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SC speeds up trial in PHL’s worst massacre case

Countdown to the 4th year memorial of Ampatuan massacre at Boy Scouts Circle, located at Tomas Morato and Timog Avenues, Quezon City, prior to the November 23 commemoration. Photo posted by Sonny Fernandez, Head Writer/Executive Producer at ABS-CBN Global, on his Facebook Page.

Aquino to show country’s resilience to calamities in Tokyo summit MANILA, Dec 12 (Mabuhay) – President Benigno S. Aquino III said his attendance to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)Japan Commemorative Summit in Tokyo, Japan will provide him an opportunity to promote the Philippines’ resilience to calamities. In his departure speech at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 2 in Pasay

City on Thursday, the Chief Executive said he also wants to show the country’s gratitude to Japan for its support and encouragement extended to the Philippines in the aftermath of super typhoon “Yolanda” (internationally known as Haiyan). “Tungkulin nating daluhan ito bilang kasapi ng ASEAN, at bilang isa sa malalapit na kaalyado See RESILIENCE, page 10

MANILA, December 10, 2013 (AFP) – The Philippine Supreme Court announced steps Tuesday to speed up the trial of members of a powerful clan accused of murdering 58 people in the country’s worst political massacre. Four years after the shootings in the southern province of Maguindanao, there are concerns that it could take years to finish the trial of 108 detained suspects led by senior members of the Ampatuan political clan. Another 88 suspects are still at large. “At the rate we were going it would have taken 16 years to fully hear the Maguindanao massacre case,” Gilbert Andres, a lawyer for a group of victims’ relatives, told AFP, welcoming the Supreme Court announcement. Maguindanao’s provincial kingpin, Andal Ampatuan Snr, two sons and several family members are on trial for the November 2009 murder of 58 victims -- 32 journalists as well as relatives of their local political rival. The Muslim clan allegedly ordered the massacre to stop the rival, Esmael Mangudadatu, from running against one of its members for the governorship of Maguindanao, a poor farming province. A Supreme Court resolution

Tuesday said it will now allow state witnesses to submit written testimony to the lower court handling the case, so that they will only have to take the stand to answer questions by defence lawyers. It will also instruct the lower court to pass verdicts on each defendant once all the evidence against him has been heard, instead of waiting for all the evidence against all the accused to be presented. The Supreme Court said it will also assign a third “assisting judge” on top of two others appointed earlier this year, so that presiding judge Jocelyn Reyes can concentrate on hearing the evidence. It said the third assisting judge will be instructed to handle a raft of motions, mainly filed by the defendants according to the lower court. Andres, the private prosecutor, said these motions had burdened Reyes and impeded her from hearing the actual murder cases. Marlo Guillano, the officer-incharge of Judge Reyes’ administrative office, said 104 of the 108 detained massacre suspects are now on trial. State prosecutors are still presenting their witnesses in twice-weekly hearings on the case, with a third day each week devoted to hearing motions and petitions.

Gloria Arroyo, Govs. Ejercito, Vilma Santos told to vacate posts MANILA, Dec 12 (Mabuhay) – The Commission on Elections is ordering several elected officials including former President and now Pampanga congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Laguna Governor Emilio Ramon “ER” Ejército and Batangas Governor Vilma Santos Recto to vacate their posts after failing to fully comply with the law to submit their statements of election contributions and expenditures (SOCE). In a press conference, Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes said the elected officials failed to comply with the law by either 1) failing to submit a SOCE 2) failing to sign the submitted SOCE or 3) submitting a signed SOCE that was not in the proper form. “Our communication is they have to vacate their positions in the meantime that they have not complied with the submission,” he told reporters. Brillantes said he is asking the Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to help implement the law. He said those who See VACATE POST, page 10

Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes said former President Gloria Arroyo, seen here with her husband Mike Arroyo (left), and the other elected officials failed to comply with the law by either 1) failing to submit a SOCE 2) failing to sign the submitted SOCE or 3) submitting a signed SOCE that was not in the proper form.

Governor Vilma Santos: I filed SOCE before deadline

Gov. Vilma Santos

MANILA, Dec 12 (Mabuhay) – Batangas Governor Vilma Santos Recto on Thursday said she is surprised by the Commission on Elections order asking her to vacate her post for failure to file her statement of election contributions and expenditures (SOCE). Recto said she filed her SOCE on June 6 before the Comelec’s deadline for submission. “Gusto ko lang sabihin na ako ay nag file. In fact, I have the certificate of compliance. Nauna pa kami nag file sa deadline, June 6 when I filed my SOCE. Nagulat lang po. We did not get any letter kung meron pong naging problema. We did not get any letter from

the Comelec. Kung nalaman namin na may problema, sana nagawan namin ng correction,” she said. She said she asked her lawyers to check why she was included in the Comelec order. She said she never had a complaint about her SOCE in previous elections. “The lawyer is taking care of it. Kung meron pagkakamali sa form or sa signature, I don’t think magiging problema naman,” she said. Recto is one of more than 400 officials being asked to vacate their posts for failure to submit their SOCEs on time. Brillantes said the elected officials failed to See VILMA SANTOS, page 10

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Justin Bieber brings cheer in typhoon-hit PHL BY IMELDA MAGBUTAY

TACLOBAN, December 10, 2013 (AFP) – Pop megastar Justin Bieber hugged, sang to, danced and played with young survivors of the Philippines’ deadliest typhoon Tuesday, bringing cheer to

the disaster zone amid an international relief effort. Bieber flew unannounced to the central city of Tacloban just over a month after it was devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan and sang Christmas carols to children at a

heavily damaged local school amid tight security.

“He sang ‘Holy Night’ for the children,” said Kate Donovan, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), one of three aid agencies expected to benefit from Bieber’s charity work. During the performance, a boy hopped on the improvised stage and danced to the 19-year-old Canadian superstar’s lead, an AFP reporter saw. Bieber also played basketball at an improvised sandlot court with some of the young boys, later hugging some of them and posing for photos. “Most touching trip of my life,” the singer said on Twitter, also describing the performance as the last stop and “the most important one” of his global “Believe” tour. “I saw the devastation first hand today. They need our help,” he added. Prior to visiting the Philippines, Bieber had posted a message on fund raising website Prizeo.com urging his millions of fans to donate to the victims of the typhoon, the strongest to ever hit land. “UNICEF is very pleased that Justin Bieber wanted to visit Tacloban, and stopped by City Central Elementary School which has suffered a great deal of structural damage,” UNICEF emergency coordinator

Angela Kearney said. “Justin brought a lot of joy, hope and cheer to the hundreds of children who were there,” she added. The money that would be raised would give child survivors access to education, vaccinations, clean water and sanitation, she said. Haiyan cut across the central Philippines on November 8, destroying scores of communities along its path. Tsunami-like storm surges it triggered also swallowed up many coastal areas, and were blamed for majority of the nearly 6,000 deaths. More than 1,700 others remain missing and about four million have been displaced. In his message on Prizeo, Bieber, one of the most followed persons on Twitter and best known for hit songs such as “Baby,” “Boyfriend” and “Beauty and a Beat”, said those donating to his cause could win a chance to personally see him record music next year. “In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, its victims in the Philippines need our help and they need it now,” the singer said in his appeal. Many other international celebrities have also lent their voices to the massive rehabilitation effort, including Grammyaward winning singer Alicia Keys who visited victims airlifted to Manila two weeks ago.

African wildlife at Calauit reserve hurt in typhoon: aid group MANILA, December 11, 2013 (AFP) – Giraffes and zebras were badly injured and left with almost no food when a deadly typhoon struck a Philippine island reserve for African wildlife, an international animal welfare group said Wednesday. Super Typhoon Haiyan felled many trees at the Calauit reserve when it raked across the central islands nearly five weeks ago, injuring some of its animals, said Birgit Leber of Vienna-based Four Paws International. “Eight or nine giraffes out of 21 need medical treatment,” Leber, a member of a Four Paws team who had gone on a relief mission to Calauit earlier this month told AFP by telephone. “Two or three zebras have not been eating very well, and one was seen walking strangely,” she said. The isolated 3,760-hectare (9,287-acre) island on the South China Sea was turned into a a wildlife reserve by the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1976. The current government has continued to promote the island to tourists as offering a glimpse of Africa in a remarkable tropical setting. Two of the reserve’s giraffes had open wounds above their front legs that were probably caused by falling trees, said Leber, an assistant to Four Paws’ director of project development. Four Paws learnt the injured animals had not gotten any medical attention at all, and it plans to send a second mission to Calauit in the next few days to treat them, Leber told AFP by telephone.

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MANILA, Dec 12 (Mabuhay) – Malacañang announced the resignation of Secretary Ricky Carandang which would take effect on December 31. President Aquino accepted the resignation of Carandang on Tuesday. Carandang, who heads the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO), gave no specific reason for his resignation and only said that he is returning to the private sector. “He just mentioned that he believes that he has done his job, that he would like to return to the private sector and that he will wander the ends of the earth seeking wisdom,” presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said. Undersecretary Manolo Quezon will oversee the operations of the PCDSPO following Carandang’s resignation. Lacierda said he is saddened by Carandang’s decision to leave government, adding that he has done a “commendable job” in working “behind the scenes and before the cameras to do his part to communicate the President’s message.”

MANILA, Dec 11 (PNA) – Following the killing of a radio broadcaster last Friday, a Senator on Wednesday pushed for measures to better look after the welfare of Filipino journalists. Sen. JV Ejercito condemned the gunning down of Michael Milo, a radio broadcaster, in Surigao del Sur, which happened just five days before the celebration of Human Rights Day. “As guardian of public interest, Filipino journalists should be accorded greater security to motivate and encourage them to perform their duties and responsibilities as informers of the people,” Ejercito said.

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Aquino thanked Carandang for his service, according to Lacierda. Lacierda could not say for sure if there would be more changes in the Palace’s communications team or whether perceived members of the so-called “Samar” group are staging a take over of the messaging team. “What other faction?” Lacierda said. “It’s all up to the President. What will happen to the communications group, it will depend on further discussions with the President.” “I have no idea what developments would be. It has yet to be discussed with the President.” Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Sonny Coloma has been sharing Lacierda’s and Valte’s duties of facing the Palace press corps in daily briefings. But Lacierda squelched rumors that he, along with deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte, are going to resign too. “I will return to the private sector in 2016. That’s the most definite date I can give you,” Lacierda said.(MNS)

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MANILA, December 11, 2013 (AFP) – Gunmen shot dead a broadcaster in the Philippines on Wednesday, police said, the third such fatal attack in two weeks in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists. Motorcycle-riding gunmen attacked Rogelio Butalib, 44 in the southern city of Tagum on Mindanao island, said regional police spokesman Chief Inspector Jed Clamor. “We are looking at the possibility that he was killed because of his profession,” Clamor told reporters. Butalib was a commentator for the local Radyo Natin station and may have made enemies because of his program that tackled various local issues, including corruption, Clamor said. However, the police official said the killing could have been politically motivated, because the victim was also elected to a hotly contested district post in October. Butalib was the third journalist shot and killed in the southernPhilippines in two weeks. Michael Diaz Milo, a talk show host for DXFM radio, was killed in the city of Butuan Friday, while broadcaster Joas Dignos was murdered in the city of Valencia on November 29. Unidentified gunmen shot and wounded a fourth radio journalist, Jonavin Villalbal, in the central city of Iloilo late Tuesday.

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Ejercito noted that the death of Milo is the 24th media man killed under the present administration. He said that measures should be taken urgently “because justice delayed boosts the confidence of hired gunmen to execute a crime.” He previously sought to protect Filipino journalists through a measure he filed when he was congressman as well as justice for the thirtyfour journalists slain during the Maguindanao massacre in Nov. 2009. “Four years have passed and yet no justice has been served,” he said. “I call on to the government to resolve this case before Pres. Aquino’s term ends.” (MNS)

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Kerry to tour typhoon-hit PHL WASHINGTON, December 9, 2013 (AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry is to make his first visit to the Philippines since taking office to see first-hand the damage left by last month’s typhoon, and will also tour Vietnam where he fought during the war. Kerry’s next trip from December 11 to 18 will start on Wednesday, his 70th birthday, when he flies to Israel and Ramallah. But he will then travel to Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, before heading to Manila, and the storm-hit city of Tacloban, a US official said Monday. Since becoming the top US diplomat in February, Kerry has dreamed of returning once again to the country where his political activism was forged in the horrors of

the Vietnam War. He had also planned to visit the Philippines back in October, but the trip had to be cancelled at the last minute as Tropical Storm Nari bore down on the Southeast Asian nation. “Within the Asia-Pacific rebalance, Southeast Asia holds special importance, and the secretary’s travel to Vietnam and the Philippines demonstrates the enduring US commitment... to the region,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. It will be Kerry’s fourth trip to Asia while in office. In Ho Chi Minh, the city once known as Saigon which fell to the communist North Vietnam forces in April 1975, Kerry will “underscore the growth of our bilateral

trade relationship and the empowering role of education.” He would also visit the Mekong Delta to show how “Americans and Vietnamese can work together on critical issues such as climate change and renewable energy,” Psaki said. During the war, Kerry served with the US Navy as a naval lieutenant and Swift Boat skipper patrolling the rivers of the Mekong Delta, for which he was decorated with three Purple Hearts. It was on his return that Kerry became a fierce campaigner against the war. “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” he agonized in a 1971 Senate

hearing. Kerry will also hold talks with senior Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi, before travelling on to long-time US ally the Philippines, still struggling to recover after Typhoon Hiayan hit on November 8. The typhoon swept through the nation’s central islands, leaving more than 7,500 dead or missing and devastating whole towns including popular hotels, beach resorts, surfing and dive sites. After talks in Manila, Kerry plans to tour the storm-hit city of Tacloban “to witness first-hand the recovery efforts that are taking place there and discuss how the United States to continue to contribute to the relief and reconstruction work,” Psaki said

DSWD chief denies reports of US, UK food donations sold in markets MANILA, Dec. 11 (Mabuhay) – Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Soliman on Wednesday vehemently denied reports circulating in the foreign media that donations from the US and UK consisting of MREs (meal-ready-to-eat) are being diverted and sold in markets. She said that this claim is preposterous as the two nations did not made any food donations to the Philippines. “Per DSWD’s records, the UK donations that have entered the country only include non-food items such as shelter boxes, communication equipment, solar lights, and blankets among others,” Soliman said during a briefing at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo,

Quezon City. She also added that these items are impossible to divert as all are consigned to non-government organizations and United Nations agencies except for the 504 tents which arrived in Manila last Nov. 25 and were consigned to the DSWD and another 576 relief tents and 224 shelter boxes which arrived in Cebu on Nov. 13 that are consigned to the DSWD-Field Office 7. Soliman said that consignees of the UK non-food aid received in Manila include: Plan International Philippines with 504 units of tents from Shelter Box Trust Limited, UK; Plan International Philippines with 54 packages of communication equipment (emergency equipment) from British Telecommunications PLC, UK; and.

Philippine Relief and Development Services (PHILRADS) with pallets of relief goods from Catalents CTS, Deeside UK. The other consignees of UK donations in Cebu are: International Organization for Migration with 6,000 high thermal synthetic blankets and 10,000 buckets from DFIDUK; International Organization for Migration with 3,510 solar light kits from DFID-UK; International Organization for Migration with 1,296 India Impex Solar Lanterns from DFID-UK; MSF, Haiyan Cyclone Response with seven packages of medicines from MSF Holland;

and Handicap International Cebu with 702 pieces of Impex Solar Lanterns from DFID-UK. Soliman also stressed that donations from the US in form of their aerial assets which consist of lift capability from their Lockheed C-130 “Hercules” cargo aircraft, V-22 “Osprey” tilt-rotor planes, UH-1H combat utility helicopters and personnel and assorted aircraft from the USS George Washington (CVN-73) battle group. These military personnel and aircraft were instrumental in the earlier stages of clearing and relief delivery operations. Soliman said high protein food stored in tetrapacks coming from the American government was distributed by the USAID to the affected people. (MNS)

Yolanda death toll tops 6,000 MANILA, December 13, 2013 (AFP) – The number of people dead after one of the world’s strongest typhoons struck the Philippines has risen above 6,000, the government said Friday, with nearly 2,000 others still missing. Five weeks after Super Typhoon Haiyan destroyed entire towns across the nation’s central islands, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council put the official death toll at 6,009, making it the Philippines’ deadliest recorded typhoon. The council said it is still looking for 1,779 missing people amid an international relief and rehabilitation effort covering a large devastated area about

the size of Portugal. The number of people confirmed dead or unaccounted for continues to rise steadily. On November 23, more than two weeks after the storm struck, officials put the death toll at 5,235 and listed 1,613 people as still missing. The latest official count puts Haiyan nearly on par with a 1976 tsunami in the southern Philippines, generated by a major undersea earthquake in the Moro Gulf, that left between 5,000 and 8,000 people dead. The Haiyan toll has already surpassed Tropical Storm Thelma, which unleashed floods that killed more than 5,100 people in the city of Ormoc in 1991, previously the country’s deadliest storm.

DOJ probe showed Leviste evaded sentence MANILA, Dec 11 prison, exposing the VIP (Mabuhay) – Justice Sectreatment being given to retary Leila de Lima now wealthy inmates. admits the Board of ParDe Lima said in grantdons and Parole may have ing Leviste’s parole, the overlooked a key issue BPP cited his acquitwhen it granted parole to tal from the evasion of former Batangas goversentence charged by a nor and convicted killer Makati court but failed to take into account the Antonio Leviste. report of the Department The 73-year-old Levof Justice fact-finding iste, who was convicted team that showed Leviste of homicide for the killing did evade his sentence. of his aide Rafael delas The justice chief has Alas in 2007, was realready submitted to leased from New Bilibid GOV. ANTONIO LEVISTE President Aquino the justifications of the Prison last Friday. Following a review ordered by Presi- BPP for its decision. She will submit to the President a dent Aquino, de Lima now says the BPP may have overlooked Leviste’s separate second memorandum on her views on Lecase of evasion of sentence when it granted viste’s parole.De Lima said it is up to the President if he wants to revoke the parole the parole. In 2011, Leviste was caught outside granted to the former governor. (MNS)

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Misuari left PHL on Dec. 7 – spokesperson MANILA, Dec 11 (Mabuhay) -– Another spokesperson of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) under Nur Misuari claimed that the founding chairman has already left the Philippines. Rev. Absalom Cerveza said Misuari left for Africa last December 7, but he could not confirm whether the latter made it to the Republic of Guinea, as earlier claimed by another MNLF spokesperson Emmanuel Fontanilla, to attend the 40th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dec. 9 to 11. “Nung petsa 7 umalis siya. As to whether he made it to Africa, wala akong paraan upang i-monitor. So we will wait until makatanggap tayo ng report mula doon

sa OIC,” Cerveza said. “I was supposed to join him pero there was a little problem in the logistics kaya di ako nakapunta.” The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Misuari was not seen at the OIC conference where the Philippine government is represented by Usec. Rafael Seguis. A warrant of arrest was earlier issued against Misuari because of his supposed role in the Zamboanga City siege that left more than 200 people dead. No bail was recommended for him and his passport was also cancelled. The Zamboanga City siege was supposed to be the MNLF’s response to the ongoing negotiations for the

Grant Gloria Arroyo Christmas furlough, ex-FG Mike asks Aquino MANILA, Dec 12 (Mabuhay) – Former First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo on Thursday appealed to President Benigno Aquino III to allow his wife, Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to spend the Christmas holidays with her family. Mr. Arroyo said he hoped Aquino will be compassionate considering the current health of the former Philippine leader. Mr. Arroyo said his wife was down to 82 pounds, and that doctors have recommended that she spend time with loved ones to help in her recuperation. Mrs. Arroyo is suffering from hypoparathyroidism and is under arrest at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City. Just last Wednesday, Malacañang reiterated that they will leave it up to the Sandiganbayan to decide on the matter. Earlier, Rep. Silvestre Bello, a House ally of Mrs. Arroyo, filed a resolution calling on the Sandiganbayan to grant the former President a Christmas leave from her hospital arrest. A total of 70 House

Metro traffic costs P140-B a year, dwarfs corruption losses

MANILA, Dec. 11 (Mabuhay) – The Red Advocates, a newly-formed multisectoral group of concerned citizens advocating “Respect Equals Discipline” on Philippine roads said the country loses a whopping P140 billion annually due to traffic in Metro Manila alone, a figure that dwarfs the amounts lost via the controversial pork barrel scam. “We share the country’s concern with the rampant misuse of public funds and understand why corruption is at center stage these days,” said Brian Galagnara, president of The Red Advocates. “But after seeing the success of concerned citizens and collective action in the abolition of the pork barrel, we feel it is time to mobilize efforts to address a problem that has an even greater negative economic impact than corruption: traffic.” Galagnara said the two separate studies quantified the financial impact of traffic in Metro Manila: a 1999 study by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) and a 2011 study by the University of the Philippines National Center for Transportation Studies (UP NCTS). “The findings of these studies are essentially the same. They peg the losses due to traffic at approximately P140 billion,” lamented Galagnara. “Direct losses are attributed to wasted gasoline, lost labor hours, employment of traffic aides and wasted electricity; the indirect losses refer to withdrawal of potential foreign investments, missed business opportunities and reduced capital inflow,” he explained.

members have expressed support to Bello’s resolution. Mrs. Arroyo is facing plunder charges in connection with the alleged misuse of P366-million Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) intelligence funds during her incumbency. Mr. Arroyo thanked the lawmakers supporting Bello’s resolution, but noted that the final decision rests on President Aquino. The Arroyos would want to spend the Christmas holidays with the former Philippine leader from Dec. 24 to Jan. 2, 2014. And while the Arroyo camp has yet to file a formal motion with the Sandiganbayan, the former First Gentleman said an executive furlough would mean the former president can spend Christmas with her family. Mr. Arroyo even reminded Aquino that Mrs. Arroyo herself granted former President and incumbent Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada a Christmas furlough when he [Estrada] was being detained on plunder charges. Meanwhile, Mr. Arroyo clarified that he is still allowed to sleep at the VMMC, contrary to earlier reports. But the former First Gentleman admitted that the arrangement is under negotiation, and he wasn’t sure until when he will be allowed to spend the night at VMMC. (MNS)

creation of the Bangsamoro region between the government and its breakaway group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The MNLF said the government must not turn its back on the ongoing review of the 1996 peace pact, believing that the MILF talks would leave them sidelined. The Armed Forces of the Philippines, meanwhile, insists the rebel leader is still in the country. AFP public affairs office chief Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala said this is based on a military intelligence report. He said Misuari was even sighted in Sulu only this December. Malacañang said it will verify with the Bureau of Immigration if Misuari had indeed left the country. (MNS)

Dinky chimes in on Roxas-Romualdez tiff MANILA, Dec 11 (Mabuhay) – Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman shed light on the letter requested by Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas to take over operations in typhoon-hit Tacloban. Soliman said the government follows a crisis management manual, which requires a formal resolution before national government can assume authority in a municipality. She cited the case of the Zamboanga City crisis where local officials passed a resolution to let national government take the reins amid the bloody conflict. “In the government work, you need to have formal documents because we use so many assets to bring in to a city and a region. I think that was what it was all about. As to the other aspects about it, as I said, I was not there,” she said. “At some point, it needed to be documented. I think that was the whole

intention,” she added. Soliman also clarified issues on food donations supposedly from the United Kingdom that are reportedly being sold in Manila. She said only tents from the UKbased aid group Shelterbox are consigned to the Department of Social Welfare and Development while the rest of the UK government’s donations are consigned to non-government organizations. Soliman also said they are looking into reports that the meals ready-to-eat (MREs) from the United States military are being sold in local stores. “I have asked for them to search the Facebook that was supposed to be exposing this and I wanted to find out where and how,” she said. “I don’t know where these MREs are coming from but they have not definitely been donated to us.” (MNS)

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tion to take is finally made, it would be based on what the Philippine government believes would be best for our country and our people,” he said. Cuisia noted the US Customs and Immigration Services (CIS) had said last Nov. 15 that certain immigration relief measures can be extended to Filipinos affected by Yolanda, on humanitarian grounds. Temporary Protected Status The USCIS said the US Secretary of Homeland Security may designate a country for TPS “due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately.” It said TPS may be [given] to eligible nationals of certain countries who are already in the US. The Secretary may designate a country for TPS due to the following temporary conditions including an “environmental disaster” such as earthquake or hurricane. During a designated period, TPS beneficiaries or those preliminarily eligible for TPS upon initial review of their cases are: • not removable from the United States • can obtain an employment authorization document (EAD) may be granted travel authorization But it also said TPS is a temporary benefit “that does not lead to lawful permanent resident status or give any other immigration status.” (MNS)

Aquino orders faster relief for calamitiy-affected areas MANILA, Dec 11 (Mabuhay) – President Benigno S. Aquino III ordered the Cabinet to speed up the restoration of the economic and social conditions of the calamities-affected areas with the release of 238.6 million pesos to the National Housing Authority (NHA) for the construction of permanent housing units for affected families, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma Jr. said. “The President directed the Cabinet yesterday to fast-track the restoration of the economic and social conditions of the affected areas, following the ‘build back better’ principle, with emphasis on attaining a higher degree of disaster resilience,” Coloma said during the regular press briefing in Malacanang on Wednesday. Coloma said the President emphasized the need to speed up the process of enabling the people in the affected areas to rebuild their homes and resume productive livelihood and employment activities in communities that are fortified and protected from the harsh impact of natural disasters. Budget Secretary Florencio Abad reported on Tuesday the release of P238.6 million to the NHA for the construction of permanent housing units for low and marginal-income families and informal settlers affected by typhoon Yolanda, Coloma said. “The Cabinet focused anew on the critical immediate actions that are now being implemented to usher in the recovery phase

while the relief phase is tapering off. The full plan will be presented next week in a forum with the country’s development partners,” Coloma said. “Socioeconomic Planning Arsenio Balisacan presented National Economic and Development Authority’s framework for the “phased, cumulative response” that defines the timelines for the “pathways to recovery.” The NHA is gearing up for the “short-term action” of providing permanent housing even while Department of Public Works and Highways is giving attention to the “critical immediate action,” which is to build temporary shelters and bunkhouses,” he said. During the briefing, the Communication Secretary presented the “Pathways to Recovery” chart that enumerates the salient aspects of “disaster impact,” “critical immediate actions” and “short and medium-term actions.” He said Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas also presented to President Aquino a report on the local government unit basic recovery requirements that form an integral part of the critical immediate actions. “This will cover 171 LGUs including 46 cities and 125 municipalities in the severely affected areas within a 50-kilometer radius of the path taken by typhoon Yolanda. Priority attention will be given to the reconstruction of municipal halls, public markets, and multi-purpose facilities that may also serve as temporary shelters and evacuation centers,” Coloma said.

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sa mga sinalanta,â&#x20AC;? he said. The President said he will meet the Filipinos in Japan to reassure them of the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full support for the calamity victims. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isa rin po sa espesyal nating sadya sa bansang Hapon ang pakikipagkita sa ating mga kababayan. Alam po nating mayroon silang mga agam-agam at pag-aalala dahil sa mga nagdaang kalamidad. Kaya naman sisiguruhin nating ginagawa ng gobyerno ang lahat ng ating makakaya upang mapabilis ang rehabilitasyon at pagbangon ng mga pamayanang pansamantalang pinabagsak ng trahedya,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gaya ng lagi, ipapamalas natin sa mundo ang kakayahan nating magkapitbisig at bumangon sa panahon ng pagsubok. Bilang responsableng kasamahan ng mga bansang nagsasalo sa isang mundo, patuloy tayong makikilahok sa pag-abot ng ating kolektibong adhikain: itaguyod ang isang daigdig kung saan bawat indibidwal at bawat bansa, ay may paggalang at pagmamalasakit sa isaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t isa,â&#x20AC;? Aquino said. (MNS)

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file their SOCEs now will be imposed administrative fines but will be allowed to reassume their posts after complying with the SOCE submission. Among those covered by the order are Arroyo, Ejercito, Recto, Muntinlupa Rep. Rodolfo Biazon, Pangasinan Gov. Amado Espino Jr., Ilocos Sur Governor Ryan Luis Singson, Ilocos Sur 1st District Rep. Ronald Singson and Pasay City Mayor Antonino Calixto. The Comelec First Division earlier

disqualified Ejercito for overspending in the 2013 elections. Ejercito has filed a motion for reconsideration over the poll bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling. In all, a total of 422 elected officials are covered by the Comelec order to vacate their posts. The list includes 4 governors, 1 vice-governor, 12 Sangguniang Panlalawigan, 3 mayors, 20 congressmen, 9 city vice-mayors, 47 Sangguniang Panglunsod, 23 municipal mayors, 26 municipal vicemayors and 277 Sangguniang Bayan. Brillantes said all winning senators in the May 2013 elections fully complied with the law on submission of SOCEs. (MNS)

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Being absent from work due to medical condition – Are employees protected? Terminating an emtion based on disability BANKRUPTCY ployee based on absences or medical condition. If due to medical condition a disabled employee is may be disability disunable to perform his crimination. This was the or her old duties, the subject of a recent jury employer must engage trial in Los Angeles: in a timely, good faith Raphael Vasquez, interactive process to 66 years old, was a bus determine if reasonable driver for the Los Angeaccommodation can be les County Metropolitan made for the employee. BY ATTY. LAWRENCE YANG Transportation Authority The employer must start (MTA). Mr. Vasquez was the interactive process if suffering from several the employee’s disability disabilities, such as gout, diabetes, cata- becomes known or obvious. racts, and a hip condition. His disabilities The type of reasonable accommodacaused him to miss several days of work. tion to be provided will depend on the MTA fired Mr. Vasquez claiming viola- employee’s specific restrictions and the tion of MTA’s attendance policy because he employer’s circumstances. Reasonable had incurred too many absences. However, accommodation may include offering partalmost all his absences were related to his time or modified work schedules to the disabilities. Half of the absences were in employee to accommodate the employee’s fact protected by law under the California disability. Family Rights Act and the Family Medical After a 9-day trial, the jury returned a Leave Act. verdict in favor of Mr. Vasquez, awardMr. Vasquez sued MTA claiming that he ing him $84,348 for past lost wages and was wrongfully terminated because of his benefits, $385,287 for future lost wages disabilities. He said MTA failed to engage and benefits, $185,000 for future medical in interactive process, and to reasonably expenses, $1,000,000 for past emotional accommodate his disability. MTA allegedly distress, and $250,000 for future emotional retaliated against him when he tried to seek distress. The total verdict against MTA was reasonable accommodation and ask for sick $1,904,635. leave. Because of the firing, Mr. Vasquez [C. Joe Sayas, Jr., Esq. is trial attorney could not pay for his son’s college and his who has obtained several million dollar son had to drop out. He eventually had to recoveries for his clients against insurance file bankruptcy and give up his house. He companies and employers. He has been suffered major depressive disorder. selected as a Super Lawyer by the Los MTA countered the employee violated Angeles Magazine, featured in the cover the employer’s attendance policy and was of Los Angeles Daily Journal’s Verdicts fired for incurring eight absences not cov- and Settlements, and is a member of the ered by the disability laws. MTA said it did Million Dollar-Advocates Forum. He is a not know that the employee was disabled, graduate of Georgetown University Law that he did not ask to engage in interactive Center Washington, D.C. and the Univerprocess, or request for accommodation. He sity of the Philippines. Visit his website at also did not file for disability leave on time. www.joesayaslaw.com or contact his office California law prohibits discrimina- at (818) 291-0088 for a no-cost inquiry.]

PHL bans worker deployment to Yemen MANILA, December 9, 2013 (AFP) – The Philippines Monday banned its citizens from taking up new jobs in Yemen, following a militant attack which killed dozens including seven Filipino medical workers. Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said in a statement the government was also offering to repatriate an estimated 1,000 other citizens already employed there as medical workers or construction labourers. He said the labour department would “impose a total deployment ban”, while Filipinos wishing to travel to Yemen for other purposes are advised to postpone

their trips. Saturday’s attack, mostly by Saudi militants, on Yemen’s defence ministry killed 56 people including the seven Filipinos. Twenty-nine Filipinos were wounded. The Philippines has condemned the violence as a “senseless and barbaric act” and called on the Yemeni government to hold the masterminds accountable. About one-tenth of the Philippines’ 100 million people work abroad, mainly as domestic helpers, labourers and seamen. Their remittances fuel the economy but many of them find their way into hostile environments.

BIR thumbs down higher tax exemption for 13th month pay MANILA, Dec 11 (Mabuhay) – A proposed law seeking to increase the tax exemption cap for the 13th month pay, Christmas bonus and other benefits will lead to billions of pesos in losses for the government, according to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares thumbed down the proposal of Senate president pro-tempore Ralph Recto which aims to raise the tax exemption for bonuses to P75,000 from the current P30,000. “Kung tataasan to whatever amount mababawasan ang buwis na makokolekta kung mababawas ay ilang bilyon, san natin kukinin ang ilang bilyon na yun? Dapat may panukalang batas

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Typhoon Haiyan brought the world to scramble to help the Philippines as the devastation became apparent. Countries and organizations lined up to offer help. The United Nations agencies in the Philippines, with the help of its humanitarian partners and other responders came to “assess the situation and responded rapidly with vital supplies.” The European Commission contributed millions of dollars in relief efforts, the U.S. Pacific Command deployed resources, Russia’s Emergency Emergencies Ministry offered to provide rescue personnel and a mobile hospital and list goes on and on with continuing effort to raise funds with realizing that the effort is in for a long haul. More than a month after the typhoon struck, reconstruction efforts have made tiny dents in effort to bring back normalcy. As we hear and learn of how people opened up their hearts to empathize in action with the victims in their own little and personal sacrificial ways, we are confronted with the issue of the heart that pertains on how “charitable people really are.” In the U.S., a new study shows that the “mystical talking point of richest individuals being the most generous, and worthy of tax breaks, is false.” Rich people give much less to charity that poor people.”

Those in the lower income bracket “donated twice as much of their discretionary income as compared to more wealthy individuals.” Philanthropy.com which tabulated data by following the donation patterns of every state concluded that “people who make between $50,000 and $75,000 a year donated 7.6% of their income to charity while those earning $100,000 donated only4.2% of their income.” The accumulated data that followed the donation patterns of every state revealed also that if the local population has 40% of people making $200,000 a year, donations dives to a measly 2.8%. The poor gives “till it hurts.” More than 92% of Americans participate at some level of charitable giving with low income families on the average giving away 4.5% of their earnings as compared with only 2.5 % among the middle class doing the same. The high-income families contribute 3% of their income. Among the reasons cited why people give include: they are asked to or a presented a giving opportunity; their innate compassion for those in need; they personally believe in the cause; they are affected by the cause and to give back to the community.

Agonizing wait for the missing in PHL wastelands BY KARL MALAKUNAS

TACLOBAN, December 10, 2013 (AFP) – In the grieving, grey wastelands that were once bustling towns on tropical Philippine islands, thousands of typhoon survivors are enduring an agonising wait of hope and denial for news of loved ones. Nearly 1,800 people are officially listed as missing after Super Typhoon Haiyan swept across the central Philippines just over a month ago, and not knowing what happened to them is for some relatives nearly as painful as confirmation that they died. Francis Batula, 35, buried his aunt and four other relatives in shallow graves outside their badly damaged home in the coastal city of Tacloban, where giant storm surges wiped out thousands of homes as well as schools, churches and other places serving as evacuation centers. His aunt was in her house facing the Pacific Ocean, along with her husband and daughter. The aunt’s body was found but not those of the other two, and Batula refuses to acknowledge that his uncle and cousin are likely dead. “We are still hoping that they are safe, but that they can’t contact us. Maybe there’s no (phone) signal where they are now,” Batula told AFP after walking past the graves of his five other relatives.

Batula said he and other relatives had paid fruitless visits to neighbouring communities to ask if people had seen his uncle and cousin, and expressed anger at authorities for not doing enough to search for the missing. “All they are doing is asking for the names of the missing people. They say they will report it. But when you ask them what they will do to help you find them, there is no concrete answer... they say it’s not a priority right now,” he said. The government insists it is doing all it can to find the missing but, like virtually all other aspects of the disaster, the magnitude of the response needed is overwhelming. The number of people confirmed killed is 5,936, and just the task of dealing with the dead has been too much to handle properly, with countless bodies having been dumped into mass graves without being properly identified. The typhoon on November 8 generated tsunami-like storm surges that powered through dozens of coastal communities on the islands of Leyte and Samar, and piles of rubble from destroyed homes still lie in the streets. As that debris is being cleared by cashfor-work clean-up crews of survivors and just a few bulldozers, bodies continue to be found.

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RSG Foundation’s ‘A Joyful Noise’ celebrates another year of giving \RSG Foundation’s “A singer named Chanel. LIGHTHOUSE Joyful Noise,” celebrated MaryAnn thanked another year of “giving,” everyone who came in held last week at the lobby support of her cause, of the Promenade Towers in including several sponthe heart of downtown Los sors and numerous volAngeles. unteers. She particularly thanked Roy Venturina As a yearly Christmas for his musical direction, fundraising concert to while Aaron Espiritu, benefit a “noche buena” one of the guests, was event to feed around 2.000 mesmerized by the “Filiindigent families in her hometown of San Miguel, BY MYRNA AQUITANIA pino entertainers who shared their music for Bulacan, RSG Foundation founder MaryAnn Ramos-Samadi, in- this benefit concert.” Malibu Music Festival awardee, Mavited a select group of around 100 guests, avid supporters, volunteers and singers for lou Toler sang her renditons of “the following sogs: Journey’s “Don’t Stop her fundraising event. According to MaryAnn, who came Believing,” “What’s Up” by Four None from humble beginnings, this yearly event Blondes and “Hotel California” by the gives her the fulfillment of a promise Eagles, then followed by former actressto “never forget where you came from.” turned singer, Jhoanna Garcia who belted As master of ceremonies, Bernardo out her Broadway-style rendition of “Big Bernardo welcomed all the guests and the Spender,” Bakit Iniwan Mo Ako,” “Pasko evening celebration was started with an Na” and “Baby Light My Fire.” Sultry singer Ivy Violan came out singinvocation by Pastor Nestor Paguio and the national hymn of “Bayang Magiliw,” ing “C’mon Baby Light My Fire,” and inwas sang by the angelic voice of a budding vited Gano coffee sponsor-singer Maricar Aquino wishes Bb. Pilipinas International bet good luck on pageant TOKYO, Japan, Dec 12 (Mabuhay) – President Benigno Aquino III wished Bb. Pilipinas International Bea Rose Santiago good luck as she is slated to compete in the Miss International Beauty Pageant to be held in this city on Tuesday. The 22-year-old Filipina beauty was one of the special guests during President Aquino’s meeting with the Filipino community at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center Thursday afternoon. “Iyong atin pong contestant sa Miss International, we really wish you good luck and hopefully I will have the same experience that I had in Bali, Indonesia – dahil marami doon nagsasabi ‘Oh! Philippines! Miss World!’,” the President said referring to the historic win of TV personality Megan Young as the first-ever Filipino crowned as Miss World. The Chief Executive led the entire Filipino nation in supporting Santiago who reportedly has become one of the early favourites in the pre-pageant activities.

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Cabasag and together they were delightfully applauded by all of us when they sang “What Kind of Fool Am I.” The evening’s surprise came on when Behzad Samadi sang the Elvis song “Blue Christmas” and “Silver Bells.” Behzad’s performance was certainly the highlight of the night. In her closing remarks and on her Facebook message, MaryAnn said: “to God be the glory, I am so thankful for another year of success in this fundraising event for the benefit of the indigent families in

my hometown of San Miguel, Bulacan.” Further she said, “allow me to thank all of you for continuously supporting my cause. This only shows that the spirit of “bayanihan” is in our hearts and it arrives in time of need and in a special season like Christmas.. To all of you who will remain nameless, who made this event a success, only God knows all of you. Thank you for the memorable evening and hope to see you all again next year for another meaningful event. God bless us all.”

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PHL gets $287-M loan package from Japan; Aquino, Abe witness notes signing MANILA, Dec 13 (Mabuhay) – President Benigno Aquino III and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday witnessed the Exchange of Notes on at least $287 million worth of loans for the Philippines signed in Tokyo. At a press conference in Manila, deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said Aquino attended a bilateral meeting hosted by Abe at the Prime Minister’s Official Residence in Japan, where the two heads of state saw the signing of the Exchanges of Notes on three specific terms: Post Disaster Stand-by Loan worth ¥ 10 billion ($ 100 Million) Multi-Role Response Vessels for the Philippine Coast Guard worth ¥18.732 billion ($ 187 Million) Revised route schedule on the Philippines-Japan Air Services Agreement. Also possibly discussed during the meeting were “regional issues” and other topics related to “cooperation for disaster management and reconstruction,” Valte said. Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Her-

nandez had earlier said the West Philippine Sea dispute may be tackled during the ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit. Before the bilateral meeting, Valte said Aquino attended a courtesy call of Chancellor Toshiaki Koso S.J. and President Tadashi Takizawa of Sophia University. The university, a Jesuit global learning institution, conferred on Aquino an honorary doctorate law degree for his “significant achievements in the promotion of good governance and peace in the Philippines, which have contributed to the remarkable economic development of the country in recent years.” In a speech during the event, Aquino related his power comes from the peoples. “People always ask: How did you manage to do this? “Time and again, I have answered: ‘Definitely, not by myself. I am merely the instrument of our people’s will.’ “In fact, the whole reason I am here is the people made a collective commitment – one in which I am playing my role, but will hopefully continue even after I step down

TOKYO, Japan – President Benigno S. Aquino III receives from Philippine Barrio Fiesta Executive Committee chairperson Jenavila Shigemizu and Olive Akatsu the ¥1million symbolic check for the super typhoon Yolanda victims in a ceremony during the meeting with the Filipino Community at the Large Hall, Arts Building, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in 3-1 Yoyogi Kamizono-cho, Shibuya-ku in Tokyo Japan on Thursday (December 12) at the sidelines of the ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit. Also in photo is Presidential Management Staff Head Julia Andrea Abad.

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Being absent from work due to medical condition – Are employees protected? he had incurred too many Terminating an emPROTECTING absences. However, alployee based on absences EMPLOYEE & most all his absences due to medical condition CONSUMER RIGHTS were related to his dismay be disability disabilities. Half of the crimination. This was the absences were in fact subject of a recent jury protected by law under trial in Los Angeles: the California Family Raphael Vasquez, Rights Act and the Fam66 years old, was a bus ily Medical Leave Act. driver for the Los AngeMr. Vasquez sued les County Metropolitan MTA claiming that he Transportation Authority was wrongfully termi(MTA). Mr. Vasquez was BY C. JOE SAYAS, JR. nated because of his dissuffering from several abilities. He said MTA disabilities, such as gout, diabetes, cataracts, and a hip condition. failed to engage in interactive process, and His disabilities caused him to miss several to reasonably accommodate his disability. MTA allegedly retaliated against him when days of work. MTA fired Mr. Vasquez claiming viola- he tried to seek reasonable accommodation of MTA’s attendance policy because tion and ask for sick leave. Because of

where he highlighted opportunities for Japanese businessmen in the Philippines. (MNS) the firing, Mr. Vasquez could not pay for his son’s college and his son had to drop out. He eventually had to file bankruptcy and give up his house. He suffered major depressive disorder. MTA countered the employee violated the employer’s attendance policy and was fired for incurring eight absences not covered by the disability laws. MTA said it did not know that the employee was disabled, that he did not ask to engage in interactive process, or request for accommodation. He also did not file for disability leave on time. California law prohibits discrimination based on disability or medical condition. If a disabled employee is unable to perform his or her old duties, the employer must engage in a timely, good faith interactive process to determine if reasonable accommodation can be made for the employee. The employer must start the interactive process if the employee’s disability becomes known or obvious. The type of reasonable accommodation to be provided will depend on the employee’s specific restrictions and the employer’s circumstances. Reasonable accommodation may include offering parttime or modified work schedules to the employee to accommodate the employee’s disability. After a 9-day trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of Mr. Vasquez, awarding him $84,348 for past lost wages and benefits, $385,287 for future lost wages and benefits, $185,000 for future medical expenses, $1,000,000 for past emotional distress, and $250,000 for future emotional distress. The total verdict against MTA was $1,904,635. [C. Joe Sayas, Jr., Esq. is trial attorney who has obtained several million dollar recoveries for his clients against insurance companies and employers. He has been selected as a Super Lawyer by the Los Angeles Magazine, featured in the cover of Los Angeles Daily Journal’s Verdicts and Settlements, and is a member of the Million Dollar-Advocates Forum. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center Washington, D.C. and the University of the Philippines. Visit his website at www.joesayaslaw.com or contact his office at (818) 291-0088 for a no-cost inquiry.]

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Consular Processing May Be Viable Solution After Adjustment Denial A few months ago, the A viable solution IMMIGRATION Department of Homeland that may be available, Q&A Security (DHS) resumed however, is Consular the processing of thouProcessing. Those that sands of adjustment of should consider Constatus applications that sular Processing are had been suspended for those whose adjustment several years. The DHS applications are denied is continuing to slowly because they worked work through these longwithout authorization BY ATTY. ALLISON pending applications in for more than 180 days. AQUINO accordance with the proMany individuals who gression in the priorfiled the adjustment apity dates. After many years of waiting, plications during this brief time in 2007 however, some applicants are now facing may not have been fully aware of the imdevastation upon hearing that their adjust- portance of ensuring that they continually ment application is denied. For some who renew their work visa and/or employment are denied, obtaining permanent residency authorization documents. If this is the only may still be possible through another pro- basis for the denial, the individual contincess known as Consular Processing. ues to be eligible for permanent residency, The reason for so many long-pending but only through Consular Processing. adjustment applications is because of the Consular Processing is the procedure elimination of the employment-based wait- for applying for a green card at a U.S. ing list for Skilled and Professional Work- Embassy overseas. An individual whose ers for a few weeks in July and August adjustment application is denied or an2007. As a result, thousands of individuals ticipates is going to be denied, should were allowed to file the adjustment and re- immediately proceed with the process in lated applications, such as the work permit order to minimize their length of time and advance parole applications, during outside the U.S. The process involves that time. Since so many individuals sub- the filing of a petition by the individual’s mitted adjustment applications, however, it sponsor requesting that the National Visa resulted in the retrogression of the priority Center (NVC) be notified of their approved date, thereby re-establishing another very Form I-130 Relative Petition or Form I-140 long waiting list. Only a few months ago Employment Petition, as applicable. Once did the waiting list get to a point where the the NVC has been notified of the approved DHS could start addressing the backlogged petition, it will then proceed with the proadjustment applications. cess for remitting the immigrant visa filing Unfortunately, for some, rather than fee and application. Upon completion, receiving their green card, they are receiv- the NVC will then coordinate with the aping a denial notice. More unfortunate is propriate U.S. Embassy overseas in order that the only ability to appeal the denial to schedule the immigrant visa interview. of an adjustment application is in removal The individual must accordingly go proceedings before an immigration judge. to the U.S. Embassy for the interview, as Although an individual can file a Motion well as the required medical examination, to Reconsider, this course of action is gen- in order to be granted the immigrant visa. erally unlikely to prevail and more often Departing the U.S., naturally, is the most than not simply a waste of valuable time concerning part of the process for most and money. individuals. Individuals who were denied

Filipinos in Japan held in high regard by employers TOKYO, Japan, Dec 13 (Mabuhay) – Thanks to their professionalism and caring spirit, some 220,000 Filipinos in Japan are held in very high regard by their Japanese and foreign employers here, Philippine Ambassador to Tokyo Manuel Lopez said Thursday. Lopez, who delivered the opening remarks at a gathering of the Filipino community at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center here, said the Filipinos here have earned the respect of their employers. “They are solid and united as a community. They have no serious rift or division,” he added. In his remarks, the ambassador noted 70 percent of crewmembers aboard Japanese ships are Filipinos, while Filipinos are

highly valued as caregivers. He cited as an example the case of some Filipino caregivers who refused to leave their wards during the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. On the other hand, he said many Filipinos have married Japanese nationals, and their Japanese-Filipino children serve as a bridge between the two peoples. Meanwhile, Lopez reiterated his call for Filipinos in Japan to attend the Simbang Gabi at the Meguro Catholic Church in Tokyo starting this Sunday. He said the collections from the Masses will go to the victims of super typhoon “Yolanda” (Haiyan) through the Department of Social Welfare and Development. (MNS)

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MANILA, Dec 11 (Mabuhay) -- The Red Cross warned against aid dependency in the Philippines Tuesday as the United Nations urged donors to double their assistance to millions of victims of the country’s deadliest-ever typhoon. The secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Bekele Geleta said that, a month after Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the islands, longer-term recovery needs should begin to take precedence over food aid. “There are still needs and gaps in delivery of food and emergency shelter materials to some areas, but we must look towards gradually reducing people’s dependency on food aid,” he said in a statement a day after completing a 72-hour visit to the disaster zone. Haiyan swept across the central Philippines on November 8, destroying scores of communities along its path. The typhoon brought with it tsunami-like storm surges, which swallowed up many coastal areas and were blamed for majority of the nearly 6,000 deaths. More than 1,700 people remain missing and about four million have been displaced. Geleta called for the stepping up of “cash for work and cash transfer programs that put money in people’s pockets”. In Geneva the spokesman for the UN disaster agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said Tuesday it was raising its appeal for the Philippines to $791 million to cover needs over 12 months. The figure was more than double the $348 million it had earlier sought to cover needs over six months, OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke told reporters. “The original plan was really urgent life-saving assistance with a relatively short timeline. Now we are looking at longerterm projects into rehabilitation and reconstruction,” he added. Taking into account the earlier aid appeal, the larger figure sought is now about 25 percent funded, Laerke said. Geleta said cash grant transfer programs to help 50,000 of the hardest-hit families are to be launched this month to provide a boost to people whose livelihoods have either been disrupted or destroyed by the storm. “Thousands have lost their income and this approach gives them dignity and allows them to set their own priorities,” he said. “They can buy what they need and at the same time, money being spent locally will help to revitalize the economy of the area.”(MNS)

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Pope Francis is Time person of the year BY JENNIE MATTHEW

NEW YORK, December 11, 2013 (AFP) - Time magazine named Pope Francis its person of the year on Wednesday, hailing the head of the Catholic Church as a new voice of global conscience since taking office in March. The 76-year-old, who rose from modest beginnings and has been praised for his down-to-earth approach, is the first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years, the first Latin American head of the Church and a leading voice for the dispossessed. He has taken on leadership of a 1.2-billion-strong Church beset by scandal and signs of deep internal dysfunction, but there are signs his popularity is revitalizing it. Time’s runner-up was NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who has been granted asylum in Russia and with whom Time published an exclusive interview Wednesday conducted over email. “For pulling the papacy out of the palace and into the streets, for committing the world’s largest church to confronting its deepest needs and for balancing judgment with mercy, Pope Francis is TIME’s 2013 Person of the Year,” said managing editor Nancy Gibbs. She said it was rare for a new figure on the world stage to capture so much attention so quickly – from the “young and old, faithful and cynical.” “He has placed himself at the very center of the central conversations of our time: about wealth and poverty, fairness and justice, transparency, moder-

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Last month, Supertyphoon Haiyan wrought unprecedented havoc when it rampaged across the Central Philippines, leaving almost 6,000 people dead and more than 27,000 injured. Haiyan also displaced more than 4 million people, affected 12 million others and left hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Experts say it will take several years before the affected areas could fully recover. The Philippine Embassy greatly appreciates the assistance extended by the United States Government and the American people, including the recent gesture that seeks to provide immigration relief for Filipinos currently in the US who may have been impacted by Haiyan. The Embassy welcomes the announcement made by the US Customs and Immigration Services on 15 November 2013 that certain immigration relief measures can be extended to Filipinos affected by the typhoon on humanitarian grounds. The Embassy is also aware of the strong interest of the Filipino Community, supported by members

nity, globalization, the role of women, the nature of marriage, the temptations of power,” said Gibbs. Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi welcomed the accolade, not because the pope sought fame but because it would give people hope. “It is a positive sign that one of the most prestigious acknowledgments in international media should be given to someone who preaches spiritual, religious and moral values in the world and speaks effectively in favour of peace and more justice,” he said. “If this draws women and men and gives them hope, the pope is happy.” The pope last week set up a committee to fight child sex abuse in the Catholic Church and give pastoral care to victims following a recommendation from a council of cardinals he asked to advise him. The scandals—many of them dating back decades—have scarred the Church worldwide and led to sharp drops in public confidence in countries such as Ireland and the United States. Snowden, the fugitive US intelligence leaker whose disclosures of classified documents has rattled Washington, said he had acted to force reforms and to direct the NSA to focus “its tremendous power toward developing new global technical standards that enforce robust end-to-end security.” “What we recoil against is not that such surveillance can theoretically occur, but that it was done without a majority of society even being aware it was possible,” he told Time.

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JOHANNESBURG, December 12, 2013 (AFP) – The South African government admitted Thursday it made a “mistake” in choosing a sign language interpreter for Nelson Mandela’s memorial who was later exposed as a fake by experts, and who claimed to being schizophrenic. Experts said Thamsanqa Jantjie’s signing for US President Barack Obama and other world leaders amounted to little more than “flapping his arms around,” prompting an apology from the government. Admitting Jantjie was “not a professional sign language interpreter,” junior minister for disabilities Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu said that “we can only apologize to the deaf community.” “Did a mistake happen? Yes,” said the deputy minister. “But I don’t think he was picked up from the street.” Bogopane-Zulu said he may have had problems with English or been tired. “I would not say he was fake,” she told AFP, while acknowledging “it was

bad” because he had failed to sign properly. Jantjie insists he is qualified and a “champion of sign language,” but said his behavior was down to a sudden attack of schizophrenia, for which he takes medication. “There was nothing I could do. I was alone in a very dangerous situation,” he told Johannesburg daily The Star, adding that he was hearing voices and hallucinating. “I tried to control myself and not show the world what was going on. I am very sorry. It’s the situation I found myself in,” he added. But Jantjie’s explanation appeared to raise as many questions as answers. The revelations raised questions about how Jantjie, who was at one point little more than an arm’s length away from Obama and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, was vetted and received security clearance. The government said none of the service providers at the event had their health status checked. One of those responsible for crowd control told AFP they were hired by a private security firm the night before the service in a nearby township.

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By excluding millions, health care reform falls short BY LINDA LEU New America Media

Dec 10, 2013 – Today, on the 65th anniversary of the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it’s timely to remember one proclamation in particular: that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family.” It’s important to reflect on that as we roll out one of the biggest reforms to our health care system that this country has seen. Indeed, the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was an important milestone for the United States, because it extended affordable and accessible coverage to millions of previously uninsured people across the country. However, as the law takes effect and the health insurance marketplaces open, not everyone has been included in the promise of reform. Millions of people have been excluded from its benefits, including undocumented and some lawfully present immigrants (such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [DACA] grantees). In California, policymakers have tak-

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Mandela loomed large for US presidents BY STEPHEN COLLINSON

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, December 9, 2013 (AFP) – Nelson Mandela loomed large for each of the four US presidents set to honor him on Tuesday: as a distant mentor, a personal counselor, a wartime critic and a fellow world sage. President Barack Obama and former US leader George W. Bush boarded Air Force One early Monday to head to Mandela’s memorial service in Soweto. Former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were making their own way there. Obama has long revered Mandela as the political idol who drew him into politics by the power of his example. As a 19-year-old student in California, the young Obama, disengaged from the world, happened to hear two African National Congress envoys speak of the trials of Mandela and the anti-apartheid struggle. Inspired, Obama adopted the cause and gave the first, halting speech of a career that would eventually make its own racial history in the echo of Mandela. “As I look at that 19-year old young man, I’m more forgiving of the fact that the speech might not have been that great,” Obama said in Cape Town during a South Africa trip in June overshadowed by Mandela’s failing health. “Because I know now that something inside me was stirring at that time, something important. And that was the belief that I could be part of something bigger than myself; that my own salvation was bound up with those of others.” Obama, in a journey of homage, this year stood with his daughters in the bleak quarry on Robben Island where Mandela spent years breaking rocks, and reflected on his political hero’s story. While Obama’s emotional and political connection with Mandela is deep – he only knew his hero from a distance. They met briefly when Obama was a newly minted senator in 2005 in Washington and spoke several times by telephone. But the long-awaited public meeting of the first black presidents of South Africa and the United States never happened: Obama judged Mandela too sick to visit earlier when he was in South Africa. If Mandela was a mentor to Obama, he was a friend to Clinton, who was in office for the entirety of the prisoner-turnedpresident’s 1994-1999 rule. Clinton wrote in his autobiography how

Mandela became one of the statesmen with whom he forged the closest personal bond. But as Clinton remembers Mandela on Tuesday, it may be his role as an emotional counselor that he will reflect upon most fondly. As he endured a public ritual of repentance after the scandal over his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Clinton revealed in 1998 how Mandela had helped him deal with his demons. Clinton said Mandela had taught him how to forgive his enemies – in the US president’s case, Republicans who impeached him and prosecutor Kenneth Starr. “He said, ‘I realized one day, breaking rocks, that they could take everything away from me – everything – but my mind and my heart. Now those things I would have to give away, and I simply decided I would not give them away,’” Clinton said, relating a conversation with Mandela. Clinton, in a speech on Martha’s Vineyard, said those words helped slake his own fury. “The anger, the resentment, the bitterness, the desire for recrimination against people you believe have wronged you – they harden the heart and deaden the spirit and lead to self-inflicted wounds.” Clinton said. By the time Bush became president Mandela was retired. But displaying the conviction of a former freedom fighter, he lashed the US leader over the pending Iraq war in 2003. “What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a Holocaust,” Mandela said in a vehemently anti-American speech to the International Women’s Forum. By 2005, Bush welcomed Mandela to the Oval Office for a visit—and the former South African leader offered gratitude for the US leader’s multi-billion-dollar HIV/ AIDS fight in Africa—but did not repudiate his remarks on Iraq. Bush described Mandela as an icon of “freedom and equality,” after seeing him during his administration as an example for those his Freedom Agenda hoped to inspire. Mandela was in jail for the entirety of Carter’s presidency. But appropriately for a US leader who is more remembered for what he did in his post-presidency than in office, he came to know Mandela as a fellow ex-statesman.

without the peace of mind and financial security that health coverage provides. And other states have even fewer options. One young man we’ve met said it best. “Thanks to Obamacare my mom doesn’t have to wait 4 more years to get covered, which I am very grateful for,” Jesus Garcia, 22, told us. However, his sister was left behind and can’t get coverage. “I really have no idea what’s going to happen …her job doesn’t offer insurance and she has a condition. She doesn’t have the luxury of not wanting insurance. She NEEDS it.” As the immigration reform debate ramps back up in the new year, health reform and immigration reform advocates must work

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because Tom is back with us,â&#x20AC;? Mott added. Tom Rodriguez is indeed a revelation in his singing performance with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just the Way You Areâ&#x20AC;? The audience began cheering when the ending of the telenovela was shown on the big screen. Lally found out who â&#x20AC;&#x153;Behâ&#x20AC;? was. Carla Abellana did her best as well singing the song Kung Alam Ko Lang. Kuh Ledesma who will be celebrating her 35 years in the music industry in 2014, inspired patriotism in the audience with her beautiful rendition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ako ay Pilipinoâ&#x20AC;?. She also encouraged them to donate to the victims of the super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Philippines. My Husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lover Concert Tour is a way of how the television cast expressed their gratitude in supporting the telenovela. But what is probably relevant about the series is that genuine love goes beyond gender. My Husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lover shows a more liberal minded look at life and accepting the realities of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gender and feelings rather self-denial.

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Washington D.C.: The request for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for the Philippines, initiated by the Washington D.C. based Migrant Heritage Commission (MHC) on 11November 2013,has snowballed, gaining extensive support from various organizations , advocates, leaders as well as senators and congressmen from the U.S. government. Three days after super typhoon Yolan-

da/Haiyan brought massive destruction to lives and properties in the Visayas region of the Philippines, the Migrant Heritage Commission (MHC) , a national nonprofit service organization for migrants and immigrants, wrote President Barack H. Obama, Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Randy Beers and Department of State Secretary John Kerry to designate the Philippines as a TPS (Temporary Protected Status).

Since then, MHC has received calls from groups, advocates and leaders expressing support and thanking MHC for initiating the request. Among them was the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the national association comprising 13,000 attorneys and law professors, who practices and teaches immigration law. AILA, recognizing the urgency of the TPS initiative, made a similar call for TPS designation. Other groups and government officials followed suit. To date, more than 30 members of the US Congress, 20 Members of the US Senate both Republicans and Democrats, that also included a perceived anti-immigrant Republican Senator Rubio, have called on President Obama and Acting Secretary Reeds of the Department of Homeland Security to designate the Philippines under the TPS Program. Several groups who also made similar calls were the New York Bar Council, the US Conference of Bishops and more than 200 national organizations which includes, among others, the Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA), the Justice for Filipino Veterans, (JFAV), Alliance Philippines, People’s Core and tens of thousands of individuals (Filipinos and other nationalities) The Migrant Heritage Commission (MHC) also wrote a formal letter to President Benigno C. Aquino III to support the call and request Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation by President Barack H.Obama. Now MHC’s call for TPS designation of the Philippines has evolved into a na-

tional movement. On December 10, 2013, in celebration of the International Human Rights Day, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the Pilipino Workers Center and Damayan organized a vigil in support of the TPS program in front of the Philippine Embassy . The Migrant Heritage Commission fully supported the TPS vigil. Despite inclement weather , H.E. Ambassador Jose Cuisia Jr. agreed to meet the delegation prior to the scheduled vigil , led by the Executive Director of Pilipino Workers Center, Ms . Aquilino Soriano Versoza and Atty. Arnedo S. Valera, CoExecutive Director off the Migrant Heritage Commission (MHC). The meeting which lasted for almost half an hour was very cordial characterized by a healthy exchange of ideas . Ambassador Cuisia fully recognized that the request for TPS designation was initiated by the Migrant Heritage Commission (MHC) and that it has snowballed into a national movement. He appreciated all the groups’ efforts for the TPS . According to the Ambassador, he is fully aware of the strong interest of the Filipino Community, supported by members of the US Congress and leaders of the Catholic Church, for the US Government to place the Philippines under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Ambassador Cuisia says, “During the past several weeks, the Embassy has been consulting with the US Government authorities on the TPS program and the designation process while coordinating typhoon relief efforts for the Philippines at the same time.”

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Wat Thai Los Angeles donates to Typhoon Yoland/Haiyan Relief Los Angeles, 04 December 2013 – Members of the Wat Thai Los Angeles, the Venerable Abbot of the Thai Temple in North Hollywood and Hon. Consul General Jesda Katavetin of Thailand, called on Consul General Ma. Hellen Barber De La Vega to present a check donation for Typhoon Haiyan Relief thru the American Red Cross for $ 20,506. This is the result of the efforts to raise

funds by the Thai Community at the Thai temple in North Hollywood. Consul General Katavetin and Mr. Thoongsuwan expressed their messages of support and sympathy for those affected by the Typhoon in the Philippines. Consul General Barber De La Vega conveyed appreciation for the donation and overflowing support from the ASEAN community, including Thailand.

Taiwan relief to PHL continues unabated People from all walks of life in the Republic of China (Taiwan) continue donating funds and relief supplies to the Philippines following the disaster caused by super Typhoon Haiyan. The storm devastated the central Philippines Nov. 8, 2013, causing more than 5,000 deaths and affecting over 10 million people. In accordance with President Ma Ying-jeou’s vision of the ROC as a provider of humanitarian aid, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has worked closely with nongovernmental organizations to provide prompt relief and assist in the reconstruction of affected areas. Earlier this week, while leading a trade delegation to the Philippines, Wang Chihkang, chairman of theTaiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), donated US$120,000 collected by the organization. On Nov. 25, Sun Wen-hsien, president of the Chiu Chang Mathematics Education Foundation, took a group of 27 schoolchildren to the Philippines to participate in the International Mathematics and Science Olympiad for Primary School Students, with each child carrying 10 kilograms of rice, noodles, biscuits or canned food to be donated to storm victims through the event’s organizing committee. These efforts follow the airlifting of more than 150 metric tons of aid supplies in 18 flights by ROC air force C-130 Hercules cargo planes Nov. 12-21, as well as the transport of 530 metric tons of relief goods to Cebu Port aboard an ROC naval vessel. Supplies included prefabricated housing, solar generators, tents, rice, clothing, ready-to-eat food and potable water, donated by private citizens and a wide range of civic organizations and charity groups, including the ROC Red Cross Society, Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi

Foundation, Bliss and Wisdom Foundation, Namchou Chemical Industrial Co. Ltd., I-mei Foods Co. Ltd., ROC I-Kuan Tao Association, and National Fishermen’s Association. The goods were distributed with the assistance of volunteers working for ROC charity groups in the Philippines, joined by over 16,000 Filipinos affected by the typhoon who were employed by the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation. As of Dec. 5, the total value of monetary and material donations made by the ROC government, civic groups and individual citizens had reached NT$358.5 million (US$11.09 million). In addition, within days of the disaster a 35-person team organized by the Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps arrived in the affected area to provide free medical assistance. ROC government agencies, coordinated by Minister without Portfolio Lin Junqtzer, have worked together closely. The Ministry of Health and Welfare promptly established a special bank account for monetary donations, while MOFA and the Ministry of National Defense designated two aid supply collection centers, one in northern Taiwan and one in the south. As mentioned above, the MND also dispatched aircraft and a ship to transport relief supplies, as well as mobilizing soldiers to help collect, sort, pack, load and ship the goods. Local governments in Taiwan have also set up special accounts to enable citizens to easily make donations. Moreover, the Council of Agriculture collected canned fish and frozen vegetables, and the Overseas Community Affairs Council marshaled ROC firms and nationals in the Philippines for participation in relief efforts.

Photo shows WAT Thai Board of Director Chawapot Thoongsuwan (2nd from left), The Venerable Abbot, (6th from left) Consul General Ma. Hellen Barber De La Vega and Thai Consul General Jesda Katavetin with members of the Wat Thai of Los Angeles.

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PHL to receive award from Jewish NGO for providing haven to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution WASHINGTON, D.C. – For opening its doors to over a thousand Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution before the Second World War, the Philippines will receive the Or L’Olam (Light Unto the World) Award from the prestigious the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) on the occasion of its centennial anniversary on Wednesday, 11 December. Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. will receive the award, which was created especially for JDC’s 100th Anniversary to honor those whose heroic actions saved the lives of Jews in danger. The JDC is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. JDC Chief Executive Officer Alan H. Gill said the award is in recognition of the role the Philippines played in saving the lives of Jews by providing them a safe haven while many other countries were turning them away. Gill said the Philippines, which was then led by Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon, accepted 1,305 Jewish refugees in an operation that was carried out with the JDC, the Jewish Community in Manila led by the Frieder family and US High Commissioner Paul McNutt. More than 70 years later, JDC has returned to the Philippines as part of its global disaster relief work, aiding Filipinos in areas most devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. “On this occasion of our 100th anniversary, it is our honor to bestow upon the Philippines our Or L’Olam Award for the country’s extraordinary life-saving actions,” Gill said. “The Philippines’ heroic decision to admit Jews at a time when the doors of many nations were closed has never been forgotten by us.” “Our gratitude for this brave act and the kindness extended to Jews in their darkest hour underpins our relief and rebuilding efforts in the Philippines today,” Gill added.

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3rd Las Posadas & 19th Annual Simbang Gabi depict unity in diversity

PCCI President Darna Umayam (6th from left, standing), together with Philippine Department of Tourism-Los Angeles Director Annie Cuevas-Lim (third from left, standing), City of Carson Mayor Jim Dear (8th from left, standing), other members of PCCI and Press Photographers of the Philippines-USA during a break while working on donations to be sent to the Philippines. Photo: Bobby Crisostomo (PPP-USA)

PCCI, PICCSC, PPP-USA unite for typhoon Yolanda victims The President of Philippine Children’s Charities, Inc. (PCCI) and Secretary General of the Philippine Independence Coordinating Council of Southern California (PICCSC) has made an urgent appeal to all the members to unite for typhoon relief for the victims in the Philippines affected by Typhoon Yolanda. “It is in this time of tragedies, storms and other calamities that our true character is measured. Filipinos should come to the aid of their country men devastated by typhoon Yolanda. Helping does not end, it will go a long way supporting the affected families to recover from this latest tragedy,” PCCI President Darna B. Umayam said as she urged members to be generous and to extend as much assistance to the less fortunate people. Umayam learned that victims are in dire need of medicines and coordinated with Dr. Dante Banta, resident physician of Clinica Western in Los Angeles, a well known medical practitioner and awarded as one of the 100 Outstanding Filipino-Americans in the USA. Dr. Banta used his personal account with MAP International Incorporated and purchased boxes of much needed medicines for medical mission of Umayam’s group in the Philippines come February of this year. Two boxes were sent to Ormoc City c/o Richard Gomez and Lucy Torres and another (2) boxes to Sagip Kapamilya of ABS-CBN through Mary Ann Pimenta,

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LOS ANGELES – The Third Las Posadas & Nineteenth Annual Simbang Gabi Celebration at Our Mother of Good Counsel Parish, 2060 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90026, will be held on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 6:30 PM. The main celebrant will be Most Reverend Oscar A. Solis, Auxiliary Bishop of San Pedro Pastoral Region. Most Reverend Alexander Salazar, Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles and Vicar for Office of Ethnic Ministry, and Fr. James Mott, Pastor, will concelebrate the mass. Las Posadas is a Hispanic cultural celebration portraying the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph looking for an inn to stay while Simbang Gabi is a Filipino

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APOGLA officers to be sworn-in on Dec. 14 Jerome Paggao, a nurse and Dan E. Nino, a freelance writer and tax consultant, president and vice president respectively of Alpha Phi Omega Alumni Assn. of Greater Los Angeles (APOGLA) will lead the officers to be sworn in on Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at the Torrance Marriott-South Bay. Paggao, an alumnus of Gamma Mu chapter (St. Ferdinand College in Ilagan, Isabela), will succeed outgoing President Melody Ang-Gayon, an alumna of Eta Chapter (University of the Philippines). Nino, an alumnus of PSI Chapter (Centro Escolar University) and Gamma Kappa Chapter (Ateneo de Manila University) will succeed outgoing Vice President Rachella Williams of Gamma Epsilon Chapter (De La Salle University). The officers will be sworn in by Lito Tarculas, President of Alpha Phi Omega National Council of North America (ACNA). Tarculas, a practicing electrical engineer, is a former President of APOGLA and alumnus of Gamma Sigma Chapter (St. Louis University, Baguio City). Other officers who are alumni from various colleges and universities in the Philippines now based in Greater Los Angeles who will also be sworn in are: Ruth Manalastas (Secretary); Troy (Agagon (Treasurer); Fely Montecillo (Public Relations Officer); Willy Cajucom (Sgt.-At-Arms); Jobee Jovellanos, Roehl Reyes and Edgar Ninofranco (Liaison Officers of ACNA); Art Rivera and Donnie Rondilla (Advisers); and Sancho Sy (Executive Director); Area Coordinators: Mike Medina (Inland Empire), Geoffrey

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Conventional Financing with 5% down and NO PMI Payments: Has anyone heard of such a loan prohave a scenario that you would like to MORTGAGE UPDATE have discussed. gram, this was presented to me yesterday by a new loan company? 5% down/no Can I pay off my debts to qualify for mortgage insurance loan program in a home in case I owe too much money Orange County, Ca, my credit score is now? above 720 and my debt ratio is above Great question, yes there are guide40%. I was wondering if they are any lines on how you should pay your debt to hidden cost i should prepare for? After qualify for a loan and requirements you speaking to the agent, he did mention the needed to provide to verify such. Here interest would be slightly higher (0.25are some of the guidelines you need to 0.50%) than a regular conventional know first: loan. Please advise what are the risk Revolving debt may be paid off to and benefits. qualify, as long as the account is being BY KEN GO Yes, there has been a Fannie Mae closed. If the revolving account will be program that allows lenders to self insure paid off and closed during the originathe loan therefore you don’t need to buy PMI insurance. tion process, the payment does not have to be included These are typically the types of loan I always recommend in the DTI ratio, provided the following documentation my customers to take. Because a typical PMI factor for is obtained confirming that the account has been paid off 5% down pay would be around .75-.90% depending on and closed: A letter from the creditor, on their letterhead, your fico scores, so if you choose to get a loan without evidencing that the account was closed and has a zero balPMI your rates would only have to take a rate that is about ance, or a credit report supplement evidencing that the .25-.375% higher. Let give a more accurate example: account was closed and has a zero balance. If the revolvLoan Amount: $ 300,000.00 – Todays interest rate ing account will be paid off at loan closing, the payment estimate : 4.25% does not have to be included in the DTI ratio provided the Principal payment at 4.25% = 1475.82 plus pmi of following documentation is obtained: additional $177.00 total PI + PMi = 1652.82 Note: Paying down debt to less than 10 months, to Same balance with a 4.625% rate – NO PMI would avoid including the debt in DTI ratios, is not permitted. give you a payment only of $ 1542.42. This applies to both installment and revolving accounts. The savings would be around 109/mo with no pmi But if you do it prior to getting a credit for the lender, option. there might be a way. Here are some of the requirements: Min fico score to If I already have Mortgage Insurance how can I request be around 680, debt to income ratio not exceeding 41-45% for it to be removed? depending on the fico scores. Lender DU ( delegated unA federal law called the Homeowners Protection Act derwriting) have to allow or approve this loan first before requires that mortgage insurance be cancelled when you a lender would agree to self insure. Please call for if you build up a certain amount of equity in your home. The law

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The presumption of ‘undue influence’ in transactions between spouses during the marriage and neither shall take any unfair advanCalifornia law on the nature of spousBARRISTER'S tage of the other.” es’ rights and obligations with respect to Incidental to this fiduciary relamanagement and control of community CORNER tionship is a rebuttable presumption property has evolved over the last thirty of undue influence when one spouse years from less stringent “good faith” obtains an advantage over the other in standards to heightened “confidential a community property transaction – i.e. duty” and “fiduciary duty’ standards. Unwhen one spouse improves his/her posider current law, the duties owed between tion, obtains a favorable opportunity, spouses in transactions between themor otherwise gains, benefits or profits selves are the same highest duties owed in a community property transaction by parties to a fiduciary relationship. to the exclusion of the other. Marriage The heightened standard with regard to BY KENNETH REYES of Haines (1995) 33 CA4th 277, 297, transactions between spouses is codified & DARRICK TAN 39 CR2d 673, 686. This presumption in Family Code Sec. 721(b). The section arises in connection with any interprovides that “in transactions between themselves, a husband and wife are subject to the general spousal property transaction in which one spouse obtained rules governing fiduciary relationships which control the an advantage over the other. It is important to note that actions of persons occupying confidential relations with the presumption arises even if the transaction at issue did each other. This confidential relationship imposes a duty not result from fraud, deceit or coercion. Marriage of of the highest good faith and fair dealing on each spouse, Mathews (2005) 133 CA4th 624, 629-630, 35 CR3d 1, 4.

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From page 31 to be the owner of the full beneficial title. This presumption may be rebutted only by clear and convincing proof. However, because of the presumption of undue influence under family code section 721(b), the wife has the burden to overcome the presumption in order to effect a change in the character of the property from community to separate. If the wife does not meet the burden, then the court can set aside the quit claim deed based on a presumption that such transfer was made with undue influence. Each spouse’s fiduciary obligations toward the other spouse under Family Code Sec. 721(b) continue after separation in anticipation of dissolution, nullity or legal separation until the date of distribution of the community asset or liability in question. Family Code Sec. 2102(a) and (b).

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Offers subject to availability. Net cost based on current rebates. *Nissan Customer Cash in lieu of Special Financing. **Must finance through NMAC. ***All U.S. Military personnel (active and reserve) All advertised prices exclude government fees and taxes, any finance charges, any dealer document processing charge, any electronic fi ling charge, any emission testing charge, and dealer add-ons or accessories. Vehicles subject to prior sale. Interest accrues from date of contract. Ad prices good thru 12/15/13 close of business. NMAC financing may be required on some vehicles see dealer for details. All financing subject to credit approval. Factory rebate in lieu of special APR. ****Mission Hills Nissan Loyalty Discount is available to everyone that has purchased a new Mission Hills Nissan vehicle within the last 2 years.

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888-588-7635

11000 Sepulveda Blvd. Mission Hills, CA 91345

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818-408-5860 CELL: 661-644-0944

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2014 Nissan Sentra features extensive list of refinements for the new model year – pricing starts at $15,990 NASHVILLE – With the books on the all-new Nissan Sentra compact sedan’s highly successful first year now closed– with sales up 16.6 percent (calendar yearto-date versus 2012 CYTD) – Nissan today announced pricing and an extensive list of refinements and enhancements for the 2014 Sentra. It is on sale now at Nissan dealers nationwide. “Though totally revised just last year with a ‘class above’ look and feel inside and out, at Nissan we continuously strive to make our great vehicles even better,” said Fred Diaz, divisional vice president, Nissan Sales & Marketing, Service & Parts, Nissan North America, Inc. “With Sentra, we looked at every aspect of the vehicle – chassis, handling, quietness, fabrics and other critical customer touchpoints – and dialed things up to a higher level of refinement.” The evolution of Sentra includes a wide range of changes designed to provide an even more rewarding driver and passenger experience. For example, Sentra’s available NissanConnect with Navigation now includes all-new NissanConnect Apps smartphone integration for iPhone and Android, allowing the user to connect with Pandora, iHeartRadio, Facebook and more. It also has improved voice recognition and one-shot destination entry. In addition to the new app integration, the NissanConnect™ with Navigation system’s capabilities now include SiriusXM Travel Link (fuel prices, movie times, stock updates and weather; SiriusXM subscription required, sold separately). The 2014 Sentra’s performance enhancements include: A reduction of engine noise into the passenger cabin through use of improved body insulation and sealing, along with a

change in engine mount layout More responsive steering feel, through use of a quicker steering ratio (16.3:1 versus the previous 18.5:1) and retuning of the Manuel Lava of Nissan of Electric Power Mission Hills Steering (EPS) system Body roll has been reduced through use of retuned spring, shocks and thicker stabilizer bars (22.0 mm front versus previous 18.0 mm, 24.6 mm rear versus previous 21.7 mm) Ride comfort has been increased through improved body motion control, due to shock absorber damping force tuning And acceleration feel has been enhanced through retuning of the Xtronic CVT®, including the addition of a D-Mode step shift program Seat comfort has been improved with new seat frame spring tuning and revised foam density and shaping, additional lateral support and a feeling of seat plushness. In addition, a sliding front armrest is now standard on the SL grade and added to SV Driver Package and SR Driver Package. New front seat lower cushion storage pockets are standard on all models and an Auto Hazard Warning Signal is added for all models. Once again for 2014, Sentra offers an elegant, modern and refined exterior, reflecting a “professional” character targeted at upwardly bound buyers who aspire to drive something more premium than some of the other designs in the segment. It features

2014 Nissan Sentra: The 2014 Nissan Sentra’s performance enhancements include a reduction of engine noise, more responsive steering feel, reduced body roll, increased ride comfort, and enhanced acceleration feel through retuning of the Xtronic CVT®, including the addition of a D-Mode step shift program.

Nissan’s bold signature trapezoid-shaped grille and large wraparound headlights with standard LED accents and a 0.29 coefficient of drag. In the rear, LED taillights are also standard, which complements Sentra’s sophisticated styling. Sentra’s refined look continues inside with a high-quality interior design featuring materials not usually found in compact vehicles, including a soft-touch instrument panel and door armrests, available leatherappointed seating and available Maple wood-tone trim. Along with offering ample roominess in a compact-size exterior, including an outstanding 37.4 inches of rear seat legroom, the intuitive interior layout emphasizes driver control and outstanding seat comfort for all occupants. Sentra utilizes a fuel-efficient 1.8-liter 4-cylinder engine, which along with the next-generation Xtronic CVT with subplanetary gear, helps deliver 34 miles-per

gallon combined highway/city fuel economy, a more than 415-mile real-world driving range**. Sentra FE+ models achieve 40 mpg on the highway. Other CVT-equipped Sentra models are rated at 39 mpg on the highway. All CVT models achieve an EPA rated 34 mpg combined (city and highway, 50-state emissions). The 2014 Nissan Sentra is offered in seven well-equipped trim levels: S 6MT, S CVT, FE+ S, SV, FE+ SV, SR and SL. If you have been desiring to own a new Nissan vehicle, come down to Nissan Mission Hills and check out our kababayan Manuel Lava of Nissan Mission Hills. So what are you waiting for? Schedule a Test drive on the vehicle of your choice at Nissan of Mission Hills. Call Manuel at 1-888-588-7635 and test drive a Nissan vehicle today! Nissan of Mission Hills is located at 11000 Sepulveda Blvd., Mission Hills, CA 91345.

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Mercedes-Benz of Encino Wrap up your Christmas with one of these babies.

Mercedes-Benz 2014 ML350

$599*

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Mercedes-Benz 2014 E350 27 months $579* month+tax 10k miles/yr *MSRP $56,695 at 27 month lease on approved average credit, $4,699 plus tax and license due at signing. No security deposit required. 10k miles per year with .25c per miles on excess mileage. Expires 12/16/13.

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Spreading holiday cheer, one offer at a time. The Mercedes-Benz Winter Event. Up to 4 months’ payment credit on your current Mercedes-Benz Financial Services lease with the purchase of a new 2013 or 2014 Mercedes-Benz. *Eligible customers will receive up to 4 months’ payment credit on their current lease with a lease or finance of any new 2013 or 2014 Mercedes-Benz vehicle through Mercedes-Benz Financial Services. Certain exclusions apply. See dealer for details.

.99% $22,910

‘05 MB S500 Sedan 4D

Stk#62576P / Mileage:44,489

$26,510

‘11 MB C300 Luxury Sedan 4D

Stk#62553C / Mileage:23,627

MB GLK350 R350 4MATIC $34,910 ‘12 SUV 4D $34,811 ‘10SportMBWagon 4D Stk#62518P / Mileage:35,345

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C250 $30,811 ‘12 Sport Sedan 4D Stk#62529C / Mileage:14,107

MB E350 $39,912 ‘11Convertible 2D Stk#62479T / Mileage:15,424

Stk#62546C / Mileage:12,068

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MB GL450 $42,812 ‘11 4MATIC SUV

All certified cars sold until Dec. 17, 2013 will have one scheduled maintenance included.

$31,910

‘12 MB C250 Sport Sedan 4D

Stk#62460T / Mileage:45,915

Rate as low as .99% APR on 2008, 2009 & select 2010 models or up to 66 months. Expires Dec. 17, 2013.

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