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Ramos a no-show

HE always made it a point to attend rites to commemorate the People Power revolt, but on Monday, former president Fidel Ramos was a no-show at the EDSA event due to health reasons.

Pastor Saycon, a member of the EDSA People Power Commission, said Ramos was supposed to attend this year’s commemoration but he canceled.

“We are sad that because of the conditions of his body, he was not able to attend [the 33rd anniversary of EDSA People Power] and even his book launching last

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Confetti rain on the people who went to the People Power Monument on EDSA to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the People Power Revolution that ended the Marcos regime. PHOTO BY RUY MARTINEZ

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()249 4(2%% YEARS HAVE PASSED since millions of Filipinos gathered on EDSA to topple the Marcos regime, but that bloodless People 0OWER REVOLT THE kRST IN THE WORLD HAS NOT BROUGHT MUCH SIGNIkCANT CHANGE A political science professor and analyst said on Monday.

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E S IN MY LINE TEROF SIGHT D A Y , February 25, was the 33rd anniversary of the so-called EDSA Revolution.

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TMT TV runs test broadcast of EDSA forum with Enrile, Pimentel

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THE Manila Times TV (TMT TV) ran a formal, live test broadcast of its whole-day news coverage and panel discussions on the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolt from its studio IN ITS MAIN OFkCE IN )NTRAMUROS

Manila on Monday.

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NO REGRETS ON EDSA — ENRILE FORMER senator Juan Ponce Enrile, one of the key players at the EDSA People Power revolution, does not regret joining the popular uprising in 1986 that toppled the Marcos regime and swept Corazon Aquino to power.

“I never regretted. If ever I regretted I’ll keep quiet about that,” Enrile, Marcos’ former Defense secretary, said in an interview with The Manila Times television (TMT TV).

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Priests should be allowed to marry — Duterte

‘Roma’ wins 3 Oscars but ‘Green Book’ is best film

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said allowing priests to marry would solve the problem of sex abuses that hound the Catholic Church.

In a speech during the distribution of grants to unconditional cash transfers BENEkCIARIES AT THE #EBU 4ECHNOLOGICAL University Gymnasium in Cebu City, Duterte said the Church should not require

HOLLYWOOD, United States: Alfonso Cuaron bagged a hat trick of Oscars on Sunday (Monday in Manila) for “Roma,” his love letter to his childhood in 1970s Mexico City, but controversial civil rights drama “Green Book” crashed his party with a win for best picture.

The 57-year-old Mexican filmmaker won the prizes for best director, cinematography and foreign

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TUESDAY February 26, 2019

Govt can fund free college even without Train Law – Bam

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BY JAVIER JOE ISMAEL

EN. Paolo Benigno “Bam� Aquino 4th on Monday said economic managers have fed President Rodrigo Duterte wrong information as he insisted that the government could fund the free college program even without the Tax 2EFORM FOR !CCELERATION AND )NCLUSION (Train) Law.

“Hindi po totooong walang pagkukunan ng pondo ang gobyerno para sa libreng kolehiyo at ibang serbisyo kung ititigil ang Train Law� (It is not true that the government has no source of funds

for the free college and other services if the TRAIN Law stops),� said Aquino, one of four senators WHO OPPOSED THE RATIkCATION OF the Train Law. “Mali ang ibinibigay na payo

ng economic managers ng gobyerno kay Pangulong Duterte� (Economic managers gave the wrong advise to President Duterte),� added Aquino, principal sponsor of the free college law.

The lawmaker said that in 2017, the Senate allocated funds for the first year of implementation of the free college law for 2018, even before the Train Law was passed.

He said economic managers might be trying to divert funds for other purposes, based on an earlier pronouncement by Sen. 0ANkLO ,ACSON THAT HE HAD IDENTIkED AROUND 0 BILLION FROM the 2019 national budget allotted for pork barrel. “Sapat ang pondo ng gobyerno

para sa mga proyekto. Ang problema, ang ibang pondo, nagagamit sa ibang bagay para sa kapakinabangan ng iilang tao� (The government has enough funds for the projects. The problem is other FUNDS ARE BEING UTILIZED TO BENEkT only few people),� Aquino said.

Aquino has been pushing for the suspension of the excise tax on FUEL UNDER THE 4RAIN ,AW (E kLED the Bawas Presyo sa Petrolyo Bill in May 2018 to help ease the burden of Filipino people on high prices of food and other goods.

Aquino’s measure seeks to suspend and roll back the excise tax ON FUEL ONCE THE COUNTRY S INlAtion rate exceeds the government’s target for three straight months.

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TMT TV 4ACKLING THE ISSUE g 9EARS after EDSA Revolution: -AY )PInagbago Ba? (Has there been any meaningful change?),� the panel of guest speakers and analysts included two main characters of the political drama that unfolded on the highway between the police headquarters called Camp Crame and the military’s Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City — Juan Ponce Enrile, then Department of National Defense minister, and Aquilino Pimentel Jr., who later became part of President Corazon Aquino’s Cabinet as Department of Local Government minister.

Other guest panelists talked about how the Philippine political landscape has changed since THE kRST POPULAR UPRISING IN THE country that led to the collapse of the 20-year rule of then strongman Ferdinand Marcos.

They included political analyst Clarita Carlos, former ambassador and press attachĂŠ Alejandro del Rosario, Radio Veritas manager Fr. Larry Faraon, Capt. Proceso “Boyâ€? Maligalig of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM), 1987 Constitution framer and former Commission on Elections chairman Christian Monsod, former Tawi-Tawi governor Al Tillah, journalist Belinda Olivares Cunanan, artist Cecile Guidote Alvarez, former Sen. Heherson “Sonnyâ€? Alvarez, Buhay partylist Rep. Lito Atienza, Efren VillaseĂąor, former University of the East College of Law dean Amado 6ALDEZ FORMER )NTERIOR 3ECRETARY Rafael Alunan 3rd, Ret. Gen. Victor Corpus, philosophy professor Rene Tadle, former Pasig City Rep. and Chamber of Real Estate and Builders’ Asssociation National Chairman Noel “Totiâ€?

CariĂąo, former Palawan governor Abraham “Bahamâ€? Mitra, former senator and broadcaster Edgardo g%DDIEu )LARDE BROADCASTER AND Times columnist Ramon “Monâ€?

Tulfo, journalist Ninez Cacho Olivares, and Presidential ComMUNICATIONS /PERATIONS /FkCE Secretary Martin Andanar.

Moderating the whole-day panel discussions were Times publishereditor Nerilyn Tenorio and guest co-hosts, broadcaster Mario Garcia, actress-producer Jackie Aquino, broadcaster and Times columnist Tulfo, and Tribune founder and columnist Ninez Cacho Olivarez.

4-4 46 HAD ITS kRST LIVE TEST BROADcast of the 2018 State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte, involving panel discussions before and after the speech.

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Next Supreme Court justice known Tuesday THE next Supreme Court associate justice may be known on Tuesday, February 26, according to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, exOFkCIO MEMBER OF THE *UDICIAL AND Bar Council (JBC).

Guevarra said President Rodrigo $UTERTE HAS UNTIL TODAY TO kLL UP the vacant post left by Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin.

Bersamin was appointed chief justice in November 2018.

Guevarra said under the 1987 Constitution, the President has 90 days to appoint the next Supreme Court justice. “So the President must appoint AJ (Associate Justice) Bersamin’s replacement on or before February 26,� he said.

Aside from the post left by Bersamin, the other vacant position, left by Supreme Court Justice Noel Tijam upon his retirement last JanuARY MUST BE kLLED UP BY !PRIL For the two vacant posts, those who made it to the JBC shortlist were Supreme Court Administrator Jose Midas Marquez; Court of Appeals (CA) Justices Japar

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No regrets on EDSA – Enrile According to him, the original plan after the EDSA revolt was to form a Revolutionary Council with him as chairman.

The council was to be composed of Corazon Aquino, Rafael Salas, then general Fidel Ramos, Enrile and Rafael Ileto.

After the peaceful revolt, Enrile said he met Finance Secretary Jaime Ongpin to discuss the establishment of a revolutionary government headed by Aquino with Salvador Laurel as vice president. “I told Jimmy to fill up the 4 [Cabinet] positions,� Enrile recalled.

The council was to run the country for an interim period of not more than two years.

However, Enrile said when !QUINO TOOK HER OATH OF OFkCE

gTHEY kLLED ALL THE #ABINET POSItions without discussing with us.� “I don’t know the wise guy who did that,� he added. “That made us suspicious of the government,� he said without elaborating.

That suspicion might have fueled the several coup attempts launched against the Aquino government. “Many events happened. My God, we are honestly doing something for the country but some people were taking advantage of it,� Enrile said.

There were no written records of the post-EDSA plans because of an agreement that those involved should memorize what was discussed, Enrile said.

Spirit of EDSA Enrile on Monday called on young people to live out the spirit of the EDSA revolt. “The events at EDSA must not be forgotten. We must continue the spirit of EDSA as well as commemorate the execution of [Jose] Rizal in Luneta and when [Andres] Bonifacio was killed,�

Enrile said. “We must also commemotate the Cry of Balintawak, the Cry of Tirad Pass, Biak na Bato. The youth must instil those moments in their minds and hearts. It can no longer be erased in the history of the Philippines,� he said. “There were different views, different opinions and it’s natural to have arguments, animosity, and competition. We must accept that because our form of government is democratic,� Enrile added.

He said the EDSA uprising should be commemorated on February 22,not February 25. “Sa akin, ang mahalaga ay February 22 dahil ‘yun ang sigaw ng EDSA (As far as I’m concerned,

February 22 is more important because that was the cry of EDSA),� he said. “Doon namin ipinusta ang buhay namin. Doon namin sinugal ang buhay namin para sa ganoon ay magkaroon ng benepisyo ang bansa (That was when we laid down our lives. That was where we GAMBLED OUR LIVES FOR THE BENEkT OF the country),� Enrile said.

He was referring to the events of Feb. 22, 1986 when Enrile, then the Defense minister, and Ramos, the Philippine Constabulary chief, resigned.

At 9 p.m. on the same day, Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jaime Sin aired a message over Radio Veritas, calling on Filipinos to aid the rebel movement forming along EDSA. That announcement drew hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians. [“Noong] Feb. 25, 1986, tapos na ang labanan. Bumaba na ang Presidente ng Pilipinas. Umalis na at nakapagsumpa na ‘yung sumunod na Presidente (Because ON &EB

THE kGHT WAS over. The president (Ferdinand Marcos) had stepped down. He left for Hawaii and the new president (Corazon Aquino) had been sworn INTO OFkCE u HE SAID WILLIAM DEPASUPIL AND BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO

just changed) Marcos et al, ng (with) Aquino, Roxas etc.,� Clarita Carlos, a political science professor of the University of the Philippines, said in a panel discussion hosted aired

by TMT TV in a test broadcast on Monday.

Carlos pointed out that for an occasion to be called a revolution, there must be “structural change.�

However, she pointed out that the country’s political system is “still broken.� “First, we are still under a presidential system, where every 2,000 days you change the face of the president; and every 1,000 days you change the face of Congress,�

Carlos said.

She explained that scientific evidence suggests that if there were structural changes, the behavioral change should follow. “What I am saying is, if we go parliamentary like many countries do, the election period is just two weeks and the campaign will be taken care of by the political party, but you have to mouth and follow the party,� she said.

Going beyond the country by thinking regional might be the best structural change that could happen to the Philippines, she suggested. “Now we are trying to remove the barrier among 10 Asean countries.

We are moving regional. We are saying that later on we will have an integrated Asean defense and security forces,� she said, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

The professor expressed hope that the youth, who comprise the majority of the country’s population, would change the nation for the better because of their high level of social and political consciousness.

Former Senate president Aquilino Pimentel Jr., however, said change takes time and was “incremental.�

Pimentel, who was among the guest panelists at the TMT TV broadcast, stressed that change must not rest solely on the government. “People want that under a new government, their lives will already change. No, sir. It will take time before you can really progress. You have to work for it,� he said. “Do not rely [on] the government to answer [and give you] everything you want in this life, otherwise, you will become a dependent. [This will result in] a totalitarian kind of government set-up. That is hard,� he added.

Pimentel, a political detainee under the Marcos regime, said that as the country progresses as it un-

Dimaampao, Amy Lazaro-Javier, Ramon Garcia and Mario Lopez; Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Amparo Cabotaje Tang; and former dean of the Ateneo Law School Cesar Villanueva.

The names shortlisted for the vacancy left by Bersamin were CA Executive Justice Edgardo de los Santos; CA Justices Henry Inting, Jhosep Lopez, Eduardo Peralta and Ricardo Rosario; and Court of Tax Appeals Presiding Justice Roman del Rosario.

The JBC, which is constitutionally mandated to screen and vet nominees to the President for vacant posts in the judiciary and the Offices of the Ombudsman and Deputy Ombudsman, is chaired by Bersamin, with ex-OFkCIO members Sen. Richard Gordon and Oriental Mindoro Rep. Salvador Leachon and Justice Secretary Guevarra.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Jose Catral-Mendoza heads the Executive Committee, with Milagros Fernan Cayosa representing the Integrated Bar of the Philippines and Ret. Judge Toribio Ilao representing the private sector.

JOMAR CANLAS dergoes change, Filipinos should continue to uphold their good traditions and culture. g,ET US kX THE WRONGS ;IN SOCIETY = but basically, we should not forget, we are not Americans. We are not Chinese. We are Filipinos. Therefore, we should retain our culture and tradition,� he added.

Former ambassador Alejandro del Rosario, meanwhile, said while the EDSA uprising might not have been a revolution in the truest sense of the word, it inspired other countries to do the same to overthrow dictatorial leaders.

Fr. Larry Faraon, former station manager of Church-run Radio Veritas, which ran the call of the late Cardinal Jaime Sin to the Catholic faithful to join the EDSA rally, said the 1986 People Power revolt “will never catapult us to change.� “But it is a historical event that we could always remember,� he added.

Not enough Veterans of the EDSA revolt agree that whatever change that might have happened since 1986 was not enough.

Theater artist Cecile Alvarez said the greatest contribution of the EDSA revolution was democracy and the freedom of the press. She cited the case of The Manila Times, THE kRST NEWSPAPER TO BE SHUT DOWN during the 1972 Martial Law days, which again opened after the people power uprising. “The freedom of the press was restored nu’ng ibinalik natin ang demokrasya at sa EDSA mapayapang itinakwil ang diktadurya, walang karahasan at naging modelo sa buong mundo (when we restored democracy and we rejected dictatorship without violence and has become a model globally),� she added.

Journalist Belinda Cunanan echoed Alvarez’s statement, saying that freedom of expression and the press had emerged from discontent over repression during Martial Law. Former senator Heherson Alvarez said the right of the people for proper trial was restored, citing the widespread unlawful arrests during the Marcos Martial Law. Buhay party-list Rep. Lito Atienza said Filipinos learned fundamental lessons from the EDSA revolution, namely, democracy, human rights and the right to be critical of a government when it commits wrongdoings. “Let us not revise history para tuloy-tuloy ang ating benepisyo (to CONTINUOUSLY REAP THE BENEkTS OF a peaceful revolution. Kailangan magtuloy ang katotohanan (the truth must prevail),� Atienza added.

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Avoid mistakes of the past – Robredo VICE President Maria Leonor “Leni� Robredo on Monday urged Filipinos to unite by taking a stand and choosing the right leaders to avoid the mistakes of the past.

As the country marked the 33rd anniversary of the People Power Revolution, Robredo said Filipinos should speak up on pressing issues and elect leaders fully capable of governing. “ Araw ito upang ipaalala na hawak ng ordinaryong Pilipino ang kaniyang kinabukasan: Sa pagbibigay ng boses sa mga mahahalagang isyu, sa pagboboto para sa mga tapat at mahusay na mga lider, sa pagsigurong hindi na mauulit pa ang mga mali ng ating nakaraan (It is a reminder that every Filipino controls the future: By giving voice on the most important issues, voting for honest and competent leaders of the country, and ensuring that mistakes of the past will not happen again).�

The vice president said the success of EDSA “is a success of every Filipino.�

At the same time, opposition lawmakers advised the public to be wary of a “creeping dictatorship.� “We see the rise of another strongman in the person of President [Rodrigo] Duterte,

fully aided by his cohorts, who aim to benefit economically and politically from a tyrannical administration,� said ACT-Teachers party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio. “EDSA People Power showed us the way out of the darkest depths of humanity under the Marcos dictatorship where thousands were killed and many are still missing,�

Akbayan party-list Rep. Tom Villarin said.

Senate aspirants of the Otso Diretso opposition coalition also called on Filipinos to shun abuse and push for a pro-people administration to prevent a repeat of history.

Magdalo party-list Rep. Gary Alejano decried the human rights violations being committed, especially against the critics of government. “Kaliwa’t kanan ang paglabag sa karapatang pantao — pagpapatahimik sa mga kritiko ng administrasyon, pagsikil sa karapatan ng malayang pamamahayag , extra-judicial killings, at ang hindi matapostapos na martial law sa Mindanao (Human rights abuses are everywhere — silencing of critics of the administration, going against press freedom, promoting extra-judicial killings, and the never-ending martial law in Mindanao),� he said.

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Supreme Court may look into factual issues in labor cases Dear PAO, If the Labor Arbiter and the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) sided with the terminated employee, but the decision was reversed by the Court of Appeals (CA), can the terminated employee still elevate her case with the Supreme Court? I have read before that the Supreme Court is not a trier of facts. So, I am just wondering if elevating such case in the Supreme Court can still be an option.

Fidelity Dear Fidelity, As a general rule, the Supreme Court does not delve on questions of fact because the high court is not a trier of facts. Corollary, questions of fact are addressed during the trial of the case when it is still before the quasi-judicial agencies and the lower courts or when the matter is raised on appeal before the Court of Appeals.

In certain cases, however, the Supreme Court opts to exercise its discretion of re-examining the facts affecting the legal matters brought before it especially if justice will be best served. For instance, in labor cases, while the Supreme Court often does not pass upon matters which deal with questions of fact, the high court can elect to revisit SAID CASE IF THERE ARE VARYING kNDINGS by the Labor Arbiter, the NLRC and the Court of Appeals. As held in the case of South East International Rattan, Inc. and/or Agbay vs. Coming (GR 186621, March 12, 2014, Ponente: Former Associate Justice Martin Villarama Jr.): “The issue of whether or not an employer-employee relationship exists in a given case is essentially a question of fact. As a rule, this Court is not a trier of facts and this applies with greater force in labor cases. Only errors of law are generally reviewed by this Court.

This rule is not absolute, however, and admits of exceptions. For one, the Court may look into factual issues in labor cases when the factual findings of the Labor Arbiter, the NLRC, and the CA ARE CONlICTING (ERE THE kNDINGS of the NLRC differed from those of the Labor Arbiter and the CA, which compels the Court’s exercise of its authority to review and

DEAR PAO PERSIDA ACOSTA pass upon the evidence presented and to draw its own conclusions therefrom.� (Emphasis supplied) The Supreme Court likewise explained in the case of General Milling Corporation vs. Viajar (GR 181738, Jan. 30, 2013, Ponente: Former Associate Justice Bienvenido Reyes): g4HE RULE IS THAT FACTUAL kNDINGS of quasi-judicial agencies such as the NLRC are generally accorded not ONLY RESPECT BUT AT TIMES EVEN kNALity because of the special knowledge and expertise gained by these agencies from handling matters falling under their specialized jurisdiction. It is also settled that this Court is not a trier of facts and does not normally embark in the evaluation of evidence adduced during trial. This rule, however, allows for exceptions. One of these exceptions covers instances WHEN THE kNDINGS OF FACT OF THE TRIAL court, or of the quasi-judicial agenCIES CONCERNED ARE CONlICTING OR contradictory with those of the CA. When there is a variance in the facTUAL kNDINGS IT IS INCUMBENT UPON the Court to re-examine the facts once again.� (Emphasis supplied) Thus, a terminated employee may elevate her case before the Supreme Court, even if it involves questions of fact, when there is CLEAR DISPARITY IN THE kNDINGS OF the Labor Arbiter and the NLRC and that of the Court of Appeals, provided, however, that such remedy is still permitted pursuant to pertinent provisions of our laws as well as of the Rules of Court.

We hope that we were able to answer your queries. This 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 /FkCE 1UESTIONS FOR #HIEF !COSTA may be sent to dearpao@manilatimes.net

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BY JORDEENE B. LAGARE

IL companies imposed a big-time price hike on Tuesday, raising the pump prices of diesel and gasoline by P1.45 per liter each, and kerosene by P1.35 per liter. #ALTEX WAS THE kRST TO IMPLEMENT the price increase at 12:01 a.m., followed by Eastern Petroleum, Petro Gazz, Pilipinas Shell, Seaoil and Total at 6 a.m. /THER kRMS ARE EXPECTED TO FOLlow suit.

The latest price adjustment brings the common price of d i e s e l t o P 4 3 . 4 4 p e r l i t e r, g a s o l i n e t o P 50 . 6 9 - P 5 4 . 6 9 per liter, and kerosene to P48.97 per liter, based on the Department of Energy’s weekly

monitoring.

Industry players jacked up pump prices even though global oil prices dropped.

Reuters reported on Monday that Brent crude oil futures tumbled 0.3 percent to $66.94 per barrel, while the US West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell 0.2 percent to $57.15 per barrel.

Last week, oil companies increased the price of diesel and gasoline by 70 centavos per liter each, and kerosene by 35 centavos per liter.

The Energy department has URGED THE PUBLIC TO BE EFkCIENT

and prudent in the use of energy and fuel. “We are imploring the public to be conscious of their energy and fuel usage, especially during these times, as world oil prices are steadily climbing to high levels due to economic and geopolitical factors, which we are bound to experience as an oil importing country. But even if oil prices go down, it is imperative that we embrace the efficient way of using our energy resources,� Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said in a statement on Saturday.

EJERCITO PUSHES MECHANIZED FARMING SEN. Joseph Victor “JV�

Ejercito on Monday pushed for mechanized farming to boost harvest and increase agricultural production.

The reelectionist senator said the Philippines must pursue agricultural modernization if it wants to achieve food security. “Mechanized method of farming will bring

bountiful harvests for our farmers,� said Ejercito, coauthor of the free irrigation and anti-agricultural smuggling laws. “We need to upgrade the old farming technique and leave behind the practice and mentality that are obviously hampering production boost,� he said in a statement.

“If we really wanted food security, we must start in the farms. Let us help farmers use machines and provide them with farm inputs like seeds, fertilizers, soft loans, among others.�

Since he joined the Senate in 2013, Ejercito has authored and co-authored 572 bills, 75 of these were enacted into laws and 108

into resolutions.

Included in his list of laws passed are the free college tuition, Sangguniang Kabataan (Youth Council) reform, and the recently enacted Universal Health Care Act and the creation of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development.

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Hot but no rush

HE proposal to change the name of the Philippines to Maharlika seems to be gaining public attention that even Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray found herself caught in what used to be a non-issue. Confronted with a reporter’s question over the necessity of the name change, the reigning beauty queen who is also getting to be known for her wit said, g)F IT S NOT BROKE DON T kX IT u This transpires amid other political and economic concerns mounting before us as a nation that need urgent solutions or preemptive measures.

Changing a country’s name is not as simple or easy as changing a person’s name. The person only has to do the legal act or procedure of adopting a name different from his or her name at birth, marriage or adoption.

The procedures and ease of a name change vary between jurisdictions. In general, common law jurisdictions have loose procedures for a name change, while civil law jurisdictions are more restrictive.

In the case of countries, which are normally republics, a name change will require amending the country’s Constitution by the legislature. Even if Congress passes a law for the NAME CHANGE THE ACT WILL HAVE TO BE RATIkED BY THE MAJORITY of the citizenry. !ND THAT S NOT ALL #OUNTRIES HAVE TO SEND OFkCIAL NOTICE OF THE change to the United Nations, which then registers the new title in its database of World Geographical Names. Among other things, the country must also advise on how to write its new name in each OF THE SIX OFkCIAL 5. LANGUAGES /NCE THIS IS DONE THE ALPHABETICAL order for where the country sits at the UN is adjusted.

Whatever the reason for changing a country’s name, it is a hugely expensive undertaking — virtually everything needs to change, from maps to legal documents to car registrations,� says Mr. Gruzd of the South African Institute of International Affairs. “Ideology can override practicality.�

The Christian Science Monitor cited a lesson from the experience of Mobotu Sesse Seko in Zaire or the Congo. When he became President Mobuto of Congo in 1965, he launched an aggressive campaign of what he called authenticitĂŠ to scrub THE NEW COUNTRY CLEAN OF ITS OLD COLONIAL INlUENCES -UCH OF it centered around changing the names of people (he dropped the Western-sounding “Joseph-DĂŠsirĂŠâ€? from his own name) and places (with the capital LĂŠopoldville, for instance, becoming Kinshasa). And in 1971, Mobutu announced that he was changing the name of the country itself, to Zaire — a local name for the Congo River.â€?

But then Mobutu’s rule did not last. When a new president, Laurent-DÊsirÊ Kabila, came to power in 1997, he announced he was changing the name back to Congo.

There are other humbling examples in the historical record.

The Philippines’ past experience with the proposed name change to Maharlika is also humbling. In 1978, Eddie lLarde, THEN A SENATOR kLED 0ARLIAMENTARY "ILL IN THE "ATASANG Pambansa, which sought to change Philippines to Maharlika.

Nobody heard him in the assembly.

Despite the rumor, there is no record anywhere, not in Marcos’ many books and speeches, that he ever seriously entertained the idea of a name change to Maharlika. The strongman could have done it if he wished, when the legislative and executive powers were in his hands.

Nothing was said again about the Maharlika idea until recently, when President Rodrigo Duterte himself mentioned the possibility of renaming the country one day in the future.

Ilarde also pushed for it again during his turn to speak at The Manila Times TV forum test broadcast on Monday on the issue, “33 Years After EDSA Revolution, May Ipinagbago Ba? (Has there been meaningful reform?) Ilarde could persuade a senator or congressman to take up the legislative proposal in the 18th Congress.

For now, however, the Maharlika project has yet to beef itself up to become more than a “nothingburger� (lacking in substance) and acquire a sense of urgency.

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TUESDAY February 26, 2019

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The environment is only 70 years old First word S a concept, that is.

Three environment historians and academics have come up with a startling and mind-opening book titled, The Environment: A History of the Idea (Johns Hopkins University Press, New York, 2018).

The authors are: Dr. Paul Warde, professor of environmental history at the University of Cambridge; Libby Robin, a professor of environmental history at Australian National University; and Sverker SĂśrlin, a professor of environmental history at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and a cofounder of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory.

In their new book, the three authors trace the surprisingly short history of the environment as a shared conceptual construct.

They contend that “the environment’s global story started only in 1948, amid postwar reconstruction and the fear of humans’ capacity for almost limitless destruction.�

Some people I know who were born in 1948 and later will be pleasantly surprised to learn that they are only as old or as young as the “environment.�

Most people instinctively think that the environment like the cosmos goes back thousands or millions of years.

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The Scientist article The three authors have published an article of their book and their ideas in the February 2019 issue of The Scientist magazine, The piece summarizes their entire thesis and their research discoveries. It is short enough to be printed in the space of my usual

ment could explain its characteristics. Rather than slowly shaping differences, the environment “The concept of the environment became a single entity that was is everywhere, but where did it being rapidly shaped by us. “The timing of this conceptual come from? The question seemed shift was not accidental. It linked so obvious that when we — three changes close to home to a new historians — started ponderglobal consciousness.

The state of ing it, we found it strange that the environment became recognobody had written its history. nized as important for the mainte7E HAD EXPECTED TO kND A LONG record back to antiquity. Instead, nance of peaceful, stable societies.

WE WERE SURPRISED TO kND A RECENT Ideals of conservation and restoration of the environment shaped and rapid transformation. “Few words have had a more new global institutions, such as remarkable career in our contem- the United Nations Environment porary world: born in alarmist Program and the International PAMPHLETS MATURED IN SCIENTIkC Geosphere-Biosphere Program.� inquiries and emerging environmental activism, and catapulted Nature and humans into global stardom with the 5NITED .ATIONS @/NLY /NE %ARTH “In creating an object of imaginaConference on the Human Envi- tion and measurement, the conronment in 1972 in Stockholm, cept of the environment allowed Sweden. ‘The environment’ now researchers to ask new questions connects diplomatic negotiations about the relations between naON CLIMATE WITH WILDkRES IN #ALI- ture and humans. Is the world fornia and climate refugees cross- sick? Is the environment getting worse or better? ing vast distances.� “But the environment changes over time, and so do our ideas Start of global story about what it is. This depends on “The environment’s global story who speaks for the environment. starts in 1948, amid postwar Which people can credibly express reconstruction and the fear of concern? Who can claim to be an humans’ capacity for almost expert? The pursuit of answers to limitless destruction. It was at such questions generated whole this time that a new narrative NEW kELDS STRONGLY INlUENCED BY about the effect of people’s be- cybernetics and computing. “The seven decades since this havior emerged. Writers began concept was coined have seen to identify a common process vastly changed — and much of degradation that was eroding more complex — ideas about soils, pillaging resources, and the environment.

Writing this disrupting ecosystems across the book in an ever more fractured planet. ‘The environment’ was at risk, and humans were the and dangerous world has made cause. This reversed the usage of us aware that ‘environment’ is a the term ‘environment’ that had rare word that gathers us all toprevailed for the previous 70 gether into a common narrative, years: the evolutionary idea that or fate, to use a more ominous ÂłMakabenta A6 a species’ or individual’s environ-

Brief evolution of concept

OBSERVER YEN MAKABENTA column, so I will reproduce it here. It is titled “The environment is only 70 years old.�

The article reads: “Several comprehensive, international reports released in 2018 confirmed the precarious state OF THE ENVIRONMENT )N /CTOBER

the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that Earth is headed toward a global air temperature increase that will reach 2°C sometime after mid-century, UNLESS DRASTIC #/ REDUCTIONS start immediately. And according to last year’s Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund, vertebrate populations around the globe shrank by 60 percent between 1970 and 2014, with South and Central America suffering an even more dramatic 89 percent decline. “Nowadays, we understand these types of concerns as ‘environmental.’ Yet this is not how the public viewed such facts in the past, even within the lifetimes of MANY ALIVE TODAY /UR PREDECESsors did have an impact on nature, and they knew about it. But they lacked a galvanizing idea that could draw together the web of interconnection and consequence that constitutes the natural world.

This idea — which allowed people to see the planet at a new global scale — was ‘the environment.’ g/UR RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK

The Environment: A History of the Idea, explores the surprisingly brief evolution of this conceptual construct.�

China: Has the red carpet replaced the kowtow?

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URING the heyday of the Chinese empire, representatives of vassal states had to go through elaborate rituals, including the infamous kowtow procedure known as “three kneelings and nine prostrations� before being allowed into the imperial presence. The idea that there were other nations that were China’s equal was inconceivable because, outside of China, civilization itself was believed not to exist. What China offered was its civilization.

Nowadays, China accepts, at least notionally, that countries, big or small, should be equal. However, China doesn’t behave as if it is just one of almost 200 countries in the world today.

After it joined the United Nations in 1971, China questioned the universality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This wasn’t without reason. Being one of the world’s poorest countries at the time, China — like

FRANK CHING other Asian countries — felt that the right to development had been overlooked.

In 1993, Asian countries meeting in Bangkok issued a declaration in which they supported the right to development as a universal right. A few months later, the World Conference on Human Rights adopted the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action in which all member states REAFkRMED THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPment as “a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of fundamental human rights.� So, due in part to China’s actions, the concept of universal human rights was amended.

After China adopted the reform

and opening-up policy four decades ago, many people assumed that it would become westernized because modern countries almost

BY DEkNITION WERE 7ESTERN COUNtries. But China insisted, and has now proved, that modernization is different from westernization.

Even where they use the same words, the Chinese don’t necessarily mean the same things. For example, on international law, which is meant to be binding on all nations, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declared as early as 2014 that China is not only a “staunch defender� but is in fact a “builder of the international rule of law.�

And yet, two years later when a United Nations tribunal issued a ruling against China on its South China Sea claims in a case brought by the Philippines, China refused to abide by that decision and insisted that the Philippines engage in bilateral negotiations with

China. Where Foreign Minister Wang took the moral high road in 2014 and railed against a situation where “the strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must,� in 2016 he insisted that the weak Philippine government must negotiate bilaterally with the much stronger Chinese government.

A contemporary example is China’s insistence that Canada has violated the law through its arrest of the Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou because Meng has not broken any Canadian law. This charge seems to negate the entire international system of bilateral extradition agreements, of which China is part.

China today is admired by many for its successful transformation into the ranks of advanced countries in the short period of 40 years. It dazzles visitors with the world’s most developed network

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Q TULFO FROM A1

Celebrating a day of infamy  He said those words after news of the departure of President Marcos and his family was greeted with jubilation by the EDSA multitude.

Teddy and I, who was then with the Manila Bulletin, covered the EDSA Revolution from beginning to end.

True enough, the minute Corazon C. Aquino took over the reins of government, the former housewife and her minions started perSECUTING OFkCIALS OF THE OLD REGIME Instead of being magnanimous in victory, Cory became a vindictive bitch.

She wanted all vestiges of the former regime eradicated.

The houses of the Marcoses in Leyte and other parts of the country were ransacked; the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Film Center, Folk Arts Theater, Coconut Palace, Nayong Pilipino were left to run to seed.

So were the Philippine Heart Center, GSIS Hospital, Lung Center, Kidney Center, which were all built under the auspices of Imelda Marcos, were practically abandoned. They have been revived, though.

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was scrapped. It could have addressed much of the country’s energy woes and lowered electrical BILLS "UT RATHER THAN kND WAYS TO PROPERLY kX THE PLANT S ISSUES IT was mothballed.

All the companies belonging to the friends of the Marcoses were placed under sequestration by the Presidential Commission for Good Government (PCGG).

For example, the Manila Bulletin, owned by Marcos’ aidede-camp Gen. Hans Menzi and turned over to Chinese-Filipino

IN MY LINE OF SIGHT RAMON T. TULFO Emilio Yap, would have been sequestered. At the last minute, the Cory government changed its mind after Yap bootlicked Peping Cojuangco, Cory’s brother.

Puerto Azul in Cavite, considered the “Golf Capital of the World� and “Asia’s Paradise Resort,� was closed down because it was owned by the Tantocos, who were friends of Imelda.

The paramilitary Philippine Constabulary (PC), founded in 1901, was abolished and replaced by the civilian Philippine National Police, an ill-disciplined organization, all because Cory’s husband, Ninoy, was arrested by PC troopers when Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972.

The Cory government was so vindictive toward its former enemies that some sectors in the military rose in revolt against it.

There were many coup attempts and rebellions during her time, namely, the Manila Hotel coup, the “God save the Queen� plot, GMA-7 incident, Black Saturday incident, Manila International Airport plot, 1987 and 1989 coup attempts, and the Hotel Delfino siege in #AGAYAN AND THE /CTOBER mutiny in Mindanao.

The EDSA Revolution is celebrated yearly with a holiday.

Cory Aquino was an incompetent and vindictive president and so was her son, Noynoy, who became the country’s chief executive 18 years after she stepped down.

The nation commemorates yearly the day an incompetent and vindictive leader took over power.

N N N The Universal Health Care law, which gives every Filipino access to quality and affordable health services from the government, is A SIGNIkCANT MILESTONE In short, poor patients can now avail themselves of the same care given to well-off patients in all hospitals or health centers.

The funds will come from the “sin� taxes on cigarettes and liQUOR 0AGCOR 0#3/ THE $EPARTment of Health’s annual budget, and premium contributions of employed Filipinos in the government and private sector.

Now, let’s give credit where credit is due: Former presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. introduced the Universal Health Care bill when he was a congressman, and Joseph Victor “JV� Ejercito sponsored the counterpart bill in the Senate.

People should remember JV Ejercito when they choose their senators in the May election out of gratitude.

Roque has backed out of the congressional race (party list) due to health reasons.

N N N The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) says 55 mayors, 21 vice mayors and 41 councilors are supporting the communist New People’s Army (NPA).

The DILG should not hold the people in suspense; it should come out with the identities of the local OFkCIALS WHO SYMPATHIZE WITH THE enemy of the state.

It’s fair to the officials concerned as they will be given their day in court.

They probably can explain the reasons why they’re supporting the communist insurgents.

You see, the military is not always there to protect those local OFkCIALS IN THE $),' LIST AS THEIR towns are probably vulnerable to NPA attacks.

N N N British national Raymond Edward Smith, who was detained at the immigration jail pending deportation, has been temporarily released on my recognizance.

Smith is facing charges of concubinage by his Filipino wife, Jinky, with whom he has two goodlooking children.

Smith doesn’t want to be deported because of his children, aged 8 and 10.

I learned about Smith’s plight from a friend who thought I could sympathize and help since, he said, I am also an adulterer. Hehehe!

Smith will be reporting regularly to immigration and the courts while his case is being heard. I will see to that.

I’m helping him since I am also a father.

N N N Congratulations to my friend, Sammy Po, who owns the Marco 0OLO (OTEL AT THE /RTIGAS #ENTER in Pasig.

-ARCO 0OLO /RTIGAS BAGGED THIS year’s Forbes Travel Guide Star !WARDS kVE STAR RATING -ARCO 0OLO /RTIGAS HAS WON THE prestigious award three years in a row since 2017.

The other awardees are Sky Tower at Solaire, The Peninsula Manila and Nuwa Manila.

-ARCO 0OLO /RTIGAS IS A *OHNNY COME LATELY AMONG kVE STAR HOTELS in the Philippines.

The limits to audacity

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T is already given. President Duterte is not shaped from the usual mold of politics. He is crude, and rude and vulgar. And for many, this is what endears him to the many people who worship him like a demi-god.

What heightens the adulation is the fact that he comes in as a beautiful contrast to the exclusionary decency and pretentiousness of the yellow elites.

He deconstructs and disturbs the comforts within which the oligarchs that dominated the political and economic landscapes thrived. He found a mark in locating his narrative in the context of creating a bogey out of the drug menace and painted it as a national crisis. And he whipped up among his mass base the fear that emanates from images of drug victimization and juxtaposed this with the hatred toward the elites that ruled by excluding and exploiting.

Initially accommodating of the left, which he even granted space in his cabinet, he later turned on them, and added fuel to the anti-left sentiments of his supporters who are adherents of a mainly conservative and right-wing ideology and who are advocates of strong states, the death penalty and criminalizing even children. It didn’t help that the common thread that binds the political opposition is a liberal progressive ideology that advocates for human rights and the strengthening of democratic institutions. Never in our history as a republic has liberal progressive politics been so maligned, and human rights been so misunderstood.

ON THE CONTRARY ANTONIO CONTRERAS And then there is the era of anti-intellectualism, where smartshaming becomes a weapon of convenience for people who celebrate non-expertise as a foil to the elitism of the educated and the schooled. Whereas in the past, having an advanced academic degree was seen as a needed warrant to bestow credibility, social media presided over the diminution of diplomas when non-trained but Googleliterate bloggers acquired the air of expertise on issues that ranged from the Constitution to vaccination. This is a reaction to the perceived exclusionary and derisive elitism which the schooled and the learned harbored towards ordinary people.

The university as an institution is now seen in the Duterte era as a breeding ground of snobbish, out-of-touch intellectuals who are mostly liberal or left-sympathizers. Consequently, they are perceived as enablers of the political opposition, rebellion and destabilization.

The anti-intellectualism that juxtaposes with blind idolatry kNDS ITS CLEAREST MANIFESTATION IN how Duterte supporters, if only to propagate the mythology of a super-president, forcefully assert and insist, contrary to every lesson in basic introductory political science on the principle of separation of powers, that he is bestowed with actual legisla-

tive powers. There is no debate that the term of the President saw the passage of legislation that exceeded the record of his predecessor. And he should be thanked for providing the enabling environment for the passing of such laws.

But one needs to be told that WHILE THE 0RESIDENT CAN INlUence the process of making laws by certifying a bill as urgent, articulating a legislative agenda in his state of the nation adDRESS 3/.!

OR CONVENING THE Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (Ledac), legislation is the sole prerogative of Congress. While it is a fact that the President can exercise his veto power, he doesn’t have the kNAL WORD CONSIDERING THAT #ONgress can exercise its sole power to override such veto which the President can’t reverse. In fact, a statute passed by Congress can lapse into becoming a law if the President fails to sign it 30 days after receipt.

It must be noted that while the President’s support may have seen the passage of some of THESE LAWS HE HAS RARELY CERTIkED bills as urgent. He also has not been active in convening Ledac meetings, and in fact he is often quoted as saying that he respects the independence of Congress.

While some of his legislative priorities have been addressed

by Congress in the case of the Train law and the law on rice tariffs, his support for the reimposition of the death penalty and the lowering of the age of criminal responsibility appear to be facing stiff opposition in the Senate. This only shows that

while support of any President is valued, it doesn’t guarantee immediate or actual passage of a law unless Congress acts favorably on it. The most dramatic evidence of how the President doesn’t meddle in the affairs of Congress is his admission that he was practically helpless in preventing the ouster of former House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.

But if there is anything that should worry us, it is the fact that while many Duterte supporters believe that he is exempt from the law of diminishing political capital, seen in how he continues to enjoy high approval ratings, and even if he survives, the toll that the prevailing political psyCHOLOGY AND CULTURE MAY INlICT on our political landscape in the long run may not be as certain as it is made to appear. If there is one thing that is certain in the uncertain world of politics, it is that there is always a limit, and that nothing is forever.

Recently, one could sense a more tepid reaction to the President’s renewed tirades against the Catholic Church, and to his RENEWED CALL FOR AN EVEN kERCER war on drugs. Either people are now becoming desensitized, or that while audacity may be NOVEL AT kRST THERE IS ALWAYS THE risk that the magic can eventually wear off. It is good that this happens at a time that a string of laws has been signed by the President, thanks to Congress.

The danger lies when things become more unfavorable, his political enemies become more emboldened, and his followers remain deluded by the fantasy that he is politically immortal.

Q CHING FROM A4

China: Has the red carpet replaced the kowtow? of high-speed trains, which it exports to developed and developing countries alike.

China also loudly proclaims its support for globalization in the face of a Trump administration that is disengaging itself from many of America’s global com-

mitments. But, as professor Grzegorz Ekiert of Harvard University pointed out last week in a talk at the University of Hong Kong, China is not speaking of Western globalization but of Chinese globalization. Also, the internet, which it was originally thought

would bind people with limitless free information, now divides the world, with China insisting on its own internet, separate from that of the rest of the world.

The old feudalist Chinese empire may be gone but in its place has emerged a newly energized

5,000-year-old civilization which is guided by “socialism with Chinese characteristics,� a new philosophy developed by China.

Xi Jinping, the leader of China, while addressing a Communist 0ARTY CONGRESS IN /CTOBER

told the world what this means.

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Set up safety nets before sugar deregulation

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PENING up our local market to sugar imports may be a boon for consumers in the short term, but it will be a catastrophe for our sugar farmers and workers and to the country’s sugar industry in the long term.

Although I view President Rodrigo Duterte’s move to liberalize the rice sector through the rice TARIFkCATION LAW AS THE BITTER PILL we have to swallow “for the greater good� (as I discussed in last week’s column), I cannot say the same when it comes to the opening up of the sugar industry. That’s because unlike the rice sector, the sugar industry in the Philippines does not (and never had) a stateled interventionary mechanism or strategy to protect millions of Filipinos relying on the sugar industry for their livelihood.

Let me explain.

For several decades now, the government, through the National Food Authority (NFA), closely regulated the rice sector by stabilizing the supply and price of rice through the procurement of “palay� from farmers at a price that is higher than the market-dictated farmgate price, and then sells the same to the public at a price lower that the market-dictated retail price. By subsidizing the procurement cost and selling price of rice and intervening in the rice market, the government is able to protect the interests of both paddy tillers and consumers. %VEN WITH RICE TARIFkCATION .&! will continue to procure palay from domestic rice farmers to buffer-stock its inventory.

The sugar industry, however, does not enjoy the same perks as the rice sector. While rice tillers, for instance, have a ready buyer for their palay in the NFA, sugarcane farmers cannot expect any such assistance. The government neither subsidizes the sugarcane production of farmers nor the retail price of sugar in the country.

It does not intervene in the market except to cover supply shortfalls and stabilize prices by allowing the importation of sugar. In fact, the country imported sugar from Thailand last year to plug a supposed shortage in domestic supply (estimated between 160,000 tons and 200,000 tons) that caused retail prices to spike to as high as P64 per kilo.

The mandate of the principal government agency overseeing the sugar industry, the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), is mainly limited to regulating production quotas, and establishing domestic, export and reserve allocations, and issuing permits and licenses to sugar manufacturers, producers, importers and exporters. And by law, (i.e. Cory !QUINO S %XECUTIVE /RDER

the marketing of sugar was to be dictated by free market forces.

7HAT ) kND ABSURD THOUGH IS THAT amid the purported sugar shortage in the country, the SRA pushed for the export of around 131,000 metric tons of sugar to the United States to meet the Philippines’ export quota for raw cane sugar under the tariff rate quota scheme of the World 4RADE /RGANIZATION 74/ 9ET IN the same breath, SRA AdministraTOR (ERMIGILDO 2 3ERAkCA ADMITS issuing import clearances “almost every day� to ensure there is enough sugar in the country! If that isn’t dysfunctional, I don’t know what is.

Apparently, exporting sugar is more lucrative than selling it in the local market. But it is not the government or the cane workers PROkTING FROM THOSE EXPORTS BUT RATHER LOCAL SUGAR MILLERS REkNERS and traders. Even in the domestic sugar market, it is the big players Socialism with Chinese characteristics, Xi said, “offers a new option for other countries and nations who want to speed up their development while preserving their independence; and it offers Chinese wisdom and a Chinese approach to solving the problems facing mankind.�

The days of kneelings and prostrations are gone. Today, China offers the world not a unique civilization

FLIPSIDE ATTY. DODO DULAY who make a killing.

Any downturn in the country’s sugar economy will affect the planters and laborers the most, particularly, the sugarcane plantation workers: the “dumaan� (or permanent farm workers) who work all year round, and the “sacada� (a favorite subject of kLMMAKERS OR MIGRANT WORKERS who do the planting and weeding work, and cut and load sugarcane in haciendas during the milling SEASON FROM /CTOBER TO -AY Let’s consider the stats.

Close to half a million workers are currently involved in cane growing, with 310,000 in the Negros region alone. There are 24,000 industrial sugar mill workers, of which 18,000 are also in Negros. Another 5 to 6 million individuals are said to be indirectly employed in the sugar industry. Representing around 5 to 6 percent of the country’s population, the sugar sector can thus be considered one of the largest employers in the country.

With the Philippines being the world’s eighth-largest sugarcane producer and the third-largest US quota recipient, the sugarcane industry contributes no less than P70 billion to our economy anNUALLY "UT THE BENEkTS HAVE NOT trickled down to its workers.

Belonging to the agricultural sub-sector with the one of the highest incidence of poverty at 53.2 percent, sugar workers and their families continue to live in hunger and misery. Although malnutrition is widespread among agricultural laborers, it is more severe among sugar workers and THEIR FAMILIES /PENING THE lOODgates to sugar imports without sufkCIENT SAFETY NETS FOR SUGAR WORKERS will only exacerbate their already miserable predicament.

Compounding the headache of sugar farmers and workers is that our productivity continues to lag behind other sugar-exporting countries. In terms of land productivity, the Philippines has the lowest yield in terms of Lkg/ha (50-kg bag of sugar per hectare).

Countries like Brazil, Australia and China (the top three sugarexporting countries) produced and recovered twice more sugar per ton of sugarcane. And despite the paltry wages of sugar workers, the labor cost per kilogram of sugar in the country is two to three times higher (due to low harvest yields) compared to our competitors who use mechanized combine harvesters.

Meanwhile, many sugar mills in the country are still operating INEFkCIENTLY WITH BELOW STANDARD sugar recovery of less than 1.8 Lkg per ton cane, that some of them have illegally resorted to sending their sugarcane to other mills outside their district for milling.

I don’t have all the answers to the problems plaguing the industry. What I do know, however, is THAT UNLESS THE GOVERNMENT kRST gives all the farmers, workers, MILLERS AND REkNERS IN THE SUGAR INDUSTRY A kGHTING CHANCE TO BE competitive, perhaps within a certain period of time, say the next three years, along with cheap credit and generous incentives to organize, modernize and mechanize, the domestic sugar industry as we know it will cease to exist, and along with it, the lifeblood of an incalculable number of Filipino workers. but a unique philosophy to solve its problems. Foreign leaders seeking Chinese wisdom walk down a long red carpet at the end of which stands the Chinese president, ready to extend his hand in welcome. China may no longer have an emperor, but its president still receives guests in imperial splendor.

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Fear and courage past and present

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//. AFTER HE DECLARED -ARtial Law on Sept. 21, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos jailed opposition politicians, took control of the media, and arrested 11 members of the Constitutional Convention who were known to be critical of his government. In 1973, the Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines (AMRSP), reported scores of mysterious disappearances, physical torture, arbitrary jailings, military brutality and killings. By late 1977, the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) found that almost 70,000 people had been detained, including priests and nuns, for alleged subversive activities. When tortured and mangled bodies started turning up, the fear had already set in.

Marsman Alvarez was brutally murdered in 1974. The younger brother of Heherson T. Alvarez, a prominent Marcos critic who managed to escape to the United States, Marsman was 27 years old when soldiers abducted him.

Twenty-four hours later, his body

THE LONG VIEW RACHEL A.G. REYES was found mutilated and broken; all his teeth had been pulled out and his tongue slashed.

Manila Archbishop Jaime Sin condemned the killing. The then defense secretary, Juan Ponce Enrile, denied any government hand in it, claiming communist forces were responsible. In a speech delivered on Dec. 11, 1974, Marcos denied the occurrence of any unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions. He dismissed the Marsman case, and all cases of torture, to be false. He claimed that all detainees were charged and prisoners were well treated in Red Cross prison camps.

Catholic priests Father Edicio G. de la Torre and Manuel Lahoz exposed Marcos’ denials. Imprisoned in 1974, de la Torre and Lahoz had

been subjected to cigarette burns, torture, beatings, sexual assault, electric shocks and psychological intimidation. Their hunger strike gained international attention and prompted a church-military investigation into prison conditions. Bending to international and church pressure, the Marcos government had 37 enlisted men AND kVE OFkCERS DISMISSED Writing in 1978, the historian Robert L. Youngblood was skeptical of these concessions.

The Church, he noted, opposed government failures and excesses but studiously avoided “cataclysmic confrontations� with Marcos’ government and martial law. A silenced Church and silenced religious activists, Youngblood feared, could leave the population at the mercy of “overzealous�

GOVERNMENT OFkCIALS "Y THE END OF Marcos’ 20-year rule, 3,257 people had been murdered.

President Duterte rose to power over two years ago. In this short span of time, the moral legitimacy of the Catholic Church has been under-

mined, the critical press attacked, members of the political opposition jailed and harassed, the integrity of the judiciary diminished, and many thousands of extra-judicial killings have occurred.

Duterte has relentlessly accused the Catholic clergy of moral dissolution. He has threatened and insulted clerics who have spoken out against him, and incited people to “rob and kill� bishops.

He has, in particular, viciously attacked Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, who decried the extrajudicial killings that were occurring in his Caloocan parish. Duterte accused David of stealing and drug-taking.

After a few spirited rejoinders, Bishop David has fallen quiet, for now. It’s doubtful he will remain silent for long.

Sen. Leila de Lima has been in jail for two years without charge.

Despite her incarceration, she kLES BILLS AND CONTINUES TO SPEAK out, laboriously writing out her thoughts by hand with a ballpoint pen on notepaper. At the END OF LAST YEAR SHE kLED A BILL FOR

A spotlight on those suffering in silence

Q In Haiti, more than half of the population face hunger, while 22 percent of children are chronically malnourished. IPS PHOTO UNITED NATIONS: While news of political scandals and tweets may inundate social media feeds, numerous humanitarian crises have slipped under the radar, leaving victims “suffering in silence.�

In a new report, humanitarian organization CARE shines a spotlight on global crises that have been neglected — a neglect that has led to dire consequences. “We see more and more complex and chronic crises competing for public attention,� said CARE International’s Secretary General Caroline Kende-Robb. “Media coverage has always been a strong driver of funding for crises as well as creating political pressure to protect those in need.

With dwindling international coverage, under-reported crises are at a risk of falling completely off the radar,� she added.

In a recent survey by the Aurora Humanitarian Index, 61 percent of respondents from 12 countries said that there were too many humanitarian crises around the world to keep up with. More than half also felt

they constantly heard the same stories from the same countries.

Whether the public heard about it or not, over 132 million people worldwide faced hardship as a result OF NATURAL DISASTERS AND CONlICT Among them were Haitians who have faced a severe food crisis in 2018, yet received the least media attention.

In fact, of the 1 million online articles monitored between January and November 2018, a little over 500 were about the Caribbean state.

With one of the highest levels of chronic food insecurity in the world, more than half of the population of Haiti face hunger, while 22 percent of children are chronically malnourished. /N TOP OF THE THREAT OF HURRIcanes, drought conditions in the Caribbean nation caused reductions in crop production, leaving families without food and thus, almost 3 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.

Marie-Melia Joseph, a mother of eight children, told CARE that all they had was a small family plot

and a little money to get food. “Some days were better than others, but I can’t recall the last decent meal we had,� she said.

According to the 2019 Climate Risk Index, Haiti ranks fourth among countries most affected by extreme weather events. Additionally, a majority of the population live in poverty, earning less than $2 per day.

In Ethiopia, the escalation of violence forced over 1 million people to flee their homes, the highest number seen in 2018.

Amreh recounted the evening when she heard gunshots and screams. “We looked outside and saw PEOPLE lEEING WHEN WE REALIZED something was wrong. My husband went outside to look. That was the last time I saw him,� she told CARE. “I would give everything to go back to the days when things were normal. I am weak, and I depend on help from aid organizations now. I see no future for us,� she added.

After the death of her husband,

one of her sons committed suicide, unable to cope.

In addition to the devastating conflict, drought and food insecurity have also left families struggling to survive.

CARE urged not only international media, but also policy makers and civil society to raise awareness about the many neglected crises around the world in order to help garner funds and aid for those in need.

In 2018, 56 percent of Ethiopia’s humanitarian plan was funded while only 13 percent was funded for Haiti. “Media outlets, politicians, states and aid agencies need to join FORCES TO kND INNOVATIVE WAYS TO draw public attention to humanitarian needs,� said Kende-Robb. “Given the challenges the media industry faces with shrinking funds, with coming under attacks that are undermining, and with limited access to some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, we are all responsible for raising the voices of those affected,� she added.

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Q MAKABENTA FROM A4

The environment is only 70 years old term. It’s an idea used not just to describe the world, but to change it. Without the modern innovation of ‘the environment,’ we might not even be aware of our dire predicament. With it, we at least know we should care.�

New and urgent questions Most significantly, the authors have asked and tried to answer some contemporary and ur-

gent questions that bug people and governments.

Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature — nor because they were unaware of the serious

damage they had done. What people lacked was an idea: a way of imagining the web of interconnection and consequence of which the natural world is made.

Without this notion, we didn’t have a way to describe the scale and scope of the challenge. This idea was “the environment.�

It was at this moment that a new idea and a new narrative about the planet-wide impact of people’s behavior emerged, closely allied to anxieties for the

future. Now we have a vocabulary for talking about how we were changing nature: resource exhaustion and energy, biodiversity, pollution, and — eventually — climate change.

With the rise of “the environment,� the authors argue, came new expertise, making certain kinds of knowledge crucial to understanding the future of the planet.

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comprehensive prison reforms. “They may have detained me using numerous lies, but this is no reason to remain silent and TIGHT LIPPED u SHE SAYS DEkANTLY Veteran journalist and news broadcaster Ed Lingao is the daily target of serious online abuse, personal and professional insult, and death threats. “I hope you die,� is a message he regularly receives. “You know what really gets me,�

HE RElECTS SPEAKING IN A 2APPLER interview last April, “is when people question my patriotism. It’s assumed that because I’m critical, I’m a paid hack. I believe everybody should be critical publicly. /THERWISE WHO S GOING TO HOLD government accountable? My job requires me to correct errors of fact, errors of perception, and outright lies.�

The death toll from Duterte’s drug war has climbed to many thousands.

Police report that over 5,000 “drug personalities� have been killed in operations across the country. Human rights groups, however, contend that the number may actually

be four times higher when killings from vigilante hit squads, allegedly backed by the government, are taken into account.

Rappler recently published a report (dated Feb. 24, 2019), claiming that while killings are dwindling in the Manila area, incidences are spreading and intensifying throughout the Central Luzon region. Citing Philippine National Police (PNP) data, Rappler reported that “in the year 2018, 29.6 percent of all drug suspects who were killed in police operations in the Philippines came from Central Luzon alone. The region saw 542 kills.�

Despite these appalling numbers, the President digs in. He has vowed to continue his drug war and has lately, chillingly, promised that it would be “harsher in the coming days.� This seems to me calculated to impose fear in the run-up to the midterm elections.

The question is: Will the fear silence us or give us courage?

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Q AQUINO FROM A1

Truth and power But the mood is markedly different now. The exuberance of citizens celebrating the unity of so many Filipinos for what was, at that time, a noble cause has long since ebbed away.

There is rhetoric aplenty to be sure, but most of it is partisan and, quite frankly, insalubrious.

For those of us who were there (I was a newly ordained priest), the heart still skips a beat at the recollection of droves of Filipinos milling around Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame where two erstwhile pillars of the Marcos regime were holed up. There were so many tense moments, but generally, the air was full of congeniality.

The excitement at the prospect of a new beginning for the country was electrifying. It seemed like all our hopes (in varying degrees, frustrated, throughout our colorful history) were summed up in the outcome of this standoff — and so many Filipinos, not only those at EDSA, but throughout the country, wanted to be part of it!

So, what was it all about? Did it really have to do with a yearning for freedom, a defense of democracy and a rejection of authoritarian RULE /R WAS IT AS THE ALTERNATIVE reading puts it, a well-orchestrated maneuver of the Philippine oligarchy to put in power one of their own? I reject that posture that dismisses the question with the trite “Your guess is as good as mine� formulary. It is, to me, intellectually dishonest, because a dispute like this is susceptible of rational resolution.

No doubt, there will be the painstaking task of answering the myriad questions of fact that can and should be raised, but to refuse the attempt even to address it and to consign it to the realm of “subjective preference� — like choosing between dishes on a menu — is to avoid the question of truth altogether. But this is “truth� of a kind different from that of bare reports of facts: “It is sunny today.� “Historical truth� has to do with evidence we have on hand — speeches, documents, eyewitness accounts, artifacts and mementos, etc. — and our familiarity (or unfamiliarity) with the human condition.

It calls on our capacity to ascribe motive, always a tricky business when dealing with the motives of those we live with, and more troublesome even when we must ask about the motives of those who have long since gone!

That is where the issue of power makes its appearance. Power has to do with the availability of data and of access to it. “Fake news� is not new. The Donation of Constantine is a good example of medieval fake news. But this only underscores the vulnerability of truth in the face of power.

But power is not only bad news. It is also the enabler of truth, for the institutions

that fund capital-intensive researches, that pay the researchers and the data-gatherers are foci of power. Universities are as much power centers as are megalith corporations. What, for one, constitutes a worthwhile research subject? Universities set out the parameters of “worthwhile� researches with the obvious consequence that so many other subjects that could otherwise be looked into are consigned to the margins of academic investigation.

Why, for example, is it necessary to append the qualifier “traditional� to the medicine practiced in China prior to the advent of Western medicine, just as, in the Philippines, it was necessary for Congress to pass a law to legitimize the practice of “alternative� medicine? There is nothing recondite about the answer: Because what is “mainstream� and what is “alternative� or “traditional� is determined by seats of power.

Luther was a heretic, until some powerful German princes came to his succor. Aristotle was a pagan best ignored, until Thomas Aquinas and the scholastic tradition that took up his brilliant thought, vested him with the mantle of respectability — and credibility!

And so it is with EDSA. When those it had ensconced in places of power held the reins of government — the harness of political power — it was celebrated as the victory of a nation over the darkness of authoritarianism.

But when political colors changed and allegiances shifted, the meaning of EDSA became less clear — still celebrated unctuously without a doubt by some, conveniently ignored by others, derided and dismissed by yet another segment of our segmented society!

But such is the nature of truth — the objective world, the hypothetical necessity of what has taken place (what has been cannot be otherwise than it has been!) — that no matter that power may sometimes stand in its way or make its manifestation particularly arduous, or proffer a deliberate falsehood as the truth — somehow, if not immediately, then eventually, it “unveils things as they areâ€? (aleitheia, said Heidegger), but only to those who are willing to ask the difficult questions about why we have an interest in that which captures our interest, and the provenance of the money and the resources that spur our endeavors, trigger OUR RESEARCH INQUIRIES AND DEkNE SIGNIkCANCE 4HERE WAS PLENTY OF wisdom in the Scholastics who explained the insuperability of truth in the following wise: Fulgor veritatis assensum mentis rapiens‌ The brightness of the truth compelling the assent of mind!

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Regions BFP officer slain in Cotabato shootout Maguindanao mayor nabbed for murder ˜ The Manila Times

TUESDAY February 26, 2019

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COTABATO CITY: An officer of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in North Cotabato, who was in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug watch list, was killed in a police operation in Pikit, North Cotabato on Monday.

Chief Supt. Eliseo Tam Rasco, regional director of Police Regional Office-12 (PRO-12), said operatives were about to serve a search warrant against Senior Fire Officer-2 (SFO-2) Guiapal Palaman Macainas, 49, in his house in Sitio Lamak Barangay Poblacion, but he fired at the police, triggering a shootout.

Rasco said the search warrant was issued by Judge Alandrex Betoya of the Regional Trial Court Branch 16 in

Kabacan, North Cotabato for illegal possession of firearms.

He added that Macainas was in the Level 2 category in Duterte’s list of erring government workers. “As our troops were approaching Macainas’ home, he opened fire using his cal.

45 pistol. Our troops retaliated, wounding him in the process,� Rasco said.

Macainas was rushed to a hospital, but was declared dead on arrival.

Seized from Macainas’ home were one .45-caliber pistol with spent shells, various ammunition, and parts for 9 mm pistol, M16 rifle and an M14 rifle.

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BY JULMUNIR I. JANNARAL

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OTABATO CITY: A Maguindanao town mayor who has a standing arrest warrant for multiple murder and who is on President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug list was arrested by police upon his arrival at the Cotabato airport on Sunday.

Members of the Philippine National Police in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PNP-ARMM), Buldon town police personnel and Aviation Security Group members arrested Mayor Norodin Salasal of Datu Salibo, Maguindanao at 10:30 a.m. on the strength of a warrant issued

by Judge Bansawan Ibrahim of the 12th Regional Judicial Region

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Branch 13, Cotabato City.

Salasal, who has repeatedly denied his involvement in illegal drugs, did not resist arrest.

The mayor recently surrendered TO THE MILITARY LOOSE kREARMS THE local government of Datu Salibo collected from civilians.

3ALASAL WAS A FORMER kELD COMmander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Cocaine bricks found in Aurora, Davao Oriental ANOTHER set of bricks suspected to contain cocaine were found lOATING ON THE SHORES IN !URORA Province and Davao Oriental on Sunday, police said.

The Philippine National Police said one brick wrapped in plastic WAS RETRIEVED BY A kSHER ON THE shore of Dingalan, Aurora at around 1 p.m. It weighed about 1 kilo and has a street value of about P5 million.

4HE kSHER SURRENDERED IT TO THE police in Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija.

Earlier in the day, locals swimming along the shoreline in Barangay Santiago, Caraga, Davao Oriental found 36 packs contain-

ing suspected cocaine, the Police Regional Office 11 reported.

These are now in the custody of the Caraga Municipal Police Station.

Prior to these latest incidents, 34 similar bricks of suspected cocaine were found in Tandag City, Surigao del Sur also on a Sunday.

Two weeks ago, 77 blocks of cocaine were found on the coastlines of Siargao and Dinagat Islands.

"LOCKS OF lOATING COCAINE HAVE also been found in Camarines Norte and Quezon province.

ROY D.R. NARRA

Q President Rodrigo Duterte raises the hands of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan Senate bets during a campaign rally in Cebu City, where he also warned drug personalities that he will not hesitate to wipe them out. MALACAĂ‘ANG PHOTO

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Talisay a haven for illegal drugs – Duterte

TOP NPA LEADER, 3 OTHERS KILLED IN MISOR ENCOUNTER

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his warning that he would “wipe out� drug pushers and users, as he lamented that the illegal drug trade in Cebu had not gone down. “I will kill. Why would I not kill? I already told you. Talisay, after several days, once I will enter [the city], everything will be wiped out,� Duterte, who was in Cebu City on Sunday, said.

The President was with Social Welfare Secretary Rolando Joselito Bautista and Land Bank of the Philippines Vice President Delma Bandiola for the distribution of UNCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER CERTIkCATES TO BENEkCIARIES AT THE #EBU Technological University.

In August 2018, the President named Talisay City as a “drug paradise.� “But Talisay, life there is destroyed. Somebody has to do corrective measures there,�

Duterte said.

The President said the illegal drugs trade in Cebu did not subside. “Even in Cebu, the ‘play’ of illegal drugs did not go down. There will be a time that I will go after you as you are trying to destroy my country. Do not destroy my country because I will kill you,� he stressed.

Duterte also warned the Commission on Human Rights not to interfere. “Don’t ever, ever commit the mistake,� he said. g) WILL kNISH YOU OFF BECAUSE MY country will go crazy. You know, you create so many social disfunctions. If the illegal drugs will enter, the head of the family becomes inutile, he becomes practically useless,� he added.

Duterte also lashed out at Mayor Vicente Loot of Daanbantayan Town, north Cebu, whom he pre-

Autonomy info drives slated in Cordillera THE National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) vowed to facilitate more autonomy information drives this year.

NEDA-CAR said the local government unit (LGU) of Bauko, Mountain Province kicked-off the autonomy information drive in the first cluster of barangay (vilalges).

Several participants signed a Commitment of Support to Autonomy towards Federalism as part of the activity. “More autonomy information drives are slated in three clusters covering the remaining 17 barangay of Bauko,� said NEDA-CAR officials.

NEDA, in partnership with the LGUs of Bontoc, Sagada and Tadian, will also lead simultaneous autonomy information drives.

The agency earlier said regional autonomy was the best way to fasttrack development in the region.

It noted that the slower development in the area was caused by several national laws and policies that “did not consider the region’s unique history, culture, and geography relative to the rest of the Philippines.�

NEDA earlier funded a study aimed to determine the fiscal viability of an Autonomous Region of the Cordilleras. “NEDA has supported the autonomy advocacy by providing funds for the Social Preparation of CAR into an Autonomous Region program since the Cordillera Regional Development Council adopted autonomy as the central theme to fast track regional development,� it said.

ANNA LEAH E. GONZALES

viously named in the narcolist; Director General Marcelo Garbo, whom he previously called a “protector of drug syndicates;� and Cebu-based businessman and suspected drug lord Peter Lim. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Central Visayas said the President’s warning would prod the agency to intensify efforts to address the drug problem in the region. “The drug problem is a complex one. Law enforcement is only one part of the solution. The campaign requires a whole-of-nation approach. No one person or agency can solve this problem alone,� Leia Labiar, PDEA-Regional Office 7 spokesman, told The Manila Times in a text message.

Supt. Marlu Conag, Talisay City Police Station chief, said concerned citizens had supported the police in its drive against illegal drugs.

“The campaign against illegal drugs trickles down to the last POLICE OFkCER ON THE GROUND 7E have done this because we get 100 percent support from the top for all our operations. The increased trust and vigilance of concerned citizens has made our operations MORE EFkCIENT AND ACCURATE u HE said.

The Manila Times tried to reach Talisay City Mayor Eduardo Gullas and Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide 3rd for comments but they did not answer phone calls.

On Sunday, Duterte also graced the campaign rally of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan at the Plaza Independencia, Barangay San Roque, Cebu City where he proclaimed the party’s official Senate candidates and guest candidates before an estimated crowd of 20,000 supporters and volunteers. RHEA RUTH ROSELL

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: A top commander of the New People’s Army (NPA) and three other rebels were killed in a firefight on Saturday with state forces in the hinterlands of Macopa in Talisayan, Misamis Oriental, the military reported on Monday. Lt. Col. Roy Derilo, commander of the army’s 58th Infantry Battalion, identified the rebel as Almonte Lindayao, 36, of Claveria, Misamis Oriental. The military encountered about 30 NPA rebels, who were reportedly distributing “permit to win� campaign for candidates in the May midterm elections, Derilo said. Lindayao’s remains were turned over to his family, while remains of the other casualties were turned over to the Talisayan local government for their relatives to claim. He did not identify the other casualties. The military recovered five firearms, several backpacks, subversive documents and personal belongings from the scene of the encounter. Derilo appealed to the NPA rebels to bring down the wounded so that they could undergo adequate medical treatment. “There is nothing to fear because saving lives is very important,� he said.

CRIS DIAZ

ZAMBO REPRESENTATIVE DONATES 12 WHEELCHAIRS ZAMBOANGA CITY: District 2 Rep. Manuel Dalipe Jr. on Saturday donated 12 wheelchairs to persons with disability and senior citizens in a ceremony at the Mindanao Central Sanitarium in Barangay Pasabolong in this city. Some of the recipients’ legs were amputated, while others are suffering from acute arthritis, making them virtually immobile. They are residents of Barangay Boalan, TalonTalon, Mulu-Muluan, Mercedes and Pasobolong. Dalipe pledged to allocate more funds for the acquisition of more wheelchairs for distribution to other persons with disability in other rural villages. One wheelchair, Dalipe added, costs about P5,000.

ANTONIO P. RIMANDO

SHOOTOUT

Photo shows the vehicle (left) used by the alleged robbery gang members who were killed in a shootout with police operatives in Agoncillo town, Batangas on Monday.

PHOTO BY THE BATANGAS PROVINCIAL POLICE OFFICE

7 ‘robbers’ killed in Batangas clash SEVEN alleged members of the Baklas Bubong robbery group were killed in an armed encounter with the police at 4:45 a.m. on Monday in Agoncillo, Batangas.

Batangas Police Director Supt.

Edwin Quilates said occupants of

a Hi-Ace Van with the Plate TIH 344 ignored the checkpoint established by the Commission on Elections in Barangay Berinayan, Laurel, Batangas.

Personnel of the neighboring Agoncillo police station were alerted and immediately set up a

checkpoint in Barangay Banyaga at the boundary of Laurel and Agoncillo to intercept the suspects.

As the van was approaching, it WAS lAGGED DOWN BUT IT SPED UP )TS OCCUPANTS REPORTEDLY kRED AT the police.

0OLICE OFkCERS CHASED THE SUS-

pects who were cornered by another patrol team.

Quilates said the suspects opened fire, forcing the opERATIVES TO kRE BACK 4HOSE KILLED HAVE YET TO BE IDENTIkED TINA GANZON-OZAETA AND ROY D.R. NARRA

News Incumbents top Metro mayoral survey A8

˜ The Manila Times

TUESDAY February 26, 2019

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F the elections were held today, incumbent mayors in southern Metro Manila would win another term, according to a survey which showed that most voters prefer reelectionists for the May 13 midterm elections.

A noncommissioned survey by the RP Mission and Development Foundation Inc. (RPMDInc.) conducted from February 1 to 10 covering 2,500 respondents in the National Capital Region (NCR)

also showed that most voters prefer relatives of former and current city leaders.

Incumbent Makati City Mayor Mar-Len Abigail “Abby� Binay was preferred by 70 percent of those

surveyed over her brother, former mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun�

Binay Jr. Junjun Binay posted a 20 percent rating.

Meanwhile, Paraùaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez posted 43 percent votes against former mayor Florencio Bernabe Jr. who got 15 percent. Both have become administration bets as Olivarez left the Liberal Party for President Rodrigo Duterte’s PDP-Laban before the kLING OF CANDIDACIES LAST /CTOBER Bernabe, who served for three

consecutive terms since 2004, is the standard bearer of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio’s Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP).

Mayors Imelda Aguilar of Las PiĂąas City and Miguel Ponce 3rd of Pateros Municipality, who are running unopposed, got 68 and 55 percent, respectively.

Mayor Jaime Fresnedi, who is leading a slate of unlikely allies from PDP-Laban and the Liberal Party, led the race for mayor in Muntinlupa City, with 65 percent, followed by former Bureau of Im-

migration deputy commissioner Red Marc MariĂąas with 12 percent.

The survey also showed a big gap in the race for mayor in Taguig, where bets representing the Cayetano clan and PDP-Laban would slug it out for the post in the midterm elections.

Former Taguig 2nd District Rep. Lino Cayetano, brother-in law of incumbent Mayor Lani Cayetano, got 75 percent against incumbent Taguig-Pateros District Rep. Arnel #ERAkCA 0$0 ,ABAN BET WHO ONLY got 17 percent.

In Pasay City, Rep. Imelda Ca-

lixto-Rubiano, sister of incumbent mayor Antonino Calixto, led with 53 percent. She was followed by Cesar “Chet� Cuneta, son of the late Pasay City Mayor Pablo Cuneta and brother of actress Sharon Cuneta, who got 16 percent.

The survey, which had a twopercent margin of error, asked respondents who they would vote for if the elections were held today.

Dr. Paul Martinez of RPMDInc SAID THE kRM WOULD ALSO CONDUCT a series of independent surveys in the NCR for the May elections.

Bong Go cheers up ParaĂąaque fire victims BATTLING ILLEGAL FISHING Supporters of the campaign against illegal fishing attend the launch of the Karagatan Patrol, a program that seeks to stem illegal fishing through online reporting.

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Q NO-SHOW FROM A1

Ramos time in Club Filipino, he was not there as well,� Saycon told reporters. “We only ask that everyone pray for him and we hope he will be here in future EDSA anniversaries,� he added.

The book, titled Silver Linings: The Continuing Saga of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution , was a tribute to the Philippine National Police’s Special Action Force.

Saycon said Ramos, 92, has weakened. “He leads a spartan life, and he has given so much service for this country,� he said.

Traditionally, the civilian, religious and military sectors would reenact the “Salubungan,� to depict the meeting of civilians and soldiers during the EDSA revolt.

Ramos had joined the reenactment in past years.

Last year, he did his notable jump at the end of the commemoration.

DEMPSEY REYES

Q MARRY FROM A1

Priests priests to be celibate. “Priests should be allowed to marry. That’s the only solution there. Even the gay ones, allow them to marry, same sex marriage. I am in favor of that so the problem is over,� he said.

The President issued the statement a day after the Vatican concluded a historic summit to tackle sexual abuse.

An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines

(CBCP) criticized Duterte for “trivializing what is an otherwise complex problem.� “Allowing priests to marry is unfortunately not the solution to the problem of sexual misconduct in the church,� Fr. Jerome Secillano, executive secretary of the CBCP’s public affairs committee, said. “The issue is not merely about homosexuality. It is about having sexual deviant personality that cannot be cured simply by allowing the perpetrators to marry,� he said.

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SENATE candidate Christopher Lawrence “Bongâ€? Go said he would rather visit victims of fire than attend to his campaign schedule as he appealed for assistance for those affected by a fire in ParaĂąaque City.

Around 70 houses on the border of Barangay Manuyo Dos in Las PiĂąas and Barangay San Isidro in ParaĂąaque were razed in a fire that started at past 1 p.m. Friday. Addressing the victims on Saturday, Go clarified that he did not visit them to campaign for his Senate bid but to make good on his promise and advocacy to help fire victims. “I have promised that even before I became a candidate. My vow was to reach out to all Filipinos even to the farthest corner of the country, wherever they may be, so long as I can serve others,â€? Go said in Filipino.

Go, who came with his constant companion and friend, actor Philip Salvador, said it was rewarding enough to see people smiling as he cracked jokes on the entertainer’s love life.

The former Palace official said visiting fire

Q OSCARS FROM A1

‘Roma’ wins language film, capping a brilliant awards season for him — and offering streaming giant Netflix a new feather in its cap.

Diversity, though, was perhaps the biggest winner on a night when a beloved black filmmaker won his first competitive Oscar, a superhero blockbuster set in Africa scored big, and two black actors and an Egyptian first-generation American won three of the four acting prizes.

The wide range of films honored at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre bridged the divide between art house fare and popular blockbusters. “I grew up watching foreign language films, learning so much from them, being inspired — films like ‘Citizen Kane,’ ‘Jaws.’ And there are no waves, there’s only the ocean,� an emotional Cuaron said. “I think the nominees tonight have proven that we are part of the same ocean.� “Roma� was the frontrunner going into the night with 10 nominations, despite spending little time in movie theaters, in keeping with Netflix’s customary release strategy.

But “Green Book� — the real-life story of a celebrated black pianist who befriends his white driver as they tour the segregated American South in the 1960s — overcame a series of controversies to win the top prize. “The whole story is about love. It’s about loving each other, despite our differences, and finding out the truth about who we are,� said director Peter Farrelly. “Green Book� also won a widely expected best supporting actor trophy for Mahershala Ali, and a best original screenplay award.

Oscar winners Major Categories

Actor Rami Malek “Bohemian Rhapsody�

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victims enabled him to find out what their immediate needs were and how he could improve the country’s fire safety standards through legislation. Go appealed to local government officials, concerned agencies, as well as generous private individuals to extend assistance to the victims. “I appeal to the National Housing Authority, Department of Health, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. and other government agencies to help our countrymen,� he said.

The former top aide of President Rodrigo Duterte also urged his critics to also pitch in and help the fire victims, instead of trying to find fault with his effort to assist the unfortunate. “Does it help to criticize? Are we able to help victims [when we criticize]?� Go asked.

Go’s legislative agenda include programs for health, agriculture, education, anti-illegal drugs, housing, anti-corruption, long-term sports development, localized peace talks, creation of a Department of OFW, barangay welfare and improved benefits for senior citizens.

But many criticized it as a feel-good movie that suffered from the so-called “white savior� complex, and veteran director Spike Lee made comments that suggested he was upset by its coronation. “Bohemian Rhapsody� also ended up the biggest winner of the night with four Oscars.

The film — which tracks the Queen’s rise to fame from the moment Freddie Mercury joined the band in 1970 to their legendary 1985 Live Aid performance — took statuettes for best actor Rami Malek, as well as sound editing, sound mixing and film editing. “We made a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life just unapologetically himself,� said Malek, whose spell-binding turn as Mercury captivated audiences. “The fact that I’m celebrating him and this story with you tonight is proof that we’re longing for stories like this.�

Offbeat royal romp “The Favourite,� which also had 10 nominations, was one of the night’s big losers.

But its sole win was one of the night’s biggest shocks — for best actress Olivia Colman, who bested heavy favorite Glenn Close.

Crowd favorite “A Star is Born,� too, came away with only one statuette, for Lady Gaga’s song “Shallow.� She and her co-star and director Bradley Cooper wowed the audience with their performance.

Among all the contenders, Marvel superhero movie “Black Panther� likely had the best brand recognition among the TV audience — it took in more at the box office than its best picture rivals combined.

The 7,900-odd voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saw fit to add gold to the blockbuster’s haul of green, with statuettes for its production design, costumes and original score.

The first statuette — for best supporting actress — went to first-time nominee Regina King, 48, for her emotional performance as a mother defending her daughter’s boyfriend, wrongfully accused of rape, in “If Beale Street Could Talk.�

AFP Supporting actor Mahershala Ali “Green Book�

Actress Supporting actress Olivia Colman Regina King “The Favourite� “If Beale Street Could Talk�

Original screenplay “Green Book�

‘Green Book’ director Peter Farrelly

Best original song “Shallow� from “A star is born�

Lady Gaga

Best adapted screenplay “BlacKkKlansman�

Spike Lee

Foreign film “Roma�

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Director Alfonso Cuaron “Roma�

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ICE TARIFkCATION AND AMENDMENTS TO THE "ANGKO 3ENTRAL NG 0ILIPINAS "30 CHARTER WILL FURTHER UNDERSCORE THE 0HILIPPINES INVESTMENT GRADE RATING -OODY S )NVESTORS 3ERVICE INDICATED ON -ONDAY

“These measures will enhance macROECONOMIC AND kNANCIAL STABILITY A credit positive for the sovereign,� the debt watcher said in a report.

President Rodrigo Duterte earlier this month signed into law Republic Act (RA) 112013, which lifted import limits on rice, and RA 11211, which amended RA 7653 or the New Central Bank Act of 1993.

5NDER RICE TARIFkCATION QUANTITATIVE restrictions that had limited imports will be replaced with tariffs, starting with a

35-percent duty on rice bought from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) members regardless of quantity.

A higher 40-percent tariff, meanwhile, will be slapped on rice imports within the minimum access volume (MAV) of 350,000 metric tons (MT), going up to 180 percent for out-quota shipments sourced from non-Asean members. “We expect the expected increase in the volume of rice imports will diminish the price volatility of rice, help-

ing to insulate Filipino households’ consumption to adverse agricultural shocks,� Moody’s said.

It noted that last year, weather-related supply disruptions had led to a decline in rice production and price hikes for the staple. “Because rice accounts for nearly 10 percent of the entire consumer price index basket, higher rice prices contributed to the acceleration in overall INlATION u THE DEBT WATCHER SAID Inflation averaged 5.1 percent in 2018, exceeding the government’s 2.04.0 percent target.

Citing BSP estimates, Moody’s said THAT RICE TARIFkCATION WAS EXPECTED TO reduce inflation by 0.6 percentage points this year and by 0.3-0.4 percentage points in 2020.

4HE CENTRAL BANK EXPECTS INlATION TO average 3.06 percent in 2019 and ease further to 2.98 percent in 2020.

With regard to the BSP charter changes, meanwhile, Moody’s said expanded suPERVISORY OVERSIGHT OVER NON BANK kNANCIAL INSTITUTIONS gWILL ENHANCE kNANCIAL stability given the linkages between the banking system and these entities.�

A provision that allows the central bank to issue its own debt securities also gives regulators another tool to kNE TUNE LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT AND improve the effectiveness of monetary policy, the debt watcher continued.

Moody’s said that as one of the FASTEST GROWING !SIA 0ACIkC ECONOMIES over the past decade, the Philippines has seen credit growth contribute to a

by machine, rising to P37.50 in 2021 and P40 in 2023. The rate will be increased by 4 percent annually thereafter.

Both the Finance and Health departments want the rate to be raised to P60 and by 9 percent annually thereafter but this has been rejected by the House of Representatives.

Legislators instead approved House Bill (HB) 8677, which seeks to raise the current tax of P35 per pack to P37.50 beginning July 2019. This will be increased to P40 in July 2020, P42.50 in July 2021 and P45 in July 2022. Thereafter, the rate will raised by 5 percent annually.

Chua claimed that projected revenues from HB 8677 would not be enough to fund a Universal Health Care (UHC) funding gap of around P40 billion. “The total difference [between the House-approved version and the DoF-DoH proposal] is P244 billion if computations are done up to 2022, which might undermine the effective implementation of the UHC,� he said.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: US President Donald Trump has vowed to delay a planned tariff increase on Chinese exports after both sides hailed “substantial progress� in trade talks, raising the prospect of a summit with President Xi Jinping to seal the deal.

Trump said Sunday (Monday in Manila) there could be “very big news� in the next two weeks, and he planned to meet with Xi at the US leader’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida if more progress is made.

Top negotiators met in Washington for four days of talks that ended on Sunday in an effort to resolve a months-long trade war that analysts feared could torpedo the global economy.

The United States had been due to increase tariffs on more than $200 billion in Chinese goods on March 1, but Trump said he would now delay the punitive duties following the “very productive talks�. “I am pleased to report that the U.S. has made substantial progress in our trade talks with China

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SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Dooc told reporters late last week. “It will translate to P75 billion from the previous allocation of P37.5 billion,� he added.

The pension fund will fasttrack engagement with fund managers and advisers once the law become effective on March 5

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to be able to tap foreign markets within the year, the SSS chief continued. “That is one thing that we have to do in order to diversify and also to get higher yield,�

Dooc said.

He also disclosed that consultants were now offering their services.

“What we will do is to accredit them or bid it out,� Dooc said.

The SSS is also planning to develop its real estate assets to boost revenues. “Our plan is to hold them and then develop them to provide us a stream of income over the years to match our long term obligations,� Dooc said.

“What we are doing is we want to bid them out either as a joint venture or as a long term lease so THAT WE CAN BENEkT FROM UTILIZING these properties.�

The SSS owns pieces of property along EDSA, Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City and in Pasay City, among others.

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HE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is ordinarily a very boring organization, despite the critical role it plays in the economic well-being of the country, and that is a good thing. Spontaneity and excitement are traits that are usually not helpful when it comes to the country’s central bank. Events in the past few days, however, might lead one to wonder if the BSP would continue to be as reliably staid as it has been.

One serious concern is the implication of the untimely death of BSP Governor Nestor Espenilla Jr. on Saturday. Espenilla, who died of cancer at age 60, only served as head of the central bank since

-AY ‡ A TERM SIGNIkCANTLY compromised by his medical treatments — but had been with the BSP for nearly 40 years, most notably as the head of banking supervision under his predecessor Amando Tetangco Jr. %SPENILLA PLAYED A SIGNIkCANT role in improving banking regulation, paving the way for expansion IN THE NON BANK kNANCIAL SECTOR and the entry of more foreign banks in the Philippines, and in developing the national retail payment system. He was also instrumental in updating the BSP charter, which was signed into law just two weeks ago.

Espenilla’s death removes a

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SSS to set aside P75B for offshore investments – Dooc THE state-run Social Security System (SSS) is looking to diversify its investments following President Rodrigo Duterte’s approval of changes to the pension fund’s charter. “The asset allocation for foreign investments has been doubled from 7.5 percent to 15 percent under the amended charter,�

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Newly-signed laws ‘credit positive’ for PH

DoF: Higher tobacco tax to prompt smokers to quit HIGHER tobacco taxes can reduce the number of smokers in the country, the Finance department said on Monday as it again urged Congress to consider raising planned tax hikes.

Increasing excise taxes on tobacco products to P60 per pack will bring down cigarette consumption by 16.8 percent and prompt 3.2 million adults to quit smoking, the department said in statement, citing simulations developed with the Department of Health and the World Health Organization.

It quoted Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd as saying that the proposed tax rate would “avert approximately 713,000 deaths and will result to 3.2 million quitters in adults.� “This rate will also bring down smoking prevalence to 16.8 percent and help reach our noncommunicable disease target,� he added.

Finance Undersecretary Karl Kendrick Chua was also quoted as saying that a P60 per pack rate would prompt “the youth, the poor and other price-sensitive cigarette users to stop smoking.�

A P35 rate was levied this year on cigarettes packed by hand and

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BSP’s activities or direction will not change in any way whatsoever in the wake of Espenilla’s demise.

The problem is, there is some cause for concern that the BSP will not be left alone.

In an emergency meeting on Sunday, the Monetary Board appointed Deputy Governor Almasara Cyd TuaĂąo-Amador as BSP OFkCER IN CHARGE UNTIL 0RESIDENT Duterte appoints a new governor, and that is where things might go awry. There are several excellent candidates for the job, in particular three current deputy governors: Diwa Guinigundo, Chuchi Fonacier and TuaĂąo-Amador. Other names that have been floated

include Monetary Board member and veteran banker Peter Favila and BDO head Nestor Tan. The problem is, Duterte has at times shown an alarming tendency to put political accommodation ahead of competence, and appoint people who are wholly unsuited to the task. Alan Peter Cayetano’s unhappy and embarrassing stint as Foreign Affairs secretary is one good example; Duterte’s attempt to shoehorn the hopelessly unqualified Gringo Honasan into the Department of Information and Communications Technology — which was fortunately unsuccessful — is another. With an

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Former envoy urges stronger PH-UK ties THE Philippines should work on strengthening trade ties with the United Kingdom amid the latter’s decision to leave the European Union (EU), a former envoy said.

Jesus Tambunting, who served as Philippine ambassador to the UK in the ‘90s, said incentives would still be available for trading partners post-Brexit. “As two great trading nations, the Philippines certainly recognizes a significant role of the United Kingdom, especially for business and the economy,� said Tambunting, who serves as Philippine-British Business Council (PBBC) co-chairman, in a speech last week.

He noted that total trade between the Philippines and the UK stood at $1.2 billion last year, 14.5-percent higher compared to the previous year. “We hope to find common ways toward the evolving land-

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plans of shipping in coal and crude oil.

It was also offering to create rubber products from oil, which can be then sold in the area, he added.

The investment would generate 3,000 jobs, according to Concepcion, who said this would require the agency to train workers under the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority and comply with employment accreditation.

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that securing land for the facility may be a problem in light of the government’s land-reform program that aimed to distribute agricultural lands to farmers.

Current land holdings, he said, are divided into 1.5-hectare to 3-ha area lots, and the Chinese kRM HAD SAID IT WOULD INITIALLY need 300 ha to set up operations.

This would mean negotiating with multiple landowners in order to secure the land needed, he added.

In an interview last week, BoI Governor Napoleon Concepcion SAID THIS kRM HAD ASKED HIS AGENCY for details about the plant, and that its representatives already

visited the facility twice.

He also said the company — which he declined to identify — had seen the need to bring more fuel to Mindanao, with possible

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DoF: Higher tobacco tax Duque and Chua pointed out that with cigarette prices in the Philippines still the seventh lowest in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and with disposable incomes rising, tobacco products remained affordable even for the poor.

The Finance and Health departments, backed by several health advocacy groups, are also urging the Senate to approve a Senate bill calling for the P60 per pack rate, which is estimated to raise incremental revenues of P30.1 billion to fund the UHC program. “We urge the Senate to support the measures that will achieve the objectives of UHC and ultimately a healthier population,� Chua said.

Duque, meanwhile, said both departments had “worked towards developing a proposal that would achieve the twin objectives of protecting the public’s health and at the same time raising sufficient revenues for the implementation of the Universal Health Care [program].�

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THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has allocated P6.51 billion from the Philippine Rural Development Project’s (PRDP) funds to support several agricultural projects in Mindanao.

In a statement, the DA said IT HAD IDENTIkED THE POOREST provinces in the region that would receive these funds in order to raise incomes, productivity and competitiveness there.

The said projects would focus on infrastructure and enterprises for farmers and their organizations, it added.

Lanao del Sur has three subprojects with a combined budget of P113.12 million; Sulu, one (P135 million); Maguindanao, 18 (P832.97 million); Bukidnon, 55 (P1.306 billion); Zamboanga del Norte, 12 (P1.221 billion); Saranggani, 18 subprojects (P906.81 million); Agusan del

Sur, 13 (P809.62 million); North Cotabato, 19 (538.66 million); Sultan Kudarat, 16 (P372.46 million); and Lanao del Norte, 7 (P274.40 million).

The DA said the establishment of farm-to-market roads, bridges, postharvest facilities and other infrastructure to local government units from those provinces “will provide support to the transportation of the agricultural sector by reducing transportation cost, TRAVEL TIME INCREASE TRAFkC REDUCE postharvest losses, and establishing direct linkage from farm to market.� “As a result, farmers will have better income as their products are sold at a favorable price,� the DA added.

Department data showed that as of December 2018, the PRDP has approved the funding of 429 subprojects worth P24.37 bil-

lion under the project’s I-BUILD component (infrastracture). Of these, 141 worth P3.91 billion were already completed.

These completed subprojects built 361.09 kilometers of FMRs and 90 linear meters of bridges; resulted in 81 hectares of service areas for irrigation; and served 4,953 households with potable water systems.

A total of 219 subprojects, valued at P15.17 billion, are currently under construction and 69 subprojects worth P5.29 billion are under procurement, it added.

Launched in 2013, The PRDP is a six-year, World Bank-assisted project that aims to increase at least 5 percent in annual real farm incomes of PRDP in household BENEkCIARIES AND POST A PERCENT increase in income for targeted BENEkCIARIES OF ENTERPRISE DEVELOPment. EIREENE JAIREE GOMEZ

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In line with this, UK trade envoy Richard Graham told reporters that the Philippines would still enjoy incentives currently covered by the Generalized Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+). “If something goes wrong and we leave the [EU] without a deal, we’ve already said that we would replicate the GSP+ in exactly the

same way, the same rules, the same conditions,� Graham said.

The GSP+ outlines trade incentives for countries exporting to EU region.

The Philippines has been enjoying zero duties on exports to EU member countries, covering more than 6,000 tariff lines, since 2014.

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Former scapes for both our countries and braid force our business, community, commitment to continuously strengthen Philippine-British bilateral ties,� he added.

Could lazy people be a source of bright ideas?

T BEYOND AKE it from Bill Gates who has a bias for sluggish people: “I will always choose a lazy man TO DO A DIFkCULT JOB SO HE CAN kND AN EASY WAY TO DO IT u )S THIS a tongue-in-cheek statement? I don’t think so. This came to me whenever I had the chance to watch a movie in my locality in ParaĂąaque.

Even at the risk of wasting my time on some poorly produced local movies with the perpetual theme of love-hate relationship, I’m constrained to accompany my better half to the cinema during non-peak hours and days, starting at seven in the evening of Monday or Tuesday. During those days, when the crowd is thin and the movies are freeof-charge for mature couples LIKE US ) WOULD OFTEN RElECT ON what working people would do these days.

For one, the gatekeepers and ticket sellers are kept to a minimum. Why assign a squad of workers to handle a small crowd composed of non-paying customers?

On many occasions, there is only one gatekeeper managing THE lOW OF MOVIEGOERS OF TWO theaters, each showing a different title. The result has very little impact on waiting time. But one thing that continues to amaze me is the fact that inside the men’s toilet, you’ll expect that out of FOUR URINALS‡EXCEPT FOR A kFTH for kids—one only is fuctional.

The other three are useless, with an “under maintenance� sign covering the holes.

You must have a murky mind to violate such a simple rule or “request,� depending on how you see it. Besides, who would want to violate that sign if the effect would mean splashing your pants with your own urine or removing the sign with your bare hands? Too much of a hassle.

It’s better to follow the sign and move on with a peaceful life.

If that’s the idea of the janitor, I would give him an excellent rat-

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"UT kRST HE MUST BE ABLE TO ANswer my question: Which urinal should not be covered with the “under maintenance� sign? Do you have a rational approach in your decision-making process?

I’ve not talked to the janitor or the building administrator to CONkRM MY kNDINGS !ND ) DOUBT if they would even admit their “creativity.� Or is it being done with the tacit or expressed approval of management? It should be an interesting case to pursue.

The question, then, is to analyze what motivates the janitor to do such thing? Is he a truly lazy person? Wearing the shoes of a JANITOR PERHAPS WE LL kND COMfort to the following questions: How can I make my job easier WITHOUT SACRIkCING QUALITY STANdards? My employer doesn’t pay my overtime work, so how can I kNISH MY TASK ON TIME SO THAT ) can go home on time? Would it matter to a few customers to wait a little for their turn in using one urinal? Of course, not. So that’s how lazy people would think.

That’s why I hate loyal and hardworking people who don’t challenge the status quo, no matter how they see a wasteful situation in the organization. Imagine those mindless followers who don’t

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Does government need sport or does sport need government? “Sport is part of every man and woman’s heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.� — 0IERRE DE #OUBERTIN FATHER OF THE MODERN /LYMPICS

$600 to $700 billion annually.

The United States, for one, enjoys a thriving sport culture where sport contributes approximately 2.8 percent to the country’s gross domestic product and enjoy the lion’s share of commercial sponHE Philippines will host this year’s Southeast sorships. But despite being a sport-loving country, Asian Games (SEAG), which will go down in the development of sport consumerism locally has history as the biggest in terms of the number of not been fully exploited. Most sport organizations sports to be played — 56 in all. The SEAG usually here are represented by national sport associations represents an opportunity for the host country to (NSAs), which receive most, if not all their funding increase its medal haul; and we certainly see it that from the government. way. But are winning medals the only gauge of a Though many sports organizations have evolved country’s sporting and economic might? in terms of ownership, organizational structure and Expenditures skewed to favor a few elite sports is scope, their social obligation to manage sports resomething that has long been scrutinized elsewhere sponsibly remains the same: balancing the interests in the world. In Australia, an independent sport of various stakeholders while exercising exclusive panel tasked to evaluate existing funding policies technical control over the promotion and develto various sport associations found that, in most opment of the particular sport for which they are instances, funding is dispensed for an select few, organized. NSAs are autonomous in nature, but if with little or none toward enhancing community- UNCHECKED LEND TO THE LACK OF CONkDENCE BY THE BASED SPORT ‡ THE DEkNITIVE PIPELINE OF FUTURE public at large in their ability to govern. In this case, competitive athletes. the government can play the necessary supervisorial Therefore, while medals are great morale boost- role in ensuring transparency and accountability in ers, winning the top spot should not be the only sports managed by NSAs. goal of the government in staging the SEAG. As in Finally, to address the alarming rise of physical all other sporting events, the games should provide inactivity worldwide, the WHO published last Octhe impetus to encourage sport participation and tober the “Global action plan on physical activity physical activity among the masses.

2018–2030,� a policy framework for governments The United Nations also highlighted the impor- to adapt a systemic, multisectoral approach in tance of physical education and sports in the pro- mitigating the opportunity costs of an unhealthy motion of health, education and culture. From its population. If we, as a country, are serious about Millennium Development Goals to the upgraded progressive sport development, then enforcing the Sustainable Development Goals, sport remains WHO template requires the synergy of interventions one of the prescribed platforms toward achieving by various government units and the private sector; peace and development objectives, such as social to underscore our respective roles as regulator and inclusion, sustainability and economic growth. as manager, as enabler and as promoter. When we For its part, the World Health Organization realize this paradigm shift that through sports, we (WHO) reported that physical inactivity had acknowledge the value of people and their capacity resulted in approximately 3.2 million deaths an- as collective contributors to society, then we put to nually and accounted for 1 to 3 percent of national rest why we ever needed sport at all. healthcare costs for the treatment of noncommuGeraldine “Dina� Go-Bernardo was the team captain of nicable and preventable diseases.

It is astounding to note that, in the upcoming the Philippine National Women’s Dragon Boat Team -AY ELECTIONS ONE IS HARD PRESSED TO kND A AND LATER BECAME THE kRST FEMALE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF politician with an agenda for improving physical the Philippine Sports Commission. She is currently a activity nationwide, which is a cost-effective solu- management lecturer at De La Salle University, where she is also pursuing research in the realm of sport govertion for preventive healthcare.

Globally, sport-related businesses are among the nance, sport management and sport for development. fast-growing industries, generating an estimated Send an email to geraldine.bernardo@dlsu.edu.ph.

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Corporate News EDC unit to complete SEC orders religious group project next year – ERC to stop investment scheme ˜ The Manila Times

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A UNIT of the Energy Development Corp. (EDC) is looking to complete by the middle of next year a P200-million transmission line that would connect its planned power project in Albay province to the Luzon grid.

Subsidiary Bac-Man Geothermal Inc. “intends to have the connection asset (transmission line) in place and ready for the commissioning of the Palayan Binary Power Plant project, which is scheduled to happen within the fourth quarter of 2020,â€? a February 19 order from the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) read. “The completion of the‌ project within the projected time frame is critical to ensure that additional capacity will be available for the Luzon grid in a timely manner,â€? it added.

The Lopez-led renewable enERGY 2% kRM IS SEEKING REGULA-

tory approval to develop, own and operate that line exclusively.

Located in Albay’s Manito municipality, BGI is building the Palayan plant to help meet increasing energy demand there and respond to the government’s call to speed up the exploration and development of RE resources.

Citing the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Power Development Plan 2016-2040, the ERC noted that peak demand in Luzon would triple to 29,852 megawatts (MW) in 2040 from 9,726 MW in 2016, and that the island would need additional capacity by 2023.

EDC is into exploring, developing, operating, and utilizing geothermal energy and other indigenous renewable energy sources for electricity generation with an installed capacity of 1,471.8 MW. JORDEENE B. LAGARE

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HE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a cease-and-desist order (CDO) against Kapa-Community Ministry International Inc. and its subsidiaries for soliciting investments without authorization.

In a statement on Monday, the SEC cited a probe by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in alleging that the independent religious group had amassed P7 million from hundreds of investors and targeted mostly teachers in Bislig City, Surigao del Sur province as part of an investment scheme.

Its Enforcement and Investor Protection Department has gADDUCED SUFkCIENT EVIDENCE TO support� the allegations, the SEC order read in part.

Its pastor-founder Joel Apolinario was said to have been featured in several YouTube and Facebook videos discussing that scheme and inviting the

public to join.

Kapa was said to have recruited and encouraged members to donate any amount in exchange for a 30-percent return based on the CERTIkCATE OF MEMBERSHIP WITH THE deed of donation a member can receive upon joining.

Kapa was registered with the SEC as a non-stock corporation, which means it was not authorized to to solicit investments.

Under Section 8 of the Securities Regulation Code, securities shall not be sold or offered for sale or distribution within the Philippines, without a registration stateMENT DULY kLED WITH AND APPROVED by the commission.

The SEC also ordered the operations of the group’s units Kapa

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agents and representatives of Kapa and its subsidiaries to stop promoting its investment scheme and remove promotions online, and barred them and those acting on their behalf from disposing their remaining assets.

Apolinario had been charged with syndicated estafa in relation to the scheme, but the case was dismissed for lack of interest of the parties to pursue the complaint.

McDonald’s PH optimistic of 2019 store growth MPIC hopes to bag award for waste-to-energy project GOLDEN Arches Development Corp., the exclusive franchise owner of McDonald’s Philippines, is optimistic that it would continue to grow this year as it continues to expand its store network.

On the sidelines of a partnership-signing with Grab Philippines in Taguig City last week, Golden Arches Managing Di-

rector Margot Torres said her company was positive of attaining growth despite being hit

BY RISING INlATION AND COST OF materials last year.

She also said McDonald’s was determined to open more nextgeneration (NXTGEN) stores, linking it to its “commitment to have a differentiated customer experience and essentially im-

prove service.�

The fast-food chain currently has 25 NXTGEN stores, including new and converted ones.

These are equipped with selforder kiosks and capability to accept cashless payments, for which it had partnered with PayMaya Philippines Inc. Last year, Golden Arches announced that it was earmarking

P3 billion this year to add more stores and convert old branches into NXTGEN ones.

Torres previously said the company aimed to turn 70 percent of its stores into NXTGEN stores by 2021.

Golden Arches is a subsidiary of the Andrew Tan-led conglomerate Alliance Global Group Inc. ANGELICA BALLESTEROS

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Newly signed laws ‘credit positive’ for PH decline in liquidity and a subsequent rise in interest rates.

It noted that excess liquidity, as reflected in the BSP’s overnight deposit and term deposit facilities, fell to P120 billion or 0.7 percent of 2018 gross domestic product (GDP) as of November from as high as P1 trillion or 7.6 percent of GDP in mid-2016. “The issuance of its own debt will enhance the BSP’s ability to better calibrate liquidity con-

ditions through open market operations, allowing it to rely less on its deposit facilities and reserve requirements, which at 18 percent is one of the highest globally,� Moody’s said.

It also noted that an additional P200 billion was released into the financial system when the monetary authority implemented one percentagep o i n t c u t s t o b a n k r e s e r ve ratios in February and May last year.

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“The BSP’s intention to gradually reduce the reserve requirement will further ease liquidity constraints notwithstanding policy rate tightening since May 2018,� the credit ratings agency said.

Other notable changes in the central bank charter, Moody’s noted, include the removal of money supply and credit levels as a basis for monetary policy; the prohibition of any injunction or restraining order

on the regulator, except by the Philippines’ two highest courts; an increase in the BSP’s capitalization to P200 billion from P50 billion; and the exemption of the bulk of central bank activities from taxation. “Together, these measures will help supplement the BSP’s strong record of maintaining monetary and financial stability and help improve liquidity management amid capital flow volatility,� it said.

,)34%$ -ETRO 0ACIkC )NVESTMENTS Corp. (MPIC) hopes to receive within the first quarter the gosignal to build its proposed P22billion waste-to-energy facility in Payatas, Quezon City.

In a recent interview in Makati City, MPIC President Jose Ma. Lim said Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista was just waiting for the city council’s approval for him to award the project to the company before it could begin construction. /NCE AWARDED kNAL ENGINEERing tests on the site will be done BEFORE THE kRST PHASE OF THE CONstruction begins, which includes anaerobic treatment.

It would take up to 18 months to complete phase 1, and 12 to 18 months for phase 2, Lim said.

The QC government did not receive offers challenging MPIC’s proposal on February 4, the deadline for the submission of bids.

The project will be implemented under the consortium of MPIC, the QC government, Covanta Energy LLC and Macquarie Capital Ltd. It

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Trump to delay China tariff hike All of a sudden, ‘Big news’ Steps forward the BSP becomes a bit important midterm election approaching, there is ample cause for concern that Duterte may treat the BSP post as a political prize, and appoint someone who would do more harm than good.

A couple of obvious possibilities are Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd and former president and current House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Dominguez would not be such a bad choice — he does have banking experience, and he is a member of the Monetary Board by virtue of his Cabinet position — but he would leave a hole in the Finance department that would NOT BE EASY TO kLL !RROYO WHO is perhaps a likelier candidate, is an educated economist, but was never a banker. Her combination of stubborn political ambition, lack of business experience and her slavish adherence to hackneyed neoliberal principles that are increasingly ineffective as a basis for sustainable monetary policy would spell serious trouble for the BSP and be a negative indicator for investors.

In light of the BSP’s new charter, the best choice to succeed Espenilla would be a conservative personality, one who would be reluctant to experiment with some of the new capabilities the charter provides. One of these new capabilities is the BSP’s authority to ISSUE CERTIkCATES OF INDEBTEDNESS

or in other words, its own securities. Under the old charter, the BSP was prevented from doing

seeks to convert 3,000 metric tons (MT) of waste into 36 megawatts of electricity, which is double the city’s current electricity requirement.

The output is expected to service between 60,000 and 90,000 homes.

The project will be funded through a mix of debt and equity.

MPIC is also in talks with other local government units, particularly in Cebu and North Luzon, to build similar waste-to-energy projects. It has tapped for the latter a Chinese company that is yet to BE IDENTIkED Last November, MPIC partnered with Dole Philippines Inc. for a P1-billion waste-to-energy project that would convert pineapple wastes into energy. Once complete, this facility is expected to produce 50,000 MW of clean energy annually, which Del Monte will use for power generation and as an alternative to fossil fuels.

MPIC shares added 2 centavos or 0.42 percent to close at P4.78 each on Friday.

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so except in periods of extreme price movements. Comments to the media by TuaĂąo-Amador on Friday indicated that there is some enthusiasm for experimenting with the idea of issuing debt cerTIkCATES AS A LIQUIDITY CONTROL TOOL This was something favored

by Espenilla as well during his brief tenure; debt issues are conSIDERED MORE lEXIBLE THAN BANK reserve requirements. Espenilla was candid about his goal to lower the reserve requirement, but in practice was conservative about it, and probably would have taken the same measured approach to debt issuances as well. It is important that the new head of the BSP takes a similarly cautious approach, because where a tool like the reserve requirement maintains some separation between the central bank and the open market — one that is carrying an increasingly worrisome amount of debt — debt issuances do not. The tool could easily backfire and have unintended consequences if overused or used at the wrong time.

As was the case when he appointed Espenilla to succeed Tetangco, President Duterte should again heed the advice to stay above partisanship, and appoint a new BSP head from within the institution. That would be the best way to maintain continuity and what has been fairly effective monetary policy.

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on important structural issues including intellectual property protection, technology transfer, agriculture, services, currency, and many other issues,� Trump wrote on Twitter.

The official Xinhua news agency used almost the exact same language, reporting “substantial progress� on those thorny issues in the talks led by Xi’s top trade negotiator, Vice Premier Liu He. The delegations “came a step closer to realizing the important consensus reached� by Trump and Xi late last year, Xinhua said.

The report said the parties also agreed to “carry out follow-ups in accordance with the instructions of the two heads of state�. “Assuming both sides make additional progress, we will be planning a Summit for President Xi and myself, at Mar-a-Lago, to conclude an agreement,�

Trump tweeted. “A very good weekend for U.S. & China!�

After exchanging tit-for-tat tariffs on more than $300 billion in total two-way trade, Trump and Xi declared a truce in December and agreed to hold off on further tariffs or retaliation for 90 days. “If all works well, we’ll have very big news over the next week or two,� Trump told state leaders at the Governors’ Ball in the White House Sunday evening.

Noting the many questions on the state of trade negotiations from governors, Trump added: “China is everywhere.� “Let’s see what happens. We still have a little ways to go,� he said of a deal.

Trump initiated the trade war, which ate into company profits and contributed to stock market plunges, because of complaints about unfair Chinese trade practices — concerns shared by the European Union, Japan and others.

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Could lazy people bother to give ideas on how to make things easy and cost-effective for management.

Perhaps, we have to blame management. To raise this statement further, there’s this one popular quote from Christian pastor Andy Stanley: “Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.�

Kieran Flanagan, who writes for

Success.com, says: “A lazy mindset is always looking to simplify the process of doing things‌anything.

It doesn’t get down to work — it QUESTIONS kRST !ND QUESTIONING sits at the root of creativity because it allows for open-ended options, rather than the closed loop of an instruction.�

And if there’s one question that could help jumpstart creativity,

Shares in Shanghai surged by more THAN kVE PERCENT -ONDAY LEADing a rally across Asian markets — following Trump’s announcement of a delay in the tariff increase.

The news also fired currency markets with the yuan extending gains to a seven-month high, while other high-yielding, riskier units were also up against the dollar.

Xi had also struck a positive tone in a letter Liu delivered to Trump on Friday, saying he hoped the negotiations would be held in a “win-win� spirit that would lead to A MUTUALLY BENEkCIAL AGREEMENT Analysts say the two sides are likely to trumpet mutual agreements to resolve the easier parts of the trade dispute — increasing purchases of American goods, more open investment in China and tougher protections for intellectual property and proprietary technology.

The harder parts covering issues such as scaling back China’s ambitious industrial strategy for

it’s this: “Why are we doing it in THE kRST PLACE u 4HAT ALONE COULD help us dissect the other questions more thoroughly in the hope of reaching a solution.

Seriously, I don’t think it has something to do with lazy people.

Rather, excellent ideas come out because people want to correct a stressful, difficult or wasteful condition. True, necessity is the mother of invention. We have seen it before. It’s like closing a portion of a restaurant to “force� patrons to use unoccupied tables in the

global preeminence, meanwhile, are another question. “This is clearly not the end of the negotiations, let alone the underlying tension between the two countries,� said Louis Kuijs of Oxford Economics.

Agreement on how to enforce a deal will be hard to achieve, Kuijs noted. “Underlying tensions on technology, China’s industrial policy and, more broadly, its rise, will not subside any time soon,� he said in a note.

Trump said Friday that an agreement on currency manipulation will be included in the trade pact, but otherwise few details have been made public.

Beijing has reportedly proposed A SIGNIkCANT INCREASE IN ITS IMPORTS of US energy and agricultural exports. Still, a broader deal could BE DIFkCULT GIVEN THE 53 DEMANDS for far-reaching structural changes.

China’s retaliation has hit US farm exports hard. The US Agriculture Department estimated this month that US soy exports would not return to their pre-trade war levels for another six years.

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Now, I can’t wait for the janitors to cordon off around 350 seats inside the cinema so that the patrons are compelled to use only 50 seats to accommodate an average of 30 patrons during screenings for senior citizens.

Rey Elbo is a business consultant specializing in human resources and total quality management as a fused expertise. Send your feedback to elbonomics@gmail.com or via https://reyelbo.consulting.

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!2#%,/.! (UAWEI UNVEILED A NEW FOLDABLE SMARTPHONE ON 3UNDAY ON THE EVE OF THE WORLD S TOP MOBILE FAIR IN "ARCELONA AND HIT OUT AGAINST 7ASHINGTON S CAMPAIGN TO BAR IT FROM DEVELOPING NEXT GENERATION ' WIRELESS NETWORKS China’s most successful global kRM HAS BOOKED A HUGE STAND at the four-day Mobile World Congress and has sent a large delegation which includes its media-shy founder, Ren Zhengfei, and two rotating chairmen.

4HE TRADE FAIR WHICH OFkCIALLY opens on Monday and is expected to draw some 100,000 people from across the telecoms industry, comes as the United States has stepped up pressure on its allies to block Huawei from building its 5G networks.

53 OFkCIALS SUSPECT THAT "EIjing could use the Shenzhenbased Huawei’s products to spy on Western governments, and the company’s presence in the United States has already been severely restricted.

Washington considers the matter urgent as countries around the world prepare to roll out kFTH GENERATION OR ' NETWORKS that will bring near-instantaneous connectivity, vast data capacity and futuristic technologies such as self-driving cars.

The Trump administration has reportedly sent a large delegation of its own to the trade fair to press its case with industry executives and its foreign counterparts.

Huawei, the world’s secondlargest smartphone vendor after Samsung and the leading supplier of the backbone equipment for wireless mobile networks worldwide, strenuously denied its equipment could be used for

espionage.

Asked about Washington’s campaign during a roundtable with media on Sunday in Barcelona, Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping said he “still can’t understand why such a national power wants to attack a company with advanced technologies.� “We have never and we are not and we will never allow back doors in our equipment and we will never allow anyone from any country to do that in our equipment,� he added through an interpreter. “Huawei needs to abide by Chinese laws and also by the laws outside China if we operate in those countries. Huawei will never, and dare not, and cannot violate any rules and regulations in the countries where we operate.�

Guo said 5G security standards should be decided by technical experts, not politicians, and that Huawei hoped each country would make its decisions based on “national interests (and) not just listen to someone else’s order�.

12-month jump on rivals Network operators seeking to quickly deploy the new wireless networks are in a bind as Huawei’s 5G equipment is seen as being considerably more advanced than that of its rivals such as Sweden’s

Q Visitors take images of Huawei’s new foldable 5G smartphone Huawei Mate X at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), on the eve of the world’s biggest mobile fair, on Feb. 24, 2019 in Barcelona. Phone makers will focus on foldable screens and the introduction of blazing fast 5G wireless networks at the world’s biggest mobile fair starting tomorrow in Spain as they try to reverse a decline in sales of smartphones. AFP PHOTO Ericsson or Finland’s Nokia.

Guo said Huawei is 12 months ahead of its rivals in implementing 5G technology.

At a separate event in Barcelona, Huawei unveiled a phone with a folding screen, just four days after rival Samsung became the first major handset maker to offer the feature in a device

it unveiled in San Francisco on Wednesday.

The phone, Mate X, will be compatible with the 5G networks and cost 2,299 euros ($2,600), said Richard Yu, head of Huawei’s consumer business group. “Our engineers worked on this screen for over three years,� he said.

The Mate X’s screen wraps around the outside so users can still view it when it is closed, unlike Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, which has a screen that folds shut.

Huawei’s new phones and its 5G advances “could allow it to be talked about more positively,� said Dexter Thillien, an industry analyst with Fitch Solutions.

“They are going to be able to talk to the whole world (at the trade show), reassure their clients and also show that they are continuing to do their work,� he added.

Huawei has 180,000 employees in 170 countries and counts 45 of the world’s biggest wireless carriers as customers.

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Asia markets rally as Trump delays China tariffs Roche to buy Spark Therapeutics for $4.3B HONG KONG: Shanghai surged more than five percent Monday, leading a rally across Asian markets after Donald Trump said he would delay a hike in tariffs on Chinese goods, citing “substantial progress� in trade talks and fuelling hopes of an end to the long-running stand-off.

Optimism over the negotiations had already provided support to global equities, spurring a rally in January and February, but the president’s comments gave extra ammunition to investors to ramp up buying.

The news also fired currency markets with the yuan extending gains to a seven-month high, while other high-yielding, riskier units were also up against the dollar.

Trump said on Twitter that the US “has made substantial progress in our trade talks with China

on important structural issues including intellectual property protection, technology transfer, agriculture, services, currency, and many other issues�.

He added: “As a result of these very productive talks, I will be delaying the US increase in tariffs now scheduled for March 1.�

The president also said he planned to hold a summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to sign a deal.

China’s Xinhua news agency added that the two sides had “made substantial progress on specific issues� including on transfer of technology, intellectual property and agriculture.

‘Sigh of relief’ Shanghai closed up 5.6 percent and Hong Kong

added 0.5 percent while Tokyo ended 0.5 percent higher.

Sydney put on 0.3 percent, while Seoul was 0.1 percent higher, Taipei added 0.7 percent and Jakarta rose 0.4 percent. There were also gains in Wellington, Bangkok, Mumbai and Singapore.

In early trade London rose 0.1 percent, Paris gained 0.2 percent and Frankfurt climbed 0.5 percent.

The gains in Asia followed another positive lead from Wall Street, where the Dow enjoyed its ninth straight weekly gain — the longest streak since May 1995. “This is a sigh of relief,� said Ben Emons, managing director for global macro strategy at Medley Global Advisors. “Markets will still keep a level of caution, but

this news is encouraging,� he told Bloomberg TV. The upbeat sentiment lifted high-risk currencies, with the yuan hitting its highest level against the dollar since July, while South Korea’s won, the Australian dollar and the Indonesia rupiah were also well up.

Forex traders will be closely watching speeches this week from top Federal Reserve officials — including chairman Jerome Powell’s appearance in front of lawmakers — hoping for clues about the bank’s monetary policy plans.

Wall Street “will be looking for soothing comments about the future size of the balance sheet -- the bigger the better — and insights into future rate hikes�, said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA. AFP

ZURICH: Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Rochesaid Monday it reached a deal worth $4.3 billion (3.7 billion euros) to buy US group Spark Therapeutics, which specialises in the development of gene therapy drugs.

Roche said the deal was approved by the boards of both companies, offering $114.50 a share, a premium to 122 percent to Spark’s closing price on Friday.

Founded in 2013, Spark Therapeutics specialises in gene therapies, a new and growing segment of medicine, for genetic diseases such as blindness, haemophilia, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Its biggest treatment under study is SPK-8011, a haemophilia therapy, on which phase 3 clinical trials, the most advanced stage of trials, are scheduled to begin this year.

Luxturna, its treatment for a hereditary retinal disorder that can cause blindness, was the kRST GENE THERAPY TO BE APPROVED

by the US health authorities in 2017, Roche said.

The treatment was also approved last year by the European Union. “As the only biotechnology company that has successfully commercialised a gene therapy for a genetic disease in the US, we have built unmatched competencies in the discovery, development and delivery of genetic medicines,�

Spark Therapeutics CEO Jeffrey D. Marrazzo was quoted as saying in the Rochestatement. “But the needs of patients and families living with genetic diseases are immediate and their needs vast. “With its worldwide reach and extensive resources, Roche will help us accelerate the development of more gene therapies for more patients for more diseases and further expedite our vision of a world where no life is limited by genetic disease,� added Marrazzo. AFP

Monsanto’s controversial Roundup weed killer on trial again in US SAN FRANCISCO: The controversial Roundup weed killer goes on trial again Monday in the United States, six months after a groundSKEEPER WON THE kRST EVER LAWSUIT accusing the chemical of causing cancer.

Roundup, a brand owned by German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer after its purchase of US-based Monsanto last year, contains glyphosate that environmentalists and other critics have long maintained leads to cancer.

Glyphosate is used in weed killers made by several companies, and is currently the most used herbicide around the world.

Jurors in August unanimously found that Monsanto acted with “malice� and that its weed killers Roundup and Ranger Pro contributed “substantially� to Dewayne “Lee� Johnson’s terminal illness.

Now another Californian, Edwin Hardeman, accuses Round-

up of contributing to his cancer, which is of the same type as Johnson’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL).

Hardeman, of Sonoma County -- north of San Francisco -- says he used Roundupextensively to treat his property from the 1980s until 2012, according to his lawyers.

He filed a complaint against Monsanto in early 2016, a year after being diagnosed with cancer.

According to the complaint, the company “knew or had reason to know that Roundup was defective and unsafe� and that exposure to the product “could result in cancer and other severe illnesses and injuries.�

Information that Monsanto provided or communicated “failed to contain adequate warnings and precautions that would have enabled Mr Hardeman, and similarly situated individuals, to utilize the product safely and with adequate protection,� Hardeman’s lawyers

added.

Instead, the company “disseminated information that was inaccurate, false, and misleading,� they alleged.

Monsanto, which has sold Roundup worldwide for more THAN YEARS IS HOLDING kRM TO ITS line of defense. The products are not dangerous if the conditions of use are followed, as proven by hunDREDS OF SCIENTIkC STUDIES IT SAYS Like the Johnson trial, the new case will take place in San FranCISCO BUT IT WILL BE THE kRST HEARD in a federal court, where some legal technicalities differ from the state level where Johnson won his case.

Hardeman’s is the leading case in a multi-district litigation of hundreds of similar cases which are legally linked, but will be heard separately.

Although not a class action lawsuit, the outcome of the Hardeman case will provide a signal for the other jurisdictions.

The Johnson precedent will also hang over the new trial which SHOULD LAST FOUR OR kVE WEEKS Johnson was diagnosed in 2014 with NHL, a cancer that affects white blood cells. He said he repeatedly used Ranger Pro while working at a school in Benicia, California.

$78 million in damages Jurors in his case last August ordered Monsanto to pay $250 million in punitive damages along with compensatory damages and other costs, bringing the total award to nearly $290 million.

Judge Suzanne Bolanos, who presided over the case in California State Court, later denied Monsanto’s request for a new trial -- but cut the damages to $78 million to comply with a law regarding how such awards must be calculated.

The ruling sent Bayer shares

tumbling on fears that a wave of costly litigation could be about to BREAK ON THE kRM In November, Bayer said it would slash 12,000 jobs in a restructuring after the takeover of Monsanto, which asked a US appeals court to toss out the Johnson verdict.

At Bayer’s request, the Hardeman trial will be conducted in two STAGES 4HE kRST PHASE WILL SEEK TO determine whether Roundup is responsible for the complainant’s cancer.

If the jury concludes that it is, the next step will be to decide whether or not Monsanto has a liability and, if so, what compensation should be paid.

For the judge, the two-stage process aims to help the jury decide the possible liability of glyphosate WITHOUT BEING INlUENCED BY THE reputation of Monsanto, which has a controversial image all over the world, accused of having ma-

nipulated studies.

Praised by farmers for its effectiveness and low cost, glyphosate is under particular scrutiny in Europe and especially in France, where authorities in January banned a form of the herbicide, Roundup Pro 360.

But the chemical has been subject to contradictory decisions around the world.

The European Union renewed its authorization of glyphosate for kVE YEARS IN .OVEMBER BUT President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to outlaw its use in France by 2021.

A 2015 study by a World Health Organization agency concluded that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic.�

Environmental groups including Greenpeace have called for an outright ban in Europe for glyphosate but Monsanto insisted the herbicide meets EU licensing standards.

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ATICAN CITY: Pope Francis closed out his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse by vowing Sunday to confront abusers with “the wrath of God� felt by the faithful, end the cover-ups by their superiors and prioritize the victims of this “brazen, aggressive and destructive evil.�

But his failure to offer a concrete action plan to hold bishops accountable when they failed to PROTECT THEIR lOCKS FROM PREDATORS disappointed survivors, who had EXPECTED MORE FROM THE kRST EVER global Catholic summit of its kind.

Francis delivered his remarks at the end of Mass before 190 Catholic bishops and religious superiors, who were summoned to Rome after more abuse scandals sparked a credibility crisis in the Catholic hierarchy and in Francis’ own leadership. “Brothers and sisters, today we kND OURSELVES BEFORE A MANIFEStation of brazen, aggressive and destructive evil,� the pope said.

In a sign of new measures being taken, the Vatican announced that it would soon issue a new law creating a child protection policy

May delays Parliament vote on Brexit deal SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Sunday (Monday in Manila) that she was delaying a vote on her Brexit deal in Parliament, saying it should now take place by March 12, a little more than two weeks before the UK is due to leave the European Union.

The move has the potential to further sow discord within her Cabinet. Three senior Cabinet members already had suggested Saturday that they might break ranks with her and back amendments to delay Britain’s departure unless a deal is agreed upon by Parliament over the next week.

But May told reporters as she traveled to Egypt for an EUArab League summit and talks with European Council President Donald Tusk that her negotiating team would return to Brussels on Tuesday for negotiations aimed at wringing concessions out of her reluctant EU partners. “As a result of that we won’t bring a meaningful vote to Parliament this week. But we will ensure that that happens by March 12,� she said.

Britain is due to leave the EU in just over a month on March 29.

4HE 5+ WOULD BE THE kRST COUNTRY to leave the bloc and the move is full of deep economic and political consequences. But May has been unable to convince the UK Parliament to endorse the draft Brexit deal she agreed with the Europeans in November. Any deal must also be endorsed by the European Parliament before the deadline. “It is still within our grasp to leave the European Union with a deal on March 29,� May said. !N %5 OFkCIAL SAID THERE HAD BEEN “no tensions� between May and Tusk during their half-hour meeting.

4HE OFkCIAL WHO ISN T PERMITTED to speak publicly while the negotiations are ongoing, said that May informed Tusk about the “work AND TIMELINE TO kND A WAY FORWARD on Brexit. In particular, the prime minister’s plans in relation to the meaningful vote� meant to take place by March 12.

Tusk, who chairs summits of EU leaders and acts on their behalf, recalled that Britain’s 27 partners insist on “clarity that a proposal for the way forward can command a majority in the UK� before the leaders take the issue up again. AP

for Vatican City State that covers the Holy See bureaucracy.

The Associated Press reported last year that the headquarters of the Catholic Church had no such policy, even though it insisted in 2011 that local churches have one AND TOLD THE 5NITED .ATIONS kVE years ago that a policy for Vatican City was in the works. “It’s not like there is an enormous diffusion of these crimes inside Vatican City State or the Curia,� summit moderator Rev. Federico Lombardi said. “But since we insist that we need laws and rigorous procedure [elsewhere], they should also exist where we are and in our institutions, starting with the Vatican City State.� )N HIS kNAL REMARKS TO THE SUMmit, Francis noted that the vast majority of sexual abuse happens

in the family. And he offered a global review of the broader societal problem of sexual tourism and online pornography, in a bid to contextualize what he said was once a taboo subject.

But he said the sexual abuse of children becomes even more scandalous when it occurs in the Catholic Church “for it is utterly incompatible with her moral authority and ethical credibility.�

Francis summoned the bishops from around the world to the fourday meeting to impress upon them that clergy sex abuse and coverups aren’t just a problem in some countries, but a global problem that threatens the very mission of the Catholic Church.

He offered an eight-point pledge of priorities going forward, calling for a change in the church’s defensive mentality and a vow to never again cover-up cases. Victims, he said, must take center stage while priests must undergo a continuing path of purity with the “holy fear of God� guiding the examination of their own failures. “If in the Church there should emerge even a single case of abuse — which already in itself repre-

sents an atrocity — that case will be faced with the utmost seriousness,� he said. “Indeed, in people’s JUSTIkED ANGER THE CHURCH SEES THE reflection of the wrath of God, betrayed and insulted by these deceitful consecrated persons.�

But survivors who came to Rome expecting solid, concrete action were disappointed. “I have been waiting for seven years for all of this to change,� Italian survivor Alessandro Battaglia said. “There are people who have been waiting for 30 years that all this will change. Why don’t they start with something concrete like removing the bishops who cover up?�

US survivor Peter Isely, of the victim advocacy group Ending Clergy Abuse, said the pope didn’t go far enough. “There is nothing in his remarks about releasing documents that demonstrate the truth of how they are and have been covering up child sex crimes,� he said. “So what that is, is secrecy. So, if he is against secrecy about cover-ups, on Monday morning, we would be seeing those archives and criminal evidence released.�

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Make Mueller report public – Democrats WASHINGTON, D. C.: A top House Democrat has threatened to call special counsel Robert Mueller to Capitol Hill, subpoena documents and sue the Trump administration if the full report on Mueller’s Russia investigation was not made public.

Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said his committee would keep close watch on new Attorney General William Barr to see if he were “to try to bury any part of this report.�

The Democratic representative from California, also pledged to “take it to court if necessary.�

He said anything less than complete disclosure would leave Barr, who now oversees the investigation, with “a tarnished legacy.�

Schiff’s comments come as Democrats have made it clear that they were ready for an aggressive, PUBLIC kGHT WITH THE *USTICE $EPARTMENT IF THEY WERE NOT SATISkED with the level of access they had to -UELLER S kNDINGS Mueller is showing signs of wrapping up his nearly two-year old investigation into possible coordination between Trump associates and Russia’s efforts to sway the 2016 election. The report isn’t expected to BE DELIVERED TO THE *USTICE $EPARTment this coming week.

Barr has said he wants to release as much information as he could.

"UT DURING HIS CONkRMATION HEARING last month, Barr made clear that he would decide what the public sees, and that any report would be in his words, not Mueller’s.

Schiff, in a television interview, suggested that anything short of Mueller’s full report would not satisfy Democrats. He pointed to a public interest in seeing some of the underlying evidence, such

as information gathered from searches conducted on longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman.

With Democrats taking control OF THE (OUSE IN *ANUARY AND 3CHIFF now the committee chairman, he has undertaken his own investigation. That means reexamining issues covered by a now-closed Grand Old Party probe that concluded there was no evidence Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia. Schiff has said the committee also would pursue new matters, including whether foreign governments have leverage over Trump, his relatives or associates.

Some Democrats are pointING TO DOCUMENTS THAT *USTICE Department officials provided to Congress in the wake of the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails, as well as information that Republicans demanded as part of their own inquiries.

Schiff said he told department officials after they released information related to the Clinton investigation that “this was a new precedent they were setting and they were going to have to live by this precedent whether it was a Congress controlled by the Democrats or Republicans.�

Beyond that, however, was “the intense public need to know here, which I think overrides any other consideration,� he said.

Democrats could use MuelLER S kNDINGS AS THE BASIS OF IMpeachment proceedings. In a letter Friday, Democrats warned against withholding information on Trump on the basis of department opinions that the president can’t be indicted.

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This picture taken on Saturday and released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sunday shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waving goodbye as he departs Pyongyang Station for the second North KoreaUS summit meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam. AFP PHOTO

US EX-SECURITY OFFICIALS REJECT TRUMP EMERGENCY

Hanoi summit may end Korean War SEOUL: Hopes that Donald Trump AND +IM *ONG 5N WILL FORMALLY DEclare an end to the 1950-53 Korean War at the Hanoi summit rose Monday, after South Korea said the two leaders could reach an agreement.

4HE DEVASTATING CONlICT BETWEEN communist North Korea, backed

by China, and the capitalist South, aided by the United States, ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, leaving Pyongyang and Washington still technically at war. “I believe that the possibility is there,� the South’s presidential Blue House spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom told reporters about a formal declaration. “There is no way of knowing what kind of declaration it might be, but I believe the US and North Korea may reach an agreement.�

0RESIDENT -OON *AE IN SAID IN /Ctober “it was only a matter of time�

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before Washington and Pyongyang declared an end to the war.

The US has also struck an upbeat tone. Stephen Biegun, the US special envoy for North Korea, said earlier this month that Trump was “ready to end this war,� fuelling speculation THAT THE FORMAL END OF THE CONlICT may be near.

Kim, the leader of North Korea, is due to meet Trump in the Vietnamese capital on Wednesday and Thursday, where it is hoped the pair will make progress in talks on denuclearization, and a possible peace treaty.

But Blue House spokesman Kim said even if the US and North Korean leaders declare the end of the Korean War, a formal peace treaty will likely be signed at the “last stage of the denuclearization process� of the Korean peninsula — and may take a long time to materialize.

“A peace treaty and a declaration of end of war are different,� he said, adding that the treaty must be a “multilateral effort� involving South Korea and China.

North Korea, the US-led United Nations Command and China were all signatories to the armistice.

The Hanoi summit comes after 4RUMP AND +IM MET IN *UNE IN 3INgapore, producing a vaguely worded agreement on denuclearization, but progress has since stalled, with the two sides disagreeing over what the agreement meant.

Observers say tangible progress is needed in Hanoi to avoid the talks being dismissed as a publicity stunt.

Meanwhile the respected USbased website 38 North reported on Monday there was no indication Pyongyang was operating its nuclear reactors at the Yongbyon complex.

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WASHINGTON, D. C.: A group of former US national security officials is set to release a statement arguing there is no justification for President Donald Trump to use a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the USMexico border. The statement, which was reviewed by The Associated Press, has 58 signatures from prominent former officials, including former secretaries of State Madeline Albright and John Kerry, former Defense secretaries Chuck Hagel and Leon Panetta and former Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano. The statement is set to be released Monday, a day before the Democratic-controlled House is expected to vote to block Trump from using the declaration. The measure is sure to pass, and the Republican-run Senate may adopt it as well, though Trump has already promised a veto. “There is no factual basis for the declaration of a national emergency,� says the statement, which argues that border crossings are near a 40-year low and that there is no terrorist emergency at the border.

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HANOI KIDS TO WELCOME KIM WITH SONG AND DANCE HANOI, Vietnam: Children at a kindergarten in Hanoi, some in Korean traditional Hanbok dress, have been practicing singing and dancing, hoping to show off their talents to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un when he comes to town this week for his second summit with President Donald Trump.

Elsewhere in the Vietnam-Korea Friendship Kindergarten, students have been assembling picture montages on maps of Vietnam and the Koreas. In another classroom, children were coloring in Vietnamese and North Korean flags with which they hope to greet Kim. “We really want for Mr. Kim Jong Un, the great leader of the Korean people, to visit our school,� said Ngo Thi Minh Ha, the school’s rector. Apple-cheeked youngsters in traditional national garb meeting a paternal leader is a mainstay of old-style communist iconography, and North Korea is the closest thing left to an old-style communist state.

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UK ROYALS PUSH EDUCATION FOR GIRLS IN MOROCCO ASNI, Morocco: Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, flew up to a village in Morocco’s rugged Atlas Mountains on Sunday to visit a school and encourage girls to pursue an education no matter what the obstacles. Harry and the pregnant Meghan landed in the mountain town of Asni on Sunday morning on a brief official visit to Morocco. They arrived by helicopter from the capital of Rabat and were welcomed by pupils from a school run by the Moroccan foundation Education for All. The school educates girls from rural communities whose parents would not be able to afford secondary education, and houses them in a boarding house since some come from villages 50 miles (80 kilometers) away. “They made us feel like they are normal people just like us, like people we knew from before,� said high school student Asmae Mennani, 17. Girls’ education in Morocco is hindered by high rates of child labor and child marriage.

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A heavily decorated grave marker for a pet dog is seen in the cemetery of the Tierhimmel (Animal Heaven) crematorium and cemetery in Teltow, just outside Berlin, on Jan. 31, 2019. Ralf Hendrichs was devastated when his Dobermann died, but he was even more distraught when he learnt that its carcass ended up in a public grinder along with those of roadkill and farm animals. Its sad end prompted him to set up a cemetery for pets south of Berlin. AFP PHOTO

DHAKA: A would-be hijacker shot and killed by Bangladesh commandos was carrying a fake gun and told negotiators he wanted to commandeer a Dubaibound flight because he had troubles with his wife, officials said Monday. The 25-year-old was shot and later died of his wounds after taking a crew member hostage on the Biman Airlines jet, forcing it to make an emergency landing at Chittagong Airport late Sunday. Some 134 passengers and 14 crew were released unharmed after an operation that lasted barely 10 minutes. Airport manager Wing Commander Sarwar-e-Jaman said the hijacker was “psychologically imbalanced.� “The reason he gave for the hijack was that he had troubles with his wife and he wanted to talk to the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina,�

Sarwar told AFP. Flight BG 147 was going from Dhaka to Dubai via Chittagong when the hijacking started.

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HE Philippines blew hot, cold and hot again and, for the second time in five years, earned its ticket to the FIBA World Cup. Thanks to its 93-75 conquest of Kazakhstan Sunday night at its victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home court Sakyarka Velodrome turned basketball stadium in Astana.

4HE &ILIPINOS kGHTING IN A BITing 11 below zero temperature and an opponent playing for pride, called anew on their naturalized player Andray Blatche, who presided over coach Yeng Guiao boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; unrelenting attacks that avenged their 88-92 loss to the same team of the previous window of the !SIAN 7ORLD #UP QUALIkER "LATCHE PLAYING HIS kNEST GAME since acquiring Filipino citizenship through an act of congress in 2014, was all over both sides the court in leading the Filipinosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; game-long SURGE kRING POINTS PULLING DOWN 14 rebounds, stealing four times, issuing three assists, and blocking a pair of enemy shots.

The former NBA campaigner DRILLED IN POINTS IN THE kRST SIX minutes to put the Philippines on top by eight, a lead the National lost, 33-34, somewhere in the second quarter but regained it as fast before obliging to a 45-40 edge.

As Guiao rested him briefly on four fouls in the fourth, Jayson Castro took over by knocking in all four of his 3-pointers to finish with 15 points, while a still ailing June Mar Fajardo adding 9 points and 7 boards in a 12-minute stint on the floor.

The win more than made up for the Filipinosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 88-92 setback the Kazakhs dealt them in window five of the long drawn-out qualifier last November 30 at the Mall of Asia Arena.

The Philippines, which ended up fourth in Group F with 7-5 winloss slate, thus, joined host China, Australia, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, Iran and Jordan.

The Filipinos, actually, had to

PH is back to FIBA World Cup thank their archrival Koreans, who took the measure of Lebanon, 84-72, for clinching lone of the last slots for the World Cup. The draw for the World Cup will take place on March 16 with play scheduled to begin in China on August 31. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Andray carried us on his shoulDERS IN THE kRST HALF u COACH 'UIAO said in a telephone interview after HIS WIN g(E WAS ON kRE ) WAS KIND of worried (at the start) that the rest of the guys would over-rely on him. But the second half, the rest OF THE GUYS STEPPED UP u g7E RE JUST GLAD IT S OVER u Guiao said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were feeling the pressure prior to this game.

7E REALLY WANTED TO WIN u â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to tip my hat to June -AR u "LATCHE FOR HIS PAST SAID OF &AJARDO kVE TIME 0"! -60 g) got into foul trouble, he came in and really was a game-changer for US AND TOOK OVER THE TEAM FOR US u â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a really emotional GAME FOR US u "LATCHE HE ADDED â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was either win or go home. I feel like we competed from the JUMP TILL THE END u Jordan was the last Asian team to qualify after beating New Zealand 86-80. *APAN ROUTED 1ATAR TO kNISH THE QUALIkERS WITH EIGHT STRAIGHT wins. The Philippines was the only team that earned the distinction of beating the Japanese twice.

The Filipinos duplicated their 2013 predecessorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; trip to the FIBA World Cup, formerly called the World Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball Championship.

Knicks snap losing skid, Ross haunts former Raptor team NEW YORK:Â Damyean Dotson scored 27 points and the New York Knicks snapped their franchise-record home losing streak at 18 games with a 130-118 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday (Monday in Manila).

Kevin Knox, Dennis Smith and Emmanual Mudiay all had 19 points in the Knicksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first home victory since December 1 against the Milwaukee Bucks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major,â&#x20AC;? guard Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been having our fans come out and support every night and havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t won here since December 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad that we could get it tonight and just give the fans something to see.â&#x20AC;?

The NBA win even attracted the attention of the 2019 Oscar presenter Samuel L. Jackson, who

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SALUDAR DEFENDS WBO TITLE VS TANIGUCHI WORLD ORLD "OXING "OXING /RGANIZATION /RGANIZATION minimumweight titleholder Vic Saludar battles Japanese challenger Masataka Taniguchi today IN HIS kRST WORLD TITLE DEFENSE PROmoted by Hitoshi Watanabe at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

The bout is set at 7:30 p.m.

(Manila time).

Saludar, 28, a former Guangzhou Asian Games bronze MEDALIST EXPRESSED READINESS saying he is in great shape and kGHTING CONDITION Saludar tipped the scale at

104.72 pounds while Taniguchi weighed in at 104.06 pounds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ready for tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kGHT u DECLARED 3ALUDAR OF 0OLOmolok, South Cotabato, who is sporting an 18-3 win-loss record with 10 knockout. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will follow our game plan. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say if I can knockout him out because HE ALSO TRAINED HARD 7E LL kGHT HIM ROUND BY ROUND u Jojo Palacios, Saludarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trainer for one and a half year, said they would BOX SMART AGAINST THE YEAR OLD challenger who has 11 wins and two

Pacquiao named TOPS Athlete of the Month THE Tabloid Organization in Philippine Sports (TOPS) pays tribute to world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao by honoring him as its â&#x20AC;&#x153;TOPS Athlete of the Monthâ&#x20AC;? for January.

Pacquiaoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unanimous decision victory over Adrien Broner in their WBA welterweight championship fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas last Jan. 19 provided the finest moment in Philippine sports in January, according to TOPS. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The win by Pacquiao also served as

a launching pad for the Filipinosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; quest for excellence in the wonderful world of sports this year,â&#x20AC;? said TOPS in a resolution signed by the officers and members.

The only other athletes considered by TOPS for its monthly citation were rising tennis star Alexandra Eala and boxing champion Al â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Rockâ&#x20AC;? Toyogon.

Eala finished runner-up in two international tournaments in India to improve her International Tennis Federation ( ITF) junior ranking from No.218 to 152.Â

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losses with seven knockouts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knockout will just come, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a possibility because Vicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PUNCHES ARE VERY SOLID u SAID 0ALACIOS Saludar, the younger brother of Guangzhou Asian Games gold medalist Rey, dethroned Ryuya Yamanaka of Japan last July 13 in Kobe, Japan via unanimous deciSION TO SEIZE HIS kRST WORLD TITLE (E IS EXPECTED TO RECEIVE

0 MILLION IN THIS kGHT Taniguchi, known for being a BRAWLER IS COMING OFF A THREE kGHT win streak. JOSEF T. RAMOSÂ

Eala, 13, finished runner-up in the DKS ITF Junior Championship in  Kolkata and  India ITF Juniors in New Delhi last month.

Toyogon outpointed Ryusei Ishii of Japan during the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Night of Championsâ&#x20AC;? at the Elorde Sports Center in Sucat, ParaĂąaque last Jan. 26.

TOPS, headed by Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tonight sports editor Ed Andaya, Â is composed of sports editors, Â reporters and photographers of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading national tabloids.

TOPS is also the presenter of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Usapang Sportsâ&#x20AC;?, the weekly sports forum supported by the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) and National Press Club (NPC).

pointed out the result during Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show to Hollywood director Spike Lee before presenting Lee with the Best Adapted Screenplay award. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Knicks won tonight. I repeat, the Knicks won tonight,â&#x20AC;? Jackson said addressing Lee, a Knicksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; megafan.

Smith also had 13 assists and Knox had 10 rebounds, while rookie Mitchell Robinson finished with 15 points and 14 rebounds.

DeMar DeRozan had 32 points and nine rebounds for the Spurs, who dropped to 1-6 on their road trip that ends Monday against the Brooklyn Nets.

LaMarcus Aldridge scored 18 points, but was limited to just 13 minutes through three quarters because of foul trouble.

The Spurs came in as the NBAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best three-point shooting team but were just six for 24 from behind the arc.

The Knicks led by nine at halftime and then started to seize command in the third quarter to go up by 19 with just over two minutes left in the period.

San Antonio cut it to 94-83 entering the fourth but their troubles continued in the fourth.

Elsewhere, Terrence Ross torched his former team for a game-high 28 points and center Nikola Vucevic finished with 23 points and 12 assists as the Orlando Magic beat the Toronto Raptors 113-98.

Ross, who played over four seasons in Toronto, came off the bench to spark the Magic.

The Magic, who were coming off a disappointing loss to the Chicago Bulls at home on Friday, snapped the Raptors winning streak at seven games.

Ross made nine of 21 shots, including three of eight from three-point range. He equalled his season high with nine rebounds.

The Raptors, who played without star Kawhi Leonard, fell to 44-17 and slid two games behind Milwaukee for the best record in the NBA and the Eastern Conference. Leonard was rested to manage his workload, the Raptors said.

Meanwhile in Denver, Colorado, the Denver Nuggets cruised past the struggling Los Angeles Clippers 123-96 behind strong performances from Nikola Jokic and Paul Millsap.

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Salmorin claims first Batang Pinoy gold

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LOILO CITY: Negros Occidental Province trackster Elika Salmorin walked her way TO THE kRST GOLD IN THE "ATANG 0INOY 2019 Visayas Qualifying Leg, ruling the girls' 2,000-meter walk event on a sunny Monday at the Iloilo Sports Complex here.

Playing for her brother suffering from seizures, the Batang Pinoy debutant Salmorin won the opening event of this week-long sportsfest against a lone opposition in Escalante, Negros /CCIDENTAL BET 2HYZA 6AlOR Salmorin clocked in 14 minutes and SECONDS BESTING 6AlOR S TALLY â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am dedicating this win to my brother.

I will buy him medicine,â&#x20AC;? said the 14-year old Grade 9 standout from Romanito Maravilla National High School.

Over at the Jalandoni Memorial National High School, Gio BeguĂąa of Cebu Province tallied 36.79 meters in just his second attempt to seize the

gold in boys discus throw.

BeguĂąa bested Mark June Mercedes of Maasin City who took the silver with a 34.20-meter throw and Ainex Gabriel Villanueva of Negros Occidental who came in third with a 33.88-meter mark.

The 14-year old BeguĂąa came from Surigao and found a home in Sisters of Mary School Boys Town in Minglanilla, Cebu wherein he is living and studying for free. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My family is really my inspiration because we are far away from each other,â&#x20AC;? said BeguĂąa, whose father passed away early while his mother

and three younger siblings are making ends meet in Surigao. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is also for the nuns who are serving as my second parents,â&#x20AC;? he added.

In girls shot put, Kate Julienne Martinez of Bago City, Negros Occidental copped the gold with a personal-best METER HEAVE IN HER kFTH TRY TO overwhelm Francine Masendo of Cebu City (9.57m) and Shaira Omagad of Bayawan City (9.51m).

Martinez, a Palarong Pambansa record-breaker in discus throw and a champion in Western Visayas Regional Athletic Association meet, is favored to win her forteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the discus throwâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at press time and javelin throw today.

The Grade 8 stalwart of Ramon Torres National High School previously nabbed gold in the Batang Pinoy 2016 national championships in Tagum City, Davao Del Norte.

In boys long jump, Dimwel Barrosa of New Washington, Aklan emerged victorious after chalking 5.93 meters.

Barrosa beat Rhein Jam Ojeno of La Carlota, Negros Occidental (5.88m)

and Airy Jor of La Castellana, Negros Occidental (5.88m).

In girls high jump, Donnaliza 4ORRES LEAPT METERS IN HER kRST attempt to take the gold mint, toppling Shanely Nierves of Cebu City (1.30m) and Vanessa Pranisa of Negros Occidental (1.25m).

Meanwhile, Ormoc City and Negros Occidental tankers dominated the opening day of the medal-rich swimming, with the two local government unites snaring three gold medals apiece.

Ormoc Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marcus Rivilla topped the boys 12-and-under 200m individual medley (IM) with a time of 2:44.67 even as Maria Angela Cimafranca prevailed in girls 13-15 200m IM (2:44.68) and Rex Dela Cruz Jr. shone in boys 12-and-under 50m backstroke (35.93 seconds).

Negros Occidentalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alexi Cabayaren bagged the gold in 13-15 100m freestyle (1:02.36) as well as Rianna Montelibano in girls 12-andunder 100m freestyle (1:11.17) and Troy Castro in boys 12-and-under 100m freestyle (1:07.94).

Ateneoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tolentino bags UAAP POW plum Blue Eagles down Titans, earn Aspirants Group solo lead CIGNAL-Ateneo survived Family MartEnderunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assault and took the 82-68 win Monday in the 2019 PBA D-League at Paco Arena in Manila.

Tyler Tio was instrumental in helping the Blue Eagles break off from the Titans, pouring 20 points, 14 coming in the payoff period, as he went 6-of-9 from beyond the arc, as well as nabbing five assists and grabbed two rebounds.

Ivorian center Ange Kouame was a force to be reckoned with down low as he got 20 points, eight rebounds, five blocks, and two assists, while William Navarro chimed in nine points, 15 boards, and three assists, on top of a steal and a block in the victory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tough game, good game,â&#x20AC;?

remarked coach Tab Baldwin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Enderun got the jump in the beginning. But our defense kicked in after first quarter. Offensively, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask a lot right now, but Tyler did a good job, Ange pulled some boards, and Will Navarro did a good job for our guys.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy that we got the win.â&#x20AC;?

Tioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sudden explosion in the fourth quarter broke the game wide open as Cignal-Ateneo wiggled out of Family MartEnderunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reach as the UAAP champions took a 19-point lead, 79-60.

Valandre Chauca paced the Titans with 27 points as he shot 5-of-11 shooting from threes, to go with five rebounds and three assists.

Marvin Hayes added 12 points and eight rebounds in the defeat.

KAT TOLENTINOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S firepo firepower er could not be quenched, a s i t p r ove d c r u c i a l i n the Ateneo Lady Eaglesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back-to-back wins in the UAAP Season 81 womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball tournament this week.

The tournamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading scorer u n l o a d e d a c o m b i n e d o u t p u t o f 41 p o i n t s f r o m At e n e o â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s g a m e s a g a i n s t U n i ve r s i t y o f S a n t o To m a s ( U S T ) a n d Far Eastern University (FEU) that merited her the UAAP Press Corps P l aye r o f t h e We e k h o n o r s.

Tolentino fired 22 points over UST to lead the Lady Eagles in bouncing back from their opening game loss to La Salle.

From tallying just 2 points in the first two sets against FEU, the opposite spiker erupted for 19 points as the Ateneo offense opened up to down the Lady Tamaraws.

As Ateneo admits its struggles on defense, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to stop Tolentino from doing her best to make up for it with her lethal attacks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me I realized that I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just stand there and tip the ball or hit it light. I have to go all out. I have to spike with power and how I normally do it,â&#x20AC;? said the FilCanadian spiker.

Tolentino and rest of the Ateneo spikers will be greatly tested against the U n i ve r s i t y o f t h e Eastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s floor defense l e d by S e a s o n 8 0 best digger and best receiver Kath Arado on Sunday, March 3, 2pm, at the Araneta Coliseum.

Tolentino edged out nominees La Salleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Michelle Cobb, Milena Alessandrini of UST, and National University rookie Ivy Lacsina for the weekly plum handed out by print and online scribes Q Ateneo de Manila Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kat Tolentino goes for a drop shot during a UAAP womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball covering the beat. game at The Arena in San Juan City. FILE PHOTO

Bulldogs, Red Warriors hold 1-2 places FORMER champion National University and three-peat seeking University of the East solidified their hold of 1-2 positions in the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standings after sweeping the weekend ties in the UAAP lawn tennis tournament at the Colegio de San Agustin courts in City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. Â Â Â Â The Bulldogs, coming back from a one-year hiatus, overpowered Adamson University, 5-0, on Saturday before returning the following day with a 3-2 squeaker over Ateneo to rose at 4-0.

Still solid as ever despite the departure of two-time MVP AJ Lim, the Red Warriors edged University of the Philippines, 3-2, and overpowered the Falcons, 5-0, to improve at 3-0.

Before drawing a bye last Sunday, University of Santo Tomas bested Ateneo, 3-2, to raise its record at 2-1 in third place.

The Fighting Maroons rebounded their loss to UE with a 4-1 conquest of De La Salle for an even 2-2 slate in fourth spot.

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action saw last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s runner-up Ateneo

and De La Salle tied in first place with identical 2-1 cards.

The Lady Eagles bounced back from a 2-3 loss to De La Salle last Saturday with a 3-2 win over reigning titlist UST the following day.

After beating Ateneo, De La Salle completed a weekend sweep with a 3-2 decision over NU, which is also returning jn the distaff side after a one-year absence.

The Tigresses are tied with UP, which they defeated via a 3-2 scoreline Saturday, in third spot at 1-1.Â

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Johnson holds off McIlroy to win WGC-Mexico Championship M EXICO CITY: Dustin Johnson captured his 20th US PGA Tour title on Sunday (Monday in Manila), firing a fiveunder par 66 to beat Rory McIlroy by five strokes in the final round of the WGC-Mexico Championship.

The 34-year-old American finished with a 21-under 263 total to win this event at the Club de Golf Chapultepec for the second time in three years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It clicked. I hit it really well this week,â&#x20AC;? Johnson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It means a lot, to get 20 wins out here is very DIFkCULT 4O DO IT BEFORE ) TURN IS pretty incredible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a big win for me. It gives ME A LOT OF CONkDENCE FOR THE REST OF the year. I feel like the game is in good form right now.â&#x20AC;?

McIlroy closed with a 67 thanks to a sizzling back nine â&#x20AC;&#x201D; six birdies in seven holes before a bogey at 18 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to catch red-hot JohnSON WHO POSTED kVE OF HIS SIX BIRDIES on the back nine.

Johnson has won at least one US PGA event in 12th consecutive years, with his 20th career win coming in his 246th start.

Englishmen Paul Casey and Ian Poulter shared third on 273, shooting 65 and 68 respectively in the fourth round, with Thailandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kiradech Aphibarnrat, WHO kRED TO JOIN THE PACK OFF Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pace.

Sergio Garcia, Patrick Cantlay and Cameron Smith shot identical 70s and

shared sixth.

Justin Thomas had the round of the day with a nine-under 62 which left him ninth. He had four consecutive birdies on numbers 10-13 and FASHIONED NINE BIRDIES OVER HIS kRST dozen holes.

In was another stroke back to Tiger Woods, who closed out his week with a 69 and tied f o r 10 t h with fellow Americans Keegan Bradley and David Lipsky and Dutchman Joost Luiten.

Johnson got off to a tentative start with a bogey on the par-three third hole before making birdie on the parkVE SIXTH â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt some nerves at the beginning of the day but then I made some really good par saves early in the round and it gave me some momentum,â&#x20AC;?

Johnson said.

He kicked it into high gear on the back nine with back-to-back birdies on the 10th and 11th holes and then strung together three birdies in a row beginning at the par-four 14th. g) JUST THINK THAT THIS PLACE IT DEk-

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nitely favors someone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driving it well,â&#x20AC;?

Thomas said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But as good as DJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wedge game is, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty easy game for him sometimes.â&#x20AC;?

McIlroy failed to take advantage of Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sluggish start with two bogeys on the front nine at the fourth and sixth holes.

McIlroy got hot on the backside, making six birdies in a seven-hole stretch before closing with another bogey on the par-four 18th. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No contest,â&#x20AC;? said McIlroy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially here. His drives are going 380 down the middle of the fairway and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holing most of the putts he looks at.â&#x20AC;?

Woods, a seven-time winner of the tournament, struggled on the greens for the second consecutive day. AFP

Trainer wins first PGA title at Puerto Rico Open F2 tackles United, MIAMI: American Martin Trainer fired a five-under par 67 in Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Monday in Manila) final round to capture his first US PGA Tour victory by winning the Puerto Rico Open.

In only his 12th PGA start, 4RAINER kNISHED HOLES AT THE Rio Grande resort on 15-under par 273 for a three-stroke triumph over Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roger Sloan, Australian Aaron Baddeley and Americans Johnson Wagner and Daniel Berger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Disbelief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; now that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve won itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a total dream come true,â&#x20AC;?

Trainer said.

Trainer, ranked 286th in the world, struggled as a Monday qualifier and on developmental tours to play in events but earned a place on the PGA Tour this season and took his first title in a campaign where his main goal was only to keep his job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has been an incredible journey,â&#x20AC;? Trainer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could never have imagined this would have happened. It happened today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Along the way there were a lot of times I had to play under

Paris gets in breakdance groove PARIS: Dancers executing backflips and freezes, gyros and headspins with gravity-defying agility in front of an adoring audience - welcome to the world break dance championships.

The staple of urban street culture is set to make a splash on its Olympic debut at the Paris 2024 Games.

And on Saturday night a 4,000 crowd came to be mesmerized by the moves performed by some of the most skilled exponents of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;breakingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at Battle Pro in the French capital.

One b-boy, Stephane Sabotinov, took time out before going on stage to celebrate Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement by Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet that breaking was set to become â&#x20AC;&#x153;a future Olympic sportâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breakdance is impressive,â&#x20AC;? Sabotinov, kitted out in white and black and baseball cap, told AFP. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the battle side of it, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here to engage, but with respect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We bump fists at the end even if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to war.â&#x20AC;?

Sabotinov, one of 120 dancers competing on Saturday evening, hopes breakingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elevation to the Olympics will erase any â&#x20AC;&#x153;negative sterotypesâ&#x20AC;? surrounding it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We come from the street so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re linked to violence. And because we wear baseball caps weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re clearly delinquents! â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the opposite, we put all our aggression into dance,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a family atmosphere at Battle Pro, parents and children mingling with tracksuited teenagers.

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a lot of pressure to keep my card.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as tough as playing down the stretch.â&#x20AC;?

Trainer claims a berth in Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PGA Championship and a tour exemption through the 202021 campaign.

Trainer birdied three of the kRST kVE HOLES TOOK BACK TO BACK bogeys at the par-3 sixth and par4 seventh, then responded with back-to-back birdies at nine and 10 and closed calmly with birdies at the par-5 15th and 18th to secure the triumph. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was not composed. Inside it

was utter turmoil,â&#x20AC;? Trainer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I drew on my experience of winning on the Web.com Tour to try and stay calm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It all came together and I was able to keep it together.â&#x20AC;?

Just two weeks ago, Trainer shared 28th at Pebble Beach for what had been his best career finish.

This was only his fifth PGA result after having missed six prior cuts.

American Shawn Stefani and South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Charl Schwartzel shared sixth on 277.

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Albot edges Evans for first ATP title MIAMI: Moldovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Radu Albot saved three match points in a third-set tie-breaker before capturing his first ATP Tour title Sunday (Monday in Manila) by defeating Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dan Evans in the Delray Beach Open final.

Albot, ranked 82nd, dispatched the 148th-ranked English qualifier 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7) after two hours and 51 minutes on the court plus a rain delay in the tension-filled final set.

Both men were trying to become the fifth first-time winner on the ATP Tour this year. !LBOT

WAS IN HIS kRST TOUR LEVEL kNAL )T WAS ONLY LAST YEAR when he reached his first ATP SEMI kNAL AT -ETZ &RANCE WHERE Albot lost to eventual champion 'ILLES 3IMON OF &RANCE Evans, 28, reached his only other ATP final in 2017 when he lost at Sydney to Gilles Mueller of Luxembourg. He was sus-

pended for one year later that season after testing positive for cocaine at the Barcelona Open.

2AIN ARRIVED AT THE &LORIDA event with Albot leading 2-1 in the third set.

They battled into a tiebreaker and Evans had the first three chances at taking the victory, each time denied by Albot, who capitalized on his first match-point opportunity for AFP the triumph.

eyes share of lead &/2-%2 Most Valuable Player Lindsay Stalzer will finally suit UP FOR & ,OGISTICS WHEN IT CLASHES with United VC in the Philippine Superliga (PSL) Grand Prix today AT THE &ILOIL &LYING 6 #ENTRE & BATTLES 5NITED IN THE p.m. appetizer of this womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s club tourney sponsored by Asics, Mikasa, Mueller, Senoh, Team Rebel Sports, Bizooku, UCPB Gen, Cocolife, Hotel Sogo and Data Project.

Despite Stalzerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absence, the Cargo Movers were off to a sizzling start as they posted backto-back victories to occupy the second spot of the eight-team ranking behind bitter rival Petron, which is playing splendid volleyball as it has yet to drop a SET IN ITS kRST THREE MATCHES But focus will be on Cignal when it shoots for its third straight win.

The HD Spikers collide with struggling Generika-Ayala at 7 p.m. following the encounTER BETWEEN &OTON AND 0,$4 (OME &IBR IN THE p.m. second game of this explosive triple-header that has ESPN5 and 5Plus as broadcast partners.

Cignal, however, is at the third spot with a 2-1 win-loss card after posting impressive wins over PLDT and Sta. Lucia last week.

Cignal coach Edgar Barroga said their local players like Rachel Anne Daquis, Mylene Paat and setter Acy Masangkay are now starting to jell with their imports in American Erica Wilson and Azerbaijani Anastasia Artemeva.

In fact, in their 23-25, 25-11, 2516, 25-23 triumph over the Lady Realtors, Wilson and Artemeva played well at the open spiker po-

sition while Paat moved to the opposite spot to give Barroga additional combination. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That combination led us to a win over Sta. Lucia,â&#x20AC;? said Barroga, who opted to give Daquis limited minutes to preserve her for the tough grind ahead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re starting to jell and our local players are already getting used to playing with our imports.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good sign. It means that they are very committed to winning.â&#x20AC;?

But the Lifesavers are no pushovers.

After a promising start, Brazilian import Nikolle del Rio crashed with an injury, prompting 'ENERIKA !YALA TO DROP THEIR kRST three matches.

Lifesaversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coach Sherwin Meneses said her fall only fueled the hunger of his wards, especially local players like Marivic MenESES 0ATTY /RENDAIN AND &IOLA Ceballos, who carried them to a SEMIkNAL kNISH IN THE !LL &ILIPIno Conference last year.

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UST draws with NU to stay on top

Q Stephan Shrock of Ceres Negros FC slips past Htoo Khant Lwin of Yangon United FC during their 2019 AFC Champions League preliminary round match at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Bacolod City. CERES NEGROS FCÂ PHOTO

Ceres kicks off AFC Cup campaign vs Shan United

BY JEREMIAH M. SEVILLAÂ

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HILIPPINE champion Ceres Negros FC kicks off its campaign in the 2019 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup when it tackles a familiar foe in Shan United FC of Myanmar today at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Bacolod City.

After an early exit in the Cham- Busmen now shift their sights on their PIONS ,EAGUE QUALIkERS THE 9ELLOW AFC Cup bid that starts with a 7 p.m.

MADRID: Gareth Bale came off the

bench to score a controversial winning penalty against Levante on Sunday (Monday in Manila) but his refusal to celebrate suggested all may not be well again at Real Madrid.

Baleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spot-kick earned Madrid a BATTLING AND IN TRUTH UNDESERVED victory at the City of Valencia Stadium where referee Ignacio Iglesias failed to REVERSE HIS DECISION DESPITE 6!2 EXPOSing a theatrical dive from Casemiro.

The absence of any delight from A STONY FACED "ALE WAS TELLING AS HE turned and brushed off teammatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attempts to congratulate him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The players can celebrate goals HOW THEY WANT AS LONG AS WE WIN u coach Santiago Solari said.

This was Baleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sixth game on the bench in the eight matches since he returned from injury and it remains to be seen if his cameo will be enough to win a

Q Tottenham Hotspurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s English striker Harry Kane (right) shoots and scores the equalizer during the English Premier League football match at Turf Moor in Burnley, England.

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START AGAINST "ARCELONA ON 7EDNESDAY IN THE SEMIkNAL OF THE #OPA DEL 2EY â&#x20AC;&#x153;He looked thrilled in the dressing ROOM BECAUSE HE SCORED u ADDED 3OLARI g) LOVED HOW HE CAME INTO THE GAME

THE ANGER HE PLAYED WITH HELPED AND HE GAVE US THE VICTORY HE GAVE US HARD WORK â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we had 10 men he performed a double-job up front. For ME HE HAD A FANTASTIC MATCH u Bale replaced Karim Benzema in the TH MINUTE AFTER THE &RENCHMAN HAD SCORED HIS OWN PENALTY IN THE kRST HALF before Roger Marti pulled Levante level.

Levante had already twice hit the post by then and Madrid will be relieved to have escaped with the points that keep them nine behind "ARCA AND TWO BACK ON !TLETICO WHO had earlier beaten Villarreal. !LVARO -ORATA SCORED HIS kRST !TLETI GOAL AT THE 7ANDA -ETROPOLITANO TOASTING HIS SMART kNISH BY POKING FUN AT 6!2 WHICH

clash against the Shan Warriors.

Ceres Negros will aim to extend its three-game winning streak over Shan United in their initial encounter in Group G. The Busmen outplayed the Warriors in the 2018 Champions League QUALIkERS VIA PENALTY SHOOTOUT

and swept them in the 2018 AFC #UP GROUP STAGE AND Ceres will lean on newly-signed Bosnian forward Mahir Karic along with Spanish striker MaraĂąon to lead

the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attacking front that recently lost Patrick Reichelt and Manny Ott. Philippine Azkals veteran defender Alvaro Silva and other key signings in Dennis Villanueva and goalkeeper Jun Badelic are expected to provide boost for the Busmenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense as center-back Amani Aguinaldo went on a shortterm loan in Malaysia.

But the Burmese runner-up also bolstered its roster with the addition of Brazilian booters Hedipo

#ONCEICAO -AYCON AND $EDImar to avoid another heartbreak against the Bacolod-based club.

Ceres will also battle Vietnamese powerhouse Becamex Binh Duong and Indonesian champion Persija Jakarta in the group stage. ,AST #ERES MADE HISTORY AS THE kRST &ILIPINO CLUB TO WIN THE Asean zone of Asiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second-tier club COMPETITION ! YEAR LATER HOWEVER

the Busmen lost to Home United &# OF 3INGAPORE IN THE ZONAL kNALS

DEXTER BENECIO netted a late equalizer as University of Santo Tomas (UST) pulled off a 2-2 draw with National University (NU) to stay atop the Season 81 University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s football on Sunday at the FEU-Diliman Football Field in Quezon City. Veteran striker Benecio struck in the 96th minute, keeping the Golden Bootersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hold of the top spot in the eight-team standings with five points built on a seasonopening win and two stalemates. Another seasoned booter in Conrado Dimacali provided the first goal as UST climbed from two goals down to salvage a point and protect its spotless record. Marcel Ivan Ouano handed NU an early 2-0 lead with two quick goals in the 14th and 19th minutes. The Bulldogs settled for their second draw to slightly improve to two points at No. 5. Meanwhile, De La Salle University grabbed its breakthrough victory after nipping Adamson University, 1-0. Mohammad Adil Almohjili hit the lone goal in the 50th minute before the Green Booters held on for their first maximum points in two games. La Salle moved up to a share of third spot with University of the East while Adamson fell to No. 6 with two points on two draws. In the other fixture, cellar-dwelling Ateneo De Manila University managed to share the spoils with Far Eastern University, 1-1. Julian Roxas scored an 85th minute equalizer to hand the Blue Eagles their first point of the season. The Tamaraws, who got the opening goal via John Renz Saldivarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 45th minute strike, stayed at the second spot with four markers on a win and a draw.

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BALEÂ EARNS MADRID BATTLING WIN OVER LEVANTE had twice intervened to prevent him opening his account at his new club.

Real Madrid has been among the most vocal critics of the technology in La Liga this season but Levante were the ones hard done by this time.

Cheick Doucoureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swinging right foot was wild but there was no contact to merit the leap from Casemiro.

Iglesias reviewed but retained his decision.

"ARCELONA WHOM 2EAL NOW FACE IN TWO #LASICOS IN FOUR DAYS THE SECOND IN THE LEAGUE

ALSO AT THE 3ANTIAGO "ERNABEU WILL NOW BENEkT from an extra dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rest and also a suspension for .ACHO WHO WAS SENT OFF LATE ON FOR A SECOND YELLOW CARD AFP

Q Real Madridâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gareth Bale (left) challenges Levanteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Antonio Luna during the Spanish league football match at the Ciutat de Valencia Stadium in Valencia. AFP PHOTO

Kane vows Spurs arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t out of title race BURNLEY, UK: Harry Kane insists Tottenham is still in the Premier League title race despite suffering a major setback in their defeat at Burnley.

After winning all four league games while Kane recovered from an ankle ligament injury sustained in the January home defeat to Manchester United, Tottenham capitulated at Turf Moor on Saturday, falling 2-1 to Ashley Barnesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; late strike after England forward Kane marked his comeback with the away sideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equalizer.

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino effectively conceded his third placed team was out of the race after the loss, which leaves Spurs six points behind leaders Liver-

pool, but Kane refuses to write off his sideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chances. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That would be their opinion. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been like that for the whole season,â&#x20AC;? Kane said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People have been talking us not being in it, then we would win a few games and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People will probably say now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a two-horse race, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not our problem. All we can do is take care of ourselves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shame because when we needed to find another level, another gear, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have it in the locker. Unfortunately that was the case.â&#x20AC;?

Tottenham will not have long to wait if they are to prove their worth.

They are at the start of a

period that sees them play league derbies against Chelsea on Wednesday and Arsenal on Saturday, as well as the return leg of their Champions League last 16 tie against Borussia Dortmund, in which they have a 3-0 lead.

Kane and his teammates have made a habit all season of bouncing back from disappointments -- such as the week in January when, without Kane, they exited both domestic cup competitions in the same week.

However, the manner of the latest defeat did have a terminal feeling about it as Spurs squandered the opportunity to close the gap on Liverpool and City. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done it before and that shows the character of the squad, but it would have

been nice if we had won this game and built from that,â&#x20AC;? Kane said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always want to be having to react from a poor result. But we will dust it off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have three massive games to get up for. The motivation is there.â&#x20AC;?

The odds appear in favor of Spurs enduring another frustrating season without silverware.

Kane admits it has been hard for Tottenham to play their home games at Wembley for two seasons while White Hart Lane is rebuilt.

But he claims the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to remain in contention during that period deserves praise.

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Queen, Gaga performances rock the Oscars!

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OLLYWOOD: The iconic band Queen kicked off the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday (Monday in Manila) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an evening of shining performances that began with A HEADBANGER AND kNISHED WITH ,ADY 'AGA AND Bradley Cooper tickling the ivories and tugging the heartstrings.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a round-up of the nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s notable musical performances.

Queen rocks it British legends Queen featuring frontman Adam Lambert delivered a rollicking performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Will Rock Youâ&#x20AC;? to open Tinseltownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest night.

The group â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the subject of the NOMINATED kLM g"OHEMIAN 2HAPsodyâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; then brought the crowd to its feet with a rendition of the classic â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Are The Champions.â&#x20AC;?

Roger Taylor struck the thundering notes of the songâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iconic

drumbeat, as Lambert, 37, ran onto the stage sporting a sparkling blue jacket and black cravat.

The British bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 71-year-old guitarist Brian May, who is also an astrophysicist, delivered a signature solo while Lambert impressed with his versatile vocal range.

Lambert has been touring with the band since 2011, in place of the late Freddie Mercury â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the storied sinuous performer played by Rami Malek in the sprawling biopic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bohemian Rhapsodyâ&#x20AC;? ended the night with four awards, including best actor for Malek.

Q Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper set social media ablaze after their intimate performance of the hit 'Shallow' from their film 'A Star is Born.' AFP PHOTOS

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson delivered an impassioned performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Fight,â&#x20AC;? the song from the biographical documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;RBGâ&#x20AC;? about US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Wearing a pantsuit with an ultra-long black train that mirrored judgesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; robes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an apparENT NOD TO THE kLM S THEME OF a strong woman making it in a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hudson belted out the ballad â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Fightâ&#x20AC;? by Diane Warren, which was nominated for best original song.

Her wide-ranging vocals were on show but many on social media criticized Hudson for being a bit off-key, roaring through a LENGTHY lAT NOTE Hudson â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tapped to play soul icon Aretha Franklin in an upcoming biopic â&#x20AC;&#x201D; won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2007 for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dreamgirls.â&#x20AC;?

Midler delights with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Poppinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Q Queen's guitarist Brian May (left) and drummer Roger Taylor (not in photo) perform a medley of some of their biggest hits with Adam Lambert (right).

Veteran Bette Midler dazzled with her rendition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Place Where ,OST 4HINGS 'Ou FROM THE kLM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mary Poppins Returns.â&#x20AC;?

Keegan Michael-Key introduced Midler, 73, after twirling down to the stage from the ceiling with an umbrella, just like the beloved LEAD CHARACTER OF THE $ISNEY kLM The singer, actress and Broadway star traded the nanny uniform of Poppins for a colorful cleavageBARING lORAL GOWN TO DELIVER THE song, which was performed in the kLM BY ACTRESS %MILY "LUNT â&#x20AC;&#x153;Could I have ever imagined that one day Bette Midler would sing a song I co-wrote with Scott

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Kaibigan Dan advances movie workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; benefits 7(%. he was Manila councilor and president of the Philippine Councilors League, lawyer Dan Roleda authored and passed the Amended Amusement Tax Law in 1995 that primarily protected movie producers. The amended law ensures transparency in the ticket sales for the correct collection of the said tax by local government units, and at the same time allows MOVIE PRODUCERS ACCURATE DATA ON BOX OFkCE sales. The law made mandatory the use of transparent ticket boxes that now seen today in all theaters. The law was simultaneously passed by all local government units (LGUs) respective to Sangguniang Bayan.

Popularly called Kaibigan Dan, and one of the candidates in the senatorial derby in the mid-term elections in May, Roleda has always been linked to the entertainment industry. He worked closely with award-winning director and fellow Waray Chito RoĂąo in the early 1980s to uplift industry standards.

He has kept tabs with the industry and wishes to address its present problems like THE BENEkTS AND WELFARE OF ALL WORKERS RElated thereto, which are sub-standard; and of course, the problem of piracy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Piracy robs the artists, crew, movie producers and cinema owners of millions in revenues. This in turn, has led to low production output and has deprived actors, producers, directors, musical score composers, make-up ARTISTS kLM CREW AND OTHER WORKERS IN THE movie industry of decent salaries and proper remunerations,â&#x20AC;? he said.

(E IS AS CONCERNED ABOUT kLM DISTRIBUTION AS HE knows that movie producers lose a lot of money when theater chains unceremoniously pull out THEIR kLMS FROM CINEPLEXES AFTER A DAY OR TWO )T DOES NOT HELP THAT LOCAL kLMS MUST COMPETE WITH Hollywood, free TV and social media, he added.

It is of all these considerations that Roleda

wants to form a special governing body that will help producers and all workers related to the entertainment industry. Knowing that many entertainment workers are freelancers who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ENJOY THE BENEkTS OF HEALTH CARE AND INSURANCE

Kaibigan Dan plans to come up with a legislation THAT REQUIRES kLM AND TELEVISION SHOW PRODUCERS TO GIVE INSURANCE AND OTHER BENEkTS TO MEMBERS of the production team on a per-project basis.

2OLEDA EARNED HIS "3 %CONOMICS DEGREE from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in 1971; then graduated magna cum laude and valedictorian of the UST College of Law Batch 1991 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; his tickets to a government post as Presidential Adviser for Foreign Investments by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from 2001 to 2010, after serving as party-list representative under Ang Lakas ng Bagong Kooperatiba (Alab) from 1998 to 2001. He was chairman of the Metro Manila Councilors League from 1995 to 2009.

The 61-year-old lawyer still serves as Deputy 3ECRETARY 'ENERAL OF THE 5NITED .ATIONALIST !LLIANCE 5.! SINCE (E IS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE .ATIONAL -OVEMENT OF 9OUNG ,EGISLATORS .-9, ,IFETIME -EMBER OF THE Philippine Constitution Association, and maintains membership with the Guardians of "ROTHERHOOD AND &RATERNAL /RDER OF THE %AGLES As an educator, Roleda does lectures to graduating students in various schools and universities on different current events and issues as part of the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; thesis or project studies.

This God and family-centered man believes everyone wants better lives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We work because we want to upgrade our way of life, as we dream of better lives for our children,â&#x20AC;? he said, explaining his hashtag â&#x20AC;&#x153;#betterthanthatâ&#x20AC;? embodies these aspirations, as he explores all avenues to help every Filipino here and abroad.

Wittman for a sequel to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mary Poppinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at the Academy Awards?! My heart is exploding!!!â&#x20AC;? gushed song co-writer Marc Shaiman prior to Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show.

Gaga, Cooper bring the heat

next to each other at the piano, faces nearly touching, exchanging intimate glances.

Moments later, a tearful Gaga won her first Oscar for best original song for the runaway hit about seeking greater fulfill-

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper had the mercury rising with their intimate performance of the hit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shallowâ&#x20AC;? from their film â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Star Is Born.â&#x20AC;?

The pair walked onto the stage from their front row seats, with Cooper tapping into the raspy VOCALS HE CULTIVATED FOR THE kLM while Gaga delivered her heartthumping guttural wail.

The emotional performance saw the co-stars of the reimagined clasSIC (OLLYWOOD TALE kNISH SITTING

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Tale of haughtiness, episodes of sleepiness This still-pretty inactive actress (SPIA) happens to be a regular habitue of a diner. But liitle does she know that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;somethingâ&#x20AC;? mixed in her favorite fruit drink order.

It all started when SPIA went to the diner, unchaperoned (when she should have at least been with her former actorpartner-turned-politician, after all, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve remained friends).

She called out the waiter for her order she wanted served

ment from live and love. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked hard for a long time, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about, you know, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about winning. But what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about is not giving up. If you HAVE A DREAM kGHT FOR IT u SHE TOLD the audience.

AFP Q Jennifer Hudson delivers a heartfelt performance of 'I'll Fight,' a song from biographical documentary 'RBG.'

right away, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pakibilisan, nagmamadali kasi ako, e!â&#x20AC;? sans the â&#x20AC;&#x153;please.â&#x20AC;?

In minutes, her order came. After taking a sip, the PA angrily confronted the waiter: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ano bang juice â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;to?

Ang pangit-pangit ng lasa!â&#x20AC;? So as not to displease the PA, the waiter volunteered to have her order replaced.

The waiter then rushed to the counter, told his peers ABOUT HIS kNICKY CUSTOMER â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palitan nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;yo na lang â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;to.â&#x20AC;?

Shortly, the waiter rushed back to the PAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s table with a tray of glass of juice and a new straw in it. He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave until the PA took a sip from it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Okay na,â&#x20AC;? SPIA told the waiter who became curious how the replaced order was prepared. He later learned that one of his peers who had a similar experience with the PA had spit on it and stirred it to make it look fresher.

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!%+/7/.$/ champion-turned politician Monsour del Rosario misses doing showbiz stuff, but too bad, his schedule wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t permit him to act again.

He was supposed to star IN AN ACTION lICK WITH 2OBIN Padilla and Ronnie Ricketts but had to beg off. g)T COULD BE DIFkCULT GIVEN my schedule,â&#x20AC;? said Monsour, who is an advocate of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sports development, among others. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was actually Rockets (Ronnieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pet name) who wanted the three of us to pursue the movie, saying tatlo naman daw kami so we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to shoot every single day. Tigone-third bale kami. But I came up with a better idea, why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we do a local version OF @4HE %XPENDABLES u -ONSOUR SAYS REFERRING TO THE 3YLVESTER 3TALLONE ET AL BLOCKBUSTER kLM in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

If he had his way, Monsour would like to tap any willing producer to gamble on a project starring veteran action stars who â&#x20AC;&#x153;are

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Daniel Fernando, Dan Fernandez, among others. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all in our 50s, unlike Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren who are much older,â&#x20AC;? he justified. Behind the dream cast is Monsourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message to the millennial audience that â&#x20AC;&#x153;we are the true-blooded action starsâ&#x20AC;? who may have aged but can still be at par with the younger generation in terms of moves and depth in acting.

The dearth in action stars is a disturbing thought for Monsour, as most of his colleagues have crossed over to politics, both local and national. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told Binoe (Robin), â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dude, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the last man standing. I hope we can do a remake of our @%AGLE 3QUAD A kLM WHICH ALSO STARRED %DU *INGGOY 2ICKY $AVAO *ULIO $IAZ *ORGE %STREGAN AND .IKKI -ARTEL u Q Monsour del Rosario

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What can break a young heart

Everything parents in their 20s and 30s need to know about heart disease

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ATTERS of the heart know no age â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at least medically speaking. Heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases are common among the elderly that they seem inevitable, but these illnesses can actually affect young adults â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or even young parents who are just starting with their family life â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as well.

In the recent study published

by Canadian Medical Association, cardiovascular diseases and stroke

are still among the leading causes of death worldwide â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where onethird of heart attacks, 25 percent of

strokes, and 40 percent of cardiac arrests occur in people of working age and those below 65.

Aside from age and other genetic factors, unhealthy lifestyle choices also play a big role in developing heart diseases despite the growing health and wellness trends in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s generation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While symptoms like chest pain or weakness are quite common, there are subtle signs that can be hardly noticed,â&#x20AC;? shared Mary Milagros Uy, MD of MakatiMedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine.

Today, Makati Medical Center shares with The Manila Times the early signs of heart diseases that should never ignored. Recognizing these symptoms early is important to get the appropriate treatment right to save lives.

Uncomfortable pressure, fullness or pain in the chest area.

If you have a blocked artery, you may feel pain, tightness, or pressure in the center or left side of your chest area.

This sudden feeling can last for a few minutes, go away, and then return. If the pain continues FOR MORE THAN kVE MINUTES IMmediately seek help and go to the hospital.

Noticeable soreness or discomfort in your arms, the back,

jaw, and abdominal area.

W h i l e Q Young parents should always be on the look out for heart c h e s t disease indicators because this condition can occur at any age. pain is an obvious sign, arm, shoulder or back pain that waxes and wanes can also be an indicator of a possible heart attack caused by reduced BLOOD lOW TO THE HEART MUSCLES Unexplained fatigue, shortness of breath and cold sweat.

If you are suddenly experiencing unusual fatigue, shortness of breath and cold sweat especially if you are diabetic, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid to see a doctor and request for an electrocardiogram or ECG, which can detect a possible heart attack. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Women and diabets may have atypical manifestation of heart attack,â&#x20AC;? Dr. Uy. Prevention is the best way to avoid cardiovascular diseases whatever season of life you are in, so start nurturing your heart by improving your lifestyle and quitting unhealthy habits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be physically active and healthy, jump-start an exercise program, change your familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diet, and have regular checkups with your doctor to help you improve your overall health,â&#x20AC;? the medical expert added.

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Renowned puppeteer helps kids get into brushing

Q Chafak Aftakhar, Wyeth ProMama group product manager; Patty LaurelFilart, celebrity mom; Patricia Cuna, brand manager; and Anna Escalona, host.

Q Baby movements as artwork.

Q The Babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Gift device is attached to a momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belly to detect movements.

A babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;First Giftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to mom GURGLES, WHIMPERS kRST WORDS AND kRST STEPS Â&#x2021; THESE ARE BABIES LITTLE GIFTS to mothers which make all their hard work pay off.

But with technology, it turns out that moms need not to wait a certain age to receive gifts from their beloved children.

Wyeth ProMama unveils the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Gift to You,â&#x20AC;? an event that aims to provide expectant moms a gift like no other: An experience that allows her to see a real time first gift ever from her baby.

The Babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Gift to you device detects the movement of the babies in the womb and translates it into an artwork. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Expectant moms would be surprised to know that the babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brain is up to 25 percent developed already, by 28 weeks. By using the Babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Gift technology, moms will be amazed by their babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development while in the womb since they will see how their babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movement can create artworks, uniquely created just for them,â&#x20AC;? said Jong Icasiano, Wyeth Nutritionist.

Icasiano added that nutrition plays an important role in the babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health and brain development, and choosing the right maternal milk is key to support a healthy pregnancy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pregnancy is a special time in a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and is a reminder of the gift of motherhood â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the need to ensure maternal and fetal health. By choosing the right maternal milk, expectant moms can help their babies get the best start in life so they can have a bright tomorrow,â&#x20AC;?

SAID )CASIANO kNALLY NOTED

HAVING dental caries, more commonly known as cavities, is one of the top public health concerns of not just adults, but kids too.

According to the Department of Health, 92.4 percent of Filipinos have them. What is more alarming is that 97 percent of Filipino children suffer from cavities too.

Students who suffer from cavities not only experience pain and discomfort but may also perform badly in school. Toothache, developed because of the buildup of cavities, is the most common cause of absenteeism among schoolchildren.

Brushing teeth has become such a usual part of everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily routine that the importance of doing it properly is often forgotten. Like most things, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better to introduce proper brushing of the teeth to children as early as possible.

This in mind, Hapee Kiddie launched â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Choose to be Hapee with Hapee Kiddieâ&#x20AC;? school caravan to teach school children how to properly brush their teeth.

To make the educational activity entertaining, the caravan tapped renowned ventriloquist, Wanlu and his trusty puppets, Nicolo and Hapee, for a fun puppet show. Together, the trio educated the students with their witty yet informative banter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every moment in the caravan was memorable to me. The kids were even hugging the puppets after the show, especially Hapee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think puppeteering really is a more creative and effective way of communicating with the children. In fact, you can see in the faces of

Q Ventriloquist Wanlu with his puppets teach kids the importance of brushing teeth properly.

the children that they really understand whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening and what the puppet is talking about because they react to what the puppet tells them,â&#x20AC;? shared Wanlu, who recently won the Ventriloquist of the Year in Asia awarded by the US-based International Ventriloquist Association.

Kids were taught how to properly brush their teeth through fun demonstrations. Through videos, they were further taught to brush three times a day using a pea-sized amount of toothpaste and then brush for two minutes with circular motions. They then tested their newlyacquired knowledge with engaging games.

The school caravan tours all across Metro Manila, bringing joy and spreading happiness to nearly 4,000 young kids aged 5 to 7 years old in 15 public and private schools.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Illusions and mirages could distort the view. Things may not go as planned. Wait for better conditions. Keep a flexible outlook and a sense of humor.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) -- Today is a 7 -- You can see what wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t working with shared finances. Work with someone who sees your blind spot. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get sidetracked. Collaborate for common gain.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) -- Today is a 5 -- Rest, and consider whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ahead. Refine plans for new circumstances. Discover crucial holes, and repair them. Find a quiet space to review.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Have patience with a partner. Breakdowns or obstacles could arise. Avoid silly arguments over miscommunications. Travel frustrations would make things worse. Handle practical priorities.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Friends can get through where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stuck. Miscommunications could make things worse; take the time to unravel tangles as soon as they occur.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Slow to avoid accidents. Use gentle pressure rather than force. Hidden obstacles lie out of view. Stick to practical goals. Take care of your health.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- A sense of humor lightens a romantic misunderstanding. Remember whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really important.

Take a walk to cool down if needed. Let go of the small stuff.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Mistakes or misunderstandings can arise at home. Abandon expectations, and you may win better results than originally planned. Keep an open mind and heart.

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GA Cars recently gathered the best luxury premium brands Porsche, Audi, Lamborghini, and Bentley to drive up north for the much-awaited â&#x20AC;&#x153;World of Supercars.â&#x20AC;?

Held at the Clark International Speedway in Pampanga, the exclusive event was composed of a qualifying round and a quarter-mile drag race. For the qualifying round, guests drove their own luxury cars for three laps in high speed on the 4.2-kilometer racetrack of the Clark International Speedway where they were bracketed according to their lap time.

The main part of the event was the quarter-mile race challenge where the crowd witnessed Porsches, Audis and Lamborghinis battle it out for the best quarter mile award. The Porsche 911 Turbo S, Lamborghini Huracan 580-2, Audi R8, and Audi Q5 emerged as the victorious winners in the exhilarating race.

Car enthusiasts and guests also had an exclusive access to the PGA Carsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hospitality suite where they were served breakfast and lunch for the day. As a special treat for the Chinese New Year, new models from the Porsche, Audi, Lamborghini and Bentley made an appearance at the Clark International Speedway, namely the Porsche GT3 RS, the all-new Audi Q8, the Audi RS4 Avant, the Lamborghini Aventador S, and the Bentley Continental GT. The all-new Audi Q8, which recently made its Philippine debut at the Manila Polo Club, is the new face of the Audi SUV. It is a POWERFUL YET EFkCIENT LITER 4&3) THAT produces 335 hp where all drive systems ARE PARTICULARLY EFkCIENT THANKS TO THE new mild hybrid technology (MHEV).

With the annual World of Supercars, different car models from premium brands are able to showcase their power and might on a race track.

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Q The main part of the event was the quarter-mile race challenge where the crowd witnessed Porsches, Audis and Lamborghinis battle it out.

Q Audi AG Certified Driving Instructor Christoph Klapper was at the event.

PGA Cars holds World of Supercars at Clark International Speedway

E 2

TUESDAY, February 26, 2019

Q With the GL Grandia (from left) Dr. David Go, senior executive vice president, Toyota Motor Philippines; Satoru Suzuki, president, Toyota Motor Philippines; Satoshi Ogiso, operating officer, Toyota Motor Corp.; Alfred Ty, vice chairman, Toyota Motor Philippines; Takuo Ishikawa, Hiace chief engineer, Toyota Motor Corp.; and Kei Mizuguchi, executive vice president, Toyota Motor Philippines.

Toyota PH unveils all-new Hiace T OYOTA Motor Corp. (TMC) and the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s automotive industry leader Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) jointly unveiled the new generation Toyota Hiace during the new modelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Premiere held at the Grand Hyatt Manila, Bonifacio Global City.

By hosting the all-new Hiaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worldwide launch in the country, TMP has further asserted the Philippinesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; position as a primary market for Toyotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s range of iconic vans. Aside from being the preferred family van of Filipinos, previous generations of the Hiace have also become A COMMON kXTURE IN

Grandia will be available for retail in all Toyota dealerships nationwide starting on

means that the engine is no longer MOUNTED ATOP THE FRONT WHEEL AXLE By changing the engineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position, BOTH DRIVER AND PASSENGER CAN EXPErience better ergonomics, without the heat and vibration emanating underneath their seats. This also results in better serviceability, as the engine becomes easier to access compared to the previous make.

Paired with a highly rigid body, the all-new Hiace offers better riding and driving pleasure that is worth beyond its price point. Hailing from Toyotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prominent commercial vehicle (CV)

Q The GL Grandia Tourer.

providing mobility services to both public and private sectors, helping promote education, tourism, healthcare and more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We at Toyota Motor Philippines are honored to host the World Premiere of the all-new Toyota Hiace. &OR THE kRST TIME THE WORLD S EYES are on the Philippines, to witness the unveiling of the full model CHANGE (IACE NEVER BEFORE EXHIBited elsewhere,â&#x20AC;? said Satoru Suzuki, president of TMP. 4-# AND 4-0 OFkCIALLY INTROduced three variants of the all-new Hiace: GL Grandia Tourer, GL GranDIA AND #OMMUTER $ELUXE "OTH THE #OMMUTER $ELUXE AND THE ',

March 5. The GL Grandia Tourer will be available in early April.

Redesigned inside and out There are two key inspirations in the design and engineering of the ALL NEW (IACE 4HE kRST IS TO CREATE a vehicle that increases productivity. The second is to provide safe, comfortable and reliable transport for people everywhere.

The all-new Hiace has been revamped inside-out to address these goals. At the literal forefront of the refreshed modern look is the new semi-bonnet design, which

heritage, bold but clean character lines sweep through the Hiace horizontally, creating a strong and stable image. For the GL Grandia Tourer variant, the headlamps are complemented by vertical LED daytime running lights and fog lamps in the bumper, while chamfered rear combination lamps add to its threedimensional presence.

Its spacious cabin space is built FOR MAXIMIZED STORAGE AND ADDED FEATURES ELEVATE THE OWNERSHIP EXPErience to an unprecedented degree. ! POWERFUL AND FUEL EFkCIENT '$ FTV 2.8-liter engine ensures that the vehicle can traverse any road while carrying any load.

Living up to the Toyota tradition of always making safety a top priority, the all-new Hiace gives its customers peace of mind by reinforcing both passive and active safety. Engineered to relieve the commuting burden from its drivers and passengers, the allnew Hiaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design cues are inspired by real-world problems to provide modern solutions.

Maximized Space and Guaranteed Comfort Inside the cabin, satisfaction is GUARANTEED BY THE MAXIMIZED STORage capacity and optimized riding comfort. Store anything and everything inside your trusted utility van with its large overhead and console trays, in addition to the ample space beneath the front row seats for the #OMMUTER $ELUXE A number of improvements have ALSO BEEN ADOPTED BY THE SIXTH GENeration Hiace for easier ingress and egress. There is a noticeably bigger LEGROOM PROVIDING A RIDING EXPERIence enhanced by wider door steps, strategically-positioned assist grips, and illuminated entry system. The plush headrests are making a comeback on the GL variants for their passengers TO RELAX o n ,

Q The Hiace Commuter Deluxe.

Q ADMITS FROM A1

PGA Cars holds World of Supercars â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am happy to see that our guests enjoyed driving their cars on the track. We have been holding The World of Supercars DrivING %XPERIENCE HERE AT THE #LARK International Speedway for many years, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only PGA Cars that can achieve this rare feat of gathering the best car brands in one place,â&#x20AC;? said Audi Philippines head Benedicto Coyiuto said.

For more information, contact 0'! #ARS AT TO OR VISIT a showroom in Greenhills, Global City, Alabang, and SM Seaside City Cebu.

Q The World of Supercars brought together the superb cars that are marketed by PGA in the Philippines. Seen here are three Porsches, a Lamborghini, Bentley and Audi.

while the entire line-up prevents its daily passengers from suffering the usual discomforts of long-haul travels by improving overall suspension.

The GL Grandia Tourer, GL Grandia AND #OMMUTER $ELUXE COMFORTABLY kT A MAXIMUM OF

AND people, respectively.

Trusted Performance The all-new Hiace is powered by a NEW '$ &46 LITER ENGINE THAT HAS A HIGH BOOST TURBOCHARGER HORSEPOWER INTERCOOLER SYSTEM EXHAUST GAS recirculation (EGR), and dual mass lYWHEEL THAT LEADS TO REDUCED CABIN noise by absorbing engine vibrations.

It also offers better handling with variable power steering, lighter gear shifting, and a MacPherson strut front suspension system with leaf spring rear suspension. With its new drivetrain, the all-new Hiace is powerful AND MORE FUEL EFkCIENT THAN ITS PREVIous generationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;making it a vehicle you can truly rely on.

Advanced Safety Features Considered a Toyota hallmark feature regardless of vehi- c l e

segment, the all-new Hiace is equipped with advanced safety features. The transition from a cab-over design to semi-bonnet additionally increases collision safety. Toyota is also the first manufacturer to include a center seat airbag in a utility van for its front center passengers, for a total of the spplemental restraint system (SRS) airbags for the #OMMUTER $ELUXE AND TWO 323 airbags for the GL Grandia and GL Grandia Tourer variants.

The all-new Hiaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GL Grandia and GL Grandia Tourer variants come with vehicle stability control, hill start assist, anti-lock brake system (ABS), and emergency brake signals. The ComMUTER $ELUXE ALSO HAS !"3 AND emergency brake signals. Owners, drivers and passengers alike are offered great peace of mind as both passive and active safety are accounted for in the design of the new generation Hiace.

Empowering the local population throughout its 25-year presence, the Hiace was first introduced in Philippine shores IN AND SINCE THEN HAS SOLD MORE THAN UNITS +NOWN and trusted by many Filipinos, the Toyota Hiace is the leading model of the utility van segMENT WITH A PERCENT total market share in

TUESDAY, February 26, 2019

E 3

2019 CTS-V is a superb performer But is it a superb Cadillac?

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BY LARRY PRINTZ

ETROIT: The Cadillac stand at the North American International Auto Show last month neatly summarized Cadillacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current product predicament, one that goes beyond how many crossover SUVs it sells. &OR YEARS #ADILLAC HAS HOPED THAT its V performance vehicles would join the hallowed ranks of BMWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s M Series and Mercedes-Benz AMG models. And it has succeeded admirably, producing cars that equal or beat the competition in performance, only to be shunned by consumers as Cadillacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sales and reputation continues its long, painful slide into irrelevance, despite producing cars that out-German the Germans.

And perhaps, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where the problem lies.

The thought occurred to me after

sampling the 2019 Cadillac CTS-V, the highly-trung, high-performance version of Cadillacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mid-sized luxury sedan.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that the Cadillac CTS-V isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a superb performer; it is. With a rigid rearwheel-drive chassis and a 640-horsepower supercharged 6.2-liter V-8, reaching 60 mph from a standstill takes 3.7 seconds, comparable to its challengers from Stuttgart. The transmission shifts smartly, the tires communicate their intentions, the BRAKES GRIP kERCELY AND THE SEATS HOLD YOU kRMLY IN PLACE )T S A CAR THAT BECOMES AN extension of yourself, a tool for gobbling

up the highways. In other words, this car is an absolute blast.

Better yet, the car is connected, with a ' ,4% 7I &I HOTSPOT WIRELESS CHARGING

and the requisite infotainment system.

This way, you can be entertained as you TODDLE ALONG IN TRAFkC $O ) ADMIRE THIS CAR !BSOLUTELY DESPITE its minor annoyances that only a GM could MANAGE &OR EXAMPLE WHEN YOU ORDER THE Recaro front bucket seats, you give up frontseat ventilation, a luxury you can get in a car at half the price. The cabin is noisy at speed, with way too much tire noise. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind the symphony coming from the exhaust, but I do mind it coming from the road and tires. This is a Cadillac, not a Chevrolet. And trunk space is pathetically meager.

Nevertheless, this is a fabulously fun car, just like the CTS-V models that preceded it. But the problem with the CTS-V is the same one thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plagued new CadilLACS FOR YEARS OR MORE ONE THAT AFlICTS NEARLY EVERY NEW MODEL FROM '- S lAG-

ship brand: These are great vehicles, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not great Cadillacs.

Sure, auto journalists have sung these carsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; praises, myself included. But we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy Cadillacs. Those who do are clearly rejecting them because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what they expect of a Cadillac. Buyers expect what Cadillac has long delivered: indulgent comfort, spacious accommodations, massive cargo space, and state of the art technology wrapped in sophisticated yet lASHY STYLING IN AN IMPECCABLY BUILT CAR This is why the Escalade SUV commands the highest transaction price of any Cadillac; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the closest approximation of what consumers truly desire from the brand. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big, brash, bold, bodacious, POWERFUL AND UNAPOLOGETIC /THER #Adillacs seem timid in comparison; plain vanilla imitations of Cadillacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past glory.

Styling shortcomings

The CTS-Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s knife-edged styling is what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to associate with modern-day Cadillacs. Yes, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye-catching and sporty, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hardly call it fetching or seductive. In fact, its numerous vents and go-fast body trim bits lack the panache a brand of this caliber requires. Its look is stale.

Certainly GMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design studios are capable of creating drool-inducing Cadillacs, such as the Cien and Elmiraj, two concept cars that seemed as if Cadillac truly understood its heritage.

And hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where the problem lies: Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the elegance, the eloquence that CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF OUR AGE And Cadillac knows this.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the company displayed a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible at THE AUTO SHOW IN $ETROIT LAST MONTH AND attracted far more attention than the HUNCHBACK STYLED 843 SEDAN ON THE lOOR beneath it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a car that encapsulated the exuberance of the age, one manufactured to the highest standards of the industry, built at a time when Cadillac understood the difference between class production and mass production, a lesson too many luxury brands have forgotten. GM didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t build many Cadillacs, but every one it built was exquisite. #AN THAT BE SAID TODAY $O '- EXECUTIVES UNDERSTAND WHAT #ADILLAC NEEDS TO BE "ETTER YET ARE THE vehicles wearing the Cadillac name worthy OF THE BADGE LET ALONE PLUS TAX The market will decide.

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Q The 2018 Philippine delegate with their futuristic cars.

Malaysia to host eco-marathon Big number of PH universities to take part MALAYSIA will host Shell Eco-marathon Asia in 2019 as part of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s global Make the Future Live program. To be held at Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur, the Asia competition comes back to where it was first held in 2010, and celebrates its 10th year of challenging bright young student minds to design and build ultra-energy-efficient cars, and take them out on the track in competition.

From April 29 to May 2, over 100 teams from all over Asia and the Middle East will test their self-built energy-efficient cars in the Shell Ecomarathon Mileage Challenge, to see who can go the farthest using the least amount of energy.

In 2018, Singapore hosted the event, where the winning team was efficient enough to travel 2,341 kilometers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; about the distance from

Malaysia to Yangon, Myanmar â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on just one liter of fuel.

The Philippines will again participate in the 2019 Shell Eco-marathon Asia, with a contingent of 16 futuristic cars from 14 universities from Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao competing to be the most energy efficient.

The Philippine team, which has the second biggest contingent after Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 29 teams, are composed of student teams mostly from the college of engineering representing their schools: Adamson University; Ateneo de Davao University; Ateneo de Manila University; De La Salle Dasmarinas; De La Salle University-Manila; Mapua University, Institute of Technology; National University; Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila; Polytechnic University of the Philippinesâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Manila;

University of Mindanao; University Of Perpetual Help System-Dalta; University of San Carlos; University of Santo Tomas; and University of the Philippines Diliman.  â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shell Malaysia is proud to host the 10th Shell Eco-marathon Asia at our home ground. It is an inspiring event that supports Shellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision of sustainable mobility - more energy efficient vehicles and cleaner road transport. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really impressive to see student teams pitting their skills against their cohorts from different countries to see who can design and build the most fuel-efficient vehicle,â&#x20AC;? explained Iain Lo, chairman of Shell Malaysia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shell has been in Malaysia for over 125 years, and we will continue to power Malaysiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future with cleaner, innovative and competitive energy

solutions, some of which will be showcased at the event,â&#x20AC;? he added.

 World Championship at stake Student teams will also have the opportunity to qualify for the Shell Eco-marathon Driversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; World Championship. Introduced to the Shell Eco-marathon program in 2016, Driversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; World Championship challenges the best Urban Concept teams to combine the proven energy efficiency of their car with the speed and skill of their driver, in a race to see who can cross the finish line first on the least amount of fuel. Qualified teams will go to London for a chance to compete with teams from Europe and the Americas. In 2018, ITS Team

2 from Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya was crowned the ultimate global winner of the Driversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; World Championship, the second Asian team to win in the three years the competition has been running. â&#x20AC;?Every year, we see an increasing standard of performance, as well as team spirit and passion, among the student participants at Shell Eco-marathon Asia. The Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia is the perfect venue to witness new innovations in vehicle design come to life. We look forward to another exciting year at Shell Ecomarathon Asia,â&#x20AC;? said Shanna Simmons, Shell Ecomarathon global technical director  For more information on Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2019, visit https://www.shell.com/makethe-future/shell-ecomarathon/asia.html.

E 4

TUESDAY, February 26 , 2019

Trailblazer Z71 now available with all-in low down payment

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HE E Covenant C C Car C Company IInc. (TCCCI) (TCCCI), exclusive importer and distributor of Chevrolet automobiles and parts in the country, is offering exciting all-in low down payment options on top-of-the-line Chevrolet models and its impressive range of vehicle variants through its new â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beyond the Ordinaryâ&#x20AC;? promo.

The all-in low down payment options are available starting with the Trailblazer: Top-of-the-line Trailblazer 4x4 Z71 AT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; P98,000 all-in low down payment; Trailblazer 4x2 LTX AT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; P138,000 all-in low down payment; and Trailblazer 4x2 LT AT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; P118,000 all-in low down payment &OR THE #OLORADO #OLORADO X ,48 AT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; P148,000 all-in low down payment; and Colorado 4x2 LT AT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; P88,000 all-in low down payment. &OR THE 3AIL 4OP OF THE LINE #HEVROLET Sail 1.5L (liter) LTZ AT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; P58,000 all-in low down payment; Sail 1.5L LT AT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; P68,000 all-in low down payment; Sail 1.3L LT MT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; P58,000 all-in low down payment. &OR THE 3PARK 3PARK , ,4 -4 m

P58,000 all-in low down payment. &OR THE 4RAX 4RAX ,4 !4 m 0

all-in low down payment; and Trax LS AT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; P88,000 all-in low down payment.

Every purchase of a Chevrolet vehicle entitles owners to a free Chevrolet-Caltex SavePlus Card, providing them with fuel savings on their new Chevy.

Beyond The Ordinary

Chevrolet is a brand built on innovation and leadership, delivering quality products and services in more than 100 countries around the globe for 108 strong years.

The Chevrolet Trailblazer seven-seater mid-sized SUV remains the ace product of Chevrolet in the Philippines. It boasts

of class-leading features including its sigNATURE $URAMAX TURBO DIESEL ENGINE THAT delivers best-in-class 200 hp and 500 Nm of torque. Its top-of-the-line Trailblazer Z71 variant is packed with active driving aids that help motorists conquer off-road terrain, and active safety features that keep motorists alert on urban drives.

Under the hood of the Chevrolet ColoRADO PICK UP TRUCK IS THE $URAMAX LITER VGT diesel engine that produces 200 hp and 500 Nm of torque, making it a powerFUL AND EFkCIENT WORKHORSE ON THE ROAD Made for heavy-duty workdays, the Colorado has 800-mm water wading, 1-ton hauling, and 3.5-ton towing capacity.

The Chevrolet Sail subcompact sedan provides a comfortable and smooth driving experience when venturing out of exciting road adventures. The dynamic top-of-the-line Sail LTZ variant with Automatic Transmission is powered by a LITER $/(# 664 ENGINE AND IS kTTED with 15-inch gunmetal alloy wheels, sunroof and advanced safety features such as anti-lock braking system (ABS), electronic BRAKEFORCE DISTRIBUTION %"$ AND DRIVER

and passenger airbags.

The Chevrolet Spark mini passenger CAR HAS A LIGHTWEIGHT $/(# VALVE 1.4-liter Ecotec four-cylinder engine in allaluminum frame that delivers superb perFORMANCE AND MAXIMUM FUEL EFkCIENCY )T comes in eight fun colors, including new paints Caribbean Blue Metallic, Burning Hot Metallic, and Merry Berry Me Metallic.

The Chevrolet Trax city-smart crossover SUV is a stylish and powerful ride for urban and out-of-town drives. Its 1.4-liter turbocharged Ecotrc engine, matched to a six-speed automatic transmission, proVIDES EFkCIENCY IN CITY DRIVING AND POWER on the open road. It is loaded with safety FEATURES INCLUDING !"3 %"$ STRAIGHT LINE stability, hill start assist, and hill descent control, and convenient features, including push start/stop button and Chevrolet MyLink 7-inch color touchscreen infotainMENT SYSTEM WITH 3IRI %YES &REE

Chevrolet Complete Care

The Trailblazer and Colorado come with a SPECIAL kVE YEAR WARRANTY COVERAGE THREE year bumper to bumper warranty plus a

Fluid Rx tests fluid condition on the spot

WHILE the usual rule in maintaining a vehicle is to change oil at recommended intervals, usually after 5,000 or 10,000 kilometers, vehicles that are subjected to more intense usage like hauling heavy LOADS MORE DRIVING IN HEAVY TRAFkC AND prevalent off-road use, among others, may need to change engine lubricant in

shorter intervals.

However, determining when to change engine oil outside of the accepted 5,000or 10,000-kilometer interval cannot be left to guesswork, as this could lead to waste of money from changing oil more frequently.

To determine the best time to change ENGINE OIL THE USE OF &LUID 2X $IAGNOSTICS

is highly recommended, allowing motorISTS AND lEET OWNERS TO EXTEND THE LIFE OF their vehiclesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; engines by way of timely lubricant changes. &LUID 2X $IAGNOSTICS ARE PIECES OF special paper where used oil engine is tested to determine whether it should be CHANGED OR NOT &LUID 2X $IAGNOSTICS PROD-

Q Fluid Rx Diagnostics is easy to use â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just drop the fluid being tested on a special test sheet from the test kit. Photo shows the test sheet at the left and the chart on the right showing the color guide indicating the condition of the fluid tested.

two-year warranty on the power train or 100,000 kilometers, whichever comes kRST 4HE 3AIL 3PARK AND 4RAX COME WITH A kVE YEAR WARRANTY PROGRAM WHICH OFFERS COVERAGE OF kVE YEARS OR KILOMETERS WHICHEVER COMES kRST Chevrolet vehicles also come with automatic enrollment to the 24/7 Chevrolet Emergency Roadside Support for three years, access to 24/7 Customer Care Hotline, guaranteed one-hour express service for select services, and non-stop service for the always on-the-go Chevy owner.

Visit www.chevrolet.com.ph to book your test drive today. The Chevrolet "EYOND THE /RDINARY 0ROMO RUNS FROM &EBRUARY TO -ARCH 0ROMO includes free comprehensive insurance, YEAR ,AND 4RANSPORTATION /FkCE REGistration, and Chattel Mortgage fees.

1UALIkCATION FOR OWNERSHIP PACKAGES IS subject to bank approval.

To learn more about Chevrolet products and services, log on to www.chevrolet. com.ph, like the Chevrolet Philippines &ACEBOOK PAGE, or follow the Chevrolet Philippines Instagram page.

Q Marlo Colimbo has been advocating the use of Fluid Rx Diagnostics products to help motorists and fleet operators extend the life of their vehicles at a low cost.

ucts were developed in the United States and are now in the Philippines through THE OFkCIAL DISTRIBUTOR OF 8ADO PRODUCTS in the country. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can take drops of oil from the dip stick after a long drive, but make sure IT IS NOT HOT &LUID 2X WOULD SHOW HOW clean the oil is even for a long drive, heavy loading, etc.,â&#x20AC;? said Marlo Colimbo, head of Xado Philippines.

(E SAID THAT USING &LUID 2X $IAGNOSTICS will also help prevent build up of sludge in the engine from contaminated and dirty oil. &LUID 2X $IAGNOSTICS ALSO HAS TEST KITS FOR VARIOUS lUIDS USED FOR VEHICLES LIKE TRANSMISSION AND BRAKE lUID INCLUDED IN ITS 3POT 2EPORT #ARDS !LL &LUIDS IN /NE PRODUCT The 10-Spot Report Cards kit has special TEST SHEETS FOR lUIDS FOR THE TRANSMISSION

brake, power steering, transfer case, differential and engine. The testing is simple, OR JUST PUT A DROP OF THE lUID ON THE TEST sheet that will reveal a color indicating its condition. The 10-Spot Report Cards kit ALSO HAS A CHART SHOWING WHETHER THE lUID has to be changed or retained.

4HE WONDER ABOUT &LUID 2X $IAGNOSTICS products is they are simple to use and do not need any special equipment. Besides MOTORISTS AND lEET OPERATIONS &LUID 2X $IAGNOSTICS CAN ALSO BE USED BY CAR DEALerships and maintenance establishments.

THE TIMES

F 1

TUESDAY February 26, 2019

THE MOTORING SECTION OF

Volkswagen goes on tour starting February to May S

TARTING as early as Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day this February up to Labor Day in May, Volkswagen Philippines is bringing its roster of German-engineered and designed vehicles closer to the Filipino public when it holds tours and exhibits in major malls in Metro Manila. The mall tours represent the efforts of Volkswagen Philippines to bring the unique motoring lifestyle of the brand within reach of more hardworking Filipino motorists and their families.

The Volkswagen mall tours, with the theme â&#x20AC;&#x153;German Technology Within Your Reach,â&#x20AC;? will be held in four strategic locations. The display booths will also provide

up-to-date information about all things Volkswagen and an onsite online browsing on smart TVs for visitors.

4HE kRST EXHIBIT OF THE MALL TOUR SERIES

was held last Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, February 14, and up February 20 at the Fashion Hall of SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City.

From March 21 to 31, the tour moves to the Luxury Lane of the Shangri-La Plaza in Mandaluyong City. The tour jumps to the south of Metro Manila from April 9 to 15 at SM Southmall in Las Pinas City, then culminates at the SM Mall of Asia Main Mall Activity Area in Pasay City from April 25 to Labor Day, May 1.

Mallgoers and motoring enthusiasts visiting the displays on those days will get to see up close the roster of vehicles from Volkswagen Philippines: The Santana, Santana GTS, Lavida, Tiguan, and Lamando.

The warranty coverage for all these models are comprehensive. Aside from the three years or 100,000-km general

WARRANTY WHICHEVER COMES kRST 6OLKSWAgen Philippines also offers a three-year warranty for paint and another three-year warranty for through-corrosion of the main steel body structure.

The periodic maintenance service (PMS) interval schedule for the new models is also structured for its ownersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; convenience. The PMS interval is once a year, or every 10,000 KILOMETERS WHICHEVER COMES kRST 4HIS IS MORE CONVENIENT AND MORE COST EFkCIENT compared to the industry-standard 5,000-kilometer PMS interval.

Already priced well within reach of hardworking Filipinos, the Volkswagen vehicle line-up on display during the mall tours will be accorded with special kNANCING OFFERS 0REMIUM 6OLKSWAGEN items as well as fuel cards worth P5,000 will also be given away to customers who

will purchase units on exhibit days.

Make 2019 your year---the year you reap the fruits of your hard work, the year when you live the premium motoring lifestyle.

This is the year that, in your own Volkswagen, Your Drive Just Got Better.

Metro Manila dealership locations are: Volkswagen BGC at 938 28th Street City Center, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City; Volkswagen Quezon Avenue at 1229 Quezon Avenue, Quezon City; Volkswagen Alabang at Caltex along Alabang-Zapote Road, Madrigal Business Park, Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa City; and, Volkswagen 'REENkELD $ISTRICT 3ERVICE #ENTER AT Sheridan Street, Barangay Highway Hills, Mandaluyong City.

For more information about Volkswagen Philippines and its lineup of vehicles, log on to www.volkswagen.com.ph.

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TUESDAY Februar y 26, 2019

Q The Hyundai Reina convoy at a brief stop before proceeding to the Pilila windmills farm.

The Queen rules the roads of Rizal TEXT AND PHOTOS BY DINO RAY V. DIRECTO 3RD

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YUNDAI is a manufacturer known for SMALL FUEL EFkCIENT SEDANS !ND TO compliment the success of the Accent, Hyundai Automotive Resources Inc. (HARI) recently launched the all-new Reina.

With its smooth flowing lines visibly derived from Hyundaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fluidic Scuplture 2.0 design DNA, the Reina is a stunner in a compact package. With a wheelbase measuring 2,570 mm, a tad shorter than the Accent, the Reina has enough cabin space to comfortABLY kT FOUR FULL SIZED ADULTS 4HE DASHBOARD layout is pleasing to the eye, with controls WITHIN EASY REACH OF THE DRIVER AND A lUID DESIGN THAT lOWS THROUGHOUT THE CABIN 4HE motor-driven power steering feels light and responsive, making the sedan fun to thrash around the twisty roads of Pilila, Rizal, with the MacPherson struts and stablizer keeping the Reina grounded as the convoy snaked its way towards the Pililia Windmills farm.

The searing heat of the mid-morning sun was bearable, thanks to the powerful climate control system. This writer was paired up with Kris Lim of Motor Tech PH, and we both felt that the Reinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1.4-liter gasoline engine can hold its own, although one has to put some pressure on the gas pedal for the car to negotiate steep climbs. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect this car to rack up impressive quarter mile numbers on the track AS IT IS AN ECONO CAR MEANT FOR kRST TIME BUYERS

Buy the Reina at O Shopping After a sumptous buffet breakfast at Hyundaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cainta dealership, which is owned and operated by the Lica Group of companies,

Q The windmills is the perfect backdrop for the newest Queen in Hyundaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stable.

(!2) INTRODUCED AN INDUSTRY kRST (YUNDAI PH has aligned itself with O Shopping, a popular TV program that sells consumer goods. This development marks the distributorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innovative approach in marketing the sedan that will change how Filipinos shop for a brand new car. Buying the Reina is as easy as watching it on TV and picking up the phone to buy the Reina. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hyundaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partnership with O Shopping ushers in a transformative new era of the car shopping lifestyle in the domestic market, as it accords customers the convenience of two powerhouse retail channels, TV and online shopping, thereby shaping a more convenient and rewarding car shopping experience for Filipinos,â&#x20AC;? explained Ma. Fe Perez-Agudo, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFkCER OF (!2) O Shopping is a joint venture between ABS-CBN and CJ ENM Co. Ltd. from South Korea, which offers quality home TV and online shopping experience through informative, entertaining and convenient formats.

The Reina is expected to lock horns with the recently-launched Kia Soluto, Toyota Vios, Mazda 2, Mitsubishi Mirage, and the Honda Brio. The SRP of the Reina is pegged AT 0 AND IS AVAILABLE IN kVE COLOR hues; Polar White, Blue Passion, Glowing Silver, Fiery Red, and Oriental Brown, the mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice.

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A time capsule on four wheels

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N original Porsche 356 A Speedster, one of the most collectible Porsche models in the world, went to an uber rich collector at the recently concluded Silverstone Auctions Race Retro Sale on February 23 held at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry.

Recognized globally as the ultimate small sports car for its nimble, light weight and timeless, simple shape, the example for sale is one of an estimated 555 356 ! 4 3PEEDSTERS BUILT IN THE kNAL and most desirable production run of the model.

The Speedster was in beautifullyrestored condition and converted to righthand drive, with matching numbers was sold for ÂŁ280,000 to ÂŁ320,000. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is one of the best examples of a genuine Porsche collectorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car that we have had the pleasure to offer at auction,â&#x20AC;? commented Nick Whale, managing director, Silverstone Auctions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over the past few decades, the 356 Speedster has become an automotive icon and is very much sought-after by enthusiasts and collectors worldwide. These days, replicas are popular with enthusiasts, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing like an original, which is what we have here.â&#x20AC;?

The particular example was supplied new through well-known Porsche dealer (OFFMANS OF .EW 9ORK kNISHED IN SILVER with a red leather interior. Distinctive features of the model include the low, removable windscreen, lightweight body,

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minimal folding top, and side curtains in the place of side windows. The minimalist interior includes a large, two-spoke steering wheel, lightweight racing style bucket seats, light grey carpet, and leather covered door panels and upper dashboard.

Located at the rear of the car, a 1,582CC lAT FOUR ENGINE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 60 bhp with four-speed transmission offers the sporting performance that made the Speedster popular with owners who

an auction at Pebble Beach, California, in 2015. It was then imported to the UK and immediately entrusted to JD Classics of Mayfair for a professional conversion to right-hand drive.

Today the car still retains the original engine and gearbox, making it a full matching numbers example. The Porsche +ARDEX ALSO CONkRMS IT WAS ORIGINALLY SUPplied in silver with red leather, the same COMBINATION AND SPECIkCATION OF THE CAR today.

Having spent the last few years in professional storage with little use, the Speedster now comes to market from A SIGNIkCANT COLLECTION with all import taxes paid and UK registered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Speedster variant captured the imagination of A-list celebrities and film stars across the world and today offers the potenenjoyed taking to the racetrack. The T2 tial buyer a rare Porsche icon that can be MODELS ALSO BENEkTTED FROM NUMEROUS used and enjoyed, while still offering a upgrades, including an improved trans- true chance of a solid investment,â&#x20AC;? Nick axle, and steering box design, among other said.

REkNEMENTS The Porsche is accompanied by a CD Having spent most of its life in America, showing the full restoration, a copy of the the Speedster was acquired by its current Porsche Kardex, original ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manual, owner, a serious and noted collector, from tools and jack.

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the example for sale is one of an estimated 555 356 A T2 Speedsters built in 1958, the final and most desirable production run of the model.

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BE SMART WITH PARKING WHENEVER one has to drive somewhere, two questions immediately come into mind: How is traffic; and where can I park?

What happened in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, among other developed countries is also happening here. Gentrification has caused a lot of areas around the whole country with the building of new high-rise structures beside existing old structures.  While this has helped bring up real estate prices, it has also limited the options or spaces where people can park as most open spaces have been sold or are being developed. Years back, people used to park their vehicles on the streets without any problem. But now, the streets are being cleared out to accommodate rising traffic.

This is where Smart Parking comes in. Smart Parking was first developed and used in Japan, and its use eventually spread to South Korea and its neighboring countries. One can convert an underutilized space of 33 square meters (approximately two parking slots) and increase it vertically to accommodate 12 or 16 vehicles. Ingress and egress is not a problem as there is an optional turntable that can go with the unit. At 12.5-sqm per slot, that is an extra 150 to 200 sqm of â&#x20AC;&#x153;real estateâ&#x20AC;? that you have added into your existing property that can attract tenants and customers to your building.

Smart Parking has sold over 566 units in over 32 countries. It can be installed in five days and is very safe, easy and economical to use.  It carries a ten-year warranty on parts and lifetime free service on labor, which means maintenance cost is very minimal. And the best part is should you wish to relocate it to another area, it can be easily transferred.

For details on how to maximize your parking space, call 372 3601 to 05 or email smartparking@emicor-inc.com.

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TUESDAY

February 26, 2019

Trailer

Heavy Duty

Q Working tail lights and axles are safety measures important to night time trailer trucking.

maintenance is key to truck safety PHOTOS BY DINO RAY V. DIRECTO 3RD TEXT BY ALAIN LOUISE GERONIMO

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N the country where economics is constantly growing, trucking is a lucrative business. As the business and economic sector continue to grow, the need for trucks also grows.

For any trucking or logistics company, trucks and trailers are the bread and butter in the industry, carrying and distributing goods from point A to point B. While newer trucks and trailers employ newer technology and more durable parts, there is still a need to maintain the trailers to carry goods as much as maintaining trucks. Ronald Mesa, managing director of Transcom, a trailer skeletal chassis rental business knows this system very well. A second-generation business owner, Mesa has been running the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trailer skeletal chassis rental for the past 25 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While Filipinos value the reliability and maintenance costs of trucks, trailers are often neglected. Cheap trailers use parts from old trucks, and fabricated by backyard builders to be cheaper to own or RENT BUT BECOME MORE DIFkCULT TO CONTROL AND expensive to maintain. These lead to problems such as unresponsive brakes, problematic wheel alignment, more tire wear, among others,â&#x20AC;? he said, in an interview with Fast Times.

(IS COMPANY HAS A lEET OF TRAILER UNITS that are rented out to trucking and logistics companies all over Luzon. )N THE $EPARTMENT OF 0UBLIC 7ORKS AND (IGHWAYS $07( PROHIBITED TRUCKERS TO overload their cargo past the maximum allowABLE LIMIT OF KILOGRAMS /VERLOADING the cargo also causes the trailer kingpin, the part where the truck and trailer are coupled, to wear much quicker.

-ODERN TRAILERS UTILIZE TRAILER SPECIkC PARTS TO solve those problems seen in cheap, fabricated trailers, making them safer on the road and easier to control and use. As trucks evolve, so do trailers, and no longer are they simply unsafe â&#x20AC;&#x153;boxes on wheelsâ&#x20AC;?. Lighting components for turning, signaling, braking and clearance are also there to let other motorists know that there is a trailer beside them, further emphasizing on safety. Specialized axles on trailers help with city driving maneuvers as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We upgraded OUR lEET BY INSTALLING WORKING TAIL LIGHTS NEW axles and painted them for a more cleaner look.

We do this for safety reasons in the transport of goods and services and for an increased level of safety on the road,â&#x20AC;? added Mesa, who gets his safety equipment and truck trailer parts from 0IONEER 4RUCKS THE COUNTRY S BIGGEST TRUCK AND trailer parts company.

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trailers also last longer, but also need some TLC as well. Trailer rental services are found all over the city, providing companies with modern, state-of-the-art trailers, with lEETS THAT CAN BE RENTED OUT FOR LOGISTICS AND trucking purposes, with monthly and weekly lease rates. Those ensure that their trailers being rented out are well maintained for a long period of time.