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President Benigno S. Aquino III accepts the credentials of United States of America Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg during the Presentation of Credentials at the Music Room of Malacañang on Monday (Dec. 2, 2013). (MNS photo)

Attic of refuge: Hiding in attic saved thousands of Yolanda survivors By Danny Petilla

PALO, Leyte – Venus Palacio never really liked her attic. But the room she thought was a useless part of her dream house became her family’s lifeline as it saved all nine members of her family from Typhoon Yolanda’s killer waves on Nov. 8. “On that fateful day that could have

been our last day on earth. tory killed nearly 6,000 resiThat room was our refuge dents here in Leyte and Saand salvation,” said Palacio, mar, most survivors point to a 58-year old grandmother the attic as the one place that who works as a disbursing saved them from Yolanda’s officer at the local Depart- quick rising floodwaters. ment of Environment and Not really known as an Natural Resources in nearby important part of Filipino Tacloban City. houses, the attic is used more Close to a month after one as a buffer zone from the of the worst storms in his- See ATTIC OF REFUGE, page 6

Beneficiaries of the cash- and food-for-work program repack relief goods for distribution in typhoon “Yolanda” affected communities at the Tacloban City relief hub in Apitong District on Friday (Dec. 6, 2013). (MNS photo)

MANILA, Dec 5 (Mabuhay) – United States Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg paid a courtesy call on the Senate on Thursday where he pushed for the greater presence of American troops in the Philippines. In a closed door meeting with Senate President Franklin Drilon, Goldberg tackled the proposal for increased US rotational presence in the Philippines, which he described as “unavoidable.” “What I think the framework agreement can do to is to help in the areas of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, being able to preposition supplies,” Goldberg said at a joint press briefing with Drilon. Goldberg maintained that the devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in Eastern Visayas shows the need for greater US presence in the Philippines.

Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario made a similar statement last week. “As everyone saw, the first stage of disaster relief is often the military and then we move to the civilian side,” the US ambassador said. Drilon, for his part, said he “briefed” Goldberg “on the necessity of a treaty where it will involve permanent basing.” The Senate leader however said that he is convinced that the agreement on increased rotational presence being discussed by the US and the Philippines will not include the establishment of permanent bases. “As emphasized by Ambassador Goldberg, it will be beyond military aspects of the relationship. Many aspects including humanitarian and relief readiness See INCREASED, page 6

Undocumented Filipino DREAMers ignore immigration relief PHL embassy launches campaign to encourage Filipino youths to avail themselves of us immigration breaks WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 4 – Only less than a quarter of the more than 20,000 eligible Filipino youths in the United States have availed themselves of a program launched by the White House last year to provide temporary immigration relief for undocumented youth. It was because of this low turnout that the Philippine Embassy, in partnership with the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) and Own The Dream, launched on Tuesday a nationwide campaign to encourage undocumented Filipino youths to avail themselves of the benefits offered by the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “DACA is a temporary administrative relief from deportation

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Myanmar gives $100K for Yolanda victims, $50K for quake victims 7 Pinoy hospital workers killed in Yemen attack MANILA, Dec 6 (Mabuhay) -- Seven Filipino hospital workers, including a doctor, were killed in the attack on Thursday at the Yemeni Defense Ministry Complex in Sanaa, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. DFA spokesperson and Assistant Secretary Raul Hernandez said the confirmation was reported to them by the Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia, through Ambassador Ezzedin Tago. “We will not disclose the names of the fatalities until their next of kin have been informed,” said Hernandez. See MYANMAR, page 6

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Miriam seeks probe of Enrile ‘crimes,’ urges public debate Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, in an explosive privilege speech, urged justice secretary Leila de Lima to order an NBI investigation into alleged crimes committed by Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, mostly during martial law when he was the powerful defense secretary. Santiago left her sickbed once more to answer a prior privilege speech by Enrile, which turned out to be a rehash of campaign issues raised against Santiago when she ran for president in 1992, or more than 20 years ago. Santiago called for criminal prosecution of Enrile for the following crimes under the Penal Code: command responsibility for death and disappearance during martial law of some 4,000 people; mastermind of the biggest plunder case in Philippine history, having received from 2005 to 2013 pork barrel of P1.189 billion, of which P641.65 million went to dummy corporations of Janet Napoles; Running a smuggling empire in the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority, for which Enrile insisted on an appropriation in the 2014 budget of P80 million; running a gambling empire in CEZA by promoting so-called “interactive gaming” and claiming that the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) has no jurisdiction over Cagayan’s Port Irene; Running an illegal logging empire during martial law, when he obtained from Pres. Ferdinand Marcos the largest logging concession covering 95,770 hectares, which was guarded by the so-called “Lost Command” who were allegedly responsible for the massacre of 45 people; Psy-

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Palace, Senate grieve over Mandela death MANILA, Dec 6 (Mabuhay) – Malacañang and the Senate on Friday said they are grieving over the death of South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, whom they called a “shining beacon of inspiration to all freedom-loving peoples.” “We grieve over the death of a Nelson Mandela, a revered world leader, who led his nation and people to freedom by treading the path of peace,” Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) head Herminio Coloma Jr. said in a statement. In a separate statement, Senate President Franklin Drilon said they extend their “deepest sympathy and utmost support” to Mandela’s wife Graça Machel and their children. “We join the entire world and the people of South Africa in mourning for the loss of this truly extraordinary man,” he said. Mandela died peacefully at home at the age of 95 on Thursday (Friday, PHL time) after months of fighting a lung infection. The Palace praised Mandela for his “unwavering fortitude and perseverance” which proved that “taking the peaceful, non-violent path to freedom is one that brings about sustained and enduring fulfillment of a people’s aspirations for full emancipation.” “In death as in life, he will always be a shining beacon of inspiration to all freedom-loving peoples,” it said. Drilon also said Mandela had served as a “potent symbol for honor, peace, courage and magnanimity.” “Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’s life is marked by positive transformation, enabled by his lifelong belief in goodwill and his unmatched determination,” he said. “From rebel leader to prominent activist, from prisoner to president, Mandela, called “Madiba” by his people, transformed not only himself, but others around him, and the entire nation of South Africa,” he added. (MNS)

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elements and a storage room. But at the height of typhoon’s fury, many residents cramped themselves in their attics thus shielding them from the 20-foot storm surges spawned by Yolanda. “ I never really liked that room to tell you the truth. I never went there. But I am thankful it saved my family,” said Palacio, whose name means palace in Spanish. It was not only humans that got saved by escaping in the attic, some animals also found a sanctuary there from the monster waves. When Christina Romualdez , a former actress, told a Manila TV station that hiding in the attic with rats saved her family from Yolanda’s wrath, the wife of Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez and now Tacloban councilor, also magnified the importance of the attic as a lifeline for thousands of storm survivors.

“If she (Romualdez) was swimming with rats, we were swimming with snakes and frogs,” said Lea Sevilla, 59, a medical technologist whose family was also saved by climbing and hiding in their attic in their house in Barangay Cogon here. But not all houses here have attics. The absence of attics in the mostly nipa thatched houses along the coastlines here proved fatal for most of the poor residents here. Dioscoro Olaya, Jr., a 36-year-old driver, his wife Marisol, 30, and their three children: Analou, 12, Jeric, 3, Julianne, one –year-old and their stepfather Adan Hingo, 61, were all swept to the sea and drowned by the giant waves. “I don’t think it would have saved them,” Olaya’s father Dioscoro Sr. , 58, said, in Waray. “Even with an attic they still would have been killed,” he said ruefully. The attic is known in popular culture as the hiding place of Jews escaping the marauding Nazi storm-troopers during

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would be enhanced by the agreement being discussed,” Drilon said. Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile last week said the aid extended by the US during the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda does not justify greater presence of American troops in the country. In August, the Philippine government started negotiations for the proposed increase in the US forces’ rotational presence in the country despite questions on its constitutionality and the possibility that it may become a magnet for anti-US sentiments. The 1987 Constitution states that “for-

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Hernandez added that 11 other Filipinos who were injured in the attack “remain shaken and traumatized”. “One sustained a head injury which required surgery. The victims were working at a hospital located inside the complex,” he said. Hernandez said the situation has already stabilized and Yemeni security forces are now in control of the complex. “The survivors were taken to a safe place,” he said. He said the DFA’s honorary consul in Sanaa, together with a Filipino community leader, are checking hospitals if there are

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Filipino youth who are DACA-eligible have applied so far. “We believe that raising awareness can allay the fears of potential applicants so that, hopefully, more youth may deem it best to avail themselves of this immigration relief by the end of its second year of implementation,” he said as he expressed hope that the campaign would be able to present eligible Filipinos with an option that is workable and useful. “The DACA program presents one such invaluable and historic opportunity by the Obama Administration to allow the Filipino youth to be more engaged and able to maximize their potentials, unencumbered by concerns about their immigration status,” he said. APALA Executive Director Gregory Cendaña urged Filipino teens and young adults who grew up in the United States to apply for DACA because it provides them the opportunity to obtain legal papers. “For two years, they will be protected from deportation and be granted a valid social security number and a work permit. After two years it may be renewed,” said Cendaña, an inaugural participant of the Filipino American Young Leaders Program. He added that DACA is the biggest advance in immigrant rights that the US has seen in over 25 years. Angelo Mathay, DACA Law Fellow at the National Immigration Law Center, said: “For tens of thousands of Filipino families, DACA can provide long desired peace of mind that their young people are safe and have a fair shot at the American dream with higher wages and protection from deportation.” Mathay said many Filipinos do not know about this great opportunity. “The Migration Policy Institute estimates that

eign military bases, troops, or facilities shall not be allowed in the Philippines except under a treaty duly concurred in by the Senate.” In 1991, members of the Philippine Senate, including Enrile, voted to expel US military bases from the country by a historic 12-11 vote. Eight years later, the Senate ratified the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the US and the Philippines. The VFA is a bilateral agreement which specifies how the Philippines and the US will determine jurisdiction of an American soldier involved in a crime committed on Philippine soil. (MNS)

other Filipino fatalities. “Our embassy is also coordinating with Yemeni defense and the Defense Ministry to ensure the safety of Filipinos in that country,” he said. Ambassador Tago will also dispatch to Sanaa an embassy official to provide assistance to the victims, assess the situation and arrange for the immediate repatriation of the remains of those killed. “We condemn this senseless and barbaric act and we call on the Yemeni government to bring the masterminds to justice and to take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of Filipinos and other foreigners in Yemen,” he said.(MNS) some 22,000 Filipinos are currently eligible for DACA yet only 4,000 have applied and more Filipino teens are becoming eligible every day,” he said. Many Filipinos do not know about DACA because much of the publicity is directed towards the Latino community, observed Adam Luna, Director of Own The Dream, a national campaign that help teens and young adults who came to the US as children to take advantage of the opportunity to apply for DACA and obtain work permits. “There is a need for Filipino community leaders to help fill the information gap, clear up misinformation and bring the benefits of DACA to Filipino youths who grew up in the United States,” Luna said as he expressed confidence that Own The Dream’s partnership with the Philippine Embassy and APALA will convince many undocumented Filipinos to come out of the shadows and apply for DACA. Luna said the partnership will not only provide education about the DACA but will also allow for many undocumented Filipinos to access the free and low-cost legal assistance. “The Embassy’s strong reputation and public commitment to the program and partnership with the only nationwide effort to implement the program will also allay any fears from a community which, by necessity, has lived in the shadows for far too long,” he said. The US Customs and Immigration Services said that over the past three years, the Obama Administration has undertaken an unprecedented effort to transform the immigration enforcement system into one that focuses on public safety, border security and the integrity of the immigration system. As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to focus its enforcement resources, DHS will exercise prosecutorial discretion as appropriate to ensure that enforcement resources are not expended on low priority cases.

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7 Pinoy hospital workers killed in Yemen attack MANILA, December 6, 2013 (AFP) Seven Filipino hospital workers, including a doctor, were killed in a militant attack on a Yemeni defence ministry complex, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. Foreign Department spokesman Raul Hernandez said workers “pretended to be dead” to survive Thursday’s assault, which left 12 other Filipinos injured with one requiring surgery. His toll of Filipino fatalities is significantly higher than the report by Yemen’s Saba news agency, which reported just two Filipina nurses were among the 52 killed in the attack. “We condemn this senseless and barbaric act and we call on the Yemeni government to bring the masterminds to justice and take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of Filipinos and other foreigners in Yemen,” Hernandez told reporters. A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into the Yemeni defence ministry complex on Thursday. A second car brought armed militants into the compound, who opened fire on staff.

A hospital within the complex bore the brunt of the attack. Quoting survivors, Hernandez said a suicide bomber brought down part of the hospital in the blast. “The other (Filipino casualties) survived the ensuing gun battle by pretending to be dead,” he added. He said that Filipino fatalities included one doctor while the rest were hospital workers, mostly nurses. Diplomats were also checking hospitals in the area for other Filipino casualties, he added. Other casualties were from Germany, Vietnam, India, Venezuela, and Yemen, according to Saba news agency and hospital reports. The agency said 167 people were wounded, nine of them seriously. The Philippines has almost a thousand nationals working in Yemen, Hernandez said. They are part of an army of about 10 million Filipinos who have travelled abroad to seek work, earning more than they could get in their impoverished

homeland. The money they send home is a pillar of the local economy and is nearly equivalent to about 10 percent of the Philippines’ gross domestic product. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility Friday for a brazen attack on the Yemeni defence ministry that killed 52 people, saying the complex hosted US personnel behind drone strikes against its militants. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), regarded by Washington as the jihadist network’s most dangerous affiliate, has been hit by intensified US drone strikes in Yemen this year. There was no immediate evidence to support its allegation that the Sanaa complex attacked on Thursday played any role in the drone war or housed any US personnel. The 52 were killed in a hospital inside the sprawling facility. It bore the brunt of an armed assault after a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the main gate. The city centre compound was “stormed... after the mujahedeen (holy

warriors) proved that it accommodates drone control rooms and American experts”, AQAP said in a statement published by its media arm on Twitter. “As part of a policy to target drone control rooms, the mujahedeen have dealt a heavy blow to one,” it said. “Such security headquarters in partnership with the Americans in their war on these Muslim people are a justified target wherever they may be.” Washington condemned the attack which came as Yemeni Defence Minister Mohammed Nasser headed a military delegation on a visit to the United States. Deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said she had no information about any US casualties. Among the dead were medics from the Philippines, Germany, Vietnam and India. The others were all hospital patients, some of them soldiers and some civilians, Yemen’s supreme security committee said. Residents said they heard gunfire and explosions throughout the night from the area which was still cordoned off on Friday morning by armoured vehicles.

Jordanian journalist: I escaped Abu captors MANILA, Dec 5 (Mabuhay) – Jordanian journalist Baker Atyani revealed that he managed to escape from his Abu Sayyaf captors in Sulu. An Al Arabiya News Network report earlier said the kidnappers handed over Atyani to the local governor’s office on Wednesday night. An emaciated Atyani, the Southeast Asia bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, said he finally managed to escape after failing in his pervious attempts. “This time they were really too busy and I noticed that before the sunset, between about 2 o’ clock and 6 o’ clock, they were very busy. They go to the nearest town market and a good number of them is out of the place and there is no security. The security is only imposed around my hut at night. And so I’ve been observing this the last few days and I was able to know the directions. Some of them helped me to know the directions, some of the kidnappers,” Atyani said. Atyani, a Dubai-based journalist known for interviewing Osama bin Laden months before the September 11 attacks, was taken hostage in Jolo with his two Filipino crewmen in July 2012 while filming a documentary on the bandit group.

The Filipinos were freed in February this year. The two said no money had changed hands. They said they were separated from the Jordanian five days after they were taken captive. Atyani is scheduled to be transported to Zamboanga City today after going through medical check-up and stress debriefing in Patikul, Sulu. Senior Inspector Kris Conrad Gutierrez, Patikul Police spokesperson, said Atyani was found by authorities wandering along a road in Barangay Igasan on Wednesday evening. “We asked him his name and he told us he’s Bakr Atyani,” Gutierrez told ANC. “We brought him directly to the hospital for a medical check-up and he is still there until now.” Gutierrez explained they were not able to ask Atyani whether he was released or had managed to escape. “We prioritized his health and his doctors advised us not to talk to him because his blood pressure shot up and needed to be stabilized. For now, he is undergoing stress de-briefing,” he said. “He is now able to talk and stand up, and his mood has lightened up.” Atyani now weighs about 50 kilo-

grams, a significant drop from his 85 kg weight at the time he was abducted, Gutierrez said. The Abu Sayyaf group was founded with seed money from bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network to fight for an independent Islamic state, though it later turned into a criminal gang. Previous kidnapping cases involving the Abu Sayyaf have involved large ransom payoffs, which local authorities euphemistically call payments for “board and lodging”. Military and police sources had previously said the Abu Sayyaf had demanded millions of dollars in ransom, though neither Atyani’s family nor employer would confirm this.

US Special Forces have been rotating through Jolo and other parts of the southern Philippines for more than a decade to train local troops battling the group, which is on Washington’s list of “foreign terrorist organizations”. Philippine authorities say Abu Sayyaf gunmen are believed still to hold a number of foreign as well as Filipino hostages, including two European birdwatchers and a Japanese treasure hunter. In March, the gunmen freed Australian Warren Rodwell after 15 months in captivity. Philippine negotiators said his family had paid a $100,000 ransom. Rodwell was seized in December 2011, and his captors had initially demanded $2 million for his safe release. (MNS)

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Los Angeles County Public Works Department will host a free used motor oil and used oil filter recycling event at California High School (Mills Avenue parking lot), 9800 South Mills Avenue, on Saturday, December 14, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In exchange for turning in their used oil, participants will be rewarded with free oil containers, oil filter containers, shop towels, and funnels while supplies last. In addition, residents can drop-off used motor oil and used oil filters for free at weekend County-sponsored Household Hazardous Waste/Electronic Waste Collection Events or at local Certified Collection Centers. A full calendar of collection events and a list of these centers can be found at www. CleanLA.com. Residents are asked to prepare items for drop-off by placing used oil filters in sealed plastic bags and storing used motor oil in leak-proof containers without mixing the oil with other liquids, including water. For additional information on the Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil and oil filter recycling program, call Edna Gandarilla, Program Manager, at (626) 458-6536.

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We’ll help you fulfill your American Dream. Haiti Farmers Donation. Eliette Pierre (in white shirt) and members of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance in Gonaives, Haiti, present a check for $150 representing their assistance for farmers in the Philippines displaced by Typhoon Haiyan.

Farmers in Haiti raise $150 for Filipino farmers displaced by typhoon Haiyan WASHINGTON, D.C. – Knowing how difficult it is to recover from a cataclysm, small farmers in Haiti pooled together what little they had to raise $150 for fellow farmers in the Philippines who were among the more than 10 million Filipinos displaced recently by Typhoon Haiyan. In his report to Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr., the Philippine Honorary Consul in Haiti, Fitzgerald Brandt, said the kindhearted farmers belong to the Smallholder Farmers Alliance based in Gonaives in the northern part of Haiti who were themselves victims of Hurricane Sandy last year. “These farmers are very poor, but the gesture from country to country, from farmer to farmer, from human to human, is 1,000,000 times stronger than the actual amount of the transaction,” Honorary Consul Brandt said. “In this planet full of not so good news, such gestures are priceless.” Ambassador Cuisia said Filipino farmers were badly affected by Typhoon Haiyan, which dealt more than P17 billion in losses to the agriculture sector during its violent rampage across the Central Philippines last month. “The Filipino people truly appreciate the kind gesture of farmers in Haiti who went out of their way to extend a helping hand to their fellow farmers in the Philippines,” said Ambassador Cuisia. “Our people will always remember this.” The President and Co-Founder of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance, Hugh Locke, said the initiative was inspired by the assistance from around the world that was extended to small farmers in Haiti to help them recover from the devastating

effects of Hurricane Sandy. “It was to honor the support we received at that time that our farmers, who have firsthand experience of what it is to suffer from storms like Typhoon Haiyan, wanted to reach out to their counterparts in the Philippines, ” said Locke. Eliette Pierre, a local farm leader and member of the alliance said: “We were very sad to hear that many farmers in the Philippines are suffering. We want to tell all of you that the farmers here are praying for you and we are also sending a donation to help you recover from the storm damage.” Locke said the farmers asked Joan Bao-In, a Filipina serving with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) who was then visiting from the capital, Port-au-Prince, at that time, to turn over their donation to the GMA Kapuso Foundation in Manila. For the Philippines, the gesture has added importance, according to Ambassador Cuisia. He said Filipino military and police peacekeepers were among the first on the ground after the United Nations stepped in to help restore peace and stability in Haiti in 2004. Ambassador Cuisia said more than 150 officers and personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines continue to serve as the Force Headquarters Protection Unit of MINUSTAH in Port-au-Prince. In 2010, the Philippines deployed who a medical mission to Haiti in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, killing an estimated 50,000, including four Filipino peacekeepers.

‘Yolanda’ death toll rises to 5,719 MANILA, Dec 4 (Mabuhay) – The official death toll from super typhoon “Yolanda” has risen to 5,719, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Tuesday. In its 6 a.m. Wednesday update, the NDRRMC said 39 more were confirmed dead in the worst-hit city of Tacloban in Leyte. Majority of the fatalities were from Eastern Visayas at 5,377 (4,882 in Leyte; 265 in Eastern Samar; 224 in Samar; and 6 in Biliran). In Tacloban, 2,116 bodies have yet to be identified. The number of missing remains at 1,779: 1,671 in Leyte; 38 in Samar; 24 in Palawan; 20 in Eastern Samar; 15 in Antique; 5 in Cebu; 4 in Iloilo and 1 each in Guimaras and Capiz. The NDRRMC said at least 26,233 were wounded after the typhoon crashed into central Philippines last November 8. At least 2,380,019 families or 11,260,069

individuals were affected by the typhoon, with 4,022,868 people displaced. Some 598,815 homes were totally destroyed while at least 611,364 houses were partially damaged. The cost of damage from the typhoon, meanwhile, remains at P34,366,518,530.67 (P17,333,367,534.29 for infrastructures and P17,033,150,996.38 for agriculture products). At least P881,962,082.03 worth of relief assistance has been provided to the affected families by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Health (DOH), local government units, and non-government organizations. Foreign aid pledges, meanwhile, have reached P22,066,399,734.15 (P4,604,299,695.10 cash and P17,462,100,039.05 non-cash), according to the government’s Foreign Aid Transparency Hub (FAiTH).(MNS)

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Philippine Airlines resumes flights to Dammam The Philippines’ official flag carrier, Philippine Airlines (PAL), made its nonstop maiden Manila-Dammam-Manila flight on December 03, when it resumed its operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Philippine Ambassador Ezzedin Tago was at the airport with officials from the King Fahd International Airport (KFIA) Management to welcome PAL’s return to Dammam. The twin-engine Airbus 330-300 with flight number PR 682 was operated by Captain Jose Joselito Herrera, assisted by Co-Pilot Capt. Joel Solis, Flight Officer Philimerif Binarao, and Second Officer Panilo Ilustre. With 216 passengers on board it touched down at 6:13 p.m. at KFIA in Dammam. The plane left for Manila, at 8:20 p.m., on flight number PR 683 with 367 passengers.

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‘Dallas Non-Stop’ in search of a girl’s ‘American dream’ BY MYRNA AQUITANIA

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Truck accident results in $150-M wrongful death verdict On November 22, 2009 mother, Ortiz did not get out PROTECTING at about 5 a.m., Michael of his truck. EMPLOYEE & and Shannon Asam were Ortiz and the trucking CONSUMER RIGHTS travelling with their young company countered that the children, Brennan (14 yrs CHP officers found no debris old), Blaine (11) and Kyon the road, that Michael lie (9) to Oregon to visit actually fell asleep on the relatives for Thanksgivwheel, ran off the roadway, ing. Michael was driving a and collided with the truck. GMC Yukon. He reportedly However, one of the Yukon’s hit debris on the road, tried tires was dented, and the to pull to the shoulder, and children’s attorney said this slammed into an 18-wheelproved that the Yukon had BY C. JOE SAYAS, JR. er truck already parked hit something. there. Michael, Shannon, After a 25-day trial, the and Brennan were pinned inside the vehicle. jury found that the truck driver was negligent for Blaine and Kylie escaped through a broken parking on the side of the freeway in the early rear window. They tried to get their mother out morning darkness without turning on any light but could not do it. A fire started and began to or emergency reflector. His employer was found spread. jointly liable. Blaine was awarded $8.75 million The children flagged down a driver on the and Kylie $112 million for pain and suffering, highway who also tried to free their mother but plus $30 million to Kylie for past and future could not. After several minutes, the fire became emotional distress. out of control. Michael, Shannon, and Brennan Blaine’s share of the damages will go to burned to death in the wreck, while Blaine and Kylie. Blaine committed suicide on his mother’s Kylie watched. birthday, before trial began. Any award money Blaine and Kylie sued the driver of the truck, Kylie receives from the case will be placed in a Rudolph Ortiz, and his employer, Bhandal Bros. trust until she is 18. Trucking. They alleged that Ortiz was negli[C. Joe Sayas, Jr., Esq. is trial attorney who gently and illegally parked on the shoulder of has obtained several million dollar recoveries the 210 freeway, ignoring written warnings that for his clients against insurance companies and stopping there was allowed only in emergencies. employers. He has been selected as a Super He did not turn on his trailer lights or emergency Lawyer by the Los Angeles Magazine, featured reflectors. Ortiz gave three different reasons for in the cover of Los Angeles Daily Journal’s why he stopped on the shoulder. First, he said Verdicts and Settlements, and is a member of he stopped to sleep. Then in an interview with the Million Dollar-Advocates Forum. He is a CHP officers, he said he pulled over to urinate. graduate of Georgetown University Law Center At trial, he claimed that he stopped to take Washington, D.C. and the University of the Philmedication for a severe headache, which was an ippines. Visit his website at www.joesayaslaw. emergency. But it was noted at trial that while com or contact his office at (818) 291-0088 for the children were desperately trying to save their a no-cost inquiry.]

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‘Yolanda’ sparks worldwide financial/humanitarian aid The worldwide out3. Australia - humaniLIGHTHOUSE tarian aid worth $9.38 pouring of financial and humanitarian aid for vicmillion of search and restims of typhoon ‘Yolanda’ cue and medical personis amazingly overwhelmnel coordinated by the ing. Department of Foreign Recent reports from a Affairs; flash appeal by the United 4. South Korea - $5.1 Nations stated that an million; “estimate of $301 mil5. Canada - $5.1 million or 13 billion pesos lion; would be needed for the 6. New Zealand relief efforts in a wide BY MYRNA AQUITANIA $1.78 million; span of central Philip7. Germany - 23 tons pines brought by supertyphoon Yolanda, of humanitarian aid; which slammed into many islands with 8. Taiwan - $200,000; ferocious winds that whipped up tsunami9. Vatican - $150,000; like waves.” 10. China - $100,000; In response to the amount of damage 11. Vietnam - $100,000; done in our country, below is a list of 12. Singapore/Malaysia - $40,000; various countries, government agencies, 13. Japan - humanitarian aid of miliprivate companies and charities sendng tary personnel; and pledging their financial and humani14. Israel - in the process of building tarian aid on record, sent either directly to a hospital in Cebu to treat around 500 the Philippine government or to various government agencies and/or charities based in the Philippines: 1. United States - more than $37 million worth of military personnel, equipment, aircraft carriers, food, shelter, water and medicines coordinated through the Philippine government; 2. European Commission - $40 million

patients;. 15. UNICEF/UNHCR - tons of humanitarian aid worth $25 million; 16. WALMART - pledged $1 million; 17. CBS2/KCAL9 Telethon - raised $164,000; 18. Wells Fargo - $250,000 ($125,00 to American Red Cross and $125,00 to the International Medical Corps.) 19. Walmart - $100,000 20. Cedars-Sinai Foundation - $25,000; 21. Philippine Emergency Disaster & Relief Operation (PEDRO)- $20,000; 22. Asean Women’s Caucus -$1,800.00. Aid is still ongoing from various countries and large corporations. Moreso, on a collective effort, a lot of our kababayans produce ongoing fundraising concerts with proceeds going to special charities set up for the typhoon victims. On a personal note, I know that Wells Fargo Bank’s ATM services has included a way to transfer donations to the typhoon -related areas through the American Red

Cross. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesman Raul Hernandez he stated that “amid growing concerns that the outpouring of foreign aid for the typhoon vicitims would again be lost to corruption, the govenrment vowed to be transparent in handling funds meant for those who suffered from the devastation caused by Yolanda.” Budget Secretary Florencio Abad on the other hand was reported to have said that “the Comission on Audit (COA) will ultimately audit, because those donations and grants will enter the govenrment’s books and therefore have to be accounted for.” As Filipinos, we are most thankful for the outpouring of aid in all forms to aid our kababayans whose lives have changed. We take pride in the resiliency of the Filipino and we pray that one day in the near future, these kababayans will rise up and rebuild their lives again.

Held Saturday, November 23 at the City View in the Metreon, at Yerba Buena Gardens, the 4th Kulinarya Showdown Competition attracted more than a thousand food fans and contestants coming from as far as New York, Chicago and Honolulu.

4th kulinarya showdown: A showcase of Filipino talents and culinary delights By Manny Ilagan

LOS ANGELES – Kare-kare. Caldereta. Lumpia. Sisig. Lechon. These are just few of the mouth-watering culinary delights that Filipino chefs – and even regular folks – whisk out of their kitchen. Filipinos love to eat; no wonder they love to cook. Introducing Filipino cuisine to other cultures is not that difficult because of their unique flavor profiles that are heavily influenced by both the East and the West. And what better opportunity to showcase

these culinary gems than at the Kulinarya Cookfest in San Francisco? Held Saturday, November 23 at the City View in the Metreon, at Yerba Buena Gardens, the 4th Kulinarya Showdown Competition attracted more than a thousand food fans and contestants coming from as far as New York, Chicago and Honolulu. It was a delight to watch chefs in both amateur and professional division prep and serve their appetizing creations with the aim of winning the judges’ approval and

discriminating taste buds. Sheryn Jo Peneza of Los Angeles bagged the trophy for the amateur division with his Beef Rib Caldereta with Pasta, his new take on one of the Filipinos’ all-time favorite entrées. The former jail officer who said he loved to cook even when he was a youngster bested Kathy de Leon of Chicago, who served her version of Kare-Kare. In the professional category, New Yorker Neil Syham won the Grand Prize with his culinary delights: Sisig Scotch Egg for appetizer, Chicken Afritada (Sous Vice) for entrée, and Instant Bibingka Sponge Cake for dessert, Syham, who is a seasoned chef and owner of a food stand in Brooklyn’s Smorgasburg market bested three other competitors, namely, Karl Orlanes from Los Angeles, who’s an in-flight chef for Philippine Airlines at Hacor’s Inc., Manuel Ramirez of Inay Filipino Kitchen from San Francisco, and Paul Rivera of Hula Grill in Honolulu. Judges’ criteria were based on cohesiveness of the menu, presentation, creativity, taste, flavor, product doneness and temperature. Judging the competition were food connoisseur and culinary pros Francis Ang, executive check of Fifth Floor Restaurant; Evangeline Quesada of Ramar Foods; Geraldine Solon, managing editor of Gastronomique en Vogue; James Lim, area managing director of Joie de Vivre hotels and resorts; and Jefferson Sevilla, sous chef at Google in San Francisco. Winners of the cookfest received cash prizes ($1000 for the professional and $500 for the amateur), a free round-trip to the Philippines, 3-day and 2-night stay at a luxury hotel in Manila, and a special tour of Kulinarya destinations in the Philippines. In addition, both winners will serve as ambassadors of goodwill who will promote Philippine cuisine at various tourism events in the United States and Canada.

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200 new occupations in demand in Canada with no job offer requirement With global competition to attract be as generous as the 20,000 allocated IMMIGRATION the best and brightest of candidates, the under Quebec’s regime. Those who are Canadian province of Saskatchewan interested are well advised to apply early NEWSWEEK has just published a five page list of in as quota’s can be met quickly. The foldemand occupations in that province lowing are some of the highlights under to attract high skilled applicants to imthe newly announced Saskatchewan Inmigrate with no job offer requirement. ternational Skilled Worker Category efThose who follow Canadian Immigrafective December 2, 2013: tion law will note that this new SaskatchThe program is for those who wish to immigrate to Canada (Saskatchewan) ewan program comes after the Canadian and settle in Canada as permanent resiprovince of Quebec announced its own dents. It is not a recruitment for jobs. program giving priority to nurses a few BY HENRY MOYAL Applicants do not require an offer of months ago. As a side note, the Canaemployment or job offer. dian federal program only has a mere Applicants who are 18 – 50 years old will be allotted 24 occupations on its list. The Saskatchewan program however is widespread and gives priority to applicants points. A completed university degree of at least three years with experience in one of two hundred occupations. As well, the Saskatchewan program gives credit for work of study is preferred. Applicants do not require to have a relative living in experience within the last ten years whereas Quebec only Saskatchewan. However, those with close relatives will looks at one’s experience in the last five years. The program is underway with intake to commence be awarded bonus points. on January 2, 2014. While the Saskatchewan program Applicants must have proficiency in the English is very attractive it seems that the quota allotted will not language. French is not required and not relevant to

Saskatchewan. Must have a minimum of one year of work experience in a skilled position in the last ten years as a minimum threshold to apply. Work experience must be in one of two hundred listed occupations. A sample of the listed occupations are: Managers (all); Accountant and Auditors; Banking Managers; Administrative Officers; Financial Analysts; Secretaries; Engineers; Chemists; Architects; Land Surveyors; Mathematicians; Technicians and Technologists (all); Estimators; Physicians; Dentists; Dieticians; Physiotherapists; Pharmacists; Optometrists; Veterinarians; Nurses; Dental Hygienists; Opticians; Midwives; Licensed Practical Nurses; Teachers and instructors; Social workers; Librarians; Insurance Agents; Supervisors and Contractors; Plumbers; Electricians; and Carpenters Attorney Henry Moyal is a certified and licensed immigration lawyer in Toronto, Ontario. The above article is general advice only and is not intended to act as a legal document. For a free assessment visit www.moyal.com. Send questions to Attorney Moyal by email canada@moyal. com or call toll free at 1-888-847-2078.

Rich Chinese snap up Portugal property for ‘golden visa’ By Brigitte Hagemann

LISBON, December 3, 2013 (AFP) - A dream home in Portugal is becoming a golden ticket for wealthy Chinese, where property assets can also yield a prized residence permit allowing them to travel and do business across Europe. Portugal is rolling out the red carpet to discriminating Chinese buyers, where they are stabilizing property prices that have dropped by nearly a third during a deep recession that has accompanied the eurozone country’s international bailout. One year ago the Portugese government launched a program to attract wealthy investors, and the results are now beginning to bear fruit. For the purchase of a home or apartment of at least 500,000 euros ($700,000) which is to be kept for at least five years, investors will receive a Portuguese residence permit. Only obliged to spend seven days per year in Portugal, the holders of these residence permits may travel and work throughout Europe without a visa within the Schengen area of countries. Chinese account for the overwhelming majority of investors in the scheme, followed by Brazilians, Russians and Angolans. The scheme is similar to those in place in a number of other European nations, and data released last week by the foreign ministry showed that 356 of these residence permits issued so far have brought 222 million euros in investment. Now that the program is up and running, the increase in investment is expected to be swifter, said Luis Lima, head of the Portugese real estate agent association. More than 300 new requests for permits are under review, which would take the total investment to 600 million euros, he estimated, and “the requests are almost always accepted,” he said. In a single week last month, 15 million euros was invested, according to government figures, a rate which if sustained would take annual investment to nearly 800 million euros. And companies are adapting to the rich newcomers. Lisbon real estate agency Casa em Portugal hired Yansi Xu solely to better serve Chinese clients. “They are almost all businessmen. I have sold them seven houses in two months,” said the 34-year-old, taking a break from tapping frenetically at his computer. One client is a 35-year-old businessman who with his wife plans to move into a modern apartment near the Luz stadium in Lisbon’s Benfica neighborhood, so their young son can go to an English-language school in Lisbon.

The Chinese education system is “too demanding” for the child, Lima said, so the parents would prefer him to be educated in Europe. Another advantage, said the realtor, is space. “For 500,000 euros clients can buy an apartment with four rooms at 130 square meters (1,400 square feet) in Benfica, while in Beijing or Shanghai that is the price of a two-room space of 60 square meters,” he said. Gateway to Europe Most Chinese investors do not aim to make Portugal their home, but want to use the visa to conduct business in other European countries, which they can visit freely within the Schengen area of 26 countries, which excludes Britain and Ireland. “As a general rule, Chinese buyers are looking for new or renovated homes that they can rent out at a higher rate,” said lawyer Raquel Cuba Martins, whose firm helps Chinese clients navigate Portuguese bureaucracy. There are two other ways of obtaining a ‘golden visa’: investing a billion euros ($1.36 billion) in Portugal or creating 10 new jobs for its economy. But the property route, says Martins, is by far the most popular, with around 80 percent opting for it among her clients. Outside the capital, Chinese investors

are also attracted by Cascais, a seaside resort town near Lisbon, and houses on the southern Algarve coast. Offices on the Avenida de Liberdade, equivalent to the Champs-Elysees in Paris, are also highly sought-after, with prolonged haggling over the price an expected

part of the exchange. “Golden visas now represent 20 percent of our sales,” said Valdemir Lopes, commercial director at the estate agency ERA Expo, which offers apartments in the ultramodern Parque das Nacoes complex in Lisbon.

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Int’l media group pushes preemptive action vs media killings in PHL

MANILA, Dec 4 (Mabuhay) – Following the killing of a radio host in Bukidnon last Nov. 29, an international media watchdog group called on the Philippine government to take “preemptive” action against media killings. Reporters Without Borders (or RSF) said that while it welcomes the creation of a task force to probe the killing of Joash Dignos, authorities must take preventive security measures when a journalist is threatened. “We hail the creation of a special task group to catch the perpetrators and instigators of this murder, but the authorities must act preemptively to end violence against journalists. Dignos had been threatened for some time and should have had protection. A special task group could have been created after the first threats. Execution-style killings of journalists should not be regarded as inevitable,” the group said. Dignos was gunned down on Nov. 29 in Valencia City. RSF cited reports indicating that when Dignos went to the toilet, four unidentified men gunned him down and then left on motorcycles. It added Dignos, 48, hosted a show called Bombardier on dxGT Radio Abante. He had criticized authorities on his radio program and had received death threats. “We offer our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Dignos, whose murder has again highlighted the dangers to which journalists are exposed in the Philippines,” RSF said. It lamented the killing came about a week after the fourth anniversary of the Nov. 23, 2009 Maguindanao massacre. “Coming six days after the anniversary of the 2009 massacre of 32 journalists in nearby Maguindanao, now commemorated as International Day to End Impunity, the murder shows that the Philippine authorities still have a great deal to do to fulfill their duty to protect journalists and combat the continuing impunity,” RSF said. The RSF also noted a grenade was thrown at the radio station while Dignos’ program was being broadcast last June. It added the manner of the murder was similar to that of radio journalist Jesus Tabanao, who was shot five times by a man on a motorcycle in Cebu City on Sept. 14. The RSF noted the Philippines is 140th out of 179 countries in the 2013 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index. (MNS)

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Income tax refunds is property of bankruptcy estate unless exempt Let’s say that you decide to file So, as soon as you get that money for Chapter 7 relief this month to from Uncle Sam, cut me a check BANKRUPTCY discharge $100,000 of hospital for $9,166” the trustee says to you. bills and credit card debt. You Is it too late to save your refund? anticipate that you will have No. You can still save it. Your an income tax refund claim of lawyer is going to tell the trustee $10,000. What is the bankruptcy that he is going to amend schedule treatment of this refund? If your B to show the expected refund and Chapter 7 case is filed before you C to exempt the money so that the file your 2013 tax returns, the trustee will back off. But mind entire $10,000 becomes a receivyou, your lawyer can only take BY ATTY. able which is one of your personal this course of action if you still LAWRENCE YANG assets, just like a car. Your schedhave an applicable exemption. If ule B must disclose the $10,000 you do not have an exemption to as an expected income tax refund. If you want to use, you will have to pay the trustee $9,166 when keep the $10,000, and I presume that you do, you you receive your refund. must exempt the entire $10,000 in schedule C. If What if you argue that you filed a joint tax return you do not exempt the $10,000, you must give the with your wife who has not filed a joint bankruptcy $10,000 to the Chapter 7 trustee when you receive with you and that your income for the entire year of the refund from the IRS. But given the fact that 2012 was only $500? There was no federal income the USA is bankrupt, you might as well kiss your tax withheld from your income. This is a valid refund goodbye. argument because if you had practically no income If you are not able to exempt the $10,000 as a for 2012, all of the refund actually belongs to your receivable this month, you might consider delaying wife. State law defines the nature and extent of your Chapter 7 filing until after you file your tax a debtor’s interest in property. So whether or not returns and actually receive the $10,000. When you this argument will hold water depends on where receive the $10,000, you can use that money for the you reside. If you live here in California which is mortgage and other household expenses. In other a community property state, your wife’s refund is words, use it up so that it is no longer a receivable community property, so the refund also belongs to or an asset. Or, you can use the $10,000 to buy a life you as community property. In California, the fact insurance with cash value of the same amount and that you earned nothing for 2012 is irrelevant, unless use the applicable exemption of Section 703.140(b) you have a prenuptial agreement. If you have a pre(8). These steps are pre bankruptcy planning activi- nuptial agreement, the $10,000 belongs to your wife ties which are allowed by bankruptcy law. as her separate property and so the trustee cannot But what if you filed your Chapter 7 petition take it. If you do not live in a community property on December 1, 2012 and you forgot that you had state, like Indiana, your wife will keep the refund. a $10,000 refund for 2012? Your 341 A hearing is Lawrence Bautista Yang is a graduate of Georgetomorrow. At the hearing, the Chapter 7 trustee asks town University Law Center and has been in law you if you expect a tax refund for 2012. You scratch practice for thirty years. He specializes in bankyour head and finally say “yeah, I think a have a ruptcy, business and civil litigation and has handled little bit coming in.” The trustee presses you further more than five thousand successful bankruptcy cases “how much is a little bit?” “Just a little $10,000” in California. He speaks Tagalog and looks forward you manage to whisper out with tears streaming to discussing your case with you personally. Please down your cheeks. “Did you say $10,000? Well, call Angie, Barbara or Jess at (626) 284-1142 for an I own 91.66% of that $10,000 because that refund appointment at 1000 S Fremont Ave Bldg A-1 Suite corresponds to 11 months of your income in 2012. 1125 Unit 58 Alhambra, CA 91803.

Aquino to help Myanmar’s move to democracy MANILA, December 5, 2013 (AFP) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino lauded democratic reforms in Myanmar as he signed several bilateral agreements with his visiting counterpart Thein Sein Thursday. Thein Sein arrived at Manila’s presidential palace where he was accorded a red carpet welcome for his first visit to the Philippines. Aquino said the Philippines, which also made a transition from authoritarian rule to democracy in the 1980s, would be helping Myanmar in opening up its society. Formerly one of the most vocal critics within ASEAN of Yangon’s ruling junta, Aquino praised recent “historic developments” in Myanmar which include the holding of elections, release of political prisoners, dialogue with the opposition and opening up to foreign investment. “These herald a new chapter in Myanmar’s history. The Philippines supports these initiatives and offered assistance through capacity building, through technical cooperation,” said Aquino after a meeting with Thein Sein. The Philippines has offered to help Myanmar establish its human rights commission and training in areas like agriculture, entrepreneurship, fisheries, eco-tourism and “gender issues,” Aquino said. The two presidents also discussed peace efforts with rebel groups in their respective countries, Aquino said, adding that the Philippines would be appointing a resident defense attaché to further cooperation.

The leaders also oversaw the signing of several agreements including one that will allow Filipinos to enter Myanmar without a visa and another that will expand cooperation in renewable energy. Aquino thanked Myanmar for the aid it provided after Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines last month, flattening whole towns and leaving more than 7,500 dead or missing. Thein Sein, who will be bringing doctors and relief goods to typhoon-hit areas during his visit, said the damage suffered by Myanmar during the 2008 cyclone, made the country more aware of the suffering of the victims of such disasters. The Myanmar leader, who is on a three-day state visit, said he asked Aquino to help his country in areas like “health, education, economy and human resource development”, because it was lagging behind in these areas due to years of economic sanctions. He also said “there have never been any issues between Myanmar and the Philippines”, despite Aquino’s previous criticism of the junta. Thein Sein arrived in Manila on Wednesday and will return home on Friday after visiting the typhoon-stricken areas. Myanmar and the Philippines are both members of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Myanmar has undergone a series of reforms in recent years, including the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from years of house arrest and her election to parliament in by-elections held last year.

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What to do when you have a deportation hearing? marriage, you were given (PAUL CHOI is an CHOIce an alien number and a file immigration attorney, a IMMIGRATION CORNER was opened for you at frequent author of arthe USCIS. Congratulaticles on immigration tions. You are now on the law and a professor of radar of the USCIS and law in California. He you are on their computwill answer all immiers. If your application gration questions for for permanent residence free. Address questions gets denied, the USCIS to pchoi@pchoilaw. has the right to start procom or to Paul Choi, BY ATTY. PAUL CHOI ceedings to have your 5900 Sepulveda Blvd. removed, (deported.) Ste 303, Sherman Oaks, Deportation, thankCA 91411 or at 818 7142226. PHILIP ABRAMOWITZ is the fully, is not automatic. You have the right administrator of the law office. He can be in almost every case to a hearing before a judge before anything can be done to move reached at 818 324-8110.) Question I was petitioned by my wife you from this country. At this hearing, for permanent residence because she is a you have the right to be represented by an U.S. citizen. However, before we went to attorney of your choice but at your own the interview at the USCIS, we had some expense. (Unlike criminal cases, you do not arguments and fights and my wife moved have the right to appointed free counsel.) You or your attorney if you have one, out. At the time of the interview at the USCIS, my wife came with me but when the has the right to have the charges read to officer asked her questions about our living you and you have the right to agree to the arrangements her answers did not match charges or to deny or refute them. You also mine because we have been separated. The have in many cases the right to a defense officer became suspicious and pressured against deportation and these defenses, my wife to withdraw the petition for me or thankfully, are many. Among the defenses at the disposal to risk getting arrested. She got scared and signed something cancelling my petition. immigrants facing removal is the right I just now received a notice for a removal to apply for adjustment of status through hearing next month. I am very scared and marriage to a citizen or through any other don’t know what to do. I am still married petition that would make you immediately but now we are living together and my wife eligible to adjust status. (For example a is sorry for withdrawing my petition. Can petition by an adult son or daughter who I save my case and stop my deportation? is a citizen of the U.S.) You have the right to claim political What are my chances? What should I do? Is there any hope for my case? Do I asylum if you fear returning to your home country due to political, social or religious have to leave the country? Answer: Despite the recent news that persecution. You have the right to apply the USCIS is exercising what is called for cancellation of removal should you prosecutorial discretion to cancel some have resided here for ten years in the case deportation cases, the truth remains that the of a nonimmigrant, or less in the case of Dept. of Homeland Security is still actively an immigrant or an abused spouse or child. In your case, if you are still married to commencing removal hearings against person who are out of status and have come to a U.S. citizen and your wife is willing and the attention of the government. The best able to petition you again, you certainly way to come to the attention of the Dept may wish to consider applying for adjustof Homeland Security as an illegal alien is ment of status again. It is also possible either to get arrested for a crime or to file an sometimes to have your case dismissed application for an immigration benefit and on discretionary grounds. This is called have that benefit denied. When you filed prosecutorial discretion by the ICE attorfor permanent residence based upon your ney where the attorney may terminate your

Binay condemns Yemen bombing; assures OFW victims of assistance MANILA, Dec. 6 (Mabuhay) – Vice President Jejomar Binay on Friday condemned bombing in Yemen’s Ministry of Defense on Thursday, where at least 52 people were killed, including seven Filipino health workers. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) also reported that the attack injured 160 people, 11 are Filipinos. “I condemn the bombing in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. It was a senseless act that has no place in the modern world,” Binay, the Presidential Adviser on overseas Filipino workers (OFW) Concerns said in a press statement. Binay also supported the Department of Foreign Affairs’ call for Yemen to ensure the protection of foreign workers amid the security turmoil that the country is experiencing. He also called on the government of Yemen to give the necessary assistance to the kin of the blast victims. “I hope the Yemeni government will make sure that the families of the bombing casualties are extended all possible assistance they will be needing, particularly in the recovery and repatriation of the victims,” he said. For his part, Binay assured the families of the Filipino victims of the Philippine government’s aid. He also asked for prayers from the public, to help the families of victims recover from the unfortunate event. “I ask all Filipinos to pray for the victims and their families. Let us also pray that the situation in Yemen stabilizes so that other Filipinos in the country will remain safe,” said Binay. Seven Filipino hospital workers, including a doctor, were killed in the attack on Thursday at the Yemeni Defense Ministry Complex in Sanaa, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. DFA spokesperson and Assistant Secretary Raul Hernandez said the confirmation was reported to them by the Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia, through Ambassador Ezzedin Tago.

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Former boat people remember kindness of Filipinos after Vietnam war, donate $400,000 for typhoon relief efforts WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than three decades after the Philippines opened its doors to them, it was the turn of former refugees from Vietnam to return the favor – this time by donating more than P19 million to support relief efforts for victims of Typhoon Haiyan. On Monday, representatives of the Vietnamese Community visited the Philippine Embassy to extend their sympathies to the Filipino people and turn over the initial $440,554 that they were able to raise for the benefit of the more than 10 million affected by the typhoon. “This is a very touching gesture from a people who said they never forgot how they were treated kindly by Filipinos who instead of pushing them back to sea, even pulled their boats ashore to help them,” Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. said after receiving leaders of the Ben Em Dang Co Ta Foundation, the Saigon Broadcasting Television Network (SBTN), and the Vietnamese Refugees for Philippines (VR4P). Ambassador Cuisia said the Embassy received a check for $240,554 for the Philippine Red while another check for $200,000 was turned over to the USPhilippines Society, which is directly supporting typhoon relief efforts in the Central Philippines. Ambassador Cuisia said the donations were raised from members of the Vietnamese Community, particularly those who were among the more than 400,000 refugees or who had relatives who were accommodated at either the Philippine Refugee Processing Center in Bataan or the Philippine First Asylum Center in Palawan. According to Ambassador Cuisia the refugees who were accommodated in the Philippines were among the 1 million to 2 million Vietnamese estimated to have fled their country, mostly by boat, at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. More than 250,000 did not make it as they perished during their voyage across the sea. “It was a very dark time for all of us boat people. We had no other choice but to risk our lives to escape. Many of us had faced tragedies, hunger and even death during our quest towards freedom,” said Dieu Quyen Nguyen, Executive Director of the Ben Em Dang Co Ta Foundation. “However, we were able to conquer this battle because we were not alone. We had the help, the protection and the sponsorship

from different people, especially the people of the Philippines,” she said. “You had once shown us the meaning of love when we were just foreigners in your country. Now it is our opportunity to thank you for what you had done for us unconditionally.” “Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of the Philippines as they mourn so many loved ones and neighbors lost in the dreadful destruction of Typhoon Haiyan,” said SBTN Vice President Phu Do, who along with VR4P Project Leader Bach Mai Nguyen also turned over posters and a plaque of appreciation to Ambassador Cuisia. “We faced fears, had hopes and dreams. So are you now. We continue to be on your side for what can be done as relief efforts,” he added. “Please remember that you are not alone. The Vietnamese people are behind you,” said Dinh Doan, Chairman of the Vietnamese Community in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. Ambassador Cuisia was grateful for the generosity of the Vietnamese community. “Thank you for your kind gesture and concern for our people. I look at your gesture as one of kinship and solidarity with the Filipino people,” he said. “I am also grateful that our government in the past opened our doors to you,” Ambassador Cuisia added as he also recalled how the Philippine Government allowed Vietnamese refugees to settle in the country permanently after the closure of the processing centers in 1996. “We face huge challenges in reconstruction in the months and years ahead, but we are grateful to have you behind us.” Ambassador John Maisto, President of the US-Philippines Society, and Executive Director Hank Hendrickson accepted the $200,000 donation on behalf of the US-Philippines Society. “It is numbing and very gratifying to see this outpouring of gratitude. You, of all people, understand suffering. You fled oppression and you were welcomed into the Philippines, and you came to the United States,” Ambassador Maisto said. “Thank you not only for your help to the Philippines, but, as a US citizen, I would like to thank you for what you have contributed to our country. This is another example of how blessed we are as a country to have you here,” said Ambassador Maisto.

13-year-old Taiwanese-American school girl helps raise $17,430 for typhoon victims WASHINGTON, D.C. – A few days after Typhoon Haiyan wrought unimaginable havoc in the Philippines, 13-year-old MeiJade Hsu made an impassioned appeal to her compatriots in the Taiwanese-American Community for them to lend a helping hand. MeiJade’s call did not go unheeded and on Monday, the eighth grader from Maryland visited the Philippine Embassy to personally turn over to Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr., a check for $17,430 representing the amount she helped raise for typhoon victims in the Central Philippines. “A few weeks ago when Super Typhoon Haiyan smashed into the Philippines, I saw so many images of total destruction on the news,” MeiJade told Ambassador Cuisia . “I was so shocked most when I saw that many of those images were of children

without homes or food.” MeiJade said she decided to help by campaigning in her own local Taiwanese American Community so that they could all help and donate together. On 16 November, MeiJade made an emotional appeal for donations for typhoon victims during the annual Thanksgiving banquet of the Taiwanese Association of America-Greater Washington Chapter in Rockville, Maryland. She came prepared with empty letter envelopes. “Here in the capital of the US, where many people of all ethnicities have all they want and never experience natural disasters like a super typhoon, it is our job to support those who are not as fortunate,” she said. “I talked it over with my parents and we decided that, as Taiwanese-Americans, we should help.”

Donation from Vietnamese-Americans. Ambassador John Maisto, President of the USPhilippines Society, receives a check for $200,000 from Dieu Quyen Nguyen, Executive Director of the Ben Em Dang Co Ta Foundation. The amount was raised by members of the VietnameseAmerican Community in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area for typhoon victims in the Philippines. Witnessing the turnover, which took place at the Philippine Embassy on 2 December, is Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. Other photo shows a poster expressing solidarity with typhoon victims from the Thang Long Vietnamese Language School in the Metropolitan Washington D.C. area was presented to Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. during the call by Vietnamese-American Community leaders on 2 December. (Philippine Embassy Photo by Majalya Fernando)

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Human trafficking a worry in post-typhoon Philippines: US WASHINGTON, December 3, 2013 (AFP) - Thousands of women and children in the Philippines risk falling prey to human traffickers in the aftermath of last month’s catastrophic typhoon, lawmakers and the chief US aid agency warned Tuesday. A US congressman returning from a visit to the storm-ravaged island nation said that while Filipino authorities and US forces were helping vast numbers of storm victims, more attention was needed to thwart criminal opportunists taking advantage of the chaos after Super-typhoon Haiyan roared ashore. “The most vulnerable – women, children, the elderly, and those with special needs – always fare worst during disas-

ters,” Republican congressman Chris Smith, who led the three-member delegation to the disaster zone last week, told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. At particular risk of sex trafficking are vulnerable people “who over a longer period of time may have lost some hope,” said Smith. Such persons in the Philippines, many among the thousands transported out of the disaster zone to cities like the capital Manila, could fall victim to offers of work in Saudi Arabia or Korea, Smith said, only to find themselves with “an engraved invitation to a hell on Earth.” Washington considers the Philippines as not in full compliance with minimum standards for eliminating trafficking.

The State Department’s 2013 trafficking report describes it as a source country for sex-trafficking and forced labor, and that “child sex tourism remained a serious problem” there. The US Agency for International Development, which for years has worked with the government of the Philippines to reduce human trafficking, also sounded the alarm at the hearing. “We are watching this very closely,” Nancy Lindborg, the USAID’s assistant administrator for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, testified. “To protect the children of the central Philippines during this time of height-

ened vulnerability, the government of the Philippines and the international community will need to make every effort... to ensure and strengthen local and national protective services.” That includes creation of safe spaces for women and children, and programs that help identify, trace and reunify unaccompanied children, she said. Washington has committed nearly $60 million worth of typhoon-related aid to the Philippines, Lindborg said. More than 7,400 people died or remain missing in the aftermath of Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons on record.

Society of Seven with special guests in a benefit concert for the PHL at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts on Thu., Dec. 19 CERRITOS, CA – The City of Cerritos is sponsoring Society of Seven With Special Guests in a Benefit Concert for the Philippines to raise funds for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the American Red Cross to support its relief efforts for the Philippines. The benefit concert will be held at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA) on Thursday, December 19, 7:00 PM. Tickets cost $150, $100, $75, and $50 and 80 percent of the ticket cost is tax deductible. Tickets are available at the CCPA Ticket Office, at www.cerritoscenter.com, or by calling (562) 467-8818. The lobby will open at 6 p.m. so the audience can enjoy performances by the Ross Middle School Choir and the Whitney High School Club Kaibigan Dance Troupe in the Sierra Room. Seating for the pre-concert event is limited. Named one of the best acts in Las Vegas, Society Of Seven delivers performances full of “big voices, a little shtick and a lot of heart,” hails The Las Vegas ReviewJournal. The one-of-a-kind variety troupe is known for its trademark performances, which merge popular hits and Broadway show tunes in a flashy Las Vegas setting, accentuated by dancing, comedy, and celebrity impersonations. The celebrated Society of Seven, voted the “Best Show in Waikiki” by Honolulu magazine, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts in 2007. Society of Seven will be joined by Fili-

pino R&B and Soul songstress Lhey Bella. Award-winning Filipino Folk and Pop singer Nonoy Zuñiga will also perform. Zuñiga has garnered several prestigious honors, including Aliw Awards (the Philippines’ equivalent of the Grammys) for “Best Pop Male” vocalist and 1982 “Entertainer of the Year.” His acclaimed songs include Never Ever Say Goodbye, Doon Lang, and Kumusta ka. Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts Society of Seven With Special Guests in a Benefit Concert for the Philippines 2-2-2 Philippine Basketball Association Hall of Famer and Pepperdine University Hall of Famer Ricardo Brown will sign autographs and join fans for photos in the lobby. Crooks & Castles, a Cerritos-based business, will sell typhoon-relief T-shirts in the lobby. All proceeds from the meetand-greets with Brown and T-shirt sales will be donated to the American Red Cross. Cerritos Mayor Bruce W. Barrows said: “The people of the Philippines are enduring great hardships due to Typhoon Haiyan. Our hearts go out to those who have lost loved ones and their homes. This concert offers our community a way to come together to support the millions of people who are in need of help.” For tickets or more information about the benefit concert, call (562) 467-8818 or go to www.cerritoscenter.com.

The cast of “My Husband’s Lover” (seated from left) Victor Basa, Kuh Ledesma, Tom Rodriguez, Carla Abellana, Dennis Trillo and Jonalyn Viray pose with their fans and organizers shortly after arriving in the US for their concert tour. Aired over GMA 7, “My Husband’s Lover” is the highest rating teleserye during its season that ran from June to October, 2013. Running a total of ninety-four (94) episodes, with a very unique story, high quality production and stellar cast, the well-made series received rave reviews and has trended among Filipinos (and non-Filipinos, too!) worldwide. Aside from the theme song “One More Try”, Kuh and the rest of the cast of “My Husband’s Lover” will be rolling out a repertoire that will pay tribute to some of the greats in the music world who also made it big on the silver screen. This is one show that teleserye fans and lover of good music shouldn’t miss.

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Veterans to receive 1.5 percent cost-of-living increase New rates for compensation and pension benefits in 2014 WASHINGTON (Dec. 4, 2013) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Veterans, their families and survivors receiving disability compensation and pension benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs will receive a 1.5 percent cost-ofliving increase in their monthly payments beginning Jan. 1, 2014. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pleased there will be another cost-of-living increase for Veterans, their families and their survivors,â&#x20AC;? said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The increase expresses in a tangible way our Nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gratitude for the sacrifices made by our servicedisabled and wartime Veterans.â&#x20AC;? For the first time, payments will not be rounded down to the nearest dollar. Until this year, that was required by law. Veterans and survivors will see additional cents included in their monthly compensation benefit payment. For Veterans without dependents, the new compensation rates will range from $130.94 monthly for a disability rated at 10 percent to $2,858.24 monthly for 100 percent. The full rates are available on the Internet atwww.benefits.va.gov/compensation/rates-index.asp. The COLA increase also applies to disability and death pension

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Asian leaders to starve themselves for immigration reform LOS ANGELES – Joining a growing national movement to compel Congress to act on comprehensive immigration reform, staff at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles (Advancing Justice - LA) will be fasting in solidarity with a group of immigrant rights, faith, and labor leaders who embarked on their journey of sacrifice and witness 22 days ago in Washington, D.C. “Each day that our immigration system remains broken, there are 1,100 more families that are torn apart by deportations,” said Betty Hung, policy director at Advancing Justice - LA, and participant in the solidarity fast. “In solidarity with those, like D.J.

Yoon, who have gone without food for 22 days to call attention to this urgent moral crisis, I will fast on December 3 as an act of conscience. We call on Speaker [of the U.S. House of Representatives] Boehner to follow the dictates of conscience and allow a vote on immigration reform that is inclusive and provides a just path to citizenship, while also preserving and strengthening family reunification as the foundation of our immigration system.” As of December 3, 2013, many Asian Americans and Pacific Islander leaders have committed to join the effort led by the fast participants in Washington, D.C. to heighten the moral dilemma that the House of Representatives perpetuates in its refusal

to take action to reform the nation’s broken immigration system. They are also refocusing national attention on the thousands of families that are torn apart every day by the Obama administration’s aggressive enforcement of deportation policies. Just last week, the reality of immigrant families’ pain was courageously displayed when Ju Hong, an undocumented Korean youth, spoke out to the president of the United States during a speech he gave in San Francisco. Hong reminded the president that families need his help and that he can and should provide administrative relief to them while Congress stalls on providing a humane and inclusive solution. As a community that is 60 percent immigrant, Asian Americans will be profoundly affected by changes in immigration policy, whether it be reform in detention policies, alleviating the visa backlogs, or providing a pathway to citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants, 1.3 million of whom are of Asian and Pacific Islander descent. Advancing Justice - LA is committed to ensuring that every person in this country is treated with dignity and respect and that the value of keeping families together is upheld. Eight of its staff will be participating in the solidarity fast on December 3 and December 9. By doing so, they – as individuals and as members of Advancing Justice – will be sending a strong message to Congress and the administration that immigrants and families are the backbone of this country,

that 1,100 families are daily torn apart, and that millions more families await overseas, many for decades, to reunite with their loved ones. The following staff will be participating in this solidarity fast: December 2, 2013: Dan Ichinose (Project Director, Demographic Research Project) December 3, 2013: Betty Hung (Policy Director), Joanna Lee (Senior Research Analyst), Karin Wang (Vice President of Programs and Communications), Mark Yoshida (Staff Attorney) December 9, 2013: Eugene Lee (Project Director, Voting Rights), Laboni Hoq (Litigation Director), Meeran Mahmud (Staff Attorney) Asian Americans Advancing Justice-LA will continue to advocate for policies that keep families together and provide opportunities for better lives for immigrants and their families, in the belief that these aims are the true purpose of immigration reform. Immigration reform is not about a piece of legislation but about people’s lives. Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles is the nation’s largest Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) legal and civil rights organization and serves more than 15,000 individuals and organizations every year. Founded in 1983 as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Advancing Justice - LA’s mission is to advocate for civil rights, provide legal services and education, and build coalitions to positively influence and impact Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and to create a more equitable and harmonious society.

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Thinking about one’s selling some of the asBARRISTER'S demise is not something sets to satisfy the estate’s people want to spend obligations and to divide CORNER time thinking about. the estate according to the However reality is that will or the intestate line we all have to face this of succession if there is one day. It is just a matno will. The entire proter of whether you depart cess could take up years this world prepared or specially if certain benunprepared. eficiaries and creditors If you pass away file certain claims. The with at least $150,000 probate court file would BY KENNETH REYES in gross assets and you be public record. & DARRICK TAN do not have a living trust On the other hand if (even if you have a will), you have a living trust, your beneficiaries would have to open up your estate can avoid the entire court a probate case before title to the assets system and court supervision. In certain can pass to them. When I say gross asset, situations, the process may also save you I mean regardless of how much debt you estate taxes which may be substantial if owe on them. For example if you own a your assets exceed a certain threshold. house valued at $350,000 at the time of Basically, you and/or your spouse can be your death, it does not matter that your named as the initial trustee of the trust mortgage balance is $300,000, a probate while you are alive. The trustee is the case has to be opened in order to pass title person who manages the trust. This means to that property. The same is true with you retain control of all your assets the other types of assets such as owning a same way as if you never had a trust. For business, a professional practice, bonds, revocable trusts, you can later on, at any equities, etc. This is a very low threshold time during your lifetime, revoke the entire to exceed specially in California where trust if you change your mind. real estate prices, even after the economic The assets held in your living trust will crisis, remains in the upper end of the curve be managed by the trustee and distributed among the 50 states. according to your directions without court Commencing a probate case is expen- supervision and involvement when you sive and a very slow process. Someone pass away. This can save your heirs time qualified will have to file a Petition with and money. Since the trust would not be the probate court to have someone ap- under the direct management of the probate pointed as executor or administrator. The court, your assets and their value and your Petitioner’s attorney gets paid a statutory beneficiaries’ identities would not become rate for attorney’s fees commencing with a public record. Your heirs and beneficia4% of the gross estate. The probate referee ries would still have to be notified about will have to be paid for appraising the as- the living trust and advised, among other sets of the estate. If it is necessary to post things, of their right to obtain a copy of bond, the premium on the bond would the trust. have to be paid as well. There is also the If you are contemplating setting up a cost of administering the estate such as See KEN REYES, page 29

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I’m in deportation proceedings. Now what? tacted. The requirement Question: I have been IMMIGRATION that the alien must provide served with a Notice to TODAY the Attorney General imAppear and been put into mediately with a writRemoval Proceedings. ten record of any change What do I do? of the alien’s address or Answer: The Removal telephone number and the Proceedings begins with consequences of failure to issuance of a Notice to provide address and teleAppear and there are very phone information. specific requirements that Next, there must be the must be included in NoBY BRIAN D. LERNER time and place at which tice to Appear. If they are the proceedings will be not included, you can try held and the consequences of the failure, to ask for proceedings to be terminated. Question: What type of requirements except under exceptional circumstances, are supposed to be in the Notice to Appear? to appear at such proceedings. There must be listed the time and place Answer: The following items are required: In removal proceedings under of the proceedings. Question: Will an attorney be appointed section 240, written notice (in this section referred to as a “notice to appear”) for me? Answer: No. However, you do have the shall be given in person to the foreign national (or, if personal service is not “right” to have an immigration attorney of practicable, through service by mail to the your choosing. Therefore, the first hearing alien or to the alien’s counsel of record, if will usually be continued in order to give any). Thus, the first item is that it must be you an opportunity in which to obtain an properly served on the foreign national in immigration attorney to help you. Question: Should I admit the crimes order to give notice of the hearing. listed on the Notice to Appear? It must specify the following: Answer: You should never admit the “(A) The nature of the proceedings crimes. It is the burden of the government against the alien. “(B) The legal authority under to prove that you are removable by clear which the proceedings are con- and convincing evidence and that burden cannot be shifted because you simply admit ducted. “(C) The acts or conduct alleged to be to the crime. Question: What about the grounds of in violation of law. removability? Should I admit to those as “(D) The charges against the alien well? and the statutory provisions alleged Answer: First, you should make certain to have been violated. that you have an immigration attorney who “(E) The alien may be represented is familiar and an expert in deportation by counsel and the alien will be pro- and removal proceedings. In any event, vided (i) a period of time to secure counsel some items of removability you could not “(F)(i) The requirement that the alien realistically deny. However, many you must immediately provide (or have pro- can deny. For example, if you are being vided) the Attorney General with a written charged as an aggravated felon, there is a record of an address and telephone number possibility that you can fight this and show (if any) at which the alien may be con- you are wrongfully being classified as an

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Reyes, P.C. This article is not a solicitation. Attorney Kenneth Ursua Reyes is a Certified Family Law Specialist. He was President of the Philippine American Bar Association. He is a member of both the Family law section and Immigration law section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He is a graduate of Southwestern University Law School in Los Angeles and California State University, San Bernardino School of Business Administration. He has extensive CPA experience prior to law practice. LAW OFFICES OF KENNETH REYES, P.C. is located at 3699 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA, 90010. Tel. (213) 388-1611 or e-mail kureyeslaw@gmail.com or visit our website at Kenreyeslaw.com

Archdiose of L.A. and PHL Consulate hold mass for typhoon victims Los Angeles, December 3, 2013 – The Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Philippine Consulate General hold a memorial mass and prayer service “Prayerful Moment of Love and Hope” at the St. Basil’s Church across the Philippine Consulate General on 26 November 2013. This special memorial mass was to remember victims of Typhoon Yolanda/ Haiyan that killed more than 5,000 people and displaced thousands of families. The mass was led by Most Rev. Bishop Oscar Solis, assisted by 33 priests from different parishes in Southern California and the Knights of Columbus. Bishop Solis informed parishioners of ongoing relief operations by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and asked the public to continue praying for the victims of the Bohol earthquake and Typhoon Yolanda. Consul General De La Vega thanked the religious community, particularly Most Rev. Bishop and the Filipino Ministry Council for organizing the event. She expressed the gratitude of the Philippine Government and the Filipino people for the overwhelming solidarity, support and sympathy for the victims and survivors of Typhoon Yolanda.

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De La Hoya, Trinidad among new Boxing Hall of Famers CANASTOTA, December 4, 2013 (AFP) – Unbeaten Welsh star Joe Calzaghe, US icon Oscar “Golden Boy” De La Hoya and Puerto Rico’s Felix Trinidad were among those named Wednesday as 2014 inductees into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. The induction ceremonies will be at the upstate New York facility on June 8. Others to be inducted include promoter Barry Hearn, referee Richard Steele, photographer Neil Leifer, journalist Graham Houston and posthumous honorees Tom

Allen, Mike O’Dowd, Charles Ledoux, George Chaney and referee Eugene Corri. Calzaghe, 41, finished a 15-year pro career 46-0 with 32 knockouts and defended his super middleweight crown 21 times. In his final fights at light heavyweight, Calzaghe dispatched Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones. “I’m so excited,” Calzaghe said. “I’m very proud and humbled. I think it’s amazing to be inducted. This is a massive, massive honor, just fantastic. To be up there with all the legends is the ultimate honor

for me.” De La Hoya, 41, finished 39-6 with 30 knockouts after claiming the 1992 Barcelona Olympic lightweight gold medal. He became a world champion in five weight classes from lightweight to middleweight. After losing a split decision to Floyd Mayweather in 2007 and being stopped in the eighth round by Manny Pacquiao in 2008, de la Hoya retired to devote himself full time to Golden Boy Promotions, which he began in 2002 had quickly made into a major force in boxing. “I’m honored and appreciative to be chosen,” De la Hoya said. “This is the dream of everyone who puts on a pair of gloves and steps between the ropes. “To know THAT I will be in the Hall of fame with the greats of this sport is humbling but it has also put a smile on my

face that isn’t coming off any time soon.” Trinidad, 40, finished 42-3 with 35 knockouts, captured the International Boxing Federational welterweight title in his 20th pro fight and made 15 successful title defenses, 12 of them by knockouts. Among his victims were de la Hoya and Pernell Whitaker. Trinidad took two world titles at light middleweight and in 2001 moved up to claim the World Boxing Association middleweight crown. His only defeats came at the hands of Hopkins and in his final two fights, to Winky Wright and Jones. “This is tremendous news,” Trinidad said. “This is a great honor for me. I’m extremely happy to be inducted with all the Puerto Rican boxers already in the Hall of Fame. This is the biggest triumph in my career.”

Rodman heading back to N.Korea to train basketball team Dualsport Philippines members pass hat for typhoon victims: Dualsport Philippines raised $579.90 cash last November 30 during the awards night held at “The Orleans” Las Vegas NV. Jill Flanders, the daughter of Paul Flanders who is the Los Angeles Barstow to Vegas LAB2V organizer 30 years ago, helped tremendously by making rounds to every table at the event. A $100 was also donated online on our behalf a week before the event giving a total of $679.90. All proceeds will be given to the Red Cross directly to the Philippines courtesy of Joey Almeda one of the dualsport riders who came from the Philippines to participate in the LAB2V.The Pastor brothers, Chito and Joel, along with Joey Almeda from Manila, Zaldy Luneta from Canada, Bing Orcino, Rene Marquez, Pocholo Neito, dedicated 400 miles of offroad/ dualsport motorcycle riding to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda to raise awareness that help will be needed in the recovery and rehabilitation of the typhoon ravished areas of the Visayas region. Photo: Albert Vargas

LONDON, December 4, 2013 (AFP) – Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, the new friend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, will this month make a third visit to the reclusive state to train its basketball team, a source involved in the trip said Wednesday. The heavily tattooed former Chicago Bulls star is organising friendship exhibition games between North Korea and exNBA players in January. “We’re going back, most likely on December 18-21. Dennis is going to train the North Korean team and get them ready for the big match in January,” said Rory Scott, a spokesman for the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, which is sponsoring the games. “We’ll be announcing the details of the

US NBA players that we’re taking out in January. He’s going to spend a few days training the North Korean team,” Scott told AFP. “I’m going with him, we’re taking a documentary crew.” Rodman announced in September that the first game will be on January 8, Kim’s birthday, and the other on January 10. Rodman has struck up an extraordinary friendship with Kim since making his first trip to North Korea in March, when he declared the young ruler a “friend for life”. Kim, who was educated in Switzerland, is reported to be a huge fan of basketball and especially of the Chicago Bulls, with whom Rodman won three NBA titles alongside Michael Jordan in the 1990s.

Phelps keeps mum on $1-M Rio question SAO PAULO, December 4, 2013 (AFP) – Swimming legend Michael Phelps, winner of most medals in Olympic history, would not be drawn Wednesday on whether he may come out of retirement for the 2016 Rio Games. Dubbing the issue the “million-dollar question,” the 28-year-old, winner of 18 gold, two silver and two bronze medals, was visiting Brazil to shoot a commercial with football legend Pele but dodged making any commitment on a possible return to the Olympic arena. “I don’t know what’s gonna happen in three years. I don’t even know what is gonna happen tomorrow,” said Phelps when pressed on a possible return to top competition. It’s “the million-dollar question,” he laughed. Phelps, who landed four golds at the 2012 London Games, has been in training in Baltimore and in June top rival Ryan Lochte intimated there could yet be an Olympic rematch between them. Phelps said cryptically that “I’ve said 100 times if I feel like coming back ... I could. But I’m not saying I am going to.” Phelps’ long-term coach Bob Bowman fueled speculation of a comeback for the star last month by revealing the multiple champion signed up for drug-testing in May. That would enable him to return to competition in March and Bowman said he believed Phelps had it in him to return to the top of the sport.

But Phelps would only say he was looking to get back into shape generally and did not know if that would lead to a top-level return. On his last visit to Rio eight months ago Phelps gave swimming tips to children from the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro. Phelps said that had been an enjoyable experience and was delighted to see young fans turn out to greet him and Pele in Sao Paulo. “I always enjoy interacting with kids, and to be with a legend like Pele makes it even better. The kids were so engaged when Pele walked into the room. “Being healthy and staying active is very important to me and I want to teach the kids the same message.” LOOKING FOR A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD?

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Facing the reality of debt problems is never easy Most of my clients torney, I have seen a lot MINDING YOUR know that they should of clients who just won’t FINANCES pay attention to their do anything until they’ve finances, especially debt hit rock bottom and have problems that won’t just lost everything. go away. They know What I have seen is that they need to get help most people are not ready and that if they don’t do to face their financial anything about their sittruth. The mere thought of doing something about uation, things are bound their debt problems proto get worse. They could BY ATTY. RAY BULAON duces a painful pit in their be facing foreclosure, stomach- so they become have an imminent wage paralyzed. Instead of takgarnishment or maybe they’re slowly depleting their savings and ing action, they procrastinate as if things their assets while trying to dig themselves will get better with their inaction. They wouldn’t even the open letters they get in out of the financial hole that they’re in. Over the years, I’ve always wondered: the mail thinking that it may be another “Why don’t these people take immediate collection letter or a lawsuit. They let the action to protect themselves so that they credit card statements sit there and pretty can improve their situation?” In my 15 soon they don’t even know how much they years of experience as a bankruptcy at- owe anymore. Their financial situation has

spiraled out of control and they don’t know how to fix it. Of course, this doesn’t make any sense because logically, they know that bills will not go away and the numbers don’t change. But people who are seriously in debt simply want to avoid the truth because dealing with reality seems too painful. Do you know anyone in this situation, perhaps, you? I don’t want to pass judgment on anyone and I know how difficult it is to be facing financial challenges (I’ve been there once in my life). But let me tell you that the only way you will ever overcome your fear is by facing it. You need to open those letters. You need to review the bills. You need to look at your income and your expenses and figure out where your money is going every month. You may feel that once you face the financial truth, it will be hopeless anyway and there is nothing you can do to change

it. But let me assure you that even if you had to file bankruptcy in order to get out of debt, avoiding the truth will only keep you stuck where you are, unable to move forward. The truth may seem awful but unless you deal with the truth and look at your options, you will never be able to take needed action to correct the situation. If you find yourself overwhelmed with debt problems, I’d like to help you. To schedule a free consultation, please call Toll-Free 1-866-477-7772. We have offices in Glendale, Cerritos, West Covina, Valencia & Riverside. (None of the information herein is intended to give legal advice for any specific situation. Atty. Ray Bulaon has successfully helped over 5,000 clients in getting out of debt. For a free attorney evaluation of your situation, please call Ray Bulaon Law Offices at TOLL FREE 1-866-477-7772).

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survey respondents toward the outlook for real estate business prospects. Prospects for almost all types of real estate businesses were rated more optimistically for 2014 than in last year’s survey for 2013. The improvement in business outlook was most significant for homebuilders, for whom prospects are not only expected to be significantly better than last year but whose prospects have more than doubled in the past two years. As a result, homebuilders have moved from the weakest real estate businesses in 2012 to one of the strongest in 2014. Business prospects for commercial bank real estate lenders and commercial mortgage–backed securities (CMBS) lenders and issuers also improved noticeably. Is this finally the trends that I have been waiting for all along, the Construction jobs coming back to California and nationwide,

this will be the strong hold to our full blasting economic recovery. I am still on pins and needles due to the politics that is being played out. Somehow I think that the political tug-O-war is really because of pride and personality differences mainly between the two political parties. Sadly we are in the middle with almost no pull on either weights. Hopefully it will settle so we can all move on and get on with our future here with the Green back dollars. Mostly everyone is still very bullish on our economy and lets hope nothing changes. Thanks so much for your inquiries and comments, please call me for your refinance or purchase needs for your Real Estate Mortgages or call for inquiries on your Real Estate Sales questions. Please Call Ken at 562-508-7048 or write to kennethgo@ verizon.net

We’ve seen the loestate investment (energy, MORTGAGE UPDATE technology, health care and cal residential housing market rebound. Can the biological research, and, to commercial real estate some extent, education and market be far behind? financial services) – solid With Orange County corporate profits, and a leading the recovery? recovery in the housing I recently read an market. These tailwinds encouraging summary are expected to trump the of real estate scene in headwinds, which include the annual “Emerging a “stubbornly high” unTrends” commercial real employment rate, uncerBY KEN GO estate outlook compiled tainty over government by the Urban Land Instiregulation and fiscal poltute trade group and the PwC consultancy. icy, and concern about the rising cost of My trusty spreadsheet tells me that it’s the debt capital. brightest forecast by this group on the local The expected breadth of the recovery is market in eight years. illustrated by the view of Emerging Trends This latest outlook gives Orange County, its highest average grade – 6.54 – since 2006’s 7.13, and the county was one of 11 U.S. market with “good or better” investment prospects. All told, this report scores Orange County as the 10th best market for P commercial real estate in 2014 out of 51 ranked - the same level as the 2013 forecast. The real estate recovery will gain momentum in 2014. This should be good news “Sapagkat, Mahalaga ang Sigurado to an industry that has experienced a recovery of fundamentals that has been much slower than it is used to after a recession. The year 2014 may well be the year that the real estate markets “recovers from the recovery.” Real estate professionals interviewed for Emerging Trends expect growth to be sufficient to generate consistent and growing demand for commercial real estate across all property types. As one fund manager says of the moderate 2.5 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the second quarter of 2013, “That is not huge, but it is enough to create demand for real estate product—that 2 boxes minimum is, demand for space and improving rent – because at the same time there’s almost no Limited time only new supply. It’s a sweet spot for real estate.” An economist notes, “We have a new paradigm here. It is not the kind of recovery we have seen before with 250,000 new jobs a month. It’s a recovery with 100,000-plus jobs a month.” “With the economy in a position where the tailwinds are now stronger than the prevailing headwinds, 2014 should be a year when we see real estate fundamentals improve in sectors beyond the already very healthy multifamily sector – and in a number of markets – to a point where we could see above inflation rate rental growth,” says a fund manager. According SUBUKAN SA PRESYO...MANATILI SA SERBISYO to Emerging Trends 2014 interviewees, the “SERVING THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY SINCE 1992” tailwinds include “good if not great” job *Price applicable within LA County only growth – in industries that are, by no small coincidence, magnets for commercial real

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Aquino on gay marriage: Is that desirable for a child? MANILA, Dec 3 (Mabuhay) – Is that desirable for a child? President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday said this is one of the things one has to consider before giving one’s approval to gay marriage. During a forum at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza, Aquino was asked whether he was in favor of gay marriage, which he initially refused to comment on. “Can I avoid na lang answering [that]? I made a comment, which I think was appropriate, and I made a mortal enemy of somebody because of that comment,” he said without elaborating. But he later explained that although he knows that human rights should be universal, there are other options which should be considered. “Parang if we go into gay marriages, then siyempre, the next step will be adoption and I don’t know if… I still have to look at it from the child’s perspective,” he said. “Is that something that is desirable in an environment for a child? Yung in understanding the world to have—to induce more confusion. And that particular comment got me into the crosshairs of an individual who, up to this day, hates me for saying it,” he added. Aside from gay marriage, Aquino was also asked about his stand regarding the ordination of women, a topic which he said he was not “qualified” to answer. But he said he has seen nuns who have become leaders of parishes and “who really made the Kingdom of God more apparent” by their activities and their presence, even more so than some titled individuals. He likewise said that his experience with women in public service has been “very, very positive.” (MNS)

Obama: ‘I’m not allowed an iPhone’ WASHINGTON, December 4, 2013 (AFP) – US President Barack Obama admitted Wednesday he was not allowed to have an iPhone owing to security fears – explaining why he is sometimes seen with a bulky super secure Blackberry. “I’m not allowed for security reasons to have an iPhone,” Obama told a group of young people at the White House for an event promoting his health care law. He added that his daughters Sasha and Malia spend a lot of time on their iPhones. Blackberry is renowned for its strong security encryption – one reason why it is still popular in official Washington, even as the device loses market share to other smart phones including

those manufactured by Apple. The security measures on Obama’s specially adapted Blackberry came under new scrutiny this year following claims that US spies had eavesdropped on the mobile phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Within days of being inaugurated president, Obama won his battle with the Secret Service to hang on to his Blackberry, despite fears that it was vulnerable to being hacked, would give away his whereabouts and amid worries that anything he writes could eventually be grist for congressional investigations. He has been seen scrolling down his messages in his limousine as he travels around.

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Asian coalition joins growing network of fasters for immigration reform Community leaders from around the country join ‘Fast for Families’ effort The National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) will fast this week in solidarity with faith, labor, immigrant rights, and community advocates in a call for commonsense reforms to our broken immigration system. Board members, staff, and allies of National CAPACD will fast for 24 hour periods throughout the week in support of the “Fast for Families” advocates currently fasting on the National Mall. Joining the “Fast for Families” this week will be: Hyeok Kim, Interim ICDA (Seattle, WA) Michael Byun, Asian Services in Action (Cleveland, OH) Michelle Kauhane, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (Honolulu, HI) Maiko Winkler-Chin, Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority (Seattle, WA) Sefa Aina, Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (Pomona, CA) Joni Byun, Nakatomi and Associates (Los Angeles, CA) Dean Matsubayashi, Little Tokyo Service Center CDC (Los Angeles, CA) Lua Pritchard, Asian Pacific Cultural Center (Tacoma, WA) Lynette Jung Lee (Oakland, CA) Doua Thor (Washington, DC) Lisa Hasegawa (Washington, DC) Among the original fasters is Dae Joong Yoon, Executive Director of the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC). While his fast concluded this morning after 22 days, Dae Joong has passed the torch to NAKASEC board member Reverend Eun-sang Lee, who will continue to “Fast for Families” alongside a growing number of advocates and community leaders around the country. “I want to thank my fellow brothers and sisters

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US auto sales hit fastest pace since 2007 CHICAGO, December 3, 2013 (AFP) – US auto sales clocked their fastest pace in nearly seven years as holiday deals boosted already strong demand, industry data showed Tuesday. The auto industry has been steadily climbing out of a deep and painful downturn after the 2008 financial crisis sent sales spiraling to levels not seen in decades. Improved consumer confidence, economic growth and the need to replace ageing vehicles has fueled growth which accelerated this year. But the promotions offered in Thanksgiving ‘Black Friday’ sales gave sales an unexpectedly big boost in November. Total industry sales jumped nine percent from November 2012 and hit an annualized pace of 16.4 million vehicles, according to Autodata. That’s up substantially from the 15.2 million pace set in October and the fastest

pace since February 2007. “Industry sales in November picked up after Thanksgiving contributing to the best sales pace of the year,” said Toyota’s Bill Fay. “Showroom traffic surged over the holiday weekend for Toyota, indicating good momentum we expect to continue through the end of the year and into 2014.” The strong figures in November weren’t only due to great bargains, General Motors said. Economic factors like a booming stock market, combined with enticing new product offerings, point to sustainable gains. “We feel very good about the direction of the economy and our own momentum,” GM sales chief Kurt McNeil said in a conference call. GM sales were up 14 percent at 212,060, the best November results in six years. Toyota sales rose 10 percent to 178,044 vehicles in November.

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CHICAGO, December 3, 2013 (AFP) - The city of Detroit won judicial approval to move forward with the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history Tuesday despite objections from city workers fearful of losing their pensions. Saddled with more than $18 billion in debt and a tax base depleted by decades of population loss and urban blight, the birthplace of the US auto industry has been so strapped for cash it can’t even keep the street lights on. It filed for bankruptcy protection in July, the largest US city ever to do so. After lengthy initial hearings and weeks of deliberation, Judge Steven Rhodes ruled Detroit is eligible to restructure its debt and liabilities under Chapter 9 of the US bankruptcy code. The decision was immediately appealed by the city’s largest public sector union. It was hailed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder as the only “viable” way for Detroit to “stay on the path toward a brighter future.” “There will be other difficult decisions as we work through this process,” Snyder said in a statement. “But Michigan and Detroit are resilient and are the comeback stories in the country. Working together we can and will make sure that reinvention happens.” In an unusual move, Rhodes explained his decision in a court hearing prior to releasing his complex 140-page opinion. Bankruptcy was a “foregone conclusion” and should have happened years ago, Rhodes told the packed courtroom.

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