgrading of Concepcion-San Dionisio
Road
Location : San Dionisio, Iloilo
Brief Description : Road Upgrading of Concepcion-San Dionisio
Road
Approved Budget : Three Million Six Hundred Ninety One
for the Contract (ABC) Thousand Six Hundred Sixteen and 64/100
(P 3,691,616.64)
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding
procedures in accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules
and Regulations. To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter
of Intent (LOI), purchase bid Documents and must meet the following major
criteria: (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b)Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-
owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c)with PCAB
license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion of a
similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and
(e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line
commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary
pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
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.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown
below:
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents from June 8, 2012 to July 10, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference June 26, 2012
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders July 6 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: July 10, 2012
5. Opening of Bids July 10, 2012
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at
Department of Public Works and Highways(DPWH) Iloilo 3rd Engineering
District, Barotac Viejo, Iloilo, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of P
5,000.00 (BDs). Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the
DPWH web site, if available. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs
from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of
their bids Documents. 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 (DPWH) Iloilo 3rd
Engineering District, Barotac Viejo, Iloilo reserves the right to accept or reject
any or all bid and to annul the bidding process anytime before Contract award,
without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.

Approved by:
(Sgd) DENE B. BALDONADO, JR
BAC Chairman
(MST-JUNE 8, 2012)
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Region III
City of San Fernando, Pampanga
June 07, 2012
INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH, Region III, through
the R.A. 10147 CY-2011, invites contractors to bid for the aforementioned project:

1. Contract ID : 12C00038
Contract Name : Imprvt./Rehab. of Manila North Road (MNR),
1
st
District (Paniqui-Moncada Section)
Contract Location : Tarlac
Scope of Work : Widening, Asphalting, Drainage
Approved Budget
for the Contract (ABC) : P29,376,293.90
Contract Duration : 105 calendar days
Contract Name : Imprvt./Widening/Concreting of Manila
North Road (MNR), 2nd District (Tarlac
City- Gerona Section)
Scope of Work : Asphalting
Approved Budget
Contract Name : Imprvt./Widening/Concreting of Manila
North Road (MNR), 3rd District (Bamban-
Capas Section)
Scope of Work : Drainage Canal, Signages, Asphalting
Approved Budget

Contract Name : Rehabilitation and Improvement of
Pampanga Delta Dike
Contract Location : Pampanga
Scope of Work : Asphalting, Slope Protection
Approved Budget

Bidding will be conducted in accordance with the procurement process
stipulated in the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC
shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid.
Contractors/applicants who are interested in the DPWH civil works are
required to register to the DPWH National Registry for Civil Works Contractors
prior to the schedule of submission of bid. Those already registered shall
keep their records current and updated prior to the schedule of submission of
bid. Contractors eligibility to bid on the project will be determined using the
DPWH Contract Profle Eligibility Process (CPEP) and subject to further post-
qualifcation. Information on registration can be obtained at DPWH website
www.dpwh.gov.ph. or CPO, 5
th
Floor, DPWH Bldg., Bonifacio Drive, Port Area,
Manila from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
To bid for this contract, contractor-applicant upon submission of Letter
of Intent (LOI) together with the Contractors Registration Certifcate (CRC),
Contractors Information (CI) and additional documents which the contractors/
applicants may deem necessary in the eligibility processing must purchase a
complete set of bidding documents and must meet the herein major criteria:
a) registered contractor at 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 from the date
of submission and receipt of bids; 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.
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents June 8-27, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference June 15, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. at
the Training Room, this Offce
3. Deadline for Submission/Receipt of Bids June 27, 2012, 10:00 A.M. at
the Training Room, this Offce
4. Opening of Bids June 27, 2012 right after the
submission of bids.
A completed set of Bid Documents (BDs) will be available for issuance at
BAC Offce, DPWH-Region III, Sindalan, City of San Fernando, Pampanga,
upon payment of a non refundable fee of P20,000.00 for Item 1; P40,000.00
for Item 2 and P30,000.00 for Items 3 & 4. Interested contractors may also
download the BDs from the DPWH website (if available) which shall be paid on
or before the submission of bids. The Pre-Bid Conference shall be opened only
to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must be accompanied
by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2
of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders may obtain further information from the BAC of
the concerned procuring entity at DPWH-Region III, Sindalan, City of San
Fernando, Pampanga, with telephone nos. (045) 636-4431.
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. Late Bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened
in the presence of bidders representatives who choose to attend. 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 reserves the right to accept
or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at any time prior to contract award,
without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) ALBIN P. CARREON
BAC-Chairman
(MST-JUNE 8, 2012)
PROVINCE OF MARINDUQUE
Marinduque Provincial Government
Capitol Compound, Boac. Marinduque
Invitation to Bid
Public Bidding
Furnishing design & build, labor, materials & equipment for the CONSTRUCTION OF MARINDUQUE
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT TRAINING INSTITUTE AND CONVENTION CENTER, CAPITOL
COMPOUND, BOAC, MARINDUQUE
The Marinduque Provincial Government, through the General Appropriations Act for CY 2012 intends to apply the sum of Twenty Million Pesos Only
(Php 20,000,000.00) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for the Furnishing design & build, labor,
materials & equipment for the Contruction of Marinduque Disaster Risk Management Training Institute and Convention Center, Capitol
Compound, Boac, Marinduque as shown in the table below. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
Province BEmONC Providers ABC Description
Contract
Duration
Marinduque Marinduque Provincial
Government
20,000,000.00 Constructionof Marinduque Disaster Risk Management
Training Institute and Convention Center
300 days
The Marinduque Provincial Government now invites bids for Furnishing design & build, labor, materials & equipment for the Construction of
Marinduque Disaster Risk Management Training Institute and Convention Center, Capitol Compound, Boac, Marinduque. Bidders should comply
with the applicable provisions of Rule VllI Section 23-24 of the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. A modifed set of requirements integrating eligibility documents
and criteria for infrastructure projects and consulting services should be adopted in accordance withAnnex G. The project requirements include preliminary
information/studies for design and construction. The project components include pre-detailed design, detailed design and construction.
The Design and Build Contractor must have completed similar projects in the amount of at least 50% of the proposed project in tine last ten (l0) years
from the date of submission and receipt if bids and must have the network and resources in place to mobilize the contemplated Design and Build
Services. For the Pre-Detailed Design and Detailed Design portion of the contract, the bidder is required to hire the minimum number of people
(Project Coordinator, Architect, Civil/Structural Engineer, and Professional/Registered Electrical Engineer, Professional/Registered Mechanical
Engineer, and Sanitary Engineer and CADD Operators). The bidder is recommended to prioritize the hiring of locally-based architects, engineers,
and CADD Operators (draftsmen) especially if such have had experience and training in health facilities projects and design.
Completion of the Works required are shown in the table above. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly,
in Section II. Instruction to Bidders.
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive procedures using non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Implementing Rules and
Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act.
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least seventy fve percent (75%) interest or
outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
If the bidder has no experience in design and build projects on its own it may enter into partnerships or joint venture with design or engineering frms
for the design portion of the contract.
Interested bidders may obtain further information from Bids and Awards Committee and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below
from Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Acomplete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from June 07, 2012 to June 28, 2012 during offce hours until before
deadline of submission of bids as stated in item 7 hereof, from the address below and upon payment of a non-refundable fee of P20,000.00.
The Marinduque Provincial Government will hold a Pre-Bid Conference on June 13, 2012, 10:00 a.m. at the PMRB Building, PEO Compound,
Boac, Marinduque which shall be open to all interested parties.
Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before June 28, 2012, 2:00 p.m. at the PMRB Building, PEO Compound, Boac, Marinduque. All
bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the following acceptable forms and in the amount stated in Rule VII Sec. 27.2 of IRR RA 9184.
Bids will be opened in the presence of the Bidders representatives who choose to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted.
Interested Bidders shall submit a Certifed True Copy of Valid PCAB License for this project having the Catergory applicable for the contract specifed.
Interested Bidders shall submit an Original / Certifed true Copy of valid licenses issued by the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) for design
professionals, IAPOA No. for Architect/s, and Updated Professional Tax Receipts (PTR) of each professional.
The Provincial Government of Marinduque 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.
The Marinduque Provincial Government 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 ADORABLE A. RIANZARES (BAC Secretariat Head) Tel. # (042) 332-1498. Provincial General Services
Offce, Capitol Compound, Boac, Marinduque.
(Sgd.) RENATO S. MARTINEZ
Acting BAC Chairman
(MST-JUNE 8, 2012)
InvItatIon to BId
For The Supply of 48 sets of ACM, Gate Drive Unit under
ITB No. 1205-100-01/ PR No. RS1-0512-165
Schedule of Activities:
Pre-bid Conference : June 15, 2012 @ 10:00 A.M.
Cafeteria, LRTA Line 2-Depot,
Santolan, Pasig City
Submission and
Opening of Bids : June 29, 2012 @ 9:00 A.M.
Cafeteria, LRTA Line 2-Depot,
antolan, Pasig City
Technical Specifcations:
Each set consists of the following electronic boards:
1 piece DYSF118A IGBT Protection and Self Supply Board 61430001-UN or
its equivalent
PCB size : 185 x 150 mm
Switching frequency : 2.5 kHz
Static power Dissipation : 4W
Dynamic power dissipation : 10w
Snubber circuit power dissipation : 2W
Super Voltage : 400 900 VDC
2 pieces DYTP123A IGBT Driver Board 61430001-TW (or its equivalent)
PCB size : 57.2 x 60.3 mm
Ambient Temperature : -40 C to 85 C
*Complete Technical Specifcations will be available upon securing the Bidding Documents and can
be viewed on Philgeps and LRTA websites.
The Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA), through its Corporate Budget for the Calendar Year 2012,
intends to apply the sum of NINE MILLION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND PESOS ONLY
(PhP 9,360,000.00) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the afore-
mentioned contract. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
Delivery period is required on or before six (6) months upon receipt of Purchase Order.
LRTA now invites bids from Prospective/Interested Bidders with the following details:
Description Approved
Budget for the
Contract
Bid Security:
Cash/CC-MC
Bank draft/
guarantee or ILC
(2%)*
Security:
Surety bond
(5%)*
Cost of Bid
Documents
Supply of 48
sets of ACM,
Gate Drive Unit
PhP 9,360,000.00 PhP 187,200.00 PhP 468,000.00 PhP 8,000.00
*Only those issued by universal or commercial banks
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using a non-discretionary
pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (R-IRR) of
Republic Act (RA) 9184, otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act.
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least
sixty percent (60%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders commencing on June 8,
2012 until not later than the deadline for the submission and receipt of bids at the address below
and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of Php 8,000.00 only.
Only prospective bidders who have secured bidding documents will be allowed to participate in the Pre-
Bid Conference.
Submission and Opening of Bids will publicly be opened in the presence of the Bidders authorized
representatives who choose to attend. Late bids shall not be accepted. All Bids must be accompanied
by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in the Instructions to Bidders
and the Bid Data Sheet.
LRTA reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids, to annul the bidding process, and to
reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected
bidder or bidders.
For further information, please refer to:
Mr. Eduardo A. Abiva
Head, BAC Secretariat
Administration Bldg., LRTA Cmpd., Aurora Blvd. Tramo, Pasay City
Tel. No. 853-0041 50 loc. 8382
Email Address: [email protected]
Facsimile No. 551-5946
(Sgd.) Mr. LUTGARDO C. NAVARRO
Chairman, Bids & Awards Committee
(MST-JUNE 8, 2012)
Region X
Cagayan de Oro City 2
nd
District Engineering Office
Puntod, Cagayan de Oro City
Telefax (088) 856- 8775/E-mail [email protected]
INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH-CDOC District
Engineering Offce through the Savings Generated from the CY 2011 Infra
Projects invites contractors to bid for the aforementioned projects:
Project No. 1
Contract ID : 12KD029
Contract Name : Rehabilitation of Access Road to Berjaya-GK
Resettlement Area, Cagayan de Oro City
Contract Location : Cagayan de Oro City
Brief Description : Road Concreting and Construction of Slope
Protection
Total Approved Budget
for the Contract: Php 14,636,706.27
Duration: 120 Calendar Days
Project No. 2
Contract Name : LGU-Indahag Resettlement Project Phase I, Brgy.
Indahag, Cagayan de Oro City
Contract Location : Barangay Indahag, Cagayan de Oro City
Brief Description : Road Concreting with drainage
Duration : 210 Calendar Days
Project No.3
Contract Name : LGU-Indahag Resettlement Project Phase II,
Brgy. Indahag Cagayan de Oro City
Contract Location : Barangay Indahag, Cagayan de Oro City
Brief Description : Road Concreting with drainage
Duration : 225 Calendar Days
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the
Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of R.A. 9184. Bids received
in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid.
purchased bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: a) prior
registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership,
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% ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility
check and preliminary examination of bids.
registration to the DPWH-POCW-Central Offce before the deadline for the
receipt of LOI. The DPWH POCW-Central Offce will only process contractors
applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the
Contractors Certifcate of registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be
downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown
below:
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents From June 8, 2012 to June 28, 2012
2. Pre-bid Conference June 15, 2012 at 2:00 pm
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
June 22, 2012 until 12:00 noon
4. Receipt of Bids June 28, 2012 until 10:00 am
5 Opening of Bids June 28, 2012 at 10:00 am
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH-
CDOC District Engineering Offce upon payment of a non refundable fee of
Php 20,000.00 for project nos. 1 and and Php 30,000.00 for project no.
3 . Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from DPWH web site,
if available. Prospective Bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH
website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of their bids
Documents. Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in the amount of and
acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman.
The frst envelop shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall
include a copy of the CRC. The second envelop shall contain the fnancial
component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated
Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and post qualifcation.
The DPWH-Cagayan de Oro City 2
nd
District Engineering Offce reserves
the right to accept or reject any bid and to annul the bidding process anytime
before Contract award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.
(Sgd.) CESAR M. HIPONA, JR.
OIC-Asst. District Engineer
BAC Chairman
Noted :
(Sgd.) ALLAN S. BORROMEO, DM
OIC-District Engineer
(MST-JUNE 8, 2012)
Department of Health
CENTER FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT Metro Manila
VALENZUELA MEDICAL CENTER
Padrigal St., Karuhatan, Valenzuela City
Tel. No. 294-6711 to 16, Telafax 294-5090
BULLETIN OF VACANT POSITIONS
I. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

A. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

1. CENTER FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOR METRO
MANILA;2.VALENZUELA MEDICAL CENTER, VALENZUELA
CITY; 3. ACCOUNTANT I, (1) SG-12, ITEM NO. OSEC-DOHB
Al-30002-1998 4. BACHELORS DEGREE IN COMMERCE/
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MAJOR IN ACCOUNTING; 5.
ELIGIBILITY: RA 1080
2. CENTER FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOR METRO
MANILA; 2.VALENZUELA GENERAL HOSPITAL,
VALENZUELA CITY; 3.MEDICAL SPECIALIST II (1) SG-234,
ITEM NO. OSEC- DOHB-MDSP2-30010-1998; 4. DOCTOR
OF MEDICINE; DIPLOMATE OR FELLOW WITH RELEVANT
TRAINING; 5. ELIGIBILITY: RA 1080
(Sgd.) MARIO C. PANAY, MD, MHA, CESE
District Health Offcer II
(MST-JUNE 8, 2012)
(MST-June 8, 2012)
LUNGSOD NG MAKATI
Bids and Awards Committee
J.P. Rizal St. corner F. Zobel St., Makati City
Tel. No. 870-1000 Fax No. 899-8988
www.makati.gov.ph
INVITATION TO BID
REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS
The City Government of Makati, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites suppliers/manufacturers/
distributors/contractors to apply for eligibility and to bid for the hereunder projects:
NO. NAME OF PROJECT AND BRIEF DESCRIPTION LOCATION APPROVED BUDGET
1 Information and Communication Technology supplies and
peripherals for the use of various schools of Dep-Ed Makati
DEP-ED P2,498,771.50
Prospective Bidders should have experience in undertaking a similar project with an amount of at least 50% of the
proposed project for bidding. The Eligibility Check/Screening as well as the Preliminary Examinations of Bids shall use
non-discretionary pass/fail criteria. Post-Qualifcation of the Lowest Calculated Bid shall be conducted.
All particulars relative to Eligibility Statement and Screening, Bid Security, Performance Security, Pre-Bidding
Conference(s), Evaluation of Bids, Post-Qualifcation and Award of Contract shall be governed by the pertinent provisions
of R.A. 9184 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR).
The complete schedule of activities is listed, as follows:
ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE
1. Pre-Bidding Conference at BAC Conference Room, 9th Floor June 19, 2012 (2:00 P.M.)
2. Opening of Bids at BAC Conference Room, 9th Floor July 03, 2012 (2:00 P.M.)
Bidding Documents will be available only to Prospective Bidders upon payment of a non-refundable amount of
______________________ to the City Government of Makati Cashier.
(fee for Bid Documents) (Procuring Entity)
The City Government of Makati assumes no responsibility whatsoever to compensate or indemnify bidders
(Procuring Entity)
for any expenses incurred in the preparation of the bid.
The City of Makati reserves the right to disqualify any or all proposal, to waive any defects or informalities therein and
to accept such proposal as may be considered most advantageous to the Government.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) MARJORIE A. DE VEYRA
Chairperson
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Grocery owner faces tax raps

IN BRIEF
Govt to appeal injunction
Globe lawyers twit Joey de Vs personality
66 unauthorized school
service vehicles caught
Mortal danger. Unmindful of the Land Transportation Ofces campaign against
unauthorized school service vehicles, a tricycle overloaded with students pass a car and several
trucks at an intersection in Quezon City. DANNY PATA
PH ambassadors to the world. 10 of the 25 candidates for this years Miss World Philippines 2012 wow photographers and journalists
at the Manila Hotel on Thursday. DANNY PATA
By Maria Bernadette Lunas
THE Bureau of Internal Revenue on
Thursday led before the Department
of Justice a P632.83-million tax evasion
case against supermarket operator
Glorimart Trading Inc., owner of the Glo-
Ri Supermart chain, for unreported sales
of land to Shoemart Inc.
Aside from the Quezon City-based company, charges were also led
against its president Gloria G. Navarro and treasurer Luis Navarro.
BIR Commissioner Kim Henares said they charged Glorimart,
its president and its treasurer for willful attempt to evade or defeat
tax, willful failure to le income tax return and deliberate failure
to supply correct and accurate information in its value-added tax
return for the scal year ended June 2008.
Documents from the BIR and the Registers of Deeds of Manila
and Quezon City showed that Glorimart sold to SM on Jan. 7, 2008
parcels of land located in Manila, Quezon City and Novaliches cov-
ered by 21 transfer of certicates of title and six deeds of sale.
The deeds of sale showed a total selling price of P465.19
million, including a 12 percent VAT and a total zonal value of
P592.26 million.
The BIR found that the land were previously used in business by
Glorimart as its supermarket outlets, known as Glo-ris Supermart
and should have been treated as ordinary assets.
Henares said that being ordinary assets, the gain or loss from the
sale of said assets should be declared by Glorimart as an ordinary
gain or loss in its ITR for 2008, but the certicates authorizing the
registration of the lots showed that only the creditable withholding
tax, documentary stamp tax and registration were paid.
Moreover, Glorimart did not le its ITR for 2008 where such
sales should have been reported as income.
Henares said the sales being subject to VAT should have also
been reported in Glorimarts VAT returns, but only the sales amount
of P30.87 million with a corresponding VAT of P4.84 million was
declared by Glorimart in its January 2008 VAT return.
She said Glorimart was assessed a total deciency tax liability
amounting to P632.83 million, inclusive of surcharges and inter-
ests, covering the scal year ended June 2008, broken down into
income tax of P476.77 million and VAT of P156.06 million.
THE company that was tagged in
the ghost repairs of light armored
vehicles owned by the Philippine
National Police was slapped with
P184-million tax evasion case by
the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
ofcials said on Thursday.
Charges of willful attempt to
evade or defeat the payment of
income tax and willful failure
to supply correct and accurate
information in its income tax
return for the year 2007 were
led against Enviroaire Inc., its
president Tyrone N. Ong and
treasurer Arlene Chua.
Enviroaires accountant Su-
san M. Nace was also charged
for certifying the companys
nancial reports for 2007 and
2008 despite supposed under-
declarations.
Enviroaire is a domestic cor-
poration engaged in emission
testing and supply of equipment
and other related products with
ofces at 140 Shaw Boulevard
in Mandaluyong City.
The case was prompted by
a subpoena issued by director
Leonor D. Boado of the Com-
mission on Audits Fraud Audit
Investigation Ofce, ordering the
BIR to issue a certication wheth-
er Enviroaire reported income of
P85.18 million and P140.53 mil-
lion covered by invoices issued in
2007 to the Philippine National
Police Finance Center.
The subpoena was issued as
part of the COAs investigation
on the purchase of spare parts
and maintenance of light ar-
mored vehicles by the PNP.
The BIR certied that En-
viroaire declared gross sales
amounting to P27.59 million in
its ITR for 2007 and the ques-
tioned sales in the aggregate
amount of P225.71 million was
not included in the ITR.
Maria Bernadette Lunas
Police supplier also
hit with evasion case
AT LEAST 66 unauthorized
school service vehicles were
caught during the Land Trans-
portation Ofces Oplan Balik
Eskwela operation in Metro
Manila during the rst three
days of school.
Teolo Guadiz, head of the
LTOs Metro Manila ofce, said
the erring vehicles included bus-
es, Asian utility vehicles, jeeps
and tricycles which had no fran-
chises nor permits to operate as
school service vehicles.
Aside from having no per-
mit, Guadiz said many of the
tricycles were overloaded when
caught and some drivers did not
even wear a seatbelt.
LTO agents caught 10 of the
unauthorized school service ve-
hicles on Commonwealth Av-
enue in Quezon City last Mon-
day. They caught ve more on
Tuesday, and more than 50 on
Wednesday.
Guadiz urged the owners of
qualied vehicles to apply for a
franchise to avoid being appre-
hended and penalized by LTO
enforcers because unauthorized
school service vehicles can be
ned P6,000 while the license
of the driver may be revoked.
School service vehicles
should be painted yellow with
the license plate number painted
on the roof, front, back, and two
sides of the vehicle. They should
also have safety belts and win-
dow grills to protect school chil-
dren from any accidents while in
transit, said the LTO ofcial.
Jonathan Fernandez
By Rio N. Araja

GLOBE Telecom on Thursday slammed
Jose de Venecia III and asked the Que-
zon City Regional Trial Court to dismiss
for utter lack of merit a civil suit he led
asking the court to order telecom rms to
lower their charge for text messages.
Globes lawyers, the Salalima
Castelo & Ungos Law Ofce, in a
59-page counter-reply, told Branch
83 Judge Ralph Lee that De Venecia
does not have the legal personality to
question Memorandum Circular No.
02-10-2011issued by the National
Telecommunications Communications
to Globe, and its two co-respondents
Smart Communications and Digital
Telecommunications Philippines Inc.
Now comes herein petitioner, all of
a sudden, before the Honorable Court,
with an undeniable air of all knowing ar-
rogance, asking it to compel the respon-
dent, NTC, to discharge its positive duty
under the law, the pleading read.
Globe lawyers Rodolfo Salalima and
Derek Lim said De Venecia could not
claim that Globe had any liability to him
for charging P1 per text message since he
was only being charged 50 centavos on
his post-paid subscription.
He is already entitled to, and is in
fact enjoying a special rate of .50 cen-
tavos per text to all other networks, or
way below .80 centavos per text that he
is asking the court to grant him, the
lawyers said.
On Oct. 24, 2011, NTC issued Memo-
randum Circular No. 02-10-2011 entitled
Interconnection Charge for Short Mes-
saging Service, requiring telecoms rms
to reduce their interconnection fee from
.35 centavos to .15 centavos per text.
In November 2011, Globe and Smart
amended their interconnection agree-
ments in accordance with NTCs circular
and started reducing the text rate.
Globe said they were surprised why
NTC, through Froilan Jamias of the
One-Stop Public Assistance Center, is-
sued a show cause order for the alleged
violation of its order.
By Jonathan Fernandez
THE Department of Transportation and
Communications will ask the Court of
Appeals to overturn the writ of preliminary
injunction a Quezon City court issued on the
bidding of the new information technology
system of the Land Transportation Ofce.
Judge Afable Cajigal of the QC
Regional Trial Court Branch 96 earlier
issued an injunction favoring Realtime
Data Management Services Inc. and
Amalgamated Motors Philippines Inc.
over the bidding of a different project for
the supply and delivery of drivers license
cards to the LTO.
[But] the decision... was an outrageous
and agrant violation of Republic Act
No. 8975, which prohibits the issuance
by lower courts of orders of injunction,
among others, against national government
infrastructure projects, said the Ofce of
the Solicitor General in a statement.
The DOTC started the bidding process
for the P8.2-billion project in anticipation
for the expiration of its contract with
Stradcom Corp. in February next year.
Under the current setup, key data such
as vehicle registration are handled by
a third-party provider and not by the
government.
The 13-year-old LTO IT system is
no longer responsive to current land
transportation regulation requirements,
the DOTC said.
For more than a decade, the
weaknesses, loopholes, and oversights of
the original contract have become evident.
More importantly, the government does
not own the system, does not hold the
data, and had to pass through a third party
solutions provider to access the data, it
said.
The new LTO-IT system once in place
will make it easier for authorities to access
relevant vehicle information specially in
tracing stolen vehicles, it added.
Once the automation systems of
LTO and LTFRB are up and running, the
government will be able to eliminate cases
of PUVs securing an LTFRB franchise
without LTO registration, as well as PUVs
that are registered with the LTO but has no
LTFRB franchise, the DOTC said.
Anti-smoking campaign
goes to poor communities
THE Metro Manila Development
Authority will launch after June 12 its
mobile cessation clinic to be manned
by highly trained nurses and qualied
medical personnel to help smokers in
poor communities quit.
Chairman Francis Tolentino said the
anti-smoking clinic will go around the de-
pressed areas in the metropolis to give free
counseling and lifestyle modication tips.
We can now go around the metropolis
offering advice to smokers, especially to
those who really want to stop smoking, but
do not know how or have no means to seek
professional intervention, he said.
The agency has already been operat-
ing a cessation clinic at its headquarters
on Orense Street, Guadalupe, Makati
City to cater to employees in a bid to
strictly enforce a 100 percent smoke-free
environment policy. Rio N. Araja
Agencies brainstorm
over tollway ooding
FOLLOWING the ooding of the
service roads between Merville in
Paranaque and Alabang in Muntinlupa
last week, the Department of Public
Works and Highways, Metro Manila
Development Authority and Skyway
O&M Corp. are studying ways to x the
ood-prone areas.
During a downpour last Thursday,
oodwater from the East service road
between Tanyag and Sucat spilled over
into the expressway and caused ash-
ood in the vicinity of the Sucat south-
bound exit.
MMDA and DPWH sought SOM-
COs assistance in studying the critical
areas and proposing solutions. DPWH
has a budget of P30 million to improve
the drainage of service roads.
SOMCO, for its part, informed
MMDA and DPWH that its ood control
program includes the regular cleaning of
inlets and cross drains along the entire
at-grade section of the Skyway System.
Motorists can call the Skyway hotline
at 776-7777 or mobile numbers (0917)
900-5248, (0919) 560-1163 or (0923)
953-6189 to check the trafc situation at
the Skyway System.
HK returns smuggled
sailn lizards to PH
THE Hong Kong government returned
six sailn lizards which were smuggled
out of the country by a Chinese national
last February.
The lizards, endemic to the country,
arrived yesterday afternoon aboard Phil-
ippine Airlines ight PR319 from Hong
Kong. They were part of a shipment
seized by Hong Kong authorities last
February 8, together with 36 Philippine
pond and Asian box turtles.
The Hong Kong government coordi-
nated with the Katala Foundation Inc., a
non-prot organization active in the pro-
tection and conservation of wildlife, for
the return of the animals to the country.
Vito Barcelo
COMING from promoter Bob Arum
himself, Manny Pacquiao needs
to add more effort when he faces
Timothy Bradley this weekend.
According to the astute promoter,
Pacquiao cannot ght Bradley the
way he fought Juan Manuel Marquez
last November.
Arum insisted Pacquiao cannot
take Bradley lightly eventhough the
undefeated American has yet to face
someone in the league of the Filipino
sensation.
We wanted to get, for Mannys
ght, a young ghter who had a great
record, who could give Manny a great
ght, Arum told Boxingscene That
is always what we try to do, to try to
get a competitive ght. Because if the
ght is not perceived as competitive,
you cannot sell.
Trainer Freddie Roach
meanwhile allayed fears that
Pacquiao is on the decline after
experts noted that the Fighting
congressman has failed to score
a knockout in his last four
victories.
Pacquiao settled for decision
wins over Antonio Margarito,
Miguel Cotto, Shane Mosley and
Marquez in his last four ghts.
Roach said for this training camp,
he saw Pacquiao regaining the re
that made him the most feared boxer
of his time.
I liked what I saw in Baguio. Hes
as determined as ever. It will be a
tough night for Bradley, I believe,
said Roach.
Pacquiao will defend his world
welterweight crown against
Bradley this Sunday at the MGM
Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
PRESSURE FIGHT. But in a
surprising statement, Pacquiao
has admitted he is feeling some
pressure going into his World
Boxing Organization welterweight
title defense against the undefeated
Bradley.
Upon arriving in Las Vegas,
Pacquiao said he is feeling compelled
not just to score a win, but win
convincingly.
Pacquiao told mediamen who met
him upon his Vegas arrival that he felt
the same pressure the last time he lost,
a 12-round razor-thin decision verdict
to Mexican rival Erik Morales.
I feel I needed to win impressively
after Morales. Now its the same. I
need to knock my opponent to be
impressive, said Pacquiao.
Pacquiao disclosed that after the
loss to Morales in 2005, he deemed
it imperative to come back with a
bang as another loss would eventually
mean lesser opportunities to major
ghts.
As it is, Pacquiao has never lost a
ght since the Morales debacle but he
is antsy still as he has yet to score a
knockout in the last four ghts.
FIT AND READY. Pacquiao has
declared his readiness to duke it out
against Bradley.
According to the worlds pound-
for-pound king, he has absorbed
all the knowledge that will help
him win spectacularly against
Bradley.
Pacquiao said Roach was able to
assemble the right sparring partners
who were able to mimic Bradleys
style and tendencies.
Pacquiao believes a win over
Bradley will help him maintain his
stature as the top dog of the sport
considering that the American is
also a highly respected champion.
Pacquiao has sparred with Russian
champions Ruslan Provodnikov and
Rustam Nugaev.
TIGERS ROAR. Philippine Cup
rst runner-up nisher Powerade
has recovered from a deep 0-2 hole
by winning two straight games and
enhance their chances of entering
the playoffs of the ongoing PBA
Governors Cup.
The Tigers biggest win came at
the expense of powerhouse team Talk
N Text, 110-105 Sunday night at the
Araneta Coliseum.
Before that, Powerade defeated
Alaska Aces, 114-97 last Friday.
Coach Bo Perasol attributed their
recovery to the splendid plays of
import Omar Sneed who took the
spot of original reinforcement Rashad
McCants.
Versus Talk N Text, Sneed scored
32 points and grabbed 23 rebounds,
a tting follow-up to his 13-point,
11-rebound performance against the
Aces.
Notwithstanding the back-to-back
wins, Perasol believes they will only
gain huge momentum if they win their
next two games which will be against
league-leader Rain or Shine today
and crowd favorite Brgy. Ginebra on
June 15.
JUNE 8, 2012 FRIDAY
A9 Sports Riera U. Mallari, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
[email protected]
And now, hes one big step closer
to making his basketball dreams
come true.
Durant had 34 points and 14
rebounds while playing all of
regulation for the rst time all season,
and the Thunder claimed a spot in the
NBA nals by beating the San Antonio
Spurs 107-99 on Wednesday night.
Russell Westbrook added 25 points
for the Thunder, who trailed Game 6
of the Western Conference nals by 18
in the rst half and erased a 15-point
halftime decit before pulling ahead to
stay in the fourth.
Its an amazing moment for him
to play like this in this moment, in
this setting, and I wasnt going to
take him out, Brooks said.
I was not going to take him out. I
dont care how many times he looked
at me fatigued. He has enough, and I
think all of our guys have enough to
play. You just have to ght through it.
Thunder reach finals
OKLAHOMA CITYAfter years of
nagging Oklahoma CityThunder coach
Scott Brooks not to take him out of
games, Kevin Durant nally got his wish.
THE fth leg of the RACE Motorsports Club Shell Helix
National Slalom Series erupts on Sunday at the Robinsons
Nova Market parking lot.
Registration starts at 8 a.m. onwards, while the ofcial
runs are set at 11 a.m.
Overall and class champion contenders must use the
specied Federal Tyres and possess the Automobile
Association of the Philippines Clubman license.
The national slalom events are the longest-running
motorsport discipline in the country and is afliated with
the AAP and FIA.
Expected to participate are champions, headed by Dr.
Peewee Mendiola of Big Chill team, Autofastion Team,
headed by Ernie Moreno, DKC/T Factory, led by Patrick
Bautista and Donbert Bumatay, Circle Cy Racing Group,
FERN-C Team and Grupo Toyota, among others.
The event is presented by Shell Helix Motor Oils, co-
sponsored by Federal Tyres, Dubshop Magwheels Inc., Outlast
Battery, Auto Transporter, Starbight Body Kits, Robinsons Nova
Market and Robinsons Malls, and media partners Stoplight
TV, Inside Motoring, Wave 89.1, Wheel to Wheel Insert of C!
Magazine, Auto Industriya.com and Kotse.com.
There will be a free slalom clinic from 9 to 10 a.m.
For details, contact Bing Bang O. Dulce at nos. 928-6951/0922-
816-5344 or 0917-8119337; e-mail racemotorsportsclub@
yahoo.com and Web site www.racemotorsports.com.
Pressured Pacquiao
Top drivers join national slalom series 5
th
leg
Millet eyes Yokohama Expert title
A HUGE eld of over 120
drivers push their respective
title bids in the 2012 Philippine
Drag Racing Championships
Southern Series, which stages
its nal leg today at the
Batangas Racing Circuit Drag
Strip in Rosario, Batangas.
While defending champion
Martin Manalo of RSL Motorsports
and multi-titled Jonathan Tiu of JCT-
Blanche Racing dispute the series
crown, teener Arvin Jay Millet of
TMZ hopes to gain his share of
the spotlight in his quest for the
Yokohama Expert title.
The event is sanctioned by the
Automobile Association Philippines
and sponsored by GT Radial, HKS
Motor Oil, M&H Race Master,
Yokohama and powered by Racing
Beat@Wave 89.1.
Probably the youngest com-
petitor at 19, Millet is part of a
new generation of drag racers,
who have vowed to continue the
popularity and development of the
sport in a legal, safe and controlled
course. He has won the rst two
legs of the Southern Series and
eyes to wind up his campaign with
a bang to seal the title.
Millet currently holds the solo
lead in the Yokohama Expert
class with 31 points, 15 points
ahead of Ace San Agustin of H3
Motorsports (16 points).
But nothing is yet sure for
Millet as San Agustin could
forge a tie-breaker if he wins
this race and Millet either
fails to show up or suffer car
problems that may force him
to quit just before the actual
competition starts.
For further details, interested
parties may log on at www.
batangasracingcircuit.com or
contact the Batangas Racing
Circuit, c/o Nelson Gayola or
Rodini Rivera at (632) 817-2241,
729-5365 or fax 844-7766 or like
us on Facebook, www.facebook.
com/Batangas Racing Circuit.
DENNIS PRINCIPE
SPORTS CHAT
Mathebulas height gives him edge
THE camp of International Boxing Federation
super bantamweight champion Jeffrey Mathebula
believes his height and reach advantage will
make a difference when he battles World Boxing
Organization champion Nonito Donaire in a
unication title ght at the Home Depot Center
in Carson, California on July 7.
Mathebulas promoter Branco Milenkovic
told the Manila Standard that they also think
Mathebula is a natural junior featherweight and
that could also give the South African an edge.
While the Mathebula camp expects a tough, hard fight
from Donaire, they said he is no Manny Pacquiao.
Mathebula said he is excited to unify the
belts, after the bad decision he received against
Celestino Caballero.
The IBF champion who won the title from
countryman Takalani Ndlovu has been back in the
gym three weeks after winning the title last March 24.
I have been in a very hard training in the past
four weeks as I was preparing for a voluntary
defense, said Mathebula. Ronnie Nathanielsz
SPORTSWRITING
was the rst love
of my life that I
felt so bad and sad
the rst time I bade
goodbye to our
relationship after
spending nearly 15 years memorably with the boys at
the press box.
Now, here I am trying to turn back some well-loved
incidents in the past in various sporting arenas and
recalling those sensational victories with fond memories,
as well as those abysmal defeats with a heavy heart.
The whirlwind victory carved out by sprinter Lydia de
Vega in the century dash against host Indias pride, PT
Usha, in the eight Asian Games in New Delhi in 1981
choked my throat and blinded my eyes.
I have seen many more amazing feats and bitter clashes
between our title-holders and their crown-pretenders.
Who could forget World Cup bowling champions Paeng
Nepomuceno and Bong Coo?
I could still conjure the sensational triumphs of
swimmers Eric Buhain and Akiko Thompson in the
Southeast Asian Games and those of boxers Leopoldo
Serrantes and Onyok Velasco in the Olympics.
I also saw our professional cagers at the height of
their popularity, Sonny Jaworski and Atoy Co in the
fabled Toyota-Crispa rivalry in the Philippine Basketball
Association; the Espinosas, Luisito and Dodie in boxing;
and Amang Parica in billiards.
Today, the greatest performance ever recorded by a
Filipino athlete was authored by a scrawny 106-pound
prizeghter from Mindanao, who rose to become the only
man on earth to win eight world titles in as many weight
divisions.
Manny Pacman Pacquiao, 32, from the lone district
of Sarangani, where he is its lone representative to
Congress, is the countrys most treasured marquee in
boxing and the worlds undisputed pound-for-pound king
in the ring.
Before the Pacman, boxing was neither respectable
nor widespread in its appeal to Filipino fans. Today, the
streets are empty and the bloody battles with the rebels
freeze to give way to the Pacman demolishing his rival
in the ring.
Paquiaos great truculence, pugnacity and
aggressiveness, coupled by his tremendous courage,
speed and showmanship, have earned for him the respect
and admiration of the world.
I was at that cavernous MGM Grand in Las Vegas in
2009 when Manny Pacquiao destroyed the cocky British
challenger Ricky Hatton in just two rounds to disappoint
two planeloads of English fans for the International
Boxing Organization light welterweight title.
A Briton, seated next to me, failed to empty his ice-
cold beer-in-can when Hatton dropped like a sack to
the canvass, glassy-eyed, his body stiffened, his mouth
cock-opened and his arms spread-eagled wide before the
stunned crowd.
Since man started sanctioning violence in the ring, it
is only our own boxing icon Manny Pacman Pacquaio
who has changed the landscape of boxing with his own
calculated ferocity and elegantly savage gifts.
His medley of punches, in the bang-bang-bang style,
skills, agility, durability, zeal, rhythm and grace are in
great abundance that he could slug and knock out his
opponent with either hands and protect himself win an
array of defenses.
But Pacquiao is esteemed as the symbol of good in
the ring. Always the heavy favorite, he has not felled
some rivals early in ghts that could have easily ended
via the short routes, believing that boxing is not
killing each other.
Paquiaos hands are invariably quick and superb at
putting together combinations with rapid accuracy and
power, but in his ght against Oscar De La Hoya and
Antonio Margarito, he turned the savage ghts into a
ballet of pugnacity.
After raising the bar of boxing to a higher level, all the
things that Manny Pacman Pacquiao now does and says
are news, the latest of which are his sermons as the Bible-
preaching convert of a pious Christian faith.
Boxing used to belong to Muhammad Ali, the
Americans called the Greatest. But on Sunday at the
Mecca of boxing in Las Vegas, Pacquaio will nally
fulll the prophecy as the boxer of the millennium in his
ght against Timothy Bradley.
First love of my life
RAY ROQUERO
THE MORNING AFTER
Durant grabbed the nal rebound,
dribbled the ball across halfcourt and
raised his right st to celebrate with
a sold-out crowd wearing free white
T-shirts. The franchise will play for
the NBA title for the rst time since
1996, before relocating from Seattle.
Even before the nal buzzer,
Durant indulged by hugging
his mother and brother seated
courtside after a foul was called
with 14 seconds remaining.
I never want to take those
moments for granted, Durant said.
I know its just one step closer to
our dreams, but it felt good.
Tony Parker had 29 points and
12 assists for San Antonio, but
only eight of the points and two
assists came in the second half.
The Thunder outscored the Spurs 59-
36 after falling behind 63-48 at halftime
and getting a challenge from Brooks
that he said had nothing to do with
committing eight turnovers against only
six assists while allowing San Antonio to
shoot 9 for 15 on 3-pointers.
It just had everything to do with
who we are as men, who we are as a
team, the type of spirit that we want
to show every time down the court,
Brooks said. It was all about that,
about body language, about being a
family. I thought our guys did that
the rst possession of that second
half and they did not look back. AP
Mark Castro of Toyota Auto Club Philippines Racing Team is one of the participants in the
RACE Motorsports Club Shell Helix National Slalom Serieson Sunday at the Robinsons
Nova Market parking lot.
CEBUSunshine Baraquiel sizzled with 58
Molave points to catch erstwhile solo leader
Princess Superal at the helm in the second round
of the 49th Southern Ladies golf tournament at
the Cebu Country Club here yesterday.
Baraquiel, playing out of Manila
Southwoods, turned in a awless round
of four-under 68 in stroke play, besting
Superals opening 69 and setting the stage
for a two-player duel for the crown in the
centerpiece Championship division.
Counting her 72 worth 54 points Wednes-
day, Baraquiel, who birdied Nos. 1, 6, 12 and
17, pooled a 112, the same output put in by
Superal of ICTSI, who slowed down with 55
points after a 57.
Jayvie Agojo, also of ICTSI team, also shot 55
points but stood too far behind the joint leaders at 107
heading to the final round of the 54-hole tournament
serving as part of the NGAP-Globe Business Circuit
and organized and conducted by the National Golf
Association of the Phils.
Superal fought back from a bogey mishap on
No. 3 with three straight birdies from No. 7 but
made two other bogeys on Nos. 13 and 18 against
her fourth birdie at 17th.
Agojo also had a good start with birdies
on Nos. 7 and 8 but fumbled with bogeys on
Nos. 14 and 15f before birdying the 16th for
a 71 and 55 points.
Sarah Ababa scored 56 points for a 106 while
Alta Vistas Ericka Lim turned in 52 points for a 105
in a tie with reigning Philippine amateur champion
Lovelynn Guioguio, who had 53 points.
In the 36-hole seniors play of the event, spon-
sored by the Philippine Sports Commission,
WWWExpress-DHL Worldwide Express, Direc-
tories Phils. Corp. Yellow Pages, Leisure and Re-
sorts World Corp, Security Bank and St. Lukes
Medical Center with Fords Inn as the ofcial ho-
tel, Violeta Pegels of Forest Hills scored 43 and
41 points for 84 to post a two-point victory over
Aguinaldos Leni Cabili, who had an 82 from
rounds of 40-42. Eva Hino of CCC Highbestus
and Mary Ang of Forest Hills both had 74s after
36 and 34 points, respectively.
Flawless 68
nets Baraquiel
share of lead
Arizas...
From A10
He said he had trained Chavez Jr. for four
successful ghts, including two title defenses and
was the only one to ever get him to make weight in
his career, on time without any problems even as
he alleged that even if Chavez Jr. loses, Arum wont
suffer because he has options on Andy Lee.
The feud between Arum and Ariza has been
brewing for sometime after Ariza alleged that the
Top Rank promoter was the stumbling block to
making a megabuck ght between Pacquiao and
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and that the Filipino was
not earning what was rightfully his in his ghts.
Arum vehemently denied the claims of Ariza,
while members of Team Pacquiao, who accused
Ariza of abandoning Manny in the middle of his
training camp in Baguio, said the strength and
conditioning coach interfered in areas that were not
his concern instead of concentrating on his task of
getting the Pacman into top shape for his ght.
Sports
Manila Standard TODAY
Bradley, according to Arum,
is really very condent.
I am ready to shock the
world. Im ready to do whatever
it takes in there to win the ght.
Its going to be war, Bradley
told a pre-ght press conference.
Bradleys trainer Joel
Diaz backed up his ghters
statements by predicting that
JUNE 8, 2012 FRIDAY
A10
Riera U. Mallari, Editor [email protected] [email protected]
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
TOP Rank promoter Bob Arum said
Fighter of the Decade Manny Pacquiao is
determined to put on a great performance
when he defends his World Boxing
Organization welterweight title against
undefeated junior welterweight champion
Timothy Bradley at the MGM Grand
Garden Arena on Sunday (Manila time).
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STRUGGLING Meralco and
Barako Bull are bringing in
new imports to salvage their
sagging campaigns in the
2012 Philippine Basketball
Association Governors Cup.
Due to Champ Oguchis
lackluster performance, the Bolts
will be resting their chances on
new import Mario West, while
the Energy will welcome back a
familiar face in Leroy Hickerson.
The Bolts have hired West,
a former NBA player, in an
attempt to arrest their three-
game skid and keep their
playoff hopes alive.
West played for the Atlanta
Hawks from 2007 until 2010 be-
fore transferring to
the New Jersey Nets
in the 2010 to 2011
NBA season. The
65 wingman al-
ready joined Meral-
co yesterday in his
rst practice.
As for Barako Bull, the high-
ying Hickerson, who already
served as the teams import in
the 2010 Fiesta Cup, is now
back in town and will already
suit up today against Petron
Blaze at 5:15 p.m., before the
7:30 game between Rain or
Shine and Powerade.
Hickerson, who
replaced ineffec-
tive Jamine Pe-
terson, tallied im-
pressive numbers
of 32.8 points,
14.2 rebounds and
4.8 assists in his
rst stint in 2010. He is set
to arrive early morning today
and will immediately be mea-
sured at the PBA ofce before
plunging to action right away.
THE differences between Top
Rank promoter Bob Arum and
strength and conditioning guru
Alex Ariza have turned ugly.
Two days after Ariza ew to
Las Vegas to train World Boxing
Council middleweight champion
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and
emailed photos of himself with
Chavez Jr. to disprove claims
that he had been red, Top
Rank photographer Chris Farina
earlier today emailed the Manila
Standard a photo with Chavezs
new strength and conditioning
coach Luis Cornejo.
Roach had earlier also
attempted to keep Ariza out of
Manny Pacquiaos corner when
he faces Timothy Bradley on
Sunday, but after Pacquiao met
with Roach, Ariza and cutman
Miguel Diaz, the Filipino
champion insisted that Ariza
remain in his corner.
Roach had criticized Ariza
when he left Pacquiaos
training camp in Baguio City to
train Chavez Jr., saying he was
irresponsible. But Ariza said
he got Pacquiaos permission
to leave, which the ring icon
himself conrmed.
Ariza told the Manila Standard
that Arum was responsible for
threatening to have him arrested
by police should he enter the Top
Rank Gym in Las Vegas, where he
was training Chavez Jr.
The strength and conditioning
coach claimed Chavez Jr didnt
even know what happened and
only found out today that Arum
is not going to put me on the
plane, not going to give me
credentials, if I go to practice,
hes going to have me arrested
if I go to Top Rank. He had me
blocked by the guards at the gate
where Chavez Jr. lives, with my
name on a do not enter list.
Ariza lamented the fact
that Chavez Jr., who is facing
Irelands Andy Lee at the Sun
Bowl Stadium in El Paso,
Texas on June 16, has been
deprived of his services barely
two weeks before his title
defense.
Arizas
rift with
Roach
worsens
Meralco, Air21 tap new imports
THE Philippine Azkals
national football team, whose
FIFA rankings went down a
notch to no.149 this month,
may soon play a friendly with
a Major League Soccer team in
the United States next month.
Negotiations are now under
way for the Chicago Fire to
seek action against the Azkals,
who will travel to the US in
August for a training camp set
Aug. 10 to 25.
Its in the works. And, we
are quite optimistic that this will
push through, said national
team manager Dan Palami.
A half-month training camp
in the US is being planned
for the Azkals after they play
a friendly with Guam at the
Panaad Park and Stadium,
Mansilingan, Bacolod City at 7
p.m. on June 12.
The game with Guam,
which is listed at no. 194 in
the world rankings, will cap
a three-nation friendly, which
also involved Malaysia and
Indonesia.
The friendlies are part of the
Azkals buildup for the coming
2012 Suzuki Cup this November
in Thailand and Malaysia.
Two more friendlies are also
being planned while the Azkals
are still in the US, with the rst
one against the Virgin Islands
side. Peter Atencio
PH Azkals
to hold
US camp
Manny Pacquiao (left) and
Timothy Bradley come face to
face during a press conference
announcing their Sunday ght
at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Pacquiao is putting his WBO
welterweight title on the line. AP
Saturday night will be the upset
of the decade.
Pacquiao was his usual
pleasant self, acknowledging
that Bradley is a hungry ghter,
hes young and I know what hes
feeling. I feel like Im 22 years
old. My team wants me to stop
training, but I keep pushing
because Bradley is inspired to
train hard to beat me.
Trainer Freddie Roach, who
will spend some $20,000 for a
private plane to take him to the
Hall of Fame induction ceremony
immediately after the ght, had
no harsh words about Bradley
whom he earlier described as a
bodybuilder.
He said Bradley will
move in slow motion and be
overwhelmed by the speed and
power of Pacquiao.
Were looking forward to
ghting and beating a previously
undefeated ghter, said Roach.
Arum told Manila Standard
that he is hoping the stability in
Pacquiaos personal life, which
was almost in shambles prior to
the third ght against Marquez,
where the Filipino won a hugely
controversial majority decision,
will make a difference in the
Bradley ght.
Pacquiao is not as stressed
out as he has been in the past.
He is much better rested, hes
much more at peace with himself
so I think hes prepared to do a
tremendous performance, said
Arum, who added he expects a
sell-out crowd or within a few
hundred or so.
The Top Rank promoter also
said he is looking forward to
seeing how Pacquiaos 20-year-
old protg, super featherweight
Ernie Sanchez (12-3, 5 KOs) from
Pacquiaos hometown of General
Santos City, fares in an eight-round
bout against Wilton Hilario (12-
2-1, 9 KOs) from the Dominican
Republic and who ghts out of
Minnesota on the undercard.
Arum also claried the Nevada
State Athletic Commissions
report that Pacquiaos guaranteed
purse is $6 million and Bradleys
$5 million.
BI NANGONANTe e n e r
Miguel Tabuena moved on the
threshold of a second career win
by ring a solid four-under 68
yesterday as he tied Jay Bayron
in the lead after two rounds of
the P1 million International
Container Terminal Services
Inc. Eastridge Classic at the
Eastridge Golf Club here.
Tabuena, 17, gunned down four
birdies against two bogeys at the
up-and-down layout, his 36-hole
aggregate of 138 putting himself
on track for a second crownand
another P200,000 purseafter
scoring a come-from-behind
victory in the kickoff leg of this
years ICTSI Philippine Golf Tour
at Splendido last March.
Like Tabuena and majority
of the eld, Bayron birdied
the par-5 18th for the second
straight day, his back-to-back
69s also placing him in position
for redemption after blowing
a ve-stroke lead with a nal
round fold-up at the ICTSI Eagle
Ridge Invitational won by Tony
Lascuna two weeks ago.
With opening day co-leader
Mars Pucay fumbling with two
bogeys in the rst three holes,
Bayron threatened to pull away
with three straight birdies from
tee-off then added two more on
Nos. 8 and 9 to go 8-under overall.
But the former Order of Merit
champion stumbled with a
double-bogey on the par-4 ninth
and settled for a two-birdie, two-
bogey stint at the back for a 33-
36 card.
Falling behind by as many as
four at the turn, Tabuena made
his move with three birdies in
the rst four holes at the back
then held on for a closing 33,
making up for a bogey on the
17th with a nal hole birdie.
Lascuna failed to get going after
a birdie on No. 3, settling for two
more birdies against two bogeys
for a second straight 71 and a 142
in a tie with Pucay, who ended up
with a 73, and Angelo Que, who
needed to birdie two of the last
four holes to salvage a 72.
But the troika stood four
strokes behind the joint leaders
at 142 heading to the nal 18
holes of the three-day event
organized by Pilipinas Golf
Tournaments, Inc. and sponsored
by International Container
Terminal Services Inc.
Tabuena ties Bayron at helm with 68
World champion. Paraaque Jiu-jitsuka ghter Eros Baluyot
(center) ruled the 126-pound Rooster Division of the World Jiu-jitsu
Championship at Walters Pyramid in Long Beach, California, USA.
Barangay Ginebra Kings fans day. Mark Caguioa, Erik Menk
and the rest of the Barangay Ginebra Kings attended the Ginebra
San Miguel Ginuman Fest held recently in Barangay Tala, Caloocan
City. Popular bands Rocksteddy, Itchyworms and Callalily also graced
the event to be held in Lucena City (May 30), Puerto Princesa (June
16), Balayan in Batangas (June 22) and Dagupan City (June 30).
Games Today
(Smart Araneta
Coliseum)
5:15 p.m. Barako Bull
vs. Petron Blaze
7:30 p.m. Rain or
Shine vs. Powerade
Turn to A9
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107
NBA RESULT
OKC enters finals
speed, power
Pacman to use
Business
JUNE 8, 2012 FRIDAY
B1
Ray S. Eano, Editor [email protected]
Roderick T. dela Cruz, Assistant Editor [email protected]
IN BRIEF
Gross international reserves drop slightly to $76b
New PLDT voting shares OKd
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Indian
BPO rm
expands
Banks say PH nearing investment grade
HCL Technologies, an Indian business process outsourcing company, is hiring more workers this year for its expansion in Quezon
City. At the launching ceremony for its planned expansion are (from left) Randeep Chikara, vice president, HCL Technologies Ltd.
Business Services; Trade Assistant Secretary Fe Agoncillo-Reyes; Raghavan Rangarajan, HCL head for global operations; and Subrat
Chakravarty, head of human resources of HCL Technologies. SONNY ESPIRITU
By Julito G. Rada
HCL Technologies, an Indian
business process outsourcing
company, said Thursday it plans
to hire more workers this year for
its expansion in Quezon City.
Actually, the facility is
currently operational with 180
people employed there already.
So we have a balance of 220
people to meet the facilitys total
seat capacity of 400, Raghavan
Rangarajan, HCL head for
global operations, said at the
sidelines of the announcement in
Mandaluyong City.
Rangarajan said the new state-
of-the-art global delivery center
was exclusively for business
process outsourcing services in
the Philippines.
The Philippines is currently one
of the largest BPO destinations
globally, with the BPO sector
generating $9 billion in revenue
and employing 450,000 people.
Rangarajan said his company
was expanding its Philippine
operation because of the
adaptability of its workforce to
different cultures, cheap labor
cost and good language skills.
Actually when it comes to
labor cost and language skills,
Filipinos are comparable to
Indians, Rangarajan said.
Rangarajan said the Philippines
would play a signicant role
in HCLs continued expansion
worldwide.
HCL Technologies is a
$4-billion IT solutions company
headquartered in Noida, India. It
has delivery footprint in the United
Kingdom, Northern Ireland, the
United States and Poland.
Earlier, HCL Technologies
headquarters in India said it was
planning to set up a BPO delivery
facility in the Philippines by the
end of its scal year ending June.
THE gross international reserves
fell at the end of May, as the
government settled some of its
maturing foreign debt while
gold prices declined.
The Bangko Sentral said
reserves amounted to $76 billion,
down $500 million from the end-
April level of $76.5 billion.
The slight decline in end-May
2012 GIR level resulted mainly
from disbursements arising
from payments by the national
government for its maturing
foreign exchange obligations as
well as revaluation losses on the
Bangko Sentrals gold holdings
due to the decline in the price of
gold in the international market,
Bangko Sentral Governor Amando
Tetangco Jr. said in a statement.
It was the third month the
foreign exchange reserves fell
since hitting a record high of
$77.4 billion in end-January. The
reserves declined to $77 billion
in February and to $76.1 billion
in March before recovering to
$76.5 billion in April.
The debt payments, however,
were partially offset by inows
from foreign exchange operations
and income from investments
abroad of the Bangko Sentral as
well as foreign currency deposits
by authorized agent banks.
Tetangco said the end-May
2012 forex reserves remained
adequate to serve the countrys
foreign currency requirements.
It could cover 11.4 months
worth of imports of goods and
payments of services and income,
he said. It is also equivalent to
10.8 times the countrys short-term
external debt based on original
maturity and 6.6 times based on
residual maturity.
Residual maturity refers to the
adequacy of reserves to cover
outstanding short-term debt based
on original maturity, plus principal
payments on medium- and long-
term loans of the government and
private sector falling due in the next
12 months. Elaine R. Alanguilan
Coke bullish on PH
COCA-COLA Femsa SAB, Latin
Americas largest Coke bottler, expressed
optimism about a potential expansion in
the Philippines, according to a research
note issued Thursday by Scotia Capital.
The bottler sees the Asian country as an
important expansion opportunity under
the right conditions, Rodrigo Echagaray,
an analyst with Scotia Capital, wrote
after a meeting with Coca-Cola Femsas
management. He rates the companys
shares sector perform, the equivalent of
hold.
In February, the Mexico City-based
company said it was in talks to buy
control of Coca-Cola Co.s Filipino unit
in what would be Coca-Cola Femsas
rst acquisition outside Latin America.
The Mexican bottler would also consider
a joint venture in the Philippines with
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. instead of a
full acquisition, Echagaray said.
This would reduce the capital risk
considerably, Echagaray wrote. In sum,
we do buy into the argument of a potential
expansion in the Philippines, especially
at the right price and under the right
circumstances. Bloomberg
Higher Cirtek revenue
PUBLICLY-LISTED Cirtek Holdings
Philippines Corp. expects revenue to hit
$4.2 million this year with the additional
orders from new and existing customers
starting this month.
Anthony Buyawe, Cirtek chief finance
officer, said the company continues to
win more orders from existing customers
making our factory at fully utilized till the
end of this year. The companys state-
of-the art semiconductor manufacturing
facility is located at the Laguna
Technopark.
These new orders from our existing
customers and new business wins the
company is focusing on will improve
the companys revenue this year versus
its projections, and since majority of the
products are customer specic and high
ASP [high average selling price], this will
improve the companys prot and loss
statement, Buyawe said.
Cirtek customers that increased orders
this year include Semtech, Maxim, Exar,
EM and Cambridge. Additional annual
revenue from the new customers is
estimated at $2 million.
Lailany P. Gomez
By Elaine R. Alanguilan
THE strong economic growth in the rst
quarter and sustained reforms by the
Aquino administration are bringing the
country closer to an investment-grade
sovereign rating, the research units of
two foreign banks said.
We believe the Philippines sovereign
credit rating is rmly on a positive
trajectory, given recent developments on
sin taxes, public-private partnerships,
as well as increasing interest from
foreign direct investors, said Barclays
Capital Ltd. economist Prakriti Sofat.
We expect at least one rating agency
to upgrade the Philippines in three to
six months, catching up with Fitch.
Moodys currently rates the Philippines
Ba2 Positive, S&P rates the sovereign
BB Positive and Fitch rates it BB+
Stable. In addition, we now believe
Fitch is likely to change the outlook
to Positive in the coming three to six
months, Sofat said.
Moodys trigger for upgrade includes
structural improvements in revenue
mobilization, continued reductions in the
government debt burden, an acceleration
of investment spending that places the
economy on a path of stronger growth.
Meanwhile, S&P looks on material
progress in achieving a sustainable
structural revenue improvement or
further strengthening of the public
balance sheet, yielding reduced scal
vulnerability.
ANZ Research, a unit of Australia and
New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., said
improved monetary and scal policy
credibility as well as better governance
and political stability would help shield
the Philippines from rising global
uncertainties.
As a consequence, these will limit
the potential damage to the investment
cycle and overall
e c o n o m i c
p r o s p e c t s
from a narrow
( mer chandi s e)
export sector or
a structurally
low government
revenue base (as
a percentage of
gross domestic
product), ANZ
said in its report
Asia Pacic
E c o n o m i c s
P h i l i p p i n e s
Update.
By Lailany P. Gomez
THE Securities and Exchange Commission
approved the petition of Philippine Long
Distance Telephone Co. to issue 150 million
voting preferred shares to local investors that will
effectively increase Filipino ownership of the
company and comply with the Supreme Courts
ruling on foreign ownership cap.
PLDT said in a disclosure to the
stock exchange the SEC approved on
June 5 the companys bid to issue fresh
150 million shares of voting preferred
stock with a par value of P1 and about
807.5 million shares of non-voting
serial preferred stock with par value of
P10 each.
The PLDT board, however, has yet
to determine the terms of the issuance.
The creation of new voting preferred
shares seeks to reduce the share of
foreign-owned shares with voting rights
from 59 percent to 35 percent, and
in effect increase Filipino ownership
of the company from 41 percent to
65 percent, in compliance with the
Constitutional requirements.
The 1987 Constitution limits foreign
ownership of utilities such as telecom
companies to 40 percent.
The Supreme Court ruled in June
2011 that foreign ownership of local
public utilities should be calculated
based on the denition of capital,
which refers to shares of stock entitled
to vote in the election of directors, and
not to the total outstanding capital.
The new denition put PLDT in
breach of the 40-percent foreign
ownership limit. The high tribunals
ruling, stemming from a motion
led by the late businessman Wilson
Gamboa, found that foreigners owned
at least 60 percent of the common
shares of PLDT.
PLDT said the new shares of
voting preferred stock may be issued,
owned or transferred only to Filipino
individual, a corporation of which at
least 60 percent of the capital stock
is owned and held by Filipino, and a
trustee of funds for pension or other
employee retirement organized under
the laws of the country.
PLDT had said it would issue the
preferred voting shares to its Benecial
Trust Fund to benet ofcers and
employees.
Majority of PLDTs stockholders
or 97 percent approved the creation of
new voting preferred shares to resolve
foreign ownership issues during a
special meeting held in March.
Major shareholders in PLDT include
Hong Kongs First Pacic Co. Ltd. and
Japans NTT Communications and
NTT DoCoMo.
TRADI NG SUMMARY
SHARES VALUE
FINANCIAL 16,361,504 881,232,933.80
INDUSTRIAL 126,395,394 829,183,232.19
HOLDING FIRMS 59,603,481 1,068,526,771.11
PROPERTY 147,361,524 532,925,028.16
SERVICES 157,279,956 996,775,227.66
MINING & OIL 748,425,507 414,754,573.63
GRAND TOTAL 1,255,427,366 4,723,397,766.55
FINANCIAL 1,245.73 (up) 8.89
INDUSTRIAL 7,741.20 (up) 107.34
HOLDING FIRMS 4,351.64 (up) 55.39
PROPERTY 1,808.80 (up) 17.73
SERVICES 1,648.44 (up) 15.82
MINING & OIL 24,097.22 (up) 458.04
PSEI 5,022.95 (up) 56.37
All Shares Index 3,349.11 (up) 31.35
Gainers: 104; Losers: 49; Unchanged:48; Total: 201
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JUNE 8, 2012 FRIDAY
B2
52 Weeks Previous % Net Foreign
High Low STOCKS Close High Low Close Change Volume Trade/Buying
MST BUSINESS DAILY STOCKS REVIEW
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012
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FINANCIAL
70.00 46.00 Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. 67.70 69.00 67.45 67.80 0.15 6,814,820 (73,344,093.50)
76.80 50.00 Bank of PI 67.85 69.00 68.00 68.70 1.25 1,705,070 16,037,726.50
1.82 0.69 Bankard, Inc. 0.68 0.70 0.70 0.70 2.94 60,000
512.00 370.00 China Bank 550.00 560.00 550.00 550.00 0.00 11,850 533,500.00
1.95 1.42 BDO Leasing & Fin. Inc. 1.72 1.74 1.74 1.74 1.16 1,000
23.90 12.50 COL Financial 23.00 23.20 23.00 23.20 0.87 137,800 1,160,000.00
Eastwest Bank 19.00 19.40 19.10 19.22 1.16 5,181,400 35,642,956.00
3.26 1.91 I-Remit Inc. 2.38 2.38 2.38 2.38 0.00 5,000
775.00 475.20 Manulife Fin. Corp. 472.00 473.00 470.00 470.00 (0.42) 1,490
29.00 3.00 Maybank ATR KE 37.95 38.35 38.00 38.35 1.05 27,300
93.50 60.00 Metrobank 86.50 87.65 86.50 87.00 0.58 1,146,360 (18,380,230.50)
3.06 1.30 Natl Reinsurance Corp. 2.02 2.02 1.94 1.94 (3.96) 34,000
126.00 35.00 Phil Bank of Comm 72.00 69.00 69.00 69.00 (4.17) 3,000
16.85 41.00 Phil. National Bank 69.50 70.00 69.55 69.60 0.14 203,120 2,074,820.50
85.00 57.70 Phil. Savings Bank 82.00 82.00 82.00 82.00 0.00 70
539.00 204.80 PSE Inc. 350.00 350.00 349.00 350.00 0.00 570
44.40 25.45 RCBC À 43.95 43.95 43.85 43.90 (0.11) 259,000.00 (1,751,660.00)
151.50 77.00 Security Bank 127.50 131.40 128.00 130.40 2.27 411,030 (12,566,002.00)
1390.00 950.00 Sun Life Financial 910.00 920.00 910.00 910.00 0.00 210
140.00 58.00 Union Bank 99.90 100.00 99.00 99.00 (0.90) 83,310 770,231.50
2.06 1.43 Vantage Equities 1.78 1.80 1.80 1.80 1.12 275,000
INDUSTRIAL
35.50 26.50 Aboitiz Power Corp. 33.70 34.45 33.80 34.05 1.04 2,099,100 12,484,475.00
13.58 7.32 Agrinurture Inc. 11.00 11.18 11.00 11.08 0.73 1,194,200 110,000.00
23.50 11.98 Alaska Milk Corp. 23.50 23.50 23.50 23.50 0.00 200
1.86 0.97 Alliance Tuna Intl Inc. 1.40 1.46 1.38 1.45 3.57 220,000 (33,840.00)
54.90 26.00 Alphaland Corp. 29.95 29.40 29.40 29.40 (1.84) 200
1.65 1.08 Alsons Cons. 1.30 1.31 1.30 1.31 0.77 380,000
Asiabest Group 23.50 25.45 23.55 24.20 2.98 137,600
138.00 45.00 Bogo Medellin 49.00 52.80 52.80 52.80 7.76 500
102.80 3.02 Bloomberry 8.70 8.96 8.61 8.70 0.00 3,000,000 (2,306,764.00)
2.88 2.24 Calapan Venture 2.30 2.40 2.40 2.40 4.35 100,000
3.07 2.30 Chemrez Technologies Inc. 2.48 2.48 2.48 2.48 0.00 250,000 124,000.00
8.33 7.41 Cirtek Holdings (Chips) 8.65 8.90 8.40 8.79 1.62 578,100
7.06 4.83 Energy Devt. Corp. (EDC) 5.69 5.86 5.73 5.85 2.81 4,479,200 (1,979,761.00)
6.28 2.80 EEI 6.05 6.16 6.00 6.02 (0.50) 1,427,100 (67,760.00)
3.80 1.00 Euro-Med Lab. 1.80 1.84 1.84 1.84 2.22 9,000
25.00 5.80 Federal Chemicals 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 0.00 3,000
15.58 12.50 First Gen Corp. 15.70 16.52 15.98 15.98 1.78 5,769,700 (3,909,490.00)
67.20 51.50 First Holdings A 68.80 72.00 69.00 70.95 3.13 625,190 2,466,083.00
31.50 22.50 Ginebra San Miguel Inc. 20.90 20.90 20.80 20.90 0.00 19,500
0.10 0.0095 Greenergy 0.0140 0.0140 0.0130 0.0140 0.00 17,500,000
13.50 7.80 Holcim Philippines Inc. 11.60 11.70 11.40 11.70 0.86 277,000
9.00 4.71 Integ. Micro-Electronics 4.00 4.00 3.98 3.99 (0.25) 277,000 (925,950.00)
2.35 0.95 Ionics Inc 1.690 1.850 1.680 1.730 2.37 1,581,000 51,810.00
120.00 80.00 Jollibee Foods Corp. 106.10 109.40 107.10 107.10 0.94 197,670 12,895,473.00
8.40 1.04 LMG Chemicals 1.70 1.75 1.66 1.67 (1.76) 430,000 (17,000.00)
1.55 0.99 Mabuhay Vinyl Corp. 1.50 1.60 1.54 1.60 6.67 5,000
24.70 17.94 Manila Water Co. Inc. 24.35 24.55 24.35 24.40 0.21 1,423,000 (21,017,445.00)
15.30 8.12 Megawide 17.96 17.98 17.96 17.96 0.00 53,700
295.00 215.00 Mla. Elect. Co À 237.00 244.00 239.00 244.00 2.95 138,600 10,894,592.00
11.00 7.00 Pancake House Inc. 10.98 10.20 10.10 10.10 (8.01) 2,800
3.00 1.96 Pepsi-Cola Products Phil. 2.77 2.77 2.72 2.77 0.00 1,188,000 2,770,000.00
17.40 9.70 Petron Corporation 10.36 10.38 10.24 10.36 0.00 922,100 (908,636.00)
15.24 9.01 Phoenix Petroleum Phils. 8.45 8.30 8.20 8.21 (2.84) 257,100 4,125.00
9.50 5.25 Republic Cement À 8.70 8.80 8.50 8.80 1.15 64,700 (416,730.00)
2.55 1.01 RFM Corporation 2.99 3.10 2.99 3.00 0.33 7,465,000 3,815,400.00
6.50 2.90 Salcon Power Corp. 4.50 4.80 4.55 4.80 6.67 7,000
33.00 27.70 San Miguel Brewery Inc. 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 0.00 1,500
132.60 105.70 San Miguel Corp À 112.50 114.00 112.80 113.50 0.89 359,270 28,216,619.00
1.90 1.25 Seacem 1.73 1.79 1.73 1.79 3.47 4,935,000 (220,500.00)
2.50 1.85 Splash Corporation 1.85 1.88 1.88 1.88 1.62 6,000
0.250 0.112 Swift Foods, Inc. 0.131 0.131 0.128 0.131 0.00 580,000 23,040.00
5.46 2.92 Tanduay Holdings 3.85 3.85 3.80 3.85 0.00 116,000 385,000.00
3.62 1.99 TKC Steel Corp. 2.25 2.25 2.15 2.20 (2.22) 50,000
1.41 0.90 Trans-Asia Oil 1.24 1.24 1.23 1.23 (0.81) 1,430,000 (147,600.00)
68.00 36.20 Universal Robina 60.50 62.20 61.00 61.50 1.65 2,822,660 (33,550,797.00)
Victorias Milling 2.25 2.33 1.78 1.80 (20.00) 52,417,000 (7,091,520.00)
1.12 0.285 Vitarich Corp. 0.740 0.770 0.720 0.720 (2.70) 1,832,000 (75,000.00)
18.00 2.55 Vivant Corp. 10.00 12.80 10.20 10.52 5.20 38,100 (14,438.00)
1.22 0.68 Vulcan Indl. 0.93 0.93 0.91 0.91 (2.15) 255,000
HOLDING FIRMS
59.90 35.50 Aboitiz Equity 49.00 50.80 49.10 50.10 2.24 692,500 2,810,040.00
0.019 0.014 Alcorn Gold Res. 0.0150 0.0150 0.0150 0.0150 0.00 100,000
13.48 8.00 Alliance Global Inc. 11.94 12.10 11.96 11.98 0.34 22,047,100 (152,751,800.00)
2.97 1.67 Anglo Holdings A 1.96 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.04 250,000 (200,000.00)
4.60 3.00 Anscor À 4.40 4.40 4.37 4.40 0.00 56,000
6.98 0.260 Asia Amalgamated A 4.40 4.55 4.35 4.55 3.41 11,000
3.15 1.49 ATN Holdings A 1.88 1.88 1.69 1.88 0.00 22,000
4.16 2.30 ATN Holdings B 2.30 2.60 2.30 2.60 13.04 3,000
437.00 272.00 Ayala Corp À 431.80 449.00 434.00 437.00 1.20 132,790 23,538,656.00
59.45 30.50 DMCI Holdings 55.00 56.50 54.90 55.20 0.36 3,668,500 47,691,306.50
4.19 1.03 F&J Prince A 2.60 2.50 2.50 2.50 (3.85) 10,000
5.25 3.30 Filinvest Dev. Corp. 4.00 4.09 4.00 4.01 0.25 212,000
GT Capital 478.00 488.00 478.20 479.00 0.21 213,640 (1,339,140.00)
5.22 2.90 House of Inv. 4.40 4.50 4.38 4.49 2.05 276,000
34.80 19.00 JG Summit Holdings 32.00 32.75 31.95 32.50 1.56 1,645,700 16,306,510.00
6.95 4.00 Lopez Holdings Corp. 5.69 5.95 5.75 5.84 2.64 2,752,600 349,003.00
1.54 0.61 Lodestar Invt. Holdg.Corp. 1.02 1.09 1.02 1.08 5.88 1,373,000 321,220.00
3.82 1.500 Marcventures Hldgs., Inc. 2.56 2.59 2.51 2.52 (1.56) 1,124,000 (735,720.00)
4.45 2.56 Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. 4.09 4.23 4.17 4.22 3.18 10,394,000 20,639,750.00
6.24 2.10 Minerales Industrias Corp. 4.64 4.65 4.65 4.65 0.22 1,000
4.72 1.22 MJCI Investments Inc. 4.40 4.40 4.40 4.40 0.00 3,000
0.0770 0.054 Pacica À 0.0510 0.0510 0.0500 0.0500 (1.96) 70,000
2.40 0.91 Seafront À 1.37 1.37 1.37 1.37 0.00 17,000
0.490 0.285 Sinophil Corp. 0.320 0.320 0.320 0.320 0.00 240,000
699.00 450.00 SM Investments Inc. 681.00 686.00 684.00 685.00 0.59 291,090 (51,675,750.00)
1.78 1.00 Solid Group Inc. 1.40 1.40 1.39 1.39 (0.71) 349,000
1.57 1.14 South China Res. Inc. 1.22 1.22 1.19 1.19 (2.46) 250,000
0.420 0.099 Unioil Res. & Hldgs 0.2500 0.2250 0.2200 0.2200 (12.00) 340,000
0.620 0.056 Wellex Industries 0.3600 0.3750 0.3500 0.3750 4.17 5,880,000
1.370 0.178 Zeus Holdings 0.510 0.530 0.500 0.510 0.00 5,726,000 242,730.00
P R O P E R T Y
39.00 11.00 Anchor Land Holdings Inc. 38.00 40.45 38.00 40.45 6.45 1,200
22.40 13.36 Ayala Land `B 19.52 19.96 19.60 19.90 1.95 7,547,800 74,369,112.00
6.12 3.08 Belle Corp. À 4.84 4.80 4.72 4.72 (2.48) 308,000 241,800.00
9.00 2.26 Cebu Holdings 6.00 6.20 5.95 5.98 (0.33) 192,100
5.66 0.26 Century Property 1.48 1.48 1.46 1.46 (1.35) 382,000
2.85 1.20 City & Land Dev. 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.40 0.00 21,000
1.65 1.07 Cityland Dev. À 1.20 1.23 1.20 1.20 0.00 23,000
0.127 0.060 Crown Equities Inc. 0.080 0.080 0.080 0.080 0.00 50,000
1.16 0.67 Cyber Bay Corp. 0.79 0.81 0.79 0.81 2.53 638,000
0.90 0.54 Empire East Land 0.710 0.750 0.720 0.720 1.41 21,248,000 (370,000.00)
0.310 0.10 Ever Gotesco 0.161 0.170 0.170 0.170 5.59 960,000
3.06 1.76 Global-Estate 1.74 1.80 1.74 1.75 0.57 4,142,000 (4,110,280.00)
1.35 0.98 Filinvest Land,Inc. 1.25 1.27 1.24 1.24 (0.80) 16,758,000 (7,333,970.00)
3.80 1.21 Highlands Prime 1.70 1.76 1.72 1.75 2.94 14,000
2.14 0.65 Interport À 1.06 1.07 1.07 1.07 0.94 85,000
4.50 1.50 Keppel Properties 1.92 2.00 1.93 1.93 0.52 10,000
2.48 1.51 Megaworld Corp. 1.96 1.99 1.93 1.94 (1.02) 29,813,000 (9,289,410.00)
0.80 0.215 MRC Allied Ind. 0.1880 0.1900 0.1830 0.1880 0.00 360,000
0.990 0.072 Phil. Estates Corp. 0.6700 0.7400 0.6800 0.7100 5.97 46,480,000 (122,180.00)
0.71 0.41 Phil. Realty À 0.480 0.480 0.470 0.480 0.00 160,000
4.77 1.80 Polar Property Holdings 3.92 3.99 3.80 3.96 1.02 218,000
18.86 10.00 Robinsons Land `B 16.58 16.98 16.70 16.78 1.21 2,652,000 19,875,502.00
Rockwell 3.20 3.25 3.18 3.18 (0.63) 371,000
2.70 1.74 Shang Properties Inc. 2.48 2.48 2.47 2.47 (0.40) 19,000
9.47 6.50 SM Development À 6.17 6.25 6.14 6.14 (0.49) 151,900 (183,308.00)
18.20 10.90 SM Prime Holdings 12.40 12.60 12.46 12.58 1.45 9,189,100 (27,899,850.00)
4.30 2.60 Vista Land & Lifescapes 4.110 4.180 4.110 4.170 1.46 1,481,000 1,193,830.00
S E R V I C E S
2GO Group 1.90 1.96 1.80 1.80 (5.26) 8,000
43.00 28.60 ABS-CBN 35.50 36.80 35.50 36.80 3.66 33,200
14.76 1.60 Acesite Hotel 15.00 15.24 14.50 15.00 0.00 26,000 7,540.00
0.80 0.45 APC Group, Inc. 0.630 0.690 0.640 0.650 3.17 962,000
9.30 7.30 Asian Terminals Inc. 8.65 8.61 8.61 8.61 (0.46) 600
0.5300 0.0660 Boulevard Holdings 0.1490 0.1510 0.1450 0.1470 (1.34) 20,040,000 60,000.00
Calata Corp. 10.92 11.58 11.04 11.54 5.68 10,328,600 1,968,778.00
98.15 62.50 Cebu Air Inc. (5J) 68.00 68.25 67.50 67.50 (0.74) 35,790 (1,445,822.50)
10.60 8.20 Centro Esc. Univ. 10.10 10.10 10.10 10.10 0.00 1,000
9.70 5.40 DFNN Inc. 5.51 6.50 5.52 6.10 10.71 202,000 1,560.00
5.90 1.45 Easy Call Common 3.25 3.25 3.25 3.25 0.00 6,000
1750.00 765.00 FEUI 965.00 965.00 965.00 965.00 0.00 70
1172.00 11.70 Globalports 25.00 27.50 27.50 27.50 10.00 300
1270.00 825.00 Globe Telecom 1060.00 1100.00 1060.00 1060.00 0.00 51,095 (6,282,405.00)
10.34 6.18 GMA Network Inc. 10.10 10.14 10.06 10.10 0.00 933,000
69.00 43.40 I.C.T.S.I. 69.50 71.00 70.00 70.00 0.72 554,920 (3,145,452.50)
18.40 5.00 Imperial Res. À 9.00 8.70 8.70 8.70 (3.33) 2,000
6.00 4.00 IPeople Inc. À 5.55 5.60 5.50 5.55 0.00 16,000
4.29 2.20 IP Converge 4.19 4.19 4.13 4.13 (1.43) 229,000 20,700.00
34.50 0.123 IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 0.044 0.043 0.041 0.042 (4.55) 86,500,000 135,300.00
3.87 1.16 IPVG Corp. 1.04 1.07 1.04 1.05 0.96 232,000
0.0760 0.040 Island Info 0.0550 0.0540 0.0500 0.0540 (1.82) 20,000
5.1900 2.900 ISM Communications 2.6400 2.6300 2.6100 2.6300 (0.38) 70,000
3.79 1.58 JTH Davies Holdings Inc. 2.30 2.40 2.40 2.40 4.35 10,000
11.68 5.90 Leisure & Resorts 6.60 6.76 6.60 6.60 0.00 127,300
4.28 2.65 Liberty Telecom 2.75 2.73 2.73 2.73 (0.73) 10,000
3.96 2.70 Macroasia Corp. 2.85 2.85 2.85 2.85 0.00 2,000
3.00 1.00 Manila Jockey 2.05 2.20 2.08 2.13 3.90 1,680,000 (42,000.00)
21.00 17.20 Pacic Online Sys. Corp. 19.92 20.20 20.00 20.00 0.40 25,400
8.58 4.50 PAL Holdings Inc. 7.25 7.39 7.20 7.20 (0.69) 59,700 720.00
3.32 1.05 Paxys Inc. 2.88 2.93 2.88 2.91 1.04 637,000 (244,830.00)
10.00 4.60 Phil. Racing Club 9.00 9.01 9.01 9.01 0.11 3,000
60.00 17.02 Phil. Seven Corp. 42.00 42.00 42.00 42.00 0.00 111,900 4,632,600.00
17.18 14.50 Philweb.Com Inc. 15.40 15.50 15.10 15.46 0.39 825,900 (408,744.00)
2886.00 2096.00 PLDT Common 2416.00 2446.00 2426.00 2444.00 1.16 223,195 50,907,450.00
0.48 0.23 PremiereHorizon 0.320 0.330 0.330 0.330 3.13 170,000 49,500.00
23.75 10.68 Puregold 23.85 25.15 24.00 24.90 4.40 4,000,600 53,694,010.00
3.30 2.40 Transpacic Broadcast 2.70 2.60 2.60 2.60 (3.70) 10,000
0.79 0.26 Waterfront Phils. 0.420 0.440 0.425 0.440 4.76 70,000
MINING & OIL
0.0083 0.0036 Abra Mining 0.0042 0.0043 0.0042 0.0042 0.00 85,000,000
6.20 3.01 Apex À 4.70 4.80 4.75 4.80 2.13 11,000
6.22 3.00 Apex `B 4.80 4.82 4.82 4.82 0.42 10,000
25.20 14.50 Atlas Cons. À 17.76 17.84 17.76 17.76 0.00 347,200 (191,758.00)
31.00 20.00 Atok-Big Wedge À 29.95 29.90 29.90 29.90 (0.17) 200
0.380 0.148 Basic Energy Corp. 0.250 0.250 0.247 0.247 (1.20) 830,000
30.35 15.00 Benguet Corp À 22.00 23.10 22.00 22.95 4.32 106,800
34.00 14.50 Benguet Corp `B 22.22 22.20 22.00 22.00 (0.99) 29,300
50.85 4.35 Dizon 33.25 35.00 33.75 33.95 2.11 272,800 40,790.00
1.21 0.50 Geograce Res. Phil. Inc. 0.70 0.72 0.70 0.70 0.00 1,264,000
1.82 0.5900 Lepanto À 1.320 1.400 1.320 1.350 2.27 74,879,000
2.070 0.6700 Lepanto `B 1.360 1.440 1.360 1.420 4.41 23,368,000 5,211,910.00
0.085 0.035 Manila Mining À 0.0630 0.0660 0.0630 0.0650 3.17 194,610,000
0.087 0.035 Manila Mining `B 0.0640 0.0660 0.0650 0.0650 1.56 166,620,000 1,650,000.00
34.80 15.04 Nickelasia 28.40 29.65 28.50 29.50 3.87 1,661,800 5,739,760.00
12.76 2.08 Nihao Mineral Resources 8.84 9.10 8.80 8.84 0.00 811,000 (2,325,341.00)
1.100 0.008 Omico 0.7000 0.7300 0.6900 0.6900 (1.43) 563,000
8.40 2.12 Oriental Peninsula Res. 5.110 5.300 5.100 5.120 0.20 3,057,300 (10,560.00)
0.032 0.012 Oriental Pet. À 0.0170 0.0180 0.0180 0.0180 5.88 30,600,000
0.033 0.013 Oriental Pet. `B 0.0190 0.0180 0.0180 0.0180 (5.26) 12,500,000
7.14 5.10 Petroenergy Res. Corp. 6.00 6.00 6.00 6.00 0.00 400
28.95 17.08 Philex À 23.50 24.45 23.80 23.95 1.91 3,222,800 6,579,235.00
14.18 3.00 PhilexPetroleum 37.85 40.30 37.95 40.05 5.81 1,185,200 8,929,295.00
0.058 0.013 Philodrill Corp. À 0.041 0.044 0.043 0.043 4.88 136,000,000 (1,023,400.00)
252.00 161.10 Semirara Corp. 220.00 222.00 220.00 220.00 0.00 148,740 (7,379,560.00)
0.029 0.013 United Paragon 0.0180 0.0190 0.0180 0.0180 0.00 10,800,000 (7,200.00)
PREFERRED
47.90 27.30 ABS-CBN Holdings Corp. 38.00 37.80 37.50 37.50 (1.32) 109,300 1,231,380.00
First Gen G 100.80 100.90 100.90 100.90 0.10 5,250
11.02 6.00 GMA Holdings Inc. 9.96 10.08 9.98 10.00 0.40 3,952,300 27,628,360.00
116.70 106.20 PCOR-Preferred 111.00 111.50 111.00 111.10 0.09 6,180
80.00 74.50 SMC Preferred 1 75.10 76.00 75.10 75.10 0.00 2,630
1050.00 990.00 SMPFC Preferred 1022.00 1025.00 1020.00 1020.00 (0.20) 10,975
6.00 0.87 Swift Pref 1.03 1.05 1.05 1.05 1.94 20,000
WARRANTS & BONDS
1.35 0.62 Megaworld Corp. Warrants 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.00 300,000 100,000.00
0.210 0.00 Omico Corp. Warrant 0.0670 0.0780 0.0770 0.0780 16.42 330,000
Ms. Herreras column
will resume next week.
MAYA BALTAZAR
HERRERA
INTEGRATIONS
Started with a bang,
ended with a whimper?
Stocks up; PLDT,
Metro Pacific rise
AN air of anticipation is rippling through gun
acionados, concerned citizens, and most
especially the Philippine National Police once
again as interested bidders gun (pun intended) for
the PNPs standardization specications for the .9
mm caliber pistol. Happy Hour sources disclosed
that some 59,904 units estimated at a staggering
P1.19 billion are being eyed for the PNPs
standardization programfour times bigger than
last years bid which had to be aborted due to
technical glitcheswhich will make the upcoming
public bidding the single-biggest arms bid in PNP
history.
The standardization program is said to be a pet
projectone that is not only close to the hearts but
actually the holstersof none other than President
Noynoy Aquino himself and his kabarilans
headed by Interior and Local Government
Undersecretary Rico Puno. The objective of
course is to provide the PNP with a uniform,
interoperable and interchangeable system of parts
that would help the police perform their work with
more efciency, aside from the fact that having
a standard rearm for the entire police personnel
will give PNP the capability and infrastructure for
managing a cost-efcient inventory of spare parts
and after sales maintenance and service.
Heres hoping the latter two essential elements
will seriously be taken into considerationsince
curiously, they do not seem to appear in the
specications as prescribed in the Napolcom
resolution 2004-62. Otherwise, this may haunt
the PNP in the end precisely because our coppers
carry an assortment of handgunswhich can
prove detrimental in critical situations where a cop
who runs out of ammunition cannot use the bullets
of another due to incompatibility.
The Happy Hour gang recalls that the last
thing heard about the PNP bid was centered on
the controversial stress/durability test where
bidders pistols were made to undergo 20,000
rounds without changing a single spare part
under the close scrutiny of co-bidders, the media,
stakeholders and advocates. In basketball parlance,
close man to man guarding.
At the time, the bidders included Armscor
(Arms Corp. of the Philippines) offering the Italian
brand Tanfoglio Force 99 (partially assembled in
the Philippines and which in fact led the pack with
the lowest bid), Trust Trade carrying the popular
Glock, Armaments United with the Beretta brand
and Espinelli which offered the Jericho.
Needless to say (and presumably with all the
good intentions of Usec Puno), the stress/durability
test encountered a few technical aws with funds
running out in the process. The Happy Hour
cabal of drinkers noted, however, that Armscors
Tanfoglio reached almost 16,000 rounds of ring
without changing a single spare part, which makes
such an occurrence a remarkable milestone in the
countrys shooting record.
But as the saying goes, all that is now water
under the bridge. Today, the stakes are much
higher. Word in the (ring) range is that the stress
test has been modied so that certain parts may
be changed, but the endurance test remains at
20,000 rounds. Glock (Trust Trade) and Beretta
(Armaments United) have supposedly signed up,
with three or four more expected to follow suit in
time for yesterdays pre-bid conference, with the
public bidding scheduled on June 21. It would
be very interesting to know if Philippine pride
Armscor (whose exports are doing very well in
the global market by all accounts) and a China
manufacturer will join the fray.
Lets hope that this time, the PNP will hit the
bulls eye, unlike the last time when the bid started
with a bangonly to end with a whimper.
For comments, reactions, photos, stories

and related concerns, readers may e-mail to
[email protected].
STOCKS rose Thursday, extending the
gains from two previous sessions, on
speculation policy makers around the
world will take steps to revive the slowing
economy.
The Philippine Stock
Exchange index, the 30-company
benchmark, advanced 56 points,
or 1.1 percent, to close at
5,022.95. All six counters posted
gains, led by the 1.9-percent
increase of mining stocks.
The heavier index representing
all shares also picked up 31
points, or 1.0 percent, to 3,349.11,
as gainers led losers, 104 to 49,
with 48 issues unchanged.
Manila Electric Co. rose 3.0
percent to P244. The nations
biggest power retailer said the
generation charge, which accounts
for more than half of a customers
total electricity bill, will rise this
month after spot market prices
more than doubled. Electricity
demand in its franchise area
reached a new high of 5,633
megawatts in May, it said.
Metro Pacic Investments
Corp. added 3.2 percent to
P4.22 after the company said
it bought an additional 282.2
million preferred shares in
Beacon Electric Assets Holdings
Inc., increasing its investment in
Meralcos largest shareholder to
P11.57 billion.
Philippine Long Distance
Telephone Co. increased 1.2
percent to P2,444, after it
reported the number of its post-
paid mobile subscribers hit 2
million, exceeding that of its
rival.
APC Group Inc. went up by
3.2 percent to 65 centavos. The
energy and mining company may
revive a $200-million cement
plant project in Cebu province, a
stock ling showed.
Meanwhile, Asian stock
markets rose Thursday, boosted by
hopes that Europe is preparing to
take action to tackle the regions
nancial crisis and comments from
a Fed policymaker about possible
support for the US economy.
Benchmarks across Asia rose,
including Japans Nikkei 225
index, up 1.1 percent to 8,625.63
and Hong Kongs Hang Seng,
which added 1.4 percent to
18,783.06.
Hopes for strong action by the
US central bank were lifted by
comments from Atlanta Federal
Reserve president Dennis
Lockhart, who said Wednesday
that sustained weakness in job
creation could justify more
action to support the economic
recovery.
Traders will be closely
watching Fed Chairman Ben
Bernankes testimony before
a congressional committee
Thursday for any hints that
the Fed is considering more
monetary stimulus.
The Fed is believed to be
considering a third round
of quantitative easing, or
purchases of Treasury bonds to
try to lower long-term interest
rates and encourage borrowing.
Traders have speculated that
a third round, QE3, is under
consideration.
Investors will try to get a hint
from him whether Bernanke
is going to roll out QE3 or just
extend Operation Twist or some
other kind of hybrid policy, said
Jackson Wong, vice president at
Tanrich Securities in Hong Kong.
But there will be something. If
he hints at nothing, the markets
might take it negatively.
Hopes of new Fed moves
helped traders overlook
the disappointment that the
European Central Bank offered
no new monetary stimulus on
Wednesday. Its chief Mario
Draghi said it was the turn
of governments to restore
condence in the 17 nations that
use the euro common currency.
Draghi, however, has left
himself some room to maneuver,
saying that well monitor closely
all the developments and well
stand ready to act if necessary.
He also said some members of
the 23-member ECB council
advocated a rate cut.
This implies that rate cuts
are in the pipeline very soon
but any more action will require
European politicians to act rst,
analysts at Credit Agricole CIB
in Hong Kong said in a market
commentary.
South Koreas Kospi index
jumped 2.5 percent to 1,846.44
and Australias S&P/ASX 200
added 1.3 percent to 4,107.
Benchmarks in mainland
China, India, New Zealand and
Indonesia also rose.
With Bloomberg, AP
Manila
Standard
TODAY
Republ i c of t he Phi l i ppi nes
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLI C WORKS AND HI GHWAYS
Nat i onal Capi t al Regi on
NORTH MANI LA ENGI NEERI NG DI STRI CT
Off i ce of t he Di st r i ct Engi neer
Nagt ahan, Mani l a
INVITATION TO BID
The North Manila Engineering District, through its Bids and Awards
Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the following contract(s):
1. Contract ID: 12-OE0045
Contract Name: Completion of Construction of Education
Facilities (Isabelo Delos Reyes Elementary
School)
Contract Location: Tondo, Manila
Scope of Work: Completion of Construction of School Bldg.
Approved Budget for the
Contract (ABC): Php 9,689,588.96
Contract Duration: 120 calendar days
Contract Name: Construction/Rehabilitation/Improvement of
Multi-purpose Building Zone 25-40, 3
rd
District
Contract Location: Manila City
Scope of Work: Const/Rehab/Imprvt. Of Multi-purpose Bldg.
Contract Name: Repair/Rehabilitation/lmprovement of Road
Network Zone 25-40, 3
rd
District
Contract Location: Manila City
Scope of Work: Repair/Rehab/Imprvt of Road Network
Contract Name: Raising of Grade and Asphalt Overlay of
Maceda St
Contract Location: Sampaloc, Manila
Scope of Work: Raising of Grade and Asphalt Overlay of Road
Contract (ABC): Php 7,661.041.10
Contract Name: Raising of Grade with Drainage
Improvement of Raxabago St (Juan Luna to
Bridge Approach)
Contract Location: Tondo, Manila
Scope of Work: Raising of Grade w/Drainage Imprvt. of Road
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures
in accordance with RA. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and
Regulations.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) and
must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior 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
Interested contractors are also required to present the originals of their
PCAB License and Contractor's Registration Certifcate, Certifcate of
Registration from Philgeps, DPWH Accreditation of their Materials Engineer to
be assigned to the project pursuant to D.O. #184, s. 1999, Mayors Permit and
Tax Clearance per E.O. #395, s. 2005, to the BAC for authentication.
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 the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders From: May 29, 2012 to
June 13, 2012 5:00 P.M.
2. Issuance of Bids Documents From: May 29 to June 18, 2012
3. Pre-Bid conference 10:00 A.M. June 6, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: 10:00 A.M. June 18, 2012
5. Opening of Bids 10:05 A.M. June 18, 2012
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at BAC
Ofhce. North Manila Engineering District . Letters of Intent are free of
charge pursuant to D. O. No. 52, series of 2011. Prospective bidders may
also download the BDs, if available, from the DPWH web site. Prospective
bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said
fees on or before the submission of their bids Documents in the amount of
Php 10,000.00 for project. 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 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 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 North Manila Engineering District reserves the right to accept or reject
any or all bid and to annul the bidding process anytime before Contract award,
without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.
(Sgd.) MA. PERLA M. SESBREO
BAC Vice Chairman
A P P R O V E D :
(Sgd.) ROGELIO S.CRESPO
District Engineer
(MST-JUNE 8, 2012)
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B3
PLDT now has 2m
postpaid subscribers
PNOC looking for
coal plant partners
OceanaGold presses govt to lift mining ban
Energy asks US agency
to assess biomass sites
By Alena Mae S. Flores
PNOC-EXPLORATION Corp., a unit of
state-owned Philippine National Oil Co., has
started preparations to look for a joint venture
partner for planned mine-mouth coal plants
in Zamboanga Sibugay and Isabela with
a combined capacity of 200 megawatts, a
company ofcial said Thursday.
Joseph Omar Castillo, PNOC
Exploration vice president, told
reporters the company would hire
an advisor to help the company
scout for joint venture partners
from the private sector.
Advisory work is open to
local and foreign [rms]. We are
giving 135 day timeline for joint
venture selection, Castillo said.
PNOC Exploration has set the
deadline for submission of bids for
the technical advisor on Aug. 2.
The advisor has 135 days to select
PNOC Explorations joint venture
partner for the two coal projects.
We just want minority [stake
in the joint venture] so PNOC
EC is up to 49 percent only, the
ofcial said.
He said the selection of the
transaction advisor was part of
the guidelines of the National
Economic and Development
Authority on joint venture
agreements.
Castillo said PNOC
Exploration was optimistic
it could find a competent
joint venture partner for the
two projects.
There are many prospective
partners and competitive bidding
is best way to get the best deal,
he said, adding that the company
might select a joint venture partner
as early as 100 days from August
when the transaction advisor
contract would be awarded.
PNOC Exploration ofcials
earlier said San Miguel Corp.
had expressed interest to team up
with the company to develop the
Isabela and Zamboanga Sibugay
mine-mouth power plants.
San Miguel has several coal
interests through its energy unit, San
Miguel Energy Corp., which bought
three coal mines in South Cotabato.
Castillo earlier said the two
mine-mouth coal power plants
could cost $400 million to build.
The power plants are at 100
MW each. It will be coal-red from
PNOC Explorations coal mines,
the rst in the country. It will reduce
the logistics cost of transporting
coal. Isabela and Zamboanga
Sibugay are underserved provinces
and the plants will hopefully boost
business climate and generate
needed employment, the ofcial
said.
PNOC Exploration earlier
reported that drilling results at
the Lower Butong project in
Zamboanga Sibugay conrmed
coal of commercial quantity.
PNOC Exploration, holder
of coal operating contract 41 in
Zamboanga Sibugay, completed
drilling 12 in-ll holes in the Lower
Butong area, which conrmed the
presence of commercial coal.
With the positive results in the
drilling in Lower Butong coupled
with the companys current
direction to optimize production
and aggressive exploration efforts
in the nearby areas, the required
coal requirement for the proposed
100-MW power plant has been
assured. This should contribute
to addressing Mindanaos
current and longer-term power
needs, Gemiliano Lopez, PNOC
Exploration chairman and chief
executive, said.
DFA at Robinsons. The Foreign Affairs Department has opened its new regional consular ofce at the second level of Robinsons Starmills
Pampanga at the San Fernando exit of the North Luzon Expressway. The new ofce is part of a private-public partnership agreement with
Robinsons Land Corp. under its Robinsons Malls Lingkod Pinoy Center. Shown are (from left) Artuno Romua, DFA San Fernando head; Jaime
Victor Ledda, assistant secretary for consular affairs; San Fernando Mayor Oscar Rodriguez; Rafael Seguis, undersecretary for administration;
Arlene Magtibay, general manager for RLC commercial centers division; Monina Laus, third district Pampanga board member; and Tommy Lee
O, vice president for property management.
By Lailany P. Gomez
PHILIPPINE Long Distance
Telephone Co. now has more
than two million postpaid mobile
phone subscribers, following the
acquisition of Sun Cellular last
year, cementing its status as the
leader in the telecom industry.
Smart Communications Inc.,
the wireless unit of PLDT, said
the groups postpaid subscriber
base rose 43 percent year-on-year
to 2.04 million as of end-March.
Smart Postpaid Marketing
head Kathryn Carag attributed the
growth in the combined postpaid
subscriber base of Smart and Sun
Cellular, as well as the 13-percent
increase in postpaid revenue, to the
success of the telcos Netphone,
Unli, and All-In plans.
Aside from having gadgets
and plans that fulll the different
needs of our subscribers, Smart
is offering the most reliable
SMS, voice, and mobile Internet
services in the country. Our
sophisticated network has been
the best incentive for mobile
phone users to avail themselves
of our postpaid and prepaid
services, she said.
She said among Smart
Postpaids growth drivers were
the Unli Plan 599 and Netphone
Plan 349, which come with a free
handset. The former provides
unlimited calls and SMS to any
Smart or Talk N Text number,
while the latter provides unlimited
texts and unli social stream where
subscribers can check their
Facebook and Twitter accounts
from one application.
Mobile-phone users nd
Smarts Unli plans more
practical than similar unlimited
text and call offerings because
Smart has the largest prepaid
and postpaid subscriber base
in the countrya total of 50.5
million as of end-March. This
means that Smart Unli plan
holders can text and call more
mobile phone users as often as
they want, Carag said.
She said Smart would
continue offering the Netphone
Plan 349 which now comes
with a Samsung Galaxy
Pocket Netphone edition.
The Netphone is running on
Smartneta platform developed
by Smart which includes a suite
of applications that allows
Netphone users to chat, check
their social feeds without
switching apps, and post online
updates for free.
THE Energy Department is in talks with the United States Agency
for International Development for a technical assistance to assess
the countrys biomass resources, an ofcial said Thursday.
Energy Undersecretary Jay Layug told reporters at the sidelines of
the ongoing 7th Clean Energy Asia Forum at the Asian Development
Bank headquarters in Ortigas the government was tapping various
agencies to come up with studies on renewable sources of energy.
We are in discussion with them [USAID] on how they can further
help the government in resource assessments and we mention that
one of those areas is biomass. What we hope to do is identify areas
that have a lot of agricultural wastes and municipal wastes and those
will be the more viable sites for biomass plants, Layug said.
USAID is international aid arm of the US government that has
been providing economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide
for over 40 years.
Layug said the government was also pursuing discussion with
the Asian Development Bank for a separate technical assistance on
wind resource assessment.
ADB has volunteered to provide the government with technical
assistance for a wind resource assessment. We are reviewing their
proposal now, he said.
Several wind energy developers have surrendered their contracts
to the department due to insufcient wind resources in the areas
covered by those contracts. Alena Mae S. Flores
By Othel V. Campos
OCEANAGOLD Corp. of
Australia wants the government
to lift the moratorium on mining
permits so it can drill further in
areas near its major project in
Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya.
We havent been able to
drill those prospects... were
waiting on the government to
renew the exploration permit
for drilling. We expect that
renewal in the near future,
but there is a current freeze
on issuing permits across the
Philippines at the moment,
said OceanaGold Corp.
managing director and chief
executive Mick Wilkes.
The company, through
wholly-owned unit OceanaGold
Philippines Inc., has done
surface exploration near the
Didipio project over the last 12
months and identied a number
of prospects that could lead to
the discovery of additional ore
bodies.
Wilkes said the company was
looking forward to drilling
those prospects and others over
the next 12 months.
The Environment Department
issued a moratorium in the
issuance of mining licenses in
2011 to purge the industry from
mining speculators. The Mines
and Geosciences Bureau earlier
said it would lift the moratorium
only after President Benigno
Aquino III approved the new
mining policy.
OceanaGold said it was
keen on drilling samples in
Mogambos, five kilometers
north of the processing plant
in Didipio. The area indicates
the presence of high grade
copper and possible gold
find.
Recent updates showed the
project was moving ahead as
of schedule, with construction
about 65 percent complete.
There are now around 1,300
people working on the site and
all contracts have been awarded
for the process plant and the
infrastructure.
We now need to assemble
the process plant before
installing the piping and
electrics. We expect to get the
main electrical switchrooms
and the generators on site
within a month. These items
are the last major items we
need to get on site, said
Wilkes, adding he expected
the plant commissioning by
the fourth quarter of 2012.
Text and photo by Dino
Ray V. Directo III
IT IS A technology we have often
seen in Hollywood movies and
the backbone of modern military
warfare. Recently, PLDT, the
countrys largest telecommunica-
tions company introduced an in-
novative, web-based asset moni-
toring system for civilian use.
Christened as Field Asset Sys-
tem for Monitoring or F.A.S.Track,
this productivity tool is an accurate
and invariable per-minute loca-
tion monitoring system that allows
business owners, particularly com-
panies with a eet of vehicles and
men, to pin-point their locations
while on the road 24/7. The GPS
data can be retrieved by way of
any online device such as desktop,
laptop, tablet or smart phone.
PLDTs target market are the
Small and Medium Scale En-
terprises whose core business is
dependent on eld operations
such as transport, logistics and
courier delivery systems. SMEs
looking for an effective tool to
monitor their business assets and
resources will nd this technol-
ogy an ideal solution to effec-
tively manage their operations,
states Kat Luna-Abelarde, PLDT
SME Nation VP and Head. This
means signicant cost-savings on
their overhead and reliable trans-
port and courier services, par-
ticularly in monitoring their fuel
consumption and maintenance of
vehicles, Abelarde adds.
User friendly
To demonstrate the real-time
accuracy of F.A.S.Track, PLDT
provided a select group of motor-
ing hacks with Mini Coopers from
the Autohub Group tted with the
GPS tracking device. I got behind
the wheel of a Mini Countryman
4WD with colleagues Andy Sevilla
of the Chinese Commercial News
and husband-wife tandem of Po-
pong and Tet Andolong of the
Business Mirror.
Our goal was to simply follow
a pre-planned route from the
Fort Global City to Tagaytay City
via the SLEX-Alabang-Daang
Hari road. With the F.A.S.Track
system monitoring our every
movement, the PLDT technical
support group knew our exact lo-
cation real time, and even our av-
erage speed. This technology will
surely be the proverbial eye-in-
the sky for transport, courier re-
lated business, and bad news for
philandering husbands. In any
business, time is of the essence.
Eye in the sky
Honda
twin launch
scores with
Since the introduction of
the Pilot and Odyssey in the
United States, each model has
received numerous awards and
recognitions from various insti-
tutions due to its outstanding
roominess, versatility, efcien-
cy, and safety.
When it debuted in 2003,
the Pilot dened the emerging
crossover SUV market. It hit
the spot among consumers due
to its fuel efcient, yet upbeat
V6 engine, good driving dynam-
ics, comfort, spaciousness and
seating capacity. Now that the
Crossover SUV market is full
to the brim with similarly de-
signed Crossover SUVs, Hon-
da returned with a vengeance
with a totally redesigned Pilot
for this year. According to Nat-
sume, this SUV was developed
with the concept of Intelligent
Family Adventure. The Pilot
that we will launch today is the
second generation model that
was introduced 2008 and re-
ceived an extensive upgrade in
2011, he adds. The latest itera-
tion of the Pilot is more com-
pact, yet equipped with various
amenities and boasts of a ex-
ible cargo conguration that
enhances the travelling experi-
ence both on and off-road.
Since its launch in 1995, the
Odyssey has always been the
preferred Minivan of most fami-
Text and photos by Dino Ray V. Directo III
SOCCER moms and large families now have reason to
celebrate Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. has just launched
the latest versions of the Pilot SUV and Odyssey Mini-
van. Honda is throwing caution to the wind and banking
on the strong showing of its Jazz and City variants in the
sales race to complement its vehicle line-up. Following the
launch of the new City last January, the all-new Civic and
Jazz Special Edition in February, and the CR-V in April,
HCPI aims to strengthen Hondas return to the Philippine
automotive market, So far this year, we have seen the
recovery of the Philippine market, with our monthly sales
from February exceeding the same period last year. With
a favorable economy, we see further potential for growth,
states Tatsuya Natsume, presidentGM of HCPI.
lies in the United States. Accord-
ing to Stephen Frey, Principal
Engineer/Manager of the Odys-
sey project Honda USA, This
model was developed with the
concept of Ultimate Family Ve-
hicle, combining chic new styl-
ing, class-leading performance,
advance family safety, and ulti-
mate utility, he says. The exterior
of the Odyssey has a modern and
sophisticated styling that features
the lightning bolt side prole
that gives it a distinctive identity
against competitors with indistin-
guishable designs. Furthermore,
cargo space congurability is im-
proved with the 3rd row Magic
Seats that allows it to be tucked
away completely or partially.
We believe that the charac-
teristics of the all-new Odyssey
and the Pilot will also be appre-
ciated by the domestic customer
base. We have observed Philip-
pine families going out together
during weekends and enjoying
each others company, whether in
a mall or in an out-of-town get-
away. With the Odyssey and Pilot,
these customers will be ensured
of an enjoyable travelling experi-
ence together with their families,
explains Natsume. Manufactured
and imported from the United
States, the Odyssey is priced at
P2.8M, while the Pilot can be
yours for P2.6M.
Motoring
Ramon L. Tomeldan, Editor [email protected]
JUNE 8, 2012 FRIDAY
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Isuzu San Pablo customer Roman Sanchez aunts his plaque
after winning the Family Challenge last May 5 in Batangas City.
EDUCATING the public about
the concept of biodiversity is a
crucial long-term initiative for
creating proactive steps towards
protecting and sustaining the
countrys natural resources.
Last April 29, 2012, Hyundai
Asia Resources, Inc. (HARI), of-
cial distributor of Hyundai in the
Philippines, recently strength-
ened its on-going partnership
with the Gawad Kalinga Center
for Social Innovation (GK-CSI)
at the Quirino Grandstand, Ma-
nila. In its advocacy to edify the
public, especially students, with
sound plans to safeguard the
environment, HARI committed
to support GK in the construc-
tion of the Center for Green In-
novations which will rise in GK
pioneering Center for Social In-
novation, Enchanted Farm, in
Angat, Bulacan. The center will
house a 100-seat venue for semi-
nars or green camps to educate
the youth into becoming respon-
sible stewards of our natural re-
sources. Educational materials
will also be available within the
facility to provide references and
innovative ideas during lectures
and discussions on conserving
our natural heritage.
Hyundai and Gawad Kalinga
are working together to provide
new avenues for learning how
to save the planet. Through the
Hyundai Center for Green In-
novations, our stakeholders can
share their passion for the envi-
ronment, said HARI President
and CEO Ma. Fe Perez-Agudo.
It is from partnerships like this
that hope springs for a sustain-
able future--a future that can be
lived and enjoyed by the next
generations.
BELIEVING in the Filipino
value of always keeping family
ties strong, Isuzu Philippines
Corporation (IPC) has em-
barked on its annual series of
fun activities that are designed
for families whose members
bond closer together with the
help of their Isuzu vehicles.
Called the 2012 Isuzu Fam-
ily Challenge, the event com-
bines the fuel-economy contests
IPC had previously staged with
the companys family-oriented
activities that were held at dif-
ferent pre-selected beaches or
resort. The 2012 Isuzu Family
Challenge perfectly highlights
Isuzu vehicles leadership when
it comes to fuel efciency, as
well as allow family members
to spend memorable times with
one another through fun-lled
activities.
Besides the proven virtues
of durability and reliability that
Isuzu vehicles have been known
to have, they are undeniably fuel
efcient too, as various fuel econ-
omy runs have shown, said IPC
President Ryoji Yamazaki. But
equally important is that Isuzu
vehicles have also been popu-
lar for faithfully serving Filipino
families in their recreational ac-
tivities, and in most cases these
vehicles have become a part of
the family as well.
The 2012 Isuzu Family Chal-
lenge, started last April 14, and
will be held every Saturdays until
September 22 at IPCs 19 dealer
groups across the country. Partici-
pants will compete in a fuel econ-
omy run, and family members
will be engaged to an exhilarating
group game challenges like Name
that Tune, Isuzu Speed Stacker,
and Team Up Word Challenge at
the venue. Guests can, have their
photos taken at the photo-booth,
show-off their singing talent at
the videoke corner, and can also
have a refreshing plunge at the
resorts swimming pool for the
whole family.
More Family Challenge
events are scheduled to take
place at Isuzu Pangasinan on
June 16; Isuzu Iloilo on July 7;
Isuzu Bacolod on July 28; Isuzu
General Santos on August 4;
Isuzu Pasig on August 11; Isu-
zu Cagayan de Oro on August
18; Isuzu Davao on August 25;
Isuzu Isabela on September 1;
Isuzu Cebu on September 8;
Isuzu Cabanatuan on Septem-
ber 15; and at Isuzu Alabang on
September 22. Powering the
vehicles is Caltex Diesel with
Techron D, which is provided
by Chevron Philippines, IPCs
fuel partner for the event.
Hyundai, Gawad Kalinga
build Biodiversity Center
Isuzu conducts family
friendly activities
There are some delivery staff
who might use the companys
service vehicle for personal rea-
sons or divert from the assigned
routes to conduct other matters
while on duty. With F.A.S.Track
overseeing the eld operations
24/7, your business will be ef-
fectively optimized, explains
Abelarde.
PLDT has all the bases cov-
ered with its variety of monitor-
ing devices such as the Standard
Tracker for vehicles hand held
by personnel; the Covert Track-
er designed for mobile person-
nel or packages; the water re-
sistant Motorcycle Tracker for
two wheeled transport couriers;
and the Heavy Duty Tracker for
heavy machinery and armored
vehicles. This specic tracker
comes with a engine immoblizer,
SOS panic button, and fuel sen-
sors, door sensors
and temperature
sensors.
Aside from the
F.A.S.Track monitor-
ing system, PLDT
also introduced the
Watcher. This sur-
veillance technology
is a multi-camera
system integrated
with a software so-
lution that allows
constant monitor-
ing of movement in
and out of outlets
and several branches, all from the
convenience of your head ofce
or behind the comforts of your
desk.
The device can be set up in
various locations around the pe-
rimeter of your business estab-
lishment and the axial rotation
feature of the camera allows vid-
eo recording from any angle and
can be aimed at specic targets.
With the high rate of business
losses coming from pilferage of
goods, protecting your assets
from theft is of paramount im-
portance, says Abelarde.
With these technologies, any
businessman can monitor his as-
sets anywhere around the world
at the click of a mouse on his
computer. A technological con-
venience introduced by the coun-
trys largest telecoms provider to
maximize SME operations.
Tatsuya Natsume, GM and president of
HCPI strikes a pose with the Pilot SUV
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Dinna Chan Vasquez, Assistant Editor
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Theres no doubt Dad holds
a special place in our hearts.
And with his special day fast
approaching, all of us are out
to nd that sure bet gift that
he truly deserves.
home work relationship---- wednesday
Globe and RIM will be
bringing in Nicki Minaj
for a one-night-only
concert at the SM Mall
of Asia Arena on July 11.
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People have different
reasons for choosing a
phone. But most would
agree that social connectivity
remains a top consideration
across the board. This is the
very core of smartphones.
FIRST the bad news: Samsung says that
it can manufacture only 5 million of its
Galaxy S III mobile phones a month. Why
is that bad news, you ask? Because pre-
orders for Samsungs new phone, which
was unveiled in London, reached 9 mil-
lion units from over 100 carriers world-
wide (including our very own Smart and
Globe, we presume). This means that if
you want to buy one, youd have to fall in
line or wait.
The Samsung Galaxy S III is the third-gener-
ation in a line of popular smartphones created by
Samsung.
The phone has a 4.8-inch touchscreen, 8-mega-
pixel rear-facing and 1.9-megapixel forward-fac-
ing camera, and comes running the latest version
of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The camera
has zero shutter lag so you can capture photos in-
stantly. The camera is also capable of taking 20
photos at once in burst mode, and a feature called
Best Photo will pick the best shot out of a group
of eight.
The NFC-capable Galaxy S III has a Super
Amoled HD (1280720) screen, offering more
subpixels than other screens, resulting in improved
colors as well as better visibility in bright situa-
tions.
Designed to be both effortlessly smart and in-
tuitively simple, the Galaxy S III has been created
with our human needs and capabilities in mind.
What makes me most proud is that it enables one
of the most seamless, natural and human-centric
mobile experiences, opening up a new horizon that
allows you to live a life extraordinary, said JK
Shin, president and head of IT and Mobile Com-
munications Division at Samsung.
The phone is powered by a 1.4GHz Samsung
Exynos 4 Quad processor, which has twice the
Exynos 4 has twice the processing capability of
the older Exynos 4 Dual used in previous Galaxy
phones, and it consumes 20 percent less power.
To achieve this level of efciency, Samsung has
By Ed Biado
IVE been a frequent customer at the Coffee
Bean and Tea Leaf at Greenbelt 3 since 2004/5
and this is because I love me some Ultimate Mo-
cha, its place at Greenbelt is just the right amount
of quiet in the afternoon and, of course, the celeb
sightings dont hurt at all. Its a great place for
people who want some alone time (with a laptop
or tablet, of course). And the free wi- is a de-
nite plus.
If its a quick coffee x or caffeine boost
that Im looking for, Id go to the nearest Star-
bucks. Obviously, theres one at every corner so
that guarantees convenience, which is why its
one of the most common places to meet up with
friends. Also, during the Christmas season, most
of us grab our brews for the coveted stickers for
the planners well never use. Yeah, I said it: very
few people use those planners but we still com-
ing back to get them, anyway. Because its virtu-
ally a tradition.
Then, theres the milk tea shops that began
sprouting all over the metropolis. Immediately,
people are all over them because of their novelty
and the price pointsmeaning, those who would
think twice about buying a P170 ice-blended cof-
fee drink might not have a problem with spending
P100 on milk tea goodness.
Im not a milk tea acionado, so I really cant
discern the difference among the brands and I like
them all almost equally.
That brings me to the question: will milk tea
shops kill coffee shops? Chances are, no. Because,
as much as they cater to the similar patrons and
theyre both caffeinated drinks, what they offer
are totally different from each other. We go to cof-
fee shops to hang out for hours on end, nursing
our customized thick coffee-based cold beverage,
while we visit milk tea shops for the relatively
cheaper drinks with our choice of favorite sinkers.
Seriously, we cant live on espresso-avored
saccharine forever and milk tea could be our most
viable coffee-alternative option. Some have made
the switch but theres no way that coffee shop cul-
ture will ever go away. Its just now one of the two
branches of the newish brew shop culture here
in Manila.
A new star
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recognize your friends faces in a photo, and offer
to send them the photo automatically.
A new S Beam which expands on Android
Beam, allows you to share a 1GB mobile le with a
friend in just 3 minutes, or transfer a 10MB music
le in just 2 secondswithout using WiFi or a
cellular signal by tapping your phone together
with another Galaxy S III.
AllShare Play can be also used to instantly
share any forms of les between Galaxy S III and
your tablet, PC, and television regardless of the
distance between the devices.
The Galaxy S III not only presents features with
enhanced usability, but also provides an ergonomic
and comfortable experience through its human-
centric design. Its comfortable grip, gentle curves,
and organic form deliver a rich human-centric feel
and design.
Inspired by nature, its design concept is the
ow and movement of nature. The elements of
wind, water and light are all evoked in the physi-
cal construct of the GalaxyY S III. In its essence,
the minimal organic design identity is reected in
the smooth and non-linear lines of the device. It
is available in Pebble Blue and Marble White at
launch.
Samsung executives (from left) Coco Domingo, head Samsung Mobile Product
Marketing , Binggoy Mauricio, Samsung Mobile Business Unit director, Philip Lee,
Samsung chief nance ofcer , Mike Cheon, Samsung Mobile Business Unit adviser,
KC Park, Sepco president and Benjie JImenez Sepco marketing director.
By Dinna Chan Vasquez
Coffee or (milk) tea?
Rhian Ramos explores the different apps installed in
the new Samsung Galaxy SIII
KC Montero
at the launch
of Samsung
Galaxy SIII at
the NBC tent
implemented on-off switching as well as dynamic
voltage and frequency scaling for each core.
The Galaxy S III features technology that ts
seamlessly into ones lifestyle.
A new feature called Smart Staydetects your
voice and motions, and recognizes how you are
using the phone and keeps it on while youre
using it. So, if youre browsing the Web, you
dont have to worry about having to constantly
wake the screen up. If youre texting some-
one and decide to call them instead, a feature
called Direct Call will call that person as
soon as you lift your phone to your ear.
When your alarm goes off but you need
that extra ve minutes of sleep, the phones
personalized S Voice feature enables you to
tell the Galaxy S III to snooze. The ad-
vanced natural language user interface listens
and responds to your words, thus endowing the
phone with powerful functions with regard to de-
vice control and commands. The S Voice feature
can also be used to play your favorite songs, send
text messages, organize your schedules, browse
the web or automatically launch an application.
A feature called Buddy Photo Share will
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ANSWER TOMORROW
63 Slangy refusal
64 Spectacular concert
ender, or what 17-, 26-
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68 Caribbean country
69 Dry out, in rehab
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2 Muslim noble
3 Jeans pioneer Strauss
4 October custom done
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6 Some PCs
7 Im fine with that
8 Greek with 12-Downs
9 Crossword entry: Abbr.
10 Funny pages
11 Sleep disorder
12 Point
13 Pursue, cat-style
18 The life of Riley
23 De Beers properties
25 Hall of Fame quarter-
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39 Ones making deliver-
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41 Lady in a Beatles song
43 Carafe cousin
44 First razor with a pivot-
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46 Acquire, as debt
47 Austrian article
49 Conceal s f r om t he
enemy, in a way
51 Riboflavin
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57 Sci. with cliff notes?
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religion
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32 Largest OH airport
34 Marvel superhero
36 Tots story starter
37 Burden
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40 Rajahs wife
42 Big name in couture
45 University officers
48 Perhaps
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51 Windmill blades
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crime writer Marsh
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65 Stadium sound
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ManilaStandardToday
It ' s al so i nt erest i ng how
phones have changed the way
we communicate, how keeping
in touch shifted from a nice-to-
have to a need, and how expo-
nentially this need has increased
over the last few years. Mobile
devices now give us the unprec-
edented ability to stay connected
every waking hour (and actually,
even when we're asleep). Today,
we have access to almost every-
thing in the world as we know
it via our phones. Smartphones,
that is.
People have different reasons
for choosing a phone. But most
would agree that social connec-
tivity remains a top consideration
across the board. This is
the very core of smart-
phones.
Research in Motion,
the maker of Black-
Berry devices, has
this consumer sen-
timent all gured out. After all,
they've been in this business lon-
ger than most players out there.
Their newest models, BlackBerry
Curve 9220 and 9320, are touted
to be among the most competi-
tive devices to cater to this social
requirement.
These new Bl ackBer r y
Curve smartphones are a great
choice for customers who are
upgrading to a smartphone for
the first time as well as existing
Curve customers who are look-
ing for a step up in speed and
functionality. They provide an
amazing user experience with
all the unique social networking
benefits needed to help Philip-
pine customers join the con-
versation and stay connected to
the people and information that
matter most throughout the day,
says RIM South Asia managing
director Hastings Singh.
Both phones, running the
BlackBerry 7.1 operating system,
have social-centric features and
apps, such as the new dedicated
BlackBerry Messaging key that
lets users access the popular
instant messaging service in an
instant. Native Facebook and
Twitter apps are included, as well
as Social Feeds 2.0, a service that
allows simultaneous posting on
multiple social networks and a
consolidation of updates from
news sources, social sites and IM
services.
The higher-end model, 9320,
supports Mobile Hotspot, which
turns it into a wireless router that
can share its mobile data connec-
tion with up to ve wi- devices.
Pictures taken with the phone can
be geo-tagged with the use of its
built-in GPS.
Designed to be both easy to
use and easy to own, the new
Curve models are the most af-
fordable BlackBerry 7 smart-
phones for the Philippines mar-
ket. Launched last month, they
will be available though Globe
Telecom under the telco's My
Super Plan. My Super Plan is a
flexible and hyper-customizable
postpaid scheme that allows
subscribers to design their own
plans and choose their own
consumable monthly amount,
freebies, add-ons and devices.
We are very excited to part-
ner with RIM anew as the first
Philippine telco to bring the
BlackBerry Curve 9220 and
9320 to the Philippines. The new
smartphones rich messaging
and social-centric features are
best paired with our personal-
ized and flexible postpaid plans,
where we combine an exciting
deal that puts together all-con-
sumable plans, amazing freebies
on top of the consumable offers,
a wide array of unlimited add-on
services and the latest devices
under one postpaid offer. Our
postpaid subscribers are also
assured of a worry-free experi-
ence with the Globe Guarantee
of no billshock, 24/7 exclusive
access to our customer service
channels, and a stronger and
more reliable Globe network
nationwide, remarks Globe
Consumer Business senior ad-
viser Peter Bithos.
The BlackBerry Curve 9220
is free with Plan 499 plus P99
unlimited BlackBerry Chat. This
amounts to a monthly bill of only
P598. Meanwhile, the BlackBerry
Curve 9320 comes free with My
Super Plan BlackBerry Unli Surf
Combo Plan 999.
To know more about the Black-
Berry Curve 9220 and 9320 under
Globe My Super Plan, inquire at
Globe business centers nation-
wide, call 730-1010 or visit www.
globe.com.ph/blackberrycurve or
ph.blackberry.com/curve.
Curves
The
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By Ed Biado
MOST of us are old enough to remember life without mobile phones. We
survived just ne. But today, it seems like our existence deates when our
phone isn't within a three-feet radius from where we are. It's funny how we've
become so dependent onsome might say addicted tosomething that
practically no one was using a mere couple of decades ago.
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LOCAL clothing giant, Bayo, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year together with
emerging talents from the fashion industry.
In partnership with School of Fashion and Arts (SoFA) and Kotex Luxe, Bayo
recognizes the craft of young fashion designers with a design contest open to
SoFA students. Being blessed with 20 years in the retailing industry, this is
Bayos way of giving back. The fashion contest will test the creativity and talent
as participating students design their own interpretation of Love, Bayo collec-
tion. Through this initiative, the brand empowers the youth who are talented and
blessed with great potentials in the field of fashion and retail with an experiential
learning medium. Bayo will serve as the springboard to whatever possibilities
and opportunities these young talents will face in the future.
With a plethora of talents to choose from, Bayo, SoFA, and Kotex Luxe selected
seven nalists namely Sylvia Park, Genesis Alcantara, Majesty de Castro, Bengt En-
rique, Dan Concepcion, Alyssa Lapid and Stefanie Caintic to present prototypes of their
designs this June.
FOR more than 25 years, walking
over to the nearest 7-Eleven at al-
most any given hour both day and
night has been a common scene
for everyone not to mention a
focal part of the countrys retail
landscape -- in need of anything
that speaks and requires conve-
nience, be it a simple battery,
a quick sip of Slurpee, to more
intricate service necessities such
as bills payment and so forth.
Thanks to 7-Elevens reliable
round-the-clock service, time-
strapped customers seeking top
quality selection and true value
convenience can now disregard
their clocks and follow their own
schedule.
When adding new food to
the family diet, working parents
would often have trouble adding
healthy greens in their weekly
menu planning. Or, if luck comes
even shorter for others, even nd-
ing a slot at the restaurant parking
adds up to the already difcult
task. But now, busy homemakers
who want an easy answer to the
question, 'What's for dinner?' have
an accessible and budget-friendly
option at 7-Eleven.
Via the convenient shopping
format, healthy fares like fresh
green salads along with restau-
rant-quality prepared meals can
be had much faster, as the c-store
eliminates the long queues that are
usually experienced in groceries
and most fast food destinations.
The stores uncluttered and
more shopper-friendly oor lay-
out, thanks to the latest slim
gondolas, granted extra space for
eased shopping movement, thus
moms can tag along their kids
and accomplish their shopping
list much easily. Besides, soft-
serve ice cream, snacks, and other
nutritious fares are on hand as
rewarding treats for young ones.
Going out for lunch every
day at work can be expensive
for ofce workers and students
on a tight Instead of frequenting
the restaurants and lining up for
pricey fast food meals, 7-Eleven
makes fast food service a fresh,
affordable, and convenient step
towards healthier food choices.
In addition to increased ac-
cessibility, customers, upon en-
trance, will immediately discover
brighter interiors, as the new store
utilizes a variety of environ-
mentally-friendly materials and
energy-efcient xtures such as
LED, reectors and T5 lighting
which operates 70 percent more
efciently than traditional uo-
rescent lighting.
Grabbing snacks and feasting
on them with a bunch of friends is
also an enjoyable dining moment at
7-Eleven. With an accessible island
food table and caf-like setting that
can comfortably seat groups of 5 to
10, the special dining area within the
store enhances the stores new food
shop ambiance.
Its exclusive local licensee, Phil-
ippine Seven Corp. (PSC) has since
rolled out the new store prototype
in four c-store locations, namely
outlets in Aurora and Manhattan
Parkway in Cubao, Quezon City;
P. Burgos in Pasay City and at the
Columbia Tower in Ortigas City.
For details, contact PSC at (02)
7269968, 0920-9508651, 0917-
8711686 or email franchising@7-
eleven.com.ph or visit www.7-
eleven.com.ph.
The new look of retail shopping
SUMMER gets deliriously carefree
and bright for stylish kids and moms-
to-be with Pois Belly and Kidscollec-
tions for the happy season. Summer
2012 at PBK is all about the fun and
freedom of sun-kissed days, walking
on warm sunshine in a whirl of candy
colors like pink, red, yellow and green,
thrilling endless summer escapades in
vibrant style. Whether on a high beach
frolic, feasting on the yummiest des-
serts or simply lazing in a blooming
garden, PBKs summer collections
bring on the cheer and chirp of this
cherished season.
Have fun in the sun in lightweight,
cotton sleeveless tops, summer dresses
and shorts in pretty orals and sleek
stripes. For the tween whose style
smarts are ever on the up as she
navigates the awkward ages between
8 and 18, Pois brings out the emerging
stylesetter in her with perky cropped
tops, sassy micro shorts, and dreamy
sundresses. Belly Maternity, the brand
for fashionable expectant mothers,
gives the bump more summer shine in
a range of stylish gure-atterers, from
owy, knit tops and summer dresses
to sexy micro shorts and skinny jeans.
Indulge your little girl between two and
10 in a bit of summer dress-up with
Great Kids embellished blouses and
bottoms and dainty dresses.
The brainchild of Eurowear Mar-
keting Corp., Pois Belly and Kids,
Poised
for success
By Joba Botana
Globe brings
houses three fashion-niche brands
- Pois, Belly, and Great Kids - that
address the stylish dressing needs of
tykes and tweens as well as expect-
ing moms. Inspired by European de-
signs and the latest trends in fashion,
these brands are designed to adapt
to the local climate and specic age
groups. Eurowear owners Clement
and Rowena Velasco aim to bring
quality, style and age-specic fash-
ion in maternity, girls teen and girls
wear, under one roof.
From a home business in 1999,
selling a maternity line called Great
Expectations to friends and family, it
gradually expanded into girlswear. It
developed Great Kids in 2004 to cater
to young girls and the new generation
of fashion-keen mothers who want
to doll up their daughters. Eurowear
created Belly Maternity and Pois
(for tweens and teens) in 2006 when
it saw the need for stylish, quality
maternity wear that also places a
premium on comfort and a line for
tweens that go beyond the basic tee
and jeans ensemble, giving fashion
curious girls at this exploratory age
more choices and age-apt clothes.
All these brands were initially
available only in major department
stores. In 2007, Eurowear opened
its first boutique, Pois Belly and
Kids, at TriNoma to give its growing
clientele a convenient, one-stop shop
with a wider range of inventory, and
also to create more brand aware-
ness and higher customer trafc for
Pois, Belly and Great Kids. But its
ambitions dont stop with the local
market. Condent of the quality of its
designs and merchandise, Eurowear
has set its sights on the global market.
To learn more about Pois Belly
and Kids, please visit and like
its Facebook: www.facebook.com/
poisbellyandkids.
Nicki
Minaj
Nicki
Minaj
I was on my way to Edsa Shangri-
La Hotel to cover an event last
Wednesday and was told it's going
to be a partnership between Globe
and Research In Motion, the maker
of BlackBerry.In my iPod was
Nicki Minaj playing Super Bass.
I'm both a Globe subscriber and
a Blackberry user so I thought it's
going to be interesting. It turned
out to be more than just interesting;
it's denetely something to look
forward to.
Camer on Ver nest , RIM's
country director in the Philippines,
said the company recently launched
its latest BlackBerry handsetsthe
Curve 9220 and 9320, which run
under 7.1 Operating System. In
partnership with Globe, the leader
in postpaid, one can avail the hand-
sets by availing of its post paid
plans worth P499 and P999. The
plan not only offers a lot of unlim-
ited promos but also free access to
BlackBerry and Globe exclusive
concert-parties. But that's just a
piece of a cake. As part of the sur-
prise, Globe and RIM will bring in
global music icon Nicki Minaj for
a one-night-only concert at the
SM Mall of Asia Arean on July 11.
This concert is the only Southeast
Asian leg of her Pink
Friday Tour.
Move and groove to your fa-
vorite Nicki Minaj hits by availing
of RIM and Globe's latest promotion.
When you subscribe to Globe's lat-
est Blackberry plans you get a new
Curve 9220 and a free ticket to the
concert. Those who will purchase
the new Curve 9320 get two free
tickets to Nicki Minaj's exclusive
concert. With Globe My Super
Plan--a portfolio of flexible and cus-
tomizable postpaid plans that allow
customers to design their postpaid
service plan based on their choice
of consumable monthly amounts,
freebies, and add-ons--subscribers
get connected easily through
BlackBerry handsets and at the
same time, they get to have the
chance to a free access to Globe's
exclusive concert parties such as
Minaj's Pink Friday tour.
Existing subscribers outside
their lock-up can opt to re-contract
their account subscription and get
the BlackBerry Curve 9220 or the
BlackBerry Curve 9320 for the free
tickets, while those within lock-up
can either get a new postpaid line
or purchase a prepaid phone kit.
"Of course, the tickets will be
Research in Motion Country director Cameron Vernest, Head of Globe
Postpaid Martha Sazon and Head of Wilbros Entertainment Winston Llamas
to Manila
to Manila
VACHERON Constantin, a
company founded in 1755, is
the worlds oldest active watch
manufacturer. With over 250
years of continuous exper-
tise and production behind
it, Vacheron Constantin has
achieved a truly unique status
within the watch industry.
The brand has revived
some of its finest moments
in the quest for ultra-thinness.
The Geneva-based manufac-
turer has indeed been closely
involved in the epic mile-
stones of this distinctive form
of expertise, such as in the
1950s and 1960s when Vach-
eron Constantin introduced the
worlds thinnest wristwatches.
Vacheron Constantin is
enriching its Historiques col-
lection with two new creations
directly inspired by its heri-
tage, each lending a new and
distinctively modern touch to
one of two legendary calibres.
It has chosen in 2010 re-issue
two ultra-thin watches that
have made their mark on its
history, duly christened His-
torique Ultra-ne 1955 and
Historique Ultra-ne 1968.
Historique Ultra-fine
1955 is currently the worlds
thinnest mechanical hand-
wound watch measuring just
4.10 mm thick
Vacheron Constantin has
chosen to present a rede-
signed version of its Calibre
1003 movement, while its
1.64 mm thickness still
a market slimness world
record and its 21.10
mm diameter remain
unchanged. Its nish-
ing is however even
more rened, since the
bridges and mainplate
are now crafted from
18-carat gold.
Historique Ul-
tra-fine 1968 is
equipped with the
ultra-thin mechani-
cal self-winding 1120
movement featuring a
new decorated oscillating
weight, and bearing the
Hallmark of Geneva
The Vacheron
Constantin Histo-
riques Ultra-ne
1955 and 1968
are available
i n Rust ans
Makati.
9320 Curve Black
9220 Curve Black
gi v-
en on a rst-
come, first-serve ba-
sis. We will give away
around 10,000 tickets
and those who avail of
the P999 plan will get
the front seat rows," says
Mar t ha Sazon,
head of Globe
Postpaid, during
the intimate me-
dia gathering.
"This is event
is [a product of]
strong partnership
between RIM and
Globe. We are
very pleased to
announce this
because we know
that Filipinos
love BlackBerry.
B l a c k B e r r y
handsets are the
perfect companion
of hyper-connected
individuals--those
who always want
to be connected to
social networking
si t es- - because we
made it easier for them
with Blackberry apps
and exclusive messenger
system, which is the BBM,"
says Vernest.
"We
chose Nicki
Minaj because
people all over
the world love her
and of course, she is a BlackBerry-
user. Aside from her, there are also
other celebrities and personalities
who love BlackBerry including
Beyonce, Madonna, Justin Bieber
and the President of the U.S., Barack
Obama," he shares.
Nicki Minajs debut album "Pink
Friday" quickly became a global mu-
sic phenomenon when in November
2010, peaking at number one on the US
Billboard 200 and becoming a certified
Platinum by the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) only
a month after its release. Minaj, who
is the first female solo artist to have
seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100
at the same time, also became the first
female artist to top the chart unaccom-
panied since 2002 when she released
her second single, Your Love, which
reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot
Rap Songs chart. Her second studio
album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
was released in April this year.
comes free with My
Super Plan 499 plus
a P99 unlimited BlackBerry Chat
subscription while the BlackBerry
Curve 9320 is free with My Super
Plan BlackBerry Unli Surf Combo
Plan 999. For as low as P598/month,
Globe subscribers can get the Black-
Berry Curve 9220 complete with a
P499 monthly consumable amount
for calls and texts, unlimited access
to BBM (BlackBerry Messen-
ger) and two freebies, in addition to
the one free concert ticket. On the
other hand, subscribers can enjoy
the BlackBerry Curve 9320 for only
P999/month with unlimited surng,
P400 monthly consumable for calls
and texts, and 1 freebie, in addition
to the two free concert tickets.
"Flying an international artist for
an exclusive concert in the country as
the only Southeast Asian destination is
something weve never done before.
As part of our continuing efforts to
further grow our postpaid business,
we are making Nicki Minajs concert
party our biggest freebie ever, mak-
ing it exclusive to subscribers getting
the new BlackBerry Curve 9220 or
BlackBerry Curve 9320. With these
two new BlackBerry smartphones,
users can join the conversation and
share a great concert party experience
with each other, only from Globe and
BlackBerry, says Sazon.
Get the newest BlackBerry Curve
smartphones from Globe. For more
information, visit www.globe.com.ph/
blackberrycurve, or go to the Globe
Store nearest you. You may also call
730-1010.
Bayo celebrates 20 years
THERES
no doubt
D a d
holds a
speci al
place in
our hearts.
And with his
special day fast
approaching, all
of us are out to
nd that sure
bet gift that he truly deserves.
For certied beach bums and
aquatic Pas those who just
love doing anything cool as
long as its near or has some-
thing to do with water -- let his
feet adorably snug in a comfy
pair of SWIMS multi-moulded
loafers. A waterproof spin on
the classic loafer, SWIMS
loafers are just as perfect for
wading in the water as for
watering plants in the garden.
Breathable, lightweight, anti-
bacterial and odor-resistant,
this pair is best known for
its trendy, practical style and
durability.
As for Dads who are into
meditative sport like wushu,
the Shulong comes as a genu-
ine, technical but also com-
fortable, shoe. Known as the
only Chinese brand in Europe
to distribute the real Wushu
shoe, these shoes provide wear-
ers only the utmost quality of
comfort and support.
Shoul d Dad
fancy addi ng a
playful, nauti-
cal -st yl ed
f o o t -
wear t o
his shoe
c l o s e t ,
Tretorns Smgens-
son steps up as the
r i ght f ul ad-
dition to his
collection. Complete with fun
stripes and a unique slip on
construction, this updated ver-
sion of the classic boat shoe
is an ideal sneaker hybrid for
casual days spent strolling the
city, the beach or anywhere in
between.
For smart casual-styling
ofce fathers, get them effort-
lessly extra charming in Kick-
ers Juno (cool lace-up leather
deck shoes) and Julius (stylish
and very comfortable slip-ons).
Res|Toe|Run carries a vast
line of shoe brand staples
that also include Sledgers,
Bandal s, Qui ksi l ver, The
North Face, Salomon, Ban-
dals, Boxfresh, Native, El-
lesse, Zem, Roxy, DC, Flip-
s t er s , Fi t f l op, Es padr i j ,
Kruzin and Sanuk.
For more details, visit the
Res|Toe|Run online fanpage in
Facebook (www.facebook.com/
ResToeRunOfcial) and Twitter
(www.twitter.com/ResToeRun).
Shoe-perb choices
for the worlds best Dad
Zen master
Style-savvy Aquaman
TRAVELERS who appreciate Hawaiian Airlines
dedication to sharing Hawaiis unique culture and
tradition of hospitality will enjoy the airlines new
onboard menu and homegrown snacks showcasing
the diversity of foods and avors in the islands. The
new offerings are available on all of its domestic and
international ights.
Allowing our guests to savor the delicious avors
of our local cuisine helps them begin their Hawaii
experience hours before they actually arrive,
said Blaine Miyasato, Hawaiians vice president
of product development. Its an important part of
the Hawaiian hospitality that sets us apart from any
other carrier to our islands and another example of how
Hawaii ies with us.
Hawaiians variety of inight meals reect the
Hawaii-inspired air that executive chef Chai Cha-
owasaree has brought to the new menus using ingre-
dients found in the islands.
For example, among the meals being enjoyed by
Economy Class customers on domestic routes are a Ha-
waiian Breakfast Wrap of fried rice, Portuguese sausage,
and edamame, and a Chicken Yellow Curry with rice and
pineapple. Vegetarians can enjoy the Yellow Curry Penne
Pasta with vegetables.
The Airline menu
showcases
avors of Hawaii
Venice Falls in Maui, Hawaii
On international routes, one of the meals being enjoyed by travelers is a Hawaiian
Moco, Chais take on the local favorite breakfast dish made with a grilled hamburger
patty, steamed rice, brown gravy, and fried eggs.
All of these meals are offered free of charge. Notably, Hawaiian remains the only airline serving
Hawaii to offer complementary hot meals to all Economy Class customers.
These selections are in addition to the premium meals available for purchase in Economy
Class, which include fresh sushi platters and large specialty salads.
Hawaiians First Class menu also offers a variety of meal options that showcase the cultural
diversity of Hawaiis cuisine, such as Kalua Pork and Cheese Omelet, Shrimp & Crab Salad
with Crispy Won Ton Taco, and Grilled Prawns with Fusilli Pasta & Mac Nut Pesto.
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63 Slangy refusal
64 Spectacular concert
ender, or what 17-, 26-
and 51-Across numeri -
cally contain
67 Self-esteem
68 Caribbean country
69 Dry out, in rehab
70 Cross-reference word
71 __ were the days!
72 Plus
Down
1 Give up
2 Muslim noble
3 Jeans pioneer Strauss
4 October custom done
in costume
5 Dict. entry
6 Some PCs
7 Im fine with that
8 Greek with 12-Downs
9 Crossword entry: Abbr.
10 Funny pages
11 Sleep disorder
12 Point
13 Pursue, cat-style
18 The life of Riley
23 De Beers properties
25 Hall of Fame quarter-
Across
1 17-time NBA champs
6 Stern with strings
11 Hrs. before noon
14 Filing board
15 Word of prai se for
el nio
16 House plants hous-
ing
17 Wi t h The, Bet t e
LOS ANGELES
TIMES
CROSSWORD
Midlers debut album
19 Gun lobby org.
20 Funny Idle
21 Regarding
22 Classic name in toys
24 Floors
26 Kelloggs cereal
28 1-Across, e.g.
31 Govt . cr ypt anal ysi s
org.
32 Bar graph, say
33 Alluring
35 Purely academic
39 Ones making deliver-
ies at colleges?
41 Lady in a Beatles song
43 Carafe cousin
44 First razor with a pivot-
ing head
46 Acquire, as debt
47 Austrian article
49 Conceal s f r om t he
enemy, in a way
51 Riboflavin
55 An ace has a strong
one
56 Italian violin craftsman
57 Sci. with cliff notes?
59 Shiite Islam is its state
religion
back Graham
27 One- named I r i sh
singer
28 Close call!
29 Political contest
30 __ D.A.
32 Largest OH airport
34 Marvel superhero
36 Tots story starter
37 Burden
38 Roof application
40 Rajahs wife
42 Big name in couture
45 University officers
48 Perhaps
50 Young dolphin
51 Windmill blades
52 Public relations con-
cern
53 Second-deepest U.S.
lake
54 New Zeal and-born
crime writer Marsh
58 10-Down drooler
60 Bah!
61 Natural ski n treat-
ment
62 Whos turn is it?!
65 Stadium sound
66 Wyo. neighbor
JUNE 8, 2012 JUNE 8, 2012
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ManilaStandardToday
It ' s al so i nt erest i ng how
phones have changed the way
we communicate, how keeping
in touch shifted from a nice-to-
have to a need, and how expo-
nentially this need has increased
over the last few years. Mobile
devices now give us the unprec-
edented ability to stay connected
every waking hour (and actually,
even when we're asleep). Today,
we have access to almost every-
thing in the world as we know
it via our phones. Smartphones,
that is.
People have different reasons
for choosing a phone. But most
would agree that social connec-
tivity remains a top consideration
across the board. This is
the very core of smart-
phones.
Research in Motion,
the maker of Black-
Berry devices, has
this consumer sen-
timent all gured out. After all,
they've been in this business lon-
ger than most players out there.
Their newest models, BlackBerry
Curve 9220 and 9320, are touted
to be among the most competi-
tive devices to cater to this social
requirement.
These new Bl ackBer r y
Curve smartphones are a great
choice for customers who are
upgrading to a smartphone for
the first time as well as existing
Curve customers who are look-
ing for a step up in speed and
functionality. They provide an
amazing user experience with
all the unique social networking
benefits needed to help Philip-
pine customers join the con-
versation and stay connected to
the people and information that
matter most throughout the day,
says RIM South Asia managing
director Hastings Singh.
Both phones, running the
BlackBerry 7.1 operating system,
have social-centric features and
apps, such as the new dedicated
BlackBerry Messaging key that
lets users access the popular
instant messaging service in an
instant. Native Facebook and
Twitter apps are included, as well
as Social Feeds 2.0, a service that
allows simultaneous posting on
multiple social networks and a
consolidation of updates from
news sources, social sites and IM
services.
The higher-end model, 9320,
supports Mobile Hotspot, which
turns it into a wireless router that
can share its mobile data connec-
tion with up to ve wi- devices.
Pictures taken with the phone can
be geo-tagged with the use of its
built-in GPS.
Designed to be both easy to
use and easy to own, the new
Curve models are the most af-
fordable BlackBerry 7 smart-
phones for the Philippines mar-
ket. Launched last month, they
will be available though Globe
Telecom under the telco's My
Super Plan. My Super Plan is a
flexible and hyper-customizable
postpaid scheme that allows
subscribers to design their own
plans and choose their own
consumable monthly amount,
freebies, add-ons and devices.
We are very excited to part-
ner with RIM anew as the first
Philippine telco to bring the
BlackBerry Curve 9220 and
9320 to the Philippines. The new
smartphones rich messaging
and social-centric features are
best paired with our personal-
ized and flexible postpaid plans,
where we combine an exciting
deal that puts together all-con-
sumable plans, amazing freebies
on top of the consumable offers,
a wide array of unlimited add-on
services and the latest devices
under one postpaid offer. Our
postpaid subscribers are also
assured of a worry-free experi-
ence with the Globe Guarantee
of no billshock, 24/7 exclusive
access to our customer service
channels, and a stronger and
more reliable Globe network
nationwide, remarks Globe
Consumer Business senior ad-
viser Peter Bithos.
is free with Plan 499 plus P99
unlimited BlackBerry Chat. This
amounts to a monthly bill of only
P598. Meanwhile, the BlackBerry
Curve 9320 comes free with My
Super Plan BlackBerry Unli Surf
Combo Plan 999.
To know more about the Black-
Berry Curve 9220 and 9320 under
Globe My Super Plan, inquire at
Globe business centers nation-
wide, call 730-1010 or visit www.
globe.com.ph/blackberrycurve or
ph.blackberry.com/curve.
Curves
The
social
By Ed Biado
MOST of us are old enough to remember life without mobile phones. We
survived just ne. But today, it seems like our existence deates when our
phone isn't within a three-feet radius from where we are. It's funny how we've
become so dependent onsome might say addicted tosomething that
practically no one was using a mere couple of decades ago.
Vacheron
Constantin
enhances
Historiques
collection
LOCAL clothing giant, Bayo, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year together with
emerging talents from the fashion industry.
In partnership with School of Fashion and Arts (SoFA) and Kotex Luxe, Bayo
recognizes the craft of young fashion designers with a design contest open to
SoFA students. Being blessed with 20 years in the retailing industry, this is
Bayos way of giving back. The fashion contest will test the creativity and talent
as participating students design their own interpretation of Love, Bayo collec-
tion. Through this initiative, the brand empowers the youth who are talented and
blessed with great potentials in the field of fashion and retail with an experiential
learning medium. Bayo will serve as the springboard to whatever possibilities
and opportunities these young talents will face in the future.
With a plethora of talents to choose from, Bayo, SoFA, and Kotex Luxe selected
seven nalists namely Sylvia Park, Genesis Alcantara, Majesty de Castro, Bengt En-
rique, Dan Concepcion, Alyssa Lapid and Stefanie Caintic to present prototypes of their
designs this June.
FOR more than 25 years, walking
over to the nearest 7-Eleven at al-
most any given hour both day and
night has been a common scene
for everyone not to mention a
focal part of the countrys retail
landscape -- in need of anything
that speaks and requires conve-
nience, be it a simple battery,
a quick sip of Slurpee, to more
intricate service necessities such
as bills payment and so forth.
Thanks to 7-Elevens reliable
round-the-clock service, time-
strapped customers seeking top
quality selection and true value
convenience can now disregard
their clocks and follow their own
schedule.
When adding new food to
the family diet, working parents
would often have trouble adding
healthy greens in their weekly
menu planning. Or, if luck comes
even shorter for others, even nd-
ing a slot at the restaurant parking
adds up to the already difcult
task. But now, busy homemakers
who want an easy answer to the
question, 'What's for dinner?' have
an accessible and budget-friendly
option at 7-Eleven.
Via the convenient shopping
format, healthy fares like fresh
green salads along with restau-
rant-quality prepared meals can
be had much faster, as the c-store
eliminates the long queues that are
usually experienced in groceries
and most fast food destinations.
The stores uncluttered and
more shopper-friendly oor lay-
out, thanks to the latest slim
gondolas, granted extra space for
eased shopping movement, thus
moms can tag along their kids
and accomplish their shopping
list much easily. Besides, soft-
serve ice cream, snacks, and other
nutritious fares are on hand as
rewarding treats for young ones.
Going out for lunch every
day at work can be expensive
for ofce workers and students
on a tight Instead of frequenting
the restaurants and lining up for
pricey fast food meals, 7-Eleven
makes fast food service a fresh,
affordable, and convenient step
towards healthier food choices.
In addition to increased ac-
cessibility, customers, upon en-
trance, will immediately discover
brighter interiors, as the new store
utilizes a variety of environ-
mentally-friendly materials and
energy-efcient xtures such as
LED, reectors and T5 lighting
which operates 70 percent more
efciently than traditional uo-
rescent lighting.
Grabbing snacks and feasting
on them with a bunch of friends is
also an enjoyable dining moment at
7-Eleven. With an accessible island
food table and caf-like setting that
can comfortably seat groups of 5 to
10, the special dining area within the
store enhances the stores new food
shop ambiance.
Its exclusive local licensee, Phil-
ippine Seven Corp. (PSC) has since
rolled out the new store prototype
in four c-store locations, namely
outlets in Aurora and Manhattan
Parkway in Cubao, Quezon City;
P. Burgos in Pasay City and at the
Columbia Tower in Ortigas City.
For details, contact PSC at (02)
7269968, 0920-9508651, 0917-
8711686 or email franchising@7-
eleven.com.ph or visit www.7-
eleven.com.ph.
The new look of retail shopping
SUMMER gets deliriously carefree
and bright for stylish kids and moms-
to-be with Pois Belly and Kidscollec-
tions for the happy season. Summer
2012 at PBK is all about the fun and
freedom of sun-kissed days, walking
on warm sunshine in a whirl of candy
colors like pink, red, yellow and green,
thrilling endless summer escapades in
vibrant style. Whether on a high beach
frolic, feasting on the yummiest des-
serts or simply lazing in a blooming
garden, PBKs summer collections
bring on the cheer and chirp of this
cherished season.
Have fun in the sun in lightweight,
cotton sleeveless tops, summer dresses
and shorts in pretty orals and sleek
stripes. For the tween whose style
smarts are ever on the up as she
navigates the awkward ages between
8 and 18, Pois brings out the emerging
stylesetter in her with perky cropped
tops, sassy micro shorts, and dreamy
sundresses. Belly Maternity, the brand
for fashionable expectant mothers,
gives the bump more summer shine in
a range of stylish gure-atterers, from
owy, knit tops and summer dresses
to sexy micro shorts and skinny jeans.
Indulge your little girl between two and
10 in a bit of summer dress-up with
Great Kids embellished blouses and
bottoms and dainty dresses.
The brainchild of Eurowear Mar-
keting Corp., Pois Belly and Kids,
Poised
for success
By Joba Botana
Globe brings
houses three fashion-niche brands
- Pois, Belly, and Great Kids - that
address the stylish dressing needs of
tykes and tweens as well as expect-
ing moms. Inspired by European de-
signs and the latest trends in fashion,
these brands are designed to adapt
to the local climate and specic age
groups. Eurowear owners Clement
and Rowena Velasco aim to bring
quality, style and age-specic fash-
ion in maternity, girls teen and girls
wear, under one roof.
From a home business in 1999,
selling a maternity line called Great
Expectations to friends and family, it
gradually expanded into girlswear. It
developed Great Kids in 2004 to cater
to young girls and the new generation
of fashion-keen mothers who want
to doll up their daughters. Eurowear
created Belly Maternity and Pois
(for tweens and teens) in 2006 when
it saw the need for stylish, quality
maternity wear that also places a
premium on comfort and a line for
tweens that go beyond the basic tee
and jeans ensemble, giving fashion
curious girls at this exploratory age
more choices and age-apt clothes.
All these brands were initially
available only in major department
stores. In 2007, Eurowear opened
its first boutique, Pois Belly and
Kids, at TriNoma to give its growing
clientele a convenient, one-stop shop
with a wider range of inventory, and
also to create more brand aware-
ness and higher customer trafc for
Pois, Belly and Great Kids. But its
ambitions dont stop with the local
market. Condent of the quality of its
designs and merchandise, Eurowear
has set its sights on the global market.
To learn more about Pois Belly
and Kids, please visit and like
its Facebook: www.facebook.com/
poisbellyandkids.
Nicki
Minaj
Nicki
Minaj
I was on my way to Edsa Shangri-
La Hotel to cover an event last
Wednesday and was told it's going
to be a partnership between Globe
and Research In Motion, the maker
of BlackBerry.In my iPod was
Nicki Minaj playing Super Bass.
I'm both a Globe subscriber and
a Blackberry user so I thought it's
going to be interesting. It turned
out to be more than just interesting;
it's denetely something to look
forward to.
Camer on Ver nest , RIM's
country director in the Philippines,
said the company recently launched
its latest BlackBerry handsetsthe
Curve 9220 and 9320, which run
under 7.1 Operating System. In
partnership with Globe, the leader
in postpaid, one can avail the hand-
sets by availing of its post paid
plans worth P499 and P999. The
plan not only offers a lot of unlim-
ited promos but also free access to
BlackBerry and Globe exclusive
concert-parties. But that's just a
piece of a cake. As part of the sur-
prise, Globe and RIM will bring in
global music icon Nicki Minaj for
a one-night-only concert at the
SM Mall of Asia Arean on July 11.
This concert is the only Southeast
Asian leg of her Pink
Friday Tour.
Move and groove to your fa-
vorite Nicki Minaj hits by availing
of RIM and Globe's latest promotion.
When you subscribe to Globe's lat-
est Blackberry plans you get a new
Curve 9220 and a free ticket to the
concert. Those who will purchase
the new Curve 9320 get two free
tickets to Nicki Minaj's exclusive
concert. With Globe My Super
Plan--a portfolio of flexible and cus-
tomizable postpaid plans that allow
customers to design their postpaid
service plan based on their choice
of consumable monthly amounts,
freebies, and add-ons--subscribers
get connected easily through
BlackBerry handsets and at the
same time, they get to have the
chance to a free access to Globe's
exclusive concert parties such as
Minaj's Pink Friday tour.
Existing subscribers outside
their lock-up can opt to re-contract
their account subscription and get
the BlackBerry Curve 9220 or the
BlackBerry Curve 9320 for the free
tickets, while those within lock-up
can either get a new postpaid line
or purchase a prepaid phone kit.
"Of course, the tickets will be
Research in Motion Country director Cameron Vernest, Head of Globe
Postpaid Martha Sazon and Head of Wilbros Entertainment Winston Llamas
to Manila
to Manila
VACHERON Constantin, a
company founded in 1755, is
the worlds oldest active watch
manufacturer. With over 250
years of continuous exper-
tise and production behind
it, Vacheron Constantin has
achieved a truly unique status
within the watch industry.
The brand has revived
some of its finest moments
in the quest for ultra-thinness.
The Geneva-based manufac-
turer has indeed been closely
involved in the epic mile-
stones of this distinctive form
of expertise, such as in the
1950s and 1960s when Vach-
eron Constantin introduced the
worlds thinnest wristwatches.
Vacheron Constantin is
enriching its Historiques col-
lection with two new creations
directly inspired by its heri-
tage, each lending a new and
distinctively modern touch to
one of two legendary calibres.
It has chosen in 2010 re-issue
two ultra-thin watches that
have made their mark on its
history, duly christened His-
torique Ultra-ne 1955 and
Historique Ultra-ne 1968.
Historique Ultra-fine
1955 is currently the worlds
thinnest mechanical hand-
wound watch measuring just
4.10 mm thick
Vacheron Constantin has
chosen to present a rede-
signed version of its Calibre
1003 movement, while its
1.64 mm thickness still
a market slimness world
record and its 21.10
mm diameter remain
unchanged. Its nish-
ing is however even
more rened, since the
bridges and mainplate
are now crafted from
18-carat gold.
Historique Ul-
tra-fine 1968 is
equipped with the
ultra-thin mechani-
cal self-winding 1120
movement featuring a
new decorated oscillating
weight, and bearing the
Hallmark of Geneva
The Vacheron
Constantin Histo-
riques Ultra-ne
1955 and 1968
are available
i n Rust ans
Makati.
9320 Curve Black
9220 Curve Black
gi v-
en on a rst-
come, first-serve ba-
sis. We will give away
around 10,000 tickets
and those who avail of
the P999 plan will get
the front seat rows," says
Mar t ha Sazon,
head of Globe
Postpaid, during
the intimate me-
dia gathering.
"This is event
is [a product of]
strong partnership
between RIM and
Globe. We are
very pleased to
announce this
because we know
that Filipinos
love BlackBerry.
B l a c k B e r r y
handsets are the
perfect companion
of hyper-connected
individuals--those
who always want
to be connected to
social networking
si t es- - because we
made it easier for them
with Blackberry apps
and exclusive messenger
system, which is the BBM,"
says Vernest.
"We
chose Nicki
Minaj because
people all over
the world love her
and of course, she is a BlackBerry-
user. Aside from her, there are also
other celebrities and personalities
who love BlackBerry including
Beyonce, Madonna, Justin Bieber
and the President of the U.S., Barack
Obama," he shares.
Nicki Minajs debut album "Pink
Friday" quickly became a global mu-
sic phenomenon when in November
2010, peaking at number one on the US
Billboard 200 and becoming a certified
Platinum by the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) only
a month after its release. Minaj, who
is the first female solo artist to have
seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100
at the same time, also became the first
female artist to top the chart unaccom-
panied since 2002 when she released
her second single, Your Love, which
reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot
Rap Songs chart. Her second studio
album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
was released in April this year.
comes free with My
Super Plan 499 plus
a P99 unlimited BlackBerry Chat
subscription while the BlackBerry
Curve 9320 is free with My Super
Plan BlackBerry Unli Surf Combo
Plan 999. For as low as P598/month,
Globe subscribers can get the Black-
Berry Curve 9220 complete with a
P499 monthly consumable amount
for calls and texts, unlimited access
to BBM (BlackBerry Messen-
ger) and two freebies, in addition to
the one free concert ticket. On the
other hand, subscribers can enjoy
the BlackBerry Curve 9320 for only
P999/month with unlimited surng,
P400 monthly consumable for calls
and texts, and 1 freebie, in addition
to the two free concert tickets.
"Flying an international artist for
an exclusive concert in the country as
the only Southeast Asian destination is
something weve never done before.
As part of our continuing efforts to
further grow our postpaid business,
we are making Nicki Minajs concert
party our biggest freebie ever, mak-
ing it exclusive to subscribers getting
the new BlackBerry Curve 9220 or
BlackBerry Curve 9320. With these
two new BlackBerry smartphones,
users can join the conversation and
share a great concert party experience
with each other, only from Globe and
BlackBerry, says Sazon.
Get the newest BlackBerry Curve
smartphones from Globe. For more
information, visit www.globe.com.ph/
blackberrycurve, or go to the Globe
Store nearest you. You may also call
730-1010.
Bayo celebrates 20 years
THERES
no doubt
D a d
holds a
speci al
place in
our hearts.
And with his
special day fast
approaching, all
of us are out to
nd that sure
bet gift that he truly deserves.
For certied beach bums and
aquatic Pas those who just
love doing anything cool as
long as its near or has some-
thing to do with water -- let his
feet adorably snug in a comfy
pair of SWIMS multi-moulded
loafers. A waterproof spin on
the classic loafer, SWIMS
loafers are just as perfect for
wading in the water as for
watering plants in the garden.
Breathable, lightweight, anti-
bacterial and odor-resistant,
this pair is best known for
its trendy, practical style and
durability.
As for Dads who are into
meditative sport like wushu,
the Shulong comes as a genu-
ine, technical but also com-
fortable, shoe. Known as the
only Chinese brand in Europe
to distribute the real Wushu
shoe, these shoes provide wear-
ers only the utmost quality of
comfort and support.
Shoul d Dad
fancy addi ng a
playful, nauti-
cal -st yl ed
f o o t -
wear t o
his shoe
c l o s e t ,
Tretorns Smgens-
son steps up as the
r i ght f ul ad-
dition to his
collection. Complete with fun
stripes and a unique slip on
construction, this updated ver-
sion of the classic boat shoe
is an ideal sneaker hybrid for
casual days spent strolling the
city, the beach or anywhere in
between.
For smart casual-styling
ofce fathers, get them effort-
lessly extra charming in Kick-
ers Juno (cool lace-up leather
deck shoes) and Julius (stylish
and very comfortable slip-ons).
Res|Toe|Run carries a vast
line of shoe brand staples
that also include Sledgers,
Bandal s, Qui ksi l ver, The
North Face, Salomon, Ban-
dals, Boxfresh, Native, El-
lesse, Zem, Roxy, DC, Flip-
s t er s , Fi t f l op, Es padr i j ,
Kruzin and Sanuk.
For more details, visit the
Res|Toe|Run online fanpage in
Facebook (www.facebook.com/
ResToeRunOfcial) and Twitter
(www.twitter.com/ResToeRun).
Shoe-perb choices
for the worlds best Dad
Zen master
Style-savvy Aquaman
TRAVELERS who appreciate Hawaiian Airlines
dedication to sharing Hawaiis unique culture and
tradition of hospitality will enjoy the airlines new
onboard menu and homegrown snacks showcasing
the diversity of foods and avors in the islands. The
new offerings are available on all of its domestic and
international ights.
Allowing our guests to savor the delicious avors
of our local cuisine helps them begin their Hawaii
experience hours before they actually arrive,
said Blaine Miyasato, Hawaiians vice president
of product development. Its an important part of
the Hawaiian hospitality that sets us apart from any
other carrier to our islands and another example of how
Hawaii ies with us.
Hawaiians variety of inight meals reect the
Hawaii-inspired air that executive chef Chai Cha-
owasaree has brought to the new menus using ingre-
dients found in the islands.
For example, among the meals being enjoyed by
Economy Class customers on domestic routes are a Ha-
waiian Breakfast Wrap of fried rice, Portuguese sausage,
and edamame, and a Chicken Yellow Curry with rice and
pineapple. Vegetarians can enjoy the Yellow Curry Penne
Pasta with vegetables.
The Airline menu
showcases
avors of Hawaii
Venice Falls in Maui, Hawaii
On international routes, one of the meals being enjoyed by travelers is a Hawaiian
Moco, Chais take on the local favorite breakfast dish made with a grilled hamburger
patty, steamed rice, brown gravy, and fried eggs.
All of these meals are offered free of charge. Notably, Hawaiian remains the only airline serving
Hawaii to offer complementary hot meals to all Economy Class customers.
These selections are in addition to the premium meals available for purchase in Economy
Class, which include fresh sushi platters and large specialty salads.
Hawaiians First Class menu also offers a variety of meal options that showcase the cultural
diversity of Hawaiis cuisine, such as Kalua Pork and Cheese Omelet, Shrimp & Crab Salad
with Crispy Won Ton Taco, and Grilled Prawns with Fusilli Pasta & Mac Nut Pesto.
JUNE 8, 2012 FRIDAY
C4
Isah V. Red, Editor [email protected]
showbitz
ISAH V.
RED
SIMPLY RED
Rock of Ages Vina Morales and
Nyoy Volante
Originally slated to air for just eight
episodes, the program that launched
the networks tween stars was extended
when it stayed at the no. 1 spot and
became the most preferred youth-
oriented drama series.
The program claimed leadership in its
timeslot according to data from Nielsen
TV Audience Measurement. Based on
average households data in Urban Luzon
covering the period Feb. 19 to May 27
(based on overnight data), Tween Hearts
registered 31.3 share points versus ABS-
CBNs Love U with 27.3 share points.
The program continued its winning
streak in Mega Manila, which now
comprises 59 percent of total television
households nationwide, after it garnered
31.7 share points against Love Us 24.7
points.
Apart from high ratings, the show
catapulted the Tweens to stardom.
Barbie Forteza and Joshua Dionisio,
Bea Binene and Jake Vargas together
with Joyce Ching, Kristoffer Martin,
Derek Monasterio, Kylie Padilla, Yassi
Pressman, Ken Chan, Teejay Marquez,
Kim Komatsu, Kiko Estrada, Hiro
Magalona, Rhen Escao, Therese
Conde, Gabby Garcia and Louise De
Los Reyes, Lexi Fernandezhave
evolve into young actors.
From rst loves to rst heartbreaks,
from tting in to peer pressure, from
bullying to how broken marriage
affects the teens, Tween Hearts tackled
complicated issues.
Josh (Joshua) and Bambi (Barbie)
meet a unfortunate accident? Meanwhile,
Bel (Bea) and Rick (Derek) confront
after he kissed her. Jacob will put an end
to his friendship with Rick because of
this incident. Will Aya (Joyce) and Kris
(Kristoffer) nd a way to patch up things
between Jacob and Rick?
Will Josh nally leave Bambi and
put their friendship to rest or will Jacob
(Jake) and Belinda settle their differences
and kiss and make up. Will Jacob, Rick,
Belinda and Heidi (Kylie) resolve their
conicts and nd it in their hearts to
forgive one another? With bonds they
have built, will the barkadas friendship
last forever?
The nale episode of Reel Love
presents Tween Hearts: Friends Forever
airs on June 10 on GMA Network.
Bulletins on Pacquiao-
Bradley match
The countdown to the much-
awaited face-off between pound-for-
pound king Manny Pacquiao and his
undefeated opponent Timothy Bradley
continues as GMA-7 and GMA News
TV (GNTV) give viewers an all-access
pass to the latest updates on the ongoing
preparations of both camps.
In the days leading to the ght, GMA
and GMA News TV bring the latest
insider news, expert commentaries, and
fearless predictions on who will bring
home the WBO Welterweight crown via
daily ve-minute bulletins that currently
air on both channels.
Hosted by Chino Trinidad,
Countdown to Pacquiao-Bradley World
Welterweight Championship airs on
GMA from 5:45 to 5:50 p.m. before
Alice Bungisngis, and tomorrow within
Manny Many Prizes.
Meanwhile, on GNTV, Pacquiao-
Bradley Flashpunch anchored by Mark
Zambrano airs from 5:25 to 5:30 p.m.
before News TV QRT and from 5:45 to
5:50 p.m. on June 9 before Sarap To
Heart and Day-Off.
Get to know the two boxers from the
point of view of analysts and experts as
well as from the very members of their
teams via the Pacquiao-Bradley bulletins
on GMA and GMA News TV.
GMA reacts
to column item
We got this from our e-mail, the
networks reaction to a published column
in another paper insinuating that the
Kapuso network and Kapatid TV will
soon merge. Heres Kapuso spokesman
Butch S. Raquels answer.
GMA Network is not in a position
to comment on the article that came
out in The Philippine Star today, June
4, 2012, regarding the reported merger
of GMA Network and TV5 since we are
not the source of the information. The
said article attributed the information
to Mr. Manny Pangilinan (MVP). To
our knowledge, MVP has claried that
he was misquoted. We therefore suggest
that anyone who wishes to verify may do
so with MVP.
People
are talking aboutt

Jessica Sanchez
RUMORS have it that the coun-
trys biggest television stations
all want to get her as an exclu-
sive talent. We say, no matter how
much effort they exhausted, Jessica
wouldnt settle as either a Kapatid
or a Kapuso, not even a Kapamilya.
Shes got better chances in the US
and thats already sealed.
Stephany Stefanowitz
Finally Miss Phillippines Earth has
crowned a statuesque beauty worth the
hype. Shes miles better than the pag-
eants two previous winners. At least
this time, Stephany looks, moves, and
talks like a real beauty queen.
Sam Pinto
The Kapuso actress is most likely
to win the FHM sexiest woman poll
for the second time in a row. As of this
writing, Sam has taken the lead from
other favorites Angel Locsin, Mar-
ian Rivera, and Solenn Heussaff.
are not talking
about
Angeline Quinto
The rising Kapamilya singer tried
to belt out Jennifer Hollidays clas-
sic, And I am Telling Im not Going
in Asap. She struggled with the lyr-
ics and the pitch while she wrestled
with the microphone. Word of advice,
dont try something you cant do.
Mo Twister
Rhian Ramos is having all the
good times. She has got her life and
career back. Also she has a bloom-
ing love life care of Mos [former]
good pal, KC Montero. No wonder,
the radio jock is bitter and fuming
like an angry bird even if Rhian has
denied the rumor
Protg
The singing reality show is back
for a second season. We are just won-
dering though what has happened to
the rst season winner? Apparently,
Protg can produce a contest win-
ner but it cannot produce a star.
Star Magic
rocks theater
scene
THE talent development arm of
ABS-CBN, Star Magic, believes
that theater is another venue
where its artists can showcase
their talents, apart from the usual
TV, lm and concerts. And so, in
line with its tradition of providing
the best and the brightest talents
to the various avenues of the
entertainment industry, Star Magic
partners with Atlantis Productions
for its latest and upcoming
theatrical productions.
Atlantis continues its 2012 season
with the critically-acclaimed Rock
Of Ages, a hilarious, feel-good love
story told thru such 80s hit anthems
like I Want To Know What Love
Is, Dont Stop Believin, We
Built This City, Hit Me With Your
Best Shot and Every Rose Has Its
Thorn. International rock sensation
MiG Ayesa heads the cast as Stacee
Jaxx, a role he also played in the
Broadway version. Fil-Aussie MiG
was one of the nalists of the reality
show Rockstar: INXS.
Joining the cast are two of Star
Magics very own. Nyoy Volante
was last seen playing Usnavi in
In The Heights, where he earned
critical acclaim and an Aliw Award
nomination for his performance.
In Rock Of Ages, he plays Drew
Boley, an aspiring rock star with
big dreams. Originally a songwriter
and acoustic balladeer.
Vina Morales plays Sherrie,
a small-town girl who goes to LA
to pursue her dreams of being an
actress. Known for her energetic
song and dance numbers, Vinas
performance in Rock of Ages is
highly anticipated, this being her rst
theater project. In her many years
in entertainment, Vina has done
practically everythingteleseryes,
movies, recording, concerts here
and abroad. Doing theater is one of
the few things left on her to-do list,
and when the opportunity presented
itself, she did not hesitate to grab it.
Vina feels that she is ready and able,
and was willing to give up another
project with ABS-CBN, just to be
able to do Rock of Ages.
Rock Of Ages is directed by
Chari Arespacochaga, and will
run from June 15 to July 8 at
the Carlos P. Romulo Theater at
the RCBC Plaza in Makati. For
tickets and inquiries call Atlantis
Productions at 892-7078.
One small
act for the
Philippines
IN celebration of the 114
th
anniversary
of Philippine Independence, TalkTV
is launching a campaign that promotes
civic responsibility and love for
the country. One Small Act for the
Philippines is a movement that
will gather user-generated pictures
portraying small acts for the love of
country.
For the entire month of June,
Facebook users can join the campaign
by rst liking the TalkTV Philippines
Facebook page. They can post their
own pictures to the TalkTV Wall with
the caption I show my love for the
Philippines by The photo should
best capture the theme of One Small
Act for the Philippines.
Three winners will be picked
each week and notied through their
Facebook accounts. The photos will
be judged based on the the theme and
artistic qualities. Weekly winners will
advance to the nal round where their
photos will be displayed in an exhibit.
Photojournalists and business
executives compose the panel of
judges. The nal round of judging will
be held on June 30 at the Shangri-La
Hotel in Makati.
New Pinoy boy group
Down To Mars
IT was a year ago when seven young men saw each other and found something in common.
First, they look Asian. But not just that, they also found-out that they are all partlyFilipino, half
Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
Second, they they saw each other as having air for fashion-forward garments and they
exude condence wearing dramatic and iconic looks.
Third, the excitement even grew when each of them learned that they have the same
passion for music and could gracefully dance the songs that they sang.
So, they became friends then later declared themselves as brothers. Not knowing that
those days of early bonding, late-night-acoustic singing sessions and moments of mimicking
some dances of Asian boy bands would become the prime ingredients for the birth of an
unheard name of a boy group called Down To Mars. The name is an understatement of
humility while marveling to the unique world of unlimited creative inspirations.
Geleen Eugenio
followed them after
meeting them in
the studio at GMA
Network. She thought
that this country has a
scarcity for new breed
of boy groups unlike
the vibrant growth
happening in our
neighboring countries.
So, she brought the
boys of Down To Mars
to the doorstep of GMA
Artists Center for an
audition.
They went through
grueling workshops. Then they performed regularly in Party Pilipinas. The fan-base grew
tremendously and called these fanatics as marsians. They are popular in as far as Indone-
sia, Hawaii, Spain and Korea...thanks to Twitter and Facebook.
Polyeast Records took notice of their songs and signed them to the record label. Now,
their original songs are nally playing various media platforms.
Down To Mars is aware that what they are achieving right now is just a beginning
of greater challenges ahead. They are determined to face the world and always remain
humble in the limelight and forever be thankful to the people and institutions who are
instrumental to what they are reaping right now.
Joan and Melissa
Rivers with Anderson
ANDERSON tries to rescue a
family from the pitfalls of excessive
hoarding. Maria and her family
will get help for them to determine
the root cause of their rather cruel
hoarding tendencies.
The shows crew visits their home
and sees that the residents are buried
in boxes, and their relationship is in
torment.
In another segment, the mother-
daughter duo of Joan and Melissa
Rivers are in a special no-holds barred
interview. From the mothers tattoo
parlor escapade to the daughters
public breakup Anderson gives it all
to you today.
Anderson airs Monday to Friday
via Satellite at 8 to 9 p.m. with next
day replays at 2 a.m. and 9 a.m. on
TalkTVCh. 16 on SkyCable, Ch. 28
on Destiny and Ch. 21 on Cignal.
Bye bye time for
Tween Hearts
AFTER 86 episodes
every Sunday
afternoon, Reel Love
presents Tween Hearts
says goodbye to its
loyal fans in a nale
episode on June 10.
Down To Mars members
(From left): Joyce Ching, Kristofer Martin, Lexi Fernandez, Joshua Dionisio, Barbie Forteza, Bea Binene, Jake Vargas, Louise de los Reyes, and Derek Monasterio

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