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In Russian territory. President Aquino gets off the plane soon after his arrival in Vladivostok to attend the Apec summit.
Rhino horn.
Customs
Commissioner
Runo Biazon
holds a rhi-
noceros horn,
which is part
of 13.2 kilos of
an illegal ship-
ment of rhino
horns worth
P47 million
seized at the
port. (Story
on A6) SONNY
ESPIRITU
Family support. President Barack Obama is joined on stage by rst
lady Michelle Obama (left) and their children Malia and Sasha on the
nal day of the Democratic National Convention. AP
Palace wont heed calls
to break impasse on RH
Freer trade
top item
in Aspac
leaders gab
Apecs side agenda: Bilateral talks on sea issue
Coronas ouster boosts
PNoys approval rating
Dual citizens cant run for public office
Cabanatuan City judge vindicated
Award made on day
Roxas named to DILG
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LPA spotted
off Surigao
Agham Rep. Angelo Palmo-
nes said the deal with Trust Trade
and its partner, Glock Asia Pacic
Ltd., was made Aug. 31, the same
day that President Benigno Aqui-
no III appointed Roxas as DILG
secretary and gave him a free
hand to bring in his own team.
Roxas said he would order a
revamp and take control of the
Philippine National Police, which
had been under Puno when Jesse
Robredo was secretary.
It is too much of a coinci-
dence for Puno and [PNP Chief
Nicanor] Bartolome to award
the contract on the same day that
Puno was technically stripped of
his power, Palmones said.
Palmones urged Roxas and Presi-
dent Aquino to review the awarding
of the P1-billion contract and get the
PNP to clear up allegations of irregu-
larity surround the bidding.
Bartolome insisted there was
nothing wrong with the process.
Our procurement process is
very transparent. Theres no con-
tract signing yet. Only the notice
By Sara D. Fabunan
THE Palace on Friday took a hands-
off approach to the contentious re-
productive health bill despite calls
from lawmakers for President Be-
nigno Aquino III to take the lead
and break an impasse within his
own Liberal Party.
One day after an appeal from
pro-RH party leaders to the Presi-
dent to step in, an administration
spokesman, Secretary Ramon
Carandang, said Mr. Aquino
would would not meddle in the
affairs of Congress.
At this point, we leave it to the
House and the Senate to work out
whatever deals or compromises
they see t as far as the RH bill is
concerned, Carandang said.
On Thursday, Majority Leader
Neptali Gonzales III urged the
President to lead his party in the
same way he did when the Palace
instigated the ouster by impeach-
ment of Supreme Court Chief
Justice Renato Corona.
But Carandang ruled out an ac-
tive role for the President, saying
he had already made his position
known on the subject many times.
In his State-of-the-Nation Ad-
dress in July, Mr. Aquino said
responsible parenthood was the
THE latest Social Weather Stations
survey showing public satisfaction
for President Benigno Aquino III
soaring to 67 percent could be at-
tributed to the successful impeach-
ment of Chief Justice Renato Co-
rona, an ofcial said on Friday.
Coronas impeachment con-
tributed to the highest approval
ratings that the President had had
so far since he assumed ofce in
2010, Presidential Communica-
tion Development and Strategic
Planning Ofce Secretary Ramon
Carandang told reporters.
I believe that the successful
impeachment of the former chief
justice had something to do with
the approval ratings of the Presi-
dent, Carandang said.
He said Coronas impeach-
ment trial was part of the Aquino
administrations anti-corruption
campaign, and that the public was
well informed about why the gov-
ernment wanted to impeach him.
The Senate impeached Corona
By Ferdie Domingo
JUDGE Angelo Perez, executive judge of
the Regional Trial Court Cabanatuan City,
was vindicated after his younger brother and
sister-in-law issued a public apology clear-
ing the magistrate of any wrong-doings and
other false accusations that the spouses had
earlier made against him.
Claro Riccardo and wife Arlene re-
gretted questioning Judges Perezs good
name and reputation, saying it was most
unfortunate that their baseless accusa-
tions came out in several publications in
2010.
That turnaround came after the Su-
preme Courts First Division, through a
By Rey E. Requejo
FILIPINOS with dual citizenship
should renounce their foreign citi-
zenship to be eligible to run for
public ofce in accordance with
the law, the Supreme Court has
ruled.
Failure to renounce foreign
citizenship in accordance with
the exact tenor of Section 5(2) of
Republic Act 9225 renders a dual
citizen ineligible to run for and
thus hold any elective public of-
ce, the Court said.
The high court made the ruling
even as it dismissed the petition
of the winning candidate for vice
mayor of Caba, La Union, who
was unseated after being disquali-
ed on the ground she did not re-
nounce her Australian citizenship
under oath.
The Court agreed with the de-
cision of a regional trial court in
Bauang, La Union, on Sept. 26,
2011 that found Teodora Sobeja-
na-Condon ineligible to sit as vice
mayor of Caba, La Union.
The language of the provision
is plain and unambiguous. It ex-
presses a single, denite, and sensi-
ble meaning and must thus be read
literally, the high court said.
The foreign citizenship must
be formally rejected through an
afdavit duly sworn before an
ofcer authorized to administer
oath.
CHARLOTTE, North Caroli-
naBarack Obama urged wa-
vering supporters not to give up
on their dreams of change or
on him as he accepted the
Democratic Partys nomination
for president in what promises
to be a tough race against Re-
publican Mitt Romney.
Obama used his nationally
televised speech on Thursday
closing out the Democratic Na-
tional Convention to try to recap-
ture the excitement that powered
his rst run for the presidency.
With just two months before
election day, Obama needs to
win over undecided voters, es-
pecially those who had been
swayed by his inspiring message
of hope and change in 2008, but
have grown disillusioned after
years of economic weakness and
persistent political bickering.
The election four years ago
wasnt about me. It was about
you, he said. My fellow citi-
zens you were the change.
He said the American people
were the ones responsible for
accomplishments on his watch,
such as overhauling health care,
changing immigration policies
and ending the ban in gays in
the military.
If they turned away now, he
warned, you buy into the cyni-
cism that the change we fought
By Sara Susanne Fabunan
President Aquino said he would
seek one-on-one talks with China
and other Asian countries in-
volved in the dispute over the
Panatag Shoal in the West Philip-
pines Sea during the 20th Asia Pa-
cic Economic Cooperation sum-
mit in Vladivostok, Russia during
the weekend.
Aquino said the summit would
tackle trade and investments
and geopolitical issues, but the
event offered an opportunity for
dialogues with other countries to
strengthen cooperation towards
progress and development.
In addition, there are current is-
sues that we hope to bring up with
neighboring countries, who are at-
tending the summit, Aquino said in
his departure speech before board-
ing his plane at the Ninoy Aquino
International Airport.
Aquino arrived in Vladivostok,
Russia on a charted ight with a
66-member delegation that in-
cluded Foreign Affairs Secretrary
Albert del Rosario and Finance
Secretary Cesar Purisima.
The Philippines, China, Viet-
nam, Singapore, Malaysia, In-
donesia and Taiwan have over-
lapping claims over the Panatag
Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.
The United States, a long-time
Philippine ally, has waded in and
has redeployed a big portion of its
naval forces in the area.
Foreign Affairs Undersecre-
tary for International Economic
Relations Laura del Rosario said
Aquino was expected to meet in
the sidelines Chinese President
Hu Jintao as well as his counter-
parts from Vietnam, Singapore,
Malaysia and Chile.
Presidential Communication
Development and Strategic Plan-
ning Ofce Secretary Ramon Car-
angdang said that the real action
in the summit will be the separate
THE low-pressure area spotted
near Surigao City could bring
rain to some parts of the coun-
try on Saturday, the Philippine
Atmospheric, Geophysical
and Astronomical Services
Administration said Friday.
Punos P1b midnight deal
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Judge Angelo Perez
VLADIVOSTOKAsia and
Pacic leaders meeting in
the Russian seaport of Vladi-
vostok this weekend urgently
need to push ahead with their
agenda for freer trade. Falter-
ing vital signs in China and
elsewhere suggest the global
recovery may depend on it.
The Asia Pacic Econom-
ic Cooperation forum aims
to foster growth by disman-
tling barriers and bottlenecks
that slow trade and business,
while nurturing closer eco-
nomic ties.
But election-year politics
and territorial spats are weak-
ening the resolve of its 22
members to put aside differ-
ences for the sake of regional
vitality.
Given its status as an or-
ganization governed by con-
sensus, Apec is not known for
major policy breakthroughs.
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By Christine F. Herrera
INTERIOR Undersecretary Rico Puno
approved a midnight deal to buy almost
60,000 pistols for the police at a cost of
P997.99 million on the same day that the
newly appointed secretary of the depart-
ment, Manuel Roxas II, announced his
reassignment, a lawmaker said Friday.
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Pimentel has been going
around Mindanao and was
in Butuan City recently to
meet with business leaders
in Surigao and Agusan.
Mining may be allowed
in the country provided that
the best practices that foreign
Senator supports mining
SENATOR Aquilino Pimentel III,
citing mining as an economic driver,
has expressed optimism for socio-
economic progress in Mindanao if
the people rally behind the principles
of sustainable development.
Dual...
The Court said Sobrejana-
Condons act of running for pub-
lic ofce did not sufce to serve
as an effective renunciation of her
Australian citizenship.
[Petitioner] is yet to regain her
political right to seek elective of-
ce, the high court said.
Unless she executes a sworn
renunciation of her Australian
citizenship, she is ineligible to
run for and hold any elective of-
ce in the Philippines.
Sobejano-Condon was born on
Aug. 8, 1944, but became a natu-
ralized Australian citizen due to
her marriage to a Kevin Thomas
Condon on Dec. 13, 1984. On
Dec. 2, 2005, she applied to re-
acquire her Philippine citizenship
before the Philippine Embassy in
Canberra, Australia, which was
approved. She then took her oath
of allegiance to the Philippines on
Dec. 5, 2005.
On Sept. 18, 2006, she led an
unsworn renunciation of her Aus-
tralian citizenship in Canberra,
which in Sept. 27, 2006, certied
that she had ceased to be an Aus-
tralian citizen.
Sobrejano-Condon then ran for
mayor in her hometown of Caba
in 2007 but lost.
She ran again and won in
the May 2010, this time for
vice mayor, and took her oath
on May 13, 2010. But some
registered voters in Caba pe-
titioned a court in La Union
questioning her authority to sit
as vice mayor of Caba, and the
court later ruled in favor of the
petitioners.
Palace...
answer to some of the countrys ed-
ucation woes, although he fell short
of explicitly supporting the RH bill
that he earlier championed.
But pro-RH bill supporters saw
that as a signal that the President
would give the bill a nal push to-
ward approval.
Still, the bill remains in the pe-
riod of amendments in both the
House and the Senate, where anti-
RH lawmakers have prolonged the
debates to delay a vote.
Carandang said they were trying
to introduce amendments to make
the bill as acceptable to the broad-
est number of people as possible.
Another presidential spokesman,
Edwin Lacierda, said the President
would not ask Congress to hold a
special session for the RH bill, and
that the Palace saw no reason for it.
Senate President Pro Tempore
Jinggoy Estrada earlier said the
senators were deadlocked 10 in fa-
vor and 10 against, with three sena-
tors, himself included, undecided.
While the House scrambled to
reach a compromise bill that would
win over the anti-RH lawmakers,
the Catholic Bishops Conference
of the Philippines said Friday it
would not participate in discus-
sions to reach a middle ground.
The discussions were supposed to
include lawmakers from both cham-
bers of Congress and several bishops.
But CBCP president and Cebu
Archbishop Jose Palma said the
bishops would let lawmakers settle
the issue among themselves, and that
the Church would not compromise
its position against the RH bill.
Antipolo Bishop Gabriel Reyes,
head of the CBCPs Episcopal
Commissionon Family and Life,
added that the bishops would not
attend any of the discussions but
merely inform the anti-RH law-
makers about the amendments they
wanted.
He said all the provisions that
violated the natural moral law
should be removed from the bill.
The Church opposes the use of
contraceptives and sex education in
schools, saying those would lead to
increased promiscuity.
Senate President Juan Ponce
Enrile on Friday maintained his
anti-RH tirade, threatening to
grill Senator Pia Cayetano about
the amendments she had intro-
duced in her version of the bill.
With Vito Barcelo and Macon
Ramos-Araneta
Corona...
on May 29 after nding him
guilty of not revealing all his as-
sets as required by law. Malaca-
ang had taken the initiative to
impeach him and asked its allies
in Congress to do its bidding.
We wanted to impeach Chief
Justice Corona because we think
he was blocking the needed re-
forms in the judiciary, Caran-
dang said.
He said Mr. Aquinos very
good approval ratings were
due to the faith that the Filipino
people continued to have on him.
He said he was assuming that Mr.
Aquino was happy with the latest
results from SWS.
I think any politician who is
working so hard to get his pro-
grams through would be happy
to know that the public approves
of his numbers, of his perfor-
mance, Carandang said.
I think the President would
probablyI think its safe to as-
sume that the President is happy.
Presidential spokesman Edwin
Lacierda said in a statement that the
signicant increase in Mr. Aquinos
ratings validated his leadership.
Based on the SWS result, Mr.
Aquinos net satisfaction score
rose 25 points to very good
or +67 in an August poll from
good or +42 in May.
The survey said 77 percent of
the respondents had said they
were satised with Mr. Aquinos
performance, a 14-point jump
from his 63-percent satisfaction
rating in May.
The consistently strong num-
bers afrm the Presidents man-
date for change; they are tangible
indicators of the peoples support
for the difcult yet necessary
reforms the President has cham-
pioned since day one, Lacierda
said. Sara Susanne D. Fabunan
Cabanatuan...
resolution dated September 21, 2011 has ruled as
closed and terminated an earlier complaint for dis-
ciplinary action led by the younger Perez against the
judge before the Integrated Bar of the Philippines(IBP)
which the IBP Board of Governors had dismissed for
utter lack of merit on April 15, 2008 and again on June
26, 2011.
In an act of contrition, the said spouses now vouch
for the integrity and good character of Judge Perez.
My brother is a good and honorable man with un-
questioned integrity and decency, they said.
In their public apology, the two also wanted to set
the record straight saying that those aspersions cast
against his character questioning his moral tness to
become a judge or a member of the Judiciary are com-
pletely false and have no basis in fact whatsoever.
He always treated us with utmost fairness, honesty,
integrity and seless devotion, always looking after our
welfare before his own, Claro Riccardo also said of his
Dikong, his second elder brother.
At the same time, the spouses called on all responsible
journalists to reveal the truth about his brother-judges
true nature as an honorable and descent person. That
despite the transgressions we committed against him,
humility and compassion still prevailed upon him. He re-
mained open-hearted and entirely forgiving to us, Claro
Riccardo added.
This positive development also paved the way for
the reconciliation of the family.
For his part, Judge Perez said: He cherishes these re-
newed ties with his younger brother and that the whole
family welcomes the prodigal son back to their fold
once again. Alls well that ends well.
The elder Perez is an Ateneo School of Law batch
1991 Silver Medalist graduate who placed eight in the
1992 Bar examinations. He is the incumbent president
of the Philippine Judges Association (PJA) Nueva Eci-
ja chapter, Director for Region 3 of the PJA, Execu-
tive Judge of RTC Cabanatuan city, Presiding Judge
of Branch 27 and Pairing Judge of Branch 28 of RTC
Cabanatuan city.
Obama...
for isnt possible. Change, he
said, will not happen.
Obama built on the message
Democrats delivered throughout
the convention: that America is on
the road to recovery while Romney
would revive failed policies, cutting
taxes for the rich and slashing pro-
grams that give regular Americans a
chance for a more prosperous future.
If you reject the notion that this
nations promise is reserved for the
few, your voice must be heard in
this election, he said.
Republicans, who nominated
Romney last week, argue that Amer-
icas high 8.3 percent unemployment
rate is proof that Obamas policies
have failed and that the presidents
spendthrift, big-government policies
have hurt business and caused the
federal decit to soar.
The two candidates are locked in
tight race. Polls show that Romney,
a wealthy businessman and former
governor of Massachusetts, is seen
as the better candidate for improv-
ing the economy, while Obama is
viewed as more likable and having
a better understanding of everyday
Americans.
Obamas speech marked the cli-
max of the three-day convention.
First Lady Michelle Obama high-
lighted the rst day, talking about
her husbands humble roots and
compassion Bill Clinton, the popular
former president who led the United
States during years of prosperity,
gave a rousing speech Wednesday,
vouching for Obamas economic
policies and urging Americans not to
turn back to Republicans.
Preceding Obama was Vice
President Joe Biden. AP
LPA...
Weather forecaster Ricky Fab-
regas said the weather disturbance
was unlikely to become a cyclone,
but it could still enhance the south-
west monsoon to bring rain.
He urged the residents of
Southern Luzon, the Visayas and
Mindanao to be alert for possible
ash oods and landslides.
He also warned of a possible
thunderstorm in Metro Manila in
the afternoon of Saturday.
The weather bureau said the rest
of Luzon would be partly cloudy to
cloudy with isolated rain showers.
Light to moderate winds blow-
ing from the northeast to east will
prevail over Northern and Cen-
tral Luzon, and from the north-
east to northwest over the rest of
the country.
The coastal waters throughout
the archipelago will be slight to
moderate. Jonathan Fernandez
By Joyce Pangco Paares
VLADIVOSTOK (via PLDT)
The Philippines on Friday
agreed to cut the tariffs on
green technology products to
ve percent or less by the end
of 2015, an initiative that is still
being rmed up by member-
economies during the 20th Asia
Pacic Economic Cooperation
summit here in Russky Island.
Foreign Affairs Undersecre-
tary for International Economic
Relations Laura del Rosario
said the Philippines was still -
nalizing its list of acceptable
green products to be presented
to other Apec members.
We are supportive of that
proposal. We have no prob-
lem, in principle, with bringing
down the tariff on green prod-
ucts, del Rosario said.
But del Rosario admitted that
they still had to dene which
products fell under the category
of green technology products.
There is still discussions
on what would comprise green
products. We will provide a list
of what are acceptable for us for
inclusion, she said.
She said there were at least
300 products worldwide that
fell under the category of green
technology products.
However, Russian Economic
Development Minister Andrey
Belousov, in a separate brief-
ing, said Apec economies have
already formulated a list of 20
green commodities.
The ministers of some of the
developed economies said that
the list is much too short. The
experts will work to extend this
list. I am condent that the list
will be extended, because there
are more goods we could add to
it, Belousov said.
Business leaders here have
proposed the drafting of com-
mon regional standards to sim-
plify customs regulations and
electronic document ow.
Industry captains also pushed
for a one-stop-shop principle
for supply chains in the region.
But Apec Business Advisory
Council chairman Ziyavudin
Magomedov also called for
the establishment of a public-
private partnership in the high
technology sector.
We also recommended that
tax and administrative incen-
tives should be developed to
encourage green construction
projects in the APEC econo-
mies, he said.
investors follow in their own
land are also observed here,
Pimentel said.
He said foreign mining in-
vestors should be respon-
sible, able to protect the envi-
ronment, assure us fair returns,
and pay reasonable taxes to
the government.
All of these conditions
lead to what we call sustain-
able development that the
Filipino people need, espe-
cially the people of Mind-
anao since they own the de-
posits.
Pimentel cited the min-
eral-rich Mindanao region
with several existing and
potential world-class min-
ing ventures, including the
proposed $5.9-billion Tam-
pakan Copper-Gold Proj-
ect in South Cotabato. The
project is said to have the
potential to contribute an
extra 10.4 percent annually
to the gross domestic prod-
ucts of regions 11 and 12.
But what I mean here is that
these mining companies must
protect the ecological balance
before anything else, Pimentel
said.
Mining ventures must ben-
efit the entire country and not
the foreign investors alone.
This is what we call sustain-
able mining.
PH okays
tariff cuts
on greens
Freer...
This year is particularly chal-
lenging: From the Kuril islands to
the northeast of Vladivostok all the
way to the Spratlys in the South
China Sea, various neighbors are
squabbling over territories at a time
when they most need to be focused
on promoting growth.
South Korea is feuding with
Japan, Japan with China, China
with many of its Southeast Asian
neighbors. With elections due
soon in South Korea and Japan,
and a once-in-a-decade change in
the Communist Party leadership
pending in China, lame-duck lead-
ers facing nationalist pressures at
home have little room for amicably
resolving the disputes.
Its bad luck that it happens just
before all these transitions. Every-
body is looking around and saying,
these people wont be at the table
in three months, said William
Overholt, an Asia expert at Har-
vard Universitys Kennedy School
of Government.
The omens are not auspicious,
he said.
As expected, on Thursday Apec
nance ministers issued a declara-
tion noting the crucial role the re-
gion plays in driving world growth
and, as usual, their commitment to
more open trade and investment.
The sharp decline in growth in
trade this year from 12 percent
in December from a year earlier to
4.6 percent in May underscores
the importance of pushing ahead
with trade initiatives, the APEC
Policy Support Unit, an indepen-
dent data analysis and research
unit, said in a report issued Friday.
APEC is really focused on
trade and commercial facilita-
tion, but this year these guys
are mainly playing to the home
crowds. These things are im-
pacting what can possibly be
done in Vladivostok, said Tony
Nash, managing director at IHS
Global Insight in Singapore.
As hosts, Russian leaders are
showcasing their countrys recent
entry into the rules-setting World
Trade Organization a key step
in traditionally Europe-centric
Moscows effort to build trade and
investment ties with its neighbors
in the Far East.
What Id expect from the
meeting is Russia trying to show
itself to be a global power, and
certainly my view and that of
many others is that is not true
anymore, said Xenia Dormandy,
an expert at the London-based
think-tank Chatham House. AP
Puno...
of award has been signed after com-
plying with the procedures, Barto-
lome told the Manila Standard.
The Manila Standard was unable
to reach Roxas and it unclear if he
would afrm the P1-billion pur-
chase when he ofcially takes over
from Robredo, who died in a plane
crash Aug. 18.
The day after Robredo was de-
clared missing, Puno was reported
to have tried to break into Robre-
dos condominium unit and ofces
in Quezon City, prompting Mrs.
Robredo to ask the President to se-
cure their apartment.
Mrs. Robredo had said her hus-
band had sensitive documents on
the investigation he had done on
DILG and police ofcials.
A Palace spokesman, Secretary
Ramon Carandang, conrmed that
Robredo was conducting sensitive
investigations before he died, but
declined to say what these involved.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima,
who secured Robredos apartment
on orders of the President, said she
did not know what documents were
found there.
Commenting on the notice of
award, Palmones said: Granting that
everything is in order, what was the
rush to award the P1-billion contract
when Secretary Roxas has yet to set-
tle down. Whats the rush?
He also pointed to alleged anoma-
lies raised by the losing bidders, in-
cluding one report that said the Glock
9 mm pistols misred during testing.
Why do we have to settle for
guns that are defective? We do not
want to risk the lives of our police,
Palmones said.
But Bartolome said there was no
rush, saying that bidding had begun
as early as June 28.
Peter Go Cheng of Kolonwel
Trading, a losing bidder, said Puno
was present at all times during the
bidding process, and did not follow
bidding rules to allow all participants
to submit their guns for testing.
The P997.99 million will buy
59,904 units of caliber 9 mm pistols
at P16,659.94 each.
Cheng also said Puno and Bar-
tolome disqualied many of them
despite having better products and
lower prices to favor Trust Trade
and Glock.
A day after the Presidents State-
Of-The-Nation Address, Palmones
and Antipolo City Rep. Reynaldo
Acop called for an investigation into
the P1-billion gun procurement, say-
ing the President might have been
misled into announcing 74,600 pis-
tols when the bidding had not yet
been completed at the time.
Palmones said he was particu-
larly interested in nding out why
the President announced 74,600
pistols would be distributed to the
police, when the contract was for
only 59,904.
Was the President being made
to believe that the P1-billion con-
tract would deliver the police force
some 74,600 pistols when only
59,904 will be actually delivered as
prescribed in bid documents? Pal-
mones said. Where will the rest of
the 14,696 pistols go?
Four bidders joined the bidding:
the joint venture of R. Espenille
with Israel Weapons Industries;
the joint venture of Trust Trade and
Glock Asia Pacic Ltd.; the joint
venture of Countermeasures Equi-
pages and Securities Technologies
Inc., Kolonwel Trading and Ceska
Zbrojovka; and Armscor.
The Espenille group was de-
clared the winner for having the
lowest bid but the bids and awards
committee disqualied it after nd-
ing that its Israeli partner did not
have proper authorization and cer-
tication from the embassy, as re-
quired in the bidding process.
Palmones and Antipolo City
Rep. Reynaldo Acop said the
Glock group, registered in Hong
Kng, only had an authorized capital
of HK$ 10,000, and used the pa-
pers of another Glock company to
circumvent the bidding rules.
Acop and Palmones said the
product test on the Glock rearms
started on July 19, 2012.
On the second day of the test,
they said, a photo of a PNP ofcial,
the chief of the procurement, was
published in a national newspaper,
showing him at the booth of Trust
Trade and Glock at a gun exhibit in
SM Megamall.
The picture, they said, had the
subtle and subliminal effect of
endorsing the Glock pistols that
were undergoing testing.
After the Presidents announce-
ment on July 23 that a bidder had
emerged as winner, the bids and
awards committee said no more
rearms would be tested, prompt-
ing the other bidders to complain,
Acop and Palmones said.
The two lawmakers sought a
congressional investigation. With
Sara Susanne D. Fabunan and
Rey E. Requejo
Apecs...
bilateral talks between the Philip-
pines and the other Asian coun-
tries involved in the dispute in the
West Philippine Sea.
Aquino said he would also en-
courage the leaders of 21 world
economies to invest in the Phil-
ippines during the Business Ad-
visory Council meeting when
they take up business issues in
the Asia-Pacic region.
We will be aggressive in tell-
ing them about the opportunities
in the Philippines. Every capital
that they bring would strengthen
the foundation and future of the
economy of our country, he said.
You can be assured that every
minute I spend there would be for
attainment of our national goals,
Aquino said.
The Russian Federation hosts
this years meeting of the lead-
ers of the 21 member-economies
with the theme Integrate to
Grow, Innovate to Prosper.
Singapore, which has no
claims on any of the disputed ter-
ritories in the West Philippines
Sea, called on the countries in-
volved to manage the dispute
responsibly.
All sides should avoid esca-
lating tensions or precipitating
confronations that will affect
the international standing of the
region, said Singapore Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong in a
speech posted in Today online
website.
Singapore has taken a clear
and consistent position on the
South China Sea issue. We are
not a claimant country.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2012 SATURDAY
A3 News
ManilaStandardToday mst.daydesk@gmail.com
Panel probes Corona tax raps
IN BRIEF
Curbs on eld trips

A RESOLUTION was led in the House
of Representatives banning eld trips in
theme parks that possess dolphins and
whales captured from cruel and inhu-
mane sources.
In House Resolution 2759, Kabataan
party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino asked the
Education ofcials to exercise moral obli-
gations to ensure that students learn the real
value of environmental conservation.
`Holding eld trips in ocean parks is
simply not the way to teach such, the
resolution reads.
Citing a government-commissioned
study in the United Kingdom, the resolution
noted that watching dolphins perform in
marine parks provide no signicant knowl-
edge about those animals. Maricel Cruz
Health subsidy
for 5.3m indigents
Treasurys
takeover of
high court
funds eyed
UNA or Liberals? Escudero
cant make heads or tails
More fun goes to Moscow
Prosecutor General Claro Arel-
lano said the investigating panel is
headed by Senior Assistant State
Prosecutor Roseanne Balauag,
with Prosecution Attorneys Ro-
land Estepa and Javee Laurence
Bandong, as members.
The BIR accused the ousted
chief magistrate, daughter and
son-in-law of tax evasion for al-
legedly failing to le their income
tax returns from 2003 to 2005,
2007, 2008 and in 2010.
Beatriz has been charged with
violating section 254 of the Na-
tional Internal Revenue Code
NIRC) or attempting to evade or
defeat taxes in 2010 and violating
section 255 or failing to le an in-
come tax return for the same year.
Her husband, on the other hand,
is being charged also with violat-
ing section 254 of the NIRC in
2003 and 2009 and violating sec-
tion 255 of the NIRC or failing to
le a return in 2003.
The BIR computed Coronas de-
ciency income tax liability at P120.5
while his daughter at P9.93 million
and her husband at P20.25 million or
a total of P150.68 million.
In determining the tax liabilities
of the accused, the BIR used the ex-
penditure method of tax investiga-
tion that is based on the theory that
if a taxpayers spending in a year ex-
ceeds his or her income, the excess
represents unexplained wealth.
In the case of Chief Justice Co-
rona, the BIR checked his very
rst SALN and looked at the
growth in his net worth and acqui-
sitions in the succeeding years. In
the case of his daughter and son in
law, the BIR made a simple com-
parison between their real property
purchases and the income they de-
clared in the tax returns they led.
In a statement, the former chief
justice said the ling of the tax eva-
sion charges against him, her daugh-
ter and son-in-law is part of the con-
tinuing persecution by the Aquino
administration against his family.
He stressed that they will answer
the charges through their counsels
and assured the government that
they will abide by the processes.
We await the service of the
subpoena and the complaint. We
will respond accordingly with the
assistance of counsel we will en-
gage, Corona said.
The former chief magistrate ad-
mitted that the ling of the charges
did not come as a surprise for them
considering that they have been
exchanging communications with
the BIR and have complied with
their deadlines.
He claimed that the ling of the
complaint is part of the govern-
ments ploy to divert the attention
of the people from issues hound-
ing the Aquino administration.
I agree with the observation of
many that my familys persecution
continues with the usual medial
overkill, and that there appears to
be an immediate need to divert
public attention from certain is-
sues that are becoming too hot to
handle, Corona said.
By the grace of God, we will
overcome. This too will come to
pass, he said.
Corona was removed from his
post after the Senate impeachment
court found him guilty of culpable
violation of the Constitution and
betrayal of public trust for his fail-
ure to disclose in his statement of
assets, liabilities and net worth all
his money deposited in the banks.
By Rey E. Requejo

THE Department of Justice has formed
a panel of prosecutors that will look
into the tax evasion charges led by the
Bureau of Internal Revenue against
former Chief Justice Renato Corona,
his daughter, Carla, and son-in-law, Dr.
Constantino Castillo III.
By Macon Araneta
A TOTAL of P12.61 billion has
been set aside in the P2-trillion
proposed national budget for
2013 to enable 5.3 million indi-
gent families to seek medical care.
The government will fully subsi-
dize the health insurance premium
of these indigents identied as such
in the National Household Target-
ing System, Senate Finance com-
mittee chairman Franklin M. Drilon
said on Friday. Each household will
be entitled to Philhealth medicare
benets worth P2,400 per annum
per family, he said.
The number of beneciaries
can reach 20 million or even more
for the Philhealth card can be used
by the principals spouse and their
minor children, he said.
He said that indigent patients
can be freed from the nancial
worries with the new Philhealth
case rates payment scheme al-
ready in place which provides for
a no-balance billing policy for 23
medical cases which include den-
gue, pneumonia, asthma, typhoid
fever, and appendectomy.
The Department of Justice
opinion in March 2012 author-
izing the use of P8.3 billion by
the government to fully subsidize
the Philhealth premiums of indi-
gent patients for the current year
will still be in effect in the 2013
budget, Drilon said.
Under the 2012 General Appro-
priations Act, the full release of
national government full premi-
um subsidy was subjected to the
issuance of a DoJ opinion stating
that the move to fully subsidize
the health premiums of indigent
patients will not violate the Na-
tional Health Insurance Act.
The provision of a health insur-
ance to the poorest Filipinos is
consistent with the governments
goal to implement the Universal
Health Care, he said.
Meanwhile, Senator Francis
Pangilinan has urged the heads
of the three branches of govern-
mentPresident Benigno Aqui-
no III, Chief Justice Maria Lour-
des Sereno, Senate President Juan
Ponce Enrile, and House Speaker
Feliciano Belmonte, Jr.to con-
vene the Judicial Executive Leg-
islative Advisory Consultative
Council (JELACC) as a means to
institutionalize budgetary support
for the Judiciary.
VLADIVOSTOK (via PLDT)The Aquino administration
will launch the Its More Fun in the Philippines tourism cam-
paign in Moscow by mid-September.
Philippine Ambassador to Russia Alejandro Mosquera said
the launching will coincide with the Day of Philippine Culture
in Moscow.
Mosquera said a highlight of the launch will be a cultural
presentation of the Bayanihan Dance Troupe.
Mosquera said the Philippines wants to get a bigger share of
some 12 million Russian tourists annually.
About ve years ago, there were only 4,000 Russians
who visited the Philippines. Last year we have 21,000. So if
you look at the trend, theres a sudden increase of Russian
tourists coming to the Philippines, he said.
Mosquera described Russian tourists as big spenders.
The prole of Russian tourists is that they usually come
in families and they stay for at least fourteen days. They
spent a lot of money, Mosquera added.
Favorite destinations for Russian tourists in the
Philippines are Boracay, Palawan, Bohol and Camarines
Sur. Joyce Pangco Paares
By Macon Araneta
SENATOR Francis Escudero is a sure win-
ner, whether he decides to run under the Lib-
eral Party or the United Nationalist Alliance,
said Senate President Pro-tempore Senator
Jinggoy Estrada.
He said UNA has a pending offer to Escu-
dero to join their political party, which is a
coalition of PDP-Laban of Vice President Je-
jomar Binay and Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino
of former President Joseph Estrada.
Escudero is an ally. He is a friend of Vice Presi-
dent Binay. He is a friend of former President Es-
trada. He is a friend of the Senate President. He is
acceptable to run under the PMP or PDP-Laban.
Right now, we have 10 ofcial candidates running
under the UNA banner, he said.
He said Escudero should decide whether to
run for the LP or under the UNA banner but
we will accept, of course, Chiz is acceptable
to run under UNA.
But if Escudero decides to run under both
parties, Estrada said the UNA leadership
should have to discuss athis.
In a separate interview, Escudero told report-
ers it is not for him to decide and he does not
want to pre-empt the political parties decision.
Of course, whoever is running for any
political position wants that many will sup-
port him because politics at the end of the day
is addition. I am not a part of the governing
body of LP or UNA, said Escudero.
He also stressed he does not want to
preempt the decision on the nal list of sena-
toriables of these two political parties.
According to Escudero he now found himself
in a unique situation because he had not thought
that the two candidates he supported in the last
election now belong to different slates.
By Maricel V. Cruz
A RANKING administration
lawmaker on Friday pressed for
the approval of a measure man-
dating the Bureau of Treasury
to take over the management of
the Supreme Courts Judiciary
Development Fund to ensure
transparency in the custody, ac-
counting and disbursement of
the funds.
Manila Rep. Rosenda Ann
Ocampo said that her House Bill
6441aims to shield the position
of the Chief Justice from unwar-
ranted criticisms or false accusa-
tions of corruption in the admin-
istration of the fund.
Ocampos bill noted that for-
mer chief justice Renato Co-
ronas failure and refusal to
account for the Judiciary De-
velopment Fund during his term
was used by the prosecutors as
one of the grounds for his im-
peachment.
The measure intends to insu-
late the position of the Chief Jus-
tice from unwarranted criticisms
or false accusations of corrup-
tion in the administration of the
JDF, Ocampo told reporters.
Moreover, the Supreme Court
will continue to exercise its exclu-
sive power to identify the expen-
ditures to be paid from the JDF in
accordance with Presidential De-
cree 1949, added Ocampo, vice
chair of the House Committee on
Basic Education and Culture.
The JDF was created under
PD 1949 to augment the allow-
ances of the members and per-
sonnel of the judiciary and to
nance the acquisition, mainte-
nance and repair of court ofces,
equipment and facilities.
JDF is derived from legal fees
paid by the people who avail of
court services and from other
sources of revenue identied by
the Supreme Court.
6
th
victim of media killing
REP. TEDDY Casio of Bayan Muna
party list on Friday slammed the Aquino
administration for weak law enforcement
and for the continuing culture of impuni-
ty following the murder of Eddie Apos-
tol, a radio broadcaster in Cotabato City.
Apostol, a 52-year-old DXND radio
talk show host, was found ve days af-
ter he was reported missing last week.
Bound in rope and shot twice in the head,
his case might be another instance of ex-
trajudicial killing, Casino said. He was
the 6th victim of media killing under the
Aquino administration.
The National Union of Journalists of
the Philippines remained uncertain as to
whether the death of Apostol had some-
thing to do with his work as a media
practitioner, Casino said.
Nevertheless, the fact that this kind of
crime persists is a reection of weak law
enforcement and the abhorrent culture of
impunity, Casio said.
It seems that people are not afraid
of the law anymore, to the detriment of
media practitioners who investigate and
expose corrupt practices, he said.
House Assistant Majority Leader and
party-list Rep. Sherwin Tugna of Citi-
zens Battle against Corruption (Cibac)
said that the government should focus
more on improving the countrys peace
and order. Maricel Cruz
Blood Samaritan. FORD Group Philippines donates P1 million to the Philippine Red Cross in support of its Blood Samaritan
Program, which raises funds to subsidize the cost of blood processing and testing for indigent patients. PRC chairman Richard
Gordon (2nd from right) receives the donation from Ford Philippines Assistant Vice President Josephine Gonzalez (3rd from left).
With them are PRC Corporate Partnership Unit Program Assistant Marlyn Salanio (left, PRC Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and
Reporting Ofce Manager Jeanie Curiano and Ford Philippines Assistant Vice President Anika Salceda-Wycoco.
Training on tsunami. A week after a 7.9-mgnitude earthquake hit Eastern Samar, members of the Vigan PNP Maritime Group conduct a
training on how to respond in case a tsunami hit coastal communities. New techniques on search and rescue has been introduced to them.
DANNY PATA
Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
mst.lettertotheeditor@gmail.com SEPTEMBER 8, 2012 SATURDAY
A4
CONFIRMED by the Commission on
Appointments that bypassed his late
colleague Jesse Robredo, Secretary
Ramon Jimenez Jr. has reason to have
the Liwagao ruckus settled before it
derails his campaign to bring in 4.5
million visitors this year.
Tourism wants a P2.63-billion budget
for 2013, eyeing 10 million arrivals in
2016 amid a question of ownership
over an island in Tablas Strait between
Mindoro and Panay Island.
An advertising man before joining
the government, Jimenez knows that
brand superiority and consumer benet
work together to achieve a sale.
Luckily, he demonstrates
performance better than one has any
right to expect.
Antique says it owns the island
with Boracay-quality beachfront that
Oriental Mindoro disputes, alleging a
past covenant.
According to Antique Vice Governor
Rosie Dimamay, the 114-hectare
Liwagao island has a title issued to
Joaquin Lim, father of former Mayor
Oscar Lim of Caluya, Antique, which
had jurisdiction over the property.
But Oriental Mindoro Vice Governor
Humerlito Dolor says then Bulalacao
Mayor Dolores Bago ceded the island
in 1979 to the older Lim to get rid of
the cattle rustlers, pirates, smugglers,
and other lawless elements who make
Liwagao their sanctuary and hiding
place.
Although the deal was oral and
without authority of the respective
provincial boards, the younger Lim
returned the island in 1992 to
Bulalacao Mayor Guillermo Salas Jr.,
brother of Bago, said Dolor.
While the conict could be resolved
in court, it inevitably sends a wrong
signal to tourists about having fun as
Jimenez has promised.
At the hearing of the House
committee on appropriations, he touted
at least P16 billion allotted by agencies
to bankroll his tourism strategy.
He said Public Works was forking
over P12 billion matched by
Transportation and Communications
for P3.2 billion along with Labor
and Tesda (P360 million), Customs
(P180 million), National Historical
Commission (P153 million),
Immigration (P110 million),
environment and natural resources
(P16 million), trade and industry (P14
million), and Foreign Affairs (P12
million) among other supporters.
If Jimenez is intent on drawing
million visitors before the Aquino
administration ends, he should not
allow the Liwagao squabble to fester.
It is not fun at all.
Taking fun seriously
Chinese mischief
on Panganiban Reef
THE Chinese are up to their old
tricks again. While appearing to
appease the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations in bilateral talks,
they continue to fortify their claim
on Mischief Reef (Panganiban) and
Scarborough Shoal (Panatag) and the
Paracels.
The latest Chinese mischief came
to light even as Beijing sought a
bilateral meeting between President
Hu Jin Tao and President Benigno
Aquino III at the sidelines of the
Asia Pacic Economic Cooperation
conference on
Russky Island
off the Russian
seaport of
Vladivostok this
week.
US Secretary
of State Hillary
Clinton was in
Beijing three days
ago and may have
been disarmed
by Chinese
c o u n t e r p a r t
Yang Jiechis assurances of freedom
of navigation for cargo vessels in
the South China Sea. Beijing also
promised to work with Asean on a
South China Sea Code of Conduct.
But the Philippines and Vietnam
have reason to be skeptical. Satellite
pictures taken of Mischief Reef
showed the Chinese have built a
helipad, lighthouse and a garrison.
It all started with structures on stilts
purportedly to provide shelter for their
shermen. When no one was looking,
the Chinese constructed a four-storey
building on Panganiban Reef that
serves as a garrison fully equipped
with weather tracking and maritime
surveillance station. The Chinese
navy has also placed oating markers
and buoys to stake Chinas claim on
Scarborough Shoal which is less than
200 miles off Zambales and within the
countrys economic exclusive zone
under the United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea.
The Philippine claim on the West
Philippine Sea and Vietnams stake
on the Paracels were swept under
the carpet in Julys Asean foreign
ministers meeting in Phnom Penh.
For keeping the lid on the issues
raised by the Philippines and Vietnam,
China congratulated client state and
conference host Cambodia. It makes
other Asean members wonder what
else Cambodian Prime Minister Hun
Sen is getting from China.
Our leaders should not be lulled
or inveigled by offers of Chinese
economic aid. While we continue to
pursue the diplomatic path, its wise
to take a parallel track to strengthen
our armed forces with mutual defense
treaties. Aside from the existing
one with the US, it would do the
Philippines well to also look at a
proposed visiting forces agreement
with Australia. Plans are afoot to
acquire attack helicopters, and a few
ghter jets aside from the two second-
hand warships received from the US.
While Asean could accept China
assuming a leadership role in the
region, Beijing is doing the opposite
and losing friends with its assertive
and expansionist design. A dispute
with Japan over Senkaku Island also
claimed by China is another widening
ripple in the East China Sea which
could stoke historical enmity between
the two countries.
It is noteworthy that US Secretary
of State Hilary Clinton who was in
Jakarta this week,
urged Asean to
put more wind
in the sails
of diplomatic
efforts to unite
in dealing with
Chinese claim
over the entire
SCS. The Clinton
statement is in
synch with what
the Philippines
had been asking
Asean to do, unite in the face of
Chinese aggression.
Before Beijing, Mrs. Clinton met
with Indonesian President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono and Foreign
Minister Marty Natalegawa who
showed diplomatic mettle when he
shuttled to Asean capitals to repair the
damage done by the badly handled
foreign ministerial meeting hosted
by Cambodia The Asean meeting for
the rst time failed to produce a joint
communiqu .
Prior to Mrs. Clintons arrival in
Beijing as part of her Asia-Pacic
swing, China warned Washington
not to take side in the SCS dispute
with other claimant countries.
US involvement and its pivot
redeployment of naval power to the
Asia Pacic region are perceived by
the Chinese leadership as a move
to contain Chinas rise. A powerful
China, however, is not a US concern
alone. Japan and Russia also nd this
alarming.
On the surface, the shoals and reefs
in the South China Sea seem just a
bunch of rocks, the description
of Taiwan by former US President
Richard Nixon at the height of tension
between China and its breakaway
province in the sixties. Although
still untapped, the potential oil, gas
and minerals under the seabed give
a global dimension to the disputed
waters in a world of dwindling
energy resources. This, aside from
the vast shing grounds which feed
the population of China and other
countries in the region.
EDITORIAL
My one vote
WE GET the leaders we deserve.
This is often heard when people
complain about government ofcials
who perform below expectations.
Always, I get irked because really, the
people deserve the best possible public
ofcials. But then, there is some truth to
the statement because after all, we put
these people there.
Such is democracy. Right or wrong,
t or unt, deserving or not, candidates
garnering the highest number of votes
in elections are rewarded the positions
they aspired for.
Democracy is a game of numbers.
And there are many ways to get the
numbers: popularity, money, cheating,
charisma, goons, and a political lineage
are proven by past elections as effective,
though not necessarily good for the
people.
I only have one vote. Each one of
us has one each. But these votes, if
properly used can change things, even
move mountains, so to speak.
Our mistakes in previous elections
should no longer be repeated in 2013
and beyond.
My one vote will be used. Voting
is not only a right, it is equally my
responsibility. My vote is my voice
to effect the kind of change I would
like to see in my country. Therefore, I
will ensure that I am a duly registered
voter. Registering is the rst crucial
step to exercise this right and fulll this
responsibility.
My one vote will be used wisely. I
will scrutinize candidates. I will grade
them according to their competence,
track record, and integrity. I will check
candidates involvement in and positions
on issues that are close to my heart. I
will be better convinced by actions, not
simply words.
I will look for candidates possible
links with scandals and controversies. I
will only entrust my vote to those with
unquestioned integrity.
Popularity will not sway me to vote
one way or another. I have had enough
of politicians making a mockery of our
public institutions by turning it into a
comedy, a church, or a stage to practice
their acting craft.
My one vote will not be sold.
No amount of money can equal the
importance of my vote. Those who buy
votes will surely collect in more ways if
they win. Selling my vote is prostituting
myself. It is jeopardizing the future of
my loved ones. It is a betrayal of my
countrys heroes who gave their lives up
so I may have this sacred right.
My one vote will go to programs
rather than personalities. A candidates
program of government is the single
most important paper that I will look
for. This will enable me to know if
candidates are serious in effecting
change, or if they merely bluff their way
around.
A platform, a plan or roadmap for
change is crucial for me. I will not go
for candidates who will take chance, or
play hit or miss with my childrens and
my granddaughters future.
My one vote will go to progressives.
I will look for candidates who will ght
the status quo that reinforce the existing
class, gender, and other divides that
result in discrimination and inequities.
Real and signicant change can
only be had with leaders who pursue
new ideas, think out of the box, and
go against traditions, ideologies,
and manners of doing that violate
human rights of people. I will support
candidates who will proudly stand on a
platform of equality and equity.
My one vote will go against
political dynasties. No one family has
the monopoly of good intentions and
capacities to do good for the country.
The search for the best, the brightest,
and the most competent cannot be
limited to the known political families.
It is impossible that a population of
100 million will be short of deserving
people to be in government.
The net should be cast wide. Enough
of rehashed, repackaged politicians and
political butteries who are only after
protecting their own vested interests.
Enough of treating government service
as a family enterprise.
Political dynasties breed patronage
politics. If we want a new brand of
politics, dynasties should end.
My one vote is a vote for political
will. We need public ofcials who will
ght for the peoples interest despite
opposition from those who want to
retain the status quo. We need brave
ones who will invest political capital on
controversial but crucial programs and
legislation that will redound to the good
of the majority of the Filipino people.
Political will is a test of leadership
and with more in government having
this, we can say goodbye to political
horse trading at the expense of the
people.
My one vote is a vote for substantive
CHANGE.
An enlightened and politically
mature electorate is our Motherlands
most important vehicle to real progress.
Let us be this for 2013.
bethangsioco@gmail.com and @
bethangsioco on Twitter
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MAYBE it is high time to remind
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton
that China is the only great power to
ght the US yet comes out to exert
an even greater inuence in world
politics. Unlike the great powers whose
inuence have either been reduced
by defeat as Germany and Japan, or
imploded in the aftermath of internal
political retraction as the Soviet Union,
China fought the US in a bloody but
limited land war
in Korea. Yet it is
about to emerge as
the greatest economic
power of our time.
Chinas entry into
the Korean War in
1950 has put a dent
on the image of the
US as an invincible
superpower. The
country whose huge
army was derisively
called pajama-clad
soldiers was the
rst to deny the US
its trophy of victory. The Korean War
ended in the signing of an armistice
agreement on July 27, 1953. It was not
peace brought about by victory or one
negotiated to end the conict, but a
temporary cessation of hostilities.
Although it was North Korea and
the US that signed as principal parties
to the armistice agreement, the world
knew it was the result of an agonizing
realization by the US that it was locked in
a erce stalemate with no hope of victory.
Pouring in an insurmountable number of
troops to ght alongside with their North
Korean allies, the People Liberation
Army in no time pushed the allied forces
to the fringes of South Korea. Many
anticipated it as another Dunkirk with the
humiliated American soldiers about to
wade their way to Japan.
The early optimism of General
Douglas MacArthur to cross the Yalu
River ended up in disastrous retreat.
After the Inchon landing where the
US forces rapidly advanced, that was
soon reversed after Chinese troops
pushed US troops far below the
38
th
Parallel. That victory, though paid
with a heavy price, left a deep scar into
the unblemished record in American
military history.
To repair his badly tarnished image,
General MacArthur proposed the idea
of using an atom bomb to destroy
Chinas industrial plants in Manchuria
and carpet bombing the supply lines for
the Chinese troops that were advancing
like swarm of ants. Unfortunately,
that arrogance was not shared by US
President Harry Truman, thus forcing
him to unceremoniously sack the aging
Commander of the US Forces in Korea.
We are compelled to give this
backdrop to remind Clinton that while
China cannot militarily match the US,
its armed forces have been modernized
by quantum lead. The army that once
walked in snickers to cause the US
to nosebleed in Korea could usher
in an even devastating damage to the
US forces in the whole of Asia in the
event of another conict. It is for this
why the US is trying to avoid direct
confrontation with China over the
disputed islets in the South China Sea.
The problem with this duplicity
in the US policy is it cannot pursue a
neutral position while marshalling the
members of the Asean to ratify the
Code of Conduct for the South China
Sea that could technically place them
on a direct collision course with China.
First, not all the members of the
association have territorial claims in
the South China Sea. This explains
why Cambodia refused to come out
with a nal communiqu in the recently
concluded Asean ministerial meeting in
Phnom Penh.
Second, the member-countries are
aware that the association is not an
ideological bloc, but an economic bloc
which has succeeded
in institutionalizing
many of their
declared policies.
Formally integrating
the disputed
territorial claims in
the South China Sea
into their agenda
could transform the
economic bloc to a
political forum that
could be exploited
by non-member
countries like the
US.
Third, not all Asean-member
countries share the same ideological
sentiments to unify them, viz. ratify
the proposed Code of Conduct. Their
primordial concern is on how to
develop further their trade ties and
explore the possibilities of welcoming
Chinese investments.
Fourth, for the fact that the US
is the one brokering for the early
ratication of the Code of Conduct, that
endorsement has backred. Right now,
it is perceived as a Trojan horse. Once
ratied, it could automatically convert
the dispute to one between China and
the Asean with the bloc playing proxy
for the US in containing China.
Fifth, to ratify the Code of Conduct
could spell an end to an illustrious
economic bloc. Either it could
disintegrate due disuse or could signal the
revival of an arms race. The price they
will have to pay to subsidize the ambition
of the US and its surrogate states, like the
Philippines, is too high for the brisk trade
they now enjoy with modern China.
Sixth, Asean today stands as the
most successful regional bloc in the
whole of Asia. Many of its economic
agenda have been institutionalized
and integrated as part of the member-
countries economic development
goals. That feat could easily be set
aside by the conversion of Asean into a
highly politicized regional bloc.
As of now, the US is the one heavily
proting from the increased tension as
seen in the steep purchase of military
equipment by the Philippines that
could not even tip the scale to alter the
balance of power in the region. Instead
its limited resources will be dissipated,
while in the meantime, the US takes
advantage to advance its economic
interest in dealing with China.
Finally, a direct confrontation now
with China could be far costlier and
more devastating for the US. A second
round confrontation is something even
the majority of the Americans would
wish to avoid.
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A creeping
containment
DEAN TONY
LA VIA
EAGLE EYES
ROD
P. KAPUNAN
BACKBENCHER
Serenos courage and faith
THIS is the third and nal of a series of
columns on our new Chief Justice. Here,
I discuss her dissent in the travel ban
on former President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo and the Supreme Court
plagiarism cases as well as her opinions
against the Aquino administration.
All these cases show her courage and
independence as a jurist which source is
her abiding faith in God.
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno
gured prominently in the Arroyo
travel ban case with her dissent to
the resolution of the majority. The
high court resolved last November to
issue a temporary restraining order
preventing Justice Secretary de Lima
and the Commissioner of the Bureau
of Immigration from enforcing a travel
ban against Arroyo. In a vote of 8-5,
the court allowed the former President,
facing a non-bailable electoral
sabotage case, to leave the country
purportedly to seek treatment abroad
for her bone ailment. Dissenting,
Sereno argued that the Court should
not grant the TRO without giving
the State opportunity to comment
on the petition. She also pointed out
that Arroyo gave inconsistent and
probably untruthful statements about
her medical condition.
But while Justice Serenos vote
in the Arroyo TRO case supported
the position taken by the Aquino
administration, some of her opinions
also ran counter to the wishes of the
President. For example, she concurred
with the majority in the Bai Omera
D. Dianalan-Lucman case, on the
constitutionality of Executive Order
(EO) No. 2, through which President
Aquino dismissed all midnight
appointees of his predecessor
former President Arroyo. Sereno also
went against the administration by
partly declaring in her opinion that
the ARMM Synchronization Law
is unconstitutional. She voted with
the majority which ruled that the
postponement was valid, but said
the President could only appoint an
ofcer-in-charge for the gubernatorial
position.
Most indicative of her strong sense
of independence is how she treated
the case of Associate Justice Mariano
del Castillo, her very own colleague,
who was accused of plagiarism in the
Vinuyadecision. While the majority
Decision excused the lack of attribution
to the complaining authors to editorial
errors and lack of malicious intent to
appropriate on the part of the ponente,she
thought so otherwise, calling on
Justice del Castillo to acknowledge
the plagiarism and apologize to the
complaining authors for his mistake.
Where does Serenos courage come
from? She has spoken freely about
this in many forumsshe is motivated
above all by her faith in an all powerful,
loving and wise God. She considers
her work for justice as the mirror of the
justice of God. This does not mean she is
a spiritual fanatic; there is no one that I
know that is more rational and scientic
than the Chief Justice as the decisions I
have cited in this column illustrates. But
she does not lack the courage to testify
to her faith and what she believes is her
mission.
Chief Justice Sereno should
however be aware that her words can
be distorted by media. Because she
has refused all media interviews, she
might want to speak publicly only
using prepared words (e.g., speeches) to
avoid misquotation, being quoted out of
context, or worst, being caricatured as
some have done. As for me, I actually
nd it refreshing that a layperson is able
to speak freely about her faith. As a dean
of a Catholic school of government, I
do not see any contradiction between
having faith and holding public ofce,
and that includes speaking about ones
beliefs in appropriate forums (as in a
Monday ag raising ceremony).
Prayer is not exactly a new
phenomenon in our Judiciary where
separation of church and state is dened
in a different way from that of the
United States. Every court session and
every meeting in the Supreme Court
begins with this prayer: Almighty
God, we stand in Your Holy Presence
as our Supreme Judge. We humbly
beseech You to bless and inspire us
so that what we think, say and do
will be in accordance with Your will.
Enlighten our minds, strengthen our
spiritand ll our hearts with fraternal
love, wisdom and understanding, so
that we can become effective channels
of truth, justice and peace. In our
proceedings today, guideus in the path
of righteousness for the fulllment of
Your greater glory. Amen.
In Justice Sereno, I am reminded
of words attributed to the great Jesuit
Pedro Arrupe (who coined the term
man-for-others): Nothing is more
practical than nding God, than falling
in Love in a quite absolute, nal way.
What you are in love with, what seizes
your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide what will get you out of
bed in the morning, what you do with
your evenings, how you spend your
weekends, what you read, whom you
know, what breaks your heart, and what
amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall
in Love, stay in love, and it will decide
everything.
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Twitter: tonylavs
A direct
confrontation now
with China could
be far costlier and
more devastating
for the US.
Mitt Romney doesnt scare billionaires in China
By William Pesek
CHINA tends to like Republicans in
the White House because its clear
what they want: free trade, low
taxes and strong national security.
Democrats are more capricious and
delve into messy issues like human
rights and the environment.
In the case of Republican
presidential nominee Mitt Romney,
though, you would be forgiven for
thinking officials in Beijing are losing
sleep. He favors a more combative
posture, including a bigger U.S. naval
presence in Asia, stepped-up arms
sales to Taiwan and labeling China
a currency manipulator. Romneys
running mate, Paul Ryan, complains
that China treats US President Barack
Obama like a doormat.
But China isnt fazed. Sure, its media
lash out from time to time, dismissing
Romneys ideas as pugnacious
and an outdated manifestation of a
Cold War mentality. His clumsy trip
to Europe spawned countless ugly
American cartoons in Asia. Mostly,
though, China views a potential
Romney presidency with a big shrug.
Here are five reasons why.
One, Robert Zoellick. The former
World Bank president is a Romney
adviser and a natural choice for a
top Cabinet position, perhaps even
secretary of State. Hes a respected
champion of free trade and, by all
appearances, an avid Sinophile.
Zoellick would surely steer Romney
away from alienating an economy that
could surpass the US by the time his
boss might be wrapping up a second
term.
Zoellicks counsel
Zoellick would counsel Romney
that, yes, China holds down its
currency, but so does the US
An obvious element of Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernankes
quantitative-easing efforts is a weaker
dollar. Really, if any country should
label another a manipulator, it is
Japan in its dealings with America.
The bottom line is that Zoellick will
keep businessman Romney focused
on doing business with his countrys
main customer.
Two, China knows it is ascendant.
Theres a reason China is tossing its
weight around in the South China
Sea, much to Obamas consternation:
It understands that a militarily and
financially strapped America isnt
the force it once was. Look no further
than European officials tripping
over themselves to get at Chinas
$3.2 trillion of currency reserves.
They arent going hat-in-hand
to Washington.
China has huge challenges, not to
mention its own leadership transition.
First and foremost is sustaining
growth when the rest of the world,
which China has relied on to absorb
its exports, is struggling with debt
and economic stagnation. This may
well aggravate the social tensions that
have been papered over by Chinas
breakneck expansion. Yet thats also the
point: China has so much going on at
home that it will have little time to fret
over machinations in the Oval Ofce.
Three, the Romney-Ryan vision
would be positive for China, mostly
by way of contrast. Chinas leaders
may be communists, but they are
also devoted Keynesians. If anything,
China has gone too far with the idea
that public spending can drive growth
in the absence of consumer demand.
The state overwhelms all else.
Yet America might make a more
serious mistake if austerity enthusiasts
Romney and Ryan get their way.
Although it would be a short-term
negative for Chinese growth if the US
aggressively tightened fiscal policy,
the exercise might yield long-term
benefits. It isnt too hard to imagine
the US falling further behind on
education league tables and Americas
infrastructure crumbling while the
White House obsesses over events
in Iran and Russia rather than China.
Four, Chinese billionaires
understand a guy who has had a Swiss
bank account. Thanks to rampant
corruption and zero transparency,
many Communist Party bigwigs
are enriching themselves and their
families. Few things matter more to
these plutocrats than finding ways to
spirit their money out of China into
opaque tax jurisdictions overseas.
Get rich
The Bo Xilai scandal threw a
spotlight on the murky mechanisms
by which the ruling elite gets rich and
hides that wealth from Chinas 1.3
billion people. It also showed how the
woeful lack of disclosure in the West
enables politicians to do so, as well. It
is unlikely that Romney, an investor
in Cayman Islands funds, would
clamp down on these practices. The
man from Bain Capital will have no
difficulty doing business with Chinas
capitalist communists.
Five, US leaders are full of hot
air. Presidents often come to office
pledging to crack down on China
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were
two such examples. Then reality
sets in about just how much US
foreign policy runs through China
everything from North Koreas
provocations and Irans nuclear
ambitions to climate change and
intellectual-property rights.
Obamas team faced a changing
world. Although the US built a huge
and dynamic economy, China holds
the mortgage. Its $1.2 trillion of
US Treasury holdings gives China
unprecedented leverage over America.
Thats why, for better or worse, Hillary
Clinton in her first trip to China as
secretary of State in 2009 spent more
time hawking US debt than carping
about Chinas political prisoners.
China will come up often as Romney
and Obama duke it out between now
and the Nov. 6 election. Officials in
Beijing wont like it and the rhetoric
may get ugly; China tends to sound
like North Korea when it overreacts to
the things US politicians say. But if
you think China is quaking over the
prospect of a President Romney, think
again. Bloomberg
By Kelvin Chan
HONG KONGThe Hong Kong
government calls it national education.
But parents, teachers and pupils
in the former British colony call it
brainwashing and fear its a ploy by
Beijing authorities to indoctrinate the
citys young into unquestioning support
of Chinas Communist Party.
Plans by the government to introduce
the classes have triggered mass protests
and hunger strikes, the latest sign of the
widening gulf between Beijing and the
freewheeling semi-independent southern
Chinese nancial center, 15 years after
Britain handed it back to China.
The dispute deepened as classes
started this week, with activists including
a handful of hunger-strikers camping
out in front of Hong Kong government
headquarters in a bid to force ofcials
to drop plans to introduce the subject in
primary and secondary schools. Theyve
been joined each evening by thousands
of protesters wearing black. A local TV
station fanned the ames when it called
the activists a destructive faction
controlled by London and Washington.
The rising tensions forced the citys
Beijing-backed leader, Chief Executive
Leung Chun-ying, to call off his trip to
a high-prole Asia-Pacic summit this
weekend in Vladivostok, Russia.
The growing opposition to the new
curriculum threatens to undermine the
chances of pro-Beijing candidates in
elections Sunday for the citys legislature,
when for the rst time more than half
the seats will be chosen by the public.
Leung insisted the government had no
intention of brainwashing, and reiterated
Thursday that a group he set up to listen to
public views would consider all options,
including dropping the new curriculum
entirely. But activists slammed the move
as a hedging tactic ahead of the vote.
The protesters are afraid of what
they see as underhanded attempts to
indoctrinate the citys next generation with
Beijing-style nationalist education classes
used in schools all over China to inculcate
support for the Communist government.
Many believe Leung, who became the
citys leader in July after being picked by
an elite, pro-Beijing committee, has close
ties to the Chinese leadership.
Those who are opposed arent against
becoming more familiar with China, but
they are against being made to mindlessly
atter China, said Ben Leung, an
18-year-old secondary school student
who has joined the protests with a half-
dozen friends for the past few evenings.
Were afraid of this so thats why we
need to take this step.
Many Hong Kongers are people
who have either ed mainland China
in past decades or have relatives who
did. Surveys show a shrinking number
identify themselves as Chinese citizens.
They are increasingly uncomfortable with
Beijings growing inuence on the city, its
stunted democratic development and an
inux of wealthy mainland Chinese that
is driving up property prices. Residents
take pride in the citys high degree of
autonomy, separate legal system and
civil liberties not seen in mainlandChina
such as freedom of speech. Hong Kong
was allowed to keep them when Britain
handed the territory back to China in 1997
after more than a century of colonial rule.
The new curriculum has been
on the cards for years but fears rose
earlier this year that it could be used
for brainwashing after a pro-Beijing
education group published a pamphlet
that extolled the virtues of one-party rule.
The government stressed that the booklet,
called The China Model, was not part of
designated teaching material.
Senior government ofcials have
repeatedly denied claims that the classes
aim to impose a certain mindset.
The government isnt brainwashing,
it doesnt want to brainwash, and it will
not brainwash, with this subject, Leung
Chun-ying said Thursday.
The government is encouraging
schools to begin moral and national
education classes this year but is not
making it a required subject until 2015.
According to curriculum guidelines,
students will learn about Chinas political
leaders, the efforts and contributions
they have made and the difculties and
challenges they face. Theyll also learn
how to speak cautiously, practice self-
discipline and get along well with others
in a rational and respectful way.
What worries students, parents and the
public at large is that a lot of the material
that may be used as national education
is seen as attempts to brainwash young
minds in Hong Kong, said Willy Lam,
a veteran China watcher and professor
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Its seen as an attempt by Beijing to
impose Chinese values of nationalism
patriotism onto Hong Kong so that Hong
Kongs high degree of autonomy might be
impaired. AP
Education or brainwashing?
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A6
Govt starts
probe into
case xing

IN BRIEF
Lawmen look for cop
in Espina shakedown
Exemplary provincial policemen feted
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Wicked
trade.
Customs
Commissioner
Ruffy Biazon
shows one of
the rhinoceros
horns, worth
P73 million,
that his men
found in a
container van
containing
300 sacks
of imported
cashews at
the Manila
International
Container
Port.
Sock it to em. A female trafc constable of the Metro Manila
Development Authority learns a martial art move during the self-
defense training for trafc enforcers at the MMDA head ofce in
Makati City on Friday. MANNY PALMERO
I thought all along there was
already none of that, De Lima
said. They told me [case xers]
had already layed low. Thats
what I was made to understand, so
when someone approached me, it
proved that that wasnt so.
Those kinds of activities are not
acceptable at the DOJ. It occurred
right here in the DOJ building. That
bold! I was so angry upon learning
about it, she added.
De Lima said she ordered the
Internal Affairs Unit of the National
Prosecution Service to determine
whether Senior Deputy State Pros-
ecutor Severino Gana was involved
in the extortion attempt of his staff
member Mutya Santiago, who was
arrested by agents of the National
Bureau of Investigation at Ganas
ofce on August 31.
De Lima said Santiago has
already been suspended and
charges of robbery-extortion
have already been led against
her, and NBI agents are still
searching for her accomplice,
identied only as Louie.
NBI agents said De Lima
ordered them to conduct an
entrapment operation against
Santiago after a woman, whom
De Lima did not identify, com-
plained that Santiago was ex-
torting P250,000 from her.
The agents learned that the
woman was the respondent in a
family law suit that had already
been dismissed by a trial court last
year, but was re-led at the DOJ.
Louie supposedly told the woman
the dismissal of the re-led charge
was already signed, but will be re-
versed if she did not pay up.
This Louie was the one per-
sistently following up through text
with the complainant. Im waiting
for the draft order pertaining to
that Louie and the charges that
may be led against the SDSP.
Santiagos boss may be suspend-
ed, if warranted, she stressed.
When sought for comment,
Gaa denied any involvement
in the extortion attempt and
stressed that he does not tolerate
any wrongdoing of his staff.
He appealed to everyone to
let the wheels of justice take its
regular course to prove the guilt
or innocence of Ms. Santiago.
Ms. Santiago has been my
staff for the past 12 years at the
DOJ and, to my knowledge, has
never been involved in any anom-
aly in the performance of her
duties. I would like to assure the
public that I will not tolerate any
wrongdoing of my staff, if there is
indeed truth to that matter, Gaa
said in a statement.
By Rey E. Requejo
IN a bid to squelch public perception
of prevalent case xing in the countrys
judicial system, Justice Secretary Leila
de Lima ordered on Friday an internal
investigation into the recent arrest of a
Department of Justice employee who
allegedly tried to extort P250,000 from
a defendant in a family law suit that
had already been dismissed.
By Jonathan Fernandez
THE Quezon City police are now hunting
down Senior Police Ofcer 4 Jose dela Pea
who has been accused of trying to extort
money from a son of newly-installed Metro
Manila police chief Leonardo Espina.
Quezon City police director Mario dela
Vega said he ordered the manhunt after the
policeman failed to present himself to the au-
thorities and he also asked Dela Peas imme-
diate superior, Chief Inspector Jerome dela
Cruz, to help convince the cop to surrender.
Dela Vega said Dela Pea still has a
pending extortion case that happened ear-
lier this year and the case has already been
forwarded to the National Capital Region
Police Ofce, now headed by Espina.
Dela Pea and his buddy, Police Ofcer
2 Resty del Rosario, accused Espinas son
of engaging in phone sex inside his car last
Wednesday and the duo, according to a po-
lice investigation, allegedly asked to be paid
P20,000 so that no charges would be led
against Espinas son.
Dela Vega noted that engaging in phone
sex was technically not even a crime.
Dela Pea has not reported for work
since the incident, but his partner Del Ro-
sario surfaced on Thursday to deny any
knowledge of the charges against them. Del
Rosario stressed that he was just following
Dela Peas orders.
Dela Vega said Del Rosario admitted that
they did accost a young man on Hemady
Street in Quezon City on Tuesday evening,
but he claimed only Dela Pea talked to Es-
pinas son.
(Del Rosario) claimed he was only fol-
lowing orders. He said he remained in the
police car as Dela Pea boarded the com-
plainants son, Dela Vega said.
Del Rosario said Dela Pea accosted
the young man on Hemady Street and they
traversed N. Domingo Street until they
reached Santolan Road until they reached
Gate 2 of Camp Crame, the national police
headquarters.
At that point, the young man asked Dela
Pea to talk to his father, who turned out to
be the Metro Manila police chief.
The two cops have already been relieved
of their assignment at the QCPD Mobile Pa-
trol Unit and were transferred to the QCPD
headquarters pending an investigation of the
extortion charges against them.
By Ferdinand Fabella
THREE provincial policemen
were honored for their exception-
al courage and gallantry during
the 46th founding anniversary of
the National Police Commission
in Makati City.
Napolcom Vice Chairman Ed-
uardo Escueta awarded plaques
of commendation to PO2s Dario
Paragas and Ricky Lademora and
PO1 Roel Ortega. Each was also
given P10,000 cash prize.
The act of bravery of these po-
lice ofcers clearly manifests their
commitment to serve and protect
the people, a deed worthy of emula-
tion among their fellow ofcers in
the police service, Escueta said.
Paragas, who is from Pangasi-
nan Police Provincial Ofce, was
cited for foiling an ambush of a
barangay patrol jeep of Baran-
gay Poblacion in Bugallon, Pan-
gasinan last March 15.
While on board a tricycle
with his wife, Paragas saw the
gunmen and single-handedly en-
gaged them, saving the lives of
Barangay Captain Conrado Bau-
zon and four others, according to
Napolcom records.
Ortega, assigned to the Car-
aga regional police, displayed
gallantry on March 8 when he
immediately pursued two mo-
torcycle-riding gunmen who had
just shot to death one Jovy Alan
Ganura in Barangay Pagantayan
in Cantilan, Surigao del Sur. He
killed one of the attackers.
On the other hand, Lade-
mora, of Sipalay police station
in Negros Occidental, exhib-
ited exemplary efciency and
devotion to duty during an
encounter with an armed group
in Sitio Camanga-an, Barangay
Naubang in Sipalay City on July
12, 2011.
Despite being wounded, he
fought the armed men, resulting in
the arrest of the groups leader and
his men and the recovery of as-
sorted rearms and ammunition.
Napolcom also recognized its
model employees for serving
the Commission with the high-
est degree of professional recti-
tude, passion for hard work and
demonstrative competence.
Rhino horns seized
CUSTOMS intelligence agents at the
Manila International Container Port
intercepted a shipment of smuggled
rhinoceros horns worth P73 million from
Africa.
Commissioner Ruffy Biazon said
the 13 kilos of rhinoceros horns, used
in traditional Chinese medicine, were
concealed in a container van loaded
with 300 sacks of cashew nuts, which
arrived at the Manila South Harbor last
August 25.
Biazon ordered Customs Intelligence
and Investigation Service director Fer-
nandino Tuason to identify the shipment
owner so he can be charged with violat-
ing the Tariff and Customs Code and the
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Faura and
Flora.
Rhinoceros horns are highly popular
and command as much as US$133 per
gram. Joel E. Zurbano
Ramgen case ruling hit
THE girlfriend of slain actor Ramgen
Revilla will appeal the dismissal of the
murder charges she led against Revillas
sister Gail Bautista and her husband, Hiro
Furuyama.
Restituto Mendoza, lawyer of Janelle
Manahan, said they will le a petition
for review before the Department of
Justice questioning the decision of the
Paraaque City Prosecutor to dismiss the
charges despite the testimony of Glaiza
Visda, one of the suspects, that Gail paid
them P900,000 to kill Ramgen.
Prosecutor Amerhassan Paudac dis-
missed the murder and frustrated com-
plaint against Gail and Furuyama pur-
portedly because of lack of evidence.
Ferdinand Fabella
Constables learn to ght
TRAFFIC enforcers of the Metro Manila
Development Authority on Friday started
their training in martial arts, consisting of
stick ghting, knife defense, and hand-to-
hand combat, at the MMDA headquarters
in Makati City.
An initial batch of 50 trafc con-
stables underwent the training which
was condicted by experts from the Pasay
City-based Modern Arnis Mano-Mano-
Filipino Martial Arts, led by Tony Nico-
las.
The trafc enforcers will undergo
three sessions of martial arts training and
it will take a month to train all 1,600 traf-
c constables of the agency.
Rio N. Araja
A7 Sports Riera U. Mallari, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
sports_mstandard@yahoo.com
A double standard?
Bautista paces WC finalists

THE sorry state of Philippine sports
and the politics that erode it like a
cancer, continue.
The latest example is the jockeying
for positions among various groups,
each with obviously its own agenda,
seeking to prevent incumbent Philip-
pine Olympic Committee president
Jose Peping Cojuangco, who re-
cently announced that he is seeking a
third term from succeeding.
The unfortunate reality is that there
are some people who do not wish to
take on the challenge of seeking the
POC presidency because Peping
Cojuangco is the uncle of President
Benigno Aquino III and they dont
wish to cross the president.
These people assume that Presi-
dent Aquino is a vindictive person
and would make it difcult for any-
one who dares to challenge his uncle
which, we honestly believe, isnt fair
to the President.
It also assumes that no matter the
widespread and bitter criticism of the
POC presidents dismal performance
over the past eight years, President
Aquino still believes that he is the best
person to head the POC. Again, it could
be a terribly wrong assessment.
But what rankles is that while there
are many who have conded in us
that they want Peping out, they are
unable to get together and present a
common slate for the POC elections
this November.
The individual interests and selsh
motives of three groups we are aware
of is becoming abundantly clear and if
it continues this way, then all of these
individuals would be the ones to blame
if Peping Cojuangco is re-elected.
Frankly speaking, it wont be
Pepings fault, but the fault of those
whose selsh interests and motives have
taken precedence over the need to change
the leadership in Philippine sports.
When good and decent men refuse
to accept the challenge to come for-
ward and take on the task of saving
Philippine sports from the depths of
mediocrity, then we deserve what we
get which is a continuation of abject
failure and one debacle after another.
Not only that, by stubbornly failing
to make common ground in an effort to
save Philippine sports, these individuals
will let down our young men and women
who continue to search for leaders they
can trust and who show concern for their
welfare and provide the environment in
which they can enhance their search for
human excellence.
One other aspect of the forthcoming
POC elections that struck us was this.
When the Judicial and Bar Coun-
cil denied Justice secretary Leila De
Lima the opportunity to be nominated
as one of the candidates for the posi-
tion of Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, it was on the basis that there
were two pending disbarment cases
led against her.
While the position of president and
other leadership posts in the Philip-
pine Olympic Committee cannot be
compared in terms of importance
to that of the Supreme Court Chief
Justice, we strongly believe that the
same criteria should be applied to of-
cials against whom there are pend-
ing charges as well as those, who
have failed to liquidate huge sums
of money advanced to the various
National Sports Associations by the
Philippine Sports Commission.
This is, after all, the hard-earned
money of taxpayers and the guilty
parties should be disbarred from
seeking ofce along with those who
have pending charges.
It certainly would be unfair to the
Justice Secretary to have one stand-
ard for her and another standard for
those seeking ofce in the POC.
RONNIE
NATHANIELSZ
INSIDE SPORTS
Bautista, Busan Asiad gold win-
ner and eighth-placer in the 1995
BWC international nals in Las
Vegas, served a strong notice of
his serious bid for another chance
to carry the Philippine colors by
shooting a sizzling 12-game series
of 2754 pinfalls at Astrobowl.
Bautista pulled away from
Rene Rodelas, who tallied 2228,
Jhun Gella (2187) and Ernesto
Berroya (2178) in the Astrobowl
center nals.
Other qualiers were:
MenRandy Revenque, 1825;
Walvine Rata, 1822; Christian
Cabacungan, 2445; Jay-Ar Tan,
2495; Edwin Mazo, 2139; Franz
FORMER Asian Games gold medal-
ist RJ Bautista ashed his old form
recently to lead the second center nal-
ists in the ongoing Bowling World Cup
national championship.
Cyna rules HK tourney
HONG KONGCyna Rodrigu-
ez carded a gutsy even-par 71
then foiled Team ICTSI-Philip-
pines teammate Jayvie Agojo on
the rst playoff hole to capture
the Hong Kong Ladies Amateur
Open crown at the Discovery
Bay Golf Club here yesterday.
Rodriguez, who started the
round tied with Sarah Ababa
and one stroke ahead of Agojo,
hung tough in the closing holes
to hold off the charging Agojo
then steeled herself up in the
pressure-packed sudden death
to annex the hotly-disputed
championship.
The former Philippine Ladies
Amateur Open champion made
a routine par on the par-4 No. 1
which Agojo, which closed out
with a one-under 70, bogeyed af-
ter ubbing her par-putt bid from
six feet. They assembled similar
211s in the 54-hole tournament.
It was a sorry setback for the
26-year-old Agojo, who had
hoped for a successful title-reten-
tion bid after storming back into
contention with a 69 Thursday.
The former Pepperdine U stand-
out also came off a big win in last
weeks Santi Cup in Indonesia.
Ababa, the rst round leader,
wavered with a 72 and missed
joining the playoff at 212 but
completed an impressive 1-2-3
nish by the ICTSI-backed bets
in the annual tournament, which
Agojo won by three last year.
SEEING how tough the com-
petition was in the kick-off
round last July, multi-titled
racing champion Mike Tuason
is condent of a better show
with the major adjustments he
did with his TRS-Castrol Drift-
ing Team in the third round of
the 2012 Lateral Drift Cham-
pionship Series today at the
Quirino Grandstand.
Tuason, who emerged the ama-
teur champ two years back, will
run all alone in this race to push
the teams pursuit for the coveted
plum through the big support of
Castrol, Bridgestone, Standard
Insurance, Coke Zero, OMP, C!
Magazine, Toptul, Speedlab, Agu-
ila Auto Glass and Oakley.
And he hopes the much-im-
proved set up of the Castrol RX7
car gives him a better leverage
against the more favored Nis-
san Skyline and the Sylvia s15
cars and the pressures from his
more-experienced rivals in the
Pro division,
The long break gave Tuason
enough time to do necessary ad-
justments to maximize the rac-
ing performance of his car and
suit the demands of the make-
shift track and the tough chal-
lenge of the event.
The competition has leveled
up and we expect a much tougher
title journey this season. Giving
your best is not enough, you really
have to push your limits to keep
up with the top guns. Hopefully,
our strategy and car setup will
work well for us, said Tuason.
For more information, visit
www.tuasonracing.com, like
Tuason Racing School on Face-
book or call the TRS secretariat,
c/o Aileen Urgelles or John at
820-4203 for more details.
Tuason
eyes drift
pro crown
IN BRIEF
CROWD darlings and two-time cham-
pion Efren Bata Reyes and Django
Bustamante face another acid test when
they take on the in-form Finnish pair of
former World 9-Ball champion Mika Im-
monen and Petri Makkonen, who stunned
defending champions Ralf Souquet and
Thorsten Hohmann in the PartyPoker.
net World Cup of Pool at the Robinsons
Place in Ermita, Manila, Thursday.
In the nal match of the evening,
Reyes and Bustamante went up against
the Canadian pair of 2004 World Pool
Champion Alex Pagulayan and John
Morra and pulled through, 8-5, to set up
another daunting challenge against Fin-
land in the quarternals.
Reyes conceded in a post-match inter-
view that there was too much pressure on
them in the beginning.
DEFENDING champion San Beda Col-
lege (10-2) seeks to stretch its winning run
to ve when it
collides with
the Jose Rizal
University (8-4)
Heavy Bombers
at 6 p.m. today
in the 88th Na-
tional Collegiate
Athletic Association mens basketball tour-
nament at the Arena in San Juan.
The Red Lions are on a four-game win-
ning run, and scoring their fth consecu-
tive triumph over the Heavy Bombers will
allow them to move a notch ahead of the
San Sebastian Stags.
The Heavy Bombers are tied with the
Perpetual Help Altas, who play against
the Emilio Aguinaldo College Generals
earlier at 4 p.m. Peter Atencio
Lions take on Bombers
Bata, Django vs Finnish
Calamba Football Festival 3
rd
leg kicks off today
A TOTAL of 109 teams will see action today in the
third level of the Calamba Football Festivals JMC
Cup at the sprawling grounds of the Rizal Plaza in
Calamba City, Laguna.
Calamba City Mayor Joaquin Chipeco Jr., pushing
hard for sports development especially among the
youth in the city, said the event is sanctioned by the
Philippine Football Federation and managed by the
Laguna Football Association.
The tournament also serves as the National Foot-
ball Invitationals for players Under-9, Under-13 and
Under-17 years old.
PFF secretary general Atty. Roland Tulay and
Department of Interior and Local Governments
Region IV-A Director Josie Castilla will grace
the event, together with Rep. Timmy Chipeco
and former Senator and former Laguna Gov.
Joey Lina.
The venue of the tournament is also the site of the
tallest statue of Dr. Jose Rizal, the national hero.
Rep. Chipeco of the second district of Laguna,
said coming up with the tournament was an offshoot
of the tremendous success generated by the Azkals
for football. With this, they have formed a team now
known as the Calamba Puppies.
Lina, head of the Calamba Football Festival,
Inc., said private sector support is crucial in this
long-term grassroots development program now
supported by the Lina Group of Companies, Air21,
San Miguel Corporation, with the help of Cherifer
and Stotsenberg Hotel, and in cooperation with
Union Galvasteel, Yakult and Greenelds Devel-
opment Corporation and other donors.
Chipeco added that everything is being done in co-
ordination with the PFF under its president, Mariano
Nonong Araneta.
We hope to discover young football players who
may one day play for the Philippine national team,
said Chipeco.
Lina hopes to see the Calamba football grass-
roots program to be duplicated by other LGUs and
become feeder of raw football talents in support of
the PFF grassroots program. This way, Philippine
football benets from programs emanating from
the ground.
Ronald Catolico, 2043; Antonio
Albuquerque, 2027; Joseph Em-
manuel Ang, 2432; Jorel Sim-
bulan, 2326; Sidney Ngo, 2190;
Mark Pana, 2153; Anton Alcaza-
ren, 2609; Richie Poblete, 2439;
Caloy Guitones, 2274; Barrie
Manalo, 2246; Nikko Jayson Go,
2065; Alex Ngo, 2331; Lawrence
Ang, 2103; Fitz Bonus, 2098;
Ben Pacheco, 2013; Simple Vil-
lajin, 1015; Francis Manalaysay,
2586; Pros Surell, 2514; Tommy
Eusebio, 2376; Rodel Bagohin,
2137; Nicco Olaivar, 2294; Den-
nis Ramirez, 2165; Oswaldo
Agoncillo, 2126; Jhert Santos,
1930; Jeff Carabeo, 2324; Ches-
ter King, 2292; Aaron Dee, 2124;
Roger Baluyot, 2084; Ric Pa-
cana, 2028; Lito Eusebio, 1939;
and Raul Imperial, 1912.
LadiesRachelle Leon, 1860;
Malou Bacar, 1317; Sharon Joan
Luzon, 1350; Popee Bagamasbad,
1643; Leah Naorbe, 1510; Cynthia
de Jesus, 1323; Lilian Teano, 1458;
Maryann Catolico, 1433; Elsa Cruz,
1420; Ma. Elena Ramos, 1770;
Joselle Sarad, 1400; Virgie Keh,
1500; Jingle dela Rosa, 1788; Pinky
Buenaor, 1743; Perla Pacheco,
1637; Susan Viray, 1587; Berna-
dette Ipapo, 1754; Andrea Laure-
ano, 1911; Sol Bagalay, 1635; Farah
Onasa, 1611; Jean Pagapong, 1499;
and Tess Eusebio, 1528.
The national nals featuring
the rst and second center nal-
ists will be held on September
15-16 at Coronado Lanes, Sep-
tember 18-19 at Paengs Mid-
town and September 21 at SM
Bowling North Edsa.
The national mens and ladies
champions will earn the right to
represent the Philippines in the
48th Bowling World Cup interna-
tional nals slated on Novermber
24 to December 2 at the Sky Bowl-
ing Centre in Wroclaw, Poland.
BALLS will air the 2012 FIFA U-20 Wom-
ens World Cup Finals live from its host
country, Japan, this Saturday at 6:20 p.m.
The best Under-20 female footballers
will ght for the cup for this once-in-ev-
ery-two-years tournament.
From 16 countries that made it to the
group stage, two teams, USA and Germany
have emerged. USA defeated Nigeria, 2-0,
while Germany routed host Japan, 3-0, in
the seminals last Tuesday. USA and Ger-
many, two of the strongest nations in the
womens game will best each other in the
World Cup Finals. Will the Americans win
their third title against the Germans who cur-
rently hold the title or will the latter become
the rst team to win consecutive titles?
Watch the FIFA U-20 Womens World
Cup Finals live via satellite from the National
Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan this Saturday
with the kick-off at 6:20 p.m on Balls.
Womens World Cup at Balls
Father of Ultramarathon. GMA Network Inc.through its international unitwelcomed Cesar Guarin, the rst Filipino
global runner and Father of Ultramarathon in the Philippines, from the latters successful global run in Europe. The GR Team
had just returned from Guarins 80-day, 1,820-km run from Finland to United Kingdom as part of their global run project and
Guarins quest to become the rst Filipino to run around the world. GMA Network staked in their full support as the ofcial media
sponsor for this global undertaking and will do the same for his Middle East run, which will happen on Jan. 25, 2013. Present
during the courtesy call held last Aug. 31 at GMA Network Center were (from left) GR Project Coordinator, Abbey Jose; Cesars
handler in his Europe run and his son, Gati Guarin; Global runner, Cesar Guarin; GMA International Vice President, Joseph Francia;
GR Project Manager/handler for ME run, Larry Balayon; GR Project Head, Joon Malicse.
San Miguel backs Ateneo golf
OVER 200 players from several high
school batches will display their shotmak-
ing skills in the 2012 Ateneo Challenge
Cup on Sept. 21 at the Orchard Golf and
Country Club in Dasmarias, Cavite.
For this year, San Miguel Corporation
will support the event presented by the
Ateneo Alumni Association, Ateneo Golf
Foundation and Ateneo High School Batch
87 that gathers Ateneo alumni to a day of
rekindling ties and fostering camaraderie
through the gentlemans game of golf.
As we mark another staging of the Ateneo
Challenge Cup, we are very honored to have
San Miguel Corporation on board as tourna-
ment sponsor. This tournament has come a
long way since 1995 and continues to draw
golf-loving Ateneans every year,AGF presi-
dent Iggy Clavecilla (HS 65) said about the
tournament that also highlights, among oth-
ers, the well-established rivalry between high
school batches 61 and 68.
The Challenge Cup will feature anew the
Ateneo Scramble format in which two-man
teams will hit tee-off alternately, follow the
rules of scramble after the drives and alter-
nately putt on the greens.
Ateneo HS batches to include the related
grade school and college classes can eld a
minimum of three (3) two-man teams each in
the tournament that will utilize both the Palmer
and Player courses for the shotgun and sequen-
tial tee-off both set at 8 am up to 9:30 am.
A Callaway full set and Hyundai Elantra
are up for grabs as hole-in-one prizes.
Deadline for entries is on Sept. 17 at
5 p.m. For more details, contact Mary
Ann Suetos of the Ateneo Golf Foun-
dation at 433-0782, 0927-3907287 or
email maryann_suetos@yahoo.com.
Mixed fortunes
for La Salle fives
TWO La Salle teams battle for a possible
Small Basketeers Philippines nal duel
against a squad from Ateneo, while the Pas-
serelle Division is a toss up among the top
teams, when the Best Center-organized,
Milo-sponsored SBP-Passerelle twin tour-
naments hold its last seminal games on
Sunday at the Xavier School gym.
La Salle Greenhills-A, a 45-36 winner
over Marist School-A over the weekend,
and La Salle-Zobel A, a 53-50 victor over
Don Bosco Technical Institute Makati, col-
lide at 1 p.m. for the rst berth in the nal.
Only Notre Dame of Greater Manila,
a 52-43 winner over host Xavier School,
stands in the way of an awaited La Salle vs
Ateneo nal, as it still has to be beaten by
Ateneo, fresh from a 57-32 rout of Lourdes
School, for the second nal slot.
University of Santo Tomas, meanwhile,
halted La Salle Zobel-As run, 72-59, and will
face host Xavier School, which walked over
Notre Dame of Greater Manila, for the rst
berth in the nal of the Passerelle Division.
Games Today
(The Arena in San Juan)
12 nn Perpetual Help
vs EAC (jrs)
2 p.m. San Beda vs JRU (jrs)
4 p.m. Perpetual Help
vs EAC (srs)
6 p.m. San Beda vs
JRU (srs)
Bustamante shows potential as future champ
NEWCOMER Bianca Luzung Bustamante showed a
big potential as a future karting queen when she bagged
the Formula Cadet Novice second runner-up honors in
the third leg of the 2012 Asian Karting Open Champion-
ship series recently at the Carmona Racetrack.
Bianca, the seven-year-old daughter of former
karter and now US-based Raymund Bustamante,
totally had no racing experience when she debuted
in the Enchanted Kingdom race two weeks ago.
Raymund Bustamante, who also made his mark
in the US as a former Northern California Master
Division champion in a karting series at the In-
neon Raceway California, condently picked Indu-
stria Racing head coach Elson Carpio to provide
Bianca with a good racing foundation.
Raymund personally know Carpio, who recently
launched his Formula E Racing Management, and
his credibility as a professional coach, chief me-
chanic and race engineer. Carpio was the mentor
of Tyson Sy and Javi Benitez, who were then the
top karters during Raymund Bustamantes active
racing years on local soil. At present, Carpio is the
man responsible behind the big transformation of
CJ Tsui into a top title contender this season.
And in just a short span since her rst race, train-
ing under Carpio did lots of wonders as Bianca sur-
prised fellow drivers, mechanics and parents with
her big improvement. She clocked the same lap
times as her more experienced Cadet Novice rivals
and Cadet Expert karters in the combined race.
She was sixth in the qualifying time trials, clock-
ing 54.621 seconds and ended sixth in the 12-man
combined qualifying heat. After nishing ninth
overall in the Pre-Final, she pushed her limits to
pull off a big nish in the Cadet Novice division.
Carpio bared that her local stints is just part of
Bustamantes preparations for a series of karting
races her dad planned for her.
Stallions advance to semis 2
nd
phase
By Peter Atencio
THE controversial game between the
Far Eastern University Tamaraws and
the National University Bulldogs will
be replayed on Sept. 23.
THE Manuel L. Quezon Univer-
sity Stallions held their ground
in the last two minutes to pull
off a 79-75 stopping of the Cen-
tral Colleges of the Philippines
Bobcats last Thursday.
This enabled the Stallions to
advance to the second and nal
phase of the stepladder seminals
of the 11th Universities and Col-
leges Athletic Association mens
basketball tournament at the CCP
gymnasium in Sta. Mesa, Manila.
Leonardo Tamayo shot 24
points, including two charities
in the last 8.5 seconds, enabling
the Stallions to keep the Bobcats
at bay in the remaining time of
their semis match at their rivals
own home-court.
The Stallions moved to a win-
ner-take-all semis confrontation
with the La Salle-Dasmarinas
Patriots on Monday, ghting for
the right to ght the Olivarez
College Sea Lions in the nals.
They are set to clash at 1 p.m.
at the Ugnayang La Salle gym-
nasium in Dasmarinas, Cavite in
this cagefest supported by Mi-
kasa and Molten Balls.
Windell Bumanglag contrib-
uted 18 points, while Dave Tor-
regoza red 12 for the Stallions.
Torregoza and Generoso
Sena scored following two
turnovers by the Bobcats as the
Stallions moved away, 77-72,
in the last 47.5 seconds.
Sunny Valdez and Danny
Asencio made 14 points each for
the Bobcats, who still managed
to stay close at 75-77 with 20.5
seconds left via the latters three
charities, but Tamayo pegged
the nal count in the last 8.5 sec-
onds with his own two freebies.
Pressured sa crowd ang
mga bata. Sinuwerte na lang
kami sa mga bitaw ni Tamayo.
At, buti na rin at naka-stop ang
defense, said Stallions coach
Sherman Crisostomo.
Asencio earlier allowed the
Bobcats to threaten at 72-73
with his three-point play in the
last 2:05.
TRS-Castrol Racing Team
hopes to give its title quest a
big push behind Korean Mick-
ey Kim, whos aiming for a
bigger nish in the fth and
penultimate leg of the 2012
Philippine GT Championship
series this Sunday at the Batan-
gas Racing Circuit.
After his successful title-
clinching debut in the GT200
class at the Clark International
Speedway, Kim eyes a repeat
over his rivals to deliver his
second straight triumph for
the TRS-Castrol Racing Team
powered by Castrol, Bridges-
tone, Standard Insurance, Coke
Zero, OMP, C!Magazine,
Toptul, Speedlab, Aguila Auto
Glass and Oakley.
The South Korean, who
only started racing last Janu-
ary under the grassroots TRS
Cup program, will be parad-
ing the same Honda Civic EK
that steered his big upset win
over perennial winners and top
favorites Arnel Carlos and his
son Dwight Kevin,
But Kims win wasnt all
about the power of his machine.
TRS-Castrol Racing Team
Manager Mike Tuason cited
the South Koreans new-found
condence, feeling more at ease
driving a GT200 car than the
GT100 vehicle he used in the
rst three legs of the series.
Kim aims to
deliver for
TRS Castrol
Pacquiao fight to go on, says Arum
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
TOP Rank promoter Bob Arum
is condent that Fighter of the
Decade Manny Pacquiao will
ght at the MGM Grand on
Dec. 8.
Arum made the assurance in
a telephone conversation with
the Manila Standar d following
speculation that Pacquiao may
not ght this year because he is
engrossed in his Bible studies
and is busy as a preacher. Also
eating up the Filipino icons time
is his congressional re-election
bid, his TV game show, which
will travel to the US for two
programs on Sept. 15, and
his charity work.
However, Arum dis-
pelled these concerns.
We are talking,
everything is good.
He is denitely
ghting on Dec. 8,
Arum.
Both trainer Freddie
Roach and strength and
conditioning coach Alex Ariza
believe Pacquiao will ght
Juan Manuel Marquez and are
preparing for a fourth clash
with the Mexican legend, who
has proven to be a dif-
cult opponent in their
past three ghts.
In response to
Mexican promoter
Fernando Beltrans
claim that a Mar-
quez-Pacquiao ght
is 95 percent certain
to happen, Arum re-
sponded, well see.
Pacquiaos adviser Mi-
chael Koncz told Manila Stan-
dard he had spoken to Pac-
quiao on Thursday night and
that a few things still needed
to be ironed out regarding his
December ght, but that a de-
cision should be forthcoming
by the end of the week.
Meantime, boxingscene.com
reported that Marquez, who is
the World Boxing Organiza-
tion junior welterweight cham-
pion, has already begun training
for a possible fourth ght with
Pacquiao and has discussed his
training regimen and strategy
with Hall-of-Fam trainer Na-
cho Beristain.
The widely read boxing site
said Marquez had already ac-
cepted the ght and is waiting
for Pacquiaos decision.
Board members of the Uni-
versity Athletic Association of
the Philippines made this deci-
sion and upheld the protest of
NU over a won game by FEU,
following a meeting at the Club
Filipino in Greenhills yesterday.
The board, after listening to
the ndings of a four-man bas-
ketball technical com-
mittee, said in a state-
ment that the video
replays that was sup-
posed to conrm that
FEU Tamaraw RR
Garcias marginal bas-
ket indeed beat the game clock
was inconclusive.
The decision was reached
some ve days after the NU
Bulldogs protested their 75-
77 loss to the FEU Tamaraws,
who won the game on a layup
by Garcia with what appeared
to be still 1/10ths of second
left in the clock.
We are calling for a replay of
their game, because the pieces
of evidence/statements/video
used in the deliberation were
inconclusive and unclear, and
most of the points brought up
showed that time had expired
before the ball was fully re-
leased, said basketball techni-
cal committee member
Henry Atayde.
Atayde spoke on
behalf of Season 75
host NU after secre-
tary/ treasurer Junel
Baculi inhibited him-
self from the meeting.
Because of the decision, the
team standings of the FEU
will stay the same before their
game last Sunday. The Tamss
record is going back to 7-3 at
third place behind the Univer-
sity of Santo Tomas Tigers (8-
3), while NUs slate stays at
6-4 (fth spot).
FEU-NU game to be replayed
PH chessers bow to Chinese
CHINA whipped the Philip-
pines, 3.5-0,5, Thursday night
in the ninth round of the 40th
Istanbul Chess Olympiad, but
can the Filipinos recover from
the massacre to bounce back
against another tough customer
in Fridays 10th round?
Vietnam, a country which the
Philippines has not beaten in
team competitions in Southeast
Asia for around seven years,
was paired against the Philip-
pines, whose 13 match points
are good for a tie from eighth to
16 places from a share of second
place going to the ninth round.
A source from the National
Chess Federation of the Phil-
ippines told Manila Standard
Today it is highly likely team
captain Jayson Gonzales will
not change the lineup despite
a quick loss by Oliver Barbosa
to Ding Liren and a defeat by
Mark Paragua to Li Chao.
We have to gamble. We need
the best lineup on board and that
is the lineup which faced Chi-
na, the source said a few hours
before the Olympiad website
posted the board pairings.
Another source said: China is
always tough to beat but against
Vietnam, this is a battle for South-
east Asian chess supremacy.
Barbosa was smashed by
Ding in 26 moves of a Slav De-
fense, with the defensive stal-
wart resigning as the Chinese
ace promoted to a second queen.
Paragua, after spoiling an excel-
lent position, resigned in 43
moves of a Gruenfeld Defense.
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HALL OF FAME
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.She was the rst person he
called after he got the call. And Cheryl Miller will be
on stage to present her brother, Reggie, when he is
inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall
of Fame. Its an honor that can only go to a previous
inductee. Reggie Miller will be honored on Friday
night along with longtime coach Don Nelson, Nike
co-founder Phil Knight and nine others in the biggest
induction class in more than 50 years. The former
Indiana Pacers star joins big sister Cheryl, a 1995
inductee who is 20 months his elder, to form the rst
brother-sister pair in the Springeld shrine. AP
Sports
Manila Standard TODAY
Riera U. Mallari, Editor sports@manilastandardtoday.com sports_mstandard@yahoo.com
Djokovic moves to US Open semis. Novak Djokovic raises his hands in triumph after beating No. 7 Juan Martin del Potro, 6-2, 7-6 (3),
6-4 in a 3-hour, 6-minute, US Open masterpiece. He made it to his 10
th
straight Grand Slam seminal. AP
CAGAYAN DE OROCharles Hong put on a ery nish of seven-under
65 in a virtual backside shootout with Richard Sinfuego, then clinched
the crown in sudden death for his breakthrough victory in the P1 million
ICTSI Pueblo de Oro Championship at the Pueblo layout here yesterday.
Hong, a sophomore pro whose best nish in the season was sixth
at ICTSI Sherwood Hills, kept his sizzling form in the playoff,
nearly coming up with a pitch-in birdie while Sinfuego, who also
closed out with a solid 67, blew it with an errant second shot for
bogey. Both nished with eight-under 208s.
The victory was worth P200,000 for the 24-year-old Hong, who
had just one missed cut in the rst 10 legs of this years circuit or-
ganized by Pilipinas Golf Tournaments, Inc.
This win means so much for my career, said Hong. Everyone
is always looking forward for his rst win.
It was a tting ending to an explosive windup by the winning
coach of Team South in the countrys version of the Ryder Cup duel
last June, who trailed Sinfuego by two after 36 holes and fell behind
by four with a bogey on No. 1 coupled by Sinfuegos birdie.
But he suddenly went hot by coming up with a cluster of
birdies fourfrom No. 5 to tie Sinfuego but reeled back again
with another bogey on the ninth.
Hong bags Pueblo title
A short but fast-tracked training program under coach Elson
Carpios Formula E Racing Management did wonders to seven-
year-old Bianca Bustamante (inset), whos now clocking the same
laptimes as her more experienced rivals two weeks after her debut
race. She even bagged the Formula Cadet Novice second runner-up
honors in the recent Asian Karting Open race.
Games Today
(SM Mall of Asia)
2 p.m. UST vs UP
4 p.m. FEU vs UE
Pacquiao
Business
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Roderick T. dela Cruz, Assistant Editor
IN BRIEF
VOLUME 883.460M
PSE COMPOSITE INDEX
Closing September 7, 2012
OIL
PRICES
TODAY
P584-P695
LPG/11-kg tank
P47.15-P53.07
Unleaded Gasoline
P38.40-P41.05
Diesel
P40.30-P52.20
Kerosene
P27.20-P31.00
Auto LPG
FOREI GN EXCHANGE RATE
Currency Unit US Dollar Peso
United States Dollar 1.000000 41.9080
Japan Yen 0.012679 0.5314
UK Pound 1.593400 66.7762
Hong Kong Dollar 0.128934 5.4034
Switzerland Franc 1.048988 43.9610
Canada Dollar 1.017501 42.6414
Singapore Dollar 0.804894 33.7315
Australia Dollar 1.026694 43.0267
Bahrain Dinar 2.652661 111.1677
Saudi Arabia Rial 0.266660 11.1752
Brunei Dollar 0.801667 33.5963
Indonesia Rupiah 0.000105 0.0044
Thailand Baht 0.032010 1.3415
UAE Dirham 0.272264 11.4100
Euro Euro 1.263500 52.9508
Korea Won 0.000882 0.0370
China Yuan 0.157659 6.6072
India Rupee 0.017966 0.7529
Malaysia Ringgit 0.321027 13.4536
NewZealand Dollar 0.799169 33.4916
Taiwan Dollar 0.033523 1.4049
Source: PDS Bridge
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Friday, September 7, 2012
PESO-DOLLAR RATE
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5,201.32
51.21
HIGH P41.660 LOW P41.795AVERAGE P41.742
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4460
3720
2980
2240
1500
1200
Foreign exchange
reserves top $80b
Executive to sue
anti-mining LGUs
GSIS says
income
rose 14%
to P46.4b
Globe, Smart told to explain disrupted calls
MacroAsia gets new mining rights in Negros Occidental
By Othel V. Campos
LARGE-SCALE miners and the
government reached an understanding in a
meeting Friday that the executive branch
will initiate the ling of administrative
cases against local government units that
passed and implemented ordinances not in
harmony with the Philippine Mining Act.
The government will be the
one to le. It is not the private
entity [mining companies]
that should be ling the
cases, because what the local
governments are doing is
that they are disobeying a
statute, Philex vice president
for communications Mike
Toledo said at the sidelines
of a meeting with the Mines
Industry Coordinating Council
at the National Economic and
Development Authority in
Mandaluyong City.
Toledo said the case maybe
led by the executive branch,
perhaps the Department of
Justice, the solicitor general or
the Department of Interior and
Local Government.
He said it should be the
Local Government or Justice
Department that should
spearhead the filing of cases
against provinces, cities
or municipalities that go
against existing laws. He
said the cases, most likely,
would be filed before the
Supreme Court, assuming
that no settlement had been
reached.
Among the countrys 80
provinces, more than a dozen
already passed resolutions that
are considered anti-mining.
These include Romblon,
Antique, Zamboanga Sibugay,
Mindoro, Bohol, Zamboanga
del Norte, Samar, Marinduque,
South Cotabato, Bukidnon,
La Union, Capiz and Negros
Occidental.
Toledo said it was the
governments responsibility to
seek a clarication since the
law clearly states that mining is
allowed in the Philippines.
Now if you come up with a
local ordinance going against
that statute, then there is anarchy.
So there must be compliance
with the national law unless that
law is amended, he said.
The meeting with large-scale
miners was the nal consultation
conducted by the council for
the draft implementing rules
and regulations of Executive
Order No. 79 or the Aquino
administrations mining policy.
By Anna Leah G. Estrada
THE gross international reserves, a measure of the countrys
capability to settle its foreign loans and pay for imports, reached
a new record level, exceeding the $80-billion mark for the rst
time in August.
Bangko Sentral Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. said the
reserves climbed 1.3 percent to $80.8 billion as of end-August
from $79.8 billion in July. It also rose 6.4 percent from just
$75.9 billion in August 2011.
Tetangco said that at that level, the reserves could adequately
cover 11.9 months worth of imports of goods and payments
of services and income, much higher than the international
benchmark of just three months. It was also equivalent to 10.9
times the countrys short-term external debt.
The signicant rise in the end-August GIR level was mainly
due to the foreign exchange deposits by the Treasurer of the
Philippines, as well as the revaluation gains on the BSPs gold
holdings, reecting the increase in the price of golds in the
international market, Tetangco said.
These inows were partially offset by outows for the payments
by the national government of its maturing foreign exchange
obligations and foreign currency withdrawals by banks.
Data showed that the value of Bangko Sentrals gold holdings
increased to $10.6 billion in August from $10 billion in July and
just $7.6 billion a year earlier.
Bangko Sentrals foreign investments, including holdings of
US treasuries, reached $67.6 billion as of August, up from $67
billion in July and $66.4 billion in August 2011.
By Bernadette Lunas
THE Government Service
Insurance System said
Friday net revenue grew
14 percent to P46.4
billion as of end-July, on
higher contributions of
government employees
and improved income from
equity investments.
GSIS president and
general manager Robert
Vergara told reporters in a
news briefing the increase
in the seven-month income
was driven by the 10-
percent increment in the
salaries of government
workers under the Salary
Standardization Law 3.
This was also bolstered
by some realization of
income from equities.
Vergara said he was
expecting a full-year net
income of P63 billion
to P64 billion in 2012,
higher than the previous
years P57.5 billion, on
the back of strong equity
performance.
He said income from
investments increased 32.3
percent to P22.5 billion in
the first seven months from
last years P17 billion.
Fixed income portfolio
amounted P289.7 billion,
up by 9.5 percent from P264
billion as of end-2011.
Vergara said about P280
billion was invested in
government bonds and P9.5
billion in non-government
securities. Equity
investments, on the other
hand, reached P86.6 billion,
or 29 percent higher than the
P67.2 billion registered in
the end of December 2011.
He said expenses also rose
15.2 percent to P33.4 billion
from a year ago, owing to
increased claims and benets
paid out to its members.
Its not that were spending
a lot more to maintain our
business, were paying out
more to our members for
benets they receive, he said.
Vergara said the pension
fund has about 350,000
beneficiaries, with 1,800
new entrants every month.
Meanwhile, premium
receivables as of July
amounted P39 billion, or
8.3 percent higher than a
year ago. Vergara said he
was not expecting a sudden
increase in premiums next
year, unless the government
implemented SSL 4.
By Lailany P. Gomez
THE National Telecommunications
Commission on Friday asked the countrys
two mobile phone operators to explain the
persistent disruption in their services amid
rising complaints from subscribers.
Commissioner Gamaliel Cordoba
told reporters in an interview the NTC
called the attention of Globe Telecom
and Smart Communications Inc. to
increasing complaints about dropped
calls and undelivered text messages led
mostly by post-paid customers.
We called their attention to the
dropped calls, quality of service, etcetera,
because we have received a number of
complaints and we want them to give us
reasons, Cordoba said at the sidelines of
the RADSHOW 2012 conference at the
SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.
Cordoba said the telecommunication
companies had linked the glitches to current
network upgrade or modernization.
I guess its a function of their
customers to know what is happening,
especially they are mostly postpaid,
Cordoba said.
Cardoba said the NTC had already
talked to Globe ofcials, as the most
number of complaints came from
customers of the Ayala-led telecom rm.
Globe told us that the glitch was
caused by the upgrade, modernization of
their network. What we told them was to
give us a denite time for that. Systems
upgrades are OK, but let us know when
or how long or when the service will be
back to normal. I think, these are also the
publics sentiment, Cordoba said.
Globes head of corporate communications
Yolanda Crisanto said the congestion is
because of our legacy network and the
explosion of mobile data.
By rst quarter of 2013, the
change out of our equipment will be
completed, she said.
Philippine Long Distance Telephone
Co. group spokesman Ramon Isberto,
meanwhile conrmed that the NTC had
talked to Smart to give an update on its
network upgrade.
We are following certain minimum
standard set by the NTC for dropped
calls, completion of [network upgrade],
etc., etc. The latest test showed that
Smart is within the prescribed limits, so
we responded in time. With regards to
3G deployment, we told the NTC that we
are 100-percent complete. Actually we
are in excess of 100 percent. So, I think
we responded well to the NTC inquiry,
Isberto told reporters.
By Jenniffer B. Austria
MACROASIA Corp., a mining and
aviation support company led by tycoon
Lucio Tan, has secured new mining claims
in Negros Occidental province.
MacroAsia said in a disclosure to
the stock exchange it had signed deed
of assignment with Buluwan Mining
Corp. covering rights, interests
and obligations under its operating
agreement with Philex Mining Corp.
and involving 62 mining claims in
Negros Occidental.
The agreement covers a part of the
Bulawan gold mine that previously
produced gold under Philex.
MacroAsia also signed a similar
agreement with PNB Madecor and
Development Corp. involving rights,
interests and obligations under its operating
agreement with Philex and involving 61
mining claims also in Negros Occidental.
Under the aforesaid deeds of
assignment, the assignors rights, interests
and obligations under their respective
operating agreements with Philex are
transferred to MacroAsia, MacroAsia
said.
MacroAsia, which is primarily engaged
in aviation-related services, inherited
mining rights involving 1,114 hectares of
land in Palawan from Cobertson Holdings
Corp., formerly known as Infanta Mineral
and Industrial Corp.
MacroAsia obtained a mineral
production sharing agreement from
the Mines and Geosciences Bureau in
2006, covering the said nickel mining
property. This gave MacroAsia exclusive
right to explore, develop and utilize for
commercial purposes nickel, chromite,
iron and other associated mineral deposits
that may be found in the area.
Bad loans at all-time low
NON-PERFORMING loans of universal
and commercial banks hit a new all-time low,
an indication of improving public trust in
Philippine banks.
The Bangko Sentral said the NPL ratio eased
to 2.06 percent as of end-June from 2.18 percent
in May. It also improved from 2.45 percent in
June 2011.
The record-low NPL ratio was achieved
despite the continuous increase in bank lending
this year.
The month-on-month decline in the
industrys NPL ratio resulted from the
simultaneous 2.73 percent cut in NPLs to
P69.05 billion from P70.98 billion and the
3.25-percent expansion in total loan portfolio
to P3.4 trillion from P3.2 trillion, the Bangko
Sentral said.
Restructured loans to total loan portfolio
ratio also went down to 1.02 percent in June
from 1.07 percent in May and 1.36 percent a
year ago.
The Bangko Sentral said the industrys
provisions against potential credit losses also
remained adequate, as the non-performing
loans coverage ratio strengthened to 136.35
percent as of June. Anna Leah G. Estrada
PNOC EC to issue shares
PNOC Exploration Corp., the oil and gas
arm of state-owned Philippine National Oil
Co., plans a follow-on offering in December to
comply with the 10-percent minimum public
ownership rule.
PNOC Exploration vice president and
compliance ofcer Silvestre Punsalan III told
reporters they were hoping to list their shares
in time for the December deadline.
PNOC Exploration plans to offer an
additional 218 million primary shares. The
company appointed Union Bank of Switzerland
AG as its nancial advisor, sole underwriter
and global coordinator for its additional public
offering.
Our determination is denitely we will stay
listed in the stock exchange, he said.
He said PNOC Exploration was reviewing its
rst to third quarter nancial statements which
were needed in preparation for the follow-on
offering. It will take one month for the PSE
approval and another month to do marketing,
Punsalan said.
He said the Dec. 10 target listing date
would still require the approval of the Finance
Department, Presidential Management Ofce
and market conditions. Alena Mae S. Flores
Aquino leaves for Russia. President Benigno Aquino III greets airport personnel at the Ninoy Aquino International
Airport Terminal II, as he leaves the country to join fellow world leaders attending the 20th Asia-Pacic Economic Cooperation
leaders summit in Russky Island, Vladivostok, Russia. The Apec leaders will discuss four priorities namely: trade and investment
liberalization and regional economic integration, strengthening food security, establishing reliable supply chains, and cooperation
to foster innovative growth.
TRADI NG SUMMARY
SHARES VALUE
FINANCIAL 12,329,741 728,330,817.28
INDUSTRIAL 243,390,811 981,699,884.35
HOLDING FIRMS 161,410,514 1,507,103,251.13
PROPERTY 199,446,105 839,229,185.25
SERVICES 157,075,095 865,422,458.13
MINING & OIL 999,336,359 277,191,459.73
GRAND TOTAL 1,772,988,625 5,198,977,055.87
FINANCIAL 1,303.88 (up) 12.67
INDUSTRIAL 7,916.08 (up) 63.88
HOLDING FIRMS 4,366.58 (up) 33.27
PROPERTY 2,019.07 (up) 48.01
SERVICES 1,763.19 (up) 23.73
MINING & OIL 20,713.88 (down) 404.10
PSEI 5,201.32 (up) 51.21
All Shares Index 3,454.83 (up) 25.93
Gainers: 101; Losers: 51; Unchanged: 43; Total: 198
STOCKS Close
(P)
Change
(%)
Phil. Tob. Flue Cur & Redry 25.70 42.78
Calapan Venture 2.87 17.14
FEUI 1080.00 8.00
Prime Media Hldg 1.400 6.87
Greenergy 0.0170 6.25
Oriental Pet. À' 0.0180 5.88
Vulcan Ind'l. 0.96 5.49
DFNN Inc. 5.79 5.27
Lafarge Rep 9.45 5.00
South China Res. Inc. 1.18 4.42
STOCKS Close
(P)
Change
(%)
Omico Corp. Warrant 0.0160 (46.67)
ATN Holdings B 1.61 (16.15)
Crown Equities Inc. 0.061 (11.59)
2GO Group' 1.76 (10.20)
Salcon Power Corp. 5.10 (9.89)
Philex À' 17.20 (8.32)
Maybank ATR KE 25.00 (7.41)
Waterfront Phils. 0.435 (6.45)
Oriental Pet. `B' 0.0180 (5.26)
Benguet Corp À' 23.15 (3.34)
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FINANCIAL
70.50 46.00 Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. 60.20 61.10 60.50 60.50 0.50 1,398,320 (8,175,157.00)
77.45 50.00 Bank of PI 72.75 73.95 72.95 73.20 0.62 667,850 14,111,319.00
595.00 370.00 China Bank 51.15 53.55 51.90 52.55 2.74 998,760 (21,570,472.50)
2.20 1.42 BDO Leasing & Fin. Inc. 1.97 1.96 1.94 1.96 (0.51) 59,000
23.90 13.80 COL Financial 20.50 20.50 20.50 20.50 0.00 9,400 4,100.00
20.70 18.50 Eastwest Bank 19.74 20.20 19.74 20.20 2.33 4,530,900 9,371,352.00
22.00 7.95 Filipino Fund Inc. 11.00 11.00 11.00 11.00 0.00 6,000
3.26 1.91 I-Remit Inc. 2.85 2.91 2.72 2.91 2.11 129,000
650.00 420.00 Manulife Fin. Corp. 450.00 470.00 460.00 460.00 2.22 510
39.20 3.00 Maybank ATR KE 27.00 26.00 24.60 25.00 (7.41) 17,300
102.50 60.00 Metrobank 91.95 93.35 92.50 92.65 0.76 2,138,820 (59,804,861.50)
3.06 1.30 Natl Reinsurance Corp. 1.98 1.98 1.92 1.92 (3.03) 86,000
94.50 56.00 Phil Bank of Comm 76.00 76.50 76.00 76.50 0.66 700
77.80 41.00 Phil. National Bank 69.60 70.00 69.70 69.90 0.43 323,630 (3,204,814.00)
95.00 69.00 Phil. Savings Bank 87.00 87.00 87.00 87.00 0.00 10
500.00 210.00 PSE Inc. 372.00 373.80 370.00 370.00 (0.54) 38,690 9,214,194.00
45.50 29.45 RCBC À 44.00 44.00 44.00 44.00 0.00 70,800.00 (677,600.00)
155.20 77.00 Security Bank 150.00 154.00 151.50 154.00 2.67 1,235,500 120,479,177.00
1100.00 879.00 Sun Life Financial 915.00 949.00 910.00 910.00 (0.55) 640 18,300.00
140.00 58.00 Union Bank 101.80 102.20 101.70 102.00 0.20 198,810 (1,061,310.00)
2.06 1.43 Vantage Equities 1.80 1.81 1.80 1.80 0.00 418,000
INDUSTRIAL
35.50 26.50 Aboitiz Power Corp. 33.55 33.55 33.50 33.55 0.00 2,552,700 (9,367,855.00)
13.58 8.00 Agrinurture Inc. 8.40 8.45 8.36 8.40 0.00 63,100 4,200.00
23.95 11.98 Alaska Milk Corp. 23.50 23.50 23.45 23.45 (0.21) 8,300
1.70 0.97 Alliance Tuna Intl Inc. 1.49 1.53 1.50 1.51 1.34 1,926,000 249,130.00
48.00 25.00 Alphaland Corp. 29.70 29.70 29.60 29.60 (0.34) 69,800 385,230.00
1.62 1.08 Alsons Cons. 1.35 1.36 1.32 1.33 (1.48) 173,000
Asiabest Group 20.30 21.30 20.25 20.55 1.23 161,100
26.55 12.50 C. Azuc De Tarlac 13.02 13.04 13.04 13.04 0.15 3,900
2.96 2.12 Calapan Venture 2.45 2.89 2.47 2.87 17.14 977,000
2.75 2.30 Chemrez Technologies Inc. 2.54 2.60 2.56 2.60 2.36 466,000 67,580.00
9.74 7.41 Cirtek Holdings (Chips) 9.65 9.70 9.25 9.64 (0.10) 76,300
6.41 4.83 Energy Devt. Corp. (EDC) 5.90 5.95 5.90 5.91 0.17 4,168,200 (5,374,257.00)
7.77 2.80 EEI 7.29 7.46 7.33 7.35 0.82 403,000 74,132.00
19.40 12.50 First Gen Corp. 18.38 18.70 18.50 18.62 1.31 334,100 (1,195,930.00)
79.30 51.50 First Holdings A 76.65 77.00 76.65 76.90 0.33 288,400 1,195,026.00
27.00 17.50 Ginebra San Miguel Inc. 19.10 19.00 18.10 19.00 (0.52) 1,200
0.02 0.0110 Greenergy 0.0160 0.0170 0.0150 0.0170 6.25 173,900,000 (1,520,000.00)
13.10 7.80 Holcim Philippines Inc. 12.42 13.10 12.70 12.92 4.03 1,879,800 101,906.00
6.00 3.80 Integ. Micro-Electronics 4.00 4.05 4.00 4.05 1.25 16,000
2.35 0.61 Ionics Inc 0.620 0.620 0.620 0.620 0.00 10,000
120.00 80.00 Jollibee Foods Corp. 96.30 97.50 94.55 96.50 0.21 390,150 (7,817,745.50)
Lafarge Rep 9.00 9.50 9.28 9.45 5.00 1,208,600 3,780,000.00
91.25 25.00 Liberty Flour 38.00 38.00 38.00 38.00 0.00 500
8.40 1.04 LMG Chemicals 2.25 2.35 2.24 2.24 (0.44) 246,000
1.90 1.11 Mabuhay Vinyl Corp. 1.49 1.51 1.51 1.51 1.34 18,000
27.45 18.10 Manila Water Co. Inc. 26.25 26.55 26.30 26.35 0.38 1,796,400 (9,562,580.00)
6.95 0.75 Mariwasa MFG. Inc. 2.50 2.54 2.54 2.54 1.60 15,000
18.10 8.12 Megawide 16.300 16.300 16.260 16.300 0.00 16,100 (105,890.00)
280.60 215.00 Mla. Elect. Co À 250.20 255.00 251.40 252.20 0.80 218,110 (6,874,950.00)
12.20 7.50 Pancake House Inc. 7.00 7.00 6.95 7.00 0.00 23,300 (133,700.00)
3.65 1.96 Pepsi-Cola Products Phil. 3.84 4.00 3.84 3.95 2.86 31,508,000 13,824,920.00
16.00 9.70 Petron Corporation 10.20 10.24 10.02 10.20 0.00 2,048,400
14.94 8.05 Phoenix Petroleum Phils. 8.20 8.29 8.09 8.15 (0.61) 150,700 3,260.00
4.42 1.01 RFM Corporation 4.07 4.27 4.06 4.12 1.23 2,074,000 53,510.00
6.50 2.90 Salcon Power Corp. 5.66 5.20 5.10 5.10 (9.89) 3,000
34.60 26.50 San Miguel Brewery Inc. 34.40 34.40 34.40 34.40 0.00 100,000
129.20 110.20 San Miguel Corp À 111.00 111.30 111.00 111.10 0.09 255,280 7,358,722.00
2.62 1.25 Seacem 2.39 2.47 2.39 2.47 3.35 5,793,000 (204,440.00)
2.44 1.73 Splash Corporation 1.75 1.80 1.80 1.80 2.86 1,000
14.66 3.30 Tanduay Holdings 11.90 12.04 11.66 11.80 (0.84) 1,705,800 6,097,458.00
1.41 0.90 Trans-Asia Oil 1.18 1.18 1.16 1.18 0.00 218,000 11,700.00
69.20 37.00 Universal Robina 62.10 64.30 62.55 64.30 3.54 6,638,810 302,246,877.50
5.50 1.05 Victorias Milling 1.29 1.30 1.28 1.29 0.00 1,261,000 12,900.00
0.77 0.320 Vitarich Corp. 0.580 0.600 0.580 0.600 3.45 126,000
1.22 0.77 Vulcan Indl. 0.91 0.96 0.96 0.96 5.49 15,000
HOLDING FIRMS
1.18 0.65 Abacus Cons. À 0.73 0.76 0.72 0.72 (1.37) 50,091,000
59.90 35.50 Aboitiz Equity 47.50 48.00 47.60 48.00 1.05 388,700 17,563,265.00
0.019 0.014 Alcorn Gold Res. 0.0180 0.0180 0.0170 0.0180 0.00 23,400,000
13.70 8.00 Alliance Global Inc. 12.22 12.56 12.32 12.50 2.29 35,456,700 388,994,650.00
2.60 1.80 Anglo Holdings A 2.00 2.00 1.98 2.00 0.00 51,000
5.02 3.00 Anscor À 4.56 4.60 4.53 4.60 0.88 31,000 (54,470.00)
6.98 0.260 Asia Amalgamated A 4.99 4.99 4.90 4.95 (0.80) 17,000
2.98 1.49 ATN Holdings A 1.53 1.60 1.52 1.58 3.27 312,000
4.16 2.30 ATN Holdings B 1.92 1.84 1.60 1.61 (16.15) 2,870,000 85,400.00
485.20 272.00 Ayala Corp À 416.00 422.00 416.00 421.00 1.20 664,310 (56,552,012.00)
64.80 30.50 DMCI Holdings 56.05 56.60 56.30 56.45 0.71 487,510 13,159,790.00
4.19 1.03 F&J Prince A 2.55 2.56 2.51 2.55 0.00 28,000
5.20 3.30 Filinvest Dev. Corp. 4.00 4.01 3.99 4.00 0.00 276,000
556.00 455.40 GT Capital 538.50 554.00 540.00 550.00 2.14 210,630 22,481,520.00
36.20 19.00 JG Summit Holdings 32.25 32.55 32.25 32.25 0.00 650,000 (7,345,930.00)
4.19 2.27 Jolliville Holdings 2.99 3.00 3.00 3.00 0.33 59,000
6.21 4.00 Lopez Holdings Corp. 5.15 5.19 5.10 5.11 (0.78) 11,603,600 (45,452.00)
1.54 0.61 Lodestar Invt. Holdg.Corp. 1.03 1.07 1.03 1.05 1.94 78,000
0.91 0.300 Mabuhay Holdings À 0.430 0.430 0.430 0.430 0.00 210,000
3.82 1.800 Marcventures Hldgs., Inc. 2.26 2.31 2.25 2.30 1.77 994,000 (45,000.00)
4.65 2.56 Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. 4.18 4.24 4.17 4.21 0.72 26,382,000 8,787,410.00
6.24 3.40 Minerales Industrias Corp. 5.10 5.09 5.04 5.08 (0.39) 75,200
9.66 1.22 MJCI Investments Inc. 6.62 7.00 6.50 6.79 2.57 48,500
0.0770 0.045 Pacica À 0.0520 0.0520 0.0520 0.0520 0.00 800,000
2.20 1.20 Prime Media Hldg 1.310 1.400 1.400 1.400 6.87 20,000
0.82 0.44 Prime Orion 0.465 0.470 0.470 0.470 1.08 100,000
0.490 0.285 Sinophil Corp. 0.305 0.320 0.310 0.315 3.28 1,090,000
760.00 450.00 SM Investments Inc. 719.00 723.00 719.00 721.00 0.28 297,870 (22,802,385.00)
2.71 1.08 Solid Group Inc. 2.09 2.15 2.08 2.10 0.48 1,112,000 629,200.00
1.57 1.14 South China Res. Inc. 1.13 1.18 1.18 1.18 4.42 60,000
850.00 425.00 Transgrid 460.00 460.00 460.00 460.00 0.00 100
0.420 0.101 Unioil Res. & Hldgs 0.2490 0.2480 0.2480 0.2480 (0.40) 200,000
0.620 0.082 Wellex Industries 0.3200 0.3250 0.3100 0.3250 1.56 210,000
0.980 0.380 Zeus Holdings 0.405 0.400 0.400 0.400 (1.23) 210,000
P R O P E R T Y
3.34 1.70 A. Brown Co., Inc. 3.00 3.03 3.00 3.03 1.00 32,000
0.83 0.42 Araneta Prop À 0.600 0.600 0.600 0.600 0.00 1,000
0.195 0.150 Arthaland Corp. 0.168 0.170 0.170 0.170 1.19 640,000
24.15 13.36 Ayala Land `B 22.15 22.95 22.30 22.95 3.61 10,181,000 3,903,020.00
5.62 3.08 Belle Corp. À 4.85 4.95 4.85 4.85 0.00 1,713,000 (2,505,460.00)
9.00 2.26 Cebu Holdings 5.50 5.45 5.37 5.37 (2.36) 19,500
2.85 1.35 Century Property 1.53 1.53 1.46 1.50 (1.96) 14,560,000 (1,381,600.00)
2.91 1.20 City & Land Dev. 2.45 2.47 2.40 2.47 0.82 112,000
0.092 0.060 Crown Equities Inc. 0.069 0.069 0.061 0.061 (11.59) 5,630,000
1.11 0.67 Cyber Bay Corp. 0.78 0.81 0.80 0.80 2.56 1,190,000 (80,000.00)
0.94 0.54 Empire East Land 0.840 0.850 0.830 0.840 0.00 23,115,000 418,000.00
3.80 2.90 Eton Properties 3.68 3.85 3.75 3.75 1.90 61,000
0.310 0.10 Ever Gotesco 0.205 0.205 0.200 0.205 0.00 2,650,000 14,160.00
2.74 1.63 Global-Estate 1.84 1.90 1.84 1.90 3.26 17,613,000 (22,439,240.00)
1.44 0.98 Filinvest Land,Inc. 1.30 1.33 1.30 1.32 1.54 15,827,000 1,888,290.00
2.14 0.65 Interport À 1.26 1.28 1.24 1.28 1.59 51,000
2.34 1.51 Megaworld Corp. 2.19 2.25 2.20 2.23 1.83 64,715,000 17,169,780.00
0.36 0.150 MRC Allied Ind. 0.1640 0.1650 0.1610 0.1640 0.00 2,870,000
0.990 0.089 Phil. Estates Corp. 0.6800 0.6800 0.6600 0.6800 0.00 2,075,000
0.67 0.41 Phil. Realty À 0.460 0.460 0.460 0.460 0.00 20,000
38.10 12.60 Phil. Tob. Flue Cur & Redry 18.00 26.50 20.00 25.70 42.78 31,200
19.94 10.00 Robinsons Land `B 18.32 18.40 18.22 18.36 0.22 10,789,700 (11,209,696.00)
7.71 2.51 Rockwell 3.41 3.50 3.40 3.40 (0.29) 292,000 10,420.00
2.85 1.81 Shang Properties Inc. 2.76 2.80 2.80 2.80 1.45 6,000
8.95 6.00 SM Development À 6.08 6.14 6.06 6.09 0.16 599,100 (612,874.00)
18.20 10.94 SM Prime Holdings 13.62 14.00 13.84 13.96 2.50 4,281,900 23,907,894.00
4.55 1.80 Starmalls 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 0.00 31,000
0.64 0.45 Suntrust Home Dev. Inc. 0.510 0.520 0.520 0.520 1.96 40,000
4.66 2.60 Vista Land & Lifescapes 4.460 4.640 4.460 4.580 2.69 14,680,000 1,951,260.00
S E R V I C E S
4.72 1.20 2GO Group 1.96 1.76 1.70 1.76 (10.20) 6,000
42.00 24.80 ABS-CBN 28.50 28.90 27.85 28.20 (1.05) 184,200
18.98 1.05 Acesite Hotel 1.43 1.43 1.37 1.42 (0.70) 118,000 (4,230.00)
0.78 0.45 APC Group, Inc. 0.610 0.630 0.630 0.630 3.28 3,000
10.92 7.30 Asian Terminals Inc. 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 0.00 20,000
102.80 4.45 Bloomberry 9.49 9.70 9.52 9.65 1.69 12,029,000 (51,601,009.00)
0.5300 0.1010 Boulevard Holdings 0.1550 0.1610 0.1560 0.1600 3.23 51,970,000
24.00 5.20 Calata Corp. 5.60 5.62 5.58 5.59 (0.18) 206,700 2,795.00
82.50 60.80 Cebu Air Inc. (5J) 60.00 60.80 59.40 59.50 (0.83) 391,930 8,454,437.00
9.70 5.44 DFNN Inc. 5.50 5.79 5.79 5.79 5.27 200 (1,158.00)
1750.00 800.00 FEUI 1000.00 1100.00 1050.00 1080.00 8.00 420
1270.00 831.00 Globe Telecom 1100.00 1139.00 1102.00 1109.00 0.82 57,065 (20,954,235.00)
11.00 6.18 GMA Network Inc. 9.75 9.80 9.63 9.80 0.51 135,300
77.00 43.40 I.C.T.S.I. 67.50 68.50 67.50 68.00 0.74 509,990 9,068,379.00
0.98 0.36 Information Capital Tech. 0.390 0.400 0.395 0.400 2.56 130,000
4.70 1.75 IP Converge 2.00 2.15 2.01 2.05 2.50 30,000
34.50 0.036 IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 0.025 0.025 0.023 0.025 0.00 73,200,000 20,500.00
3.87 1.00 IPVG Corp. 1.01 1.01 1.00 1.00 (0.99) 592,000 96,000.00
5.1900 2.550 ISM Communications 3.1000 3.0900 3.0300 3.0300 (2.26) 74,000 92,400.00
10.30 5.90 Leisure & Resorts 7.55 7.68 7.39 7.50 (0.66) 2,639,000 110.00
3.70 2.60 Liberty Telecom 2.75 2.69 2.69 2.69 (2.18) 26,000
3.96 2.70 Macroasia Corp. 2.80 2.90 2.90 2.90 3.57 1,000 (2,900.00)
0.84 0.57 Manila Bulletin 0.74 0.75 0.74 0.75 1.35 54,000
4.08 1.21 Manila Jockey 2.85 3.08 2.89 2.94 3.16 5,211,000 (444,320.00)
22.95 13.80 Pacic Online Sys. Corp. 13.98 14.10 13.98 14.06 0.57 26,800
8.58 5.35 PAL Holdings Inc. 7.65 7.72 7.65 7.70 0.65 56,800
3.39 1.05 Paxys Inc. 2.78 2.80 2.75 2.75 (1.08) 684,000 16,650.00
10.00 5.00 Phil. Racing Club 9.41 9.50 9.50 9.50 0.96 1,010,000 (9,500,000.00)
71.00 18.00 Phil. Seven Corp. 68.00 68.25 67.50 68.00 0.00 45,310 2,303,732.50
17.88 12.10 Philweb.Com Inc. 16.52 16.98 16.80 16.98 2.78 388,000 3,116,076.00
2886.00 2096.00 PLDT Common 2702.00 2798.00 2714.00 2750.00 1.78 145,905 121,918,070.00
0.39 0.25 PremiereHorizon 0.315 0.320 0.315 0.315 0.00 950,000
30.15 10.68 Puregold 29.30 29.80 29.40 29.60 1.02 2,132,500 33,351,915.00
3.30 2.42 Transpacic Broadcast 2.55 2.55 2.50 2.55 0.00 40,000 47,500.00
0.79 0.34 Waterfront Phils. 0.465 0.470 0.430 0.435 (6.45) 800,000 86,000.00
MINING & OIL
0.0083 0.0038 Abra Mining 0.0046 0.0047 0.0046 0.0047 2.17 232,000,000
6.20 3.01 Apex À 4.95 5.00 4.98 4.99 0.81 50,000
20.80 14.50 Atlas Cons. À 17.00 17.18 16.98 17.08 0.47 374,500 (503,646.00)
48.00 20.00 Atok-Big Wedge À 27.80 28.00 27.00 27.90 0.36 3,700 (75,365.00)
0.345 0.170 Basic Energy Corp. 0.260 0.265 0.255 0.255 (1.92) 1,910,000
29.00 19.98 Benguet Corp À 23.95 23.95 23.15 23.15 (3.34) 15,100
34.00 21.20 Benguet Corp `B 23.50 23.95 23.50 23.95 1.91 9,000
2.23 1.05 Century Peak Metals Hldgs 1.05 1.05 1.04 1.04 (0.95) 170,000
61.80 6.96 Dizon 22.25 24.90 22.35 22.35 0.45 704,400
1.21 0.50 Geograce Res. Phil. Inc. 0.56 0.57 0.56 0.56 0.00 5,706,000
1.81 1.0600 Lepanto À 1.130 1.130 1.110 1.120 (0.88) 5,751,000
2.070 1.0900 Lepanto `B 1.190 1.200 1.170 1.190 0.00 4,860,000 3,455,410.00
0.085 0.042 Manila Mining À 0.0600 0.0600 0.0580 0.0600 0.00 140,560,000
0.840 0.570 Manila Mining `B 0.0610 0.0600 0.0580 0.0590 (3.28) 57,730,000 117,600.00
36.50 15.04 Nickelasia 17.18 17.28 17.18 17.20 0.12 1,516,000 5,519,552.00
12.84 2.91 Nihao Mineral Resources 7.15 7.58 7.14 7.14 (0.14) 1,626,800 (624,540.00)
1.100 0.008 Omico 0.6600 0.6800 0.6800 0.6800 3.03 50,000
8.40 2.99 Oriental Peninsula Res. 4.480 4.600 4.400 4.470 (0.22) 957,000
0.032 0.014 Oriental Pet. À 0.0170 0.0180 0.0170 0.0180 5.88 1,300,000
0.033 0.014 Oriental Pet. `B 0.0190 0.0180 0.0180 0.0180 (5.26) 10,000,000
7.05 5.10 Petroenergy Res. Corp. 5.96 5.96 5.96 5.96 0.00 10,000
28.25 18.40 Philex À 18.76 18.82 17.14 17.20 (8.32) 6,643,400 16,542,684.00
48.00 3.00 PhilexPetroleum 32.50 33.00 32.00 33.00 1.54 220,000 3,902,360.00
0.062 0.017 Philodrill Corp. À 0.048 0.048 0.047 0.048 0.00 522,100,000 23,500.00
257.80 161.10 Semirara Corp. 220.00 220.00 217.80 219.00 (0.45) 148,970 (3,826,734.00)
0.029 0.015 United Paragon 0.0150 0.0150 0.0150 0.0150 0.00 2,000,000
PREFERRED
50.00 23.05 ABS-CBN Holdings Corp. 28.05 28.60 27.60 28.00 (0.18) 1,517,800 (18,609,150.00)
580.00 535.00 Ayala Corp. Pref À 545.00 545.00 541.00 545.00 0.00 7,590
103.50 100.00 First Gen G 103.50 103.10 103.10 103.10 (0.39) 500
11.02 6.00 GMA Holdings Inc. 9.69 9.70 9.60 9.70 0.10 310,000
116.70 108.90 PCOR-Preferred 108.50 108.20 108.00 108.10 (0.37) 3,910
1050.00 1000.00 SMPFC Preferred 1013.00 1013.00 1012.00 1012.00 (0.10) 1,495
WARRANTS & BONDS
1.31 0.62 Megaworld Corp. Warrants 1.20 1.27 1.17 1.23 2.50 4,613,000 566,250.00
0.210 0.00 Omico Corp. Warrant 0.0300 0.0290 0.0160 0.0160 (46.67) 2,700,000
Coal Asia gets clearance for IPO
CebuPac adding two new routes
By Jenniffer B. Austria
THE Securities and Exchange
Commission en banc has
approved the P800-million
initial public offering of coal
miner Coal Asia Holdings Inc.
Documents obtained from
the SEC showed the company
would offer 800 million shares
at P1 per share.
Coal Asia tapped Abacus
Capital and Investment Corp. as
the underwriter for the offering
slated by the fourth quarter.
The company will use the
proceeds from the offering to
develop and explore its coal
mining projects in Mindanao.
Coal Asia Holdings is the
parent company of Titan Mining
and Energy Corp., which
owns mining exploration and
development rights in Davao
Oriental and Zamboanga-
Sibugay.
Studies made on the two
mining areas showed combined
coal resources of 123.1 million
metric tons.
A preliminary feasibility
study of a small area covering
the 214-hectare site in Old
Macopa and Bactinan in Davao
Oriental found it containing
coal reserves yield factor of
28,000 tons per hectare, with
an estimated market value of
P23.8 billion.
An independent valuation
report also prepared by
Multinational Investment
Bancorporation dated May
2012 also valued Titans coal
assets at P12.5 billion.
The coal company said
its mine developments were
on-track with commercial
production of 600,000 metric
tons of high grade coal per year
scheduled 2014.
The company said it bagged
off-take contracts both here
and abroad. It is also eyeing
India, Japan, Taiwan, Hong
Kong and Vietnam as possible
export markets.
Coal Asia said with their
higher-grade coal sources
located in Mindanao, it was in
the right place at the right time,
with the expected explosion in
demand by large-scale energy
producers seeking to establish
coal-red energy generating
plants as well as by cement
plants already in place in the
region.
Coal Asia will be the fourth
company to list in the stock
exchange this year, after Ty-
led GT Capital Holdings Inc.,
Gotianun-owned East West
Banking Corp., and farm
company Calaca Corp.
STOCKS rebounded Friday from a three-day
slump, as the market reacted positively on
news that the European Central Bank policy
makers agreed to lower the borrowing costs
of debt laden Spain and Italy.
The Philippine Stock
Exchange index, the 30-company
benchmark, rose 51 points, or 1
percent, to close at 5,201.32, as
trading value reached P5.2 billion.
Five of the six counters ended in
the green, with only the mining
and oil sector posting losses.
The heavier index, representing
all shares, also advanced 25
points, or 0.8 percent, to 3,454.83,
as gainers led losers, 104 to 51,
with 43 issues unchanged.
Property companies led
gainers Friday, on expectations
remittances will grow as
European policy makers take
steps to ease the regions debt
crisis, spurring spending and
home purchases in the Southeast
Asian nation.
Megaworld Corp., a builder
of residential towers, rose 1.8
percent to P2.23 while Ayala
Land Inc., the nations biggest
developer of homes and ofces,
gained 3.6 percent.
Philex Mining Corp. dived
8.3 percent to P7.20, as the
companys mining operations
remained closed, following the
tailings leak last month.
Meanwhile, the Philippine peso
completed its biggest weekly
gain in almost three months
and government bonds rose as
speculation the US plans a third
round of quantitative easing
bolstered demand for higher-
yielding assets.
The peso rose 1 percent this
week to 41.67 per dollar in
Manila and advanced 0.5 percent
today. The currency appreciated
5.2 percent this year, the best
performance among Asias 11
most-active currencies, data
compiled by Bloomberg showed.
One-month implied volatility, a
measure of exchange-rate swings
used to price options, dropped 40
basis points to 5.7 percent this
week and was unchanged today.
QE3 denitely propped up
Asian currencies, said Enrico
Tanuwidjaja, a regional economist
at Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Plc in Singapore. The market
expectation that the policy rate
will be kept unchanged because
of strong growth and ination
picking up supports the peso.
Asian stock markets also closed
higher Friday, after the European
Central Bank announced it was
creating a new bond-buying
program under which the bank
will buy government bonds
with maturities of one to three
years. There will be no limits to
the amount of purchases it can
make.
The programthe ECBs
most ambitious yet in efforts
to halt Europes nancial
crisisis intended to keep the
short-term borrowing rates
of countries such as Italy and
Spain at manageable levels,
giving them time to enact
debt reduction measures and
economic reforms.
Japans Nikkei 225 index
surged 2 percent to 8,850.49.
Hong Kongs Hang Seng
jumped 2.4 percent to 19,663.92
and South Koreas Kospi bolted
up 2.4 percent to 1,926.42.
Australias S&P/ASX 200
rose 0.2 percent to 4,322.30.
Benchmarks in Singapore,
Taiwan, Indonesia, New
Zealand and Thailand also rose.
Mainland Chinese shares
soared. The benchmark
Shanghai composite index
jumped 4.2 percent to 2,138.02
while the smaller Shenzhen
Composite Index added 4.2
percent to 895.27.
With Bloomberg, AP
By Lailany P. Gomez
THE Civil Aeronautics Board has approved
the application of Cebu Air Inc., operator of
budget carrier Cebu Pacific, to impose fuel
surcharges in its two regional flights from its
hub in Cebu.
Document from the CAB showed Cebu Pacic
was seeking a $30 fuel surcharge on passenger
tickets to and from Cebu-Kualu Lumpur, Malaysia
and $35 to and from Cebu-Bangkok, Thailand.
A fuel surcharge is added to each ticket to offset
increases in jet fuel prices, an airlines highest
expense after labor. Jet fuel accounts for more than
a third of the operating cost per passenger.
Cebu Pacic is set to begin ights twice weekly
from Cebu to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur on Dec.
8 and Dec. 9, respectively.
We are proud to launch two new international
services from our Cebu hub. We look forward
to providing our services to foreign tourists and
overseas Filipino workers and ultimately boosting
trade and tourism between Cebu, Thailand and
Malaysia, said Cebu Pacic vice president
Candice Iyog.
Cebu Pacic held a seat sale for the two
destinations for P888 for travel from Dec. 8, 2012
to Feb. 28, 2013.
The carrier had own more than 60 million
passengers in the last years to 32 domestic and 19
international destinations. It currently operates 10
Airbus A319, 21 Airbus A320 and eight ATR-72
500 aircraft.
The airline expects to take delivery of 21 more
Airbus A320 and 30 Airbus A321neo aircraft
orders until 2021.
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
Caraga, Region XIII
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Butuan City District Engineering Ofce
Butuan City
I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
(MST-Sept. 8, 2012)
The Bids & Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH -Butuan City District
Engineering Ofce, Butuan City through the INFRA FY-2012 invites contractors to bid
for the aforementioned project(s):
1. Contract ID: 12ND0058
Contract Name: Improvement of Butuan-Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Road
(Agusan Misamis Oriental), KM. 1237+376 -KM.1238+000
Contract Location: KM. 1237+376 -KM. 1237+788, Butuan City
Brief Description: RRA
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php 4,647,974.36
Contract Duration: Thirty-two (32) Calendar days
Contract Name: Road Upgrading of Butuan City-Masao Port Road
KM.1250+(-162) KM.1250+188
Contract Location: KM.1250+(-162) -KM.1250+188.78, STA. 0+000 -STA.
0+052.30
Brief Description: RRP
Contract Duration: Fifty-two (52) Calendar days
Contract Name: Improvement of Daang Maharlika Road (Surigao-Agusan
Section) KM.1238+000 -KM. 1239+010
Contract Location: KM 1230+00 -1239 + 014, Butuan City
Brief Description: RRA
Contract Duration: Seventy-One (71) Calendar days
Contract Name: Upgrading of Butuan City-Masao Port Road, Masao
Tourism Destination, Butuan City
Contract Location: 0+052.30 -1+653.30, Butuan City
Brief Description: RRP
Contract Duration: One Hundred Ten (110) Calendar days
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised
IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected
at the opening of bid. To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent
(LO), purchase bid documents through their Authorized Representative to the Offce of
the BACTWG/Secretariat of this offce 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 10% of
ABC. The BAC will use non discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check, 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 LOs. The
DPWHPOCW 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.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents From Sept. 5, 2012 to Sept. 25, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference Sept. 13, 2012 @ 2:00 P.M.
3. Receipt of LOI from Prospective
Bidders
Deadline: Sept. 19, 2012 @ 12:00 Noon
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: September 25, 2012 @ 2:00 P.M.
5. Opening of Bids September 25, 2012 @ 2:15 P.M.
The BAC will issue copies of Bidding Documents (BD's) at DPWH-Butuan City
District Engineering Ofce, Butuan City, upon payment of a non-refundable fee as
Listed below.
Project ABC Bid Documents
P 1,000,000.00 and below P 1,000.00/project
above P 1M up to P 5M P 5,000.00/project
Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the DPWH website, if available.
Prospective Bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said
fees on or before the submission of bid Documents. The Pre-Bid Conference shall be open
only to interested parties who have purchased the BD's. Bids must be accompanied by a
bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section27.2 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 a copy of the CRC.
The second envelope shall contain the fnancial components of the bid. Contract will
be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid (LCRB) as determine in the bid
evaluation and post qualifcation.
The DPWH -Butuan City District Engineering Ofce, Butuan City 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.) LEOPOLDO A. LOMONSOD
Engineer III
BAC-Chairman
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
sabela 4th District Engineering Offce
Quezon, San Isidro, Isabela
(MST-Sept. 8, 2012)
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH Isabela 4th District
Engineering Offce, through the Drainage/Protection Works (ABM-A-12-0006415),
invites contractors to bid for the aforementioned projects:

1 a Contract D No. :: 12BH 0068
b Name of Project and :: Construction of Calao East Flood Control
Project along Daang Maharlika Highway Sta
0+000 - Sta. 0 + 319, Calao East, Santiago
City
c location: ::
d Brief Description :: FHR-Flood Control/River Control
e Major Item of Work :: Gabions
f Approved Budget for the Contract :: P 15,889,248.54
g Duration, C.D. :: 180
h Cost of Bid Documents :: P 10,000.00
2 a Contract D No. :: 12BH 0069
b Name of Project and :: Construction of Ganano Flood Control Project
along Daang Maharlika Highway Sta 0+196 -
Sta. 0 + 350, Ipil, Echague, Isabela
c location: ::
d Brief Description :: FHR-Flood Control/River Control
e Major Item of Work :: Gabions
f Approved Budget for the Contract :: P 15,017,793.07
g Duration, C.D. :: 180
h Cost of Bid Documents :: P 10,000.00
Procurement shall 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 of at least 10% of ABC. The BAC
will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary
examination of bids.

Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration
to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline of receipt of LO. The
DPWH POCW Central Offce will only process contractor's applications for
registration with complete requirements, and issue the Contractor's Registration
Certifcate (CRC). Registration forms may be downlloaded at the DPWH website
www.dpwh.gov.ph.
Signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:

Deadline of Receipt of LOI September 13, 2012 4:00 P.M.
Issuance of Bid Documents September 6-25, 2012
Pre-Bid Conference September 12, 2012 2:00 P.M.
Deadline of Receipt of Bids September 25, 2012 11:00 A.M.
Opening of Bids September 25, 2012 1:00 P.M.

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BD's) at DPWH-sabela
4th DEO, Quezon, Isabela upon payment of non-refundable costs indicated above.
Prospective bidders may also download the BD's if available, from the DPWH
website. Prospective bidders that will download BD's from the website shall pay
the stated fees on or before the submission of their bid documents. The Pre-Bid
Conference shall be open only to interested parties who purchased the BD's. Bids
must be accompanied bya bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as
stated in Sec. 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 enveloipe shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall
include the eligibility regquirements. 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 4th DEO reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids
and to annul the bidding process anytime before contract award, without incurring
any liability to the affected bidders.

The BAC shall receive Letters of Intent (LOI) only of prospective bidders upon
presenting the copy of duly updated BRS accreditation of their asphalt plant.

(Sgd.) FERNANDO C. SALIM
BAC Chairman
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
We are inviting interested accredited / eligible bidders to bid for the Proposed Projects as follows:
1. Proposed UMAK Civil Engineering Works, located at 4th & 5th Floor level, Administration Bldg., J.
P. Rizal Extn., Makati City
P18,988,916.00
2. Proposed Road Improvement of 31st Ave., 22nd Ave. Alley, 14th Ave. Zone 4, Alley (bet Masagana
& Mahinhin) & 14th Avenue Zone 2, located at Brgy. East Rembo, Makati City
P9,882.858.00
3. Proposed Road Improvement of 5th St. (Burgos St.) & 7th St. (Dagohoy St.), located at Brgy. West
Rembo, Makati City
P5,812,188.00
4. Proposed Road Improvement of Block 50-51 St. (portion only), Zamora St. (portion only) & Col. P.
Santos (portion only), Palawan St. (portion only), Makati Ave. (portion only), Palma St. Extn., San
Agustin St. & Cardona St., located at Brgy. South Cembo, Pitogo & Poblacion, Makati City
P18,124,943.00
5. Proposed Road Improvement of Davila St., located at Brgy. La Paz/Tejeros, Makati City
P14,919,832.00
6. Proposed Road mprovement of Batangas St. (portion only) & Zapote St., located at Brgy. San
Isidro & Sta Cruz/Olympia, Makati City
P26,064,100.00
7. Proposed Road Improvement of Lanzones Alley & Bonifacio Alley, Recto St., Hudyat St., Alley 13,
Lower Azucena Alley & Bougainvilla Extn., located at Brgy. Rizal & Pembo, Makati City
P7,442,612.00
8. Proposed Road Improvement of Caimito Alley, M. H. Del Pilar St. (portion only), Gomez St.,
(portion only) Calderon St., Lumbayao Alley (portion only) & Tindalo St., located at Brgy. Cembo,
South Cembo Poblacion & San Antonio, Makati City
P13,853,478.00
Interested parties may proceed to the Bids & Awards Conference Room, 9th FIoor, New Makati
City Hall Building located at J.P. Rizal Street corner F. Zobel Street, Brgy. Poblacion, Makati City for details
of the above projects.
Bid Documents will be available 1 (one) day after posting / publication of the above projects.
ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE
1. Pre-Bidding Conference at BAC Conference Room, 9th Floor September 18, 2012 (02:00 P.M.)
2. Opening of Bids at BAC Conference Room, 9th Floor October 02, 2012 (2:00 P.M.)
3. Bid Evaluation October 02 - 09, 2012
4. Post-Qualifcation October 09, 2012
5. Notice of Award October 16, 2012
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 (MST-Sept. 8, 2012)
(MST-Sept. 8, 2012)
PETITION NOTICE FOR PERMIT RENEWAL
PROPOSAL FOR THE RENEWAL OF THE PERMIT
FOR DIRECT USE AS FOOD AND FEED OR FOR PROCESSING
MR604 Corn
1. Name of Applicant: Syngenta Philippines, Inc.
2. Address/Telephone and 12th Flr, Two World Square
Facsimile Nos./Email Address 22 Upper McKinley Road
Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City
TEL: (02) 370 2100
FAX: (02) 856 9260
Email: jose.valmayor@syngenta.com
3. Name of Responsible Offcer/Authorized Representative:
Jose L. Valmayor, Commercial Unite Head
4. Description of Regulated Article for Direct Use
MR604 corn was genetically modifed using Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation. It contains
the mcry3A gene, a modifed version of a native cry3A gene, which is a member of a class of cry genes found in
Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis. The second gene, pmi is present as a selectable marker and encodes
the enzyme phosphomannose isomerase derived from Escherichia coli.
MR604 corn is a viable option for insect management in corn production areas in USAand Canada where rootworm
is a problem since the trait confers resistance to this destructive pest of corn.
5. Countries Where Regulated Article Has Been Approved, Its Uses and Year/s of Approval
Country Type of Approval Year of Approval
Argentina Food, Feed, cultivation 2012
Australia Food 2006
Belarus/Kazakstan Food 2011
Canada Food, Feed, Cultivation 2007
China Food, Feed, and Processing 2008
Colombia Food, Feed 2012
European Union Food and Feed 2009
Indonesia Food 2011
Japan Food, Feed, Environment 2007
Korea Food, Environment 2007 (Food); 2008 (Environment)
Mexico Food and Feed 2007
Philippines Food, Feed and Environment 2007
Russia Food, Feed 2007 (Food); 2008 (Feed)
South Africa Commodity Clearance 2011
Taiwan Food 2007
United States EPA, FDA, USDA 2006 (EPA; 2007 (FDA and USDA)
6. Narrative Explanation Why the Regulated Article s As Safe As ts Conventional Counterpart, ncluding Presence
or Absence of Any Adverse Effects
Nutritional and safety assessments conducted on MR604 showed that it is substantially equivalent to its conventional
counterpart, except for the added insect resistance trait. Genes were derived from organisms that are not known
to be sources of toxic/allergenic proteins. Like any other genes, introduced genes are stably inherited though
generations.
7. Summary of Experiences in Philippines on Regulated Article, Including Presence or Absence of Any Adverse Effects
There had been no reported adverse effects attributed to MR604 since it was approved for direct use for food,
feed and for processing.
8. Reasons Why a Renewal of the Existing Permit Should Be Granted
MR604 corn has the ability to resist damage against rootworm insects in countries where it is grown. The use of
this technology can reduce insecticide applications, thus, reducing cost of production and increasing grain yield
per unit areas. The Philippines is an importer of corn grains, it is necessary to secure renewal of biosafety permit
for direct use so as not to disrupt trade.
Further additional information on the proposed renewal of permit for direct use, please contact:
Jose L. Valmayor (Please see address above)
The public is hereby invited to submit their comments on the proposed renewal of permit for direct use, within ffteen (15)
days from the date of publication to:
THE DIRECTOR
Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI)
San Andres, Malate, Manila
Email address:bpibiotech@yahoo.com
Tele-fax No. : (02) 521 1080
Approved for Publication:
(SGD) Dr. CLARITO M. BARRON, CESO IV
Director, Bureau of Plant Industry
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B3
Medical BPOs on hiring spree
Guimaras wind farm set to begin
By Julito G. Rada
EMPLOYMENT in the healthcare
information management outsourcing
industry is expected to reach 43,000
positions by the end of this year,
according to the Healthcare Information
Management Association of the
Philippines.
The group reported that
in 2011 alone, some 24,700
individuals were hired in the
healthcare outsourcing sector
and that by 2016, the number was
expected to increase to 100,000.
It encouraged graduates of
medical-related courses to
take advantage of the growing
industry.
Increasing healthcare
spending is driving countries to
create health reforms that will not
only ensure additional coverage
to members but also introduce
technology solutions such as
electronic health records,
Total Transcriptions Solutions
managing director Myla Reyes
said in a statement.
These trends are now offering
a wide range of opportunities as
Yuchengco donation. Two more companies under the Yuchengco GroupEEI Corp. and
PetroEnergy Resources Corpnow support the Buhay Rizal values campaign and donated books
to two public schools. Shown above are (from left) EEI Corp.s assistant vice president Rodrigo Jesus
Mantaring, Rey Dizon, Butch Dado, national artist for literature Virgilio Almario, senior vice president
for administration Ferdinand Villafuerte, San Juan National High School principal Paz Depaudhon and
Education-San Juan Superintendent Lydia Abeja. Below shows (from left) PetroEnergys Gloria Datuin
and Arlene Villanueva, Almario, PetroEnergy president Milagros Reyes, Metro Manila Superintendent
Joselita Gutierrez and Nagpayong High School principal Florencia Laxamana.
By Alena Mae S. Flores
TRANS-ASIA Oil and Energy
Development Corp., a unit of
the Phinma Group, said it is
set to start construction of the
P6.3-billion Guimaras wind
farm project.
Trans-Asia said in a report
to the stock exchange it
would push through with
the construction of the 54-
megawatt wind farm project,
following the issuance of the
feed-in tariff for renewable
energy on July 27.
Construction is expected
to commence within the
year. Under the RE Law,
all qualified renewable
energy generators are
ensured priority dispatch
and payment via the FIT
scheme for a period of 20
years, Trans-Asia said.
Trans-Asia said it was
pursuing various wind energy
projects with combined
capacity of 350 MW, which
would make it one of the
largest wind developers in the
country.
Trans-Asia reported that
consolidated revenues in
the first half rose to P772.09
million from P469.16
million in the same period
last year.
The company posted a net
income of P220.44 million in
the January-June period, up
from just P129.67 million it
earned a year ago.
Tight power supply
conditions and stronger
demand, given higher outage
levels of large generating
plants in Luzon during peak
periods, pushed up the spot
market price of electricity in
the Luzon Grid, it said.
Trans-Asia is an end-to-
end energy company engaged
in oil and gas exploration
and development, power
generation and electricity
supply. The company
holds minority investments
in various companies
engaged in petroleum
exploration, development
and production.
It also owns and operates
various power generation
facilities and sells electricity.
well as challenges for healthcare
information management [HIM]
outsourcing rms, she said.
Early this year, Labor
Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-
Baldoz urged jobseekers with
background in the healthcare
profession to seek career
opportunities in healthcare
information management
outsourcing, considered one of
the fastest-growing sectors in the
IT-BPO industry.
The competitive salaries and
benets in the sector has made
healthcare BPO as a viable option
for the hundreds of thousands
of unemployed nurses in the
country.
HIM outsourcing involves
organization, maintenance,
documentation and analytics of
health information in order to
facilitate real-time healthcare
delivery and critical health-
related decision making for
multiple purposes across diverse
organizations, settings and
disciplines.
Medical institutions are saving
on costs and showing better
efciency in their services after
outsourcing these requirements.
Himaop, a non-stock, non-
prot organization that aims
to make the Philippines the
leading destination for healthcare
outsourcing, conducts career
development programs and
workshops alongside government
agencies to help boost the talent
pool for this sector.
Himaop will gather indus-
try stakeholders for the 3
rd

Healthcare Information Man-
agement Outsourcing Servic-
es Congress in November to
highlight career opportunities
and the enormous potential of
the sector.
Himaop works with the
Business Processing Association
of the Philippines, the
government, and academe to
integrate HIM services in nursing
curricula as a preparation for this
career path.
contract 53, which is part of two
other contracts covering about
20,000 square kilometers on-
and offshore areas in all.
Mindoro has the potential
reserves of oil and natural gas not
only renewable energy sources,
said Layug, who represented
Secretary Rene Almendras at the
groundbreaking of the Puerto
Galera wind farms rst phase.
Rep. Rodolfo Valencia expressed
surprise over Layugs update.
Mindoro can now compete
with other provinces because of the
discovery and the upcoming drilling
operation of natural gas, he said.
We have already identied
about 300 megawatts of renewable
energy sources, such as hydro,
wind, and geothermal.
The 48-MW Wind Energy
Power System in Barangay
Baclayan sits on a 1,296-hectare
site overlooking Verde Island
Passage.
It has three phases each costing
P2 billion and rated for 16MW
capacity.
Joining Layug and Valencia
at the ceremonies were Italian
Ambassador Luca Fornari,
Gov. Alfonso Umali, second
district Rep. Reynaldo Umali,
Mayor Hubbert Dolor, ofcials
of CMC Asia Inc. an Italian
power rm led by its chairman,
Armando de Rossi, also the
chief executive ofcer of the
Philippine Hybrid Energy
System Inc., project developer,
along with executives of Gamesa
Eolica S.L. Unipersonal, PHESI
chief operating ofcer Nicky
Villasenor, ofcers of Oriental
Mindoro Electric Cooperative
and wellwishers.
Puerto Galera wind farm
is a component of the Power
Development Program of
Oriental Mindoro supported
by the Provincial Development
Council.
With Alena Mae S. Flores
B4
Provinces
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Mindoro to tap natural gas
Forest
Lodge on
half-price
discount
Tourism pitches for peace in the south Kingking
warehouse
padlocked
Mamba pushes for Ninoy bridge completion
By Jessica M.Bacud
TUAOSecretary Manuel
Mamba said work on the Ninoy
Aquino Bridge here across the
Chico River is being hastened to
complete the project next year.
The Presidential Legislative
Liaison Ofcer said the infrastructure
at Barangay San Luis, Nauangan
here would help spur development
in other communties connecting
Kalinga, Calanasan in Apayao, to
Solsona, Ilocos Norte.
The opening of the road
network will surely boost the
economy not only in our townm
but also elsewhere, Mambo said.
Tuao Mayor William Mamba
said the stretch from Tuao-
Conner to Solsona would be
christened Cory Highway
after the late former President
Corazon Aquino.
Secretary Mamba said the
Maguiling project was stalled
during the Marcos regime because
of the insurgency problem as
an alternative was needed to the
Magatip bridge along the road
joining Cagayan to Ilocos Norte at
Pagudpud town.
Dedicated to the Predient
Benigno Aquino IIIs late father,
the 360-meter span is under the
jusrisdiction of the Cagayan 3rd
district offce of the Department
of Public Works and Highways.
Ninoy Aquino Bridge, formerly Maguiling bridge, is being rushed to
link up key provinces in the Ilocos, Cordillera and Cagayan Valley.
JESSICA M. BACUD
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
Region III
PAMPANGA 3
rd
DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE
Angeles City
Telephone Nos. (045) 323-5782 / 887-5249
The Department of Public Works and Highways Pampanga 3
rd
District Engineering
Offce, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to
bid for the following contract(s)
Contract ID: 12CIOO45
Contract Name: Upgrading/mprovement of Farm to Market Road
Contract Location: Sta.0+000 to Sta. 0+444 Brgy. Sta. Maria, Magalang,
Pampanga
Scope of Work: Upgrading/mprovement
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php 962,175.86
Contract Duration: 30 calendar days
Bidding Documents: Php 1,000.00
Contract Location: Sta.0+000 to Sta. 0+893 Brgy. San Miguel, Magalang,
Pampanga
Contract Location: Sta.0+000 to Sta. 0+356 Brgy. San Francisco, Magalang,
Pampanga
Contract Location: Sta.0+000 to Sta. 0+356 Brgy. San Vicente, Magalang,
Pampanga
Contract Location: Sta.0+000 to Sta. 0+444 Brgy. San Nicolas, Magalang,
Pampanga
Contract Location: Sta.0+000 to Sta. 0+356 Brgy. La paz, Magalang, Pampanga
Contract Location: Sta.0+000 to Sta. 0+444 Brgy. Mamatitang, Magalang,
Pampanga
Contract Location: Sta.0+000 to Sta. 0+534 Brgy. Cutud, Angeles City
Contract Name: mprovement/Channeling of Sta. Maria-Balitucan Creek
Contract Location: Magalang Pampanga
Scope of Work: mprovement/Channeling
Contract Name: mprovement/Channeling of San Roque Creek
Contract Location: Magalang Pampanga
Scope of Work: mprovement/Channeling
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 ntent (LO), purchase
bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with
DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative,
or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract,
(d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10
years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line
commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/
fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to
the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline of the receipt of LO. The DPWH
POCW-Central Offce will only process contractors' 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.
Prospective bidders shall submit their accomplished LOs and obtain the results of
the eligibility check at the same address.

The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. ssuance of Bidding Documents From Sept. 5 Sept. 24, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference September 13, 2012 10:00 a.m
3. Receipt of Bids Deadline: Sept. 24, 2012 1:30 P.M
4. Opening of Bids Sept. 24, 2012 2:00 P.M
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BD's) at Pampanga 3
rd
District
Engineering Offce, San Francisco St., Brgy. Pampang, Angeles City.
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 RR.
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
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 Pampanga 3
rd
District Engineering
Offce reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bid and to annul the bidding
process anytime before Contract award, without incurring any liability to the affected
bidders.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) CARMELITA C. ROMERO
BAC Chairman
(MST-Sept. 8, 2012)
THE Mines and Geosciences
Bureau hase ordered the
sealing of a warehouse
in Lanang, Davao City,
containing drill core samples
owned by Nationwide
Development Corporation
to ensure their safety and
integrity.
The samples --taken from
Nadecors mining site under
MPSA 009-92XI covering
1,656 hectares --are needed to
determine the mineral value
of the Kingking mine site,
said Jose de Jesus, Nadecor
president.
Under its agreements with
Mitsubishi, Benguet Corp.
and Echo Bay, Nadecor drilled
276 holes with an aggregate
length of 89,900 meters.
After an inventory of the
samples, the premises were
sealed last July 30 in the
presence of Nadecor and
bureau ofcials following the
grant of a custody order on
July 27.
The mining site has an
estimated gold deposits of
10.3 million ounces and
copper deposits of 5.4 billion
pounds.
It is located in Barangay
Kingking, Pantukan town,
Compostela Valley, 92
kilometers northeast of Davao
City.
TRAVEL executives will hold
next month Tourism: A Vehicle
for Peace in Zamboanga del
Norte to discuss the sectors
role in uplifting the image of the
conicted regions in Mindanao
to boost visitor arrivals.
President Miguel Sison, of the
Association of Tourism Ofcers
in the Philippines, said calm
and stability in the south would
enable the industry to optimise
revenue, employment and
goodwill.
ATOP is the national organization
of provincial, municipal, tourism
ofcers, and local executives
committees aiming to promote
domestic travel.
Sison said Mindanao was
chosen for being long hailed
as Land of Promise because
of its vast area and untapped
resources.
This will be an opportunity to
bring to fore ne beaches, agro-
industrial sites, Subanen tribal
communities, and enchanting
waterfalls which will be visited
during the participants community
immersion, he said in a statement.
Keynoting the event on
October 2 to 4 is Sen. Edgardo
Angara joined by Secretary
Luwalhati Antonio, Mindanao
Development Authority
chairman, who will speak on the
the southern travel agenda.
Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr.
will discuss the national tourism
startegy and the industry as a
driver of the economy.
Other topics are peace in the
context of history, culture and
heritage; world view on defense,
diplomacy and development on
Philippine Tourism; and media
perspective in promoting peace
through tourism.
Concluding the three-day
conference is the awards night
which will recognize the best
tourism practices, cultural
events, and tourism ofcers.
Negros residents get land titles
AT LEAST 98 residents of two
villages in Murcia, Negros
Occidental, were issued free
patents by the local ofce of the
Department of Environment and
Natural Resources.
Mayor Andrew Montelibano
and Joan Nathaniel Genrangaya,
Community Environment and
Natural Resources Ofcer for
Bacolod City led the distribution of
the titles, covering three hectares.
According to Genrangaya, 30
free patents awarded in Barangay
Cansilayan and Barangay
Buenavista for 8,609 square
meters and 68 patents for 2.038
ha. respectively, brought to 135
the total number of free patents
distributed in the municipality of
Murcia this year.
Last February 14, some 37
residential free patents were
also distributed in Barangay
Cansilayan by the DENR under
its Handog Titulo Program.
Montelibano thanked ofcials
and employees of the CENRO
for processing the titles, which
according to him, is part of his
dream to leave a legacy to the
people of Murcia.
Othel V. Campos
By Robert A. Evora
PUERTO GALERAAn oil rm starts
drilling natural gas in southern Mindoro
next year, the Department of Energy said
on Friday.
Undersecretary Jose Layug
said the seismic survey is
expected to be completed on or
before December.
Drilling will follow in early
2013, he said. The 2D survey
was undertaken by Pitkion
Petroleum Plc. on its service
By Dexter A. See

BAGUIO CITYForest
Lodge in Camp John Hay
opens its doors to guests for up
to 50 percent discount on room
rates, an executive said.
Its business as usual, said
Aredo Yiguez, executive
vice president of the Camp
John Hay Development Corp.,
said, adding that operations
are gearing up for the holiday
season with its inow of
foreign and local visitors.
Inside the 247-hectare John
Hay Special Economic Zone,
Forest Lodge s a 208-room
4-storey hotel right below
The Manor Hotel, another
sought after facility in the
former American base.
Faithful to its name that
denotes being in the woods,
the Lodge is nestled in a pine
overgowth kept intact because
it forms part of the citys
watershed.
Nature lovers can take time
to bask in romantic sunsets and
indulge in a casual stroll along
quiet, tree-lined roads, said
a guest, remarking about the
place.
Robert John Sobrepena,
chairman of the CJHDevco,
said the Lodge is timed for
the growing number of people
coming up to the city through
out the year.
We are committed to
put up at least 1,000 hotel
rooms, he said, adding that
the latest hotel took a while
to complete.
Mayor Mauricio Domogan
welcomed the Lodges opening
as another establishment that
will contribute immensely to
citys coffers.
Unanimous choices. Vice President Jejomar Binay (second from left) is joined by United Nationalist
Alliance candidates in Iloilo for next years polls (from left) are Rep. Ferjenel Biron, newspaper publisher
Rommel Ynion, and former lawmaker Rolex Suplico. The three Ilonggo leaders are seeking local post as
governor, mayor and vice governor, respectively. JUN DAVID

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