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Abe’s agenda challenged as scandals mount

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OKYO—Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s honeymoon with Japan’s voters is fading as scandals and a slowing economic recovery take a toll on his popularity and hinder progress on his policy agenda.

The resignations of two ministers in Abe’s newly reshuffled Cabinet and reports that political funds of the replacement trade minister were used in a visit to a sex show bar were just the start.

Those reports got people digging into the riches to be found in publicly available political-funding disclosures.

They show some lawmakers spending hundreds, and often thousands, of dollars a night on visits to restaurants and mahjong parlors, while ordinary households are struggling to keep up with rising costs for food, heating and other necessities.

The most recent opinion polls show Abe’s approval ratings slipping to around 50 percent. They had mostly been in the 60s since 2013.

The controversies are unwelcome distraction at a time of sharpening divisions within the ruling party over whether Abe should press ahead with a sales-tax hike next year that is needed to help fi x the tattered finances of the world’s third-largest economy.

News of possible election law and political funding violations forced the resignations last week of Abe’s justice and trade ministers, both among the five women who had just taken office in the early September Cabinet reshuffle that showcased Abe’s commitment to stronger roles for women in leadership.

“It’s a serious setback. So much of the Abe Cabinet’s shine was due to its aura of invincibility and inevitability,” said Michael Cucek, a Tokyobased analyst and fellow at Temple University Japan.

Troubles over campaign funds and related issues have long contributed to Japan’s famous “revolving door” politics. Abe’s first term as prime minister, in 2006-2007, ended

when he was driven from office by scandals and health problems after just a year.

Abe got a rare second chance when his Liberal Democrats regained power from the Democratic Party in December 2012. Since then, the LDP’s coalition with the Buddhist-affiliated Komeito, or Clean Government Party, has established majorities in both houses of the parliament.

This time around, Abe has cultivated a confident, relaxed style of leadership, repeatedly declaring “Japan is back!” while his chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga endeavors to keep their gaffe-prone allies more or less in line.

“Until this crisis it looked pretty certain he was just going to cruise,” Cucek said. “Now that politics as usual has returned, we could see the same sort of decay that we’ve seen in the past,” he said.

Trade Minister Yuko Obuchi, a rising star and daughter of a former prime minister, resigned on October 20 after admitting to discrepancies in reporting of her political funding.

Justice Minister Midori Matsushima also quit after the opposition filed a criminal complaint alleging that the distribution of uchiwa, or hand-held fans, to her supporters violated a ban on gift-giving.

Obuchi’s successor as trade minister, Yoichi Miyazawa, then drew fire over an ¥18,230 ($170) tab listed in his political funds accounting for an evening’s entertainment at a sadism and masochism themed establishment in his home city of Hiroshima.

Miyazawa and his staff say he did not visit the club himself, and the money was paid back.

The next flap was over Miyazawa’s ownership, as the minister responsible for the power industry, of

IN this September 3 file photo, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front row, center) and his new Cabinet members, Trade Minister Yuko Obuchi (front, left), Internal Affairs Minister Sanae Takaichi (front, right), Minister in charge of Promoting Women Haruko Arimura (center, behind Abe), Justice Minister Midori Matsushima (top, second from right) and Minister in charge of Japanese Abducted by North Korea Eriko Yamatani (top, right) walk for a group photo session following the first Cabinet meeting at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo. Obuchi was peppered with questions in parliament on October 16 over her political spending in the latest scandal involving female members in Abe’s Cabinet. Three other female ministers have been questioned over campaign giveaways, gaffes or alleged links to racist groups. AP/EUGENE HOSHIKO

shares in Tokyo Electric Power Co., whose Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant suffered meltdowns after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Miyazawa said on Friday he had put the shares, worth about $2,000, in a trust.

Over the weekend, reports noted that political funds of Taro Aso, a former prime minister who is now finance minister, were used to pay monthly tabs of up to ¥1.5 million ($14,000) to a mahjong parlor in the Roppongi nightclub district.

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such issues in the parliament is slowing work on the main priorities of the current Diet session: policies to revive languishing rural regions and increase female employment to help compensate for the aging and shrinking of the overall work force.

“Abe is perceived to have made a mess of the early September reshuffle and is faced longer term with added popular doubt given a timetable of awkward policy decisions,” said Stephen Church, an analyst at Société Générale in Tokyo.

But Abe’s strongest asset may be the weakness of the highly splin-

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BRAZIL’S reelected President Dilma Rousseff blows kisses to supporters as she celebrates her victory at a hotel in Brasilia, Brazil, on Sunday. AP/ERALDO PERES

required to jump-start a stalled economy.

“We’ve never seen an election that’s been this divisive,” said Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. “The things said during the campaign, by both sides, will make it very difficult for the nation to come together quickly.”

Rousseff has steep challenges on both the economic and political fronts.

Brazil’s economy fell into technical recession in August. It faces the internal pressure of lessening consumer demand and rising inflation, as well as the external

tered opposition. The Democratic Party’s rating, which had been hovering around 5 percent, has risen but remains in the single digits in most polls.

Abe appears undecided over whether to press ahead with a 2-percentage-point increase to the national sales tax that is needed to offset a public debt that stands at about 250 percent of GDP. The economy contracted 7.1 percent in April to June after a three-point increase in the sales tax on April 1.

Instead of delaying the tax hike for the sake of political expediency,

Abe will likely go ahead with it as promised before the end of the year but also announce extra economic stimulus, said Masamichi Adachi, an analyst at JPMorgan in Tokyo.

The bigger concern is whether Abe will take unpopular measures to help restore the country’s waning competitiveness and ensure sustained growth after two decades of malaise.

Up to now, progress on those tasks has lagged, Adachi said.

“The process is going ahead but still quite slow and not sufficient to overcome the challenges this country is facing,” he said.

dilemma of China’s growth slowing faster than expected.

Brazil’s economic expansion in the past decade was built on the spending power of a newly minted middle class and the voracious Chinese appetite for commodities like iron ore and soy.

Then there is the matter of Brazil’s “lottery ticket” and “passport” to the future, as former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva labeled massive offshore oil fields discovered in recent years.

State-run oil company Petrobras so far hasn’t made good on its potential to tap the deep-water riches and create substantial

new revenue for the government. Many blame Rousseff ’s interventions in the oil company, such as forcing it to keep gasoline cheap to battle inflation, as hamstringing its ability to invest and grow.

“The government is going to have less capacity to deliver what the people are asking for in terms of better public services,” Sotero said. “The political fighting and fiscal problems paint the picture of a government that will have less to spend.”

Now, Petrobras is at the center of a kickback scandal, and an emboldened opposition is likely to push even more aggressively for investigations that could be politically damaging to Rousseff ’s government.

A convicted money launderer who is cooperating with federal investigators in exchange for a lighter sentence said that the ruling party benefited from the scheme and that Rousseff had direct knowledge of it, though he’s so far offered no proof. The president strongly denied the accusations.

In a Monday night interview with Globo TV, Rousseff said that an investigation must occur.

“Brazilian society demands the position of ending the systematic impunity that’s occurred in this country for its entire history,” she said. “That means, hurt who it may, justice will be done. And justice, in this case, is to punish. If somebody did wrong, they have to be punished.”

The Eurasia Group political risk firm said in a Monday research note that it expects Rousseff will see a short post-election honeymoon period.

“The middle class—a majority of which voted for Rousseff with the expectation she would improve public services—will rapidly realize that their priorities do not align with the president’s,” Eurasia wrote.

“Discontent will grow as the administration shores up fiscal accounts by raising taxes and administered prices, rather than bowing to popular demands for more spending in areas like health, transportation and education.”

However, Rafael de Paula Araujo, a political scientist at São Paulo’s Pontifical Catholic University, said that Brazil has been “divided along ideological and class lines for years,” and that he forecasts less political turbulence than most.

“It’s a division that became exacerbated after the first round vote, when the election became polarized between two candidates,” Araujo said.

He argued that the rift will likely quickly heal when voters think about the 12 years the Workers’ Party has been in power, a time during which “the rich got richer, the poor became less poor and social programs benefited millions who entered the middle class.”

Because Brazil as a whole is unquestionably better off than it was a decade ago, the political fighting here isn’t remotely as virulent as in some neighboring countries like Venezuela or Argentina.

With the opposition fragmented, Rousseff can use coalition building around specific projects to avoid the stalemates seen in the US, where the two-party system creates an us-versus-them political scenario.

Maria Socorro, a 23-year-old nanny in Rio, said she voted for Rousseff, but would hold her accountable on promises to protect the poor and turn Brazil’s economy around.

“They’ve got to show that they’ll push the country forward,” she said. “Success is the best way to heal the divide this election created.”

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‘I want to be left alone’ On a small mountain road

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EAR God, the beautiful surroundings on a small mountain road at a distant land (Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA) is a great manifestation of your creation. Feeding a number of deers and birds at close range is amazing. Visiting my best friend in college at UST, who now lives here with her husband, is doubly exciting. What really touched me is the memory of our college years where we always do novenas at Saint Jude near Malacañang and our regular Holy Hour at Santa Cruz Church in Manila. Our deep spirituality has remained intact and we wish that our devotion to Your Word will stand the test of time as long as we live, while we serve others in Your name. Amen.

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GM Bank of Luzon Chairman Abelardo Samson (right) with son and GM Bank Director Arnel Samson (left) are welcomed at the Singapore Marriott Hotel by Globe Chief Operations Advisor Peter Bithos (second from right). With them is fellow Globe customer and Singapore F1 spectator Marie-Monica Nueva.

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EFORE Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency and Prism made headlines, a group of technologists was dedicated to making the Internet more anonymous. They were viewed mostly as paranoid, weird and potentially criminal.

Now, after all the revelations of the government’s mass electronic-surveillance program, they are leaders in a movement heating up in Silicon Valley and abroad to create more ways for people to use the Internet while keeping private who and where they are, and what they’re doing on the web. These include e-mail accounts that cannot be spied on, file-sharing services that the government cannot trace, and message services that cannot be recorded and stored.

“That idea used to sound far-fetched. It doesn’t sound so crazy anymore, does it?” asked Andrew Lewman, executive director of the Tor Project, an international group of researchers and technologists who maintain an Internet network in which all users are anonymous and their locations are hidden.

Joining the effort are tech giants such as Google, Apple and Yahoo, responding to a backlash from their users over data collection; niche tech companies such as San Francisco-based BitTorrent, which builds software so Internet users can keep their identities and data hidden; and ad hoc collections of technologists from Silicon Valley to Europe. While total anonymity on the highly commercialized Internet, powered by advertising revenue and big data sales, is probably impossible, security experts and tech leaders say that, one way or another, anonymity will be a bigger part of our digital future. “Users are more aware that what they are doing online may not be private, and they are taking steps to combat that, and they are looking to technology companies for solutions,” said Daniel Castro, a senior analyst with the Washington, D.C.-based Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

But some question people’s conviction that they have a right to online anonymity.

“If you really want to be anonymous, stay off the Internet, pay cash and homestead in Montana,” said Paul Santinelli, a venture capitalist with Palo Alto firm North Bridge Venture Partners. “From the day that you buy a computer with a credit card and log onto the Internet, people know who you are.”

The backbone of the Internet was created through the federally funded Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, so “Big Brother was watching from the get-go,” Santinelli said. “You sign up for tracking when you use [the Internet].”

Yet, in the past year, companies such as BitTorrent and Guerrilla Mail—a Chicago-based service founded in 2006 that offers anonymous, disposable e-mail accounts—have won over mainstream customers after once mainly serving tech geeks and cyber rabblerousers. BitTorrent is on the cusp of tremendous growth, with a surge in users—and, after years of stunted revenue, the promise of more cash from two new products that target consumers worried about government spying.

“A lot of these things like Prism, I wish they weren’t true, but they are, and that’s driving demand for BitTorrent’s products, no question about it,” said Eric Klinker, BitTorrent’s president and CEO. Tech giants—blamed by many for the loss of privacy because of their aggressive data collection, which then was handed over to the NSA—also have pitched

in. Google recently announced new encryption tools to protect e-mail, and Apple’s new operating system changes the way smartphone data is encrypted, making it tougher for law enforcement to collect. Yahoo also has added encryption to e-mail services.

BitTorrent has more than 170 million monthly active users across every country and has added millions more users through two new services: Bleep, a messaging and phone-call app launched publicly this month, keeps all personal information private and safe from NSA’s mass data collections, according to the company. Sync, released last year, is a file-sharing program that looks much like Dropbox, but it doesn’t use servers or third parties to store or move the data, so it’s inaccessible to everyone but the sender and receiver.

Guerrilla Mail, which gives users an e-mail address without any registration or login and deletes e-mails permanently after one hour, has done nearly half of its business in the past year. And Tor grew from 75 million users in 2012 to 150 million in 2013, after the NSA operation was revealed. In May, Micah Lee, a Berkeleybased technologist with media site The Intercept, who helped protect the Snowden documents from being hacked after they were released to the media, created OnionShare, an anonymous file-sharing service that uses fake domain names to protect data.

“It’s the pendulum swinging back again,” Castro said.

“People are saying that there was something of value in the anonymity that we lost.”

Jon Jones said the only way he can do his job these days is through anonymous and secure Internet programs. He runs art teams whose members are all over the world—in Russia, Malaysia and China—and collaborate to build video games. BitTorrent’s secure file-sharing program, Sync, allows him to “poke through” China’s firewall and assure artists that their content is secure. “Even if someone steals my phone or my laptop gets dropped, I can still keep [their] data safe,” said New York-based Jones, who started his art production management company, SmArtist, in 2009.

But since the NSA revelations in summer 2013, Jones also has turned to BitTorrent for his personal life.

“It changed absolutely everything for me,” he said. “I suddenly realized I have no idea how anything works.” ■

■ BitTorrent. A service for peer-to-peer file sharing and distribution that does not use centralized servers, but, instead, distributes large amounts of data over the Internet in small chunks.

Users download and upload files from each other simultaneously, offering a quick way to move very large files, such as video games, from one computer to another, and to distribute files to an unlimited number of people. It’s been a popular service to illegally download movies and music.

In addition to file sharing, BitTorrent offers file-sync service, a messaging and voice-call app, which is safe from data leaks or mass data collection.

■ Tor. Run by a nonprofit, this hidden Internet network allows users to stay private online, without web sites or search companies tracking them, and access messaging services and news sites that may be blocked by their Internet provider or government. Users can chat online and publish web sites without revealing their location or identity. Programs built on the Tor network include Orbot, which lets users access Tor on an Android smartphone and is often used to access Twitter in countries where the social-media app is blocked.

■ OnionShare. An open-source tool that lets users anonymously share a file of any size by using untraceable domain names that end in .onion, making the data untraceable. OnionShare works through the Tor network.

■ Guerrilla Mail. An e-mail service that provides temporary, disposable e-mails without requiring user login and registration. The main purpose is to defend against spam, and it also makes the e-mail user untraceable. E-mails automatically delete an hour after they are received, whether or not they are viewed.

GRAND Prix racing is a spectator sport often associated with young and middle-aged males who relish the sight of precision-built automobiles treading the tracks at breakneck speeds.

And then there is Abelardo Samson, a true-blue fan of Formula 1. At age 80, Samson—“APS” to his colleagues, or “Abeling” to his friends—the chairman of Nueva Ecija’s GM Bank of Luzon Inc. (GM Bank), is all-too familiar with the race circuits the world over, as well as the drivers of these speed machines, having followed competitions around the world on TV. The racing aficionado got what probably was the most wonderful surprise of his life when Globe myBusiness selected him to witness the Singapore F1 live and in person on September 21.

Together with his son Arnel, who is the director of GM Bank, they were able to see the most-awaited motoring spectacle in Southeast Asia, alongside top Globe Telecom officials, led by President and CEO Ernest Cu and Chief Operating Advisor Peter Bithos.

Before race day, the father-and-son team of GM Bank was feted with a welcome dinner at the Singapore Marriott Hotel hosted by Bithos, with other lucky Globe customers. In fact, the two were extended full courtesy when the elder Samson’s leg suddenly became sore. When he could no longer walk back to their hotel, the Globe executive personally arranged transfers for him and his son.

After the thrill of the experience, Samson was beaming with stories and pictures to share, as well as souvenirs from the Singapore F1 to show off to family and friends. His children, in fact, commended the patience and generosity of the Globe myBusiness staff who patiently attended to their travel arrangements, covered accommodation for an extra night, as well as changes in their race passes during the event.

Globe myBusiness Senior Vice President Martha Sazon said, “We go through great lengths to delight our Globe customers, such as the Samsons, with wonderful surprises like their Singapore F1 adventure. Beyond our services, which help run their businesses, it’s really about us giving back to them and touching their lives in a special way.”

TO bring a more interactive experience to its Filipino customers, multinational brand Gionee (www. gionee.com.ph) opens the doors of its first concept store in Manila at SM Megamall Cyberzone.

The concept store is a premium touchpoint for the brand, where mobile-phone enthusiasts can experience Gionee’s products firsthand and be guided by a well-trained and dedicated geek squad in making the right smartphone choice.

“Even with the advent of online shopping, we know that Filipinos still love to touch and see in person the products they want to purchase,” says Michael Bangayan, president of Belexis Concepts Inc. “At our concept store, you don’t

have to worry about buying a precious item like a smartphone without knowing how it works. You will be able to tinker with the unit you’re eyeing before purchasing.”

Carrying the brand’s official colors and decorated with minimalist interiors, the concept store is designed with both the tech-savvy and the tech amateurs in mind.

Gionee’s various lines of high-end smartphones and affordable mobile phones will be on display, as well as essential accessories that go with these. Gionee opened its first concept store in the Philippines at the Gaisano Mall in Davao City in March, with former Mayor Sara Duterte as its brand ambassador.

The brand first made waves in

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GIONEE Philippines Country Head Beally Lee (second from left) and Belexis Concepts President Michael Bangayan officially open the Gionee concept store at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City.

the global market when it launched the Elife S5.5, the world’s slimmest smartphone, as declared by CBS Interactive ZOL. The Elife S5.5

remains to be a strong contender in the high-end smartphone arena, and more so now with its free upgrade to Android Kitkat 4.4.

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RooKie yordano Ventura, only 23, is the hardestthrowing starting pitcher in the major leagues. AP

Baseball took its final break on Monday before the Giants and Royals settle things.

Holding a 3-2 edge, San Francisco will try to claim its third championship in five years on Tuesday night when the wildcard matchup resumes at Kansas City.

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AN FRANCISCO—Buster Posey was annoyed. Playfully so. The Giants catcher wanted Madison Bumgarner to do more than barely break a smile after a brilliant pitching performance put San Francisco one win from another World Series title.

No way, Buster.

Because in this postseason full of stars and surprises, who knows? Bumgarner may still have more work to do.

Baseball took its final break on Monday before the Giants and Royals settle things. Holding a 3-2 edge, San Francisco will try to claim its third championship in five years on Tuesday night when the wild-card matchup resumes at Kansas City.

“We’re trying to grind this thing out, the way we have for what feels like forever now,” Jake Peavy, who starts Game Six for the Giants, said before Monday night’s workout at Kauffman Stadium. “Not even sure of the date, the day. Doesn’t matter.”

The day off gave fans a chance to savor what they’d already seen in the past month, and there was plenty—the success of Bumgarner, Lorenzo Cain and Yusmeiro Petit, the struggles of Clayton Kershaw, Mike Trout and Detroit’s aces, a rack of tight games and one that went 18 innings.

Could be a lot more cooking in this October oven, too.

Maybe Ned Yost even had it right.

“Oh, man, somewhere inside of me, secretly I had hoped that it would go seven games for the excitement and the thrill of it,” the Kansas City manager said after a loss in Game Four. “Sure looks that way.”

Perhaps it’s only fitting this Fall Classic ends at Kauffman Stadium, a place hosting playoff baseball for the first time in 29 years. The Royals started this pulsating postseason at home with a 9-8 comeback win in 12 innings over Oakland in the American League wildcard game, a thriller that began on the last day of September and nearly stretched into October.

That captivating night in Kansas City set the stage for a month to remember: dramatic finishes, favorites falling and underdogs overachieving, stars slipping and new ones shining.

What happens next is anybody’s guess. After all, the last time Game Six of the World Series came to Kansas City, one of the most surreal scenes in baseball history unfolded: first base umpire Don Denkinger’s botched call serving as the signature moment of the 1985 World Series won by the Royals over Saint Louis.

“We know we can do it,” Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer said. “We’re a confident group. But we can’t do anything without winning Game Six. We’re excited to get back home where we feed off the fans and that energy.”

Royals rookie Yordano Ventura starts against the veteran Peavy—not exactly the matchup many would’ve predicted in April.

But the majors’ most notable names during the regular season— Dodgers ace Kershaw and Angels slugger Trout—flamed out fast in the Division Series. A trio of Cy Young winners didn’t do enough for Detroit. Injuries slowed down former Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers and Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright.

Even playoff-proven starter Jon Lester looked lost under October’s bright lights for the one-and-done Athletics. Plus upand-coming starter Stephen Strasburg showed he still has to polish his postseason poise for the Nationals.

Instead, these playoffs bred a new batch of baseball darlings: Cain and the running Royals, starter-turned-reliever Petit and a pair of blazing bullpens no longer overlooked in the World Series.

Of course, no star has burned brighter than a 25-year-old lefty from North Carolina, the one who peeved Posey with his tempered postgame reaction.

Bumgarner’s dominant performances in Game One and Game Five—not to mention in every previous round of the playoffs — has put San Francisco one win away from another parade down Market Street, something Willie Mays, Barry Bonds and generations of Giants fans had dreamed of for so long.

Now it’s becoming an every-other-year tradition. And if the Giants don’t win Game Six, there’s always a chance Bumgarner could emerge from the bullpen to help out in Game Seven.

Royals rookie Brandon Finnegan might understand the topsy-turvy nature of these playoffs better than anyone.

Only four months after he pitched in the College World Series, the 21-year-old reliever got two key outs in the seventh inning as Kansas City won Game Three. A night later, Finnegan failed to bridge the gap to the back end of the bullpen, allowing five runs in an 11-4 loss to San Francisco.

“Baseball can pick you up quickly,” Finnegan said, “and hit you in the gut quickly.”

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ANSAS CITY, Montana—A large image of deer in multicolored neon with a bulls-eye on its tail is affixed to a wall in the Kansas City Royals locker room. It hangs between the stalls of Aaron Crow and Tim Collins, and has a “W’’ underneath a crown.

Pitcher James Shields ordered it custom made. After the team wins, veterans select a “King of the Game” to flip the switch that lights up the so-called Texas Heart Shot while a smoke machine perched atop a refrigerator fills the room with a fog more befitting a night club than a clubhouse.

Trailing 3-2 to the San Francisco Giants in the World Series, the Royals hope to light up that sign two more times this week. But if they do come back to win their first title in 29 years, it’s unlikely there will be time for their usual clubhouse ceremony given the champagne-fueled chaos.

“I doubt it. It’s going to be crazy around here if we win both games,” outfielder Lorenzo Cain said on Monday.

Kansas City turns to a 23-year-old rookie to save its season, but not just any 23-year-old rookie: the hardest-throwing starting pitcher in the major leagues.

Yordano Ventura gets the ball on Tuesday night with the Royals in the same position they were in 1985 when they sent Charlie Leibrandt to the mound against Saint Louis. Kansas City won, 2-1, that night on pinch-hitter Dane Iorg’s two-run single in the ninth after a blown call by first base umpire Don Denkinger, and the Royals went on to blow out the Cardinals, 11-0, a day later behind Bret

Saberhagen for their only title.

In the 41 previous instances the World Series was 2-2 in the bestof-seven format, the Game Five winner has taken the title 27 times.

But eight of the last 10 teams to come home trailing 3-2 swept Games Six and Seven.

“We have a lot of confidence in Ventura. We have confidence that we will win every time he takes the mound,” Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer said. “We know we can do it. We’re a confident group.

But we can’t do anything without winning Game Six. We’re excited to get back home, where we feed off the fans and that energy.”

Kansas City hopes to light up Jake Peavy along with the deer in a rematch of Game Two starters.

Ventura, whose fastball averaged 98 mph this season, didn’t get a decision in the second game, allowing two runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings before Royals Manager Ned Yost went to his hard-throwing HDH relief trio of Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis and Greg Holland in the 7-2 victory.

“His confidence is just staggering,” Yost said. “You walk in that clubhouse, and he looks you square in the eye with that glint that says: ‘I’m ready for this.’”

The 33-year-old Peavy took the loss, giving up four runs and six hits in five innings-plus. He is seeking his first World Series win—he didn’t get a decision for Boston in Game Three last year—and is well aware he could get the victory in the clincher.

“I can’t imagine anything being any sweeter than that,” he said.

“This is the start that you play your whole career wanting.”

This is the first World Series in which four of the first five games were decided by five runs or more. The second all-wild card World

Series has followed the pattern of the first in 2002. The Giants won the opener on the road, lost the next two games and won two in a row to take a 3-2 lead. San Francisco opened a 5-0 lead in Game Six at Anaheim but lost 6-5, and the Angels won Game Seven the following night.

Yost hopes history repeats and Ventura is energized by the Kauffman Stadium crowd.

“Trust me, if we’re in this position, I would much rather be here than there with our fans. I think home-field advantage is huge,” he said after the team arrived back home at about 4:30 a.m. “It’s going to be a lot funner going into Game Six here than it would be in San Francisco, that’s for sure.”

The Giants spent the night at home, chartered with player families on the flight and reached Kansas City about 12-and-ahalf-hours later. With the shift to the AL ballpark, designated hitters return: Billy Butler for the Royals and Michael Morse for the Giants.

San Francisco’s Tim Hudson and Kansas City’s Jeremy Guthrie would be the likely Game Seven starters if the Series is extended to Wednesday. And lurking is Madison Bumgarner, who pitched a four-hit shutout to win Game Five on Sunday. Bumgarner, 4-0 in Series play with a record-low 0.29 ERA, could come out of the bullpen on two days’ rest for what would be his first relief appearance since throwing two scoreless innings in Game Six of the 2010 National League Championship Series.

He wouldn’t estimate how long he could go.

“I’m not a big pitch-count guy,” he said. “So as long as you keep getting outs and you feel good, you should stay out there.”

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hole 15, a hidden creek at hole 1. All around par 71, the golf course is a refreshing the golf course, clear blue skies, birds on the break from the generally flat terrain of wing, and white fleecy clouds complement Pampanga, with water playing up the the green of grass and growing trees. challenge in almost every hole. There’s the Most fairways are built around a view of big lake at holes 2 and 8, the island green at Mount Arayat, the sleeping giant a presence hole 15, a hidden creek at hole 1. All around to contend with. Rising more than the golf course, clear blue skies, birds on the 1,000 meters above the surrounding wing, and white fleecy clouds complement land, this dormant volcano is the the green of grass and growing trees. legendary home of the beautiful Maria Most fairways are built around a view of Sinukuan, a nature spirit caring for Mount Arayat, the sleeping giant a presence Pampanga’s flora and fauna. to contend with. Rising more than The golf clubhouse itself reflects 1,000 meters above the surrounding nature’s abundance, surrounded as it land, this dormant volcano is the is by greenery in varied shapes and legendary home of the beautiful Maria sizes. Shade trees, bright colored Sinukuan, a nature spirit caring for flowers, and delicate ferns are found Pampanga’s flora and fauna. in the pathways from the golf course, The golf clubhouse itself reflects the plant boxes by the entrance, and nature’s abundance, surrounded as it the parking area. is by greenery in varied shapes and Now fully operational, the golf club sizes. Shade trees, bright colored has become an oasis for golfers and guests, flowers, and delicate ferns are found a gathering place for some good-natured in the pathways from the golf course, bantering after the game, to sample exquisite the plant boxes by the entrance, and Kapampangan cuisine, or to simply soak in the parking area. the ambience. On a good day, the view from Now fully operational, the golf club the veranda—of wide open fairways—is has become an oasis for golfers and guests, unmatched. a gathering place for some good-natured Just off the porte cochère, the grand foyer bantering after the game, to sample exquisite makes an impressive welcome. Beyond this Kapampangan cuisine, or to simply soak in are the men’s and ladies’ locker rooms, pro the ambience. On a good day, the view from shop and function rooms. The driving range the veranda—of wide open fairways—is is right across the golf club. unmatched.

Just off the porte cochère, the grand foyer makes an impressive welcome. Beyond this are the men’s and ladies’ locker rooms, pro shop and function rooms. The driving range is right across the golf club.

of Metro Manila, at the gateway to PampanGolf-centered community ga. Two giant malls right beside and across THE golf course is the centerpiece for the Beverly Place main entrance are SM Beverly Place Golf and Business Estates, City Pampanga and Robinsons Starmills. located along Jose Abad Santos Avenue (forBeverly Place is only 30 minutes from the merly Olongapo-Gapan Road), 70 km north Clark Special Economic Zone, where the of Metro Manila, at the gateway to Pampanga. Two giant malls right beside and across the Beverly Place main entrance are SM City Pampanga and Robinsons Starmills.

Beverly Place is only 30 minutes from the Clark Special Economic Zone, where the

Diosdado Macapagal International Airport now stands as the only international airport north of Luzon.

Beverly Place en route to the planned economic super region

Diosdado Macapagal International Airport THE Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway now standsknown as the as only airport (SCTEx), theinternational country’s longest north of Luzon. expressway, links the Subic Freeport Zone, the Clark Special Zone Beverly PlaceEconomic en route toand thethe Central Techno Park in Tarlac. It is enviplanned economic super region sioned to transform the area into a super THE Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway region that would attract investors world(SCTEx), known as the country’s longest expressway, links the Subic Freeport Zone, the Clark Special Economic Zone and the Central Techno Park in Tarlac. It is envisioned to transform the area into a super region that would attract investors world-

wide through the integration of all economic activities in the Central Luzon region. Beverly Place is located along the route between Metro Manila and business and trade spots farther north. Boutique hotels, business centers and food outlets which may be built on wide through the integration of all economic Beverly Place commercial lots will be ideal activities in the Central Luzon region. Bevplaces for a stopover. erly Place is located along the route between Beverly Place is easily accessible via Metro Manila and business and trade spots MacArthur Highway or through the North farther north. Boutique hotels, business cenLuzon Expressway (San Fernando Exit). ters and food outlets which may be built on With new road links from Manila to the Beverly Place commercial lots will be ideal north, travel to Pampanga is now greatly enplaces for a stopover. hanced. Among these is the Smart Connect Beverly Place is easily accessible via Interchange, which reduces travel time by MacArthur Highway or through the North 10 to 30 minutes. Another project, to begin Luzon Expressway (San Fernando Exit). in 2016, will link the NLEx main to C-5 With new road links from Manila to the through Mindanao Avenue and will further north, travel to Pampanga is now greatly encut down travel time to the north. hanced. Among these is the Smart Connect Interchange, which reduces travel time by 10 to 30 minutes. Another project, to begin in 2016, will link the NLEx main to C-5 through Mindanao Avenue and will further cut down travel time to the north.

A self-contained community spanning more than 400 hectares BEVERLY Place is built on over 400 hectares, spreading across bustling San Fernando City and the quiet town of Mexico. A

residential, business andcommunity leisure community, A self-contained you can live, work, play and shop within one spanning more than 400 hectares exclusive neighborhood. Eight residential BEVERLY Place is built on over 400 enclaves make up the community, each with hectares, spreading across bustling San Ferits own entry statement. nando City and the quiet town of Mexico. A Enjoy quiet weekends within the Bevresidential, business and leisure community, erly community. Spend time around the you can live, work, play and shop within one many landscaped parks and pocket gardens exclusive neighborhood. Eight residential scattered around the estates. Or create fun enclaves make up the community, each with celebrations in one of the two Community its own entry statement.

Clubhouses—one at Phase 6 and another Enjoy quiet weekends within the Bevat Phase 10. Facilities include tennis and erly community. Spend time around the basketball courts, swimming pools and many landscaped parks and pocket gardens water parks, as well as function rooms. Wide scattered around the estates. Or create fun landscaped areas and the club patio provide celebrations in one of the two Community

spaces for outdoor celebrations. Additional open basketball courts are found in Phases 7 and 11.

Within this expansive neighborhood, residents have a wide choice of lot sizes.

Beverly Place also offers house and lot spaces for outdoor celebrations. Additional packages, with designs created by Sta. Lucia open basketball courts are found in Phases 7 Homes. Several homes have been completed and 11. and turned over to their owners, a reflection Within this expansive neighborhood, of the continuing development of Beverly residents have a wide choice of lot sizes.

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Beverly Place also offers house and lot Fairway lots are available at the Sta. packages, with designs created by Sta. Lucia Lucia enclave, where you can enjoy excelHomes. Several homes have been completed lent views of manicured greens and fairways and turned over to their owners, a reflection from your own backyard. of the continuing development of Beverly Beverly Place Golf and Business Estates Place. celebrates the Kapampangan’s love for the Fairway lots are available at the Sta. good life, a legacy to hand down to generaLucia enclave, where you can enjoy exceltions of a proud race. lent views of manicured greens and fairways Visit www.staluciarealty.com from your own backyard.

Beverly Place Golf and Business Estates celebrates the Kapampangan’s love for the good life, a legacy to hand down to generations of a proud race.

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Reelected Brazil president faces divided house IO DE JANEIRO—Brazil’s reelected leader Dilma Rousseff on Monday faced a house divided after a bitterly fought election that culminated in the narrowest presidential win since the nation’s return to democracy three decades ago.

In a victory speech, Rousseff said her first task would be to seek reconciliation and to build bridges to those who didn’t vote for her.

“This president is willing to dialogue and that’s the first promise of my second term, to have a dialogue,” she said before cheering supporters in Brasilia.

But it’s not clear how far Rousseff is willing to reach out to rivals, nor how receptive a highly fragmented Congress, which after this month’s general election is split between 28 parties, will be to her overtures.

Brazil’s most rancorous presidential campaign in decades ended on Sunday with the main opposition party’s candidate Aecio Neves faring far better than anyone forecast less than a month ago.

The division could further stifle efforts at the political reforms millions of Brazilians demanded during street protests last year seeking increased government efficiency and less corruption.

Rousseff has urged Congress to call a national referendum on such reforms, but lawmakers balked at that last year when the president had more legislative support, and there is little reason to believe they’ll agree to it now.

The divide also will likely hamper delayed economic reforms that many believe are necessary for longer-term growth, and even frustrate agreement on shorter-term measures

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he gap between China’s reported exports to Hong Kong and the territory’s imports from the mainland widened in September to the most this year, suggesting fake export invoicing is again skewing China’s trade data.

China recorded $1.56 of exports to Hong Kong last month for every $1 in imports Hong Kong registered, leading to a $13.5billion difference, according to government data compiled by Bloomberg. Hong Kong’s imports from China climbed 5.5 percent from a year earlier to $24.1 billion, figures showed on Monday; China’s exports to Hong Kong surged 34 percent to $37.6 billion, according to mainland data on October 13.

While China’s government has strict rules on importing capital, those seeking to exploit yuan appreciation can evade the limit by disguising money inflows as payment for goods exported to foreign countries or territories, especially Hong Kong.

The latest trade mismatch coincided with renewed appreciation of China’s currency, leading analysts at banks and brokerages, including Everbright Securities Co. and Australia & New Zealand Banking Group See “Fake invoice,” A2

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four-day technology show Gavin Dai, CEO of Huawei Technologies Philippines Inc., welcomes technophiles and the general public before giving a short presentation about Huawei products at the opening on Tuesday of the Huawei Philippines ICT Carnival 2014, which carries the theme “Pave the Future a Better Way,” held at a hotel in Makati City. ROY DOMINGO

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he monetary authorities on Tuesday forecast inflation to moderate further in October, likely ranging only from 3.7 percent to no more than 4.6 percent.

The forecast strengthened the view that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will keep the current monetary-policy setting where it is for now. This also helped fortify the argument that inflation, or the rate of change in prices, already reached its peak in July and August, when it averaged 4.9 percent.

In a statement, BSP Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said inflation will likely continue to decelerate in October, and that the targets for this year and all the way to 2016 should fall within target.

Tetangco also said the July and August inflation outcomes, averaging 4.9 percent, already represented the peak of price movements.

“From the peak of 4.9 percent in July and August and 4.4 percent in September, our latest assessment of inflation pressures indicates sustained easing, averaging between 3.7 percent and 4.6 percent,” Tetangco said.

The drop in oil and food prices, particularly on wellmilled as well as regularly milled rice, meat and vegetables, was considered a moderating influence on inflation in October, according to Tetangco.

He also said improved supply of key food commodities on account of more favorable weather and higher imports will help sustain the easing of price pressures in the country.

“We also expect that the previous monetary actions by the BSP will continue to anchor inflation expectations and maintain favorable money-supply conditions. Both credit and domestic liquidity growth are anticipated to keep decelerating as a result of higher flow back of money supply to the monetary authorities, following the increase in the required bank reserves, the SDA [special deposit accounts] and policy rates,” Tetangco said.

“On the whole, we remain confident that inflation will be within the target of 3 percent to 5 percent this year, and 2 percent to 4 percent in 2015 and 2016,” he added.

Only recently, the central bank recalibrated its inflation forecast not just for this year, but for 2015 and 2016, as well.

In particular, the central bank expects inflation this year to average 4.4 percent, from 4.5 percent projected in September.

For next year, the BSP anticipates inflation falling back to 3.7 percent, down from 3.8 percent foreseen at the September rate-setting meeting of the Monetary Board. Likewise, for 2016, inflation was seen averaging 2.8 percent, down from forecast of only 3 percent.

Out of the seven earlier monetary-policy stance meetings for 2014, the central bank only left all its policy levers untouched twice this year—in the first meeting in February and latest meeting on October 23.

The Philippine Statistics Authority is set to release the October inflation numbers on November 5.

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onsumer loans aggregated P803 billion in the first six months, rising 18 percent, or P122.88 billion, from year-ago consumption loans—mostly houses of first-time buyers and cars—of only P680 billion.

Compared to the previous quarter, consumer loans also grew by 9 percent, from P735.1 million as of end-March. This means that consumer loans grew by P68.15 billion over three months.

According to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the increase in loans extended across all subcomponents of the consumption-loan business.

Residential real-estate loans continued to account for the largest bulk of the banks’ consumer-lending portfolio, equal to 43 percent, amounting to P348.166 billion, in the first half of the year.

The residential real-estate loan sector proved to be the fastest-rising sector for the period at 18.342 percent, up P53.96 billion in the first half last year.

Meanwhile, auto loans were the second-largest bulk in the banks’ consumer-lending portfolio, comprising 25.74 percent of total loan portfolio for the period. At P206.78 billion, this was also the second-fastest-growing sector, having grown by 17.31 percent from last year.

Credit-card purchases in the first half totaled P157.22 billion, rising by 4.53 percent from P150.4 billion in June last year. Credit-card receivables accounted for 19.57 percent of total consumer-loan volume in the first half of 2014.

Salary loans, meanwhile, hit P44.605 billion in June 2014, comprising 5.55 percent of the total consumer-loan portfolio. This was the first time that salary loans were included as a subsector in the consumer-loan portfolio. It was previously lumped under unspecified loans.

The central bank noted that, while consumer lending expanded during the period, the ratio of banks’ non-performing consumer loans fell slightly to 5 percent, from 5.2 percent a quarter earlier.

n japan 0.4154 n UK 72.1832 n HK 5.7704 n CHINA 7.3180 n singapore 35.1378 n australia 39.4032 n EU 56.8567 n SAUDI arabia 11.9321 Source: BSP (28 October 2014)

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Ltd. to question the export surge.

“This is definitely another important piece of evidence of over-invoicing exports to Hong Kong to facilitate money inflow into China,” said Shen Jianguang, chief Asia economist at Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd. in Hong Kong.

“So we shouldn’t be too optimistic about recent export data from China.”

Doubts over the data raise broader concerns, as a surge in exports was believed to have underpinned economic growth in the third quarter. Shen said the economic outlook is “challenging” and more easing is “necessary.”

Industrial profits

Data on Tuesday added to evidence of moderating economic growth. Industrial profits rose 0.4 percent in September from a year earlier, following a 0.6-percent decline in August—the weakest two months since mid-2012.

Gross domestic product rose 7.3 percent in the July-to-September period from a year earlier, the slowest expansion since the first quarter of 2009. Export demand has been a bright spot in an economy weighted by a property slump and a decline in investment growth.

Although a rapid increase in luxury goods shipments suggests some of the exports to Hong Kong should be attributed to capital inflows, exports of processed goods including the iPhone drove the September surge, said Hua Changchun, a China economist at Nomura Holdings Inc. in Hong Kong.

“The fake invoicing problem is not as severe as last year,” Hua said.

Yuan bets

After almost uninterrupted annual gains since 2005 that saw the yuan rise about 33 percent versus the dollar, speculators have come to see China’s currency as a one-way trade. That prompts hot money to seek out China on currency appreciation bets. Worries about distortions had abated this year after a government crack down and as the yuan dropped. Bloomberg News

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pushes through, as earlier announced by President Aquino.

The Makati Business Club, American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Australian-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce Philippines, Canadian Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Employers Confederation of the Philippines, European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Philippines Inc. and the Management Association of the Philippines, released a joint statement on Tuesday, dissuading President Aquino from pursuing his plan to reopen the bidding process for the huge PPP deal.

“While the PPP Program encountered some difficulties in its initial stages, it has since begun to catch up, with high-impact projects being steadily rolled out, catching the attention of domestic and international investors.

It is imperative that this pipeline be clear of any blockages and inconsistencies if we are to protect the credibility of this program and our procurement system as a whole. In light of this, the proposed rebidding of the CaviteLaguna Expressway would be an inopportune and ill-advised decision that would surely have a negative impact on our improving standing in the investor community,” the joint statement read.

Moreover, the groups said in their statement that they believe the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) conducted the bidding of the Calax with “complete transparency and fairness” and in full compliance with the build-operate-transfer (BOT) law, thus rebidding the project would have no legal basis.

“We share the concern of our colleagues in the private sector that a disregard of the present rules through a rebid will adversely impact investor confidence in the PPP

Program and in our bidding procedures…

Thus, we call on the government to remain consistent with the provisions of the BOT law, not just in this particular case but also for the other projects in the pipeline,” the groups further said in their statement.

The tandem of Ayala Corp. and Aboitiz Land Corp., Team Orion, submitted the winning bid for the expressway project with an P11.6-billion premium payment on top of the project cost.

A P20.105-billion premium payment, on the other hand, was offered by San Miguel Corp.’s infrastructure arm, Optimal Infrastructure Development Inc., which was disqualified from the auction due to its alleged defective bid security, which was a few days short of the required cover period.

The diversified conglomerate then filed a petition before Malacanang to reconsider its offer. It has been four months since the Executive said it will review a petition of SMC, chaired by Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., the uncle of President Aquino.

The President explained his decision to welcome the petition, citing the foregone revenues from SMC’s offer of P20 billion if the winning bid of P11 billion from Team Orion is accepted.

“Wala pa [none yet],” Palace Spokesman Edwin Lacierda told the BusinessMirror on Tuesday after checking with DPWH officials tasked to set the ground rules for a likely rebid of the multibillion-peso Calax project.

President Aquino, fielding questions at a forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines on October 22, disclosed he was inclined to back a rebidding.

“Anyway, ’yung Calax, what is the fundamental issue there? In the bid documents submitted and the portion, which is more or less a template, SMC [position] is... there was a typographical error of parang a lack of four days in the bid security document.

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The seemingly too long a decision of the President on the issue left an independent investments-management company based in Hong Kong “wondering.”

“Why listen to noise produced by a sore loser? How credible is a bid by a party who is unable to submit the requested documents and fails to lodge an orderly appeal?” HSZ Group Chairman Hansrudolf Schmid asked.

He said if President Aquino “protects the outcome of the orderly bidding, he builds trust in rules-based governance.”

“But, if the President reaches for the extra P8 billion, he does the opposite. He undermines the rule of law. Potential investors, in particular foreign ones, take note,” Schmid warned. “The extra P8 billion is a small amount compared to the damage caused by not moving the process forward in a principled way.”

“Mr. President, the longer you remain stuck, the more we wonder,” he said.

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the government to swiftly enact the amendments to the BOT law that will institutionalize the PPP Center and its processes. It will further strengthen the country’s PPP framework and prevent hindrances to the implementation of critical public projects.

“Consistency and predictability in policy and adherence to rules, among other factors, form the bedrock of investor confidence in any economy. In light of the significant attention that the Philippines has been gaining from the international and domestic investing community, it is our firm belief that the country must hold fast to these principles in order to sustain the gains that the country has achieved in the past four years,” the foreign chambers and business groups said.

The deal has been in limbo for four months now due to a petition for reconsideration filed by a disqualified bidder.

The DPWH asked for a clarification—a clarification by the ANZ Bank [Australia and New Zealand Banking Group]—and San Miguel itself stated that their bid security was good for 180 days as opposed to 176,” Mr. Aquino recalled.

He added that “allegedly… and allegedly because the bid documents were returned to SMC and they opened it up before the media.

They said that their bid would have been over P20 billion, if I remember it correctly, versus the winning bid of about P11 billion. Now, if we accept the winning bid at this time when there is an allegation that there was a much superior bid, then we will have to explain to the people the P9-billion difference that we forego. We get the infrastructure; we get a premium of P20 billion allegedly from one bid, or an P11-billion premium from another bid.

Now, at the end of the day, we have to protect the people’s interests.”

President Mr. Aquino admitted that there was another proposal for government to actually undertake the project; but he ruled out this option, saying it “defeats the whole purpose of the PPP project wherein we free our resources for other infrastructure needs.”

According to Aquino, “there are privatesector individuals or companies that are willing to provide us the infrastructure we need and to deliver a premium to us. So how do we meet the attainment of the goal of getting the best deal for our people? So, I am inclined to think that a rebid will be the proper course of action on this particular issue.”

But Communications Secretary Herminio B. Coloma Jr., in a separate interview late last week, quoted Executive Secretary Francisco Ochoa as saying that the planned rebidding of the Calax project “is pending consideration.”

Ochoa assured, however, that “whatever the final decision will be, such decision shall definitely have legal and factual basis.”

The business chambers also asked

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EFENSE Secretary Voltaire T. Gazmin sees the country’s defense posture being compromised if the VisitGAZMIN: “Let us not ing Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States forget that the VFA is a is abrogated. component of our overall The defense chief issued the statement in response to a defense strategy and joint resolution that has been filed in Congress, calling for the its abrogation now will termination of the VFA, which, among others, was behind the have an adverse effect number of regular military exercises between the two countries. on the minimum credible “Let us not forget that the VFA is a component of our defense posture that overall defense strategy and its abrogation now will have an we are working hard to adverse effect on the minimum credible defense posture that achieve.” we are working hard to achieve,” Gazmin said.

The country is currently facing various security problems, including a territorial dispute with an aggressive China in the West Philippine Sea. The problem is even exacerbated by the lack of training of Filipino soldiers and of modern equipment and assets by the Armed Forces, whose principal donor is the US. On Monday Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Akbayan Party-List Rep. Walden Bello called on Congress to abrogate the VFA, saying it does not serve the interest of the country, other than the US. The two cited several reasons, including the alleged killing of Filipino transgender Jennifer Laude on October 11 in Olongapo City by Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton, an American Marine who took part in the bilateral exercise that was held in the country.

However, Gazmin said, the VFA is working on the case of Pemberton, who has been turned over by the US to Philippine military officials and is currently held in a facility inside Camp Aguinaldo.

“The Laude case has shown that the Philippines and the US are willing to cooperate fully with each other within the terms of the agreement. Both sides have also shown their respect for the sensitivities of one another over this incident. That is the VFA at work,” he added.

Gazmin said the VFA is under constant review and it can still be finetuned.

“It is a work in progress and we should not hastily throw it into the trash bin before it has truly proven its worth,” he said.

Another agreement, the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (Edca), which, officials said, is still under the wings of the VFA, has been earlier signed by the two countries and it seeks to bolster the country’s maritime domain awareness and territorial defense.

The Edca, which is being reviewed by the Supreme Court as sought by some groups, will reposition a bigger number of American troops in the country, along with their assets and equipment. Rene Acosta

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FTER a horrendous traffic jam last month at the North Luzon Expressway (Nlex), the tollway arm of Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) is already swaying public perception by warning of a surge in traffic as the nation commemorates All Saints’ Day this week.

Both the Nlex and the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (Sctex) expect a 10-percent to 15-percent surge in traffic starting Friday, according to Manila North Tollways Corp. (MNTC) President Rodrigo E. Franco.

“Traffic is expected to increase by 10 to 15 percent from October 31 to November 2. Heavy volume is expected in the afternoon of October 31 to November 1 at the Balintawak, Mindanao Avenue and Dau toll plazas. On the other hand, traffic at Bocaue Toll Plaza of Nlex is likely to become heavier as motorists go back to Metro Manila on November 1, 2 and 3,” Franco said in a text message.

Franco promised the Nlex will beef up its manpower in response to the expected traffic increase.

Ambulant tellers will be on standby at the Balintawak, Mindanao Avenue and Dau toll plazas on Friday and Saturday and at the Bocaue Toll Plaza from November 1 to 3, he explained. Spare lanes will be opened on October 31 and November 1 at Dau and on November 1 and 2 at the Bocaue Toll Plaza or as necessary, Franco added.

Additional traffic management and security personnel will also be deployed from October 31 to November 3 to ensure safety and security of the motorists. Roadworks will also be suspended from October 29 to November 3 to give way to the expected heavy traffic.

According to Franco, the company whose chairman is businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan, would deploy additional patrol crew and traffic marshals at the Philippine Arena in Nlex Bocaue, where at least 65,000 attendees are expected to mass up

for an event on Friday.

“At Sctex, traffic is projected to increase by 10 [percent] to 15 percent. Heavy volume is expected at the Mabalacat entry, La Paz [Tarlac], San Miguel and Tipo Exits from October 31 to November 1. Advance collection of toll fees will be implemented at the Mabalacat Entry for La Paz [Tarlac]-bound vehicles from October 30 to November 1,” Franco said.

He added the company plans to allot manual toll payment lanes at San Miguel and Tarlac Exits.

For Manila-bound vehicles, traffic build up is expected from Saturday to Monday at the Mabalacat Interchange of Sctex, he added.

“Sufficient manpower and equipment will be deployed by toll and traffic operations to minimize delay at the plaza and maintain the best level of service possible.

Additional manual toll booths will be set up at the shoulder during this period to ease traffic. Class 1 motorists are advised to take the rightmost lane of the toll plaza to access the said booths,” Franco added.

He said Sctex will suspend roadworks from October 29 to November 3.

Sctex will also have the Motorist Assistance Camp from Friday to Monday (7am to 7pm); the two camp sites in Sctex will be located along Kilometer 76 (Pitabunan Overpass, Dinalupihan Rest Bay Area) and Kilometer 21 (Rest Area, Subic bound).

Meanwhile, Skyway O&M Corp. (Somco), Manila Toll Expressway System Inc. (Mates) and Star Tollway Corp. (STC), the operators of Skyway System, South Luzon Expressway (Slex) and Star Tollway, respectively, expect the volume of traffic to increase starting Monday and peak by Friday until November 3, on return trips to Metro Manila.

Franco said Somco, MATES and STC will intensify their patrol operations and motorist-assistance effort; cancel days-off of their field personnel; deploy ambulant tellers in busy toll plazas; and coordinate with the local police in their respective areas of responsibilities. Lorenz S. Marasigan

Groups seek to stop govt move to charge OFWs airport fees

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DOZEN overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) groups and non-governmental organizations on Tuesday filed a court petition stopping the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) from collecting a P550 airport terminal fee from OFWs leaving for abroad.

The groups, led by OFW Family Partylist Rep. Roy Señeres, asked the Regional

Trial Court in Pasay City to issue a temporary restraining order against Memorandum Circular 8 (Series of 2014) issued by MIAA General Manager Angel Honrado and approved by DOTC Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya.

The groups claim the memorandum runs counter to Section 35 of Republic Act 10022, or the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995, which exempts OFWs from paying terminal fees. Jovee Marie N. dela Cruz

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Govt distributes 85.78% of CARP lands to date

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By Cai U. Ordinario

HE national government has already distributed 85.78 percent of the target under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

In the Agricultural Indicators System Report, the PSA said that, between 1972 and 2013, the government has distributed 4.599 million hectares of the total 5.43 million hectares of CARP land.

“From 1972 to 2013, the cumulative accomplishment of [the Department of Agricultural Reform] DAR-CARP in land distribution was 4.599 million hectares, benefiting a total of 2,698,182 farmers who eventually became owners of the land they were cultivating,” the PSA said.

At the regional level, the Ilocos Region recorded the highest accomplish-

ment rate at 98.96 percent. This was followed by Central Luzon and Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) with an accomplishment rate of around 97 percent each.

The least accomplishment rates in land distribution were seen in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) with 65.77 percent and Western Visayas with 71.03 percent.

For the number of beneficiaries, the biggest counts were reported in Central Luzon at 275,635 and Western Visayas at 278,805, comprising 10 percent each in the total count.

In contrast, the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and ARMM indicated the lowest number at 79,886 and 69,364, respectively. These contributed less than 3 percent each in the country’s number of farmer-beneficiaries.

In 2013 the DAR expanded the coverage of its support to the landless farm workers by targeting 5.43 million hectares nationwide.

Last year the PSA said a total of 125,561 hectares of arable lands were distributed to qualified farmers. This represented an accomplishment rate of 2.3 percent of the revised national target.

The highest regional accomplishment rate was in Soccsksargen (South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and General Santos City) at 5.8 percent or equivalent to 42,125 hectares of distributed farmlands.

This was followed by Caraga at 4.6 percent or 14,105 hectares and Northern Mindanao at 3.8 percent, or 14,176 hectares.

The lowest accomplishment rate at less than a percent each in CAR with 974 hectares, Ilocos Region with 632 hectares, Eastern Visayas with 635 hectares and Zamboanga Peninsula with 2,027 hectares.

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PHL urged to strengthen regional cooperation to boost urban devt

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he Philippines can strengthen cooperation with Asean Plus Three countries to harness urban development crucial to boosting economic growth, according to a study released by the state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).

Adoracion Navarro, senior research fellow of the PIDS, said the exchange of best practices and financing opportunities are possible areas for regional cooperation.

“Best practices sharing and financing efforts would be crucial in addressing the emerging concerns on physical infrastructure in Philippine urban areas,” she said.

Navarro noted that the Philippines also needs to have solid information on alternatives to its current institutional setup, including incen-

tives design for planning and implementing government units.

The country must be able to also elicit discussions of best country practices through regional cooperation, she said.

“Urbanization is a major driver of infrastructure investments. But strategic infrastructure investments can also drive the direction of urbanization, specifically the direction of urban sprawl and the demand for basic services that goes along with it,” she added.

Navarro said the rise in urbanization requires strategic investments in mass transport, highways, bridges, ports, airports, water-distribution networks, electric power systems and telecommunications and information infrastructure.

“Regional cooperation may be able to contribute to addressing the short-term problem on absorptive capacity of government agencies.

Addressing this may require sharing of best practices and innovations in procurement, contractual arrange-

ments, project management and project implementation,” she said.

Navarro said this may also require partnerships in dynamic capacity building for government personnel and managers. “In the longer term, regional cooperation may be needed in mobilizing financial resources that could sustain the target infrastructure investment-GDP [gross domestic product] ratio,” Navarro noted.

The Philippines is targeting to spend 5 percent of GDP annually for all these infrastructure sectors. PNA

Farmers’ daily wages less than P200—PSA

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ilipino farmers’ daily wages are only a third of the daily wage of workers in the National Capital Region (NCR), according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

In the Agricultural Indicators System Report, the PSA said in exchange for back-breaking work, a farmer received only an average of P170.34 per day in 2013.

The daily minimum wages received by workers in Metro Manila averaged P429 to P466, according to the National Wages and Productivity Commission.

“The value of worker’s compensation for their labor is measured through the wages and salary received by the workers,” the PSA said. “It grew by a yearly average

of 4.1 percent over the period 2009 to 2013.”

The PSA said higher salary and wages were received by those engaged in fishing activities amounting to P189.48 per day.

Their wage gain over the five-year period averaged 2.2 percent per year.

Those involved in agriculture, hunting and forestry were paid P169.22 per day in 2013. It posted wage increase of 4.3 percent annually.

The PSA said employment in agriculture totaled 11.84 million persons in 2013. The number contracted by 0.4 percent per year.

The sector’s share in total employment went down to 31 percent in 2013 by an average of 2.5 percent annually.

Western Visayas accounted for

the biggest agricultural employment in 2013 at 1.11 million persons.

It recorded a yearly reduction averaging 1 percent.

Employment in agriculture ranging from 0.81 million to 0.88 million persons were reported in many regions, such as Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Bicol Region, Central and Eastern Visayas, Soccsksargen and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

NCR posted the least number of employed persons in agriculture at 29,000 and it was going down by 0.5 percent per year. Downtrends were similarly noted in most regions.

The biggest employment growths at 1.6 percent to 1.7 percent were observed in Central Luzon and Eastern Visayas.

The pied piper

Assorted flutes made from homegrown bamboos are on display and sold at affordable prices at a stall in Pandi, Bulacan. The maker and distributor of the flutes, Kingflute Philippines, has been in the business since 1981 for professional and aspiring musicians. ROY DOMINGO

House panels OK fair competition bill

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he House Committee on Trade and Industry and the House Committee on Appropriations on Tuesday approved a consolidated bill on Philippine fair competition.

Liberal Party Rep. Antonio Rafael del Rosario of Davao del Norte, one of the authors of the bill, said the committee report for the proposed Philippine Fair Competition Act is now being prepared to be presented in the plenary for the second reading after the lower chamber’s All Saints’ Day break.

“We are hoping that by [the] end of this year, we will be able to approve it or hopefully between one month before our Christmas break,” del Rosario said.

Congress will take a two-week break from November 1 to November 16 for its All Saints’ Day break and on December 20, 2014, to January 19, 2015, for its Christmas break.

Del Rosario said that a competition law will be passed in preparation for the 2015 Asean integration which seeks to establish “a single market and production base with free movement of goods, services, labor and capital by 2015.”

Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., the main author of the bill, has said the Philippine Fair Competition Act has been included to the priority bills of the Palace and the 16th Congress, adding that the measure aims to minimize, if not totally eradicate, unfair competition, monopolies and cartels.

The bill also heavily penalizes monopoly, anti-competitive mergers and other unfair trade practices.

Monopoly shall mean a privilege or undue advantage of one or more firms, consisting in the exclusive right to carry on a particular business or trade, and/ or manufacture a particular product, article or object of trade, commerce or industry. It is a form of market structure in which or only a few firms dominate the total sales of a product or service.

The bill also proposes to create the Philippine Fair Trade Commission that will prosecute those engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices and other such practices with the purpose of preventing, restricting, or distorting competition.

Moreover, the approved consolidated bill is a substitute measure to Belmonte’s House Bill (HB) 1133, Deputy House Speaker and Leyte Rep. Sergio Apostol’s HB 4320; HB 2627 of Rep. Diosdado Ignacio “Dato” Arroyo of Camarines Sur and Rep. Gloria Arroyo of Pampanga; HB 3366 of Rep. Teodorico Haresco Jr. of Lone District of Aklan; HB 388 of Rep. Rufus Rodriguez of Cagayan de Oro City; and HB 453 of Rep. Marcelino Teodoro of Marikina City.

According to Apostol the bill is in response to Section 19, Article XII of the 1987 Constitution which provides that, “The State shall regulate or prohibit monopolies when the public interest so requires,” adding that any violation of Section 22 of the same article shall be considered inimical to the national interest and subject to criminal and civil sanctions.

Apostol informed Belmonte that the draft law imposes heavy penalties on violators.

“If the violator is a foreigner, he shall, in addition to the other penalties imposed by it, be deported after serving a jail term without need of any further proceedings,” he emphasized.

Under the bill, any person who fails or neglects to comply with any term or condition of a binding ruling, a cease and desist order or an order for readjustment issued by the commission, shall pay a fine of not less than P50,000 and not more P200,000 for each violation.

The commission may also impose upon entities fines of not less than P5,000 to not more than P100,000 where, intentionally or negligently, they supply incorrect or misleading information in any document, application or other paper filed with or submitted to the commission.

The bill also provides that an entity that enters into any anti-competitive agreement or conduct as defined under this act shall, for each and every violation, be penalized by imprisonment from five to 10 years or a fine up to 10 percent of the annual turnover of infringed during the previous fiscal year or up to 10 percent of the value of the assets of the infringed, whichever is higher, or both imprisonment and fine.

According to Apostol, “The increased deviousness and complexity of schemes in perpetuating monopolies in the country by multinational competitors necessitates an equally sophisticated legislation that would effectively address this concern.”

“Protection against price manipulation is an effective way by which the government can provide our people better access to various goods and commodities in the market. By providing an equal playing field in the business sector, consumers will have an improved access to affordable and, at the same time, quality goods,” Apostol said.

The Arroyos, for their part, said, “for too long, our people have stood up at the mercy of huge industries.

Due to lack of regulation and safeguards, unscrupulous businessmen have found ingenious ways to artificially control prices and manipulate the free market system.”

For Haresco, the existing antitrust laws do not provide for clear cut guidelines, elements/requisites or evidence to determine whether an act constitutes unfair competition, monopolistic behavior or restraint of trade.

“We need a proper body to determine whether there is any violation of antitrust laws,” he said.

Teodoro said that the bill is a reaction to observation of industries being cartelized when few suppliers of a vital product conspire to fix prices to the detriment of the public. Rodriguez, meanwhile, said the lack of genuine competition in certain industries impairs public welfare and undermines the country’s credibility to provide a business climate conducive to investment.

Earlier, Alfredo Yao, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, during the House of Representatives meeting with the Joint Foreign Chamber of Commerce and Philippine business groups, said that Congress should consider the fair competition law.

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P289.5 billion dam in DavOr seen to raise Mindanao crop harvest

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ATEEL, Davao Oriental—The P289.5-billion Cateel irrigation project was officially unleashed on Tuesday morning in Barangay Aragon here, providing year-round irrigation services for 1,600-hectare rice fields in 11 barangays across the municipality.

Considered the biggest dam in Mindanao, the project is funded by the World Bank, under the Mindanao Rural Development Project (MRDP), with the biggest chunk of the funds going to diversion works at P194.15 billion. The canalization work cost P86.97 billion; while the canal structures amounted to P8.44 billion.

The local government shared in the funds, with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture, which shouldered 40 percent of the 50-percent local government unit equity.

Gov. Corazon Malanyaon, Agriculture Undersecretary for Operations Emerson Palad, World Bank and MRDP representatives, local and provincial officials attended the blessing and inauguration ceremony.

Malanyaon said the project will boost the rice sufficiency of Cateel to 100 percent. Cateel is one of the three rice granaries in Davao Oriental, the other two being Lupon and Banaybanay towns.

It will provide sustainable irrigation water to approximately 1,600 hectares of suitable rice lands in barangays Taytayan, Poblacion, San Alfonso, Alegria, San Rafael, San Antonio, Santa Felomina, San Vicente, Abejod, San Miguel and Mainit.

The irrigation facility is also seen to allow a huge increase in palay production. Malanyaon said the sustainable irrigation infrastructure is the province’s road to self-sufficiency as it will bolster food security.

Malanyaon added that the project will provide the people of Davao Oriental the opportunities “to free themselves from the shackles of poverty.”

“We can keep the poor fed if we can correctly set our priorities. We can grow enough food and generate productive employment for the poor, while maintaining our natural-resource base and preserving biodiversity,” she emphasized.

Arnold Mendoza of the Philippine Fiber Industry and Development Authority, who is also a resident of Cateel, said the project is a big help to farmers. According to him, it will not only benefit rice farmers but also others into other crop production.

He said some 100 farmers engage in abaca industry can even benefit from the project, since most of them cross the Cateel River to the other side of Barangay Aragon.

Herminio Flores, who owns a one-and-a-halfhectare rice field in Cateel, expressed gratitude for the realization of the project. “Dili na mi magpaabot pa ug ulan…ug amihan [We will not wait for the rain…and the amihan season],” he said.

The project was rolled out in 2012, with the aim to irrigate 1,600 hectares; increase the cropping intensity; increase farmers’ income; and generate employment and revenues.

The work on the project was hampered by natural disasters that hit Davao Oriental. First was Typhoon Pablo which washed out 25 percent of work. It was restarted again, but two weather disturbances again damaged the project.

But Malanyaon pursued the project and determined to comply with policies of the funding agency. What could be a two-and-half-year project completion, Malanyaon said the project is seeing conclusion for seven months of work.

“This is a significant milestone in my wrapup of my three-year term. This is a feeling of fulfillment of my dreams. It is a shared dream of addressing the primordial concerns on food security, productivity and poverty,” she said in her speech.

Davao Oriental has the biggest share of the funds from MRDP, a poverty-alleviation initiative implemented through the DA covering 26 provinces and 225 municipalities in Mindanao.

MRDP initiative seeks to improve rural incomes and achieve food security through agri-fishery infrastructure, livelihood enterprise and biodiversity-conservation projects. Davao Oriental was allotted P425 million of which P261 million, went to the irrigation project.

With completion of the project, the DA also turned over farm machineries to the province under its Food Sufficiency Program. PNA

Windmill projects to boost power supply in 2015–DOE

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HE Department of Energy (DOE) is expecting an additional 250 megawatts (MW) of additional capacity that will be added to the grid by the end of this year or early 2015, ahead of the anticipated power shortage in Luzon in the summer months of next year.

“I just came from Ilocos Norte to inspect the windmill projects, and they are all coming online soon. That’s a total of 250 MW,” Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla said.

He recently inspected and visited the three wind locations in Ilocos Norte, namely, the 33-MW Bangui Windmills, operated by NorthWind Power Development Corp.; and

Halloween scare

Stall owners in Parañaque City line up a variety of Halloween decorations, including pumpkins, costumes and masks, in preparation for the Halloween on Friday. A tradition that traces its roots to Western countries, the observance of Halloween a day before the nation commemorates All Saints’ Day has found a niche in the country, especially among middle and upper middle class. Nonie Reyes

Forum Energy on track on 2 appraisal drills for oil, natural gas at Reed Bank

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ondon–listed Forum Energy Plc. remains on track to drill two appraisal wells in the disputed Reed Bank area of the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) before its permit expires again in August 2016.

“The seismic survey should be done as early as April or May next year. Afterward, drilling for the proposed two wells for appraisal shall be in 2016. As soon as those arrangements are finalized then we will notify the government,” Philex Petroleum Corp.

Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan said.

Appraisal wells are drilled to assess the size of gas or oil discoveries. An estimate of $60 million to $70 million may be needed to finance the drilling.

Forum Energy, which is 60.45-percent owned by Philex, has a 70-percent stake in Service Contract (SC) 72, an oil-and-gas exploration permit covering the Sampaguita natural-gas prospect in the Reed Bank, to the west of Palawan.

SC 72 is estimated to contain prospective resources of as much as 16.6 trillion cubic feet of gas and 416 million barrels of oil. It is important for the government to locate new source of oil and gas as the 25-year shelf life of Malampaya, the Philippines’s only natural-gas field of commercial scale, will last only until 2024.

Malampaya supplies 40 percent of Luzon’s electricity requirements through three power plants in Batangas.

Pangilinan also said that there is no word from China National Offshore Oil Co. Ltd. (CNOOC) if it wants to discuss how Forum Enegy should go about with the project. CNOOC is being eyed as Forum Energy’s joint venture partner in exploring SC 72.

“We haven’t heard from them for quite some time now. We’ve requested to resume talks but got no reply yet,” Pangilinan said.

Forum Energy has recently obtained approval from the Department of Energy (DOE) to extend by one year the drilling of two appraisal wells to Augusst 15, 2016.

“The deadline for completion of the second subphase, comprising the drilling of two appraisal wells, has now been extended by one year to August 15, 2016,” the DOE had said.

Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla believes that Forum Energy will be able to conduct drilling exploration activities in the area despite the territorial dispute between the Philippines and China.

China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, while the Philippines and Vietnam, along with Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei Darussalam, claim parts of it.

The dispute has delayed the company’s plans to drill two appraisal wells.

Recently, China lambasted the Philippines when the DOE extended the working permit for SC72.

“Without permission from China, oil and gas exploration by any foreign companies in waters under China’s jurisdiction is illegal and invalid,” Chinese Foreign Minister Spokesman Hong Lei was quoted as saying.

Petilla, on the other hand, said he sees nothing wrong in granting Forum Energy a one-year extension.

“We are looking at Philippines laws right now and under that law we did not violate anything as far as we are concerned,” Petilla said. Lenie Lectura

Aquino reassures better business climate for electronics investors

By Butch Fernandez

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HE Aquino administration assured CEOs belonging to the Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the Philippines Inc. (Seipi) on Tuesday that the government is committed to create a better business environment for electronics industry investments to come to the Philippines.

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Forum of the Seipi at the Manila Peninsula, President Aquino said Trade Secretary Gregory L. Domingo is “doing all of the road shows to directly engage all of these potential investors.”

Asked by Mr. Aquino to help him explain the administration’s program to attract more investors, Domingo reported that the Philippines had seen “a really huge increase in our foreign direct investments [FDI] starting out with about a billion dollars in 2010.”

“It went up to $2 billion in 2011; and about $3 billion in 2012; and $3.8 billion, 2013,” Domingo said, adding, “And, as of the latest figure writing up to August, it’s already $4billion FDI this year.”

Domingo suggested this could be credited to the “good governance agenda of the President [which] has been very well received, which resulted in the credit-ratings upgrades, trying to have more transparent bidding procedures, etcetera.”

the future wind farms in Burgos (150 MW), owned by the Energy Development Corp.

(EDC), and Pagudpud (81 MW), of the North Luzon Renewable Energy Corp. (NLREC).

The Burgos wind project of EDC is envisioned to be the largest wind farm in the Philippines. NLREC, on the other hand, is controlled by Ayala Corp. and is presently in the advanced stage of construction of its 81MW Caparispisan Phase 1 wind project in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte.

The construction of the first phase is now around 80-percent complete, while the construction of the substation and transmission line is ongoing. NorthWind Power, meanwhile, targets to complete the third-phase expansion of the Bangui Bay wind farm by adding 18 MW

from the existing 33 MW within the year.

Petilla said, however, that the entire 150 MW of capacity from the wind-energy projects may not be fully utilized, as the reliability of wind, as a source of energy, is only 50 percent during summer.

Nonetheless, Petilla said these energy developments are symbols of the country’s initiatives in changing the models and paradigms for energy security. Therefore, he said, “We must exert every effort in exploring different potential resources which we can tap for our energy requirements.”

He also noted that renewable energy developments in the country have been a blooming industry that continuously stirs the progress of the rural regions of the nation. Lenie Lectura

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Good governance on the ground level

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EFORE the blatant corruption, massive plunder and remorseless vengeance infecting the highest echelons of our government become the new normal of our political culture, let us take a look at community-level programs that serve as concrete examples of good governance.

The Galing Pook Foundation is a private organization established in 1991 to champion innovation and excellence in local governance and to recognize innovative trailblazing programs that can serve as benchmarks for and inspiration to other local government units (LGUs). The foundation tells us that we have LGUs that have, on their own initiative, conceptualized and implemented programs that not only resulted in the enhancement of the physical qualities of their municipalities, but also in the marked improvement of the lives and welfare of their inhabitants.

We must enumerate these LGU projects to have a sense of what they are about and what the LGUs have been able to accomplish. Their record is very impressive.

The “From Arms to Farms” program of Kausuagan municipality in Lanao del Norte province attracted former rebels to join in productive socioeconomic activities. The night-market project of Tagum City in Davao del Norte province converted trash-filled and crime-ridden streets into a bustling night market. Quezon province involved its citizens in a massive treereplanting program.

Tarlac province was able to provide quality eye-care services to its marginalized and poor communities. South Cotabato province built a sanitary landfill that involved the resources and participation of constituent LGUs. The “Boulevard Project” of Dipolog City in Zamboanga del Norte province transformed its coastline overcrowded with informal settlers into a venue for economic and recreational activities.

Legazpi City in Albay province constructed an integrated land-transport terminal that reduced traffic congestion and chaos. Quezon City provided medical and clinical services to HIV/AIDS patients of Klinika Bernardo.

These programs were honored at this year’s Galing Pook Awards, which recognizes the best examples of good governance at work in the Philippines.

In granting the awards, Maria Lourdes C. Fernando, chairman of the Galing Pook Foundation and former mayor of Marikina City, said the programs and projects were “surprising in their simplicity” and could easily be replicated in other municipalities and villages.

Congratulations to the LGUs and their partners from the private sector and civil society for working so hard to deliver these services and programs, which meant so much to the lives of their constituencies. Congratulations, too, to the Galing Pook Foundation for unselfishly devoting its precious resources to encourage good governance on the ground level in our country.

As for the national government, if it cannot provide moral and intellectual leadership to LGUs, we hope it will, at least, extend financial support to their programs of good governance.

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Inspiration from a father

By Trudy Rubin

The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

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N 2009 I spent an afternoon talking with Malala Yousafzai’s father, Ziauddin, in an outdoor garden in Mingora, the capital of the Swat district of Pakistan, which had just been freed from months of Taliban control.

I thought of that conversation when Malala, now 17, received the prestigious Liberty Medal in Philadelphia last week, and when she was named co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month.

When I met her father, the name of his precocious 12-year-old was still unknown to the world—and he was still keeping it a secret—although she had been blogging under a pseudonym for the British Broadcasting Corp. for the previous year about life under the Taliban.

But Ziauddin’s courage as a civic activist and champion of girls’ education was already well known to locals in the Swat valley, and he was on the Taliban hit list. “I was afraid I would be killed and I had to sleep at different places outside my home,” he told me, at a time when the Taliban was cutting off heads of opponents in Swat. “The Taliban wanted to negate our right to culture, music, poetry and education, and to impose their culture on us.”

As Malala’s name garners headlines, I believe it is important to recognize the crucial role her father played in her intellectual development, along with the role of open-minded

male relatives who help women rise up in societies that want to keep them down.

The Swat valley is a lush district of orchards, streams and waterfalls; it used to be a destination for middleclass Pakistani tourists and honeymooners. A traditional princely ruler, or wali, had built a network of schools in the valley that helped the region outpace the literacy rate in other areas of Pakistan (although it faltered after the wali’s death in 1969).

In traditional Pakistani tribal society, female illiteracy is shockingly high—even Malala’s mother is only now learning to read. Women are expected to remain subservient and nearly invisible. Ziauddin wanted to change that pattern and founded the Khushal Public School for girls in Mingora nearly two decades ago. As he movingly described in a TED talk about his daughter, he proudly admitted Malala into his school when she was four-and-a-half years old. (TED talks by intriguing people are posted online at www. ted.com/talks).

“Why should I mention the admission of a girl in a school?” he asks rhetorically. “It may be taken

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for granted…in many developed countries, but in patriarchal societies…it’s a big event for the life of the girl. Enrollment in a school means recognition of her identity and her name…. [It] means that she has entered the world of dreams… where she can explore her potential for her future life.

“I have five sisters, and none of them could go to school. What my father could not give to my sisters and to his daughters, I thought I must change it.” He did.

Had her father not had this progressive mindset, it’s unlikely that Malala could have led her fight for girls’ education, no matter her talents. Indeed, it is almost as critical to educate men and boys in traditional societies about the value of educating girls as it is to fight for the right of girls to attend school. (Changing the male mindset in traditional societies may be even harder than opening doors for girls.)

However, from the moment of Malala’s birth, her father displayed a totally different outlook. As he pointed out, in patriarchal societies the birth of a girl is not celebrated.

But when Malala was born, he said, “I looked into her eyes [and] I [felt] extremely honored.” He named her after a legendary Afghan freedom fighter, Malalai of Maiwand. And when a relative brought him a Yousafzai family tree, tracing male ancestors back 300 years, he drew a line from his name and wrote “Malala,” the first female name on the page.

Sadly, the Taliban have staged a partial comeback in Swat. When Malala was shot in the head by a Taliban goon when she was 15, her grief-stricken father asked his wife whether he was to blame. Was he wrong to have broken societal rules?

His illiterate wife, whose father followed those rules, gave a firm answer, as he recalled: “You put your life at stake for the cause of truth… and for the cause of education, and your daughter is inspired [by] you and she joined you. You both were on the right path, and God will protect her.”

Now Malala has recovered and become the best-known campaigner for girls’ education in the world.

But her story reminds us that, as I’ve heard repeatedly from activist women in Afghanistan and Pakistan, support from male relatives is usually crucial in enabling them to move forward.

It’s not that those men made the women what they are. Their key role is often quite different. Ziauddin put it well when he described his response to people asking whether he had “made Malala so bold and so courageous.”

“I tell them, ‘Don’t ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do,’” her father says. “I did not clip her wings, and that’s all.”

For that wisdom, so rare and courageous in his world, Malala’s father deserves full recognition as a partner in the major awards she has achieved.

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The politics of biodiversity loss Bayantel’s rehabilitation hangs in the balance

By Zakri Abdul Hamid Inter Press Service

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UALA LUMPUR—To firmly put biodiversity concerns into development planning, we must offer a compelling rationale and demonstrate biodiversity’s relevance to wealth generation, job creation and general human well-being. Only a persuasive “why” resonating throughout society will successfully get us to urgently needed negotiations of who, what, where, when and how to halt disastrous biodiversity loss.

Experts in a broad range of disciplines—taxonomists, agronomists, social scientists, climate scientists, economists and others—are working together to arm the public and their policymakers with relevant evidence on which to base decisions.

Scientists have authoritatively established links between biodiversity and climate change, food security, water security, energy security and human security.

With input from more than 1,000 experts worldwide, we published in 2005 the landmark Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, elevating the issues to policymakers and decisionmakers as never before. It was hailed for its success as a platform to deliver clear, valuable, policy-relevant consensus on the state, trends and outlooks of biodiversity.

A need quickly became apparent for a sustained, ongoing mechanism to bridge the gap between policymaking and the scientific world’s ever-accumulating insights. In response, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Ipbes) was established in 2012.

Ipbes’s initial deliverables included a policy-support tool based on the economic values of biodiversity, a fasttrack assessment on pollination services and food production, insights into the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity, and a global assessment of the overall state of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Ipbes also aims to integrate indigenous and local knowledge systems in its work.

The dollar values of biodiversity and ecosystem services are difficult, but not impossible to quantify. In 1997 experts estimated the global value of ecosystem services at an average of $33 trillion a year. This year’s update on that study nearly quadrupled the estimated annual value of those services to $125 trillion.

Within that number, for example, is the economists’ 2010 estimate that the planet’s 63 million hectares of wetlands provide some $3.4 billion in storm protection, food and other services to humans each year. And a large portion of the $640-billion pharmaceutical market relies on genetic resources found in nature, with anticancer agents from marine organisms alone valued at up to $1 billion annually.

The loss of biodiversity through deforestation, meanwhile, is estimated to cost the global economy up to $4.5 trillion every year.

The fast-track assessment on pollination services will address profoundly worrisome changes in the health of bees and other pollinator populations, the services of which underpin extremely valuable—some might say invaluable—food production.

The assessment of the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity will

address the ecological, economic, social and cultural importance of mainly harvested and traded biodiversity-related products and wild species.

The Ipbes global assessment of biodiversity and its many benefits will build on Global Biodiversity Outlook reports, the latest of which this month urged the world to step up efforts to meet agreedupon biodiversity targets for 2020.

We have generated much knowledge and continue to add to it. Achieving our sustainable development goals, however, depends on the successful application and sharing of that knowledge.

A workshop last November concluded that most nations, though unanimously committed to protecting biodiversity, lack the capacity to measure and assess their genetic and biological resources, or to value key ecosystem services. Helping remedy that capacity shortfall is a core function of Ipbes.

Communicating our findings will also be critical in mainstreaming this agenda, using both conventional and new social-media platforms, framing the issue as one of development, rather than of strictly conservation.

All stakeholders—the business community, in particular—must be engaged, and we must incorporate biodiversity studies at every educational level.

Speaking of his admiration of Malaysia’s towering Cengal tree, his nation’s equivalent to the magnificent California Redwood, Prime Minister Najib Razak recently noted: “Such giants may take centuries to reach their awe-inspiring height and girth, but can be felled in less than a few hours by an unscrupulous timber contractor with a chainsaw.”

Such outstanding monuments of nature are, indeed, so much more valuable than their wood fiber—they engender a sense of pride in our natural heritage.

This appreciation will, I believe and hope, ultimately draw the interest of our most brilliant minds and drive the innovative, nature-based solutions to global challenges on which future generations will depend.

The promising United Nations discussions of post-2015 global-development goals should help put biodiversity where it belongs at the heart of the agenda—recognized as a prerequisite for poverty alleviation, good health, food and water security, and more. As we plan an age of sustainable development, let us recognize that maintaining a biodiverse world is not a hindrance to development, but is fundamental to development.

MARKET FILES

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UST when the corporate rehabilitation of Bayan Telecommunications of the Lopez Group of Companies was about to start and effectively assure its 1,128 employees of their security of tenure, a temporary restraining order (TRO) has put the company’s existence in limbo. Not only that, the possibility of having a third player in the telecommunications industry that could ensure healthy competition is similarly put in jeopardy.

On October 9 the Court of Appeals granted the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.’s (PLDT) petition for a 60-day TRO on the National Telecommunications Commission’s (NTC) hearing of NTC Case 2013218, titled “In Re: Joint Application for Regulatory Approval Pursuant to Commonwealth Act 146 of the Court-approved Rehabilitation Plan in SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] Case 03-25.”

That case is about the Amended Rehabilitation Plan, as approved by Branch 158 of the Regional Trial Court in Pasig City in August 2013, which granted Globe Telecom the right to exercise its option to convert up to 69 percent of Bayantel’s debt into its shares that comprise up to 56.6 percent of the Lopez-owned firm’s capital stock. That debt conversion started the rehabilitation efforts for Bayantel.

Bayantel has already been in the telecommunication-service industry for almost two decades, providing landline and broadband communications to its subscribers. But,

because it had defaulted on its financial obligations, Bayantel had to agree to a corporate-rehabilitation program to sustain its viability. In effect, Bayantel was given a fresh lease on its corporate life to continue providing economic value to its customers and employees.

That program, which is anchored on the conversion of its debts of about $400 million, was meant to assure Bayantel that it would continue to serve its landline and broadband subscribers, as well as ensure the continued employment of thousands of its employees, many of whom have been with the company for 17 to 20 years.

The program was earlier hailed as precedent-setting judicial activism.

But with the TRO, with PLDT arguing that there is a violation of Republic Act 7925 by assuming that the two companies would be merged, the fate of Bayantel hangs in the balance. PLDT pointed out that Globe and Bayantel are conspiring to create an anticompetitive environment in the telecommunications industry,

an independent auditor; c) upon the written permission of the depositor; d) in cases of impeachment; e) upon the order of a competent court in cases of bribery or dereliction of duty of public officials; and f) in cases where the money deposited is the subject of the litigation.

Clearly, the confidentiality or secrecy is not “absolute.” Moreover, the exceptions listed above is not exclusive, since, in addition to those expressly listed under Section 2 of RA 1405, other laws have either expressly or impliedly provided other exceptions to the bank-secrecy law.

These are: g) upon inquiry by the internal-revenue commissioner in the determination of the net estate of a deceased depositor; h) under Section 11 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2011; i) under Section 2 of the Unclaimed Balances Act; j) under Section 8 of RA 3019, pertaining to

unexplained wealth; and k) under Section 27 to 43 of the Human Security Act of 2007, also known as the antiterrorism law.

Some of the laws that have impliedly added exceptions to the banksecrecy laws have been confirmed

by Supreme Court (SC) decisions.

Note that Section 11 of the AntiMoney Laundering Act provided for an expressed exception to the bank-secrecy law, while Section 8 of RA 3019 and 1379 provided for an implied exception to the same law, as ruled in Philippine National Bank v Gancayco. All these exceptions bring to mind the historical observation that the Holy Roman Empire of the Middle Ages was neither holy and Roman nor an empire.

Perhaps, as the last exception to the bank secrecy law, one may add: l) upon order of a competent court in cases similar to that of bribery or

Harassment of businessmen

lament over the possible persecution of his business allies is a serious charge that the government has to answer, if only to assure that there is no truth to his allegations, for these are deemed serious in the light of his very public intention to run for the highest post in the land.

Binay is now on the hot seat, and those in the business community think that the charges could have stemmed from his early pronouncement to run for the presidency, a charge denied by Malacañang. Whatever, Binay may have his reasons for refusing to attend the Senate hearing on his supposed ownership of a 300-plus-hectare agricultural estate in Rosario town, Batangas province.

Businessman Antonio Tiu, who has his own listed corporation on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), has claimed ownership of the estate, although there are lingering questions about the supposed documentation. The charge that Tiu is a dummy for Binay is something that is yet to unravel in the Senate investigation. The continued persecution of Tiu is what possibly prompted Binay to cry harassment.

There is one thing that a listing on the PSE requires, and that is transparency. The fact that Tiu has been able to have his company’s stocks traded on the PSE speaks volumes about the truthfulness of his financial filings. Unless the PSE sees something wrong about Tiu’s listed firm, the government should take Binay’s harassment charge very seriously.

VICE President Jejomar C. Binay’s

E-mail: hugagni@yahoo.com.

dereliction of duty of public officials.

For example, unexplained wealth is considered as similar to bribery and plunder under RA 7080. In Ejercito v Sandiganbayan, it was held that the crime of plunder is analogous to bribery and, therefore, the exception from the secrecy of bank deposits granted in cases of bribery should also be granted to cases for plunder under RA 7080, in which crime is not expressly listed as an exception in RA 1405.

It should also be pointed out that there is no secrecy for the bank deposits of dummies. In Banco Filipino Savings and Mortgage Bank v Purisima, the SC held that the spouse, dependents and other persons may not effectively invoke the bank-deposits secrecy law. The High Court also cited Section 1 of RA 1379 that characterized a “property unlawfully acquired by the respondent” to include properties where their

“ownership is concealed by [their] being recorded in the name of [or] held by the respondent’s spouse, ascendants, descendants, relatives or any other person.” Accordingly, concealing unlawfully acquired wealth, including cash in banks, in the name of other persons does not guarantee a successful abscondment.

With respect to foreign-currency deposits, note that its confidentiality is more strictly upheld by lesser exceptions. Hence, the exceptions listed in RA 1405 do not apply to such deposits. Inquiries into such accounts may be allowed only under Section 8 of the Foreign Currency Deposits Act, that is, with the depositor’s written consent and by the AMLC under Section 11 of RA 9160.

Zakri Abdul Hamid is the science advisor to the prime minister of Malaysia, the joint chairman of the Malaysian Industry Government Group for High Technology and a member of the United Nations secretary-general’s Scientific Advisory Board.

The bank-secrecy law Atty. Dennis B. Funa

INSURANCE FORUM

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HE Insurance Commission is one of three members of the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC); the other two are the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Securities and Exchange Commission. In a recent meeting with the Department of Finance, they raised a concern regarding the continuing need for bank-secrecy laws in the country. Let us, then, take a look at the current state of our bank-secrecy law.

While Section 2 of Republic Act (RA) 1405, also known as the Secrecy of Bank Deposits Act, declares bank deposits to be “absolutely confidential,” deposits of whatever nature, including investments in bonds, are expressly allowed to be “examined,

Lito U. Gagni

something that PLDT was familiar with in its not-so-distant past, when it enjoyed a monopoly.

The question, though, is this: Is PLDT’s assertion true? If the rehabilitation program is set against the backdrop of PLDT’s acquisition of Digital Telecommunications (Digitel) in March 2011 to gain the majority of subscribers in the mobilenetwork industry—a whopping 70 percent of the market—then the difference between them would become very apparent. The PLDTDigitel merger has shown PLDT’s monopolistic stance by getting rid of a competitor that eats into its profits.

At the time, Digitel had 15 million subscribers, almost all of which were enjoying unlimited services. Even worse, after the PLDT-Digitel merger, a good number of Digitel employees were laid off due to redundancy.

This resulted in a huge labor battle that saw Digitel employees picketing in front of the PLDT main office in Makati City. As for the Bayantel rehabilitation program, there is no merger and, in fact, both Bayantel and Globe would continue to lead separate corporate lives.

So why is PLDT so afraid of a rehabilitated Bayantel that it petitioned for a TRO that would stop the NTC hearing? Is PLDT afraid of a third player in the telecom industry? Does it still believe that it continues to enjoy complete control of the industry, where telephone services were so lousy that former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew had famously mentioned it?

inquired or looked into” by the same law, as amended, in these instances: a) during a special or general examination of a bank, as authorized by the Monetary Board, to investigate bank fraud or a serious irregularity; b) during a regular audit of a bank by

Atty. Dennis B. Funa is the deputy commissioner for legal services of the Insurance Commission.

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trustees and confirmed by the Archbishop of Manila.

Named for their integrity, competence and impartiality, they include communication professionals, academicians, civic and religious leaders and members trustees and confirmed by the Archbishop of Manila. of the clergy.

Named for integrity, competence and impartiality, trustees andtheir confirmed byfor the Archbishop Manila.

The CMMA has raised two years nowofthe they include communication professionals, Named for their integrity,to competence and impartiality, requirement for eligibility the Hall of Fame from academicians, civic and religious leaders and members they include communication professionals, three to five wins, not necessarily consecutive, in the of the clergy. civic and religious leaders and members academicians, CMMA regular media categories. Like last year, no Hall of the Theclergy.

CMMA has raised for two years now the of Fame awardeehas will be announced in this year’s awards The CMMA raised for twoHall years requirement for eligibility to the ofnow Famethe from ceremony.

The award will resume next year when a fiverequirement for eligibility to the Hall of Fame from three to five wins, not necessarily consecutive, in the time winner becomes available. three to five wins,media not necessarily in the CMMA regular categories.consecutive, Like last year, no Hall The theme for this year’ s CMMA is “Communication CMMA regular media categories.

Like last year, no Hall of Fame awardee will be announced in this year’s awards at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter, ” of Fame awardee will be announced in this s awards ceremony.

The award will resume next yearyear’ when a fivebased on the message of Pope Francis ceremony.

The award will resume next for yearWorld when a fivetime winner becomes available. time winner becomes Communications Dayavailable. last June 1.

The theme for this year’s CMMA is “Communication The themeisforthe this s CMMA “Communication Following listyear’ of finalists to is the 36th CMMA: at the Service of an Authentic A Culture of Encounter,” at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter,” based on on the the message messageof ofPope PopeFrancis Francisfor forWorld World based Communications Day last June 1.

Communications Day last June 1.

Following isis the thelist listof offinalists finaliststotothe the36th 36thCMMA: CMMA: Following

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