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SWS surveys are surreal: Filipinos are citizens, not customers

DUTERTE MEETS WITH WATER OFFICIALS President Rodrigo Duterte meets with officials from the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System led by Chairman Franklin Demonteverde, at MalacaĂąan Palace on Tuesday.

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D U T E R T E TO WAT E R E X E C S:

‘Shape up or ship out’

BY CATHERINE S. VALENTE AND GLEE JALEA

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House pulls out 2019 budget it sent to Senate THE (OUSE OF 2EPRESENTATIVES IS kNALLY SET to break the budget impasse as it withdrew on Wednesday the 2019 budget it sent to the Senate.

Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr., chairman of the appropriations committee, said the House’s acting secretary general Dante Roberto Maling was ordered to “physically retrieve� the General Appropriations Bill (GAB) sent to the Senate on March 11.

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METROPOLITAN Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Administrator Reynaldo Velasco on Wednesday said he would not resign for now, as he promised to comply with President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to resolve the water shortage in Metro Manila.

During a briefing in MalacaĂąang, Velasco vowed to craft a 50-year comprehensive roadmap to help ensure water supply.

“Kakayanin natin ‘yan. If I cannot do it, I will resign immediately,â€? Velasco told reporters, a day after meeting the President. “We are not worried about the water supply until 2037, which is the end of the concession agreement but we have to go beyond that because ang utos ng Presidente (the directive of the President), and even the Senate‌gumawa ng masterplan diyan

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(is to make a master plan), so we will do the roadmap maybe up to 50 years,� he added.

Velasco admitted that no one in the MWSS board had offered to resign because the President did not ask for it during a meeting in MalacaĂąang on Tuesday night.

He said Duterte instead gave them time to fix the problem or lose their jobs.

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PH still on ‘White List’ – Marina THE Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) broke its silence and insisted on Wednesday that the Philippines is still on the “White List� of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

It was reacting to the exclusive report of The Manila Times that the country “might be excluded�

from the list for failure to comply with global reporting standards.

The White List pertains to parties or countries confirmed by the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) to have communicated information that demonstrates that full and complete effect is given to relevant provisions of the IMO SubCommittee on Human Element, Training

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Dry season to come earlier than usual

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$UTERTE ALSO THREATENED TO kRE THE HEADS OF THE state-run MWSS and terminate the concessionaires’ contracts, Malacaùang said on Wednesday.

In a statement, Palace spokesman Salvador 0ANELO SAID THE 0RESIDENT TOLD -733 OFkCIALS TO “shape up or ship out,â€? during a 40-minute meeting in MalacaĂąang on Tuesday night. “The Chief Executive told them he was not going

HE’S BACK President Rodrigo Duterte meets Moro National Liberation Front Chairman Nur Misuari in Malacaùang on Tuesday. MALACAÑANG PHOTO

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THE DRY season might come earlier this year compared with last year and prolong the effects of the weak El NiĂąo, the state weather bureau said.

Analiza Solis, chief of climate information monitoring and prediction of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), said the start of the dry season might be declared toward the end of March, a few weeks earlier than last year’s start, which was on April 10. “The position of pressure systems indicates if the northeast monsoon is about to end or transition to the dry season,� Solis told The Manila Times.

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THURSDAY March 21, 2019

CA junks Trillanes plea to halt rebellion trial

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HE #OURT OF !PPEALS #! HAS REJECTED A PLEA OF 3EN !NTONIO 4RILLANES TH FOR A STAY ORDER TO HALT HIS PROSECUTION IN CONNECTION WITH A REBELLION CASE STEMMING FROM THE .OVEMBER -ANILA 0ENINSULA SIEGE This means that the Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 150 can proceed with a trial of the case against the senator, in connection with the revived rebellion charges against him, after President Rodrigo Duterte revoked his amnesty that was granted by thenPresident Benigno Aquino 3rd.

In a four-page resolution, a copy of which was obtained by The Manila Times, the CA’s Ninth Division on Tuesday ruled to dismiss the petition for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and/or writ of preliminary injunction. “Accordingly, the application for a temporary restraining order or a writ of preliminary prohibitory injunction is denied at this time,� the resolution, penned by Justice Apolinario Bruselas Jr. and dated March 18, 2019, read.

Justices Myra Garcia Fernandez, the senior member, and Geraldine

Macaraig, the junior member, concurred with the ruling.

Bruselas, Fernandez and Macaraig are also the regular members of the CA’s Ninth Division.

The appellate court said it could not grant the plea for TRO of Trillanes because it would touch the merits of the case. “Given the foregoing state of facts, the ancillary remedies applied for may not be granted at this time without running afoul with the principle that provisional reliefs may not be granted in advance of the main action where the provisional relief is the very remedy prayed for in the complaint of petition,� it said.

The CA argued that it “may not temporarily restrain or preliminarily enjoin the prosecution of the criminal action for rebellion at this stage because to do so would be to grant the principal prayer for certiorari, prohibition and/or injunction

WITHOUT THE BENEkT OF HEARING u It ordered the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to kLE THEIR COMMENT WITHIN DAYS FROM NOTICE 4RILLANES WILL HAVE kVE days to reply to the same.

The DoJ and the OSG ordered the revival of the rebellion case of Trillanes, following the revocation of his amnesty.

In a petition for certiorari lodged by the senator before the CA and dated March 11, 2019, he prayed to stop RTC Branch 150 Judge Elmo Alameda from proceeding with the trial of his case.

Trillanes asked the court to revoke Alameda’s decisions to grant the motions of the DoJ, order the arrest of Trillanes and issue a hold departure order against him.

He assailed these orders of the lower court, stating that Alameda committed grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of jurisdiction in refusing to admit the CERTIkCATE OF AMNESTY ISSUED BY THE Department of National Defense to petitioner as proof that he had applied for and/or was granted amnesty under Proclamation 75.

Trillanes said the burden of proof on the accusation of the government against him rested with the prosecution.

On Nov. 24, 2010, Aquino

signed a proclamation pronouncing an amnesty to active and former personnel of the AFP and Philippine National Police (PNP), as well as their supporters who had committed crimes punishable under the Revised Penal Code, the Articles of War and other laws in connection with the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, the 2006 Marines stand-off and the 2007 Manila Peninsula incident that resulted in the rebellion charges.

On Aug. 31, 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte signed Proclamation 572 declaring void the amnesty granted to Trillanes under Proclamation 75 on the ground that he had failed to comply with the necessary requirements for its grant, including the filing of his application and admission of guilt.

Trillanes sought relief from the Supreme Court, challenging the proclamation, but the tribunal junked his plea for a TRO and remanded factual issues of the cases to the trial courts.

The Makati RTC Branch 148 dismissed a motion seeking Trillanes’ arrest, but declared the invalidation of the amnesty as valid.

The DoJ appealed the decision in October 2018, but lost anew, prompting the OSG to seek redress before another division of the CA.

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Another ‘sermon’ MWSS officials received another long sermon from lawmakers Wednesday morning after it was revealed that the agency was getting about P1 billion in annual fees from water concessionaires, partly to repay debts.

MORO National Liberation Front (MNLF) Chairman Nur Misuari has come back from an overseas trip and reported to President Rodrigo Duterte at MalacaĂąang on Tuesday evening.

Duterte, along with National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. and Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo, received Misuari.

The MNLF chief was joined by other members of the front.

No other details on the meeting were given to members of the media.

Misuari’s meeting with Duterte came after visits to the United Arab Emirates and Morocco.

Earlier, the President said he had asked the police, military and the courts to allow Misuari to travel abroad even if the latter is facing charges in the Philippines.

The MNLF chairman is facing graft and malversation cases in connection with an allegedly anomalous procurement of textbooks during his term as governor of the defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

He is also facing rebellion charges

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MWSS “He said shape up or ship out. In other words, fix the problem first. If you cannot fix it, go. He has given us time to fix the problem, so I’m trying to address it so I will not be fired,� Velasco said.

The MWSS chief said he was willing to step down if Duterte asked for it, saying all presidential appointees served at the pleasure of the President. could effectively allow Beijing to take full control of Manila’s patrimonial resources in case of a default.

Sen. Grace Poe, the committee chairman, said she would await submissions of the MWSS administrator who vowed to forward to SENATORS A COPY OF THE kNANCING for Kaliwa Dam, which was sealed when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the country in November last year. “We will look into that so that it could be included in our committee report that should serve as a public record that everybody can scrutinize,� said Poe, who led an inquiry into the water shortage on Tuesday.

Shape up to listen to their explanation as to why there was a water shortage as such would be just plain excuses.

They simply did not do their job. !LL THEY CARE ABOUT IS GET PROkT FROM the water of the people and to their sufferance as well,� Panelo said. “The President told them they could have simply anticipated such shortage and could have done something about it. They had to wait for him to threaten them with personally rushing to Manila from Davao to grapple with the crisis before they moved to end it. The Chief Executive bluntly told them to ‘shape up or ship out!’� he added.

-733 OFkCIALS WERE TOLD TO SUBmit a report before April 7.

Elaborating further on the meeting, which he described as more of a “monologue� by the President, Panelo said: “In a stern message delivered without even once lookING AT THE OFkCIALS THE OBVIOUSLY outraged President threatened to kRE THE -733 OFkCIALS AND TERMInate the concessionaires’ contracts.�

He said the President would decide “whether heads will roll or whether the contracts of the concessionaires will be terminated� after the submission of the report. g(E $UTERTE SAID THE OFkCIALS knew of the problem leading to THE STOPPAGE OF THE lOW OF WATER but they did not resolve to prevent it from happening,� Panelo said.

Manila Water, the east zone concessionaire, had been implementing water interruptions in several areas in Metro Manila and Rizal to ensure that water supply would last until June or the rainy season.

Nur Misuari returns, reports to Duterte

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Manila Water President and Chief Executive Officer Ferdinand dela Cruz and Maynilad Chief Operating Officer Randolph Estrellado testify during the House inquiry into the Metro Manila water shortage. PHOTO BY RUY L. MARTINEZ During the public inquiry of the House Committee on Public Accounts, panel Chairman Minority Leader Danilo Suarez said the MWSS budget should come from the General Appropriations Act (GAA) instead of Maynilad and Manila Water, which had been paying at least P400 million each year to the government agency. “We have been suggesting that MWSS budget should come from the GAA. They perform their job as a REGULATORY OFkCE 4HE OPERATIONS AND expenditures of MWSS is being paid by the two service concessionaires.

So the regulator is being paid by the regulatee,� Suarez said.

-AYNILAD #HIEF /PERATING /FkCER Randolph Estrellado explained: “We pay concession fees to MWSS. In my own understanding, part of that goes to payment of debts. That is comprised of cost of operations of MWSS, where their expenses are coming from. It’s now P400 million for operations, from Maynilad and Manila Water per annum.�

Manila Water Chief Executive /FkCER &ERDINAND DELA #RUZ GAVE A DIFFERENT kGURE AND SAID -733 receives P522 million from each of the water concessionaires annually,

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Buhay party-list Rep. Jose “Lito�

Atienza said Maynilad and Manila Water should be reminded of their obligation of completing its coverage of wastewater facilities to address the shortage, before imposing hefty service fees on the public. “I demand a refund here of all that you have paid for. People are very angry and I’m delivering the anger of the people in this committee. You have failed‌and we cannot take your ‘sorry,’â€? an angry Atienza noted.

The committee backed proposals ‘Wait for new rates’ to get water from the Kanan River Bulk Water supply and the Sumag MWSS Chief Regulator Patrick Ty River diversion project to address reiterated to the panel that instead the shortage.

OF ADMINISTRATIVE kNES THEY COULD “Why are we going to compete only impose rate rebasing on the with the private sector just because two utilities. we have an offer from the Chinese Rate rebasing is a process of ad- that they are willing to lend you JUSTING WATER RATES EVERY kVE YEARS money?� Suarez said, referring to based on performance, and is a way the China-funded Kaliwa Dam in for the government to ensure that Quezon Province, to be built by the UTILITIES DO NOT ACCUMULATE PROkTS government starting July. and losses. The next rebasing is set The Senate Committee on Public in 2022.

Services will scrutinize the loan For Bayan Muna party-list Rep. agreement with China for the conCarlos Zarate, the MWSS should struction of the Kaliwa Dam, amid NOT WAIT kVE YEARS TO CHARGE -A- charges that a provision of the deal FACTORING INlATION -733 #ORPORATE /FkCE $EPUTY Administrator Moro Lazo said part of the concessionaires’ fees goes to the salaries of over 150 personnel of the agency.

Lawmakers questioned the regulatory capability of the MWSS amid these hefty fees. “To the MWSS Regulatory OfkCE ) THINK YOU HAVE FAILED IN YOUR regulatory function. We cannot expect the concessionaires to police themselves,� said Nueva Ecija Rep. Rosanna Vergara.

and violation of the international humanitarian law over a 20-day attack on Zamboanga City in 2013.

Misuari went into hiding after the Zamboanga siege, but he was granted temporary liberty when Duterte came to power.

Malacaùang defended Duterte’s decision to let Misuari leave the country, saying the President merely persuaded, not interfered with, the court.

Late last month, Duterte met with Misuari also at the Palace after the President revealed there were “rumblingsâ€? within MNLF, which had voiced its opposition to the composition of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) that replaced the ARMM. Misuari has met Duterte multiple times in MalacaĂąang.

Duterte had said his government would pursue peace with both the MNLF and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, whose 2014 peace deal with the Aquino government led to the establishment of the BARMM.

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“Anytime. I would like to remind you that all of us in the board are under the pleasure of the President. We are presidential appointees. Anytime he feels like we can’t do it, and others can take our place, that’s welcome,�

Velasco said. “If he asked for it last night, including the board, I would have volunteered, I would take responsibility and spare the board. But since he did not ask for it, I am still here,� he added.

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ment Aqueduct 7 being constructed by the agency, which has secured the National Economic and Development Authority’s approval and undergone a feasibility study.

4HE AGENCY HAS ALREADY kNISHED two tunnels that could accommodate an additional 2,400 MLD. The project cost will be equally split between the two water service providers. The construction of the tunnel will result in savings of about 25 to 30 percent because of the boring equipment for a separate project. “If we save about P750 million, then it will translate to savings for the tariff,� Velasco said.

Under the concession agreement signed by the MWSS with New tunnel from Manila Water and Maynilad, the Angat Dam two entities can recover the costs incurred for improving water supManila Water and Maynilad are also ply and services through the rate planning to start within the year a rebasing process, wherein water P3.2-billion tunnel to increase the TARIFF IS ADJUSTED EVERY kVE YEARS volume of water that can be conTy said, however, that it would be veyed from Angat Dam to ensure risky for both entities to undertake SUFkCIENT WATER SUPPLY IN THE FUTURE the project because the agency does “We have been convinced by not preapprove projects.

MWSS to include in the common “It was not included in the busipurpose facility the building of ness plan. That’s why it was not inthe other tunnel to augment the cluded in the rate rebasing last time. capacity of the conveyance from So it’s not yet priced in,� Ty said. the Angat to the portal,� Maynilad “That’s why they are being President and Chief Executive Of- asked to do it. They will pay for it. kCER 2AMONCITO &ERNANDEZ SAID AT That’s why [MWSS Administrator the sidelines of the Water Philip- Velasco] asked me to be reasonable pines 2019 Expo and Conference because it would be risky on their in Pasay City. part. The project may be disalFernandez said on Wednesday lowed,� he added.

THAT THE TWO COMPANIES WERE kNISHBut Fernandez said they could ing the technical plans and detailed RECOUP THE COST IN THE kFTH RATE engineering for the project. rebasing in 2022, adding that The existing water infrastructure concessionaires only implement has three tunnels and six aqueducts projects approved by the MWSS that convey 2,400 million liters per 2EGULATORY /FkCE day (MLD) of water allotted by the Fernandez also noted that MayniNatural Water Resources Board to lad has yet to collect P81 billion the MWSS. This then shared by from customers in the west zone Maynilad (2,400 MLD) and Manila since the concession agreement Water (1,600 MLD). commenced in 1997.

Last week, the MWSS asked Metro Fernandez said Maynilad would Manila’s two water concessionaires review its business plan and acto develop the conveyance tunnel celerate some of its short-term and called Tunnel 5, which will convey long-term plans to eventually lessen water from Angat Dam in Bulacan its dependence on Angat Dam. to the La Mesa Dam in Quezon City. WITH JORDEENE B. LAGARE AND JAVIER JOE ISMAEL The planned tunnel will comple-

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Duterte dismantles govt peace panel negotiating with ‘Reds’ PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has terminated the services of the governMENT PEACE PANEL kNALLY SHUTTING THE doors on the possible resumption of peace talks with communist rebels.

In a letter, Duterte ended Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd’s role as the administration’s chief

peace negotiator. He also wrote other members of the negotiating panel — Antonio Arellano, Angela Librado-Trinidad, and Rene Sarmiento — informing them of the termination of their services.

4HE /FkCE OF %XECUTIVE 3ECRETARY Salvador Medialdea confirmed

Free college law not fully implemented – Bam SEN. Paolo Benigno “Bam� Aquino 4th admitted on Wednesday that the free college law has not been fully implemented, particularly its “big parts� that deal with student loan and scholarship programs.

Aquino was the principal sponsor of Republic Act (RA) 10931 or the “Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act.� “Billions-worth of scholarships have not been given this year. It is not yet distributed completely,� Aquino said at the Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum.

What was implemented was the grant of free tuition and miscellaneous fees in state universities and colleges, local universities and colleges as well as state-run technical-vocational institutions, the senator said.

He said the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) was crafting a memorandum of agreement with private institutions on how funds for the Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) would be distributed.

T h e g ove r n m e n t a l l o t e d a budget of P16 billion for TES. �They have to make it fast because a lot of individuals are waiting for and depending on it and this is already budgeted,�

Aquino told reporters. “We urge CHEd to speed up the IMPLEMENTATION OF kNANCIAL AIDS TO students to ensure that there would

Q Sen. Paolo Benigno ‘Bam’ Aquino 4th not be palakasan (pulling of strings) or they would not have to seek help from senators and congressmen,� he added.

Aquino expressed hope that by May or April this year, the website OF THE 5NIkED &INANCIAL !SSISTANCE System for Tertiary Education Act 5NI&!34 WOULD BE OPERATIONAL so that applications for scholarships could be passed online.

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the government body mandated by RA 10687 to create and improve methods on government-funded StuDENT &INANCIAL !SSISTANCE 0ROGRAMS for tertiary education in public and private institutions.

The program could provide support to about 300,000 students.

Aquino expressed hope that Uni&!34 COULD BEGIN IMPLEMENTING ITS student loan program.

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DA pushes solarpowered irrigation THE government must ramp up the installation of solar-powered irrigation system (SPIS) in all regions to minimize the effects of El NiĂąo, according to Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel PiĂąol.

PiĂąol on Wednesday said while the Philippines could not prevent drought, putting up solar-powered irrigation could help farmers prepare and “neutralizeâ€? the damage caused by a long dry spell. “Unless we decide to invest in solar-powered irrigation system (SPIS) and implement it nationwide, our farmers will always suffer every time El NiĂąo hits the country,â€? he said. “We have to do it now or else we will regret it.â€?

In May last year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) commisSIONED ITS kRST FULLY OPERATIONAL SPIS in Matalam, North Cotabato that could irrigate as much as 40 hectares (ha) with a cost of about P6.4 million.

PiĂąol explained that that a solarpowered system was more effective and could be completed less than 6 months compared to the 10 to 20 years needed to build traditional irrigation dams.

This year, 169 units have either been completed or under construction to cover over 2,000 ha of rice farms.

The crops to be covered by SPIS

include lowland and upland rice, corn, coffee, cacao, coconuts, sugarcane and fruit-bearing trees.

This new farming technology, launched by President Rodrigo Duterte in March 2017, is projected to irrigate up to 500,000 ha by 2022.

PiĂąol noted that El NiĂąo has been occurring with “greater frequencyâ€? in the last two decades, hitting agricultural areas every two years.

Data from the DA’s Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Operation Center showed that agricultural damage caused by a weak El Niùo has reached P1.33 billion, affecting 78,348 metric tons of rice and corn.

The drought affected farmers in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Ilocos, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon), Mimaropa (Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan), Bicol, Western Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Davao, Soccsksargen (South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and General Santos City) and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

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Bello’s role as chairman of the government peace negotiating panel has been terminated “effective immediately.�

Bello was also directed to return TO THE OFkCE OF 0RESIDENTIAL !DVISER on Peace Process Carlito Galvez Jr. all the documents on stalled nego-

tiations with the Communist Party of the Philippines. “To ensure uninterrupted delivery of public service, you (Bello) are hereby directed to turn over ALL OFkCIAL DOCUMENTS PAPERS AND properties in your possession to THE /FkCE OF THE 0RESIDENTIAL !D-

viser on Peace Process, Reconciliation and Unity,� the letter read.

Peace talks between the government and the National Democratic &RONT OF THE 0HILIPPINES BROKE down in 2017 because of rebel attacks on state troops.

In November 2017, Duterte is-

sued Proclamation 360 formally ending the government’s peace talks with the communist rebels.

A month later, he signed Executive Order 70 ordering the creation of a national task force to “end LOCAL COMMUNIST ARMED CONlICT u CATHERINE S. VALENTE

Ballot printing finished in April – Comelec

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HE Commission on Elections (Comelec) IS CONkDENT THAT THE PRINTING OF BALLOTS FOR THE -AY ELECTIONS WOULD BE kNISHED AHEAD of schedule.

On Wednesday, the Comelec said 60 percent of ballots have been printed, leaving plenty of time for the commission to distribute these around the country.

Comelec spokesman James

Jimenez said a report from the Printing Committee show that 38,347,754 ballots had been printed as of March 19.

These represent 60.24 percent of the 63,662,481 total ballots.

Jimenez said the National Printing Office (NPO) continues to print one million ballots a day. At this rate, “ballot printing might be completed before the Holy Week begins,� Jimenez said. “If nothing goes wrong, we will BE ABLE TO kNISH PRINTING DAYS early,� he added.

The remaining ballots to be printed are for Regions 1, 2 and the National Capital Region (NCR) or Metro Manila.

There are 61,843,750 registered

voters for the May 13 elections, but 1,818,731 more ballots will be printed.

Jimenez explained that 1.1 million ballots would be used FOR THE kNAL TESTING AND SEALING process, while the rest would be demonstration ballots allotted for vote-counting machines roadshow and demonstration purposes.

The printing of ballots started a month late because of the delay IN THE RELEASE OF OFkCIAL NAMES OF national candidates.

LOCSIN: PH WILL LOOK OUT FOR CHINESE &/2%)'. !FFAIRS 3ECRETARY 4EOdoro Locsin Jr. on Wednesday assured China that the Duterte government would look out for the welfare of Chinese in the Philippines.

Locsin paid a courtesy call on Chinese Vice President Wang 1ISHAN IN "EIJING TO BEGIN HIS kRST OFkCIAL VISIT TO #HINA 7ANG REAFkRMED #HINA S COMmitment to strengthen bilateral relations with the Philippines.

Locsin said he and Wang discussed what Manila and Beijing had accomplished so far, “of differences we have yet to resolve; of the need to set them aside as we pursue more enriching and advantageous common goals.� “This augurs well for the eventual resolution of differences in a fashion that does full justice to the honor of both our nations who have learned, bitterly and then proudly, that a nation’s most valuable possession is not wealth or power but honor,� he said. “Thus, you have our assurance that the Philippines will look out for your people in my country as I have seen China look out for our

Q Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan (right), meets Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. in Beijing, China.

AP PHOTO people in yours,� Locsin said in A JOINT PRESS BRIEkNG WITH 7ANG Locsin said the mutual respect between President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping laid the foundation of a revitalized

relationship between the Philippines and China.

Also present during the meeting were Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and the Philippine economic MANAGERS LED BY &INANCE 3ECRETARY

Carlos Dominguez 3rd, who are in China for the Philippine Economic "RIEkNG 4HEY BRIEFED 7ANG ON THE progress of Philippines-China infrastructure cooperation.

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I will be the people’s voice – Enrile &/2-%2 3ENATE PRESIDENT Juan Ponce Enrile on Wednesday vowed to give voice to &ILIPINOS REGARDLESS OF THEIR political color if he wins in the May elections.

He made the remark amid the heated exchanges between the senatorial candidates of Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HnP) and the opposition’s “Otso Diretso.� “I am not with HnP or Otso $IRETSO ) AM WITH THE &ILIPINO people. I am at the center of politics in the elections this year to be a voice to the people in the

Senate, so that they know what is really happening to this country,� he told voters from Western and Central Visayas.

The veteran lawmaker said he would focus on determining the causes of pressing problems confronting ordinary people. “I will find out why the prices of electricity, fuel and water are increasing,� Enrile said during a campaign rally in San Enrique, Iloilo. g) ALSO WANT TO kND OUT WHY the government is allowing the importation of sugar and other foods from other countries. That

is dangerous,� he added. “I will be the people’s voice in the Senate to question why the government is allowing that. That is the reason why, at 95 years old, ) AM STILL kGHTING TO SERVE THE country.�

Enrile also consulted with Iloilo and Cebu residents to gain insights on the impact of El NiĂąo in the Visayas region. “Because of El NiĂąo, the water supply is dwindling. Thousands of farmers are affected because of the destruction this brings to their crops, and that’s a concern because Visayas is a major pro-

ducer of rice,� he said. “This is one of the problems that I intend to prioritize in the Senate,� Enrile added.

Despite his age, the former senator toured several towns and cities in the Visayas. On Monday, Enrile met with IlOILO 2EP &REJENEL "IRON AND attended forums in Passi and San Enrique. He then proceeded to Cebu on Tuesday and Wednesday and made courtesy calls with Talisay Mayor Eddie Gullas and Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Boy Radaza.

BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO

Acceptance of a simple donation of an immovable property Dear PAO, My parents would like to donate a parcel of land located in Tagaytay City as an act of gratitude because they have been staying with me since December 2000. They already executed a Deed of Donation and went to a lawyer to have it notarized. What are the things that I need to do to make the donation valid and effective?

Martina Dear Martina, To answer your question, we shall refer to the provisions of the Civil Code, to wit: “Article 745. The donee must accept the donation personally, or through an authorized

DEAR PAO

PERSIDA ACOSTA person with a special power for the purpose, or with a general AND SUFkCIENT POWER OTHERWISE

the donation shall be void. “Article 746. Acceptance must be made during the lifetime of the donor and of the donee. (n) “Article 749. In order that the donation of an immovable may be valid, it must be made in a public document, specifying therein the property donated and the value of the charges which the donee

must satisfy. “The acceptance may be made in the same deed of donation or in a separate public document, but it shall not take effect unless it is done during the lifetime of the donor. “If the acceptance is made in a separate instrument, the donor shall be notified thereof in an authentic form, and this step shall be noted in both instruments.�

(Emphases supplied) It is clear from the above-mentioned provisions that for a donation to be valid, the donor must execute a deed of donation in a public document, specifying the property donated and the donee must expressly manifest her acceptance of the donation in the same document or in a separate

document during the lifetime of the donor.

In the case of Elvira T. Arangote vs. Spouses Martin Maglunob and Lourdes S. Maglunob and Romeo Salido '2 &EB 18, 2009), the Supreme Court through Associate Justice Minita Chico-Nazario, elucidated: “There are three requisites for the validity of a simple donation of a real property, to wit: (1) it must be made in a public instrument; (2) it must be accepted, which acceptance may be made either in the same Deed of Donation or in a separate public instrument; and (3) if the acceptance is made in a separate instrument, the donor must be NOTIkED IN AN AUTHENTIC FORM

and the same must be noted in both instruments. xxx The title to an immovable property does not pass from the donor to the donee by virtue of a Deed of Donation until and unless it has been accepted in a public instrument and the donor duly NOTIkED THEREOF. xxx Where the Deed of Donation fails to show the acceptance, or where the formal notice of the acceptance, made in a separate instrument, is either not given to the donor or not noted in the Deed of Donation and in the separate acceptance, the donation is null and void.� (Emphases supplied) You need to make the acceptance of the donation made by your parents in the same Deed

of Donation they executed or in a separate notarized instrument during their lifetime. The law requires you to notify your parents if your acceptance will be made on a separate instrument.

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.

Editor’s note: Dear PAO is a daily column of the Public !TTORNEY S /FkCE 1UESTIONS for Chief Acosta may be sent to dearpao@manilatimes.net

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E d i to r i a l A lesson in fuzzy trade data

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N an economic bulletin published on Tuesday, the Department of Finance (DoF) revealed an unusual problem in the country’s trade data: According to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Direction of Trade Statistics report, the Philippines EXPORTED ABOUT PERCENT MORE IN THAN DATA from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) indicated. The difference between the two figures WAS SIGNIFICANTLY WIDER THAN THE PERCENT DISCREPANCY SEEN IN The Finance department said the PSA statistics SHOWED A PERCENT DECLINE IN EXPORTS YEAR ON year but data gathered by the IMF from the Philippines’ trading partners showed that exports actually GREW BY PERCENT IN Philippine exports were apparently much larger than the government’s own data indicated, and that is actually good news.

That suggests that risks faced by our economy are, perhaps, not as worrisome as previously thought, and that the economy is still quite resilient.

The data discrepancy is welcome in the sense that it indicates the economy is stronger than some other metrics suggest.

It is a bit troubling, however, that there could be such a big gap between what the Philippines recorded as having exported, and what our trading partners recorded as having received. The implication is that government data may not be very reliable, which is a disturbing possibility to consider.

It is possible that the IMF data is not completely accurate, but this seems unlikely. The trade data gathered by the IMF is based on customs records of individual countries, which have no incentive to underreport their collections.

The DoF statement suggests that there are some common reasons for a discrepancy between the country’s own figures and external trade data. For instance, changes in currency exchange rates can change the value of shipments between the time they leave port here and arrive at their destination.

Some shipments might be misrecorded as a result of simple paperwork errors, or confusion in classifying shipments.

The reason the discrepancy between the PSA’s data and the IMF’s data is worrisome is that government data is used by businesses, analysts and government planners to plan business strategies, make forecasts of future economic conditions and set economic policy for the country.

Any plans, policies and forecasts that have been made based on government data that shows exports DECREASED IN ARE THEREFORE BASED ON WRONG INformation. This may not be a problem, but it could lead to ineffective or unintended policy action.

For example, the belief that exports decreased might attract government resources and attention to exporters who do not really need support, while other parts of the economy that do need attention are overlooked.

Hopefully the PSA will invest some time in assessing its own set of export data alongside that of the IMF, and the government can find ways to reconcile them.

By conducting a careful analysis, the government’s statistical authority can reassure businesses and the public that it is doing its best to constantly improve its data collection and recording practices, and provide the country with the most accurate information available. ~

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The ICC attacking our sovereignty

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EMBERSHIP in the United Nations (UN), or in similar transnational bodies such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), is an expression of solidarity by sovereign states with other states.

Adherence to international treaties and agreements is symbolic of the commitment of a sovereign state to a regime of processes, protocols, principles and standards that seek to maintain the global order. This is necessary in the context of possible CONlICTS BETWEEN AND AMONG STATES on various issues. However, aside from fostering peace by preventing the escalation of misunderstanding into full-blown wars, global agreements have also been forged

four core international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.

However, even as these international institutions and processes appear to establish norms, rules and TO AFkRM THE COMMITMENT OF STATES procedures that may bind member to uphold universal principles and countries, adherence to such are standards that are necessary not only always done in the context of respectto maintain good relationships be- ing the sovereignty of states. Spetween and among states, but also in CIkCALLY THE )## kRMLY UPHOLDS THE celebrating the rights and welfare of principle of complementarity, in that all humanity and ensuring that these it can only investigate and prosecute are respected by state signatories. It any of the four core international is in the latter context that the Rome crimes if the state is unable or unwillStatute evolved and entered into ing to prosecute. It is well-entrenched force in 2002 which established the as a basic principle in establishing International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction over international crimes that would have jurisdiction over to ensure that the sovereignty of

ON THE CONTRARY ANTONIO CONTRERAS

states is not disturbed or assaulted.

The principle of complementarity upon which the ICC is based strongly asserts that it is preferred that those crimes are investigated and prosecuted by the sovereign states using their own laws and processes.

It is in this context that one needs to assess the rationality in the move of President Duterte to cause the withdrawal of the Philippines from the )## WHICH BECAME kNAL ON -ARCH

7HILE HIS CRITICS ARE UP IN ARMS against the move, and paint it as if the heavens are going to fall upon us, and that our country will become a pariah in the world community of states, we have to also make them accountable

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Q MAKABENTA FROM A1 hindi tiyak kung nasisiyahan o hindi, medyo hindi nasisiyahan, o lubos na hindi nasisiyahan?�

In nearly all countries in the /N THIS BASIS 373 RATED THE WORLD PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH kRMS performance of the Duterte adminconduct job approval surveys or istration as either ‘excellent’, ‘very surveys of public attitudes towards good’, ‘good’ or ‘moderate.’ presidents or prime ministers.

In its fourth quarter survey in DeIt’s only in market research, to CEMBER LAST YEAR 373 REPORTED THAT IT ASSIST kRMS IN THE MARKETING OF FOUND PERCENT OF ADULT &ILIPINOS products, that pollsters conduct SATISkED PERCENT NEITHER SATISkED satisfaction surveys.

NOR DISSATISkED AND PERCENT DISSATISNowhere in the United States kED WITH THE GENERAL PERFORMANCE OF OR IN %UROPE WILL YOU kND A POLL- the Duterte administration, for a net ster surveying the satisfaction SATISFACTION RATING OF of citizens with their presidents If US pollsters reported such or prime ministers. They survey a rating on the Trump adminisstrictly citizen opinion on whether tration, Trump would probably they approve or disapprove of their tweet the Almighty his thanks leaders’ performance at their jobs. for such a happy turn of events.

7HEN REPUTABLE POLLSTERS INQUIRE about satisfaction, it is usually when A note on surrealism they measure the level of citizen CONkDENCE OR OPTIMISM ABOUT THE In the Philippines, President Duterte direction their country is taking. gets stratospheric ratings because our It is in this context that I say PRINCIPAL SURVEY kRM 373 REFUSES TO THE 373 SURVEYS ARE SURREAL OR conduct the standard job approval weird. Instead of asking whether survey that is used in advanced couna citizen respondent approves or tries and around the world. It insists disapproves of President Duterte’s on conducting its idiosyncratic ‘satisPERFORMANCE AS PRESIDENT 373 ASKS faction’ survey, which cannot arrive at WHETHER THE CITIZEN IS SATISkED OR a realistic picture of public attitudes DISSATISkED WITH $5 AS PRESIDENT to the presidency, because citizens are being asked the wrong questions. )T IS BECAUSE OF THIS THAT ) LABEL 373 Satisfaction on policy issues research and its results as ’surreal.’ I have looked up the word in )T GETS EVEN WEIRDER WHEN 373 INQUIries about citizen satisfaction on spe- both English and American English CIkC POLICY ISSUES ABOUT OF THEM dictionaries. Most of them refer you -ERCIFULLY 373 HELD BACK to the cultural movement early in the from asking respondents the 20th century, which launched surrealism in art and literature. following questions: Macmillan dictionary’s explana !RE YOU SATISkED OR DISSATISkED with the government’s killing of drug tion of the word is: “something surreal is so strange that you cansuspects/users in the war on drugs? !RE YOU SATISkED OR DISSATISkED not believe it is real.� with DU30’s treatment of women?

Example: “These surreal events !RE YOU SATISkED OR DISSATISkED eventually led to police arresting the with DU30’s frequent attacks on the teacher in her classroom.�

Catholic Church and Catholic clergy?

Longman’s explanation is: “a situaHow would you answer such tion or experience that is surreal is very questioning?

STRANGE AND DIFkCULT TO UNDERSTAND

In its all-purpose Filipino like something from a dream.�

QUESTIONNAIRE 373 ASKS THE RECollins defines the word as spondent this question: ‘dreamlike.’ “Gaano po kayo nasisiyahan o The term becomes clearer when hindi nasisiyahan sa pamamal- you look up the word ‘surrealism’ akad ng kasalukuyang adminis- IN 7IKIPEDIA (ERE IS WIKI S INTROtrasyon nasyonal tungkol sa mga ductory word on surrealism: programa o aksiyon? “Surrealism is a cultural moveMasasabi by ninyo na kayo ay lu- MENT THAT BEGAN IN THE EARLY S

bos nasisiyahan, medyo nasisiyahan, and is best known for its visual art-

SWS surveys

works and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself. Its aim was to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality�.

7ORKS OF SURREALISM FEATURE THE element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical MOVEMENT kRST AND FOREMOST WITH the works being an artifact. Leader AndrĂŠ Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement.

Surrealism developed out of the $ADA ACTIVITIES DURING 7ORLD 7AR ) and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the S ONWARD THE MOVEMENT SPREAD around the globe, eventually affecting THE VISUAL ARTS LITERATURE kLM AND MUsic of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.�

COSTLY AND DIFkCULT THAN SERVICING existing or repeat customers.

Is it valid to transfer this method of market research to public affairs?

No, because the subject of public affairs is different. The survey results will be deceptive.

Job approval ratings

None of this can replace the validity and relevance of the timetested method of public opinion research in public life: the presidential job approval rating.

It remains the standard of public opinion research.

Presidential job approval ratings were introduced by George 'ALLUP IN THE LATE S MOST LIKELY TO GAUGE PUBLIC SUPport for the president of the United States during his term. An approval rating is a percentage determined by a polling which indicates the percentage of respondents to an opinion poll who approve of a particular person or program.

Like most surveys that predict public opinion, the approval rating is subjective. Many unscientific approval rating systems Citizens, not customers exist that skew popular opinion.

The job approval rating remains If you know the name ‘Salvador generally accepted as a statistically Dali,’ you will comprehend what valid indicator of the comparative changes in the popular United surreal means. )S IT kTTING TO CALL THE 373 SATISFAC- States mood regarding a President.

In the latest public opinion poll tion surveys “surreal�? )T IS FITTING BECAUSE 373 HAS conducted by Rasmussen Reports on substituted a customer satisfaction US President Donald Trump’s job survey for a job approval survey, performance, Rasmussen reported which the public was likely expect- THAT 4RUMP HAD REGISTERED PERCENT APPROVAL AND PERCENT DISAPPROVAL ing. The trick is weird.

It asked survey respondents the 2ESPONDENTS IN 373 SURVEYS ARE question: “Do you approve or disapcitizens, not customers.

President Duterte is not a prod- prove of the way Donald Trump is uct for market research. Certainly handling his job as president?�

It is the same question being asked not a detergent.

A citizen is a sovereign in our con- in many other countries.

But here in the Philippines, Filipistitutional system of government, and nos are not asked the question. surely more than a customer.

Do we really not want to know Customer satisfaction research is that area of marketing research whether the people approve or which focuses on customers’ disapprove of DU30’s perforperceptions with their shopping mance as president? )T S ONLY THE 373 WHICH IS SAYor purchase experience.

Companies are interested in un- ing that we prefer to be asked derstanding what their customers WHETHER WE ARE SATISkED OR NOT think about their shopping or pur- with his performance.

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Q SALUDO FROM A1

Budget row )N *ANUARY ALONE PRIMARY GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES FELL BY NEARLY 0 BILLION !ND FOR THE kRST QUARTER ENDING NEXT WEEK &INANCE 3ECRETARY #ARLOS $OMINGUEZ RD SAID 0 BILLION WOULD NOT BE spent, since major infrastructure outlays covered IN THIS YEAR S 'ENERAL !PPROPRIATIONS !CT CAN ONLY BE STARTED AFTER #ONGRESS PASSES THE '!! )T COULD GET WORSE 4HE .ATIONAL %CONOMIC AND $EVELOPMENT !UTHORITY .%$! ESTIMATES THAT IF THE CURRENT REENACTED BUDGET IS USED TILL THIS MONTH ECONOMIC GROWTH THIS YEAR WOULD SLOW TO BETWEEN AND PERCENT FROM THE TARGET OF AROUND PERCENT )F THE NEW BUDGET COMES IN ONLY IN !UGUST GROWTH SLIDES TO ABOUT PERCENT

It’s not the principle 0ROTAGONISTS IN THE BUDGET BATTLE MOST ESPECIALLY 3ENATOR ,ACSON WOULD INSIST THAT PRINCIPLES NOT PROJECTED GROWTH ARE THE PARAMOUNT REASON IN OPPOSING WHAT HE INSISTS ARE ILLEGAL PORK BARREL INSERTIONS BY CONGRESSMEN )T S HARD TO TAKE HIM AT HIS WORD FOR TWO REASONS &IRST HE HASN T ACTUALLY PRESENTED A SINGLE EXAMPLE OF IMPROPER ITEMS PUT IN BY THE (OUSE 7HEN THE BUDGET CONTROVERSY STARTED LAST $ECEMBER HE CASTIGATED THE 0 BILLION ALLOTTED FOR THE DISTRICT OF 3PEAKER AND FORMER PRESIDENT 'LORIA !RROYO "UT NO SPECIkCS WERE GIVEN AS IF A ROUND kGURE WERE ALL THAT WAS NEEDED TO RENDER BUDGET ITEMS ILLEGAL ,ACSON S CLAIMS OF IMPROPRIETY GOT EVEN LESS BELIEVABLE WHEN IT EMERGED THAT 99 districts were allotted more money than ArROYO S SECOND DISTRICT OF 0AMPANGA /NE WOULD receive P8 billion, with no objection from the SENATOR WHO DETESTS THE 3PEAKER FOR THE $ACER #ORBITO MURDER CASE kLED AGAINST HIM IN ! SECOND REASON FOR DOUBTING ,ACSON WAS HIS SILENCE OVER PAST '!!S INCLUDING THE AND BUDGETS WHICH GOT THE 3UPREME Court to unanimously declare pork barrel, then called the Priority Development AssisTANCE &UND 0$!& UNCONSTITUTIONAL The justices ruled that PDAF lump-sum allocaTIONS FOR WHICH LEGISLATORS WERE TO BE CONSULTED ON SPECIkC PROJECTS TO SPEND ON VIOLATED THE

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SEPARATION OF POWERS BETWEEN THE ,EGISLATIVE AND %XECUTIVE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT 3O WHY WAS ,ACSON SILENT ON 0$!& WHICH IN FAIRNESS HE DECLINED ALL HIS YEARS AS SENATOR *UST A WILD GUESS BUT MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE IN

THEN 0RESIDENT "ENIGNO !QUINO RD SQUELCHED THE $ACER #ORBITO CHARGES ,ACSON THEN RETURNED TO THE 3ENATE FROM FUGITIVE EXILE ALONG WITH !NTONIO 4RILLANES TH ANOTHER !RROYO HATING SENATOR WHOSE CRIMINAL CASE !QUINO ALSO SET ASIDE ,ACSON WAS SILENT TOO ABOUT BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS UNDER PREVIOUS 3PEAKER 0ANTALEON !LVAREZ REPLACED BY !RROYO LAST *ULY !LVAREZ backers reportedly asked a senator’s support TO GET THEIR BIG ALLOCATIONS RESTORED Early this month, just when the House and 3ENATE SEEMED TO HAVE RESOLVED '!! DIFFERENCES in their bicameral conference, Lacson protested THE (OUSE ITEMIZATION OF ITS SHARE OF THE 0 BILLION LUMP SUM FOR HEALTH FACILITIES (IS BEEF CONGRESSMEN WHO VOTED FOR !RROYO AS 3PEAKER WOULD GET 0 MILLION EACH FOR THEIR constituencies, while those who didn’t were ALLOTTED 0 MILLION 0LAINLY ,ACSON PROTESTED NOT LUMP SUM ITEMIZATION BUT THE DISPARITY IN ALLOCATIONS FOR CONGRESSMEN 4HIS IS A kRST )N SUM A SENATOR PRESUMED TO tell the House how it should allocate its share of a LUMP SUM AGREED WITH THE 3ENATE IN BICAM 4HAT MAY WELL BE THE HEIGHT OF PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURTESY (OW WOULD SENATORS FEEL IF !NDAYA QUESTIONED '!! ALLOCATIONS FOR THE 3ENATE MINORITY

When pork isn’t pork 3O WERE BUDGET GRIPES BY CONGRESSMEN THE MAIN REASON FOR ,ACSON S PROTESTATIONS 7ELL

HERE ARE THE FACTS BASED ON THE NEWS )N EARLY $ECEMBER ,ACSON OBJECTED TO ALLOCATIONS TO THE '!! BILL APPROVED BY THE (OUSE AND SUBMITTED TO THE 3ENATE (E KEPT HARPING about tens of billions in purportedly anomaLOUS ITEMS ALLEGEDLY INSERTED IN FAVOR OF 3PEAKER !RROYO AND HER ALLIES 4HOUGH HE NEVER CITED EVEN A SINGLE OBJECTIONABLE PROGRAM OR PROJECT

MEDIA PUBLISHED HIS CLAIMS WITH NIL VALIDATION After a week or so, then Majority Leader RoLANDO !NDAYA *R DEBUNKED ,ACSON S ACCUSATION THAT 3PEAKER !RROYO WAS UNDULY FAVORED NOTING

THAT HER DISTRICT WAS .O AMONG CONGRESSIONAL JURISDICTIONS IN BUDGET ALLOTMENTS Then Andaya launched his own attack, lambastING "UDGET 3ECRETARY "ENJAMIN $IOKNO FOR ADDING 0 BILLION IN PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS WHICH THE $EPARTMENT OF 0UBLIC 7ORKS AND (IGHWAYS NEVER INCLUDED IN ITS PROJECTS !NDAYA ALSO ACCUSED $IOKNO OF IMPROPER ACTIONS RELATING TO A CONSTRUCTION kRM OWNED BY HIS SON IN LAW S FAMILY WHICH WAS GETTING HUGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS The Andaya-Diokno tussle ended early this MONTH WHEN THE LATTER WAS APPOINTED "ANGKO 3ENTRAL GOVERNOR SUCCEEDING THE LATE .ESTOR %SPENILLA 3OON AFTER THE (OUSE 3ENATE BICAM PANEL AGREED ON THE '!!

As was done before, the House then proceeded TO ITEMIZE LUMP SUM ITEMS ALLOCATED FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS (OUSE OPPOSITION LEADER %DCEL ,AGMAN A VETERAN OF MANY BUDGET DELIBERATIONS AFkRMED THE LEGALITY OF SUCH POST BICAM ITEMIZATION "UT ,ACSON PROTESTED CITING THE DISPARITY IN HEALTH FACILITIES FUNDING FOR !RROYO ALLIES AND OPPONENTS (E ALSO ARGUED THAT POST BICAM ITEMIZATION WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND CLAIMED ‡ AGAIN ZERO PROOF ‡ THAT EVERY CONGRESSMAN GOT 0 MILLION IN PORK )T WAS THE kRST EVER OBJECTION BY ANY LEGISLATOR AGAINST THE LONG ACCEPTED PROCESS OF DETAILING LUMP SUMS AGREED IN BICAM AN ACTION EVEN MADE COMPULSORY BY THE 3UPREME #OURT DECISION OUTLAWING UNITEMIZED PORK BARREL LUMP SUMS ,AST WEEK 0RESIDENT 2ODRIGO $UTERTE HIMSELF CONVENED 3ENATE AND (OUSE LEADERS TO SEEK AGREEMENT $ESPITE 0ALACE INTERVENTION HOWEVER

,ACSON AND 3ENATE 0RESIDENT 6ICENTE 3OTTO RD continued to oppose the House version of the '!! BILL ENROLLED AND SUBMITTED TO THE 3ENATE The House now looks set to withdraw its ENROLLED BUDGET BILL WHILE MAINTAINING THE LEGALITY OF ITS DRAFT '!! ,ACSON AND 3OTTO CLAIMED VINDICATION FOR THEIR OPPOSITION "OTTOM LINE ,ACSON OPPOSED THE DISPARITY BETWEEN BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR !RROYO ALLIES AND OPPONENTS ‡ A MATTER OUTSIDE 3ENATE JURISDICTION ‡ AND THE (OUSE S COMPLIANCE WITH THE 3UPREME #OURT S RULING AGAINST LUMP SUM PORK BARREL Thanks to this self-styled principled objector, the ECONOMY MAY LOSE AS MUCH AS PERCENT OF GROWTH .OW ONE CAN SEE WHY SOME QUARTERS WANT THE 3ENATE ABOLISHED

Urban transport

HE quality of life in the Philippines will drastically improve with safe, convenient and EFkCIENT TRANSPORTATION )F WE DESIGN TRANSPORTATION WITH ITS BENEkCIARIES IN MIND PEDESTRIANS will be protected from vehicular accidents and everyone will feel safer and be more aware of STREET ACTIVITY ESPECIALLY IN A SPRAWLING URBAN ENVIRONMENT LIKE -ETRO -ANILA 7E ALL DREAM of the day when Philippine cities will be truly SAFE CLEAN AND VIBRANT 7ITH THESE IN MIND LET US REVISIT THE CONCEPT OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION There are 20 modes of urban transportation THROUGH WHICH PASSENGERS AND GOODS ACHIEVE MOBILITY 4HERE ARE THREE BASIC TYPES LAND WATER AND AIR 4O DETERMINE WHICH MODE WILL BEST SUIT THE PURPOSE OF TRAVEL ) RECOMMEND EXAMINING THE technical, operational and commercial characterISTICS OF EACH 4ODAY LET US RECALL SOME UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED STANDARDS OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND DESIGN THAT WILL NEVER BE OUTMODED AND NEED TO BE REINFORCED IN THE 0HILIPPINE SETTING Cars dominate our streets and have rendered BIKING AND WALKING DIFkCULT FORMS OF TRAVEL EVEN THOUGH ENVIRONMENTALLY AND HEALTH WISE THESE ARE THE MOST IDEAL FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION )N URBAN TRANSPORT WALKING MUST ALWAYS BE kRST PRIORITY FOLLOWED BY BICYCLING PUBLIC TRANSIT

AND THEN PRIVATELY OWNED VEHICLES ) ALWAYS RECOMMEND A ROAD RIGHT OF WAY WITH ONE THIRD ALLOCATED TO TREES AND LANDSCAPING ANOTHER ONE third to pedestrians and bicycles, and the other ONE THIRD TO MOVING VEHICLES From an economic perspective, with the presENT ADMINISTRATION S "UILD "UILD "UILD PROGRAM well on its way, now is the best time to make INVESTMENTS IN THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY !CCORDING TO RECENT STUDIES BY THE !MERICAN )NSTITUTE OF !RCHITECTS INVESTMENT IN TRANSPORTATION WHEN INTEGRATED WITH LOCAL PLANNING YIELDS HIGH RETURNS 7HEN STRATEGICALLY INCORPORATED into a well-planned city, a railway project can cut pedestrians’ commute time and increase the VALUE OF HOMES AND ESTABLISHMENTS ALONG THE LINE OF DEVELOPMENT !LTHOUGH TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE CAN PROVE COSTLY IN THE BEGINNING

IT WILL ENABLE THE REGION TO GENERATE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND ATTRACT INVESTMENTS FOR DECADES This is what we hope to achieve with the imple-

FELINO A. PALAFOX, JR. mentation of the Clark Aerotropolis and the -ETRO $AVAO 5RBAN -ASTER 0LAN ,IVING IN A COUNTRY THAT FREQUENTLY EXPERIENCES natural and manmade calamities, we need to DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT RELIABLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS 7E CAN BE INSPIRED BY GLOBAL BEST practices from cities that make transportation AN INVESTMENT FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE )N .EW 9ORK "OSTON ,ONDON (ONG +ONG 3INGAPORE

3HANGHAI 3EOUL 4AIPEI AND 4OKYO AS WELL AS IN various European cities, urban development and BUILDINGS ARE gTRANSIT ENGAGED u #ITIZENS LIVING IN THESE CITIES ENGAGE IN DIALOGUE AND COMMUNICATE their ideas and solutions for the improvement of THEIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM 4RANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN MODEL CITIES HOST OPEN houses and online discussions and administer surveys to learn how they can serve commuters AND PEDESTRIANS BETTER 4HEY HAVE VERY INCLUSIVE transportation systems where it is normal for CEOs TO RIDE A SUBWAY ON A DAILY BASIS )NTERESTINGLY WE WILL ALSO kND THAT IN THESE CITIES MANY LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENTS SURROUND TERMINAL STATIONS AND MAKE TRAVELING ENJOYABLE AND CONVENIENT FOR PEOPLE 4HE 9OKOHAMA 3TAtion in Tokyo, one of the busiest stations in the WORLD TRANSPORTS NEARLY MILLION PASSENGERS each year and has become the nucleus of a commercial area that hosts most of the counTRY S MAJOR RETAIL CHAINS )N OUR OWN EFFORT TO CONNECT AND INTEGRATE A FRAGMENTED METROPOLIS

IT WILL BE A GOOD IDEA FOR US TO BUILD INCLUSIVE AND ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 4RANSPORTATION CONVENIENCE BEGINS WITH A connected network of streets that provide alterNATIVE ROUTES WITH REASONABLE WALKING DISTANCE BETWEEN DESTINATIONS !MERICAN 0LANNING !SSOCIATION 4HIS VISION IS IN LINE WITH OUR PLAN TO create a walkable Metro Manila, and one way to ACHIEVE THIS IS BY CONSTRUCTING PEDESTRIAN BRIDGEWAYS THROUGH WHICH PEOPLE CAN SAFELY PASS )N

A WELL PLANNED COMMUNITY THESE BRIDGEWAYS will lead people to transport terminals where they can choose from a variety of transportaTION MODES 4HESE STATIONS WILL ALSO BE STRATEGIC locations for stores and establishments because OF THE HIGH VOLUME OF PEDESTRIANS THAT WILL FORM THE BASE OF A GROWING MARKET ! HUMANELY DESIGNED NETWORK OF TRANSPORTATION PROMOTES NEIGHBORHOOD AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY 4HE .O DETRIMENT TO PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ARE FAST MOVING VEHICLES !S AN ARCHITECT AND URBAN PLANNER ) SEE THE POSSIBILITY OF PREVENTING ROAD FATALITIES BY INTERCONNECTING BUILDINGS WITH ELEVATED WALKWAYS ADDING PUBLIC TRANSIT walkways in LRT and MRT stations; and buildING HIGH QUALITY SIDEWALKS THAT GIVE PEDESTRIANS FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT SAFETY AND SECURITY 4HESE structures will be a platform for us to educate the YOUTH ABOUT RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP &OR INSTANCE

WE CAN TRAIN AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO COMPLY WITH ROAD SAFETY RULES BY DESIGNING INTERESTING AND CREATIVE PEDESTRIAN SPACES FOR EVERYONE Field studies reveal that a person’s level of AESTHETIC INTEREST IS A CRITICAL FACTOR IN CHOOSING A WALKING ROUTE ! PEDESTRIAN IS LESS WILLING TO WALK ACROSS A PARKING LOT TO REACH HIS DESTINATION YET WILL WALK THRICE AS LONG THE DISTANCE ALONG A STREET OF STOREFRONTS 4HIS IS WHERE MIXED USE AND TRANSPORT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENTS kND ITS PLACE IN A CITY ,OCATING STORES OFkCES RESIDENCES

SCHOOLS AND RECREATION SPACES WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF EACH OTHER IN A COMPACT NEIGHBORhood will attract the interest and attention of THOSE WHO USE URBAN TRANSPORTATION $ECORATED BUS STOPS STREET FURNITURE ART AND LANDSCAPING CAN ALL ENHANCE PUBLIC SPACES AND MAKE TRAVELING MORE INTERESTING AND PLEASANT FOR COMMUTERS The Philippines can still be at the forefront OF TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT )T MIGHT TAKE SOME YEARS BUT WORKING TOWARD A COMMON GOAL

MY COLLEAGUES AND ) AT 0ALAFOX !SSOCIATES AND 0ALAFOX !RCHITECTURE 'ROUP REMAIN OPTIMISTIC WHILE PLANNING COMMUNITIES AND DESIGNING BUILDINGS 7E VALUE PEOPLE kRST OR SOCIAL EQUITY

THEN PLANET EARTH OR THE ENVIRONMENT PROkT OR ECONOMIC GROWTH CULTURE HISTORY AND HERITAGE

AND INTERFAITH SPIRITUALITY WHILE WORKING FOR 'OD THE COUNTRY AND PLANET EARTH

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Why philosophy is practical

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)-% WAS WHEN NO COLLEGE STUDENT COULD REASONABLY HOPE TO GRADUATE who did not complete at least three SUBJECTS IN PHILOSOPHY AMONG WHICH WAS THE OBLIGATORY FRESHMAN COURSE

,OGIC "UT THANKS TO ALL THE ILLUMINATI who have laid their hands on the colLEGIATE AND UNIVERSITY CURRICULA THE misshapen course of study on the tertiary level has no more room for PHILOSOPHY !NYTHING IN THE NATURE OF SPECULATIVE THOUGHT HAS BEEN EXPUNGED like some academic detritus, avoided LIKE THE PLAGUE BY THE ARCHITECTS OF A PROGRAM OF COLLEGIATE EDUCATION WHO ARE UNAPOLOGETIC VOTARIES OF SOME CRUDE FORM OF PRAGMATISMÜ 4AKE THE SUBJECT g4HE 0HILOSOPHY OF THE (UMAN 0ERSON u %VEN ITS DESCRIPTIVE TITLE HAS MORPHED ACCORDING TO THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF THE AGE %ARLIER

UNDER THE INlUENCE OF 3CHOLASTICISM THAT DISTINGUISHED WHAT WE UNDERSTOOD gnatural lumineu BY THE NATURAL LIGHT OF REASON AND WHAT WE WERE PRIVILEGED TO KNOW gde revelationeu FROM THE SUPERNATURAL LIGHT OF REVELATION THE SUBJECT WAS CALLED g2ATIONAL 0SYCHOLOGYu ‡ A TITLE THAT LEFT STUDENTS SUSPECTING THAT THERE WAS SOME gIRRATIONAL PSYCHOLOGYu TO BE ENCOUNTERED ELSEWHERE 4HEN IN OUR COLLEGE DAYS IT WAS CALLED g0HILOSOPHY OF -AN u BUT WE ALL KNOW NOW THAT gMANu IS POLITICALLY INCORRECT ‡ IT IS RUDE MISOGYNIST SEXIST CHAUVINIST 3O

WITH MUCH KOWTOWING TO THE GUARDIANS of the inclusive, we called the subject g0HILOSOPHICAL !NTHROPOLOGY u UNTIL IT WAS RENAMED g0HILOSOPHY OF THE (UMAN 0ERSON u 4HE SUBJECT WHERE IT IS KEPT IS RELEGATED TO SOME CORNER OF THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM OFTEN TAUGHT BY THOSE WHO THINK THAT PHILOSOphy started with 0ILOSOPONG 4ASYOÜ And yet whether in economics, politics or THE EMPIRICAL SCIENCES WE CONkDENTLY SET OUR SIGHTS ON gHUMAN PROGRESS u 7HEN WE FEEL OFFENDED OR VIOLATED

BY THE THOUGHTLESSNESS CRIMINALITY or rudeness of others, we invoke our gHUMAN RIGHTS u )S IT NOT OBVIOUS HOW vacuous these concepts are, how empty the claims are that we shriek about hysterically unless we are clear about what it is to be human? And so when our economists assure us that our economic fundamentals remain sound, no matter that we may be alarmed about THE DIZZYING lUCTUATION IN THE PRICES OF commodities and the underpayment of services, because these fundamentals are GUARANTEES TO BRING ABOUT gPROGRESS u EXACTLY WHAT IS MEANT BY THAT !ND WHEN YOUNG &ILIPINOS ‡ MEN

women or however they may wish to be classed (because this too, in today’s RECKONING IS MALLEABLE ‡ ARE FACED with the eminently practical question about whether what they are poised to do, asked to do, induced to do IS gGOODu OR gBAD u HOW SHALL THEY MAKE SUCH DECISIONS "Y COLLECTING THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS &LOATING A QUESTIONNAIRE #ONSULTING SOME babaylan /R CALLING ON THE SPIRIT OF THE GLASS 7HETHER IT BE A QUESTION OF WHAT TO DO WITH AN EXPENSIVE SMARTPHONE THAT ONE HAS FOUND LYING AROUND OR THE MORE RECONDITE ISSUE OF ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANT WHERE DO YOU GET the answers to ethical questions, unless YOU HAVE GIVEN SOME VERY SERIOUS DISCIPLINED THOUGHT TO ETHICS )T IS HUMAN

Ricoeur tells us, to be able to attribute actions to ourselves and to others, and TO BE ABLE TO CHARACTERIZE OURSELVES AND OTHERS AS A RESULT OF ACTIONS AS gGOODu OR gBAD u 7HAT HAPPENS TO THIS DIMENSION OF BEING HUMAN WHEN WE HAVE shorn our curricula of ethics or moral PHILOSOPHY LEAVING OUR STUDENTS RUDderless and clueless about such irreducIBLE CONCEPTS AS gGOODu AND gBADu 7E WHINE ABOUT &ILIPINOS BEING STRANGERS TO THE !SIAN SOUL BECAUSE OF THE SEEMINGLY FATAL ALLURE OF THE DECADENT 7EST "UT WHAT WOULD BE MORE practical and helpful in this respect than GIVING COLLEGE STUDENTS A GOOD DOSE OF )NDIAN AND #HINESE PHILOSOPHY AS ONCE

FR. RANHILIO CALLANGAN AQUINO WAS THE CASE (OW BETTER TO IMMERIZE BETTER TO IMME IMMERIZE I the university student in Asian and its SPIRIT THEN TO GET THEM READING THE Lun Yu — the Confucian Analects, the Tao Te #HING, "UDDHIST 3UTRAS, the Upanishads or even the Milinda Panho )F ALL OF THESE VENERABLE WRITINGS SEEM 'REEK TO US IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE MORE 'REEK THEN Asian — and the emaciated curriculum that has been foisted on our hapless students and equally hapless professors THAT HAS LEFT US ALL UNDER SOME WITHERING TREE WAITING FOR 'ODOT ) RECALL THAT DURING THE ORAL ARGUment on the constitutionality of the Reproductive Health Law before the 3UPREME #OURT MANY OF THE JUSTICES AGREED THAT THE QUESTION ABOUT WHEN HUMAN LIFE BEGAN WAS A QUESTION BEST resolved by physicians and medical EXPERTS 4HAT IS OF COURSE SILLY 4HAT IS LIKE ASKING A MATHEMATICIAN FOR ADVICE ON TO BE A GOOD LOVERÜ ! PHYSICIAN WILL TELL YOU WHEN FERTILIZATION OCCURS 3HE will tell you whether or not nidation has TAKEN PLACE (E WILL RECKON THE DAYS FOR mitotic division before differentiation takes place and meiotic division folLOWS "UT WHEN THE ASSEMBLAGE OF CELLS IS gHUMANu 4HAT IS A MATTER THAT CALLS FOR APPLYING THE PREDICATE gHUMANu CORRECTLY !ND YOU CAN APPLY A PREDICATE ONLY IF YOU UNDERSTAND IT #LEARLY THE PROBLEM IS PHILOSOPHICAL )T IS NO DIFFERENT WITH THE SCIENTIST 2ECENTLY THE #AGAYAN 3TATE 5NIVERSITY THAT ) SERVE AS A DESIGNATED VICE PRESIDENT

was co-host to an international event ON gMEDICAL PLURALISMu ‡ WHICH IS A CHARMING POST MODERN WAY OF ADMITTING THAT BESIDES THE MEDICINE THAT IS TAUGHT IN OUR FACULTIES OF MEDICINE

THE #HINESE THE )NDIANS THE NATIVE !MERICANS AND THE INDIGENOUS &ILIPINOS INCLUDING THE hilots and herbolarios) have had rather plenty of success at COPING WITH ILLNESS PAIN AND MALADY That of course raises the important QUESTION 7HERE DOES ONE DRAW THE LINE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND NON SCIENCE )F one wishes to shun the ways of ethNOCENTRISM SUCH AS MAINTAINING THAT ONLY WHAT 'ALEN AND HIS PROGENY HAVE CONSIDERED gMEDICINEu COUNTS AS SCIence), then one will have to confront the question in all its philosophical earnestNESS 7HEN IS A VENTURE SCIENTIkC 4HAT IS NOT A SCIENTIkC QUESTION ‡ BECAUSE IT PUTS IN QUESTION THE VERY WORKINGS OF science, the very threshold that science MUST CROSS TO BE ITSELF There are, to be sure, different philoSOPHICAL STRANDS /NE NEEDS ONLY TO remember that what philosophers do on the European continent is different from what British philosophers have busied THEMSELVES WITH "UT TO RAISE PHILOSOPHIcal questions, and to attempt at answers TO THE QUESTIONS ONE THOUGHTFULLY RAISES

BY SITTING AT THE FEET OF THE MASTERS OR WALKING THE GROOVES THROUGH WHICH THEY TROD PICKING SNATCHES OF THEIR DIALOGUES

INTERJECTING WITH OWN S OWN QUESTIONS

WANDERING THROUGH THE OFTEN MEANDERING WAYS OF PHILOSOPHICAL SPECULATION — this should be worth plenty of time, NOT MERELY MISERLY AND GRUDGING MORSELS OF THE CURRICULUM !ND THESE CAN BE MEANINGFULLY RAISED AND ENGAGED IN WITH requisite depth and academic maturity only at the level of the university where, propped up by the intellectual formation of basic education and formed to be afFECTIVELY MATURE SO AS TO BE CHALLENGED by questions of the philosophical kind, a student is ready to take his place in that LONG TRADITION OF THOUGHTFUL HUMAN PERSONS WHO HAVE EXAMINED LIFE AND ASKED WHETHER IT WAS WORTH LIVING

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The ICC for their acts that amounted to a chalLENGE TO OUR SOVEREIGNTY 4HOSE WHO kLED A CASE AGAINST THE 0RESIDENT ON HIS WAR ON DRUGS WITH THE ALLEGATIONS THAT IT AMOUNTED TO A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY WENT TO THE )## NOT FOR ANYTHING ELSE BUT FOR POLITICAL MILEAGE AS PART OF A GLOBAL SHAMING PROJECT TO EMBARRASS THE 0RESIDENT !ND THE )## INSTEAD OF ACTING LIKE A RATIONAL INTERNATIONAL BODY that should have been conscious of its jurisdictional boundaries and careful

NOT TO ASSAULT THE SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OF members, have turned the entire case INTO AN OPPORTUNITY TO lEX ITS MUSCLE and behave as if it is a court which anyONE CAN JUST RUN TO AND SEEK REMEDY )F THERE IS A SENSITIVE ISSUE THAT should have been carefully addressed, MORE SO IN THE FACE OF THE WITHERING OF national boundaries, either symboliCALLY OR OTHERWISE IN THE AGE OF UNBRIDLED GLOBALIZATION IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ISSUE OF SOVEREIGNTY 4HE ACT OF kLING A CASE WITH THE )## IS A TACIT ADMISSION BY ANY &ILIPINO CITIZEN THAT THERE IS NO LONGER A FUNCTIONING judicial system in the country that can

INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE THE CRIMES THAT ARE LISTED IN THE 2OME 3TATUTE !ND WHEN THE )## ADMITTED THE CASE

IT WAS AS IF THERE WAS A TACIT RECOGNItion that indeed the Philippines has a BROKEN NON EXISTENT LEGAL SYSTEM THAT IS UNABLE AND UNWILLING TO PROSECUTE ANY OF THE FOUR INTERNATIONAL CRIMES 7HAT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY PAINTED IS that the Philippines is now a failed STATE 4HIS IS AGGRAVATED BY THE SEEMING BRAVADO EXHIBITED BY THE CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF )## &ATOU "ENSOUDA

who acts as if a conclusion has already been made not only on the issue of jurisdiction, but also even on the

MERITS OF THE CASE ITSELF 4HE 0HILIPPINES IS A SOVEREIGN STATE 7E HAVE THE NOISIEST FREEST CIVIL SOCIETY community in this part of the world, and despite the protestations of Maria Ressa and Rappler, we also have one of THE FREEST NOISIEST MEDIA /UR COURTS ARE FUNCTIONING VERY WELL )N FACT THE ISSUE OF THE WITHDRAWAL FROM THE )## WAS TAKEN UP BY THE 3UPREME #OURT

AND ORAL ARGUMENTS WERE HELD TO HEAR THE SIDE OF THE PETITIONERS QUESTIONING THE LEGALITY OF THE WITHDRAWAL 4HERE IS ALSO NO BASIS TO ARGUE THAT THE COUNTRY IS UNABLE OR UNWILLING TO INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE OFFENSES

committed by state actors in relation TO THE 0RESIDENT S WAR ON DRUGS 4HE 3UPREME #OURT HAS TAKEN JURISDICTION OVER AND HAS CONDUCTED HEARINGS ON PETITIONS AGAINST THE PRESIDENTIAL ACTION IN QUESTION 4HE CONVICTION OF THE POLICEMEN WHO BRUTALLY KILLED +IAN ,OYD DE LOS 3ANTOS LOUDLY AFkRMS THAT WE DO INVESTIGATE PROSECUTE AND CONVICT 'RANTED THAT THE 0RESIDENT IS immune from suit, and that impeachment is not a realistic remedy CONSIDERING THAT #ONGRESS IS CONtrolled by his allies, there is always THE OPTION OF PROSECUTING HIM WHEN HE LEAVES OFkCE IN

3OME PEOPLE ARE BLAMING THE 0RESIDENT AND ACCUSE HIM OF COMMITTING AN IRRESPONSIBLE KNEE JERK ACT "UT if there are people that should be blamed, it should be those who ran TO THE )## DRIVEN LESS BY THE DESIRE to seek justice than to shame the 0RESIDENT EVEN IF IT MEANT ATTACKING OUR VERY OWN SOVEREIGNTY AND LETTING "ENSOUDA PASS JUDGMENT ON THE ROBUSTNESS OF OUR LEGAL SYSTEM !ND THE )## PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE ACTIONS of Bensouda, deserves equal share of THE BLAME FOR NOT ACTING PRUDENTLY

AND FOR FAILING TO PROTECT THE IMAGE OF NEUTRALITY AND INTEGRITY OF THE )##

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THURSDAY March 21, 2019

Q TULFO FROM A1

George Sison, spiritual guru par excellence He asked that his passing away not be announced publicly.

I am violating here George Sison’s wish because he personally didn’t tell me.

George once told me, “When I die, Mon, don’t pray for the eternal repose of my soul. I know where I’m going.�

George had no concept of hell, only heaven.

He preached to us, his small band of disciples, on reincarnation and the power of the mind.

Whatever you always think about you will experience, according to George.

If, for example, you always think that you are rich — even if, at the moment, you are penniless — eventually YOU WILL BE lOODED WITH MONEY On the few occasions I attended the spiritual sessions that he presided over, George said every man is God incarnate on earth.

And since God created the universe with Its (the Deity is androgynous) thoughts and words, so can man create things by his thoughts and words.

So, whenever you say, “I am,� the words following that phrase will become your experience; e.g., I am wealthy, I am a sinner, I am a winner, I am a loser.

George, who until his death wrote a Sunday column in the Inquirer, was one of the sons of businessman and philanthropist Carlos Moran Sison and civic leader and musician

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Priscilla de la Fuente-Sison.

He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

George was not just a member of Manila’s elite, he was a man who became more than what people expected of him — a maverick.

By turns, he was a model, theater actor, writer, composer, TV celebrity, AND kNALLY A SPIRITUAL GURU George defied any normal description, except perhaps, for being a peculiar — but popular — man about town.

He has carved his own niche in HISTORY kRST GAINING NATIONAL FAME through his pen name Conde de Makati (Count of Makati).

As “Conde,� he wrote about Manila’s upper-crust society in the pre-Martial Law days.

He was fearless in publishing then President Ferdinand Marcos’ affair with the American actress Dovie Beams. For that, he was jailed.

He was known, too, as a friend of socialite and TV celebrity Elvira Manahan.

He had an air of spirituality about him. George was almost otherworldly in the way he thought of things.

He believed in a personal philosophy, which he would later term as “IAMism.� It was, as he described, a course of happiness.

George believed that all things that happen to us have a reason,

and that we should give thanks, regardless of whether it affected us in a positive or negative way.

For example, he believed that what happens to us is a result of what we think and feel.

George also believed that our family and friends are those whom we chose to be with us as we reincarnated in this life. They are our karma, both our rewards and our learning experiences.

George extended his belief by offering it to others, through the Temple of Prayer, Peace and Prosperity (TOPPP).

For him, religion separated people, or drove them apart.

Religion, he said, was the cause of major wars.

He was disturbed, too, by the concentration of organized religions on suffering.

He said being poor is not a virtue, that your high or low social standing is a result of your consciousness.

George suggested through his beliefs and writings that spirituality was more important. Indeed, he thought of spirituality as the opposite of religion in many ways.

Spirituality, in George’s eyes, preaches about a God of love, a God who is love Itself.

Spirituality does not need suffering or trials in order to be important.

George would come by my office from time to time, to see

how I was doing.

I remember fondly how he always seemed to be in white and dressed to the nines when he visited.

His presence, while not a surprise, was always a pleasant event IN THE OFkCE I met George through a mutual friend, the late Amelyn Veloso, broadcaster at CNN Philippines.

It was Melyn who convinced me to attend George Sison’s spiritual service and gatherings.

The news of George’s demise still shocks me no end.

I know that George would probably have told me not to announce his passing, but I can’t help but write about a person who touched my life in a big way.

It’s my way of paying tribute to a great soul who trudged this earth.

I’ve heard from others how he did not wish for people to know that he was sick, and this extended to his idea that he did not want people to know about his death.

I understand his request because for someone like George, death is a journey to another realm.

And then, of course, we will come back for another round of life in this world. And another. And another.

I would not be surprised if in the next life, George will be visiting me again, every now and then.

Perhaps he won’t wear his dapper

Getting to know my Dad, the BSP governor

HEN I was growing up, people often asked me what my Dad’s job was. I used to jokingly say that “he prints money and shuts down banks.� I probably would not have known any better if he hadn’t designated me as his “other secretary,� aka the person responsible for typing up all of the handwritten speeches and random ideas that he came up with at home. He sometimes even asked me to edit his work, and help capture the elusive phrasing for a particular idea. Through this process, I was able to peek into the mind of a true public servant. And what I saw left me in awe.

The days immediately after his passing were a blur. I remember everything and nothing. I hid behind ritual and religion in order TO kND TEMPORARY RESPITE FROM THE kNALITY OF DEATH "UT THROUGH THE haze of my own sorrow over the loss of a beloved father, I was able to perceive one thing: My family was not alone in our grief. So many people came to pay their respects:

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Q BSP Governor Nestor Espenilla and Family before he became BSP governor.

He once observed that economic growth is only truly meaningful if it is shared by all and no one is left behind. My Dad thus approached financial inclusion in TWO DISTINCT WAYS 4HE kRST WAY WAS more obvious — he implemented a range of policies that had the average Filipino citizen in mind.

BSP colleagues spoke of his many INITIATIVES TO MAKE kNANCIAL SER-

vices accessible, especially to the unbanked. He signed off on key resolutions that enabled banks to easily put up “branch-lite units� in underserved rural areas and offer simpler, less intimidating banking services. They also spoke of the framework that he approved which allowed banks to offer basic deposit accounts that removed the usual barriers that often discouraged

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Budget delayed is progress denied

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S the House being burned down?

This question pops into my mind whenever I hear the soundbites of Senate President Tito Sotto AND 3EN 0ANkLO g0INGu ,ACSON Are they trying to burn the House of Representatives down?

The daily dosage of their attacks can be compared to a matchstick getting nearer to the wicks of dynamites that threaten to decimate the Lower House into heaps of ashes. The frequency of their press releases in media outlets outnumbers those of the House leaders 9 to 1.

Why am I saying this? Let me begin by stealing the phrase “Let me count the ways� from "Sonnet 43" of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and allow me to enumerate the arguments of the “weaker voices� clipped from various outlets. *** House Majority Leader Fredenil Castro: “The senators need to explain where they put the P2.5 billion they took from the Greening Project, the P3 billion they removed from Tesda scholarships, the P11 billion for the right-ofway projects for PRRD’s Build Build Build program, the P2.5 billion funding for foreignassisted projects.� g7HEN WE ARE kXING OUR HOUSE

don’t interfere with us because we are not meddling with you WHEN YOU kX YOUR HOUSE “Even before and up to now, it is Speaker Arroyo who has BEEN WORKING HARD TO kNISH THE

welfare of the Filipino people will suffer, please set aside your rage against the Speaker.�

House Senior Deputy Minority Leader Anthony Bravo: “The way I look at it in my priority bills of President Rodrigo own assessment, Senator Lacson Duterte. Why single her out?� is holding the budget hostage Deputy Speaker Prospero Pichay: because of his personal vendetta “The statement made by Sen. against our Speaker Arroyo. He Ping Lacson that SGMA may be has not said anything good about HELD LIABLE FOR FALSIkCATION FOR the Speaker from the very start of signing the 2019 budget is an her leadership as speaker.� act of desperation arising from “I think the agenda here is his deep-rooted anger toward clear, you don’t want the Speaker Speaker GMA. Senator Lacson to be successful and her leadermay have forgotten that the HoR ship as the Speaker. just like the Senate, is a collegial Deputy Speaker Dante Marcoleta: body. Any act of the Speaker, es“While the Senate is accusing pecially in the signing of bills and them of making realignments other forms of legislation, is an AFTER RATIkCATION IT IS THE 3ENATE act of the House of Representa- that should be asked where it put tives as a whole. If she is liable, multi-billon projects of President then majority of the members Rodrigo Duterte. are equally liable because we “What does the Constitution authorized her to do it. Why is say about the mandate of the Senator Lacson singling her out?� House of Representatives? Article “Senator Ping, stop playing 6 Section 24 – All appropriations the Supreme Court by saying bills, tariff and revenue bills, etc. the budget is unconstitutional shall originate exclusively in the because it is only the Supreme House of Representatives. The Court that can make such pro- Senate may propose or concur nouncement. If you believe it is with amendments. Did it say the UNCONSTITUTIONAL THEN kLE A CASE Senate may impose? The Senate and question it. It is only when may interpose? No, the Senate the Supreme Court declares it may propose. To whom will the to be unconstitutional that it is Senate propose? To the House of unconstitutional.

Representatives. This is our job. “Senator Ping, for the sake of Budget shall exclusively originate the country and for the sake of in the House of Representatives.

President Duterte who had called “The budget is not an ordinary upon Congress to act on it swiftly bill. This happens to be the biggest otherwise the economy and the check to be issued by the Republic

MIRRORLESS

ROLLY G. REYES

of the Philippines, that is why transparency is required by law. “The Senate had realigned P74 billion in the budget by removing key government programs of the Duterte administration, including removing the funding allocation for the National Greening Program, Tesda scholarships, right of way projects of the DPWH and other foreignassisted projects.�

Marcoleta stressed that they had asked their Senate counterparts if they could point out an unconstitutional act that they committed but they failed to get an answer. At the end of the day, he said both chambers should set aside their differences and comply with the President’s request TO kNALIZE THE BUDGET *** With the Senate and the House seemingly not meeting eye-to-eye, Sen. Ping Lacson said the government may continue to operate on a reenacted budget until August. He added that the Senate will just wait until Speaker Gloria MacapagalArroyo and House Appropriations Committee chairman Rolando Andaya Jr. step down from their posts before pushing again for the budget’s enactment.

Whoaa! Is this pronouncement not personal? Threatening a reenacted budget, zeroing in on two House leaders’ expiration of tenure?

If this is not, I don’t know what is. *** Good work, good deeds and good faith to all.

when I was still its columnist.

I once blasted a Manila policeman many years ago who I thought was part of a gang that robbed a bank in the Ermita and was killed in a shootout with responding lawmen.

It turned out that I was gravely mistaken: the dead cop was AMONG THE OFkCERS WHO RESPONDed to an alarm call!

You know what I did, hija?

I not only apologized in my “On Target� column at the kRST OPPORTUNITY ) ALSO WENT TO HIS wake and faced his irate relatives.

I told his relatives I wouldn’t mind if they beat me up for desecrating his memory.

The relatives were kind enough to forgive me.

And why should I apologize for something for which I have the right as a columnist and as a Filipino citizen to say?

Hasn’t your newspaper heard of freedom of expression? “ B a l a n c e d n e ws, f e a r l e s s views� my ass!

As a parting shot, hija, have you asked the Prietos whether they’ve returned the P1-billion earnest money to business tycoon Ramon Ang in negotiations for buying up your moribund newspaper?

The deal did not push through because the Prietos priced the newspaper way too high.

Born with two bodies Last of 2 parts

HARVARD VERITAS

HIS "30 FAMILY FROM ALL OFkCES AND ranks, members of the banking community, captains of industry, politicians and other government OFkCIALS .'/S FOREIGN DIGNITARies, industry stakeholders, Ateneo and UP classmates, and relatives from near and far. I spoke to many of them and they gifted me with stories of the man that my father was, stories that made me realize that Dad touched so many hearts, inspired so many people, and left an indelible mark on the country that he loved and on the institution that he faithfully served.

Above all, I learned the extent OF MY $AD S TRUE PASSION kNANCIAL inclusion. The concept wasn’t just a catch phrase for him. Instead, it was a rallying cry that informed many of the key initiatives and reforms that he championed even

white clothes, but I am sure that he will always be a spiritual guide.

Here’s one for you, George!

I will be seeing you in our next lifetime. *** To the upstart columnist of the moribund Philippine Daily Inquirer, Kay Rivera: I am not paid as a special envoy to China.

Rivera said: “Special envoy to China Ramon Tulfo, criticized for calling Filipino workers ‘lazy and slowpoke,’ has responded in The Manila Times, ‘I will not apologize, not in a million YEARS ‡ ALREADY A DIFkCULT STAND AS A PUBLIC kGURE AND COLUMNIST BUT irresponsible as a paid government OFkCIAL.� (emphasis mine – RTT).

You and your ghostwriters are showing your ignorance: Special envoys do not receive salaries.

4HEIR POSITION IS HONORIkC MEANing it only conveys honor, not monetary remuneration.

On the matter of me apologizing for calling Pinoy construction workers lazy and slowpoke, why are you and your paper — my former paper, for that matter — so het up about it?

Ask the owners of the Inquirer, the Prietos, whether they treat their workers and underlings well.

Ask the Prietos and your editors at the Inquirer how many times I apologized to people whom I mistakenly accused of wrongdoing

OME may well ask, if you didn’t hate your body why did you have to go through that genital reconstruction surgery? I didn’t want to change my body because I hate what was between my legs, but because I felt disconnected from it.

Those two things are different.

The former is change driven by self-loathing, the other is driven by the quest to become whole. I don’t need to hate myself to become WHOLE )N FACT HATE SIGNIkES THAT we’re not on the path to wholeness but to further fragmentation. To love oneself is to respect one’s condition of being fragmented. Through that acceptance, one is in a better position to reach wholeness.

Surely, I did feel pleasure through that part. Pleasure but no passion.

There was ejaculation but no orgasm.

No ecstasy. Just dry mechanical pleasure. I couldn’t relate to what the men I had been intimate with felt whenever they were having an orgasm. Nor do I feel that it was part of my personhood. I actually felt more passion through kissing someone then as my lips and tongue didn’t feel foreign to me. They were one with the rest of my body, especially with the seat of our identity, experience, personhood, conscience, and consciousness — our brains.

In December 2014, several months after my bachelor’s graduation, I called the gender team of VUMC in Amsterdam to enroll in the process of medical transition.

Here in the Netherlands, the entire process is covered by our health insurance, as it’s considered a necessary healthcare — one of the major reasons why I moved here.

There was a long wait line to get AN APPOINTMENT FOR THE VERY kRST meeting with the team. Though I have lived my life as a woman, took hormones before, had orchiectomy, and had my breasts done, I had to go through the same protocol as everybody else. No shortcuts.

Luckily, when I called in December 2014, I found that someone had canceled her appointment. It was already sometime in the last quarter of 2015, after a battery of psychiatric AND MEDICAL TESTS THAT ) kNALLY GOT approved for hormone replacement therapy. Unlike in the Philippines, one cannot buy hormones without prescription here. I had to be on hormones for at least a year to take the process to the next level. And I had to go through that even though my testosterone level at the time I was tested was even below the testosterone level of someone born with a vagina.

By the third quarter of 2016, I had my appointment again with my psychiatrist. I told her that I was ready. She asked me what was that next level. I told her that I was ready

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SASS ROGANDO SASOT to have a vagina — yup, as blunt as that. “I want to wake up one day with a body that doesn’t feel foreign,� I told her. I was subjected to a series of psychiatric tests. They were making sure that I was the right candidate for that procedure as it is irreversible.

Before I got my surgery date, I was told: “When you entered the room, I didn’t know you were a transsexual person. I believe that the people you meet every day don’t know that you don’t have a vagina. Why do you still want to undergo the surgery? Nobody knows you have a penis.� “But I know,� I told the doctor.

I had my surgery in October 2017 in Amsterdam. When I woke up, the scrub of the surgeon told me: “Before the surgery you were smiling. During the surgery, you were smiling. When you woke up, there’s that smile in your face again.� I told him that I was just EXTREMELY HAPPY TO kNALLY BE MYSELF The healing process went well.

Nerves reconnected as they should.

Before, I couldn’t look at myself, naked in a full-length mirror.

Because every time I did that, it felt like being in the middle of a group of people speaking a foreign language in a foreign country.

Now, no part of my body felt foreign anymore. Finally, I can now feel the currents of passion in my body. Finally, I experienced what an orgasm, ecstasy is! Sex is no longer a mechanical thing but a spiritual spark produced by the erotic friction of two bodies. And to those who are curious, an absolute “yes� is the answer to that question.

Nope, it wasn’t psychological, it’s very physical, intensely physical.

Finally, no more feelings of disconnection as I no longer have two bodies. Just one. At last, home.

Feminist and gender theorist Judith Butler once said â€œâ€Śall of us, as bodies, are in the active position OF kGURING OUT HOW TO LIVE WITH AND against the constructions — or norms — that help to form us. We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.â€?

When I rejected the notion that I was born in the “wrong� body or trapped by it, I was able to develop a new vocabulary that better approximates how I really experience my body. Because of this new vocabulary, I felt empowered by my body to seek the level of wholeness it needs in order for it to be a better servant of my soul.

E-mail: srsasot@gmail.com

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2 Abu Sayyaf members in Sabah kidnaps killed THE remaining Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members involved in the 2000 Sidapan hostage crisis were killed in a clash on Tuesday with military forces, the Philippine Army announced on Wednesday.

Filipino Special Forces killed the two pro-Islamic State (IS) militants, including an Abu Sayyaf sub leader, whose group kidnapped 21 mostly European and Asian holiday makers 19 years ago on the resort island of Sipadan off Sabah in Malaysia.

Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala, Army spokesman, said slain was Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Angah Adjih, who was among the bandits who took 21 hostages from the dive resort on April 23, 2000.

Abu Sayyaf member Sarih Edris was the other terrrorist killed in the encounter.

Zagala said Adjih and Edris were killed late on Tuesday afternoon during a combat operation against the terrrorists in Upper Binuang village in Sulu’s Talipao town.

The operation, which lasted 10 minutes, saw several gunmen escaping the assault.

The Army’s 11th Infantry Division led the raid with the 2nd Special Forces Battalion to take down the Abu Sayyaf after civilians reportedly provided vital intelligence that led them to the terrorists’ lair the in the remote village.

Military troops followed directions that the residents provided AND ENCOUNTERED kVE !BU 3AYYAF members in the area.

A 10-minute gun battle ensued, resulting in the deaths of subcommander Adjih and “another terrorist,� according to Brig. Gen. Divino Rey Pabayo Jr., commander of the anti-terror Joint Task Force Sulu. “The people of Sulu are tired of the atrocities the Abu Sayyaf have been committing in their communities,� Pabayo said.

Pabayo added that no soldiers were harmed in the operation and lauded the Special Forces for

the killing of Adjih who was “the last remaining Abu Sayyaf leader involved in the Sipadan kidnapping in 2000.�

After the hostages were abducted in Sipadan, they were taken to an Abu Sayyaf lair in Jolo, Sulu, and eventually set free after clashes with the military. !FTER THE kGHTING ON 4UESDAY

Pabayo said, soldiers recovered ONE - RIlE AND AN - AUTOMATIC RIlE WITH GRENADE LAUNCHER

including ammunition.

Zagala said personal belongings of the bandits were retrieved from the encounter site.

The military had been conducting operations in Sulu after two explosions in January wherein more than 20 persons were killed.

President Rodrigo Duterte himself suspected that the perpetrators of the blasts might have been Indonesian suicide bombers, with Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Interior Secretary Eduardo AĂąo echoing his claim.

In a separate statement, Lt. Gen. Arnel dela Vega, Western Mindanao Command (WestMinCom) chief, said, “The military continues to launch its offensives to neutralize Abu Sayyaf [bandits] in Sulu.

Combat troops relentlessly pursue [them] and constrict their movement, leaving them in despair. As community support amassed, the military mounts its offensives to pressure and defeat the Abu Sayyaf in the area.� “We are committed to end terrorism and to bring internal security to Mindanao. We also attribute our accomplishments to the Suluanons who are one with us in working for peace in the province,� he added.

The Abu Sayyaf is still holding nearly a dozen hostages, most OF THEM SEAFARERS AND kSHERMEN snatched off Sabah, and recently threatened to execute two Indonesians and a Malaysian if their ransom demands, running into millions of pesos, are not met.

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Q ‘WHITE LIST’ FROM A1

seafarers at risk.

In a statement, Marina asserted that the Philippines is on the White List “based on the MSC-1/ #IRC 2EV DATED -AY

AND -3# #IRC 2EV 18 dated July 24, 2017 which contains the existing list.� “In accordance with Regulation 1/7 of the STCW Convention, 1978, as amended, the IMO secretariat facilitates the preparation of the list of parties which have submitted a report demonstrating full and complete implementation of the relevant provisions of the convention. The IMO secretary general then submits the list for REVIEW AND CONkRMATION BY THE

PH still and Watchkeeping (HTW) during its sixth session this year.

Inclusion in the list means that a country complies with MINIMUM QUALIkCATION STANDARDS for masters, officers and watch personnel on seagoing merchant ships, under the revised 1978 International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) of the IMO, a United Nations agency.

Exclusion, on the othert hand, puts 400,000 jobs for Filipino

Regions GenSan City now a legislative district

THURSDAY March 21, 2018

BY RALPH U. VILLANUEVA

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RESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has reapportioned the First District of South Cotabato province in southern Mindanao to create General Santos (GenSan) City as a legislative district.

Duterte on March 11 signed Republic Act 11243, copies of which were given to members of media

nine days later.

Under the law, the First District of South Cotabato will be com-

posed of the towns of Polomolok, Tampakan and Tupi.

The Second District will have Koronadal City, Banga, Lake Sebu, Norala, Santo Nino, Surallah, Tantangan and T’boli.

General Santos City will be the Third District.

The incumbent representatives of the first and second districts of South Cotabato will continue to represent their re-

spective districts until the new congressman for the third district is elected in the midterm elections in May this year.

The Commission on Elections will issue the necessary rules and regulations to implement the law within 30 days of its effectivity.

The law will be in force 15 days after its publication in the /FkCIAL Gazette and in a newspaper of general circulation.

Bong Go recalls early days as public servant EVERY year, former special assistant to President Rodrigo Duterte and now aspiring senator Christopher Lawrence “Bongâ€? Go returns to Davao with the Chief Executive to join DavaoeĂąos in their celebration of Araw ng Davao.

This year’s homecoming is particularly important to Go because at the festivities for the 82nd Araw NG $AVAO ON -ARCH AT Rizal Park in Davao City, he renewed his pledge to his fellow DavaoeĂąos to continue serving them, albeit in another capacity — as senator. “I grew up here in this city and this was where, working closely with then-Mayor Duterte, I became aware of the importance of serving my brothers in Davao,â€? Go said as his audience cheered wildly.

Go was joined by other candidates for senator of Hugpong ng Pagbabago led

by Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.

From Rizal Park, Go andd his supporters proceeded to Claveria Street to mingle with residents and inquire about their needs.

MSC and publishes it in the form of the aforementioned MSC Circulars,� the statement read.

A copy of a document obtained by the Times contains the minutes of a meeting of the IMO Sub-Committee on Human Element, Training and Watchkeeping (HTW) during its sixth session this year and indicates the Philippines “could be excluded from the IMO White List.

The Philippines was included in the list for the third time when it was last released in 2011, but the revised list in Annex 2 of the IMO document obtained by The Manila Times did not include the Philippines.

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4HE )-/ DOCUMENT STATES g4HIS revised list excludes those parties that either have not submitted their subsequent reports or have submitted them outside the time periods prescribed so that they are still under consideration by the competent persons.� “The IMO secretariat prepared a proposed revised list, which would be a living document for the continuing inclusion of parties OR COUNTRIES FULkLLING THEIR OBLIGAtions under the said regulation of the convention, hence the IMO secretary general then submits the LIST FOR REVIEW AND CONkRMATION by the MSC and publishes it in the form of the aforementioned MSC

circulars,� Marina said.

It added that it would attend the HTW session to participate in discussions and assert appropriate position regarding the proposed document. “The Philippine government, through the Department of Transportation and Marina, assures the maritime industry stakeholders of its unwavering commitment in carrying out its obligation under the convention. With national legislation coupled by the necessary quality standard and IT (information technology) support systems in place,� Marina said. )T EXPRESSED CONkDENCE THAT THE Philippines would continue to be

on the White List.

Sacked Marina Administrator Marcial Amaro, in a phone interview, said he submitted the STCW compliance report in 2017. However, he admitted that there was no scheduled audit in 2017 and THAT SOME )-/ OFkCIALS SAID THE report should have been the last report on plans and compliance based on the amended STCW 1978 requirement.

A Marina insider, however, denied this, claiming the IMO secretariat did not forward the report to the IMO HTW Sub-committee because “the report did not respond to what was required by the convention.� RAFFY AYENG

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Getting to know my Dad, BSP governor many Filipinos. They likewise described to me his push for strengthening the National Retail Payments System by facilitating the establishment of the country’s kRST TWO ELECTRONIC CLEARING HOUSES PESONet and InstaPay. From their stories, I realized that my Dad was a visionary who walked THE kNE LINE BETWEEN REGULATION and risk, ultimately managing to re-focus the BSP towards creating AND REGULATING A SAFE EFkCIENT AND COMMERCIALLY VIABLE DIGITAL kNANCE ecosystem. Moreover, I also learned that with the launch of targeted kNANCIAL LITERACY PROGRAMS ACROSS the country, Dad was able to make sure that these initiatives had real impact.

My Dad’s second approach to kNANCIAL INCLUSION INVOLVED THE establishment of deep partnerships with all stakeholders, no matter how small. For his vision to succeed, he understood that he had to come down from the regulator’s ivory tower and actu-

ally reach out and listen to the needs and concerns of members of the industry and NGOs. Many of the stakeholders that I spoke to had their own fond memories of Dad. What I noticed though was that all these memories had A COMMON THEME 4HEY SAW HIM AS AN APPROACHABLE MENTOR kGURE who encouraged and cultivated ideas. He entrusted his vision with them, bringing them in as partners in its achievement. He made sure that “inclusion� extended to them so that they too could take pride as contributors to the groundbreaking transforMATIONS OF THE kNANCIAL SYSTEM Almost a month after my Dad’s passing, I can now say that I have a better answer to the question “what was your dad’s job?� I will say that he was a central banker who worked with the people and for the people. I will say that he thought beyond the box and promoted a vision of growth and inclusion that was fully intended

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to endure beyond his term as governor. It would be a disservice to my Dad to say at this point that,after giving 38 years of dedicated and passionate service to the "30 HIS MISSION IS kNALLY COMplete. In leaving behind a strong and revitalized BSP, dedicated stakeholder-partners, mentees and idealists, my father made sure

that his “Continuity Plus Plus� mission carries on.

The author is the eldest child and only daughter of the late BSP Governor Nestor A. Espenilla Jr. She is a professorial lecturer and senior researcher at the University of the Philippines College of Law. You may contact her at jfespenilla@up.edu.ph.

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Estrada can seek dismissal of pork rap

BY REINA C. TOLENTINO

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HE Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division has given former senator Jose “Jinggoy� Estrada and Janet Lim Napoles permission TO kLE DEMURRERS TO EVIDENCE THROUGH WHICH THEY WILL MOVE FOR THE DISMISSAL OF THE 0 MILLION PLUNDER CASE LODGED AGAINST THEM IN CONNECTION with the Priority Development !SSISTANCE &UND 0$!& OR PORK BARREL SCAM A demurrer to evidence is a motion to dismiss, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence presented by the prosecution during

trial. “After a meticulous examination of the totality of the evidence presented by the prosecution, both testimoni-

al and documentary, the Court resolves to grant the present motion of the accused, to sufficiently provide him an opportunity to challenge the sufficiency of the prosecution’s evidence establishing the material elements of the offense charged to support a judgment of guilt,� the court said in a resolution promulgated on March 13.

It granted Napoles’ motion for leave to file demurrer to evidence in a separate resolution also promulgated on March 13.

The court gave the camps of Estrada and Napoles 10 days from receipt of the resolution within

which to file a demurrer.

It gave the prosecution the same period to file its comment.

The prosecution finished presenting its evidence last year.

Estrada’s camp claimed the prosecution failed to substantiate the accusation of plunder against the former senator.

The former senator was released from detention in September 2017 after the court allowed him to post bail.

In 2014, the Ombudsman filed before the Sandiganbayan a plunder complaint and 11 counts of graft against Estrada for the alleged illegal use of his PDAF.

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BJMP boosts drive vs contraband THE Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) gave a boost to its campaign against contraband by destroying 14,113 cigarette sticks seized from prisoners in various jails.

BJMP-National Capital Region (NCR) Director Ignacio Panti led the destruction of about P1.5 million contraband cigarettes.

The BJMP-NCR had previously destroyed 2,000 contraband cigarette sticks and tobacco.

The destruction of cigarettes is part of a series of search and seizure activities in all NCR jails, following the issuance by the BJMP of new guidelines on the seizure and destruction of all kinds of contraband such as cellphones and other communication devices, cigarettes and other “nuisance items.�

The BJMP said the crackdown on cigarettes was implemented to prevent vice in jails, promote rehabilitation and prepare prisoners for their

eventual reintegration into mainstream society.

Banning cigarettes in jails also aims to address health concerns and prevent infections that could affect inmates, JAIL OFkCIALS SAID The BJMP-NCR will next DESTROY CONkSCATED CELLPHONES and other electronic items.

Authorities previously seized and destroyed 234 cellphones and electronic items from jail inmates.

ROY D.R. NARRA

QC mayor signs ordinance for women entrepreneurs MAYOR Herbert Bautista has signed an ordinance that promotes and supports the development of women entrepreneurs in Quezon City (QC).

The Quezon City Women Entrepreneurship Ordinance, introduced by Councilors Irene Belmonte, Lena Marie Juico, Elizabeth Delarmente, Estrella Valmocina, Ivy Xenia Lagman, Marra Suntay and Julienne Alyson Rae Medalla, provides programs and projects for the development of women entrepreneurs in the city.

Through the ordinance, a Quezon City Women’s Business Development Council will be created to develop and carry out a series of women-oriented programs and projects.

The council will be led by the City Council Committee on Trade, Commerce and Industry chairman, with Bautista as the honorary chair-

MAN AND 6ICE -AYOR *OSEkNA g*OYu "ELMONTE as honorary vice chairman.

The council will be composed of the chairmen of the City Council’s Committee on Women, Family Relations and Gender Equality, and the Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Business and Entrepreneurship Development.

Representatives from the Small Business DevelOPMENT AND 0ROMOTIONS /FkCE #OMMUNITY 2ELATIONS /FkCE AND THE WOMEN S SECTOR OF the accredited non government organizationbusiness section will also be part of the council. “The QC Women’s Business Development Council will be responsible for the organization, promotion and development of womenoriented programs and projects, activities and events in areas related to business and career, including those areas determined suitable by the Council, by way of facilitating and closely coordinating efforts to promote and support the endeavors of the women of Quezon City,� the ordinance read.

Further, the month of March will we declared as the QC Women Entrepreneurs’ Month to coincide with the city’s Women’s Month celebration.

Q PULLS OUT FROM A1

House “The House leadership has dispatched the secretary general to the Senate to physically retrieve the budget books that we sent to the senators. This is in line with the Speaker’s instruction to allow a last-ditch effort to break the budget impasse,� Andaya added.

(E HOWEVER CLARIkED THAT THIS does not mean that the House is backtracking on its stance that its version of the bill is “not unconstitutional� and “not illegal.�

Andaya said Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo directed them to form a three-man House team that will meet with the Senate contingent to address contentious ISSUES ON THE '!" AND kNALLY BREAK THE IMPASSE IN kVE DAYS The three-man team will be composed of Andaya, former Albay 1st District Rep. Edcel Lagman and San Juan Rep. Ronaldo Zamora. “We are not withdrawing or

Q SEASON FROM A1

Dry “We only have distinct wet and dry seasons, we do not have winter, spring, summer or fall compared with temperate countries,� she explained.

She added that the rainy season would also be delayed and would extend the dry spell.

In Pagasa’s latest forecast, 33 areas may experience drought by the end of May. In Luzon, these areas are Pangasinan, Bataan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Zambales, Metro Manila, Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Quezon, Marinduque, Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Romblon, Palawan, Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, Masbate and Sorsogon.

In the Visayas, drought is expected in Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Iloilo, Negros Occidental, Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar and Western Samar.

In Mindanao, drought is expected in Misamis Occidental and Dinagat Isalands.

A dry spell is also expected in Rizal, Negros Oriental, Cebu, Siquijor, Southern Leyte and

backtracking from our earlier position. We maintain that the House did nothing unconstitutional, illegal or irregular when we apPROVED AND RATIkED THE '!" in plenary session,� Andaya said.

The head of the House contingent to the budget bicameral panel expressed hope that both chambers will agree to a common venue for a “formal discussion� on the issue instead of debating “on the merits of their position through the media.�

Lagman defended Andaya, saying “the House did not breach the approved ceilings,� as it itemized CERTAIN PROJECTS THAT WILL BENEkT their districts’ constituents. “The withdrawal by the House leadership of its endorsement to Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd of the enrolled appropriations bill is to show good faith for the holding of immediate meaningFUL AND SOBER DIALOGUES TO kNALLY resolve the impasse, and spare the economy and the people [from] the detrimental and adverse effects of a prolonged reenacted budget,�

GLEE JALEA he added.

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Solis said a prolonged dry season could affect rain-fed farms, such as palay or paddy rice farms.

The prolonged dry season will also affect water reserves. “If we experience less rainfall

by May or June, when Angat Dam should already be filling up, that would be critical in our water management,� Solis said, referring to Metro Manila’s main water source.

Hotter days ahead The dry season will also bring warmer temperatures, with the highest expected at 40.7 degrees Celsius in Northern Luzon and 38.2 C in Metro Manila in May. “During the dry season, the hottest temperatures are usually recorded in Tuguegarao [Cagayan], including the Nueva Ecija area, Isabela and Occidental Mindoro,�

Solis said. “We’re expecting a warmer temperature starting March, April up to May. There could also be areas that would experience hot temperature up to June,� Solis added.

Higher humidity would lead to a higher heat index, she warned.

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ILIPINO workers remain the priority when it comes to hiring people for the Duterte administration’s infrastructure projects, a Finance department OFkCIAL CLAIMED ON 7EDNESDAY

“There are only 173 highly technical Chinese workers in the country today who are working on government infrastructure projects,� Finance Assistant Secretary Antonio Joselito Lambino 2nd told reporters.

Amid the “widespread perception that a large number of Chinese nationals� are employed across ongoing China-funded projects, the Finance OFkCIAL OFFERED TWO EXAMPLES TO PROVE

the opposite — the Chico River Pump Irrigation Project and the EstrellaPantaleon and Binondo-Intramuros Bridges — and added that the same would apply once the Kaliwa Dam project breaks ground.

Citing data from the National Irrigation Authority, Lambino said only 85 Chinese workers with highly technical skills were employed at the Chico River Pump project.

4HE MILLION PROJECT THE kRST of Duterte’s ‘Build Build Build’ initiatives to be funded by Beijing, broke ground in June 2018.

Upon completion, it is expected to provide a stable supply of water for around 8,700 hectares of agricultural land, benEkT FARMERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND serve 21 barangays in the provinces of Kalinga and Cagayan in Northern Luzon.

For the Estrella-Pantaleon and Binondo-Intramuros bridges, meanwhile, Lambino said another 88 Chinese workers were hired to handle highly technical work.

Beijing has extended $290.8 million IN GRANTS TO kNANCE THE CONSTRUCTION OF the bridges.

For Kaliwa — currently in the spot-

light given massive disruptions in Metro Manila water services — Lambino said the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and other implementing agencies would also see to it that only highly technical Chinese workers are involved. “Local government units will work with the contractor for Kaliwa Dam to ensure that local workers will be hired for the construction jobs,� he added.

The New Centennial Water Source Project-Kaliwa Dam Project is expected to provide water security, reliability and additional supply for Metro Manila.

The project, however, has yet to secure environmental clearances and critics are claiming that the cost — as

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US negotiators to return to Beijing next week Two more bridges up for China funding

WASHINGTON, D.C.: US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will return to Beijing next week as the United States and China inch toward resolving THEIR TRADE WAR A SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFkCIAL told AFP on Tuesday.

The renewed shuttle diplomacy is a sign of progress in the talks after several weeks in which momentum toward a resolution appeared to have slowed.

Following the next week’s talks in Beijing, Chinese trade envoy Liu He will return to Washington the following week, The Wall 3TREET *OURNAL REPORTED ADDING THAT OFkCIALS SAID TALKS WERE IN THEIR kNAL STAGES US President Donald Trump told reporters the meetings were going “very well,� reiterating the positive message of recent months.

But Trump also said last week that he was in “no rush� to strike a bargain, insisting any deal had to do more than make cosmetic changes and adding that an outcome one way or the other was likely to occur in “three to four weeks.�

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have alternated between projecting optimism and warning that they still have much to do.

On Friday, China’s rubber-stamp parliament approved a foreign investment law to strengthen protections for intellectual property — a central US grievance — but foreign businesses said they were not given enough time to add input.

Far-reaching changes The bill will eliminate the requirement for foreign enterprises to transfer proprietary technology to Chinese jointventure partners and protect against “illegal

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Peak water

N the Philippines, the best sign a public crisis has evolved from the merely serious into the utterly ludicrous is when it becomes the subject of a Senate inquiry. The ongoing water crisis affecting Metro Manila has now achieved that noteworthy status.

In a hearing conducted by Sen. Grace Poe, whose expertise is in conducting hearings, the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and its concessionaire Manila Water endured several hours of inexpert harping on the part of Poe and fellow Senator Pia Hontiveros, which resulted in absolutely nothing that shed any light on exactly why the metropolis does not have enough water, but did raise the faint, voter-friendly prospect that affected customers might hope for a refund.

MWSS was blamed for not exercising its regulatory powers m INCLUDING THE LEVYING OF kNES m in full, while Manila Water came UNDER kRE FOR VARIOUS SHORTCOMings in management, including failing to anticipate the dry spell and allowing too much water system loss.

Poe also pointed out that the current staff of the MWSS may lack expertise, as the agency seems to employ more lawyers than engineers.

As usual, the made-for-TV grandstanding accomplished very little except to further confuse the issue in question by oversimplifying it. Certainly, neither the MWSS nor Manila Water is WITHOUT lAWS AND BOTH PROBABLY could have handled the current

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ROUGH TRADE BEN KRITZ crisis better. But the regulator and the concessionaire have only aggravated a problem: There is not enough water for a growing megalopolis of 20 million, and no matter how efficiently the available water is collected and distributed, the city is no more than a few years from reaching peak water, if it hasn’t already.

The water supply for Metro Manila and much of Central Luzon is drawn from the Angat Dam, and demand already exceeds available supply. About 4,000 MLD (million liters per day) is available to Manila Water and Maynilad, 60 percent to the latter and 40 percent to Manila Water. Maynilad’s demand is just slightly higher than its 2,400 MLD allocation, but Manila Water’s demand has gone up to about 1,750 MLD, a great deal more than its 1,600 MLD supply.

Supply from Angat can be increased if new aqueducts were added, but the boost will probably be minimal. The two most promising new water projects, Manila Water’s Cardona treatment plant and the controversial Kaliwa Dam project, between them will provide about 700 MLD, but that is years in the offing. The Cardona facility might be able to provide part of its

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TWO more bridge projects in Visayas and Mindanao have been added to the list of infrastructure initiatives that could be funded by Beijing, the Finance department said on Wednesday. “The Davao-Samal Bridge Project in Mindanao and the PanayGuimaras-Negros Interisland Bridge Project in Western Visayas are also two other projects in the pipeline for possible Chinese financing,� Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd said in a statement.

The Davao-Samal Bridge will link Davao City with Samal Island while the P27-billion Panay-Guimaras-Negros Interisland Bridge will stretch from Iloilo to Negros Occidental.

0HILIPPINE AND #HINESE OFkCIALS

are currently meeting in Beijing to discuss new infrastructure cooperation agreements.

Included in a second basket of projects up for possible Chinese kNANCING ARE THE 3AFE 0HILIPPINES Project Phase 1, Subic-Clark Railway Project, five bridges across the Pasig-Marikina River and the Manggahan Floodway, and the Ambal-Simuay River and Rio Grande de Mindanao River Flood Control projects.

The Finance department said Undersecretary Mark Dennis Joven led the Philippine delegation in DISCUSSIONS WITH OFkCIALS OF THE Export-Import Bank of China (China-EXIM) and the China International Development Cooperation Agency (Cidca).

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Pinoys trust banks more than govt Cautious buying lifts stock market FILIPINOS trust banks more than the government in terms of personal data, study by a global inforMATION TECHNOLOGY kRM SHOWED A Unisys Asia Pacific online survey conducted in January found 42 percent of Filipino respondents claiming that they trusted banks the most with regard to sharing personal data, twice as high as the 21 percent that chose the government.

Only 9 percent trusted credit card networks while telecommuNICATIONS kRMS AND ONLINE SERVICES got 3 percent each. Fourteen per-

cent replied “none of them� while 9 percent were uncertain. “We can only assume that it is related to their trust in the [data] security capability of the banks,�

Unisys Financial Services Industry director Ian Selbie said in a press BRIEkNG ON 7EDNESDAY Banking sector impressions WERE HEAVILY INlUENCED BY CURRENT news, he added, noting that there were no issues at the moment that seem to be alarming the public.

Unisys Vice President and General Manager Rick Mayhew, meanwhile, said the banks’ higher score

was not an indictment of the government’s security measures. “When you’re putting your money in a bank account, there must be a high level of trust with that institution ‌ It is less so a RElECTION ON THE GOVERNMENT BUT MORE SO ON THE RElECTION ON THE bank and your willingness to put your personal savings into that facility,â€? Mayhew explained.

By age bracket, Filipino respondents above 50 trusted banks the most (53 percent) and the government much less (15 percent).

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Corporations’ political contributions under RCC MORE TO W FOLLOW (MTF)

ITH the 2019 Philippine general election less than two months away, and with the recent passage of the Revised Corporation Code (RCC), we take this opportunity to revisit the issue of whether political contributions by corporations are allowed under the law.

Section 36(9) of Batas Pambansa Blg. 68, or the old Corporation Code of the Philippines, contained an absolute prohibition on corporations, both foreign and domestic, donating to any political party or candidate, or for the purpose of any partisan political activity.

Furthermore, Section 95 of the Omnibus Election Code of the Philippines (OEC) prohibits certain types of juridical entities from making direct or indirect contributions for purposes of par-

subdivisions or instrumentalities, including government-owned or controlled corporations, 5) entities which, within one year prior to the date of the election, have been granted loans or other accommodations in excess of tisan political activity. These enti- P100,000 by the government or ties include: 1) public or private any of its divisions, subdivisions kNANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ENTITIES or instrumentalities, including operating a public utility or in government-owned or controlled possession of or exploiting any corporations, 6) educational instinatural resources of the nation, tutions which have received grants 3) entities which hold contracts of public funds amounting to no or sub-contracts to supply the less than P100,000, and 7) foreign government, or any of its divisions, corporations. subdivisions or instrumentaliWhile the enumeration in Secties, with goods or services or to tion 95 of the OEC could, at perform construction or other kRST GLANCE GIVE THE IMPRESSION works, 4) entities which have been that only the entities listed are granted franchises, incentives, ex- prohibited from making politiemptions, allocations or similar cal donations, the Securities and privileges or concessions by the Exchange Commission (SEC), in government or any of its divisions, ÂłMTF B4

RICHELLE DIANNE PATAWARAN

4(% STOCK MARKET kNISHED SLIGHTLY higher on Wednesday amid renewed concerns over a US-China trade deal and ahead of results of central bank policy meetings.

The bellwether Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) rose by 0.19 percent or 14.79 points to close at 7,858.20 while the broader All Shares increased by 0.29 percent or 14.20 points to kNISH AT

Philstocks Financial Inc. research associate Piper Chaucer Tan described Wednesday’s trading as muted, saying market players loaded portfolios with caution as a trade deal between the US and China remained uncertain.

He added that investors were staying on the sidelines ahead of US Federal Reserve and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ policy announcements due Thursday, March 21.

Wall Street was mixed overnight WITH ONLY THE .ASDAQ kNISHING IN the green as the Fed began a twoday meeting.

Asian markets mostly fell as investors kept tabs on US-China and Brexit developments, and also awaited results of the Fed meet.

Hong Kong dropped 0.5 percent after a four-day rally while Shanghai closed marginally down.

Sydney fell 0.3 percent, Singapore was off 0.4 percent and

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WB to co-fund Agus power complex rehab T

BY JORDEENE B. LAGARE

(% 7ORLD "ANK 7" IS THE LATEST MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS TO kNANCE THE REHABILITATION of the Agus hydroelectric power complex IN -INDANAO STATE RUN .ATIONAL 0OWER #ORP .APOCOR SAID In a chance interview, Napocor President and Chief Executive Officer Pio Benavidez said the WB would be joining other funding institutions in funding the facility’s improvement, which could cost between P37 billion and P40 billion.

The funding will no longer be sourced from China as previously revealed. Instead, it will now come from multilateral lending agencies from France, Australia, and Japan including the International Bank

for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).

The IBRD is the first of five member institutions that compose the WB Group. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it is a global financial institution that offers loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries. It coordinates responses to regional and global challenges in

support of WB missions.

The WB will conduct a feasibility study for 48 weeks to delve into the three options for rehabilitating the Agus hydro power facility. “We are looking at three options. One is to achieve the rated capacity. Second is increase by 10 percent the capacity, [and] third IS IMPROVE THE WATER EFkCIENCY u Benavidez said at the sidelines of a press conference in Taguig City.

He said improving the hydro complex entails expanding the size of the river and dredging.

The government, through the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda), along with Napocor and the Department of Finance (DoF), will choose the best option for the Agus power asset’s rehabilitation.

DoF Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd sits as chairman of the Napocor board. “Once the rehabilitation is completed, it would be easier to sold the complex. Its value would be high,� Benavidez said on Tuesday. “Hopefully by April 2020, we could start implementing the project after the conclusion of the feasibility study.�

The Agus Power Plant Complex is comprised of six cascading power plants snaking from the mouth of Lake Lanao in Marawi City down to the majestic Maria Cristina Falls in Iligan City.

Strategically located along the Agus River, the hydroelectric facility helps ignite the region’s economy by providing a steady supply of cheap and reliable electricity.

R&D centers eyed for higher nickel production THE establishment of regional inclusive innovation centers (RIICs) in Caraga and Mimaropa regions is being considered to develop and boost nickel ore production of the country.

In a business conference in Makati Trade Undersecretary Rafaelita Aldaba said nickel ore was mostly mined from Caraga and Mimaropa, making these regions a suitable location for the RIICs. The RIIC initiative, one of the key points under the Inclusive Filipinnovation and Entrepreneurship Roadmap in 2018, aims to gather government, academe and industries together for research and development (R&D) to promote innovation. “They (RIICs) are actually connecting

the different stakeholders [and] players in our entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem,� Aldaba said.

Aldaba considered nickel as a significant portion of mining and quarrying sector, which has been growing 4.5 percent on average for the past 9 years. The sector grew 1 percent and contributed 1 percent to the overall growth domestic products in 2018, she said.

Nickel is being used in over 300,000 products in the fields of industrial, military, marine and construction, among others, Philippine Nickel Industry Association (PNIA) Chairman Emeritus Clarence Pimentel, Jr. said in the same event. PNIA added that electric vehicles have also been consuming a big chunk of nickel supply in the country.

“Electric vehicles are the future, there is a growing market and the drive to make the industry sustainable for all sectors is very significant now,�

Electric Vehicles Association of the Philippines President Edmund Araga said.

Aldaba said nickel exports has been rising from 2012 to 2014, but started declining by 2015 up to present. In 2018, nickel exports, which mainly comprised of nickel ore and concentrates and nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products, dropped 30 percent to $842.6 million from $1.2 billion in the previous year, she pointed out.

On the other hand, nickel imports has been growing since 2014, except in 2016, she said. The nickel imports, she

said, jumped 122 percent to $60 million in 2018 from $27 million a year ago.

There has been a “growing importance� for nickel powders and flakes imports, whose market share rose to 71 percent in 2018 from 22 percent in 2012, she said. In 2018, nickel powders and flakes imports grew more than threefold to $60 million from $18.8 million a year earlier, she added. “It is very important for us to formulate a roadmap that would transform and upgrade the nickel industry, from nickel ore concentrates to higher value products, and this would allow us to move up in global value chain,� she said.

The Philippines is the second largest producer of nickel in the world.

TYRONE C. PIAD

Knowledge capital in the Philippines

L

AST February, we had the privilege to take part in De La Salle University’s commencement exercises led by its speaker, Dr. Tereso S. Tullao Jr, one of the country’s esteemed economists and academicians.

In his very inspiring speech, he stressed on the role that education plays in harnessing the country’s economic progress: a) in creating knowledge capital; b) social capital and c) human capital. Among these three, he took importance on the state of our knowledge capital. +NOWLEDGE CAPITAL IS DEkNED as the instrument or mechanism a society uses in creating innovation to speed up its economic progress. Back in the 60s, South Korea’s benchmark for innovation was the Philippines; this at a time when the President of South Korea would visit the Philippines to take on best practices primarily because our per capita income back then was double that of his country. A couple of decades later, South Korea has left the Philippines behind with their per capita income more than 10 times that ours.

Our nation’s decline in innovation is shown in the number of SCIENTIkC JOURNALS WE PUBLISH $R Tullao added. In the last 21 years, the Philippines has published 27,000 documents – compare this number to our neighboring countries such as China which published 5 million documents and Malaysia which published more than the Philippines published in the last 21 years. The gap is indeed alarming.

One strong contributing factor here is how the government invests in research and development: for example, South Korea

MANAGEMENT ACTION

KAY CALPO LUGTU invests 4.3 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) for research and development (R&D) while the Philippines invests only 13% of the country’s 1 percent GDP in R&D. Clearly, there is a gap on what needs to be done versus what is being legislated. As citizens, we could feel the impact of not innovating sustainably given the plaguing problems we are facing on everyday, most notable of which is the Manila Water shortage crisis that left the eastern part of the city in chaos. It is 2019 my dear readers yet we have our fellow citizens complaining of no water!

Something is amiss.

Dr. Tullao suggests key four things to help contribute to our economic progress: Pray for our country; there is a Tagalog saying “nasa Diyos ang awa nasa tao ang gawa� that will echo well in this case. In high school, we were also taught the value of Ora et Labora (pray and work). We must do our part and pray for guidance. %LECT OFkCIALS WITH LONG-term vision in the growth of our country; choose leaders that take value in creating knowledge capital. We must choose candidates who we strongly believe in not because of their popularity but because of their expertise.

Be an expert in your chosen field. In creating knowledge capital, we will need thousands of experts in different disciplines;

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THURSDAY March 21, 2019

Asian Terminals profit hits P2.9B

BY LISBET K. ESMAEL

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ECORD-HIGH cargo volumes drove Asian Terminals Inc.’s net income to rise to P2.9 billion last year. from P10.6 billion a year earlier, it added.

Both its ports in Manila and Batangas province registered a combined throughput of more than 1.4 million 20foot equivalent units (TEUs).

In a statement on Wednesday, the listed port operator said the amount was a 15.8-percent increase from P2.5 billion in 2017.

Revenues jumped by 15.8 percent to P12.3 billion in 2018

Manila South Harbor handled more than 1.3 million TEUs last year, up 6 percent from the 2017 figure; Batangas Container Terminal, 250,000 TEUs, up 25 percent from the 2017 level. “Asian Terminals Inc. sustained its solid performance in 2018 on the back of record cargo volumes handled by its gateway ports in Manila and "ATANGAS RElECTIVE OF THE RESIL-

ient Philippine economy,� the company said.

It added that it increased its capital expenditures to P14.7 billion for this year and 2020 from last year’s P8 billion “to develop more berths and storage spaces in Manila and Batangas ports; additional container yards outside the port zones; acquire more cargo handling equipment; and invest in innovations, which would re-

dound to greater efficiencies and safer port environment for stakeholders.�

Asian Terminals expects its expansion of the Batangas ConTAINER 4ERMINAL TO BE kNISHED by the second quarter. Once done, the terminal’s capacity would be raised from the current 350,000 TEUs to more than 450,000 TEUs every year.

In January, the company pursued its equipment build-

up in that terminal to support industries in Region 4A (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon provinces, or Calabarzon). It deployed new cargo handling equipment, two shipto-shore cranes and four more rubber-tired gantry cranes, from China’s Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. Asian Terminal shares traded flat to end at P16.80 apiece on Wednesday.

Max’s Group 2018 Megaworld hikes spending for Cavite project income flat at P631M DESPITE increased revenues, Max’s Group Inc. reported on Wednesday that its net income last year remained flat at P631 million, compared to P626 million in 2017. )N A REGULATORY kLING THE LISTED casual-dining restaurant operator said the amount included a 0 MILLION DEFERRED TAX BENEkT recognized on net loss carryovers of some entities.

Revenues stood at P13.68 billion in 2018, an 8-percent growth from P12.66 billion the year before, it added.

Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization improved by 28 percent to P1.58 billion from P1.24 billion after the company designed a more profitable mix of products and OPERATIONAL EFkCIENCIES IN BOTH stores and commissaries.

Systemwide sales rose by 8 percent to P18.8 billion from P17.34 billion, with same-store sales steady at 4 percent. “Our results continue to show progress as we focus on our consumers and operate in the most COST EFkCIENT WAY $ESPITE A RISING INlATIONARY ENVIRONMENT WE MAN-

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AGED TO IMPROVE OUR PROkTABILITY level,� Max’s Chief Operating OfkCER !RIEL &ERMIN SAID IN THE kLING &OR THIS YEAR -AX S SAID IT WAS confident that the prevailing macroeconomic backdrop would remain supportive of its business. “We are entering 2019 with GUARDED OPTIMISM WITH INlATION starting to ease and electionrelated spending coming into play,� Max’s President and Chief %XECUTIVE /FkCER 2OBERT 4ROTA SAID “Coupled with our businessbuilding programs, we hope this positive momentum will continue [this] year,“ he added.

Incorporated on March 1, 2000, Max’s traced its origins to the esTABLISHMENT IN OF ITS lAGSHIP brand Max’s Restaurant, renowned for its fried chicken. The company is into developing, buying, managing and franchising restaurants and food brands.

Other brands under Max’s include Pancake House, Yellow Cab Pizza, Krispy Kreme, Dencio’s and Teriyaki Boy. Shares of Max’s climbed by 40 centavos or 3.34 percent to close at P12.36 apiece on Wednesday.

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MEGAWORLD Corp. raised its capital spending for its Maple Grove township in General Trias City, Cavite province by 50 percent to P15 billion, as it plans to build more property components.

At a news briefing in Pasay City on Wednesday, Megaworld Chief Strategy Officer Kevin Tan said the increase was due to his company ’s new strategy to build more condominiums, rather than houses and lots, after seeing more demand for them.

Megaworld will begin developing the land for

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PHILIPPINE Business Bank (PBB) said on Wednesday it planned to issue bonds amounting to P10 billion.

In a disclosure, the listed lender reported that its board of directors had “authorized the management to arrange a bond program of up to P10 billion�

during a meeting.

Proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, it added without disclosing other details.

Bond issuances are subject to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas approval.

Last year, the central bank relaxed its rules on banks’ bond

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system, bike lanes, central material recovery facility; and pocket and vertical gardens.

It will also have its own transportation hub, chapel, and other leisure and recreational facilities. “We are fast-tracking the developments in Maple Grove, as we see growing demand from both residential and office markets in this area,�

Tan said, noting that two offices at most might be launched this year.

Megaworld launched last October the first residential tower there, The Verdin, which offered 140

units in various sizes; and the 17-level office building One Corporate Center, which has 93 office units whose sizes range from 63 to 281 sqm.

In December 2017, the property developer introduced the 25-hectare Maple Grove Commercial District, which featured 363 prime lots for sale.

They have a total inventory value of about P9 billion. All were sold out six months later.

Megaworld shares shed 3 centavos or 0.54 percent to finish at P5.57 apiece on Wednesday.

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Philippine Business Bank sets P10-B bond issuance

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the 140-hectare Maple Grove, which is targeted for completion by 2029.

The first phase will involve constructing a P1.5billion, two-story mall with a gross floor area of 24,000 square meters to be completed in 2021. It will house several retail and food-and-beverage outlets, four cinemas, indoor event area and supermarket.

Maple Grove will also offer 363 prime commercial districts to investors that they can turn into offices, office towers, a two-ha rainwater park, a landscape drip irrigation

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issuances in an effort to help develop the local capital market.

Under the enhanced rules, eligible banks would no longer need prior regulatory approval to issue bonds and commercial papers.

PBB’s net profit increased to P610.2 million in the nine

Security Name International Container Terminal Services, Inc. Ayala Land, Inc. SM Prime Holdings, Inc. BDO Unibank, Inc. Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc. SM Investments Corporation Ayala Corporation San Miguel Corporation Premiere Horizon Alliance Corporation Alliance Global Group, Inc. Jollibee Foods Corporation Bank of the Philippine Islands Manila Electric Company PLDT Inc. JG Summit Holdings, Inc. DMCI Holdings, Inc. Megaworld Corporation Universal Robina Corporation Security Bank Corporation

Last Price 120.8 43.25 39 131.5 82 78.9 951.5 930 176 1.08 15.56 313.6 87 375 1,148.00 61.7 11.9 5.6 146.1 165.9

Chg 1.8 -0.2 -0.15 -0.5 0.1 -3.85 2 0 1.7 0.01 -0.02 -1.6 -1.1 -4.6 -2 -1.35 -0.4 0 -0.9 -2.6

months ending September 2018, which it partly attributed to the change in the lender’s focus.

The amount was a 38.6-percent jump from P440.3 million in the same period in 2017.

0"" SHARES ENDED lAT AT 0 each on Wednesday.

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%Chg 1.51% -0.46% -0.38% -0.38% 0.12% -4.65% 0.21% 0% 0.98% 0.93% -0.13% -0.51% -1.25% -1.21% -0.17% -2.14% -3.25% 0% -0.61% -1.54%

Volume Ÿ 5,042,840.00 ź 12,974,100.00 ź 9,048,300.00 ź 2,410,870.00 Ÿ 2,310,750.00 ź 2,078,420.00 Ÿ 167,480.00 170,680.00 Ÿ 840,980.00 Ÿ 127,546,000.00 ź 8,345,200.00 ź 365,990.00 ź 1,286,550.00 ź 293,870 ź 90,425 ź 1,575,690 ź 7,903,600 16,909,000 ź 637,490 ź 540,950

Value(P) 609,992,831.00 561,065,370.00 353,894,685.00 317,653,176.00 189,504,130.50 167,239,520.00 159,204,350.00 158,706,005.00 147,480,630.00 132,628,730.00 129,589,574.00 115,083,494.00 112,937,667.50 110,156,992.00 104,191,585.00 98,007,341.50 95,802,094.00 94,684,111.00 93,563,804.00 90,730,337.00

*amounts in peso, except for volume, %chg

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INDEX HISTORY Date Mar 19, 2019 Mar 18, 2019 Mar 15, 2019 Mar 14, 2019 Mar 13, 2019 Mar 12, 2019 Mar 11, 2019 Mar 08, 2019 Mar 07, 2019 Mar 06, 2019 Mar 05, 2019 Mar 04, 2019 Mar 1, 2019 Feb 28, 2019 Feb 27, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 Feb 22, 2019 Feb 21, 2019 Feb 20, 2019 Feb 19, 2019 Feb 18, 2019 Feb 15, 2019 Feb 14, 2019 Feb 13, 2019 Feb 12, 2019 Feb 11, 2019 Feb 08, 2019 Feb 07, 2019 Feb 06, 2019 Feb 04, 2019

Open 7,864 7,795 7,748 7,742 7,726 7,728 7,815 7,869 7,807 7,675 7,700 7,632 7,712 7,920 7,962 7,996 7,940 7,947 7,849 7,923 7,925 7,965 7,960 8,040 8,077 8,088 8,092 8,093 8,091 8,132

High 7,879 7,873 7,798 7,764 7,766 7,774 7,824 7,884 7,882 7,821 7,735 7,698 7,754 7,920 7,973 7,996 7,962 7,947 7,945 7,939 7,964 8,000 7,996 8,040 8,084 8,106 8,096 8,127 8,214 8,149

Low 7,843 7,761 7,702 7,719 7,725 7,728 7,709 7,797 7,795 7,675 7,667 7,596 7,588 7,705 7,878 7,945 7,895 7,893 7,848 7,831 7,911 7,909 7,921 7,889 7,984 8,062 8,036 8,088 8,058 8,069

Close 7,843 7,873 7,798 7,750 7,766 7,748 7,709 7,797 7,882 7,821 7,671 7,675 7,642 7,705 7,889 7,988 7,962 7,931 7,939 7,834 7,911 7,909 7,991 7,920 8,010 8,062 8,071 8,100 8,058 8,069

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Security Name Philippine Trust Company Coal Asia Holdings Inc. Century Properties Group Inc. Mabuhay Vinyl Corporation Zeus Holdings, Inc. Victorias Milling Company, Inc. Metro Retail Stores Group, Inc. Pryce Corporation First Gen Corporation COL Financial Group, Inc. GT Capital Holdings, Inc. Non-Voting Perpetual Preferred Shares Series “A�

Integrated Micro-Electronics, Inc. 2Go Group, Inc. Ayala Corporation Class “Bâ€? Series 2 Preferred Shares Filinvest Development Corporation 3DFLÂżFD ,QF Greenergy Holdings Incorporated Shang Properties, Inc. Manulife Financial Corporation Rockwell Land Corporation

Volume 20.00 110,000.00 55,350,000.00 15,000.00 91,340,000.00 26,000.00 7,853,000.00 131,000.00 1,900,300.00 105,800.00 510.00

Value 2,322.00 33,500.00 28,814,400.00 51,500.00 35,354,600.00 70,090.00 25,215,410.00 766,000.00 41,173,775.00 1,990,650.00 450,790.00

Last Price 122 0.315 0.52 3.6 0.385 2.7 3.2 6 21.7 19 929

Chg 10.9 0.02 0.03 0.17 0.015 0.1 0.11 0.2 0.7 0.6 29

%Chg 9.81% 6.78% 5.05% 4.96% 4.05% 3.85% 3.56% 3.45% 3.33% 3.26% 3.22%

2,389,400.00 64,500.00 20.00 3,572,700.00 18,000,000.00 26,851,000.00 320,000.00 150.00 45,000.00

31,606,704.00 815,546.00 9,954.00 54,539,280.00 701,300.00 60,742,340.00 981,470.00 122,250.00 90,610.00

13.3 12.74 497.6 15.4 0.039 2.36 3.2 815 2.05

0.4 0.38 13.6 0.4 0.001 0.06 0.08 20 0.05

3.10% 3.07% 2.81% 2.67% 2.63% 2.61% 2.56% 2.52% 2.50%

Volume 8,560.00 550,000.00 5,000.00 1,040.00

Value 925,804.00 129,180.00 8,500.00 468,412.00

Last Price 110 0.233 1.7 450.4

Chg -10 -0.016 -0.1 -26.4

%Chg -8.33% -6.43% -5.56% -5.54%

285,000.00 595,000.00 17,140,000.00 2,163,000.00 779,900.00 2,078,420.00 2,240,000.00 20,000,000.00 494,100.00 876,000.00 2,804,000.00 2,500,000.00 1,731,000.00 7,903,600.00 19,000.00 90,000.00

512,780.00 344,150.00 47,951,120.00 5,648,260.00 4,047,093.00 167,239,520.00 8,357,790.00 7,457,150.00 10,178,870.00 1,157,630.00 5,333,570.00 1,388,410.00 2,388,110.00 95,802,094.00 59,660.00 173,700.00

1.82 0.57 2.71 2.59 5.05 78.9 3.67 0.37 20.2 1.32 1.88 0.55 1.38 11.9 3.14 1.93

-0.1 -0.03 -0.14 -0.13 -0.25 -3.85 -0.16 -0.015 -0.8 -0.05 -0.07 -0.02 -0.05 -0.4 -0.1 -0.06

-5.21% -5.00% -4.91% -4.78% -4.72% -4.65% -4.18% -3.90% -3.81% -3.65% -3.59% -3.51% -3.50% -3.25% -3.09% -3.02%

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Security Name Chemical Industries of the Philippines )RUXP 3DFLÂżF ,QF Swift Foods, Inc. - Convertible Preferred First Philippine Holdings Corporation Series “Câ€? Preferred Shares

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Metro Alliance Holdings & Equities Corp. “A�

Omico Corporation Cemex Holdings Philippines, Inc. NOW Corporation Italpinas Development Corporation Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc. Philex Mining Corporation MRC Allied Incorporated Macroasia Corporation Solid Group, Inc. Philippine Infradev Holdings, Inc. Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation ATN Holdings, Inc. “B�

DMCI Holdings, Inc. Phinma Petroleum and Geothermal, Inc. Araneta Properties, Inc.

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THURSDAY March 21, 2019

Foreign Business

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Investors flee Bayer after second trial blow

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RANKFURT AM MAIN: The threat to German chemical giant Bayer and subsidiary Monsanto from US litigation swelled Wednesday, when its share price plunged after a jury ruled weedkiller Roundup was a “substantial factor� in an amateur gardener’s cancer.

A wave of lawsuits has put pressure on Bayer since its $63-billion takeover of Monsanto last year, spooking investors who worry damages payouts could quickly mount INTO THE BILLIONS IF THE kRM FAILS TO convince courts its product is safe.

Chief executive Werner Baumann said last month the company faced a total of 11,200 US cases over Roundup and its active ingredient glyphosate, a herbicide key to Monsanto’s business model

that has come in for intense scrutiny around the world.

That mass of lawsuits meant markets shuddered after a federal COURT kNDING 4UESDAY THAT 2OUNDup was behind the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma suffered by 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman, who used the product for decades on the garden at his California home.

The second major legal setback in a year set the Leverkusen-based group’s stock ebbing well into Wednesday

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trading after an initial plunge.

"Y AM IN &RANKFURT GMT), the shares were trading down 13.2 percent at 60.53 euros ($68.71), dragging down the DAX index of blue-chip German shares.

Since the merger was completed, Bayer’s stock has shed almost 40 percent of its value.

Tuesday’s “decision... has no impact on future cases and trials because each one has its own factual and legal circumstances,�

Bayer said in a statement, adding that it stood behind science it says demonstrates glyphosate is safe.

But IG analyst Chris Beauchamp TOLD !&0 THE PROSPECT OF THOUSANDS of plaintiffs potentially being awarded tens of millions of dollars each means investors “start doing the numbers, and it doesn’t look very pretty at all.�

The latest case has so far brought no damages award against Bayer, as jurors now have to decide whether Monsanto is liable for the harm suffered by Hardeman. “Monsanto has not taken a responsible, objective approach to the safety of Roundup,� Hardeman’s lawyers Aimee Wagstaff and Jennifer Moore said in a joint statement. “Instead, it is clear from Monsanto’s actions that it does not particularly care whether its product is in fact giving people cancer,� they alleged.

Jurors in the earlier California state court case of Dewayne “Lee�

Johnson, a school groundskeeper who suffers from terminal nonHodgkin’s lymphoma, found in August that Monsanto acted with “malice.�

Its glyphosate weedkillers

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Filipinos still a priority Pinoy trust banks more much as $800 million based on a rival proposal but only $248 million according to the MWSS — would drive the Philippines deeper into a Chinese debt trap.

Amid earlier claims that the “Build Build Build� infrastructure program would generate MUCH NEEDED JOBS FOR &ILIPINOS

legislators have been looking into claims that Duterte’s pivot to China had led to a massive INlUX OF #HINESE WORKERS During a Senate probe last month, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd said half of the 169,000 alien employment permits is-

sued over the last three years had gone to Chinese nationals, with a sizeable number going to those employed by the offshore gaming industry.

4HE &INANCE DEPARTMENT HAS acknowledged that offshore gaming may have become a conduit for undocumented Chinese workers, last month calling for stricter registration checks of operators granted offshore gaming licenses.

Duterte, for his part, has warned that a crackdown on Chinese workers could prompt Beijing to RETALIATE BY KICKING OUT &ILIPINOS working in China.

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Two more bridges It quoted Joven as reporting that “both sides discussed the updates of ongoing projects, as well as those in the pipeline� during a meeting with China-EXIM President Zhang Qingsong. “The Chinese side also conveyed its continuing commitment to support the infrastructure projects of the Philippines, including its openness to provide available sources of financing for other projects,� he added.�

Joven and representatives of the National Economic and Development Authority, Department of Budget and Management, Bases Conversion and Development Authority and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) also met separately with Cidca Chairman Wang Xiaotao to discuss “general arrangements in PROJECT kNANCING AND WAYS ON HOW to expedite the processing of projects FOR #HINESE kNANCING u Dominguez, for his part, provided updates on “Build Build Build� infrastructure projects during a courtesy visit to Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan.

Dominguez was said to have cited significant progress made in the implementation of projects funded

BY OFkCIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE from China.

These include two bridge projects

— the Binondo-Intramuros and Estrella-Pantaleon Bridges being implemented by the DPWH — that are being funded with a 397-million renminbi ($63.13 million) grant.

4HE &INANCE CHIEF ALSO THANKED China for providing concessional LOAN kNANCING FOR THE #HICO 2IVER Pump Irrigation Project and the New Centennial Water Source-Kaliwa Dam project.

China has extended a $62.09-million loan for the Chico river irrigation project and a $211.21-million loan for the construction of the Kaliwa Dam. “We have been meeting with the Ministry of Commerce of China for the past two years and we have made a lot of progress with our acTUAL OFkCIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE relations with China,� Dominguez said during the meeting.

He also reported that the Philippines and China were working towards the implementation of two rail projects — the Subic-Clark Railway Project in Luzon and the Mindanao Railway Project. “We want to assure you that the funds provided by the Chinese people through the Chinese government ARE GOING TO BE USED TO THE BENEkT OF THE &ILIPINO PEOPLE u $OMINGUEZ was said to have told Wang.

MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO

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beans but analysts say they will be reluctant to accede to American demands in ways that could weaken the communist party’s hold on power — such as fully exposing state enterprises to market forces.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg also reported that, following recent deadly crashes, Chinese officials were considering excluding Boeing’s 737 MAX jets from the list of US goods Beijing plans to buy more of in an effort to draw down China’s soaring trade surplus with the United States.

The two sides have exchanged tariffs on more than $360 billion in bilateral trade. Lighthizer has declined to state publicly whether Washington would lift the tariffs it has imposed so far if both sides reach a deal.

In congressional testimony last week, he said China and the United States were reaching the end of the road but he stopped short of predicting success.

Lighthizer has insisted that the United States will retain the power to take “proportional action� should China fail to live up to its end of the ultimate bargain. AFP

US negotiators government interference� — major sticking points in the trade negotiations.

The law was adopted barely three MONTHS AFTER A kRST DRAFT WAS DEBATED

an unusually quick turnaround for the legislature, which meets once a year.

Word of the new round of talks BRIElY HELPED LIFT 7ALL 3TREET AFTER stock prices had begun to sag following reporting by Bloomberg THAT SOME 53 OFkCIALS SAID #HINA was reneging on earlier trade concessions. But stocks pared earlier GAINS kNISHING LITTLE CHANGED US officials are demanding far-reaching changes to Chinese industrial policy — including an end to massive state intervention in markets, subsidies and the alleged theft of American technology — and insist that any agreement must be enforceable.

China has been willing to increase purchases of American commodities such as energy and soy-

The proportions changed as the younger the bracket but banks still came out ahead. &OR THOSE AGED IT WAS percent for banks, 16 percent for the government; 38 percent to 25 percent for the 25-34 group; and 37 percent to 22 percent for 18- to 24-year-olds.

5NISYS OFkCIALS SAID THE SURVEY also showed that 63 percent of the &ILIPINO RESPONDENTS BELIEVED THAT there should be a focus on data security and safety. “Security probably trumps everything else in terms of importance,� Selbie said. &ILIPINOS 5NISYS SAID IN PREsentation materials, “recorded the highest level of consumer concern about security issues of 13 countries surveyed.�

Unisys did not identify the 13 countries. The January online poll only involved 5 — the Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Taiwan.

Identity theft was the number ONE WORRY FOR &ILIPINOS AT PERcent, followed by natural disasters (87 percent), bank card fraud (86 percent), computer viruses/hacking (83 percent), war on terrorism PERCENT kNANCIAL OBLIGATIONS (79 percent), personal safety (79 percent) and shopping/banking online (76 percent). &ILIPINOS WERE MOST COMFORTable with using biometrics (face, VOICE AND kNGERPRINTS TO ACCESS mobile banking services and ATMs but were relatively leery of letting apps automatically determine their behavior — how phones are

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Knowledge capital in every 151,000 faculty member in each college, only 14 percent has PhD. How can we pursue our knowledge capital if we only know how to teach and we have not developed skills in research? The key to create knowledge lies in research and development.

Create products and services based on your expertise. Use what you have learned not only to work but to create new products and services that would generate em-

ployment in our country; if you ARE A GRADUATE OF EDUCATION kND creative and new ways to teach and publish text books relevant to the learning capabilities of the students; for graduates of sciences, use thesis and dissertation materials to create innovation to solve poverty, water issues, malnutrition, etc.

We have the same basic problems as what we had decades ago.

Our neighbors are getting ahead of us because they seemed to

Roundup and Ranger Pro substantially contributed to the terminal illness, they judged.

Monsanto was initially ordered to pay $289 million to Johnson, who has two young sons and is in the end stages of his cancer, before the damages were reduced to $78.5 million.

"AYER HAS kLED AN APPEAL BETting it can do better at convincing judges in appeals courts than sceptical juries in lower tribunals.

The two US cases have turned ON A kNDING FROM THE )NTERnational Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization, that Roundup is “probably carcinogenic.�

But Bayer points to more recent kNDINGS FROM REGULATORS AROUND THE world, especially in advanced economies like the US, Europe and Canada,

AND REAMS OF SCIENTIkC STUDIES AS PROOF of the safety of its product. “Regulatory authorities around the world consider glyphosatebased herbicides as safe when used as directed,� the group said in its statement, highlighting “800 rigorous studies� of glyphosate’s effects. )TS CONkDENCE IN ITS EVIDENCE and its legal strategy may not be enough to convince investors to hold on through the turbulence, IG’s Beauchamp said. “If you are expecting stock markets as a whole to do better then you don’t want to be stuck with the one company that is facing huge legal claims,� he judged. “A lot of (investors) will probably decide to cut back exposure quite dramatically and see how it plays out.�

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held or swipes made, for example — to establish identities. This kNDING WAS REPLICATED ACROSS ALL kVE COUNTRIES SURVEYED Among those who were not comfortable with biometrics, 58 PERCENT OF THE &ILIPINOS EXPRESSED concern that their data could be stolen, 42 percent said they were uncertain about data safety and 39 percent said they were “just not comfortable.�

Twe n t y - t wo p e r c e n t s a i d they were concerned that banks would share the data with the government.

With regard to the general banking experience, meanwhile, Unisys SAID THE TOP COMPLAINT OF &ILIPINOS remained that of long lines at branches, although this had narrowed to 49 percent as of this year from 53 percent and 54 percent, respectively, in 2018 and 2017.

FROM A REPORT

BY TYRONE C. PIAD

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have gotten things right. We just cannot progress given this. We have to start solving these basic ISSUES AND kND WAYS TO PLAN FOR a better future. As a country, we need to innovate and create our knowledge capital.

Kay Calpo Lugtu is the COO of Hungry Workhorse, a digital and CULTURE TRANSFORMATION kRM #O &OUNDER OF #AUCUS )NC AND $EPuty Director of Global Chamber Manila. Her advocacies include DATA PRIVACY kNANCIAL LITERACY AND nation-building. The author may be reached at kaycalpolugtu@

hotmail.com

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Corporations’ political contributions an opinion dated July 27, 2015, CLARIkED THAT 3ECTION OF the old corporation code contained a blanket prohibition on all corporations from making political donations, without regard as to classification— whether foreign or domestic.

The SEC further explained that Section 95 of the OEC merely SERVES AS AN INDUSTRY SPECIkC AMPLIkCATION OF THE ABSOLUTE prohibition contained in the old corporation code.

However, Section 35(i) of the RCC signed by President Rodrigo $UTERTE ON &EB

NO longer contains the word “domesticâ€? and now provides that “a corporation has the power and capacity to make reasonable donations‌ Provided, that no foreign corporation shall give donations in aid of any political party or candidate or for purposes of partisan political activity.â€?

Thus, with the deletion of the word “domestic� in Section 35(i) of the RCC, domestic corporations are now allowed to give donations in aid of any political party or candidate or for purposes of partisan political activity, and only foreign corporations are prohibited from making political donations.

Nevertheless, despite the removal of the blanket prohibition on domestic corporations under the RCC, the entities listed in Section 95 of the OEC continue

to be prohibited from making political donations. Stated otherwise, a domestic corporation, which is not among the entities listed in Section 95 of the OEC, is now allowed to donate to any political party or candidate, or for the purpose of any partisan political activity, under the RCC. It should be noted that, in accordance with Republic Act No. 7166, contributions to any candidate or political party for campaign purposes, duly reported to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), are not subject to the payment of any donor’s tax. Therefore, contributions which have been duly reported to the COMELEC are exempt from donor’s tax, while political contributions which have not been reported shall be subject to donor’s tax at the rate of 6 percent (for net gifts in excess of P250,000 per year).

Note that despite the lifting of the ban on political donations by corporate donors, donations to a political party or candidate or any contribution for partisan political activities cannot be claimed as deductible expenses, whether by an individual or by a domestic corporation. Pursuant to Section 34(H) of the National Internal Revenue Code, donations for religious, charitable, SCIENTIkC YOUTH AND SPORTS DEVELopment, cultural or educational purposes, or for rehabilitation

of veterans or social welfare, or donations to non-government organizations are considered as deductible expenses. However, donations to a political party or candidate, or for the purpose of any partisan political activity, are not allowable deductible expenses. Unlike in other counTRIES THERE IS NO TAX BENEkT TO making political contributions in the Philippines.

We must be conscious, however, that this development in the law, which now allows corporate political contributions, can put corporate donors in a position IN WHICH THEY CAN EXERT INlUENCE

or set policy agendas that can be favorable to them in the future.

The possibility of building close relationships with politicians will, of course, be a central factor in corporate decision-making on political contributions.

Richelle Dianne R. Patawaran is a Senior Associate of Mata-PerEZ 4AMAYO &RANCISCO -4& Counsel). She is a corporate, deal, litigation and labor lawyer. The contents of the above article are intended for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal advice.

If you have any question or comment regarding this article, you may email the author at info@mtfcounsel.com or visit -4& #OUNSEL S WEBSITE AT WWW mtfcounsel.com.

Cautious 3EOUL lAT However, Tokyo recovered from an early sell-off to end 0.2 percent higher. Taipei and Jakarta also rose.

In Manila, most sectoral indices were in the green except for HOLDING kRMS Volume turnover stood at 594 million shares valued at P5.46 billion.

Winners led losers, 102 to 78, while 68 issues were unchanged.

ANGELICA BALLESTEROS WITH A REPORT FROM AFP

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Peak water

100 MLD capacity by the end of the year, but the Kaliwa project might not even get off the drawing board. In a best-case scenario that sees both projects up and running within three or four years, demand for both of Metro Manila’s water concessionaires might already exceed capacity at that point.

There seems to be only one strategy that would have any sort of effective outcome. Chasing efkCIENCY IN THE EXISTING SYSTEM BY bringing system loss down to at least single digits (it is currently about 11 percent for Manila Water, and more than 30 percent for Maynilad) is an obvious place to start, and s relatively low-hanging fruit. Aggressive water conservation efforts at the community level, which is the level at which most water is wasted, is also an easy plan to implement, provided communities have the will and stamina to sustain enforcement. Completing water infrastructure projects such as the Cardona treatment plant and the Kaliwa Dam will add some supply.

After all that, however, the resource capacity is stretched as far as it will go, and then some tough choices will have to be made. If the total available water supply is, say, 4,800 MLD, then the demand from the metropolitan area will have to be kept below 4,800 MLD. The only way to do that is to begin moving people and businesses out of the city, and discouraging new ones from settling.

That would be a horrifying prospect to just about everyone, but sometimes a radically unpleasant suggestion is necessary to kick-start innovation. Developers of residential and commercial properties that can incorporate water reclamation systems to substantially augment the existing supply could be exempted from the “stay out of Metro Manila� edict, which will lead to an explosion in the development of conservation systems. Likewise, tax credits or some other pertinent compensation can be given to households who practice simple conservation techniques, such as collecting rainwater.

Even though these efforts will help to extend supply, water is still kNITE THE MEASURES COULD PROLONG the time it takes to reach “peak water,� but they cannot prevent it.

If they are capable of keeping that in mind, Philippine lawmakers can help create much more effective policies and regulations, rather than simply compete with each other in different ways to restate the obvious.

ben.kritz@manilatimes.net

AgriBusiness Seagrass now a raw material for handicrafts T ˜ The Manila Times

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BY CONRAD M. CARIĂ‘O

HE once ignored seagrass can now be used to make various handicrafts, providing opportunities for farmers and rural households to earn additional income.

The Integrated Agricultural Research Center (Biarc) of the Department of Agriculture-Bicol $! "ICOL OFkCE SAID RICE FARMERS explored the possible commercial uses of seagrass ( Rynchospora corymbosa ), locally-known as ragiwdiw and bankuan, that GREW ABUNDANTLY IN lOOD PRONE areas in the region. “In the project site, while many people use various weed species as forage for animals, ingenious farmers surprisingly explored promising potential uses of seagrass,� said Biarc Manager Luz Marcelino.

Dried stalks from seagrass are hand twined together to create the

raw material for handicraft-making — salapid. The salapid can be made into various products such as bags, slippers, hampers and decorative items.

Marcelino said the best quality of seagrass is its resistance to molds when stored for a longer period of time.

Biarc eventually conceptualized and implemented the project “Enterprise Development in Flood Prone Areas in Camarines Sur� to develop enterprises making seagrass-based handicrafts. It was funded by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR).

The project had the following objectives: Develop rice-based production systems within the framework of integrated farming systems approach; identify researchable areas for optimized seagrass-based enterprise development; and develop a village-level handicraft production enterprises.

DA-Bicol also tied up with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Product Development and Design Center of the Philippines to provide farmer cooperators skill and product development training, and sponsorship for participation in national trade fairs.

To support the associations’ full operation to meet the increasing demand of seagrass in the local handicraft industry, BAR extended institutional support through the provision of common service facilities and production equipment.

Biarc also tapped the creativity and entrepreneurial skills of Ber-

Republic Cement inaugurates community farm in Bulacan

Q A portion of the 4-hectare farm established by Republic Cement Services Inc. at its quarry site at Sitio Alagao in Barangay Minuyan, Bulacan. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO CONSTRUCTION material provider Republic Cement Services Inc. RECENTLY INAUGURATED ITS kRST AGRO farm facility in its Bulacan plant, providing additional livelihood support to its host community.

The four-hectare farm, situated in the plant’s quarry site at Sitio Alagao in Barangay Minuyan, was opened in November 2018 as part of the company’s Environmental Protection and Enhancement Program and Social Development and Management Program.

It includes a 590-square-meter nursery and 5.3-square-kilometer vegetable farm, with the remaining areas to be planted with bamboos and fruit bearing trees.

In a statement, Republic Cement said the nursery and vegetable farm currently serves as a training ground for the 57 farming families in Minuyan, where they could enhance their farming skills, with an

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emphasis on organic farming. g/PENING OUR kRST AGRO FARM FAcility to our host communities gives us the opportunity to extend our assistance and support to the growth and prosperity of the families in our Bulacan plant,� said Nabil Francis, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFkCER of Republic Cement. “We hope we could do more of this in the future, as we go about our mission of building a stronger Republic,� Francis added.

The Republic Cement Bulacan Agro-farm initiative was conceptualized in 2017 in response to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (DENR) strict directive to the mining industry to practice responsible mining.

Through DENR’s Mining and Geosciences Bureau-Central Luzon, a directive was issued to all mining organizations to implement the progressive rehabilitation

in every active quarry site.

Republic Cement’s Bulacan plant also launched a vermiculture training center for farmers.

Residents who are members of the Sulong Pa Minuyan Cooperative were tapped to maintain the facility, generating additional employment for the community.

The Alagao-Banahaw para sa Kaunlaran, a people’s organization established through Republic Cement’s Social Development and Management Program, also took the initiative in providing the marketing strategy for the vegetables harvested from the agro-farm.

Portion of the produce will also be sold to Republic Cement-supported Kusina ng Kalinga in Bulacan.

Kusina ng Kalinga (kitchen of care) IS 2EPUBLIC #EMENT S lAGSHIP ANti-hunger program established in partnership with Gawad Kalinga.

EIREENE JAIREE GOMEZ

Seaweed can become a major food source

Q Seagrass, locally-known as ragiwdiw and bankuan, can be dried and used to make various handicraft items. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO nadette de los Santos, owner of Bidibidi Enterprise, a social enterprise providing livelihood to local women and out-of-school youth in Baao, Camarines Sur. De los Santos is also part of the Gender Responsive Economic Actions for the Transformation of Women (Great Women) project, a Philippine-Canadian brainchild that aims to provide support for women to start businesses and obtain a better-paying jobs. This

project is handled by DTI together with the Department of Science and Technology, DA, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Department of Labor and Employment, Philippine Commission on Women, small and medium enterprises, and private sector representatives. “I think it’s kind of a phenomenal that from a mere grass, now it’s a high-end product,� de los Santos, referring to handicrafts made from seagrass.

Regional agribusiness training center opened THE Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) inaugurated last month its first Regional Technology Management and Demonstration Center (RTMDC) in Pili, Camarines Sur, that will help spearhead the agency’s efforts to commercialize its technologies and offer training to farmers who are completely or relatively new to agricultural mechanization.

Two more RTDMCs are being built in Abuyog, Southern Leyte and Tugbok District, Davao this year. Each center costs P5 million. “Research and development resources will be launched in these regional centers, depending on their appropriateness for each region. There will also be regional training courses appropriate for the areas for agricultural extension workers, farmer leaders, and agricultural engineers,� PhilMech said in a Facebook post.

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The regional facilities would also help form more agribusiness enterprises in the rural areas, PHilMech Executive Director Baldwin Jallorina said.

Jallorina added the RTDMCs would also offer business advisory, or would assist clients in the formation of agribusiness enterprises using the postharvest and farm mechanization technologies developed by the agency.

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

Aside from standalone or individual technologies, PHilMech has been developing protocols and processes, where technologies produced by the agency and locally-available equipment are tapped for easier adoption by farmers, cooperatives and agribusiness enterprises.

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Q Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization Director Baldwin Jallorina (center) leads the inauguration of the agency’s first completed Regional Technology Management and Demonstration Center in Pili, Camarines Sur.

SCIENTISTS at a university in Japan have decoded the genome of the popular brown seaweed ito-mozuku (Nemacystus decipiens), providing data that could someday be critical to local farmers along the tropical coastline of Okinawa and elsewhere.

At Okinawa, farmers raise rows of delectable seaweed and harvest thousands of tons of the crop each year. But scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) said that pollution and rising ocean temperatures might affect their yield, forcing farmers to adopt new cultivation techniques.

Researchers led by professor Noriyuki Satoh of the OIST Marine Genomics Unit (OIST-MGU) with Koki .ISHITSUJI kRST AUTHOR OF THE STUDY and a staff scientist in the OIST-MGU, conducted a study that presented the WORLD S kRST DRAFT GENOME OF ITO MOzuku published on March 14, 2019 IN 3CIENTIkC 2EPORTS The study revealed genes that imbue ITO MOZUKU WITH HEALTH BENEkTS FROM the seaweed species’ exceptionally high concentrations of fucoidan, a slimy substance thought to stymie the formation of blood clots and cancerous tumors, AMONG OTHER HEALTH BENEkTS Three years ago, the OIST-MGU RELEASED THE kRST DRAFT GENOME OF ANother local species of edible seaweed, Cladosiphon okamuranus, called Okinawa mozuku. Similar to ito-mozuku, it also contains exceptionally high concentrations of fucoidan.

Both ito-mozuku and Okinawa mozuku are incredibly rich sources of fucoidan compared to other brown seaweeds, such as kombu (Saccharina japonica) or wakame 5NDARIA PINNATIkDA !CCORDING TO THE 3CIENTIkC 2Eports, the researchers have spotted which genes drive up this fucoidan concentration, a discovery that could have applications in the health food industry.

But besides health benefits, Nishitsuji said the research could be useful for farming. “My future plan is to establish new methods for cultivation of this species,� said Nishitsuji, who is now working to develop genetic markers to distinguish ito-mozuku from its close cousin.

He said that using those markers, they could do cross-breeding. “This is a popular method for making new varieties of land plants, especially wheat and potatoes, but in the case of seaweed, no one has succeeded in cross-breeding,� Nishitsuji said.

LEANDER C. DOMINGO

Achieving water security (First of two parts) NEWS that water lack is hitting some areas in the country, including those that host farming, deeply bothers me. I mean, here we are again in a situation where we are “reactive,� taking action only when a crisis manifests itself.

What should have been done was anticipate the coming dry spell and make preparations, especially when water supply was still adequate or in abundance. Besides, do we need an army of PhDs or rocket scientists to say that there would be an El NiĂąo episode this year?

I hope lessons would be learned from how we will deal with this year’s El Niùo episode and input them into the solutions, programs and projects to avoid a major water crisis in the Philippines.

And today (March 21), the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) will be holding the National Water Summit (NWS) aimed at making the country achieve “water security.� As preparations for the NWS, the NWRB on March 5 held a focus group discussion (FGD) on water security for three clusters: governance, resilience and environment; domestic and urban; and agriculture and

economics. I chaired the FGD for agriculture and economics, and would discuss part of the output in this column-series.

During the FGDs, representatives from the NWRB, National Irrigation Administration (NIA), Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), Board of Investments, National Economic and Development Authority, Department of Finance and National Power Corp. (Napocor) gave their views on how to resolve the web of issues surrounding the utilization of water, primarily for agriculture.

To date, agriculture accounts for about 80 percent of freshwater usage in the Philippines and approximately 70 percent worldwide.

Before I proceed on the consensus generated from the FGD, let me state that the Philippines is still blessed with enough water resources, as our rainfall is 2,400 millimeters (mm) per year, or three times that of India’s 700 mm.

However, India exports more farm products than the Philippines.

Also, based on the Masterplan for Water Resources Development in the Philippines undertaken by the NWRB and the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the country is projected to have

a surplus in water resources by 2025 estimated at 60,856 million cubic meters (MCM), with total output from potential water sources pegged at 145,990 MCM and usage/demand at 85,401 MCM. However, the bulk of the potential water supply would come from surface water sources, or 125,790 MCM or about 86 percent. The remaining water supply would be taken from groundwater sources.

And here is the crux of the matter — unless we take steps to rejuvenate, preserve and improve the country’s rivers, lakes, wetlands and watersheds from this year until 2025, the country would face a possible water crisis.

So, what is the way forward to this issue?

Issues on governance, infrastructure, environment Three issues were highlighted during the March 5 FGD: governance, infrastructure and environment.

In the area of governance, there is a need to resolve overlapping functions of about 30 agencies that have mandates on water. Among these agencies are the NWRB, NIA, BSWM, Napocor and the Depart-

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ment of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

There is also little to no coordination among agencies in undertaking water programs, projects and master plans, which could result in waste of public funds.

While NIA and BSWM are stepping up efforts to build more irrigation systems, it was revealed during the FGD that NIA was venturing into the construction of small irrigation systems that BSWM had been building in the past years. So there was some kind OF CONlICT OR OVERLAP HERE NIA also voiced out concerns on the condition of watershed areas, as these provide the water for the national irrigation system (NIS). But watershed management and rehabilitation is part of the DENR’s mandate.

I am sure there are many other conflicts between agencies with mandates on water that did not surface during the FGD. However, the participants in the FGD agreed to the creation of a Department of

Water including a Water Regulatory Commission. I will discuss that issue in my next columns, also taking into account inputs from today’s NWS. On the issue of infrastructure, NIA did not repudiate the fact that the country’s NIS functions at PERCENT EFkCIENCY According to the paper “Water in Philippine Agricultureâ€? by the University of the Philippines Los BaĂąos, irrigation is supposed to achieve 200-percent cropping inTENSITY "UT ONE OF THE KEY kNDINGS of Inocencio, David and Briones (2013) in a rapid appraisal of the irrigation program from 1993 to 2013 showed cropping intensity in areas covered by the NIS was 78 percent during the wet season and 65 percent during the dry season.

NIA already has a Development Master Plan for 2017-2026 that will make current irrigation systems more climate-resilient, increase NIS coverage, and manage developed water resources. However, at the rate NIA is going, or placing an additional 300,000 hectares of land under the NIS within the Duterte administration, it will take 10 to 15 years to fully cover the 3 million hectares of irrigable lands.

Rainharvesting is also very low in the Philippines at 4 percent,

WHICH RESULTS IN lOODING OF FARMlands during torrential rains and eroding of precious top soil.

One of the solutions to improve irrigation infrastructure in the Philippines is to invite private sector participation and introduce new technologies. The Board of Investment can support this by granting INCENTIVES TO PRIVATE kRMS THAT WILL pioneer projects for the country’s irrigation system.

In the area of environment, one issue stood out: the need to rehabilitate the 18 major river basins in the country. NIA also wants the watersheds currently serving the NIS to be rehabilitated and the conversion of irrigable lands to non-agriculture use be stopped.

What I have discussed are simply the “tip of the iceberg� on water issues related to agriculture and economics. That means there are more issues to discuss, and the NWS is the perfect venue for that.

Also, we should make NWS the venue to formulate and develop solutions over the short, medium and long term to make the country achieve water security.

In the second part of this column-series, I will discuss more solutions to help the country achieve water security.

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The Government of the Philippines (GoP) has received a Loan from the World Bank towards the cost of Philippine Rural Development Program and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this Loan to payments under the contract for the Package I: Coffee Processing (Ground) Center/ ID No. PRDP-IR-RCAR-IFU-001-000-0002015-y-R1.

The Provincial Government of Ifugao, implementing partner of the Department of Agriculture, now invites bids for the above sub-project. Completion of the Works requires 210 calendar days.

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The Provincial Government of Ifugao will hold a Pre-Bid Conference on April 02, 2019 at 9:30 AM DW WKH %$& ,1)5$ 2IÂżFH rd Floor, PEO Building, Provincial Capitol Compound, Poblacion South, Lagawe, Ifugao, which shall be open to all interested parties.

Bids must be duly received by the BAC Secretariat at the address below on or before April 23, 2019, 9:00 A.M. All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Securing Declaration.

Bids will be opened on April 23, 2019 at 9:00 AM DW WKH %$& ,1)5$ 2IÂżFH rd Floor, PEO Building, Provincial Capitol Compound, Poblacion South, Lagawe, Ifugao. Bids will be opened in the presence of the biddersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; representatives who choose to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted.

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ONDON: Prime Minister Theresa Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brexit plan has been derailed in Parliament. Now she is at the mercy of an exasperated European Union (EU).

-AY WAS PREPARING 4UESDAY (Wednesday in Manila) to ask the %5 FOR A DELAY OF AT LEAST SEVERAL MONTHS TO "REXIT AFTER THE SPEAKer of the House of Commons RULED THAT SHE CAN T KEEP ASKING lawmakers to vote on the same divorce deal that they had already REJECTED TWICE #HIEF %5 "REXIT NEGOTIATOR -ICHEL "ARNIER SAID THE BLOC WOULDN T

automatically grant the request.

He said a long extension â&#x20AC;&#x153;must be linked to something new, a new EVENT OR A NEW POLITICAL PROCESS u â&#x20AC;&#x153;The real question is, what is THE PURPOSE OF IT 7HAT IS IT FOR u Barnier said in Brussels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To get out of this uncertainty, we need choices and decision from THE 5NITED +INGDOM u -AY HAD HOPED TO WIN OVER HER

DOMESTIC OPPONENTS AND BRING HER deal back to Parliament before a summit of the 28-nation bloc in Brussels on Thursday and Friday.

4HAT PLAN WAS SCUTTLED -ONDAY BY (OUSE OF #OMMONS 3PEAKER *OHN Bercow, who declared that Parliament could only vote again if the DEAL WAS gFUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENTu TO THE VERSION REJECTED BY VOTES IN *ANUARY AND VOTES LAST WEEK 4HE DEADLOCK LEAVES "RITAIN S PLAN TO EXIT THE %UROPEAN 5NION Â&#x2021; STILL SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE ON -ARCH Â&#x2021; IN LIMBO 4HE 0RIME -INISTER S $OWNING 3T OFkCE SAID -AY WOULD SEND A LETTER

formally requesting an extension to %UROPEAN #OUNCIL 0RESIDENT $ONALD Tusk on Tuesday or Wednesday. $OWNING 3T WOULDN T SAY HOW LONG A DELAY SHE PLANS TO ASK FOR )F THE "REXIT DEAL WAS APPROVED -AY HAD PLANNED TO ASK the bloc for an extension until *UNE IN ORDER FOR 0ARLIAMENT TO PASS THE NECESSARY LEGISLATION FOR "RITAIN S DEPARTURE .OW A MUCH LONGER DELAY LOOKS LIKELY -AY HAS WARNED OPPONENTS THAT A FAILURE TO APPROVE HER AGREEment would mean a long, and POSSIBLY INDEkNITE DELAY TO "RITAIN S DEPARTURE FROM THE %5 AP

Aid starts pouring to cyclone-hit countries NEW YORK: International aid has started trickling into the east African countries of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to ease the humanitarian crisis created by floodwaters from Cyclone Idai.

Relief efforts that were iniTIALLY STIlED BY AIRPORT CLOSURES slowly gained steam on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila), and forEIGN GOVERNMENTS BEGAN PLEDGING AID TO HELP THE REGION RECOVER FROM THE WORST lOODING IN DECADES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone is doubling, triPLING QUADRUPLING WHATEVER THEY WERE PLANNING u SAID #ARoline Haga of the Red Cross in Beira, Mozambique, referring to SUPPLIES AND AID WORKERS g)T S much larger than anyone could EVER ANTICIPATE u 4HE %UROPEAN 5NION RELEASED 3.5 million euros ($3.9 million) IN EMERGENCY AID AND THE 5NITED +INGDOM PLEDGED UP TO MILLION POUNDS MILLION .EIGHBORING 4ANZANIA S MILITARY AIRLIFTED 238 tons of food and medicine.

Matthew Pickard of the humanitarian organization CARE said the

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Victims of the horrific Cyclone Idai stay at tents provided

by United Nations World Food Program three days after it battered Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mali on March 18, 2019. Financial aid amounting to over $20 million has poured on the nations whipped by the deadly cyclone. AFP PHOTO RESPONSE TO )DAI HAD BEEN SIMILAR TO PRIOR NATURAL DISASTERS ,OCAL AUTHORities and international non-governmental organizations worked their WAY TO THE AREA IN THE kRST DAYS WITH additional aid destined to arrive soon AFTER 4HE SLOW MOVING CATASTROPHE

OF THE lOODING AND THE INABILITY TO access some of the hardest-hit areas has limited the ability of some to see the scale of the cyclone. But, Pickard said, as those details become clearer, AID WOULD SPIKE g/VER THE NEXT FEW DAYS WE LL

LEARN JUST HOW BIG IT IS u HE SAID

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China opposes proliferation of WMD ! #().%3% envoy said Wednesday THAT #HINA IS kRMLY OPPOSED TO PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS destruction (WMD) and their means of delivery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;China has consistently and STRICTLY IMPLEMENTED ITS INTERNATIONAL NON PROLIFERATION OBLIGATIONS AND COMMITTED TO THE POLITICAL SETTLEMENT OF NON PROLIFERATION HOTSPOT ISSUES AND HAS MADE POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THIS END u Wu Haitao, the CHARGE D AFFAIRES

OF #HINA S 0ERMANENT -ISSION TO THE 5NITED .ATIONS 5.

TOLD A 5. 3ECURITY #OUNCIL MEETING ON NON PROLIFERATION OF 7-$S g#HINA IS READY TO FURTHER DEEPEN ITS COOPERATION WITH THE COMMITTEE 3ECURITY #OUNCIL #OMMITTEE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO 2ESOLUTION AND WILL CONtinue to work with all other counTRIES TO MAKE POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE PERFECTION OF INTERNATIONAL NON PROLIFERATION REGIME GLOBAL

NON PROLIFERATION GOVERNANCE AND LASTING PEACE AND SECURITY FOR ALL u he said.

4HE #HINESE ENVOY EXPRESSED HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE gLONG TERM JOINT EFFORTS OF ALL PARTIES u NOTING THAT gTHE INTERNATIONAL NON PROLIFERATION CONSENSUS HAS STEADILY DEEPENED u â&#x20AC;&#x153;Its mechanism has gradually IMPROVED AND THE COOPERATION HAS FURTHER DEEPENED u HE ADDED However, the global security LANDSCAPE gREMAINS COMPLEX AND

GRAVE u HE SAID g)N A GLOBALIZING world with technological advances, the risk for non-state actors, PARTICULARLY TERRORISTS TO GAIN access to WMDs and related mateRIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES STILL EXISTS u 5NDER THE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES

the international community SHOULD CONTINUE TO gDEEPEN COOPERATION AND FURTHER STRENGTHEN global governance in the area of NON PROLIFERATION u HE NOTED GLOBAL TIMES

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Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quit, Pope tells cardinal in sex cover-up VATICAN City: Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of failing to report a known predator priest to police, the Vatican said Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila).

The decision greatly disappointed abuse survivors, given that Barbarin had traveled to the Vatican on Monday to present his resignation, following the March 7 verdict and six-month suspended sentence he received.

Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said Tuesday that during the audience, Francis didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accept the resignation and instead asked Barbarin to do what he thinks was best for the archdiocese.

Barbarin has decided to take time away and has asked his deputy in Lyon, the Rev. Yves Baumgarten, to assume leadership of

the archdiocese, Gisotti said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Holy See repeats its closeness to victims of abuse, to the faithful of the archdiocese of Lyon and the French church who are living in a particularly difficult moment,â&#x20AC;? Gisotti said.

The French court found that Barbarin had an obligation to report the Rev. Bernard Preynat to civil authorities when he learned of his abuse. Preynat, who is scheduled to be tried on sexual violence charges next year, confessed to abusing Boy Scouts in the 1970s and 1980s. His victims accuse Barbarin and other church authorities of covering up for him for years.

Barbarin has appealed the conviction, which could have influenced Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; decision to not immediately accept his resignation. Francis has been loath to take such measures lest they influence the outcome of trials.

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Worldinbriefs NEW KAZAKH PRESIDENT SWORN IN ASTANA, Kazakhstan: The head of Kazakhstanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senate was sworn in as interim president in a pomp-filled ceremony Wednesday, and immediately proposed renaming the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital after his predecessor. Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only leader an independent Kazakhstan has ever known, shocked the nation on Tuesday with his resignation after nearly three decades in power. Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, 65, was Kazakhstanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second in command and is set to serve as president until fresh elections in April next year. But Nazarbayev, 78, will retain significant influence thanks to his constitutional status as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leader of the Nationâ&#x20AC;? and lifelong position as chief of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s security council.

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INDONESIA FLOOD DEATHS HIT 100 SENTANI, Indonesia: The death toll from flash floods and landslides that tore through Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Papua region has topped 100 with dozens more still missing, the disaster agency said Wednesday. Nearly 10,000 people have moved to shelters while at least 104 victims are confirmed to have died and 79 are unaccounted for in the aftermath of the disaster, triggered by heavy rain on Saturday. Scores have suffered injuries, including cuts and broken bones, while some 40 unidentified bodies would be buried in a mass grave on Thursday, officials said. Many survivors fear more floods will rip through hard-hit Papua, which shares a border with independent Papua New Guinea on an island just north of Australia.

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C YCLONE BATTERS AUSTRALIA CAIRNS, Australia: A powerful tropical cyclone that lashed the northeast coast of Australia, closing ports and causing power outages, is expected to strengthen further Wednesday. Tropical Cyclone Trevor was a category 3 system â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with winds gusting at 165 kilometres (100 miles) per hour â&#x20AC;&#x201D; when it made landfall on the Cape York peninsula Tuesday evening, hitting small isolated communities. The Bureau of Meteorology said it is now tracking slowly west out to the Gulf of Carpentaria and will intensify to a category 4 system by the weekend before making landfall again.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;POTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; LEGALIZATION SUPPORT RISES LOS Angeles: A growing majority of Americans say marijuana should be legal, underscoring a national shift as more states embrace cannabis for medical or recreational use. Support for legal marijuana hit 61 percent in 2018, up from 57 percent two years ago, according to the General Social Survey, a widely respected trend survey that has been measuring support for legal marijuana since the 1970s. An analysis of the survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the General Social Survey staff finds that increased backing of legalization cut across all age groups and political parties.

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An Indonesian woman is whipped by a member of the Sharia police in public in Banda Aceh. A group of unmarried couples were whipped in Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aceh province last March 20 after they were caught living together, a crime under the conservative regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Islamic law. AFP PHOTO

Geothermal plant causes quake in SKorea SEOUL: ! RARE EARTHQUAKE IN 3OUTH +OREA WAS TRIGGERED BY THE COUNTRY S kRST EXPERIMENTAL GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT A TEAM OF GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONED EXPERTS SAID 7EDNESDAY 4HE SOUTHEASTERN PORT CITY OF 0OHANG WAS RATTLED BY A MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE IN .OVEMBER Â&#x2021; THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL TREMOR EVER IN THE NORMALLY SEISMICALLY STABLE 3OUTH $OZENS OF PEOPLE WERE INJURED AND MORE THAN LEFT HOMELESS Â&#x2021; WHILE A NATIONWIDE COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAM WAS POSTPONED IN AN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE AS AUTHORITIES SCRAMBLED WITH RECOVERY EFFORTS ! YEAR LONG GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONED STUDY POINTED TO THE GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT AS THE CAUSE 4HE PLANT WORKS BY INJECTING HIGH PRESSURE WATER DEEP UNDERGROUND TO

TAP HEAT FROM THE %ARTH S CRUST BUT THE PROCESS HAD PRODUCED MICRO SIZED SEISMIC ACTIVITY AS A RESULT SAID ,EE +ANG KUN WHO LED THE RESEARCH g!ND AS TIME PASSED THIS TRIGGERED THE EARTHQUAKE IN 0OHANG u HE added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We concluded that the Pohang earthquake was a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;triggered QUAKE )T WASN T A NATURAL EARTHQUAKE u 0OHANG RESIDENTS kLED A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT AFTER THE QUAKE AND FOLLOWING THE ASSESSMENT 3EOUL EXPRESSED ITS gDEEP REGRETu 4HE GEOTHERMAL PLANT Â&#x2021; WHICH WAS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED DURING THE STUDY Â&#x2021; WOULD BE gPERMANENTLY SHUTTEREDu THE TRADE INDUSTRY AND energy ministry said in a statement. )T COST AROUND BILLION WON MILLION TO BUILD AND TEST OPERATIONS BEGAN IN

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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand: The white-supremacist accused of the Christchurch killings will spend the rest of his life in jail if convicted, likely in isolation for his own safety, a New Zealand criminologist and former convict said Wednesday. Attacks at two mosques in the southern city last Friday left 50 Muslim worshippers dead and sparked global revulsion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is going to be very highly unpopular in a prison where 80 percent (of inmates) are Maori or Pasifika (Pacific islanders) and he is a white supremacist,â&#x20AC;? said Greg Newbold, a professor of criminology at Canterbury University. AFP

8 HURT IN MYANMAR RIOT YANGON: Fighting between Myanmarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s military and ethnic Rakhine rebels in Mrauk U, the ancient capital of the Rakhine kingdom, has left at least eight locals injured, scaring tourists and sparking fears that the historical monuments are under threat. Ethnic and religious tensions divide western Rakhine state, where the army forced out some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims in a brutal crackdown in 2017. Now the military is waging war against the Arakan Army, which claims to represent ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and has killed 22 officers since early January. Over the weekend the conflict spread to Mrauk U, renowned for its ancient temples and popular with hardier travellers.

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OS ANGELES: Houston Rockets star James Harden carved a piece of NBA history on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) after a 31-point haul against the !TLANTA (AWKS MADE HIM THE kRST PLAYER TO score at least 30 points against every team in the league in the same season.

The 29-year-old reigning NBA MVPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s points milestone came in a dominant 121-105 road win over the Hawks.

The win allowed the Rockets to keep up the pressure on Golden State and second-placed Denver as the Hawks slumped to their 48th defeat of the season.

Harden had 10 assists and eight rebounds to go with his points tally as the Rockets starters assumed total control.

Clint Capela added 26 points while Chris Paul had 13 points and 11 assists. Danuel House Jr. added a further 19 points from the bench for Houston.

Atlantaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scoring was led by Trae Young with 21 points, 12 assists and four rebounds.

Houstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win keeps them in third spot in the West, with 45 wins and 26 defeats.

T h e Wa r r i o r s m e a nw h i l e bounced back from their loss to San Antonio on Monday with an emphatic 117-107 blowout of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The reigning NBA champions were always on the attack against the Timberwolves, who fell to 3239 after the defeat in Minneapolis.

Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson carried the offensive burden for the Warriors, with Curry draining 36 points and Thompson 28.

Kevin Durant had 17 points while Swedish veteran Jonas Jerebko put up 18 points from 18 minutes on the court.

Draymond Green anchored the

Warriors defence, making four blocks while contributing 19 rebounds and nine assists.

Curry did most of the damage in a devastating third quarter display which saw him run up 22 points, which prompted the Warriors star to perform one of his trademark shimmies in celebration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having fun, you can get it going, especially at the end of a quarter,â&#x20AC;? Curry said later.

Curryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance drew effusive praise from coach Steve Kerr. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He loves to put on a show with his skill and his personality a little bit,â&#x20AC;? Kerr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pleasure to watch that every single night because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a long season.â&#x20AC;?

The Warriors continue to lead the Western Conference from Denver with 48 wins and 22 losses.

The performance of the night came in Sacramento, where the Kings blew a 28-point lead as the Brooklyn Nets came back to win 123-121.

The architect of the comeback was Nets guard Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Angelo Russell, who delivered a 44-point display

Q Houston Rockets guard James Harden passes as he drives under the basket with Atlanta Hawks forward John Collins (No. 20) defending during the second half of an NBA basketball game on Wednesday, in Atlanta. Houston won 121-105. AP PHOTO TO kRE THE .ETS Twenty-seven of Russellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s points

Former NBA star pleads guilty in bribery scheme NEW YORK: Former NBA star Chuck Person pleaded guilty on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) to accepting $91,500 in bribes while working as an assistant basketball coach at Auburn University.

Person, 54, was one of several university coaches arrested following an FBI investigation into corruption in college basketball.

Person, who played for 13 years in the National Basketball Association, pleaded guilty to one count of taking bribes from a financial adviser.

In exchange, Person would use his influence to steer his players to the financial adviser when they were

embarking on professional careers in the NBA. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As he has now admitted, Chuck Person abused his position as a coach and mentor to student-athletes in exchange for personal gain,â&#x20AC;? US attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In taking tens of thousands of dollars in cash bribes, Person not only placed personal financial gain above his obligations to his employer and the student-athletes he coached, but he broke the law,â&#x20AC;? Berman said.

Person starred at Auburn before going on to a career with five teams in the NBA, where his shooting skills earned him the nickname â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Rifleman.â&#x20AC;?

Person, who was fired by Auburn following his 2017 arrest, is to be sentenced on July 9.

In addition to forfeiting $91,500, he could face up to five years in prison although he is expected to get a lesser term after pleading guilty.

College basketball is big business in the United States, generating billions of dollars a year, and Personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guilty plea comes on the eve of the annual tournament known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;March Madness.â&#x20AC;?

Three other assistant college basketball coaches have also pleaded guilty in connection with the scandal.

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came in a remarkable fourth quarter, which ended with Rondae Hollis-Jefferson driving in the game-winner with just under six seconds remaining.

In Milwaukee, the anticipated match-up between the Bucksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Giannis Antetokounmpo and Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James failed to materialise as BOTH PLAYERS WERE DEEMED UNkT to start for the Antetokounmpo was ruled out with an ankle problem while James was sidelined with a sore left groin.

The Bucks shrugged off Antetokounmpoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absence to post a

comfortable 115-101 victory as the Lakers already slim chance of reaching the playoffs grew even more remote.

While the Bucks are cruising towards the postseason with a 52-18 record to sit on top of the Eastern Conference, the Lakers remain out of playoff contention, in 11th place in the West on 31-39.

In Charlotte meanwhile the Philadelphia 76ers squeezed past the Hornets by 118-114 to stay in third place in the East.

Australian star Ben Simmons had 28 points for the Sixers while J.J. Redick added 27 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists. AFP

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PHOENIX EYES SEMIFINALS BERTH

fending champion San Miguel Beer, 96-93, on Saturday in Panabo, Davao del Norte.

Phoenix ended the elimination round No. 1 with a 9-2 win-loss record and a twice-to-beat bonus .

Phoenix was second seed last Governorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cup but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it INTO THE SEMIkNALS AFTER IT SQUANdered its twice-to-beat incentive losing twice to No. 7 Meralco. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not thinking about redemption, but we gained a lot of experience from there,â&#x20AC;? added Alas.

With still three weeks to go be-

expect. He was told â&#x20AC;&#x153;there is no way that the Pelicans will trade Davis to the Lakers.â&#x20AC;?

While revenge is not the best way to do business, the Pelicans are not entirely desperate. Gayle Benson, widow of Tom Benson, is the owner of the Pelicans and also the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NFL team, the New Orleans Saints.

New Orleans has been more of a football city than a basketball one, and many perceive that the Pelicans are more of a second banana to the Saints.

They are not under pressure like the Lakers. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll survive even if the Pelicans have a bad year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or even if they lose Anthony Davis. They are ready to patiently rebuild through the draft when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone.

The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resilience

Zion Williamson is worth tanking for

If there is one thing that LeBron does well (aside from everything on the court) it is to recognize when a situation no longer works. He has the resilience to pick up the pieces and move forward.

He did that in Cleveland in 2010, Miami in 2014 and Cleveland again last summer. Many will call that cowardice, but when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the best, the best is always expected from you.

The Lakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; season was done, not when LeBron James got injured but when he decided that his teammates were not good enough to win him a title. He needed to act with urgency. With Anthony Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; trade demand, they wanted the Pelicans to push the panic button. However, they stood pat, and threw the panic button right back on LeBronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lap.

Speaking of the NBA Draft, there is one name topping all the mock drafts: Zion Williamson of the Duke Blue Devils. He has been compared to Charles Barkley, Blake 'RIFkN AND ,E"RON *AMES HIMSELF Zion can dunk, but he can also play. He played in the toughest conference in college basketball (ACC) and emerged as Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year. Pretty impressive. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soon to be a household name, but for casual fans he is known for blowing out his Nike PG 2.5s.

BASKETBALL SLEUTH

MICHAEL ANGELO B. ASIS

Q Jason Perkins of Phoenix (No. 3) tries to score against Von Pessumal, Arwind Santos and June Mar Fajardo of San Miguel Beer during a Season 44 PBA Philippine Cup game on Saturday at the Panabo Sports Complex in Davao Del Norte. PBA MEDIA BUREAU PHOTO NO. 1 seed Phoenix, armed with a twice-to-beat advantage, is bent ON SECURING ITS kRST EVER FRANCHISE SEMIkNALS APPEARANCE SINCE JOINing the Philippine Basketball Association in 2016. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As much as possible, we have to play our very best from the start until the last second. We cannot put our guards down and we cannot relax so we have to prepare seriously,â&#x20AC;? Phoenix coach Louie Alas told The Manila Times on Wednesday.

The Fuel Masters escaped de-

HE King has stumbled out of his CASTLE &OR THE kRST TIME IN THIRteen years, we will not have â&#x20AC;&#x153;Playoff LeBron.â&#x20AC;? All the talk of how he is preserving his energy, how the â&#x20AC;&#x153;real seasonâ&#x20AC;? starts in April, not October â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LeBron James will spend late April watching from the couch.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard not to speculate that James has seen the writing on the wall. LeBron wanted to play Vito #ORLEONE AND lASH gAN OFFER THE 0ELICANS CAN T REfuseâ&#x20AC;? but he neither had the assets or the leverage to pull it off.

Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; machinations, orchestrated by his â&#x20AC;&#x153;consiGLIORIu 2ICH 0AUL BACKkRED )T COST THE ,AKERS AND WE RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE TAMPERING kNE

fore the playoff, Alas is secretive of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans.

Phoenix is still awaiting who will be the No. 8 team at the end of the elimination.

Northern Luzon Expressway (4-5 win-loss record), Columbian Dyip (4-6), Magnolia (3-5), Alaska (3-5), Meralco (3-6) and Northport (2-5) are still vying for the No. 7 and 8 spots. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You cannot choose from there because all the teams are very strong,â&#x20AC;? added Alas.

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Is Anthony Davis still a realistic goal?

One thing that was forgotten in the Anthony Davis saga â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it was all the Pelicansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; choice. They CAN refuse any offer. No one was holding a gun to their head as Davis was still under contract through 2020. And they were fuming mad at the Lakers, it seemed like a gun to the head was the only way to convince them.

According to Marc Spears of ESPN, the situation will not change in the summer, as most would

Lakers ride the tank From one generational talent to another, the Lakers shift from AD to Zion. They have shut down their young core due to injuries and have set limits to LeBronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing time due to â&#x20AC;&#x153;load management.â&#x20AC;?

They have lost their playoff ticket and there seems TO BE NOTHING TO kGHT FOR In contrast, Zion is a generational talent. By plummeting through the standings they get a better, yet still slim chance to nab the best player in the draft since Anthony Davis himself.

The Lakers are on a wild chase again. They went for a blockbuster trade in the midseason and failed. This summer, they hope to land a top free agent and have THEIR kNGERS CROSSED ON THE $RAFT LOTTERY 4HEY HAVE TO swing for the fences as the King would accept no less.

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Lady Warriors end dry spell with win over NU U

MOA to host SEAG basketball games

BY JEREMIAH M. SEVILLA

NIVERSITY of the East (UE) snapped a four-game losing run with a 2516, 25-18, 24-26, 25-16 victory over National University in Season 81 University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball on Wednesday at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan City.

4HE ,ADY 7ARRIORS CAPITALIZED ON A STRONG START TO FOIL THE ,ADY "ULLDOGS kGHTBACK IN THE THIRD SET EN ROUTE TO IMPROVING ITS RECORD TO 5% FORCED A DEADLOCK AT .O WITH .5 AND ALSO AVENGED ITS

kRST ROUND LOSS TO THE LATTER g) HAVE MANY GRADUATING PLAYERS 7E JUST WANT TO kGHT AND IMPROVE OUR POSITION FROM BEING AN EIGHT PLACER ALWAYS IF WE WILL NOT MAKE it to the Final Four,â&#x20AC;? said UE head COACH +ARL $IMACULANGAN Fourth-year hitter Mary Ann MenDREZ POUNDED A GAME HIGH POINTS ANCHORED ON KILLS WHILE GRADUATING SPIKER *UDITH !BIL kLLED kNISHED WITH AN IMPRESSIVE MARKERS EXCELLENT DIGS AND EXCELLENT RECEPTIONS FOR THE 2ECTO BASED SQUAD â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the start of the second round, WE WANT TO BE CONkDENT THAT S WHY WE GAVE OUR ALL u SAID !BIL g4HIS IS my last year and as a senior I want TO LEAVE A LEGACY TO 5% u 6ETERAN SETTER ,AI "ENDONG ALSO GRADUATING THIS SEASON ORCHES-

TRATED THE ,ADY 7ARRIORS OFFENSE WITH EXCELLENT SETS TO GO WITH SEVEN POINTS BUILT AROUND kVE ACES g#OACH +ARL IS ALWAYS REMINDING US OF WHAT WE WILL LEAVE TO THE YOUNGER PLAYERS 4HAT S WHERE WE ARE DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM 7E RE JUST THANKFUL THAT WE STARTED STRONG THIS SECOND ROUND u SAID "ENDONG 5% WAXED HOT EARLY FOR A COMMANDING LEAD BEHIND AN RUN EN ROUTE TO AN EASY OPENING SET WIN 4HE ,ADY 2ED 7ARRIORS DOMINATED ANEW IN THE SECOND SET BUT THE ,ADY "ULLDOGS CAME ALIVE AND ERASED SIX MATCH POINTS TO TAKE THE THIRD FRAME -ENDREZ !BIL AND "ENDONG JOINED FORCES TO PREVENT .5 FROM MOUNTING ANOTHER COMEBACK IN THE FOURTH SET PROPELLING 5% TO A SCORCHING START TO THE SECOND ROUND 2OOKIE SPIKER 0RINCESS 2OBLES SCORED A TEAM HIGH POINTS WHILE FELLOW NEWCOMER )VY ,ACsina had 12 markers and RoseLYN $ORIA HAD FOR THE ,ADY "ULLDOGS WHO DROPPED TO THEIR SECOND STRAIGHT SETBACK

Q UEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marione Rodriguez scores against NUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Princess Robles (No. 7) and Mae LuceĂąo (No. 12) during a UAAP womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball game on Wednesday at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan City. PHOTO BY ROGER RAĂ&#x2018;ADA -EANWHILE LEADING !TENEO $E -ANILA 5NIVERSITY AND SECOND RUNNING 5NIVERSITY OF 3TO 4OMAS ARE STILL PLAYING AT PRESS TIME %ARLIER IN THE MEN S SIDE REIGNING CHAMPION .5 WALLOPED !Damson University, 25-18, 25-18, 25-19, to earn a share of the lead

THE SAINTS TARGET SHARE OF LEAD VS TITANS

ST. CLARE College-Virtual Reality seeks to gain a share of the lead when it collides with winless Family Mart-Enderun Colleges in the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association Developmental League (PBA D-League) today at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City.

The Saints (3-0) aim for a fourth straight victory against the Titans (0-2) at 2 p.m. in order to join idle University of Sto. Tomas atop the Aspirants Group.

Head coach Jinino Manansala vowed that his St. Clare-Virtual Reality squad will always go all-out for the win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am always reminding my players to give their best every practice and our hard work will eventually pay off,â&#x20AC;? said Manansala.

Behind veteran guard Junjie Hallare, the Saints kept their unbeaten slate at the expense of the pesky BatangasEmilio Aguinaldo College, 80-73, last Monday.

Hallare will be once again tabbed to lead the team along with backcourt mates Irvin Palencia and Joshua Fontanilla.

On the other hand, Family Mart-Enderun will try to break into the

win column following a two-game losing start at the hands of CignalAteneo De Manila University and Go For Gold-College of St. Benilde.

Meanwhile, Cha Dao-Far Eastern University (FEU) guns for its first winning streak against the rebound win-seeking Metropac-San Beda University in their 4 p.m. Foundation Group clash.

The Tamaraws (2-2) will look to follow up their 106-81 dismantling of The Masterpiece Clothing-Trinity University of Asia while the Movers (2-1) are out to bounce back from a 77-80 loss to Centro Escolar University.

More than the streak, though, Cha Dao-FEU coach Olsen Racela wants to see wardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; improvement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told them that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here to get better each game. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on a losing streak. But if we felt that we improved, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s okay for us because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our goal,â&#x20AC;? he said.

In the 12 p.m. opener, Diliman College-Gerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grill will eye to get back on the winning track against the lowly SMDCNational University (0-3). JEREMIAH M. SEVILLA

with erstwhile unbeaten FEU, WHICH ABSORBED A SHOCK

LOSS TO !TENEO ,AST SEASON S &INALS -60 "RYAN "AGUNAS BLASTED POINTS HIGHLIGHTED BY KILLS AS THE "ULLDOGS BAGGED THEIR SEVENTH CONSECUTIVE TRIUMPH JOINING THE 4AMARAW 3PIK-

ERS AT THE TOP WITH A SIMILAR CARD Ron Medalla sizzled with a CAREER HIGH POINTS BUILT ON SPIKES THREE BLOCKS AND TWO ACES

POWERING THE "LUE 3PIKERS TO .O WITH AN IMPROVED SLATE 4HE 3OARING &ALCONS REMAINED .O WITH AN EVEN RECORD

4 ( % 0 H I L I P P I N E 3 O U T H E A S T !SIAN 'AMES /RGANIZING #OMMITTEE 0()3'/# ANNOUNCED ON 7EDNESDAY THAT THE -ALL OF Asia Arena in Pasay City will host the 5-on-5 basketball GAMES OF THE 3%! 'AMES THAT THE 0HILIPPINES WILL BE HOSTING late this year.

0()3'/# EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 2AMON g4ATSu 3UZARA CONFIRMED THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT to 4HE -ANILA 4IMES , sayING THAT THEY ALREADY FORGED AN AGREEMENT WITH THE -ALL OF !SIA !RENA MANAGEMENT HEADED BY 3- ,IFESTYLE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER (ERMAN -Edina-Cue . g)T S GOOD FOR BASKETBALL LOVING &ILIPINOS AND ) M VERY thankful to the MOA Arena MANAGEMENT FOR AGREEING TO HOST THE 3%!' ON GAMES u SAID 3UZARA ADDING THAT THE MOA will be the venues for ICE HOCKEY AND ICE SKATING events too.

0RIOR TO THE DEVELOPMENT

THE &ILOIL &LYING 6 !RENA IN 3AN *UAN #ITY WAS FIRST PICKED TO BE THE VENUE OF THE ON GAMES But the decision was heavily CRITICIZED BY &ILIPINO BASKETBALL FANS ARGUING THAT 4HE !RENA ONLY HAS SEATING CAPACITY COMPARED TO -/! S 20,000.

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Andreescu arrives with unlikely triumph INDIAN WELLS, United States: Bianca Andreescuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision became reality in the California desert, where the Canadian 18-year-oldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cinderella RUN TO A kRST 74! TITLE PUT HER AMONG the elite of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crazy,â&#x20AC;? Andreescu herself called IT AFTER GRITTY

VICTORY over three-time Grand Slam chamPION !NGELIQUE +ERBER MADE HER THE kRST WILD CARD TO WIN THE PRESTIGIOUS )NDIAN 7ELLS 74! TITLE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bianca Andreescu just made HISTORY #ONGRATULATIONS u #Anadian Prime Minister Justin 4RUDEAU TWEETED SHORTLY AFTER THE LANDMARK TRIUMPH Andreescu is the tournamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s YOUNGEST WINNER SINCE 3ERENA 7ILliams in 1999 and just the fourth UNSEEDED PLAYER TO LIFT THE TROPHY AFTER 7ILLIAMS A RETURNING +IM #LIJSTERS IN AND *APAN S .AOMI Osaka last year.

Reminded that Osakaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breakTHROUGH WIN WAS SWIFTLY FOLlowed by two Grand Slam titles AND A RISE TO .O IN THE WORLD

Andreescu was asked if she found THAT INSPIRATIONAL g.O PRESSURE u SHE SAID WITH a smile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s totally fine,â&#x20AC;? she said of THE COMPARISON g)T S DEFINITELY AN INSPIRATION SEEING HER CLAIM

Q Bianca Andreescu of Canada returns a shot to Angelique Kerber of Germany during the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on March 17, in Indian Wells, California. AFP PHOTO THE TROPHY LAST YEAR AND WINNING 'RAND 3LAMS RIGHT AFTER THAT HAS BEEN AMAZING TO SEE "UT ) DON T really want to focus on the future RIGHT NOW ) JUST WANT TO ENJOY THIS

moment because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED g9OU NEVER KNOW WHAT THE NEXT WEEK BRINGS u ADDED !NDREESCU

who now heads to Florida for the -IAMI /PEN THIS WEEK WHERE SHE will be unseeded. +ERBER A FORMER WORLD NUMBER ONE WHO HAD SLIPPED TO EIGHTH IN THE RANKINGS AS SHE SEARCHED FOR A kRST TITLE SINCE SHE WON 7IMBLEDON LAST YEAR WAS UP A BREAK IN THE THIRD SET WHEN !NDREESCU POWERED THROUGH FATIGUE AND CRAMPING TO seize the victory. )T S THE KIND OF TRIUMPH !NDREESCU HAS PICTURED BEFORE IN HER DAILY PRACTICE OF CREATIVE VISUALIZATION which she uses to maintain her calm and focus.

But when the moment arrived for real, she said, it was â&#x20AC;&#x153;surrealâ&#x20AC;?. g) VE WATCHED ALL THESE PLAYERS PLAY ON 46 SO MANY TIMES SO IT S SURREAL TO BE ABLE TO PLAY AGAINST THEM IN FRONT OF AMAZING CROWDS AT SUCH PRESTIGIOUS TOURNAMENTS u .OTING THAT IN -ARCH OF SHE WAS COMPETING IN A LOWER LEVEL )NTERNATIONAL 4ENNIS &EDERATION + EVENT IN *APAN gSTRUGGLING A LOT WITH MY TENNIS AND with my body. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy, what a year can do,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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Tokyo unveils â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cherry blossomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Olympic torch TOKYO: /RGANIZERS OF THE 4OKYO /LYMPICS ON 7EDNESDAY UNVEILED A CHERRY BLOSSOM SHAPED TORCH FOR THE 'AMES AS THE CITY PREPARES FOR THE FAMED lOWER SEASON TO BEGIN IN COMING DAYS 4HE TOP PART OF THE TORCH IS SHAPED in the traditional emblem of the SAKURA OR CHERRY BLOSSOM USING THE SAME CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY AS IN PRODUCTION OF *APAN S BULLET TRAINS

THE ORGANISERS SAID 4HE SHINY ROSE GOLD TORCH WHICH IS CENTIMETRES INCHES LONG AND WEIGHS KILOGRAMS POUNDS ounces), uses aluminium construcTION WASTE FROM TEMPORARY HOUSING BUILT FOR VICTIMS OF THE QUAKE and tsunami. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cherry blossoms drawn by kids in the disaster-hit area (in FukushiMA INSPIRED ME u DESIGNER 4OKUJIN Yoshioka, whose works are known INTERNATIONALLY TOLD REPORTERS Fukushima was chosen as the startING POINT FOR THE /LYMPIC TORCH RELAY 4HE PASSING OF THE lAME IS SCHEDULED TO START ON -ARCH

AND

Q Designer Tokujin Yoshioka (left) and Torch Relay Ambassador Tadahiro Nomura unveil the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games torch for the torch relay in Tokyo on March 20. AFP PHOTO the torch will head south to the subTROPICAL ISLAND OF /KINAWA Â&#x2021; THE STARTING POINT FOR THE 4OKYO 'AMES RELAY Â&#x2021; BEFORE RETURNING NORTH AND ARRIVING IN THE *APANESE CAPITAL ON *ULY 4HE DESIGNER ADDED THE TORCH IS DESIGNED TO ENSURE THE lAME WILL NOT GO OUT EVEN DURING THE TYPHOON SEASON 4HE -ARCH TSUNAMI TRIGGERED BY A MASSIVE UNDERSEA QUAKE KILLED AROUND PEO-

PLE AND SWAMPED THE &UKUSHIMA NUCLEAR PLANT SENDING ITS REACTORS INTO MELTDOWN AND LEADING TO the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

-ORE THAN PEOPLE HAVE not returned to their home towns. *APAN HAS DUBBED THE Games the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reconstruction OlymPICSu AND WANTS TO SHOWCASE RECOVERY IN REGIONS DEVASTATED BY the disaster.

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Dula, Mojdeh shine in BPinoy Luzon qualifying leg

BY JEAN RUSSEL V. DAVID

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LAGAN CITY, Isabela: ParaĂąaque City tankers Marc Bryan Dula and Micaela Jasmine Mojdeh led the gold medal winners in the Batang Pinoy 2019 Luzon Qualifying leg swimming competition on Wednesday at the Isabela Sports Complex here.

The 12-year old Dula took home four gold medals after ruling the 100m butterfly (1:08.82), 200m backstroke (2:44.46), 100m back (1:14.71), and 50m fly (30.63). he previously ruled the 50m back (33.46) on Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I focused on my events. I am delighted and want to offer these

medals to my family,â&#x20AC;? said the grade six student from Masville Elementary School. $ULA A "0INOY kRST TIMER WON kVE GOLD MEDALS IN THE 0ALARONG Pambansa National Capital Region qualifying early this month.

Meanwhile, Palarong

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Pambansa most bemedaled swimmer Mojdeh bagged two gold medals after ruling the girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 13-15 100m BUTTERlY WITH A TIME RECORD OF ONE minute and 6.30 seconds and the M BUTTERlY WITH Mojdeh, a veteran international campaigner, copped two medals Tuesday

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after dominating the 200m (2:34.91) and 400m (5:25.30) individual medley.

The Immaculate Heart of Mary College-ParaĂąaque swimmer eyes for a sweep when she competes in the M BUTTERlY HER LAST EVENT TODAY Over at the Ilagan Sports Complex track oval, Ron Gabriel Villa of DasmariĂąas City bagged the first gold medal in athletics, tallying 35.24 meters in boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s discus throw. Con Prince David, also from DasmariĂąas City, settled for silver with 33.30m showing followed by Kurt Errol Calalong of Baguio City at third with 30.33m score. g) AM THRILLED TO WIN MY kRST GOLD in Batang Pinoy. I am offering this to my family and my team,â&#x20AC;? said Villa, a ninth-grader from Emilio Aguinaldo College-Immaculate Conception Academy.

Camarines Sur trackster Leslie De Lima clinched the second gold

New-look IronKids spices up IRONMAN 70.3 THE IronKids, long regarded as the local junior version of the IRONMAN, will now be a swim-run event instead of triathlon, ensuring a wide-open battle for supremacy among the future of the sport when it is held Saturday (March 23) at Azuela Cove in Davao City. $UBBED AS THE !LASKA &ORTIkED IronKids Swim-Run race, the event will still feature the sportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regular campaigners in the 6-to-14 years old bracket plus a slew of new faces eager to steal the spotlight from THE FANCIED BETS IN THE EVENT kRING off at 5 a.m.

While the IronGirl on Friday (March 22) is a virtual fun run, keen competition is seen in IronKids,

staged to promote a well-balanced lifestyle for kids and at the same time serves as venue for family bonding. It is also held to help kids develop the values of discipline, hard work, integrity and determination through a series of races.

4HE TWIN EVENTS SERVE AS kTTING appetizers to the second IRONMAN 70.3 Davao, headlined by back-toback title seeking Mauricio Mendez and Czech Radka Kahlefeldt along with Aussies Tim Reed, Sam Betten, Tim Van Berkel, David Mainwaring, Matt Lewis and Fraser Walsh.

Meanwhile, out to foil Kahlefeldtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s repeat bid in the premier 1.9K swim, 90K bike, 21K run event are regular Phl campaigners

Caroline Steffen of Switzerland, Guamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Manami Iijima and Kirra Seidel and Lisa Tyack of Australia.

Over 2,200 triathletes have confirmed participation in the event organized and conducted by Sunrise Events, Inc., which features individual and relay competitions with bets coming from the United Arab Emirates, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Mexico, Ukraine, India, Malaysia, Qatar, the US, Belgium, Spain, Italy, New Caledonia, Singapore, South Africa, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Korean, Norway, Thailand, Switzerland, Greece, Kuwait, New Zealand, Turkey, China, Guam, Mexico, Panama and Taiwan.

For details, visit the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

website at www.ironman.com/ davao703.

Backers of the event are title sponsor Alveo, an AyalaLand company, presentor Petron, venue hosts Lungsod ng Dabaw, Azuela Cove and the Enderun Tent, bike course partners Davao del Norte, Panabo, 4AGUM AND #ARMEN OFkCIAL COURIER and logistics partner 2Go Express, OFkCIAL SWIM CAP 492 OFkCIAL ENERGY GEL '5 OFkCIAL NUTRITION 6ITARGO

OFkCIAL EYEWEAR 2UDY 0ROJECT AND Aboitiz Power, Davao Light, Davidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Salon, Davao Metro Shuttle, Prudential Guarantee, and media partners ONE Sports on Cignal, the Philippine Star, Trilife, AsiaTri.com and Finisher Pix.

Young Elorde wants to replicate grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feat WORLD Boxing Organization (WBO) defendING !SIA 0ACIkC SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT CHAMPION Juan Miguel Elorde wants to achieve the same feat as his late, legendary grandfather and former longest reigning world champion Gabriel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flashâ&#x20AC;? Elorde soon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m at the peak of my boxing career.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping to follow the footsteps of my grandfather as a world champion. I want to be a world champion even just for once in my career,â&#x20AC;? the 32-year-old Elorde told The Manila Times.

Elorde, second among the three siblings of Johnny and Liza, started his professional boxing career at the age of 21. The College of Saint Benildeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hotel Restaurant Institution Management graduate still believes that he can still be a world champion even though he is already his 30s.

g9ES ) CAN STILL DO IT ) HOPE TO BE A WORLD champion after getting my college degree. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the requirements of our parents. Boxing is not forever,â&#x20AC;? added Elorde.

Elorde will defend his title against Japanese Shoehei Kawashima on Monday prior to the 19th Gabriel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flashâ&#x20AC;? Elorde Memorial Awards Banquet of Champions at the Okada Hotel and Casino in ParaĂąaque City.

A victory by Elorde over the 27-year-old Kawashima will boost his world title bid. Elorde is already ranked No. 2 super bantamweight by the WBO behind his No. 1 compatriot Albert Pagara.

Juan Miguel is the younger brother of boxer Juan Martin. A family of sportsmen, Philippine Basketball Association player Nico Elorde of Northport is their youngest brother.

Elorde (27-1 win-loss record with 15 knock-

outs) is coming from back-to-back knockout wins against Thai challengers Artid Bamrungauea on March 3 at the Elorde Sports Complex in ParaĂąaque City and Ratchanon Sawangsoda in July last year at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Kawashima (17-2-2 with four knockouts) is COMING OFF A kFTH ROUND TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT win against fellow Filipino Ronnie Campos in October 13 last year in Kobe, Japan.

His brother Juan Martin (23-2-1 record with 10 knockouts) will battle Indonesian Rengga Rengga (8-2 record with two knockouts) in a non-title lightweight supporting bout.

The other undercard non-title matches are between American Casey Morton and Japanese #HIE (IGANO lYWEIGHT AND !NVAR 4URAPOV OF Uzbekistan and Takahiko Kobayashi of Japan (super lightweight).

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Ronaldo ban would be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;crazyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bernardeschi MILAN: Cristiano Ronaldoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Juventus teammate Federico Bernardeschi said Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) it would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;crazyâ&#x20AC;? for UEFA to suspend the Portuguese forward for his controversial goal celebration.

Ronaldo faces UEFA charges for â&#x20AC;&#x153;improper conductâ&#x20AC;? after mimicking Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

crotch-grabbing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cojonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gesture after his hat-trick in Juventusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Champions League comeback win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think needs looking at, it (a suspension) would be crazy,â&#x20AC;? international winger Bernardeschi told a press conference ahead of Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s %URO QUALIkERS â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll end there, it was a celebration, a gesture. I see him calm and relaxed, as we

all are. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure everything will BE kNE u Bernadeschi believes Italy can learn from Juventus who came FROM TWO GOALS DOWN IN THE kRST leg against Atletico to win the last 16 tie 3-2 on aggregate, a n d next play Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam in THE QUARTER kNALS â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wrote a piece of his-

Q Juventusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cristiano Ronaldo reacts at the end of the Champions League round of 16, 2nd leg, soccer match between Juventus and Atletico Madrid at the Allianz stadium in Turin, Italy on March 12, 2019. AP PHOTO

tory,â&#x20AC;? said the 25-year-old. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cristiano is an absolute champion. He gives us so much, he has the charisma of the champion.

Staying by his side every day allows you to learn many things.â&#x20AC;?

Italy begin their Euro 2020 campaign at home against Finland in Udine on Saturday followed by Liechtenstein in Parma on March 26. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Italy has shown great progress in the Nations League,â&#x20AC;? continued 16-times capped Bernardeschi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We still lack a bit of experience due to our young age, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the right track to approach the Europeans in the best possible way.â&#x20AC;?

He added: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope to become one of the symbols of this nation team as (Paolo) Rossi and (Roberto) Baggio have been in the past.â&#x20AC;?

Italy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; four-time world champions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are rebuilding after their failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, as they target just a second European title after 1968.

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MEDAL IN ATHLETICS kNISHING AT in the girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1,500m event.

De Lima was followed by Magvrylle Chrause Matchino of Laguna Province at 5:02.6 and Samantha Nicole CaĂąeba of Taguig City at 5:02.9 at second and third places, respectively.

Baguio Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hussein LoraĂąa dominated the 1,500m boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; event with his 4:27.1 record.

Finishing second and third in the same event were James Bryle Ballester of Laguna (4:30.2) and Mark Daniel Tambot of Ilagan City (4:31.9), respectively.

Bulacan Provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marvelyn CaĂąon leaped 5.50m to win the gold in the girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; long jump. Mariel Abuan of Zambales settled for silver with 5.11m and Elizabeth Sicat of Camarines Sur, bronze with 4.85m.

In arnis, Jharie Matthew Masangcay of Pasig City ruled the junior boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tra-

ditional individual single weapon event.

Dante Alexes Padilla of Makati City and Edward Ambrosio of Lucena City kNISHED SECOND AND THIRD RESPECTIVELY Valenzuela copped two gold medals, courtesy of Adrian Marie Cabaluna in the juniors girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; traditional single weapon and team open weapon events, where she teamed up with Shaina 2UWIE -ACLANG AND !PRHODITE 9MASA Pasig City claimed the 1-2 spot in the tradition individual double weapon event courtesy of Irish Rueco and Angela Callanta. The Ligao City juniors boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; team composed of Frances Lance Piando, Joe Delo, and Erickson Noleal bagged the traditional team open weapon top honors.

Baguio City is still leading the medal tally with 13 gold, 15 silver, and 21 bronze medals followed by Taguig City (9-10-8), and Quezon City (9-56), as of 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Blaze Spikers to torch Cignal REIGNING champion Petron looks to tighten its grip on the overall lead when it tangles with slumping Cignal in the Philippine Superliga Grand Prix Saturday at the Alonte Sports Arena in BiĂąan City.

Action starts at 6 p.m. with the welloiled Blaze Spikers hunting their ninth win in this prestigious womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s club league bankrolled by Asics, Mueller, Mikasa, Senoh, Team Rebel Sports, Bizooku, UCPB Gen, Cocolife, Hotel Sogo and Data Project.

On the same note, Petronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rival F2 Logistics seeks to extend its winning ways when it tackles PLDT in the 4 p.m. appetizer of this explosive weekend double-header that also has ESPN5 and 5Plus as broadcast partners.

After absorbing their lone loss of the season â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a four-set heartbreaker to the Blaze Spikers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Cargo Movers have regained their deadly form as they posted convincing victories over PLDT and United VC. Against United VC, Lindsay Stalzer was on fire at the attack zone while Becky Perry, Ara Galang and Majoy Baron provided ample support as they combined for 30 points that prompted the Cargo Movers to pull off a 25-22, 25-21, 25-22 triumph.

And to further boost its lineup, F2 Logistics will bring in University of Perpetual Help System Dalta star Cindy Imbo to replace the injured Kim Kianna Dy in the rotation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cindy will start playing with us against PLDT on Saturday,â&#x20AC;? said F2 Logistics team manager Hollie Reyes, referring to the high-flying spiker, who was the hero in the Lady Altasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; furious run

in the Final Four of the NCAA recently.

Still, spotlight will be trained on Petron.

With eight straight wins under their belts, the Blaze Spikers appear indestructible, thanks to the explosive performance of imports Katherine Bell and Stephanie Niemer with the local crew of Aiza Maizo-Pontillas, Mika Reyes, Denden Lazaro, Rhea Dimaculangan and Frances Molina back them up.

Their recent match against Foton was a complete show of force as Bell and Niemer dominated en route to an emphatic 25-20, 25-13, 25-21 victory.

But head coach Shaq Delos Santos refused to be complacent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing that I always tell them, to always treat the game as if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the underdog,â&#x20AC;? Delos Santos said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on a winning streak but whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult about it is that sometimes we tend to be complacent.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure that my players are aware of our goal so I have nothing to worry about.â&#x20AC;?

Winning over Cignal wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be easy, though.

Coming off a three-set loss to Generika-Ayala last Thursday, 17-25, 20-25, 22-25the HD Spikers vowed to make the necessary adjustments to pull off a massive upset of the Blaze Spikers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We made some adjustments, especially on our importâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing position, it will be our game plan against Petron,â&#x20AC;? said Cignal coach Edgar Barroga. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a tough loss but we will bounce back, we will go back to the drawing board and start again.â&#x20AC;?

FIFA â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;concernâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; over Bangladesh arrest DHAKA: Football worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s governing body FIFA is â&#x20AC;&#x153;following with concernâ&#x20AC;?

THE DETENTION OF ONE OF ITS OFkCIALS FOR allegedly defaming the Bangladeshi prime minister, a FIFA spokesman said Tuesday.

Mahfuza Akhter, a FIFA council member since 2017 and the national chief of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer, was arrested on Saturday after a local football organizer accused her of making derogatory comments about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

A court in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka has granted her bail and she is expected to be released in a day or two, her lawyer said.

Mahfuza in a press conference last month criticized Hasina for neglecting football in the cricket-mad country.

In an email to Agence France-Presse, a FIFA spokesman said they â&#x20AC;&#x153;have requested further details about the situation of Ms Mahfuza Akhter and are currently awaiting information from the Bangladesh Football Federation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;FIFA is monitoring this matter with concern and working closely with the AFC (Asian Football Confederation)â&#x20AC;?.

FIFAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statement came a day after rights group Amnesty International demanded her unconditional release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Championing football is not a

crime. Mahfuza Akhter Kiron was merely exercising her right to freedom of expression by stating that the Prime Minister favoured cricket over football,â&#x20AC;?

Saad Hammadi, South Asia Campaigner at Amnesty International, said in a statement.

If she is found guilty, Mahfuza could be sentenced to a maximum two years in jail.

4HE ARREST OF THE &)&! OFkCIAL MARKS the latest attack on freedom of expression in Bangladesh, Amnesty International said.

Rights groups have accused the Bangladeshi government of using harsh LAWS TO STIlE DISSENT Scores of people have been arrested under strict internet laws and cases have BEEN kLED AGAINST AT LEAST PEOPLE FOR making derogatory comments about Hasina online, according to a cyber crime prosecutor.

Mahfuzaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrest came months after Bangladesh detained and charged award-winning photographer Shahidul Alam with making â&#x20AC;&#x153;falseâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;provocativeâ&#x20AC;? statements in a televised interview in August.

He was jailed for 107 days â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the photographer said he was badly beaten while in custody â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and denied bail four times before being freed in November. AFP

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ĚĚƌĞƐƐ͗ ηϭϯϵ ^ĂŶ ŐƵƐƟŶ // ͘ ŐƵŝͲ ŶĂůĚŽ ,ŝŐŚǁĂLJ ĂƐŵĂƌŝŹĂƐ͕ ĂǀŝƚĞ ŝƉ ŽĚĞ͗ ϰϭϭϰ ͮ dĞů͗ ;ϬϮͿ ϱϮϵͲϲϭϭϰ

ϴϯϵϬ ƌ͘ ^ĂŶƚŽƐ ĂǀĞŶƵĞ͕ ƌŐLJ͕ & ,ŽŵĞƐ͕ ^ƵĐĂƚ͕ WĂƌĂŹĂƋƵĞ ŝƚLJ

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THE MANILA TIMES EXCLUSIVE

Austin Mahone back in Manila for promo tour A

MERICAN singer Austin Mahone kRST CONQUERED -ANILA IN AS PART OF THE 0ARADISE )NTERNATIONAL -USIC &ESTIVAL WHICH ALSO HAD +ANYE 7EST AND 7IZ +HALIFA AS PERFORMERS AND VIA A SOLO MALL SHOW AT 4RINOMA Just recently, he slipped quietly into the country not to perform but just to do a promo tour for his new single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Weâ&#x20AC;? where he guested on TV (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sunday Pinas Sayaâ&#x20AC;?), radio (Wish FM Bus) and did press interviews. It was also his chance to tour some spots in Manila like Fort Santiago during his spare time.

Beginning with the release of his new single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Weâ&#x20AC;? on February 4, the chart-topping 22-year-old is set to have the biggest year of his career in 2019.

The song, written and produced

by Charlie Puth marks Mahoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kRST NEW SOLO MUSIC SINCE AND RElECTS HIS MATURE NEW DIRECtion over the past few years, which included collaborations with Hardwell, Codeko and 2 Chainz.

Since breaking out in 2013 with the release of his debut EP â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Secret,â&#x20AC;? which notched a Top 5 position on the Billboard 200, he has continuously rolled out music for his dedicated Mahomies (what his fans are called), including the 2014 single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mmm Yeahâ&#x20AC;? which soared to No. 2 on the iTunes chart and broke the Top 20 on the Pop Songs Chart.

His many awards and honors include a MTV Video Music Award and wins at the MTV E M A s , i H e a r t Ra d i o M u s i c Awards, Radio Disney Music Awards, Teen Choice Awards and the Young Hollywood Awards.

Mahone remains one of the most recognizable stars in pop culture, boasting more than 30 million followers combined across Instagram, Twitter and Facebook

as well as 2.9 million monthly Spotify listeners.

Music Geek had a chance to talk with this former popular YouTuberturned-teenage pop sensation and now an adult singer/songwriter in this exclusive one-on-one interview, special thanks to Eme Abarracoso of Warner Music Philippines.

(OW DOES IT FEEL TO BE IN -ANILA THE SECOND TIME It feels great to be back in Manila. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my second time here. My kRST TIME WAS ABOUT THREE YEARS ago. I did the Paradise (International Music) Festival with Kanye 7EST AND THAT WAS DEkNITELY A GREAT kRST IMPRESSION OF THE 0HILIPPINES To be back here is pretty amazing.

I did the Wish Bus and that was a lot of fun because I had couple of a hundred fans come up and play a few songs on the radio.

(AVE YOU TRIED &ILIPINO FOOD Yeah, I tried sisig. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty good I liked it. I also tried adobo but I like sisig better.

7HAT IS YOUR NEW SINGLE 7HY $ON T 7E ALL ABOUT â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t We is about getting out of your comfort zone. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about having fun with the people around,

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meeting in the middle and dancing the night away.

7HO COMPOSED AND PRODUCED THE TRACK Charlie Puth wrote and produced the track. He was sitting in it out for a minute and he played it for me and I said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, I gotta have that song!â&#x20AC;? And he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alright, cool, take it!â&#x20AC;?

9OU STARTED IN MUSIC SO YOUNG 3O DID YOU GET TO ENJOY BEING A TEENAGER DESPITE HAVING A MUSIC CAREER AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE I actually enjoyed being a teenager more doing what I am doing now because it is not normal for a OR YEAR OLD KID TO BE TRAVELing the entire world and performing for thousands of fans. I was experiencing so many things that some people don't even get to experience in their lifetime. So I am very blessed and fortunate to have been doing what I have been doing for so long. I DEkNITEly don't regret a ny -

thing as far as missing out on regular teenage thing.

7HAT ARE THE PRESSURES IN STARTING YOUNG IN THE MUSIC SCENE AND HOW WERE YOU ABLE TO HANDLE IT Honestly, there hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really been too many pressures for me. I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really been worried about â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to beat my last single or Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do better than my last project.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just having fun making music which is what I love to do. Just putting it out for my fans who are excited to hear it. So, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just living my life enjoying it.

9OU BECAME POPULAR WITH YOUR UPLOADED VIDEOS ON 9OU4UBE (OW IS LIFE NOW THAT YOU HAVE LOTS OF MUSIC VIDEOS INSTEAD OF JUST SINGING AND UPLOADING COVERS ON 9OU4UBE Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool to be able to look back and see where I started as far as I was being locked in my room.

For a couple of years, I was on the grind covering my favorite songs.

Having your own music videos that other fans have been covering as well, is cool to see that growth.

7 H O A R E Y O U R M U S I C A L INFLUENCES George Strait, Drake, Chris Brown, T-Pain, Usher.

(OW DO YOU KEEP YOURSELF GROUNDED I would just say having a solid TEAM AROUND ME BECAUSE IT S DEknitely one of the most important things that the team you surround yourself with are the ones

MNL48 lives dream with first concert ALL-FILIPINA sing-and-dance group, MNL48, will HAVE ONE OF THEIR GOALS FULkLLED WITH THE STAGING OF THEIR kRST CONCERT ON !PRIL AT THE .EW &RONTIER Theater in Quezon City.

Dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Living the Dream: The Concert,â&#x20AC;? members of Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AKB48 sister group will PERFORM THEIR SONGS FROM THEIR kRST TWO SINGLES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aitakatta-Gustong Makitaâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pag-Ibig Fortune Cookie,â&#x20AC;? along with other unreleased songs, for their fans and supporters.

choice of songs that MNL48 will perform. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since nasa Pilipinas tayo, may touches pa rin ng Pinoy pagdating sa OUTkT pagdating sa pagkanta, even yung songs,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He would also make sure that all of the members will be given equal opportunity to perform in the concert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Equally divided naman yung exposure [ng bawat member]. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make sure na lalabas ang talent nila sa concert na ito,â&#x20AC;? he stated.

He then added that it was a learning experience Best of two worlds and he was excited to handle the concert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Medyo exciting, and at the same time medyo )N THE MEDIA CONFERENCE HELD ON -ARCH AT THE kabado rin since parang iba ito from the other Movie Stars Cafe, concert director GB Sampedro productions na nagawa ko,â&#x20AC;? he averred. admitted that the live event is different from the other events that he handled in the past.

Fulfillment of a dream â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actually, medyo kakaiba sa other concerts na nagawa ko. Since ito medyo mas marami sila, MNL48 members who were also present in and aside from that, siyempre meron tayong the mediacon shared their excitement for their AKB48 from Japan na we have to follow the(ir) upcoming live concert. standards and protocols, and parang itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new For Shekinah Arzaga, their excitement came from thing for me,â&#x20AC;? he said.

THE FACT THAT THE DREAM OF HAVING THEIR kRST CONCERT This, according to him, includes things such as and perform in front of a huge crowd, including staging and lighting that needs to be approved in THEIR FANS IS FULkLLMENT OF A DREAM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sobrang special po ito kasi buong First Generaorder to follow the said standards.

However, Sampedro said that the concert will tion po ang magpi-perform nang sama-sama with STILL HAVE A LOCAL lAVOR IN TERMS OF COSTUMES AND our MNLoves (how the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fans are called), kaya Q The all-Filipina sing-and-dance group will be performing on April 6 at the New Frontier Theater.

sobrang thankful po kami na magkakaroon kami ng ganitong event,â&#x20AC;? she said.

For the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Overall Captain Alice Margarita de Leon, it was their moment to showcase how much they have grown since their times as aspirants and trainees in 2018. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Speaking of concert po, siyempre nakita po ng MNLoves yung growth naming mga member [ng group]. From scratch po na ginawa namin or nangyari noong â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Showtimeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; days, ito na po yung idols na ine-expect ninyo, para mapakita rin namin kung ano pa ang kayang i-offer ng MNL48,â&#x20AC;? she stated.

Preparation for the event Marsela Guia shared that they have been in THICK PREPARATIONS FOR THE !PRIL EVENT 3HE SAID that besides their excitement, they also need to put in their minds that they will give their best performance for their fans.

Jemimah Caldejon added that they will have more coming from them which is much better than their performance in front of their Thai fans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did our best to perform in front of Thai people and other nationalities, what more pa this major concert namin na magpi-perform po kami in front of our Filipino fans and supporters,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Another source of inspiration, according to Trinidad, was the fact that the international fans ARE NOW BOOKING THEIR lIGHT TO THE 0HILIPPINES JUST to see them perform. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Todo practice na po kami kasi gusto rin po naming ma-meet yung expectations ng mga manonood sa amin pero dapat nag-e-enjoy pa rin po kami sa ginagawa namin,â&#x20AC;? de Leon said.

Arzaga further declared that they will show in the concert how much MNL48 wants to leave a mark in the Pinoy music industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ipakikita namin na may ibubuga ang MNL48 sa music and idol industry para rin makapag-leave kami ng mark sa araw na yun na hinding-hindi nila makakalimutan,â&#x20AC;? she concluded.

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Q The chart-topping 22-year-old is set to have the biggest year of his career in 2019. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be with you every single day. If you have a good squad that gonna let you know when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re acting crazy or getting out of line, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most important thing. $O YOU FEEL PRESSURED TO BE A ROLE MODEL ESPECIALLY TO YOUR YOUNG FANS Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit of pressure of course because you want to inspire the world and make sure you are a good role model. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like I live a double life or hiding anything where people will see who I really am. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really just doing my best trying to inspire young artists and being a good person and a role model for the rest of the world.

7HAT IS MUSIC TO YOU Music to me is a way to express myself. That has been the biggest way to express myself since day one, since I was like 14. I love to write. I love to produce. I love to just get my feelings out on the track. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my whole life. I grew up every single day. I just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see myself doing anything else.

(OW DO YOU REACT WHEN PEOPLE SING YOUR SONGS This is what I live for especially for people that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily speak English, like going into countries where English is not THEIR kRST LANGUAGE BUT THEY ARE still singing every single word of my song, that is the most amazing thing to me.

(AVING MILLION FOLLOWERS ACROSS )NSTAGRAM 4WITTER AND &ACEBOOK HOW IMPORTANT IS SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT TO YOUR FANS It is important to my fans and

myself because it is my way of telling them where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gonna be next, when I have coming up next and they love the interaction I give them. I love the interaction they give me. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mutual respect.

7HAT IS ONE THING YOU WISHED YOU KNEW WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER The one thing I wished I knew when I was younger is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to all happen overnight. For a solid, long-lasting career, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna take a lot of time and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna take your whole life really.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just gonna be one good year and everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gonna have to work at for my whole career which is PERFECTLY kNE WITH ME BECAUSE ) live what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing.

(OW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED I would like to remembered as one of the most hardworking guys in showbiz. As an artist that can do it all â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not just in music but in photography, acting, dancing, writing, producing, everything. /UTSIDE OF MUSIC WHY HAVE YOU TAKEN PHOTOGRAPHY AS MAIN INTEREST I like photography because it is a way of expressing myself other than music, dancing and fashion. I get to meet a lot of new people and make good connections that way which is a lot of fun and I enjoy it.

-ESSAGE TO YOUR &ILIPINO -AHOMIES Mahal ko kayo. I love you guys.

Thank you for your love and support!

Note: Full interview in the online edition @ www.manilatimes.net.

Billy, James and Sam set for coolest Big Dome concert ever BILLY Crawford, James Reid and Sam Concepcion â&#x20AC;&#x201D; three of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular singers, actors and allaround media personalities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have banded together to become The CR3W and are now all set for the coolest, sonic moodfilled concert ever.

Produced by Viva Live and presented by SCRATCHIT, the concert starring three of the hottest and most talented male stars in showbusiness today happens on April 5 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.

James Reid A star of the big screen, FilipinoAustralian James Reid has in his sleeves hits like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Diary ng Panget,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Time,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never Not Love Youâ&#x20AC;? among others. On television, his credentials include â&#x20AC;&#x153;On The Wings of Love,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Till I Met You.â&#x20AC;? He is also known for bigselling soundtrack music like â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Erase,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bahala Na,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;On The Wings Of Loveâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hanap-Hanap.â&#x20AC;?

Reid also took on the role of songwriter and producer for his own label Careless Music and has released the album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palm Dreamsâ&#x20AC;? with the singles â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cool Down,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Turning Up,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Life.â&#x20AC;? He has recently unloaded â&#x20AC;&#x153;Summer,â&#x20AC;? a duet with reel and real-life partner Nadine Lustre for the Careless MIxtape.

He is part as singer and co-writer of Crawfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Filipina Girl, a collaboration with the TV host and Marcus Davis Jr.

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Billy Crawford A singer, dancer, comedian and host, Crawford started out as a child actor in the Philippines before relocating to the United States and then launching his career as a teen idol in Europe. From his base in France he came up with charting tunes like the Platinum-selling â&#x20AC;&#x153;Urgently In Love,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mary Lopez,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trackinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;When You Think About Me,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Expect Thatâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stormy Nights.â&#x20AC;?

He resumed his career in the Philippines and has since then become one of the most popular hosts in local television with shows like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your Face Sounds Familiar,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pinoy Dream Academy,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pilipinas Got Talent.â&#x20AC;? He is presently one of the judges in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;World of Danceâ&#x20AC;? competition show.

Crawford is set to return to the hit charts with the release of his new album which includes the hot single, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Filipina Girl.â&#x20AC;?

Sam Concepcion Also a singer and actor, Sam Concepcion made his mark in theater in the title role of the musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peter Pan.â&#x20AC;? He made a big splash in motion pictures as the male lead of the musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Do Do Bidoo-Bidoo.â&#x20AC;? He has since then alternated between acting in films and recording. Among his hit songs are â&#x20AC;&#x153;Datiâ&#x20AC;? with Tippy Dos Santos, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kontrabida,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Limitations,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isang Daanâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kalsada.â&#x20AC;?

Concepcionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest single release is the ballad â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bukas Makalawaâ&#x20AC;? which was composed by Thyro Alfaro for the soundtrack of the movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Para Sa Broken Heartedâ&#x20AC;? in which he also starred.

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Answers 1. Oscar 2. Reno 3. Santana 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne 5. A group of spies or traitors within your own defensive line 6. The liver 7. Socks 8. Seattle 9. 194 10. Val Kilmer

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BY EUGENE SHEFFER

»HOROSCOPE Today’s Birthday (03/21/19). Your feet have wings this year.

Carefully coordinate to pursue career opportunities. Domestic blossoming this summer comes before a professional challenge.

Winter brings a career highlight, before home developments require your attention. Put what you’re discovering to good use for a place you love.

1.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the international word (NATO phonetic alphabet) for the letter “O”?

2. GEOGRAPHY: Which U.S. city lies further west: Los Angeles, California, or Reno, Nevada?

3. MUSIC: Which Latin rock band had a hit with the 1999 album “Supernatural”?

4. LITERATURE: Which 19th-century author wrote a book of short stories called “Twice-Told Tales”?

5. LANGUAGE: What does the phrase “fifth column” refer to?

6. ANATOMY: What part of the human body is referenced by the adjective “hepatic”?

7. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What was the name of President Bill Clinton’s family cat?

8. NICKNAMES: Which West Coast city’s nickname is “Emerald City”?

9. ORGANIZATIONS: How many countries are members of Interpol, an international police organization?

10. MOVIES: Who played the character “Iceman” in the 1986 movie “Top Gun”?

BY NANCY BLACK LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Pursue personal ambitions. Conditions may seem unsettled. Wear something that makes you feel beautiful and attractive. Avoid overeating, overindulging or overspending. Listen to your heart.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

S C O R P I O (O C T. 23-N O V. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Postpone an outing. Costs may be higher than expected. Guard peaceful time to get away privately and think. Notice your own emotions, and focus on love.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Changes with a romance or partnership require sensitivity and diplomacy.

Stand up to your fears. You can get too much of a good thing.

Avoid overindulging.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Controversy or confrontation could disrupt a group situation. Consider all points of view before rendering judgment. Find the common heart thread.

Enunciate the love story.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Your charisma and sex appeal are attracting attention. Guard your health despite challenges. Avoid overworking or pushing yourself too hard. Nurture your physical energy.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Your good work reflects you well. Passions can get intense. Hold off on new ideas, expenses or distractions. Provide excellence. Someone important is watching.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Love could seem both overwhelming and fickle. Passions flare and then fizzle. Beware hassles or irritations. A partnership formed now is beneficial. Adapt to new circumstances.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Travel expenses could add up excessively. Don’t buy expensive gifts. Go for moderation, especially with food and spirits. Express your feelings without breaking the bank.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Love is the bottom line at home. Things may not go as expected. Keep angry words from falling out. Reaffirm your commitment and care.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Contribute to family finances. Add your potatoes to the stew. Together, you can cook up something delicious. Budget carefully to meet the need. Provide emotional stability.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- The action is backstage. Let the passion build. Ignore teasing or comments from the peanut gallery. Articulate feelings into words of inspiration and persuasion.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Frugality serves you best. Resist impulsive spending and financial fussing. Add sex appeal to your marketing materials. Craft a winning pitch. Use your charm and magnetism.

» SUDOKU

(Astrologer Nancy Black continues her mother Linda Black’s legacy horoscopes column. She welcomes comments and questions on Twitter, @LindaCBlack. For more astrological interpretations like today’s Gemini horoscope, visit Linda Black Astrology by clicking daily horoscopes, or go to www.nancyblack.com.)

NANCY BLACK.Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

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improving the mobile data experience of Bulacan customers.

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are considered the most prestigious AWARDS IN THE AVIATION INDUSTRY AS THEY ARE VOTED FOR AND JUDGED BY THE AIRLINE NETWORK PLANNING COMMUNITY Australia lorded over the competiTION HOARDING kVE AWARDS INCLUDING the top accolade - Overall Winner for its Brisbane Airport, which was also named as the winner for airport catEGORY OF /VER -ILLION 0ASSENGERS Two more airports from Australia dominated the 4-20 Million PassenGERS #ATEGORY WITH THE 0ERTH !IRPORT regarded as the winner and Adelaide !IRPORT AS (IGHLY #OMMENDED Brisbane Marketing was ad-

judged the winner for the Destination award after posting a record growth from the international visitor and a successful hosting of LAST YEAR S 2OUTES !SIA #AMBODIA S 3IHANOUK )NTERNAtional Airport bested the Under 4 -ILLION 0ASSENGERS CATEGORY WITH -ALAYSIA S ,ANGKAWI )NTERNATIONAL !IRPORT AS THE (IGHLY #OMMENDED For the Over 20 Million PasSENGERS &UKUOKA )NTERNATIONAL !IRPORT RECEIVED THE (IGHLY Commended citation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being a Routes awardee is a treMENDOUS HONOR AND ) CONGRATULATE

all of them for the value proposition THAT THEY INFUSED INTO THEIR AIRPORTS

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Malaysia PM Mahathir meets with Philippine business leaders

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Aseana Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parqal begins construction

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Angels walk for autism

ABOUT 25,000 registered attendees joined the 2019 Angels Walk FOR !UTISM HELD RECENTLY AT THE -ALL OF !SIA !RENA IN 0ASAY #ITY Angels Walk is an annual EVENT ORGANIZED BY THE !UTISM 3OCIETY 0HILIPPINES !30 AND

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3- #ARES AIMED TO RAISE AWAREness and promote acceptance, accommodation and appreciation of persons with autism.

The celebration centers on the theme #TRENTAgether commemMORATING !30 S TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY

! 3 % ! . " U S I N E S S ! D V I S O R Y Council Philippines and busiNESS LEADERS MET WITH -ALAYSIAN Prime Minister Tun Mahathir "IN -OHAMAD LAST -ARCH IN a bilateral meeting to discuss how to further strengthen the economic relationship between -ALAYSIA AND 0HILIPPINES 0- Mahathir is in the Philippines for an official visit per invitation of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. ! S E A N " U S I N E S S !D V I S O R Y Council (BAC) Philippines Chairman and Presidential AdVISER FOR %NTREPRENEURSHIP *OEY Concepcion thanked Mahathir FOR ALWAYS GIVING TIME TO MEET and support the business sector as well as for being instrumental in the peace process.

The discussion revolved around the economic relations OF -ALAYSIA AND THE 0HILIPPINES Asean BAC Philippines Member AND 6ICE #HAIR OF 3- )NVESTMENTS #ORP 4ESSIE 3Y #OSON opened the discussion on sovereign investment funds.

Asked about his hopes for

Q Asean Business Advisory Council Chairman Joey Concepcion (seated, right) leads the Philippine business leaders in meeting with Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad (seated, left).

Asean, Mahathir said that counTRIES MUST HAVE FAST ECONOMIC growth which then will lead to the growth of the region.

The topic on trade and investMENTS WAS RAISED BY &ILINVEST ,AND President and CEO Josephine 'OTIANUN 9AP WHERE -AHATHIR AGREED THAT COUNTRIES MUST kRST grow in trade then in investments.

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ership and foreign relationships.

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CHAIRMAN OF 6ISTA ,AND #ORP (ENRY ,IM "ON ,IONG PRESIDENT AND #%/ OF 3, !GRITECH #ORP Daniel Zuellig, managing diRECTOR OF & % :UELLIG )NC !LICE Eduardo, president and CEO OF 3TA %LENA #ONSTRUCTION AND

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Belmonte to enhance efforts vs violence against women QUEZON #ITY 6ICE -AYOR *OSEkNA g*OYu "ELMONTE VOWED TO ENHANCE THE CITY S RESPONSE AGAINST violence against women (VAW) in THE CITY THROUGH INSTALLING MORE CCT cameras and improving its HOUR EMERGENCY HOTLINE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bawat sulok ng 1UEZON #ITY AY DAPAT MAY ##46 CAMERA Â&#x2021; EVERY SINGLE NOOK AND CRANNY Â&#x2021; BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY WAY WE CAN COMBAT CRIMINALITY AND ENSURE OUR WOMEN LIVE IN PEACE AND WITHIN HARMONY u SAID "ELMONTE ON 1UEZON #ITY 7OMEN S #ONVENTION DURING THE WOMEN S MONTH CELEBRATION 4HE VICE MAYOR ALSO PLEDGED TO

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urged women to report to authoriTIES WHENEVER THEY EXPERIENCE THIS g!LAM KO MAY IBA SA ATIN NA pinapalampas na lang ang mga ganoong insidente dahil natatakot na maghain ng reklamo. Pero dito SA 1UEZON #ITY MAYROON NA TAYong napakulong dahil sa catcalling KAYA HUWAG NA KAYONG MATAKOT DAHIL NANDIYAN ANG BATAS PARA SUMUPORTA SA INYO u said Belmonte. g(INDI TAYO TITIGIL SA ATING KAMPANYA KONTRA KARAHASAN (ANDA TAYONG IPASA ANG ANOMANG BATAS na kailangan pa nating ipasa para MAPROTEKSYUNAN LANG ANG ATING MGA KABABAIHAN u she said.

1UEZON #ITY WAS RECENTLY AWARDED BY 0HILIPPINE #OMMISsion on Women (PCW) for its gender-responsive governance and comprehensive programs on gender and development.

Meeting on Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amended Immigration Control Act

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Universities form alliance to fact-check 2019 polls S

BY NEIL JAYSON N. SERVALLOS

TUDENTS from six universities have teamed up to fact-check and watchdog claims and information related to the 2019 midterm elections.

Student-initiated Pintig.ph, a voter advocacy and political fact-checking website, was launched on March 16 at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), less than two months before the May 13 elections. The websiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is short forâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Pinag-Isang Tinig Para sa Pagbabantay sa Halalan.â&#x20AC;?

The collaborative fact-checking project seeks to engage voters, parWLFXODUO\ WKH \RXWK DQG WR ÂżJKW IDOVH news and information.

The student-led website will contain the background information and stance on national issues of Senate and House candidates, where users can also submit rePORTS AND CLAIMS TO BE VERIkED Among those that will be fact-checked are statements and campaign promises of candidates, personalities, government agencies and other entities, as well as election-related posts on social media, blogs and other online platforms.

Christian Deiparine, editor in chief of The Varsitarian, THE OFkCIAL student publication of UST, said fact-checking has become a very crucial aspect of every election since people have turned to social

media for information. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Students will be leading the fact-checking of candidatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; claims and present them on the website as well. This is part of a continuing COMMITMENT TO kGHT FAKE NEWS and propaganda, which has become more prevalent during the election season,â&#x20AC;? Deiparine told The Manila Times.

Pintig.ph will be guided by the ethics and standards of PulitZER WINNING FACT CHECKING OUTkT PolitiFact, where students will be verifying claims that are misleading, rooted on facts and if it would make a typical person doubt it.

PolitiFact also considers the probability of a claim being passed on to others and avoiding fact-checking opinions; and claims that are obviously slips of the tongue.

The project is spearheaded by the UST Journalism School, The Varsitarian, The Flame, the UST Political Science Department and the UST Economics Society.

Francheska Viernes, UST Journalism Society president, said political science and economics students were tapped to facilitate University-wide surveys.

Q USED WITH PERMISSION OF PINTIG.PH The same scheme will be done in the campuses of partner schools Bulacan State University, Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Lyceum of the Philippines, Polytechnic University of the Philippines and the University of the East. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pintig hopes to become a platform for voters to become knowledgeable about the upcoming elections by providing infograph-

ics and other public materials,â&#x20AC;? said Viernes.

A study of the Far Eastern Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Public Policy Center showed those who belong to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Generation Zâ&#x20AC;? or those born between 1990 to 2000 are not very inclined to participate in political and civic affairs.

The study explained that those who belong to Gen Z relied heavily

on social media and the internet for news. It said that while this was good, those who belong to the Gen Z lacked discernment and critical evaluation of what they read.

Due to pliable learning habits, the study found that people of the age bracket need proper guidance in the platform they use regularly.

The alliance of fact-checkers

said they took it upon themselves to lead change by facilitating a fair and clean election, as the youth play a crucial role in a vibrant democracy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It should not only be by voting for the deserving candidates, but more importantly, by making sure that others even those not of our age, will make an informed choice,â&#x20AC;? Deiparine added.

KWF reiterates use of Filipino in govt documents TARLAC: The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) reiterated the use of Filipino as medium of communication, transaction and correspondence in government departments, offices, agencies and instrumentalities.

In a statement, KWF Chairman Virgilio Almario said the call serves as a reminder that Executive Order (EO) 335 series of 1988, remains in effect, which mandates government documents be written in the Filipino language.

During the Panrehiyong Seminar sa Korespondensya Opisyal held in Malolos, Bulacan, Almario noted that 90 percent of government offices still use English as medium of instruction, especially in communications.

He said there was a need to install at least a single manpower, according to need, in every government agency who

would take charge in making communications and correspondence in Filipino.

EO 335, which came to effect under then President Corazon Aquino, also mandates nameplates and other similar signages of offices, buildings and public edifices be in Filipino.

Almario said that corresponding English equivalent could be etched beneath the main texts of nameplates.

To ensure its continuity, Almario said KWF was prepared to assist government offices in formulating programs for the training of personnel who would be tasked by government offices in the use of Filipino-based language of written communications.

JERRY M. HERNANDEZ

SM Foundation screens SY 2019-2020 applicants to its scholarship program THE SM Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scholarship recruitment team is now interviewing and validating the numerous applications to the SM college scholarship program for school year (SY) 2019-2020.

Headed by Executive Director for Education Carmen Linda Atayde, the team has been to Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga, Cebu, Legaspi, Naga, Cotabato, Davao, Iloilo, Bacolod, Tacloban and provinces in the North TO MEET THE APPLICANTS AND kNALIZE their recruitment nationwide.

The team, with volunteers from the SM Group of Companies emPLOYEES AND OFkCERS IS ALSO ATTENDing to applicants in Metro Manila and its environs.

The applicants have one thing in common: They are dreamers, but their families are financially incapable of helping them achieve

THESE DREAMS 4HE OFkCIAL LIST OF THE accepted scholars will be out early April, so that their requirements for enrollment will be gathered by then.

In Cagayan de Oro, the team met an applicant studying at the Regional Science High School. A consistent honor student since she was in the elementary grades, her father is a carpenter on call and her mother tends a small sari-sari store.

Her father was teary-eyed when he learned that the team was from SM Foundation. He hopes his daughter would be accepted to the program.

The college scholarship program is the brainchild of SM founder Henry â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tatangâ&#x20AC;? Sy, who believed that education is the best defense against poverty. Acceptance to the scholarship program gives priority to those who belong to the less privileged but whose parents are

Q SM Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Executive Director for Education Carmen Linda Atayde with student-applicants to the scholarship program. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

earning with a total annual family income of least P150,000.00 perannum. It is also limited to public high school graduates or for those coming from private schools that ARE BENEkCIARIES OF THE $EPARTment of Education vouchers.

The scholars may choose from 15 degree courses being offered and enroll in any school/university of their choice from the list of SM partner schools. For scholars who enroll in state colleges and universities where tuition is free, SM Foundation takes care of their miscellaneous fees and also get an increase in their monthly stipend.

The scholarship is open to those in Albay, Bataan, Batangas, Benguet, Bulacan, Cagayan, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Cavite, Isabela, Laguna, Metro Manila, Nueva Ecija, Palawan, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Sorsogon, Quezon, Rizal, Tarlac and Zambales for Luzon; Capiz, Cebu, Iloilo, Leyte, Negros Occidental for Visayas; and Agusan del Norte, Davao del Sur, Misamis Oriental, South Cotabato and Zamboanga del Sur for Mindanao.

Aside from the college scholarship program, SM Foundation also has a technical-vocational program for students who want to pursue two-year tech-voc courses.

MUNTINLUPA OUTSTANDING STUDENTS

Mayor Jaime Fresnedi (sixth from left) presents the 2019 Muntinlupaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ten Most Outstanding Students during the city governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flag-raising ceremony on March 11. Upholding a tradition of excellence, the local government has launched the annual search for the best junior high school students of the city through the Muntinlupa Scholarship Program. The awarding ceremony will be held on March 22, 2019 at the Muntinlupa Sports Complex in Tunasan. The 2019 Muntinlupaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ten Most Outstanding Students are: Jenny Mae Decena (Muntinlupa Business High School-Sucat Annex), Zildjan Alekhain Barcelona (Muntinlupa Science High School), Nicole Romano (Southernside Montessori School), Sarah Limlengco (PAREF Woodrose School), Aeron Garon (De La Salle Santiago-Zobel School), Mark Jester Ordanza (Muntinlupa Business High School-Main), Juliette Bang-Ay (Pedro E. Diaz High School), Maria Eliza May Faldas (Muntinlupa National High School-Main), Miguel Secuando (South Mansfield College) and Adrian Neil Ignacio (Poblacion National High School). CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Creba, La Salle open real estate appraisal course Â

THE Chamber of Real Estate and Buildersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Associations Inc. (Creba), in consortium with the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde School of Professional and Continuing Education (DLS-CSB Space), will open its certificate course, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Highest and Best Uses for Real Estateâ&#x20AC;? on March 30, 2019, Saturday.  The course is the fourth of six modules under the Executive Diploma Program in Real Estate Management (Edprem) offered by the two leading institutions since 2002.  Classes will be held at the ninth floor of the CSB School of Design and Arts Campus located at Pablo Ocampo Street, Malate, Manila from 1:00 to 8:30 p.m. and will run for four consecutive Saturdays until April 27, 2019.  Creba, headed by National President Noel Toti CariĂąo, is the Philippine umbrella organization of the real estate and housing industry composed of property developers, builders, contractors, suppliers and manufacturers of construction materials, real estate service practitioners and other professionals and entities engaged in over 70 allied fields. The course director will be Philippine Association of Realty Appraisers immediate past president Carolina Alvarez.

According to Creba National Chairman Charlie Gorayeb, the first two Saturdays would cover Introduction to Property Valuation,

Ethics and Valuation Principles; Philippine Valuation Standards; Economic Factors affecting Value;Â Highest and Best Use of Land; Market Value and Non-market Value;Â Other Valuation Techniques; Real Estate Site Identification; and Real Estate Market Analysis.

For the third and fourth, the course will focus on The Appraisal Process; Approaches to Value (Market Data, Cost and Income Approach); Valuation of Lease Interest, Condominiums and Office Buildings; Legal Considerations in Appraisal; and Practical Valuation for Expropriation Proceedings.

Program Director Avelina Acuùa said that the other five courses tackle effective tools for real estate marketing; land laws and property titling; planning and development; financial analysis and management; and project feasibility studies.

Participants are awarded certificates for each course module attended, while a diploma is earned by successfully completing all six Edprem modules.  Special discounts are available for Creba members, government personnel and DLSU alumni. For reservations, please call telephone numbers: 400 7405 and 400 5425 (CSB), 3732270 to 75 (Creba), or email creba_national@yahoo.com or space@benilde.edu.ph.Â

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The groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wireless arm Smart Communications is set to roll out 5G standalone or 5G SA solutions in schools after the latter signed a deal with Finnish technology company Nokia on Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are happy to partner with Nokia to help develop intelligent soluTIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE BENEkT OF THE 0HILIPPINE EDUCATION SECTOR u 0,$4 3MART #HAIRMAN AND #HIEF %XECUTIVE /FkCER -ANUEL 6 0ANGILINAN was quoted as saying in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By working with partners like Nokia in unlocking the full potential of 5G for Filipino enterprises and customers, we are putting the Philippines at par with the rest of the world in preparing for the deployment and adoption of 5G,â&#x20AC;? PLDT-Smart Chief Technology and Information advisor Joachim Horn also said.

The partnership would focus on developing 5G standalone solutions, INCLUDING ARTIkCIAL INTELLIGENCE DRONES AND )NTERNET OF 4HINGS )O4 APPLIcations, as well as deploying 5G handsets and applications in universities, WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE THE kRST INITIATIVE IN 3OUTHEAST !SIA 0,$4 SAID g ' IS NO LONGER A THEORY u (ORN TOLD A PRESS BRIEkNG ADDING THAT expect to roll out 5G in a larger scale by next year.

Today, we look back at an old front page of The Manila Times, the oldest national daily that was founded on October 11, 1898. (Note: This image was adjusted to fit the page.)

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AST week, on request by a now-retired Filipina friend who had taught English as a second language (Tesol) for many years in Hong Kong, I discussed these two grammatically faulty negative constructions that she admits she now finds tough to explain why owing to her failing memory: â&#x20AC;&#x153;While I followed the instructions, it did not encouraged my friend...â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;They did not attended Mass when they went to church...â&#x20AC;?

I explained that the correct grammar for those negative constructions being counterintuitive, it often eludes the grasp of many nonnative English learners.

The rule is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the helping verb (â&#x20AC;&#x153;doâ&#x20AC;? for both sentences) that takes the tense and not the main verb (â&#x20AC;&#x153;encourageâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;attend,â&#x20AC;? respectively). Those two statements are then correctly constructed as follows: â&#x20AC;&#x153;While I followed the instructions, it did

not encourage my friend...â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;They did not attend Mass when they went to church...â&#x20AC;?

Aside from faulty negative constructions, my Filipina friend also recalls that in her years as a Tesol teacher to migrant workers in Hong Kong from Asian countries, erratic preposition usage was another major stumbling block TO %NGLISH PROkCIENCY 3HE FOUND the problem serious enough among her overseas Filipino

kRST STATEMENT AND gINu INSTEAD OF â&#x20AC;&#x153;toâ&#x20AC;? for the second.)

ENGLISH PLAIN Not a few nonnative English AND SIMPLE speakers and learners just muddle through with preposition usage because aside from being essentially conventional and quirkish, many workers (OFW) students that she of the English prepositions actually even decided to compile notes have no inherent or discernible logic and prepare English preposition in themselves. Indeed, in the two lessons specifically for them. PARTICULAR INSTANCES OF lAWED PREPNow back in the Philippines as a osition usage that my Filipina friend retiree, she sees largely the same presented, it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy to pinpoint preposition usage problem not any logical distinction between â&#x20AC;&#x153;in,â&#x20AC;? just in Metro Manila newspapers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;on,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;atâ&#x20AC;? as prepositions of but also those in Central Visayas place and location or between â&#x20AC;&#x153;toâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;inâ&#x20AC;? as prepositions of movewhere she lives.

She presented these two typical ment and direction. How then do examples of preposition misuse in we identify the correct prepositions those newspapers: (1) â&#x20AC;&#x153;the build- FOR SPECIkC SITUATIONS Many nonnative English speakers ing had parts in THE RD lOOR FOR take an unduly long time to master the storage area...;â&#x20AC;? and (2) â&#x20AC;&#x153;the preposition usage because such masdiscussion on taxation resulted tery requires memorizing practically to a misunderstanding among lisALL OF THE PREPOSITIONS FOR SPECIkC teners...â&#x20AC;?(The correct preposition situations according to established usage is â&#x20AC;&#x153;atâ&#x20AC;? instead â&#x20AC;&#x153;inâ&#x20AC;? for the

JOSE A. CARILLO

STI launches 2 branches in Sta. Mesa, San Jose Del Monte STI Education Systems Holdings Inc. inaugurated two new academic centers in line with plans to expand its footprint in key locations nationwide.

STI told the Philippine Stock Exchange on Tuesday that it formally launched STI branches in San Jose Del Monte, (SJDM) Bulacan and in Sta. Mesa, Manila on March 4 and 11, respectively.

It said it invested a total of P1.3 billion for the two academic centers. The SJDM branch alone can accommodate up to 6,000 students.

It is seated on a 4,178-square-meter lot area at the Altaraza Town Center, a 109-hectare master planned urban community by Ayala Land, located along Quirino Highway in the said area.

Meanwhile, the Sta. Mesa branch is located

along P. Sanchez Street and can hold 9,000 students for school year 2019-2020. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We constantly upgrade our campuses to deliver our promise and expand our geographical coverage to make real life education more accessible for the Filipino youth,â&#x20AC;? STI 0RESIDENT AND #HIEF /PERATING /FkCER 0ETER Fernandez said.

Last February, STI announced its acquisition of Namei Polytechnic Institute as part of its efforts to diversify portfolio. .AMEI IS AN EDUCATION SERVICES kRM THAT offers courses in maritime transportation, maritime engineering and naval architecture.

Its brand is set to transform into STI Namei.

STI said that it would spend P727 million for the construction of a 10-story building

on a 3,691-square-meter (sqm) property in Sta. Mesa, Manila, which will incorporate STI Namei. The new building would be able to accommodate up to 9,000 senior high school and college students.

The new campus is targeted to be fully operational by school year 2019-2020.

STI said that it would establish information technology programs for maritime, such as networking and communications, cybersecurity, and IT maintenance and services to keep up with the growing demand in the seafaring industry.

3HARES OF 34) WERE DOWN BY CENTAVO TO kNish at 69 centavos on Tuesday amid the Philippine Stock Exchange indexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 0.38-percent drop.

ANGELICA BALLESTEROS

Acadsoc launches language education box in PWU PHILIPPINE Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s University (PWU) students now have an alternative way of studying foreign languages with the use of a state-of-the-art language education box provided by the rising juggernaut of Chinese online education platforms, Acadsoc.

Acadsoc is an international online tutoring company with over 40 million eager Chinese learners who want to master the English language. With a 300 percent annual growth rate since its establishment in 2011, the company aims to create the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most effective online education platform for both language learners and teachers.

In 2018, Acadsoc initiated partnerships with universities and colleges to arrange a program where both graduates and undergraduates can secure jobs as online teachers, offer training opportunities to teaching aspirants, and provide solutions to schools for building smart campuses by using its mastery of advanced technology.

Acadsoc strongly believes in revolutionizing education through technology and aims

to develop more platforms for effective and accessible learning.

In line with this goal, the company shared its new innovation, the Acadsoc Multimedia Education Box. Powered by education technology software company Rosetta Stone, this high-tech booth can help its users learn up to 22 different languages through interactive audio and visual materials. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our concept is to bring this multimedia box to universities in the Philippines and other countries to allow local students [to] improve their language,â&#x20AC;? said Wailun Fung, Acadsocâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Country Technology manager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Filipin os are very smart and they are really good at communicating with people all over the world; This [box] is just a mentor to have them open the gate to work with people from all over the world in the future,â&#x20AC;? he added.

The technology has been dubbed as the pioneer language education box in the Philippines.

Acadsoc Project Coordinator, Lica Abilar said PWU has been the second university

equipped with the multimedia box following Trinity University of Asia in Quezon City.

She added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to give back to students, to schools, so we partner with the universities. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned that PWU has electives for students [starting] from elementary; they already have foreign languages so this is really something that they need.â&#x20AC;?

PWU Vice President for External, Affairs Alfredo Reyes said its partnership with AcadSOC WOULD BE BENEkCIAL IN TERMS OF BRINGING global knowledge in the country. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we have here is one of their very special booths that would allow you, students, to be able to learn a number of languages,â&#x20AC;? he exclaimed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On several fronts, I think this partnership is going to be very fruitful, especially what they can provide for our students.â&#x20AC;?

Through the Acadsocâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Multimedia Education box, training initiatives, and employment programs, the company aims to collaborate with more schools in the country.

MAYLENE STEPHANIE S. VIRAY

English usage. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a process that becomes even more complicated as the learner advances to the prepositional phrases and prepositional idioms, which often have non-literal OR kGURATIVE MEANINGS I do share my teacher-friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concern about the inadequate grasp of English preposition usage among many Filipinos, and I think that right now is as good a time as any to learn their proper usage in a more focused and organized manner. One good way to start this learning process is to first clearly recognize that prepositions are function words crucial for establishing space, time, or logical relationships between ideas within a phrase, a clause, or a sentence.

As such, prepositions are generally classified into these five groups: 1. The prepositions of place and location: â&#x20AC;&#x153;in,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;at,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;on.â&#x20AC;?

2. The prepositions of motion:

Visit Jose Carilloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s English Forum, http://josecarilloforum.com, and on Facebook, https://www. facebook.com/jacarillo. Follow me at Twitter.com @J8Carillo. E-mail: j8carillo@yahoo.com.

Social Business Youth Summit 2019 gathers young movers and innovators SOCIAL Business Youth Alliance (SBYA), a nonprofit organization which aims to create social business leaders, and Grameen Australia Philippines (GAP), a partner of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorest to access capital, in partnership with De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLSCSB), will gather innovators and movers anew to the 2019 Social Business Youth Summit (SBYS) from March 22 to 23, 2019 at the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Design and Arts (SDA) Theater.

With the aim to inspire and enable the youth to transform their environments through social business, the two-day forum annually gathers over 350 like-minded students, scholars, activists, young entrepreneurs, working professionals, corporate social responsibility practitioners and nongovernment office

microfinance and founder of Grameen Bank, will headline the SBYS with his keynote speech on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Creating A World of Three Zeroes,â&#x20AC;? while DLS-CSB President Br. Dennis Magbanua FSC will lead the discussion on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Innovation in Education.â&#x20AC;?

Both Yunus and Magbanua will also be part of the panel session on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Social Business at Campuses: A Breeding Ground for Next Generation Entrepreneurs.â&#x20AC;?

The series of talks also include among others the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Successâ&#x20AC;? by Grameen Aus-

tralia repreChairman sentatives from various Peter Hunt and Q Prof. Muhammad Yunus communities to focus on creating â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mainstreamsustainable solutions to some of the most ing Social Business in Regional Trade pressing current social issues.

Cooperationâ&#x20AC;? by David Landers, Board of Themed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Creating a World of Three Director and chief executive officer MenZeroes: Zero Poverty, Zero Unemploytor of Grameen Australia and Former ment, Zero Net Carbon Emissions,â&#x20AC;? this Head of Global Markets, Australian Trade yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summit will tackle issues on and Investment Commission. poverty, unemployment, net carbon SBYS 2019 is open to the public. emissions, disruptive technology, The School of Design and Arts ecosystems for start-ups and youth Theater is located at the 5th Floor, development.

DLS-CSB School of Design and Arts 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Campus, 950 Pablo Ocampo (Vito Prof. Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer in Cruz) Street, Malate, Manila.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Viva La Diva: A Special Tribute to Maestra Fidesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; THE University of the Philippines (UP) College of Music will have a concert entitled, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Viva La Diva: A Special Tribute to Maestra Fidesâ&#x20AC;? on March 23, 2019, Saturday, 7:00 p.m. at the Abelardo Hall Auditorium, UP Diliman.

The concert will feature the faculty, students and alumni of the Department of Voice, Music

Q Philippine Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s University (PWU) Vice President for External Affairs Alfredo Reyes (right) tries Acadsocâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Multimedia Education Box. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

â&#x20AC;&#x153;to,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;toward,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;in,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;into.â&#x20AC;?

3. The prepositions of movement and direction: â&#x20AC;&#x153;to,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;onto,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;into.â&#x20AC;?

4HE PREPOSITIONS FOR SPECIkC points of time: â&#x20AC;&#x153;on,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;at,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;in,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;after.â&#x20AC;?

5. The prepositions for periods or extended time: â&#x20AC;&#x153;since,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;for,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;by,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;fromâ&#x20AC;Śto,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;fromâ&#x20AC;Śuntil,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;before,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;during,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;within,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;between,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;beyond.â&#x20AC;?

Next week, this column will BEGIN A kVE PART SERIES TAKING UP most everything that the learner has to know about the usage of English prepositions.

(Next: A full-dress review of English preposition usage)

Theatre and Dance. Maestra Fides Cuyugan-Asencio is a professor emeritus at the UP College of Music. She is also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in the Performing Arts from the Philstage Gawad Buhay.

Tickets cost P250 and P500. Discounts are given to students, senior citizens and persons with disability.

Q Students of PWU now have an alternative way of studying foreign languages with the use of Acadsocâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Multimedia Education Box. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

SUCs craft climate change, disaster syllabus ECHAGUE, Isabela: State colleges and universities (SUCs) in Cagayan Valley (Region 2) as well as in Bicol Region (Region 5) are set to draft a standardized syllabus for the institutional subject offering on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction management.

The partnership was a result of the seminar-workshop on Climate Change Adaptation-Disaster Risk Reduction Management (CCA-DRRM) spearheaded by the Isabela State University (ISU), Nueva Vizcaya State University, Saint Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s University Bayombong (Nueva Vizcaya) and Central Bicol State

University of Agriculture.

The activity was also participated in by Dr. Lourdes Tibig, consultant of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities and National Panel of Technical Experts, as one of the lecturers.

Dr. William Eustaquio, ISU-Echague Campus executive officer, said the seminar-workshop attended by curricularists from the SUCs tackled the integration of CCA-DRRM to the existing curriculum to allow the institutions to cope with the dynamism of education and the needs of

the public.

Dr. Ricmar Aquino, ISU president, said that the offering of CCA-DRRM subject would help local government units improve their performance in their tasks on mitigating the effects of climate change and ensure resiliency in the region. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the coming up of a syllabus on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction management, we are hoping that it will capacitate students on the preparation or mitigation of the said phenomenon,â&#x20AC;? Aquino said.

LEANDER C. DOMINGO

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Philippine representative fifth in Young Chef Olympiad 2019

Q Philippine representative culinary student from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management Valery Jane Rodriguez Anthony and her chef mentor Thomas Edward Fung Chua with Indismart Chief Executive Officer and Young Chef Olympiad Chairman Dr. Suborno Bose during the awarding ceremony of the 5th Young Chef Olympiad held in India. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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UDDING Filipino student-chef Valery Jane Rodriguez Anthony impressed judges so with her reinvented halohalo, she ranked fifth out of over 50 competitors from around the world in the recent 5th Young Chef Olympiad (YCO) held in India. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being able to represent the country in this competition was such an incredible learning experience and I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more grateful for it,â&#x20AC;? Anthony beamed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has been a long and amazing journey and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bittersweet that it has ended, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always treasure it for sure.â&#x20AC;?

YCO 2019, organized by Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Institute of Hotel Management (IIHM) in association with United Kingdomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (UK) International Hospitality Council (IHC), tested not just the cheftestantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mastery of skills, but also their expertise, creativity, techniques and innovation in two pre-qualifying rounds held in var-

ious key cities in India.

The countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representative, who placed second in the eliminations, joined nine other top-notchers from Singapore, the UK, the US, Romania, Scotland, France, New Zealand, Jordan and Sweden TO THE GRAND kNALS WHERE SHE kNished in the Top 5.

Anthony confessed that she felt the pressure and there were times WHEN SHE WAS NOT CONkDENT WITH herself, most especially during the kRST ROUND OF THE ELIMINATIONS g) just promised myself to make it up at Round 2. But to my surprise, WE QUALIkED FOR THE GRAND kNALSĂ&#x153; It was such an exhilarating moment,â&#x20AC;? she said.

The young aspirant shared that working with all the participating chefs broadened her knowledge and skills and honed her to become a better cook. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great training ground. It also taught me how to handle pressure and criticism and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty certain that it will be helpful for my future career,â&#x20AC;? she added.

Anthony, a culinary student from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management (Shrim) was trained in the Italian Culinary Institute for Foreigners (ICIF) in dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Asti, Italy and in the Michelin-star restaurant Il Picolo Principe in Luca, Tuscany, Italy.

A veteran competitor for the annual Young Hoteliersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Exposition, she was guided for this particular tournament by chef mentor Thomas Edward Fung Chua, an industry practitioner, restaurateur and a Shrim faculty member.

Chua shared that in addition to the existing superior kitchen skills,

Q Valery Jane Rodriguez Anthony during the grand finals of the 5th Young Chef Olympiad held in India.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Anthony possesses an insatiable willingness to learn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She asked many questions that made me realize that she was making an effor t to study beyond her schoolwork.

She never complained and often worked smart even if it came to spending more than 10 hours standing in practice,â&#x20AC;? he noted.

Chua also stressed that Anthonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attitude towards work is one of her best assets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From the screening process that resonated amongst aspirants to the positive vibes and composure she showed during the high pressured competition and constant effort to communicate after all this makes her a joy to mentor.â&#x20AC;?

While in India, Anthony and Chua showcased Warm Halo-Halo, the duoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take on the Philippinesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; classic, during the United World of Young Chefs, a celebration of culinary cultures that allowed the apprentices and mentors to share a particular dish from their national cuisine with the fellow participants, judges, organizers

and special guests, which included luminaries, dignitaries and distinguished people from the hospitality scene.

The Filipino culinarians reinvented the traditional dessert into a soup quite similar to ginataang bilo-bilo made from coconut milk broth mixed with sweetened monggo (mung beans), kaong (sugar palm fruit), and nata de coco (coconut gels) topped with jackfruit, small sago (tapioca pearls), saging na saba (saba banana), caramelized sweet potatoes, macapuno, and a mixture of dessicated coconut, muscovado sugar and pinipig RICE lAKES This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chef judges was composed of sterling industry experts from the culinary scene, to include celebrity chef, entrepreneur, writer and TV personality Sanjeev Kapoor; Kitchencut director John Wood; star chef Ranveer Brar; ICI Acting Program Director for Western Cuisine Operations and Training Andreas Muller; director Ron Scott; founder of

Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and food guru Karen Anand; entrepreneur, Avant Garde Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. Founding Director chef Abhijit Saha; Vama and Chakra restaurants co-founder and chef de cuisine Andy Varma; and restaurateur and celebrity chef Enzo Oliveri.

The roster was completed by Institute of Hotel and Restaurant Management chef-instructor Enrico Bricarello; Canadian Food and Wine Institute instructor Scott Baechler; Black and White Hospitality Chef Director Andrew Bennet; Chairman of the international Hospitality Council and renowned hospitality professor David Fosket; Westminster Kingsway Hospitality and Culinary Arts Faculty head Gary Hunter; Oberoi Hotels and Resorts chef Parvinder Bali; Director Stephen Hogan; Hollywood Casino Toldeo chef David Graham; IIHM Culinary Directors Sanjay Kak and Shaun Kenworthy; and YCO adjudicator Zenobia Nadirshaw.

Q The Jolly University finalists pose with Fly Ace Corp. General Manager Ramon Daez (7th from left), President Lucio Cochanco Jr. (8th from back row), Director Larry Cochangco, Director Ellen Cochangco, Assistant Vice President for Marketing Abbie Ng Reyes, and Director Elliz Cochanco PHOTO BY OFELYN DATUIN

Students display culinary prowess in Jolly University Cook-Off finale

BY OFELYN DATUIN WITH his Hainanese chicken binakol noodle soup (mushroom and young corn stuffed chicken roulade with egg noodles, vegetables and coconut shreds in creamy coconut broth), University of Santo Tomas (UST) student Tyrone Lemuel won the Jolly University (JU) Grand Cook-off Finale Year 5.

The cook-off gathered the most promising Hotel and Restaurant Management college students last March 15 at St. Scholasticaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College Manila, where they displayed their passion and drive for food.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme â&#x20AC;&#x153;Innovate. Create. Share.â&#x20AC;? allowed the contestants to create dishes inspired by the modern Filipino and fusion category, while incorporating Jolly canned vegetables and fruits to their dishes.

Lemuel went home with P50,000 worth of cash and prizes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are really excited for Year 5 of Jolly University. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to see a new batch of talented and very promising campus culinary talents going all out as they presented us their innovative modern renditions of Filipino classics and fusion recipes,â&#x20AC;?

Assistant Vice President for Marketing of Fly Ace Corp.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Abigail Ng Reyes said in a statement.

With Lemuel at the top 20 culinary student finalists were: Richmond Suntay (UST), Jericho Pareja (Lyceum of the Philippines University or LPU-Manila), Jenald Pascual

(National College of Business-Arts or NCBA Fairview), Phoebe Punzalan (Centro Escolar University-Makati), Zire Oliver Romero (LPU-Manila), Andrea Marie Saclao (LPU-Manila), John Phillip Brocoy (Emilio Aguinaldo College), Moeko Shinshi (San Juan de Dios Educational Foundation Inc. College), Jesch Bodano (Far Eastern University-Manila), Rafael Imalay (NCBA Fairview), Camille Dizon (Metropolitan Medical Center College of Arts, Sciences and Technology), Ma. Trixia Joyce Sevilla (St. Scholasticaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College-Manila), Patricia Ong (Chiang Kai Shek College), Dustin Ryan Agoncillo (Metropolitan Medical Center College of Arts, Sciences, and Technology), Ria Daniel Arugay (San Sebastian College Recoletos), Daryanne Chanel Yongco (UST), Eduard Vargas (Eulogio â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amangâ&#x20AC;? Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology), Pauline Galang (Manila Tytana Colleges) and Janzel Dayag (St. Joseph College Quezon City).

The judges of the competition were Nana Ozaeta, food writer/ editor of Metro.Style; chef Krystel San Juan; and chef Kerwin Funtanilla of Center for Culinary Arts, Manila.

Among the 20 hopeful students, eight were able to reach the final round, while two were chosen to also advance through the Golden Ticket mechanics.

The Golden Ticket mechanics allowed two students to immediately move on to the final round by either garnering the most likes and shares of their dish on Facebook or for

second runner-up spot with her Thai Pork Mushroom Longganisa, Suman with Crispy Shallot-Garlic Latik and Coconut Cream Foam served with Fried Egg and Green Mango Salad dish.

Established in 2013, the Jolly University cook-off brings together talented aspiring chefs to demonstrate their skills and passion for cooking.

The competition gives students a head start and allows students to work outside the campus walls. It builds relationships with students and institutions from all over the Q Jolly University year 5 judges (from right) Metro Style food writer/ metro to bring out â&#x20AC;&#x153;culinary exceleditor Nana Ozaeta, chef Krystel San Juan, chef Kerwin Funtanilla and Fly lence and food business innovation in Ace Corp. General Manager Ramon Daez and Assistant Vice President for the Philippines.â&#x20AC;?

Marketing Abigail Ng Reyes pose with grand champion Tyrone Lemuel Ty Lucio Cochanco Jr., president of Fly Ace of University of Sto. Tomas (center). (PHOTO COURTESY OF JOLLY Corp., said in a statement: â&#x20AC;&#x153;While we enviUNIVERSITY) sioned JUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success, we are still overwhelmed collecting the most Jolly Canned Vegetable Products. USTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s by how it sparked the flames of curiosity, Suntay and San Sebastian Recoletosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Arugay won these two creativity and the cooking abilities of so many students in the slots, respectively. past five years. JU, indeed, has grown to become a long-running Suntay also placed as first runner-up with his Shepherdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program that is greatly supported by the academic communities as Rendang dish, while Ong of Chiang Kai Shek College took the well as partners from various industries.â&#x20AC;?

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THURSDAY March 21, 2019

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2,801 examiness pass the Medical Technologist Licensure exams The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 2,801 out of 4,092 passed the Medical Technologist Licensure Examination given by the Board of Medical Technology in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan De Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga this March 2019.

RANK

NAME

SCHOOL

RATING(%)

1

JOHN STEWARD BUENAVISTA ALBERTO

CAGAYAN STATE UNIVERSITYANDREWS CAMPUS (TUG)

91.10

ZAIRAH DE LEON MONJARDIN

FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITYNICANOR REYES MEDICAL FOUNDATION

91.10

2

KRISTINE CHER CALAMBRO ABRIL

TRINITY UNIVERSITY OF ASIA (TRINITY-QC)

90.80

3

PRINCE RENEIR ANGELES MALACASTE

OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITYQC

90.70

4

DARYL JASYL LIM CAÑON

CENTRAL PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITY

90.40

5

NICZON MIRANDA SEE

FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITYNICANOR REYES MEDICAL FOUNDATION

90.20

6

AARON TERENCE DELA CRUZ IBE

UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS

90.10

7

JOHN SPENCER BERNARDINO TAÑALAS

ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

89.80

8

DAVID JAMESON DE LEON CAÑESO

UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS

89.20

9

INA DESIREE LACNO MAMAUAG

UNIVERSITY OF BAGUIO

89.10

10

GRACIELA MARIEL QUINTOS CABREROS

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY

88.90

RYAN JAY LUMAOANG LOMBOY

CAGAYAN STATE UNIVERSITYANDREWS CAMPUS (TUG)

88.90

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72 AGUILAR, JAJNIR RONEL NIERVA 73 AGUIMBAG, JAN SERAPHIN ROLDAN 74 AGUIRRE, KRISTINE JOY DOLOR 75 AGUIRRE, MA GRISSIL CABUDSAN 76 AGUSTIN, ISHA SY 77 AGUSTIN, JOSHUA CARLO SAN AGUSTIN 78 ALABADO, VALERIE PASION 79 ALAG, JOHN MARK LAMORIN 80 ALALAG, DENZEL LUMBAG 81 ALASAAS, MARIBEL CARIAGA 82 ALAVAR, CEDRICK CARDANO 83 ALAYON, JOHN MARTIN LARIOSA 84 ALAZAS, APRIL ROSE ROXAS 85 ALBAYALDE, MARIA CHARISSE SANTOS 86 ALBERTO, JOHN STEWARD BUENAVISTA 87 ALBERTO, MARPHIL GONZALES 88 ALBOTRA, GISELLE TAPALES 89 ALBURO, KATE CORTES 90 ALCANTARA, ADA DONNA CABANELA 91 ALCANTARA, GRETHA FAYE BALTAZAR 92 ALCANTARA, SHAIRA MAE DE LA RIARTE 93 ALCARAZ, JONAH MARIE FERRER 94 ALCAYDE, TANYA ANGLO 95 ALCAYDE, VIA BLANCA GAOIRAN 96 ALCERA, CINDY TINGZON 97 ALCORIZA, RICA AGATHA MANDAP 98 ALDABA, MARIANNE ANGELI 99 ALDAY, CLEON GARINE CUDAL 100 ALEGA, BEVERLY JOY TAGUIANG 101 ALEJANDRE, MIRRAH JEL SOTIL 102 ALEJO, MARDY LOVE TABLIT 103 ALEMANIA, JOHN PAUL REDECIO 104 ALFARO, MOBBIE LEE QUIAMBAO 105 ALFECHE, RENEE PATRICIA HINONG 106 ALFONSO, FLORENCIO IV LOBO 107 ALFONSO, KRYZZA MAE MONSANTO 108 ALIDON, MA REBECCA PAINAGAN 109 ALIGO, GUIA BANGSAIL 110 ALIS, MICA KRIZZA BASCO 111 ALLAS, MARK IAN LOMAGUE 112 ALMAZAN, MARISSA MARTIN 113 ALMOJERA, AMIEL KING COSTALES 114 ALOB, JOSHUA BEN-RAY SAAVEDRA 115 ALOLOD, EAZER NEOL URSUA 116 ALONZO, J-MARK CABAUATAN 117 ALQUINO, DARELYN CASTILLO 118 ALUPIAS, ERMA JOY BONGSIW 119 ALVARAN, JASMINE BALMEDINA 120 ALVAREZ, KRISTINE JOYCE QUILANG 121 ALVAREZ, PRINCESS PILAR SOLAMILLO 122 ALVAREZ, RAOUL ANGELICO SEVERINO BERIÑA 123 AMANTE, JENNY ROSE JARDIN 124 AMARILLO, CHATLEA ALTO 125 AMAYUWON, DARREL MADIWO 126 AMBAYAN, SHERALYN CAILE LASTIMOSA 127 AMBROCIO, NOHELE ANN GUERZO 128 AMI, FERDJELEEN CONDE 129 AMIRIL, HADZMER TALAGON 130 AMISTAD, CLENCH JANE DAMALERIO 131 AMOR, HANNAH PATRICIA DALID 132 AMORIO, KRIZETTE MARIE VILLAMOR 133 AMOSO, JULIE ANN BALICTAR 134 AMPAY, NORLAILA MALAWI 135 AMPIG, DOVIE MAE TEJANO 136 AMROSI, HAMDAN MACAPAAR 137 AMURAO, PRINCESS FARRIDA RODRIGUEZ 138 ANAPEN, HANNA MEI DUMAYAS 139 ANCAJA, ALLAN GABRIEL TIONGSON 140 ANCHETA, ARMAN DAVID LUBRICO 141 ANCHETA, CHRISTIAN OLITOQUIT 142 ANCHETA, OLIVE FERMIN 143 ANDALES, SANDRA GUERZO 144 ANDAYA, LEONARD SUBOC

145 ANDOLOY, REYCART PAUL RUAN 146 ANDRADE, PATRICIA MAE ADRIANO 147 ANDRES, GENALYN PATRIARCA 148 ANDRES, JACQUELYN OLORAZA 149 ANDRES, MARK JIRECK LEYVA 150 ANG, JIA LIANNE ONG 151 ANGCO, ANNIE LOU CUIZON 152 ANGELES, ALLYSA CAMILLE DELA CRUZ 153 ANGELES, JOY ANN QUIAMBAO 154 ANGELES, NICOLAE CHELSEA SOBERANO 155 ANGELLANO, AVERY JAN PALATTAO 156 ANGULUAN, KARMELLE ANGELIE MATEO 157 ANICIETE, SHARON MAE OBAR 158 ANIÑON, ACE MATTHEW LABISTE 159 ANNIL, DAYANARA ALIBASA 160 ANSAGAY, CAMILLE CHAVEZ 161 ANSELMO, MELANIE JUAN 162 ANTENOR, CHAMINNA CALAPIT 163 ANTIVOLA, CARLOS GABRIEL KIPPING 164 ANTOLIN, JOMELYN ROSEBETH LEE 165 ANTOLIN, MITZI FAYE BAUTISTA 166 ANTONIO, JOIEMEE LYN CONCEPCION 167 ANTONIO, PEARL DIANNE CASTILLO 168 ANTONIO, PRIXIE MARIANNE SOMERA 169 ANTONIO, ROCHELLE MAE DE LA CRUZ 170 ANTONIO, VERNALIZA TUMBADO 171 ANUMA, DEO CENTENIER DAGDAG 172 APACIBLE, YDWIGHT DADIS 173 APALLA, CAMILLE DELOS SANTOS 174 APOSTOL, GREMAR JOSHUA TELAN 175 APOSTOL, JAMINE GANELA 176 APUADA, JANINE MAICA FABRO 177 APUGAN, JESNEL KHIM BELLO 178 APULI, ALEXIS RICA CLAIRE CASTILLO 179 APURA, JAKE ANGELO TANAGON 180 APURILLO, ADRIAN DAVE ALCOBER 181 AQUILLO, JONAH DOMNGAL 182 AQUINO, FEABE JANE FERNANDEZ 183 AQUINO, LINO ARIEL MIRANDA 184 AQUINO, PRINCESS FORNILOS 185 ARAGON, FELIZZ STEFANN CARVAJAL 186 ARAGON, SIRMATA JANE DALIGCON 187 ARAKAMA, HANIN ISAHAC 188 ARAN, MARIJOY KAREN CASTILLO 189 ARANCO, KHELEMAR JR MUNDA 190 ARAOJO, ZIONEL LOMBOY 191 ARAP, ALMIRA JUMAANI 192 ARBAN, JOSEF BRENT BRION 193 ARBAS, KEVIN CHRISTIAN SOLAYAO 194 ARCHE, ALEXANDRA AÑOVER 195 ARCIPE, CLAIRE JASMIN PASCUAL 196 ARELLANO, ANNE FLORENCE CUARESMA 197 ARELLANO, KRISTOFFER KING DALIDA 198 ARELLANO, MARIELLA ANDREI RADA 199 ARELLANO, MARYNELLE ZEIAN JANE 200 ARENAS, RACSRHEY AGBUYA 201 AREOLA, CHRIS AVERY BERNABE 202 ARES, CHERIE GRACE AGSUNOD 203 AREVALO, DAISY GASAPO 204 ARIAS, PRINCESS CHARLYS MARTINEZ 205 ARIOLA, ELIZABETH ANNE SABADO 206 ARIOSA, CHRYSTA MARIE ROSSELLE SILLA 207 ARISTOTELES, GRAZIEL BAN RAMIREZ 208 ARISTOZA, ELISHA BELLE FUSCABLO 209 ARIT, MATT ELTON CULATA 210 ARITAO, XYRA LYN HERBOLARIO 211 ARIZALA, YEDDA MAE RAMIREZ 212 ARMAMENTO, ALLAN MADRONIO 213 ARNIGO, AIRAH ANGELA OBEN 214 ARON, MARIA ELENA CABATIC 215 ARQUERO, DESIREE JOY BIA 216 ARQUILADO, JAYMEE BARING 217 ARQUIZA, PAULA RICA GUEVARA 218 ARREZA, JULIENNE EVE ERIVE 219 ARROYO, KAREN MARIELI BORJA 220 ARROYO, MERYLL BURLAN 221 ARROYO, PERCY JEN GANZAN 222 ARTATES, GELEEN FAYE JANDOC 223 ARTATES, JHAN JHAY ATINAJA 224 ARTIGA, MICHAELA VIANCA TONGZON 225 ARTUZ, ELLA MAE BRICENIO 226 ASEO, ALYCE DOMINIQUE YAHUT 227 ASIO, JOHN RAY CONCEPCION 228 ASIÑO, ANTHONY JACA 229 ASTILLAR, KAROLYN MALAZARTE 230 ASTILLERO, LYN AIVY ENDAYA 231 ASTILLO, JEREC DAME NICHOLO HERNANDEZ 232 ASUNCION, LEOMAR FLOGIO 233 ASUNCION, SHIELLA MAY ZAPATERO 234 ATIENZA, JE-ANN LLANETA 235 ATIENZA, MA CATHERINE ABANILLA 236 ATIMAMA, KRIZZA VALERIE ACIONG 237 ATIWAG, JANET TONGATONG 238 ATOS, JUSTIN MIPHOCOR DORIA 239 AURELIO, LAURENCE ALOLOR 240 AURELLADO, GEMIELLE LORICA 241 AUSTRIA, GLENN RILEY MATEO 242 AVECILLA, ANGELI ZETH FONTANILLA 243 AVERO, ACE DANIELLE CLARO 244 AYALA, EDRALINE VILLANUEVA 245 AYANGCO, SHIELA MARIE OABEL 246 AYUB, AKMED RASHDI LAJA 247 AYUNO, CHRISTIAN ANTHONY ROYO 248 AYUYANG, MICAH YU 249 AZCUETA, PRIMA GABRIELLE CACATIAN 250 AÑONUEVO, MARIELL ANGELICA DIMAYUGA 251 BABARAN, KARL RUIZ 252 BABAS, ALDREI BOHOL 253 BACALING, MICHELLE PANTINOPLE 254 BACALSO, GEONYROSE ESMAYA 255 BACANI, AIRA ROXETTE MUYANO 256 BACAOAT, NATHALIE SORIA 257 BACAY, PRINCESS MARIANNE CONTI 258 BACCAY, GUILLERMO COLETO 259 BACLAYON, MARY LOU ALAMBAN 260 BACLIG, CARLA BERNADINE TEVES 261 BACOLOD, ACE NATHANIEL JR RICO 262 BACORRO, MEKKO JEAN BORGOÑOS

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F2 263 BACSA, MAMIKO FENELLA VIERNES 264 BACUD, JOHANNAH MARIE OSORIO 265 BADA, RUTH JASMIN SURITA 266 BAGAY, RISHELLE GALLEBO 267 BAGGAO, MARNELLE MAGUDANG 268 BAGGAYAN, JOENAHAN ILDEFONSO 269 BAGSIC, PRINCESS ZORINA LACUATA 270 BAGUIO, FAITH GERMAE POTOT 271 BAGUIO, JERESA LUY 272 BAGUIO, LEANN JOY SARMIENTO 273 BAGUIO, LEI ANNE MALLARI 274 BAIG, SARAH TALIGATOS 275 BAJAR, ROSABELLA CRUCILLO 276 BAJE, KENN PAULINE 277 BAKIRAN, KREEYON APHRODITE ANOG 278 BALABA, CHRISTOPHER CORPUZ 279 BALACANO, MA THERESA ALBANO 280 BALADAD, MARK ERICSON BALAGOT 281 BALAGSO, SARAH MAY CONSTANTINO 282 BALAGTAS, JOHN MICHAEL NAIZ SANDOVAL 283 BALAIS, CLAODIN DANGANGAO 284 BALANGUE, JOSHUA JOKEY JOHN RAMIREZ 285 BALASI, ERLL MARK CHILAGAN 286 BALBERAN, KRISHA MAE SANIDAD 287 BALBIN, VANESSA ROXANNE CABAR 288 BALDONADO, MERIZABETH MAYNEZ 289 BALEVA, ANA MAE DALIDA 290 BALICAS, IAN TREVOR LAVARIAS 291 BALILING, DEBBIE JILL BALIGOD 292 BALIMBINGAN, MOCHSALIN TUCOD 293 BALIONG, ABIEGAIL TORRES 294 BALITAAN, GELA SOTTO 295 BALLAD, SILVIA ANGELA ADARME 296 BALLADARES, REINA LAPINIG 297 BALLARES, NICO ISAIAH NALAPO 298 BALONSAY, ARTHILISA NICHOLE GALVEZ 299 BALTAZAR, FRANCESS KARLA FELICES 300 BAMBA, ANDREA KAYE DEREQUITO 301 BANAAG, KIRSTIN DEINIELLE SAMERA 302 BANAN, MARK JAY SALUD 303 BANATAO, KAZANDRA KATE SALVADOR 304 BANDOQUILLO, NIKKI IRISH REYES 305 BANGAT, MARIA CRISTINA BUSTAMANTE 306 BANGGAD, ALFEA JOYCE BERALDE 307 BANGHULOT, MICHELLISA VILLENA 308 BANGIBANG, JEDELYN BILOG 309 BANGLAGAN, IRIS BALANSO 310 BANILA, JAMILLE BALAGTAS 311 BANNOYA, ANJANETTE GUNNAY 312 BANTIYAO, MENCHIE SAGALON 313 BANTOLO, ROMEALYN SOLITO 314 BAQUIRAN, ANGEL MARQUEZ 315 BARADI, MARY ROSE RIAZONDA 316 BARANI, AIDA MANAPA-AT 317 BARAO, TRISTAN MARK SUPERIO 318 BARBA, JHERONIQUE FEI MUNAR 319 BARCELLANO, CHRISLEEN ERVY GRANADO 320 BARCELON, VALERIE MAGADIA 321 BARGAYO, JAMHEL FELIX DEL PILAR 322 BARICAUA, JONAS SIBAL 323 BARNACHEA, MARIA MAE AQUINO 324 BARNES, JUNNETTE CAO 325 BAROJABO, JAHZIEL IRA ONG 326 BARON, SHAIRA VENETTE RETOLADO 327 BARONDAY, JESSA SADDAH 328 BARRIENTOS, EUNICE LYKA BAUTISTA 329 BARRION, BEA BIANCA CERVANTES 330 BARRION, CYRILLE JANE OCAMPO 331 BARRION, JOSHELL BUQUID 332 BARTOLOME, LEO JOVETH FERNANDEZ 333 BARTOLOME, MA BAMOZLE NICOLE COLOBONG 334 BARTOLOME, MIGUEL ELCID LACSON 335 BARZAGA, RACHELLE ARA PANGAN 336 BASAYA, MARK DANIEL BALEVA 337 BASBAS, PAOLO MIGUEL RHANCEL 338 BASCRUZ, CYRILLE JOY SALISI 339 BASCUGIN, MA RACHELLE ANNE DINCO 340 BASILA, ALLURE CADIENTE 341 BASINANG, ROMMEL JOHN PALENCIA 342 BASINILLO, AMETHYST JOY PAYAO 343 BASSIG, MANILYNE BALAQUI 344 BATAAN, RYAN CHESTER JOVEN 345 BATALLONES, JAN SIGFRID JAVILLONAR 346 BATARILAN, BETZ MAE NIERE 347 BATHAN, CHRISTIAN JAY MANLUPIG 348 BATIANCILA, JADE CASALS 349 BATISLAON, JELAICA BANGUIS 350 BATNAG, LEANIE DONASCO 351 BATOTO, ROCSAN AVILA 352 BATRONEL, ALLYSA GRACE COMETA 353 BATTALAO, MARICHIE JOY ANDRADA 354 BATU, VERONICA CABUNDOC 355 BATUCAN, VIA BONA MERIDINE PACHECO 356 BATUHAN, ANGELA MARTINEZ 357 BATULAN, KYLE XYZA FOLLANTE 358 BATUY, SHIELA MAE AGAS 359 BAUAG, MARLON JR DATAYAN 360 BAUSA, DANICA MARIE CARDANO 361 BAUTE, NORJOVANI BARAZAR 362 BAUTISTA, DARIENE JOIE BACANI 363 BAUTISTA, MARY GLADIES MANALO 364 BAUTISTA, QUEEN ISABELA GAMMAD 365 BAUTISTA, RESH SHIN PEARL FUERTE 366 BAYAMBAN, EIRENE PHILIP MALANAO 367 BAYAN, REY JOHN CALIGUIRAN 368 BAYANAY, MIZRA AMICA FORTIN 369 BAYANI, JOVY MARTIN 370 BAYANI, JUDE ARMSTRONG MARANCA 371 BAYAUA, ED KAYLE ADDULAM 372 BAYAUA, MARLYN FIEROR 373 BAYLE, MONICA ABIT 374 BAYON, CHARLES JEFFERSON CASERIA 375 BAYONETO, JULLIANNE MARIE CHAVEZ 376 BAYUBAY, NOVA GEORGETTE SALES 377 BAÑAGA, LORA SOFIA TORINO 378 BAÑEZ, JOANE DE CASTRO 379 BEDUYA, ELLAIZA NIÑA RAMIREZ 380 BEJER, MARICAR CULISAO 381 BELANDRES, NINA ELIZA CAMOMOT 382 BELARDO, JAYA ROSE RIVERA 383 BELEN, JUSTINE JAY DELEON

The Manila Times 384 BELEN, KAMIL ANGELA TOLENTINO 385 BELEN, LIEZEL SHAINA ESPINOSA 386 BELIR, KATHERINE LAGUADOR 387 BELLO, LYKA LADJA 388 BELLO, SARAH GRACE 389 BELLOSILLO, RENIFF MARIANO 390 BELTRAN, CASSANDRHEA GLORDEI OLIVEROS 391 BELTRAN, CHRISTIAN SCHROEDER 392 BELTRAN, REJEL CELESTIAL 393 BENEDITO, ALLYSSA CELINE BUENO 394 BENITEZ, LTRYL BERNARDINO 395 BERBANO, IVAN JANE TALOSIG 396 BERGONIA, AMIEL CHRISTIAN BALAE 397 BERIARMENTE, PRINCESS MAE CANUDAY 398 BERIÑA, MARIANE MAY 399 BERNABE, SHYLEEN JIGZ TIMBANG 400 BERNAL, BRIAN KEITH REYES 401 BERNARDINO, ALEX JR DELA CRUZ 402 BERNARDINO, MICHAEL CUMUYOG 403 BERNARDO, FEVI FLORES 404 BERNAS, KATHY CASTILLO 405 BERTULFO, SHAIRA MAE CAÑEGA 406 BESAS, ARIANE MARIE MORALES 407 BIADO, IVANA SAGUN 408 BIARE, MARIA RUCHELLE MEDINA 409 BIASON, DIANNE VILLOSILLO 410 BIASURA, ANDRILY JELLY COSTES 411 BIGLANG-AWA, JAMAICA VALDERAMA 412 BILLEN, SHAMY HALE PASCUA 413 BINALON, JOHN BYRON ALASCO 414 BINARAO, LIA DINAH LLANA 415 BINASING, AL-AINE PANGALINON 416 BINIAHAN, HANAH DULNUAN 417 BINLINGAN, LODZIA KASSEL LAMSIS 418 BINTUCAN, ELLAINE DANGA-AP 419 BINUYA, KASSANDRA FULGARINAS 420 BISNAR, HERVILYN HORTIZUELA 421 BLANCHE, JOENNA LIE MAGALLANES 422 BLANCO, KRISTELLE IRENE MAE LUZON 423 BLANCO, WENDEE DELLOSA 424 BOAQUIN, KIM FEBE TAJUDA 425 BOCLOG, SHARON DULNUAN 426 BOCO, DEANNISE ANN RINGOR 427 BODOSO, ROBEL FAYE 428 BOGNOT, CHRISTIAN ALDEN BALANON 429 BOLISAY, HONEY PAMILAGA 430 BOLISLIS, NALIZ JOYCE WADWADAN 431 BOLIVAR, KIA ANGELA TRIVIÑO 432 BOLO, CHRISTIAN PAUL GINDAP 433 BOLOSAN, KERMI MAE VILLEGAS 434 BONCALES, KRIZHA FAYE SUMALINOG 435 BONGAYON, COLLEEN ZUÑEGA 436 BONTIA, ARDHELYN ABING 437 BONZON, JUAN CARLO YAP 438 BOQUIRON, JUSTINE JOSE MENDOZA 439 BORDEOS, MARIA VICTORIA ACASIO 440 BORJA, ANTHONY LOUISE LUCERO 441 BORJA, JESSALINE ALMAZAN 442 BORJA, MARIA LOURDES PIMENTEL 443 BORNEL, MA CATRINA GARCIA 444 BORRAL, AUDREY LEI BAYOGOS 445 BORROMEO, MARK ANDREW SILVA 446 BOSQUILLOS, MAREON GONZALES 447 BOTE, XEELA MARIE REYES 448 BOYAOYAO, ALMARIE JOY RAMORAN 449 BRACEROS, ERIKA SIRUNO 450 BRANDARES, PAMELA ERIKA BANAL 451 BRAZA, RONA MAY GEMANGA 452 BREGAÑA, ALVIN JOHN EDRA 453 BRETAÑA, MARY ANGELYN MALIGAD 454 BRINGAS, JAN RUBERT AGALOOS 455 BUAL, MARY TRICIABETH DUA 456 BUAN, EUDES AIMON FRANCISCO 457 BUDIAS, MARY GRACE CONSUEGRA 458 BUDUAN, KAREN ABBYGAELE CASTILLO 459 BUDZAL, HASMINA SURAIK 460 BUENA, QUEENIE CABALLERO 461 BUENAFLOR, JESSICA YAP 462 BUENAVENTURA, ALDRIN ELEVADO 463 BUENCONSEJO, DIANA ROSE MACALALAD 464 BUENO, ANNA JENELLA PASCUA 465 BUENO, KRISTEL MARCOS 466 BUGA-AY, JESSA ELIZABETH SAMONTINA 467 BUGARING, AHLYSSA PAGUNURAN 468 BUGARING, CHRISTINE JOY PEREZ 469 BUGARING, NAPOLEON GUIQUING 470 BUGAY, MARIA CAROLINA MALEON 471 BUGAYON, LORIE ANN RAFAEL 472 BUGUINA, ANGELA MADAMBA 473 BUGUINA, KIM DARYL LAMUD 474 BUHAT, KNICO PAULO ACOLENTABA 475 BULANTE, MA ALCINE JANE DUCOT 476 BULGA, LOIDA NGABIT 477 BULI-E, GRETCHEN EDIONG 478 BULSAO, LEARNE URBANO 479 BULUSAN, KHIMBERLY RAQUEL 480 BULUSAN, LOVELY GRACE LLAMELO 481 BUMANGLAG, BIANCA MARIE DIAZ 482 BUNGABONG, DOMIL VINCENT MAGLANA 483 BUREROS, VENUS CAMILLE BABAYAN 484 BURGOS, JOLINA MAE SUGUITAN 485 BURGOS, PAULA FAYE PASCUALADO 486 BURGOS, RICA BILBAO 487 BUSCAINO, APRIL SHINE SALAZAR 488 BUSCAS, JARED SIA 489 BUSI, KATRINA FRANCES AGUILON 490 BUSLOTAN, AUDREY DWAYNE DESIERTO 491 BUSTAMANTE, BART AMEER ROMERO 492 BUSTAMANTE, ENYA MARIE 493 BUSTILLO, RUBEN JR LOPEZ 494 BUTA, SHIRIN KAY OPLENARIA 495 BUYUCCAN, SHERYL BOLHAYON 496 CAAGBAY, JOEN PATRICK SALCEDO 497 CAASI, JENELLE CAMANGEG 498 CABAHUG, ROYMARK SORIANO 499 CABALCE, KIMBERLY CABANILLA 500 CABALIC, JAMES ERON MOLINA 501 CABALLERO, BERMOND DY-RASTAS 502 CABALLERO, CENTINA MAY 503 CABALLERO, SHANINE MAE SEBIAL 504 CABANSAY, BETHEL LOMUGDANG

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505 CABANTING, ASHLEY MAE AGBAYANI 506 CABASAL, RALPH ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ 507 CABATINGAN, CYLYN ANN MARTINEZ 508 CABBO, CLIFF MICHAEL LACHICA 509 CABBUAG, KIA CECILLE GANAB 510 CABIGAS, LA NIÑA KAYE DECANO 511 CABILDO, KASHMEN 512 CABLAO, HENRY HARVY LIMBOY 513 CABLAS, MARIA JOAHANNA GRACE BAUTISTA 514 CABRAL, AMANDO JR GUILLES 515 CABRAL, REYN VIANCA AÑONUEVO 516 CABRERA, JACOB JAMES ABAO 517 CABRERA, MA ELA PUNZALAN 518 CABREROS, GRACIELA MARIEL QUINTOS 519 CABRIA, ALLISA MARIAN ARUGAY 520 CABUAG, MARIZ MANZANO 521 CABURNAY, SHIELA MAE DIONGSON 522 CACHERO, MARJANEH FABIAN 523 CACHO, VIRGINIA ADIWANG 524 CACHOLA, JASON BASILIO 525 CADABONA, JEROME ARANCA 526 CADANO, JUNDEL MORALES 527 CADAVIZ, DESEREE ROSE DE SILVA 528 CADIENTE, BEVERLY BUENAVENTURA 529 CADIZ, JOHN PAUL MAGAOAY 530 CADUYA, KASSANDRA ALEXA SAMILLANO 531 CAFE, NATHALIE TEJANO 532 CAGASAN, MYRENE EBALLENA 533 CAGURANGAN, ROMEL CUNTAPAY 534 CAJALA, ERIKA MAE BAHNI 535 CALAGUIO, MARK EVENEZER VIRAY 536 CALALAGAN, DEANNA DAGADAS 537 CALALAGAN, RUSDY DAGADAS 538 CALAMA, GABRIELLE COGOY 539 CALAMBA, ALBERT CHRISTIAN ALDERITE 540 CALANOGA, MARIA ESTHER IVY LEGASPI 541 CALAYAG, MA VIANCA AGUAS 542 CALAYCAY, CELDRICK JULIOUS MARTIN 543 CALERO, JADE CATHLEN SUNIO 544 CALICA, ANGELIQUE CHRISTINE DELOS SANTOS 545 CALICA, ISAIAH KENTZ LIM 546 CALICA, KEIL BRIONES 547 CALILAP, ROWELALYN DEMIAR 548 CALILUNG, HANNAH JOYCE REDOLOZA 549 CALILUNG, PAULA RUTH MANGALINO 550 CALIMLIM, CLARENZ JAZPER LAPURGA 551 CALINAWAN, REBEKAH POLVOROSA 552 CALLANGAN, KYRIOS KHRYSS SANTOS 553 CALMA, KENNETH JOSHUA NUCUM 554 CALMA, RONIZA ESCUDERO 555 CALMERIN, MICHELLE JOY ARTATES 556 CALUBAQUIB, CLARISSE KEITH LAUIGAN 557 CALUDUCAN, ANGELIQUE JULIAN 558 CALUMBA, KIRSTEN KORENE BROMO 559 CALVO, KENNETH PAOLO TAJO 560 CAMACHO, DHARLEEN RYANNE BOCAUTO 561 CAMACHO, JENNIFER ESTEBAN 562 CAMACHO, KIM ALWYN SORIANO 563 CAMACHO, KIMO NED GELAN EGPIT 564 CAMANGIAN, ANDREA LORRAINE EPISTOLA 565 CAMANTILES, SHAIRA HARLENE ARANCA 566 CAMAYA, FRANCES NICOLE CABREROS 567 CAMBA, GLYSSA MARIE OBEDOZA 568 CAMIDE, CRYSTAL VALLES 569 CAMINGAWAN, CATHERINE LEIGH NARCISO 570 CAMIÑA, NESTLYN MAE YVONNE SAYCON 571 CAMPANA, SARAH JANE DE LOS REYES 572 CAMPOLLO, REGGIE RESULTO 573 CAMPOSAGRADO, LARENA PALACIOS 574 CANABAL, MA CAMELLA ALBOR 575 CANAPI, ANNA CELINA LASQUETE 576 CANAPI, KRISTINE JOY SAGUN 577 CANCINO, KATHLEEN MAE SABANGAN 578 CANDA, JHORJHA FRANCISCO 579 CANDA, JOWENZ TEREEZE BASACA 580 CANDELARIA, PATRICIA SANTIAGO 581 CANDO, PATRICIA NICOLE PASCUAL 582 CANENCIA, MARIA JACKYLENE QUIJANO 583 CANILLO, WENDELL RHYAN ARRIESGADO 584 CANITE, KEANU SAYOG 585 CANLAPAN, MITCHIE LOU YABUT 586 CANLAS, CAROL MONIQUE GRANFIL 587 CANLAS, LAREINE VIRAY 588 CANONES, DULCE VIDA ALEJANDRO 589 CANSON, MARIA HAZEL ARAOJO 590 CAPACIA, PRINCESS ELIZABETH LADERAS 591 CAPATAYAN, YVONNE MAE CADAY 592 CAPATI, NIÑA JOEFIL PINANGAY 593 CAPILI, CHARMAINE TINOY 594 CAPILI, MARJORIE AREOLA 595 CAPOTE, GELLINA MARI ANTONIO 596 CAPULONG, JHIMIL LALU 597 CARACENA, RONA MAE MARTINEZ 598 CARAG, JEANETE MAE BAUTISTA 599 CARAIG, CARISSA ISAGA 600 CARANDANG, JASON MIGUEL BUENSUCESO 601 CARANTO, PATRICIA NICOLE DE LEON 602 CARBONEL, CHELSSY GARGANTA 603 CARDENAS, JEROME MARK GONZALES 604 CARDONA, TEEJAY CEZO 605 CARIAGA, CAMILLE ANN BASANGAN 606 CARIG, CLAUDINE LORENZO 607 CARIM, KHARIMAH DATUDACULA 608 CARINGAL, KRISTELLE LIZZETH RODRIGUEZ 609 CARITATIVO, KARREN MERCADO 610 CARIÑO, CHRISTOPHER TUBON 611 CARLOS, KATLEEN JOY CASTRO 612 CARO, KEYA MARIE BATALLONES 613 CARPIO, ELAIZA MAY TRESVALLES 614 CARTAGENA, DANN HENRY YOUNG 615 CARTONEROS, KESHA MAE DE LOS REYES 616 CASAPAO, ELYZA MARIE ILAGAN 617 CASAS, ANN QUIMQUE 618 CASAS, DENIL FERNANDEZ 619 CASAYSAY, NADINE JOY GASIS 620 CASAYURAN, GRACE ANDAYA 621 CASAÑARES, KARRA ALEXANDRIA SELIBIO 622 CASCAYAN, AIKA MARUQUIN 623 CASEM, VIDA DOROTHY ALMAJANO 624 CASIANO, RUTH OPEÑA 625 CASICA, MARY ANGEL PASCUA

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2078 PELIN, GEMMA LYN LAJOT 2079 PENASO, ABELIANNE PRINCESS GAYL TECSON 2080 PEPITO, JULIET ANNE GIMENO 2081 PERALTA, ISAC JURISH LEODONES 2082 PERALTA, LAURENZ ANGELO CAJIGAS 2083 PERALTA, MELVENE AGAMILLA 2084 PERANTE, FRITZIE MAE TATOY 2085 PERANTE, KIMBERLY ASHLEY MAE SALENTES 2086 PERDIDO, ELAINE PATRICIA MASULI 2087 PEREZ, AYA BERNADETTE CALONZO 2088 PEREZ, HAZEL BEATRICE DELA CRUZ 2089 PEREZ, JOANA MARIE AQUINO 2090 PEREZ, KATHERINE ANNE ARELLANO 2091 PERIÑA, MARYLAN FATIMA SY 2092 PEROMINGAN, CAMELA RIVERA 2093 PESIGAN, JENNICA HERNANDEZ 2094 PEÑA, JUMAR LUMITAO 2095 PEÑA, MARIELLE GALANG 2096 PEÑALBER, KEOGH JOULE GALFO 2097 PEÑARANDA, GRACE JOY CRUZIM 2098 PEÑARANDA, NATALIE FAVE MONTERO 2099 PEÑARANDA, TRISHA VERZOSA 2100 PEÑARROYO, EDZEL GELILIO 2101 PIHOC, SHAMMAH GENTLE EMOLIAP 2102 PILLERIN, DUDE MICHAEL VINCE BISTAL 2103 PIMENTEL, MARK NONI RIZANO 2104 PINAYACAN, APRILLE DOLINEN 2105 PINEDA, RUTH ADRHEN MUSNGI 2106 PINPIN, PATRICIA ANNE IBASCO 2107 PINZON, TERENCE BASCON 2108 PIOG, HAZELEEN TOLENTINO 2109 PLATIL, GILMARIE CHIN VIRTUDEZ 2110 PLOTADO, EVAN JUSTIN CASABUENA 2111 POCSIDIO, PAMELA CONCEPCION LOPEZ 2112 POISSANT, IAN GERARD 2113 POLICARPIO, AARON CAÑETE 2114 POLITTUD, RONA-ROSE BALUTOC 2115 PONCE, IRISH SOLARIO 2116 PONCE, MARY RONA THEA AQUE 2117 PONES, ELVIE CLEO GO 2118 PONGPONG, JUBELLE QUIBUYEN 2119 PORAL, MA DOTHEA SASA 2120 PORLUCAS, IRISH JOYCE PORTES 2121 PORRAS, PRINCESS JERRUMAE YUPALAN 2122 PORTALES, KATE JENICA DONESA 2123 PORTERA, ANGELA AMOR INIWAN 2124 POSADAS, EMMANUEL JOHN MANUEL 2125 POSADAS, VINCE PHILIP SANIL 2126 POTENCIANO, IAN CARL CASTRO 2127 POTIS, GLECELLE VIE LUMANTA 2128 PRADA, MIUCCIA MARGA BATTUNG 2129 PRADO, JOZELLE KIM DIN 2130 PRESTOZA, ADRIAN FONTANILLA 2131 PROVIDO, VIGNETTE FAYE FORSUELO 2132 PRUDENCIO, JENNICA JAVIER 2133 PUA, JOAO PAULO CALIMLIM 2134 PUCAYON, CHRISTINE MARIANO 2135 PUEYO, PAULINE GRACE PINUELA 2136 PULALON, AISHIA ALFAD 2137 PULGA, KHRISTINE FATE CAIRO 2138 PULLER, SHEILLY KATES ARCUNA 2139 PUMIHIC, MECCA MAE SIMOT 2140 PUNDA, SITTIE HASMIN MADID 2141 PUNTIL, ANGELA PAULINE NATIVIDAD 2142 PURIFICACION, KASSANDRA SARCEDA 2143 PURINO, LANCE LAURICE TRINIDAD 2144 PURISIMA, CHARLENE NICOLE IBANEZ 2145 PUSING, KIM CANDIDATO 2146 PUTONG, DONNA MIE PERIN 2147 PUÑO, CYRA ANGELICA SALAVERIA 2148 QUEPPET, KRISNA DIZA 2149 QUESADA, XYRILLE ESTEBAN 2150 QUEZON, JENNYLEN MAALA 2151 QUIAMBAO, ALEXANDER CEDRIC FLORES 2152 QUIATCHON, LEYAH MAE ABAOAG 2153 QUIBINGCO, RICA MAE SUBA 2154 QUIERREZ, JOLINA MAE TALUSIT 2155 QUILANA, PAUL ERMAN TABULOC 2156 QUILANG, JOANALYN DUMANGGAS 2157 QUIMBA, DANIECE HEARTELLE PENIERO 2158 QUINDOZA, KRISTINE MAE CEJANE 2159 QUINTERO, VICENTE ADRIAN ALBA 2160 QUINTO, GENALIN AGUILAR 2161 QUIRIMIT, PHOEBE ALONA ATUMPAG 2162 QUISAO, MIKAELA RENEE’ ACOSTA 2163 QUITANEG, ZYRA MELLE ENCARNACION 2164 RAAGAS, PRINCESS DIANNE ARROYO 2165 RABADAM, TANYA GABRIELA JAZMIN 2166 RABANG, JOEL ESTRADA 2167 RABUT, KEEN ALYSSA GRAGANTA 2168 RACHO, SHAIRA FAITH DAQUIADO 2169 RACMAN, JERICA ZAMORA 2170 RACUSA, MARY ROSE ALMOJUELA 2171 RADOC, JASTINE SHAIRAH CABAÑERO 2172 RAFAEL, IAN LEMUEL ABLOS 2173 RAFOLS, ROSE ANTONETH PIGA 2174 RAGADA, CYRIL MAY TUBOSA 2175 RAGASA, TSHAINE ADVIENTO 2176 RAGUNJAN, MIKAELLA CLARISSE RAFANAN 2177 RAHMAN, LIMAH JOY NORIEGA 2178 RAMENTO, RICHELLA CASTILLO 2179 RAMIL, REYNE CHRISTINE MONILLA 2180 RAMIREZ, ANNE MAGDALEINE MACAROYO 2181 RAMIREZ, CARLO JUSTIN 2182 RAMIREZ, FRANCES DANICA ELAINE SISTONA 2183 RAMIREZ, JEAN KLOIE DELA PAZ 2184 RAMIREZ, RHUSTY DALMACIO 2185 RAMIRO, KAREN OREJUDOS 2186 RAMOS, CALVIN NAVARRO 2187 RAMOS, CHRISTIANA LYNE DOMSING 2188 RAMOS, CINDY MANGIBUNONG 2189 RAMOS, DIONISIO JR MANGUNAY 2190 RAMOS, FRANCHESKA MARIELLE SANTIAGO 2191 RAMOS, HUBERT JOHN LUIS 2192 RAMOS, JAMIE TALIGAN 2193 RAMOS, JERAMY JUAN 2194 RAMOS, JILL ALTHEO OTTO 2195 RAMOS, JONSEN LABAYANI 2196 RAMOS, JOSEPH MALLONE GACUTAN 2197 RAMOS, KRYSTLE ABINAL 2198 RAMOS, LOISLANE CORTEZ

The Manila Times 2199 RAMOS, MIA ALTHEA LAZARO 2200 RAMOS, NICOLE SORIANO 2201 RAMOS, PAUL KENNETH CAPILI 2202 RAMOS, RAYZELLE GIANNE MILANA 2203 RAMOS, RYAN CHRISTOPHER CABALLERO 2204 RANAS, MATT JOSHUA ASENTISTA 2205 RANCES, CATELEEN LYLE ISRAEL 2206 RAPISURA, CHARMINE JOY PARDO 2207 RAQUEPO, AIRA MAE ACOSTA 2208 RATO, JASMIN BIANCA BARDELOSA 2209 RAZ, AYANA JAMILA PRADO 2210 RAZA, IVY JOY TACLOY 2211 RAÑESES, PRINCESS JEANLY RASOTE 2212 REAL, MARIA CHRISTINE TAYEM 2213 REARIO, MARIA LEI ANGELICA NAVARRETE 2214 REBOGBOG, CAROL ANN PANAGSAGAN 2215 REBOLLEDO, FRANCES CORPUZ 2216 RED, SIR CHRISTIAN ARTATES 2217 REGUA, DEAN RODULFO 2218 REGULACION, MANNY RENZ SACNANAS 2219 REIÑGEN, DENISE JOYCE LORENZO 2220 RELOJO, GINEFER TUMANON 2221 REMANDABAN, CHRISTIAN LONGAZA 2222 REMIGIO, PAULETTE NICOLE SANTIAGO 2223 REMORTA, JESSA RAE MALI 2224 RENOMERON, LUIGI ALBERT GELENA 2225 REQUITILLO, SHEINNA MAE LAHOYLAHOY 2226 RESPICIO, CHRISTINE BASUG 2227 RESUGENIO, DONNACENT MAY ALMAGRO 2228 RETARDO, APRIL JOY MAGBANUA 2229 RETUTA, JEDIDIAH JADORMIO 2230 REUNIR, DONNA LYSSA REYES 2231 REVAÑO, FRANCIS PELOBELLO 2232 REY, ABBYGAIL MAGPILI 2233 REY, ABEGAY RODENAS 2234 REYES, AARON PAUL NIMENZO 2235 REYES, AIRALINE BULANON 2236 REYES, ALEXIS JOY PAAT 2237 REYES, ANGELA RICAMELA MANALAYSAY 2238 REYES, ASHLEY ANTONETTE SESMA 2239 REYES, CLARISSE 2240 REYES, IVY ROSE CASTILLO 2241 REYES, JIAN CASILLANO 2242 REYES, JOHN HARRY CASIM 2243 REYES, JOHN RYAN ESCOBAR 2244 REYES, KATE KRISHIA AMLON 2245 REYES, KAYE SHAIRA CASTILLON 2246 REYES, KIMBERLY BULAON 2247 REYES, KRISTEL ANN MORALES 2248 REYES, KRISTINE JOY SUPERIO 2249 REYES, LIEL MAQUERA 2250 REYES, MIKAELLA CONCHA 2251 REYES, MIKHAEL ELIZA ONG 2252 REYES, RODS ANTHONY TACAL 2253 REYES, ROWNEL KENNETH PASION 2254 REYNOSO, RAMSEY ANN REYES 2255 REYTERAN, MA PATRICIA LAPINIG 2256 RICO, DANIELLE MARIE PARO 2257 RIEGO DE DIOS, MARY SHANELL ARANDIA 2258 RIGINDING, EFRELYN CAYE ARARACAP 2259 RILLO, MIANA JENNICA LORENZO 2260 RINGOR, JAEL MARIANO 2261 RIVERA, AUDJI LARDIZABAL 2262 RIVERA, CLAIRE MARIE PADRON 2263 RIVERA, LORENZ ICBAN 2264 RIVERA, MARGEL DIANE ABELLAR 2265 RIVERA, MARY ROGENETTE BELEN 2266 RIVERAL, JOHANNA MARIE ALCODIA 2267 RIZADA, MC ANDRE CLAMOHOY 2268 RIZADA, NORHANNA NEPOMUCENO 2269 ROBIDILLO, RAY ANGELO CRISOSTOMO 2270 ROCERO, IAN MYRBEN PORTOS 2271 RODADO, KRISTEL MARIE COVERO 2272 RODIL, JEWELL ANN PEREY 2273 RODRIGO, JANINE LOUISE PENALES 2274 RODRIGUEZ, GABRIELLE DUMAGUING 2275 RODRIGUEZ, JEANELLE ANDREA NAVALTA 2276 RODRIGUEZ, LEANDER MIL TAPANG 2277 ROGEL, CIRELEM MAE LINDONG 2278 ROGERO, RITA ANGELICA QUITORIANO 2279 ROGERS, MONICA LOPEZ 2280 ROGUEL, MARY JOY MOJICA 2281 ROJAS, MARK JACOB DELEON 2282 ROJAS, MARY FAYE NICOLE RUYAN 2283 ROLDAN, KATE ARVIE SILANG 2284 ROLDAN, SARITA NATASHA 2285 ROLDAN, SWEETSELL KRIST REDISON 2286 ROLLAN, FRANCES GAIL LEDESMA 2287 ROMANOS, MARYDELL PABAYO 2288 ROMERO, ILAN ROBERT LLAVORE 2289 ROMERO, MARIA KATRINA MANGONON 2290 ROMERO, MICAH LEA FUERTEZ 2291 ROMUALDO, LYKA AZARCON 2292 ROMULO, CYDRICK KEN BUITIZON 2293 ROMULO, YVONNE HAZEL ESTOLE 2294 ROQUE, DIONISIO III CASIPLE 2295 ROQUE, LEAN DENNIS CASIPLE 2296 ROSA, RENEE LIZ MILLONES 2297 ROSADO, ROXANNE JOY CORPUZ 2298 ROSALES, ELLOISA MAE MANABAT 2299 ROSALES, GLYDALE TAGUD 2300 ROSALES, ROSEMARIE NARANJO 2301 ROSERO, CINDY JOYCE ARABIA 2302 ROSIL, SOLOMON JR SALAZAR 2303 ROXAS, ALLELI DUARTE 2304 ROXAS, MARK VINCENT NABAYO 2305 ROXAS, NIKKI PORRAS 2306 ROXAS, PATRICIA ANN SAN BLAS 2307 RUALES, JENNIFER LUCINARIO 2308 RUARO, ARIANNE JOY TUZON 2309 RUBIO, MARYDEN JOYCE MANLANGIT 2310 RUIZ, ARTEMIO JR HUBANA 2311 RUIZ, JANNICA KATE CABUGAO 2312 RUIZ, JONATHAN JAO GATCHALIAN 2313 RUIZ, MONA JESSA ODOYA 2314 RUIZ, REINA PILAR GONZALEZ 2315 SABELLANO, KIM VALLERIE LASTIMOSA 2316 SABIRIN, NERVANA BERNARDO 2317 SABLAN, GIANNA ALISSA SORTIJAS 2318 SABLAY, PATRICK JEFFERSON DELA CRUZ 2319 SABUERO, NOVIE LYN CAMACHO

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