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Q Aquino inaugurating the facility that would print the 45 million e-passports for P38 billion, which he didn’t mention was 90 percent owned by a private firm, UGEC.

Aquino and his officials concealed crony firm in passport scheme Fourth of a series

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Trusted since 1898 COTABATO CITY SET TO JOIN BANGSAMORO REGION

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BY DEMPSEY REYES AND WILLIAM B. DEPASUPIL

(% g9%3u VOTE TOOK AN EARLY AND OVERWHELMING LEAD IN THE UNOFkCIAL COUNT FOR THE PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE "ANGSAMORO /RGANIC ,AW "/, ÂłPrevailsA2 granting greater autonomy to Muslim Mindanao.

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FIRST N the face THINGS of PresiFIRST dent Rodrigo Duterte’s unrelenting attack on the Catholic Church, Manila’s Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo has called on Filipino Catholics to protect their faith, as they would their young children. ³TatadA5

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THE WORLD CAME CRASHING DOWN ON HANJIN WORKERS

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THE Philippine government may ask the United States government to reconsider its imposition of a one-year ban ON &ILIPINO WORKERS IF IT kNDS NO BASIS FOR SUCH RESTRICTION

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GAMING mogul Kazuo Okada has allegedly left the country at a time when government forces are hunting him down under a local court’s order to arrest him over three counts of estafa that stemmed

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No- 9,816 No- 6,400 No- 6,589 No- 152,493 No- 9,419

ARMM Total: 6. Cotabato City: 7. Isabela City:

YES- 1,539,000 Yes- 38,186 Yes- 18,796

NO- 233,349 No- 26,822 No- 21,810

LOS ANGELES: The eye injury Manny Pacquiao suffered in a unanimous-decision win over Adrian Broner is a scratched cornea, and the Filipino ring icon is already on the mend, a spokesman for Pacquiao’s camp said on Monday (Tuesday in Manila).

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Yes- 503,626 Yes- 558,489 Yes- 138,569 Yes- 137,891 Yes- 143,443

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1. Lanao del Sur: 2. Maguindanao: 3. Basilan: 4. Sulu: 5. Tawi-Tawi:

Source: BOL Plebiscite Monitoring Center

Saving our children and our Christian faith

LONE WINNER BAGS P239-M GRAND LOTTO POT

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ARAGA -AYOR #ARLWYN "ALDO WAS ARRESTED ON 4UESDAY AFTER POLICE EXECUTING A SEARCH WARRANT FOUND UNLICENSED kREARMS AND AMMUNITION IN HIS RESIDENCE

Authorities began the search at 2:30 a.m. and found two caliber .45 pistols and 15 live ammunition, an empty Uzi magazine, ammunition for a grenade launcher, and LIVE AMMUNITION FOR AN - RIlE Baldo did not have proper documents for HIS kREARMS SAID #HIEF 3UPT !RNEL %SCOBAL !UTHORITIES ALSO CONkSCATED A VEHICLE THAT was the subject of the search warrant.

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)NVESTIGATION AND $ETECTION 'ROUP OFkCE in Bicol.

He is the alleged mastermind behind the murder of AKO Bicol party-list Rep. Rodel Batocabe, who was killed with his aide, Senior 0OLICE /FkCE /RLANDO $IAZ ON $EC

during a gift-giving event in Daraga.

Baldo and Batocabe were supposed to slug it out for the mayoralty in the May 2019 mid-term elections.

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House panel OKs bill cutting power rates THE House Committee on Energy on Tuesday approved a consolidated bill that will allocate the Malampaya fund to the payment of stranded debts of the National Power Corp. (Napocor) to reduce electricity rates.

The draft measure, also called the “Murang Kuryente Bill,� consolidated House Bills 8082, 8327 and 8352, which all seek to remit the net national government share from the Malampaya fund to a special trust fund through the annual General Appropriations Act (GAA).

A portion from all the proceeds of the net national government share from the fund amounting to P123 billion out of the total P204 billion will be collected for the payment of the Stranded Contract Costs and Stranded Debts, which will be administered by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM).

The PSALM will utilize the P123 billion up to year 2023 to settle its obligations. “For a number of years, no one has used the Malampaya fund‌, NOW WE RE USING IT SPECIkCALLY FOR AN energy-related purpose so that the consumers won’t be burdened anymore,â€? according to Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco, chairman of the House energy panel.

Velasco said in a chance interview that the bill would likely reach the plenary on the same day, with only eight session days left in Congress. “Hopefully, we can report to the plenary today because we have [eight] days left. This bill is unprecedented for a number of years that the Malampaya fund has been untouched, so there is a sense of urgency,� he told reporters.

Senate Committee on Energy Chairman Sherwin Gatchalian previously endorsed to the plenary for second reading counterpart Senate Bill 1950 authored by Sen. Ralph Recto.

Recto’s bill aims to “lower elecTRICITY RATES AND PROVIDE SIGNIkCANT consumer savings for Filipinos.�

4HE -ALAMPAYA GAS kELD PROJECT was created by Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. (SPEX) through a joint venture with Chevron Malampaya LLC and the Philipine National Oil Exploration Corp.

Touted as “one of the largest and most significant industrial endeavors in Philippine history,� the project aimed to reduce the country’s dependence on imported fuel for its domestic and industrial power needs.

The Malampaya project primarily includes the extraction of natural gas from beneath the country’s waters with 30 percent of Luzon’s power generation requirements.

It was expected to provide 2,700 megawatts of power or substantial long-term revenue of some $10 billion to the Philippine government for 20 years starting June 2002.

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BAKERY FAIR

(From left to right) Filipino Chinese bakery association Vice President William Ong, President Peter Fung, and chef James Anton Uy show the ceremonial cake in a press briefing in Quezon City for the upcoming Bakery Fair 2019, which will be held from February 15 to 17 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.

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‘Yes’ vote prevails But the vote is close in the province of Sulu and the city of Isabela in Basilan, whose leaders are staunchly opposed to the law, based on the results from a monitoring team of the military, police and the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

As of 3 p.m., the “yes� votes totaled 1,539,000, while the “no� votes reached only 233,349.

The “yes� vote is leading in FOUR OUT OF kVE PROVINCES IN THE original Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which will be replaced by the Bangsamoro autonomous region IF THE "/, IS RATIkED In Lanao del Sur, the unofficial count tallied 503,626 “yes� votes and 9,816 “no� votes. Basilan counted 138,569 “yes� votes and 6,589 “no� votes, while Tawi-Tawi had 143,443 “yes� votes and 9,419 “no� votes. )N -AGUINDANAO THE UNOFkCIAL tally stood at 558,489 “yes� votes and 6,400 “no� votes.

The “no� vote is also leading in Sulu, with 152,493 votes, against 137,891 “yes� votes.

The results were disseminated by the Western Mindanao Command (WestMinCom) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Two cities not originally part of ARMM took part in the plebiscite to vote on whether or not to join the Bangsamoro region.

In Cotabato City, which will become the capital of the Bangsamoro region, the “yes� vote won as proclaimed by the Comelec, the WestMinCom said, despite a highPROkLE CAMPAIGN BY -AYOR #YNTHIA Guiani-Sayadi against the BOL. 4HE kNAL TALLY WAS gYESu votes and 24,994 “no� votes.

But “no� was leading in Isabela City in Basilan with 21,810 votes, against 18,796 “yes� votes, defying the rest of the island which voted overwhelmingly “yes,� based on PARTIAL AND UNOFkCIAL RESULTS

Survey: Pinoy Muslims back BOL Voter turnout was high at 92.6 percent in Lanao del Sur, 91 percent in Tawi-Tawi, at nearly 80 percent in Sulu, 76 percent in Basilan, 60

percent in Cotabato City, 66.2 percent in Maguindanao, and 58.3 percent in Isabela City, according to WestMinCom. On February 6, another plebiscite will be held. Residents of Lanao del Norte will vote on the inclusion of six towns in the BOL. North Cotabato will also vote on whether or not to include 67 barangay or villages.

An overwhelming majority of Muslims nationwide, 79 percent, favored the BOL, a survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) found. Only 7 percent opposed the measure. The remaining 14 percent were undecided.

SWS also found that 41 percent of Mindanaoans favored the BOL, while 31 percent opposed it. The remaining 28 percent were undecided.

The survey was conducted from Dec. 16 to 19, 2018 among 1,440 Filipinos aged 17 years and above.

It had sampling error margins of Âą2.6 percent for national percentages, and Âą5 percent each for Balance Luzon, Metro Manila, the Visayas and Mindanao.

Malacaùang on Tuesday welcomed the survey, saying it showed that the Bangsamoro people have had enough of war, terrorism and poverty. g4HE INITIAL UNOFkCIAL TALLY OF the votes in the plebiscite appears to validate the survey results. We hope that the aspiration of our Muslim brothers and sisters for a peaceful and progressive Bangsamoro region will commence its realIZATION FOLLOWING THE RATIkCATION of the BOL,� Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said.

Sayadi was referring to Comelec chief Sheriff Abas.

The plebiscite was the result of a 2014 peace deal between Manila and the MILF, whose leaders are expected to dominate the Bangsamoro government. “Teachers were scared, why do you scare teachers? We wanted them to serve the elections,� she said in an interview over the ABSCBN News Channel (ANC).

MILF Vice Chairman Ghazali Jaafar denied the allegations of fraud hurled by Sayadi, saying the rebel group did not have the resources to buy votes.

He admitted, however, that MILF members were in Cotabato City, but only for a visit. “The MILF have thousands of members, not only thousands but millions, and they are free to come to Cotabato City because this is a democratic country,� Jaafar said on ANC. “We also received some kind of threats and intimidation but let the PNP (Philippine National Police) or the Comelec investigate how truthful are these allegations because until it is proven correct, it remains an allegation,� he added.

Maj. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, commander of the Philippine Army’s 6th Infantry Division, confirmed that some 6,000 MILF forces were monitored inside the city of Cotabato beginning Sunday.

The MILF members left the city proper on Sunday night and returned to their respective areas in Maguindanao, North Cotabato and Sarangani. “There are no monitored planned atrocities from either side ‘Vote buying’ of supporters. Slow acceptance of the ‘yes’ vote win is monitored.

Mayor Guiani-Sayadi claimed the Comments are mostly on the plebiscite in Cotabato City was apprehension on the upcoming marred by vote-buying, violence CHANGES ONCE THE LAW IS kNALLY RATIand intimidation. She vowed to kED u 3OBEJANA SAID IN A STATEMENT kLE CHARGES AGAINST VOTE BUYERS AND Abbas, a nephew of MILF those behind election violence. chief peace negotiator MohaghIf the BOL succeeds in Cotabato er Iqbal, declined to comment City, she said: “We are going to on the reported MILF presence question that and then the chair- in Cotabato City. man of the Comelec is also a mem“I don’t know, I did not go ber of the MILF (Moro Islamic home. I’m just here in Manila. I Liberation Front).� can’t comment on that,� he said.

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WOULD CHECK kRST if the US government has basis to ban the entry of additional Filipino workers for overstaying and HUMAN RIGHTS TRAFkCKING CONCERNS g7HAT WE CAN DO IS kRST WE NEED to know whether there is basis for the decision. If we can see na wala naman (there’s none), then we will ask for a reconsideration,�

Panelo told reporters.

But he said the government would have to respect the latest regulation limiting foreign workers in the US if its rules were indeed violated.

Panelo recalled that President Rodrigo Duterte previously mentioned that he does not meddle with laws of other countries. “The President if I remember correctly when we were with [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping], he said ‘Whatever your laws are, we will never intrude into that.

In the same way that whatever laws we have, we will enforce them,’� he said. “So if that is the law in the US and if there were violations, then we have to respect [it]. They have basis for that. We will only react if our workers are being mistreated, maltreated [or] are being discriminated against. But if they violated the laws of the US, then they have to face the music,� Panelo added.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly announced that Filipino workers would no longer be allowed to seek employment in the US. Covered by the one-year ban are workers applying for the H-2A visa, which involves temporary agricultural services or labor, and H-2B visas or those for non-

Security review The Armed Forces said it would review security measures in preparation for the second BOL plebiscite on February 6. g7HILE WE SEE THE kRST PLEBISCITE as generally peaceful and successful, we cannot just sit and relax on our duties and responsibilities,� said Col. Noel Detoyato, military public affairs chief, in a statement.

In Manila, the Comele c en banc convened on Tuesday as the National Plebiscite Board of #ANVASSERS .0"# FOR THE kNAL AND OFkCIAL CANVASSING OF ELECTION RESULTS OR CERTIkCATES OF CANVASS (CoCs) from the ARMM, Isabela City in Basilan and Cotabato City.

4HE OFkCIAL START OF NATIONAL canvassing was deferred to 1 p.m. on Wednesday following CONkRMATION BY THE #OMELEC SECretariat that it had yet to receive CoCs from the plebiscite board of canvassers.

Abbas said that except for some isolated incidents in Cotabato City, the plebiscite went smoothly. The Comelec regional director reported seven incidents in Cotabato City, which included a grenade-throwing incident at the compound of a regional trial court judge.

Abbas also said the plebiscite was viewed by observers as credible. “Of course it was credible. Lente said it was credible, international observers also said that it was credible. On our side, it was the same.

There were no untoward incidents except for minor commotions in Cotabato City,� he added.

Official canvassing of votes might take a week to finish, he said.

For the January 21 plebiscite, the NPBC is expecting to receive a total of four CoCs. They will come from the regional plebiscite boards of canvassers (RPBCs) of the ARMM, from Basilan for the inclusion of Isabela City, from Isabela City and from Cotabato City.

For the second plebiscite on February 6, the NPBC will canvass eight CoCs from Lanao del Norte, except Iligan City, covering the municipalities of Baloi, Monai, Nunungan, Pantar, Taguilowan and Pangkal, and seven CoCs from the towns of Aleosan, Carmen, Kabacan, Midsayap, Pikit, and Pigkawayan, including Tolanan, all from North Cotabato.

agricultural services. “The Philippines has a high H-2B overstay rate. In FY 2017, DHS estimated that nearly 40 percent of H-2B visa holders from the Philippines overstayed their period of authorized stay,� the DHS notice read.

Panelo said the government WOULD gMAKE A MOVE OFkCIALLYu AS soon as it gets the report from the DFA and the country’s ambassador to the US. “Anything that will affect our countrymen will always be a concern of the President,� the Palace OFkCIAL ADDED “That’s why with more reason [the Philippines’ ambassador to the US] will give us a report.

Wala pa kaming natatanggap (We haven’t received anything yet) as far as I know. As soon as we receive a report, then we will make a move OFkCIALLY u HE SAID On the concerns about the HIGH VOLUME OF TRAFkCKING VICtims from the Philippines, Panelo surmised that the US government must have conducted an investigation on the matter. g7HEN YOU SAY HUMAN TRAFkCKing, the US government must have conducted investigation on that.

If their investigation yields that there was a violation, I don’t think pwede tayong makialam doon (we can meddle there),� he said. “What we can do is to do our own CONTROLS HERE ;ON THE TRAFkCKING THAT happens here],� Panelo added.

Meanwhile, he allayed concerns of Filipino workers who might be affected by the US restriction, saying they could still kND JOBS ELSEWHERE “There are many countries hindi lang naman Amerika ang pinupuntahan ng mga kababayan natin (America is not the only place where our countrymen can go),� he said.

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Abbas said that if the “yes� vote win in the ARMM, which is voting as a region, the Comelec would remove the positions at stake for the May 13 local elections.

Economic benefits The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) on Tuesday underscored the potential economic contribution of the Bangsamoro region.

In a statement, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia SAID THE RATIkCATION OF THE "/, through a plebiscite would increase investments in the region and the rest of the country. “Given that the BOL provides a lot of opportunities to increase the budget for [Bangsamoro region], we expect to see more programs and infrastructure projects in the region,� Pernia, who is also the NEDA director general, said.

An estimated P70 billion for 2019 alone will be provided by the national government, as assistance to the region.

This does not include compensation for the members of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, benefits and entitlements of affected ARMM regional government employees, disposition of personnel a n d a s s e t s, i n i t i a l f u n d i n g to carry out requirements of the transition, and additional development programs and p r o j e c t s s u b s i d i z e d by t h e national government.

Pernia also cited planned major infrastructure projects in the region amounting to P22.15 billion for 2019 alone and P40.85 billion for 2017-2022, based on the Public Investment Program, as of September 2018.

Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said he was “overjoyed� with the impending creation of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Barmm) under the BOL. “Today, with the overwhelming AFkRMATIVE VOTES FOR THE RATIkCAtion of the Bangsamoro Organic ,AW WE ARE kNALLY SEEING -INDANAO SHED ITS HISTORY OF CONlICT and enter an age of peace and progress,� Zubiri said in a speech ON THE 3ENATE lOOR WITH RALPH U. VILLANUEVA, BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO AND MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO

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First bicam meeting S C T O D I O K N O : on budget fruitless LAWMAKERS met on Tuesday to reconcile the disagreeing provisions in the proposed P3.757-trillion 2019 budget, but nothing was agreed upon, Sen. Joseph Victor Ejercito said.

A bicameral conference panel met at the Manila Polo Club to finetune conflicting provisions in the budget measures passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The Senate contingent was composed of Senators Ralph Recto, Juan Miguel Zubiri, Franklin Drilon, Cynthia Villar, Panfilo Lacson, Juan Edgardo “Sonny�

Angara, Maria Lourdes “Nancy� Binay, Ejercito, Paolo Benigno “Bam� Aquino 4th, and Loren Legarda, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance. “Walang nangyari (Nothing happened),� said Ejercito in a text message when asked about the result of the bicam meeting.

Asked when the panel will convene again, Zubiri said, “[I have] No clue. I’ll ask Ma’am Loren.�

Recto said the Senate version of the 2019 national budget “funds new laws which were not yet passed when the 2019 national budget was being prepared at the executive level.�

He said that for months, the Senate waited for the Executive Department to propose funding for laws they, themselves, advocated. “In the absence of such, the Senate, in bipartisan fashion, decided to appropriate funds for landmark

measures which were in danger of becoming unfunded mandates in their crucial first year of implementation,� he said. Recto sponsored the following budget augmentations, which were carried in the Senate version of the General Appropriations Bill for 2019: Universal Health Care, P18 billion; Coco Levy and Coconut Modernization Law, P10 billion; Rice Tariffication Law, 10 billion; and Bangsamoro Organic Law, P30 billion. “The other branch may have forgotten to fund these laws. The Senate did not. We uphold these as sacred promises to our people which should be redeemed with funding,� Recto said.

On Tuesday, MalacaĂąang voiced optimism that the 2019 budget would be passed by the bicameral conference committee without a hitch.

The Senate approved on Monday its version of the 2019 General Appropriations Act on third and final reading.

In a statement, Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo expressed hope that both sides would set aside their differences as “honorable members of Congress.� “They know that the passage of the bill will benefit the Filipino people,�

Panelo said.

Lacson earlier predicted that bicam discussion would be “bloody.� BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO AND RALPH EDWIN U. VILLANUEVA

6 PCSO millionaires bag P239-M lotto pots A LONE winner took home the P239.2-M Grand Lotto 6/55 jackpot on Monday night, bringing to six the number of new millionaires, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Alexander Balutan said on Tuesday.

Balutan said the charity agency gave jackpot prizes amounting to P426,549,073 in just one week this month. “This seems to be a lucky year for our lotto clients, which is a nice way to start the year,� he said.

Of the six winners, two hit the Ultra Lotto 6/58 jackpot prize; two bagged the Lotto 6/42 prize; one got the Super Lotto 6/49 pot; and the last one hit the Grand Lotto 6/55 prize.

Balutan said the Grand Lotto 6/55 winner bought his ticket in SM City Cebu.

On Sunday, January 13, a lone winner took home the Ultra Lotto 6/58 jackpot prize of P58,472,458.

The winner purchased his ticket in SM Bacolod.

On January 15, another winner took home the Lotto 6/42 jackpot prize of P48,204,764. The ticket was purchased in a lotto outlet in Sampaloc, Manila owned by Anthony Young.

On January 18, a winner guessed all six numbers for the jackpot prize of P49.5 million of the Ultra Lotto 6/58 draw. The ticket was purchased in Novaliches, Quezon City.

On January 19, another lucky bettor took home the P5.9 million jackpot prize of the Lotto 6/42 draw, and on January 20, a lucky winner hit the jackpot of the Super Lotto 6/49 with the jackpot prize amounting to P25,226,907.

Balutan advised the winners to use their prizes wisely. “Huwag maging one-day millionaire (Do not be one-day millionaires). Save for your future.

Invest,� he said.

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Explain salary hike delay

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HE Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ordered Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to explain why the fourth tranche of the salary increase for state workers had not been implemented.

During the en banc deliberations on Tuesday, the high court directed Diokno and the DBM TO kLE THEIR COMMENT AND DEFEND their position on the withholding of funds for the salary hike IN RESPONSE TO THE PETITION kLED against them by House Majority Floor Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. AND SEVERAL GOVERNMENT OFkCIALS 4HE CASE WAS RAFlED OFF TO !Ssociate Justice Jose Reyes who, as ponente, was tasked to study the case and make recommendations

on the issue.

In a 27-page Petition for Mandamus, Andaya asked the high court to compel Diokno to release the funds, following Executive Order %/ UNDER THE !QUINO RD administration that scheduled the implementation this January 2019.

The Supreme Court was also asked to issue a preliminary mandatory injunction to order Diokno to perform his ministerial duty in the release of the funds for government workers.

A rift between Diokno and Andaya ensued after the lawmaker claimed that the relatives of the "UDGET CHIEF WOULD BENEkT FROM the government funds.

Andaya said a portion of the 2018 budget covered the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund (MPBF) amounting to P99, 446,295,000.00, which should be utilized for payments of personal benefits such as deficiencies in authorized salaries. He said P75.1 billion of the MPBF budget could be used for the compensation adJUSTMENT AND FOR FUNDING REQUIREments in staffing modifications and upgrading of salaries.

Diokno had said there was no legal basis for the salary increase, citing EO 21 which provides that the implementation of the salary schedule was “subject to appropriations by Congress.�

The DBM chief maintained

that the fourth tranche of salary adjustments would be implemented in February upon the approval of the 2019 General Appropriations Act (GAA).

But Andaya, in his petition for mandamus, said Diokno could not use as an excuse the delay in the passage of the 2019 budget not to implement the salary hike, adding that the withholding of funds would be tantamount to deprivation of the right to property which is enshrined under the 1987 Constitution.

The Senate on Monday apPROVED ON THIRD AND kNAL READing the proposed P3.75-trillion national budget for 2019, after a delay of more than a month. The government has been running on a reenacted budget since January 1 and will continue to do so until President Rodrigo Duterte signs the 2019 GAA.

Profiteers blamed for pricey fish

YEAR OF THE PIG

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Bill on housing agencies soon a law THE bill seeking to consolidate all housing agencies under the proposed Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) was just a step away from becoming a law, Sen. Joseph Victor Ejercito said on Tuesday.

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Housing, Urban Planning and Development, said the bill was awaiting the signature of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Ejercito said the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office transmitted the proposed legislation to MalacaĂąang on Jan. 16, 2019.

Once the bill is signed into law, the DHSUD will combine the administrative functions of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council and the planning and regulatory functions of the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB).

Under the act, the adjudicatory function of the HLURB will be transferred to the Human Settlements Adjudication Commission (HSAC).

The National Human Settlements

Board will exercise the powers and functions of the attached agencies regarding policy and program development. “The creation of the department will serve as a response to the problem of divided agencies that is managed only by a council to better address the housing problems of the country,� Ejercito said. “The Department will act as the primary national government entity responsible for the management of housing and urban development. There will be a formulation and implementation of a more coherent and holistic plan for the housing sector,� he added.

The Philippines faced more than 2 million housing needs last year. The figure is projected to balloon to 6,571,387 by the end of 2022. “What we need is one housing department with one board working towards one direction...creating the roadmap for housing and urban development, leading its implementation, setting the general

direction for everyone and able to follow through each and every project with clear functions, policies, budget and financing,�

Ejercito said.

The department’s powers and functions include conducting inventory of idle lands housing stocks and list of beneficiaries; providing technical assistance to provinces, cities and municipalities in building their capability to undertake housing and urban development and management; assisting local government units in the utilization of the socialized housing tax and other sources of funds for housing which shall be exclusively used for new settlement projects; formulating and prescribing land use planning and zoning standards and regulations for the guidance of cities and municipalities and developing and implementing a comprehensive plan for the establishment of government centers in the country, among others.

JAVIER JOE ISMAEL

4(% "UREAU OF &ISHERIES AND !QUATIC 2ESOURCES "&!2 HAS BLAMED PROkteers and middlemen for the high PRICES OF kSH IN THE MARKET BFAR National Director Eduardo Gongona said the country had a gSTEADYu SUPPLY OF kSH “Our imported galunggong (round scad) has arrived in our kSHING PORTS AND BULK OF THESE WERE already distributed to various markets. So why are prices still high? It’s mainly because of the middlemen or the in-between,� Gongona said. “Based on our monitoring data, PRICES OF kSH IN .AVOTAS PORT AND nearby markets are stable. But comparing them to prices in Metro Manila markets, we can really see a big differENCE AND THIS IS REALLY BECAUSE OF PROkteering of some traders,� he added.

The suggested retail price for galunggong, dubbed as the “poor man’s kSH u IS 0 PER KILO (OWEVER THE kSH IS BEING SOLD FOR P250 a kilo at the Farmers Market, and P200 a kilo at the Tandang Sora market. ,IKEWISE THE PRICES OF OTHER kSH REmained high, with pompano (jacks) being sold for P500 per kilo, and tulingan (mackerel tuna) and salay-salay (yellowstripe Trevally) for P280 per kilo.

Gongona said the BFAR was looking at formulating a measure that would lessen the involvement of middlemen. “The wholesalers and retailers themselves have suggested to us to have the transfer of goods move from the wholesalers directly to the retailers. We welcome this idea because we also want to lessen the in-between to avoid spike of prices,� he said.

The BFAR, he said, would also focus on IMPROVING THE COUNTRY S kSH PRODUCTION EIREENE JAIREE GOMEZ

Elements of qualified theft Dear PAO, My friend is renting a small newly built apartment. Her unit still does not have any electricity and water supply.

She already applied for her electricity and water connections, but she was told that it may take a month before it can be completely set up. So, she made arrangements with the owner of the apartment, a 70-year-old lady, to allow her to use the main house’s electricity and water supply while waiting for the connections to be set up. This circumstance was known to some of the old lady’s neighbors as they were there when my friend asked permission to use the electricity and water supply. The old lady went to her province in Cotabato. To my friend’s surprise, a man claiming to be the nephew of the old lady went to her unit and told her

DEAR PAO

PERSIDA ACOSTA to stop using the electricity and water connections from the main house. My friend did not mind it as she was allowed by the owner, but he kept threatening her that he WOULD SUE HER FOR QUALIkED THEFT Can she really be held liable for QUALIkED THEFT 0LEASE ADVISE ME MEDA Dear Meda, 1UALIkED THEFT IS A CRIME THAT IS punished under Article 310 of our Revised Penal Code. It is explicitly stated therein that: g!RT 1UALIkED THEFT ‡ 4HE crime of theft shall be punished by the penalties next higher by two degrees than those respectively

specified in the next preceding article, if committed by a domestic servant, or with grave abuse of conkDENCE OR IF THE PROPERTY STOLEN IS motor vehicle, mail matter or large cattle or consists of coconuts taken from the premises of the plantaTION OR kSH TAKEN FROM A kSHPOND OR kSHERY OR IF PROPERTY IS TAKEN ON THE OCCASION OF kRE EARTHQUAKE

typhoon, volcanic eruption, or any other calamity, vehicular accident or civil disturbance.�

The following elements must BE PRESENT IN ORDER FOR QUALIkED theft to exist: g4HE ELEMENTS OF QUALIkED THEFT

punishable under Article 310, in relation to Articles 308 and 309, of the Revised Penal Code (RPC), are as follows: (a) the taking of personal property; (b) the said property belongs to another; (c) the said taking be done with intent to gain; (d) it be done without the owner’s consent; (e) it be accomplished without

the use of violence or intimidation against persons, nor of force upon things; and (j) it be done under any of the circumstances enumerated in Article 310 of the RPC, i.e., with grave abuse of confidence� (People of the Philippines vs. Delos Santos, GR 220685, Nov. 29, 2017, Ponente: Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe).

In the situation which you have presented, it appears that there was “taking of personal property that belongs to another.� However, it cannot be said that such ACT OF gTAKINGu CAN BE EQUATED TO THE CRIME OF QUALIkED THEFT AS the elements of “taking be done with intent to gain,� “it be done without the owner’s consent� and gGRAVE ABUSE OF CONkDENCEu ARE not present given that your friend sought for and was given approval by the owner of the house to utilize the electricity and water supply for the time being. Our

Supreme Court elucidated: “It has been held that in cases where one, in good faith, “takes another’s property under claim of title in himself, he is exempt from the charge of larceny, however puerile or mistaken the claim may in fact be. And the same is true where the taking is on behalf of another, believed to be the true owner. The gist of the offense is the intent to deprive another of his property in a chattel, either for gain or out of wantonness or malice to deprive another of his right in the thing taken. This cannot be where the taker honestly believes the property is his own or that of another, and that he has a right to take possession of it for himself or for another,� as in this case. x x x As correctly reasoned by the CA, “(e)ven assuming arguendo that Virgilio was not duly authorized by the Board of Trustees of UM to give its consent to [respondent] and the latter erred when

he solely relied on his father’s consent without further securing the authority of the [BOT] OF 5- HIS BONA kDE BELIEF that he had authority from the real owner of the electricity and water supply will not make him CULPABLE OF THE CRIME OF QUALIkED theft because he was acting with a color of authority or a semblance of right to do such act.� (People of the Philippines vs. Delos Santos, Id., Emphasis supplied) We hope that we were able TO ANSWER YOUR QUERIES 4HIS advice is based solely on the facts you have narrated and our appreciation of the same.

Our opinion may vary when other facts are changed or elaborated.

Editor’s note: Dear PAO is a daily column of the Public Attorney’s Office. Questions for Chief Acosta may be sent to dearpao@manilatimes.net

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SECOND summit between a sitting American president and the leader of North Korea is reportedly being arranged for next month, with Vietnam as the possible venue. This is a welcome development in the North Korean peace talks that HAVE STALLED YET AGAIN AFTER SIGNIkCANT BREAKTHROUGHS IN Last June, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in Singapore. The world applauded that historic meeting, hoping that peace and denuclearization in the Korean peninsula would soon follow.

More than lasting peace between the warring Koreas, the security of this region and many parts of the world was at stake.

For decades, the threat of a nuclear attack has hung over the heads of South Koreans, their allies in this region, including the Philippines, and even parts of the United States.

Indeed, East Asia saw some encouraging symbolic steps toward peace. But not long after the reporters covering the story retired, further progress appeared to stall as the US and North Korea failed to address the central issue of dismantling Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal. Seven months after Singapore, North Korea remains a nuclear threat, even to Southeast Asia.

There is a growing sense of skepticism about North Korea’s intention to follow through on its denuclearization commitment, given its repeated delays in scheduling follow-up negotiations.

Mr. Kim is probably betting that his intransigence will wear out INTERNATIONAL WILL AND WIN HIM ACCEPTANCE AND kNANCIAL REWARDS — bribes by another name — as enticements for returning to the negotiating table, according to analysts in Southeast Asia following this issue.

Mr. Kim is underestimating the world. He needs resources from abroad to survive, but North Korea has nothing to offer the world in return. Countries that genuinely care about nonproliferation can afford to outwait him, but not the other way around; he cannot afford to outwait them.

Mr. Kim’s annual address to his country earlier this January told us a great deal about his seeming lack of seriousness on the issue. In the past, he has threatened to “mass produce nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles,� which as far as we know, he has done. If Mr. Kim now wants a relaxation of economic sanctions, HE WILL NEED TO MAKE SOME PRETTY IMPRESSIVE CONCESSIONS kRST The North Korean leader also offered an olive branch in his .EW 9EAR ADDRESS IN WHICH THE 53 AND 3OUTH +OREA ACCEPTED in good faith. That move led to his country’s participation in the Winter Olympics and the summits with South Korea and the US. As impressive as those meetings were, Mr. Kim will risk undermining all the progress that has been made if he continues to refuse putting his nuclear weapons on the negotiating table soon.

2EGRETTABLY THE MESSAGE FROM -R +IM THIS YEAR IS FURTHER DELAY In that case, North Korea deserves additional sanctions that will rightfully isolate the reclusive state from the rest of the world, as well as drain Mr. Kim’s coffers and further hurt his public image.

Instead, North Korea is getting yet another lucky break — a second face-to-face meeting with Mr. Trump.

Vietnam, a model to follow If the next summit pushes through in Vietnam, we shall hope for Mr. Kim to imbibe the economic dynamism there that resulted from its policy of economic rejuvenation called Doi Moi. Its success would not have been possible without opening up to the world. Along with the Philippines, Vietnam today is one of the most rapidly growing countries not only in Southeast Asia, but also the rest of the world. Some even say that Vietnam may outpace the Philippines.

In other words, Vietnam represents a possibility for North Korea if it turns to peace and abandons its nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles programs. Instead of being hostile to the world at large, North Korea can choose to be part of the community of nations like Vietnam. But if Mr. Kim persists on his ways, the WORLD MAY BE JUSTIkED IN UNIFYING AGAINST HIS AUTOCRATIC REGIME We might see in the next US-North Korea summit which path Mr. +IM PREFERS 4HE WORLD MAY NOT BE SATISkED WITH MERE PHOTO OPportunities anymore. For the sake of peace and prosperity, we hope that he chooses quickly and with the interest of his people at heart.

The world came crashing down on Hanjin workers MIDWEEK W COMMENTS HEN Albert and Jobert sought permission to leave the small farm for good about a decade ago, we had a despedida complete with a videoke and a big, big prayer that their next step in life, a return to their hometown of Castillejos, Zambales, to train in welding and shipwork, would in turn lead to a decent job that would last till their retirement. I encouraged them to hurry up and sign for the training, then gave them an amount that would tide them over during the training period.

It was the kind of fond farewell that you wish were always the case with young men who leave work on the farm — a step not into the unknown but into a decent, well-paying job.

Just a month or two after leaving the farm, they were gainfully employed in industrial jobs, as workers at the shipbuilding giant, Subic-based Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines, located just a few kilometers from their Castillejos hometown. From workers in a small farm to full-fledged industrial workers. What could be more ideal than that — industrial jobs right in their hometown.

The news of their gainful employment was the story I kept on repeating to the young men who worked at the small farm.

Make this a transition job. Move elsewhere when the opportunity knocks — like Albert and Jobert.

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collapse of the other.

4HE kVE 0HILIPPINE BANKS WITH A total of $412 million exposure to Hanjin Philippines can take care of themselves. They are too big to fail.

In a previous column, I just took note of the fact that the Land Bank of the Philippines, a bank founded TO HELP AGRARIAN REFORM BENEkCIAries, is caught up in the Hanjin mess. It lends out sparingly to small farmers and agrarian reform BENEkCIARIES )F ,AND"ANK LENDS AT all, it is to agri-business concerns and Big Agri. Yet, it was the second most generous extender of unsecured loans to Hanjin Philippines.

The verdict of the banking authorITIES IS OUT 4HE kVE BANKS ‡ 2#"#

LandBank, Metrobank, BPI and "$/ ‡ WILL HAVE DENTED PROkTS "UT they can eminently survive the biggest banking default in the history of the country due to their sheer size AND PROkTABILITY 4HEIR ASSET BASE HAS BEEN PROPPED UP AND FORTIkED It is the workers who will suffer the brunt of Hanjin’s collapse. Some, like Jobert, will go back to working in the cogonal patches, the most primitive and backbreaking of jobs. Some will do what Albert is doing, subcontracting welding jobs.

And the government, historically, is not predisposed to help. The government will have big plans for them in press releases. But no actual help will come to these workers.

Who, in this sad country of ours, pays attention to the needs OF THE EARTH S WRETCHED

Voters generally unconcerned about integrity of election process

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ing down on us. In less than 10 YEARS THE WORLD ‡ THE kNANCIAL collapse of Hanjin rather — came crashing down on the once-hopeful lives of Albert and Jobert.

How many workers’ lives have come crashing down with the Today, I can’t summon the cour- kNANCIAL COLLAPSE OF (ANJIN )T age to repeat that mantra. Al- was 40,000 at the peak, around bert and Jobert were casualties of AT THE POINT THE kNANthe collapse of the Subic-based cial woes began buffeting the shipbuilding giant. Like the tens of shipbuilding giant. The collapse thousands of young men, mostly is made worse by the fact that from the Zambales area, summarily there is no known alternative laid off after the shipbuilder failed to Hanjin. The maintenance reTO MEET ITS kNANCIAL OBLIGATIONS quirements of the yachts at the FAILED TO SECURE A kNANCIAL LIFELINE giant yacht club are minimal. then spiraled into bankruptcy. For There is no possible transfer of Albert and Jobert, the dream of a workers to the Navotas-Malabon areas. The repair docks there are decent life is in tatters.

The sad news came to me last for vessels of smaller tonnage, week. Jobert is back to doing me- MOSTLY kSHING VESSELS THAT JUST nial jobs at the public markets need a few dozen workers.

BPOs can easily relocate to the and in the town’s small groceries. And cutting cogon, which Subic area but there is a major conwould be supplied to shanty STRAINT 4HE (ANJIN WORKERS DEkNITELY dwellers on the denuded moun- cannot be retrained for BPO jobs.

When a major industrial entity tain slopes of Castillejos and nearby towns. Albert has been LIKE (ANJIN COLLAPSES THE OFkCIAL subcontracting welding jobs at focus is on two major areas, the the small fabrication and tools entity itself, which is Hanjin in this shops in and around Subic, off- case, and the creditors, the banks and-on work that pays very little. that loaned out big sums of money They wanted to return to the to Hanjin, much of it unsecured.

With the local Hanjin, nothfarm. I told them the farm was in a far worse shape than Hanjin. ing could be done to save it. The We the Irish people can’t be collapse of Hanjin Philippines happy for so long, said Daniel came in the wake of the collapse Patrick Moynihan after the as- of the mother entity in South sassination of President John Korea. The mother entity ran into F. Kennedy. We know that the a sea of troubles and the Philipworld would always come crash- pine entity got ensnared in the

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/4%23 ARE GENERALLY MORE concerned about who will win an election than whether the election process can be trusted or not. Nothing very wrong with that; in fact, it’s a natural thing. Except that their complacency about the process can embolden the election cheats into doing their evil acts.

Quite naturally, therefore, very few voters became aware of the problems that surrounded the conduct of the past three elections — 2010, 2013 and 2016. Those were the years when the Commission on Elections (Comelec) automated our elections, employing the precinct count optical scan, or PCOS (oh, they’ve renamed it VCM, or vote counting machine, probably because of the bad name that PCOS has earned for itself).

While the objective of speed was somehow attained, there were questions regarding the accuracy of the results and the absence of transparency in the system used.

IT practitioners were not happy about the implementation of automated elections in those three election years for the reason that the Smartmatic solution was far from being suitable as an automated election system, and they knew it to have been non-compliant with

I have repeated so many times in the past, but thus far, still ignored by election authorities, that when LET’S the precinct-counting is automated, FACE IT! transparency, a requirement in THE LAW 2!

IS LOST 7ITHOUT transparency, rigging the results of elections becomes much easier. And some legal provisions, as well as because it’s automated, implemenSOME BIDDING SPECIkCATIONS tation of cheating, while unwieldy First of all, the optical mark rec- when it was manual, is facilitated.

OGNITION /-2 LIKE THE DIRECT 5NFORTUNATELY A LITTLE 02 CAMRECORDING ELECTRONIC $2% SYSTEM paign launched by either or both is not a good automation system for the implementers and the service/ elections because nobody witnesses machine provider, can easily camthe counting of the ballots at the OUlAGE THE DEFECTS OF THE SYSTEM precincts. It’s the machines and their That, plus the voting public’s fassoftware that do the counting ‌ cination with automation, made inside a “black box,â€? which count- acceptance — in some sectors, ing, voters do not see. In effect, the even adulation — of the system an voters are being asked to trust both almost natural consequence. the system and the implementers — But people who are IT-savvy the latter, referring to the Comelec know better ... and they are unand Smartmatic, the service/machine impressed with the system. Those provider in the last three elections. It who have experience in systems might be acceptable in countries with design and implementation of no history of election cheating, but big projects are even more disapsad to say, not so in the Philippines. pointed. And rightly so.

Still, there are many countries, )F THIS VERY kRST STEP IN THE COUNTING including Germany, the Nether- consolidation process is not transparlands, and Ireland — where elec- ent to the voting public, then this step tion cheating is virtually unheard and all succeeding ones could simply of — which reverted to manual not be trusted. It is for this reason precinct-counting for this very that the source code review and the reason. Lack of transparency. random manual audit were made

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requirements by the election autoMATION LAW 2! /N THE OTHER hand, these safeguards by themselves, will not ensure 100 percent accuracy of the results either. Far from it.

The experience in the past three elections using PCOS revealed several points of non-compliance by the system and by the service provider. Consider the following issues of non-compliance with the BIDDING SPECIkCATIONS 1. PCOS did not meet the required ACCURACY LEVEL OF PERCENT 2. PCOS did not recognize check marks and X-marks as votes. /NLY OVALS MARKED AT LEAST percent were recognized as votes (this could have disenfranchised many votes). And non-compliance with election laws.

4. Unsatisfactory implementation of “source code review.� .ON COMPLIANT WITH THE DIGITAL signature requirement of the law.

6. No Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT); VVPAT was implemented in 2016 but lacked the markings — date of the elections, date and time stamp of VVPAT, and the clustered precinct number.

7. Existence of an intermediary ervers which was only revealed after the elections.

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Saving our children and our Christian faith How exactly are they to do that?

That is the real question. Since the children are themselves under attack, Filipino Catholics do not HAVE TO CHOOSE WHICH COMES kRST

their children or their faith? They must choose both.

DU30 has ridiculed Catholics for believing in the Triune God, in the Crucified Christ, in the saints, and in various dogmas of the Church; bashed them for going to Mass and giving alms for the Church’s maintenance and support; badmouthed priests, and called for the killing of “useless bishops.� Otherwise, DU30 has shown no discomfort in consorting with ministers of various religious sects, like Ka Eduardo Manalo, executive minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo, whom he has made his special envoy for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), or with Pastor Apollo Quiboloy of the socalled “Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Name Above Every Name,� where he reigns as “the appointed son of God,� and “Owner of the Universe,� and with whom DU30 shares many worldly interests.

Killing the bishops Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo was quick to say DU30’s rant against the bishops was just “hyperbole�—an exaggerated statement not to be taken literally—perhaps like Shakespeare’s line in Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2, “Let’s kill all the lawyers,� which has since become a lawyer’s joke.

No one should take it seriously.

You do not kill a bishop unless you are prepared to make him, like the San Salvadoran bishop Oscar Romero, a great Catholic saint.

So far, three priests, and no bishops, have been killed, thus many people will probably agree with Panelo that the rant against the bishops was just a joke. Caloocan Bishop and Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) vice president, Pablo Virgilio David, D.D., arguably the most pointed critic of DU30’s

extrajudicial killings, and the other bishops who refuse to be silenced, need not lose any sleep.

The danger here, though, is that some people just might irresponsibly call for the “deathâ€? of the President, just like the communist rebels marching outside the gates of MalacaĂąang who called for the “death of Marcosâ€? almost daily in the 1970s, and then say, before they get arrested, “it’s all a joke!â€? Certain things are just not for joking about. Religious belief is one such subject. Christians are extremely liberal-minded about this, but you might end up paying with your life if you crack a joke in poor taste on Islam. Salman Rushdie, who was not joking when he wrote The Satanic Verses, learned this when he heard of his fatwah.

in crimes they are too young to understand, and perform some of the most dangerous roles. This is a problem to which we need the most intelligent response. But instead of trying to protect toddlers from the invasive world of crime, our legislators seem to believe they constitute the gravest threat to society, unless they are made criminally liable no longer at the age of 15, but at nine.

The House of Representatives is reportedly trying to rush the approval of a bill lowering the age of criminal No noisy debate liability, from 15 to nine. This is the most stupid and most dangerous Without engaging DU30 in a proposal ever to threaten our basic unnoisy debate, Catholics should derstanding of what the law is, what kND VARIOUS WAYS OF RESPONDING a human being is, and what children to the attack. Businessmen who are. There has been no substantial and take their faith as seriously as their extensive discussion of this proposal, businesses should have no second but DU30 was once heard to mention Frozen in fear? thoughts about withdrawing their it, so the congressmen decided to POLITICAL AND kNANCIAL SUPPORT FOR railroad it, since they are congressmen DU30’s threat to the Catholic faith DU30’s programs. Members of the and believe they can pass anything has not quite reached the point police and the armed forces should they want, even though there is no where every Catholic must prepare have the courage to point out that rational basis for it. to join the ranks of St. Lorenzo Ruiz, they cannot, in conscience, obey Not too many congressmen may St. Pedro Calungsod and all those orders that violate the Constitu- have read St. Thomas Aquinas, but who were martyred for their faith. tion and the law and above all to the angelic author of Summa However, DU30’s blasphemies and God’s commandment and the Theologica, Western civilization profanities, instead of provoking an Church’s Magisterium.

OWES THE DEkNITION OF LAW AS AN ORanimated response, have frozen in No one has tried this approach dinance of reason promulgated by fear many Catholics who will brave- before. It may be time to try it now. those in authority for the common LY kGHT FOR THEIR WORLDLY INTERESTS Now Congress has focused its good. The current House proposal We do not expect any priest, bishop most insidious attack on children. is the most outstanding proof of or layman to torch themselves like As though children have not been how far we have strayed from our those Buddhist monks who lit victimized enough, our bumbling understanding of the human being themselves to ignite the Vietnam politicians are trying to invent new and children and what the law is. war or the “Arab spring.� It is not ways of making them greater victims part of our tradition, but we expect still. As a class, children are the most Catholics to do more than merely violated of human beings. World- Henry Sy Sr., 94 wide, where the richest 26 individu“turn the other cheek.�

This term has biblical roots, als own as much as what is owned by I join my friends and countrymen in but a rereading of the passage by the world’s 3.8 billion poor people, paying tribute to the life and legacy a modern exegete says it doesn’t the children of the poor are the most of Mr. Henry Sy Sr., who joined his mean absorbing more blows after disadvantaged, the most exploited, Maker on Jan. 19, 2019 and whose reTHE kRST ONE g)N THE SOCIETY OF THE the most abused of the poor. mains will be interred tomorrow, Jan. time,� he writes, “one would never 24, 2019, at the Heritage Memorial have used one’s left hand for any The threat from toddlers Park in Taguig. He died on top of a kind of social interaction, since list of the wealthiest Filipinos, but he it was considered unclean.� So, )N AREAS OF CONlICT THEY ARE NEVER remained a humble man, and always someone would likely strike you too young to shoot and kill, or at poor in spirit. I ask the gentle reader with his right hand. If he did so, he least carry weapons and munitions to offer a prayer for the eternal repose would be hitting you on your left FOR OLDER kGHTERS AND END AS CAN- of his soul. Thank you very much. cheek; and if you turned the other non fodder. In our crime-infested cheek, you would be daring him cities, they are forced to participate fstatad@gmail.com

s BIRTH CERTIFICATE/PASSPORT OBSTACLE COURSE To columnist Yen Makabenta: I ENJOYED reading your column today on the passport data breach (‘Data breach needs more than an autopsy,� Manila Times, Jan. 15, 2019) so much that I was prompted to share with you my experience on the matter.

When you mentioned that your “attending doctor is now gone,� I was reminded of the time I was asked the name of the midwife who assisted in my delivery when I applied for a new birth certificate in my hometown. I was tempted to answer how should I know since I didn’t recognize anybody when I came out of my mother’s womb. Besides, like you, I was born during that “distant time� and both my parents have long gone, so there was no way for me to find out.

But this is going ahead of the story.

As I was about to retire from the Supreme Court last September 30, I took the offer of a travel agency to join a pilgrimage to the Holy Land the coming November as a reward to myself for serving 45 years in government.

But first I had to renew my passport.

When I went to the DFA satellite office at SM Manila sometime in early August 2018 with my old passport, the attending clerk told me I had to present my birth certificate, especially since my passport had expired “a long time ago� in 2006. I wanted to tell him that the circumstances of my birth had not changed, but decided not to. It would have been different if he had asked me to produce an NBI clearance because I could have committed a crime during the intervening years.

I kept my cool because I knew I had a birth certificate at home. My father was a former municipal treasurer and, as the then concurrent local civil registrar, he issued a birth certificate to me which he thought would be of help if needed in the future.

After getting it, I went back that same day to the DFA clerk who said, “But this birth certificate is from the LOCAL civil registrar. What I need is from the NATIONAL civil registrar.� I

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Voters

8. Varying time stamps on ERs in 2010.

9. Unsecured communication port.

Even the compensating controls recommended by the internationAL CERTIkCATION BODY 3YSTEMS ,AB Inc. (SLI), was not complied with.

Why Comelec has not filed any case against Smartmatic for any, or all, of the above reasons (Smartmatic would usually argue that Comelec allowed them the non-compliance), and worse, why it kept on awarding the latter more billion-peso contracts, are SERIOUS ANOMALIES THAT MANY kND extremely puzzling.

to hit you, this time, with the back of his right hand, or with his left hand, either one of which would be unclean. In so doing, you would be telling your aggressor that you refuse to accept the assumptions that have made his aggression possible, and that he can hit you again, if he dares, only at the cost of his bringing himself so much lower than the moral standing of his victim. This might not only stop the violence, says the exegete, but also transform the aggressor.

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ANY modern nations pride themselves on being “democracies,� in that their governments of the day are often elected with secret ballots by the people, whether framed by term limits or not.

However, if we delve deeper, and perhaps be more precise, we would see that most of these “democratic� nations, steeped in democratic traditions, shallow or profound, are in actuality “indirect democracies� or “representative� ones.

The citizens in these “democratic� nations typically elect at least a number of legislators, either from (direct or indirect) constituencies, or by proportionality of total votes

thought where else would the national get their information but from the local?

True enough, when I went to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), it had no record of me. I was born during the war years, and it has no record of those. When I showed the birth certificate made by my father, the clerk went into a huddle with the clerk beside her, and after a while came back to me and said, “This was issued by a PAST local civil registrar.

It should be from the PRESENT local civil registrar.�

So how should I come up with what the PSA requires? You have to go to your hometown which, in my case, was Mogpog, Marinduque, in the heart of the country that you can reach through long rides by land and sea. What if I were from Batanes or Tawi-Tawi, again I thought to myself.

The travel agency said I must submit my new passport first week of October for visa purposes. I thought there was still enough time so towards the end of August, I went home to the province. That was when I was asked who my attending midwife was, along with other questions such as what time of day or night I was born. In addition to the forms I had to fill up, I had to ask two prominent persons in the municipality to take an oath that they knew me.

Then came another catch. I could not take with me back to Manila the new birth certificate I had applied for. The local civil registrar would be the one to send it to the Manila head office through Mimaropa’s regional office in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro.

Towards the end of September, I received information that my new birth certificate had been sent to PSA by LBC but that I must wait for 10 working days before I could get it.

Ten working days in October meant missing my deadline of the first week of October for submitting my passport to the travel agency. So, I gave up the idea of joining the pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Which was probably all for the better, as I had been cursing to high heavens all the way to getting my passport for it.

I did get my passport on Nov. 22, 2018 in the midst of the pilgrimage which was from November 11 to 27.

As MalacaĂąang reportedly said last Monday, “The ongoing practice is not only cumbersome to everyone affected but is a form of red tapeâ€? which the government should not tolerate.

For someone who had served that government for 45 years, I certainly don’t think I deserve the kind of treatment that I received from it.

CONRADO M. LANCION JR. 18 Cordillera Street Brgy. DoĂąa Aurora, Quezon City.

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When democracy fails to deliver PENNSYLVANIA: �Those who make peaceful revolution impossible ... make violent revolution inevitable,� said John F. Kennedy.

In 2016, the US and Britain were both witness to peaceful revolutions.

The British voted 52-48 to sever ties to the European Union, restore their full sovereignty, declare independence and go their own way in the world. Trade and immigration policy would henceforth be decided by a parliament elected by the people, not by bureaucrats in Brussels. “Brexit� it was called. And BritISH DEkANCE STUNNED GLOBAL ELITES Two and a half years later, Britain is still inside the EU, and no one seems to know when or whether the divorce will take place—a victory of London and European elites over the expressed will of the British people.

Appalled by the Brexit vote, these elites played a waiting game, broadcasting warnings of what could happen, to panic the British public into reconsidering and reversing its democratic decision.

Losing candidates and losing parties accept defeat and yield power.

Establishments have agendas they do not regard as subject to electoral repudiation or repeal.

Defeated, they use their nonelectoral powers to prevent unwanted policies from ever being implemented.

Call it limited democracy.

In 2016, Donald J. Trump was elected president when a spirit of rebellion against America’s failed elites roiled both parties. Both the Trump campaign and the Ted Cruz campaign, which ran second in the Republican race, offered antiestablishment ideas. So, too, did the Bernie Sanders campaign in the Democratic primaries.

Trump’s defining agenda was basically this: He would build a wall across the Mexican border to halt the flood of illegal migrants. He would extricate us from the half dozen Middle East wars into which Bush 2nd and Obama had plunged us.

He would abrogate the trade deals that had seen imports from NAFTA nations, China, the EU and Japan replace goods made in the USA. He would halt the shuttering of tens of thousands of US factories and the hemorrhaging of millions of manufacturing jobs.

He would call off the new cold war with Russia.

Halfway through this presidential term, where are we?

Part of the US government has been shut down for a month. The wall has not been built and may never be. President Trump’s decision to pull 2,000 US troops out of Syria has met massive resistance from our foreign policy establishment. Trump is being pushed to confront Russia from the Baltic to the Black Sea and to trash the intermediate-range nuclear missile treaty that Ronald Reagan negotiated with Mikhail Gorbachev.

And we are being pushed toward a new Mideast war with Iran.

This was the establishment’s agenda, not Trump’s.

We have lately learned that after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, a cabal inside the FBI initiated a counterintel-

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PATRICK J. BUCHANAN ligence investigation to discover if Trump was a conscious agent of a Kremlin conspiracy.

Who made this call? Who approved it? Did the FBI discover that Trump is a patriot, or another Alger Hiss? We have not been told by the FBI after two years of investigation. Why not?

We do know that the dirtdiving arm of the Clinton campaign, Fusion GPS, hired a British former spy with KGB connections to cook up a “dirty dossier� that was used to persuade the secret FISA court to approve the surveillance of the Trump campaign.

Yet there seems a massive media disinterest in a conspiracy that might portray Trump as the victim of dirty campaign tricks.

Which brings us back to the larger question: While populists have won elections and carried out peaceful revolutions, often the policies for which they have successfully worked are never implemented.

In the 1975 book Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed , this writer sought to explore and explain the forces that so often deny the right the policy fruits of its political victories.

Foremost among these was “the New Journalism.� “The essence of press power lies in the authority to select, elevate and promote one set of ideas, issues, and personalities and to ignore others,� this writer wrote. “The press determines what ‘people will talk and think about’ because of the monopoly it holds over the news and information flowing out of Washington.�

Among the reasons for Trump’s political success, such as it is, is that today’s conservative media did not exist back then, nor did the new social media that he has mastered so well.

Yet still, the left’s power over America’s character- and cultureforming institutions remains overwhelming. It dominates public schools and teachers unions, mainstream churches, college and university faculties, media and ENTERTAINMENT 46 AND kLM What is taking place in the West today might be described as a struggle between the capital and the country it rules.

England voted to leave the EU; London voted to remain.

In the last analysis, Kennedy was surely right. People who see the policies they have voted for rejected again and again, by the very elites they defeated, will inevitably turn to other means to preserve what they have.

The “yellow vest� protests in Paris show us that. CREATORS.COM

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever . To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.

Democracies, direct or indirect EI SUN OH cast. In many British Commonwealth member states and quite a number of continental European countries, these legislators then select one among themselves to head and form the executive branch of their governments as prime minister. In some other “democratic� nations such as the United States and the Philippines, the chief executive, such as the president, is elected

separately from the legislators, such that the checks and balances between the two branches of government would be more apparent and hopefully more effective.

In any case, the citizens in these “democracies� often do not actually get to make the major public decisions of the day. In a sense, by voting every two, four or five years, they could be said to have delegated these public decision-making to one or many public officials who do make these decisions on their behalf, during a fixed period of time (the elected term), hence the slightly more

nuanced characterization of the above “democracies.� If the citizens do not like the sometimes controversial decisions made by the elected public officials, the only available recourse is often voting the latter out in the next round of elections. But by then sometimes it is already too late to reverse the unpopular public decision. But the sheer number of citizens in many of these nations as well as the complexities of modern society would most often be put forth as arguments for the “indirect� forms of democracy to prevail.

Well, for one thing, there are

nowadays no longer purely “direct� democracies in the world.

Some countries do practice a combination of direct and indirect forms of democracies, allowing its citizens to vote in referendums on public issues big and small, in addition to those made by the ordinary elected public officials. I first encountered this sort of indirect democracy when I went to study in California. The US does not provide for referendums at the federal level in its constitution. But many American states, California included, do provide

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Aquino and his officials concealed crony firm in passport scheme They strenuously concealed THAT IT WAS A PRIVATE kRM 5NITed Graphic Expressions Corp.

5'%# AND NOT THE GOVERNMENT corporation APO Production 5NIT !05 THAT WOULD PRINT THE MILLION PASSPORTS AT A COST OF 0 BILLION FROM MID TO 3UCH MONOPOLY OPERATIONS WOULD GENERATE FOR 5'%# A STAGGERING 0 BILLION IN PROkTS 4HE SCHEME REPRESENTS ONE OF THE BIGGEST DECEPTIONS EVER TO CONCEAL CORRUPTION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER !QUINO AND HIS OFkCIALS ‡ MAINLY 0RESIDENTIAL #OMMUNICATIONS /PERATIONS /FkCE HEAD (ERMINIO #OLOMA *R AND !05 #HAIRMAN -ILAGROS !LORA ‡ SET UP IN .OVEMBER A DUBIOUS gJOINT VENTURE u WITHOUT ANY BIDDING WITH THE FORMERLY -ALABON BASED PRINTING OUTkT 5'%# "ILLIONAIRE )ÄIGO :OBEL THE COUNTRY S TH RICHEST MAN ACCORDING TO Forbes MAGAZINE HAS BEEN REPORTED TO HAVE BECOME ONLY IN ITS BIGGEST STOCKHOLDER THROUGH HIS FAMILY S % :OBEL )NC :OBEL HAS NOT responded to these reports. !05 IS ONE OF ONLY THREE STATE ENTITIES ‡ THE OTHER TWO BEING THE .ATIONAL 0RINTING /FkCE AND THE "ANGKO 3ENTRAL NG 0ILIPINAS ‡ THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS AUTHORIZED TO PRINT gHIGH SECURITYu MATERIALS

SUCH AS EXCISE TAX STAMPS AND PASSPORTS !05 HOWEVER TURNED OVER ITS PRINTING CONTRACTS kRST WITH THE "UREAU OF )NTERNAL 2EVENUE AND TRADE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT

AND LATER THE GARGANTUAN YEAR 0 BILLION JOB FOR THE PRINTING OF THE E PASSPORTS TO THE *6

TERMS OF ITS AGREEMENT WITH !05

WOULD GO TO 5'%# %VEN AS 5'%# CHARGES THE *6 FOR THE USE OF ITS MACHINES FOR 0 MILLION ANNUALLY !S A RESULT THIS SHADOWY PRIVATE kRM GENERATED 0 BILLION IN INCOME FROM TO AND IF IT CONTINUES THIS SCHEME WILL GET ANOTHER 0 BILLION )N EFFECT !QUINO AND HIS OFFICIALS ‡ MAINLY #OLOMA AND !LORA BOTH HIGH OFFICIALS IN #ORY !QUINO S GOVERNMENT ‡ HAD TRANSFORMED A GOVERNMENT kRM INTO A FA”ADE OF A PRIVATE kRM THAT HAS AND WILL GENERATE BILLIONS OF PESOS ON THE BACK OF PROkT MARGINS ON THE PRINTING OF MILLION 0HILIPPINE PASSPORTS 4HIS COLOSSAL CASE OF CORRUPTION HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY CONCEALED

WITH MAINSTREAM MEDIA APPARENTLY LOOKING THE OTHER WAY WHEN THESE WERE kRST EXPOSED IN A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING IN )T IS SO STRANGE ‡ OR MAYBE NOT ‡ THAT PARTY LIST REPRESENTATIVES !KBAYAN S )BARRA 'UTIERREZ IN AND "AYAN -UNA S #ARLOS :ARATE IN HAD VOCIFEROUSLY CONDEMNED EARLY LAST YEAR THE PASSPORT SCAM THE LATTER EVEN kLING A RESOLUTION ASKING #ONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE 1UITE SUDDENLY THOUGH THE TWO BECAME TOTALLY silent on the controversy. ! PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW !QUINO WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO CONCEAL THE SCHEME WAS WHEN HE INAUGURATED ON *UNE

WHAT HE AND HIS OFkCIALS CALLED THE g!05 (IGH 3ECURITY 0RINTING 0LANTu AT THE ,IMA 4ECHNOLOGY 0ARK IN "ATANGAS WHICH STARTED PRODUCING EN MASSE THE E PASSPORTS IN *ULY !QUINO WAS ISSUED THE kRST SUCH E PASSPORT ON THE DAY OF HIS VISIT TO THE PLANT

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TURNED AROUND TO GENERATE INCOME AND THAT IT HAD SET UP A HIGH SECURITY PRINTING PLANT THAT COULD print the DFA’s new e-passports. !QUINO DIDN T MENTION AT ALL THOUGH THAT THE PLANT WAS ALMOST ENTIRELY OWNED THROUGH THE *6 BY 5'%# AND WOULD GET PERCENT OF ITS NET INCOME FOR YEARS !05 S EQUITY IN THE *6 WAS IN THE FORM OF THE ONE TENTH OF THE VALUATION OF THE LAND IT HAD LEASED FROM THE EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE .INETY PERCENT OF THE *6 S MANAGERS AND WORKERS WERE EMPLOYEES OF 5'%# WITH THE !05S EMPLOYEES BEING THERE MERELY AS kXTURES to portray it as a joint venture.

He could have boasted that THE PLANT WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN A GOVERNMENT AGENCY AND AN EFFICIENT HI TECH PRIVATE FIRM 4HAT HE didn’t can only be explained

BY THE FACT THAT HE DELIBERATELY Farce WANTED TO KEEP FROM THE PUBLIC THE FACT THAT A CRONY kRM REALLY 4HE *6 IS A FARCE !05 IS A TOKEN OWNED THE PLANT AND WOULD GET PARTNER WITH JUST PERCENT OF ITS Boast THE 0 BILLION PRINTING CONTRACT OWNERSHIP WITH PERCENT HELD FROM THE $&!

BY 5'%# .INETY PERCENT AND THEN )N HIS SPEECH !QUINO BOASTED THAT 0#// S HEAD #OLOMA ‡ UNDER PERCENT OF ITS PROkTS UNDER THE UNDER HIS WATCH THE !05 HAD BEEN whose supervision and authority

!05 WAS ‡ IN SEVERAL MEDIA INTERVIEWS CLAIMED THE g!05 S (IGH 3ECURITY 0RINTING 0LANTu AS A STELLAR ACHIEVEMENT BUT NEVER DISCLOSED THAT IT WAS RUN AND WAS PERCENT OWNED BY A PRIVATE kRM )N THE !05 S ANNUAL REport — the last under the Yellow REGIME AND BY ITS CHAIRMAN !LORA ‡ NO REPORT AT ALL WAS MADE OF THAT 0 BILLION E PASSPORT CONTRACT FROM THE $&!

ITS BIGGEST PRINT JOB EVER AND ITS DE FACTO SUB CONTRACTING TO 5'%# )TS ONLY MENTION OF THE kRM WAS THAT !05 gRECEIVED AN UNSOLICITED PROPOSAL FROM 5'%# FOR A JOINT VENTURE FOR THE PURPOSE OF UPGRADING !0/ ,IMA S PLANT INTO A HIGH SECURITY PRINTING FACILITY u

No reply ) ASKED #OLOMA JUST BEFORE AND AFTER ) WROTE THESE ARTICLES ON THIS FRAUDULENT CASE TO GIVE HIS SIDE WITH MESSAGE RELAYED TO HIS COLLEAGUE AT THE -ANILA "ULLETIN where he is executive vice president. There has been no reply. ) ALSO ASKED !LORA AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF MINE AS SHE HAS BEEN

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SOCIAL MEDIA &ACEBOOK WE READ REAL BOOKS "OOKS WE CAN HOLD IN OUR HANDS WITH REAL PAGES ONE THUMBS THROUGH BOOKS THAT ARE EITHER SOLD IN BOOKSTORES LIKE .ATIONAL "OOKSTORE AND !LEMAR S IN -ETRO -ANILA OR BORROWED FROM LIBRARIES 7ITH THE ADVENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES BOOKS CAN STILL BE READ BUT MOSTLY DOWNLOADABLE WORSE WE JUST GOOGLE THE PLOT READ THE SYNOPSIS AND voila! ‡ WE HAVE THE PATINA OF AN INTELLECTUAL AND IMPRESS WOMEN WITH OUR gWIDE READING FARE u 5NLESS THE WOMEN ONE INTENDS TO IMPRESS ALSO DO THE SAME ‡ GOOGLE THE PLOTS )N MY DAY WHICH MY SON #ARLO REFERS TO AS gDURING THE DARK AGESu TO CHEAT WE READ THE COMIC BOOK VERSION OF THE CLASSICS WHICH MEANS

WE MAY NOT READ THE ORIGINAL TOMES ‡ 1UO 6ADIS 4WO 9EARS "EFORE THE -AST -OBY $ICK ETC ‡ OR IF ADAPTED ON SCREEN WE SIMPLY WATCH THE MOVIE "UT THE BOOKS THAT ) PARTICULARLY LIKE ARE SELDOM ADAPTED INTO MOVIES UNLESS THEY ARE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS )N WHICH CASE ) READ BOTH THE BOOK AND WATCH ITS MOVIE VERSION 7HICH BRINGS ME TO MY REGULAR FARE DURING THE DARK AGES S S m PRIOR TO THE INTERNET WHICH BURST INTO THE SCENE IN ITS PRIMITIVE VERSION IN THE MID S BUT REALLY CAME INTO ITS OWN AND PEOPLE S CONSCIOUSNESS ONLY IN THE S OR THEREABOUTS UPON THE INCEPTION OF THE 7ORLD 7IDE 7EB ) LOVE SPY STORIES ) ALSO LOVE (ENRY -ILLER S NOVELS PARTICULARLY THE CLASSIC 4ROPIC OF Cancer AND SIMILAR ONES OF THAT GENRE )N COLLEGE AND SHORTLY AFTER IN THE MID S I discovered certain authors that wrote COPIOUS BOOKS ON ESPIONAGE AND POLITICAL kCTION ) WAS BORN AND LIVE THROUGH THE #OLD 7AR TO ‡ THE POST 7ORLD 7AR DECADES OF GEOPOLITICAL NON BLOODY CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE 5NION OF 3OVIET 3OCIALIST 2EPUBLICS 5332 NOW 2USSIA AND THE 5NITED 3TATES AND ITS 7ESTERN ALLIES

CHIElY "RITAIN &RANCE 7EST 'ERMANY AND )TALY AMONG OTHERS 4HE 0HILIPPINES AS A FORMER COLONY OF !MERICA WAS POSITIONED SMACK INTO THE 7ESTERN ALLIANCE 4HE #OLD 7AR ERA WAS REFLECTED IN THE kCTIONAL LITERATURE OF THE TIMES AND PRODUCED MY FAVORITE CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS WITH BOOKS ) DEVOURED *OHN LE #ARR¼ )AN &LEMING 2ICHARD #ONDON

*ASON -ATTHEWS &REDERICK &ORSYTH AND 4OM #LANCY AMONG OTHERS -ANY OF THESE BOOKS BECAME BESTSELLERS AND THE (OLLYWOOD MONEY MACHINE TURNED SOME OF THEM INTO ICONIC SYMBOLS OF THE PERIOD )AN &LEMING S *AMES "OND SERIES HAS PRODUCED TWO DOZEN BLOCKBUSTERS

LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA NOT SO MUCH DUE TO THE INANE PLOTS BUT FOR THE FASCINATING GADGETS ACTION AND GORE AND MORE IMPORTANTLY FOR SOME OF MY SEPTUAGENARIAN CLASSMATES THE AUTHOR EXCEPTED THE gEYE CANDYu EXPOSITION OF "OND S WOMEN IN VARIOUS STAGES OF UNDRESS AROUSING SOME PRIMAL MEMORIES OF PAST ENGAGEMENTS ) PREFER OF COURSE THE POLITICAL UNDERTONES OF THE NOVELS OF *OHN LE #ARR¼ THAT depicts the betrayal by a real British double AGENT +IM 0HILBY WHO WAS RECRUITED AS A STUDENT IN #AMBRIDGE %NGLAND

BY THE +'" THE 2USSIAN SECRET SERVICE 4HE BOOK PUBLISHED IN 4INKER 4AILOR 3OLDIER 3PY WAS BROUGHT TO THE SCREEN IN 4HIS WAS FOLLOWED BY 4HE (ONOURABLE 3CHOOLboy AND 3MILEY S 0EOPLE WITH THE SAME RECURRING THEME THE CO OPTED "RITISH INTELLIGENCE AGENTS ENGAGING IN PSYCHO WARFARE WITH 3OVIET SPIES EXPOSING THE WEAKNESSES OF BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND TOTALITARIAN SYSTEMS 4HE READER IS INVITED TO THINK DEEPER ON THE PLOT S NUANCES BUT THE kLM VERSION CONTRASTS WITH *AMES "OND BEREFT OF GADGETS VIOLENCE AND SKIN ,E #ARR¼ S ARE THE INTELLIGENT SPY STORIES /N ANOTHER LEVEL IS *ASON -ATTHEWS The +REMLIN S #ANDIDATE 4HIS MORE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL DEPICTS $OMINIKA %GOROVA A DOUBLE AGENT FOR THE 53 #)! PLANTED IN THE +REMLIN AND GAINING THE TRUST OF 0RESIDENT 6LADIMIR 0UTIN WHO WITH HIS +'" CONCOCTED a plan to assassinate the CIA Director and SUBSTITUTE HIM WITH 0UTIN S MOLE IN THE #)!

But the spy novel that hews closely to CONTEMPORARY 53 POLITICS IS 2ICHARD #ONdon’s 4HE -ANCHURIAN #ANDIDATE 4HE ORIGINAL MOVIE ADAPTATION WAS IN STARRING ,AURENCE (ARVEY &RANK 3INATRA !NGELA ,ANSBURY AND *ANET ,EIGH 4HE -ANCHURIAN CANDIDATE WAS AN !MERICAN SOLDIER CAPTURED AND IMPRISONED DURING THE +OREAN WAR !S THE PRISONER OF WAR 2AYMOND 3HAW PLAYED BY (ARVEY WAS SUBSEQUENTLY BRAINWASHED

BY THE .ORTH +OREANS AND REPATRIATED TO THE 53 AS A WAR HERO g!FTER HIS DISCHARGE BACK INTO CIVILIAN LIFE HE BECOMES AN UNWITTING ASSASSIN INVOLVED IN AN )NTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY /FkCIALS FROM #HINA AND THE 3OVIET 5NION EMPLOY 3HAW AS A SLEEPER AGENT IN AN ATTEMPT TO SUBVERT AND TAKE OVER THE 5NITED 3TATES GOVERNMENT u "UT THE FASCINATING PLOT INVOLVES A

DEEPLY IMPLANTED PSYCHOLOGICAL TRIGGERING MECHANISM THAT UPON SEEING THE 1UEEN OF $IAMONDS CARD 3HAW IS PRIMED TO KILL THE 53 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SUBSTITUTING HIM with the popular vice president who was 3HAW S STEPFATHER AND WHO WOULD UPON ELECTION DECLARE MARTIAL LAW 4HIS FASCINATING PLOT ABOUT THE CO OPTATION OF AN !MERICAN HERO BY THE 3OVIETS COULD BE ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT POLITICAL DRAMA NOW UNFOLDING IN THE 5NITED 3TATES 2EAL LIFE FOLLOWS kCTION 7E CAN TWIST THE PLOT THAT HEWS CLOSE TO SCENARIOS NOW BEING PEDDLED BY THE !MERICAN LIBERAL LEANING MEDIA 0RESIDENT $ONALD 4RUMP AS PRESENTED

BY THESE CREDIBLE LEADING 53 NEWS ORGANIZATIONS IS THE CENTRAL kGURE )NUENDOES ABOUND ABOUT HIS LONG SECRET RELATIONSHIP WITH 2USSIA AND 0UTIN S ROLE IN HIS ELECTION 0UTIN WAS ONCE THE HEAD OF THE +'" AND CERTAINLY AN EXPERT IN THE ARCANA OF INTERNATIONAL ESPIONAGE 4HE +'" gHONEYPOT TRAPu IS FAMOUS FOR ENSNARING SEXUALLY PRODIGIOUS UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS THAT COULD BE BLACKMAILED )NNUENDOES AND REPORTS ON 4RUMP HAVING BEEN A SUBJECT OF THIS PLOT HAVE BEEN CIRCULATING AMONG THE 53 MEDIA COGNOSCENTI ON THE EXISTENCE OF THE gPEE PEE TAPES u 4HIS AND 4RUMP S SORRY ACTUATIONS IN THE (ELSINKI SUMMIT WITH 0UTIN ARE BEING INTERPRETED AS THE 53 0RESIDENT S SCORNFUL ROLE AS A DEFENSE ATTORNEY FOR 2USSIA ‡ AND WORSE THE GROVELING MARIONETTE OF 0UTIN &ICTION AND REALITY COULD MERGE WHEN 3PECIAL 0ROSECUTOR 2OBERT -UELLER COMES UP WITH HIS REPORT ON THE TWO YEAR LONG INVESTIGATION INTO 2USSIA S SUSPECTED COLLUSION WITH THE 4RUMP CAMPAIGN TO PERVERT THE 53 ELECTION PROCESS !ND NOW THE 7ASHINGTON 0OST has published an op-ed THAT SAYS 4RUMP HAD BEEN INVESTIGATED BY THE &") SINCE AS POSSIBLY AN AGENT OF 0UTIN 4HE INFERENCE BEING THAT THE CAPITALIST 4RUMP WITH SEVERAL BANKRUPTCIES TO HIS NAME HAS BEEN SAVED AND NURTURED BY 0UTIN OVER THE YEARS MAKING HIM VULNERABLE TO 0UTIN S MACHINATIONS (IS CONSTANT DECLARATION OF gNO COLLUSION NO COLLUSIONu SMACKS OF A FORCED AND FAKE DENIAL INSINUATING THE REVERSE 0UTIN COULD HAVE SIZED HIM UP YEARS BACK AND SAW HIS VULNERABILITY AND WORKED ON HIM AS THE gUSEFUL IDIOTu OR AN UNWITTING PARTICIPANT ‡ OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH )N THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WE COULD SEE THE UNRAVELING OF A CONSPIRACY THAT COULD BEAT THE BEST OF *OHN LE #ARR¼ SPY NOVELS *ASON -ATTHEWS 4HE +REMLIN S #ANDIDATE AND 2ICHARD Condon’s 4HE -ANCHURIAN #ANDIDATE all ROLLED INTO ONE THE $ONALD THE 53 0RESIDENT ‡ THE 2USSIAN SPY IN THE 7HITE (OUSE

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TO SIMILARLY RESPOND THROUGH &ACEBOOK S -ESSENGER PLATFORM !LORA ANSWERED FOUR QUESTIONS

THE MOST IMPORTANT OF WHICH WAS ON HER JUSTIkCATION FOR THE SUBCONTRACTING OF THE PASSPORT PRINTING TO 5'%# g7HAT !05 AND 5'%# HAVE IS A JOINT VENTURE AND NOT SUBCONTRACTING AND APPROVED BY .%$!

'OVT PROCUREMENT BOARD $"- AND $/34 AND OTHER PERTINENT AGENCIES u 4HE #OMMISSION ON !UDIT THOUGH CLAIMED THAT ONE OF THE MAJOR gMISREPRESENTATIONSu ‡ THAT IS LIES ‡ THAT !05 TOLD GOVERNMENT REGULATORS WAS EVEN CONTAINED IN ITS *6 AGREEMENT

THAT THE 5'%# OFFER FOR A *6 WAS gSUPERIOR AND MORE ADVANTAGEOUS TO !05g THAN OTHER OFFERS The CoA said that there was no OTHER OFFER MADE TO !05 )T WAS IN FACT SECRETLY NEGOTIATED AGREED TO AND IMPLEMENTED !FTER THOSE FOUR QUESTIONS

!LORA BLOCKED ME FROM SENDING HER MESSAGES IN -ESSENGER

LION &ILIPINOS NEEDING THAT MAIN DOCUMENT SIGNIFYING ONE S MEMBERSHIP IN THE 2EPUBLIC )T IS MOST DAMNABLE IN THAT THE SCHEME WAS DESIGNED TO BE IMPLEMENTED WHETHER OR NOT the Yellow candidate won in the ELECTIONS SINCE IT PRACTICALLY HOSTAGES THE GOVERNMENT )N FACT FORMER &OREIGN !FFAIRS secretary Alan Cayetano declined TO END THE CORRUPT SCHEME EVEN AFTER HE KNEW ABOUT IT (E FEARED THE FATE OF HIS PREDECESSOR 0EFECTO 9ASAY *R WHOM THE 9ELLOWS SUCCESSFULLY TOOK OUT OF HIS POST because he wanted it ended. The AMBITIOUS #AYETANO ALSO DIDN T WANT TO RISK HIS CAREER BEING DAMAGED IF THERE WAS A DISRUPTION IN the passport issuances.

7ILL THE PRESENT FOREIGN SECRETARY WHO HAS BUILT AN IMAGE THAT HE S GOT HUGE BALLS END THIS COLOSSAL CASE OF CORRUPTION The Duterte presidency would BE BLAMED IF IT DOESN T STOP THE SCAM 4HE 9ELLOW FORCES WOULD EVEN THROW #OLOMA AND !LORA UNDER THE BUS AND SPREAD THE LIE Most abominable that it was under Duterte’s watch THAT THE SCHEME WAS IMPLEMENT) HAVE INVESTIGATED AND WRITTEN ED AND HE AND OTHER OFFICIALS COLUMNS ON SEVERAL OTHER SCAMS PROkTED FROM IT AND INSTANCES OF CORRUPTION DURING THE !QUINO GOVERNMENT

%MAIL TIGLAO MANILATIMES AMONG THEM THE GRANT OF A 0 BILGMAIL COM LION -24 MAINTENANCE CONTRACT &ACEBOOK 2IGOBERTO 4IGLAO SHEPHERDED BY A ,IBERAL 0ARTY k4WITTER BOBITIGLAO NANCE OFkCER THE 0 BILLION PUR- !RCHIVES AT WWW RIGOBERTOTIGLAO COM CHASE OF THE DEFECTIVE $ENGVAXIA VACCINE AND THE $ISBURSEMENT .OTE 7E HAVE STOPPED RECEIVING !CCELERATION 0ROGRA THAT WAS RE- ORDERS FOR MY BOOK $EBUNKED ALLY THE HIJACKING OF GOVERNMENT 5NCOVERING (ARD 4RUTHS ABOUT FUNDS TO PROJECTS THAT !QUINO %$3!

-ARTIAL ,AW -ARCOS !QUICHOSE AT HIS WHIM NO WITH A 3PECIAL 3ECTION ON THE 4HIS E PASSPORT PRINTING CASE IS Duterte Presidency as it has been THE MOST ABOMINABLE 4HIS IS NOT SOLD OUT WITH COPIES TO BE AVAILONLY BECAUSE OF THE MAGNITUDE OF ABLE ONLY AT MONTH S END 4HERE PROkTS ‡ 0 BILLION ‡ IT WOULD ARE A NUMBER OF COPIES THOUGH AT GENERATE TO ENRICH THE ALREADY .ATIONAL "OOKSTORE &ULLY "OOKED

RICH AT THE EXPENSE OF MIL- AND 0OPULAR "OOK 3TORE

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Democracies, direct or indirect FOR gPROPOSITIONSu TO BE PLACED ON THE SAME BALLOT PAPERS AS THOSE FOR ELECTING PUBLIC OFFICIALS PROVIDED A PERCENTAGE OF SIGNATURES HAVE BEEN COLLECTED BY THOSE ORIGINATING SUCH propositions. The propositions could CONCERN POLITICAL SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC ISSUES AND IF VOTED IN FAVOR BY A MAJORITY OF VOTERS WHO SHOW UP TO VOTE

WOULD HAVE THE SAME FORCE OF LAW AS LAWS PASSED BY LEGISLATORS ) CAN STILL RECALL SOME PROPOSITIONS SUCH AS THE SCRAPPING OF RACE BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS IN UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS THE ABOLITION OF SOME FORMS OF TAXATION

AND SO ON !LTHOUGH ) WAS NOT A VOTER

IT WAS STILL VERY NOVEL FOR ME COMING FROM A COUNTRY WHICH ALLOWS ONLY FOR ELECTING LEGISLATORS TO SEE CITIZENS GETTING TO MAKE PUBLIC DECISIONS ALL

BY THEMSELVES DIRECTLY 7HEN ) LATER MOVED TO 3WITZERLAND TO WORK FOR THE 5NITED .ATIONS ) ALSO GOT TO EXPERIENCE AN EVEN MORE FREQUENT AND EMBEDDED FORM OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY )T WOULD APPEAR THAT 3WISS VOTERS ARE EVEN MORE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT POPULAR REFERENDA WITH ISSUES AS SMALL AS NEIGHBORHOOD ONES TO THAT CONCERNING FINALLY JOINING THE 5. AS A MEMBER STATE AFTER MANY YEARS OF HOSTING THE %UROPEAN HEADQUARTERS OF THE 5. )N MOST gMIXEDu DEMOCRACIES ISSUES WHICH GO ON POPULAR REFERENDA ARE USUALLY THOSE CONCERNING EXTRAORDINARILY MAJOR OR CONTROVERSIAL ONES SUCH AS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS OR EVEN DECIDING WHETHER TO SECEDE FROM A NATION OR AMALGAMATE SEVERAL INTO ONE )N RECENT YEARS FOR EXAMPLE THE 3COTS and the Catalans voted to not secede FROM THE 5NITED +INGDOM AND 3PAIN

RESPECTIVELY JUST LIKE THE 1U¼B¼COIS NARROWLY DEFEATED SEPARATING FROM #ANADA IN YEARS PAST 4HE VOTERS OF -INDANAO ARE VOTING ON A PLAN FOR GREATER AUTONOMY FOR THE REGION "UT PERHAPS THE MOST gCELEBRATEDu REFERENDUM IN MODERN TIMES IS THAT OF THE "RITISH VOTERS HAVING NARROWLY DECIDED TO WITHDRAW "RITISH MEMBERSHIP IN THE %UROPEAN 5NION 4HE 5+ HAS ALWAYS PRIDED ITSELF ON ITS gSPLENDID ISOLATIONu OVER THE CENTURIES CHERISHING THE NOTION THAT

THE "RITISH ISLES BEING PHYSICALLY SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF %UROPE SHOULD TO THE GREATEST EXTENT NOT ENMESH ITSELF WITH THE OFTEN CHAOTIC AFFAIRS OF THE %UROPEAN gMAINLAND u )NSTEAD

THE "RITS FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING ITS COLONIES OVERSEAS AND ALTHOUGH MOST OF THEM HAVE ACQUIRED INDEPENDENCE IN MODERN TIMES THEIR TIES WITH THE 5+ UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE #OMMONWEALTH ARE STILL VERY CLOSE 4HE 5+ WAS FAMOUSLY NOT A FOUNDING MEMBER STATE OF THE %UROPEAN %CONOMIC #OMMUNITY THE PREDECESSOR TO THE %5

ONLY JOINING IT LATER MORE OUT OF THE ECONOMIC NECESSITY OF LOW TARIFF AND MORE TRADE THAN ANYTHING ELSE ) HAVE THE FEELING THAT DURING THIS ALMOST HALF A CENTURY OF %5 MEMBERSHIP SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONS OF "RITISH PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENTS WOULD ACTUALLY VERY MUCH LIKE TO CONFINE THEIR %5 INVOLVEMENT STRICTLY TO ECONOMIC RELATED SECTORS AND NOT VENTURE TOO FAR AFIELD But the continental Europeans HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE YEARS OF TRANSFORMATION FROM THE %%# INTO THE %5 PERHAPS QUITE SOMETHING ELSE IN MIND 4HEY WOULD LIKE TO GO FOR A MUCH LARGER DEGREE OF INTEGRATION AMONG %5 MEMBERS CEDING A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF SOVEREIGNTY TO A CENTRALIZED %5 BUREAUCRACY AT "RUSSELS IN PURSUIT OF AN gEVER CLOSER UNION u 4HIS WAS PERHAPS A REACTIVE SENTIMENT NURTURED OVER THE CENTURIES TO HOPEFULLY HEAD OFF IN FUTURE THE MANY NATIONALISTIC RIVALRIES THAT HAVE CAUSED MANY WARS AND MISERY

not the least two world wars in the LAST CENTURIES )T IS HOWEVER A SENTIMENT PERHAPS NOT SHARED TO THE SAME INTENSE DEGREE BY MANY "RITS )N ANY CASE THERE ARE ALMOST AS MANY British voters who cast their ballots IN FAVOR OF REMAINING IN THE %5 !ND NOW AS THE ACTUAL PRACTICAL PLAN FOR EXITING THE %5 WAS LAID BEFORE THE "RITISH PARLIAMENT IT WAS SURPRISINGLY VOTED DOWN OVERWHELMINGLY 3O MUCH FOR THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN DIRECT AND INDIRECT FORMS OF DEMOCRACY IN a country. And as the Brexit date is NEARING THIS SOMEWHAT UNEXPECTED INTERPLAY WILL ONLY BECOME MORE EXCITING FOR THE REST OF US TO WATCH

Regions 5 mayors absent during ‘Ompong’ fury named Comelec warns Baguio watchdogs vs politicking B

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THE Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) HAS ENDORSED TO THE /FkCE OF THE Ombudsman administrative sancTIONS FOR kVE MAYORS IN THE #ORDILLERA !DMINISTRATIVE 2EGION #!2 AND #AGAYAN PROVINCE WHO WERE absent from their posts during the ONSLAUGHT OF 4YPHOON g/MPONGu in September 2018.

DILG spokesman Jonathan -ALAYA IDENTIFIED THE MAYORS in a text to The Manila Times AS &ELIX %DARTE OF 4AYUM !BRA 2INGOR ,USPIAN OF -ANKAYAN

"ENGUET -ATEO #HIYAWAN OF .ATONIN -OUNTAIN 0ROVINCE *OSE ,IMMAYOG OF 3ADANGA -OUTAIN 0ROVINCE AND "RENDA "ELARMINO 2UMA OF 2IZAL #AGAYAN The DILG issued an order to ALL MAYORS BEFORE /MPONG MADE LANDFALL TO STAY PUT IN THEIR AREAS SO THAT THEY COULD PROVIDE IMMEDIATE HELP TO THOSE WHO WERE IN NEED AND ACHIEVE THE gZERO CASUALTIESu GOAL g$ESPITE HAVING KNOWLEDGE OF THE IMPENDING TYPHOON AND THE $),' ADVISORY SAID MAYORS WERE NOT IN THEIR POST DURING THE TYPHOON 3UCH ACT ON THEIR PART MAY BE CONSIDERED AS DERELICTION OF DUTY NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER administrative offense. We have REFERRED THEIR CASE TO THE /FkCE OF THE /MBUDSMAN u -ALAYA SAID 4HE $),' PREVIOUSLY ISSUED SHOW CAUSE ORDERS AGAINST NINE MAYORS FROM #AGAYAN 6ALLEY AND SEVEN FROM #!2 AND ASKED THEM TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY WERE NOT AT THEIR POST DURING THE onslaught of Ompong.

-ALAYA SAID THEIR REASONS WERE gINADEQUATE AND UNJUSTIkED u Some of the apparent excuses WERE gATTENDING A TRAINING WORKSHOP IN $AVAO A MEETING WITH the League of Municipalities of THE 0HILIPPINES IN $AVAO AND A

MEETING IN -ALACAĂ„ANG u /NLY -AYOR .ICANOR DE ,EON OF !MULUNG #AGAYAN WAS EXCUSED for not being present at his post as HE HAD TO ATTEND A 3ANDIGANBAYAN HEARING IN 1UEZON #ITY ON 3EPTEMBER ACCORDING TO -ALAYA $),' 3ECRETARY %DUARDO !Ă„O ALSO ISSUED A WRITTEN ADMONITION TO SIX OTHER MAYORS FOR DISREGARDING THE ADVISORY TO BE PRESENT DURING CALAMITIES AND PERSONALLY SUPERVISE EVACUATION RESCUE AND relief operations on September

AND 4HEY ARE 2OBERT 3EARES OF $OLORES !BRA -ARJORIE 3ALAZAR OF ,ASAM #AGAYAN +IM 4URINGAN OF %NRILE #AGAYAN #ARMELO 6ILLACETE OF 0IAT #AGAYAN *ENALYN #ARAG OF 3OLANA #AGAYAN AND &RANCISCO -AMBA OF 4UAO #AGAYAN g3ECRETARY !Ă„O S DIRECTIVE WAS VERY CLEAR 4HE PHYSICAL PRESENCE OF THE MAYOR IN HIS AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY IS CRUCIAL HIS ABSENCE ADVERSELY AFFECTS THE OPERATION OF the LGU (local government unit) AND IT IS ;HIS= CONSTITUENTS WHO SUFFER u -ALAYA SAID -EANWHILE FOUR OTHER MAYORS ARE STILL BEING REVALIDATED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE $),' REGIONAL OFkCES g5NLESS THEY CAN PROVE THAT IT IS LEGALLY AND PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PERFORM THEIR DUTY AT THE TIME

THESE FOUR MAYORS MAY ALSO BE FOUND LIABLE u -ALAYA SAID 4YPHOON /MPONG LEFT DEAD PEOPLE MOSTLY FROM #!2

ACCORDING TO THE 0HILIPPINE .ATIONAL 0OLICE 4HESE DEATHS WERE MOSTLY CAUSED BY LANDSLIDES INCLUDING THE TRAGIC LANDSLIDE IN )TOGON

"ENGUET WHERE MANY WERE BURIED alive after choosing to evacuate to bunk houses for miners.

ROY D.R. NARRA

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IN &ORBES 0ARK IN -AKATI #ITY 3ENIOR 3UPT 2OGELIO 2OSALES 0ARAĂ„AQUE CHIEF OF POLICE IN AN INTERVIEW SAID THE CITY POLICE S WARRANT AND INTELligence sections found that the Okada FAMILY HAD NO RESIDENCES IN THE CITY *UDGE (OW ALSO ORDERED THE .Ational Bureau of Investigation and the #RIMINAL )NVESTIGATION AND $ETECTION Group to track the gaming mogul.

Okada earlier denied the complaints LODGED AGAINST HIM AND MAINTAINED THAT THE MONEY WAS RELEASED THROUGH gLAWFULu MEANS AND THAT IT WAS FOR HIS SALARIES AND CONSULTANCY FEES )N ITS COMPLAINT 42,%) SAID THE TYCOON RECEIVED AND

IN SALARIES FOR !PRIL AND -AY AND MILLION IN CONSULTANCY FEES FROM .OVEMBER TO -ARCH 4HE $O* IN ITS INDICTMENT SAID IT WAS NOT CONVINCED WITH /KADA S COUNTER AFkDAVIT WHERE HE SAID THE PAYMENTS HE RECEIVED WERE gNEITHER MISAPPROPRIATED NOR CONVERTEDu AND THAT THESE WERE FEES and compensation due him. g4HE FACT THAT RESPONDENT /KADA S compensation under both agreeMENTS WAS DETERMINED IN VIOLATION OF COMPLAINANT S BYLAWS IS ENOUGH REAson for us to believe that the amounts WERE NOT RELEASED PROPERLY u IT ADDED Forbes magazine listed Okada as .O RICHEST MAN IN *APAN WITH A NET WORTH OF OVER BILLION ,AST YEAR 4OKYO BASED CONGLOMERATE 5NIVERSAL %NTERTAINMENT #ORP

WHICH /KADA FOUNDED IN

DISCLOSED THAT HE WAS ARRESTED BY THE (ONG +ONG )NDEPENDENT #OMMISSION !GAINST #ORRUPTION ! YEAR PRIOR /KADA WAS LAID OFF AS chairman of the same conglomerate FOR MISAPPROPRIATING MILLION He had also been sacked as direcTOR OF THE (ONG +ONG BASED /KADA Holdings Ltd. NEIL JAYSON N. SERVALLOS

Okada leaves FROM A COMPLAINT FILED BY 4IGER Resorts Leisure and Entertainment Inc. (TRLEI). )MMIGRATION RECORDS OBTAINED BY The Manila Times SHOWED THAT A CERTAIN +AZUO /KADA BORN IN LEFT THE COUNTRY ABOARD &LIGHT .UMBER 02 OF AN UNKNOWN PLANE LAST *ANUARY *USTICE 3ECRETARY -ENARDO 'UEvarra said the Bureau of Immigration (BI) had also recorded that another +AZUO /KADA BORN IN ARRIVED IN THE COUNTRY LAST $ECEMBER AND DEPARTED kVE DAYS LATER 4HE $EPARTMENT OF *USTICE $O* A DAY PRIOR TO /KADA S ALLEGED ARRIVAL

had indicted Okada and Takahiro 5SUI 42,%) S FORMER PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFkCER WHO WAS ALSO named a conspirator in the alleged embezzlement. g&RANKLY WE $O* AND ") DON T KNOW WHERE HE IS u 'UEVARRA TOLD The Manila Times. ! SOURCE PRIVY TO THE MATTER SAID TWO MORE MEN WITH THE SAME NAME AND YEAR OF BIRTH WERE RECORDED BETWEEN THE DATES OF THE INDICTMENT AND THE ISSUANCE OF AN ARREST WARRANT *UDGE 2OLANDO (OW OF THE 0ARAĂ„AQUE #ITY 2EGIONAL 4RIAL #OURT "RANCH LAST *ANUARY ORDERED THE TWO ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY EMBEZZLING MILLION IN COMPANY FUNDS OF 42,%) "AIL WAS SET AT 0 FOR ALL three charges.

(OW ALSO ORDERED THE CHIEFS OF THE 0ARAĂ„AQUE #ITY AND -AKATI #ITY POLICE TO ENFORCE THE ARREST WARRANT AGAINST THE YEAR OLD TYCOON 3ENIOR 3UPT 2OGELIO 3IMON -AKATI POLICE CHIEF SAID UPON GETTING THE ARREST ORDER THE CITY POLICE S WARRANT AND SUBPOENA SECTION WENT TO A KNOWN RESIDENCE OF THE /KADA FAMILY

Nationinbriefs SUSPECTED NPA REBELS TORCH HEAVY EQUIPMENT IN QUEZON REAL, Quezon: A group of suspected communist New People’s Army (NPA) on Monday torched the heavy equipment and temporary shelter of a mini-hydro dam project in Barangay Maragondon in this town. Project manager Agustin Jaramillo said around 11:30 p.m. on Monday, their workers were awakened when around 10 heavily armed men burned down their makeshift office and three dump trucks, two backhoes, one generator set, one transit mixer, one loader, one L300 van and one unserviceable Strada pick-up. They did not harm the workers though. Local police and members of 80th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army are conducting hotpursuit and clearing operations in the area.

BELLY M. OTORDOZ AND FRANCIS EARL CUETO

TARLAC OFFERS P.5-M BOUNTY FOR CAPITOL EMPLOYEE’S KILLER TARLAC: The provincial government of Tarlac has offered a P500,000 reward for anyone who could give information that would lead to the immediate capture of

WEDNESDAY January 23, 2019

BY DEXTER A. SEE

!'5)/ #)49 4HE ELECTION OFkCER OF THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) of THIS CITY HAD WARNED MULTI SECTORAL ANTI VOTE BUYING CAMPAIGNERS HERE THAT THEIR ACCREDITATION AS VOTER EDUCATION ADVOCATES WOULD BE REVOKED ONCE THEY GET INVOLVED IN PARTISAN POLITICS DURING PILOT TESTING OF THE ADVOCACY IN THE CITY #ITY ELECTION OFkCER *OHN 0AUL Martin said that before the local election office releases the CAMPAIGNERS ACCREDITATION THOSE TAKING PART IN THE #OMELEC S VOTER EDUCATION DRIVE WOULD BE MADE TO SIGN AN AFkDAVIT STATING THEIR NON involvement in partisan politics. ,AST WEEK VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS IN THIS CITY LED BY THE LOCAL #OMELEC LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN AGAINST gVOTE BUYING AND VOTE SELLINGu WITH THE SIGNING OF A memorandum of understanding -O5 AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF THE 0HILIPPINES "AGUIO g4HIS IS THE kRST TIME THAT THE #OMELEC HAS INITIATED THE MULTI SECTORAL ANTI VOTE BUYING CAMPAIGN IN THE CITY TO GENERATE AWARENESS AND ENCOURAGE VOTERS TO ACTIVELY CAMPAIGN AGAINST VOTE BUYING AND TO REPORT ANY ELECTION RELATED ANOMALIES u -ARTIN SAID He added that the local election OFkCER WOULD ISSUE TO THE ACCREDited voter education advocates APPOINTMENTS AND IDENTIkCATION cards containing the anti-vote BUYING LOGO TO SERVE AS THEIR CREdentials in conducting the campaign in the BARANGAY (villages) OR WITHIN THEIR GROUPS g7E WANT TO BRING BACK THE CREDIBILITY OF THE ELECTIONS BECAUSE IT SEEMS THAT VOTE BUYING AND PREMATURE CAMPAIGNING HAVE NOW BECOME A NORM IN OUR SOCIETY

THAT IS WHY WE MUST TAKE THE LEAD

in bringing back to its stature the CONDUCT OF THE POLITICAL EXERCISE u Martin said.

He asked the public to cooperATE WITH THE #OMELEC BY REPORTING ILLEGAL AND QUESTIONABLE ACTIVITIES of the accredited voter education CAMPAIGN ADVOCATES WHO MIGHT ENGAGE IN PARTISAN ACTIVITIES SO

that appropriate actions could be taken against them. g7E WANT VOTERS TO CHOOSE FREELY

IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY VIOLENCE

threats and intimidation. Removing ALL UNDUE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE WHO have more resources gives voters MORE OPTIONS TO CHOOSE FROM u -ARtin said at the MoU signing.

(E NAMED TWO ASPECTS OF THE CAMPAIGN VOTERS EDUCATION AND legal assistance. $URING THE VOTERS EDUCATION PHASE -ARTIN SAID #OMELEC "AGUIO WOULD BRIEF STAKEHOLDERS ON HOW TO conduct the voter education drive. &OR LEGAL ASSISTANCE THE POLL BODY THROUGH ITS LAW DEPARTMENT

WILL DRAFT A PRO FORMA COMPLAINT sheet and other documents to SIMPLIFY THE kLING OF COMPLAINTS

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ON VOTE BUYING HE ADDED #OMELEC "AGUIO ACCORDING TO HIM HAS COORDINATED WITH THE $EPARTMENT OF *USTICE $O* "AGUIO #ITY 0OLICE /FkCE "#0/ AND THE )NTEGRATED "AR OF THE 0HILIPPINES )"0 TO DEVELOP A SIMPLIkED PROcedure for the arrest and prosecuTION OF VOTE BUYERS 4HE ANTI VOTE BUYING CAMPAIGN IS SUPPORTED BY THE $O* "#0/

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Department of the Interior and ,OCAL 'OVERNMENT Sangguniang +ABATAAN 9OUTH #OUNCIL VARIOUS RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS CIVIL SOCIETY ORGAnizations and the candidates for different elective positions.

WITH THOM F. PICANA AND GABY B. KEITH

SUMMER CAPITAL GETTING COLDER

BAGUIO CITY: The temperature in the country’s Summer Capital continues to drop after the local office of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) recorded 10.4 degree Celsius on Tuesday morning, the lowest in the city this year.

Wilson Locando, Pagasa weather specialist, said the continuing drop in the temperature in the city was caused by the enhanced northeast monsoon that is prevailing in most parts of Northern Luzon. “There will be a continuing drop in the city’s temperature in the coming weeks, especially now that it is winter in China and the Siberian region where the enhanced northeast monsoon is originating from [and] now at its height. Thus, people must be ready for the effects of the chilly weather that could extend up to the middle of March,� Locando added.

Last week, the lowest temperature recorded by the local weather bureau was 12 C from the usual 13 to 14 C in

the early mornings.

The lowest temperature recorded in the city’s history was 6.3 C on Jan. 18, 1961 while the fifth lowest temperature, 7.5 C, was recorded on Jan. 15, 2009.

Locando said the weather condition in the city was unpredictable because of effects of climate change on the country’s weather patterns.

Thus, he added, it was difficult to predict whether the temperature would drop to a single digit in the coming weeks.

Locando said the prevailing temperature in other highly elevated areas in Baguio, Benguet and Mountain Province is 2 to 3 degrees lower than that in the city proper.

The cold spell in elevated areas in the Cordillera prevails from November to March every year, but the cold season started in early October last year, catching many people by surprise.

Agriculture industry stakeholders in the Cordillera expressed their concern on the effects of the cold weather

on crops that are in their vegetative, flowering and harvestable stages.

Farmers have been constantly advised to immediately implement appropriate strategies to clear the frost that forms on top of their crops before sunrise to prevent these from being damaged.

For the past several years, negative effects of frost on the vegetable produce of thousands of farmers in these areas drastically decreased because they took appropriate measures to rid their crops of frost once the temperature drops, thereby contributing to the stable prevailing prices of semi-temperate vegetables.

The industry stakeholders had urged middlemen and traders not to take advantage of the situation by trying to create an artificial shortage of locally produced vegetables so they could unjustly increase the prices of vegetables to the detriment of local vegetable growers, who rely on vegetable farming as their primary source of income.

DEXTER A. SEE

Bong Go now adopted son of Nueva Ecija NUEVA ECIJA: #ITING HIS WORK AS FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT OF 0RESIDENT 2ODRIGO $UTERTE HIS ROLE IN BRINGING THE CONCERNS OF THE PEOPLE TO THE #HIEF %Xecutive and his continued support of THE PROVINCE THE 0ROVINCIAL "OARD OF .UEVA %CIJA HAS DECLARED #HRISTOPHER ,AWRENCE g"ONGu 'O AS ADOPTED SON of the province. ! ONE PAGE RESOLUTION DATED *AN

SAID gTHE 3ANGGUNIANG 0ANLALAWIGAN 30 NG .UEVA %CIJA RESOLVES TO ADOPT ;FORMER= SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE 0RESIDENT #HRISTOPHER ,AWRENCE @"ONG 'O to be an adopted son of the provINCE OF .UEVA %CIJA u 4HE RESOLUTION STATED gTHE FULL SUPPORT OF THE 3ANGGUNIANG 0ANLALAWIGAN TO HIS 'O S SENATORIAL CANDIDACY IN THE MID TERM NATIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS ON -AY

u 0ROVINCIAL 2ESOLUTION 3ERIES ATTESTED TO BY 3ECRETARY TO THE 30 'IAN #ARLO 3UMANLAG AND APPROVED BY .UEVA %CIJA 'OV #ZARINA 5MALI

WAS PRESENTED TO 'O DURING HIS VISIT TO #ABANATUAN #ITY ON -ONDAY g) WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE PEOPLE OF .UEVA %CIJA FOR THEIR WHOLEHEARTED SUPPORT TO 0RESIDENT $UTERTE AND MY GOALS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE WELFARE OF EVERY &ILIPINO WE SERVE u 'O SAID

RISING SON

Christopher Lawrence ‘Bong’ Go, former special assistant of President Rodrigo Duterte, shows the resolution naming him as adopted son of Nueva Ecija on Monday. A candidate for senator in the May midterm elections, Go was cited, among others, for his support to the province. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO g$O NOT THANK US 4HIS IS OUR JOB 7E HAVE NO OTHER DESIRE BUT YOUR GREATER GOOD u HE ADDED /N -ONDAY MORNING 'O WENT TO #ABANATUAN #ITY TO ATTEND SEVERAL EVENTS AS WELL AS TO GRACE THE OPENING of the 21st Malasakit #ENTER AT THE Eduardo L. Joson Memorial Hospital.

4HE -ALASAKIT #ENTER BRINGS TOgether in one room government agencies such as the Depaartment of (EALTH $EPARTMENT OF 3OCIAL 7ORK AND $EVELOPMENT 0HILIPPINE (EALTH )NSURANCE #ORP 0HILIPPINE #HARITY

the suspects in the murder last January 12 of Emil Datu, a Provincial Composite Task Force (PCTF) employee. A resident of Barangay Cristo Rey in Capas town, he was gunned down by two armed suspects while tending to his duties as PCTF control point checker. The PCTF is mainly in-charge of inspecting hauling permits and delivery receipts of dump trucks carrying extracted loads of sand, gravel and other earth materials. Supt. Bayani Razalan, Tarlac Police Provincial Office (TPPO) deputy director, said before Datu’s murder, he and several other PCTF employees received death threats. He added that they had already identified the primary suspect and are investigating a “John Doe.� The primary suspect has already been identified by the police and another John Doe is yet to be identified. Gov. Susan Yap asked the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, the National Bureau of Investigation-Tarlac and the TPPO to conduct a thorough investigation of the case.

JERRY M. HERNANDEZ

BAGUIO MAYOR WARNS PUBLIC OF NON-FDA APPROVED ‘LAMBANOG’ BAGUIO CITY: Mayor Mauricio Domogan has advised businessmen and consumers here to heed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory against selling or drinking non-FDA-registered lambanog. This was in compliance with the Deptart-

3WEEPSTAKES /FkCE AND 0HILIPPINE !MUSEMENT AND 'AMING #ORP TO make it easier for indigent patients TO AVAIL OF MEDICAL AND kNANCIAL ASsistance from the government. $URING HIS VISIT 'O JOINED A BOODLE kGHT WITH TRICYCLE DRIVERS and urged them to support the 0RESIDENT S ADVOCACY AGAINST ILLEGAL DRUGS CRIMINALITY AND CORRUPTION

.UEVA %CIJA IS KNOWN AS THE gTRICYCLE CAPITAL OF THE 0HILIPPINES u 'O INVITED LEADERS OF THE 4RICYCLE /Perators and Drivers Association (TODA) IN THE CITY TO ATTEND THE 4/$! SUMMIT IN 0ASAY #ITY ON 7EDNESDAY He said the government organized this event so that the operators and drivers could have a venue to raise their concerns.

ment of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) advisory dated Dec. 12, 2018, urging all local chief executives in the country to ensure that lambanog is not made available in their localities. It said product verification and laboratory analysis it conducted with the Department of Health Epidemiology Bureau confirmed that the lambanog ingested by fatalities in a recent incident contained high levels of the substance methanol and were not registered with the FDA. Lambanaog is fermented from coconut sap.

GABY B. KEITH

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WEDNESDAY January 23, 2019

BY ROY D.R. NARRA

HE NUMBER OF CRIMES COMMITTED

BY MINORS INCREASED IN WITH PHYSICAL INJURY TOPPING THE LIST OF OFFENSES A REPORT OF THE 0HILIPPINE .ATIONAL 0OLICE 7OMEN AND #HILDREN 0ROTECTION #ENTER 0.0 7#0# SHOWED

From 10,388 in 2017, the number of juvenile delinquencies rose to 11,228 or an increase of 7.48 percent in 2018.

(OWEVER THE kGURE WAS LOWER compared to those in 2014 (14,993), 2015 (11,616) and 2016 (11,643).

Ilocos Region had the most number of juvenile crime with 1,857 followed by Eastern Visayas with 1,210; Cagayan Valley, 1,166;

Central Visayas, 1,120; and Calabarzon, 839.

Of the crimes committed by minors, 2,256 were cases of physical injury, higher than the 2,086 incidents in 2017.

Records of theft, the second most committed crime, also increased from 877 in 2017 to 1,517 in 2018.

A total of 1,324 minors committed

malicious mischief in 2018, a huge jump from 2017’s record of 180.

Activities related to drugs committed by minors also rose by almost 50 percent, with 857 cases in 2018 from 481 cases in 2017.

2APE WAS THE kFTH MOST COMMITted crime by minors in 2018 with 772, lower than the 887 reported cases in 2017.

Chief Supt. Benigno Durana Jr.,

the PNP’s spokesman, said most of the minors who committed crimes were aged 12 to 14.

The House Committee on Justice recently approved the bill that would make nine-year-old minors liable for the crime they commit.

The PNP backed the bill, saying it would deter drug lords and crime syndicates from using minors in their operations.

Manila Zoo shuts down THE -ANILA :OO WILL BE CLOSED INDEknitely starting Jan. 23, 2019 to pave the way for the construction of a sewage treatment plant.

Manila City Hall Administrator Ericson Alcovendaz said the zoo would open to the public when the construction of THE SEWER LINES IS kNISHED The putting up of the zoo’s sewage treatment facility is part of the massive clean up of the Manila Bay. Alcovendaz said Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada ordered the city government’s ENGINEERING OFkCE TWO WEEKS AGO TO COME up with a plan for the installation of the SEWER LINES IN THE kVE HECTARE ZOO He said the city government would

comply with the directives of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

The DENR gave the city government four months to construct a wastewater treatment facility.

Two weeks ago, the Laguna Lake Development Authority, one of the agencies tasked to rehabilitate Manila Bay, said the zoo and 16 other establishments around the bay had not complied with the 1997 concession agreement signed by the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System and two concessionaires, Manila Water Company Inc. and Maynilad Water Services Inc. requiring all enterprises in Western and Eastern

Metro Manila to put up a wastewater treatment facility.

Manila Zoo is connected to the Estero de San Antonio Abad which DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu said had coliform level of 1.3 billion per 1,000 milliliters (ml) per most probable number (mpn), higher than the bay’s 330 million.

The fecal coliform levels of both bodies of water were way above the standard of 100 ml per mpn.

Jas Garcia, officer in charge of the public operations bureau of the Manila Zoo, said the establishment only had septic tanks, which remove contaminants in wastewater.

CATHERINE A. MODESTO

Senate abolishes Road Board THE Senate on Tuesday abolished the Road Board by adopting House Bill (HB) 7436.

Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri reported to the plenary that the chamber received a communication from the House of Representatives, informing the Senate that it had approved on Monday on third reading a new version of HB 7436, abolishing

the Road Board.

President Rodrigo Duterte had pressed for the abolition of the Road Board amid allegations of corruption.

The Senate adopted on Sept. 12, 2018 an earlier version of HB 7436 as an amendment to Senate Bill 1620.

On the same day however, the House informed the Senate that it rescinded its

approval on third reading of HB 7436. “Considering the approval by the House of Representatives yesterday (January 21) of a revised version of House Bill 7436, we moved to reconsider the Sept. 12, 2018 adoption of the previous version of the HB 7436,�

Zubiri said during the plenary.

BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO

CULTURE MEET

Cecilia Guidote-Alvarez, Unesco Dream Center director, poses with former House Speaker Jose de Venecia (third from right) and officers of the Asian Culture Council during the inauguration of the ACC under the auspices of the International Conference of Political Parties in Siem Reap.

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Pacquiao on the mend after scratched cornea to that of unbeaten US “super champion�

Keith Thurman. )N FACT THE YEAR OLD kGHTER HAD ALREADY SHED HIS EYE PATCH AND WAS FEELING kT ENOUGH to attend Monday night’s NBA game between the reigning champion Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center.

But the eye injury — possibly caused by loose tape on Broner’s gloves — wasn’t the only bad news for Pacquiao in an otherwise productive weekend.

A Los Angeles home owned by Pacquiao was burgled while he was in Las Vegas, sources said, but it wasn’t immediately clear what was taken. )T S NOT THE kRST TIME A PROMINENT SPORTSMAN has had a home burglarized in Los Angeles.

Former Los Angeles Dodgers star Yasiel Puig was the victim of at least four burglaries in an 18-month period while he was playing

in Major League Baseball games or otherwise FULkLLING TEAM DUTIES Thieves have also targeted the home of Los Angeles Rams receiver Robert Woods.

Pacquiao, who improved to 61-7 with two draws and 39 knockouts after his win over Broner, has indicated that he will continue TO kGHT EVEN THOUGH HE HAS OBLIGATIONS AS A Philippines senator. “I will ask my promoters who’s next and we will announce that in proper time,� promised Pacquiao, who said he would be more than willing to climb into the ring again with Floyd Mayweather in a bid to avenge his 2015 loss to the undefeated American in what became the richest oneday sporting event in history. “Tell him to come back to the ring and we WILL kGHT u 0ACQUIAO SAID AFP

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Gretchen claims veiled death and partner of Aquino’s cousin Tonyboy Cojuangco for 25 years — posted on Instagram on Monday what she calls a “classic example of a non-denial denial.�

Circling the words “Eduardo in any pending tax case� issued by Divina Law, the group handling Aquino’s cases against her former business manager Nicko Falcis, whom she accused of stealing funds from her company, Barretto said, “Notice how shrewd and deceptive her divine lawyers are by qualifying that the Queen of All Fixers did not intervene for Aliceinwonderland in any pending tax case.

Obviously, the sawsaw tax case happened during Miss [Kim] Henares’ stint as BIR (Bureau of Internal Revenue) Commissioner, who also happens to be currently the Queen of All Fixers’ personal accountant.�

She revealed that Aquino had contacted her estranged family for help to destroy her (Barretto), to the point of threatening to kill her like what the multi-media star did to Falcis. “And what’s this I heard from inside her camp? She called up Claudine to tell my parENTS THAT SHE WILL kLE A CASE AGAINST ME AND put me to jail and asked them for help in destroying me. What is this, a tag team wrestling match? Can’t a ‘Queen’ handle it herself? “At least si Nicko, she said ‘ipapapatay kita sa pamilya ko. With me, she wants ‘ipapapatay kita sa pamilya MO? And of course ARTEcaria Queen couldn’t help to look in the mirror and say she was previously a number one taxpayer.

But why should we care about that when you HELPED kX !LICEINWONDERLAND %DUARDO HEFTY amount of taxes?�

Falcis and his brother, lawyer Jesus Falcis, filed two counts of grave threats against Aquino on January 18 before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC). Their bases for the

complaint was Aquino’s threats against the older Falcis in their phone conversation on Sept. 27, 2018 where the former TV host said, “ipapapatay kita sa pamilya ko!�

Aquino had admitted that she was the woman threatening Falcis in a viral recording, but said it was just a bluff. Falcis, however, said a death threat should not be taken lightly.

Under his Instagram handle or name NIX &ALCIS DECLARED g9OU CAN T kX YOURSELF by breaking someone else.� “A death threat is a death threat and should never be taken lightly. Saying it was a bluff is YOUR QUICK kX TO EVERYTHING 9OU PREMEDItated everything.You told me to go abroad and when I did, threatened me not to dare step in this country or I will be dead. It was all apparently part of your script to project my absence AS @lIGHT IS GUILT AND YOU HARASSED ME FOR FOUR months to play along — but I refused. “I will never forget that you instructed your lawyers for my mom to ask for forgiveness because you got hurt that I am leaving you and KCAP — but she refused. I will never forget how you bullied my friends, stakeholders and project managers to portray yourself as the victim, threatened them that they will be collateral damages — but they refused. “You have a serious mental problem. I did not steal anything from you, it was you who stole my reputation, my freedom, and my relationships. But you will not be successful because the public has now seen your attempted robbery,�

Falcis said. g4RY kXING YOUR LIFE kRST BEFORE kXING FOR OTHers! We both know you want to run in 2022 because it’s your so-called destiny. After the sickness drama, you’re back to being healthy.

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NVESTMENT grade ratings for two banks affected by a Subic-based shipbuilder’s bankruptcy — potentially the biggest default in Philippine corporate history — HAVE BEEN AFkRMED BY -OODY S )NVESTORS 3ERVICE

BDO Unibank, Inc. and Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank) continue to be rated “Baa2� with a stable

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the banks if needed. �The ratings outlook, where applicable, is stable,� it said in a statement on Tuesday, noting that the scores was not raised because the lenders’ baseline credit assessments (BCA) of baa2 were already at the same level as the sovereign rating.

Earlier this month, Moody’s had warned that the five banks exposed to the insolvency of Hanjin Heavy In-

dustries and Construction Philippines (HHIC-Phil) — BDO, Metrobank, Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank), Rizal Commercial Banking Corp.

(RCBC) and Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) — could see their credit ratings fall given potential losses of around $412 million.

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Alphorn blowers perform during the opening of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting on January 22, 2019 in Davos, Switzerland. AFP PHOTO

HSBC ‘neutral’ on PH equities following 2018’s volatile ride HSBC is keeping a neutral outlook for the Philippine stock market following a volatile ride that saw the benchmark index end 2018 in the red after record highs at the start of the year.

In a report on Tuesday, the banking giant said the Philippine equity market was the worst-performing in the region in 2018, with high inflation and high interest rates having hurt share prices.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exc h a n g e i n d e x ( P S E i ) c l o s e d 201 8 a t 7,466.02, down nearly 13 percent from the start of year and also well below a record high of 9,058.62 hit in January.

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The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) inched up by just 0.01 percent or POINTS TO kNISH AT 4HE WIDER !LL Shares gained 0.23 percent or 10.97 points to end at 4,809. 97.

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John Mangun said traders were worried about global economic growth after China on Monday announced that its economy grew by 6.6 percent in 2018 — the lowest in 28 years and below market forecasts. “The only thing that kept our market above

IS THE CONTINUOUS INlOW OF FOREIGN FUNDS with more than P900-million net foreign buying,� he added.

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NLAC, composed of Filinvest Development Corp., JG Summit Holdings, Inc., Philippine Airport Ground Support Solutions, Inc., and Changi Airport Philippines Pte. Ltd., won a 25-year operation and maintenance (O&M) deal for Clark last month.

It defeated the X-Droid Consortium composed of Angkasa Pura II, Globalport 900, Mazy Capital and Desco.

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I L L I A M Y. C h u a , a member of the 11-person board of Victorias Milling Co. Inc., increased to 90,224 million, or 3.29 percent, the number of VMC common shares he indirectly owned after buying 48,000 VMC common shares at P2.23 each on Jan. 17, 2019. )N A STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEkCIAL ownership, Chua said the VMC common shares are “held by members of a person’s immediate family sharing the same household.�

In addition to his indirect holdings, Chua also directly owns 1,000 VMC common

shares.

At his acquisition price of P2.32 per VMC common share on Jan. 17, 2019, Chua had indirect paper wealth of P209.319 million.

On Jan. 21, 2019, the stock closed also at P2.32 per VMC common share. )N AN UNAUDITED BUT CONSOLIDATED kNANCIAL kLING 6-# REPORTED RETAINED EARNINGS of P3.688 billion.

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THE Israeli government has been urged to explore possible technology and construction partnerships with the Philippines, the Finance department said on Tuesday.

In a statement, it said the invitation was extended by Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd to Israeli Ambassador Rafael Harpaz during a recent meeting. “There are ample opportunities for bilateral cooperation between the Philippines and Israel in the technology and construction sectors. We have invited Israeli experts in these fields to visit the Philippines to explore possible cooperation arrangements,� Dominguez was quoted as having told Harpaz. Recognizing Israel’s status as one of the world’s most active hubs of technology innovation and “green� or eco-friendly construction, Dominguez said the Philippines could learn much to ensure that the “Build Build Build� program was implemented efficiently.

Undersecretary Mark Dennis Joven,

who heads the department’s International Finance Group, was tasked to coordinate with the Israeli Embassy. Dominguez said he had also asked Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Deputy Governor Chuchi Fonacier to meet with Israeli officials to discuss ways of tapping Israel’s cybersecurity innovations as the Philippines was increasingly using electronic payments systems to facilitate trade and expand access to credit.

Harpaz, for his part, was said to have welcomed Dominguez’s proposals and offered Israel’s assistance in improving the Philippines’ capacity to utilize “green� technologies in implementing infrastructure projects as well as digital solutions to improve the BSP’s cybersecurity system.  He also emphasized the need to establish a financial protocol with the Philippines, especially since at least 10 Israeli companies were reportedly interested in investing in New Clark City in Pampanga. MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO

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ORE *APANESE kRMS ARE BULLISH ON THEIR business prospects in the Philippines as they anticipate a higher revenue base DUE TO MARKET EXPANSION AND ALSO HAVE A POSITIVE OUTLOOK ON THE LOCAL MANUFACTURING SECTOR A survey conducted by a Japanese trade group SHOWED

Meanwhile, Ishihara said the respondents planned to boost local procurement, which could keep the local manufacturing sector competitive. Citing the survey, he said the respondents were looking to raise their procurement ratio of local suppliers from 29 percent in 2018 to 58 percent this year. “Although they wish to raise local procurement, THEY STILL HAVE SOME DIFkCULTIES TO identify local suppliers,� Ishihara explained.

The survey also noted that the share of labor in the overall production cost of the manufacturing sector increased. It has grown from 15.88 percent in 2017 to 18.56 percent in 2018.

While the Japanese firms appreciate “English-speaking and talented� Filipino workers, Ishihara said wage concerns could “reduce

the advantage of the Philippines as an investment destination.� “Very frankly, the international competitiveness of human resources, I mean wage, decreased last year due to foreign exchange,�

Ishihara added.

He also said the Philippines had lower wage rate growth (5.3 percent) last year compared to two of its Asean neigbors—Indonesia (7.5 percent) and Vietnam (7.4 percent). While the trade group still expects the Philippines to post a 5.3-percent wage growth this year, it will still lag behind Indonesia (7.5 percent) and Vietnam (7.1 percent).

Current tax incentives in the Philippines are “highly� appreciATED BY THE *APANESE kRMS BUT they are concerned about “complicated� taxation procedures, Ishihara also said.

The survey conducted by the Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro), an independent agency that promotes trade and investment, indicated that 56 percent of the Japanese companies exPECTED MORE PROkTS THIS YEAR 4HE kGURE IS HIGHER COMPARED TO THE percent recorded in 2018. “For 2019, 56 percent of Japanese companies responded that the business in the Philippines is

PROkTABLE u *%42/ -ANILA %XECUtive Director Takashi Ishihara said.

Ishihara said half of the JapaNESE kRMS IN THE COUNTRY WAS EYEing expansion this year to boost sales, widen market reach and meet client demands. The rest of the respondents decided to keep their current size, he added. The survey said 35 percent was expectING TO MAINTAIN THE PROkT LEVEL achieved last year.

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Study on PNR northeast line sought

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THE Philippine National Railways (PNR) is calling for a feasibility study (FS) to determine the viability of extending its railroads up to the northeast part of the country. “We asked NEDA (National Economic and Development Authority) already to conduct a feasibility study for Cabanatuan (Nueva Ecjia) to Makati City line,�

PNR General Manager Jun Magno said on Monday.

If viable, the planned extension would be called the northeast commuter line, he added without disclosing further details. “The focus of the DoTr (Department of

Transportation) and PNR is to go for transitory development . . . to support the growth targets of the government,� Magno said.

The government is banking on a massive infrastructure push via the “Build Build Build� program to propel economic growth at 7-8 percent this year until 2022.

In a related development, the government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Monday signed a P80.47billion loan agreement for the North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project.

The 51-kilometer (km) north ex-

tension will lengthen the line from Malolos to the Clark International Airport in Pampanga, while the 55-km south extension will run from Solis St., Manila to Calamba.

Construction of the extension lines is expected to commence this year with partial operations targeted by 2022. The loan carries interest rates of 10 basis points or 0.1 percent per annum for nonconsulting services and 1 basis point or 0.01 percent per annum for consulting services, with a maturity of 40 years inclusive of a 12-year grace period.

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sales Luis Limlingan agreed, adding that with Wall Street closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, the local bourse basically had “soft session�.

The PSEi’s close contrasted with

declines elsewhere in Asia, attribUTED TO PROkT TAKING AND RENEWED worries over the progress of USChina trade talks.

Hong Kong was down 0.7 percent, while Shanghai finished 1.2 percent lower. Tokyo skidded 0.5 percent, along with Sydney while Singapore was 0.4 percent off and Seoul dropped 0.3 percent.

In Manila, all sectors except HOLDING kRMS AND PROPERTY ENDED in the green.

Volume turnover stood at 1.79 billion shares valued at P6.38 billion.

Decliners led advancers, 115104, while 34 issues were unchanged.

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concentration risk.

Moody’s added that the bank’s reported nonperforming loan (NPL) ratio was stable at 1.1 percent as of the end of September million for Landbank, about $72 2018, compared with 1.2 percent million for Metrobank and some as of year-end 2017 and 1.3 per$60 million for both BDO and BPI. cent as of year-end 2016.

All five are currently rated The bank’s capital was de“Baa2� with stable outlooks. scribed as a credit strength, with In affirming BDO’s rating, a reported common equity tier Moody’s said it took into account 1 (CET1) capital ratio of 12.3 the bank’s domestically focused, percent as of September 30, 2018, prominent and growing franchise; slightly lower than the 12.9 perstable asset quality and loss ab- cent as of year-end 2017 after a SORBING BUFFERS SUFkCIENT CAPITAL stock rights issuance. levels that exceed the regulatory g/VER THE LAST YEAR PROkTABILITY MINIMUM STABLE PROkTABILITY THAT IS has been supported by an increase supported by a gradual expansion in in net interest margins, on account net interest margins; and its robust of a rise in interest rates,� the debt FUNDING AND LIQUIDITY PROkLE watcher said.

The bank’s BCA also incorpoBDO’s funding and liquidrates the weaker aspects of BDO’s ity profile remains a key credit CREDIT PROkLE INCLUDING DOWNSIDE strength, it added, with the bank risks to loan quality posed by an also having one of the highest unseasoned loan book and high shares of low-cost current-account

and savings account deposits (about 70 percent) in its deposit base as of end-September 2018.

Metrobank’s baa2 BCA, meanWHILE WAS SAID TO RElECT ITS STRONG franchise in the corporate and consumer segments as the country’s second-largest bank in terms of assets; robust capital and liquidity; stable ASSET QUALITY THAT RElECTS THE BANK S discipline and prudence in growing its business; and relatively high credit risk concentration that exposes bank to single-name credit events or industrySPECIkC CYCLICALITY The credit rater acknowledged that Metrobank’s gross NPL ratio, which rose marginally to 1.2 percent as of the end of September 2018 from 1.0 percent as of year-end 2017, remained in line with peer banks.

It added that the bank’s Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital ratio improved to 15.2 percent as of the end of September 2018 from 11.8 percent as of year-end 2017,

supported by a P60-million stock rights issuance in April 2018.

The bank’s return on assets IMPROVED SLIGHTLY IN THE kRST NINE months of 2018 to 1.1 percent from 1.0 percent in 2017, underpinned by its core lending operations and higher net interest margins, Moody’s continued. “MBT’s (Metrobank) funding and liquidity remain robust, relECTED BY ITS LARGE BASE OF CURRENT and savings deposits, which account for 62 percent of the bank’s total deposits as of the end of September 2018, as well as its large stock of liquid assets primarily in the form of cash and Philippine government securities,� it said.

Share prices of the banks rose ON NEWS OF THEIR AFkRMED CREDIT ratings, with BDO rising 1.38 percent or P1.80 to close at P131.80 apiece, while Metrobank gained 0.18 percent or P0.15 to P82.50 per share.

Filinvest and JG Summit told the Philippine Stock Exchange on Tuesday that the consortium HAD kNALLY FORMALIZED THEIR BID to upgrade Clark, dubbed as the “next premier gateway to Asia�.

A new terminal is expected to be operational by 2021 and the consortium has said that it would be spending about P6 billion to improve and increase the air hub’s capacity to serve eight million passengers per annum, double the current capacity.

The group also plans to partner with tourism authorities and airLINES TO BOOST THE AIRPORT S TRAFkC and route network, and make it “Northern and Central Luzon’s gateway, connecting the region to the rest of the Philippines and the world.�

On Tuesday, JG Summit saw its shares dip by 0.37 percent or 25 centavos to P66.85 apiece while Filinvest added 30 centavos or 2.44 percent for a P12.60 close.

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FEW days back, while I was having lunch with my four-year old daughter, I asked her if she wants to study at the University of the Philippines where her mother and I studied. Instead of answering my question, she told me that when she grows up, she wants to work at her mom’s office. g.OT IN MY OFkCE u ) QUERIED her, not because I wanted her to follow in my footsteps but because I was curious about how she would reason out. She resoundingly shook her head while telling me that I have too many “homework � which I suppose she is not a fan of. g7HAT ABOUT MOM S WORK u

I continued to ask her. She replied that her mom doesn’t have homework and “all she does are attend meetings (telephone conferences) and text her OFkCEMATES u Great leaders, they say, create more leaders. This is particularly important for organizations whenever we talk about succession planning In our respective organizations, we plan to ensure that new streams of leaders are ready to take over when the current holders of leadership positions retire or leave the organization Apart from identifying who these new set of leaders are, we also focus on mentoring these upand-comers to prepare them for their future in the organization.

That is all good until we realize that the people we are eyeing to succeed us do not want to.

Either their career plan does not include staying longer in the organization or they have certain perceptions about the demands on the current leader that makes the position undesirable.

Seldom do we think about how successors view current leaders, so much that sometimes it can be detrimental to our succession plans. We often focus too much on teaching the X’s and O’s that we forget the other factors our people might consider When they see us work, do they like what they SEE !RE THEY INSPIRED TO AIM FOR our position when we interact WITH THEM $O THEY ENTERTAIN the thought that someday, they WILL BE SITTING ON OUR CHAIR When we talk about preparing the next generation of leaders, we often forget about whether the successors we are preparing like to succeed us. It is possible that whenever they see us, whenever they think about our responsibilities and the pressures we are dealing with, they are not inspired to move up the ranks; they would rather retain their current positions or move out of the organization, whether it is because THEY ARE NOT CONkDENT THEY CAN handle the demands of the higher position or they just do not want to be like us.

People see things differently, shaped by their own biases and experiences. Whether it is ABOUT LONG HOURS IN THE OFkCE or facing the demands of stakeholders left and right, there are

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ANTON NG people who may not want any of those in their lives Part of our role in the succession planning strategy is to determine what our potential successors are aiming for, what their goals are, and what aspirations they have. It is important for us to also understand who they are and what values they hold highly. It should never be enough for us to assume that our high performers are delivering because they aspire to be future leaders of our organization There are simply people who have strong work ethics regardless of their career plans.

Therefore, it is very important that, apart from identifying who the potential successors are, we know our people deeper than the results they deliver Another matter we need to be mindful of is how our people see us in the work we do. Is their PERCEPTION CLOSE TO OUR REALITY In case there is misalignment, we may choose not to clarify this with them but remember, it is in the best interest of the organization to ensure that the potential successor’s perception of the position they are being prepared for is correct I am not espousing that we become pretentious to make our positions desirable. Neither am I suggesting that we project a more “likeable� image. This is a call for us to remember that succession planning can be derailed simply because we do not know our people enough; that there is not enough transparency between the leadership and its people to plan collectively for the future of the organization.

As I look back on the conversation I had with my daughter, it led me to think whether her observation is correct. Am I really always doing my “homeWORKu WHEN ) AM AT HOME )T dawned on me however, that regardless of whether her observation is correct, if I want her to make the best decision for her life, the way she perceives the things I do will be a factor in the decisions she will eventually make. A little more transparency between us two would not hurt.

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IZAL Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) announced on Tuesday that it had shortened the offer period of its P15-billion Peso Asean green bonds, closing it at noon of that day instead of Friday as originally planned.

In a mobile message to The Manila Times, an official of the Yuchengco-led lender said

it did so because the “bonds are already oversubscribed.�

In a disclosure, RCBC said the

bonds would be issued on February 1 and listed on the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corp. on or around that date.

Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd. and ING Bank, N.V., Manila Branch — the bank’s sole green structuring advisor — were jointly mandated to arrange the issuance.

SOUTH Korean company Soosan ENS Co. Ltd. will run the Malaya Thermal Power Plant in Pililia town, Rizal province, the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp.

(Psalm) announced on Tuesday. )N A STATEMENT THE STATE RUN kRM SAID its board of directors awarded the service contract to operate and manintain the 650-megawatt facility to Soosan, adding that the contract was good for “one year, or until the plant’s privatization.�

The contract-signing and issuance of the notice to proceed took place on Monday.

Psalm awarded the contract after Soosan passed all eligibility and technical assessments, and after it declared the company in October the lone bidder for the deal and the lowest compliant bidder.

Soosan had offered P205.7 million to run the facility.

The company manufactures construction, electrical and measurement control equipment, among other products.

Psalm had been trying to sell the plant and its underlying land as part of its privatization efforts, and looking for a consultant who could help them in the matter.

Designated by the Energy department as a must-run unit in 2014, Malaya provides additional electricity when the supply in THE ,UZON GRID IS DEkCIENT OR UNAVAILABLE )T was rehabilitated by another South Korean kRM +OREA %LECTRIC 0OWER #ORP UNDER a 15-year rehabilitate-operate-managemaintain agreement in 1995.

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in Paco, Manila.

It is also selling the 650-megawatt (MW) Malaya Thermal Power Plant (MTTP) and its land in Pililia town, Rizal province; the National Power Corp. (Napocor) complex in Quezon City; and its property beside the Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar resort in Bagac town, Bataan province.

Psalm has already sold more than 900 hectares of real-estate power assets, as well as Power Barge 104 in Ilang village, Davao City, and the decommissioned Sucat Thermal Power Plant in Muntinlupa City.

Alzona blamed the increase on the peso’s devaluation and 6.5-percent interest rates last year. “Mga nasa P30 billion ang forex [foreign exchange] loss for 2018 (The foreign exchange loss is about P30 billion for 2018),� she told reporters.

The official’s remarks come as Psalm is trying to sell off power assets. It is currently soliciting offers for the sale of the decommissioned Manila Thermal Power Plant’s land. The property measures 20,975 hectares and is found along the Pasig River in Isla de Provisor

HIGHER interest rates and the peso’s depreciation against the dollar have increased Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp.’s (Psalm) liabilities to almost P450 billion.

In an interview on Tuesday, Psalm Vice President for Finance Lourdes Alzona said THE STATE RUN COMPANY S ESTIMATED kNANcial obligations reached P449.94 billion as of December.

Of the amount, P265.21 billion were debts and P184.73 billion were the lease obligations of independent power producers (IPPs).

tion prevention and control.

This is in line with RCBC’s Green Finance Framework, which was created as a reference for the bank’s future fundraising activities for its environmental initiatives.

RCBC’s shares rose by 30 centavos or 1.12 percent to close at P27 each on Tuesday.

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Psalm was created under Republic Act 9136 or the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (Epira) to manage Napocor’s existing debts, capital lease payments to IPPs and outstanding obligations of electric cooperatives to the .ATIONAL %LECTRIkCATION !DMINISTRATION and other government agencies.

Before the Epira’s passage, Napocor’s debt was P830.7 billion, which surged to P1.24 trillion in 2003 after the peso declined to 55.569 to the dollar and incurred new debts to repay maturing obligations.

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Aboitiz InfraCapital bullish on water portfolio expansion ABOITIZ InfraCapital, Inc. (AIC) said on Tuesday it was working to expand its water portfolio to keep providing innovative infrastructure solutions in the Philippines.

In a statement, AIC Water Business Head and Apo Agua President Roman Azanza 3rd said the expansion aimed to help sustain the country’s economic growth.

AIC unit Apo Agua Infrastructura, Inc. is expected to be one of the largest bulk-water projects in the country with a sustainable water source, the company said.

It is envisioned to provide more than 300 million liters of water per day to over a million residents in Davao City, it added. “Our Apo Agua project is unique in the Philippines. It’s basically the conjunction

of water and power. It’s called the waterenergy nexus. So, we’re actually using the water we tapped from the Tamugan river to power a 2-megawatt hydroelectric plant WHICH IS SUFkCIENT TO SUPPLY ALL THE POWER needs of our water treatment plant,�

Azanza explained.

Other ventures under AIC’s water portfolio is Lima Water Corp., which provides

end-to-end bulk-water service, from production to wastewater treatment. It currently supplies 8,700 cubic meters of industrial and potable water to 600 hectares of industrial land.

According to Azanza, his company serves 150,000 households in 50 water distribution franchises in the country.

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Manila Water forms JV for Pagsanjan project LISTED Manila Water Co., Inc. has signed a deal with the Pagsanjan Water District (Pagwad) in Pagsanjan town, Laguna province, to implement a water project there.

In a disclosure on Tuesday, the Ayala-led water concessionaire said that under the contractual joint venture agreement signed by its unit Laguna AAAWater Corp. (Laguna Water) and Pagwad, the former shall serve as the latter’s contractor or agent in developing and managing water-supply and sanitation services in the district’s service area.

Laguna Water will also develop additional ground water sources to meet rising demand, expand its water

network to cover all of Pagsanjan’s communities, and implement sanitation programs to comply with various Philippine laws and regulations. “Aside from improving the water operations, the joint venture will make sanitation and environmental services, [including] septage management, available and accessible to its concessionaires, thus, ensuring protection of the environment and promoting good health and well-being of communities,� Manila Water said.

Once conditions outlined in the agreement are fulfilled, both Laguna Water and Pagwad shall

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)N A *ANUARY kLING 2#"# Senior Vice President and Treasurer Horacio Cebrero 3rd was quoted as saying the issuance size resulted from the fact the bonds were “three times oversubscribed.� The bank initially put the size at P5 billion.

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implement these services until Sept. 30, 2035.

The project has a full potential billed volume of 9.57 million liters per day, according to Manila Water. It is also seen to reduce water losses and increase water pressure through various network rehabilitation projects.

The agreement follows Manila Water’s disclosure in July that Laguna Water secured Pagwad’s nod to develop water-supply and sanitation facilities in Pagsanjan.

The project has an estimated capital expenditure of P173 million.

Laguna Water is a joint venture of MWPV and the

Laguna provincial government. The former owns 70 percent of the unit; the latter, 30 percent.

A subsidiary of Manila Water, MWPV is into wastewater processing and maintenance services.

Manila Water serves the east zone of the franchise area of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) in accordance with the concession agreement they signed on Feb. 21, 1997.

Shares of Manila Water added 5 centavos or 0.18 percent to close at P27.20 each on Tuesday.

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TOP ACTIVE STOCKS No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Security Name Ayala Corporation SM Prime Holdings, Inc. Ayala Land, Inc. San Miguel Corporation BDO Unibank, Inc. Bank of the Philippine Islands Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company Jollibee Foods Corporation SM Investments Corporation Alliance Global Group, Inc. JG Summit Holdings, Inc. Megaworld Corporation International Container Terminal Services, Inc. 0HWUR 3DFLÂżF ,QYHVWPHQWV &RUSRUDWLRQ Puregold Price Club, Inc. Manila Electric Company Security Bank Corporation Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. Universal Robina Corporation Cemex Holdings Philippines, Inc.

Last Price 911 39.45 44.7 170 131.8 92.8 82.5 325 976 14.06 66.85 5.25 107.4 4.93 45 371.4 175 66 145 2.4

Chg -14 -0.45 -0.6 7.2 1.8 0.8 0.15 -0.2 6 -0.02 -0.25 -0.11 3.4 -0.03 -0.75 8.6 -2.6 -0.6 1 0

%Chg -1.51% -1.13% -1.32% 4.42% 1.38% 0.87% 0.18% -0.06% 0.62% -0.14% -0.37% -2.05% 3.27% -0.60% -1.64% 2.37% -1.46% -0.90% 0.69% 0%

Volume 886,380.00 12,354,300.00 10,702,600.00 2,258,200.00 1,765,320.00 2,377,040.00 2,359,690.00 566,250.00 188,100.00 12,669,700.00 2,514,180.00 28,509,900.00 1,255,010.00 24,365,000 2,470,700 273,840 547,750 1,362,490 618,170 36,330,000

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Value(P) 807,936,330.00 486,278,115.00 478,682,640.00 378,499,551.00 232,184,314.00 217,680,662.50 194,061,863.00 183,803,708.00 183,488,700.00 177,906,896.00 167,921,733.50 150,505,264.00 134,666,003.00 120,198,760.00 111,304,800.00 100,937,832.00 95,912,527.00 91,095,310.50 89,332,397.00 89,067,220.00

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INDEX HISTORY Date Jan 22, 2019 Jan 21, 2019 Jan 18, 2019 Jan 17, 2019 Jan 16, 2019 Jan 15, 2019 Jan 14, 2019 Jan 11, 2019 Jan 10, 2019 Jan 09, 2019 Jan 08, 2019 Jan 07, 2019 Jan 4, 2019 Jan 3, 2019 Jan 2, 2019 Dec 28, 2018 Dec 27, 2018 Dec 26, 2018 Dec 21, 2018 Dec 20, 2018 Dec 19, 2018 Dec 18, 2018 Dec 17, 2018 Dec 14, 2018 Dec 13, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 Dec 11, 2018 Dec 10, 2018 Dec 07, 2018 Dec 06, 2018

Open 8,024 8,055 7,932 7,866 7,983 8,009 7,886 7,965 7,932 7,775 7,820 7,801 7,657 7,507 7,497 7,497 7,465 7,437 7,537 7,514 7,412 7,478 7,501 7,506 7,514 7,456 7,386 7,446 7,530 7,634

High 8,030 8,067 8,058 7,938 7,991 8,028 8,024 7,965 7,992 7,920 7,826 7,901 7,802 7,681 7,540 7,507 7,514 7,453 7,548 7,584 7,580 7,482 7,538 7,559 7,556 7,488 7,451 7,446 7,538 7,637

Low 7,979 7,964 7,920 7,865 7,849 7,976 7,819 7,856 7,899 7,766 7,702 7,788 7,657 7,490 7,466 7,466 7,447 7,379 7,452 7,498 7,407 7,397 7,491 7,503 7,514 7,426 7,379 7,348 7,450 7,535

Close 8,009 8,007 8,047 7,927 7,865 8,013 8,024 7,904 7,985 7,920 7,702 7,788 7,761 7,681 7,489 7,466 7,483 7,450 7,480 7,563 7,580 7,420 7,520 7,524 7,523 7,488 7,451 7,348 7,461 7,535

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No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Security Name Premiere Horizon Alliance Corporation Keppel Philippines Properties, Inc. SOCResources, Inc. Liberty Flour Mills, Inc. Grand Plaza Hotel Corporation Berjaya Philippines, Inc. Concrete Aggregates Corporation “A�

Belle Corporation EEI Corporation San Miguel Corporation Starmalls, Inc. Ferronoux Holdings, Inc. Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. Top Frontier Investment Holdings, Inc. )RUXP 3DFLÂżF ,QF International Container Terminal Services, Inc. Vulcan Industrial & Mining Italpinas Development Corporation Golden Bria Holdings, Inc. 'HO 0RQWH 3DFLÂżF /LPLWHG 8 6 'ROODU 'HQRPLQDWHG 6HULHV A-1 Preference Shares

Volume 62,140,000.00 2,000.00 298,000.00 10,200.00 100.00 1,739,000.00 2,890.00 4,383,000.00 2,158,100.00 2,258,200.00 1,094,500.00 67,000.00 554,300.00 7,160.00 40,000.00 1,255,010.00 5,450,000.00 355,000.00 14,040.00 14,890.00

Value 37,284,000.00 9,640.00 238,670.00 509,990.00 1,198.00 5,470,090.00 186,213.00 11,483,130.00 18,301,852.00 378,499,551.00 6,985,124.00 308,810.00 15,223,815.00 1,879,534.00 9,520.00 134,666,003.00 8,750,280.00 1,773,740.00 4,800,246.00 151,856.00

Last Price 0.6 4.82 0.83 50 11.98 3.25 64.7 2.63 8.5 170 6.41 4.77 28 269.8 0.238 107.4 1.6 5.05 340 10.4

Chg 0.2 1.3 0.09 5 0.94 0.25 4.7 0.15 0.43 7.2 0.27 0.19 1.1 9.8 0.008 3.4 0.05 0.15 10 0.28

%Chg 50.00% 36.93% 12.16% 11.11% 8.51% 8.33% 7.83% 6.05% 5.33% 4.42% 4.40% 4.15% 4.09% 3.77% 3.48% 3.27% 3.23% 3.06% 3.03% 2.77%

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Security Name Benguet Corporation “A�

The Philodrill Corporation Oriental Petroleum and Minerals Corporation “A�

Benguet Corporation “B�

Abacore Capital Holdings, Inc. Concrete Aggregates Corporation “B�

Xurpas Inc. Vitarich Corporation Medco Holdings, Inc. BDO Leasing & Finance, inc.

Marcventures Holdings, Inc. SSI Group, Inc. Primex Corporation Filinvest Land, Inc. NOW Corporation Boulevard Holdings, Inc. Crown Equities, Inc. Lorenzo Shipping Corporation 'HO 0RQWH 3DFLÂżF /LPLWHG Philippine Estates Corporation

*amounts in peso, except for volume, %chg

Volume 21,000.00 120,800,000.00 28,100,000.00 3,000.00 28,706,000.00 70.00 11,128,000.00 14,552,000.00 20,000.00 161,000.00 190,000.00 8,767,000.00 1,075,000.00 20,200,000.00 2,469,000.00 45,520,000.00 23,620,000.00 49,000.00 33,000.00 530,000.00

Value 27,540.00 1,472,500.00 337,300.00 3,780.00 19,232,970.00 5,080.50 16,735,020.00 29,773,850.00 9,100.00 371,070.00 224,040.00 21,082,950.00 3,488,510.00 32,399,790.00 9,199,750.00 2,415,520.00 5,729,480.00 39,760.00 219,345.00 245,100.00

Last Price 1.33 0.012 0.012 1.26 0.65 73 1.47 2.04 0.455 2.3 1.17 2.38 3.23 1.56 3.68 0.053 0.241 0.81 6.4 0.455

Chg -0.16 -0.001 -0.001 -0.1 -0.05 -5 -0.08 -0.09 -0.02 -0.1 -0.05 -0.1 -0.13 -0.06 -0.14 -0.002 -0.009 -0.03 -0.22 -0.015

%Chg -10.74% -7.69% -7.69% -7.35% -7.14% -6.41% -5.16% -4.23% -4.21% -4.17% -4.10% -4.03% -3.87% -3.70% -3.66% -3.64% -3.60% -3.57% -3.32% -3.19%

Foreign Business SKorea’s 2018 growth slowest in six years S B4

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WEDNESDAY January 23, 2019

EOUL: South Korea’s GDP growth slowed to ITS WEAKEST IN SIX YEARS AT PERCENT IN

THE CENTRAL BANK SAID 4UESDAY AS 0RESIDENT -OON *AE IN S RATINGS FALL AMID CONCERNS OVER THE HEALTH OF THE WORLD S TH LARGEST ECONOMY Public discontent over the sluggish economy, especially on relatively high youth unemployment,

has dragged Moon’s approval ratings below 50 percent, down from the 80s he was scoring in May after

HIS kRST SUMMIT WITH THE .ORTH S leader Kim Jong Un. Critics say Moon’s flagship economic policy of “income-led growth� — featuring steep increases in the minimum wage — is hurting those it is intended to help by raising employment costs.

A lack of progress in denuclearisation talks between Pyongyang

and Washington has also left MANY UNSATISkED WITH THE -OON government.

The 2018 growth figure was down 0.4 percentage points from the previous year, the central Bank of Korea said, and the weakest since the 2.3 percent recorded in 2012.

South Korea’s export-driven

economy has been pressured by slowing growth in China, its biggest trading partner, where expansion slipped to a 28-year low last year.

The South has also been squeezed by trade tensions between the US and the Asian giant, the world’s top two economies.

But GDP expanded 3.1 percent

year-on-year in the last quarter, the central bank said, led by government spending and construction and infrastructure investment.

Moon sacked his top two ecoNOMIC OFkCIALS IN .OVEMBER THE finance minister and his policy chief, and his chief of staff left earlier this month.

AFP

Tokyo court denies ex-Nissan chief’s bail request ECB to hunker down as outlook worsens TOKYO: Carlos Ghosn is likely to remain in Japanese custody for the foreseeable future after a Tokyo court denied him bail Tuesday despite a last-ditch personal appeal by the former Nissan boss.

The decision was expected as the court had previously judged HIM TO BE A lIGHT RISK WHO COULD potentially tamper with evidence.

Even Ghosn’s own lawyer has said his client will likely remain in jail until his trial.

But ever since his arrest out of the blue on November 19 on ALLEGATIONS OF kNANCIAL MISCONduct, Ghosn’s case has been a rollercoaster ride that has kept Japan and the business world gripped.

A public pledge by the auto tycoon to stay in Japan and wear an electronic tag if necessary appears to have left the Tokyo District Court unmoved.

In a public statement on Monday, Ghosn had set out a series of steps he hoped would convince THE COURT HE WAS NOT ABOUT TO lEE Japan.

He vowed to hand over his three passports, wear an electronic tagging device and increased the amount of bail money offered.

Ghosn also promised to hire security guards approved by prosecutors to monitor him and said

he would not contact anyone connected with the case. “As the court considers my bail application, I want to emphasise that I will reside in Japan and respect any and all bail conditions the court concludes are warranted,� Ghosn said in a statement released by his US-based representatives.

He vowed to attend any subsequent trial “not only because I am legally obligated to do so, but BECAUSE ) AM EAGER TO kNALLY HAVE the opportunity to defend myself�. “I am not guilty of the charges against me and I look forward to defending my reputation in the courtroom,� concluded the statement.

(OWEVER AN OFkCIAL AT THE *APAnese justice ministry told AFP: “There is no system in Japan in which a person accused in a criminal case can be released with such a tracking bracelet.� “The court sets the bail sum and can also add appropriate conditions such as limitations on where the accused should stay,� added THE OFkCIAL

three separate charges — all of which he denies.

Prosecutors believe he underdeclared his income in official statements to shareholders between 2010 and 2015 to the tune OF SOME kVE BILLION YEN MILlion) in an apparent attempt to avoid accusations he was overpaid.

A second separate but very similar charge is that he continued to do this between 2015 and 2018, under-reporting his income by a further four billion yen.

He also faces a complex charge of seeking to shift personal investment losses onto Nissan’s books and transferring company funds to a Saudi contact who allegedly stumped up collateral for him.

Since his arrest, he has been seen in public only once, in a dramatic court appearance where the much thinner executive pleaded his innocence in a packed courtroom.

His wife Carole has appealed to Human Rights Watch, claiming he is being held in “harsh� conditions and subjected to round-the-clock interrogations intended to extract a confession.

‘Harsh’ conditions

‘New lasting leadership’

Ghosn was technically in pre-trial detention after being slapped with

Ghosn’s arrest has thrown into

question the future of the auto alliance he forged, which has come under pressure in his absence.

Nissan immediately ousted him as chairman after the arrest, as did Mitsubishi Motors, the other JapaNESE kRM IN THE THREE WAY ALLIANCE with Renault.

4HE &RENCH kRM IS EXPECTED TO meet later this week to discuss removing Ghosn as chairman and #%/ &RENCH GOVERNMENT OFkCIALS have already urged the company’s board to pick a “new lasting leadership�.

Late Sunday, Nissan held an inaugural meeting of a special committee designed to improve governance in the wake of the scandal.

The head of the committee, Seiichiro Nishioka, said the problem was “an excessive concentration of authority in the hands of a single person�.

The committee is expected to meet three or four additional times BEFORE ISSUING A kNAL REPORT AT THE end of March.

French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire on Sunday denied talk of a potential merger between Renault and Nissan, despite reports in the Japanese media that Paris was pushing for that outcome.

AFP

Asian markets turn lower as trade worries return HONG KONG: Asian markets fell Tuesday as profit-takers stepped in following a recent run-up, while a report fuelled worries about the progress of China-US trade talks.

While there were few catalysts to drive business and Wall Street was closed for a holiday investors are keeping tabs on developments in various issues including the US government shutdown, Brexit and China’s stuttering economy.

The optimism surrounding the trade talks was jolted by a Bloomberg News report that said the two sides were struggling to reach agreement on the crucial matter of intellectual property, which is a key source of anger in Washington.

Also, China’s Xinhua news agency reported that President Xi Jinping had told top provincial leaders the Communist party “is facing long-term and complex tests in terms of maintaining long-term rule, reform and opening-up�. The

comments suggest he is growing worried about the effects of slowing economic growth.

While headlines regarding talks earlier this month were upbeat, and eyes turn to another meeting including China’s top negotiator Liu He at the end of January, the Bloomberg story, referencing unnamed sources, provided a reality check. “Recent signs suggest that China is struggling to sustain economic momentum, and risks of a hard landing are rising. If China falls back to earth, we will all feel the tremor,� economists at Northern Trust said in a note.

Hong Kong was down 0.7 perCENT WHILE 3HANGHAI kNISHED percent lower. Tokyo skidded 0.5 percent, along with Sydney while Singapore was 0.4 percent off and Seoul dropped 0.3 percent.

Wellington, Mumbai and Manila were also well down.

The opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has backed plans for a vote in parliament on another referendum.

Pound dips The pound “has been helped by ongoing optimism that a hard Concerns about the outlook led Brexit will be avoided on 29th the International Monetary Fund March�, said Ray Attrill, strategist to lower its growth forecasts for the at National Australia Bank. global economy, citing the trade He pointed out that MPs from row, Brexit and other problems. both sides of the aisle had proOn currency markets the posed a bill pushing for a delay if pound edged down against the an agreement cannot be agreed in dollar, having bounced on Mon- parliament by February 26. day after British Prime Minister “There’s a good chance this gets Theresa May said she would try to UP )F SO IT FURTHER lATTENS THE TAIL hammer out changes to her Brexit risk of a hard Brexit on March 29, deal that was roundly rejected by though note all 27 EU nations MPs last week. will need to agree to an extension, While there is no plan in place so it wouldn’t eliminate the risk to leave the EU on March 29, mar- completely,� Attrill added.

KETS ARE CONkDENT LAWMAKERS WILL Oil prices extended Monday’s avoid a damaging no-deal Brexit, losses that came in response to with options being touted includ- data showing China’s economy ing a delay to the leaving date and grew last year at its slowest pace another referendum. for almost three decades.

AFP

In early trade London and Paris each fell 0.5 percent while Frankfurt was off 0.6 percent.

Q PEREZ FROM B1

VMC’s P25.084-M compensation million treasury common shares.

In the same POR, VMC named three principal stockholders with total holdings of 2.191 billion VMC common shares. These were Premier Network International Ltd., 777.722 million VMC common shares, or 28.36 percent; LT Group Inc., 847.367 million VMC common shares, or 30.9 percent; and Narra Capital Investment Corp., 566.11 million VMC common shares, or 20.65 percent.

VMC credited its public stockholders with 447.281 million VMC common shares, or 16.31 percent.

Annual compensation )N A DEkNITIVE INFORMATION STATEment for the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting on Feb. 6, 2019, VMC said “the total annual compensation, which includes the basic salary, bonus and other compensation, for the past year, amounts to P25.084 million.�

VMC’s DIS also listed the comPENSATION OF THE gTOP kVE HIGHLY compensated officers,� who it named as follows: Eduardo V. Concepcion, president and chief EXECUTIVE OFkCER ,INLEY 2ETIRADO

CHIEF MANUFACTURING OFkCER 4EREsita V. Ilagan, creditor-appointed comptroller; Kristine Cabuguason, CHIEF kNANCE OFkCER !TTY %VA !

Vivencio-Rodriguez, chief adminisTRATIVE OFkCER AND -INNIE / #HUA

CHIEF OPERATING OFkCER Of VMC’s total compensation “for the past year,� which probably refers to 2018, the company paid the top five executives salary of P17.125 million, which was then equivalent to 68.271 percent of P25.084 million.

For the other years, VMC said it paid the group salary of P16.56 million in 2017 and estimated their pays at P16.595 million in 2019.

VMC reported 3.042 billion common shares as authorized capital stock (ACS) consisting of common

shares, according to a general information sheet (GIS). Of the ACS, 4,974 stockholders owned 1.915 billion VMC common shares, or 62.94 percent. One company held 301.011 million VMC treasury common shares, or 9.86 percent.

In the same GIS, VMC listed two BVI companies; 54 Americans, 150 Chinese and “others�. All these foreigner stockholders had total holdings of 827.328 million VMC common shares, or 27.20 percent.

Ownership profile Antonio Chua Poe Eng, a director of the nine-person board of Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC), sold in four trades 54,000 JFC common shares on Jan. 18, 2019 and in two trades 30,000 JFC common shares on Jan. 21, 2019 at various prices ranging from a high of P325.20 to a low of P323 per JFC common share. The sale reduced his holdings to 40.205 million JFC common shares, or

FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Analysts expect the European Central Bank to acknowledge growing risks to the eurozone economy Thursday while sticking to its patient course, kicking off a year that could see the Frankfurt institution mostly marking time.

The central bank is caught at an intermediate stage of withdrawing crisis-era stimulus, having wound up net purchases of government and corporate bonds — so-called “quantitative easing� (QE) — but seeing the economy still too fragile to lift interest rates from their historic lows.

Policymakers agreed in December to end QE after pumping a total of 2.6 trillion euros ($3 trillion) into the kNANCIAL SYSTEM The scheme aimed to power lending to the real economy of businesses and households, lifting economic growth and boosting inflation towards the ECB target of just below 2.0 percent.

ECB president Mario Draghi said last month that QE had been “the crucial driver of recovery in the eurozone� since its introduction in 2015 — while insisting growth could continue after its withdrawal and blaming one-off factors for signs of weakening momentum.

Since then, new data “have done little to stop fears of a more prolonged slowdown,� ING Diba bank economist Carsten Brzeski said. g#ONkDENCE INDICATORS ARE STILL plunging, hard data remains weak and latest Brexit developments suggest that new turbulence in BOTH kNANCIAL MARKETS AND THE REAL economy is still on the horizon.�

‘Cool dude on high alert’ Weaker-than-expected economic growth will likely make for slower inflation than the 1.6 percent the ECB forecasts for this year — an argument for the central bank to keep interest rates low beyond the current horizon of “through the summer of 2019�. “Markets are already looking further� into the future for the next rate hike, Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Gilles Moec said. “To create a shock (on markets) you would have to give a still further time horizon� sometime in 2020, he added — an extension likely to be resisted by “hawks� on the ECB’s

3.69 percent.

In addition, Poe Eng reported in a disclosure his indirect ownership of 1.347 million JFC common shares lodged with PCD Nominee and 38.857 million JFC common shares in Honeyworth Corp., which, a POR listed as one of two direct holders of 127.744 million JFC common shares, or 11.74 percent. Hyper Dynamic Corp. is Jollibee’s other stockholder with 273.219 million common shares, or 25.11 percent. The two combined for 400.962 million JFC common shares, or 36.85 percent.

Jollibee’s POR also listed seven AFkLIATES OF *&# S TWO SIGNIkCANT stockholders as direct and indirect owners of 186.212 million JFC common shares, or 17.12 percent.

The company’s public stockholders owned 474.661 million JFC common shares, or 43.62 percent, topping the combined ownership of 400.962 million JFC common shares which Hyper Dynamic and Honeyworth held and which were equivalent to 36.85 percent.

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governing council.

If the ECB does draw out the wait for higher interest rates much beyond the summer, Draghi could end his term in October as the only president never to raise them.

Such records will be far from the Italian economist’s mind this week, Brzeski said.

For now, the “right strategy� for the ECB is “being a cool dude who is on high alert rather than panicking into impulsive action,� he added.

Draghi acknowledged to European Parliament lawmakers last week that the eurozone economy was falling short of expectations.

The single currency bloc is beset not only by Brexit but also growing trade protectionism, fragile emerging markets and domestic upsets like France’s “yellow vests� protests.

That gloomier assessment could BE RElECTED IN THE GOVERNING COUNCIL S conclusions this week if they identify economic risks “tilted towards the downside� rather than “broadly balanced� as last month.

‘Wishful thinking’ Ahead of the ECB meeting Thursday, the eurozone’s monthly purchasing managers’ index (PMI) survey should show whether December’s signs of slowdown have bedded in.

Governors will however likely brush off a drop-off in headline INlATION FROM PERCENT IN .Ovember to 1.6 percent last month, as it was mostly caused by lower energy prices.

Ruling out such volatile elements, “core� inflation has stagnated at around 1.0 percent, defying ECB predictions that rising levels of employment and wages should nudge prices upwards faster. “The governing council’s ‘confiDENCE THAT INlATION WILL CONVERGE with the target... increasingly looks like wishful thinking,� said Capital Economics analyst Andrew Kenningham.

Rather than talking rate hikes, policymakers “may soon have to dust off past language hinting at further policy loosening,� he added.

On Thursday, that could mean hints that the ECB is studying a new wave of low-interest loans to keep banks supplied with cash, followed by a concrete decision in the spring.

AFP

Q EQUITIES FROM B1

HSBC ‘neutral’ percent target starting March. “This led to a fall in valuations, with the market trading at a significant discount to its 5-year average valuations at -8 percent on 12m fwd PE (12 month forward priceto-earning ratio),� HSBC noted.

Looking at longer-term or 10-year valuation, however, it said the market’s discount narrowed to -1 percent.

With this as a backdrop, the lender said it “remains neutral on the Philippines equity market in an Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) context,� emphasizing that WHILE NEAR TERM RISKS TO INlATION ARE TILTED TO THE UPSIDE

ANY SIGN OF INlATION ABATING COULD ACT AS A POSITIVE CATALYST It said inflation could average 3.8 percent this year before returning more firmly within the BSP’s target in 2020 at 3.4 percent. “Our main concerns, however, are declining margins and ROEs (return on equity),� HSBC said, adding that margins are likely to remain under pressure as infrastructure improves and market access becomes easier, leading to more competition.

It also noted that the consensus earnings outlook for 2019 was too optimistic at 12.4 percent given downside risks to the economy from tighter domestic liquidity and higher interest rates, with government infrastructure demanding more liquidity from the system. “These factors could risk crowding out private investment,� HSBC said.

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Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Plan B â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;looks like Plan Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; L

ONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled her Brexit Plan B on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it looks a lot like Plan A. -AY LAUNCHED A MISSION TO RESUSCITATE HER REJECTED %UROPEAN 5NION %5 DIVORCE DEAL SETTING OUT PLANS TO GET IT APPROVED BY 0ARLIAMENT AFTER SECURING CHANGES from the EU to a contentious Irish BORDER MEASURE -AY S OPPONENTS EXPRESSED IN CREDULITY "RITISH LAWMAKERS LAST WEEK DEALT THE DEAL A RESOUNDING DEFEAT AND %5 LEADERS INSIST THEY WON T RENEGOTIATE IT /PPOSITION LEADER *EREMY #OR

byn of the Labor Party accused -AY OF BEING IN gDEEP DENIALu ABOUT HER DOOMED DEAL g4HIS REALLY DOES FEEL A BIT LIKE @'ROUNDHOG $AY u HE SAID REFER RING TO THE kLM STARRING "ILL -URRAY IN WHICH A WEATHERMAN IS FATED TO LIVE OUT THE SAME DAY OVER AND OVER AGAIN /UTLINING WHAT SHE PLANS TO DO AFTER HER %5 DIVORCE DEAL WAS REJECTED BY 0ARLIAMENT LAST WEEK

May said that she had heeded

LAWMAKERS CONCERNS OVER AN IN SURANCE POLICY KNOWN AS THE gBACK STOPu THAT IS INTENDED TO GUARANTEE THERE ARE NO CUSTOMS CHECKS ALONG THE BORDER BETWEEN %5 MEMBER )RELAND AND THE 5NITED +INGDOM S 5+ .ORTHERN )RELAND AFTER "REXIT -AY TOLD THE (OUSE OF #OM MONS THAT SHE WOULD BE gTALKING FURTHER THIS WEEK TO COLLEAGUES TO CONSIDER HOW WE MIGHT MEET OUR OBLIGATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF .ORTHERN )RELAND AND )RELAND IN A WAY THAT CAN COMMAND THE GREATEST POSSIBLE SUPPORT IN THE (OUSE g!ND ) WILL THEN TAKE THE CON CLUSIONS OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS BACK TO THE %5 u 4HE BLOC INSISTS THAT IT WON T RENE

GOTIATE THE WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT g3HE IS WASTING TIME CALLING FOR A REVISION OR CLARIFICATION OVER THE BACKSTOP u SAID 'ERMAN POLITICIAN 5DO "ULLMANN HEAD OF THE SOCIALIST GROUP IN THE %UROPEAN 0ARLIAMENT 7HILE -AY STUCK DOGGEDLY TO HER DEAL SHE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED THAT CONTROL OVER "REXIT WASN T ENTIRELY IN HER HANDS 3HE NOTED THAT LAW MAKERS WILL BE ABLE TO AMEND HER PLAN WHEN IT COMES TO A VOTE IN THE (OUSE OF #OMMONS ON *ANUARY

EXACTLY TWO MONTHS BEFORE "RITAIN IS DUE TO LEAVE THE %5 'ROUPS OF gSOFT "REXITu BACKING LAWMAKERS Â&#x2021; WHO WANT TO KEEP CLOSE ECONOMIC TIES TO THE BLOC Â&#x2021;

ARE PLANNING TO USE AMENDMENTS TO TRY TO RULE OUT A gNO DEALu "REXIT AND MAKE -AY EASE HER INSISTENCE THAT LEAVING THE %5 MEANS QUITTING ITS SINGLE MARKET AND CUSTOMS UNION !FTER HER DEAL WAS THROWN OUT LAST WEEK BY A CRUSHING VOTE IN 0ARLIAMENT -AY SAID SHE WOULD CONSULT WITH LAWMAKERS FROM ALL PARTIES TO FIND A NEW WAY FORWARD " U T # O R B Y N C A L L E D T H E CROSS PARTY MEETINGS A gSTUNT u AND OTHER OPPOSITION LEADERS SAID THE PRIME MINISTER DIDN T SEEM TO BE LISTENING /N -ONDAY -AY REJECTED CALLS FROM PRO %5 LAWMAKERS TO DELAY

Pope to visit young prisoners in Panama LAS GARZAS, Panama: More than

YOUNG PEOPLE ARE EX PECTED TO SHOW UP IN 0ANAMA #ITY WHEN 0OPE &RANCIS VISITS THIS WEEK FOR 7ORLD 9OUTH $AY !T A DETENTION CENTER ABOUT MILES KILOMETERS AWAY THERE ARE MORE WHO CAN T MAKE THE TRIP LOCKED UP FOR SERIOUS CRIMES INCLUDING MURDER Â&#x2021; SO THE PONTIFF IS GOING TO THEM )N AN ENCOUNTER EXPECTED TO LAST A LITTLE OVER AN HOUR &RANCIS WILL PRAY AND BRING A MESSAGE OF PEACE AND RECONCILIATION TO THE YOUNG inmates, and hear the confessions OF SEVERAL INCLUDING ONE CONVICTED OF COMMITTING A DOUBLE HOMICIDE AT JUST YEARS OLD g4HE 0OPE IS GOING TO LISTEN TO THEM ENCOURAGE THEM u 0ANAMA !RCHBISHOP *OSE $OMINGO 5LLOA SAID g4HEY HAVE BEEN PREPARING WITH HIGH HOPES TO BE ABLE TO RECEIVE HIS MESSAGE u &RANCIS NEARLY ALWAYS MAKES SIDE VISITS TO PRISONS DURING HIS FOREIGN TRIPS IN KEEPING WITH HIS BELIEF THAT EVEN THOSE ON THE LOWEST RUNGS OF SOCIETY HAVE DIGNITY AND NEED MINISTRY )N SUCH VISITS HE TYPICALLY PREACH

ES HOPE AND REMINDS INMATES THAT HE HAS ALSO SINNED AND CRITICIZES JUDICIAL FAILINGS SUCH AS PRISON OVERCROWDING AND INADEQUATE REHABILITATION EFFORTS 4HIS WILL BE THE kRST TIME HE HEARS CONFESSIONS IN A PRISON HOWEVER 4HE ,AS 'ARZAS DE 0ACORA DE TENTION CENTER IS 0ANAMA S MAIN YOUTH LOCKUP OPENED A YEAR AFTER kVE MINORS DIED IN A kRE AT ANOTHER PRISON IN 0ANAMA #ITY IN .INE PEOPLE INCLUDING ADMINISTRATORS AND POLICE WERE CONVICTED OF HOMICIDE OR NEG LIGENCE IN WHAT WAS THE WORST TRAGEDY FOR THE COUNTRY S YOUTH PRISON SYSTEM 4ODAY ADMINISTRATORS ARGUE THAT ,AS 'ARZAS DE 0ACORA IS A MODEL FACILITY COMPARED WITH OTHER YOUTH PRISONS IN THE REGION THAT SUFFER FROM OVERCROWDING $ESIGNED TO HOUSE UP TO

IT S WELL WITHIN CAPACITY )NMATES HAVE PAINTED THE CELLBLOCKS IN PASTEL COLORS ITS GREEN GRASS IS WELL TENDED AND IT HAS A SCHOOL A LAUNDRY A DINING HALL AND WORK SHO PS WHERE THE YOUTHS CAN LEARN TRADES SUCH AS MASONRY CARPENTRY AND SCREEN PRINTING AP

27 jailed in Venezuela soldiersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; revolt CARACAS, Venezuela: 6ENEZUELA PLUNGED DEEPER INTO TURMOIL -ONDAY 4UESDAY IN -ANILA AS SECURITY FORCES PUT DOWN A PRE DAWN UPRISING BY NATIONAL GUARDSMEN THAT TRIGGERED VIOLENT STREET PROTESTS AND THE 3UPREME Court moved to undercut the OPPOSITION CONTROLLED CONGRESS DEkANT NEW LEADERSHIP 3OCIALIST PARTY CHIEF $IOSDADO #ABELLO SAID GUARDSMEN WERE ARRESTED AND MORE COULD BE DE TAINED AS THE INVESTIGATION UNFOLDS 4HE MUTINY STRUCK AT A TIME WHEN OPPOSITION LEADERS HAVE REGAINED momentum in their efforts to oust 0RESIDENT .ICOLAS -ADURO 4HEY HAVE CALLED FOR A NATIONWIDE DEMONSTRA TION 7EDNESDAY URGING 6ENEZUELANS Â&#x2021; ESPECIALLY MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES Â&#x2021; TO ABANDON -ADURO 4HE UPRISING TRIGGERED PROTESTS IN A POOR NEIGHBORHOOD JUST A FEW MILES KILOMETERS FROM 6EN EZUELA S PRESIDENTIAL PALACE )T WAS DISPERSED WITH TEAR GAS AS RESIDENTS SET kRE TO A BARRICADE OF TRASH AND chanted demands that Maduro LEAVE POWER 4HE MILITARY SAID IN A STATEMENT

SLOW SALES

THAT IT HAD RECOVERED ALL THE WEAPONS AND CAPTURED THOSE INVOLVED IN WHAT IT DESCRIBED AS gTREASONOUSu ACTS motivated by â&#x20AC;&#x153;obscure interests tied TO THE FAR RIGHT u )T SAID AT AROUND A M '-4 A SMALL GROUP OF GUARDSMEN TOOK CAPTIVE A CAPTAIN IN CHARGE OF A POLICE STATION IN WESTERN #ARACAS AND THEN MOVED ACROSS THE CAPITAL IN TWO MILITARY TRUCKS TO THE POOR NEIGHBORHOOD OF 0ETARE WHERE THEY STOLE A CACHE OF WEAPONS FROM ANOTHER OUTPOST /FFICIALS SAID SOLDIERS WERE QUICKLY CAUGHT AT THE .ATIONAL 'UARD OUTPOST MILES KILOME TERS FROM THE -IRAlORES PRESIDEN TIAL PALACE AND TWO MORE ARRESTS WERE MADE AT ANOTHER LOCATION ! FEW HOURS EARLIER A GROUP OF HEAVILY ARMED NATIONAL GUARDSMEN PUBLISHED A SERIES OF VIDEOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SAYING THEY WON T RECOGNIZE -ADURO S GOVERNMENT

WHICH HAS COME UNDER INCREASING DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL PRES SURE OVER A NEWLY BEGUN SECOND TERM THAT THE OPPOSITION CON TROLLED CONGRESS AND MANY NATIONS CONSIDER ILLEGITIMATE AP

Handguns are displayed at the Smith & Wesson booth at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. When gunmakers and dealers gather this week in Las Vegas for the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest annual conference, they will be grappling with slumping sales and a shift in politics that many didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t envision two years ago when gun-friendly Donald Trump and a GOP-controlled Congress took office. AP PHOTO

"RITAIN S DEPARTURE FROM THE BLOC OR TO HOLD A SECOND REFERENDUM ON WHETHER TO LEAVE )N A NOD TO OPPOSITION PARTIES CONCERNS SHE PROMISED TO CON SULT LAWMAKERS TRADE UNIONISTS

BUSINESS GROUPS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS gTO TRY TO kND THE BROADEST POSSIBLE CONSENSUSu ON FUTURE TIES BETWEEN "RITAIN AND THE %5 AND SAID THE GOVERNMENT WOULDN T WATER DOWN PROTECTIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND WORKERS RIGHTS AFTER "REXIT -AY ALSO SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED TO WAIVE A POUND FEE FOR %5 CITIZENS IN "RIT AIN WHO WANT TO STAY PERMANENT LY AFTER "REXIT AP

Widodo okays release of JI cleric

TAXI STRIKE

Taxi drivers block the Gran Via Street during a strike in Barcelona on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) to protest against regulations proposed by the authorities for VTCs (tourism vehicles with chauffeur).

AFP PHOTO

Hun Sen tackles China infra projects DURING THE SECOND DAY OF HIS OFkCIAL state visit to China, Prime Minister Hun Sen met members of the Chinese INVESTMENT COMMUNITY TO FOLLOW UP ON SEVERAL ON GOING AND POTENTIAL IN FRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS IN THE +INGDOM !CCORDING TO HIS &ACEBOOK PAGE YESTERDAY (UN 3EN MET WITH REPRE sentatives of the Chinese Road and "RIDGE #ORPORATION AND THE #HINESE %NGINEERING AND 3TEEL #OMPANY

INCLUDING #HAIRMAN 8U 3IWEI AT THE $IAOYUTAI 3TATE 'UESTHOUSE IN "EIJING (UN 3EN THEN MET WITH (UANENG 'ROUP #HAIRMAN 3HU 9INBIAO TO DISCUSS THE COMPANY S 3ESAN )) (Y DROELECTRIC 0ROJECT IN 3TUNG 4RENG PROVINCE 4HE COMPANY HAS SEVERAL POTENTIAL PROJECTS QUEUED IN #AM BODIA INCLUDING SOLAR ENERGY A HIGHWAY PROJECT AND OIL AND GAS (IS &ACEBOOK PAGE ALSO SAID (UN 3EN ATTENDED AN EVENT MARK ING THE TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END TO #HINA S ISOLATIONIST POLICY AT THE .ATIONAL -USEUM IN "EIJING -USEUM $IRECTOR #HUNFA 7ANG BRIEFED (UN 3EN ON THE PHOTOS ON DISPLAY AT THE EXHIBITION WHICH

SHOWED #HINA S YEAR JOURNEY IN OPENING UP TO THE WORLD AND REFORMING ITS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES INCLUDING EFFORTS MADE BY 0RESIDENT 8I *INPING (UN 3EN IS EXPECTED TO HOLD DISCUSSIONS WITH 8I AND #HINESE 0REMIER ,I +EQIANG IN THE UPCOM ING DAYS TO DISCUSS RELATIONS (E WILL ALSO SIGN A NUMBER OF -EM ORANDA OF 5NDERSTANDING -O5S AND AGREEMENTS RELATED TO TRADE AND INVESTMENTS g7E WILL DISCUSS THE ECONOMY

TRADE RELATIONS AND INVESTMENTS u -R (UN 3EN SAID BEFORE HE DEPARTED ON HIS TRIP g3OME -O5S AND AGREE MENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DRAFTED AND ARE READY TO SIGN WITH #HINA u /N 3UNDAY (UN 3EN MET WITH #AMBODIAN STUDENTS IN "EI JING TO DISCUSS HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE KINGDOM !CCORDING TO A POST ON (UN 3EN S &ACEBOOK PAGE HE MET WITH THE STUDENTS AND SAID THAT REGARDLESS OF RECENT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS ESPE CIALLY REGARDING #AMBODIA HE WILL NOT ALLOW CITIZENS TO STARVE TO DEATH

g) WILL CONTINUE TO WORK HARD TO STRENGTHEN #AMBODIA S ECONOMY SO IT CAN BE STRONG u THE POST SAID

ADDING THAT THE STUDENTS WERE HAP PY TO HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET (UN 3EN IN PERSON 4HE POST SAID STUDENTS WERE ENCOURAGED TO STUDY %NGLISH AND #HINESE LANGUAGES )T SAID STUDENTS MUST RESPECT #HINESE LAWS AND STAY OUT OF TROUBLE 4HE POST ADDED THAT (UN 3EN WOULD CONTINUE TO WORK HARD TO PUSH FOR COOPERATION AND COMPLI ance in the commerce, investment AND TOURISM SECTORS g)N #AMBODIA RECEIVED MILLION #HINESE TOURISTS AND IN WE RECEIVED MILLION #HINESE TOURISTS u THE POST SAID g)NITIALLY HE ;(UN 3EN= WANTED TO ATTRACT PERCENT OF THE #HINESE POPULATION TO #AMBODIA BUT THIS YEAR WE WANT PERCENT OF #HI NA S BILLION POPULATION u It added that Cambodia must INCREASE ITS RELIANCE ON THE #HI NESE !FRICAN AND +OREAN MARKETS KHMER TIMES

JAKARTA:Â Plans to free a radical cleric linked to the deadly Bali bombings are under review, Indonesia has said, after the surprise decision drew sharp criticism.

Abu Bakar Bashir was once synonymous with militant Islam in Indonesia and was tied to the terror network behind the 2002 attacks that killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists.

Last week, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he had given the green light for the early release of Bashir â&#x20AC;&#x201D; believed to have been a key figure in militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).

Widodo said the 80-year-old preacher was â&#x20AC;&#x153;old and sick.â&#x20AC;?

The plan was slammed both at home and abroad, with objections across Indonesian social media and from Australian leader Scott Morrison, who warned that Bashir was still a threat.

Dozens of Australians were killed in the Bali attacks.

In an apparent backtrack on Monday, Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chief Security Minister Wiranto said the president had ordered a â&#x20AC;&#x153;thorough and comprehensive studyâ&#x20AC;? of Bashirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release from prison. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t act hastily or spontaneously,â&#x20AC;? the minister told reporters.

He did not say when a final decision would be made.

Bashir was sentenced to 15 years in jail in 2011 for helping fund a paramilitary group training in the conservative Islamic province of Aceh.

The firebrand preacher was previously jailed over the Bali bombings but that conviction was quashed on appeal. He has repeatedly denied involvement in terror attacks.

Bashirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer Achmad Michdan questioned the apparent official change of heart. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have no problem with (the review) but people might wonder why would they announce it in the first place,â&#x20AC;? Michdan told AFP. AFP

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AFP

45 DEAD IN TALIBAN ATTACK ON MILITARY BASE

LOS ANGELES: More than 1,000 firefighters from across the US and Canada who are in Los Angeles as part of an international conference are scheduled to march on behalf of striking educators on Tuesday. Teachers in the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second-largest school district are expected to strike for a sixth school day Tuesday as talks between Los Angeles Unified and United Teachers Los Angeles continue. The union said Monday that teachers were due back at picket lines Tuesday morning even if an agreement would be reached Monday, saying it takes time to mobilize a ratification vote of a deal. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti remained upbeat as he mediated the fifth day of marathon negotiations at City Hall on Monday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The parties are still at the table, and I am optimistic that we have the momentum to take those final steps toward bringing our teachers and young people back into their classrooms,â&#x20AC;? he said in a statement.

AP

KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghan officials say the brazen Taliban attack on a military base in an eastern province the previous day had killed at least 45 people, most of them military personnel. There are fears, however, that the death toll is even higher. Khawanin Sultani, a council member Maidan Wardak province, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the attack also left more than 70 wounded. The province of Maidan Wardak is just outside of Kabul and the base also serves as a training center for a pro-government militia. Sultani says a Taliban suicide bomber first drove a Humvee into the base and detonated his load as he rammed the vehicle into the main building there.

After that, four other attackers engaged in a shootout with Afghan troops; all the attackers were killed.

AP

FIREMEN TO MARCH WITH LA TEACHERS

6.4 QUAKE HITS INDONESIAN ISLAND

CHINA TO STEP UP EFFORTS VS POLLUTION

JAKARTA: A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Sumba on Tuesday, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage. It followed a pair of offshore quakes in the same area earlier Tuesday, including one that was 6.1 magnitude. The latest one struck about 85 kilometres (53 miles) south of the town of Kahale, according to the United States Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This quake doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any tsunami potential,â&#x20AC;? said Indonesian disaster agency spokesman Hary Tirto Djatmiko. Indonesia is still reeling from a deadly tsunami at the end of December triggered by an erupting volcano in the middle of the Sunda Strait between the Java and Sumatra islands that killed more than 400 people. The vast Southeast Asian archipelago is extremely

PM2.5 pollutants will be closely monitored in 2019 in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta and the Fenhe and Weihe plains in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, the Chinese environmental protection authority said on Monday. Liu Bingjiang, director of atmospheric environmental management with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, made the statement during a monthly press conference. The ministry will not loosen its law effort when it comes to treating heavy pollution, and reducing PM2.5 (a key indicator of air pollution) will continue to be prioritized, Liu said when asked how to coordinate the relations between economic development and environment protection against the downward pressure on the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy. Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GDP grew 6.6 percent in 2018. Although above the 6.5 percent annual target set by officials at the beginning of the year, this was the lowest growth rate since 1990.

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SM Foundation turns over health facilities to AFP

Q The newly renovated Marine Barracks Gregorio Lim Medical Dispensary in Ternate, Cavite.

OUR military health facilities Medical Center; Emergency Ward rector for Health & Wellness Prowere completed and turned of the Army General Hospital at grams of SM Foundation turned over to the Armed Forces as the Fort Bonifacio; Marine Barracks over these facilities to the respecChristmas gifts of SM founder the Gregorio Lim Medical Dispensary TIVE HEADS IN kTTING RITES GRACED BY late Henry Sy Sr. and his family. in Ternate, Cavite; and the Naval THE TOP MILITARY OFkCERS OF EACH Facilities included were the up- Air Group Aeromedical Dispen- group, along with managers of the graded pediatrics and adolescent sary in Sangley Point, Cavite.

SM Group of companies operating ward at the Veterans Memorial Connie Angeles, executive di- in these areas.

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Angeles explained that such â&#x20AC;&#x153;giftsâ&#x20AC;? pale in comparison to the service that soldiers and men in uniform give to the country by putting their lives on the line to protect the people and safeguard the territory from armed aggressors.

OPPO unveils 10x lossless zoom camera technology MOBILE tech giant OPPO revealed its forthcoming 10x lossless zoom technology during its 2019 Future Technology Communication Conference.

To employ the new technology, OPPO has developed a triplecamera solution consisting of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ultra Wide Angle + Ultra Clear Master + Telephotoâ&#x20AC;? to support highMAGNIkCATION ZOOM WHILE ENSURING a high-quality long-distance shot.

Moreover, to maintain image quality at all ranges, OPPO has introduced dual OIS optical image stabilization on both standard and telephoto cameras.

In addition to the triple-camera structure, OPPOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pioneering â&#x20AC;&#x153;periscope structure,â&#x20AC;? designed to make full use of the width and thickness of the phone through the lateral arrangement and refraction

of the lens set, is also paramount to achieving 10x lossless zoom.

On the other hand, OPPO also released a new wide zone optical kNGERPRINT RECOGNITION TECHNOLogy, which effectively recognizes an area up to 15 times of the current mainstream optical solution.

OPPO is set to showcase these new technologies in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress 2019.

Imee Marcos calls for new poll watchdog

Marikina to replicate Muntinlupa entrepreneur program

Q Lourdes dela Paz (2nd, R), Marikina Local Economic and Investment Promotion Officer, pays courtesy call to Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi (2nd, L).

With them is JRFP Chief Malou Lobo (extreme left) on Jan. 15.

THE local government of Marikina interest loan assistance to budding Lourdes dela Paz visited MuntinMuntinlupa City has been hailed expressed its interest to implement the entrepreneurs, in their city. lupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi to dis- the Most Business-Friendly LGU by Muntinlupa Joint Resource Financing Marikina Local Economic and cusss on Muntinlupaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs the Philippine Chamber of Commerce Program (Tulong Negosyo), a zero- Investment Promotion Officer for entrepreneurs on Jan. 15. and Industry for 2017 and 2018.

Korean Boy Scouts commend Quezon City government SOUTH Korean boy scouts praised the Quezon City government for its continuous support to the global scouting movement at the end of their special exchange program on Jan. 14.

The Jeonnam Council of Korea Scout Association of Jeollanam-do Province in South Korea awarded a plaque of appreciation to the local government represented in the ceremony by Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte at the City Hall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would like to thank all the boy scouts of QC and their leaders for the warm welcome and very kind hosting. We will not forget it. Maraming salamat po,â&#x20AC;? Jeonnam Council Chairman Lee Bok-yie said.

The QC government hosted the Korean scouts in the First Brotherhood Scout Exchange Program, a project initiated by QC Boy Scouts Council Chairman Mayor Herbert Bautista to broaden the knowledge of local boy scouts through bilateral activities with brother

but it must also have the technical expertise so we can be assured that the upcoming elections are free and fair,â&#x20AC;? Marcos said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Technical experts of the new election watchdog can easily determine and point out anomalies in the use of counting machines, and right then and there the concerned parties can act accordingly and have the issue settled even while at the precinct level.â&#x20AC;?

Marcos is running for senator under the Nacionalista Party. She is urging the Commission on Elections to accredit a new election watchdog that is â&#x20AC;&#x153;non-partisan and has technical knowledge about automated elections.â&#x20AC;?

AAFI elects new board officers, trustees

Q Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte (2nd, R) receives the plaque of appreciation given by the Jeonnam Council of South Korea. councils abroad, from Jan. 9 to 15.

Seventeen Jeonnam Council scouts underwent the three-day immersion with selected families of QC scouts

where visiting scouts experienced &ILIPINO CULTURE AND TRADITIONS kRST hand through the program.

For his part, QC Boy Scouts

Council Chairman Antonio Merino said the QC Peace and Brotherhood program of Quezon City must be continued.

Q Signing the partnership, from left: Jim NemeĂąo, Unilab Foundation project officer; Robert Recana, Sitel Group regional facilities manager; Grant Javier, Unilab Foundation program manager; Craig Reines, Sitel-APAC COO; Jamie Blocker, Sitel Group senior director for Leadership Development; and Christine Matriano, Sitel Group senior director for Partner Communications. program Sitel Academy. Through its partnership with UFI and PDFI, Sitel Academy Plus will be offered to the hearing impaired and persons with mental disabilities, who will be given basic contact center skills training which will empower them to seek

gainful employment in the BPO industry as contact center agents, virtual assistants and software analysts, among other positions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are driven by our mission to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace not just for Sitel, but also

ALIW Awards Foundation, Inc. (AAFI) held its annual election for OFkCERS AND TRUSTEES AT A MEETING at Jade Vine Restaurant, in Ermita, Manila, on Dec. 18, 2018.

The 2019-2020 Aliw Board is headed by Alice Reyes as its presiDENT WHILE OTHER OFkCERS INCLUDE Sonny Valencia, VP for Internal Affairs; Brian Lu, VP for External Affairs; Aristeo Garcia, VP for Special Projects; Tess Tan, secretary; Francia Conrado, treasurer; Njel de Mesa and Dennis Aguilar, PROs; and Jose Dadulla Jr., auditor.

Meanwhile, newly elected

Board Trustees are Ofelia Cajigal, Efren Montano, Joey Nombres, Angelo Eloy Padua, Aisha Raquel Reyes, Jan Christine Reyes, Jory Reyes and Frank Rivera. Rema -ANZANO PRESIDES AS EX OFkCOIO member of the board.

Among the first projects of the 2019 board includes the much-awaited Walk of Fame for Live Entertainers, set to be at a site in Quezon City.

Following the Walk of Fame will be the publication of an Aliw Coffee Table Book, The Best of Aliw 2019, and the 32nd Aliw Awards Night.

BASF produces new methanol product

Sitel PH, UFI and PFDI provide BPO training to PwDs TO further strengthen its commitment to corporate social responsibility, Sitel Philippines has inked a new partnership with Unilab Foundation, Inc. (UFI) and Philippine Federation of the Deaf (PFDI) to provide BPO (business process outsourcing) skills training to persons with disabilities (PwDs). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very excited to broaden the scope of our skills training program,â&#x20AC;? shares Craig Reines, Sitel !SIA 0ACIkC #// g4HROUGH 3ITEL Academy Plus we are educating and empowering marginalized sectors like PwDs by enhancing their skills and giving them a chance at a fulkLLING CAREER IN THE "0/ INDUSTRY u Sitel Academy Plus is an extension of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly successful skills building and recruitment

TO ensure clean and honest 2019 midterm elections, Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos is calling for the creation of a new independent poll watchdog whose members have proven technical expertise in the use of automated election system.

Marcos said the presence of technical experts in every polling precinct would help guarantee the integrity of the election and avoid a repeat of vote rigging and fraud that marred the 2016 automated polls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The new election watchdog should not only be keen on guarding forms of electoral fraud that we are all aware of even before we shifted to automated elections,

the BPO industry,â&#x20AC;? Reines explained. g7E HAVE MADE SIGNIkCANT HEADWAY in providing jobs for PwDs and this latest partnership allows us to reach even more people and give them the opportunity to work in a diverse and inclusive professional community.â&#x20AC;?

CHEMICALS company BASF has started the production of a new product dubbed EU-REDcertmethanol on the basis of renewable raw materials according to the biomass balance approach.

The company replaces fossil raw materials with second-generation renewable raw materials and uses waste as well as residual materials to reduce emissions of climatedamaging greenhouse gases by at least 50 percent compared with conventionally produced methanol.

BASF markets the EU-REDcertmethanol to customers and also uses it itself as an intermediate for other biomass balanced products.

The EU-REDcert-methanol is CERTIkED ACCORDING TO THE 2%$CERT STANDARD 4HE CERTIkCATE WHICH

was founded by leading associations and organizations of the German agricultural and biofuel industry, proves the sustainable origin of the biomass used and the information on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. It is a standard for use as biofuel, recognized by the European Commission under the Renewable Energy Directive (RED).

Meanwhile, the biomass balance approach is comparable to the green electricity principle, where electricity taken from the socket does not necessarily come from renewable energy, but the corresponding amount of renewable energy is fed into the grid.

For more information, visit www.basf.com.

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EDITOR: Mario F. Fetalino Jr. ED

mario.fetalino@manilatimes.net

Metro office space to expand this year

BY TYRONE JASPER C. C PIAD

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ORE E OFkCE SPACES ARE GOING TO BE BUILT Fk I IN -ETRO -ANILA THIS YEAR ACCORDING TO A PROPERTY CONSULTANCY kRM

Pronove Tai International 0ROPERTY #ONSULTANTS SAID OFkCE SPACE MIGHT EXPAND BY PERCENT

OR MILLION SQUARE METERS SQM TO MILLION SQM IN THE METROPOLIS IN

Q Accounting for 36 percent of the expected demand is the Iinformation Technology-Business Process Management sector. PHOTO BY WIKIPEDIA

4HE GROWTH kGURE IS EQUIVALENT TO NEW BUILDINGS !MONG THE METRO CITIES 1UEZON #ITY IS SEEN TO CONTRIBUTE THE HIGHEST SUPPLY AT SQM 4HE AREA MIRRORS PERCENT OF THE TOTAL PROJECTED GROWTH AND A PERCENT INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR

Offshore gaming 4HE PROJECTION WAS BASED ON THE RISING OFkCE SPACE DEMAND FROM OFFSHORE GAMING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT )4 "0- AND TRADITIONAL COMPANIES /FFSHORE GAMING FIRMS WOULD HAVE THE HIGHEST OFFICE DEMAND THIS YEAR AT PERCENT 0RONOVE SAID 4HE "AY !REA AND -AKATI #ITY ARE THE gMOST PREFERREDu LOCATION "ESIDES -ETRO -ANILA OTHER AREAS WHERE THESE GAMING FIRMS ARE EXPECTED TO EXPAND ARE 0AMPANGA $AVAO #ITY AND #EBU #ITY /N THE OTHER HAND ACCOUNTING FOR PERCENT OF THE EXPECTED DEMAND IS THE )4 "0- SECTOR

WHICH IS ENJOYING SUSTAINED

Q Offshore gaming firms will have the highest office demand this year. PHOTO BY WIKIPEDIA GROWTH ON THE BACK OF THE RISING kNANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH CARE BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING INDUSTRIES (OWEVER 0RONOVE NOTED THAT )4 "0- kRMS SHOULD BE WATCHFUL OF THE UNCERTAINTIES BROUGHT

BY THE 4AX 2EFORM FOR !TTRACTING "ETTER AND (IGH 1UALITY /PPORTUNITIES "ILL AND DELAYS IN THE PROCLAMATION BY THE 0HILIPPINE %CONOMIC :ONE !UTHORITY -EANWHILE PERCENT OF THE PROJECTED DEMAND FOR OFFICE SPACE WAS FROM THE TRADITIONAL FIRMS CATEGORY UNDER WHICH SECTORS SUCH AS LOGISTICS AND HEALTHCARE ARE LIKEWISE EXPERIENCING GROWTH 7HILE THE CONSULTANCY kRM ALSO SEES lEXIBLE WORK SPACES EXPANDING BECAUSE gMILLENNIALS PREFER lEXIBILITY ON WORKING HOURS u IT EXPECTS SLOWER PRE LEASING AT PERCENT OR SQM THIS YEAR COMPARED TO LAST YEAR S PERCENT OR SQM

2018 performance 4HE OFkCE STOCK GREW PERCENT LAST YEAR TO SQM AS NEW BUILDINGS WERE CONSTRUCTED IN -ETRO -ANILA -UNTINLUPA RECORDED THE HIGHEST OFkCE STOCK GROWTH AT PERCENT FOLLOWED BY 4AGUIG #ITY AT PERCENT "UT 4AGUIG HAD THE MOST OFkCE SUPPLY LAST YEAR WHEN NINE NEW BUILDINGS WERE CONSTRUCTED IN THE CITY OCCUPYING A SQM AREA )T WAS FOLLOWED BY -AKATI

Q Quezon City is seen to contribute the highest supply of new office space.

PHOTO BY WIKIPEDIA

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AND 1UEZON #ITY WHICH RESPECTIVELY HAD SEVEN AND THREE NEW BUILDINGS COVERING SQM AND SQM OF OFkCE SPACE BUILT LAST YEAR g"OTH 1UEZON #ITY AND -ANDALUYONG #ITY CONTINUE TO REGISTER HIGH VACANCY AT PERCENT AND PERCENT RESPECTIVELY u 0RONOVE SAID 4HE VACANCY FOR THESE AREAS ARE FOCUSED OUTSIDE %$3! AND MAJOR THOROUGHFARES 4HESE REAL ESTATES 0RONOVE SAID

SHOULD HAVE COMPETITIVE RENTAL AND LEASING RATES TO ATTRACT MORE TENANTS $IVERSIFYING THE BUILDINGS TO INCLUDE OFkCE RESIDENTIAL AND RETAIL AREAS COULD ALSO HELP BOOST DEMAND IT ADDED 0RONOVE ALSO SAID -AKATI #ITY WAS STILL THE MOST EXPENSIVE DISTRICT WHERE RENTAL RATE IS AT 0

SQM MONTH COMPARED TO 4AGUIG #ITY S 0 SQM MONTH &URTHER THE COMPANY REVEALED THE )4 "0- SECTOR HAD THE HIGHEST DEMAND FOR OFFICE SPACE LAST YEAR ACCOUNTING FOR PERCENT OF THE TOTAL CONSTRUCTION IN /FFSHORE GAMING kRMS TRADITIONAL OFkCES AND lEXIBLE WORKSPACES CONTRIBUTED PERCENT

PERCENT AND PERCENT RESPECTIVELY TO THE OFkCE DEMAND

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Revitalize Hidalgo HUQ into vital community assets

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HE OLD HE LD TOWN OF F (IDALGO (ID L IS I TEEMING I WITH IH TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL PROPERTIES )T BOASTS OF TWO BASILICA MINORE WHICH ARE BOTH SOCIO CULTURAL ICONS 1UIAPO #HURCH AND 3AN 3EBASTIAN #HURCH )T HAS -ANILA S GRANDEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL HISTORIC HERITAGE HOUSES "ACK THEN IT WAS A DISTRICT OF ARISTOCRACY AND ELEGANCE (IDALGO AND ITS IMMEDIATE ENVIRONS ARE A HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURE OF RELIGIONS CULTURES AND DIFFERENT SOCIAL LAYERS THAT COEXIST ON EVERYDAY HUSTLE AND BUSTLE 4HERE STILL R E M A I N S O M E REMNANTS OF ITS GLORIOUS PAST THAT BECAME A SILENT WITNESS OF ITS GLITTERING ;AND UGLY= MEMORY OF MORE THAN YEARS OF ITS RISE AND FALL (IDALGO (ERITAGE 5RBAN 1UARTER (51 WITH ITS RICH HISTORY

IS A CULTURAL ASSET A NATIONAL TREASURE )T IS OBSOLESCED WASTED

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(IDALGO (51 IS ALSO HOME TO PROMINENT FAMILIES AND PERSONALITIES 4HEY ARE THE MAGNATE COUPLE $OÃ&#x201E;A 3USAN 0ATERNO -ADRIGAL AND $ON 6ICENTE -ADRIGALm,OPEZ Y 0ARDO DE 4AVERA THE WEALTHY SCION FROM !RRABAL DE "INONDO AND 3TA #RUZ +APITANA -ARTINA -OLO !GUSTIN 0ATERNO DE :AMORA

AND THE REVOLUTION S INFAMOUS TURNCOAT BROTHER $ON 0EDRO 0ATERNO THE SHIPPING MAGNATE $OÃ&#x201E;A "ARBARA 2ESURRECCION (IDALGO 0ADILLA WHO WAS LABELED BY HER FRIENDS AS THE g1UEEN OF 0ASIG 2IVER u AND HER WELL KNOWN ARTIST SON &ELIX 2ESURRECCION (IDALGO A PORTION OF HER SHIPPING BUSINESS WAS SOLD TO WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS ONE OF THE BIGGEST SHIPPING LINES Â&#x2021; THE -AGSAYSAY -ARITIME THE WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN $ON 2AMON 'ENATO $R &RANCISCO 3ANTIAGO

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THE ARCHITECTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PERSPECTIVE ARCH. RONNIE R. YUMANG

The pride of place 4HE (IDALGO (51 BOASTS OF CULTURAL PROPERTIES WORTHY OF AN IMPACTFUL TOURISM BRANDING FOR THE #ITY OF -ANILA 4HE 1UIAPO CHURCH HOME OF THE MIRACULOUS "LACK .AZARENE RECENTLY HELD ITS ANNUAL gTRASLACION u )T TOOK ALMOST HOURS AND WAS CELEBRATED BY MILLIONS OF BAREFOOTED DEVOTEES )T IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST DISPLAYS OF #ATHOLIC DEVOTION THAT SHOWCASES THE 0HILIPPINES STATUS AS THE #HURCH S BASTION IN !SIA 4HE 3AN 3EBASTIAN CHURCH

THE ONLY STEEL CHURCH IN !SIA

HAS BEEN EXISTENT FOR ALMOST YEARS )T WITHSTOOD SEVERAL EARTHQUAKES BUT IS NOW FACING ITS GREATEST CHALLENGE 4HE LOWLY RUST IS SERIOUSLY THREATENING TO SHATTER ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TREASURES OF OUR NATION )T IS CURRENTLY ON A YEAR COMPREHENSIVE RESTORATION PROCESS 4HE -ASJID !L $AHAB OR THE 'OLDEN -OSQUE WAS BUILT IN

BY THEN kRST LADY )MELDA -ARCOS )T CAN ACCOMMODATE

WORSHIPPERS AND CONSIDERED THE BIGGEST MOSQUE BUILT IN -ETRO -ANILA #ENTENARIAN SCHOOLS ARE AT THE (51 4HEY INCLUDE 3AN "EDA 5NIVERSITY %L #OLEGIO DE 3AN "EDA

,A #ONSOLACION #OLLEGE -ANILA #OLEGIO DE .UESTRA 3ENORA DE LA #ONSOLACION 3AINT 2ITA #OLLEGE

Q The author in front of the burnt Araneta y Soriano, Araneta y Zaragoza, Zaragoza y Aranquizna clan house AND $OÃ&#x201E;A 4ERESA DE LA 0AZ DE 3EVERO 4UAZON 4HE MARRIAGE OF THEIR OFFSPRINGS CREATED A UNION OF WEALTHY FAMILIES SUCH AS THE ,EGARDA 4UAZONS AND 0RIETO 6ALDES WHO ARE STILL ON TOP OF -ANILA S 3OCIETY 4HE kRST GENERATION OF TWO OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND ENDURING ENTERPRISES IN THE 0HILIPPINES

3AN -IGUEL #ORPORATION AND !YALA #ORPORATION WERE FOUNDED BY $ON !NTONIO DE !YALA (ORTIZ DE 5RBINA $ON $OMINGO 2OXAS AND -ARGARITA 2OXAS DE !YALA 4HESE PROMINENT NAMES SHAPED OUR NATION INTO WHAT IT IS TODAY )TS CULTURAL CAPITAL CAN BE VERY WELL TRANSLATED INTO ECONOMIC VALUE 4HE STORIES AND MEMORIES OF THIS HISTORIC PLACE LEFT AN INTENSE EXPERIENCE WORTHY TO TRULY EMULATE THE gPRIDE OF PLACEu

A clamor to save heritage properties !FTER ALMOST YEARS FOLLOWING THE TOWNSCAPE EVOLUTION AND MUTATION OF (IDALGO (51 IT DOES NOT GET ANY BETTER IN VIEW OF HERITAGE ADVOCATES 4HE HERITAGE HOUSES DETERIORATED AND GOT WORST EVERY YEAR 4HE !RANETA :ARAGOZA HOUSE BESIDE .AZARETH SCHOOL CAUGHT kRE IN AND WAS NOT RESTORED UNTIL NOW WHILE THE (IDALGO HOUSE WAS SOLD AND TRANSFERRED TO A HERITAGE RESORT IN ,AS #ASAS &ILIPINAS DE !CUZAR IN "ATAAN -OST OF THE HISTORIC PROPERTIES ARE UP FOR SALE WITH PRICE RANGING FROM 0

PER SQUARE METER SQM TO

Q The Old Calle San Sebastian.

PHOTO BY JOHN TEWELL

Forget political will

Q Hidalgo Street 2017 0 PER SQM #ENTURIES OLD WOOD PLANKS ARE A GIVE AWAY A BARGAIN THAT WILL INTEREST BUYERS 4HE 0ATERNO AND &RANCISCO HERITAGE HOUSE WAS SUBDIVIDED INTO MAKESHIFT ROOMS AND SUBLEASED FOR 0 TO 0 PER MONTH

BY STUDENTS AND DAILY WORKERS )T WILL NOT SUFFICE TO PAY FOR THE REAL ESTATE PROPERTY TAXES

MAINTENANCE AND INCIDENTAL EXPENDITURES )T IS NOT PRACTICAL

NOT SUSTAINABLE 4HE .EW 3AN *OSE "UILDERS BUILT )SABELLE DE (IDALGO CONDOMINIUM AND IS CURRENTLY BUILDING ANOTHER STORY IN-

FRASTRUCTURE THE 6ICTORIA DE (IDALGO CONDOMINIUM WHICH IS NEAR THE %STERO DE 3AN -IGUEL 4HE SAME COMPANY OWNED BY THE OWNER OF ,AS #ASAS &ILIPINAS DE !CUZAR ACQUIRED -ANUEL , 1UEZON 5NIVERSITY (IDALGO IS EXPERIENCING GENTRIkCATION 3OME OF THE HERITAGE HOUSES WERE SAVED AND HAVE FOUND THEIR NEW HOME 4HE !CUZAR GROUP HAS DONE SOMETHING THAT A POLITICAL LEADER DID NOT AND OR COULD NOT DO (IDALGO (51 IS LOSING ITS )NTANGIBLE #ULTURAL 0ROPERTY )T WILL SOON BE REBORN AND WILL HAVE A NEW SOUL 4HE HISTORY AND SPIRIT OF (IDALGO WILL BE GONE FOREVER

/VER THE YEARS PEOPLE CLAMORING FOR GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION WERE ASKING FOR STRONG POLITICAL WILL TO SAVE HERITAGE STRUCTURES ) HEARD THE SAME OUTCRY FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES BUT NOTHING HAPPENED .EW LAWS REGULATIONS AND LOCAL POLICIES CAN T HELP PRESERVE OUR EXISTING CULTURAL PROPERTIES "UT THE PEOPLE S WILL CAN &ORGET gPOLITICAL WILL u )F WE DO NOT HAVE A TRUE LEADER WHO WILL DO IT FOR US LET S EMPOWER THE GRASSROOTS BY BOOSTING gCOMMUNITY WILL u 4HIS WILL GIVE THEM gOWNERSHIPu OF THE PROGRAM "Y gOWNING u THE LOCALS WILL EVOLVE TO gSOCIAL FENCINGu AND WILL PROTECT WHAT THEY RIGHTFULLY OWN Â&#x2021; A SENSE OF PRIDE AND A SENSE OF WORTH ,OCALS HAVE TO ORGANIZE A COMMUNITY PLANNING COOPERATIVE CORPORATION THAT WILL ORGANIZE THE STAKEHOLDERS )MMEDIATELY

THEY SHOULD FORM A COMMUNITY INVESTING OR gCOMVESTINGu COOPERATIVE OR COMMUNITY OWNED CORPORATION WHICH IS A FOR PROkT COMMUNALLY OWNED AND MANAGED BUSINESS OPERATED FOR THE BENEkT OF ITS MEMBERS )T WILL ALSO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR gCROWD FUNDING u gBARRELS COMMUNITY MARKET u LOCAL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY NETWORK AND OTHER POTENTIAL FUNDING SOURCES TO SUSTAIN A DISTINCTIVE PLACE BASED TOURISM PROGRAM %VENTUALLY THE GROUP CAN LOBBY FOR g2ENAISSANCE :ONINGu FOR TAX REDUCTION ON (ERITAGE 5RBAN 1UARTERS 4HE GROUP CAN ALSO INITIATE AGREEMENT FOR STEWARDSHIP OF UNDERUTILIZED HERITAGE STRUCTURES AND FUND ITS RESTORATION BY DOING IT PERCENT AT A TIME 4HE LOCAL COMMUNITY SHOULD LINK EACH STORY AND CULTURAL PROPERTY UTILIZING AND PROMOTING THEM AS COLLECTIVE SPACES AND PROMOTE THEIR DISTINCT IDENTITY 4HIS WILL STIMULATE THE REVITALIZATION OF (IDALGO (51 SIGNIkCANTLY INTO VITAL COMMUNITY ASSETS

4HE WRITER IS THE CURRENT SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE 5NITED !RCHITECTS OF THE 0HILIPPINES (E IS AN !SEAN ARCHITECT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER (E IS A GRADUATE OF " 3 !RCHITECTURE FROM 0OLYTECHNIC 5NIVERSITY OF THE 0HILIPPINES (E IS THE PRESIDENT #%/ OF 9UMANG $ESIGN #ONSTRUCTION AND $EVELOPMENT )NC AND */9! 0ROPERTIES )NC 2ONNIE 9UMANG IS A PRACTICING REGENERATIVE ARCHITECT ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER AND NATIVE TREE ADVOCATE 4HIS PAPER HAS BEEN PRESENTED AS PARTIAL REQUIREMENT FOR HIS ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN AND CONTINUES TO BE HIS ADVOCACY TO RELIVE AND EXPERIENCE gTHE .EW /LD (IDALGOu

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The edge of owning an office space Q Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspective of Parkway Corporate Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s combinable office units averaging 36 square meters.

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HE STORY 0ARKWAY #ORPORATE #ENTER IS NOW OPENING ITS DOORS TO INVESTORS WHO WANT TO GIVE THEIR BUSINESSES THE SINGULAR ADVANTAGE OF OCCUPYING A CORPORATE SPACE IN AN INTELLIGENT GREEN ORIENTED BUILDING AT &ILINVEST #ITY IN !LABANG &OR BUSINESS OWNERS AN OFkCE SPACE WHICH THEY CAN CALL THEIR OWN SIGNIkES THEY HAVE ACHIEVED A MAJOR CORPORATE MILESTONE 7ITH ITS ENVIABLE LOCATION AT THE GATEWAY OF THE GARDEN CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT IN THE -ETRO 3OUTH AND STATE OF THE ART DESIGN FEATURES AND AMENITIES &ILINVEST S 0ARKWAY #ORPORATE #ENTER MAKES FOR AN IDEAL OFkCE AS IT ALLOWS YOU TO MOVE UP WHEN YOU MOVE IN As an investor or entrepreNEUR OWNERSHIP LETS YOU CAPITALIZE ON YOUR ASSET AS OPPOSED TO MERELY BEING A TENANT /WNERSHIP OF YOUR OFFICE SPACE GIVES YOU THE FREEDOM TO FIT OUT AND CUSTOMIZE YOUR UNIT S AMENITIES DEPENDING ON YOUR BUSINESS OPERATION S NEEDS AND SPECIFICATIONS /WNERSHIP ALSO OFFERS LONG TERM FINANCIAL ADVANTAGES AND INVESTMENT POTENTIALS INCLUDING TAX SAVINGS AND BETTER CASH FLOW MANAGEMENT 7ITH A LONG TERM FIXED RATE MORTGAGE YOU CAN ANTICIPATE YOUR

MONTHLY EXPENDITURES WITHOUT FEAR OF ANNUAL RENT INCREASES OR WORSE

LEASE EXPIRATION 9OU CONTINUE YOUR OPERATIONS WORRY FREE 0ARKWAY #ORPORATE #ENTER S IMPRESSIVE BUILDING FEATURES AND AMENITIES ARE BOUND TO ATTRACT TOP TENANTS GIVING THEM UTMOST PEACE OF MIND KNOWING THAT THEY ARE DEALING WITH REPUTABLE LOCATORS 9OU ACQUIRE AN OFkCE UNIT AT A LOW COST 4YPICALLY YOU CAN ALSO DEMAND HIGHER RENT THAT CREATES INCREASED PROkTS !ND AS LANDBANK OPTIONS IN MAJOR CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICTS DECREASE AND WITH THE SHORTAGE OF OFkCE SPACES IN -ETRO -ANILA CAPITAL VALUES AND RENTS ARE EXPERIENCING AN UPSURGE WITH MULTINATIONAL TENANTS SEEKING LONGER LEASE TERMS FOR UP TO kVE TO YEARS ALLOWING FOR LONGEVITY OF GUARANTEED INCOME AND THE ASSURANCE OF STEADY AND CONTINUOUS RETURNS 7ITH 0ARKWAY #ORPORATE #ENTER AS YOUR BUSINESS ADDRESS

Q There are numerous benefits in owning an office space at Filinvest City in Alabang.

YOU GET OUTSTANDING BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS 4O BEST SUIT YOUR CORPORATE NEEDS IT EMPLOYS INTELLIGENT SPACE PLANNING WITH lEXIBLE AND COMBINABLE OFkCE UNITS AVERAGING SQUARE METERS 7HOLE lOOR OPTIONS FOR LARGER COMPANIES ARE AVAILABLE -ODERN BUILDING FACILITIES INCLUDE SIX HIGH SPEED ELEVATORS

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RETAIL PLAZA AT THE GROUND FLOOR

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IN &ILINVEST #ITY IN !LABANG GIVES YOU GREAT ADVANTAGES WITH ITS INCREASING LAND VALUES ALLOWING FOR CONTINUOUS GROWTH !LABANG ALSO HAS A STRONG CLIENT BASE ENABLING YOU TO TAP NEW MARKETS AND GAIN MORE CUSTOMERS AND A TALENTED LABOR POOL MAKING BUSINESSES THRIVE EVEN FURTHER !DDITIONALLY &ILINVEST #ITY PUTS YOU AT A PRIME STRATEGIC AND PRESTIGIOUS SETTING WHERE A FULL SPECTRUM OF OFFERINGS Â&#x2021; FROM PREMIUM LIFESTYLE AND RETAIL FACILITIES TO ONE OF A KIND RESIDENTIAL CONCEPTS Â&#x2021; IS AT HAND FOR A TRUE GENUINE WORK

LIVE PLAY ENVIRONMENT 9OU ALSO GET TO ENJOY GREATER ACCESSIBILITY AS &ILINVEST #ITY HAS AN EFkCIENT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION HUB Â&#x2021; THE 3OUTH 3TATION Â&#x2021; THAT EASILY CONNECTS TO THE NORTH AND #ALABARZON AREA THROUGH 3KYWAY

3OUTH ,UZON %XPRESSWAY AND $AANG (ARI 2OAD .INOY !QUINO )NTERNATIONAL !IRPORT IS JUST KILOMETERS AWAY /WNING AN OFkCE SPACE AT 0ARKWAY #ORPORATE #ENTER AT THE PREMIER #ENTRAL "USINESS $ISTRICT IN THE SOUTH &ILINVEST #ITY TRULY HAS NUMEROUS BENEkTS

Start the year right with a new home The ideal office address for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employees

A NEW YEAR SIGNIkES A TIME FOR FRESH STARTS AND OPPORTUNITIES -ANY &ILIPINOS GET EXCITED WITH WELCOMING THE YEAR AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO DO THIS THAN IN A NEW HOME &ROM ACHIEVING PERSONAL RESOLUTIONS TO ENJOYING A MODERN LIFESTYLE AND MAKING MEMORIES WITH LOVED ONES &ILIPINOS CAN LOOK FORWARD TO STARTING ANEW AT THE WARM COMMUNITY OF ,AROSSA 4HIS

0RIMEHOMES INVITES FAMILIES TO MOVE IN AND EXPERIENCE LIFE AT THE GREENER SIDE OF #APITOL (ILLS ,AROSSA RESIDENTS CAN kND SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO TRY AND ENJOY AS THE YEAR GOES ON 7ITH THE COMMUNITY STRATEGICALLY LOCATED AT THE HEART OF 1UEZON #ITY FAMILY MEMBERS CAN LOOK FORWARD TO ACTIVITIES THAT MATCH THEIR LIFESTYLES &OODIES CAN ENJOY DINING AT THE BEST RESTAURANTS STUDENTS CAN STUDY AT SOME OF THE COUNTRY S PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES SHOPAHOLICS CAN VISIT THE LARGEST MALL COMPLEXES AND BARGAIN SHOPS

AND CHILDREN CAN BOND WITH THEIR

Q A new year, a new home

FAMILIES AND FRIENDS AT THE NEAREST RECREATIONAL PARKS 'IVING MORE &ILIPINOS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN ONE OF THE MOST PREMIUM RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES 0RIMEHOMES OFFERS ITS %ASY -OVE IN 0ROGRAM WHERE

INTERESTED BUYERS CAN TREAT THEMSELVES WITH THE PERFECT CONDO UNIT AT ONLY PERCENT SPOT CASH 4HE LIMITED TIME OFFER PROVIDES HOMEBUYERS AN OPTION TO SETTLE PERCENT OF THE PROPERTY COST WITHIN ONE YEAR AT PERCENT INTEREST

Q Nothing beats a fresh start at the inviting lush green environment of Larossa.

WHILE THE REMAINING PERCENT MUST HAVE PRE APPROVED BANK kNANCING 7ITH A NEWLY OWNED HOME IN ,AROSSA FAMILIES CAN ENJOY THE GUARANTEE OF COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR )NTERESTED DWELLERS CAN kND UNITS IN 4HE 'ARDEN 2OW Â&#x2021; THE kRST OF THE FOUR DEVELOPMENTS Â&#x2021; WITH #AMIA ALREADY HOUSING OCCUPANTS IN THE COMMUNITY AND WILL BE FOLLOWED

BY THE OPENING OF 3AMPAGUITA AND -AGNOLIA IN THE kRST HALF OF 3O FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR NEW BEGINNINGS THIS YEAR NOTHING BEATS A FRESH START AT THE INVITING LUSH GREEN ENVIRONMENT OF ,AROSSA 0RIMEHOMES IS A COMPREHENSIVE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE DEDICATED TO BUILDING QUALITY HOMES IN HARMONY WITH NATURE AND TODAY S FAST PACED LIFESTYLE 4HE COMPANY UTILIZES PROGRESSIVE DESIGN CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES TO CREATE NOT JUST HOMES

BUT COMMUNITIES THAT NURTURE NATURE CULTIVATE VISION AND INSPIRE INNOVATION 4HIS NEW BEGINNINGS AND WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIES FOR CITY LIVING AWAIT &ILIPINOS AT THE URBAN BOTANICAL COMMUNITY OF ,AROSSA IN #APITOL (ILLS

,/#!4%$ AT THE CORNER OF %$3!

AND 1UEZON !VENUE #ENTRIS #YBERPOD &IVE IN %TON #ENTRIS IS READY TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE GROWING BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING SECTOR MULTINATIONAL AND LOCAL COMPANIES 4HE STORY FULLY PROVISIONED BUILDING IS DESIGNED TO CULTIVATE CREATIVITY AND EFFICIENCY WITH SPACE FOR lEXIBLE CONkGURATIONS TO ENSURE SMOOTH WORK lOW AND OVERALL EMPLOYEE WELL BEING ! COMPLETE RANGE OF AMENITIES AND OTHER MODERN CONVENIENCES WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ENABLE BUSIness responsiveness and uninterRUPTED OPERATIONS 4HE IDEAL LOCATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE #ENTRIS COMPLEX IS ATTRACTIVE TO EMPLOYEES BECAUSE OF ITS EASY ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION HUBS TRAIN BUSES CABS

SHUTTLES AND JEEPNEYS /UTSIDE PROFESSIONALS CAN ENJOY WIDE GREEN SPACES RESTAURANTS SHOPS

kTNESS CENTERS AN EVENTS CENTER AND A SUPERMARKET ASSURING NO SHORTAGE OF LIFESTYLE OPTIONS FOR THOSE PURSUING THEIR CAREERS HERE 7ITH THE COMPLEX S DIRECT CONNECTION TO THE -24 WORKERS ARE ALSO WITHIN EASY REACH TO 1UEZON #ITY S SHOPPING DINING AND ENTERTAINMENT DESTINATIONS AS WELL AS SCHOOLS HOSPITALS CHURCHES AND GOVERNMENT OFkCES 7ITH THE RIGHT OFkCE SPACE COMPANIES CAN POISE THEMSELVES FOR BIGGER GROWTH IN THE COUNTRY %TON 0ROPERTIES STRATEGICALLY LOCATED OFkCES ALREADY HOUSE THE LOCAL OFkCES OF SOME OF THE WORLD S BIGGEST BUSINESSES AND WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND TO MEET THE GROWING NEED FOR MORE STRATEGICALLY LOCATED SECURE AND MODERN OFkCES IN THE 0HILIPPINES Q Strategically located at the corner of EDSA and Quezon Avenue, Centris Cyberpod Five cultivates creativity and efficiency as it offers space for flexible configurations to ensure smooth work flow.

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PA Properties eyes 25 projects

BY ANGELICA BALLESTEROS

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&&/2$!",% HOUSING DEVELOPER 0! !LVAREZ 0ROPERTIES AND $EVELOPMENT #ORP 0!

0ROPERTIES IS TARGETING TO RACK UP 0 BILLION REVENUES FROM PLANNED PROJECTS OVER THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS )N AN E MAILED INTERVIEW WITH 4HE -ANILA 4IMES on 7EDNESDAY 0! 0ROPERTIES SAID IT PLANS TO ACQUIRE LAND BANKS IN "ULACAN ,AGUNA #AVITE 0AMPANGA AND "ATANGAS FROM TO

AS WELL AS IN 2IZAL "ACOLOD

$AVAO )LOILO AND #EBU STARTING

WHERE THE FUTURE PROJECTS WILL BE LOCATED 0! 0ROPERTIES SAID IT WOULD SPEND 0 BILLION FOR THE LAND ACQUISITION COMPRISING OF HECTARES IN TOTAL )T ADDED IT WOULD INVEST 0 BILLION PER PROJECT WITH

HOUSING UNITS EACH 4HE PLAN IS IN LINE WITH EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE MILLION HOUSING BACKLOG IN THE COUNTRY WHICH IS EXPECTED TO GROW TO MILLION UNITS BY AS STRONG DEMAND CONTINUES TO OUTSTRIP SUPPLY g4HE CURRENT HOUSING BACKLOG STANDS AT OVER MILLION COUNTRYWIDE WITH SOCIALIZED AND ECONOMIC HOUSING ACCOUNTING FOR THE BULK OF THIS REQUIREMENT u 0!

0ROPERTIES #HAIRMAN 2OMARICO !LVAREZ SAID IN A SEPARATE STATEMENT g!S A RESULT PREVALENCE OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS THAT LACK BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABLE SERVICE HAS INCREASED SIGNIkCANTLY ACROSS MOST TOWNS AND CITIES u HE ADDED 4HE COMPANY SAID IT WAS WELL POSITIONED TO CAPITALIZE ON THE BACKLOG NOTING THAT IT HAD HECTARES OF LANDBANK AT PRESENT g4HE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO DEVELOP THE SYNERGIES AND PARTICIPATION OF ALL STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING THE PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYERS CITIZENS AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS IN THE PROVISION OF SHELTER u !LVAREZ SAID g&OR ITS PART THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS THAT POLICY MAKING LAND ACQUISITION AND A SUCCESSFUL EXPROPRIATION PLAN ARE CRITICAL TO MEETING THE INTERESTS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC u HE ADDED

Perpetual notes -EANWHILE 0! 0ROPERTIES HAS SUCCESSFULLY TAPPED THE DOMESTIC EQUITY CAPITAL MARKET BY ISSUING THE kRST TRANCHE OF ITS PERPETUAL NOTES OFFERING 4HE PROCEEDS WILL BE USED TO PARTIALLY kNANCE THE COMPANY S PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT AND LAND BANKING INITIATIVES AS PART OF ITS EXPANSION PLANS )N 0! 0ROPERTIES ENTERED INTO A *OINT 6ENTURE !GREEMENT *6! WITH (ANKYU (ANSHIN 0ROPERTIES #ORP ((0# WHICH IS PART OF A *APANESE CONGLOMERATE Â&#x2021; THE (ANKYU (ANSHIN (OLDINGS 'ROUP 4HE kRST *6! COVERS THE DEVELOPMENT OF )DESIA Â&#x2021; AN HA PROPERTY IN $ASMARIÃ&#x201E;AS #AVITE 4HIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THE SIGNING OF TWO OTHER *6! S WITH ((0# IN .OVEMBER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADDITIONAL HAS RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROJECT IN $ASMARINAS #AVITE AND A HA HOUSING AND COMMERCIAL PROJECT IN ,IPA "ATANGAS 4HE /SAKA BASED CONGLOMERATE HAS DIVERSE BUSINESS

INTERESTS IN 4RANSPORTATION 2EAL %STATE %NTERTAINMENT AND #OMMUNICATIONS 4RAVEL )NTERNATIONAL 4RANSPORTATION AND (OTELS g4HE SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF THE 0ERPETUAL .OTES PROGRAM PROVIDES US ADDITIONAL LEG ROOM TO ACQUIRE MORE PROPERTIES TO MEET OUR kVE YEAR DEVELOPMENT PLANS 7E ARE TRULY GRATEFUL TO 0." #APITAL )NVESTMENT #ORP AND THE INSTITUTIONAL LENDERS WHO SUPPORTED US IN THE kRST TRANCHE OF THIS ISSUANCE 'IVEN THE POSITIVE RECEPTION OF THE MARKET WE RE AIMING TO ISSUE THE kNAL TRANCHE IN THE kRST QUARTER OF

u !LVAREZ SAID g!S THE )SSUE -ANAGER AND ,EAD !RRANGER WE ARE DELIGHTED TO BE ABLE TO TAKE PART IN 0! 0ROPERTIES FUND RAISING ACTIVITY CONSIDERING THAT THIS IS A LANDMARK ISSUANCE THE SECOND OF ITS KIND EVER ISSUED IN THE DOMESTIC CAPITAL MARKET -OVING FORWARD WE SEE THAT MORE AND MORE COMPANIES WILL ISSUE PERPETUAL NOTES AS THE MARKET BECOMES FAMILIAR WITH HYBRID SECURITIES u SAID 0." #APITAL 0RESIDENT AND #%/ 'ERRY " 6ALENCIANO 4HE PERPETUAL NOTES WERE ISSUED UNDER 2ULE OF THE 32# 2ULES AS AN EXEMPT TRANSACTION )N THIS REGARD THE SECURITIES WERE OFFERED ONLY TO 0RIMARY )NSTITUTIONAL ,ENDER

Easing the housing backlog /VER THE YEARS THE DEMAND FOR HOUSING HAS OUTSTRIPPED SUPPLY

DRIVEN BY RURAL TO URBAN AND INTERCITY MIGRATION IN MAJOR CITIES WHERE PEOPLE BELIEVE THERE ARE BETTER PROSPECTS FOR EMPLOYMENT !CCORDING TO A 5NIVERSITY OF !SIA AND THE 0ACIkC STUDY THERE WAS AN EXCESS OF AROUND HIGH END OR OPEN MARKET HOUSES AND

MID PRICED HOMES IN

MANY OF WHICH WERE SITUATED WITHIN THE .ATIONAL #APITAL 2EGION AND THE COUNTRY S OTHER URBAN CENTERS /THER HOUSING SEGMENTS HOWEVER PRESENTED A DIFFERENT STORY )N THE SOCIALIZED ECONOMIC AND LOW COST HOUSING SEGMENTS FOR INSTANCE THE HOUSING BACKLOG WAS SO HIGH THAT IT IS EXPECTED TO REACH MILLION UNITS BY 4HESE HOUSING SEGMENTS PRIMARILY CATER TO POOR TO LOWER MIDDLE INCOME CLASSES WHICH COMPRISE PERCENT OF THE POPULATION 7ITH CLOSE TO YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPING AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES 0! 0ROPERTIES IS WELL POSITIONED TO CAPITALIZE ON THE HUGE HOUSING BACKLOG WITH HECTARES OF LANDBANK &OR 0! 0ROPERTIES ENDED THE YEAR WITH 0 BILLION IN TOTAL ASSETS )N THE SAME YEAR THE COMp a ny i n f u s e d 0 MILlion

Q â&#x20AC;&#x2122;The government needs to develop the synergies and participation of all stakeholder.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Q Representatives from PA Properties and Hankyu Hanshin Properties Corp. during the signing of the first joint venture agreement. PA Properties was represented by its chairman, Romarico Alvarez (second from left), and its president, Jonathan Lu (left), while for Hankyu were Deputy General Manager Masahiko Toda (third from left) and Corporate Planning Manager Keiji Okamoto (right). The agreement sealed the pact for the development of Idesia Dasmariñas.

IN EQUITY INCREASING ITS TOTAL EQUITY TO 0 BILLION g4HE CURRENT HOUSING BACKLOG STANDS AT OVER MILLION COUNTRYWIDE WITH SOCIALIZED AND ECONOMIC HOUSING ACCOUNTING FOR THE BULK OF THIS REQUIREMENT !S A RESULT

PREVALENCE OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS THAT LACK BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABLE SERVICE HAS INCREASED SIGNIkCANTLY ACROSS MOST TOWNS AND CITIES u !LVAREZ SAID 4HE GOVERNMENT ALONE CANNOT MEET THE RAPIDLY GROWING DEMAND FOR DECENT SHELTER PARTICULARLY IN URBAN AREAS 4O DATE THE SOCIALIZED HOUSING SEGMENT HAS A BACKLOG OF

UNITS WHILE THE ECONOMIC HOUSING SEGMENT HAS

!ND THE BACKLOG CONTINUES TO RISE BY

TO UNITS A YEAR ACCORDING TO REPORTS 7ITH THESE kGURES ADDRESSING THE BACKLOG WILL REQUIRE INVESTMENTS BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF THE NA-

TIONAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS 0 ! 0ROPERTIES COMPLETED A TOTAL OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMUNITIES WITH MORE HOUSING COMMUNITIES UNDER CONSTRUCTION 4HE COMPANY ALSO HAS DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR FUTURE PROJECTS ESTIMATED TO GENERATE UP TO 0 BILLION IN REVENUES g0EOPLE MIGRATING TO THE CITIES AND WHO ARE LOOKING FOR PLACES TO LIVE IN ARE TAKING MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS BY OCCUPYING LAND Â&#x2021; BUILDING SHACKS AND MAKESHIFT HOUSES ON VACANT LOTS 5NLESS THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS THE PATTERN OF LAND OCCUPATIONS AND THE CLAMOR FOR DECENT HOUSING WILL LIKELY CONTINUE u !LVAREZ SAID

Q A model unit from Idesia 1 in Dasmariñas, Cavite.

Q PA Properties is poised to build more housing communities to ease the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housing backlog.

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www.manilatimes.net Q Kyle Kuzma (No. 0) of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts to a DeMarcus Cousins (No. 0) of the Golden State Warriors foul as he drives past Klay Thompson (No. 11) during a 130-111 Warriors win at Staples Center on Tuesday in Los Angeles, California.

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EW YORK: Klay Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blistering performance from three-point range propelled the Golden State Warriors to a 130-111 NBA victory over the injury-depleted Los Angeles Lakers on Monday (Tuesday in Manila).

4HOMPSON JOINED FORMER $ENVER Nuggets point guard Ty Lawson as the ONLY ."! PLAYERS TO MAKE THEIR kRST 10 attempts from three-point range, kNISHING FOR FROM BEYOND THE ARC AND OF OVERALL FOR POINTS BEFORE SITTING OUT THE FOURTH QUARTER "Y THEN THE TWO TIME DEFENDING CHAMPION 7ARRIORS WERE UP AGAINST A ,AKERS TEAM MISSING INJURED SUPERSTAR ,E"RON *AMES ALONG WITH GUARDS 2AJON 2ONDO AND ,ONZO "ALL

g2EGARDLESS IT S A GOOD WIN u Thompson said after the Warriors WRAPPED UP AN EIGHTH STRAIGHT VICTORY +EVIN $URANT ADDED POINTS FOR THE 7ARRIORS AND 3TEPHEN #URRY SUPPLIED POINTS AND ASSISTS BUT IT WAS 4HOMPSON IN THE SPOTLIGHT HAVING CLEARLY SORTED OUT THE SHOOTING TROUBLES PLAGUING HIM IN LATE $ECEMBER g7HEN YOU VE GOT THE HOT HAND YOU RE JUST LOOKING FOR AN OUNCE OF SPACE THAT S ALL YOU NEED IS AN INCH

OR TWO THAT THING S JUST lICKING OFF THE WRIST SO EASY u 4HOMPSON SAID g)T WAS ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS u )N 0HILADELPHIA ERS BIG MAN *OEL %MBIID SCORED POINTS AND GRABBED REBOUNDS AS THE HOSTS WITHSTOOD A POINT PERFORMANCE FROM *AMES (ARDEN IN A VICTORY OVER THE (OUSTON 2OCKETS (ARDEN NOTCHED HIS TH STRAIGHT game with 30 or more points, but the 2OCKETS WERE NO MATCH FOR THE ERS IN A SOMETIMES TESTY ENCOUNTER Embiid added two assists, two STEALS AND THREE BLOCKED SHOTS

PROVOKING THE IRE OF (ARDEN IN THE kNAL MINUTE OF THE kRST HALF WHEN he leaned in to guard the reigning ."! -OST 6ALUABLE 0LAYER AS HE DROVE TOWARD THE BASKET (ARDEN HIT THE COURT AND AS HE ROSE

Q Phoenixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alex Mallari attempts a lay-up against TNTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s David Semerad (No. 14) as TNTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roger Pogoy and Brian Heruela (No. 0) look on during a Season 44 PBA Philippine Cup game on Saturday at the Ynares Sports Center in Antipolo City. PBA MEDIA BUREAU PHOTO

PHOENIX EYES 3-0 START VS COLUMBIAN DYIP

PHOENIX shoots for a 3-0 start when it takes on giant-killer Columbian Dyip while Northern Luzon Expressway (NLEX) and TNT KaTropa are on a hunt for kRST VICTORIES TODAY IN 3EASON 0HILIPPINE "ASKETBALL !SSOCIATION 0HILIPPINE #UP AT THE !RANETA #OLISEUM 4HE &UEL -ASTERS ARE COMING OFF TWO OVERTIME WINS AGAINST -ERALCO AND 4.4 WHEN THEY FACE #OLUMBIAN $YIP AT P M g7E ARE VERY HAPPY WITH OUR WIN LOSS RECORD BUT WE WOULD BE HAPPIER IF WE IMPROVE TO

u SAID 0HOENIX COACH ,OUIE !LAS #OLUMBIAN $YIP PULLED OFF A UPSET AGAINST DEFENDING CHAMPION 3AN -IGUEL "EER ON &RIDAY BEHIND THE STELLAR PERFORMANCES OF TOP OVERALL PICK #* 0EREZ

*ACKSON #ORPUZ AND 2ASHAWN -C#ARTHY g/UR OPPONENT IS COMING FROM A HUGE VICTORY AGAINST THE STRONGEST TEAM 3O WE RE NOT GOING FOR A PICNIC TOMORROW BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO BE A DOGkGHT u ADDED !LAS g4HEIR HUSTLE POINTS AND SECOND CHANCE POINTS WERE VERY IMPRESSIVE AND THAT S ALL EFFORT u Guards Matthew Wright and Alex Mallari, who postED POINTS AND POINTS RESPECTIVELY IN THEIR VICTORY OVER 4.4 ARE EXPECTED TO LEAD THE &UEL -ASTERS ANEW -UCH IS ALSO EXPECTED FROM #ALVIN !BUEVA WHO kNISHED WITH POINTS REBOUNDS AND FOUR STEALS IN THE SAID GAME

#OLUMBIAN $YIP IS FACING 0HOENIX WITH CAUTION g7E SHOULD NOT BE SATISkED AFTER WINNING OUR kRST GAME 7E NEED TO WORK HARDER BECAUSE WE KNOW 0HOENIX IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST TEAMS 4HEY ARE ALSO ON A DEFENSIVE MINDSET u 0EREZ WHO SCORED POINTS IN HIS PRO DEBUT AGAINST 3AN -IGUEL "EER

told The Manila Times g) KNOW 0HOENIX 4HEY DON T GIVE UP EVEN WHEN THEY RE DOWN WITH A HUGE MARGIN SO WE NEED TO MATCH THEIR ENERGY AND INTENSITY u SAID #OLUMBIAN $YIP COACH *OHN #ARDEL -EANWHILE .,%8 WILL ATTEMPT TO JOIN THE WIN COLUMN AFTER THREE GAMES WHEN IT FACES THE ALSO WINLESS 4.4 IN THE P M SECOND GAME 2OAD 7ARRIORS COACH 9ENG 'UIAO SAID THAT NEW RECRUIT *0 %RRAM AND RETURNING +EVIN !LAS ARE STILL ADJUSTING WITH THEIR TEAMMATES g)T IS A PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT FOR THE TEAM )T WILL take a little bit of time but the addition of Erram and !LAS IS A POSITIVE THING FOR THE TEAM u SAID 'UIAO â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to beat TNT now while they are still IN THE ADJUSTMENT PERIOD JUST LIKE US u -EANWHILE 4.4 S BIG MAN -ICHAEL -IRANDA WILL MISS TONIGHT S GAME AFTER BEING GIVEN A ONE GAME SUSPENSION AND ORDERED TO PAY A 0 kNE FOR PUNCHING lAGRANT FOUL PENALTY *USTIN #HUA OF 0HOENIX DURING 3ATURDAY S GAME JOSEF T. RAMOS

the two traded words, both drawing TECHNICAL FOULS %MBIID THEN BLOCKED A (ARDEN shot from behind as the half ended WITH THE ERS LEADING 0HILADELPHIA OUT SCORED THE 2OCKETS IN THE THIRD PERIOD PUSHING THEIR LEAD TO AS MANY AS POINTS 7ITH THE GAME OUT OF REACH (ARDEN sat out a fourth quarter that saw both TEAM S STARTERS MOSTLY ON THE BENCH (ARDEN ADMITTED THAT THE 2OCKETS MAY HAVE BEEN FEELING THE EFFECTS OF TWO STRAIGHT OVERTIME GAMES A LOSS TO "ROOKLYN ON 7EDNESDAY AND A WIN OVER THE ,AKERS ON 3ATURDAY g)T S ONE OF THOSE GAMES IN THE COURSE OF AN GAME SEASON THAT YOU JUST HAVE TO WASH AWAY u (ARDEN SAID )N .EW 9ORK /KLAHOMA #ITY S 0AUL 'EORGE SCORED POINTS WHILE

2USSELL 7ESTBROOK ADDED POINTS

10 rebounds and nine assists as the 4HUNDER ROUTED THE +NICKS 'ERMANY S $ENNIS 3CHRODER ADDED POINTS OFF THE BENCH WHILE *ERAMI 'RANT AND RESERVE !BDEL .ADER EACH CONTRIBUTED POINTS FOR /KLAHOMA #ITY IN THE -ARTIN ,UTHER +ING *R HOLIDAY ROMP 4HE 4HUNDER JUMPED AHEAD AFTER THE kRST QUARTER AND NEVER LOOKED BACK AFTER QUIETING THE -ADISON 3QUARE 'ARDEN CROWD The Thunder, third in the Western #ONFERENCE BEHIND 'OLDEN 3TATE AND $ENVER IS KEEPING A FOCUS ON THE PLAYOFFS EVEN AS THEY TAKE CARE OF bUSINESS DURING THE SEASON 4IM (ARDAWAY *R LED THE +NICKS WITH POINTS BUT .EW 9ORK S LOSING STREAK STRETCHED TO SIX GAMES

Bucks beat Mavs Greek star Giannis Antetokounmpo SCORED POINTS AND GRABBED REBOUNDS TO POWER THE ."! BEST -ILWAUKEE "UCKS OVER VISITING $ALLAS 3LOVENIAN ROOKIE ,UKA $ONCIC LED $ALLAS WITH POINTS REBOUNDS AND ASSISTS THE kRST TRIPLE DOUBLE OF HIS ."! CAREER 4HE YEAR OLD JOINED ERS GUARD -ARKELLE &ULTZ AS THE ONLY TEENAGERS EVER TO POST TRIPLE DOUBLES Â&#x2021;SCORING IN DOUBLE kGURES IN THREE KEY STATISTICAL CATEGORIESÂ&#x2021; BUT DIDN T FEEL MUCH LIKE CELEBRATING g) M HAPPY FOR MY TRIPLE DOUBLE

but I would prefer a win for sure and ) DIDN T PLAY GOOD AT ALL u $ONCIC SAID $ !NGELO 2USSELL SCORED POINTS and handed out eight assists to lead the "ROOKLYN .ETS TO A FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY

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Eustaquio, Moraes collide anew in ONE: Heroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ascent

FREE KICK ROMY P. MARIĂ&#x2018;AS

Age just a number?

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NE defending flyweight world champion Geje â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Gravityâ&#x20AC;?

Eustaquio declared his arsenal polished and ready against former titleholder Adriano Moraes of Brazil in the main event of ONE: Heroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ascent on Friday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

Coming off a six-month hiatus, Eustaquio is facing Moraes for the THIRD TIME A HISTORIC kRST UNDER THE ONE Championship banner.

The 29-year old Eustaquio wants to chalk up another win after his stablemate, former strawweight world champion Joshua â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Passionâ&#x20AC;? Pacio lost to Yosuke Saruta last weekend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is pressure but at the same time motivation for me to keep going,â&#x20AC;? said the Baguio City-native during the event's news conference on Tuesday at the City of Dreams Grand Ballroom in ParaĂąaque City.

Eustaquio, who holds a record of 11 wins and six losses, wants an exPLOSIVE kGHT WHEN HE TACKLES -ORAES in front of his countrymen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a world champion platform. If I HAVE A CHANCE TO kNISH THE kGHT ) WILL GRAB it. If I have a chance to knock him out, I will knock him out. I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let that chance slip away but I believe he came hungrier AND CAME A BETTER kGHTER THE LAST TIME WE fought,â&#x20AC;? the champion said.

-ORAES IS LIKEWISE EXPECTING kRE-

WORKS ON kGHT NIGHT g) WANTED TO BE HERE AGAIN AND kGHT IN THE kRST TRILOGY AT /.% #HAMPIONship. It is an exciting match and I hope you would enjoy it,â&#x20AC;? said Moraes, with a 17-3 win-loss card.

4HE FORMER lYWEIGHT CHAMPION lost to the Team Lakay stalwart in June via split decision. Prior to that match, he submitted Eustaquio with a guillotine choke in 2014. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard for me to elaborate this time but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to put up some surprises. You must see it on the show,â&#x20AC;? Eustaquio added.

Besides Eustaquio, two other Team Lakay bets will see action in the undercards.

Honorio â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Rockâ&#x20AC;? Banario will face Lowen Tynanes in the lightweight WORLD GRAND PRIX QUARTERkNAL MATCH Banario aims to extend his winning streak against the undefeated Tynanes of United States and move up to the next level of the contest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is a great athlete and a humble perSON TOO 7E ARE HERE FOR THE kRST kGHT OF THE ONE lightweight Grand Prix so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited

Q Geje â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Gravityâ&#x20AC;? Eustaquio of the Philippines (left) and Adriano Moraes of Brazil face the media on Tuesday ahead of their fight in ONE: Heroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ascent on Friday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. ONE CHAMPIONSHIP PHOTO to put in a good show,â&#x20AC;? said Banario.

Banarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record is 14-7 while Tynanesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is 9-0.

Meanwhile, Danny Kingad will be facing Tatsumitsu Wada of Japan in a THREE ROUND lYWEIGHT BOUT â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not nobodies. We are not pushovers. We can show that we can do this,â&#x20AC;? said â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kingâ&#x20AC;? Kingad.

In the kickboxing matches, Fahdi

Khaled of Tunisia will face Rodtang Jitmuangnon of Thailand in the ONE 3UPER 3ERIES -UAY 4HAI lYWEIGHT CONtest, Reinier de Ridder of Netherlands takes on Fan Rong of China (middleweight), Josh Tonna of Australia faces Hiroki Akimoto of Japan (Super 3ERIES KICKBOXING m lYWEIGHT AND Brown Pinas of Netherlands collides, against Bangpleenoi Petchyindee

Academy of Thailand (Super Series Muay Thai â&#x20AC;&#x201C; featherweight).

In the preliminary bouts, Elias Mahmoudi of Algeria will face Yukinori Ogasawara of Japan; Sung Jong Lee of South Korea takes on Tang Kai of China, Mohammed Bin Mahmoud of Malaysia tackles Hiroaki Suzuki of Japan, and Egi Rozten of Indonesia battles Himanshu Kaushik of India.

Uytengsu sees growth in PH triathlon in 2019 SUNRISE Events, Inc Founder Wilfred Uytengsu predicts a growth in Philippine triathlon this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We expect the people to develop triathlon as a lifestyle. This sport is growing because so many people from different walks of life are trying it out,â&#x20AC;? said Uytengsu, in a news conference ushering in the Sunrise Sprint Series on Tuesday at the Manila House in Bonifacio Global City.

The three events were set on April 28 in Cebu, July 7 in Davao City, and November 3 in Subic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a great gateway into the sport of triathlon and easily accessible to the newcomers and novice alike,â&#x20AC;? added Uytengsu, referring to Sunrise Sprint Series.

The sprint races are open to individual participants 15-year-old and above while the elite level open category will serve as a qualifying for

athletes who want to join the Go for Gold Team.

The competition is composed of 750-meter swim, 20-kilometer bike and a five-kilometer run.

Meanwhile, national triathlete Nikko Huelgas is hoping to recover from a left hand injury just in time for the first of the three installments of the Sunrise Sprint Series. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping to recover from my injury because I really want to compete and meet athletes.

Definitely, I would want to support and compete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fun event,â&#x20AC;? the 2015 and 2017 Southeast Asian Games menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s triathlon gold medalist told The Manila Times.

The Sunrise Sprint Series will be held in partnership with Go for Gold who agreed to be the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title sponsor from 2019 to 2021.

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Q Brandin Cooks (No. 12) of the Los Angeles Rams makes a catch over P.J. Williams (No. 26) of the New Orleans Saints on January 20 in the NFC Championship game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. AFP PHOTO

EAR ye! Hear ye!

There is a proposal, reportedly from the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president himself, to â&#x20AC;&#x153;follow the IOC [International Olympic Committee] by-lawsâ&#x20AC;? that an IOC member ceases to be such at the end of the calendar year during which he or she reaches the age of 70 or 80.

Another suggestion from POC chief Ricky Vargas is that every NSA (National Sport Association) should HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE SET OF OFkCERS WHO WILL BE BARRED FROM BEING AN OFkCIAL in another NSA. Vargas admits that his recommendations are â&#x20AC;&#x153;controversial.â&#x20AC;?

His proposals, however, will have to make it past Jose â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pepingâ&#x20AC;?

Cojuangco Jr., POC president from 2004 to 2018.

Cojuangcoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 14-year reign ended on February 23, 2018, when he was defeated by Vargas in bitterly contested and court-ordered elections.

There had not been major upheavals during the last several months or so with Vargas at the POC helm.

But his latest move to effect amendments to the POC charter is LIKELY TO RUFlE A LOT OF FEATHERS WHICH possibility could divide the ranks just as the Philippines is preparing to host the 2019 Southeast Asian Games and gearing up for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The last thing Filipino athletes would want to witness at this point is apparent and very public wrangling among the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sports bigwigs as they begin to chase their SEA Games and Olympic Games dreams.

It was bad enough that even without POC people bickering, the country WAS A HUGE lOP IN THE 3%! 'AMES and so-so in the 2018 Asian Games despite the four gold medals to show for it and no offense meant to Hidylin, Margielyn, Bianca, Lois and Yuka.

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obviously, would go a long way to inspiring the Atletang Pinoy aspire FOR THE 0HILIPPINES kRST EVER /LYMPIC gold medal in Tokyo.

This seems uncertain, we think, with the proposals of Vargas.

Not that they are not necessary for the good of Philippine sports.

But Cojuangco, who evidently would be affected by one of Vargasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; proposals, is the chairman of the POC committee on constitutional revisions and amendments.

He will turn 85 on February 23, 2019, according to Yahoo.

Rams bound for London as well as Super Bowl in 2019 NEW YORK: The Los Angeles Rams, who will face New England in next monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Super Bowl, were among the teams named Monday (Tuesday in Manila) to play NFL regular-season games in London next season.

Four matchups for the 2 01 9 c a m p a i g n w e r e a n nounced by the league with t wo e a c h a t We m b l e y S t a dium and two more at the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium and another slated for Mexico Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Estadio Azteca.

The Rams will face the Cincinnati Bengals in London, which will also see Tampa Bay meet Carolina, the Chicago Bears play the Oakland Raiders and the Jacksonville Jaguars play the Houston Texans.

The Kansas City Chiefs, who were to play the Rams in Mex-

ico City last year before poor field conditions forced the game to be moved to Los Angeles, will try again in Mexico City when they face the Los Angeles Chargers next season.

Exact dates, London venues and kickoff times will be announced when the NFL schedule is released later this year.

Chiefs 23-year-old quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who threw an NFL-best 50 touchdowns this past season, nearly put Kansas City into the Super Bowl for the first time since 1970 in a 37-31 over-time playoff loss Sunday to New England.

The Rams, sparked by 24-yearold quarterback Jared Goff and star running back Todd Gurley, edged New Orleans 26-23 in over-time in Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other SEMI kNAL PLAYOFF SHOWDOWN

Their championship showdown will come February 3 in Super Bowl 53 at Atlanta.

The Chiefs and Chargers, A F C We s t d i v i s i o n r i v a l s , will each make their Mexico debuts after both reached the playoffs his season.

The Rams will make their fourth appearance in London and the game could be a reunion of sorts, with Rams quarterbacks coach Zac Taylor expected to be named the next coach of the Bengals following the Super Bowl.

Bears pass rusher Khalil Mack will have the chance to face his former club when Chicago faces the Raiders.

The Jaguars will play a home game in London for the seventh consecutive season when they face the Texans.

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NBA Fines Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Smart $35K after Bembry altercation NEW YORK: Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart was fined $35,000 by the NBA on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) after multiple attempts at rushing Atlantaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DeAndre Bembry after being ejected from a Saturday road victory.

Kiki VanDeWeghe, NBA executive vice president of basketball operations, said Smart was punished for aggressively pursuing an opponent

in an attempt to escalate a physical altercation and failing to leave the court in a timely manner following his ejection.

Smart and Bembry exchanged words as the players lined up for a jump ball in the third quarter and had to be separated by teammates and coaches.

Smart broke free and rushed toward Bembry before being again restrained.

A second technical foul in the game against Smart saw him ejected 4:25 into the third quarter of Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 113105 triumph. Bembry was also assessed a technical foul over the incident.

The Celtics rank fifth in the Eastern Conference at 26-18, six games behind pace-setting Milwaukee, while the Hawks are 14-31, 7 1/2 games behind Charlotte for the eighth and final East playoff spot.

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OS ANGELES: Former world No. 1 Tiger Woods will make his 2019 PGA debut Thursday at the Farmers Insurance Open alongside fellow Americans Tony Finau and Xander Schauffele, according to groupings released on Monday (Tuesday in Manila).

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PINAYS, THAIS FACE OFF AS LPGT BEVERLY UNWRAPS THE cream of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crop set off for a three-day battle of shotmaking and putting with some of the leading Thai players out to extend their reign in the Ladies Philippine Golf Tour as the ICTSI Beverly Place Ladies Classic unfolds in Mexico, Pampanga today.

LPGA Tour-bound Dottie Ardina, reigning LPGT Order of Merit champion Princess Superal, and former OOM winners Cyna Rodriguez and Pauline del Rosario launch their respective bids in four separate flights against crack Thai rivals in what promises to be an explosive start in the P750,000 event serving as the third leg of the seventh LPGT season.

Though Yupaporn Kawinpakorn, who also won the last LPGT stop at Pradera Verde, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be around to defend her crown she won by three over Chihiro Ikeda last year, the Thais remain a tough bunch to beat with Aunchisa Utama and Ornicha

Konsunthea joining Ardina and Korean Bang Choeun in the 8:30 a.m. flight.

Pimpadsorn Sangkagaro and Jaruporn P Na Ayuthaya slug it out with Del Rosario and another Korean Lee Ji Hyeon in the 8:20 a.m. group just after Superal tees off with Chonlada Chayanun, Numa Gulyanamitta and Mookharin Ladgratok at 8:10 a.m.

Rodriguez, meanwhile, hopes to come out strong against Narisara Kerdrit and Saraporn Chamchoi in the 8 a.m. group firmed up by the presence of twotime LPGT Champion Tour winner Lee Jeong Hwa, also of Korea.

Focus will also be on Ji Hyeon, who will be hard-pressed to prove her worth as a pro after shocking the elite field to

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rule the kickoff leg of the new LPGT season in Baguio as an amateur last October.

Ikeda, on the other hand, is up against former LPGT leg winner Wannasiri Sirisampant and Pattraporn Kratururk with Bruneiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Valerie Tan completing the four-player group in the 54-hole tournament organized by Pilipinas Golf Tournaments, Inc. The Thais won five of the 12 LPGT tournaments last year with Chamchoi, Sirisampant and company eager to score a follow-up to Kawinpakornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two-stroke victory over compatriot Pimpadsorn Sangkagaro at Pradera last December.

Ardina placed a distant third but the Canlubang ace, who placed second in the Symetra Tour last year to earn

full playing rights in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most lucrative circuit, is out to stop the Thaisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; run and build some confidence and momentum as she heads to the LPGA Tour in Australia next month.

Forty-eight players, including six amateurs, will slug it out for the top 15 plus ties slots in the first 36 holes. Others tipped to contend are Daniella Uy, Marvi Monsalve and Gretchen Villacencio and Thais Saruttaya Ngam-usawan, Sarinee Thitiratanakorn and Tiranan Yoopan.

Heading the amateur cast in the event, backed by Custom Clubmakers, Meralco, K&G Golf Apparel, BDO, Sharp, KZG, PLDT, Empire Golf and Sports and M.Y. Shokai Technology, Inc., are The Country Club mainstays Mafy Singson, Arnie Taguines, Samantha Dizon and Eagle Ace Superal along with Laurea Duque and Marianne Bustos.

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Dasmarinas is declared the new IBO Bantamweight world champion on April 22, 2018 at Singapore Indoor Stadium.

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Tsitsipas, Collins make Open semis

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MELBOURNE: Greek rising star Stefanos Tsitsipas was living the dream Tuesday after powering into the Australian Open semifinals where he was joined by fellow giant-killer and Grand Slam last four debutant Danielle Collins.

The 20-year-old, who ended Swiss great Roger Federerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tournament, reinforced his new-found status with a measured 7-5, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) win over Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roberto Bautista Agut on Rod Laver Arena that left him emotional.

In doing so, the 14th seed became the youngest man to reach the semis at Melbourne Park since Andy Roddick in 2003 and the first player from Greeceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; man or womanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to get so far at Grand Slam.

Unseeded American Collins, the world number 35, had never won a Grand Slam match before entering this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tournament but she stunned three-time major champion and second seed Angelique Kerber in round four.

And the 25-year-old from Florida continued her fairytale run by bouncing back spectacularly to down Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 2-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the quarter-finals.

Tsitsipasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exploits line him up with semi-final against either fellow young gun Frances Tiafoe of the United States or 17-time Grand Slam-winning Spaniard Rafael Nadal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just living the dream, living what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been

even practise on here. It was quite the experience. I really love it,â&#x20AC;? said the ecstatic Collins, whose reward working hard for,â&#x20AC;? said Tsitsipas, who lives in Cyprus is a semi-final against either Czech eighth seed Petra but trains at the academy of Serena Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coach Kvitova or local hope Ashleigh Barty.

They play later Tuesday with Kvitova going into the Patrick Mouratoglou in France. clash having won all nine of her matches this year, inâ&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel a bit emotional but not too much -- I know I really cluding a three-set win over the Australian in the final worked hard to get here, playing in semis of a Grand Slam.â&#x20AC;? of the Sydney International warm-up tournament.

Bautista Agut, seeded 22, acknowledged Tsitâ&#x20AC;&#x153;It will be fun one,â&#x20AC;? said the two-time Wimbledon sipas was playing well, but with Nadal and Novak Djokovic still in the tournament he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give him champion of meeting the 15th seed again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mean, Australians, of course, will be on her side, but that was much chance of winning the title. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course, he has a lot of time to improve, a lot the same in Sydney. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m kind of used to it.â&#x20AC;?

Nadal, meanwhile, looks to move another step of time to get enough experience to be in the finals closer to winning an event he has only claimed once of these tournaments,â&#x20AC;? he said. before among his 17 major titles against Tiafoe, who â&#x20AC;&#x153;But here I think Rafa and Novak are my favorites.â&#x20AC;? announced himself on the world stage by beating fifth seed Kevin Anderson in the second round.

It will be fun The Spaniard, who has been in ominous Collins, who has spent long stretches of her career touch so far, is wary of the threat posed by the playing small tournaments to build up her ranking 21-year-old, who has nothing to lose. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has everything. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quick. He serves points, was in big trouble after losing the first set to well. Very quick forehand,â&#x20AC;? said the second seed, world number 44 Pavlyuchenkova.

But she fearlessly battled back into the match to who has not dropped a set so far. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very dynamic player, aggressive one. again stamp her mark on the tournament.

Of course, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dangerous.â&#x20AC;?

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UAE, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN ADVANCE IN ASIAN CUP

BU DHABI: Host United Arab Emirates ended Kyrgyzstanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fairytale with a controversial extra-time penalty to reach the Asian Cup quarterfinals on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) as holder Australia and Japan also advanced.

RONALDO FACES MULTI-MILLION TAX FRAUD FINE IN MADRID COURT MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo is returning to Madrid for a court date on Tuesday in which he could be fined 18.8 million euros ($21.4 million) for tax fraud as part of a deal reached with the Spanish taxman.

As part of an agreement arranged in June with the former Real Madrid heroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyers, prosecutors are also asking that the Portuguese attacker, who last summer left the Spanish capital for Italian champions Juventus, be handed a 23-month jail sentence.

However Ronaldo would not spend a day in prison as sentences of up to two years are generally not enforced in Spain for first-time offenders in non-violent crimes.

The hearing, due to start at 9:50 am (0850 GMT), is expected to last just a few minutes as the deal is officially presented to the judge.

He in turn will give the final sentence on Tuesday or the coming days, according to a spokesman for the court in northern Madrid.

Ronaldo will not be given special treatment when he arrives and will have to climb up the courthouse steps amid a likely media scrum despite the five-time Ballon dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Or winnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyers asking he be allowed to enter the building by car to avoid the spotlight.

The court president refused the request, saying that despite his â&#x20AC;&#x153;great fameâ&#x20AC;?, he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;compromise securityâ&#x20AC;? at the building, according to a court document.

His request to appear via videoconference was also denied.

Offshore companies Madrid prosecutors opened a probe into Ronaldo in June 2017 and he was questioned in July that same year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have never hidden anything, nor have I had the intention of evading taxes,â&#x20AC;? he told the court then, according to a statement from the sports agency which represents him, Gestifute.

Prosecutors accuse him of having used companies in lowtax foreign jurisdictions -- notably the British Virgin Islands and Ireland -- to avoid having to pay the tax due in Spain on his image rights between 2011 and 2014.

His lawyers said there had been a difference in interpretation of what was and was not taxable in Spain.

The deal between Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taxman and his lawyers has allowed Ronaldo to avoid having to sit through a long trial that could have damaged his image and seen him handed a heftier sentence.

Ronaldo is not the only footballer to have fallen foul of Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tax authorities.

Barcelonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lionel Messi, once Ronaldoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big La Liga rival, paid a two-million-euro fine in 2016 in his own tax wrangle and received a 21-month jail term.

The prison sentence was later reduced to a further fine of 252,000

A knee-wobbling, chest-thumping Mathew Ryan saved two spot kicks as the Socceroos beat Uzbekistanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s White Wolves in a shootout, while the Blue Samurai bundled out Saudi Arabia.

Substitute Ahmed Khalil was UAEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hero on an angst-ridden Abu Dhabi night as he converted another late penalty after a refereeing decision that could charitably be described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;softâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to talk about the referee,â&#x20AC;? growled Kyrgyzstan coach Aleksandr Krestinin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We leave the tournament with a lot of regrets -- we deserved more. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OUR kRST !SIAN#UP BUT ) M absolutely sure it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be our last and we will come back stronger.â&#x20AC;?

Kyrgyz substitute Tursunali Rustamov had stunned the Emirates when he snatched a dramatic stoppage-time equalizer at the end of a nail-biting contest that began so poorly for the former Soviet republic.

It took the home side just 14 minutes to break through as Khamis Esmaeel headed in an Ismail Matar corner.

Plucky Kyrgyzstan refused TO GO DOWN WITHOUT A kGHT

however, and the White Falcons equalised midway THROUGH THE kRST HALF WHEN Mirlan Murzaev squeezed the ball in from a seemingly Q Cristiano Ronaldo impossible angle.

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euros, equivalent to 400 euros per day of the original term.

Accused of rape in US But Ronaldoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal wrangles wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be over after a probe was opened in the United States in October after a former American model accused him of raping her in Las Vegas in 2009.

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Boateng in shock Barcelona loan move MADRID: Ghanaian forward KevinPrince Boateng has vowed to make the most of his shock arrival at Barcelona, after a loan move for the journeyman from Italian side Sassuolo was sealed on Monday (Tuesday in Manila).

The leaders of La Liga said in a statement they had agreed a deal to take Boateng on loan until the end of the season, with an option to make the move permanent in the summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The agreement includes an eight-

million-euro ($9 million) purchase option,â&#x20AC;? the club said.

The arrival of Boateng, 31, will provide much-needed cover for Luis Suarez up front in Ernesto Valverdeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad following the departure of Munir El Haddadi to Sevilla.

The fiery forward has been a successful stopgap many times before, which Barca boss Ernesto Valverde valued in

his decision to bring him in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to need much time to adapt, he knows his stuff and can start playing straight away,â&#x20AC;? Valverde. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comfortable in many positions, as a central striker or playing off another striker, and even deeper too,â&#x20AC;?

Valverde told the club website.

The player himself was upbeat about the move when journalists spoke to him at the airport in Italy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barça, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m coming! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sad to

leave Sassuolo but this is a great chance,â&#x20AC;? Boateng said, according to a SKY Twitter feed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask me about Real Madrid.

I only want to focus on Barcelona and I hope to score at BernabĂŠu for the next ClĂĄsico,â&#x20AC;? Boateng said.

The player will be presented to press and fans Tuesday at noon on the Camp Nou pitch, the club revealed.

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Q Inter Milanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defender Milan Skriniar (left) and Sassuoloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forward Kevin-Prince Boateng (white and green jersey) go for a header during the Italian Serie A football match at the San Siro Stadium in Rome. AFP PHOTO

Kichin subsequently gave UAE a scare when his curling shot crashed against the crossbar.

But Ali Mabkhout voll e y e d t h e 2 01 5 s e m i finalists back in front with his third goal of the tournament after some horror defending from Mustafa Iusupov.

That looked to have ended Kyrgyzstanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brave resistance until Rustamov headed home in the dying seconds to force extra time.

But after Mabkhout had crumpled to the turf under minimal contact 11 minutes into the first additional period, the former runners-up were awarded a disputed late penalty for the second time in this tournament.

Meanwhile, Ryan saved Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skin under a blood-red â&#x20AC;&#x153;wolf moonâ&#x20AC;? in Al-Ain, doing his best Bruce Grobbelaar impression to distract Uzbekistanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s penalty takers after a bruising 0-0 draw.

The Brighton goalkeeper denied Islom Tukhtakhujaev and Marat Bikmaev before Mathew Leckie smashed in the decisive kick in the shootout to send the Aussies through.

Elsewhere, four-time winners Japan scraped past Saudi Arabia 1-0 thanks TO A kRST HALF HEADER FROM Takehiro Tomiyasu.

Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win over the threetime champions in Sharjah came despite conceding 77 percent possession in favor AFP of the Gulf side.

Juventus eases past Chievo in Milan MILAN: Cristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty but Italian league leaders Juventus eased past bottom club Chievo 3-0 to pull nine points clear on top of Serie A on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) as AC Milan returned to the Champions League berths with a 2-0 win in Genoa.

Portuguese superstar Ronaldo had sealed Juventusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kRST TITLE OF THE SEASON A REcord eighth Italian Super Cup trophy against AC Milan last Wednesday in Saudi Arabia.

But the 33-year-old was off-form in the first league g a m e a f t e r a t h r e e - we e k winter break and on the eve of his return to Madrid where he will appear in court for tax fraud charges dating back to his time with Real Madrid.

The five-time Ballon dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Or winner missed numerous chances with Chievo goalkeeper Stefano Sorrentino denying Ronaldo, who has scored 14 times in the league, a first goal from the spot this season.

But Juventus was never worried by Chievo with Douglas Costa and Emre Can scoring IN THE kRST HALF AND $ANIELE Rugani heading in a third six minutes from time. g) DON T THINK IT S THE kRST time it has happened in his career,â&#x20AC;? said coach Massi-

miliano Allegri of Ronaldoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s miss, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the important thing is that the team won.

Chievo started their season with a 3-2 defeat to Juventus in Verona during which Sorrentino was knocked unconscious after colliding with Ronaldo.

But â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Flying Donkeysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; -who had been deducted three points for false accounting -ENDED WITH THEIR kRST WIN and had lost just one of the previous eight games holding Napoli, Lazio and Inter Milan.

Brazilian winger Costa got Juventus off the mark with a stunning solo run from MIDkELD AFTER MINUTES Paulo Dybala set up Can for the German internationalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first goal since moving from Liverpool last summer just before the break.

Juventus were awarded a penalty for a Mattia Bani handball with 39-year-old Sorrentino clearing having also earlier denied Alex Sandroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close-range header.

Ronaldo missed two more chances before Rugani headed in a Federico Bernardeschi free kick to keep unbeaten Juventus, with 56 points from 20 games, on track for an eighth consecutive Scudetto.

Second-placed Napoli beat Lazio 2-1 on Sunday, with the Roman club now two games without a win before hosting JuAFP ventus next weekend.

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F R O M â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; D I E B E A U T I F U Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; T O â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; B O R N B E A U T I F U Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

The LGBTQ struggle continues I N 2016, creative partners Juna Robles ,ANA AND 0ERCI )NTALAN WERE lOORED when â&#x20AC;&#x153;Die Beautiful,â&#x20AC;? their gay-themed entry to the 42nd Metro Manila Film Festival won the Audience Choice Awards and became a blockbuster hit.

Also known as the vehicle which catapulted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eat Bulagaâ&#x20AC;? co-host Paolo Ballesteros to stardom as the beautiful transgender Trisha Echevarria, Die Beautifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success for Lana and Intalan on the other hand was very personal. The pair of directors of course are life PARTNERS kRST AND FOREMOST AND in having struggled for acceptance among their family and friends â&#x20AC;&#x201D; kRST AS INDIVIDUALS AND LATER AS TWO gay men in love â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it had become their mission to show society not only the collective plight LGBTQs endure, but ultimately how they are just the same as everyone in fear, emotions and desire. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always known that the LGBTQ story is an important story to tell kaya we decided walang pipigil sa amin,â&#x20AC;? Lana told The T-Zone over lunch with fellow %NTERTAINMENT EDITORS ON -ONDAY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back then, hindi naman kami umasa na makakapasok ang Die "EAUTIFUL SA --&& AND MORE SO THAT when it did â&#x20AC;&#x201D; after we were told the selection committee had us tailing at seventh or eighth place [among THE -AGIC = Â&#x2021; pinanood siya ng

napakaraming tao.â&#x20AC;?

Die Beautifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message in a nutshell is that transgenders like Trisha only want to love and be loved like any man or woman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That many people saw that, whether or not they agree with it, was a major step for us kasi it got the discussion going sa mga tao about LGBTQs and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a start para hopefully maintindihan at matanggap kami,â&#x20AC;? he added.

But as Trisha died at her most beautiful â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dressed and made up as

THE T-ZONE TESSA MAURICIO -ARRIOLA famously beautiful women through her wake â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the struggle of LGBTQs merely continues according to Lana, ergo the need for a follow up.

Shortly after Die Beautifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success, they announced they would bring to life another story and perspective of a woman who is living her life in manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body.

That story is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Born Beautiful" â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the narrative of Trishaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equally fascinating best friend Barbs, which opens in cinemas nationwide today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The LGBTQsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; personal struggle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; besides their ultimate struggle with society â&#x20AC;&#x201D; doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop at a man coming out to say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Babae ako.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s already.

So way back when we did Die Beautiful we committed to being PROGRESSIVE ;IN THIS ADVOCACY= AND Barbsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; story will show just that.

That life doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get easy beyond coming out and self-acceptance.â&#x20AC;? .OW PORTRAYED BY -ARTIN DEL Rosario [from Die Beautifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s #HRISTIAN "ABLES= "ARBS INITIALLY kNDS HERSELF WITH A GOOD PROBLEM on her hands. She is torn between two men but as she tries to decide whom she loves more, a woman barges into her life and turns it upside down all over again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The point is that there are LGBTQs who will find themselves confused about their sexuality

repeatedly, especially when faced have ever faced and survived the with situations which bring them struggles and problems Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had guilt. In the Philippines especially, to go through â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and continue to thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the issue of faith on top of go through â&#x20AC;&#x201D; without it.â&#x20AC;? everything. So as Christians and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Continue to go through, DiCatholics, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bound to ask rek?â&#x20AC;? The T-Zone pressed the themselves, will God accept me DIRECTOR FOR CLARIkCATION like this when He meant for me to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes, tuloy tuloy pa rin. You be a particular gender? Barbs goes know even if Perci and I got margetting married when we were through that and she also goes ried in New York, which of course already living together. through tragedies that causes her to isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognized in the Philippines, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hindi daw ba puwedeng ganun blame it all on her sexuality. So like I our struggle to be accepted still na lang? So we had said the struggle continto explain to them ues,â&#x20AC;? Lana continued. again na sa haba ng To give a better picpinagsamahan nature where the movie min ni Perci and the finds Barbs, it begins life we want to share seeing her try to move together, importante on after Trishaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sudyung commitment den death as a morand significance ng tuary beautician at kasal sa amin.

Happy Ending Funeral â&#x20AC;&#x153;So this never endHomes. But when aning struggle, this is other friend dies, Barbs what pushes us to do decides to start a new movies like this kasi life as a straight man imagine those who named Bobby, which donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a platform triggers another chain like we do to reach of events that challenge out to society for unhis identity. derstanding?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I directed Die BeauJust then, Lanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes tiful but this time, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lit up from a message Perci whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s taken the on his phone as he told helm of Born Beautiful. the room, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Woohoo!

And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad I was able Q â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Born Beautifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; picks up where â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Die Beautifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; left off â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R-16 na tayo!â&#x20AC;? to convince him to take Trishaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passing (left, portayed by Paolo Ballesteros) and the The message in the lead kasi karamihan ensuing chapter of best friend Barbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. turned out was from ng ideas about Barbs and Intalan who was unwhat she goes through came from continues. For one, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t him,â&#x20AC;? continued the proud partner. MEAN FOR ANYONE TO kND OUT WE usually missing from the media conference. Apparently he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can also say that mas matapang got married but when all the AT THE -42#" OFFICE WAITING ito sa Die, and laugh-out-loud articles came out about it, yung for a decision on theie appeal funnier too based on the reaction reaction ng publiko na mababasa TO RECONSIDER THE INITIAL 2 during last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uncensored mo sa mga websites, parang hindi screening for UP students.â&#x20AC;? kami tao. Siguro na lang since rating for Born Beautiful to at least at R-16.

Asked for the wisdom of go- Perci and I have been in showbiz â&#x20AC;&#x153;Halika na dito!â&#x20AC;? Lana happily ing all out comedy in pursuing for a long time, kinaya namin told him on the phone, so that an advocacy they are clearly very â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;yon, but it was a different story in the next 20 minutes, Intalan passionate and serious about, for our families, who already triumphantly joined the group Lana was quick to reply, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come- went through a lot in coming to explaining how he got the censors dy is the best way to go to show accept us. They were so affected to change their decision. something heavy like this. As a gay by what other people had to say â&#x20AC;&#x153;To begin with even if we were man, humor has always been my that they had to question us all hoping for an R-16 rating, we acsalvation, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I could over again why we insisted on

CEPTED THE 2 BECAUSE LIKE *UN would say, given our storyline weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned na wag na umasa basta tuloy

pa rin ang pag-kukuwento ng buhay ng LGBTQ. But when we found

out that Born Beautiful is the only Filipino movie opening this week, WE POINTED OUT SA -42#" IT WOULD mean that the major cinema venues LIKE 3- AND OTHER MALLS WILL HAVE an all-foreign lineup kasi they DON T CARRY 2 MOVIES 3O FOR the industry, we agreed to work together and thankfully, additional bleeps lang naman ang dinagdag namin at this version is no different in terms of scenes AND LENGTH THAN THE 2 u Indeed another major opportunity has opened not just for directors Jun Lana and Preci Intalan, but as advocates living the lives of LGBTQs in society as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not asking anyone who watches this to change their views about religion, or relationships, marriage and sexuality. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only asking them to take a look at our situation and from there learn to respect one anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choices and beliefs,â&#x20AC;? Lana concluded, filled with renewed optimism for a future of true inclusivity.

The cast of Born Beautiful also includes Lou Veloso, Chai Fonacier, +IKO -ATOS !KIHIRO "LANCO %LORA EspaĂąo, Joey Paras, Jojit Lorenzo, 'IO 'AHOL 6* -ENDOZA WITH THE special participation of Die Beautiful star, Paolo Ballesteros.

It is a co-production of Lana and Italanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the IdeaFirst Company with Cignal Entertainment and Octoberian Films.

A road trip for the books I

Q Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll fall in love with this odd couple: The talkative, tough and tender Tony Lip (left, Viggo Mortensen) and the scholarly but lonely and misunderstood Don Shirley (Mahershalah Ali).

LOVE THESE gSMALLu kLMS THAT are big on story, dialogue, acting and heart â&#x20AC;&#x201D; these movies that linger with you in a way blockbusters donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Bookâ&#x20AC;? is one of those kLMS 6IGGO -ORTENSEN g,ORD OF the Rings,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Captain Fantasticâ&#x20AC;?) plays Italian American Tony Lip â&#x20AC;&#x201D; former bouncer at the Copacabana who turns driver-bodyguard for African American jazz and classical pianist Don Shirley. $ON 3HIRLEY IS PLAYED BY -Ahershalah Ali who has been around a while, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been seen on several seasons of â&#x20AC;&#x153;House of Cardsâ&#x20AC;? and in the last two installments of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hunger Games.â&#x20AC;? But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until 2016 that his career started to hit even more incredible highs. He apPEARED IN g-OONLIGHTu AND SUB-

sequently won an Academy Award for his performance; he played â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cottonmouthâ&#x20AC;? in Netflix and -ARVEL S g,UKE #AGEu AND HE APpeared in the acclaimed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hidden Figures.â&#x20AC;?

Last December, we heard his voice as Uncle Aaron in the commercial and critical success â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse,â&#x20AC;? he just won a Golden Globe for Green Book and now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on HBOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;True Detective.â&#x20AC;? Next month, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see him play Vector in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alita: Battle Angel.â&#x20AC;? He is on quite the trajectory.

Before Tony and Don embark on the drive from New York to the Deep South, where Don is going on tour to play his music, they carry with them g4HE .EGRO -OTORIST 'REEN "OOK u

Back in the day, it served as a guide as to where â&#x20AC;&#x153;blacksâ&#x20AC;? could eat, sleep, conduct business and stay out trouble while on the road in America.

V i g g o - O R T E N S E N sums up what both their characters Tony and Don OFTEN REFERRED to as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;odd coupleâ&#x20AC;?) go through over those months: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In general, road movies give you an opportunity to put characters together that normally wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spend a lot of time together. Interesting things can and will happen. The longer you spend with someone, the more you may get along or not get along. The more youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll learn about them and yourselfâ&#x20AC;ŚOur road movie happens in a

FAN GIRL KAREN KUNAWICZ

Cadillac Coupe de Vil in 1962 driving throught the Southâ&#x20AC;ŚAs much as the story at the heart of Green Book is about the obstacles that Tony and Doc Shirley face together â&#x20AC;&#x201D; institutionalized racism and other problems along the way â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I was most drawn to the more complex obstacle of what each of our characters has to deal with within himselfâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;?

Bulgarian-born violinist and ACTOR $IMITER -ARINOV PLAYS /LEG

Don Shirleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cellist on tour, says the story is told with â&#x20AC;&#x153;such light elegance.â&#x20AC;? Peter Farrely has outdone himself as director and co-writer of THE kLM ALONG WITH .ICK 6ALLELONga, Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son and Brian Currie).

Green Book is sweet and funny and truly has top notch perforMANCES BY !LI AND -ORTENSEN )T opens here on February 6.

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PHILIPPINE CHARITY SWEEPSTAKES OFFICE PCSO scores 2018 as landmark year of biggest jackpot, produces 61 millionaires

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ESIDES being the year when two players from Luzon and the Visayas won the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes /FkCE 0#3/ 5LTRA ,OTTO GAME S HIGHEST EVER LOTTERY JACKPOT PRIZE OF 0 BILLION

WILL ALSO BE REMEMBERED BY OTHER &ILIPINOS WHO BECAME MILLIONAIRES BECAUSE OF PLAYING ,OTTO The year also saw PCSO surpassing its P60 billion revenue target when it posted a total revenue of P63.558 billion from its various game products. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We at PCSO are very happy that we surpassed our target for the year 2018 of P60 billion with our actual revenue of P63.558 billion from our various game products,â&#x20AC;? PCSO General Manager Alexander Balutan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is mainly due to the unity and effort of our dedicated and HARDWORKING OFkCIALS AND EMployees, and to the unwavering trust and support of the gaming public,â&#x20AC;? said Balutan, who also marked a personal achievement when the agency opened more branches across the country.

spires the agency to continue its expansion in 2019. â&#x20AC;&#x153;STL has a huge contribution to the revenue generation of the agency. Since we expanded it in 2017, there has been an overwhelming increase in our revenues,â&#x20AC;? Balutan said, adding that revenues increased despite the undue competition from illegal gambling operations.

More branches opened

Creation of jobs, increased beneficiaries

â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 2018, we were able to open more branches to serve both the GAMING PUBLIC AND CHARITY BENEkciaries who live in the countryside.

To date, we have 67 branches nationwide, and more will be opening soon,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The new branches, Balutan explained, contributed much to the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increased revenues with P31.902 billion coming from Lotto, P4.398 billion from Keno, P26.103 billion from the expanded Small Town Lottery (STL), P5.841 million from traditional Sweepstakes and P1.149 billion from Instant Sweepstakes.

Balutan noted that STL sales for 2018 was almost 66 percent higher than 2017 and that in-

The PCSO has also been able to increase its Authorized STL Agents (ASAs) to 85 as of December 31, 2018, while there are 11,120 Lotto and Keno agents operating nationwide. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The PCSO is not just committed in revenue generation but also in creating more jobs through the expansion of its games all over the country,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increased revenues have allowed it to commensurately increase the number of Filipinos who were extended medical asSISTANCE UNDER ITS lAGSHIP )NDIvidual Medical Assistance Program )-!0 WHICH HAD BENEkciaries through the year.

Aside from the IMAP, there were

also 53 government hospitals THAT BENEkTED UNDER THE AGENCY S Endowment Fund Program, 20 BENEkCIARY INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE Institutional Partnership program, three medical facilities under the Medical Equipment Donation Program and two AFP/PNP Health Facilities under the CapabilityBuilding Project.

7HILE THERE WERE BENEkciaries under the Medical, Dental and Special Mission program, the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in-house physicians and dentists also provided direct medical and dental services to 13,929 patients under its Out-Patient Consultation Program.

A total of 212 institutions, government offices and nonGOVERNMENT OFkCES RECEIVED FREE medicine under the PCSO Medicine Donation Program in 2018. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All these would not have been possible without the support of the Board of Directors and the dedicated employees in promoting our game products in order to fund our charity services,â&#x20AC;? he averred.

Calamity assistance Balutan further informed that PCSO was also able to extend as-

Q PCSO General Manager Alexander Balutan sistance to areas that were affected by disasters and calamities, on top of its regular charity services.

Among the areas that received funds were Albay, Bataan, Bulacan, Cagayan, Ilocos Sur, Isabela, Ifugao, Kalinga, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya Manila, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Tarlac and Zambales.

Because of its landmark revenues, Balutan said the agency was able to remit P2.535 billion to the national government, making it the sixth among top Government-Owned and Con-

trolled Corporations (GOCC) to remit dividends for 2018.

The general manager said the agency is looking forward to further accomplishments in 2019 and assured the public that the agency will remain focused on delivering EFkCIENT AND CHARITABLE SERVICES TO all Filipinos nationwide. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully, before our term ends in 2022, there will be PCSO offices in all provinces of the country so that we can serve and assist more people seeking medical assistance,â&#x20AC;? Balutan concluded.

Health assistance program continues for indigent Filipinos

Q Barangay Cabucbucan Chairman Cornelio Laugo Jr. receives the medicines for his underprivileged constituents from Medical Services Department personnel Denise Marie MaĂąo. PHOTO BY EDWIN LOVINO

THE 0HILIPPINE #HARITY 3WEEPSTAKES /FkCE (PCSO) continues its mandate to give assistance to the Filipino people by generating funds through lottery in order to comply with its mission to provide health and charitable programs as strong support to the call of President Rodrigo Duterteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Universal Health Care Programs.

Through its continuing charity and health assistance programs, the PCSO donated medicines worth P29,978 as grant to the request of Barangay Cabucbucan, Rizal, Nueva %CIJA FOR THE BENEkT OF THEIR UNDERPRIVILEGED CONSTITUENTS LIVING IN FARlUNG AREAS The PCSO Medicine Donation program aims to provide augmentation of the NEEDED MEDICINES IN KIND TO QUALIkED GOVernment and non-government agencies ENABLING THEM TO EFkCIENT AND EFFECTIVE health care services.

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Q Former Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Christopher Lawrence â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bongâ&#x20AC;? Go gives his speech during the opening of the Malasakit Center at the Lung Center of the Philippines while PCSO Chairman Anselmo Simeon Pinili, General Manager Alexander Balutan and Pagcor Chairman-CEO Andrea Domingo look on. PHOTO BY JUN LORZANO

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H E A L I N G T H E N AT I O N T O G E T H E R

PCSO fortifies ties with Malasakit Center ACCORDING to a Social Weather Station (SWS) report for the fourth quarter of 2017, there are about 10 million Filipinos who consider themselves as poor. Also noted in the report is the average Filipino family has five members, and a household must earn at least P15,000 a month so as not to be considered destitute. This excludes medical and health needs.

In September 2018, the first ever Malasakit Center was launched at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH), with high hopes to reach

more Filipinos as many Metro Manila residents still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have access to free quality healthcare.

To solidify this great endeavor for the citizenry, former Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Christopher Lawrence â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bongâ&#x20AC;? Go led the opening of the 19th Malasakit Center across the Philippines and sixth in Luzon on January 7 at the Lung Center of the Philippines together with Philippine Gaming and Amusement Corporation (Pagcor) Chairman-CEO Andrea Domingo and PCSO Chairman An-

selmo Simeon Pinili and PCSO General Manager Alexander Balutan. Also present Department of Health (DoH) Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd. .

The Malasakit Center project was initiated by the Duterte Administration as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a one stop to go shop,â&#x20AC;? expediting medical services for citizens especially those coming from the lower strata of society. It also aims for patients to not spend too much time, money and effort, going to different agencies.

SHELLY BUSQUE