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Duterte urges Filipino Muslims to keep partnering with govt 02%3)$%.4 2ODRIGO $UTERTE URGED THE -USLIM COMMUNITY TO CONTINUE PARTNERING WITH THE GOVERNMENT IN PROMOTING PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG &ILIPINOS AS THE COUNTRY MARKED THE END OF 2AMADAN )N HIS %ID L &ITR MESSAGE ON 7EDNESDAY 0RESIDENT $UTERTE CALLED ON ALL &ILIPINO -USLIMS WHOM HE DESCRIBED AS gINSTRUMENTS OF LOVE RESPECT AND SELlESS SERVICE u TO USE THE CELEBRATION AS A TIME FOR ENLIGHTENMENT g-AY ALL -USLIM &ILIPINOS OBSERVE THIS DAY AS A

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Filipino Muslims pray at the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park, Manila, on Wednesday to celebrate Eid’l Fitr, the festival of fast-breaking, that marks the end of Ramadan. PHOTO BY ENRIQUE AGCAOILI

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Foreigners again threaten our fragile freedom First of 2 parts

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HE United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will permanently CLOSE ITS -ANILA OFkCE NEXT MONTH AND HAS already stopped accepting applications under a plan to end international operations for lack of resources.

3OME SERVICES WERE HALTED EARLIER IN -AY 4HE LAST DAY THE -ANILA OFkCE WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TO ACCEPT APPLICATIONS AND PETITIONS WAS -AY THE 53#)3 said ON ITS WEBSITE &ULL CLOSURE HAS BEEN SCHEDULED ON *ULY 4HE 53#)3 OFkCES HANDLE FAMILY VISA

Jobless rate drops but inflation rises 5.%-0,/9-%.4 HAS CONTINUED TO FALL

BUT CONSUMER PRICES HAVE AGAIN PICKED UP BASED ON DATA RELEASED BY THE GOVERNMENT ON 7EDNESDAY 4HE COUNTRY S JOBLESS RATE FELL TO PERCENT IN !PRIL DOWN FROM PERCENT A YEAR EARLIER AND THE PERCENT POSTED IN *ANUARY THE 0HILIPPINES 3TATISTICS !UTHORITY 03! REPORTED WITH THOSE LOOKING FOR MORE WORK ALSO POSTING AN IMPROVEMENT

"OTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT GAINS ‡ THE LATTER DROPPED TO PERCENT FROM PERCENT A YEAR EARLIER AND *ANUARY S PERCENT ‡ WERE SAID TO BE DUE TO gVIBRANT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY u INCLUDING THE AVAILABILITY OF MORE JOBS AHEAD OF THE -AY MIDTERM ELECTIONS )NlATION ON THE OTHER HAND PICKED UP TO PERCENT IN -AY FROM PERCENT A MONTH EARLIER THE 03!

SAID IN A SEPARATE REPORT SNAPPING A SIX MONTH RUN OF DECLINES ATTRIBUTED TO HIGHER FOOD AND ELECTRICITY PRICES 4HE RESULT WAS STILL LOWER COMPARED TO THE PERCENT RECORDED MONTHS EARLIER AND FELL WITHIN THE "ANGKO 3ENTRAL NG 0ILIPINAS FULL YEAR TO PERCENT TARGET AND TO PERCENT FORECAST FOR THE MONTH

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FOR GALLANTRY President Rodrigo Duterte pins the Gold Cross Medal on one of the soldiers who got injured fighting members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in Sulu in May. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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What’s inside DUTERTE HONORS SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT ABU SAYYAF

REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS REFUGEE APPLICATIONS AND THE NATURALIZATION OF 53 MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT YET !MERICAN CITIZENS )N A TWEET ON -ONDAY THE 53 %MBASSY IN THE 0HILIPPINES REITERATED THAT NEW APPLICATIONS AND PETITIONS WERE NO LONGER BEING

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Tobacco tax hike to raise P126B – DoF ()'(%2 TAXES ON TOBACCO PRODUCTS COULD ADD 0 BILLION TO THE GOVERNMENT S COFFERS BY THE &INANCE DEPARTMENT SAID ON 7EDNESDAY AFTER #ONGRESS FAST TRACKED THE APPROVAL OF A MEASURE NOW AWAITING 0RESIDENT 2ODRIGO $UTERTE S SIGNATURE %STIMATES PROVIDED BY &INANCE 5NDERSECRETARY +ARL +ENDRICK #HUA SHOWED INCREMENTAL REVENUES OF 0 BILLION STARTING 0 BILLION IN 0 BILLION IN 0 BILLION IN AND 0 BILLION IN !PPROVED UNANIMOUSLY BY SENATORS ON THIRD AND kNAL READING ON 4UESDAY

3ENATE "ILL PROVIDES FOR A HIGHER 0 EXCISE TAX PER CIGARETTE PACK NEXT YEAR

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OPPOSITION EYES SPEAKERSHIP BID, CALLS FOR ONE RULING PARTY BET

A BUSY, BEAUTIFUL YEAR FOR SARAH GERONIMO

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THE RULING PARTY SHOULD kELD JUST ONE CANDIDATE FOR (OUSE SPEAKER TO PAVE THE WAY FOR AN gAUTHENTICu MINORITY AN OPPOSITION LEGISLATOR SAID ON 7EDNESDAY !LBAY 2EP %DCEL ,AGMAN WHO LEADS THE g-AGNIkCENT 3EVENu BLOC IN THE TH #ONGRESS SAID THE OPPOSITION WOULD CONSIDER kELDING ITS OWN SPEAKERSHIP CANDIDATE WHO COULD SUBSEQUENTLY BECOME THE MINORITY LEADER g3INCE ALL OF THE CANDIDATES FOR

SPEAKER ARE ADMINISTRATION PEOPLE THE 0RESIDENT S MEN WE SUGGESTED THATw IF THEY kELD A COMMON CANDIDATE THEN THE MINORITY CAN ALSO RANK THEIR OWN CANDIDATE WHO WILL ALSO SUBSEQUENTLY BECOME THE MINORITY LEADER u ,AGMAN SAID IN A TELEVISION INTERVIEW !PART FROM THE MINORITY GROUP LED BY 1UEZON 2EP $ANILO 3UAREZ THERE ARE ONLY TWO INDEPENDENT OPPOSITION GROUPS IN THE (OUSE ,AGMAN S BLOC AND THE -AKABAYAN THAT CONSISTS OF

PROGRESSIVE PARTY LIST GROUPS !LL OF THE ASPIRANTS FOR SPEAKERSHIP PARTICULARLY ITS TOP CONTENDERS

HAVE STRONG TIES WITH THE ADMINISTRATION $AVAO DEL .ORTE 2EP 0ANTALEON !LVAREZ -ARINDUQUE 2EP ,ORD !LLAN 6ELASCO AND 0AMPANGA 2EP !URELIO 'ONZALES ALL BELONG TO THE RULING 0ARTIDO $EMOKRATIKO 0ILIPINO ,AKAS NG "AYAN HEADED BY 0RESIDENT 2ODRIGO $UTERTE

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Duterte honors soldiers who fought Abu Sayyaf

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BY RALPH U. VILLANUEVA

RESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has awarded soldiers who were injured IN kGHTING AGAINST MEMBERS OF THE TERRORIST !BU 3AYYAF 'ROUP IN 3ULU PROVince on May 31. /N 4UESDAY $UTERTE VISITED THE SOLDIERS AT #AMP 'ENERAL 4EODULFO "AUTISTA IN THE PROVINCE IN SOUTHERN -INDANAO (E CONFERRED THE /RDER OF ,APU ,APU WITH RANK OF +AMPILAN TO SOLDIERS WHO WERE WOUNDED DURING LAST MONTH S CLASH AT "ARANGAY 0ANSUL 0ATIKUL 3ULU 4HE RECIPIENTS OF THE /RDER OF ,APU ,APU WERE #ORPORALS !RSENIO /PACO *R AND 3ONNY *UMOC 0RIVATES &IRST #LASS %DWIN 9URONG %DESON !LOM !BDUHASAD

"ALADJI AND *OEVERTT 2AMIREZ AND 0RIVATES $OMINIC /SORIO *ERIC 0EÄAREDONDO 2AYMUND "ALAMBAO

2AMIL $IAZ *R AND !LBERT $ALIGDIG 4WO OTHER SOLDIERS WHO SUSTAINED MAJOR INJURIES WERE AIRLIFTED TO #AMP .AVARRO 'ENERAL (OSPITAL IN :AMBOANGA #ITY 4HEY WERE 0RIVATES &IRST #LASS (ALIBOY #ALAPIZ AND $IETH 3ARABE )N HIS SPEECH DURING HIS VISIT

$UTERTE SAID HE WAS WILLING TO STAY SIDE BY SIDE WITH HIS SOLDIERS (E ADDED THAT HE WOULD EVEN

DIE WITH THEM IF NEED BE g)N TIMES THAT YOU NEED A COMMANDER IN CHIEF TO BE WITH YOU

BESIDE YOU AND TO DIE WITH YOU

) AM HERE FOR YOU u $UTERTE SAID (E ADDED THAT PAYMENT OF THE SOLDIERS HAZARD PAYS WOULD COME IN THE COMING MONTHS $UTERTE CREATED THE /RDER OF ,APU ,APU THROUGH ISSUANCE OF %XECUTIVE /RDER ON !PRIL

4HE ORDER AIMS TO gRECOGNIZE GOVERNMENT WORKERS AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WHO PROVIDE INVALUABLE OR EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE IN NATION TO A CAMPAIGN OR ADVOCACY OF THE 0RESIDENT u 4HE +AMPILAN -EDAL IS BESTOWED ON THOSE WHO ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN CARRYING OUT ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION WITH ISSUES CHAMPIONED BY THE 0RESIDENT $UTERTE AWARDED THE 'OLD #ROSS -EDAL TO ,IEUTENANT COLONELS

!BDULMOEL !LAMAIA AND 2ONALDO !MTEO &IRST ,IEUTENANTS 2OMEL 0ACER AND 'ERONIMO 6ERGARAL AND #ORPORALS !RIEL 3ANCHEZ %NGELBERT 4AÄAN AND 2EYLAN "USMEON (E LED THE DONNING OF RANKS TO "RIGADIER 'ENERALS $IVINO 2EY 0ABAYO AND !NDRES #ENTINO )N HIS SPEECH $UTERTE ASKED -OROS TO MAKE PEACE WITH THE GOVERNMENT 3AYING HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS ALWAYS READY TO EXTEND ASSISTANCE TO THE -OROS HE ALSO ASKED THE .ATIONAL (OUSING !UTHORITY TO BUILD SHELTERS FOR THE -OROS SPECIkCALLY THE 4AUSUGS )N HIS SPEECH THAT HE MADE A DAY BEFORE THE -USLIM HOLIDAY %ID L &ITR HE SAID )SLAM IS A GREAT RELIGION gBUT IT HAS BEEN CORRUPTED

BY THE )SLAMIST EXTREMISTS u 4HE 0RESIDENT ADDED THAT HE WOULD NOT TOLERATE THE VIOLENCE BEING SOWN BY THE EXTREMISTS

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Associate Justice Henri Jean Paul Inting (second from left) attends his first flag ceremony at the Supreme Court. With him are (from left) Associate Justice Amy Lazaro-Javier; Philippine Judicial Academy vice chancellor and retired SC Associate Justice Romeo Callejo Sr.; Associate Justices Ramon Paul Hernando, Andres Reyes Jr., Mario Victor Leonen and Mariano del Castillo; retired SC Associate Justice Adolfo Azcuna; and Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio. Inting filled the vacancy left by Associate Justice Lucas Bersamin who was named chief justice. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

De Lima wants Marawi rehabilitation expedited $%4!).%$ 3EN ,EILA DE ,IMA ON 7EDNESDAY URGED THE $UTERTE ADMINISTRATION TO EXPEDITE THE REHABILITATION OF -ARAWI #ITY TO IMPROVE THE PLIGHT OF RESIDENTS DISPLACED DURING AN ARMED CONlICT BETWEEN GOVERNMENT FORCES AND THE )SLAMIC 3TATE -AUTE EXTREMIST GROUP IN 3HE NOTED THAT TWO YEARS AFTER THE DEFEAT OF THE -AUTE TERROR GROUP -ARAWI #ITY THE CAPITAL OF ,ANAO DEL 3UR IN SOUTHERN -INDANAO WAS STILL IN RUINS g4HOUSANDS OF OUR FELLOWMEN ARE STILL HOMELESS AND LIVE IN TENTS 4HERE IS NO CERTAINTY WHETHER THEY CAN LIVE NORMAL LIVES u DE ,IMA SAID IN &ILIPINO g4HE $UTERTE ADMINISTRATION SHOULD GIVE PRIORITY TO THE INTERESTS OF THE -USLIM &ILIPINOS IN -ARAWI #ITY BY PROPERLY AND JUDICIOUSLY USING GOVERNMENT FUNDS AS WELL AS LOCAL AND FOREIGN DONATIONS ALLOTTED FOR THE REHABILITATION u SHE ADDED 4HE )NTERNATIONAL #OMMITTEE OF THE 2ED #ROSS ON -AY REPORTED THAT OVER PEOPLE AFFECTED

BY THE -ARAWI SIEGE HAD REMAINED HOMELESS AND WERE UNABLE TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES 3EVERAL DISPLACED -ARAWI RESIDENTS EARLIER STAGED A RALLY TO DEMAND THEIR IMMEDIATE RETURN TO THEIR HOMES AS THEY DECRIED THEIR PLIGHT OF LIVING IN TEMPORARY SHELTERS FOR OVER TWO YEARS !SIDE FROM PERMANENT SHELTERS THE INTERNALLY DISPLACED

PERSONS COMPLAINED ABOUT NOT GETTING POTABLE WATER AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD -EANWHILE DE ,IMA WHO IS DETAINED ON DRUG CHARGES EXPRESSED HOPE THAT SHE WOULD SOON ATTAIN VINDICATION AND FREEDOM SO THAT SHE COULD SERVE MORE IN THE SECOND HALF OF HER TERM 4HE SENATOR WAS DETAINED IN &EBRUARY AT THE 0HILIPPINE .ATIONAL 0OLICE #USTODIAL #ENTER IN 1UEZON #ITY 3HE CLAIMED THAT HER DETENTION WAS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED (ER TERM AS SENATOR WILL END IN *UNE $E ,IMA ON 4UESDAY THANKED 3ENATE 0RESIDENT 6ICENTE 3OTTO RD gFOR ACKNOWLEDGING MY EFFORTS AND HARD WORK AS A SENATOR DESPITE MY POLITICAL PERSECUTION u 4HE CHAIRMAN OF THE 3ENATE #OMMITTEE ON 3OCIAL *USTICE

7ELFARE AND 2URAL $EVELOPMENT

SHE PRINCIPALLY AUTHORED THE NEW LAW PROVIDING FOR THE -AGNA #ARTA OF THE 0OOR 2EPUBLIC !CT OR THE g-AGNA #ARTA OF THE 0OOR u REQUIRES CONCERNED GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO FUND THEIR RESPECTIVE ANTI POVERTY PROGRAMS g4HE CREATION OF THE -AGNA #ARTA OF THE 0OOR IS AN EXPRESS MESSAGE TO THE POOR AND UNDERPRIVILEGED THAT THEY ARE NOT OVERLOOKED FORGOTTEN AND CONSIGNED TO OBLIVION u DE ,IMA SAID BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO

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WHOSE REVENUES HAVE BEEN PRIMARILY EARMARKED FOR THE 5NIVERSAL (EALTH #ARE 5(# PROGRAM g) THINK WE MADE HISTORY ) THINK IT IS ONLY IN THIS ADMINISTRATION THAT TOBACCO TAXES WERE RAISED TWICE u HE SAID IN A STATEMENT 7HILE THE PROJECTED REVENUES WOULD BE LOWER BECAUSE OF THE STAGGERED NATURE OF THE TAX INCREASE

IT WOULD STILL ENABLE THE $UTERTE ADMINISTRATION TO BETTER IMPLEMENT 5(# $OMINGUEZ SAID 4HE PROGRAM S FUNDING REQUIREMENT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED TO HIT AS HIGH AS 0 TRILLION FROM TO &OR ALONE THE &INANCE DEPARTMENT SAID 0 BILLION IN 5(# FUNDING WOULD BE COVERED

BY THE NATIONAL BUDGET THE 0HILIPPINE !MUSEMENT AND 'AMING #ORP AND THE 0HILIPPINE #HARITY 3WEEPSTAKES /FkCE MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO

Tobacco FOLLOWED BY A SERIES OF 0 HIKES UNTIL THE RATE REACHES 0 IN AND A PERCENT ANNUAL INCREASE THEREAFTER 7ITH THE TH #ONGRESS SET TO BOW OUT THIS WEEK THE (OUSE OF 2EPRESENTATIVES ADOPTED THE 3ENATE VERSION OF THE BILL SKIPPING THE NEED FOR BICAMERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE DISCUSSIONS 4HE PROPOSED INCREASE FOLLOWS ADJUSTMENTS IMPLEMENTED LAST YEAR UNDER THE 4AX 2EFORM FOR !CCELERATION AND )NCLUSION ,AW 4HE PER PACK RATE CURRENTLY STANDS AT 0 &INANCE 3ECRETARY #ARLOS $OMINGUEZ RD THANKED LAWMAKERS FOR THE PASSAGE OF THE BILL

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Jobless rate drops but inflation rises

,EYTE 2EPRESENTATIVE ELECT -ARTIN 2OMUALDEZ MEANWHILE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE ,AKAS #HRISTIAN -USLIM $EMOCRATS THAT HAS FORGED AN ALLIANCE WITH THE (UGPONG NG 0AGBABAGO CHAIRED BY $UTERTE S DAUGHTER $AVAO #ITY -AYOR 3ARA $UTERTE #ARPIO )NCOMING 4AGUIG 0ATEROS 2EP !LAN 0ETER #AYETANO OF THE .ACIONALISTA 0ARTY IS ALSO ALLIED WITH THE $UTERTE ADMINISTRATION g4HEY SHOULD DO AWAY WITH THAT ANOMALOUS PROCEDURE WHICH HAPPENED TWICE IN THE TH #ONGRESSw ) THINK THERE SHOULD BE AN AUTHENTIC MINORITY LEADER WHO COULD REPRESENT THE TRUE MINORITY IN THE (OUSE AND COULD ARTICULATE VIEWS AND ALTERNATIVE AGENDA u ,AGMAN SAID 7HILE THE OPPOSITION HAS YET TO kNALIZE ITS CANDIDATES HE SAID HE COULD CONTEND FOR THE SPEAKERSHIP AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING A gPOTENT MINORITY u 5NDER (OUSE RULES THE SECOND PLACED CANDIDATE FOR SPEAKER BECOMES MINORITY LEADER 4HIS WAS NOT THE CASE IN THE TH #ONGRESS HOWEVER WHEN 3UAREZ WAS INSTALLED VIA VOICE VOTING )FUGAO 2EP 4EDDY "AGUILAT RANKED SECOND DURING THE SPEAKERSHIP RACE WON BY !LVAREZ IN $UE TO A HIGH NUMBER OF ABSTENTIONS LAWMAKERS CHOSE TO ELECT A NEW MINORITY LEADER INSTEAD !FTER !LVAREZ OUSTER IN

3UAREZ MANAGED TO KEEP HIS POST DESPITE HAVING VOTED FOR 0AMPANGA 2EP 'LORIA -ACAPAGAL !RROYO

WHO WITH $UTERTE #ARPIO ALLEGEDLY ENGINEERED THE (OUSE COUP !RROYO S SUCCESSOR WILL BE CHOSEN WHEN THE TH #ONGRESS FORMALLY CONVENES ON *ULY GLEE JALEA

Employment improves 4HE LATEST UNEMPLOYMENT kGURE

THE 03! SAID WAS EQUIVALENT TO MILLION &ILIPINOS WITHOUT WORK ‡ DOWN FROM MILLION A YEAR EARLIER AND *ANUARY S MILLION 6IEWED ANOTHER WAY

MILLION &ILIPINOS HAD JOBS PERCENT EMPLOYMENT UP FROM IN !PRIL 4HE NUMBER OF UNDEREMPLOYED

MEANWHILE ALSO IMPROVED TO MILLION FROM MILLION A YEAR AGO 3OCIOECONOMIC 0LANNING 3ECRETARY %RNESTO 0ERNIA TOLD 4HE -ANILA 4IMES THAT THE IMPROVEMENTS COULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE gVIBRANT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY INCLUDING ;THE=

""" "UILD "UILD "UILD INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM u )N A SEPARATE STATEMENT HE SAID THE LATEST ,ABOR &ORCE 3URVEY RESULTS gRElECTED AN UPBEAT LABOR MARKET u BUT NOTED A NEED FOR FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS g"OTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF WORK NEED TO BE ADDRESSED !T THE SAME TIME THAT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ARE BEING INCREASED WORKERS AND JOBSEEKERS MUST BE ENABLED TO IMPROVE THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS THROUGH TRAINING AND EDUCATION u 0ERNIA SAID 4HE SERVICES SECTOR WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR PERCENT OF TOTAL EMPLOYMENT WAS THE BIGGEST CONTRIBUTOR IN TERMS OF ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT AMID A MORE BULLISH BUSINESS OUTLOOK THE .ATIONAL

%CONOMIC AND $EVELOPMENT !UTHORITY SAID g4HE EXPANSION MAY BE ATTRIBUTED TO INCREASED BUSINESS ACTIVITIES IN LINE WITH THE CAMPAIGN PERIOD FOR THE 0HILIPPINE MIDTERM ELECTIONS !DDING TO THIS IS THE INCREASE IN CONSUMER DEMAND DURING SUMMER AND HARVEST SEASONS u 0ERNIA SAID 7ORKERS IN THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR COMPRISED THE SECOND LARGEST GROUP MAKING UP PERCENT OF THE TOTAL EMPLOYED WHILE INDUSTRY ACCOUNTED FOR PERCENT

TIMEw AFTER SIX CONSECUTIVE MONTHS OF SLOWDOWN u #ORE INlATION ALSO WENT UP TO PERCENT FROM PERCENT IN !PRIL BUT WAS LOWER THAN THE PERCENT POSTED A YEAR AGO g4HE UPTREND WAS PRIMARILY BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE HIGHER A N N U A L R A T E S P O S T E D I N T H E H E AV I L Y WE I G H T E D F O O D A N D NON ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES INDEX AT PERCENT AND HOUSING

WA T E R E L E C T R I C I T Y G A S A N D OTHER FUELS AT PERCENT u -APA SAID -ONTH ON MONTH CONSUMER El Niño a factor PRICES INCREASED BY PERCENT FROM PERCENT IN !PRIL ) N A B R I E F I N G O N I N F L A T I O N

g&ASTER PRICE ADJUSTMENTS MEANWHILE .ATIONAL 3TATISTI- I N F O O D A N D N O N A L C O H O L I C CIAN #LAIRE $ENIS -APA NOTED BEVERAGES DROVE THE UPTICK IN THAT -AY S RESULT gWAS THE FIRST HEADLINE INFLATION AS WEAK %L

.IÄO CONDITIONS PERSISTED AND BROUGHT SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR IN THE MIDST OF THE ELECTION PERIOD S STRONG CONSUMPTION DEMAND u 0ERNIA SAID g%L .IÄO IS A RECURRING PROBLEM THAT REQUIRES AN IMMEDIATE AND LONG TERM RESPONSE 4HE COUNTRY NEEDS TO HAVE A MORE ROBUST SOLUTION TO MITIGATE THE IMPACTS OF EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE CONSIDERING THAT THE 0HILIPPINES IS PRONE TO NATURAL DISASTERS u HE ADDED 0 E R N I A A L S O F L A G G E D T H E THREAT OF THE !FRICAN 3WINE &EVER ENTERING THE COUNTRY

HIGHER RICE PRICES AND GLOBAL OIL PRICE VOLATILITY AND CALLED O N T H E G OVE R N M E N T T O U S E THE 2ICE #OMPETITIVENESS %NHANCEMENT &UND TO IMPROVE FARMERS PRODUCTIVITY MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO AND ANNA LEAH E. GONZALES

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Duterte urges Filipino Muslims to keep partnering with govt TIME FOR RElECTION ENLIGHTENMENT AND RENEWAL OF COMMITMENT TO A MUCH STRONGER DEVOTION TO THE !LMIGHTY u HE SAID g4AKE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEEPEN YOUR ROLE AS INSTRUMENTS OF LOVE SACRIkCE RESPECT AND SELFLESS SERVICE AND MAY EACH OF YOU REMAIN OUR GOVERNMENT S PARTNER IN PROMOTING PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG &ILIPINOS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE u g) WISH YOU AN INSPIRING AND MEANINGFUL %ID L &ITR u SAID $UTERTE THE kRST PRESIDENT TO COME FROM -INDANAO WHICH IS HOME

TO THE COUNTRY S -USLIM MINORITY -USLIMS MAKE UP AROUND PERCENT OF THE 0HILIPPINES MILLION PEOPLE ACCORDING TO OFkCIAL DATA 6ICE 0RESIDENT -ARIA ,EONOR g,ENIu 2OBREDO MEANWHILE CALLED ON THE PUBLIC TO PRAY FOR -ARAWI VICTIMS AND THE -USLIM COMMUNITY IN THE "ANGSAMORO REGION AS THEY MARKED THE END OF THE 2AMADAN FASTING MONTH 3HE LAUDED &ILIPINO -USLIMS FOR THEIR gVALUE FOR SELlESS SACRIkCE

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g7E PRAY FOR OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM -ARAWI WHO ARE STILL SUFFERING AND UNABLE TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES FOR TWO YEARS NOW SINCE THE SIEGE u 2OBREDO ADDED g7E CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR PEACE IN THE "ANGSAMORO REGION ESPECIALLY AS IT TRANSITIONS INTO A NEW ERA u -ARAWI WAS LARGELY DESTROYED IN AFTER -USLIM MILITANTS ATTEMPTED TO TAKE OVER THE CITY )T REMAINS IN RUINS TWO YEARS LATER AND 2OBREDO HAS QUESTIONED THE GOVERNMENT S HANDLING OF THE REBUILDING EFFORT 3ENATORS ALSO CALLED ON ALL &ILI-

PINOS TO RElECT ON THE SIGNIkCANCE OF THE -USLIM HOLIDAY 3EN ,OREN ,EGARDA CO AUTHOR OF 2EPUBLIC !CT OR THE g!CT $ECLARING %ID L &ITR A .ATIONAL (OLIDAY u SAID g!S A FEAST OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO -USLIMS THE %ID L &ITR HAS BECOME A FAMILIAR OCCASION EVEN TO OUR #ATHOLIC DOMINATED NATION u g7E HOPE THAT BEYOND FAMILIARITY THE OBSERVANCE OF THIS HOLIDAY WOULD FOSTER DEEPER UNDERSTANDING AMONG &ILIPINOS REGARDLESS OF FAITH OR RELIGIOUS BELIEF u SHE SAID -EANWHILE 3EN !QUILINO 0IMENTEL RD SAID g4HE BLESSED

MONTH OF 2AMADAN NOT ONLY EXTOLS THE VALUES OF SELF SACRIkCE AND SELF RESTRAINT BUT ALSO PROMOTES FORGIVENESS CHARITY PEACE AND UNITY SO THAT HATRED OR VENGEANCE WILL NOT BE DONE u 3EN &RANCIS 0ANGILINAN FOR HIS PART SAID g,ET S USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DRAW STRENGTH FROM THE TEACHINGS OF )SLAM TO BE BRAVE AND PERSEVERING AMID THE EVERYDAY CHALLENGES WE FACE u CATHERINE S. VALENTE WITH REPORTS FROM GLEE JALEA AND BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO

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INTERNET USE HIGHEST IN NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION – SWS A survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) found that internet use is highest in the National Capital Region and urban areas for the first quarter of the year.

The poll held from March 28 to 31, 2019, showed that the number of internet users in Metro Manila was at

64 percent, a tad higher than the 59 percent recorded in December 2018. The number of users also increased in Mindanao — 39 percent this quarter compared to the 32 percent last December. However, there was a drop in Balance Luzon — 48 percent from

December’s 56 percent.

The number hardly moved in the Visayas at 34 percent from December’s 35 percent. The survey found that 56 percent of adults are internet users, down from the 62 percent recorded in December last year. Also, 46 percent

of adult Filipinos use the internet, which is statistically similar to the record-high 47 percent recorded in the last quarter of 2018. The SWS said there had been an upward trend in the proportion of internet users since June 2006, when only 8 percent of Filipino adults used

the internet. The survey was conducted among 1,440 Filipinos aged 18 years and above.

It has sampling error margins of Âą2.6 percent for national percentages, and Âą5 percent each for the regions.

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Digital program for OFWs boosted

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BY WILLIAM B. DEPASUPIL

H E O ve r s e a s Wo r k e r s We l f a r e Administration (OWWA), in cooperation with Facebook, is expanding its digital literacy program for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to educate and train them on the use of social media platforms and how to detect cyberfraud.

OWWA Administrator Hans Cacdac and Facebook community affairs head Beth Lim made the announcement on May 5 during the celebration of Migrant Workers Day, which also marked the digital literacy program’s second anniversary.

Cacdac said the partnership agreement between OWWA and Facebook aims to empower OFWs and their families through digital literacy, with the social media giant serving as one of the platforms of communication.

He added that the program would help OFWs detect fake news and fake job opportunities abroad.

Digital literacy seminars will

also provide small business training for OFWs with entrepreneurial skill to prepare them for their eventual return to the country.

The expanded program will be implemented by the end of 2020 in countries where there is large concentration of Filipino workers, such as Hong Kong, Singapore and Middle East countries.

On its first year, the program trained over 140,000 OFWs on digital skills for discerning credible content, and respectful digital discourse. Over 600 returning OFWs were also provided online business skills training, to help them find

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Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd and Facebook’s head of community affairs in the Asia Pacific region Beth Ann Lim shake hands during the launch of an expanded digital literacy program for overseas Filipino workers. PHOTO BY RENE H. DILAN alternative sources of income. “We are glad to be expanding our digital literacy program with Facebook for OFWs based in Hong Kong, Singapore and the Middle East. Our shared vision is [an] empowered OFW community that would have the critical skills to VET INFORMATION THEY kND ONLINE

and consistently use privacy and safety tools available to them,�

Cacdac said.

Lim said the enhanced digital literacy modules include discourse, privacy, safety and information literacy, among others. “We recognized that the OFWs depend on our platforms to stay

connected to their families and everything important to them back home. Facebook will continue supporting OFWs and their families, to ensure they have a positive, safe and authentic experience on our platforms, wherever they are in the world,� Lim said.

Figures from the Philippine Sta-

tistics Administration showed there were 2.3 million OFWs deployed between April and September 2018.

The Middle East remains the top OFW destination. Majority or 1 of 4 OFWs (24.3%) work in Saudi Arabia, followed by United Arab Emirates (15.7%), Kuwait (5.7%) and Qatar (5.2%).

Philippine eagles flown to Singapore 70,000 JOBS UP FOR GRABS IN JUNE A pair of Philippine eagles from Davao were sent to Singapore on Tuesday as part of the breeding agreement between the two countries.

Geothermica (male) and Sambisig (female), 15 and 17 years old, respectively, are on loan for the next 10 years to the Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) “to hopefully encourage breeding, specifically at the Jurong Bird Park.�

4HIS IS THE kRST INTERNATIONAL 0HILIPpine Eagle Loan Agreement between the governments of the Philippines, through the Department of Environment and

Natural Resources, and Singapore to increase the eagles’ population.

The two countries recently marked 50 years of diplomatic relations.

Geothermica and Sambisig were hatched at the Philippine Eagle Center in Malagos, Davao City.

Geothermica’s maintenance was sponsored by the Energy Development Corp., while Sambisig received sponsorship from Dow Chemical Philippines.

Philippine Airlines President and Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) Vice Chairman Jaime Bautista said “through THE 0!, &OUNDATION WE ARE lYING THE

loaned eagles to Singapore because we kRMLY BELIEVE IN THE EAGLE PRESERVATION advocacy of the PEF. According to PEF, Geothermica and Sambisig are at the prime age for breeding. They were previously paired with other eagles at the PEC, but these attempts did not progress to natural pairing.

The WRS has been supporting conservation efforts across Southeast Asia through wildlife research and awareness campaigns with over 50 wildlife conservation projects.

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Q Passports of Geothermica and Sambisig. BENJIE L. VERGARA

SOME 70,000 local and overseas jobs will be up for grabs in 22 job and business fairs across the country during the celebration of the 121st anniversary of the proclamation of Philippine independence.

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd on Wednesday said 560 employers would participate in the job fairs.

Bello said the venues and number of available jobs were expected to increase as the final stretch of preparation draws closer. “I called on job-seekers to take advantage of the employment facilitation service that the DoLE (Department of Labor and Employment) is bringing closer to the public,� he said.

For local jobs, employers are looking for production machine operators, production worker/factory workers, customer service representatives, call center agents, sewers, sales clerks, cashiers, delivery crew, service crew and MARKETING OFkCERS For those seeking overseas employment, the top vacancies are for cleaners, professional nurses (general), waiters/waitresses, service crew, company drivers, registered midwives, staff nurses, English teachers (Japan), janitresses, baristas, general technicians and nursing aides.

The job orders are for Germany, Japan, Bahrain and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The 2019 Independence Day job and business fairs will be held in the following venues:

National Capital Region – San Andres Sports Complex, Malate, Manila Cordillera Administrative Region – Sky Zone, Porta Vaga Mall, Upper Session Road, Baguio City – Region 1 – Nepo Mall, Dagupan City; Candon Civic Center, Candon City, Ilocos Sur; and Union Christian College, San Fernando City, La Union – Region 2 – People’s Gymnasium, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan; and Ayala Malls, Harbor Point, Subic Freeport Zone, Zambales – Region 4A – Pavilion Mall, Biùan City, Laguna; Liwasang Aguinaldo, Kawit, Cavite; San Jose, Occidental Mindoro; and Odiongan, Romblon – Region 5 – Robinsons Place, Naga City – Region 6 – 888 Premier Mall, Bacolod City; Cebu City Sports Complex/ Abellana National School, Lapu-Lapu City; and Lamberto L. Macias Sports and Cultural Center, Dumaguete City – Region 8 – Provincial Covered Court, Catbalogan City, Samar – Region 9 – KCC Mall de Zamboanga, Gov. Camins Avenue, Zamboanga City – Region 10 – Atrium, Limketkai Center, Cagayan de Oro City; NCCC Mall Buhangin, Kilometer 7, Tigatto Road, Buhangin, Davao City; Trade Hall, SM City Gensan, General Santos City; and PLGU Training Center, Capitol, Butuan City.

WILLIAM B. DEPASUPIL

The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act Dear PAO, My husband was charged with violation of Section 11 of Republic Act (RA) 9165 or the “Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.� The apPREHENDING OFkCERS ALLEGEDLY CONkSCATED ONE SACHET CONTAINing 0.03 gram of shabu from my husband at the time of his arrest. What is Section 11 of Article II, RA 9165? What is the penalty for the said offense?

Isabela Dear Isabela, To answer your question, we shall refer to Section 11, Article II of RA 9165, which provides: “Section 11. Possession of Dangerous Drugs. – The penalty of xxx (3) Imprisonment

DEAR PAO

PERSIDA ACOSTA of twelve (12) years and one (1) day to twenty (20) years and a fine ranging from Three h u n d r e d t ho u s a n d p e s o s (P300,000) to Four hundred thousand pesos (P400,000), if the quantities of dangerous drugs are less than five (5) grams of opium, morphine, heroin, cocaine or cocaine hydrochloride, marijuana resin or marijuana resin oil, methamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu,� or other

dangerous drugs such as, but not limited to, MDMA or “ecstasy,� PMA, TMA, LSD, GHB, and those similarly designed or newly introduced drugs and their derivatives, without having any therapeutic value or if the quantity possessed is far beyond therapeutic requirements; or less than three hundred (300) grams of marijuana.�

The Supreme Court in the case of People of the Philippines vs Rolando Santos Zaragoza (GR 233142, Jan. 17, 2018), through Associate Justice Samuel Martires discussed possession of illegal drugs, to wit: “The elements of Section 11 are as follows: (1) the accused is in

possession of an item or object, WHICH IS IDENTIkED TO BE PROHIBited or regulated drug; (2) such possession is not authorized by law; and (3) the accused freely and consciously possessed the drug. xxx Illegal possession of regulated drugs is mala prohibita, and, as such, criminal intent is not an essential element. However, the prosecution must prove that the accused had the intent to possess (animus posidendi) the drugs. Possession, under the law, includes not only actual possession, but also constructive possession. Actual possession exists when the drug is in the immediate possession or control of the accused. On the other hand, constructive possession

exists when the drug is under the dominion and control of the accused or when he has the right to exercise dominion and control over the place where it is found.� (Emphasis supplied) To sustain the conviction of your husband, the prosecution must adduce evidence that the sachet of shabu was recovered from his actual or constructive possession, and that such possession is not authorized by law. It must be proven that the illegal drug was in his immediate possession or control or that the illegal drug is under his dominion and control or when he has the right to exercise dominion and control over the place where such drug

was found.

To answer your question on penalty, the imposable penalty for violation of Section 11 is imprisonment of 12 years and one day to 20 years and a fine RANGING FROM 0 TO 0

This opinion is solely based on the facts you have narrated and our appreciation of the same. The opinion may vary when the facts are changed or further elaborated.

We hope that we were able to enlighten you on the matter.

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LTHOUGH there were good intentions behind it, the diversion of P5 million in funds from the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) meant for the rehabilitation of war-torn Marawi City to the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) to kNANCE THE (AJJ FOR DISPLACED CITIZENS WAS IRREGULAR AND THE OFkCIALS INVOLVED MUST BE MADE TO ACCOUNT The chief of the government’s “Bangon Marawi� rehabilitation program, Eduardo del Rosario, has argued that the funds were used for a “social healing process in the overall rehaBILITATION OF -ARAWI u WHICH WAS VIRTUALLY DESTROYED IN kVE MONTHS OF kGHTING BETWEEN THE )3)3 AFkLIATED -AUTE GROUP and the Philippine armed forces in 2017.

Del Rosario stressed that the funds were fairly used for the PURPOSE INTENDED BY THE .#-& WITH A PUBLIC RAFlE BEING HELD to determine which people living in the evacuation centers or transitional shelters would have their Hajj expenses and requirements covered by the funds.

That was a compassionate act but completely beside the point.

The Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are obliged to undertake at least once in their lifetimes, if they are capable of doing so, is a solemn, sacred duty and a deeply moving experience for any Muslim. We cannot at all disagree with the Bangon Marawi chairman’s view that for someone who has lost his home and livelihood in a war, being able to participate in such an important rite of one’s faith must, indeed, be a form of social healing. And if the process to choose which displaced Muslim residents of Marawi would be lucky enough to have the considerable costs of their travel, lodging and visa requirements for the month-long trip paid by the NCMF was as fairly conducted as del Rosario has said it was, we can appreciate that as well.

Nevertheless, it should not have been done by involving a DIVERSION OF FUNDS FOR TWO VERY GOOD REASONS 4HE kRST AND most obvious reason is that the transfer of funds was not AMONG THE AUTHORIZED EXPENSES SPECIkED IN A MEMORANDUM of agreement — which was, in turn, based on the provisions of a presidential decree and the 2018 General Appropriations !CT ‡ BETWEEN THE /FkCE OF THE 0RESIDENT AND THE (5$## 4HAT AGREEMENT IS A LEGAL AND BINDING FRAMEWORK THAT DEkNES the authority and responsibilities of the HUDCC’s role in the rehabilitation process. Allowing the agency to write its own rules sets a bad precedent for any similar future programs.

Second, facilitating the participation in the Hajj for displaced citizens, although a very compassionate and unDOUBTEDLY SPIRITUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY BENEkCIAL THING TO DO

falls beyond the scope of the publicly funded rehabilitation program for Marawi. One of the important objectives of a rehabilitation program for a population and an area that has been struck by a calamity is to return those people to a healthy, productive state as soon as possible. That means ensuring that they have safe shelter, access to workplaces, schools and essential services such as health facilities, and can pursue their own livelihoods.

Until those things are provided, which is the responsibility of the state, those needs represent a burden on taxpayers. It is a burden every taxpayer cheerfully bears, because every taxpayer may someday need the same assistance. Acceptance, however, is limited by necessity. Many would argue that the policy of the government puts priority on providing adequate housing for the refugees; it did not authorize funding for a religious pilgrimage. )T SHOULD BE MADE CLEAR TO THE OFkCIALS WHO AUTHORIZED THE trips that diverting the funds for an unauthorized purpose was a mistake, and must be corrected. ~

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Report from the front: Climate change is now the climate crisis First word O not hate or thank me for this. I will just report, like a war correspondent, on the latest developments on the climate front.

Climate alarmists will be distressed by the reported demise of "climate change." This is like changing the name of their church without getting their two cents.

Ac c o r d i n g t o t h e S k y m e t Weather Team, a revolution in vocabulary is taking place that will fundamentally change how the world talks about the climate from hereon.

Skymet reported on May 26: g!S THE RAMIkCATIONS OF @CLImate change’ are changing every DAY IT S NOT JUST A @CHANGE IN CLImate anymore. It is now a crisis.

With the Guardian updating its style sheet last week, asking its reporters to refer to climate change AS @CLIMATE CRISIS EMERGENCY OR breakdown,’ the world is taking the move as more than just symbolic. The newspaper also wishes to replace global warming with @GLOBAL HEATING "With a million species at

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Three developments This is not all. There are major developments in other theaters of the debate: First, climate change plans are moving ahead at the United Nations, with a major summit risk of extinction, and climate scheduled on September 23.

Second, the Trump administrachange getting more so obvious, it’s high time to make some tion has ordered a top government agency to stop predicting changes in the vocabulary. �-OREOVER THIS IS NOT THE kRST long-term climate change imtime such changes have been pacts on the country.

Third, global systems analyst brought in by the media conglomerate. Back in April, The Guard- Dr. James Dyke, in an article ian started off displaying a daily published by the Independent in carbon dioxide numbers next to London, contends that mankind the weather forecast, to garner needs a fundamental shift in how it thinks about the climate attention to the growing hazard.

"The new language is a step crisis. We are not in control of the in the right direction in terms planet as much as we imagine. of conveying the urgency of our present situation. That doesn’t UN climate action summit mean a few word changes are going to undo all those decades of According to a report by Agence inaction and denial, or that they France-Presse, climate change has won’t spark controversy. But they moved to center stage at the United are a step toward being real about Nations, three years after the Paris the situation humanity is facing. agreement went into force.

A major UN push for progress It’s high time for some action.�

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on climate change kicked off in May when UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres traveled to New :EALAND AND SEVERAL 0ACIkC ISLANDS

where rising sea levels are believed to be threatening the very existence of those small countries.

The stepped-up diplomacy will culminate with a climate action summit at the United Nations on September 23, an event billed as a last chance to prevent irreversible climate change. “We are still losing the battle,�

Guterres told the media. “Climate change is still running faster than we are, and if we don’t reverse this trend, it will be a tragedy for the whole world.�

In Fiji, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, Guterres met with families whose lives have been upended by cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather events.

0ACIkC ISLAND COUNTRIES FACE AN especially dire risk from climate change because of sea level rise.

In some cases, low-lying countries could disappear completely. “We hope that the secretary-

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Political tagging and academic politics

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Y colleague and friend, Lisandro Claudio, otherwise known as Leloy, is now at the center of a controversy. His application for a tenure-track position at the University of California (UC) Berkeley is now opposed by 466 individuals (not 467, considering that I spotted one double entry), some of whom are also my friends.

These individuals have signed a manifesto dated March 26, 2019, but was sent only on May 31, 2019, to Anthony J. Cascardi, dean of Arts and the Humanities at UC Berkeley. The manifesto urged the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies of Berkeley not to consider Leloy for the position for which he was short-listed. In a nutshell, the opposition is based on allegations that Leloy, an unabashed liberal who is critical of political extremism of both the left and the right, has engaged in the red-tagging of students and colleagues. They accuse him of naming and outing individuals, including students at the Ateneo de Manila University where he previously worked, as being communists. They also took issue with Leloy’s discursive style, labeling it as juvenile, even Dutertean, when he called communists “morons.�

The signatories alleged that Leloy has endangered those whom he has red-tagged, considering that being red-tagged in the Philippines under President Duterte’s presidency can lead to actual harm, even death. They argue that Leloy has unwittingly aided state oppression. The plea is for UC Berkeley not to provide a platform for Leloy’s voice, as it would amount

his scholarly inclinations. I may not agree with Leloy’s positions, but what I see in him is simply one who is articulating what his research brings into his belief system, and which is consistent to giving weight to his careless with his theorizing. The signatories language that limits and endangers to the manifesto, who demand legitimate activism and protests that UC Berkeley deny Leloy’s apwhich are already in dire straits in plication, recognize his academic the Philippines. freedom, yet would contradict this It is not certain that the cam- by demanding that a university as paign to oppose Leloy’s hiring prestigious as Berkeley ignore such will succeed. A source told me academic freedom in the hiring that he has already been given process. They condemn Leloy for the opportunity to deliver his job allegedly red-tagging and putting talk, which is when short-listed at risk the lives of those whom he candidates are given the chance named as communists, yet they to give what amounts to a sales would not think twice about movpitch to the academic commu- ing to deny him the privilege of an nity. A decision will be rendered economic livelihood that comes in the coming days. But certainly, with a tenure-track position. I even a favorable decision would wonder how these signatories DEkNITELY NOT PUT AN END TO THE would feel if one of them becomes issue, considering that the roster the object of a similar manifesto, of signatories is a virtual who’s this time signed by people who who of leftist academia not only disagree with their political beliefs, in the Philippines but in the US and would ask that they be denied and other countries. Apparently, employment, promotion or tenure Leloy has a history of rubbing on the basis of allegations that some sectors in academia the they are teaching ideas that are wrong way, from being critical of dangerous to the Republic. They the manner in which Philippine- condemn red-tagging, even as they American Studies are being con- also practically labeled Leloy. ducted by Filipino scholars in the For a cohort that complains American diaspora, to drawing a lot about being subjected to the ire of an enraged and militant persecution that puts at risk their left on the issue of red-tagging limbs and lives, the militant left students and colleagues. And it should be more sympathetic to will become even worse should those who espouse controversial he fail in his application. views. What they conveniently But certainly, it is frighten- forget is that aside from denying that an academic should be ing a young promising scholar a subjected to populist bullying by well-deserved employment, they fellow academics for simply articu- are also exposing Leloy to the lating his politics consistent with extreme risk of being targeted for

ON THE CONTRARY ANTONIO CONTRERAS

physical harm by the armed left.

Leloy may be faulted for calling communists morons, but such juvenile outbursts can also be seen in the way the militant left labels its political adversaries, and turns ENEMIES INTO PLACARDS AND EFkGIES to be demeaned and burned.

The main bone of contention of those who signed the manifesto is that Leloy, and people like him, enable President Duterte’s oppressive politics. But while it remains to be seen if the speech and words of Leloy have actually caused harm to those he has outed or labeled as communists, what cannot be denied is that the act of pouncing on an academic is already a form of oppressive bullying. It is certainly one thing to be labeled a communist, or called a moron, or even a DDS or a Marcos loyalist — which is also as risky for one’s career in academia — and another thing to be targeted for demolition by an organized signature campaign. I would know the feeling since I was also the target of similar tactics not only when 102 data scientists questioned my academic credentials, but also when a change.org petition was circulated demanding THAT ,A 3ALLE kRE ME FOR MY POLITIcal posts in social media. )N ACADEMIA WE kGHT BY WHAT WE WRITE 4HE BEST WAY TO kGHT ,Eloy is to write back and show the weakness of his arguments, or the lack of basis thereof, or the absence of evidence to support his conclusions. But to pass a manifesto urging UC Berkeley not to hire him because of a disagreement with his politics is patently an oppressive form of academic bullying.

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First, clean up our elections 4HE GOOD NEWS IN OUR NEW INDEPENdence struggles is that the national leadership, for the most part, seems to be on our side against the foreigners. President Rodrigo Duterte has declared war on criminal and extremist groups, stood up to superpowers, including China (more on this later), and now, rightly called for dumping Smartmatic.

It may not seem so, but cleaning up elections may well be the most crucial measure against foreign intrusion and manipulation, assuming the Philippines remains democratic. If Commission on Election insiders can rig national and local contests for cash, guess who have the most moolah to pay off vote-riggers.

Hint: they’re not local.

Yup, superpower governments, global crime cartels and terrorist cabals can muster more electioneering largesse than any candidate and probably even political parties. So, if vote counting machines

(VCMs) can be manipulated in favor of the highest bidder, then that opens the door for foreign entities to put their stooges in place.

President Duterte’s narco-list OF POLITICIANS AND OTHER OFkCIALS in cahoots with drug syndicates shows that lawless elements can BUY INlUENCE !ND THE SURE WAY to get national and local leaders in one’s pocket is to bankroll election crooks able to manipulate VCMs to favor one’s candidates.

Come 2022, it’s not far-fetched that foreign powers and groups keen to sway the government would offer the biggest election war chests to those willing to advance their ulterior agenda. And the biggest stakes would not be narcotics and extremism, but geopolitics: where the Philippines would stand in the NEW #OLD 7AR BETWEEN THE 5NITED States and China.

4HE 0HILIPPINES SWING AWAY from America and closer to China under President Duterte demonstrates what one election can do. No prizes for guessing that Washington would back parties and candidates willing to restore the age-old alliance, especially the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), allowing more 53 FORCES INTO THE ARCHIPELAGO WITH access to our military bases. Meanwhile, Beijing would want leaders keen to continue current policies.

4O BLOCK BIG BUCKS FOREIGN schemes seeking geopolitical, criminal or terrorist gains, we must address election failings that open the door to money politics.

4HAT INCLUDES CAMPAIGN kNANCE reform, measures to block foreign funding for media, and most of all, the replacement of our current untransparent and glitch-prone VCMs with a hybrid system combining manual vote counting,

which ordinary citizens can witness and verify, with electronic canvassing and online posting of VERIkED ELECTION RETURNS Congress must mandate this year this new canvassing system, plus other election reforms, including those against vote-buying, so that the next elections would be less impervious to big-money foreign manipulation.

Next, stop crooks and killers While the country has made a late start in cleaning up elections, the Duterte administration has moved fast and strong against foreign intrusion in crime, terrorism and foreign policy.

4HE BLOODY WAR ON DRUGS AND the Marawi battle against Daeshfunded terrorists arrested the surge in lawlessness and extremism during the past regime.

Crime tripled since 2010 to more than 1 million incidents a year in AND 3MUGGLING TOO

HIT BILLION IN BASED on International Monetary Fund TRADE DATA 4HEN 0RESIDENT "ENIGNO Aquino 3rd admitted in his 2013 state of the nation address that NARCOTICS AND kREARMS lOWED IN WITH THE lOOD OF CONTRABAND On the terror front, Daesh and its Mindanao cohorts were offering poor youths tens of thousands of peSOS TO JOIN THEIR FORCES 4HE BOTCHED Mamasapano raid in 2015, where POLICE COMMANDOS DIED FURTHER boosted the extremist allure.

5NDER $UTERTE THANKFULLY TOUGH police and military action has turned back lawlessness, which major crimes down by 20-30 percent. And the Marawi battle, along with Mindanao martial law, has slashed extremist ranks. Plus: the establishment of the Bangsamoro

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARRM) has not only dampened the extremist appeal, but also harnessed the 11,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest rebel group, in THE kGHT AGAINST $AESH What next for Duterte’s battle against crooks and killers?

4HE WAR ON DRUGS MUST REV UP operations against big bosses behind drug smuggling, manufacturING AND TRAFkCKING AND ESPECIALLY their protectors in government.

Only by exposing and taking down narco-politicians and other DRUG TAINTED OFkCIALS CAN WE TURN BACK THE GROWING INlUENCE OF INternational crime compromising the government.

As for extremist violence, President Duterte must accelerate the slow pace of Marawi reconstruction and rehabilitation, which is being used to stoke anti-government anger among Muslims. In addition, the new BARMM regime must begin improving the lives of its constituents, to show that a better tomorrow for Muslims will happen without war.

In the war on crime and terrorism, Filipinos have legitimate misgivings, especially over the thousands of drug-related deaths and the slow pace of Marawi rehab.

But make no mistake about it: 4HIS IS A BATTLE ULTIMATELY AGAINST foreigners spreading crime and extremism, and undermining authority and law and order.

As we celebrate our independence, we must unite with the government, and steel ourselves for even more battles against international crime and terrorism seeking to subjugate our nation.

And they’re not even the most powerful threats against our freedom, as we shall see next week.

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Chinese boats off Pag-asa withdrawn 4HE FISHING BOATS WERE OWNED by the militia of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China, according to the emissary.

4HE BOATS WERE NOT ARMED

but their sheer number was meant to intimidate an enemy ship, said the emissary.

In my report to President Digong as special envoy to China on public diplomacy — which I filed also ON 4UESDAY ‡ ) SAID THAT THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE kSHING BOATS WAS just an initial gesture on the part of #HINA TO WIN THE TRUST AND CONkdence of the Philippine government.

Our government has been complaining about the presence of Chinese ships off Pag-asa island. “We want to send the message that we love your President,� said the emissary who was in Manila for business.

It was through this emissary that I have made contact with some #HINESE OFkCIALS AND ESTABLISHED backdoor diplomacy with them.

My backdoor talks with the Chinese officials on the South China Sea issue started in Hong Kong and continued in Beijing when I went with the President during his recent visit to China.

4HE EMISSARY SAID THERE ARE SOME SMALL kSHING BOATS REMAINing off Pag-asa which will have to be towed by bigger boats.

Eventually, the Chinese emissary said, the fishing boats off Pag-asa “will disappear.� *** A total of 1,700 additional Army troops have been sent to Sulu to crush the Abu Sayyaf terrorists following the killing of their Dutch hostage Ewold Horn.

4HIS TIME THE BANDIT GROUP WILL be pursued relentlessly by government troops who have been beefed up by fresh soldiers from the ST "RIGADE #OMBAT 4EAM "#4 Presidential spokesman Sal Panelo said Horn’s killers would be hunted down mercilessly until they are all dead.

Pssst! Identify the relatives of the Abu Sayyaf bandits who kidnapped Horn, abduct them and make them pay for their kins’ crime.

4HAT S EASY TO DO IF THE GOVERNment would put up a big reward to identify the relatives.

4HE ONLY WAY FOR THESE MONsters to be deterred from future abductions and murders of kidnap victims is for their relatives to be

rounded up and held hostage until they came out of the jungles.

If the bandits don’t come out, their next of kin should be killed.

4HAT S THE KIND LANGUAGE THE Moros speak and the government of President Digong may want to adopt it.

Among the Moros, rido is practiced, wherein a blood relative of the killer who is in hiding is MADE TO PAY FOR HIS CRIME 4HE killing goes on and on. 5BUSAN ng lahi (extermination of a clan).

4HE HECK WITH SQUEAMISH CITIZENS OR HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPSĂœ 4HEY don’t know that rido is a natural state of things among the Moros.

4HEY DON T HAVE TO KNOW ignorance is bliss.

However, only special troops should do the dirty trick. *** What I’m advocating here is not new.

4HEN #OL 3ALVADOR -ISON A BRIgade commander in Sulu, dangled before the Moro rebels who had hijacked an inter-island ship full of passengers the possibility that their relatives would be killed if they killed their hostages.

Mison, who later became a lieu-

tenant general, ordered the close relatives of the hijackers detained by his troops and paraded in front of the pier where the ship was docked.

All the ship’s passengers and crew were released unharmed.

4HE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE done a Salvador Mison with Horn’s abductors in the first few days after his capture.

Well, that’s all water under the bridge, but the next best thing the government can do to avenge Horn’s death is to kill the relatives of his captors. *** I sympathize with Foreign 3ECRETARY 4EDDYBOY ,OCSIN WHO told me enthusiastically that Horn would be released while WE WERE IN 4OKYO LAST WEEK ,OCSIN TOLD ME IN CONkDENCE THAT he and the Dutch ambassador to the Philippines were negotiating with the kidnappers for Horn’s release. “Please keep it under wraps, Mon, as the life of the victim might be jeopardized if this comes out in the media,� he said.

He promised I would be the first to know of Horn’s release.

I’m sorry about the sad turn OF EVENTS 4EDDYBOY

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Foreigners again threaten our fragile freedom 3UPERPOWERS ARE lEXING ARMED muscle and media clout to swing the country into their own hegemonic camps. Criminal syndicates and terrorist movements lure Filipinos into their bloody, lawless, but lucrative schemes. And a foreign election technology battles to keep its hold on our polls, aided by backers in the very entity mandated to protect our votes from fraudsters and manipulators seeking to subvert our sovereign will.

In the face of these foreign threats to our freedom, we need more than ever the patriotism and SACRIkCE OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS Plus: the smarts needed to see and break through the deception and domination by outside forces and their cohorts inside.

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S of 2015, the population density of the National Capital Region reached 20,785 persons per square kilometer based on the 2015 Census of the Philippines Statistics Authority, which is three times that of Hong Kong's and two times Singapore’s. Because cities in Metro Manila have adopted an urban sprawl type of development, the very rich are located close to the city, and business centers are surrounded by low-density housing that have prevented a healthier mix of income classes in the city. A lack of mixed-income housing has caused an imbalance in the daytime and nighttime population of Metro Manila’s CBDs. Employees who are priced out of the housing stock in CBDs travel each morning to work and are forced to spend hundreds of hours of their lives IN TRAFkC 4HIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF DAYS PER YEAR STUCK IN TRAFkC

according to a study by the Boston #ONSULTING 'ROUP 4HE PREFERENCE toward car-oriented development in our cities is manifested by the dominance of roads and expressways rather than vertical, compact, AND MORE SELF SUFkCIENT CITY CENTERS 4HE RESURGENCE OF URBAN DEVELOPment through vertical urbanism will help alleviate rapid urbanization issues by providing more compact, high-rise residential towers for mixed-income employees.

Adapting vertical urbanism will save on space, land and utilities.

Makati currently holds the most number of tall buildings in the country. According to the Council ON 4ALL "UILDINGS AND 5RBAN (ABItat, Makati has 58 buildings that exceed 100 meters, followed by 4AGUIG WITH AND -ANDALUYONG with 15. Makati is where the country’s forthcoming tallest building will be located, the Park Central .ORTH 4OWER ALONG -AKATI !VENUE

which will be completed in 2025. It is a two-tower residential structure RIGHT BESIDE THE !YALA 4RIANGLE THAT features various shops and restaurants. It will be within walking DISTANCE OF THE kNANCIAL CENTER AND commercial hub of Makati.

Another CBD in Metro Manila is the Ortigas Center that was begun in the late 1960s. A former suburb, Ortigas Center has risen over the years to be among the most important CBDs in the country, covering three main cities: Mandaluyong, Quezon and Pasig. Its major streets are lined with vertical mixed-use buildings that are easily accessible and walkable for residents and employees. Last but not least is the Bonifacio Global City (BGC), located at the cusp of 4AGUIG !CCORDING TO 0RONOVE 4AI International Property Consultants, a real estate service company, BGC has surpassed Ortigas Center as the SECOND LARGEST kNANCIAL DISTRICT IN the country with 1.9 million square METERS OF OFkCE SPACE OVERTAKING Ortigas Center’s 1.6 million square meters. What was once part of a military base has emerged as a premier business and residential center with A WIDE RANGE OF CORPORATE OFkCES

residential condominiums, schools, shopping centers, and recreational facilities. It is the home of the third tallest building in the Philippines, THE 'RAND (YATT -ETROCENTER 4HESE

FELINO A. PALAFOX, JR. #"$S GREATLY BENEkT FROM VERTICAL urbanism because it allows the synergy of the basic components of an economic hub — interconnecting places to work, live, learn, shop, dine and play that are cross-generational, mixed-income and mixed-use with HOUR CYCLE ACTIVITY CENTERS 4HE RISE OF VERTICAL PLANNED COMmunities is not merely a trend. In some ways, it is a return to what many see as the very best element of community design (Kettler, 2005).

One such example is the Rockwell Center, which used to be the site of an industrial power plant that was CLOSED IN TO GIVE WAY TO THE redevelopment initiated by Lopez Inc. At the time, there was no land use zoning category for mixed-use developments in Philippine zoning LAWS 4HERE WAS ONLY A PROVISIONARY category under the law for “special use� in place. Rockwell was the kRST DEVELOPMENT OF ITS KIND IN THE Philippines intended for mixed-use.

We at Palafox were privileged to lead the master planning of Rockwell Center to be a self-sustaining community where key facilities are all within walking distance. Rockwell was conceptualized to be a garden setting, near the major transport artery of Metro Manila’s EDSA and two major CBDs, Makati and Ortigas. As such, Rockwell Center is THE kRST MASTER PLANNED INTEGRATED development in the Philippines that set standards for future inner-city DEVELOPMENTS 4HE INITIAL MASTER PLAN WAS FOCUSED ON THE kRST kVE towers: Luna Gardens, Hidalgo 0LACE 2IZAL 4OWER !MORSOLO %AST

AND !MORSOLO 7EST 4HE 2IZAL 4OWER IN PARTICULAR STANDS OUT DUE to its elliptical footprint, making it a landmark in the Makati skyline.

Vertical urbanism saves space, and more of it can be allotted for green areas and public spaces. We hope to see more tall buildings adopting sustainable architecture and green design that provide more green spaces that will contribute to a healthier environment for all.

Compact, tall, mixed-use structures infused with networks of gardens and spaces that enhance people’s connection with nature encourage PEOPLE TO WALK OR BIKE MORE 4HESE developments must not be limited to Metro Manila only. I strongly support planning and establishing urban centers applying sustainable vertical urbanism in other regions. It was a great opportunity for us at Palafox to help design developments like the Pampanga Megalopolis in cooperation with the provincial government of Pampanga, the Comprehensive Master Development Plan and Business Plan of Clark Freeport Zone with the Clark Development Authority, and THE -ETRO $AVAO 5RBAN -ASTER 0LAN with the Mindanao Development Authority. By implementing these plans, we can attract developments to the rural areas and unlock the immense potential these provinces

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Report from the front: Climate change is now the climate crisis general will draw far more inspiration from his first visit to go further, faster and deeper with the CLIMATE SUMMIT u &IJI S 5. !MBASsador Satyendra Prasad told AFP. “We are very hopeful that the climate summit will mark a turning point.�

4HE 5. PUSH ON CLIMATE CHANGE is shaping up amid geopolitical SHIFTS THE 5NITED 3TATES UNDER $ONALD 4RUMP HAS DECIDED TO PULL out of the Paris agreement to combat global warming, giving China more space to assert its views. g4HE 4RUMP ADMINISTRATION S disdain for climate diplomacy has left China looking like the main guarantor of the Paris agreement,�

SAID 2ICHARD 'OWAN 5. DIRECTOR for the International Crisis Group.

predicting what the long-term effects of climate change will be on the country.

James Reilly, the director of the 53 'EOLOGICAL 3URVEY 53'3

ORDERED THAT SCIENTIkC ASSESSMENTS only use computer-generated models that track the possible imPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE UNTIL

according to the .EW 9ORK 4IMES. 0REVIOUSLY THE 53'3 MODELED effects until the end of the century, the second half of which is likely to see the most dramatic White House stops impacts of global warming. climate predictions 4HE ORDER IS LIKELY TO IMPACT THE 53 GOVERNMENT S .ATIONAL 4HE ,ONDON BASED Independent Climate Assessment, an interreported on May 28 that the agency report produced every 4RUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS TOLD four years which outlines the proA 53 GOVERNMENT AGENCY TO STOP jected impact of climate change

4HE 53 ADMINISTRATION IS NOT TAKing part in summit preparations but has not said it will skip the event.

Guterres’ mission may also be FURTHER COMPLICATED BY 4RUMP S nomination of Kelly Knight Craft AS 5. AMBASSADOR #RAFT WHO IS married to a major coal magnate, raised eyebrows for declaring that she believed “both sides� of climate science, indicating she may well be out of sync with the 5. ON THE ISSUE

IN EVERY CORNER OF 53 SOCIETY In the most recent report, produced late last year and disMISSED BY 4RUMP SCIENTISTS USED computer models to predict the 53 WOULD FACE DEVASTATING ECOnomic and health impacts from global warming by the end of the century.

In the next report, due for release in 2021 or 2022, worstcase scenario predictions will not automatically be included.

Earlier this year, leaked docuMENTS REVEALED THAT THE 4RUMP S administration was creating a panel to challenge climate threat assessments, headed by a climate change denier who once compared the “demonization� of carbon dioxide to the treatment

of Jews in Nazi Germany.

Humans not in control In an article published by the Independent , Dr. James Dyke, a global systems analyst, contended that mankind is not as much in control of the planet as IT IMAGINES 4HE APPROACH MUST change, he wrote. g4HE SCIENTIkC COMMUNITY HAS been sounding the alarm over CLIMATE CHANGE FOR DECADES 4HE political and economic response HAS BEEN AT BEST SLUGGISH 4HERE IS another way of looking at how we have been responding to climate change and other environmental challenges. It’s both exhilarating and terrifying‌.

“Because one explanation for our collective failure on climate change is that such collective action is impossible. It’s not that we don’t want to change, but that we can’t. We are locked into a planetary-scale system that while built by humans, is largely BEYOND OUR CONTROL 4HIS SYSTEM is called the technosphere. “Perhaps the way out from fatalism and disaster is an acceptance that humans may not actually be in control of our planet.

4HAT WOULD BE THE VITAL kRST STEP that could lead to a broader outlook that encompasses more than humans.�

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Andres Bonifacio and Philippine elections

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HERE is a common saying among candidates during elections that goes, “If we lose, we were cheated.� Time and again, this is heard during the final stages of the election campaign season, especially at the beginning of the rousing canvass procedure. All candidates start with a very high regard for the electoral PROCESS THUS THEIR TIMELY kLING

their energized announcement and their proper campaign behavior. But upon reaching the end of the cycle, we suddenly hear and learn that cheating had been done against them, favoring the likely winning candidate.

Is there basis for such claims? ,ET US RElECT ON THE COUNTRY S kRST ELECTIONS .OT THE kRST GENERAL ELECTION sof the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935 — which was also the kRST DIRECT ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT FOR vice president and for members of the National Assembly — but what ) CONSIDER TO HAVE BEEN THE VERY kRST election for president, The Tejeros Convention of 1897.

Also referred to as the Tejeros Assembly or Tejeros Congress, the

to discuss pressing defense issues and craft urgent attack strategies against the Spaniards but instead, the convention became an election to decide on who the leaders of the revolutionary movement would meeting was held on March 22, be. Despite concerns over the lack 1897, between the Magdiwang of officials and representatives and Magdalo factions of the Kati- from other provinces, the elections punan at San Francisco de Mala- pushed through. AndrĂŠs BonifaBON #AVITE 4HEY WERE THE kRST cio, the “Supremo,â€? or Supreme presidential and vice presidential Leader, of the Katipunan presided elections in Philippine history, over the election. He secured the although only the Katipuneros unanimous approval that the dewere able to take part, and not the cision would not be questioned. general populace as is the practice As the voting ended, Emilio today. For our non-Filipino read- Aguinaldo of the Magdalo faction ers, the Katipuneros were mem- obtained 146 votes, or 57 percent, bers of the KKK, the Kataastaasan, and won the presidency. AndrĂŠs Kagalang-galangang, Katipunan Bonifacio of the Magdiwang wing ng mga Anak ng Bayan. Translated garnered 80 votes, or 31 percent, into English as the “Supreme and Mariano TrĂ­as also from Magand Venerable Association of the diwang, collected 30 or 11 percent.

Children of the Nation,� the KKK “Bonifacio accepted the deciwas a Philippine revolutionary sion, but not before insisting on a society founded by anti-Spanish recount of the votes. Severino de colonialist Filipino patriots in las Alas, a supporter of Bonifacio, Manila in 1892. Its primary goal tried to make Bonifacio vice presiwas to gain independence from dent but someone objected and Spain through a revolution. stated that the vice presidential In 1897, a convention was called post should not be occupied by a

HARVARD VERITAS

JOSE B. JIMENEZ 3RD

SGMA says thank you and goodbye MIRRORLESS T HE former president and House Speaker says farewell to the House of Representatives with a proud and heavy heart. I worked for this lady for nine years straight, and I can vouch for her exemplary and strong-willed leadership. Working for her is by no means a walk in the park but one eventually understands why. She is always ‘The 4EACHER IN SO MANY WAYS Her memories of being a MalacaĂąang resident at a young age was a factor. She used to tell me that seeing her father "Cong Dadong" at work contributed to her being inspired to do the same.

I remember one occasion when I submitted a proposal to tighten up our communication circle and she quipped, “Rolly, I have tons of proposals in my desk. I am more interested in its quick implementation in the best possible way. Go ahead, give me the result.�

Keeping our cellphones open was mandatory. No exception.

And hers was open too. Her mindset is cut broadcast style where deliveries are expected to have been done “yesterday.�

As one congressman told me, her work ethic is both contagious and uplifting. Some say it is impossible not to work hard seeing her practice what she preaches.

She may be a slave driver to some BUT IT S ALSO A FACT THAT SHE DRIVES herself like a slave too.

Speaker Arroyo is proud that SHE FULkLLED HER MISSION TO SUPport the Duterte legacy. Despite having the shortest term as the 25th Speaker, she said: “My concern has not been on my legacy as Speaker — my concern was TO SUPPORT 0RESIDENT $UTERTE S legacy in the year that I had as the head of this House.�

Both Majority Leader Fredenil Castro and Minority Leader Danilo Suarez praised her for passing vital socioeconomic measures, including the priority measures enumerated by PRRD during SONA 2018.

To name a few, these are Republic Act 1105, or the "Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region" (House Bill 6475); RA 11203, or "an Act Liberalizing the Importation, Exportation and Trading of Rice, Lifting for the Purpose the Quantitative Import Restriction on Rice "(HB 7735); and RA 11223, or the "Universal Health Care Act" (HB 5784).

3HE SAID THAT DURING $UTERTE S administration “many good seeds were planted by way of executive decisions, the legislative agenda, strategic foreign engagements, and bold reforms.

In the remaining years of his term, we just all need to help in the implementation to harvest the fruits of those seeds within 0RESIDENT $UTERTE S TERM u She also said: “I am also very GRATIkED THAT AS (OUSE 3PEAKER

ROLLY G. REYES I was given more opportunity to work with our younger lawmakers. From what I have seen of them, their generation will serve our country very well indeed when their time comes.

We are all on a journey together.

As our nation moves forward, let us all join hands in unity and walk CONkDENTLY TOWARDS A BETTER TOMORrow. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for giving me the honor and privilege of serving you.� *** PNP said Peter Joemel Advincula alias Bikoy turned over his cellphone and desktop computer which supposedly contained his conversations with various people. Some people I know are perspiring furiously these days.

The DoJ has subpoenaed the 23 police officers implicated in the killing of the aide of former Biliran congressman Glenn Chong and a female companion. The public knows that when DoJ steps in, nobody is given special treatment even those who are wearing uniforms.

No legal basis to ban Smartmatic? Dear Comelec, is there no legal basis also why you are not inTERESTED IN kNDING !NDY "AUTISTA New entrants are pushing for Sen. Cynthia Villar, whose candidacy was endorsed by PRRD, while senior senators are backing current Senate President Tito Sotto. Who said "Game of Thrones" is over?

Senate approves higher sin tax on cigarettes. The finance chief says that “Smoking and drinking can be hazardous to your pocket.�

The HoR has approved on third AND kNAL READING A BILL SEEKING to prevent abuses against human rights defenders. Critics and habitual bashers, please read again.

Press freedom is not a shield, an armor of invincibility or a dark corner where one can hide. )T IS ABOUT A BIRD lYING FREELY in the sky helping us see what we usually miss on the ground and the corner of our eye. It is about an ever-changing recital of sunshine, gloomy clouds, thunderstorms and droplets of water that can hide our tears of sorrow and joy. It is about the constant search of truth and its delivery.

4HE lIGHT WILL ALWAYS BE OPEN ended, unsure of how the journey will end until we reach the soil where we all started.

A true friend extends his hand to help you stand up when nobody else is around. He vanishes when HE SEES THAT YOU RE kNE AND WHEN pretenders suddenly appear to comfort you in the aftermath. *** Good work, good deeds and good faith to all.

PERSON WITHOUT A LAWYER S DIPLOMA Bonifacio was insulted and drew HIS kREARM AND WAS ABOUT TO SHOOT at the person who objected, but was stopped and disarmed. Bonifacio then voided the results of the convention in his capacity as Supremo of the Katipunan.

Some Magdiwang leaders allied with Bonifacio recanted their previous insistence that the results of the convention was null and void, thereby recognizing the validity of the elected leaders. They were later appointed by Aguinaldo to the five vacant positions. After THE NEWLY APPOINTED OFkCIALS HAD TAKEN THEIR OATH OF OFkCE ON !PRIL 24, 1897, Aguinaldo convened the kRST SESSION OF THE CABINET ON THE same day. Aguinaldo issued an ofkCIAL CIRCULAR INFORMING THE TOWN presidents in all municipalities that he was duly elected by the convention and had assumed the position of President. He then sent a delegation to contact Bonifacio and persuade him to cooperate with the newly constituted government. The delegation was able to contact Bonifacio, but was unable

to persuade him to cooperate.

After leaving the convention, Bonifacio met on March 28 with 45 of his followers. Convinced that the election at the convention had been invalid, they drew up a document titled “ Acta de Tejeros� giving their reasons for REJECTING THE CONVENTION S RESULTS They then proceeded to Naik and drew up another document, sometimes referred to as the “Naic Military Agreement,� repudiating the government established at Tejeros. Several complaints against Bonifacio, notably from Severino de las Alas and Jose Coronel, were presented to Emilio Aguinaldo.

Aguinaldo dispatched a force to Naik, which arrested Andres and Procopio Bonifacio after an exchange of gunfire in which Andres was wounded and his older brother, Ciriaco, was killed.

Andres and Procopio were tried on charges of treason by members of the war council of the Aguinaldo government. On May 10, 1897, the brothers were executed.

There will always be questions on integrity and issues of honesty when

it comes to elections. From BoniFACIO S ALLEGATIONS THAT HIS DEFEAT was because the ballots distributed during the Tejeros Convention had ALREADY BEEN kLLED OUT TO TODAY S modern high-tech manner of fraud, the voting public will always have this question in the back of their minds, whether or not their votes had been properly counted.

To quote W. Collins, “Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day on the surface. Sand turns traitor, and betrays the footstep that has passed over it; water gives back to the tell-tale surface the body that has been drowned. Fire itself leaves the confession, in ashes, of the substance consumed in it.�

Jose B. Jimenez 3rd majored in psychology at the University of the Philippines and completed two executive programs from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2005 and the Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey in 2015. He is the executive director of the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Association of the Philippines.

Do Trump’s Hawks Speak for Trump?

PENNSYLVANIA: For a president who WON HIS OFkCE BY DENOUNCING THE Middle East wars into which George W. Bush and Barack Obama plunged the nation, Donald Trump has assembled the most unabashedly hawkish conclave of foreign policy advisers in memory. And he himself seems to concede the point.

If foreign policy were decided by my security adviser John Bolton, the PRESIDENT CONkDED RECENTLY g7E D be in four wars by now.�

It was Bolton who ordered the Abraham Lincoln carrier group and B-52s to the Gulf and told the Pentagon to draw up plans to send 120,000 US troops. It is Bolton who is charging Iran with using mines to sabotage four oil tankers outside the Strait of Hormuz.

Asked for evidence, Bolt barked back at reporters: “Who else would you think is doing it? Somebody from Nepal?�

"UT IF "OLTON IS kRST HAWK HE IS not without rivals in the inner circle of the commander in chief.

At West Point last week, Vice President Mike Pence, after hailing the diversity of a class with the highest number of Hispanic and black women graduates ever, laid out what the future holds in store for them. g9OU WILL kGHT ON A BATTLEkELD FOR America ... You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen. g3OME OF YOU WILL JOIN THE kGHT against radical Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of you will JOIN THE kGHT ON THE +OREAN 0ENINSULA AND IN THE )NDO 0ACIkC WHERE .ORTH Korea continues to threaten the peace,

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PATRICK J. BUCHANAN and an increasingly militarized China challenges our presence. g3OME OF YOU WILL JOIN THE kGHT in Europe, where an aggressive Russia seeks to redraw international boundaries by force. And some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere. “And when that day comes, I know you will move to the sound of THE GUNS AND YOU WILL kGHT AND you will win. “Put your armor on,� Pence admonished the warriors, “so that when — not if — that day comes, YOU LL BE ABLE TO STAND YOUR GROUND u A question: Did not candidate Trump say he would be ending wars and bringing troops home, not PLUNGING INTO NEW CONlICTS IN THE Mideast, Asia, Europe, the Western (EMISPHERE AND gTHE )NDO 0ACIkCu As for war in our hemisphere, which Pence said was possible, that could come sooner than the graduatING CADETS EXPECT IF 4RUMP S CONkDANT Sen. Lindsey Graham has his way.

All last week, Graham beat the drums for an ultimatum to Cuba to get any and all of its troops out of Venezuela. Should Havana refuse, said Graham, Trump ought to “do in Venezuela what Reagan did in Grenada.�

In 1983, Reagan ordered an invasion of Grenada to prevent US medical students from being taken hostage by Marxist thugs who had

just assassinated their leader and seized power.

But Grenada is a tiny island roughly twice the size of Washington, D.C., with a population of 100,000, while Venezuela is the size of Texas, with 30 million people and an army of more soldiers than Grenada has citizens. “I would let the Venezuelan military KNOW YOU VE GOT TO CHOOSE BETWEEN democracy and Maduro,� thundered Graham. “And if you choose Maduro AND #UBA WE RE COMING AFTER YOU This is our backyard.�

Trump may have run as antiinterventionist, but his secretary of state was apparently not closely following his campaign.

Speaking at the West Coast neocon lamasery Claremont Institute last week, Secretary Mike Pompeo said the Founding Fathers “knew peace WASN T THE NORMu AND gCONlICT IS THE normative experience for nations.�

He ripped into the Russians.

Thirty years after the Cold War, said Pompeo, “The Putin regime slays dissidents in cold blood and invades its neighbors,� and, along with China, conducts a foreign policy “intent on eroding American power.� “We Americans have had too little courage to confront regimes squarely opposed to our interests and our values.�

As for “America First!� PomPEO EXPLAINED 4RUMP S SIGNATURE phrase thus: The president “believes America is exceptional — a place and history apart from normal human experiENCE u 4HIS RECALLS -ADELINE !LBRIGHT S

famous formulation: “We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further ... into the future.�

President George Washington would approve of our policies, said Pompeo. Though the Father of our Country may have warned in his Farewell Address against “permanent alliances,� we are “banding together with the like-minded nations like Australia, India, Japan and South Korea to make sure that each )NDO 0ACIkC NATION CAN PROTECT ITS sovereignty from coercion.� “American exceptionalism ... will remain alive and well in the 21st century,� concluded Pompeo. g7HAT S GOOD FOR THE 5NITED 3TATES is good for the world.�

One wonders: Do the hawks in his inner councils speak for Trump?

For they surely do not speak for a nation whose weariness with wars put him into the White House. /N THE kRST DAY OF 4RUMP S VISIT to London, Pompeo, who last year issued his 12 demands on Iran, was quoted as saying the US is now prepared to negotiate with Tehran with “no preconditions.� &OR NOW 4RUMP S HAWKS APPEARED contained. But for how long?

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Trump’s Mexico tariffs don’t make sense, but Americans will pay a steep price anyway if they go into effect

BY CHRISTINA FATTORE, WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY

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HE Trump administration says it intends to slap a 5 percent tariff on every medium-sized car, avocado and other Mexican import beginning June 10 — all almost US$1 billion worth that crosses the border into the U.S. each day on average.

The president is using the policy as a cudgel to compel Mexico to do more to stem the flow of migrants into the US and says he’ll increase the tariff if things don’t improve. As a scholar who studies trade policy, I have a hard time agreeing with the president’s strategy that tariffs can be used as a stick to pressure another country to do whatever he wants.

More than that, Americans will pay the price — as they have with Trump’s US-China trade war.

Driving up costs to consumers and businesses Tariffs, which are a tax imposed on

imports paid by consumers in the recipient country, are typically used as a protectionist measure.

That is, governments use them to promote domestic goods in the face of global competition. For instance, if a domestically made item costs less than a foreign made item — due to tariffs increasing the price — trade scholars would expect a consumer to choose the less expensive, domestic item.

This would make sense in an economy where consumers have actual choices about whether to buy a foreign or domestic product. However, due to the evolving global economy, most consumer goods are made abroad or contain foreign parts. All “US-made� cars, for examples, contain foreign parts. And my research has shown that it is not easy to understand how “foreign� a product is.

One good example is avocados.

Mexico produces 11 for every 1 grown in California, and demand is unlikely to diminish for avocado toasts and guacamole, so Americans will simply have to pay more.

The long and short of it is that a 5 percent tariff on all imports from Mexico will drive up costs to American consumers and businesses by almost the entire amount, meaning using them to solve a very different border security issue will be very painful.

Killing the USMCA It is also quite confusing to place tariffs against Mexico.

Just six months ago, the US, Canada and Mexico finished negotiating a massive trade deal to replace the often-reviled North American Free Trade Agreement.

Although the deal has been signed by leaders of each country, it has not yet been ratified by the US Congress.

President Donald Trump, who has frequently blasted NAFTA and trumpeted its replacement, now risks seeing his US, Mexico, Canada Agreement torpedoed.

House Democrats were already on the fence about whether to ratify it and may

use his tariff threats against Mexico over immigration as another reason to vote it down — or to get an immigration deal more to their liking.

And Mexico, which also has yet to ratify the USMCA, is also talking about retaliation against any tariffs Trump imposes, including rejecting the negotiated accord. Tearing up the deal could cause economic turmoil for the US, particularly as Mexico is the second-largest export market for US goods.

All in all, academic research has shown economic sanctions, including tariffs, aren’t an effective way to conduct foreign policy. Unfortunately, they seem to have become the Trump administration’s go-to strategy when it doesn’t get its way.

ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.

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heights, and deed restrictions to the government, clients, landowners, developers, and their associations of land and building owners. We believe these recommendations are

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Regions Eid’l Fitr: ‘Better Bangsamoro’ sought

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OTABATO CITY: Chief Minister Alhadj Ahod Murad Ebrahim of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) called on all Muslims to support a “better Bangsamoro� during Wednesday’s observance of Eid’l Fitr.

In Bataan, Muslims gathered at the Bataan People’s Center in joyful observance of the end of 2AMADAN ON 7EDNESDAY Men and women were mostly in their colorful costumes with the men separated from the women in the huge center.

Meanwhile, in a video message, which was also aired in local radio stations in Cotabato City, Ebrahim SAID g!S WE COMPLETE AND END THIS

year’s observance of the Holy Month OF 2AMADHAN WE IN THE "ANGSAMoro government call for your continued support as we lay down the foundation of moral governance.� “Our idea of a better Bangsamoro is not an easy task,� he added. “This is our shared struggle and it is possible with all of us working for a common goal. g!S WE FEAST ON THE %ID L &ITR

may all our prayers be heard and

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ANSWERED MAY WE ALL kND FORGIVEness for those who wronged us, and inner peace for a healthy mind and soul. May the blessings of the !LMIGHTY BE UPON US ALL u HE SAID

Peaceful celebrations The Eid’l Fitr celebrations in the "!2-- ON 7EDNESDAY MORNING WERE PEACEFUL WITH THE !RMED &ORCES OF THE 0HILIPPINES !&0 and the Philippine National Police (PNP) deploying their forces TO SECURE "!2-- AND #ENTRAL Mindanao $EVOTEES WHO PRAYED IN THE "!2-- COMPOUND IN -AGUINdanao and nearby localities were grateful that heavy rainfall, which poured for hours at dawn and elsewhere, stopped a few hours before the actual congregation began.

Differences in actual Eid day While majority of Muslim Filipinos followed the declaration of 0RESIDENT 2ODRIGO $UTERTE AND THE Bangsamoro government that declared Wednesday as Eid’l Fitr day, there were some Muslim communities, which celebrated it a day ahead.

In Marawi City, the provincial government held the Eid’l Fitr on 4UESDAY FOLLOWING 3AUDI !RABIA S Supreme Court announcement that Eid’l Fitr in the Kingdom will be celebrated on June 4, their local time.

The Islamic religious school Jamiatu Ma’ahad Mindanao also performed the Eid on Tuesday.

There were also other Muslim communities in the country that marked the Eid on Tuesday.

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Major Islam festivals Eid’l Fitr is one of the two major festivals in Isla, the other being Eid’l !DHA WHICH MARKS THE CULMINATION of Hajj or the pilgrimage to Mecca.

The two were declared as holidays WHEN THE 0RESIDENT SIGNED IN !UGUST last year, Proclamation No. 555 listing the regular holidays for 2019.

The order, however, only set estimated dates for the two events.

MalacaĂąang follows the recommendation of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos in setTING THE kNAL DATES OF THESE HOLIDAYS and other Muslim legal holidays. %ID L !DHA THIS YEAR IS TENTATIVELY

In Balanga City, an Imam led the prayers and preached on what Eid’L Fitir will bring under the GRACE OF !LLAH 3ULTAN 3AM 'OGO !MPUAN IS the president of the Muslims’ organization in Balanga City that has about 800 members from Marawi and other areas of Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao. “Those who did not fast during THE MONTH OF 2AMADAN SHOULD do so next month during Eid -UBARAK u !MPUAN SAID Other Muslims from the towns OF $INALUPIHAN (ERMOSA /RANI

Limay and Mariveles had separate gatherings. ERNIE B. ESCONDE

CAR diarrhea suspects drop by 20 percent BAGUIO CITY: 4HE $EPARTMENT OF (EALTH #ORDILLERA !DMINISTRATIVE 2EGION $O( #!2 SAID THE number of acute diarrhea susPECTS IN THE REGION FOR THE kRST weeks of this year dropped by 20 PERCENT COMPARED TO THE kGURES recorded during the same period last year.

Based on a report obtained FROM THE $O( #!2 2EGIONAL Epidemiology and Surveillance 5NIT 2%35 ACUTE DIARRHEA suspects that were reported by different district health units in THE REGION FOR THE kRST WEEKS of 2019, compared to the 551 cases reported during the same period last year.

Karen Lonogan, senior health PROGRAM OFkCER OF THE $O( #!2 2%35 HOWEVER SAID THERE WAS one reported death from acute diarrhea this year compared to the zero diarrhea-related deaths last year.

The acute bloody diarrhea cases were reported in Benguet with 206 cases; Mountain Province, 119; Ifugao, 53; Baguio City, 48; +ALINGA AND !BRA AND !PAYAO

TWO CASES EACH WHILE NON #!2 provinces recorded six cases. !CCORDING TO THE REPORT THERE were more males who were affected with acute bloody diarrhea and the age of patients ranged from 1 month to 102 years, with a median of 7 years.

Laboratory results show that entamoeba histolytica was the most common microorganism seen from the stools that were submitted by the patients for analysis. !T THE SAME TIME ,ONOGAN reported that clustering of acute diarrhea cases was noted in Benguet and Mountain Province during the period, raising concern among health authorities to intensify their information and education campaign on the illness. $IARRHEAL STOOLS ARE THOSE THAT take the shape of the container, so they are often described as

loose or watery.

Some people consider diarrhea as an increase in the number of stools, but stool consistency is the actual hallmark. !SSOCIATED SYMPTOMS INCLUDE abdominal cramps, fever, nausea, vomiting, fatigue and urgency.

Chronic diarrhea can be accompanied by weight loss, malnutrition, abdominal pain or other symptoms of the underling illness.

Clues for organic disease are weight loss, diarrhea that wakes you up at night or blood in the stools.

These are signs that prompt the doctor to do a thorough evaluation to determine the cause of symptoms.

It is advisable to tell the doctor if one has a family history of ceLIAC DISEASE INlAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE )"$ UNINTENTIONAL weight loss, fever, abdominal cramping or decreased appetite, as well as bulky, greasy or very bad-smelling stools.

Most cases of acute, watery diarrhea are caused by viruses (viral gastroenteritis).

The most common ones in children are rotavirus and in adults are norovirus, sometimes called “cruise ship diarrhea� because of well publicized epidemics.

Bacteria are a common cause of traveler’s diarrhea. #HRONIC DIARRHEA IS CLASSIkED AS FATTY OR MALABSORPTION INlAMMAtory or most commonly watery.

Chronic bloody diarrhea may BE CAUSED BY )"$ WHICH IS ULCERative colitis or Crohn’s disease.

Other less common causes include ischemia of the gut, infections, radiation therapy and colon cancer or polyps.

Infections leading to chronic diarrhea are uncommon, with the exception of parasites.

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ENVIRONMENT DAY

Some 2,000 people in Cagayan Valley on Wednesday join a fun run dubbed as “Takbo para sa Inang Kalikasan� in celebration of Philippine Environment Month led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Region 2. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Nationinbriefs P.6-M MEAT FROM CHINA SEIZED IN SUBIC FREEPORT SUBIC BAY Freeport: Port authorities here have confiscated about P600,000 worth of meat products that arrived on May 27 from China, one of the countries affected by the African Swine Fever (ASF). According to Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority Chairman Wilma Eisma, the meat shipment was seized after authorities learned it was from Guangzhou. “It was immediately flagged by the quarantine officer of the Department of Agriculture, and then the Bureau of Customs confiscated the shipment,� she said, adding that the confiscated meat would be immediately destroyed, as recommended by the Bureau of Quarantine Services, with the Bureau of Animal Industry disposing of it at the expense of the consignee. Eisma said the Port of Subic had been on the lookout for pork products after the government called for strict monitoring in all ports to prevent the entry into the country of pork products contaminated with ASF. The World Organization for Animal Health has declared ASF to be a highly-contagious hemorrhagic viral disease affecting domestic and wild pigs. Experts say while ASF and classical swine fever PATRICK ROXAS may have similar signs, the ASF virus is unrelated to the CSF virus.

AYALA LAND TO INVEST IN BIG TARLAC PROJECT HACIENDA LUISITA, Tarlac City: Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) said it would invest in a multimillionpeso development project within a 290-hectare land in Barangay Central here as part of its venture expansion. During a recent presentation at the city council’s Committee on Housing, Land Use, and Urban Planning, ALI General Manager John Estacio noted the area’s strategic location as a viable business destination. He said, “Aside from this, the area is also regarded as highly connected and accessible, has a large and educated labor pool, possesses a demographic sweet spot and has a lower cost of living,� features that match ALI’s criteria for qualifications for the company’s target of investment. Among the projects to be developed in the area, which has a mixed-use classification, are an industrial park, residential, K to 12-ready school and a technical-vocational skills and training center and commercial zone. Committee chairman Ana Aguas said the city government and the council welcome ALI’s proposal as another economic contributor, noting that 60 percent of the workforce during the area’s development would come from the city with the anticipated influx of taxes it would share. JERRY M. HERNANDEZ

DTI lifts 10,000 kids of poor 4Ps receivers drop out ban on steel plant THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) lifted has the suspension it imposed on a steel smelting plant in Pampanga last year.

Bureau of Product Standards Director James Empeno said the suspension of the license of Wan Chiong Steel Corp. imposed on Dec. 5, 2018 had been lifted.

The DTI issued the clearance after media reports said there was still an existing suspension order, with the public being warned against buying the plant’s steel products.

The DTI noted in its letter to Wan Chiong Steel that “[r]esults of the verification audit conducted on Feb. 27, 2019 showed compliance with the requirements. Likewise, results of the third party independent test showed conformance with the requirements of the standards.�

FRANCIS EARL CUETO

BAGUIO CITY: The Education and Social Welfare departments recorded SOME CHILDREN OF THE BENEkciaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) dropped out of school during School Year 2018-2019, in violation of the conditions of their families’ enrolment in the government’s poverty alleviation initiative.

Fatima Florenda, regional program coordinator of the 4Ps under THE #ORDILLERA OFkCE OF THE $EPARTMENT OF 3OCIAL 7ELFARE AND $EVELOPMENT $37$ #!2 SAID IT WAS the primary aim of the agencies involved to ensure that the chilDREN OF THE 0S BENEkCIARIES WHO previously dropped out, would go back to school for them to stay in the poverty alleviation program.

She said the reasons for the children abandoning their classes inlude peer pressure, the need to work to help their parents earn income, and the desire of their

parents for them to instantly earn for the family. “Part of the conditions of the families’ being enrolled under the program is to ensure that their school-aged children will be attending classes for them to get higher education that they could use to help improve their families’ living condition in the future,�

Florendo said. !MONG #ORDILLERA PROVINCES

!BRA HAD THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF student dropouts with 2,314, followed by Ifugao, 2,297; Benguet,

+ALINGA

!PAYAO

1,437; Mountain Province, 831; and Baguio City, 736.

Florenda said coordination with the parents of the dropouts through their family development sessions was in place to inform them of the need to keep their children in school, as part of their compliance with the conditions of their enrollment in the 4Ps.

This was also for them to avoid being suspended or delisted from the 4Ps’ roster of beneficiaries, she added.

Florenda said the agency was not yet replacing the delisted beneficiaries because higher authorities had not yet issued a replacement policy.

The 2012 list based on a survey, according to her, will still be the BASIS FOR DETERMINING THE BENEkciaries of the 4Ps program.

Florenda said the next schedule of the poverty survey would be in 2020, which means those who were waiting to be included in the list of poor families would have to wait until the completion of the survey to be considered among the PROGRAM BENEkCIARIES She, however, said the number of CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL SIGNIkcantly increased during the implementation of the 4Ps program.

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BY NEIL JAYSON N. SERVALLOS

ORMER Makati mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun�

Binay said he would ask the Court of Appeals (CA) to reverse its ruling that he should be forever banned from holding public office because of his alleged involvement in irregularities in the construction of the Makati Science High School (MSHS).

"INAY SAID HE WOULD kLE A MOtion for reconsideration before the appellate court.

“We agreed to immediately kLE A MOTION FOR RECONSIDERation and exhaust all neces-

sary legal means to prove my innocence,� he said in a statement.

In a consolidated decision, dated May 28, 2019, the CA found Binay guilty of serious dishonesty, grave misconduct and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service in the criminal case covering Phase 4 of the MSHS building.

JM Mendoza, Binay’s legal counsel, said they were yet to receive a copy of the decision.

Binay was meted “the penalty of dismissal from service which shall carry

with it all accessory penalties as provided in the 10 July 2017 joint decision and 8 December 2017 joint order.�

4HE /FkCE OF THE /MBUSDMAN HAD accused Binay of conspiring with other CITY OFkCIALS AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS TO manipulate the procurement for a 10-story MSHS building.

According to the Ombudsman’s investigation, the contract for the project was awarded to Hillmarc’s Construction Corp. despite irregularities, which included the placement of sham “invitation to bid� announcements in

national daily newspapers.

The contract allegedly included the construction of a four-story dormitory, but the structure was never built.

Binay, in an earlier interview, maintained that he was dragged into the case. “The city government had to address it.

It was during my father’s time as mayor when construction started. Then I became mayor and my father became vice president when the allegations surfaced,� he said. He was referring to his father, Jejomar Binay, who served as Makati mayor and vice president.

CHR hit for spending P4.7M to repair cars

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A Muslim woman rocks her baby to sleep during the celebration of the end of Ramadan at the Blue Mosque in Taguig City.

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Transport groups want drivers’ course in K to 12 TRANSPORT groups asked the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to recommend the inclusion of a driver’s education course in the K to 12 program of the Department of Education (DepEd).

MMDA Command Center chief Edison “Bong� Nebrija said he was open to the proposal since it seeks to make drivers responsible and educated. “That would be great,� Nebrija told reporters.

MMDA Spokesman Celine Pialago said the officials of the

agency and transport groups met on Tuesday.

Among the groups that attended the meeting were Mobility Coalition, Pasang Masda, Provincial Bus Operators Association of the Philippines, Yellow Dot Transport, South Luzon Bus Operators Association, National Center for Commuter Safety and Protection, and Komyut Move Metro Manila.

Nebrija, who is also the EDSA traffic chief, clarified that the training and other related seminars for driver’s license

holders was not the mandate of the MMDA but of the Land Transportation Office.

He said including a driver’s education course in the curriculum WOULD TAKE TIME BECAUSE OFkCIALS would have to conduct studies.

The transport groups also recommended the designation of bus stops instead of a pointto-point scheme for public utility vehicles (PUV), regulation of bus terminals, limiting the coding scheme for PUVs, and giving priority to higher capacity vehicles like UV Express

rather than transport network vehicle service like Grab.

Pialago said her agency would study and address the concerns of several transport groups and other stakeholders on the provincial bus ban and other policies. “We conducted the consultation so we will be able to hear the side of our stakeholders who will be affected by the policies... All of their recommendations will be submitted to the concerned agencies,� she told reporters.

NEIL JAYSON N. SERVALLOS

No country met gender parity goals – study VANCOUVER: No country is on track to achieve the gender equality called for in the United Nations’ development blueprint, a report released on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) said.

In 2015, all UN member states adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve by 2030 in areas such as education, climate and gender equality.

But the new report says countries aren’t on the right track to meet the gender equality benchmark, which requires eliminating discrimination and violence against women and ending harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital

mutilation. “We’re literally failing to deliver on the gender equality promises made in the [SDGs] for billions of girls and women,� said Alison Holder, director of Equal Measures 2030, which put together the SDG Gender Index report. “Even more worrying for me is 1.4 billion girls and women live in countries that got a ‘very poor’ failing score on the index,� she said, speaking on the sidelines of the Women Deliver gender equality conference in Vancouver.

Using data from 129 countries, the survey showed that wealthy nations like Finland, Sweden,

Norway and the Netherlands were making the most progress while poor or unstable countries such as Chad, DR Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Yemen and Niger were falling behind.

There were also “pockets of good news even in struggling countries,� said Holder.

For example, Senegal is closer to achieving gender parity in its parliament than Denmark, even though Senegal’s GDP is 56 times lower.

However, no country has fully achieved gender equality, the report said.

4HE kNDINGS OF THE INDEX INdicate a lack of political will to invest in advancing gender equal-

ity, according to Anne-Birgitte !LBRECTSEN CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFkCER of Plan International, a child rights charity that contributed to the report.

She hopes to see advocacy groups and activists take up the data from the gender index and use it to mount “clever political campaigns to generate actions.�

The survey isn’t the first to show the tough road ahead for the SDGs. A report released last month said that despite 150 million people gaining access to electricity every year, the SDG of assuring affordable and clean energy was not on track to be reached. AFP

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US shuts Manila immigration office ACCEPTED )T SAID kLING INSTRUCTIONS and updates would be available on the USCIS website.

The USCIS said the US embassy had assumed responsibility for certain limited services previously PROVIDED BY THE -ANILA OFkCE TO individuals in the Philippines, New Guinea, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Wallis, Futuna,

New Caledonia, Pitcairn Island, the overseas French territories of French Polynesia, and most island NATIONS IN THE 0ACIkC REGION THAT were not covered by other Asia-PaCIkC kELD OFkCES For those seeking to migrate under the Filipino World War 2 Veterans Parole Program, the USCIS SAID g9OU MUST kLE YOUR APplication with the USCIS lockbox facility in Chicago. If your petition

is accepted, it will be forwarded to a USCIS service center for adjudication.� “If the service center conditionally approves your application, it will forward it to the Department of State National Visa Center (NVC). The NVC will transfer your case to the USCIS OFkCE OR US embassy or consulate abroad WHERE YOUR BENEkCIARY RELATIVE WILL be interviewed,� it added.

The plan to shutter the USCIS’ international division was announced in March. According to REPORTS OFkCIALS SAID IT WOULD ALlow the agency to act on a backlog of asylum applications.

Critics said it would disrupt the US’ legal migration processes at a time when more and more people were being forcibly displaced elsewhere in the world.

BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO

THE Commission on Audit (CoA) called out the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) for spending P4.7 million to fix its outmoded motor vehicles that were “beyond economical repair.�

In its 2018 audit report, the CoA noted that the CHR spent a total of P4,667,200 for the repair and maintenance of outmoded and fully depreciated motor vehicles over the 30 percent allowable cost of repairs of government equipment. “The CoA also subscribed to the norm that upon determination that the vehicles already fully depreciated as beyond economical repair which have high probability that estimated cost of repair if to be incurred would be put to waste as it can be expected that in a short period of time the repaired vehicles would break down, thus necessitating another repair,� the report read. “Under these circumstances, repairs become both unnecessary and excessive,� the state auditors added.

Citing accounting records, the CHR had 23 motor vehicles that underwent repairs, all acquired from 1988 to 2010. These vehicles

were fully depreciated as of Dec. 31, 2018.

The CoA said the repair cost for one vehicle alone exceeded its cost by 28 percent.

It said the commission spent P250,866 to repair its oldest vehicle, Pinoy II M-88 SBY. The vehicle was acquired for P196,595.

The CHR was urged to have a comprehensive monitoring of repairs and maintenance of its vehicles.

The rights commission quickly responded to this report, saying THAT ITS OFkCES HAVE BEEN USING service vehicles as old as two DECADES TO gFULkLL ITS MANDATE to investigate human rights violations, conduct jail visitations, and extend human rights promotion and education programs to different sectors.�

In a statement sent to The Manila Times, it said that it agreed to address the issue by identifying units ready to be retired. “We assure the public that the Commission values every peso that it uses in the protection and promotion of human rights in the country,� the CHR said.

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Dionisio, 53 MELJUNE Dionisio, mother of The Manila Times advertising staff Melric Dionisio, died on Sunday at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan.

She was 53.

According to her Facebook profile, Mrs. Dionisio worked for the Government Service Insurance System. She worked

as a division chief for scholarships in the regional office in Plaridel, Bulacan.

Her remains are at the Imperial Standard Room of La Funeraria Paz along Araneta Avenue in Quezon City.

She will be interred on Sunday at the Manila Memorial Park in Plaridel, Bulacan. ARIC JOHN SY

MARAWI FUND TRANSFER JUSTIFIED TASK Force Bangon Marawi head Eduardo del Rosario on Wednesday justified the use of P5 million to send displaced Muslims to Mecca, saying the transfer of the money underwent the proper process.

The Commission on Audit (CoA) earlier flagged the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) for transferring P5 million from the Marawi funds to the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) to allow a number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to attend the Hajj pilgrimage. Del Rosario said the P5 million released to the NCMF was “part of the social healing process in the overall rehabilitation of Marawi.� “We sponsored IDPs who were then living in the evacuation centers and transitional shelter. We had a raffle conducted in front of the IDPs, themselves, and immediately announced the names of those who were luckily picked,� he said. “Now, the NCMF’s inherent task is to facilitate the processing of travel documents, payment of airfares and billeting while in Saudi Arabia

for a month,� he added.

Del Rosario said he would ask CoA not to disallow the transaction. “Besides, the P5 million was properly dispensed by NCMF,� he said. On Tuesday, Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said if funds were diverted, the HUDCC officials would be liable for technical malversation.

The CoA, in its 2018 audit report, said the transfer of funds was not authorized by the Office of the President (OP). “The purpose of the fund transfer was not among the authorized expenses enumerated in the original MoA (Memorandum of Agree ment) between the OP and the HUDCC,� it said. “The transfer of funds to NCMF for the purpose of sending IDPs to Mecca to attend the Hajj was contrary to the aforecited provisions of PD (Presidential Decree) 1445 and 2018 GAA (General Appropriations Act), considering that said activity was not in accordance with the purpose for which the Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM) Funds [were] intended for,� it added.

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‘Rotating brownouts possible next year’ San Miguel chief urges Environment department to issue ECCs

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AN Miguel Corp. President and Chief /PERATING /FkCER 2AMON 3 !NG HAS WARNED THAT DAILY ROTATING POWER INTERRUPTIONS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS BECAUSE THE COUNTRY S DEMAND FOR ELECTRICITY IS EXCEEDING SUPPLY

$URING A BRIEkNG ON THE SIDELINES of San Miguel Food and Beverage Inc.’s annual stockholders’ meeting in Pasig City on Wednesday, the listed conglomerate’s chief said the brownouts could occur as early as 2020 and last until 2022.

Because of this, he added, the Department of Environment and

Natural Resources needs to issue environmental comPLIANCE CERTIkCATES %##S SO that power companies could begin building more energy plants. “Kapag walang nai-approve na mga ECC kaagad para magtayo ng mga planta (If no ECCs are approved

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Global lender slashes 2019 growth projections World Bank sees PH WASHINGTON, D.C.: The World Bank slashed its global growth forecasts for this year in a report released on Tuesday that portrayed a world gripped by deepening trade conflict, tumbling confidence and increasingly skittish investment.

Although the global development lender currently expects a modest recovery in 2020 and 2021, the bank said in its semiannual report that a lot would have to go right for this to happen.

Instead, the growing risks suggest the outlook could even become darker.

The greatest danger on the horizon is the prospect of worsening trade clashes between major world economies — a specter that rose again last week, when US President Donald Trump announced fresh punitive duties on Mexican goods in a dispute over immigration policy.

The world economy is now expected to expand by 2.6 percent this year, three-tenths of a percentage point lower than the January forecast, and well below the 3-percent growth seen in 2018, according to the Global Economic Prospects report.

The World Bank also sounded the alarm about rising debt levels and warned emerging economies that they could soon regret the decision to borrow in search of a growth boost.

Newly installed World Bank President David Malpass, who in his previous position with the US Treasury participated in Trump’s stalled trade negotiations with China, said global growth was

economy growing 6.4%

“fragile� and the slowdown jeopardizing progress in battling world poverty. “The global economic outlook, in both the near and long term, is confronting substantial challenges,� he told reporters.

The new forecast was decidedly gloomier than the latest outlook by the International Monetary Fund, released in April, but which likewise predicted a slowdown and warned of the risks posed by trade CONlICTS “The bottom line is that the global economy is coming to a crossroads,� said World Bank economist Ayhan Kose, who oversaw the report, told Agence FrancePresse. g7E NEED TO kND WAYS TO STAbilize growth, and I think further

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World trade volume also is expected to drop off sharply, growing by 2.6 percent this year, the slowEST PACE SINCE THE GLOBAL kNANCIAL crisis and a full percentage point lower than January’s forecast.

States is unchanged, with gross domestic product growth slowing to 2.5 percent this year before weakening to 1.7 percent in 2020, though still considerably stronger than other advanced economies.

But American exports to Europe and Asia have seen an “especially acute� slowdown, and conditions in the eurozone economic have “deteriorated rapidly� as exports ‘Panic button?’ to China, central Asia and elsewhere have shrunk, according to )N %AST !SIA AND THE 0ACIkC TOTAL the report. economic output is likely to drop Latin America’s top two econoBELOW PERCENT FOR THE kRST TIME mies, Brazil and Mexico, have since the Asian financial crisis taken sharp turns for the worse.

The report did not take Trump’s more than 20 years ago.

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THE Philippine economy is still projected to grow by more than 6 percent this year on the back of strong local demand, according to the World Bank.

In its “Global Economic Prospects Heightened Tensions, Subdued Investment� report released on Tuesday, the multilateral lender retained its 6.4-percent economic growth forecast for the country for 2019, an acceleration from the 6.2 percent expansion in 2018.

It also retained its 6.5-percent growth projection for 2020 and 2021. “In the Philippines, private consumption is rebounding amid SLOWING INlATION AND IMPROVING employment conditions,� the World Bank said. “In addition, election-related SPENDING IN THE kRST HALF OF IS giving the economy an additional boost and is partly mitigating the impact of weakening exports,� it added.

The World Bank said the PhilipPINES WAS ALSO EXPECTED TO BENEkT from large public infrastructure projects that are coming onstream in 2020 and 2021.

The growth forecast for the country is higher than that for China (6.2 percent), Fiji (3.4 percent), Indonesia (5.2 percent), Malaysia (4.6 percent), Papua New Guinea (5.6 percent), Solomon Islands (2.9 percent) and Thailand (3.5 percent).

Countries in East Asia and the 0ACIkC THAT ARE PROJECTED TO GROW faster than the Philippines include Cambodia (7.0 percent), Lao People’s Democratic Republic (6.6

percent), Mongolia (7.2 percent), and Myanmar (6.5 percent). g)NlATION IS SUBDUED OR DECLINing in most countries (Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam), allowing monetary authorities to keep policy rates steady, generally at accommodative levels,� the World Bank said, adding that domestic demand in these four would continue to BENEkT FROM FAVORABLE kNANCING CONDITIONS AMID LOW INlATION AND RISING CAPITAL lOWS It, however, noted that risks to growth for the Philippines and other countries in East Asia and THE 0ACIkC gREMAIN TILTED TO THE downside.� “They include the possibility of a sharper-than-expected downturn in large economies, a further slowing of global trade, a possible INTENSIkCATION OF TRADE TENSIONS

and an abrupt change in global kNANCING CONDITIONS AND INVESTOR sentiment,� it said.

The report noted that policy uncertainty in the region also remained high due to the ongoing trade war between China and the United States that saw them imposing tariffs worth billions of dollars on each other’s goods.

Talks aimed at resolving the conlICT HAVE YIELDED NOTHING “Failure to reach a long-term agreement between these two economies could lead to a further escalation in tariffs, with broadranging global and regional consequences,� the World Bank said.

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BSP, analysts see inflation still hitting target #%.42!, BANK OFkCIALS STILL SEE THE COUNTRY S INlATION RATE AVERAGING WITHIN the government’s target this year despite the two-month high print recorded in May. In a message to reporters on Wednesday, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin Diokno said last MONTH S PERCENT INlATION gCANNOT be seen as an acceleration,� adding that “one data point does not constitute a trend.�

According to him, the May rate is within the Bangko Sentral’s forecast range of 2.8 to 3.6 percent for the

month. g,OOKING AHEAD WE EXPECT INlATION to be in the neighborhood of 2 percent in the third quarter of 2019. With world oil prices easing, we expect the ANNUAL INlATION RATE TO BE IN THE VICINity of 3.0 percent in 2019 and 2020,�

Diokno said.

BSP Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo, for his part, said the two major FACTORS BEHIND THE FASTER INlATION RATE were higher food prices and utility rates.

He stressed, however, that because THE DRIVERS OF INlATION REMAIN ON THE supply side, it was therefore generally

temporary. “The only risk is when the uptick [becomes] prolonged and starts generating second-round effects and higher inflationary expectations, especially in the face of the heavy catch-up on public spending on infrastructure in the second half,� Guinigundo said in a separate message.

He added that, even with the onemonth price gain in May, year-to-date INlATION CONTINUES TO BE WITHIN THE to 4-percent target. “So BSP will continue to monitor key developments and indicators to

guide the next steps moving forward,�

Guinigundo said.

Following a series of rate hikes last year, monetary authorities reduced the Bangko Sentral’s overnight borrowing, lending and deposit rates by 25 basis points (bps) to 4.50 percent, 5 percent and 4 percent, respectively, on May 9.

Analysts’ view HSBC and ANZ Research analysts SHARED THE CENTRAL BANK OFkCIALS VIEW

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The proposed sin tax bill and the new estate tax amnesty rules MTF Tax and Legal Seminar Before I discuss today’s topic, I would like to invite everyone to our CPD-accredited legal and tax seminar scheduled on July 17, 2019. Please check our website, www.mtfcounsel.com or email us at info@mtfcounsel.com if interested. Topics will include customs and tax updates, data privacy and the new Revised Corporation Code.

Sin tax bill The Senate of the 17th Congress passed on 2nd and 3rd reading the Senate Bill (SB) No. 2233, which proposes to increase excise tax on tobacco products.

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EUNEY MARIE MATA-PEREZ Senate. The enrollment of the bill will now ensue. Since SB No. 2233 has been certified by the President as urgent, it is expected that the President will sign the bill into law before the next Congress

commences session in July. SB No. 2233 seeks to increase the excise taxes on tobacco products gradually from Php45 per pack starting January 1, 2020 to Php60 per pack starting January 1, 2023, plus a 5% increase each year effective on January 1, 2024.

Estate tax amnesty IRR On the other hand, the Bureau of

Internal Revenue (BIR), after conducting public hearings, issued Revenue Regulations No. 6-2019 (RR 6-2019) implementing the estate tax amnesty promulgated under Republic Act (RA) 11213, the Tax Amnesty Act. The issuance of such rules is crucial since the two-year window within which to avail of the amnesty commences from the effectivity of the IRR. It should be noted that in the calculation of each decedent’s

total net taxable estate, the properties comprising the gross estate shall be valued, in general, based on the fair market value as of the time of death of the decedent. If the property is a real property, the fair market value shall be the higher value between the zonal value as determined by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the fair market value as shown in the schedule of values

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Psalm firm on pursuing San Miguel over Ilijan

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(% 0OWER 3ECTOR !SSETS AND ,IABILITIES -ANAGEMENT #ORP 0SALM IS STICKING TO ITS CLAIM THAT 3AN -IGUEL #ORP 3-# STILL HAS UNPAID DUES FOR OPERATING THE MEGAWATT -7 )LIJAN POWER PLANT IN "ATANGAS PROVINCE In a statement on Wednesday, Psalm reiterated that SMC owes the state-led corporation P19.75 billion under the independent power producer administrator (IPPA) contract to manage the facility through South Premiere Power Corp. (SPPC), a unit of SMC’s power arm SMC Global Power Holdings Corp. “SPPC continues to collect MONEY AND PROkT FROM THE )00! agreement of the Ilijan Power Plant from its power and electricity customers but underpaying the government for the amount due, Psalm receivables of which has now ballooned to P19.75 billion,�

Psalm said. “SPPC’s default and breach of its contractual obligations, particularly the underpayment of

amount due to government was a subject of the Commission on !UDIT S ADVERSE kNDINGS THAT ALSO prompted Psalm to terminate the agreement,� it added.

Psalm made the statement amid SMC’s claim it has already settled its alleged debts, an issue still pending before the court, and that the agency should not wield “its power indiscriminately to mask its own shortcomings.� “This is bullying. They cannot just dictate on what works best for them. We have to follow due process,� SMC President and Chief /PERATING /FkCER 2AMON !NG SAID on Tuesday.

Ang said Psalm cannot unilaterally decide on the issue since the auction for the power plant was already sealed years ago and that it

should be left for the courts to decide on. “We continuously honor our obligations. In return, we only ask that they respect the sanctity of our agreement,� he added.

SMC, through SPPC, reiterated that it has already paid $6.19 billion (P289.1 billion) in various fees as of end-April for the Ilijan power facility in Batangas, contrary to recent claims that it owes Psalm P19.75 billion in unpaid dues.

Psalm has also already gained P34.75 billion from its deal with SPPC since it started in 2010.

Recently, the Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court denied Psalm’s motion for reconsideration as it found no reason to reverse its previous ruling.

Also, the Supreme Court also favored SPPC when Psalm challenged the Court of Appeals’ DECISION TO AFkRM THE WRIT OF PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION kLED BY 300# with the Mandaluyong RTC. However, Psalm said it would exhaust all legal actions to resolve the matter before the court. It said it has been questioning the legal jurisdiction and competence of the

Mandaluyong RTC over the case. “Psalm thus intends to timely avail of all legal remedies relative to this jurisdictional matter,� it added. “PSALM has been questioning the jurisdiction and competence of the RTC Mandaluyong as the Epira [Republic Act 9136 or the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001] granted original and exclusive jurisdiction to the Energy Regulatory Commission over all cases contesting rates and fees, which is what the entire case is all about,� it said.

4HE STATE RUN kRM WILL ALSO DISclose all the documents requested by the court, noting its recent promulgation “did not pass upon the substance of the termination� of the IPPA agreement with SPPC due to breach of contract and default.

The Mandaluyong RTC ruling pertains to the conduct of the modes of discovery which is a stage in the legal proceedings and does not uphold SPPC’s claim relative to the termination of the agreement.

Surge in local hog production expected DESPITE the threats posed by the dreaded African Swine Fever (ASF), the government is expecting a surge in local production of hogs. “We are projecting that within the year, our production of hogs will surge that’s why we prepared an importation of 300,000 metric tons of corn because we might fall short due to what happened in our corn industry because of El NiĂąo,â€?

According Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel PiĂąol said in a recent interview.

He said Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has also approved the DA’s proposal to plant an additional 100,000 hectares to corn and another

100,000 hectares to sorghum this year to support the growth of the country’s poultry and hog sector.

The DA’s corn expansion program would increase production by 600,000 metric tons (MT) for this year while that of sorghum is projected to produce an additional output of 400,000 MT, Piùol said.

He said the ASF is now threatening the hog industry worldwide, with China increasing demand for pork as its hog population is currently being wiped out by the virus.

ASF is a highly contagious hemorrhagic disease of domestic and wild pigs of all ages, according to the World Organization for Animal

Health (OIE). There are no effective preventive vaccines or cures, and the mortality rate is as high as 100 percent.

The multiple outbreaks and rapid spread of ASF in China has led to the spread of the virus among Asian nations including Hong Kong, Vietnam and Cambodia. Other countries affected by the ASF are Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, South Africa and Zambia. “On Monday, I will submit to the President my proposal for us to have a temporary suspension on importation from ASF high-risk areas,� or those near the areas struck by the

virus, PiĂąol said. “Out timeline is about three months. We will just establish stringent quarantine measures that we be allowed to procure x-ray machines where all luggages of incoming passengerss would have to go to just like how they do it in Australia and other advanced countries they [prioritize] biosecurity,â€? he added.

According to PiĂąol, Transport Secretary Arthur Tugade had also approved $! S PROPOSAL TO REQUIRE AIRLINES lYING to the Philippines from ASF-affected and high risk countries to issue advisories to passengers against bringing meat into the country.

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JOSH MASCARIĂ‘AS Every item should have their corresponding prices as well.

Categorize your expenses

After reviewing your expenses, you have to ask yourself whether every item you purchased is essential or not. Simply group your expenses according to these two categories. This is an imperative part of auditing because it allows you to eliminate or lessen your purchases in the future.

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Your other spending routines It’s important to review your like buying coffee and snacks or money habits to know the things eating out and attending Friday you are spending on. If you don’t gimmicks can be controlled. keep your receipts, at least take If you don’t want to get rid of note of every purchase you’ve these splurges then at least do done. Everything you buy should them occasionally. Think about be religiously documented on this--indulging in a particular YOUR NOTES OR IN AN ONLINE kLE ³Money Max B3

Corporate innovation strategies MANAGEMENT I ACTION GET to speak in a lot of innovation summits organized by companies wanting to infuse innovation into their culture, processes, and business models. The singular question I get from a Clevel executive is – “How do we institutionalize INNOVATION IN OUR COMPANY u Corporate innovation is a hot topic nowadays in boardrooms and management committees, not only in medium and large corporations, but even in small family businesses.

This is due to the threat and disruptions being felt by many businesses, coming from startups and competitors in the digital space, such as THOSE IN ECOMMERCE AND kNTECH 4HERE IS ALSO a growing consciousness among businessmen and executives on the opportunities presented by digitization and digital transformation on how to innovate their business models, engage with customers, and optimize their operations.

Hence, corporate innovation should be part of a company’s strategy, culture, and execution. )T CAN BE DEkNED AS THE PROCESSES OF IMPLEmenting new innovation opportunities into existing business models.

A favorite corporate innovation framework of mine is that of Scott Lenet, cofounder and president at Touchdown Venture, who wrote about this topic which appeared in Forbes magazine.

In this framework, corporate innovation can be understood within a context that evaluates two kinds of corporate commitment, or willINGNESS TO TAKE RISK NAMELY Operational control — this asks whether the corporation is responsible for running the innovation effort. Options include full control which means the corporation is responsible for EVERYTHING AND HAS kNAL SAY ON ALL DECISIONS partial control which is about sharing responSIBILITY AND DECISION MAKING AUTHORITY AND passive approaches which mean delegating all responsibility and authority to external parties, but this does not mean “doing nothing�

Purchase of equity — this asks whether the corporation is acquiring ownership in an entity it did not previously own. Options include majority ownership which means controlling PERCENT OR MORE OF NEW INNOVATION ASSETS minority ownership which means controlling LESS THAN PERCENT OF THE INNOVATION ASSETS

and no new ownership or zero equity.

With the foregoing two variables, corporate innovation can come in four forms OF STRATEGIC ACTIONS NAMELY Build. This is a combination of full control and no new equity as the innovations are born internally. This is where corporations build a research and development (R&D) team fully managed by company executives.

An example is the recent announcement of Union Bank of the Philippines Inc. (Union"ANK WHICH CREATED ITS kNANCIAL TECHNOLOGY unit UBX that will hold its technology initiaTIVES PLATFORMS AND INVESTMENTS IN kNTECH companies.

Partner. This involves the corporation’s passive to partial commitment to operations and no new equity investment as innovations are internally incubated. This is executed in the form of business development wherein novel commercial transactions with external companies are forged such as partnering or striking alliances with technology vendors in which responsibilities and authority are shared along WITH ECONOMIC BENEkTS An example is how The Consunji Group’s integrated energy company Semirara Mining & Power Corp. (SMPC) has partnered with Ayalaled Globe and GCash to enable the people of Semirara to gain digital access to online banking, e-commerce, remote medical consultation, and digital lifestyle entertainment.

Another approach involves passivity to operations while maintaining zero equity investments. This includes licensing, a variation of business development, where a commercial transaction in which products or technology is licensed to a third party that takes complete responsibility for all further commercialization, and the licensing party passively receives royalty payments.

Invest. This involves passive to partial commitment of the corporation to the innovation asset operations, and a minority stake in equity. The execution of this strategy comes in the forms of corporate venture capital and its variations incubation, such as spin-offs of corporate R&D in which full ownership is diluted, corporate accelerators where partial ownership

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PAL, Boeing in talks for possible jet purchase FLAG carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) is in talks with aviation giant Boeing for the possible acquisition of new aircraft, acCORDING TO ITS TOP OFkCIAL PAL President and Chief ExECUTIVE /FkCER *AIME "AUTISTA SAID THE 53 PLANE MANUFACTURER

which initiated the talks, had offered to sell its latest jet, the Boeing 777X, to replace the Lucio Tan-led airline’s old MODEL g7E HAVE NOW 4HE kRST TWO WE ACQUIRED THEM IN 2008, so by 2020 these will [beCOME= YEAR OLD AIRPLANES u HE TOLD REPORTERS RECENTLY “Of course Boeing wants to sell the airplanes, so they are in DISCUSSIONS WITH US INFORMING US THE FEATURES OF THE AIRPLANE "AKA MAGING INTERESADO KAMI -AYBE WE LL BECOME INTERESTED u HE SAID O n i t s we b s i t e, B o e i n g CLAIMED THAT THE 8 WAS THE gTHE LARGEST AND MOST EFkCIENT TWIN ENGINE JET IN THE WORLD u which would flaunt “larger windows, a wider cabin, new lighting and enhanced archiTECTUREu FOR ITS INTERIOR 4HE 0!, CHIEF S REMARKS COME as Boeing continues to reel FROM AN UNPRECEDENTED CRISIS AFTER ITS ENTIRE -!8 lEET WAS GROUNDED IN MID -ARCH Those planes were grounded AFTER A COMBINED PEOPLE

died in two deadly crashes involving those aircraft, the kRST IN )NDONESIA LAST /CTOBER and the second in Ethiopia in -ARCH )T WAS LATER LEARNED THAT THE COMPANY HAD DEACTIVATED A SIGnal designed to advise the crew OF A DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PLANE S gANGLE OF ATTACKu SENSORS WHICH MEASURE ITS ANGLE VIS A VIS ONCOMING AIR TO WARN OF IMPENDING STALLS These sensors provide data to the Maneuvering CharacterISTICS !UGMENTATION 3YSTEM

A lIGHT HANDLING SYSTEM CONNECTED TO THE TWO CRASHES 4HIS lAW WAS DISCOVERED IN 2017, but the US Federal AviaTION !DMINISTRATION DID NOT learn about it until after the )NDONESIA CRASH PAL — which has 97 planes by end-2018 — is expecting the delivery of an additional 13 jets BY "AUTISTA SAID !SKED HOW MANY AIRCRAFT would arrive next year, the ofkCIAL REPLIED THAT THE DELIVERY MIGHT BE PUSHED BACK AS THE COMPANY STILL NEEDED TO REVIEW ITS ROUTE SYSTEM “We look for destinations WHERE WE WILL ;lY= THESE AIRPLANES w 4HAT S WHY WE ARE REVIEWING OUR ORDERSu IN DEciding when the jets would be DELIVERED "AUTISTA SAID LISBET K. ESMAEL WITH AFP

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Corporate News San Miguel proposes bus terminal at Pandacan THURSDAY June 6, 2019

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ISTED San Miguel Corp. has submitted to the Department of Transportation (DoTr) an unsolicited proposal to construct a bus and food terminal worth an estimated P10 billion in a bid to help improve the local public transportation system. )N A ROUNDTABLE 3AN -IGUEL President and Chief Operating /FkCER 2AMON !NG SAID THE CONGLOMERATE SUBMITTED ON 4UESDAY the proposal to Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade to build THE 3KYWAY BUS AND FOOD TERMINAL within the old Pandacan depot of ITS SUBSIDIARY 0ETRON #ORP The depot used to house the

FUEL STORAGE FACILITIES OF MAJOR OIL kRMS 0ETRON 0ILIPINAS 3HELL 0ETROLEUM #ORP AND #HEVRON 0HILIPPINES )NC "UT THE 3UPREME #OURT SAID IN .OVEMBER that Manila City Ordinance 8187 ‡ WHICH ALLOWED THE THREE COMpanies to keep their depots there ‡ WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL $EVELOPING THE TERMINAL !NG

35. ,IFE OF #ANADA 0HILIPPINES )NC IS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT SUSTAINING ITS GROWTH MOMENTUM THIS YEAR

AS WELL AS INCREASING ITS CLIENT BASE TO MILLION BY

ACCORDING TO THE COMPANY S CHIEF g7E WANT TO MATCH OUR PERFORMANCE LAST YEAR 4HAT S POSSIBLE u 3UN ,IFE 0RESIDENT !LEXANDER .ARCISO TOLD REPORTERS AFTER HIS kRM S BRIEkNG IN -AKATI #ITY ON 4UESDAY ! -AY STATEMENT FROM THE )NSURANCE #OMMISSION SAID THE INSURANCE kRM CONTINUED TO DOMINATE THE MARKET AS ITS PREMIUM INCOME COLLECTED IN REACHED 0 BILLION Narciso said Sun Life was on track to hit its goal

TO HAVE MILLION CLIENTS BY NEXT YEAR AFTER ENDING THE kRST QUARTER WITH MILLION )N ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE TARGET HE ADDED THE kRM IS BANKING ON PLANS TO FURTHER TAP THE LOWER INCOME CLASS g7E WANT TO GET TO THAT MILLION CLIENTS 4HAT S THE MAIN OBJECTIVE !ND IF WE JUST STAY ON THE ;CLASSES= ! " AND UPPER # IT S NOT ENOUGH u .ARCISO SAID g) THINK ;THAT IN= THE LAST REPORT ) GOT THE ! " AND UPPER # ;ARE= JUST ABOUT PERCENT OF THE POPULATION

SO MILLION ONLY OF THE MILLION &ILIPINOS )F WE STAY IN THAT SEGMENT WE WILL NOT ACCOMPLISH THE TARGET 7E REALLY NEED TO ;REACH= THE LOWER SEGMENT

THE franchise bid of Solar Para sa Bayan Corp. (SPSB), which Congress ratified on Monday, would help the government achieve its goal of supplying power non-stop to Filipino households, according to its founder. “We wish to extend an olive branch to those who once opposed this bill, for us to help achieve the Department of Energy’s goal of bringing 24/7 power to every Filipino. It is time for us to join forces and work together for the common good,� said Leandro Leviste, a son of outgoing senator and incoming Antique Rep. Loren Legarda, in a statement on Tuesday.

Earlier, both the Senate and House of Representatives ratified the bicameral conference committee report on House Bill 8179 that granted SPSB a 25-year franchise.

This covers the construction, installation, establishment, operation, and maintenance of distributable power tech-

nologies and mini-grid systems throughout the Philippines to improve access to sustainable energy.

The final version of the bill has limited the scope to “remote and unviable, unserved, or underserved areas,� and only in selected provinces of the country.

SPSB won’t be given any government subsidy.

Aside from requiring the use of renewable-energy technology, SPSB will be subject to regulation by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and the Department of Energy (DoE), as per Republic Act 9136 or the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001.

The RE firm shall also provide accessible and reliable service and local employment, with financial penalties for failure to meet these obligations.

JORDEENE B. LAGARE

IMMEDIATELY SO THAT POWER PLANTS CAN begin construction), we are going to

town and Quezon province’s PagbiLAO MUNICIPALITY THROUGH ITS POWER units Mariveles Power Generation #ORP AND #ENTRAL ,UZON 0REMIERE 0OWER #ORP RESPECTIVELY ! TOTAL INVESTMENT OF MILlion is needed to construct the two FACILITIES

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OTHERWISE KNOWN AS !N !CT %STABLISHING THE &ISCAL 2EGIME FOR THE -INING )NDUSTRY PROPOSES TO IMPOSE A ROYALTY TAX ON BOTH METALLIC AND NON METALLIC MINING OPERATIONS CONDUCTED OUTSIDE MINERAL RESERVATIONS WHETHER LARGE SCALE OR SMALL SCALE 4HE TAX IS proposed at at three percent of the MARKET VALUE OF THE GROSS OUTPUT OF MINERALS OR MINERAL PRODUCTS EXTRACTED OR PRODUCED FOR THE kRST THREE YEARS FROM THE EFFECTIVITY OF THE LAW FOUR PERCENT ON THE FOURTH YEAR AND kVE PERCENT ON THE kFTH YEAR 4HE ISSUE OF THIS MEASURE IS THE PLACING OF NON METALLIC MINING OPERATIONS

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OPERATIONS IN TERMS OF THE NATURE USE

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but warned that the key risk is a HARSHER THAN ANTICIPATED %L .IĂ„O weather pattern occurrence this YEAR MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO

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CALLING FOR EXPANSION OF JUST PERCENT IN )F 4RUMP FOLLOWS THROUGH ON HIS threat, tariffs on all Mexican goods WOULD HIT PERCENT IN /CTOBER “The big question is, are we PUSHING THE PANIC BUTTON u +OSE SAID g4HE ANSWER AT THE MOMENT IS NO BUT ) THINK IF TENSIONS ESCALATE further, we have to push the panic BUTTON AND GET READY FOR A MUCH DEEPER SLOWDOWN u HE ADDED 4HE FORECAST ALSO SLICED percent off its outlook for Brazil, CUTTING IT TO PERCENT +OSE HIGHLIGHTED CONCERNS OVER rising debt, saying that since 2007, SOVEREIGN DEBT AMONG EMERGING AND DEVELOPING ECONOMIES HAD RISEN ON AVERAGE BY PERCENT These countries should be “exTREMELY CAREFULu NOT TO ALLOW CURrent low interest rates to entice THEM INTO OVERINDULGING IN MORE debt, and should instead opt for MORE REFORMS THAT CAN STIMULATE INVESTMENT g7HEN YOU ACCUMULATE DEBT IT MAKES YOU MORE VULNERABLE TO CRISIS IT LIMITS YOUR POLICY SPACE AND THEN ULTIMATELY YOU NEVER KNOW when the interest rate’s going to INCREASE u HE SAID AFP

‡ WHICH IS # ‡ AND AGAIN ) VE READ ;THAT= THEY REPRESENT AN ADDITIONAL PERCENT OF THE POPULATION 4HAT ADDS MILLION TO OUR CLIENTS u HE ADDED 3EALING MORE PARTNERSHIPS IS ALSO CRUCIAL FOR 3UN Life, particularly with players that have access to its TARGET CONSUMERS LIKE 5NIVERSAL 3TOREFRONT 3ERVICES #ORP AND 7ESTERN 5NION ACCORDING TO THE OFkCIAL 7HILE HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HIS COMPANY HAS stronger operations in Metro Manila, it has started RAMPING UP ITS PRESENCE IN THE PROVINCES 4HE COMPANY ALSO PLANS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF kNANCIAL ADVISERS TO FROM THE CURRENT

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Solar Para Sa Bayan franchise to Businessinbrief help achieve 24/7 power supply PSE ORDERS MELCO REMOVAL

AS OF 4UESDAY WAS AT 0 COMPARED with the average P3 during rainy SEASONS INDICATING THAT THERE MAY BE A LACK OF AN ENERGY BUFFER San Miguel is planning to build X MEGAWATT -7 CIRCULATING lUIDIZED BED #&" COAL kRED POWER plants in Bataan province’s Mariveles

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FACE ROTATING BROWNOUTS u !NG WARNED g;9=OU HAVE TO START NOW kasi kung ANG HINAHABOL MO ;AY= next year, baka wala nang panahonu BECAUSE if you’re looking to build a plant next YEAR YOU MAY NOT HAVE TIME HE SAID Ang cited Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) prices, which

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Ang said, is akin to an airport TERMINAL WOULD MAKE COMMUTing easier for travelers, since they would no longer need to transfer FROM ONE BUS TO ANOTHER JUST TO REACH THEIR DESTINATION 4HE OFkCIAL ALSO SAID DRIVERS OF UV Express vehicles would not LOSE THEIR JOBS AMID THE ,AND Transportation Franchising and

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Corporate in externally founded startups THAT PARTICIPATE IN TEMPORARY PROGRAMS TO DEVELOP CORPORATE RELATIONSHIPS AND OTHER SIMILAR JOINT VENTURES 3OME OF THE COUNTRY S BIGGEST CONGLOMERATES HAVE RECENTLY RAISED THEIR INVESTMENTS IN VENTURE capital in the digital businesses NOW MORE THAN EVER *' 3UMMIT WHICH HAS ALSO FORMED *' $IGITAL %QUITY 6ENTURES *' $%6 RECENTLY EARMARKED MILLION OR ROUGHLY 0 BILLION TO INVEST IN startups that have synergies with ITS BUSINESSES !YALA #ORP !# IS REPORTEDLY RAISING MILLION

THE Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) officially ordered the removal of Melco Resorts and Entertainment Philippines Corp. (MRP) from the bourse next week.In an advisory, the PSE said Melco shares would be delisted effective on Tuesday, June 11. According to the exchange, Melco remained non-compliant with the minimum public ownership (MPO) of 10 percent six months after a cross-offer last December. “Given the foregoing, please be advised that‌the shares of MRP shall be delisted from the official registry of the exchange,â€? the PSE said. Melco originally intended to delist voluntarily, citing its failure to raise funds for expansion, but was challenged by concerns on the tenderoffer price.This prompted Melco to withdraw its delisting application, but still pursued its tender offer that saw the company buy back 96 percent or 1.34 billion common shares out of the 1.57 billion target of the listed firm’s total outstanding stock.

ANGELICA BALLESTEROS

LANDBANK STEPS UP DIRECT LENDING TO ARBS LAND Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) is pursuing a “more focused and direct� approach in expanding its loan credit program to more agrarian-reform beneficiaries (ARBs), and small farmers and fishermen, in the country. In a statement on Tuesday, LandBank President and Chief Executive Officer Cecilia Borromeo said the bank’s initiative supports the government’s drive to increase the productivity and income of these agricultural workers through greater access to financing. “We are strengthening our partnership with the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Department of Agriculture to make sure that we reach the rightful beneficiaries of credit and technical support,� she added. The lender has allocated P5 billion has to its direct-lending program, called Accessible Funds For Delivery to Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries, which will cater to ARBs producing rice, corn and high-value crops.

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#TeamSweden set to score goals Ambassador Harald Fries shares the Swedish way to the Philippines

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HE premise of #TeamSweden is built on the Swedish way of working together to build a better society through joint collaboration and sustainable innovations that they share with the rest of the world. “The typical Swedish approach is that we cooperate.

This is why for this year’s National Day celebration, we are highlighting Team Sweden, where Swedish government agencies and private sector join forces. By working together, we get better results than by individual initiatives.� explains Ambassador Harald Fries.

The Team Sweden mentality is what catapulted the continuous success of the Sweden-Philippines bilateral relationshiQp in the short time since the Embassy of Sweden in Manila was reopened in 2016. &RIES WHOSE STRONG AFkNITY TO the Philippines dates back more THAN YEARS WHEN HE kRST MET HIS would-be Filipina wife, was tasked to reintroduce Sweden to Filipinos and to promote a sustainable, modern and innovative image of the Scandinavian country. And what an introduction it was!

Smart and sustainable solutions Fries notes that the position of Sweden as a prosperous nation has helped in directing efforts towards sustainable solutions since many years. “With Sweden having already been able to address basic national needs, we are in a position to invest in sustainability such as sourcing energy from non-fossil fuel and turning waste into energy or use it in new products. In Sweden, 99.5 percent of household waste is recycled or transformed into energy. These are technologies that can easily be adapted here.�

With this in mind, Fries and his team have worked hard in the past few years to promote the sustainability initiatives of Swedish companies in the Philippines.

In 2018, a delegation of Swedish companies and government repreSENTATIVES PRESENTED THEIR EFkCIENT and sustainable solutions towards building a truly smart city in Clark,

in areas such as urban transport, non-fossil based energy, and waste management.

L a s t J a n u a r y, t h e e m b a s sy partnered with leading Swedish fashion brand H&M and Swedish company Baby B j o r n t o l a u n c h t h e Fa s h ion Revolution: The Future of Textiles exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. The exhibit addressed the problem of waste and sustainability in the fashion industry, known to be one of the most polluting industries in the world.

Team Sweden has also been engaged in initiatives on physical infrastructure, sustainable transport solutions and the mining industry, also in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank.

The Philippines as a perfect partner for Team Sweden Swedish business has a clear focus on Southeast Asia, he says, as it has a huge potential for growth.

Many countries in the region, like the Philippines, are tackling issues like congestion, environmental problems, and sustainability – areas where Swedish companies have been working on for decades. “Team Sweden is here to seek partnerships with the Philippine private sector and government agencies to work on those areas.

4HE 0HILIPPINES IS IDENTIkED AS A priority country in the Swedish government’s trade strategy, based on the large population with a growing middle class, continuous economic growth and business FRIENDLY REFORMS )T IS DEkNITELY AN interesting market to do business in,� the Ambassador explains.

Business opportunities As far as trade goes, the Philippines is currently primarily exporting electronics and vegetable oil to Sweden. The Ambassador hopes that fruits will be able to join these

EXPORT PRODUCTS g4HERE IS DEknitely a potential, as this country has many wonderful fruits that Swedes can enjoy. For one thing, Philippine mangoes are the best in the world,� Fries emphasizes.

Local manpower is another area to look into, he says, as there is a big demand for nurses, caregivers, and software engineers in Sweden.

Nurses and caregivers would have to learn Swedish in order to take care of patients, and this can be addressed by taking a language course for a year. Software engineers, he says, can normally get by in English. “One big advantage that we have for the OFWs is that they can bring their families along instead of leaving them behind.

The spouse also automatically gets a work visa.�

Tourism Trade can start with an awareness between what the two countries can offer, and discovery could start with a tourist trip. For his part, the Ambassador recommends a visit to Stockholm and the Old Town with its narrow cobbled streets and centuries-old buildings, with a side trip to fascinating museums including one dedicated to Swedish pop icon ABBA. There are islands there, too, to explore. The Stockholm Archipelago has more than 20,000 islands that are easily accessible by boat. Up north in Sweden, one can watch the Aurora Borealis and sleep in a hotel that is carved out of ice after a fun day out of reindeer sledding.

Fries notes that there has been A SIGNIkCANT INCREASE IN 3WEDISH tourists to the Philippines in recent years, but not nearly as many as the ones going to Thailand. “The Philippines has amazing beaches, with the tropical island paradise adventure that Swedes look for. With the current focus of the Philippine government on promoting tourism and improving infrastructure to make the islands more accessible we can foresee many more Swedes coming here,� he projects.

Firm advocates The Embassy is also active in promoting advocacies such as human

Q Sweden Ambassador Harald Fries. rights, gender equality, freedom of the press, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility.

One of its projects for the year is #RespetoNaman, a year-long campaign against gender-based violence, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE /FkCE OF THE Vice President, UN Women, Spark Philippines and Empower. “The Philippines is a good place to promote advocacies in. You have an open society and it is easy to partner with government agencies, private sector and non-governmental organizations.� the Ambassador explains.

Back at his home country, the Swedish national day is traditionally celebrated in outdoor events held by the city, town, or village, with Swedish food, music and dancing.

Here, the Ambassador says it will be an exposition of Swedish culture and an introduction of Team Sweden, with food, music and exhibits on innovative and sustainable Swedish products.

They will also introduce a sport m lOORBALL WHICH WAS INVENTED in Sweden in the 70s and is now played in over 60 countries, including in the Philippines since a few A “young� celebration and a YEARS (E EXPLAINS THAT lOORBALL is like ice hockey but with no ice show of unity and skates and with a ball instead The coming National Day celebra- of a puck. “I am convinced that tion on June 6 is one opportunity lOORBALL WILL BECOME A BIG SPORT IN to introduce Sweden to more the Philippines. It is easy to learn, Filipinos and bring businesses doesn´t require height or size, and together to promote trade possi- can be played on basketball courts bilities. It is a ‘young’ celebration, all over the country�.

A number of companies who are OFkCIALLY INSTITUTED ONLY IN and celebrated as a non-working proud members of Team Sweden have partnered with the embassy holiday only since 2005.

for the national day celebration.

Among them are Scania, which is known for its sustainable transport solutions and services; Epiroc, a trusted name in the global mining and civil industry; Transcom, the biggest Swedish employer in the Philippines and a leading BPO company that uses Virtual Reality Training to its more than 10,000 employees; Volvo Cars, known to be the manufacturer of the world’s safest cars; Volvo Bus, a frontrunner in developing sustainable buses and shaping the future of transportation in the Philippines; and Atlas Copco, a supplier of industrial tools and equipment in the Philippines. In addition, the embassy is delighted to partner with Banco de Oro (BDO), a strong advocate of climate-smart projects and sustainability.

To close, Fries notes “The national day celebration on June 6 is a show of unity for us—an opportunity to showcase what a small country can do with partners who share our values and goals.�

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Q Ericsson team at the Sweden National Day

Q Atlas Copco team led by Business Controller Lea Baligod at the Sweden National Day

Q BDO team led by SVP International Desks Group Head Romeo Co Jr, at the Sweden National Day

Q SKF Philippines Head Mario Pilones at the Sweden National Day 2018

Q Scania’s Managing Director Leilani Tan at the Sweden National Day

Q Transcom’s CFO Kalle Soinen at the Sweden National Day 2018

Q Swedish Match team led by General Manager Philip Ramoso at the National Day 2018

Q Volvo Buses team led by Chairman Roberto Torres at the Sweden National Day 2018

Q Volvo Cars Head of Marketing Chris Yu at the Sweden National Day 2018 Q Swedish violinist Jeanette Kamphuis performing at the National Day 2018

Q Swedish company IKEA’s press launch led by its Country Manager Georg Platzer

Q Dept. of Transportation Q Epiroc Team led by Country Manager Floors Q Team Sweden introduces Swedish Sport Undersecretary Mark De Leon and Foord at the Sweden National Day 2018

Floorball to UP Mindanao

Q Swedish State Secretary Niklas Johansson’s bilateral meeting with Department of Trade and Industry’s Secretary Ramon Lopez

Undersecretary Thomas Orbos

Q Speaker Jose De Venecia and Consul General Q RESPETONAMAN, a yearlong campaign against gender-based violence in partnership with the Office of Vice President Leni of Sweden Carla Limcaoco Robredo and UN Women at the Sweden National Day 2018

Q Senator Antonio Trillanes III at the Sweden National Day 2018

Q Regional Swedish Ambassadors Meeting held at the Embassy of Sweden in Manila

Q Team Sweden at the Metro Manila Pride March 2018

Q Embassy of Sweden launched the Fashion Revolution: Future of Textiles exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum together with Swedish fashion brands H&M, Baby Bjorn and Houdini Sportswear.

Q Team Sweden discusses smart city solutions with Dept. of Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade during the launch of the Philippine-Sweden Smart City Collaboration.

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N a bid to revive the country’s billion-dollar coconut industry, the Department of Agriculture (DA), Philippine Coconut Authority and VARIOUS INDUSTRY GROUPS HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY kNDing ways to boost the local production and exports of Philippine coconuts.

The Philippines is currently the world’s second-biggest coconut producer, with 3.5 million hectares planted with the crop and produced 15 million metric tons. The government, however, had lacked efforts in

the past years to maximize local production, which in turn might boost trading grains in the export market, according to Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel PiĂąol.

In response, the DA, in collaboration with various industry

groups from the private sector, has long been proposing for feasible solutions that could help improve the domestic demand for coconut oil.

For instance, the United Coconut Association of the Philippines has backed the DA’s constant push to increase coconut oil content in biodiesel from 2 percent to 5 percent — a measure that is not only for the environment, but also to give coconut farmers a market for their products.

Biodiesel is a blend of diesel fuel and Coco Methyl Ester, a derivative of coconut oil.

According to PiĂąol, the DA

would also be pushing for the imposition of a quantitative restriction on the volume of palm olein imported from Malaysia and Indonesia. In 2017, total palm oil imports increased by 92.4 percent to 262 million kilos from 20 million kilos in 2015.

The Philippines primarily imports palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia at zero-percent tariff.

Meanwhile, most experts agreed that there was another viable option that would help boost the local coconut industry — increased demand for oleochemicals, which are comprised of organic oils like coconut oil and palm kernel oil. It

is the form that is commonly used as a main component of many important consumer products that are commercially sold in the market.

Just recently, the DA announced it had begun preparations for the COUNTRY S kRST SHIPMENT OF GREEN coconuts to the US. Prior to this, the DA had also said it was poised on transforming monocropped coconut farms into “model coconut farmsâ€? that would PROMOTE DIVERSIkED FARMING 0IĂ„OL said the initiative was part of the DA’s Coconut Industry ModernIZATION 0ROGRAM OVER THE NEXT kVE years, which would mainly focus ON FARM DIVERSIkCATION AND UTILIZA-

tion of modern technologies such as drip irrigation, among others.

The DA, furthermore, believes that the market value and relevance of the coconut would also bounce back as the agency’s focus would shift on value-adding initiatives for the said commodity.

These include the development of HOLLOW BLOCKS AND ROOkNG MATERIALS MADE OUT OF COCONUT kBER AND dirty plastic as binder, coco coir production for the growing greenhouse farming industry in foreign countries, coconut sugar, coconut syrup, coconut milk, dessicated coconut, coconut chips and virgin coconut oil.

Private sector wants RURAL BANK ACHIEVES P4.4-B ASSET BASE bigger role in RCEF THE private rice sector is pressing the Department of Agriculture (DA) to partner with private enterprises for the implementation of the projects and programs that would be funded by the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF).

Enterprises that participated in a recent forum held by the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and &OOD )NC 0CAk ASSERTED THAT THE private sector should be given a role for the effective implementation of programs and projects to be funded

by RCEF, saying the “government may fail to properly implement it.�

RCEF would be getting P10 billion annually in the next six years.

Also, in a dialogue with DA Undersecretary for Operations Ariel Cayanan, Chenyi Agriventures asked the Agriculture department to allow the private sector to participate in the four subsectors of the country’s rice industry in relation to the projects and programs to be funded by RCEF. These are mechanization, seeds distribution, lending and extension.

Chenyi Agriventures claims it built the most modern rice processing plant in Leyte. “Implementation is something the government is not good at. But the private sector can teach farmers how to plant seeds and monitor these daily. It can own and maintain the machines, and teach farmers how to use these,� said Chenyi Agriventures in a statement. “Merely giving machines away to farmers is not the solution. The problem DA encountered is [that the] farmers just abandon or sell the machines because they don’t know how to use these,� it added.

Chenyi Agriventurues also

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WAS given the privilege to be the guest of honor and speaker for the commencement exercises of the Core Gateway College in San Jose, Nueva Ecija on April 12 and the Kalinga State University (KSU) in Tabuk, Kalinga on May 30.

In my speech at Core Gateway College for college and masteral degree graduates, I discussed how tourism, agribusiness and digitization could spur growth from the rural areas, taking into account the 7.1 million foreign tourists visiting the Philippines in 2018.

At the KSU commencement rites, I urged the university and the graduates to help make state colleges and universities active participants in agricultural research and development in the Philippines, and uplift the social and economic status of smallholders and the marginalized.

In both commencement speeches, I also shared with the graduates essential skills to succeed in the 21st century, emphasizing that the world today is very challenging — from the explosion of information from social media and the internet, kERCE COMPETITION BECAUSE OF globalization, to the fast-paced technological development.

I also told the graduating students that while education equips them with the skills and knowledge for their chosen

stressed the importance of raising the productivity of rice farmers. “That rice price [going] down due TO THE 2ICE 4ARIFkCATION ,AW IS ONLY one concern. The most basic question is not whether price will go down, but that the yield of farmers remains low. Even if palay (unmilled rice) price goes up, farmers’ income is low,� the company said. “Their ability to get out of poverty is not dependent on price of rice, but on productivity. You think it’s not relevant, it’s very important. Productivity is what the Rice Fund should address,� it added.

The objective of the RCEF-funded programs and projects is to lower the cost of producing 1 kilo of palay from the current average of P12.72 to levels that are competitive to Thailand and Vietnam. Thailand’s palay production cost is at P8.86 per kilo and Vietnam at P6.62 per kilo, according to DA studies. “We want Filipino farmers to experience how it is to have money in their hands. French farmers are so successful in making a lot of money. They have comfortable living because France is taking care of its farmers. Farming is about food security,� said Patrick Renucci, a French investor of Chenyi.

Pcafi President Danilo Fausto said during the dialogue that the DA needs to beef up its capabilities to implement the programs and projects under RCEF. “Even Amtech (Agricultural Machinery Testing Evaluation Center) under the University of the Philippines Los BaĂąos is not capable of such supporting that huge task of testing machines to support the RCEF mechanization program,â€?

Fausto said.

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A COOPERATIVE bank in Cauayan City, Isabela has proven that ruralBASED kNANCIAL INSTITUTIONS CAN ATtain a resource base worth billions of pesos.

The First Isabela Cooperative Bank (Fico Bank) recently celebrated its 39th anniversary with a resource base amounting to about P4.34 billion.

Narciso Edillo, Department of Agriculture-Cagayan Valley (Region 2) executive director, who was the keynote speaker during Fico Bank’s 39th General Assembly, challenged THE OFkCIALS AND MEMBERS OF &ICO TO continue providing quality services to its clients in the region.

Fico Bank is primarily engaged in financial intermediation between AND AMONG FARMERS kSHERFOLK AND their organizations; micro, small and medium entrepreneurs; rural, urban and overseas workers; and professionals, pensioners and other segments of the market.

Q The corporate center of First Isabela Cooperative Bank in Cauayan City, Isabela. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO “Your existence means a lot to us in the agriculture sector since you are helping people transform their lives,� Edillo said He said Fico Bank’s origin was deeply rooted in the community, as it was organized 42 years ago by two cooperatives and 47 samahang nayon (community associations)

that represented farmers who had limited resources and access to banking services.

Led by its president lawyer Hubert Molina, and chairman, Erwin Tabucol, Fico Bank has 103 regular institutional members, 26,063 special individual members, and 72,161 depositing and borrowing clients.

From a molehill-sized cooperative rural bank, Fico Bank elevated ITSELF INTO A kNANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT has reached great heights, as it can now lay claim to a resource base of about P4.34 billion. “We are thankful because your programs are related to ours such as giving agricultural loan to farmers.

We are, therefore, partners in this endeavor as conduit in our loan windows,� Edillo said.

During the cooperative’s general assembly, Edillo also discussed the EFFECTS OF 2ICE 4ARIFkCATION ,AW AND importance of food production where stakeholders have roles to perform. “The Department of Agriculture cannot do it alone. We need the acceptance and support of all the industry’s stakeholders of all the issues affecting the sector,� said Edillo, who has been very vocal on THE SIGNIkCANT ROLE OF COOPERATIVES in nation building.

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Agribusiness center opens in Leyte town

Q Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) Applied Communication Division chief Rodolfo Estigoy (second from right) explains to local officials the new technologies in cacao processing during the opening of a PHilMech Regional Center in Abuyog, Leyte on May 29. PNA PHOTO

THE Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) on Wednesday has launched its Regional Technology Management and Demonstration Center (RTMDC) in Abuyog, Leyte.

Raul Paz, PhilMech deputy executive director, said the facility would allow farmers to gain easy access to information and technology services, with the overall aim of commercializing more post-harvest and farm mechanization technologies the agency developed. “We want to be more aggressive in provinces to bring our technology closer to the people. Through modernization, we can mitigate the impact of climate change and produce more food,� he added.

The RTMDC worth P3 million was set up inside the complex of the Department of

Agriculture Abuyog Experimental Station in Balinsasayao village. It houses learning materials, technology demonstrations, a digital information board and some farm machinery.

PHilMech-RTDMCs would also offer business advisories or assist clients in the formation of agribusiness enterprises using the post-harvest and farm mechanization technologies developed by the agency.

Assisted clients would then be referred to enterprises and institutions that are partners of PHilMech in the development, manufacture and distribution of its technologies for the farming sector.

PHilMech earlier established an RTMDC in Pili, Camarines Sur, while another in Davao City is set for opening this year.

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Six essential skills for the 21st century WAYS OF THE OASIS DR. WILLIAM DAR professions or vocations, they should never expect the real world outside of their classrooms to be a bed of roses.

What I discussed before the graduates of Core Gateway College and KSU applies to all individuals who want to be part of community and nation building.

Six essential skills The six essential skills comes from the book Literacy is not enough (Crockett, Lee et al, 2011), and let me elaborate on each.

So here are the six essential skills to make it in this 21st century: problem solving; creativity; analytical thinking; ability to collaborate; ability to communicate clearly; and ethics, action and accountability.

Problem solving, or possessing the ability to solve complex problems in real time, is very important today as society’s problems that were once deemed manageable could go, in a worst-case scenario, into an uncontrollable spiral if not solved with appropriate and long-term solutions.

I emphasized here the need for solutions over the long-

term, as short-term or “band aid� solutions in many instances simply mask the symptoms but do not address the root or core of the problem.

Additionally, problem solvers must be given a degree of freedom or not be encumbered by strict higher supervision. This also means they must take their own initiative while not fearing to take risks. Problem solvers are also not afraid to get their hands dirty and face potential failure, and learn from their failures and move forWARD TO kND THE RIGHT SOLUTIONS

particularly long-term solutions.

No. 2 skill is creativity, or the ability to develop unique and useful solutions, and work creatively from both the physical and digital spheres.

Creativity also enables individuals to discover who they are and what they can do and accomplish.

For people who are leading or handling people, it is important to create an environment where their teammates or subordinates can stand out in their learning, so they can achieve creativity.

People can also demonstrate their creative edge on social media, where they can get instant feedback from their peers.

Two key words also apply to creativity: ingenuity and vision.

No. 3 is analytical thinking, which all of us practically need.

Analytical thinking is also usually done without instruction or su-

pervision, allowing the individual to analyze a situation and come up with solutions that are both creative and practical.

Analytical thinkers also know how to conceptualize, organize, classify and synthesize facts to arrive at a solution. And they see data and information from different angles and dimensions.

Analytical thinking can be applied TO VARIOUS kELDS AND SHOULD NOT BE limited to the sciences and math. This means analytical thinking should also be applied in dealing with social and economic issues.

The best thing about analytical thinking is we can also apply it in our daily lives and relationships.

No. 4 is collaboration.

Collaboration requires seamless interaction and cooperation from both the physical and virtual spaces, both at the local and global settings. Globalization has given rise to new challenges, like an organization’s partners located in another part of the globe. Hence, the ability to collaborate seamlessly at the global or international level to achieve objectives becomes very important, especially for the global digital citizen.

However, collaboration is not possible if we do not have excellent communication skills, the kFTH ESSENTIAL SKILL NEEDED FOR THIS 21st century.

Communicating through speech and text using multiple multimedia formats is very im-

portant today. But communication is also about personal interaction. Clarity in communication is critical, so is respect toward the people we communicate with.

This means that the way we communicate, whether it be face-toface or through social media or ELECTRONIC PLATFORMS IS A RElECtion of our values and beliefs.

The last and sixth essential skill for the 21st century revolves around ethics, action and accountability.

Ethics revolves around being truthful and respectful in the way we interact with people. This also means respecting the diversity of various people we interact with. Respect is one of the key words here.

Accountability, on the other hand, is the willingness to be responsible for one’s actions, and this should foster action that in the end would create a better world for all of us.

Then we have action, which starts WITH TAKING THE kRST STEP OF WHAT could be a million-mile journey.

If we do not take action to make a better world for all of us, then we are nothing but failures.

Old and proven values Now let me ask this question: are the six essential skills enough to make an individual succeed in this 21st century?

My answer is “no.�

I say this because to truly succeed in this 21st century or the

digital age, we still need the old and proven values of love for country or patriotism, good and responsible citizenship, willingness to work hard, perseverance, and passion.

Despite the emergence of the Global Digital Citizen, we should always strive to be part of nation building, and we can do that by becoming good and responsible citizens.

Being hardworking is also a value that has become more important today, as globalization is making competition among companies and individuals more challenging than before.

Perseverance, on the other hand, means we should not give up after failing, and that we should remain focused on a goal or objective despite being confronted with almost insurmountable obstacles.

And then there’s passion, or willingness to also take risks to the point of failing, and learning from failures and mistakes to continue pursuing a passion.

Without passion, it is easy to give up after failing. And to truly succeed, an individual must have burning passion to become an outstanding citizen who should also be part of nation building.

So, let us all move forward to build this beloved nation of ours as we celebrate next week Independence Day under the leadership of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. Mabuhay!

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ANGKOK: Thailand’s Parliament convened Wednesday for a vote that is expected to keep Prayuth Chan-ocha AS PRIME MINISTER kVE YEARS AFTER HE SEIZED power by military coup.

The military-backed party that nominated Prayuth won the second-highest number of seats in the House of Representatives in the March general elections.

But Prayuth is virtually assured to REMAIN IN OFkCE BECAUSE THE PRIME minister is chosen jointly by the 500-seat House and the 250-seat Senate, whose members were ap-

pointed by the junta Prayuth leads.

Before the vote, he had the support of the military-backed Palang Pracharath party, which holds 116 House seats, as well as lawmakers from smaller parties.

Prayuth did not run for a seat, and the Constitution enacted under the junta does not require the prime minister to come from

Parliament. Laws passed under his government handicapped established political parties, raising concerns of fairness in the election.

The country’s oldest party said late Tuesday it would join a coalition government led by Prayuth, a decision that led former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign from Parliament. He had promised during the election campaign to not support Prayuth’s bid to continue leading the country.

The Democrats’ support also boosted the chances of Palang Pracharath holding a majority in the lower House, which is necessary to pass

legislation and approve budgets.

The Democrats and the Bhumjai 4HAI PARTY THE FOURTH AND kFTH PLACE kNISHERS IN -ARCH TOGETHER hold more than 100 House seats, and reportedly had been bargaining hard with Palang Pracharath over Cabinet positions in a coalition government.

The Palang Pracharath coalition was opposed by the selfstyled “Democratic Front,” comprising seven anti-military parties led by Pheu Thai, which headed the government ousted by the 2014 coup and won the most House seats in March.

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EID FEST Pakistani Muslims offer prayers during Eid al-Fitr at Eidgah ground in Quetta. Muslims around the world are celebrating the Eid, the end of the monthlong Ramadan.

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Republicans buck Trump’s Mexico tariff threat WASHINGTON, D.C.: US President Donald Trump faced fierce opposition Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) from his own Republican camp over his threat of tariffs to force Mexico to stem illegal immigration, with top allies warning Congress might not back him in his latest trade standoff.

As Mexican officials shuttled through Washington for last-ditch talks to avoid punitive tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in goods, Trump doubled down

with his threats — and said Republicans would be “foolish” to try and stop him.

Trump has vowed that 5-percent tariffs on all imports from its southern neighbor would begin June 10, and reach 25 percent in the fall, unless Mexico dramatically reduces the flow of undocumented migrants, mainly from Central America, to the US border.

Such levies would be “catastrophic,” a leading Mexican cross-border business

group warned.

With tensions running high, Senate Republicans made clear they were considering a brazen legislative move to block the tariffs, and delivered an earful to White House officials explaining Trump’s position at a closed-door Senate lunch.

“There is not much support in my conference for tariffs, that’s for sure,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after the meeting.

Asked if Trump’s administration should be concerned about the threat of a disapproval vote to block the tariffs, Sen. Ron Johnson told reporters: “If I were the White House I would be, sure. I made that point.”

But McConnell declined to say outright whether his party would draft a measure to block Trump’s duties from taking effect, in what would be the most dramatic act of Republican defiance since Trump took office in 2017.

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Worldinbriefs 60 KILLED IN CONTINUING SUDAN CRACKDOWN KHARTOUM, Sudan: Organizers of the pro-democracy protests in Sudan said the death toll across the country since the violent dispersal of their sit-in in Khartoum earlier this week had increased to 60. The previously reported death toll stood at 40. Injured protesters totaled to more than 300, organizers added. The Sudan Doctors’ Committee says security forces killed at least 10 people on Wednesday in the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman.

AP

4 DIE IN AUSTRALIA SHOOTING MELBOURNE, Australia: A man who was out on parole was arrested after fatally shooting four men and wounding a woman in an hour-long downtown rampage Tuesday in the northern Australian city of Darwin, police said. Police did not reveal a motive attack for the shotgun, but ruled out terrorism. It was Australia’s third mass shooting since the country introduced tough gun laws in response to a 1996 massacre in which a lone gunman armed with two semi-automatic assault rifles killed 35 people in Tasmania state.

AP

CHIMPANZEES FACE EXTINCTION PARIS: Urban expansion and hunting had pushed chimpanzees, humanity’s closest relative in the animal kingdom, into shrinking islets of wildness, top experts said Tuesday after a three-day meeting in Germany. All four subspecies of the African primate are threatened with extinction, with at least one — the western chimpanzee — declining in number by more than 80 percent over three generations. Forty chimp experts from around the world — with a combined 300 years of field experience — issued a collective appeal to save the only animal whose DNA overlaps with humans by 98 percent.

AFP

UN CHIEF MULLS SELLING NY APARTMENT UNITED Nations, New York: United Nations (UN) chief Antonio Guterres told world diplomats on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) that he considered selling his Manhattan townhouse to help the global body overcome a crippling budget crisis. Guterres put forward proposals to address a $1.5 billion shortfall in the UN peacekeeping budget and a $492 million hole in its regular budget from unpaid contributions by member-states. “The first thing I did when I arrived was to ask if I could sell the residence,” said Guterres, who became secretary general in January 2017.

AFP

1 HURT IN BLAST AT BOND FILMING LONDON: An explosion at Britain’s Pinewood Studios on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) rocked the set of the next ‘James Bond” film, causing damage to the stage and one minor injury. The Sun newspaper said a triple blast hit the set after a stunt went wrong, taking off part of the roof and several wall panels. One member of staff was crushed by debris falling down on him as he stood outside the studios, west of London, the tabloid said.

AFP

8 EGYPTIANS DIE IN SINAI SHOOTING CAIRO: Militants killed eight Egyptian paramilitaries on Wednesday at a checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, center of a long-running jihadist insurgency, security and medical sources said. “Eight killed and three wounded were transferred to El-Arish public hospital. All of the victims were Central Security Force personnel,” a medical source told AFP. A security source said reinforcements had been dispatched to the checkpoint and gunfire was being exchanged.

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Durant out, Thompson uncertain for NBA Finals Game 3 O Thompson is content to leave AKLAND, United States: Injurythe decision in the hands of hit Golden State will not have trainers and medical staff, not Kevin Durant or Kevon Looney for wanting to risk an injury that Wednesday’s (Thursday in Manila) third could take him out for the regame of the NBA Finals while guard Klay MAINDER OF THE kNALS Thompson remains questionable for the Durant still improving defending champion Warriors.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr updated the injury list Tuesday ahead of the match up at Oracle Arena, which comes with the best-ofseven title showdown against Toronto deadlocked at 1-1.

The Warriors seek a third consecutive NBA crown and their FOURTH IN kVE SEASONS WHILE THE 2APTORS ARE IN THE kNALS FOR THE kRST time in their 24-season history.

Thompson, averaging 19.5 points in the playoffs, is listed as day-to-day for game three after an MRI exam Monday showed him with a mild left hamstring strain. “From the progress I’ve made these last two days, I’m very encouraged that I’ll be able to

go out there tomorrow night,�

Thompson said. “It will be a game-time decision. For me personally, it would be hard to see me not playing.

Hopefully I’ll feel much better tomorrow and be a go for tip-off.�

Thompson left Golden State’s 109-104 victory Sunday at Toronto with 7:59 to play with hamstring tightness. “He says he’s feeling well and a lot better than yesterday and thinks he’ll be ready to go,�

Kerr said. “What we’ll have to determine is if that’s a risk. If there’s a risk we’d rather you have the next couple days.�

Durant, this year’s top playoff scorer for Golden State with 34.2 points a game and Most Valuable Player in the past two NBA Finals, has been out for nearly a month with a right calf injury.

Kerr has said the superstar forward must take part in a practice before playing and that while he missed Tuesday’s workout he would take the court at the team’s training facility. “Kevin is going to get on the lOOR AT THE PRACTICE FACILITY LATER u Kerr said. “He’s out for tomorrow but improving. “Kevin won’t play tomorrow.

He’s ramping up his exercise routines and workouts.�

Warriors reserve forward Loo-

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ney, averging 7.2 points and 4.6 rebounds in the playoffs, is DONE FOR THE kNALS AFTER AN -2) Monday showed Looney with a fracture of the cartilage connecting the right ribs to the sternum. “Looney is out for the series,�

Kerr said. “It’s not going to be anything bad long term. But it’s going to keep him out the rest of the series. Fortunately it won’t affect him in the future but it’s a big loss for us.�

DeMarcus Cousins, who only returned last week after six weeks out with a torn left quad, will play a lot of minutes with Looney out. “He’s going to be huge for us the rest of the series,� Warriors guard Stephen Curry said. “He’s reminding people of how special of a talent he is and how versatile he is. It’s only going to continue to improve as the series goes on.�

Kerr also said 2015 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Andre Iguodala, who was bothered by a nagging leg injury in game two, will play Wednesday.

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Raptors think outside the box to stop Warriors Turbulent times: Officiating, OAKLAND, United States: Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse dug out a defensive scheme his own players hadn’t seen in the NBA before to shut down the league’s topscoring defending champion Golden State Warriors.

So when players say they never know what Toronto might do next in the NBA Finals, they mean it.

Nurse used a Box and One defense late in game two Sunday, leaving Fred VanVleet to guard Golden State star guard Stephen Curry. The Warriors’ NBA-best attack fell silent, even though the Raptors lost and the best-of-seven series level at 1-1. “Everybody is making fun of me about it, right?� Nurse said Tuesday. “I was just trying to come up with something to stop them.�

Golden State’s DeMarcus Cousins said h e hadn’t seen the ploy since middle school. Toronto’s Kyle Lowry said he had never seen it in the NBA. And Curry called it “janky� without even being sure what it meant, saying he hadn’t seen it since college days. “That’s a little Southern North Carolina slang I just pulled out of

Q Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard (No. 2) drives around Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson during the first half of Game 1 of basketball’s NBA Finals in Toronto. AP PHOTO

my back pocket,� Curry said. “It sounds right. I don’t really know WHAT THE TRUE DEkNITION IS “It was obviously innovative and unexpected in terms of defense you haven’t seen in a while. But we’ll be prepared for what they throw at us going forward in this series. Just got to be able to adapt. “That’s pretty much what the

kNALS IS ABOUT at this stage, where you have to expect to see literally anything and a lot of desperation in certain moments.�

The strategy, a zone defense WITH lEET 6AN6LEET TIGHT ON #URRY

was a spur of the moment move. “We were having trouble get-

ting our defense set up. We were having trouble at the basket. We were having trouble with the rhythm of the game,� Nurse said. “Usually you do it when the game is funky and there’s a bad rhythm and maybe you can change it just by slowing them down, stopping some of their cutting or whatever.�

It did, even if Nurse literally had to draw his own players a picture of what to do. “Sometimes when your coach draws something up, you just kind of go with it,� Raptors guard Kyle Lowry said. “I don’t know if it worked or not. But it was pretty INNOVATIVE 4HE kRST TIME A TEAM has probably ever played box-andone in the NBA. As Nurse recalled it, “Kyle was the one that said, ‘Yeah, man, that will work, let’s go.’ That lets you share the responsibility a little bit. We leave the huddle and we’re all good with it. So that helps.�

Raptors star Kawhi Leonard said it took some extra talk to sort it out. “He’s experimental and a lot of times what he draws up on the board works,� Leonard said of Nurse. “We just kind of talked it out and still got into our locations.�

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Most talked about NBA Finals series in history SINCE the Philadelphia Warriors rolled over the Chicago Stags in 1947 to crown themselves the first NBA champions, games in the world’s most prestigious pro league, including the ongoing Golden State-Toronto encounter, have always been memorable, significant.

None, perhaps, can match Game 5 of the 1976 championship series between the Boston Celtics and the Phoenix Suns in terms of drama, extended excitement and memorable moments. The contest was decided only after three overtime.

The Suns, incidentally, crawled into the Finals as non-division winners ending their post season with embarrassing 42-40 win–loss record. But in the playoffs, Phoenix upended Seattle in six games in their best-of-seven series then eked out Golden State in the seventh.

The Celtics, led by among others, John Havlicek, Paul Silas and Jojo White, dominated the Atlantic Division with an overpowering record of 54-28 in regular season slate and prevailed over the Buf-

Q Boston fans celebrate after the Celtics won Game 5 in triple overtime over the Phoenix Suns in their best-of-seven series en route to winning the 1976 NBA championship. PHOTO FROM EDDIE ALINEA’S FILE falo Braves and the Cleveland Cavaliers in their series.

The Celtics, as expected took Games 1 and 2, 98-87; and 105-90, at the Boston Garden that, all the more, made them heavily favored to sweep their way to the plum.

It didn’t happen.

Playing in their home floor, the Suns turned the tables on the Celtics, 105-98; and 109-107. The fans had a series, making Game 5 crucial.

Back to the parquet floor of the Garden, though, the Celtics were still

favored. Inspired no end by the hometown crowd of 15,320, they roared to a 22-point second quarter lead. But the Suns refused to die, rallied to seize the advantage in the third. The score was even going into the payoff period.

With West leading the surge, the Suns took the upper hand, 22 ticks left of the game. The Celtics countered with Havlicek saving the day for them on a pair of free-throws to send the contest into extra period.

The Celtics, again, took control early in the second overtime, but the Suns continued hanging on. Boston showed the way, 101-97 with 1:56 remained of the extra five minutes, but the Suns’ Curtis Perry came from nowhere with a spectacular under the basket incursion pushing the game into second overtime.

Until now, 43 years later, it is Game 5 of the 1976 NBA championship series and not the Celtics’ coronation that is being talked about.

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ASKETBALL fans have a lot to unpack, so let’s dive right in:

Calvin Abueva suspension and PBA officiating “Let the players play� and “no harm, no foul� are the basic tenets that have led to the reputation of the PBA to be a “physical� league.

Somehow, this has become a source of pride for some, and we have the expression “mag-chess ka na lang� when we complain about rough plays (because they refuse to call them “dirty�).

Calvin Abueva has always been A kREBRAND ON THE COURT 4HIS IS HIS trademark since he has been in the public eye. He plays with intensity and that is the reason why he has become popular. However, should intensity be an excuse for dirty play?

The PBA slapped him with an gINDEkNITEu SUSPENSION ‡ WHICH IS their way of saying “we don’t know what to do with you.� They noted that the decision was precipitated by “incidents in the past two Phoenix Fuelmasters games.�

That opens some questions: Does the PBA therefore acknowledge that !BUEVA IS AT FAULT WITH THE kRST INCIDENT involving Ray Parks and his girlfriend?

If the second incident (Terrence Jones clothesline) did not happen, what action would the PBA have taken with that?

That game between Phoenix and Talk N’ Text was heated early on, yet THE OFkCIALS DID NOT TIGHTEN THE REINS

and it led to the second incident.

It is already a fact that there will be players like Abueva. In fact, every team feels like they need to have someone like him, simply because that is what the PBA has allowed.

If they allow the game to be played with pitchforks, you need to get your own lest you be placed at a disadvantage.

4HE OFkCIATING SHOULD HAVE ADJUSTed accordingly. For one thing, Jones already hit Abueva and even provoked him with that dance in the huddle.

No call. They knew that there would be something on the other side.

The video has been spread internationally, Jones being a relevant NBA player as recent as two years ago. Are we sure that we should be proud of this? Our hoops videos that have gone VIRAL WERE THE -ICK 0ENNISI lOP AND the brawl with Australia.

Our stint in the World Cup could be the saving grace of our basketball

BASKETBALL SLEUTH MICHAEL ANGELO B. ASIS PROGRAM ‡ OUR CHANCE TO SHOW OUR best in the world stage. Make the most of your 10-day practice, Gilas.

To the PBA, we could be better than this.

The Warriors could end up winners The Warriors can’t win, and we’re not talking the games because they can still do that. It’s the injury bug.

They were already using Kevon Looney, who suddenly became a vital cog because of the injury to DeMarcus Cousins. Now they lost Looney, and they have a half-well Cousins. They might even lose Klay Thompson, and they don’t have Kevin Durant yet.

The Raptors could even have OG Anunoby back in the next game.

They have a solid eight-man rotation without him (not counting Pat McCaw, who has also been used).

The Warriors are already using players that were not in the rotation before. They will have a seven-man ROTATION FOR THE NEXT GAME‡THAT INcludes Cousins, Andrew Bogut and Quinn Cook, which did not have much playoff action prior to the Finals. If you thought Coach Steve Kerr has it easy, now you know he’s worth every penny.

Latest plot twist: KD could return to the Warriors? Could the injuries that unraveled the Warriors’ vulnerability convince him to change his mind?

More on this on the next column.

Free agency in PBA As mentioned before, there is no free agency in the PBA unless the mother team doesn’t want you anymore. The narrow loophole was taken by Jared Dillinger to sign with Ginebra.

Meralco had to place him in the unrestricted free agent list to clear a spot in the active roster for Raymond Almazan. The Bolts did not mean to dump the Daredevil, but he obviously wants out, and he knows that this is not a normal occurrence.

How many players really want to transfer if only they can?

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THURSDAY June 6, 2019

BY JOSEF T. RAMOS

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NBEATEN Australian boxer Tim Tszyu, one of the sparring partners of World Boxing Association (WBA) regular welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao believes that the Filipino ring icon will soundly beat Keith Thurman on July 20 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Sparmate Tszyu places bet on Pacquiao

g) THINK 0ACQUIAO WILL BEAT 4HURMAN CONVINCINGLY )F 0ACQUIAO WANTS IT AS BAD AS HOW HE wants it in his early days, I think you’ll see the BEST OF 0ACQUIAO u 4SZYU

TOLD The Manila Times ON 4UESDAY AFTER HIS kRST FOUR ROUND OF SPARRING WITH THE kGHTING SENATOR AT THE %LORDE GYM IN 0ASAY #ITY 4SZYU SAID THAT 4HURMAN WOULD BE RUNNING INTO A BRICK WALL WHEN HE kGHTS 0ACQUIAO “I think he will hurt Thurman, he comes forward REAL QUICKLY !ND WHEN HE GOT THESE ANGLES THEN HE WILL CATCH 4HURMAN )F HE SEES 4HURMAN HURT

0ACQUIAO WILL GO FOR THE KILL TO GET THAT 4+/ u EXPLAINED 4SZYU A SUPER WELTERWEIGHT WITH A WIN LOSS RECORD OF WITH KNOCKOUTS !S A SPARRING PARTNER 4SZYU SAID THAT HE NEVER FELT THE SAME POWER AS THAT OF 0ACQUIAO S g)T S SNAPPY IT S LIKE A STING )MAGINE LIKE A STING THAT YOU FEEL IT IN FEW SECONDS )T S A DIFFERENT POWER THAN WHAT ) HAVE BEEN HIT BEFORE u SAID 4SZYU (EAD TRAINER "UBOY &ERNANDEZ DESCRIBED 4SZYU AS A gCOPYCATu OF 4HURMAN WITH KNOCKOUTS “He sparred really good and we’re expecting he will be able to show more in the next sparRING SESSIONS 9OU CAN SEE IT IN HIS MOVES u SAID &ERNANDEZ IN &ILIPINO 4HIS WAS THE SECOND TIME THAT 0ACQUIAO CHOSE AN !USTRALIAN AS SPARRING PARTNER 'EORGE +AMBOSOS

0ACQUIAO S SPARMATE PRIOR TO HIS *ANUARY BOUT Q Manny Pacquiao (right) engages Australian Tim Tszyu in a sparring session at the Elorde Gym in Pasay City. PHOTO BYÂ WENDELLÂ ALINEA WITH !DRIEN "RONER IS ALSO AN !USTRALIAN

Phoenix accepts Abueva suspension THE Phoenix Pulse management accepted the indefinite suspension of its player Calvin Abueva by the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

PBA Commissioner Willie Marcial handed the decision to Abueva.

Abueva was fined P70,000 on Tuesday for his involvement in last Sunday’s fracas against TNT KaTropa in the ongoing Season 44 Commissioner’s Cup in Antipolo City.

Abueva had a verbal altercation with a fan during the game against Blackwater on Friday before getting involved in another incident on Sunday when he clotheslined TNT import Terrence Jones. “While we do not agree with the decision, we have no alternative at the moment except to abide by it. We no

longer wish to comment on the basis of the decision but just expect and hope that incidents like this in the future will be treated similarly and decided the same manner regardless of the player involved. This is already a decision precedent that should be used as basis in deciding similar infractions,� a part of the statement reads.

Meanwhile, Abueva’s personal adviser Danny Espiritu told The Manila Times on Wednesday that he has discussed the matter with Abueva. “We already talked earlier and I advised him to accept it. I told Calvin to show his sincerity and commitment to change for good and not to repeat the same violations again,� Espiritu said in Filipino.

JOSEF T. RAMOS

Ateneo, CEU poised to finish off foes CIGNAL-ATENEO De Manila University and Centro Escolar University (CEU) eye to sweep their respective foes in THE SEMIkNALS OF THE 0HILIPPINE Basketball Association Developmental ,EAGUE 0"! $ ,EAGUE TODAY AT THE 9NARES 3PORTS !RENA IN 0ASIG #ITY Emerging victorious in the bestof-three semis opener, Cignal-AtENEO SEEKS TO kNISH OFF 6ALENCIA #ITY "UKIDNON 3AN 3EBASTIAN #OLLEGE AT P M WHILE #%5 AIMS TO DO THE SAME AGAINST 3T #LARE #OLLEGE 6IRTUAL 2EALITY AT P M The Blue Eagles banked on a strong second half to demolish the 'OLDEN (ARVEST

IN 'AME ON -ONDAY But Cignal-Ateneo assistant coach 3ANDY !RESPACOCHAGA SEES 6ALENCIA 3AN 3EBASTIAN FORCING A DECIDING GAME g7E RE NOT EXPECTING AN EASY GAME 4HE kNAL SCORE DOESN T SHOW THE kGHT OUR OPPONENTS HAVE AND THE kGHT

THEY HAVE LEFT 7E LL PREPARE FOR THEM and they deserve the best from us because they’re a good team,� said !RESPACOCHAGA Ivorian big man Angelo Kouame, 4HIRDY 2AVENA AND TWIN BROTHERS -IKE and Matt Nieto are tabbed to lead the %AGLES TO THEIR kRST kNALS APPEARANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENTAL RANKS /N THE OTHER HAND VETERANS 2+ )LAgan and Allyn Bulanadi are expected to carry the scoring load for the Golden Harvest, as mentor Egay Macaraya HOPES HIS OTHER WARDS WILL STEP UP Ilagan and Bulanadi were the only PLAYERS WHO SCORED IN DOUBLE kGURES WITH AND POINTS RESPECTIVELY AS kVE OTHERS COMBINED FOR A MEASLY MARKERS IN THE PREVIOUS GAME M e a nw h i l e, s e ve n - m a n C E U TURNED TO 2ICH 'UINITARAN S GO ahead layup to pull off a thrilling WIN OVER 3T #LARE 6IRTUAL 2EALITY IN THE SERIES OPENER

Kabacan aces seek PPS Kidapawan honors 2%9-/. 3!,$)6!2 AND *AIRO 2AMIREZ from Kabacan gear up for a tougher challenge as they go all out to reassert their might at the Kidapawan Tennis #LUB WHEN THE 003 $IR !LBERTO !TON NATIONAL JUNIORS TENNIS TOURNAMENT IS HELD STARTING TODAY IN #OTABATO 3ALDIVAR TOPPED THE BOYS AND UNDER PLAY WHILE 2AMIREZ DOMINATED THE UNIsex when the country’s longest, biggest TALENT SEARCH MADE ITS kRST STOP HERE LAST &EBRUARY FOR THE 0RES 2 "ARRIOS #UP But the duo will be hard-pressed to score a repeat with Saldivar bracing for a CLASH WITH THE LIKES OF *ASON &LORES #HARLES *UMAWAN AND SIBLING !RMANDO 3ALDIVAR AND 2AMIREZ FACING )ÄIGO "ARRIOS %RICK "ATION AND 7ILFRED &LORIDA AMONG OTHERS IN THE 'ROUP TOURNAMENT SPONSORED BY $IRECTOR !LFREDO !TON OF $EPARTMENT OF !GRICULTURE &IERCE DUEL IS ALSO EXPECTED IN THE other age categories with Zykla CerVANTES #OLEEN #ARVAJAL *ULIANA #ARVAJAL

AND 0AULINE "INOYA TIPPED TO DISPUTE THE GIRLS 5 PLUM AND "RENT -AGNO

"RUCE (URTADO *6 #OMENDADOR AND Eric Comendador heading the cast in the boys’ premier division of the tournaMENT SPONSORED BY 0ALAWAN 0AWNSHOP HEADED BY PRESIDENT #%/ "OBBY #ASTRO 4HE #ARVAJALS ALSO BANNER THE 5 kELD ALONG WITH &AITH !NITO AND -AE 4ORRECARION WITH 2EYMAN 3ALDIVAR 3TEVE !TON 'ENE %SPINOSA AND *6 #OMENdador seen to slug it out in the boys’ category of the event that also features THE 5 SECTION IN BOTH SIDES Also on tap is the doubles competition in THE BOYS AND GIRLS AND 5 DIVISIONS AND THE UNISEX IN THE EVENT SANCTIONED

BY THE 5NIkED 4ENNIS 0HILIPPINES MADE UP OF 003 0%00 #EBUANA ,HUILLIER 7ILSON

4OBY S $UNLOP 3LAZENGER AND " -EG Next up is the Alamada, Cotabato leg ON *UNE ,ISTUP IS ONGOING &OR DETAILS CALL

6ETERAN COACH $ERRICK 0UMAREN IS hoping that his Scorpions will press on despite depleted lineup resulting from A GAME kXING CONTROVERSY “We have to maintain the competiTIVENESS HEART AND THE kGHT EVERY TIME WE STEP THERE 7E JUST GOT TO COME OUT AND PLAY u SAID 0UMAREN Guinitaran and Senegalese center Maodo Malick Diouf, who hauled DOWN A $ ,EAGUE RECORD OF REBOUNDS IN 'AME ARE SEEN TO TOW #%5 BACK TO THE kNALS FOR THE kRST TIME IN TWO YEARS The Saints, however, are bent on bouncing back to forge a doOR DIE MATCH g7E HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO WIN That’s why we’re really going to try to GET THE WIN THIS 4HURSDAY u SAID 3T #LARE 6IRTUAL 2EALITY COACH *ININO -ANANSALA WHO WILL RELY ON *UNJIE (ALLARE

)RVIN 0ALENCIA AND *OSHUA &ONTANILLA JEREMIAH M. SEVILLA

SJ Knights brace for Lakan Cup title defense MAHARLIKA Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) Datu Cup champions San Juan Knights are ready to defend their crown in the upcoming MPBL Lakan Cup on June 12 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

The Knights under coach Randy Alcantara beat Davao Occidental for the title in a thrilling Game 5 last April 25.

In this 30-team edition, San Juan will be challenged by Muntinlupa, Makati, Manila, Bataan, Batangas, Pampanga, Imus, and Davao. “We have to stay very hungry every game. We should not relax even though we already won the Datu Cup because so far most of the teams have improved,� said Alcantara during the Go for Gold news conference on Wednesday.

San Juan added ex-TNT KaTropa Jessie Saitanan, Renz Subido and Andoy Estrella to its line-up. The Knights will also field in former pros John Wilson, Mac Cardona and Larry Rodriguez.

JOSEF T. RAMOS

Joshua to face Ruiz in rematch before year ends NEW YORK: !NTHONY *OSHUA WILL ATTEMPT TO reclaim his heavyweight titles from Andy 2UIZ *R BEFORE THE END OF YEAR AFTER ACTIvating a rematch clause in his contract, promoter Eddie Hearn said Tuesday 7EDNESDAY IN -ANILA In a brief post on Twitter, Hearn said *OSHUA HAD OPTED FOR AN IMMEDIATE REMATCH AGAINST 2UIZ *R WHO SHOCKED the boxing world with a seventh-round KNOCKOUT OF THE "RITISH kGHTER ON 3ATURDAY g!FTER MEETINGS WITH !* TRAINER 2OB -C#RACKEN AND THE MANAGEMENT team in NY, we have today triggered the contracted rematch clause with Andy 2UIZ *NR u (EARN WROTE g4HE kGHT WILL

take place in Nov/Dec at a venue to be CONkRMED SHORTLY u 2UIZ *R PULLED OFF ONE OF THE BIGGEST upsets in the history of the heavyweight division at Madison Square Garden on Saturday with his sensational stoppage OF *OSHUA THE PREVIOUSLY UNBEATEN 7"!

)"& AND 7"/ HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 4HE YEAR OLD 2UIZ STARTED THE kGHT AS A MASSIVE UNDERDOG BUT lOORED *OSHUA FOUR TIMES ON HIS WAY TO A WIN WHICH UPENDED THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION While Hearn has indicated the rematch is likely to take place in Britain, WHERE *OSHUA REGULARLY SELLS OUT LARGE capacity venues, some reports have indi-

CATED IT MAY YET TAKE PLACE IN ,AS 6EGAS OR ,OS !NGELES g)F !* BOUNCES BACK AND DEFEATS 2UIZ in a rematch, he’s a bigger star than he was prior to [Saturday] night,� Hearn SAID g4HE REMATCH IS SO IMPORTANT TO HIS CAREER WE WENT TO 2UIZ S COUNTRY SO I expect the next one to take place in the 5+ u HE ADDED *OSHUA MEANWHILE HAS DISMISSED SUGGESTIONS HE MAY REQUIRE A WARM UP kGHT TO PREPARE HIMSELF FOR A 2UIZ REMATCH “What’s a warm-up fight?� he told "RITISH REPORTERS AFTER 3ATURDAY S DEFEAT g) M DOWN TO SCRAP .O WARM UP 4HAT D BE STUPID .O WAY u AFP

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Federer, Nadal to meet in French Open semifinal blockbuster P A R I S : Ro g e r Fe d e r e r s e t u p a MOUTHWATERING &RENCH /PEN SEMIkNAL CLASH WITH 2AFAEL .ADAL ON 4UESDAY 7EDNESDAY IN -ANILA WHEN HE DEFEATED 3TAN 7AWRINKA IN FOUR SETS TO BECOME THE OLDEST MEN S 'RAND 3LAM SEMI kNALIST IN YEARS

4HE YEAR OLD 3WISS BEAT HIS COMPATRIOT

TO REACH HIS RD MAJOR SEMI kNAL AND EIGHTH AT 2OLAND 'ARROS $EFENDING CHAMPION .ADAL

BIDDING FOR A TH TITLE AT THE &RENCH /PEN BLITZED A WEARY +EI .ISHIKORI

&EDERER TRAILS HIS HEAD TO HEAD RECORD WITH .ADAL ‡ DE SPITE WINNING THEIR LAST kVE MATCH ES ‡ AND ON CLAY 4HE 3PANIARD HAS A STRANGLE HOLD OVER &EDERER AT 2OLAND 'AR ROS WITH .ADAL WINNING THEIR MOST RECENT 0ARIS CLASH IN THE kNAL g4HE COMPLETE DREAM WOULD BE TO WIN THE TOURNAMENT u SAID &EDERER g/THER PLAYERS WON T AGREE )T WILL BE DIFkCULT BUT ) BELIEVE IT ANYWAY u 4HE TIME 'RAND 3LAM CHAM

PION IS THE OLDEST MAN TO MAKE THE SEMIS AT ONE OF THE BIG FOUR TOUR NAMENTS SINCE *IMMY #ONNORS AT THE 53 /PEN AGED 7AWRINKA SAVED OF BREAK POINTS IN A THRILLING EN COUNTER BUT &EDERER QUICKLY FINISHED OFF THE MATCH AFTER A RAIN DELAY TO PROGRESS )T IS THE THIRD SEED S kRST APPEAR ANCE AT THE &RENCH /PEN SINCE AFTER TAKING TIME AWAY FROM CLAY TO FOCUS ON 7IMBLEDON BUT HE HAS BEEN IN kNE FORM IN 0ARIS AND HAS ONLY LOST ONE SET SO FAR ‡ AS HAS .ADAL .ADAL WHO TURNED ON -ON DAY IS THREE BEHIND &EDERER IN THE ALL TIME LIST OF 'RAND 3LAM SINGLES TITLES HEADING INTO THEIR TH CA REER CLASH )T WILL BE &EDERER S kRST 2OLAND 'ARROS SEMI kNAL SINCE A DEFEAT BY

STANDINGS

.OVAK $JOKOVIC IN 4HE &RENCH /PEN CHAM PION STRUCK WINNERS ON 4UES DAY AS 7AWRINKA S UNFORCED ERRORS PROVED COSTLY )N A DRAMATIC OPEN ING SET ON #OURT 3 U Z A N N E ,ENGLEN

& E D E R E R S A V E D FOUR BREAK POINTS BEFORE TAKING IT IN A TIE BREAK 7AWRINKA HAD SAVED OF BREAK POINTS IN HIS EPIC LAST VICTORY OVER 3TEFANOS 4SITSIPAS

INCLUDING ALL EIGHT IN THE DECIDING SET AND HE WAS AT IT AGAIN ON 4UES DAY MAKING IT SEVEN FROM SEVEN TO MOVE IN FRONT IN THE SECOND (E SUFFERED FROM A FEW JITTERS WHEN SERVING TO LEVEL THE MATCH

BUT TOOK HIS FOURTH SET POINT 4HE TOPSY TURVY NATURE OF THE ENCOUNTER CONTINUED IN THE THIRD SET AS &EDERER MISSED TWO SET POINTS BEFORE SALVAGING TWO BREAK POINTS HIMSELF AFTER THE PLAYERS HAD EARLIER TRADED BREAKS 7AWRINKA HELD HIS NERVE TO FORCE THE QUARTER kNAL S SECOND TIE BREAK BUT &EDERER MOVED TWO

Q Switzerland’s Roger Federer serves the ball to Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka during their men’s singles quarterfinal match on day ten of The Roland Garros 2019 French Open tennis tournament in Paris on Wednesday.

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SETS TO ONE IN FRONT ON HIS kFTH SET POINT !FTER THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS AND DARK SKIES FORCED THE PLAYERS FROM THE COURT WITH THE FOURTH SET LEVEL AT &EDERER RETURNED REFRESHED MINUTES LATER AND SEALED A RD VICTORY OVER 7AWRINKA IN THEIR TH MEET ING DESPITE NEEDING THREE MATCH POINTS TO GET OVER THE LINE

Nadal thrashes Nishikori .ADAL TOOK HIS RECORD IN 0ARIS TO WINS AND JUST TWO DEFEATS IN A ONE SIDED CONTEST WITH .ISHIKORI TO REACH HIS ST 3LAM SEMI kNAL g)T S A GREAT SATISFACTION TO BE IN ANOTHER SEMI kNAL THERE ARE LOTS

OF EMOTIONS u SAID .ADAL g-Y LEVEL HAS BEEN VERY GOOD THROUGHOUT THE TOURNAMENT AND ) AM HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO COME BACK AND PLAY ANOTHER DAY u 4UESDAY S WIN WAS .ADAL S TH IN MEETINGS AGAINST *APANESE SEVENTH SEED .ISHIKORI WHO HAD PLAYED BACK TO BACK FIVE SETTERS TO REACH HIS THIRD QUARTER kNAL AT 2OLAND 'ARROS 4HE YEAR OLD .ISHIKORI MAN AGED JUST NINE WINNERS IN TOTAL IN THE kRST TWO SETS !S THE SKIES DARKENED OVER THE CITY SO DID .ISHIKORI S MOOD AS

Atlanta Braves 12 Washington 9 Toronto Blue Jays 4 San Francisco Giants 9 Detroit Tigers 9 Cleveland Indians 5 Miami Marlins 16 Baltimore Orioles 12 Chicago Cubs 6 Boston Red Sox 8 Cincinnati Reds 4 Los Angeles Dodgers 9 Oakland Athletics 4 Philadelphia Phillies 9 Houston Astros 11

Pittsburgh Pirates 5 Chicago White Sox 5 New York Yankees 3 New York Mets 3 Tampa Bay Rays 6 Minnesota Twins 2 Milwaukee Brewers 0 Texas Rangers 11 Colorado Rockies 3 Kansas City Royals 3 St. Louis Cardinals 1 Arizona Diamondbacks 0 Los Angeles Angels 2 San Diego Padres 6 Seattle Mariners 5

HE SLIPPED DOWN IN THE THIRD %VEN THE WEATHER DELAY DIDN T HELP AS .ADAL NEEDED JUST ANOTHER EIGHT MINUTES TO kNISH THE JOB *OHANNA +ONTA BECAME THE kRST "RITISH WOMAN IN YEARS TO REACH THE SEMI kNALS BY SWEEPING PAST SEVENTH SEEDED 3LOANE 3TE PHENS LAST YEAR S RUNNER UP

TO SET UP A TIE AGAINST #ZECH TEENAGER -ARKETA 6ONDROUSOVA 4HE YEAR OLD +ONTA HAD NOT WON A MATCH AT 2OLAND 'ARROS IN ANY OF HER PREVIOUS FOUR VISITS "UT NOW SHE HAS EMULATED *O $URIE WHO WAS THE LAST "RITISH WOMAN TO MAKE THE &RENCH /PEN SEMI kNALS IN g) VE ALWAYS SAID THAT WHENEVER ) STEP OUT ONTO THE COURT ) M ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE A CHANCE ) M ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE A SHOT u SAID +ONTA 4HE YEAR OLD 6ONDROUSOVA BATTLED PAST #ROATIAN ST 0ETRA -ARTIC

g3HE HAD BEATEN ME FOUR TIMES BEFORE BUT ) THINK 2OLAND 'ARROS MUST BE MY LUCKY PLACE u SAID THE #ZECH AFTER SECURING VICTORY ON A FOURTH MATCH POINT AFP

Strong finish nets Dutchman 1-shot lead Ramos charges back with 70, forces 4-way tie GUIDO Van der Valk rode on a fiery windup to shoot a five-under 66 and drive past an equally hot-finishing Michael Bibat, Jay Bayron and Aussie Jack Sullivan for a one-stroke lead at the start of the ICTSI Club Filipino de Cebu Invitational in Danao City, Cebu on Wednesday.

Van der Valk took advantage of the three reachable par-5s of the par-71 CFdC layout, hitting an eagle on No. 11 to break an even-par game in hot but windy conditions and spark a finish that put the 39-year-old Philippine Golf Tour veteran from Lelystad, the Netherlands in front of a stellar 80-player field in the P3 million championship sponsored by ICTSI. “I played pretty good with my long game, irons and putting,� said the long-hitting Van der Valk, who birdied Nos. 13, 15 and 16 after that eagle feat off a perfect -8-iron second shot to within three feet. “The course is tough with narrow fairways and tricky greens with the wind adding up to the challenge.�

But he bucked them all, including Bibat, Bayron and Sullivan, who for a while had held the lead at 67 until Van der Valk came in with his 34-32 card that put him on track for a follow-up to his breakthrough win at Eagle Ridge last year.

Bibat broke a two-bogey, two-birdie backside game with a strong finishing kick, going four-under in a three-hole stretch from No. 6 spiked by an eagle on the par-5 sixth as the former Asian Games bronze medalist got into the mix early in a bid to snap a long title spell on the Philippine Golf Tour. “I was lucky to have scored this low, given the windy conditions and the unpredictable surface,� said Bibat, who nailed his maiden win at Rancho Palos Verdes way back in 2014.

Winless on the circuit organized by Pilipinas Golf Tournaments, Inc. in three years, Sul-

livan also came out with scorching frontside windup on a course he had never played before, birdying three of the last seven to be in early contention with a 32-35 round. “It’s quite surprising I made this round since this is the first time that I played this course,� said the 23-year-old shotmaker from Gold Coast.

But looming large is Bayron, who took charge early on with a four-birdie binge at the front then bounced back from a two-bogey mishap on Nos. 12 and 14 with birdies on the next two as the veteran DavaoeĂąo ace, coming off a stint in the first PGT Asia event in Taiwan two weeks ago, stayed within a stroke of Van der Valk.

But a slew of others stood just another shot or two adrift, ensuring a shootout in the next three days in pursuit of the top P550,000 purse in the third leg of the milestone 10th season of the country’s premier circuit backed by Custom Clubmakers, Meralco, Champion, Summit Mineral Water, K&G Golf Apparel, BDO, Sharp, KZG, PLDT and M.Y. Shokai Technology, Inc. Defendign champion Jhonnel Ababa, American Leoninh Keonin and Elmer Salvador all carded 68s, Johvanie Abaùo, Japanese Ryo Nishimura and Lloyd Go turned in identical 69s and Albin Engino, Tony Lascuùa, Swede Sebastian Hansson, Korean Hwang Myung Chal and Mars Pucay shot similar 70s.

Salvador opened with three birdies at the back and added another feat on No. 3 but missed joining the leaders with a bogey on the seventh of the short but tricky course that quite held its ground in the face of the field’s all-out assault on a hot, windy day.

Though the CFdC layout yielded a number of eagles and birdies, only 15 players from

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the starting field of 80 managed to break par with seven matching par 71s, making the chase for the top 40 plus ties worth watching in today’s second round.

DODGERS BEAT DIAMONDBACKS 9-0

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PHOENIX: 4HE DEFENSE BEHIND (YUN *IN 2YU WAS SHAKY STARTING WITH TWO ERRORS IN THE kRST INNING 4HE ,OS !NGELES $ODGERS LEFT HANDER KEPT INDUCING GROUNDBALLS

AND KEPT GETTING OUTS IN ANOTHER DOMINATING PERFORMANCE 2YU SHOOK OFF THREE ERRORS BY HIS DEFENSE TO ALLOW THREE HITS IN SEVEN SCORELESS INNINGS AND $ODGERS STRETCHED THEIR WINNING STREAK TO SEVEN GAMES WITH A ROUT OVER THE !RIZONA $IA MONDBACKS ON 4UESDAY NIGHT g%RRORS ARE PART OF THE GAME AND SOMETHING ) M NOT USED TO u 2YU SAID THROUGH AN INTERPRETER g4HE GUYS BEHIND ME HAVE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB BEHIND ME ALL YEAR AND ) KEPT TRUSTING THEM AND TRY TO MAKE SURE HAVE GOOD CONTACT EXECUTE MY GAME PLAN AND SEE WHERE IT GOES FROM THERE u 2YU DOMINATED AFTER THE kRST IN NING DEFENSIVE MISCUES TO WIN HIS SEVENTH STRAIGHT START 4HE RIGHT HANDER OVERCAME ANOTHER ERROR IN THE SEVENTH WITH AN INNING ENDING DOUBLE PLAY TO COMPLETE HIS kFTH SCORELESS OUTING IN SIX STARTS 2YU HAS NOT LOST SINCE !PRIL AT -ILWAUKEE AND HAS ALLOWED TWO EARNED RUNS OVER THE PAST INNINGS 4HE $IAMONDBACKS WERE HELD TO THREE HITS IN THEIR SEVENTH LOSS IN NINE GAMES

Q Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu throws against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the fourth inning of a baseball game on Tuesday in Phoenix.

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#ODY "ELLINGER HAD A TWO RUN TRIPLE IN HIS kRST AT BAT AGAINST 4AYLOR #LARKE FOLLOWING HIS kRST DAY OFF SINCE -AY (E WENT FOR DROPPING HIS BIG LEAGUE BEST AVERAGE TO %NRIQUE (ERNANDEZ HOMERED AND HAD TWO 2")S FOR THE ., 7EST LEADING $ODGERS WHO HAVE WON OF #OREY

3EAGER HIT A PAIR OF RUN SCORING DOUBLES AND $AVID &REESE A TWO RUN DOUBLE 4HE $ODGERS HAVE OUTSCORED OPPO NENTS DURING THEIR WIN STREAK 2YU HAS BEEN DOMINANT ALL SEA SON ENTERING 4UESDAY S GAME WITH A MAJORS BEST %2!

ALLOWING TWO EARNED RUNS HIS PREVIOUS kVE STARTS 4HE RIGHT HANDER HAD TO WORK OUT OF A JAM IN THE kRST INNING AGAINST THE $IAMONDBACKS AFTER THE $ODGERS COM MITTED TWO ERRORS BEHIND HIM /NCE 2YU GOT #HRISTIAN 7ALKER ON A COMEBACKER TO END THE kRST HE HAD !RIZONA S HITTERS POUNDING BALLS INTO THE GROUND THE REST OF THE NIGHT #LARKE LASTED JUST TWO INNINGS HIS LAST OUTING GIVING UP FIVE RUNS ON FOUR HITS AGAINST #OLO RADO ON 4HURSDAY 4HE ROOKIE RIGHT HANDER WAS IN TROUBLE FROM THE START IN HIS kRST CAREER APPEARANCE AT #HASE &IELD 0ITCHING COACH -IKE "UTCHER MADE A MOUND VISIT AFTER PITCHES AND TWO BASERUNNERS THEN "ELLINGER TRIPLED OFF THE WALL IN CENTER 5NLIKE THE PREVIOUS START #LARKE RIGHTED HIMSELF HOLDING THE $ODGERS TO TWO MORE HITS OVER THE NEXT FOUR INNINGS (E ALLOWED THREE RUNS ‡ TWO EARNED ‡ AND STRUCK OUT FOUR IN kVE INNINGS AP

YOUNG SEAN RAMOS kRED A TWO UNDER THAT STOOD OUT IN A DAY OF SOARING SCORES AT THE ,UISITA 'OLF AND #OUNTRY #LUB YESTER DAY TOWING !IDRIC #HAN AND #ARL #ORPUS TO A SHARE OF THE LEAD WITH 'AB -ANOTOC AFTER TWO ROUNDS OF THE kRST OF THE TWO STAGE 3%! 'AMES MEN S TEAM QUALIkER IN 4ARLAC 2AMOS RECOVERED STRONG FROM A DI SASTROUS START BY BUCKING TWO BOGEYS WITH FOUR BIRDIES INCLUDING ONE ON THE TOUGH .O AS HE MOVED FROM JOINT TH TO THE TOP OF THE HEAP AT WITH THE FANCIED #HAN AND #ORPUS WITH -A NOTOC BARELY HANGING TOUGH -ANOTOC AND ,UIS #ASTRO WHO SHOT IDENTICAL S TO GRAB THE kRST ROUND LEAD 4UESDAY STRUGGLED FOR FORM THIS TIME BUT THE FORMER HIT A LATE BIRDIE TO SAVE HIS SPOT AT THE TOP DESPITE A FOR A THE SAME OUTPUTS PUT IN BY #HAN AND #ORPUS WHO CARDED AND RESPECTIVELY #HAN THE REIGNING NATIONAL JUNIOR CHAMPION WHO ANCHORED HIS TEAM UP WITH 2EY 0AGUNSAN TO VICTORY IN THE RECENT .ATIONAL PRO AM AT 3PLENDIDO SURVIVED A SHAKY kNISH OF TWO BOGEYS IN THE LAST FOUR HOLES FOR A WHILE #ORPUS BIRDIED THE TH TO SALVAGE A PAIR OF S AS THEY BOLSTERED THEIR BIDS FOR THE THREE COVETED SLOTS IN THE NATIONAL TEAM VYING IN THE 3OUTHEAST !SIAN 'AMES THE COUNTRY IS HOSTING FROM .OV $EC #ASTRO LIMPED WITH A AND SLIPPED TO kFTH AT WHILE *HONDIE 1UIBOL AND %DWARD $Y ASSEMBLED IDENTICAL S AF TER A PAIR OF S AND ,ANZ 5Y AND 0AOLO 7ONG STAYED IN THE HUNT WITH SIMILAR S FOR S IN THE EVENT ORGANIZED AND CONDUCTED BY THE .ATIONAL 'OLF !SSOCIA TION OF THE 0HILIPPINES /NLY THE TOP MADE IT TO THE LAST HOLES OF 3TAGE ) ELIMS SPONSORED BY THE -60 3PORTS &OUNDATION THE 0,$4 'ROUP #IGNAL AND -ETRO 0ACIkC AND HOSTED BY ,UISITA WITH THE TOP PLUS TIES AND PLAYERS WITHIN STROKES OF THE LEADING SCORER ADVANCING TO 3TAGE 4HE FINAL PHASE WILL BE PLAYED ON *UNE ALSO AT ,UISITA WITH THE TOP THREE PLAYERS TO BANNER THE 3%! 'AMES MEN S SQUAD 4HE 0HL WOMEN S SQUAD WILL BE COMPOSED BY THE !SIAN 'AMES GOLD MEDAL WINNING TROIKA OF 9UKA 3ASO

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Business Partners ηϭϬ ZĞƐƚŚĂǀĞŶ ^ƚ͘ ^ĂŶ &ƌĂŶĐŝƐĐŽ ĚĞů DŽŶƚĞ͕ ĂƌĂŶŐĂLJ ƵŶŐĂĚ YƵĞnjŽŶ ŝƚLJ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ ϭϭϬϱ dĞů EŽ͗ нϲϯϮ͘ϯϳϭ͘ϭϭϭϭ &Ădž EŽ͗ нϲϯϮ͘ϯϳϭ͘ϭϮϴϴ tĞďƐŝƚĞ͗ ǁǁǁ͘ƐďƐƉŚ͘ĐŽŵ

zĂƐŚĂŶŽ DĂůů &͘ /ŵƉĞƌŝĂů ^ƚƌĞĞƚ ĐŽƌŶĞƌ dĞƌŵŝŶĂů ZŽĂĚ ŝƚĂŶŽ͕ >ĞŐĂnjƉŝ ŝƚLJ͕ ůďĂLJ ϰϱϬϬ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ tĞďƐŝƚĞ͗ ǁǁǁ͘ůŽƚƵƐďůƵŚŽƚĞů͘ĐŽŵ

/ŵŵĂĐƵůĂƚĞ ŽŶĐĞƉĐŝŽŶ ĐĂĚĞŵLJ / ŽŶ WůĂĐŝĚŽ ĂŵƉŽƐ ǀĞ͕͘ WŽďůĂĐŝŽŶ͕ ŝƚLJ ŽĨ ĂƐŵĂƌŝŹĂƐ͕ ĂǀŝƚĞ ϰϭϭϰ нϲϯͲϰϲͲϰϭϲͲϯϲͲϯϲ Žƌ нϲϯͲϰϲͲϴϱϬͲϯϭͲϯϭ ŝŶĨŽΛŝĐĂͲĚĂƐŵĂƌŝŶĂƐ͘ĞĚƵ͘ƉŚ

ŽŽŬ ŶŽǁ͗ ǁǁǁ͘ŵLJƐƚĞƌLJŵĂŶŝůĂ͘ĐŽŵ

ϭϱϴϴ D͘,͘ ĚĞů WŝůĂƌ Žƌ͘ WĞĚƌŽ 'ŝů ^ƚƐ͕͘ DĂůĂƚĞ͕ DĂŶŝůĂ ϭϬϬϭ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ dƌƵŶŬůŝŶĞ͗ ;нϲϯϮͿ ϮϰϮͲϬϭϮϭ ǁǁǁ͘ƉĂŐĐŽƌ͘ƉŚ ͮ ǁǁǁ͘ĨĂĐĞŬ͘ĐŽŵͬƉĂŐĐŽƌ͘ƉŚ

ϵϭϮͲϵϮϴ ZĞŝŶĂ ZĞŐĞŶƚĞ ^ƚ͕͘ ŝŶŽŶĚŽ͕ DĂŶŝůĂ dĞů͘ ;ϬϮͿ ϯϴϱͲϵϵϵ ͮ ;ϬϮͿ ϮϱϮͲϭϵϵϵ DŽďŝůĞ͗ ;ϬϵϭϳͿ ϭϯϵͲϱϵϵϵ

ĞŶƚƵƌLJ ŝƚLJ DĂůů ͮ :ƵƉŝƚĞƌ ͮ LJĂůĂ DĂůůƐ dŚĞ ϯϬƚŚ ͮ >ŝďŝƐ

Ğ >Ă ^ĂůůĞ hŶŝǀĞƌƐŝƚLJ DĞĚŝĐĂů ĞŶƚĞƌ dĞů͘ EŽ͗͘ ĂǀŝƚĞ ůŝŶĞ ;ϬϰϲͿ ϰϴϭͲϴϬϬϬ DĂŶŝůĂ ůŝŶĞ ;ϬϮͿ ϵϴϴͲϯϭϬϬ

ZŝŐŚƚ ĂƌƐ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ dĞů͗ нϲϯϮ ϲϮϲ ϯϴϮϱ DŽď͗ нϲϯϵϭϳ ϴϰϵ ϳϮϳϰ tĞďƐŝƚĞ ͗Ͳ ŚƩƉ͗ͬ​ͬǁǁǁ͘ƌŝŐŚƚͲĐĂƌƐ͘ĐŽŵ

WŽůĂƌŝƐ ĞŶƚĞƌ ƵŝůĚŝŶŐ͕ϯƌĚ &ůŽŽƌ͕ϰϴ WŽůĂƌŝƐ ^ƌĞĞƚ͕DĂŬĂƟ ŝƚLJ

ĚĚ͗͘ ϭϮϬϬ ZŝnjĂů ǀĞŶƵĞ džƚĞŶƐŝŽŶ͕ KůŽŶŐĂƉŽ͕ ĂŵďĂůĞƐ WŚŽŶĞ͗ ϬϵϮϵ ϯϭϰ Ϭϵϲϯ

/D^͕ D d ůĚŐ͕͘ ͘ ƌŶĂŝnj ǀĞŶƵĞ ĐŽƌ͘ &͘ ͘ ,ĂƌƌŝƐŽŶ ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕ WĂƐĂLJ ŝƚLJ WŚŽŶĞ͗ ;ϬϮͿ ϴϯϰ ϱϳϴϯ

Ϯϴ sĂůĞŶĐŝĂ ^ƚ͕͘ ^& D͕ YƵĞnjŽŶ ŝƚLJ ϱϯϯͲϯϭϭϴ ͮ ůŬƚĂĚǀĞƌƟƐŝŶŐΛŐŵĂŝů͘ĐŽŵ 'Ğƚ hŶůŝŵŝƚĞĚ >ŝƐƟŶŐƐ͕ hŶůŝŵŝƚĞĚ >ĞĂĚƐ ĂŶĚ ZĞĂů ƐƚĂƚĞ ZD ĨŽƌ &Z ͘

d͗ ϰϱϬͲϭϮͲϭϯ dK ϭϱ ͮ ͗ ŬĞŶƐƚĂƌƚƌĂǀĞůΛŐŵĂŝů͘ĐŽŵ ͗ ϲϬϬ EĂŬƉŝů ^ƚ͘ DĂůĂƚĞ͕ DĂŶŝůĂ ͮ &ĂĐĞŬ͗ <ĞŶƐƚĂƌ dƌĂǀĞů

ǁǁǁ͘ŚŽƵƐĂů͘ĐŽŵ ͮ DŽďŝůĞ͗ ;нϲϯͿ ϵϭϳ ϳϳϭ ϳϭϳϭ ͮ ŝŶĨŽΛŚŽƵƐĂů͘ĐŽŵ

ϮŶĚ &ůŽŽƌ͕ &ŽƌĂ DĂůů dĂŐĂLJƚĂLJ ͮ ϬϵϬϵ͘ϴϮϳ͘ϰϮϴϳ ͮ ϬϵϮϳ͘ϱϱϯ͘ϲϰϴϱ D ZZ/Kdd ,Kd >^ dZ s > Z/>>/ Ed>z ůĂƌŬ DĂƌƌŝŽƩ ,ŽƚĞů ͮ ϱϰϬϬ DĂŶƵĞů ͘ ZŽdžĂƐ ,ŝŐŚǁĂLJ͕ ůĂƌŬ &ƌĞĞƉŽƌƚ ŽŶĞ͕ WĂŵƉĂŶŐĂ͕ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ ϮϬϮϯ

ϰƚŚ >ĞǀĞů dǁŽ Ͳ Žŵ ĞŶƚĞƌ͕ KĐĞĂŶ ƌŝǀĞ DĂůů ŽĨ ƐŝĂ ŽŵƉůĞdž͕ WĂƐĂLJ ŝƚLJ dĞů͘ нϲϯϮ ϴϳϰϴϴϴϴ DŽďŝůĞ͗ нϲϯϵϭϳϮϰϯϴϬϬϬ ǁǁǁ͘ůĂũĞƵŶĞƐƐĞ͘ƉŚ ĚĚƌĞƐƐ͗ ϮϭϬϴ D͘, Ğů WŝůĂƌ͕ DĂůĂƚĞ͕ DĂŶŝůĂ dĞů͘ EŽ͗͘ ;ϬϮͿ ϱϮϲ Ϭ ϴϴϴͬ ϱϱϵ ϵ ϴϵϬ DŽďŝůĞ͗ ϬϵϭϳͲϱϵϱͲϴϬϲϬ ŵĂŝů͗ ƌĞƐĞƌǀĂƟŽŶΛĂƌŵĂĚĂŵĂŶŝůĂ͘ĐŽŵ ͮ tĞďƐŝƚĞ͗ ǁǁǁ͘ĂƌŵĂĚĂŵĂŶŝůĂ͘ĐŽŵ WĞŶƚŚŽƵƐĞ͕ ůĂďĂŶŐ ŽƌƉŽƌĂƚĞ ĞŶƚĞƌ <D Ϯϱ tĞƐƚ ^ĞƌǀŝĐĞ ZŽĂĚ ůĂďĂŶŐ͕ DƵŶƟŶůƵƉĂ ŝƚLJ͕ ϭϳϳϬ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ ;ϬϮͿ ϴϱϲͲϳϳϬϬ ͮ ϴϴϲͲϲϵϭϲ ŝŶĨŽΛƋƵĂŶƟƚLJƐŽůƵƟŽŶ͘ĐŽŵ ǁǁǁ͘ƋƵĂŶƟƚLJƐŽůƵƟŽŶ͘ĐŽŵ

ϱ& &ĞůŝnjĂ ůĚŐ͕͘ s͘ ͘ ZƵĮŶŽ ^ƚ͕͘ >ĞŐĂƐƉŝ sŝůůĂŐĞ͕ DĂŬĂƟ ŝƚLJ͕ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ ϭϮϮϵ ͮ н ϲϯ Ϯ ϳϱϭ ϰϵϮϵ

d͗ ;нϲϯϮͿ ϵϳϱ ϮϮϭϱ D͗ ;нϲϯͿ ϵϭϳ ϴϰϭ Ϯϴϴϯ t͗ ŬŵĐŵĂŐŐƌŽƵƉ͘ĐŽŵ

ϱƚŚ &ůŽŽƌ͕ D'& ŚĂŵƉĂĐĂ ůĚŐ͘ ϭϱϲ ŵŽƌƐŽůŽ ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕ >ĞŐĂƐƉŝ sŝůůĂŐĞ͕ DĂŬĂƟ ŝƚLJ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ͕ ϭϮϮϵ ,ŽƚůŝŶĞ͗ нϲϯ ;ϬϮͿ ϴϭϳͲϯϮϮϯ ͮ ǁǁǁ͘ĚĞƌŵĐůŝŶŝĐ͘ĐŽŵ͘ƉŚ

ϳϬϲ ^ŚĂǁ ŽƵůĞǀĂƌĚ WĂƐŝŐ ŝƚLJ dĞů͗͘ н ϲϯ Ϯ ϯϭϴ ϱϴϴϴ ǁǁǁ͘ƉƌŝǀĂƚŽŚŽƚĞů͘ĐŽŵ

Y,W ƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ĞŶƚĞƌ͕ ƌƐĞŶĂů ^ƚ͕͘ ƌƐĞŶĂůͲ ĚƵĂŶĂ͕ /ůŽŝůŽ ŝƚLJ͕ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ ϱϬϬϬ dĞů͘ EŽ͗ ;ϲϯͿ;ϯϯͿ ϯϯϳ ϯϬϱϭͬ ϯϯϱ Ϭϵϯϱ Ͳ &Ădž EŽ͗͘ ;ϲϯͿ;ϯϯͿ ϯϯϱ ϬϬϮϲ &ďͲ ŚƩƉƐ͗ͬ​ͬǁǁǁ͘ĨĂĐĞŬ͘ĐŽŵͬƋƵŝdžŵĂƌƚͬ

ϰϱϲ hŶŝƚĞĚ EĂƟŽŶƐ ǀĞ͕͘ ƌŵŝƚĂ͕ DĂŶŝůĂ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ

dĞůƐ͘ ϱϮϭͲϯϬͲϴϱ ϱϮϰͲϬϳͲϮϮ Ğůů EŽ͗͘ ;ϬϵϭϴͿ ϱϯϱͲϬϰͲϵϵ

ϭϭͬ& ^ƵŶ >ŝĨĞ ĞŶƚƌĞ͕ ϱƚŚ ǀĞŶƵĞ ŽƌŶĞƌ ZŝnjĂů ƌŝǀĞ ŽŶŝĨĂĐŝŽ 'ůŽďĂů ŝƚLJ͕ dĂŐƵŝŐ͕ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ͕ ϭϲϯϰ

ϭϬϯ &͘ ĂůĚĞƌŽŶ ^ƚ͕ ĂŐƵŝŽ͕ ĞŶŐƵĞƚ >ĂŶĚůŝŶĞ ͗ ;ϬϳϰͿ ϰϰϮ ϳϬϲϲ ͬ ϰϰϮͲϴϲϰϱ DŽďŝůĞ͗ ;ŐůŽďĞͿ ϬϵϮϲϳϯϱϴϴϰϬ ͬ ;ƐŵĂƌƚͿ ϬϵϭϴϯϬϰϳϯϭϱ ͬ ;ƐƵŶĐĞůůͿ ϬϵϯϯϱϴϬϰϲϳϭ ŵĂŝů͗ ďĞŶŐƵĞƚƉƌŝŵĞŚŽƚĞůΛLJĂŚŽŽ͘ĐŽŵ

^ŵĂůůǀŝůůĞ ŽŵƉůĞdž͕ ƋƵŝŶŽ ǀĞ͕͘ ^ĂŶ ZĂĨĂĞů͕ /ůŽŝůŽ ŝƚLJ ; ĂƉŝƚĂůͿ͕ /ůŽŝůŽ͕ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ ϱϬϬϬ EŽ͘ ;ϬϯϯͿͲϯϮϬͲϳϵϳϮ ͬ нϲϯϵϱϱϯϲϰϮϴϱϲ ͬ нϲϯϵϮϭϴϬϬϵϵϲϰ ͬ нϲϯϵϮϵϱϯϴϲϯϱϵ ͗ ŝůŽďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐŚŽƚĞůΛLJĂŚŽŽ͘ĐŽŵ͘ƉŚ ͬ ŝůŽŝůŽďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐŚŽƚĞůΛLJĂŚŽŽ͘ĐŽŵ͘ƉŚ tĞĚƐŝƚĞ ͬ &ď WĂŐĞ͗ ǁǁǁ͘ŝůŽŝůŽďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐŚŽƚĞů͘ĐŽŵ͘ƉŚ ͬ ŚƩƉƐ͗ͬ​ͬǁǁǁ͘ĨĂĐĞŬ͘ĐŽŵͬ ŝďŚ͘ůŽĐŬŚĞĂƌƚ ͬ ŚƩƉƐ͗ͬ​ͬǁǁǁ͘ĨĂĐĞŬ͘ĐŽŵͬ/ůŽŝůŽ ƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ,ŽƚĞůͬ ,ŽƚĞů <ŝŵďĞƌůLJ dĂŐĂLJƚĂLJ ƌŝƐĂŶƚŽ D͘ ĞůŽƐ ZĞLJĞƐ ǀĞ͘ ;ĨŽƌŵĞƌůLJ ŵĂĚĞŽ ZĚ͘Ϳ ƌŐLJ͘ <ĂLJďĂŐĂů EŽƌƚŚ͕ dĂŐĂLJƚĂLJ ŝƚLJ dĞů͘ ;ϬϰϲͿ ϰϴϯͲϴϴϴϴ ͮ ͗ ƚĂŐĂLJƚĂLJΛŚŽƚĞůŬŝŵďĞƌůLJ͘ĐŽŵ

ŽŶƐƚƌƵĐƟŽŶ ŽƐƚ ƐƟŵĂƟŶŐ WƌŽĐƵƌĞŵĞŶƚ WƌŽũĞĐƚ DĂŶĂŐĞŵĞŶƚ ŶŐŝŶĞĞƌŝŶŐ

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'ƌĞĞŶ ĞĂĐŚ ϭ͕ ZĞĚŽŶĚŽ WĞŶŝŶƐƵůĂ͕ ƌŐLJ ĂǁĂŐ͕ ^ƵďŝĐ ĂLJ &ƌĞĞƉŽƌƚ ŽŶĞ͕ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ ϮϮϮϮ dĞů EŽ͗͘ ;ϬϰϳͿ ϯϬϲ ϱϭϬϬ ͮ &Ădž EŽ͗͘ ;ϬϰϳͿ ϮϱϮ ϮϳϬϮ

D /E K&&/ ͗ Zŵ͘ ϮϬϱ ĂŶƚĞ ͘ ŶŐ Θ ƐƐŽĐŝĂƚĞƐ ůĚŐ͘ ϰϬϵ ͘ ^ŽƌŝĂŶŽ ǀĞ͕͘ /ŶƚƌĂŵƵƌŽƐ͕ DĂŶŝůĂ͕ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ ǁǁǁ͘ǀŝĐƚŽƌƐĨƌĞŝŐŚƚ͘ƉŚ ͮ dĞů͗ ;ϬϮͿ ϱϮϰͲϭϮϬϮ͕ ϱϮϯͲϭϱϴϲ͕ ϱϮϯͲϰϯϴϲ͕ ϱϮϱͲϴϴϬϱ͕ ϱϮϴͲϬϱϭϳ͕ ϱϮϴͲϬϰϭϮ

,ŽƚĞů <ŝŵďĞƌůLJ DĂŶŝůĂ ϳϳϬ WĞĚƌŽ 'ŝů ^ƚƌĞĞƚ DĂůĂƚĞ͕ DĂŶŝůĂ dĞů͘ ;ϬϮͿ ϱϮϭͲϭϴϴϴ ĞŵĂŝů͗ ŵĂŶŝůĂΛŚŽƚĞůŬŝŵďĞƌůLJ͘ĐŽŵ tĞďƐŝƚĞ͗ ǁǁǁ͘ŚŽƚĞůŬŝŵďĞƌůLJ͘ĐŽŵ

D E/> ͗ ϱƚŚ &͘ dŝŵĞƐ WůĂnjĂ ůĚŐ͘ dĂŌ ĐŽƌ͘ h͘E͘ ǀĞ͕͘ ƌŵŝƚĂ͕ ϬϳϮ ƌŐ͘ ϲϲϲ DĂŶŝůĂ ;ϬϮͿ ϯϱϯͲϲϴϬϴ W ^ z͗ ^ĐĂƉĞ ůĚŐ͕͘ DĂĐĂƉĂŐĂů ǀĞ͘ ĐŽƌ͘ WĞĂƌů ƌŝǀĞ͕ ĞŶƚƌĂů ƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ WĂƌŬ ϭ͕ ^ĂŶ ZĂĨĂĞů͕ ƌŐ͘ ϳϲ WĂƐĂLJ ŝƚLJ ͮ ;ϬϮͿ ϱϰϭͲϱϲϰϱ

ĚĚƌĞƐƐ͗ ϭϬϭ DĂƌďĞůůĂ ϭ ŽŶĚŽŵŝŶŝƵŵ͕ ϮϮϮϯ ZŽdžĂƐ ŽƵůĞǀĂƌĚ͕ ϭϯϬϬ WĂƐĂLJ ŝƚLJ͕ WŚŝůŝƉƉŝŶĞƐ

KZd/' ^͗ hŶŝƚ ϭϲͬϭϴͬϭϵͬϮϬ 'ƌŽƵŶĚ & / 'ƌĂŶĚĞ dŽǁĞƌ ^ĂƉƉŚŝƌĞ ZĚ͕͘ KƌƟŐĂƐ ĞŶƚĞƌ WĂƐŝŐ ŝƚLJ ͮ ;ϬϮͿ ϱϴϰͲϮϰϯϬ

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Authentic Chinese cuisine featuring finest Philippine ingredients Hilton Manilaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hua Yuan resto features Master Chef Lam Hock Hinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature dishes

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S PART OF ONGOING celebrations to mark Hiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100th year as an international hotel chain, Hilton Manila welcomed Chef Lam Hock Hin from the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia property to work his magic at its Chinese restaurant, Hua Yuan Brasserie Chinoise for a special promotion.

The famous award-winning Master Chef brings a wealth of culinary EXPERIENCES REkNED IN THE WOKS OF Hilton Hotels for over 15 years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Seremban, Beijing, and Kuala Lumpur â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to Manila for an exclusive collaboration with Hua Yuan resident Chinese sous chef, Kevin Xu. Born and raised in Malaysia, Chef Lam is at the helm of Hilton Kuala Lumpurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly-acclaimed restaurant, Chynna, which has reaped multiple awards in the Malaysia International Gourmet &ESTIVAL (E IS A WELL KNOWN PERSONALITY IN THE !SIAN kNE DINING

SCENE WITH A HIGH PROkLE CLIENTELE ranging from royalty to top businessmen and has a loyal following from the hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regular guests.

Internationally recognized for his expertise in authentic Chinese cuisine with garnishings from the kNEST LOCAL INGREDIENTS #HEF ,AM S signature creations represent old traditional Cantonese cuisine prepared USING MODERN COOKING TECHNIQUES FOR ADDED lAIR AND DEPTH OF lAVORS â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chef Lamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cuisine is described as broadly modern Chinese and he brings together strong elements of the Cantonese cuisine but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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added over the years his own innovation and modernization with elements of Western food as well as different regions throughout China,â&#x20AC;? Hilton Manila general manager Simon McGrath said during the media launch.

Flavors of China â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Four Hands Culinary Series â&#x20AC;&#x153;We bring together the best of our SERIES KNOWN AS &OUR (ANDS WHICH is obviously the four hands of the two chefs coming together to create an innovative and collaborative menu that everyone will get to enjoy,â&#x20AC;? McGrath explained.

Featuring a special indulgent eight-course menu that combines authentic Shanghainese and Cantonese dishes, each chef showcases his own signature dishes.

Lam shared that he had been with Hilton Kuala Lumpur for 15 years since its opening, but was with (ILTON "EIJING PRIOR TO WORKING AT his home countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top hotel.

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The menu highlights Chef and Spare Ribs. For the main ANY UNTIL THEY LET ME KNOW WHAT was the best [for them]. In many Lamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well-loved dishes in Hilton COURSE "UTTER -ILK 0RAWN WITH restaurants, many chefs tell their Kuala Lumpur namely, Appe- %GG &LAKES AND 3CENTED #URRY customers that a certain dish is their TIZER -IX 3ALAD WITH +AORI "AKO ,EAVES AND 3MOKY 'RILLED 3LICE signature, but whatever they say Golden Scallops and Anchovies, 0ORK WITH ,EEKS HAVE BEEN ADDED is good sometimes doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean $OUBLE BOILED "LACK AND 7HITE to the menu.

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Spearheaded by fashion personage-turned-entrepreneur Trish 0ANLILIO THE ADVOCACY ENLISTED WOMEN WHO WORK WITH LOCAL marginalized communities, which include Hindy Weber-Tantoco and Melanie Teng-Go of Holy Carabao &ARMS *ENNY 9RASUEGUI OF "ACKyard Farms and Jeannie Javelosa of Great Women. $UBBED g.AWWTY 'IVES "ACK u the ingredients in each of the dishes come from different collaborators, with chosen projects of EACH ORGANIZATION TO BENEkT FROM the fundraising dinners.

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Q Instead of the anniversary parties, Mulberry Door will hold fundraising dinners for marginalized sectors this month.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a change, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the usual festivities [for an anniversary.] We decided to come up with these dinners for a cause to celebrate women who promote local industries AND WHO WORK WITH LOCAL ARTISANS u 0ANLILIO EXPLAINED AT THE intimate media launch.

Q Slow-baked â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a good opportuBarbecue Ribs by nity to showcase the local Nawwtyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchen. produce they carry whilst simultaneously giving BACK TO THE COMMUNITIES they support,â&#x20AC;? she added.

4HE kRST DINNER TO BE HELD ON *UNE IS DEDICATED to Holy Carabao Farms.

Located in Santa Rosa, Laguna, the farm not only produces organic vegetables

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Finance Sec. Dominguez to speak at Davao Investment Conference FINANCE Sec. Carlos Dominguez has accepted the invitation of the Davao City Chamber of Commerce to be one one of its resource speakers during the second day of the 5th Davao Investment Conference (ICON) at the SMX Convention Center Davao on June 21. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would like to thank Sec. Dominquez for accepting our invitation that will inform a lot of our investors about Mindanaoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opportunities given the strong macroeconomic fundamentals we have achieved,â&#x20AC;? says Davao ICON Chair Dr. Malou Monteverde.

At the same time, DCCII President Arturo Milan also said that the

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chamber recently organized two trade missions in Fujian, China which he led and Singapore, led by DCCII Executive Vice President John Tria. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These missions capitalize on our direct air links, bringing our business sector closer to counterparts in these areas. Because of these activities, a number of foreign delegations are expected from these countries. Interest in Davao is high,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Held everyt two years, the theme of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event is Davao: Your Southeast Asian Investment Destination, presenting the Davao region as an investment hub for Southeast Asia.

building industry players. We are here to help deliver and support our partnersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; quality and competency objectives, as we embrace the highest standards in building stronger structures,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Francis cited the mobile laboratoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capacity to help industry players achieve technical advantage, helping the latter reduce production cost, increase profit, and consistently produce high quality products. &,/7 IS THE kRST MOBILE CONstruction solutions laboratory in the country that can be transformed into a demo area where technical training may be conducted. It can be mobilized quickly TO A SPECIkC SITE PROVIDING THEM analysis within hours.

Starting June, FLOW will be deployed in the greater Metro Manila area and fast-growing regions in Luzon such as Calabarzon and Central Luzon, to serve the testing needs of ready-mix producers, contractors, and dry mortar manufacturers.

Food tour kicks off at One BHS WHEN it comes to good food, all roads lead to One Bonifacio High Street, a mecca for food lovers with a wide and exciting selection of dining outlets serving an eclectic mix of dishes from the four corners of the world.

To savor all that it has to offer, Our Awesome Planet of ourawesomeplanet.com, along with select members of the media, recently held One BHS Eatsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an exclusive media food tour at One BHS, allowing them to discover gastronomic surprises within Bonifacio High Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new block.

The media tour covered eight dining outlets.

To kick off the tour, the guests gathered at Malongo Atelier Barista, THE TO GO PLACE FOR THE kNEST ESPRESSOS Steak lovers were no doubt awed

by Wolfgangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steakhouse with an entrĂŠe list top-billed by USDA Prime Porterhouse steak served sizzling.

For a fun sugar rush, next stop

was Emack & Bolio, the Boston rock and roll-inspired ice-cream HOUSE KNOWN FOR ITS FUN lAVORS The guests also dined at Botejyu, a traditional Japanese restaurant based in Osaka.

Chateau 1771 gives a gastronomical journey that features French, Swiss, and Italian eats crafted by Chef Vicky Pacheco.

Next stop was La Picara, which offers a rich selection of modern Spanish tapas. A selection of paellas, made WITH 3PANISH MAINSTAYS SUCH AS kDEUS (pork knuckles) and soft shell crab, proved very hard to resist.

Mouthwatering JapanesePeruvian fusion cuisine â&#x20AC;&#x201C; light, fresh, and tastyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;piqued the taste buds at Nikkei Nama Bar. To cap of the meal was M Bakery, which is actually New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renowned Magnolia Bakery.

For more information, visit https:// www.facebook.com/BoniHighStreet/.

Daiana launches new songs

BRAZILIAN TV host, singer and actress Daiana Menezes is excited to launch two new singles and music videos. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These two new songs of 8ONE are all about good vibes and bringing happiness and joy as you listen,â&#x20AC;? beams the international endorser, painter, pianist, performer, and designer.

For the single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Low,â&#x20AC;? 8ONE wanted a â&#x20AC;&#x153;DJ feelâ&#x20AC;? so Daiana approached her good friend DJ Luane for a collaboration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The other song, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Back to the Crib,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; is a feel good danceable song that we had so much fun making, from the lyrics written

by Tommie King, to recording it,â&#x20AC;? shares Daiana, who runs the production Ikon worldwide, a lifestyle entertainment company that

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Mayor Bautista opens new ALS school buildings, roads

AYOR Herbert Bautista inauRepublic Cement launches its first M gurated two new school buildings as well as several completed mobile construction solutions laboratory road and drainage projects in BaranREPUBLIC #EMENT UNVEILED ITS kRST Fast Laboratory On Wheels (FLOW), a mobile laboratory dedicated to providing technical support to construction and building industry players. This is in support of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rapid infrastructure development, under the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Build, Build, Buildâ&#x20AC;? program.

Flow, a mini-truck with pullcanopy converted into a laboratory, is furnished with equipment and apparatuses that can handle complex solution testing activities such as concrete, aggregate, and cement testing that are often a need in the Philippine construction industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The growing demand for quality construction solution is a primary motivation for Republic Cementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MOVE TO ESTABLISH ITS kRST MOBILE laboratory,â&#x20AC;? said Republic Cement President and CEO Nabil Francis.

Republic Cement is the top provider for bulk cement in Luzon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are keen on providing fast and superior technical support for the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s construction and

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books and brings international artists here and to other countries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Low was shot at the beach, I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give much away because you have to watch it, and Back to the Crib was shot in an upside down set. We are very excited for everyone to watch it!â&#x20AC;? adds Daiana.

8ONE members are free-styler rapper and writer KXNG, rapper Tommie King, music producer singer Ryan Klos, and Daiana.

8ONE hit singles include â&#x20AC;&#x153;Therapy,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;November,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mangoâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Simon AF.â&#x20AC;? Their next stop is Vestiville, Belgium before the summer ends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In our group, Tommie does the most writing but everyone collaborates. Ryan sings his part and writes, too. I intrude on their creative mind and make my part suitable for myself,â&#x20AC;? laughs Daiana.

gays Greater Lagro, North Fairview, Sta. Monica, North Fairview, and Greater Fairview on May 28.

Lagro High School (LHS) princi-

pal Dr. Maria Noemi Moncada said one of the new four-story buildings shall serve as the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alternative Learning System center while the other shall be its Home Economics and Health Care Services facility for senior high school students.

Dr. Moncada said the latter

enables LHS to be first school in the National Capital Region to offer the Health Care Services track under the senior high school curriculum.

Mayor Bautista for his part asked LHS teachers and parents to take care of the new facilities.

After the event at the LHS, the local chief executive inaugurated 16 new road and drainage projects around Quezon Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s District 5.

He said the projects are of his administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effort to improve â&#x20AC;&#x153;home-to-school roadsâ&#x20AC;? and drainages throughout the city.

Rotary Club of Makati features Mike Toledo as guest speaker

Q In photo with Atty. Mike Toledo are (from left) Rotarian Atty. Louie Aseoche, vice-president; Rotarian Fred Pascual, president; and Rotarian Eddie Yap, past president.

ATTY. Mike Toledo (second from left) managing director of the MVP Group of Companies Media Bureau, as well

as COO of Silangan Mindanao Mining Company Inc. and SVP for Public and Regulatory Affairs of Philex Min-

ing Corporation, was guest speaker at the recent regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Makati. He spoke on

the MVP Group of Companiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; support to President Duterteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Build, Build, Buildâ&#x20AC;? program.

Piip Mobile renews partnership with Araneta Group PIIP Mobile, the go-to mobile application for the best locationbased promos and deals, recently renewed its partnership with The Araneta Group. Extending their 2017 deal, Piip will continue to provide more support to Araneta Center merchants with the app proactively marketing their products and services, making them more visible to their target consumers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With an improved Piip app, we look forward to further working with them to give our lessees a robust platform to attract more customers. The Araneta Center and Piipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partnership offers an innovative shopping experiENCE AND COMES WITH A HUGE BENEkT

to our lessees and loyal shoppers,â&#x20AC;?

John Castelo, Araneta Group, SVP for Business Development said.

With the Araneta Center being declared a tourism district in Cubao by the Quezon City Government last

January 2019, Piip also has a chance to contribute to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tourism. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As we continue our partnership, we want to highlight how closely both Piip and the Araneta Group are working together in safeguarding

the continued growth of both our businesses through various engagements and initiatives in the coming months,â&#x20AC;? said Piip Mobile AG, vice president for Strategic Business Development, Hildegarde Maea Atger.

Traveloka Philippines honors six Metro Manila hotels TRAVELOKA Philippines recently gave out the very first Traveloka Philippines Hotel Awards 2019 to recognize the efforts of its hotel partners in helping the online platformâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continuous success in the country.

At the recent gathering at the Diamond Hotel, Traveloka handed out four awards that acknowledged six Metro Manila hotels for their contributions to the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth in the Philippines the previous year. The awards and their respective winners are: Most Engaged: Go Hotels Ermita; Best Content: Discovery Suites Manila Philippines; Best Reviews: Lub d Philippines Makati (Hostels and Backpacker Accommodations),

Q During the awarding are (from left) Miguel Capistrano III, country market manager of Traveloka Philippines; Issa Delos Ama, director of Revenue Management and Marketing of Go Hotels Ermita; Janice Tiambeng, director of Sales and Marketing of Discovery Suites Manila Philippines; Julie Ann De Vera, sales manager of Lub D Philippines Makati; Joy De Castro, hotel manager of Casa Bocobo Hotel; RT Paler, reservations officer of Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M Hotel Makati; and Jojo Naag, property manager of Skyloft Hotel.

Casa Bacobo Hotel (Hotels and Serviced Apartments), and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M

Hotel (Luxury Hotel); and Best Rookie: Skyloft Hotel.

For more information, visit traveloka.com.

First Metroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bigay Liwanag continues to share the gift of sight FIRST Metro Investment Corporation, the investment banking arm of the Metrobank Group, made the vision of 257 public elementary school students clearer and brighter through its Bigay Liwanag project.

Students of Dr. Benigno Aldana Elementary School and Legarda Elementary School (in photo) received free eye check-ups and prescription glasses from the investment bank. Recipients of the prescription glasses were also given childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story books that inspire and inculcate good values.

Bigay Liwanag is a vision care project under First Metroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CSR platform dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;First Metro Inspires Caresâ&#x20AC;?. The project aims

to help indigent public school children to read, study and fare better

in school and in life. Since its inception eleven years ago, Bigay

Liwanag HAS BENEkTTED OVER

public school students.

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D4 Q An avalanche of good fortune keeps coming the Popstar Royalty's way.

A busy, beautiful year for Sarah Geronimo P

BY IZA IGLESIAS

HILIPPINE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Popstar Royaltyâ&#x20AC;? Sarah Geronimo has every reason to be happy as she counts down to her 31st birthday in July, with an avalanche of good fortune that keeps coming her talented way.

On Sunday, Geronimo shared Best Actress honors with Kathryn Bernardo at the 35th Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) Star Awards for Movies. She was recognized for her performance in the Filipino adaptation of the Korean MUSICAL kLM g-ISS 'RANNY u WHILE fellow ABS-CBN artist Bernardo WON FOR LOVE STORY DRAMEDY g4HE (OWS OF 5S u 4HE YOUNG SUPERSTARS VICTORY has been lauded in the industry since they bested some of the

COUNTRY S MOST SEASONED ACTRESSES INCLUDING 'INA 0AREĂ&#x201E;O g(INTAYAN .G ,ANGITu 'LORIA 2OMERO g2AINBOW S 3UNSETu AND *UDY !NN 3ANTOS g!NG $ALAWANG -RS 2EYESu ALONGSIDE NOTED COLLEAGUES )ZA #ALZADO g$ISTANCEu

!NNE #URTIS g"UY "USTu 'LAIZA $E #ASTRO g,IWAYu !LESSANDRA $E 2OSSI g4HROUGH .IGHT !ND $AYu AND .ADINE ,USTRE g.EVER .OT ,OVE 9OUu A few days before her big win, moreover, Geronimo launched

her very own makeup line Pop Studio, which is now the latest beauty brand under the iFace Group of Companies, the same distributors of popular Australian label BYS Cosmetics. !ND SINCE SHE IS /0- S ONE AND ONLY 0OPSTAR 2OYALTY IT WAS no surprise that the launch was held via a highly charged concert AT THE .EW &RONTIER 4HEATER WITH guest performances from up-andCOMING TALENTS LIKE *ANINE 4EĂ&#x201E;OSO

Marion Aunor, PPop Generation Groups 1 and 2, Nitro and After 5.

Makeup for all Proud to say she closely collaborated with iFace to come up with her makeup collection, Geronimo said she is very excited to bring affordable high quality cosmetics

Q Acting-wise, Sarah Geronimo will be directed in a movie by creative couple Percy Intalan and Jun Robles Lana (extreme left and right, respectively), co-starring (from second left) Ara Mina, Kim Molina, Meg Imperial, Gina PareĂąo and Yayo Aguila.

to the market with her loyal fans in mind.

Going into more detail, the popstar shared how they also designed convenient 2-in-1packaging for the items to suit needs of multi-hyphenated, onthe-go women like herself.

4HIS IS EVIDENT IN THE -ATTE Lipstick, Lip Balm, Foundation Stick and Liquid Concealer.

g-AHILIG PO TALAga ako mag-makeUP THAT S WHY this entire collection really represents Sarah Geromino [in that aspect]. We all live busy lives and WE RE ALWAYS ON THE GO AND of course we want to all look our best whatever we do, be it at work, when we spend time with our friends and loved ones and on SPECIAL OCCASIONS 4HIS COLLECTION IS specially dedicated to all women out there â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even women-at-heart â&#x20AC;&#x201D; kasi dapat maganda tayo at guwapo palagi SINCE MAY MEN S grooming na din,u THE MUCH LOVED celebrity enthused during the Q&A portion of the launch.

Clearly excited to pull off her CONCEPT SHE CONTINUED g7E MADE sure we came up with a product line everyone can relate to and is easy to use with good quality AND OF COURSE AFFORDABLE 4HAT S WHY "OSS 6IC ;DEL 2OSARIO 6IVA %NTERTAINMENT S HEAD HONCHO AND 'ERONIMO S MANAGER= WAS VERY supportive noong naisip namin

Q Geronimo launched her very own makeup brand Pop on May 31.

na maglabas ng makeup line and ensured I worked with the industry experts para matulungan ako to produce and develop the products. g) M VERY HAPPY EXCITED AND HOPEful na sana magustuhan ng mga tao itong product namin because this is just the beginning â&#x20AC;&#x201D; marami

pa po kaming ilalabas na mga

makeup products na mag-su-suit sa INYO u Geronimo rounded up.

Still to come Showbiz-wise, Geronimo updated media she is working on A NEW 6IVA &ILM TITLE g5NFORGET-

TABLEu WHICH WILL BE DIRECTED BY MARRIED COUPLE CREATIVES *UN 2Obles Lana and Perci Intalan. *OINING HER IN THE BIG SCREEN project are Meg Imperial, Ara Mina, Kim Molina, Yayo Aguila and Gina PareĂąo.

Unable to disclose further details on the movie, Geronimo SIMPLY DESCRIBED IT AS gA DOG movie and a heartwarming story FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY u 4HE SINGER ACTRESS THEN TALKED ABOUT 46 WORK AND EXCITEDLY REvealed, g!BANGAN NIYO PO there WILL BE ANOTHER SEASON OF @4HE 6OICE +IDS THIS YEAR AND YES po u she said to her fans deafening shrieks, she will be returning as one of the judges.

Finally, Geronimo was unable to escape questions about her boyfriend Matteo Guidicelli and expressed her full support over HIS ONGOING DAY 3COUT 2ANGER training â&#x20AC;&#x201D; noted as one of the most grueling programs in the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

4HANKFULLY SINCE PARTICIPANTS ARE neither allowed breaks nor visitors for the month-long endeavor, Geronimo will be busy seeing to how her makeup line does in the market and her plate-full of showbiz commitments.

Whole new wonderful versions for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A Whole New Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; F

/2 those who grew up in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s, $ISNEY S g!LADDINu WILL FOREVER BE A classic as well as its soaring theme song, g! 7HOLE .EW 7ORLD u MADE MORE SPECIAL to Filipinos with Lea Salonga singing PrinCESS *ASMINE S VOICE ALONG WITH "RAD +ANE FOR !LADDIN 4HE POP VERSION SOULFULLY PERFORMED BY 0EABO "RYSON AND 2EGINA Belle, likewise became a hit.

For a bit of trivia, the song also had a local version back then with Salonga duetTING WITH BALLADEER *OSE -ARI #HAN All in all, the timeless love song featurING !LAN -ENKEN S BEAUTIFUL MELODY AND (OWARD !SHMAN S UNFORGETTABLE LYRICS REceived an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and Grammy Award, among other accolades, following its release in 1992.

Now with the thrilling and vibrant LIVE ACTION ADAPTATION THE $ISNEY ANImated classic released in theaters worldwide last week, a new soundtrack is also out and about with a fresh version of ! 7HOLE .EW 7ORLD 4HIS TIME MULTI platinum and global award-winning superstar singer/songwriter Zayn and emerging sensation singer/songwriter Zhavia Ward perform the award-winning DUET FOR THE kLM S END CREDITS AND ON THE 7ALT $ISNEY 2ECORDS SOUNDTRACK

It is currently available as a single and already has a music video on VEVO. 4HE UPDATED VERSION of this classic song, which features Arabian and Middle eastern music influences, is produced by Saltwives AKA !LEX /RIET AND $Avid Phelan (Zayn and Charli XCX); while the music video was directed by Philip Andelman (BeyoncĂŠ, 4AYLOR 3WIFT AND %D 3HEERAN 4HE MOVIE VERSION

BY THE WAY HAD ITS stars Mena Massoud (Aladdin) and Naomi 3COTT *ASMINE SINGING THE THEME g4HE SELECTION OF ARTISTS PRODUCER AND tonal direction was critical for the success OF UPDATING A CLASSIC SONG LIKE THIS u SAID Mitchell Leib, president of Music and 3OUNDTRACKS FOR 7ALT $ISNEY 3TUDIOS g:AYN S VOCALS ARE LIKE NO OTHER AND HIS artistic imprint immediately brought a contemporary and diverse presence. Additionally, Zayn could have chosen any artist in the world to collaborate with on the duet, but he personally selected Zhavia for her unique perspective, powerful vocal abilities and to platform a talented new artist, ensuring that the audience could

Q Darren Espanto and Morissette lent their voices to the Philippine-market version of 'A Whole New World.'

DISCOVER THIS SONG AGAIN FOR THE kRST TIME u -USIC 'EEK BELIEVES :AYN S YOUTH AND HIS Pakistani lineage played a huge part on his selection besides his musical talent.

Ward on the other hand was a complete surprise for the song as expected to sing were the LIKES OF !RIANA 'RANDE OR 4AYlor Swift. Nevertheless, their vocal chemistry emerged perfectly in the end. ,OCALLY TOTAL PERFORMER $ARREN %SPANTO AND !SIA S 0HOENIX -ORISSETTE WERE CHOSEN BY $ISNEY TO SING g! 7HOLE .EW 7ORLDu for the Philippine market. But unlike Zayn AND 7ARD S VERSION THEIRS WAS A THEATRICAL ONE AND MARKED %SPANTO S CHANGE IN VOICE from a young belter to a manly one, with -ORISSETTE S RESTRAINED BELTER RANGE ALSO REFRESHING TO DISCOVER $ISNEY DEkNITELY made the right choice to have the two talented singers collaborate on the classic.

Meanwhile, the new Aladdin original motion picture soundtrack features an unforgettable score from eight-time OscarWINNING COMPOSER !LAN -ENKEN g"EAUTY AND THE "EAST u g4HE ,ITTLE -ERMAIDu

along with new recordings of original songs written by Menken and two-time Academy Award winner Howard Ashman g,ITTLE 3HOP OF (ORRORSu THREE TIME /SCAR WINNER 4IM 2ICE g4HE ,ION +INGu

and one song written by Menken and OsCAR AND 4ONY !WARD WINNING SONGWRITERS "ENJ 0ASEK AND *USTIN 0AUL g,A ,A ,AND u g$EAR %VAN (ANSENu &ROM 7ALT $ISNEY 2ECORDS THE DIGITAL SOUNDTRACK WAS RELEASED ON -AY AT PM 04 WITH THE physical album out on May 24.

Another notable track in Alladin is Oscar-nominated actor and multi-platinum recording artist Will Smith and Grammynominated superstar songwriter, producer AND MULTI PLATINUM SELLING ARTIST $* +HALED S RE INVENTED VERSION OF THE g&RIEND ,IKE -E u Also an Oscar-nominated song after its initial release, the new version is likewise FEATURED IN THE kLM S END CREDITS AND RELEASED AS A SINGLE AS PRODUCED BY $* +HALED 4HE NEW ORIGINAL SONG FEATURED IN THE

MUSIC GEEK MUS MARK BONIFACIO

Q Global superstar Zayn Malik and emerging singer/songwriter Zhavia Ward

Q Brad Kane and Lea Salonga YOUTUBE SCREENGRAB film and included on the soundtrack, MEANWHILE IS g3PEECHLESS u PERFORMED BY *ASMINE .AOMI 3COTT )T IS CONSIDERED *ASMINE S BIG BREAKOUT SONG IN THE kLM ABOUT kNDING HER VOICE AND WAS WRITTEN BY Alan Menken and songwriters Benj Pasek AND *USTIN 0AUL 2OUNDING UP THE !LADDIN SOUNDTRACK INCLUDES g!RABIAN .IGHTS u g/NE *UMP !HEAD u g/NE *UMP !HEAD 2EPRISE u g3PEECHLESSu 0ART g&RIEND ,IKE -E u g0RINCE !LI u g!

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2EPRISE g3PEECHLESSu 0ART g! 7HOLE .EW 7ORLDu %ND 4ITLE g&RIEND ,IKE -Eu %ND 4ITLE AND g3PEECHLESSu &ULL PLUS score cues composed by Alan Menken.

4HE NEW !LADDIN LIVE ACTION ADAPTATION original motion picture soundtrack album is now available in all digital platforms, while the movie is still showing in select cinemas across the country.

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Gumaca teacher is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Happiest Pinoyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Q Zaldy Bueno cries to Cebuana Lhuillierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s President and Chief Executive Officer Jean Henri Lhuillier after he was adjudged as Cebuana Lhuillierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2019 Happiest Pinoy among the record-breaking 800,000 nominations in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s search.  Right photo shows Bueno receiving a plaque and a tax-free cash prize worth P1 million from Jean Henri Lhuillier (left) and Senior Executive Vice President Philippe Andre Lhuillier (right) during the awarding ceremony at the New World Hotel, Makati City on May 29, 2019. PHOTOS BY VINCE ANDREI S. ARIOLA

BY JETH YSRAEL R. MANALO TEACHER 1, GUMACA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

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HE Philippines is the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 69th happiest country, according to Gallupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest World Happiness Report; and among the 87 percent of Filipinos who regard themselves very happy, as per the Social Weather Stationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (SWS) most recent poll, the happiest of them all comes from Gumaca, Quezon: 37-year-old teacher Zaldy Ordiales Bueno.

Bueno, a teacher from the Department of Education (DepEd)-Quezon Province, was awarded as 2019 (APPIEST 0INOY BY MICROkNANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY #EBUANA ,HUILLIER 4HE BI ANNUAL 3EARCH FOR THE (APpiest Pinoy is an advocacy program OF #EBUANA ,HUILLIER TO CELEBRATE THE &ILIPINO VALUES OF RESILIENCE HOPE and tenacity.

"UENO WAS UNANIMOUSLY CHOSEN as the epitome of the institutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s VISION OF &ILIPINOS INNATE POSITIVITY

RESILIENCE AND HOPE DESPITE LIFE S CHALLENGES &ROM THE PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY

"UENO S LIFE STORY SHONE BRIGHTEST among the 10 category winners from THE kNALISTS SHORTLISTED FROM A record-breaking 800,000 nominations for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s search. His LARGER THAN LIFE TALE OF LIVING WITH A CAN DO SPIRIT HELPING HIM TO RISE above his unfortunate experiences, AND EVEN TO INlUENCE THE LIVES OF those around him, earned him a TROPHY AND A MILLION PESOS TAX FREE

g;3A= LAHAT NG MGA PINAGDAANAN ;KO= NANINIWALA AKO NA TINUTUHOG ng Panginoon ang bawat pangyayari sa buhay natin para bumuo NG ISANG MALAKING picture, isang MALAKING LARAWAN NG INSPIRASYON at ang bawat kabiguan sa buhay AY BAHAGINGISANG MAGANDANG LARawan sa hinaharap,â&#x20AC;? Bueno said in his acceptance speech during THE AWARDING CEREMONY HELD ON -AY AT THE .EW 7ORLD (OTEL

Makati City. #URRENTLY WORKING AS THE HEAD TEACHER OF THE %NGLISH $EPARTMENT OF 'UMACA .ATIONAL (IGH 3CHOOL "UENO S ADVOCACY THE DEkNING FEATURE OF HIS LIFE S BIG PICTURE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LIVES OF THE YOUTH THROUGH EDUCATION (IS EARLIER LIFE IS A MANIFESTATION OF HOW MUCH HE VALUES EDUCATION IN SPITE OF DIFkCULT circumstance. )MAGINE A CHILD JUGGLING HIS time to study and to work by HELPING HIS MOTHER WASH THEIR NEIGHBORS LAUNDRY AND SELLING

VEGETABLES TO CONTRIBUTE TO HIS FAMILY S INCOME AND IF LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET HIS DAILY ALLOWANCE Worse, imagine a young boy with HIS FAMILY WHO AFTER THE ONSLAUGHT of typhoon Rosing in 1995, had TO STAY IN A SMALL TIGHT BARANGAY VILLAGE HEALTH CENTER AND LATER ON SETTLE ON THE STREETS BECAUSE OF THE INlUX OF PATIENTS 4HAT WAS HIS CHILDHOOD YET HE WAS HAPPY "UENO S LIFE OF SUFFERING DID NOT END EVEN AFTER HIS HIGH SCHOOL YEARS )N COLLEGE HE HAD TO STOP STUDYING BECAUSE OF FINANCIAL LIMITATIONS (E LATER MANAGED TO get backup by working part-time AS A TILE STORE HELPER IN WHICH HE WOULD SNEAK OUT DURING BREAKS JUST TO GET SOME SLEEP WITHOUT EVEN EATING HIS MEAL AND AS A DISC JOCKEY AT A LOCAL RADIO STATION

where he got his famous moniker g$* $ANIEL u &INALLY UNLIKE WHAT MOST gNORMALu COLLEGE STUDENTS EXPERIENCE NOWADAYS HE kNISHED HIS "ACHELOR S DEGREE IN A SPAN OF six years as a student assistant. And, STILL HE WAS HAPPY (E HAS ALWAYS BEEN HAPPY BEcause though others might think he WAS DEPRIVED OF AN IDEAL CHILDHOOD AND TEENAGE LIFE IT WAS NOT THE CASE FOR THE YOUNG CHEERFUL AND DRIVEN g$ADA u AS HOW HE WAS CALLED WAY BACK !S LONG AS HIS FAMILY STAYS INTACT WITH 'OD TO LEAN ON AND he stays determined to pursue his DREAMS FOR HIMSELF AND FOR THEM HE knows that no matter what happens HE CAN SOON ENOUGH ATTAIN A LIFE WORTH LIVING !ND HE DID

,IVING WITH A STABLE AND DECORATED career as an educator at present, Bueno HAS NOT ONLY MANAGED TO ESTABLISH A COMFORTABLE LIFE FOR HIMSELF HIS WIFE ,IEZL AND HIS SON -ARKYL $ANIEL BUT HAS ALSO COMMITTED TO REPAY HIS DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO THE FAMILY THAT RAISED HIM 7HAT COULD BE MORE SIGNIkCANT THAN A SON WHO ASSISTS HIS FAMILY IN ACHIEVING THEIR GOALS BY BEING A PART of achieving them, as in Beunoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, even serving as a teacher to his mother, -YRNA IN THE !LTERNATIVE ,EARNING 3YSTEM PROGRAM g!LAM NINYO PO ANG NANAY KO HINDI naka-graduate ng HIGH SCHOOL Noong akoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;y naging teacher nasa DepEd, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;yung nanay ko, pinag-ENROLL KO PO SA KLASE ko kaya po siya nagging estudyante ko. At naka-graduate po siya ng high SCHOOL kasi ako ang teacher niya. And THIS ) BELIEVE ;IS= PART OF THE WONDERFUL PICTURE OF MY LIFE WONDERFUL PICTURE OF my story,â&#x20AC;? Bueno said.

Throughout the years, Bueno HAS TOUCHED SO MANY LIVES AND this transcends from the undeniABLE LOVE FOR HIS FAMILY UP TO HIS COMMENDABLE RELATIONSHIP WITH his students and co-workers, who ARE CLEAR EVIDENCE OF HIS SUCCESS IN THE kELD OF EDUCATION 3HERWIN 3AAVEDRA HIS LONG TIME TRUSTED FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE IN $EP%D SAID g3IR :ALDY IS A MAN FULL OF POSITIVITY IN LIFE WHO EFFORTLESSLY SMILES AND LAUGHS EVEN AT HIS TOUGHest moment. He has mastered the art OF BRINGING OUT THE POSITIVE LESSONS OUT OF THE UNFORTUNATE DOWNFALL THAT LIFE HITS AT HIM (IS POSITIVE OUTLOOK IN LIFE IS CONTAGIOUS u

Back to school tips for high school freshmen

BY JOSELYN Â S. ALIPIO PRINCIPAL 2, MAGAPIT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, LAL-LO, CAGAYAN GOING BACK TO SCHOOL MEANS A LOT OF THINGS Â&#x2021; NEW TEACHers and new friends to meet, a different environment to be in, and tons of books to read. In order to survive your high SCHOOL FRESHMAN YEAR YOU LL NEED TO FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THE LAYOUT AND RULES OF THE SCHOOL BEFORE THE kRST DAY OF CLASS 9OU LL ALSO NEED TO BE OUTGOING DURING AND AFTER CLASS BUILD A SOLID STUDY AND HOMEWORK PLAN PARTICIPATE IN CLASS AND GUARD AGAINST NEGATIVE PEER PRESSURE 4HE FOLLOWING ARE OTHER TIPS THAT MIGHT COME IN HANDY AS YOU FACE YOUR kRST YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL Get plenty of rest. Having an adequate amount of SLEEP IS IMPERATIVE TO A SUCCESSFUL HIGH SCHOOL CAREER 3TUDENTS WHO TEND TO SLEEP LESS THAN EIGHT HOURS A NIGHT MAY NOT BE AS AWAKE OR ALERT DURING THE DAY )N ADDITION TO SCHOOLWORK IF YOU PLAN TO PARTICIPATE IN AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES OR SPORTS YOU WILL NEED TO REST UP TO DO YOUR BEST Eat breakfast and lunch. !LWAYS START YOUR SCHOOL DAYS WITH A HEALTHY BREAKFAST TO GET YOU THROUGH THE MORNING UNTIL LUNCH )F YOU ARE NOT A BIG BREAKFAST EATER THEN CONsider eating a protein bar or having a smoothie to stave off HUNGER )F YOU TEND TO EAT LATER IN THE MORNING YOU MAY WANT TO CARRY A SMALL SNACK TO MUNCH ON BETWEEN CLASSES BEFORE LUNCH )F YOU DO NOT LIKE THE SCHOOL LUNCH MENU

YOU CAN PACK LUNCH TO TAKE TO SCHOOL THIS WAY YOU HAVE EXACTLY THE KINDS OF FOODS YOU ENJOY Keep your locker organized 4HERE ARE SEVERAL TYPES OF

LOCKER ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS AVAILABLE #HOOSE A SHELVING SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS YOU TO STORE YOUR BOOKS AND FOLDERS IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION 4HIS WILL BE ESPECIALLY HELPFUL FOR WHEN YOU ARE RUSHING TO YOUR LOCKER BETWEEN CLASSES In addition, hang a magnetic, dry erase board on the INSIDE DOOR TO HELP YOU KEEP TRACK OF THE DAY S TO DO LIST Attend the orientation. .EWBIES SHOULD ALWAYS ATTEND THE SCHOOL ORIENTATION %VEN STUDENTS WHO ARE GOING INTO THEIR SENIOR YEARS WILL WANT TO ATTEND ORIENtation. It is a great way to meet students and teachers, AND HEAR WHAT WILL GO ON IN CLASS Sit in front. $O NOT SLINK AT THE BACK ROW OF A CLASSROOM BECAUSE YOU WILL GET CALLED ON MORE YOU MAY ALSO NOT HEAR EVERYTHING THE TEACHER HAS TO SAY 3TICK NEAR THE FRONT OR MIDDLE UNLESS YOU HAVE ASSIGNED SEATS FOR THE BEST LEARNING EXPERIENCE Create a homework area. !SSIGN A PLACE AT HOME THAT IS YOUR DESIGNATED HOMEWORK AREA 4HIS SHOULD BE OFF LIMITS TO ANYONE BESIDES YOU DURING YOUR DESIGNATED homework time. Choose an area that is free of distracTIONS SUCH AS A DESK IN YOUR ROOM OR DINING ROOM TABLE

SO YOU CAN CONCENTRATE ON SCHOOLWORK Prepare for the next day. ,AY OUT YOUR CLOTHES BOOKS AND OTHER THINGS YOU MAY NEED FOR THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL DAY )F YOU PACK YOUR OWN LUNCH CONSIDER DOING IT THE night before to cut down on the morning rush.

Before heading out, take a moment to breathe. Your HIGH SCHOOL YEARS WILL lY PAST AND SOON YOU WILL BE HEADING OFF TO COLLEGE 4AKE TIME TO MEET NEW PEOPLE PARTICIPATE IN AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND MOST IMPORTANTLY STUDY HARD

4HIS PROVES HOW HE STRONGLY BELIEVES IN THE POWER OF POSITIVITY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL WORKPLACE BY BUILDING AN ATMOSPHERE OF LOVE

understanding and sympathy from a head teacher to his co-teachers, posITIVITY WOULD SURELY RADIATE TOWARDS THESE TEACHERS INSPIRED LEARNERS !S A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER AND A CAMPUS JOURNALISM ADVISER ALTHOUGH SOME OF HIS STUDENTS CLAIM THAT HE IS STRICT THERE IS NEVER A DULL MOMENT IN HIS CLASSES AND TRAINING BECAUSE OF HIS JOKES AND LIFE LESSONS THAT LIFT EVERYONE S SPIRIT g3OBRANG caring din po niya.

(E S NOT JUST A MENTOR FOR ME

BUT MORE OF A FATHER kGURE PO u SAID 6INCE !NDREI !RIOLA ONE OF his student-trainees in Ang Muog Radio broadcasting team, who was OVERJOYED TO CAPTURE HIS MENTOR S winning moment.

-ORE NOTABLY "UENO ALWAYS motivates his students to be the BEST VERSIONS OF THEMSELVES EVERY day because at the end of the day, according to him, their success stoRIES ARE ALSO HIS !S A MATTER OF FACT

RECENTLY HE WAS ABLE TO PRODUCE radio broadcasting champions for THE .ATIONAL 3CHOOLS 0RESS #ONFERENCE AND WITH THAT HE WAS STILL ABLE TO FULkLL HIS OWN DREAM OF MAKING IT BIG IN THE JOURNALISM INDUSTRY â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yung hindi man daw po siya nagging ganap na brodkaster, nakapag-train daw po siya ng mga future brodkaster,â&#x20AC;? Princess Anne Curioso, another trainee of his, said.

3IR :ALDY FURTHER REMARKED g"ILang guro po, danas ko anghirap ng

buhay kaya nais po nating makatuLONG SA MGA ESTUDYANTE u !LL OF THESE experiences he used as inspiration TO DEVISE HIS BIGGEST EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION 0ROJECT 0IDAL !PAKAN Dunong Yayaman, Asensoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;y Kakamtan OR 0ROJECT Padyak, which aims TO PROVIDE BICYCLE UNITS FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE TO TRAVEL FAR TO MAKE IT TO SCHOOL )N FACT WHEN ASKED WHERE HE WOULD ALLOT HIS 0 MILLION PRIZE

he shared that aside from taking HIS FAMILY TO 3INGAPORE A PART OF IT WOULD BE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF 0ROJECT Padyak. (E SAID HE WOULD be acquiring more bike units that YOUTHS COULD USE TO GET TO SCHOOL

INCREASE THEIR ATTENDANCE AND ULTIMATELY GAIN QUALITY EDUCATION FOR their future endeavors.

4O END HE CHALLENGED EVERY &ILIPINO TO BE A PART OF THIS WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE FOR THERE IS STILL HOPE FOR THE 0HILIPPINES FOR WHATEVER aspect there is.â&#x20AC;&#x153;3A LAHAT PO NG MGA 0ILIPINO SA BUONG MUNDO AT SA MGA TAONG MALAPIT NANGBUMITAW

pakatandaan po ninyo, ang mga pinagdadaanan ninyo, ngitian NINYO LANG AT DARATING ANG ARAW

KATULAD NGAYON LAHAT NG HIRAP

TATAWANAN NINYO LANG u /THER THAN THE 0 MILLION CASH prize and trophy, being Cebuana ,HULLIER S (APPIEST 0INOY IS MORE THAN JUST A TITLE FOR "UENO IT IS ALSO A MISSION TO CONTINUE HIS LEGACY FOR the youth and to share his story of perseverance, faith and happiness AMID LIFE S CRISES TO THE WHOLE PROVINCE TO THE WHOLE NATION AND TO THE WHOLE WORLD

Zambo rural high school accepts 70-year-old lola

BY ANTONIO P. RIMANDO ZAMBOANGA CITY: A rural public secondary school in this highly urbanized city has, perhaps, the oldest student in Mindanao, if not in the entire country.

Estella Alvarez, 70, enrolled late last month as a Grade 7 student at the Barangay Divisoria National High School (DNHS), some 10 kilometers northwest of the city proper.

When asked by curious teachers why she was going to school at her advanced age, the septuagenarian widow replied in her Cebuano dialect, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In schooling, age does not matter, because learning is a lifetime activity.â&#x20AC;?

Alvarez, who was born in Amlan, Negros Oriental, finished her grade school studies at Amlan Elementary School.

After finishing Grade 6, her poor family moved to Zamboanga City â&#x20AC;&#x153;to discover new opportunities.â&#x20AC;? Her family found residence at Sitio Lumiyap, Divisoria, the so-called City of Flowers.

As teenager, she devoted her time helping her parents in doing household chores. At 35, she got married to Palma Alvarez, a teletype operator, who was barely earning enough for the couple who later produced five children.

After her husband died at age 63, when four of her children were still in high school, Alvarez sacrificed to support her fatherless children. She engaged in various vending activities, including selling shrimp, fish, bagoong (seafood paste) and homemade delicacies around their village and nearby communities.

From her modest income, Alvarez was able to send her five children to high school. Her oldest son later completed an environmental engineering degree at the Western

Mindanao State University in Barangay Baliwasan, and later got hired by a government agency. Her other children took up technical-vocational courses and are now self-employed.

After all her children completed their education and found employment, Alvarez, now a grandmother of four, finally decided to enroll herself in high school this School Year 2019-2010.

When she went to enroll at the DNHS, Alvarez told her Grade 7 teacher-adviser Pilar Ahadi that she was determined to complete her high school education, which had earlier been lengthened from four to six years (four years for junior high school and two years senior high school) under the Department of Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (DepEd) K to 12 Enhanced Basic Education curriculum.

When the DNHS enrollment committee advised Alvarez to instead attend the DepEdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open High School, which holds classes only on weekends mostly for working young adults, Alvarez stood pat on studying in a regular secondary school â&#x20AC;?to enable me to feel a real high school.â&#x20AC;?

The septuagenarian said she always prays to God to continuously give her good health and a sound mind, so she could surpass all difficulties and challenges in her studies.

Asked by Ahadi about what her neighbors say about her attending high school at the twilight of her life, Alvarez merely smiled, saying she did not care what people said about her.

She once again stressed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In acquiring education, age doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter.â&#x20AC;?

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The virtue of postpositively positioned adjectives W

HEN MY kRST %NGLISH USAGE BOOK was published in 2004, I was GRATIkED THAT IT RECEIVED GENERALLY positive reviews and appreciative reader feedback. I was, therefore, thrown offbalance when this provocative question came by email a few weeks after the book came off the press: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are always told that in constructing a noun phrase, an adjective must precede the head noun. Now, how has this clearly poorly constructed noun phrase QUALIkED TO BE A BOOK TITLE Â&#x2021; %NGLISH 0LAIN AND 3IMPLE?â&#x20AC;?

Regaining my composure, I WROTE THIS REPLY TO THE 4ANZANIA BASED MEDICAL STUDENT WHO D often give penetrating feedback REGARDING MY COLUMNS Knowing you to be a nonnative %NGLISH SPEAKER WHO S ADMIRABLY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT %NGLISH GRAMmar and usage, your indictment of %NGLISH 0LAIN AND 3IMPLE as a gram-

MATICALLY lAWED TITLE IS PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE !FTER ALL THE PREVAILING GRAMMAR CONVENTION IN %NGLISH IS THAT AS A RULE ADJECTIVES SHOULD be positioned before the noun THEY MODIFY 4HIS IS THE SO CALLED attributive position, as in the noun PHRASE gMAJOR DILEMMAu WHERE THE ADJECTIVE gMAJORu WORKS AS A PREMODIkER 4HE POLAR OPPOSITE OF

ENGLISH PLAIN AND SIMPLE

JOSE A. CARILLO

this is the predicative position where gMAJORu WORKS AS A POSTMODIkER AS IN gDILEMMA MAJOR u 4O THE EYES

EARS AND SENSIBILITY OF AN UNTRAINED %NGLISH SPEAKER HOWEVER THIS IS AN AWFUL AND PATENTLY UNACCEPTABLE POSITION FOR THAT ADJECTIVE )NDEED %NGLISH ADJECTIVES GENERALLY DON T WORK PROPERLY IN THE PREDicative or postmodifier position.

4HEY CLEARLY SOUND DISJOINTED IN gBLUNDER MONUMENTAL u gNONSENSE ABSOLUTE u AND gFOOL INCORRIGIBLE u )N CONTRAST SEE AND FEEL HOW PRIM and proper those noun phrases BECOME WHEN THE ADJECTIVES ARE IN THE NORMAL PREMODIkER POSITION gMONUMENTAL BLUNDER u gABSOLUTE NONSENSE u AND gINCORRIGIBLE FOOL u (OWEVER DUE TO THE INlUENCE of French and other Romance

LANGUAGES MOST POSITION THEIR ADJECTIVES AFTER THE NOUNS BEING MODIkED %NGLISH HAS ACCUMULATED A SIZABLE NUMBER OF postposiTIVE ADJECTIVES Â&#x2021; ADJECTIVES THAT SOUND RIGHT LOOK RIGHT AND FEEL right even if positioned after the nouns they modify.

Here are some such noun phrases WITH POSTPOSITIVE ADJECTIVES gHEIR APPARENT u gTIME IMMEMORIAL u gBODY POLITIC u gDEVIL INCARNATE u gACCOUNTS PAYABLE u gWORDS UNSPOKEN u gPOET LAUREATEu AND gCOURT MARTIAL u 4HROUGH REPEATED USAGE OVER THE CENTURIES THEY HAVE ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES AS PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN %NGLISH -ANY NATIVE %NGLISH SPEAKERS TODAY THUS kND IT TERRIBLY OUT OF LINE SAYING THESE PHRASES IN THE NORMAL PREPOSITIVE BUT UNIDIOMatic way. However, most nonnative %NGLISH SPEAKERS WILL INSIST ON STILL SAYING THEM PREPOSITIVELY Â&#x2021; gAPPARENT HEIR u gIMMEMORIAL TIME u gINCARNATE DEVIL u gLAUREATE POET u 4HIS INSISTENCE SHOWS THEIR LACK

Training redounds to students

Q Hands on activity during training. PHOTO BY JC EMMANUEL DUMLAO

BY RODERICK A. TADEO, PHD SDO-OLONGAPO CITY, EDUCATION PROGRAM SUPERVISOR BOTH teachers and students benefit when educators undergo training. This was the feedback of two Olongapo City teachers who underwent training on technical drafting and were certified by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) in the process.

Long after the training was conducted, the 122 junior high school (JHS) and senior high school (SHS) learners from the Schools Division of Olongapo City who were certified as draftsmen continue to exhibit competence.

Since the Department of Education has crafted its curriculum based on the training regulations of Tesda, the basic, common and core competencies have become the focused of the teaching-learning process. The core competencies in technical drafting include the ability to do the following: 1) Draft architectural layout and details; 2) Prepare computer-aided drawings; 3) Draft structural layout and details; 4) Draft electrical and electronic layout and details; 5) Draft sanitary and plumbing layout and details; and 6) Draft mechanical layout and details.

Â&#x2021; THAT POSTPOSITIVELY POSITIONING ADJECTIVES IMBUES THESE LINES FROM #ECIL &RANCES !LEXANDER S INSPIRATIONAL HYMN

!LL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL

!LL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

!LL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL

4HE ,ORD 'OD MADE THEM ALL ) USED PRECISELY THIS SAME MECHANISM OF LANGUAGE TO LIFT THE TITLE of my book above the mundane AND COMMONPLACE !VOIDING THE PLAIN *ANE TITLE g0LAIN AND 3IMPLE %NGLISH u ) DECIDED TO USE THE MUCH MORE CATCHY POSTPOSITIVE g%NGLISH 0LAIN AND 3IMPLEu INSTEAD .EXT When a parenthetical is needed in a sentence

6ISIT *OSE #ARILLO S %NGLISH &ORUM AT HTTP JOSECARILLOFORUM COM AND ON &ACEBOOK HTTPS WWW FACEBOOK COM JACARILLO &OLLOW HIM ON 4WITTER COM * #ARILLO %MAIL J CARILLO YAHOO COM

AMA University offers online degrees

Q A technical drafting laboratory used for manual and Autocad application. PHOTO BY MARILYN FABIALA

 Division Memorandum 35, series of 2016 titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;10-Day Division Training/ Coaching for the ICT Strand under the Tech-voc Trackâ&#x20AC;? provided the opportunity to Olongapo City teachers to attend training. In 2016, 25 Technology and Livelihood Education  (TLE) teachers handling technical/mechanical drafting/ computer hardware servicing underwent rigorous training on technical drafting with emphasis on Autocad.  In 2017, another Division Training/ Coaching in Technical Drafting (NC-II) was conducted at Tapinac Senior High School to retool ten (10) TLE and Technical-Vocational-Livelihood teachers in technical drafting leading to the acquisition of NC-2 once they passed the Tesda assessment per Division Memorandum 129, s. 2017.  In the SHS program, 75 trainees were produced under the Information and Communication Technology strand. Mabayuan SHS produced 32; Tapinac SHS, 10; New Cabalan NHS, 27; and Barretto SHS, 6.  The JHSs in the city division also remained competitive. Barretto NHS had a harvest of 20 passers and Olongapo City National High School had registered its first NC-holders with 13 individuals, which was then followed by another

OF AWARENESS THAT SOME ADJECTIVES CAN IN FACT WORK POSTPOSITIVELY without a hitch.

Now, discounting the fact that there are indeed a good number OF %NGLISH PHRASES USING POSTPOSITIVE ADJECTIVES IS THERE REALLY ANY PRACTICAL USE FOR THIS BREAKING OF THE PREMODIkER NORM 4HE ANSWER IS A DEkNITE YES )T S true that when the information an ADJECTIVE CONTAINS ISN T THE MAIN focus of the noun phrase, that adJECTIVE SHOULD TAKE THE ATTRIBUTIVE OR PREMODIkER POSITION AS IN gALL BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL THINGS ALL GREAT AND SMALL CREATURES ALL WISE AND WONDERFUL THINGS u 7HEN THE OBJECTIVE IS TO EMPHASIZE OR DRAMATIZE THE INFORMATION SUPPLIED

BY THOSE ADJECTIVES HOWEVER IT BECOMES DESIRABLE Â&#x2021; IF THE SYNTAX WOULD ALLOW IT Â&#x2021; TO POSITION THOSE ADJECTIVES POSTPOSITIVELY 7E CAN CLEARLY SEE AND FEEL THE INTENDED EMPHASIS Â&#x2021; IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE THE ELEVATION OF LANGUAGE AND THE POETIC lOURISH

group of 14 learners. Â Trainees successfully passed the assessment in Technical Drafting NC-2.

This provided them the confidence and competence in teaching the subject. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The training was a big help for me; through it, I was able to pass the assessment of Tesda on technical drafting.

Thereafter, I was able to teach my students about drafting and consequently passed the assessment, as well,â&#x20AC;? Robert Bautista, one of the trainees from the program, said.

Meanwhile, Marilyn Fabiala, from the Olongapo City National High School said that she was equipped with the essential skills relative to the specialization, adding that her students benefited as well when she passed the assessment.

A milestone that the teachers had initiated was the establishment and improvement of their existing rooms into functional Technical Drafting laboratory.

Teachers are indeed committed in translating the competencies they acquired from the training. Alongside with facilities enhancement and establishment of linkages in support of the program, they work through collaboration with stakeholders and the administration that leads to the positive impact of the said training program.

AN !-! 5NIVERSITY TOP OFkCIAL HAS URGED &ILIPINOS TO EARN THEIR DEGREES VIA ONLINE EDUCATION $R !MABLE !GUILUZ TH VICE chairman and chief executive ofkCER OF THE UNIVERSITY SAID ONLINE EDUCATION HAD BEEN SIGNIkCANT IN MAKING EDUCATION AGILE AND lEXIBLE TO REACH FOR STUDENTS BOTH HERE and abroad. g!S A PIONEER IN ONLINE EDUCAtion, AMA OEd (AMA University /NLINE %DUCATION CONTINUES TO GO BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL LEARNING experience by responding to the EMERGENCE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY )T IS THE kRST TO OFFER FULL ONLINE education courses, opening its DOORS TO ANYONE IN THE WORLD WHO IS WILLING TO LEARN OR ADVANCE THEIR KNOWLEDGE THROUGH A WIDE VARIETY OF COURSES u !GUILUZ TOLD 4HE -ANILA 4IMES g7ITH THE GOAL OF KEEPING UP with trends and providing indePENDENT SELF LEARNING STYLE WHICH TAKES PLACE OUTSIDE OF A FORMAL CLASSROOM !-! /%D HAS COME A LONG WAY IN CHALLENGING THE CONVENTIONAL EDUCATION SET UP IN the country. This forward-thinking EDUCATIONAL SETUP HAS ENABLED students to become more prepared in different industries that are beCOMING MORE MODERN AND DIGITAL u he added. !GUILUZ SAID FOR INQUIRIES THOSE INTERESTED COULD GO TO THE !-! /ED WEBSITE AMAONLINE COM

WHERE THEY COULD CHOOSE FROM COURSES FROM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

undergraduate and graduate coursES LIKE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY !GUILUZ SAID ONLINE EDUCATION WAS A PRACTICAL EDUCATION SOLUTION AS STUDENTS NO LONGER HAVE TO BRAVE TRAFkC JAMS AND HARSH WEATHER AND COULD STUDY ANYTIME ANYWHERE AT their own pace.

4HIS MODERN EDUCATIONAL SET UP HE SAID HAD REMOVED PHYSICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES THAT OFTEN INHIBIT LEARNING /NLINE EDUCATION APPEALS TO INDIVIDUALS FROM A VARIETY OF BACKgrounds, from working students to SEASONED PROFESSIONALS TO DISABLED INDIVIDUALS THE !-! OFkCIAL SAID (E SAID AGILE EDUCATION PLATforms were the future of higher EDUCATION !S STUDENTS NO LONGER NEED TO GO TO A PHYSICAL CLASSROOM

THEY LEARN TO ACQUIRE TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOCUS AND DISCIPLINE 3TUDENTS WHO ENROLL IN ONLINE courses are required to participate IN INTERACTIVE ONLINE ACTIVITIES

such as communicating through EMAIL INSTANT MESSAGING HOLDING DISCUSSION SESSIONS AND COMPLETING ONLINE ASSIGNMENTS 4HEY ARE ALSO EXPOSED TO EDUCATORS AND FELLOW STUDENTS FROM A WIDE RANGE OF kELDS AND LOCATIONS ALLOWING THEM TO DEVELOP A STRONGER AFkNITY FOR EFkCIENCY OF COLLABORATION Graduate students of AMA ARE IN DEMAND ESPECIALLY AS THE 0HILIPPINE GOVERNMENT RECENTLY ENACTED 2EPUBLIC !CT OR THE g4ELECOMMUTING !CT u -ORE corporations and businesses are expected to embrace this CHANGE ALONGSIDE OTHER MODERN practices to improve company performance. g%MPLOYERS WILL WANT GRADUATES WHO POSSESS ALL THE NECESSARY SKILLS TO EXCEL IN THEIR RESPECTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND EMPLOYERS WILL CHOOSE graduates who may be trusted to CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMPANY S GOALS WHEREVER THEY ARE u !GUILUZ SAID The main campus of AMA UniVERSITY CAN BE FOUND AT 0ROJECT

Quezon City.

The university is admitting both &ILIPINOS AND FOREIGN STUDENTS JAIME R. PILAPIL

A FRESH GRADUATEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GUIDE TO JOB SEARCH FILIPINO fresh graduates entering the WORKFORCE AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS starting their careers are concerned ABOUT THE AVAILABILITY OF OPPORTUNITIES for them, according to a study, LinkedIn Opportunity Index. ,INKED)N THE WORLD S LARGEST PROFESSIONAL NETWORK FOUND THAT ALMOST HALF OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED TO YEARS OLD IN THE 0HILIPPINES FEARED THAT there might not be enough opportuNITIES AVAILABLE FOR THEM /N THE CONTRARY NEW JOBS ARE EMERGING )N THE 0HILIPPINES THE TOP EMERGING JOBS ARE DATA SCIENTIST APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ANALYST BACKEND DEVELOPER FULL STACK ENGINEER AND SALES DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE 4HESE ARE JOBS THAT DID not exist five years ago and are driven

BY TECHNOLOGY

reflects your values. !SK YOURSELF

WHAT ARE YOU gIN ITu FOR 7HY DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO +NOWING THIS ANSWER IS CRUCIAL TO FINDING THE RIGHT JOB FOR YOU /NCE YOU HAVE THOUGHT this through, use it to create a LinkeD)N PROFILE AND WRITE YOUR IDEAL JOB description. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a practice that some COMPANIES ARE STARTING TO ENLIST TO ATTRACT TOP TALENT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Explore jobs on LinkedIn. Take ADVANTAGE OF ,INKED)N S JOB SEARCH FILTERS TO NARROW YOUR SEARCH BY INDUSJob search advice try, function and experience, and then use the open search box to add key 4O HELP JOB SEEKERS HOPING TO IMPROVE PHRASES TO FIND THE RIGHT JOB FOR YOU their chances of finding and connect- $ISCOVERING NEW JOBS ON ,INKED)N ing to opportunities, LinkedIn shares has never been easier with Instant Job THE FOLLOWING TIPS .OTIFICATION AND *OB 4ITLE (IGHLIGHTS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Establish a digital presence that â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Make sure you shine through. g7HETHER YOU RE JUST STARTING YOUR CAREER OR ON A JOURNEY TO PURSUE FULFILLMENT AND MEANING AT WORK NOW IS A GREAT TIME TO FIND THE RIGHT JOB FOR YOU .OT ONLY DOES ,INKED)N HAVE MILLION JOBS INCLUDING ENTRY LEVEL ROLES Â&#x2021; WE ALSO HAVE THE COMMUNITY TO HELP YOU FIND THE RIGHT ONE DEPENDING ON YOUR SKILLS AND INTERESTS u Linda Lee, head of Communications FOR 3OUTHEAST !SIA AND .ORTH !SIA

LinkedIn, said.

-ORE THAN JUST A RESUME YOUR ,INKED)N PROFILE CREATES A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE YOURSELF STAND OUT !FTER youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve thought about what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re â&#x20AC;&#x153;in itâ&#x20AC;? for, use the summary section to SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT YOURSELF

AND THE SKILLS LEARNINGS AND EXPERIences make you unique as a profesSIONAL )T S ONE OF THE TOP THINGS THE MILLION RECRUITERS USING ,INKED)N EVERY DAY LOOK AT WHEN VIEWING YOUR PROFILE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Connect with people in your network who can help. Take a good LOOK AT YOUR ,INKED)N COMMUNITY to see if you have any connections that work at companies that interest YOU 4HESE PROFESSIONALS CAN BE KEY IN HELPING YOU FIND Â&#x2021; AND LAND Â&#x2021; THE JOB YOU WANT 0ROFESSIONALS ON

,INKED)N ARE FOUR TIMES MORE LIKELY TO GET A CALL WITH A RECRUITER Â&#x2021; AND NINE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO GET HIRED Â&#x2021; WHEN theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been referred by a connection THAN IF THEY APPLY WITHOUT A REFERRAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Make a good impression. Getting to know more about the company you wish to be part of can guide you on what it takes to get hired and succeed there. Their website, LinkedIn ComPANY 0AGE AND OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES can provide rich information and background. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important is that you know THE STEPS TO TAKE ON YOUR JOURNEY TO A SUCCESSFUL AND REWARDING CAREER "E AUTHENTIC AND STAY TRUE TO YOUR VALUES

CALL OUT WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT FROM THE CROWD AND LEAN ON YOUR COMMUnity for support,â&#x20AC;? said Lee.

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5 things kids want for their future â&#x20AC;&#x153;W HY do we need laws?â&#x20AC;? Kian Jimenez, 10, asked Sen. Francis â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kikoâ&#x20AC;? Pangilinan on June 3.

Kian was one of 14 kids who visited the Philippine Senate as members of the dulyelected KidZania CongreZZ, the legislative branch of KidZania. +ID:ANIA -ANILA IS AN INTERACtive mini-city where kids take on ROLES IN ESTABLISHMENTS SIMILAR TO THE REAL WORLD LIKE AIRLINE PILOT

pharmacist and magazine writer.

Having their own kid-sized city WITH THEIR OWN SET OF RULES THE (ONORABLE #ITI:ENS OF +ID:ANIA ELECT THEIR PEERS TO A REPRESENTATIVE body of government that cares for THEIR WELFARE AND THEIR CITY 4HESE YOUNG LEGISLATORS REPresenting the five ministries of +ID:ANIA WENT TO THE 3ENATE TO PRESENT THE FOLLOWING MANIFESTOS TO 3ENATOR 0ANGILINAN 1. A clean and safe environment *UHI !NGELA AND 'ALE OF THE Ministry of Environment g7E BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE MUST HAVE ACCESS TO CLEAN AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT u SAID !NGELA DE Guzman. g7E BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD ALSO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR their actions that might impact OUR ENVIRONMENT u SAID 'ALE *ULIAN #ERA g7E BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE ESPECIALLY THE &ILIPINO CHILDREN MUST know how to take care of the enVIRONMENT AND SHOULD ENCOURAGE OTHERS IN DOING THEIR PART AS WELL u

said Juhi Chandiramani. g"ECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE ONE WORLD TO LIVE IN AND WE SHOULD SAVE it,â&#x20AC;? they said.

3ENATOR 0ANGILINAN AGREED g7E MUST ADDRESS PLASTICS POLLUTION Â&#x2021; SMOKING WATER AIR NOISE POLLUTION )T SHOULD BE CRIME FREE #HILDREN SHOULD BE ABLE TO WALK ;AROUND THE CITY= SAFELY u 2. Accessible quality education Happy, Renz and Jiada of the Ministry of Education g7E BELIEVE THAT EDUCATION PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN OUR LIVES AS IT SHAPES OUR FUTURE u SAID (APPY !GUILAR g7E BELIEVE THAT EVERY &ILIPINO CHILD SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO ACCESSIBLE QUALITY EDUCATION u SAID Jiada Javier. g7E BELIEVE THAT EDUCATION IS CRUCIAL IN INFORMING US OF THE ;BAD= things that happen in our society, LEARN FROM IT AND MAKE SURE TO CONTROL IT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN u said Renz Emperador. g"ECAUSE QUALITY EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN BUILDING THE WHOLE NATION u SAID (APPY 3ENATOR 0ANGILINAN ASKED WHAT THEIR PROPOSALS ARE FOR ACCESSIBLE QUALITY EDUCATION TO WHICH (APPY REPLIED g7E SHOULD HAVE SOME-

THING THAT INTERESTS THE CHILDREN AND SUITABLE FOR THE GENERATION IN TODAY S WORLD )F SOMETHING INTERESTS THE CHILD THEY WOULD ENJOY LEARNING IT u 3. Fair compensation Kian, Liz and Andrea of Ministry of Labor g7E BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE MUST LEARN THE IMPORTANCE OF working hard, in earning fair SALARY u SAID !NDREA 3TA -ARIA g7E BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO FAIR SALARY COMPENSATION 7E BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SAVE AND SPEND THEIR MONEY WISELY u SAID Kian Jimenez. g"ECAUSE THE VALUE OF HARD WORK IS A VALUE THAT ANYONE CAN PASS ON TO THEIR CHILDREN AND HAVING FAIR SALARY CAN PAY FOR BETTER HOME

food, and other needs,â&#x20AC;? said Liz Castigo.

3ENATOR 0ANGILINAN SHARED HOW human beings are the number one resource of any organization. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to make sure that your WORKERS ARE PAID WELL GIVEN FAIR SALARY u HE SAID 4. Access to and responsible use of technology 0ATRICIA AND 2ILEY OF -INISTRY OF

not necessarily require you to make your career in another province or another country.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rather, it means not limiting yourself in your thinking and aspiring, not allowing geographical barriers or perceived hindrances due to your field of expertise to keep you from maximizing your contribution to the global community, even as you work and make a difference in your local capacity,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Now the Philippine government-hosted Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) director, Dr. Gregorio shared how his new post gives him the privilege to think and influence globally while being able to influence and act locally.

Also an international development organization, Searca is mandated to promote inclusive and sustainable agricultural and rural development in the Philippines and the 10 other Southeast Asian countries through programs that offer graduate scholarship and institutional development assistance, conduct research and development, and provide science-based information to those who need it most.

Dr. Gregorio said four of CSUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own faculty members were among the 1,400 recipients of Searca scholarships who have completed their PhD and masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studies.

)NFORMATION 4ECHNOLOGY g7E BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE EASY ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY REGARDLESS OF SOCIAL STATUS u SAID 0ATRICIA "ALATBAT g7E BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD USE TECHNOLOGY RESPONSIBLY AND IN A GOOD WAY u SAID 2ILEY #ATRAL g7E BELIEVE THAT MORE TECHNOLOGICAL JOBS SHOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE IN OUR COUNTRY u SAID 0ATRICIA â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because having advancements IN TECHNOLOGY WILL HELP OUR COUNTRY SOLVE INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY AND COULD CREATE MORE JOBS u THEY SAID

â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have gone on to occupy high positions of responsibility in governments, academe, private sec tor, and international and national institutions. He said some have even become ministers, deputy ministers, members of Parliament or Cabinet, presidents of universities, and other prestigious posts,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He also explained that Searca has also been working with partners to contribute to internationalization of education in the Philippines to address the challenges and changing landscape of Southeast Asiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s labor market brought about by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations integration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This include building technical and leadership capacities of faculty, continuous curricular reforms, strengthening government-ind u s t r y - a c a d e m e p a r t n e r s h i p, increasing student and faculty mobilities, and enhancing English language proficiency,â&#x20AC;? Dr. Gregorio said adding that these steps are towards a bigger initiative of universities to ensure equitable access to job opportunities and high-quality skills development trainings.

In closing his message, Dr. Gregorio enthused CSUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class of 2019 with inspiring words of Searcaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founding Director Dioscoro Umali: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be the heroes we never were and live.â&#x20AC;?

LEANDER C. DOMINGO

67, 5RVDULR *HQ7UL RIIHU IUHH FROOHJH IRU 3V EHQHĂ&#x20AC;FLDULHV GENERAL TRIAS CITY, Cavite: 4HE 34) #OLLEGE Rosario Inc., in cooperation with the 'ENERAL 4RIAS 'EN4RI #ITY GOVERNMENT NOW OFFERS FREE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR 0ANTAWID 0AMILYANG 0ILIPINO 0ROGRAM 0S BENEFICIARIES OF THE LOCALITY STARTING 3CHOOL 9EAR 2019-2020.

4HE CITY GOVERNMENT WILL ACCEPT APPLICATION TO THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM UNTIL *ULY

GenTri Mayor Antonio Ferrer and 6ICE -AYOR -ORIT 3ISON SIGNED THE memorandum of agreement with 34) 2OSARIO #AMPUS !DMINISTRATOR !NGELO -OLATO IN A SIMPLE CEREMONY

HELD AT THE /FFICE OF THE -AYOR S CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE 'EN4RI #ITY (ALL in Barangay Bagumbayan.

The GenTri 3ANGGUNIANG 0ANGLUNGsod #ITY #OUNCIL HAD EARLIER APPROVED 2ESOLUTION AUthorizing the city government repreSENTED BY THE LOCAL CHIEF EXECUTIVE TO SIGN A DEAL WITH 34) FOR THE TERTIARY education system for poor but deservING COLLEGE STUDENTS OF THE CITY !LL 'EN4RI RESIDENTS MAY CHOOSE ANY OF THE OFFERED BACHELOR AND ASSOCIATE DEGREES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACcounting information system, tourism MANAGEMENT CULINARY MANAGEMENT

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Caraga State University graduates urged to be at the forefront of development BUTUAN CITY: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Step up and step out! Be at the forefront of development!â&#x20AC;?

Thus said distinguished rice scientist Dr. Glenn Gregorio in his rousing message to the graduates of Caraga State University (CSU) at its commencement exercises themed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breaking Barriers for Relevant Global Engagementâ&#x20AC;? on May 30.

Dr. Gregorio related how he â&#x20AC;&#x153;stepped up and stepped outâ&#x20AC;? of college at the University of the Philippines Los BaĂąos into his career at the International Rice Research Institute, working on rice breeding for tolerance to saline-prone and problem soils and other varieties, taking him all over the country and the world, and later as crop breeding manager for corn at EastWest Seed Co. in Bukidnon, where he was born and studied through high school.

He noted that CSU, headed by Dr. Anthony M. Penaso, is an excellent school that has equipped its graduates to make a difference in their chosen field.

CSU offers undergraduate and graduate programs in agriculture, information technology, mathematics, and science education.

Other undergraduate programs it offers are engineering, forestry, and sciences. It also has a graduate program in environmental management.

Dr. Gregorio pointed out that â&#x20AC;&#x153;stepping up and stepping out does

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business administration in operation MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANCY RETAIL TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER ENGINEERING RETAIL MANAGEMENT AND HOSPITALITY AND restaurant services. g7E SIGNED THIS DEAL TO GIVE CHANCE to the poor but deserving incoming COLLEGE STUDENTS OF THE CITY TO LEARN AND earned degree,â&#x20AC;? Ferrer said.

4HOSE INTERESTED MAY VISIT THE -)3 /FFICE AT THE #ITY (ALL 'ROUND &LOOR

0OBLACION #ITY OF 'ENERAL 4RIAS #AVITE AND LOOK FOR -R #HRISTOPHER #USTODIO 4HEY MAY ALSO CALL TO LOCAL DENNIS ABRINA/PNA

3ENATOR 0ANGILINAN ASKED HOW they propose to go about their manifesto to which Patricia rePLIED g) WANT TO ENCOURAGE ;CHILDREN= TO DO IT THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF ADULTS DOING IT FOR THEM u 5. Anthem, language and history +IM +ATE AND *ILLIAN OF THE -INISTRY OF #ULTURE g7E BELIEVE THAT &ILIPINO CHILDREN MUST LEARN THE .ATIONAL !NTHEM OF THE 0HILIPPINES BY heart and show respect to it whenEVER IT IS BEING PLAYED u SAID +ATE !MARILLE

g7E BELIEVE THAT IT IS IMPORTANT FOR &ILIPINO CHILDREN TO LEARN &ILIPINO OUR .ATIONAL ,ANGUAGE AND its importance in connecting everyBODY AND WE BELIEVE THAT LEARNING and embracing the history of our COUNTRY IS IMPORTANT FOR &ILIPINO CHILDREN SO THEY CAN UNDERSTAND HOW OUR CULTURE AND TRADITIONS CAME INTO EXISTENCE u SAID +IM !MARILLE g"ECAUSE THE 0HILIPPINES IS OUR COUNTRY AND KNOWING OUR CULTURE SHOWS HOW PROUD WE ARE AS &ILIPINO CITIZENS u SAID *ILLIAN 3ALINAS 3ENATOR 0ANGILINAN STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF IDENTITY IN CULTURE

and asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can you imagine if we DON T KNOW WHO WE ARE u g-IND BLOWNĂ&#x153;u THE KIDS REPLIED 3O WHY DO WE NEED LAWS 3ENATOR 0ANGILINAN SAID LAWS ARE LIKE THE RULES IN ONE S HOME g2ULES ARE THERE TO BENEFIT those who are covered by those RULESw,AWS ARE THERE TO HELP US SO THAT WE MAY BENEkT FROM THESE LAWS SO THAT IT MAY BENEkT the citizens. Laws are crafted for THE GENERAL WELFARE u 3ENATOR 0ANGILINAN SAID 7ITH THESE TO YEAR OLD #ONGRE:: KIDS WHO ASK THE HARD QUESTIONS AND WHO ARE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT THE FUTURE CAN ONLY be bright.

Lessons from the last election

BY PIT M. MALIKSI IS there still hope after the last election in our country? Many might not think so.

I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell the number of times Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard that the election this year has ended useless, nay revolting. That there has been a little indication that changes would be reached significantly beyond election. That the basic promises of every candidate to restore the rightful economic and social stature becomes distant, when it sets the interests of the elites more than the ordinary people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who value election as stronghold of hope. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â This anxiety underlines the power control over the power of election itself. We couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more opposite of what many people believe that the government has not stopped controlling and conniving with the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

In fact, the government does not look more closely on the weak apologies offered by the Comelec on its latest flak, much less its backward-thinking mentality that stumbles down further than we realize. Â These malpractices no more count the votes for the right candidates in the next polls, which would lead the country to the brink of producing, according to our National Artist Francisco Sionil Jose, another bunch of nincompoop. Â Â Is there still hope? If many might not think so, then I have to beg their pardon. Forgive this little conceit to think that the small steps I did last election could pick up some steam to upend the political push for worthy candidates in the near elections.

This is about building an advanced network of mutual support, stemming primarily from this little act: On the last day of campaign, I combed every nook and cranny in our barangay, like what I did as president of our youth council before, to distribute the list of senators I was rooting for and to introduce them to voters with little knowledge of their achievements. When I ran out of campaign flyers, I realized I should have given more time and attention to this self-active work. But all my worries and guilt petered out when the counting was done â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the 800 flyers I gave yielded 734 votes for my eight candidates.

It came to mind that this sort of volunteerism could be operative overall. As the numbers of volunteers grow in every barangay all over the land, so do are the winning chances for the favored candidates. In the case of the not-so-commonlyknown aspirants, they could help themselves and the volunteers to pluck up their popularity by engaging early on their own advocacies and social platforms. This is a good way to educate the voters, and earn higher name-recall points for the candidates. Â Â Â Â Â On our part, the Philippine Axiologists Association starts to support and strategize slices

of movement, which we would rather keep to ourselves, for the best candidates to come. The next leg on our agenda is to suggest our municipal council, with a hope for the rest of munipalities to have half a mind to follow suit on these: â&#x20AC;&#x201C; To pass a resolution obliging every political candidate not to spend nor seek patronage for campaigns like in the good-old days. Instead, the candidates have to shell out equal dues to the Comelec â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which will be in-charge of handling and posting election advertisements at common strategic places. Each party will have presentations of platforms to the public at a given time.

This way, losers wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go broke after election, as winners wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t corrupt to recover overhead expenses, and pay back political sponsors. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; That religious sects must adhere to the separation of the Church and state. The practice of endorsing candidates for personal gains, and of candidates seeking and paying a whale of money for endorsements must end. Here, implementation of the law must be strictest. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; That survey to rank the candidatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; victory from SWS and Pulse Asia, which becomes a personal transaction than a validation, should stop. Instead, the top schools may require graduating selected Statistics students to survey at least 16,000 to 18,000 sample size of respondents rather than 1,200 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;which according to statistical researchers, do not truly represent the real consensus in the case of 60 million Filipino voters.      I believe that Duterte magic didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make his candidates win. The money politics in billions, the endorsement of big religious groups, and the command votes from the pressured LGU did it. Come to think of it, the candidates personally endorsed by DU30 and her daughter Sara â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dong Mangundadatu, Freddie Aguilar, Raffy Alunan, Jinggoy Estrada, Jiggy Manicad â&#x20AC;&#x201D; lost miserably, except Francis Tolentino who was already well-known, and Bong Go and Bato dela Rosa, who poured billions for publicity stints even before the campaign period. Other senators who won were no doubt, established names in politics. I really couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see the much-touted DU30 magic there, but the billions spent, heaven knows not the source, that spin the win. Â

Pit M. Maliksi, a graduate of the University of Santo Tomas and a former teacher at Central Texas College, an English teacher at Liceo de San Pablo, and founder of Philippine Axiologists Association, was the Most Outstanding Professor for 12 years of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines - Sto. Tomas, Batangas (STB), where he is the educational program officer of Kiwanis International STB, and the founder of STB Mga Apoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ni Tomas, a civic society of a thousand young professionals.

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The Ë&#x153;Manila Times w w w.manilatimes.net

THURSDAY June 6, 2019

DepEd urged to stop sending non-readers to high school S

BY ESTANISLAO ALBANO, JR.

TATE think tank Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) has called on the Department of Education (DepEd) to issue clearer instructions to elementary schools to stop allowing nonreaders to graduate.

The recommendation was contained in the study conducted by THE 0)$3 SCRUTINIZING PRESSURES BEARING DOWN ON PUBLIC SCHOOL teachers and how these impact THE QUALITY OF BASIC EDUCATION IN the country posted in its website.

4HE REPORT TITLED g0RESSURES ON 0UBLIC 3CHOOL 4EACHERS AND )MPLICATIONS ON 1UALITYu SAID 'RADE STUDENTS WHO COULD NOT understand what they read were among the â&#x20AC;&#x153;perverse effectsâ&#x20AC;? of THE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND incentive system of the DepEd, which pushes for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;zero dropoutâ&#x20AC;? target.

Under the system, the dropout RATE IN THE CLASS FORMS A PART of the bases for assessing the TEACHER S PERFORMANCE AND IS ALSO used in determining his or her performance-based bonus, the

ANNUAL INCENTIVE FOR GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL ADJUDGED TO HAVE MET targets. g)N THE ABSENCE OF OTHER CLEARER student performance-based measure that can be traced back to QUALITY OF TEACHING DROPOUT RATES become the metric for teacher QUALITY 4HIS SENDS A PROBLEMATIC INCENTIVE SIGNAL TO TEACHERS AS THEY ARE EVALUATED BASED ON ZERO DROPOUT RATES AND NOT ON ACTUAL QUALITY OF LEARNING OF STUDENTS u the report said.

4HE 0)$3 SAID THE INSISTENCE ON the dropout rate as determinant of performance and incentive HAD LED TO THE PRACTICE OF gMASS promotion,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;wherein even STUDENTS WHO FAILED EXAMS AND SKIPPED HALF OF THE YEAR S SCHOOL days can be promoted.â&#x20AC;? g3OME OF THESE STUDENTS WILL

end up in seventh grade without knowing how to read for compreHENSION u THE 0)$3 REPORT SAID 7HILE ACKNOWLEDGING THE DIFFICULTY OF gSTRIKING A BALANCE BETWEEN ENSURING COMPLETION AND SECURING GOOD QUALITY EDUCATION u THE 0)$3 INSISTED THAT LIMITS SHOULD BE OBSERVED ONE of which is to forbid passing on TO HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS WHO COULD not read. g3ENDING NON READERS TO HIGH SCHOOL SHOULD BE ACTIVELY DISCOURAGED AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT ALLOW THIS REQUIRE CLOSE MONitoring and supervision. Even WITHOUT SANCTIONS THE SIGNALLING from DepEd that such action is poor practice needs to be stronGER u THE 0)$3 SAID The DepEd has yet to comment ON THE REPORT AND CALL OF THE 0)$3 AND HAS BEEN LARGELY MUM on the issue on non-readers.

3HERWIN 'ATCHALIAN CITED AS ONE PROOF OF THE DETERIORATING QUALITY OF EDUCATION THE LOW SCORES IN THE .ATIONAL !CHIEVEMENT 4EST .!4 IN AND 'ATCHALIAN DID NOT GO INTO DETAILS BUT IN Â&#x2021; COMPARED with the 2015 average mean PERCENTAGE SCORE -03 OF Â&#x2021; THE 'RADE .!4 PERFORMANCE PLUMMETED TO OR BY points. This is unprecedented BECAUSE FROM TO THE HIGHEST -03 MARGIN FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT IN 'RADE WAS

WHICH OCCURRED IN ! L L T H E R E G I O N S I N C U R R E D TWO DIGIT -03 LOSSES THE LEAST BEING THE POINTS OF THE .ATIONAL #APITAL 2EGION .#2 AND THE MOST BEING THE points of the Caraga Region. The reductions represented 21.92 perCENT OF THE PREVIOUS -03 of NCR and 50.01 percent of the -03 OF #ARAGA IN AND HAD THE EFFECT OF CATAPULTING .#2 Declining NAT results FROM .O TO .O AND SINKING )N HIS CALL FOR MEASURES TO IM- THE PERENNIAL .O #ARAGA TO .O prove basic education in connec- IN THE RANKINGS !LSO THE AND -03 TION WITH THE 3ENATE #OMMITTEE On Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s review of the FOR 'RADE AND 'RADE RESPECIMPLEMENTATION OF THE + TO TIVELY IN WERE THE LOWEST IN CURRICULUM MADE IN -ARCH 3EN the history of the standardized

TEST A CONCLUSION BASED ON THE PUBLISHED STATEMENT OF FORmer Education secretary Armin Luistro in May 2011 that the ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS OF ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE DECLINING gBASED ON .!4 RESULTS from 2005 to 2010.â&#x20AC;?

Luistro had mentioned that FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL .!4 AVERAGE -03 WAS WHILE NEGLIGIBLE GAINS WERE ATTAINED IN THE ELEMENTARY .!4 AVERAGE

SUCH THAT THE -03 IN INCHED UP TO BY 4HE EARLIEST 'RADE .!4 RESULT ONLINE WAS THAT OF WHICH WAS AND THAT OF FOR 'RADE WHICH WAS This correspondent had requested the DepEd for the entire RESULTS DATA OF THE .!4 BUT ALL IT PROVIDED WERE THE RESULTS FROM TO )N EMAILS ON -ARCH THIS correspondent asked the DepEd REGIONAL DIRECTORS OF .#2 #ARAGA #ORDILLERA !DMINISTRATIVE 2Egion (CAR), Autonomous Region OF -USLIM -INDANAO !2-- AND 2EGIONS

AND FOR REACTION TO 'ATCHALIAN S assumption that NAT scores relECTED THE PREVAILING QUALITY OF

education.

Like Caraga, Regions 9, 12, 8 AND WHICH WERE ALSO CONSISTENT frontrunners in the NAT, were but a SHADOW OF THEIR OLD SELVES IN

LOSING NEARLY HALF OF THEIR SCORES AT

AND

RESPECTIVELY Because of the setbacks, ReGION TUMBLED FROM .O TO .O WITH -03 2EGION FROM .O TO .O WITH -03 2EGION FROM .O TO .O WITH -03 AND 2EGION FROM .O TO .O WITH -03 )N THE FOUR REGIONS LOST MORE GROUND Â&#x2021; 2EGION BY POINTS 2EGION BY points, Caraga by 2.88 points and 2EGION BY POINTS On the other extreme, ARMM, #!2 AND 2EGION INCURRED LOSSES BELOW THE NATIONAL AVERAGE OF -03 AT AND

RESPECTIVELY BASED ON THEIR SCORES 4HIS RESULTED to drastic changes in their rankings, with CAR assuming the top POSITION FROM .O WITH -03 2EGION JUMPING FROM .O TO .O WITH -03 AND ARMM moving up from No. 15 TO .O WITH -03

FIRST DAY BLUES

Grade school pupils (top photo) check their names among the list of enrollees at the President Corazon Aquino Elementary School in Quezon City on the first day of class on Monday, June 3. Meanwhile, Aeta children (right) attend their first day of class in makeshift classrooms at the Diaz Elementary School in Porac, Pampanga.

Temporary classrooms were set up after regular classrooms were destroyed by the earthquake last April. PHOTOS BY ROGER RAĂ&#x2018;ADA AND DJ DIOSINA

New hope at Manilaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier university

BY ALFRED G. GABOT

First of two parts WITH the resounding election of a new mayor in Manila, Mayor-elect Francisco Domagoso, the door has been opened for a discussion on the future of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier university, the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM). Readily, a proposal for the appointment of a new president and officials in the university, preferably led by those coming from its ranks of alumni, has been put forward and immediately got the support of the PLM community â&#x20AC;&#x201D; officials, alumni, faculty and parents. City Hall officials, we learned, have also joined the clamor for new leadership and revisiting its mission and vision to ensure its continued success as a center of academic excellence in the city and the country.

We learned that Domagoso himself is serious about â&#x20AC;&#x153;putting things in orderâ&#x20AC;? at the university. This is understandable â&#x20AC;&#x201D; being a product himself of the PLM Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program. He was also a frequent visitor in the university campus in Intramuros while he was a threeterm councilor, three-term vice mayor and member of the PLM Board of Visitors as per the University Charter (Republic Act 4196), which was signed into law by President Diosdado Macapagal on June 19, 1965.

Domagosoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first order could be the appointment of a regent, who would be confirmed by the City Council and who would be elected president of PLM. The new president will take over from Dr. Maria Leonora â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lenyâ&#x20AC;?Vasquez de Jesus, the current president, who possessed all the qualifications when appointed unlike some previous appointees. According to published records, however, she is now 68 years old, way past the retirement age of 65, which is the age of retirement for presidents of state universities and colleges (SUCs) and local universities and colleges (LUCs).Â

The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has decided many times on the matter of age qualification of the president of PLM and its sister university, the Universidad de Manila (UDM), formerly the City College of Manila (CCM) during the terms of mayors Alfredo Lim and Joseph Estrada. This involves the cases of Justice Artemio Tuquero (former president of PLM and UDM), Justice Rodolfo Pallatao (former UDM president), and Amado Dizon and Arturo Coronel as former president and vice president of CCM, respectively.

During the administration of Lim, Tuqueroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appointment as UDM president was twice invalidated by the CSC, which cited his lack of earned doctorate degree and his being past the retirement age.

Despite this, when Estrada took over, he named Tuquero as PLM president.

Estrada eventually let go of Justice Tuquero and replaced him with Chairman of the Board of Regents Dean Amado Valdez, in a temporary capacity. In its rulings, the CSC stated: â&#x20AC;&#x153;WHEREFORE, this Commission resolves to rule that no person who has reached the compulsory retirement age of sixty-five (65) can be appointed as State Colleges and Universities President for the first time.â&#x20AC;?

Amid that background, Domagoso will have the opportunity to appoint for the first time a PLM alumnus as next president of the university. It has come to our knowledge that, indeed, he is determined to name an alumnus who is well qualified to the post as per Commission on Higher Education and CSC rules. That alumnus is a homegrown product of PLM with degrees in economics and business administration, law and the required earned doctorate. Moreover, this alumnus has served PLMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal office and the PLM Board of Regents, as well as the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal department.

Thus, the PLM community will welcome his imminent appointment and stewardship of the

54-year-old city university, whose roster of degree holders include former Associate Justice Antonio Nachura of the Supreme Court, Philippine Senators Panfilo Lacson and Loren Legarda, United States Sen. Dianne Feinstein, incoming California Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Jose (California) International Airport Authority Commissioner George Gange, Commissioner Jerry Clarito of Illinoiis, Manhattan lawyer Manuel Quintal, Dr. Cris Icban and The Manila Timesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dr. Dante Ang, among others. Knowing the incoming mayor and PLM president to be familiar with the ins and outs of the university, they are expected to put things in order, such that the terms and proper representation as defined in the PLM Charter of members of the PLM Board of Regents should be observed and followed strictly. Many regents lately were appointed without defining their terms or tenure and without naming what sector they represent in the Board of Regents. Section 4 of the PLM Charter states: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Board of Regents shall be composed of the president of the university and five members, all of whom shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City of Manila, with the consent of the Municipal Board: Provided, That of the six members appointed by the Mayor, one shall come from the faculty, another from the alumni of the said university when such alumnus shall be available, and one of the others to be a recognized educator or authority in the field of education.

The Superintendent of Schools for the City of Manila shall be ex-officio member of the Board of Regents.

The Board of Regents shall elect their chairman from among themselves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of the six members first appointed as above provided, the Mayor shall designate one to serve for one year, one to serve for two years, one to serve for three years, one to serve for four years,

one to serve for five years and one for six years.

Thereafter, the successors of such members shall hold office for a term of six years or until their successors shall have been appointed and qualified. In case of vacancy in the Board of Regents by reason of resignation, death or other incapacity of one or more of its members, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Mayor of the City of Manila, with the consent of the Municipal Board, and the appointee shall hold office for the unexpired portion of the term. All members of the Board of Regents shall be citizens of the Philippines. No person in the employ of or with financial interest in any educational institution in any capacity whatsoever, except those exercising purely professional functions, shall be eligible for membership in the Board. The members shall serve without compensation other than allowances for attendance at the meetings of the Board or on other official business authorized by resolution of the Board.â&#x20AC;?

There is also a need to define clearly the alumni and faculty representation of the PLM Board of Regents. The PLM Charter does not provide that the PLM Alumni Association, or PLMAAI, president should automatically be a regent representing the alumni and the Faculty Association president as faculty regent. The Charter provisions should be amended, so the PLMAAI president should also be made the alumni regent in the same way the Faculty Association president should serve as faculty regent.

But there is nothing that bars the mayor and the City Council from appointing the Faculty Association president and the Alumni Association president as representatives in the Board of Regents, and this could be a tradition which Mayor Domagoso could

start, without even Congress amending the Charter which is a long legislative process. I was appointed and had served for two terms of six years each as a Regent, but I did not represent the alumni; the Alumni Regent was Aguinaldo Miravalles who was PLMAAI president. If the incoming PLM president would opt for congressional amendment later, it should include adding the Student Council president as Student Regent just like those in other state colleges and universities such as the University of the Philippines. Somebody should champion these proposed amendments in the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Another issue that surfaced recently, which the City Hall should address, is the discovery by the City Council during a recent deliberation of the PLM budget of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;bloatedâ&#x20AC;? set of vice presidents and assistant vice presidents, who reportedly outnumber those in some bigger SUCs. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for Mayor-elect Domagoso to instruct the PLM Board of Regents to streamline the PLM organization and make it more efficient and effective. It is ironic that the PLM management abolished certain colleges and programs reportedly to â&#x20AC;&#x153;economize,â&#x20AC;? but what followed are the creation of new positions for several vice presidents and assistant vice presidents and other items, which required millions of pesos in additional expenses.

ALFRED G. GABOT is a journalist, book author, professor and an alumnus of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, belonging to the pioneer batch of 1968. He served for two consecutive terms, of six years each, as a member of the PLM Board of Regents. He is putting final touches to his book on PLM from the perspective of a pioneer student, professor and university official. Â