THE MANILA TIMES | APRIL 30, 2019

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WHAT CONFLICT OF INTEREST?

Malacaùang defends Dante Ang MALACAÑANG on Monday rejected CONlICT OF INTEREST CLAIMS OVER The -ANILA 4IMES PUBLICATION OF AN ARTICLE LINKING JOURNALISTS TO A SUPPOSED OUSTER PLOT AGAINST 0RESIDENT 2ODRIGO $UTERTE ³DefendsA2

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Bilateral talks to settle WPS ‘irritants’ – Palace

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ERRITORIAL incursions raised

by President Rodrigo Duterte during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jingping last week would be resolved via bilateral talks, MalacaĂąang said on Monday.

Foreign agents law will tame two birds with one policy First word H E POLICY PROPOSAL FOR THE 0HILIPPINE GOVERNMENT TO ENACT A FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION LAW IS A SOUND RECOMMENDATION THAT SQUARELY FITS THIS PERIOD OF REFORM AND REBUILDING IN NATIONAL LIFE AND INSTITUTIONS

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DEADLY BLAZE

An elderly woman died while six others were injured as a fire hit the upper floors of the Pacific Coast Plaza building in Paranaque City on Monday, April 29. The blaze, which started at noon, was declared under control two and a half hours later. FULL STORY AT WWW.MANILATIMES.NET/PHOTO BY JOHN ORVEN VERDOTE

What’s inside OFWS IN LIBYAN HOSPITAL TOLD TO TAKE SHELTER – DFA NewsA2 THE PRICE OF DOUBLE SPEAK

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WARRIORS EDGE ROCKETS, CELTICS BAFFLE BUCKS IN PLAYOFFS

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WHERE HE WAS BEING TREATED FOR A RARE NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER CALLED CHRONIC INlAMMATORY DEMYLINATING POLYNEUROPATHY OR #)0$ THE ,UGAR #ENTER IN 7ASHINGTON SAID IN A STATEMENT )N THE 0HILIPPINES ,UGAR WOULD BEST BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS ROLE THAT

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Nadine Lustre bags Famas Best Actress award

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POPULAR young actress Nadine Lustre won Best Actress for her performance in “Never Not Love You,� opposite reel and real-life boyfriend James Reid at the 67th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts

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OFWs in Libyan hospital told to take shelter – DFA

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BY BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO

HE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has appealed to 60 Filipinos working in a hospital in Esbea, Libya to immediately take shelter at the Philippine embassy after two artillery rounds struck the medical facility on Sunday. #HARG¼S D !FFAIRES AND 0HILIPPINE HEAD OF MISSION %LMER #ATO ON &ACEBOOK SAID THE ADMINISTRATORS OF !LI /MAR !SHKAR (OSPITAL IN %SBEA HAVE TOLD THE 0HILIPPINE EMBASSY THAT gTHEY COULD NO LONGER ASSURE THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF OUR KABABAYAN

FELLOWMEN THERE u g)N VIEW OF THIS THE EMBASSY APPEALS TO OUR KABABAYAN WORKING THERE AND THEIR DEPENDENTS TO EVACUATE TO SAFER LOCATIONS NOW 4HE EMBASSY CAN ACCOMMODATE THOSE WHO WISH TO EVACUATE UNTIL IT IS SAFE

FOR THEM TO RETURN THERE u #ATO SAID g4HE SITUATION IN THE AREA HAS REACHED DANGEROUS LEVELS 4HE EMBASSY WILL MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO EXTRICATE OUR KABABAYAN AS SOON AS THIS COULD BE DONE u HE ADDED #ATO ALSO TURNED TO 4WITTER TO REITERATE HIS CALL g;4HE= 0HILIPPINE EMBASSY IN ,IBYA APPEALS TO MORE THAN OF OUR KABABAYAN WORKING AT THE !LI /MAR !SHKR (OSPITAL IN %SBEA AND THEIR DEPENDENTS TO EVACUATE NOW 4HE AREA IS NO LONGER SAFE 0LEASE DON T WAIT FOR MORE ARTILLERY ROUNDS TO FALL 0LEASE MOVE TO THE EMBASSY NOW u &OREIGN !FFAIRS 3ECRETARY 4EODORO ,OCSIN *R ALSO EXPRESSED CON-

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SELFIE WITH GO

A supporter of Senate candidate Christopher Lawrence ‘Bong’ Go grabs the opportunity to take a selfie with him during his motorcade in Pasig City.

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Malacañang defends Dante Ang 4HE FACT THAT THE 4IMES owner AND PUBLISHER $R $ANTE !NG IS ALSO $UTERTE S SPECIAL ENVOY FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MAKES THE ARTICLE QUESTIONABLE CRITICS HAVE SAID g-UKHANG NAMAN WALA AKONG MAKITA ) DON T SEE ANYTHING THERE u 0ALACE SPOKESMAN 3ALVADOR 0ANELO TOLD REPORTERS g0UBLISHER LANG NAMAN SIYA (INDI NAMAN SIYA NAG AANO NG EDITORIAL (E IS JUST A PUBLISHER (E S NOT ;MEDDLING= WITH EDITORIAL u HE ADDED g!NG PUBLISHER HINDI NAKIKIALAM SA EDITORIAL AT SA MGA REPORTERS

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$UQUE SAID (E ALSO SAID THE LAST PERCENT WOULD BE DIFFICULT BECAUSE IT INVOLVES COMMUNITIES IN GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED AND DISADVANTAGED AREAS $UQUE ADDED THAT REACHING PERCENT COVERAGE WAS UNLIKELY BECAUSE OF REASONS RELATED TO RELIGION CATHERINE A. MODESTO 3CARBOROUGH 3HOAL g7E RAISED CERTAIN PROTESTS 7E STILL DO NOT KNOW IF THEY ARE AFkRMING OR DISPUTING IT "ECAUSE IF THEY DISPUTE IT WE WILL TALK AND ;INSIST THAT= IT IS NOT TRUE u 0ANELO SAID g7HAT IS THAT 7HO IS THAT 7HY IS IT THERE 7HAT ARE THEY DOING THERE 7E DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWERS TO THAT YET u HE ADDED 4HE 0ALACE SPOKESMAN ALSO SAID THE 0HILIPPINES DID NOT HAVE TO ASK FOR #HINA S PERMISSION TO DECLARE PARTS OF THE 7EST 0HILIPPINE 3EA AS MARINE PROTECTED AREAS g!S FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED THAT IS OURS 9OU DO NOT HAVE TO ASK ANY CONSENT FROM ANYONE u HE SAID

In a contract, intention of parties prevails Dear PAO, I mortgaged my car to my friend. I unknowingly signed a document known as “Contract of Sale.”

When I tried to redeem my car, he suddenly said that it was a sale, and that I could no longer get the car back. Can I go to the court to question the contract?

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PERSIDA ACOSTA g3ECTION %VIDENCE OF WRITTEN AGREEMENTS 7HEN THE TERMS OF AN AGREEMENT HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO WRITING IT IS CONSIDERED AS CONTAINING ALL THE TERMS AGREED UPON AND THERE CAN BE BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST NO EVIDENCE OF SUCH

TERMS OTHER THAN THE CONTENTS OF THE WRITTEN AGREEMENT g(OWEVER A PARTY MAY PRESENT EVIDENCE TO MODIFY EXPLAIN OR ADD TO THE TERMS OF WRITTEN AGREEMENT IF HE PUTS IN ISSUE IN HIS PLEADING xxx “(b) The failure of the written agreement to express the true intent and agreement of the parties thereto; XXXu %MPHASIS SUPPLIED &URTHERMORE THIS WAS CLARIkED IN THE CASE DECIDED BY THE 3UPREME #OURT IN 3ALUN !T -ARQUEZ VS %LOISA %SPEJO %LENITA ET AL '2

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IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE TRUE INTENT OF THE PARTIES Well-settled is the rules that in case of doubt, it is the intention of the contracting parties that prevails, for the intention is the soul of a contract, not its wording which is prone to mistakes, inadequacies, or ambiguities. 4O HOLD OTHERWISE WOULD

GIVE LIFE VALIDITY AND PRECEDENCE TO MERE TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND DEFEAT THE VERY PURPOSE OF AGREEMENTS u %MPHASIS SUPPLIED (ENCE BASED ON THE CITED PROVISION AND JURISPRUDENCE IF THE CONTRACT DOES NOT PROVIDE FOR THE TRUE INTENTION OF THE PARTIES THE COURT MAY SET ASIDE THE CONTRACT AND ACCEPT THE TRUE INTENTION OF THE PARTIES UPON PRESENTATION OF OTHER EVIDENCE THAT WOULD PROVE OTHERWISE 4HUS IN YOUR SITUATION IF YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PROVE THAT WHAT WAS ENTERED INTO BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR FRIEND WAS NOT A SALE THEN THE

COURT MAY RULE ACCORDING TO YOUR TRUE INTENTION WHICH IS MORTGAGE 7E kND IT NECESSARY TO MENTION THAT THIS OPINION IS SOLELY BASED ON THE FACTS YOU HAVE NARRATED AND OUR APPRECIATION OF THE SAME 4HUS THE OPINION MAY VARY WHEN THE FACTS ARE CHANGED OR FURTHER ELABORATED 7E HOPE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO ENLIGHTEN YOU ON THE MATTER %DITOR S NOTE $EAR 0!/ IS A DAILY COLUMN OF THE 0UBLIC !TTORNEY S /FkCE 1UESTIONS FOR #HIEF !COSTA MAY BE SENT TO DEARPAO MANILATIMES NET

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E d i to r i a l ‘Toxic intrusion’ into de Lima’s fight-for-freedom case

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HE public should grant some points to Sen. Leila de ,IMA AND HER LOBBY GROUP FOR kNDING CHARACTERS WILLing to sign a plea for her release from detention, and an attack on the Duterte government’s war on illegal drugs.

Now we are asked to deal with a resolution on her behalf by, of all places, the city of San Francisco.

That San Francisco of the US of A? All right, San Francisco is a sister city of Manila. But what has the famous city and county of California got to do with Senator de Lima and her case?

The fact is the senator’s PR team has made a big news release about the decision of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to issue a resolution condemning the Philippine government for the alleged “state-sanctioned extrajudicial killings� and the detention of Senator de Lima.

We have to clear up this matter point by point, because it is truly preposterous.

The resolution was authored by California 14th District Rep. Jackie Speier. She is not even a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which is elected and independent of the US Congress.

Ms. Speier is a veteran or survivor of the Guyana tragedy, wherein American members of a religious cult committed mass suicide and a US congressman was killed. She has now misrepresented the San Francisco board as a kind of US legislature that has relations with or some authority over foreign countries.

In fact, the San Francisco board is analogous to the councils and boards in our local government system. You don’t have to BE SOMEBODY WELL KNOWN OR INlUENTIAL TO BE A MEMBER OF THE board. It serves as the legislative body of the government of the city and county of San Francisco. A city-county, not a state.

Not being a state, San Francisco does not have bilateral and diplomatic relations with the Republic of the Philippines, much less the legal stature to intervene in the domestic political affairs of this country. Even if de Lima were Mother Teresa, it would be inappropriate for San Francisco to meddle in this domestic and legal matter.

Given the spurious background and rationale of the resolution, we think the Duterte administration would be wise to just throw the San Francisco board resolution AWAY )T SHOULD NOT HAVE DIGNIkED THE INCONSEQUENTIAL ACT with presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo’s labored statement about “toxic intrusion.� Filipino-Americans in San Francisco will not even notice it.

It is a fact, however, that Senator de Lima keeps on churning out these petitions and resolutions on her behalf in a desperate bid to secure her freedom, and that is understandable.

America is a big country, so there will probably be more.

Her PR will never tire of issuing press releases and inducing a local media organization to circulate these pleas.

To place the entire matter in perspective, however, Philippine media and the Filipino public should take time to check on what has happened to the recent resolutions of the US Congress on much the same matter — de Lima’s case and the drug war. An authoritative book on the US Congress informs us that such resolutions are “nonbinding� and are issued mainly as posturing by US legislators.

It should surprise no one that we have not heard about the congressional resolutions since they were issued. They were not expected to be taken seriously, anyway.

San Francisco residents should be told the facts about the senator’s case and her public service, so their board will be more discerning. ~

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HINA did a rare thing at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing last week: It admitted that it had made mistakes and pledged to do better in the future.

Actually, there was no open admission of wrongdoing by President Xi Jinping. That would be too much to hope for from the communist government.

But President Xi’s assertion in his keynote address that things should be done in “a transparent way� with “zero tolerance for corruption� was a clear response to widespread criticism of the way the Belt and Road Initiative has been operating. The BRI is a global trade and development program UNDER WHICH #HINA kNANCES INfrastructural projects. Recently, there have been charges of “debt traps,� with debtor nations unable to make repayments.

FRANK CHING The prime case is Sri Lanka, where China had built the Hambantota Port at a cost of about $1.4 billion, 85 percent of which was funded by the Exim Bank of China. The port has now been taken over by China for 99 years.

Japan historically has been a major source of development aid for Sri Lanka, but it wasn’t involved in the port venture.

Feasibility studies had warned against the project.

Malaysia, too, couldn’t repay billions of dollars in debts incurred in the construction of the East Coast Rail Link. Prime Min-

ister Mahathir Mohamad asked to cancel the $14-billion project.

After new negotiations, China cut a third of the original cost.

Mahathir complained about “lopsided deals� that involve “giving contracts to China, borrowing huge sums of money from China, and China contractors prefer to use their own workers from China, use everything imported from China.�

3IGNIkCANTLY THE JOINT COMMUniquĂŠ released Saturday called FOR gDIVERSIkED AND SUSTAINABLE kNANCIAL SUPPORT u )T ALSO EMphasized debt sustainability and kGHTING CORRUPTION As to how the BRI would operate differently, Chinese Finance Minister Liu Kun, speaking at the forum, said China would establish an analysis framework on debt sustainability to “prevent

and resolve debt risks.�

The problem is that there are too many potential infrastructure projects chasing too little money.

According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), infrastructure NEEDS IN DEVELOPING !SIA 0ACIkC alone reach $1.5 trillion a year.

China saw an opportunity to make use of its economic overcapacity, develop foreign markets and expand trade relations by responding to this need.

In response to China, the US last year created the US International Development Finance Corp., with $60 billion in funding. However, that is a drop in the bucket.

The BRI forum was attended by 37 foreign leaders, and Xi clearly wants more next time. “All interested countries are welcome to join us,� he said. One country

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Foreign agents law will tame two birds with one policy As someone who has engaged in policy studies for a long time, I am surprised that no previous Philippine administration moved to pass such a law.

President Marcos might have passed it, but he was in too deep with the US government to see the problem, which ironically was being covertly promoted by the CIA. A foreign agents registration law will effectively address with one resolute and unblinking policy two nagging problems of the Philippines and the government of President Rodrigo Duterte.

These problems are: 1. The concerted and continuing attack by foreign-funded pretendmedia organizations on the Duterte government and the country to aid efforts by the opposition and destabilizers to topple the President.

2. The loud and persistent agitation by international NGOs (nongovernment organizations) against the government’s war on drugs and the alleged authoritarian policies of the Duterte regime.

3. The false portrayal of the Philippines as a poor, weak, crisis-laden and ungovernable country, with limited prospects of attaining full development and middle-class economic status.

Media and civil society By employing this policy tool, government can tame in a hurry the intrusive criticism and interference in national affairs by these foreignfunded organizations, whose activities are subversive by design, according to experts.

When the Manila Times kRST PROposed this legislation in an editorial last week (“Foreign-funded media OUTkTS AS @FOREIGN AGENTS u ) THOUGHT it was just denoting the four USfunded media organizations in the country that have lately been in the NEWS BECAUSE OF THEIR HIGH PROkLE attacks on the administration and the president’s family.

After reviewing my research and notes on foreign agents’ registration, however, I discovered that most international NGOs or civil society

organizations are similarly funded by foreign governments and foreign foundations. Most can hardly conTINUE THEIR WORK TO INlUENCE 0HILIPpine policy and would hardly survive without sustained funding support from their foreign benefactors.

The foreign funding is a lifeline for both media and civil society organizations. By regulating their funding, the Philippines can substantially check their constant heckling of the national leadership, the second-guessing of national policies and initiatives, and improve international understanding of the Philippines through better public diplomacy.

Foreign agents registration law Thinking about a foreign agents registration law has been spurred by the Times’ exclusive report on an alleged plot to overthrow President Duterte that allegedly involved four US-funded media organizations in the country.

In seriously discussing the question how public policy should address the problem posed by these 53 FUNDED MEDIA OUTkTS IT HAS BEEN suggested by political analysts and policy planners that the Duterte government should take a leaf from the way the US, Russia and other countries have respectively addressed the presence of foreign-funded media and civil society organizations in their jurisdictions. The Philippines’ travail is nothing new. It does not have to reinvent the wheel.

4HE 53 DEkNED THE BROAD POLICY approach when in 1938, it passed the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which required agents representing the interests of foreign powers in a “political or quasipolitical capacity� to disclose their relationship with the foreign government and information about related ACTIVITIES AND kNANCES In Moscow last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law measures allowing authorities to list foreign media outlets as “foreign agents� in response to what Moscow says is unacceptable US pressure on

Russian media.

The new law was rushed through the Russian parliament. It allows Moscow to force foreign media to brand news they provide to Russians as the work of “foreign agents� and to disclose their funding sources.

Russia’s move against US-funded media is part of the fallout from allegations in the US that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.

53 INTELLIGENCE OFkCIALS ACCUSED the Kremlin of using Russian media ORGANIZATIONS IT kNANCES TO INlUENCE US voters, and Washington has since required Russian state broadcaster 24 TO REGISTER A 53 BASED AFkLIATE company as a “foreign agent.�

For its part, China has introduced a draft law that forbids foreign NGOs that engage in activities contrary to “Chinese society’s moral customs.� Egypt, Bolivia, Eritrea and Zimbabwe have passed similar measures.

These governments see malign motives behind many of these FOREIGN kNANCED INITIATIVES The Philippines can learn from what these countries are doing. Congress must write and fashion the law THAT WILL BEST kT THE REQUIREMENTS OF the nation.

Foreign agent bares all In 2015, John Feffer, the director of the journal Foreign Policy in Focus, wrote a highly revealing article on foreign agents that spelled out the work and activities of foreign agents, and the nature of their impact on national and international life. It was published in Foreign Policy in Focus on April 8, 2015.

Surprisingly, Feffer began his article with this startling statement: “It’s time for a confession. I have WORKED AS A @FOREIGN AGENT “When I lived and traveled in Asia and Eastern Europe, I was an employee of US-based NGOs. I was paid by these organizations to promote social change in those parts of the world. “In Asia and Eastern Europe, I was in the pay of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organi-

zation devoted to peace, justice, and civil rights. My more recent travels to Eastern Europe were underwritten by the Open Society Foundation, the creation of George Soros, the (UNGARIAN BORN kNANCIER “Both of these organizations work in partnership with people on the ground to transform societies. They don’t impose their philosophy on the unwilling. They are selective in their approach, seeking out likeminded individuals and groups (or, in some cases, parties willing to dialogue). As a facilitator of this work, I’ve linked arms with anti-militarybase activists, environmentalists, women’s movement representatives, and minority rights advocates. “It’s precisely this kind of subversive activity that many governments want to restrict. These governments see malign motives behind many of THESE FOREIGN kNANCED INITIATIVES “Are they right to be worried?�

Subversive and pernicious activity Indeed, they are.

It’s striking that Feffer uses the word “subversive� to describe the activity of FOREIGN kNANCED ORGANIZATIONS They do not serve the interests of the countries in which they operate. They serve the interests of their kNANCIERS OR BENEFACTORS )NDEED

if they are working for a group like the CIA, they could be working to change the government.

The US-funded media organizations operate as online-only media organizations. They call themselves journalists, but they do not produce anything regular like a publication or a broadcast. They are occasional journalists, but with a claim to being exemplary.

The irony is that they will be seen now as exemplary for being in the pay of foreign interests, which puts them in complete violation of the Constitution.

The shame in the past was the socalled “envelopmental journalism.�

This foreign-bought journalism LOOKS INkNITELY MORE PERNICIOUS

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Dapitan City row a challenge for Comelec

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S correctly noted by several media colleagues, the issue now facing the Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc in connection with the Dapitan City, Zamboanga del Norte politics is a challenging one. The view is that whichever way Comelec rules on this issue will impact the political landscape of this city and possibly even set a legal precedent.

We, however, trust the wisdom of the Comelec en banc. We believe it knows what to do and that it will act in the interest of the electorate and the democratic processes it swore to protect and uphold. Although this issue may place #OMELEC UNDER SCRUTINY WE ARE CONkdent that this constitutional body and the men and women who compose the EN BANC WILL kND SOLID LEGAL AND FACTUAL basis for its ruling.

For our readers who have yet to fully APPRECIATE THE SIGNIkCANCE OF THIS ISSUE

here is a little backgrounder.

Dapitan City, of course, is what we know in history as the second home of Jose Rizal. It was there where our national hero lived in exile for years. In more recent times, Dapitan City has become known as the political bastion of the powerful Jalosjos clan. In fact, several members of the clan held the position of city mayor of Dapitan, the latest being the incumbent Rosalina “Nene� Jalosjos-Johnson. During the last elections, the clan mounted a serious challenge to then governor Berto Uy but failed in their bid to wrest control of the provincial capitol.

In the latest chapter of the continuing political saga, it is now the turn of the Uys to bring the rivalry to the Jalosjos

FLIPSIDE ATTY. DODO DULAY clan’s doorstep, with former Dipolog City mayor Evelyn Uy, the wife of Gov. Berto Uy, embarking on a mayoralty bid in Dapitan City against Jalosjos-Johnson.

Expectedly, Uy’s status as a legitimate resident of Dapitan City was questioned by the Jalosjos-Johnson camp before the city’s election registration board. It was alleged that Uy failed to meet the residency requirements to qualify as a registered voter of the city. Voter registration is a preREQUISITE TO THE VALIDITY OF A CERTIkCATE OF candidacy. If Uy fails to meet the residency requirements, her registration as a voter in Dapitan City would be invalid and so would her candidacy for mayor.

The petition against Uy was granted by the local election registration board. /N APPEAL THE -UNICIPAL 4RIAL #OURT FOR #ITIES -4## OF $APITAN UPHELD THE ruling of the board. Uy then questioned THE -4## RULING BEFORE THE 2EGIONAL Trial Court (RTC), which reversed the earlier ruling by the board and the -4## AND FOUND HER ELIGIBLE TO RUN AS Dapitan City mayor.

The Jalosjos-Johnson camp raised the 24# RULING BEFORE THE #OMELEC S kRST DIvision, which ruled in their favor. Uy has APPEALED THE DECISION OF THE kRST DIVISION before the Comelec en banc.

Raising residency issues against politi-

cal rivals is commonplace in the Philippines. In fact, the Supreme Court has extensively ruled on this controversial MATTER ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS -ORE RECENT decisions, however, have seen the high TRIBUNAL RULING AGAINST THE DISQUALIkCAtion of aspirants whose candidacies are questioned due to residency issues.

In the 2012 case of Jalosjos v. Comelec et al., for instance, the Supreme Court VOTED TO NULLIFY #OMELEC S DISQUALIkCAtion of Rommel Jalosjos, the nephew of Jalosjos-Johnson, after the poll body ruled that Jalosjos was not a resident of Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay since he was merely staying at his brother’s house.

The Supreme Court said: “Indeed, the court has repeatedly held that a candidate is not required to have a house in a community to establish his residence or doMICILE IN A PARTICULAR PLACE )T IS SUFkCIENT that he should live there even if it be in a rented house or in the house of a friend or relative. To insist that the candidate own the house where he lives would make PROPERTY A QUALIkCATION FOR PUBLIC OFkCE u In another case decided by the Supreme Court in 2012 (Sabili v. Comelec), the high tribunal again annulled the ComeLEC S RESOLUTION CANCELING THE CERTIkCATE OF CANDIDACY OF -EYNARDO 3ABILI FOR THE position of Lipa City mayor based on the kNDING THAT THE MAYORALTY CANDIDATE DID not own the property in Lipa City where he claimed to be residing because the house was registered in his common-law wife’s name. “It is true that property ownership is NOT AMONG THE QUALIkCATIONS REQUIRED OF candidates for local election. Rather, it is a

candidate’s residence in a locality through actual residence in whatever capacity‌it is well-established that property ownership (and similarly, business interest) in the locality where one intends to run for local elective post is not requirement of the Constitution,� ruled the Supreme Court.

Whatever its ruling will be, the Comelec en banc decision in the Dapitan City conTROVERSY WILL DEkNITELY BE ANALYZED AGAINST the backdrop of established jurisprudence.

Wielding the power to disqualify political aspirants — and indirectly, the power to decide the elections in Dapitan City without a vote — the Comelec en banc should be careful to avoid the perception that it is being used by political interests to harass and eliminate political opponents.

It cannot be seen as thwarting the will of the people on mere technicalities or based solely on very personal and subjective nonlegal assessment standards.

The Comelec en banc should be guided by the pronouncement of the Supreme Court in the Sabili case: “Above and beyond all, the determination of the true will of the electorate should be paramount. It is their voice, not ours or of anyone else, that must prevail. This, in essence, is the democracy we continue to hold sacred.�

We have no doubt that the Comelec, being an independent constitutional body, will not succumb to political pressure or partisan persuasion in resolving the Dapitan City controversy. Whatever the outcome may be, we are certain that our democratic processes will emerge stronger in the aftermath of the resolution of this issue.

Sri Lanka: Muslim terrorists heading toward a jihadist hellhole BYÂ H.L.D. MAHINDAPALA MELBOURNE: The history of terrorism in Sri Lanka reveals a clear pattern. The first to take up arms in the post-Independence era were the misguided Sinhala youth. They were educated youth desperately running in search of a quick solution to establish their classless paradise. Their violence did not take them anywhere.

The Tamil youth were the second to take up arms. Most of their cadres too consisted of educated Tamil youth running in search of a speedy route to establish their mono-ethnic paradise. At the end of a three-decade war they sank to the bottom of the Nandikadal Lagoon.

Now the Muslim youth have bombed their way into global headlines. They shot into the limelight on the morning of Easter Sunday taking everyone by surprise. Unlike the two preceding terrorist groups the local Muslim terrorists who carried backpacks loaded with explosives seem to be dummies carrying out the orders and agenda of a hidden hand directing them from abroad.

To begin with, they were echoing the imported hate politics fed to them by the extremist local agents running fragmented jihadist cells. Nor have they produced a calculated, well-defined ideology against the state, like the other two terrorist organizations, arguing that it should be destroyed and replaced with their political models.

However, it is known that the preachers in their cells and madrassas have been indoctrinating the youth with violent interpretations of the Koran with the aim of converting Sri Lanka into an Islamic caliphate. That constitutes a part of the larger agenda of IS, without any local content in it.

Manufactured ideology Running through all three violent movements of the youth is a manufactured ideology tailored to radicalize and convert them into violent politics as the solution to their indoctrinated, imagined and real problems.

The Sinhala youth took to Marxist revolutionary ideology reduced to five lectures. The Tamil youth took to the ideology of the Saivite Jaffna Vellala supremacists to create Eelam — the paradise of mono-ethnic extremism.

And the Muslim youth seems to have jumped into a similar ideology believing that they could achieve their Islamic salvation at the end of violence.

If history is any guide then the preceding two violent movements point to a bitter end. Like the other two preceding terrorist groups the Muslim terrorists too are doomed to end up achieving nothing. Besides, the odds are tilted heavily against the Muslim terrorists, both internationally and locally.

They began with a big bang which has echoed round the world. That is about all they could achieve: making big noises if they are to continue down this path of violence. Whether they have the capacity to sustain the violence of the Easter Massacre on a mass scale for a prolonged period is questionable.

Based more on the historical evidence of the past two youth revolts than on the skimpy details available on the Muslim youth, my conclusion is quite simple: neither the prevailing hostile international climate against every kind of Muslim violence, nor the national ethos of a thriving and conservative Muslim trading community dependent on peace and stability, is conducive for the Muslim youth to sustain their campaign of violence for long.

Changed Muslim image Besides the wobbly Yahapalanaya Sri Lankan

government, which was going softly-softly on rising Muslim radicalization and violence, has at last woken up to the grim and destabilizing realities that had blown their tops off. It is the magnitude of the simultaneous explosions hitting three points of the compass — east, west and the immediate north — that shook the foundations of the Sri Lankan establishment.

The Easter Sunday blast is likely to change — at least in the short run — the conventional image of the Muslims. They were seen as the more emancipated and liberal Muslims not committed to radical Islam. But after the East Sunday Massacre it is likely that they will be bundled with the rest of the ideologically driven Muslim fanatics abroad committed to irrational violence.

The latest Reuter’s report which reveals the IS hand behind the Easter Massacre can only reinforce the image of being ruthless religious fanatics.

Radicalization takes sense and sensibility out of the minds of the impatient youth looking for instant solutions. And politicized religion is packed with hate. Both are incendiary forces that can drive the impulsive youth into insane fits of violence.

Of course, the initial blast that shook Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday was massive and impressive. The 1) precision timing that went off like clockwork; 2) the gigantic scale of the blasts hitting targets in east, west and the near north simultaneously; 3) the selected targets of Christian churches and hotels packed with Western tourists; 4) the organizational capacity to piece together the various arms of the military-style operation that exploded on Easter Sunday; 5) the blind faith of the suicide bombers that walked the lethal distance to their fatal end and that of 350 other victims, point clearly to hidden brains beyond the borders of the local Muslims.

Political mission There is, no doubt, that the suicide bombers were on a political mission. But what was it? Also, terrorist acts are executed to convey a political message.

What is the message behind the biggest ever terrorist operation on Sri Lanka soil?

This explosion which hit like a bolt from the blue makes no sense in the Sri Lankan context. Apart from sporadic tensions — some of which have been caused

by National Thowheeth Jamaat (NTJ) — SinhalaMuslim relations had not stretched to breaking point to provoke an attack of this magnitude.

Mainstream Muslim politics was for co-existence without resorting to extremist violence. Interventions at the highest levels from both sides have succeeded in snuffing out any communal conflagration and containing the violence.

In fact, Muslim leaders have been complaining to the authorities that the NTJ is a serious threat to their lives too. Nor has there been a mass following for Islamic extremism either at the top or at the bottom layers of Muslim society.

As of now Muslim violence has been confined to a minority. But it is a minority that has crept up, sedulously and surreptitiously, to parts of the higher layers of the Muslim hierarchy. If allowed to go unchecked, it can become the majority.

The description of this group given by Ruwan Wijewardene, State Minister of Defense, is revealing and alarming, to say the least. He said: “What I can also say about this group of suicide bombers is that most of them were well-educated and come from middle or upper middle class, so they are financially independent and their families are quite stable financially. That is a worrying factor in this. Some of them studied in other countries, they hold degrees and were quite well-educated people.�

This explains the background and the potential threat to the future but not the cause behind the stunning Easter Sunday massacre. Invariably, political protests and violence target the state.

But the Muslim suicide bombers did not target the state per se.

They went straight to two non-state, nonSinhala-Buddhist targets: the Christian churches packed with Easter Sunday devotees, and the hotels packed with Western holiday-makers lining up for their Sunday breakfast. Both targets were selected to make global headlines in the Christian West.

Any harm to the Christian worshippers inside churches in one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar and Western holiday-makers would instinctively tug at the heartstrings and the conscience of the West.

It is the selection of these two targets that do not make sense. Why should local suicide bombers target the churches and the hotels when their grievances are supposed to be against the SinhalaBuddhists with whom they have been having some sporadic sparring in recent times?

Besides, none of these two institutions has rubbed against the local Muslims. So why did the strategists behind Operation Easter Massacre target the churches and the hotels? Isn’t the message coded in these two targets?

Iconic targets It is at this point that Ruwan Wijewardene’s explanation gains credibility. He said that the targets were chosen as retaliation for the massacre of the Muslims at Christchurch by the Australian white-supremacist Brenton Hanson Terrant. But is the local Muslim that concerned about what happened in faraway New Zealand to blow up churches and hotels? No. But the vindictive politics of their masters in the failed Islamic State, pursuing anti-American, antiChristian agenda, are bent on targeting the sacred symbols of the West. Since the Sri Lankan Muslims are committed ideologically to follow the political line laid down by their Islamic masters abroad, they became the latest suicidal messengers of death to the West. They even went as far as imitating their counterparts abroad by videoing their martyrdom, a la the jihadists in the Middle East.

Second, the Easter Massacre was to deliver a political message to Donald Trump. He was boasting that the IS is dead. On the morning of Easter Sunday, they told him that they are still alive and kicking. The ideology behind the Easter Massacre is clearly expressed in the two main targets allied to Western interests. It also contains a direct message to Trumpian braggadocio and arrogance.

They picked Sri Lanka because it was fast turning into a base for American expansion in the Indian Ocean. The signals radiated by the bombs have already hit the American radar. They have now cancelled the joint naval exercises scheduled to be held in the east.

Like all terrorists they have picked the most iconic targets for maximum impact in the minds of the West. Targeting them selectively on one of the holiest days of the Christian world delivers an unambiguous political message to the West saying: If we can’t get you in the West we can get you in soft spots prepared by incompetent, complacent and back-biting rulers in the East who, incidentally, are cozying up to the West.

The tattered remnants standing as sad ruins of churches and hotels and the 350 victims debunk the usual fiction spun by some local political pundits who continue to blame the Sinhala-Buddhists.

Their spin is to whitewash the Muslim terrorists

saying that the suicide bombers were on a mission to get even with the Sinhala-Buddhists for sporadic attacks that had occurred in recent time.

This line of attack on the Sinhala-Buddhists runs against the evidence of the bloody ruins staring in their face. If the Easter Massacre was to teach the Sinhala-Buddhists a lesson, why did they attack the Christian churches and hotels packed with Westerners? This is the most notable facet of the Easter Sunday attack.

The suicide bombers skipped the SinhalaBuddhists, they skipped the Hindu Tamils and they went straight for the Christians in churches and the Westerners holidaying in hotels.

If the Easter Sunday massacre was to send a clear message to the West, then the international and local agents have succeeded beyond their expectations. This initial message is now reverberating globally. It says unmistakably that the jihadist power, packed with religious fanaticism, has found a new base to attack the West. But what is going to be their next step? Will they turn inward and intensify their attacks against the other religionists?

Violence of any sort will not take the Muslim terrorist anywhere. If the other two varieties of terrorism (Sinhala and Tamil youth) failed to win against the state what are the chances of the Muslim variety winning?

The state is sufficiently prepared and experienced now to meet challenges of terrorists, having beaten the world’s deadliest terrorist, the LTTE. Most of all, it has the tacit support of the majority of the Muslims in the mainstream.

Islamophobia reinforced IS and its local agents have had some beginner’s luck by taking the state by surprise. But the chances of Muslim terrorists becoming a formidable challenge to the state are very remote. Besides, before they take on the state they will have to grab power from the established Muslim hierarchy. They will also have to combat the anti-Muslim counter-terror forces of the West and also India.

The upshot of the Easter Massacre has been to increase and reinforce Islamophobia. Until Easter Sunday, the Muslims in the democratic mainstream have been a formidable force, negotiating craftily behind the scenes with both main parties bargaining with the non-violent votes.

But the exploding bombs have devastated their image and reduced the power of bargaining with both major parties. They cannot be seen to be honeymooning, or playing footsies with the Muslims after the backlash of Easter Sunday sweeping the nation. The government, in particular, will have to face the charge of putting Bodu Bala Sena in jail and letting NTJ run amok without any restraint.

The state is now in a favorable political climate to crack down on Muslim extremism with hardly any pressure from international or national interventionists. Besides, the Muslim terrorists can never reach the militarized power of the Tamil Tigers and challenge the state to yield to their demands, whatever they may be.

Of the three varieties of terrorism, the Muslims will be the weakest, purely on demographic counts.

When the dust settles, the democratic state of Sri Lanka will rise again triumphantly, hoping that the last remaining Indian Tamil youth will not decide to go the way of the other three failed terrorists. IPS

H.L.D. Mahindapala is a Sri Lankan journalist who was editor of the Sunday Observer (1990-1994), president, Sri Lanka Working Journalists’ Association (1991-1993) and secretary-general, South Asia Media Association (1994).

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The price of double speak FR. RANHILIO CALLANGAN AQUINO

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NOUGH has been said about the resources of the West Philippine Sea, as well as on the economic and strategic interests the Philippines has — or should have! — in those features and marine zones it claims. I will take all that as given, and on that premise I BEMOAN THE AMBIGUITY OF OUR OFkCIAL position in respect to our claims and the often duplicitous posture of government in this regard.

Our sovereign rights over the marine resources of our Exclusive Economic Zone and our exclusive right to the mineral and sedentary resources of our continental shelf are not — let us be clear — available to the government as bargaining chips for whatever it is is that we hope to gain by cozying up to China. And whether it is giant clams or anything else perhaps of even less value, complacency and nonchalance do us no good. Neither will it do to place the nation before the disjunction of allowing intruders to pick freely from what is ours, or going to war that we will CERTAINLY LOSE IN THE kRST FEW HOURS )N fact, the regime of international law is meant to prevent any nation from having to face a no-win choice like this! ! FORMALLY kLED PROTEST MAY NOT KEEP rapacious hands from the treasures of our seas, but it will make of record a continuing assertion of our claim and obviate what may, in the future, amount to an argument from acquiescence.

As regards the judgment of the Arbitral Tribunal that, on almost all counts, was favorable to the Philippines, it is not, I submit, within the power of the government, to execute a volte face on the very plaint that triggered the tribunal’s ruling. Assuming a posture of placation toward a snorting bully of a neighbor by dismissing the ruling of the tribunal as something that does not interest us, or something we are not inclined to press, is not an option available to our government. The tribunal really did not “award� anything to us, although technically, arbitral judgments are usually called “awards.�

What it did was recognize sovereign and related rights on the basis of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and customary international law. What it found to be lawfully ours, it did so by virtue of law. The extravagant claims of China, by contrast, such as its audacious nine-dash line bid, it rejected as being contrary to law.

Clearly, it is not for the government — present or future — to disown what is ours by law. In fact, if anything at all, it should proceed with pursuing territorial claims that were not covered by the arbitral judgment through the mechanisms that international law provides. The government is tasked by the Constitution with safeguarding our sovereignty, defending our sovereign rights and preserving our patrimony. It cannot, as a matter of political expediency or diplomatic maneuver, compromise on that which the fundamental law of the land charges it with upholding.

In this respect, while we seem to be habituated now to off-the-cuff remarks that ARE LATER ON gCLARIkEDu BY -ALACANANG S “Department of Exegesis,� even unilateral pronouncements by the President OR HIS QUALIkED POLITICAL AGENTS CAN WORK against our interests. In the cases related to the testing of nuclear weapons in the 0ACIkC THE )NTERNATIONAL #OURT OF *USTICE ruled that unilateral declarations creating valid expectations on third parties can be legally enforced against the States and governments that made them.

If the present government, for whatever reason — foul or fair — is not disposed to be insistent and assertive against China, the least it can do is to refrain from impairing the capacity of future governments to be more assertive of our rights and more insistent about fending off intruders and predators! And doublespeak certainly does not pay!

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Authenticity rules

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(/3% WHO WATCHED THE kNAL CNNPh debate for Senate candidates last Saturday, April 27, might have been ready for a boring one considering those WHO CONkRMED DID NOT SHOW UP It was supposedly a two-part debate but had to be collapsed into one with only 11 candidates.

Otso Diretso had six candidates present, without Roxas and Aquino, while the administration had Alunan, Ejercito and dela Rosa. Colmenares was also present and Chong came in late.

To be fair, CNNPh had seven debates to accommodate the 63 Senate candidates, but there were various reasons why a candidate would participate and why others would skip the whole production. Since it was a televised election debate, not so well-known candidates can get free and earned media because of the event. If a candidate comes too prepared and practiced, he or she could look like a professional politician to the hilt. If you do not know the issues and cannot communicate effectively on TV, it could be a problem. “Debates are important because they allow voters to directly compare leading candidates, and the face-to-face confrontation of debates can generate a direct clash of ideas, helping voters learn more.� To control

ZILCH MA. LOURDES TIQUIA unintended consequences, preparation is important. Knowing the rules, the issues, impacts and numbers are vital. Communicating well on television is essential since TV is a cruel medium.

Candidates cannot just wing a debate, they have to prepare for it. They should be able to think on their feet and have a strategy in communicating their thoughts, beliefs and positions on hot button issues. Media primes these hot button issues, like China being a center issue in the debate. Interestingly, the framing was to be “anti-China is to be patriotic.� As the “opPOSITIONu WOULD WANT IT DEkNED

to be “pro-China, pro-murder (war on illegal drugs) and procorruption� is to be for the administration, which they call Team China. The opposite is, a Filipino is a smart voter if he wants “honest and competent leaders� and that is OD. What these OD propagandists are saying is for Filipinos to close their eyes to 30 years of the post-ARCOS ERA ESSENTIALLY DEkNED as a Cory-to-Noynoy years. They

paint a visual where honesty and competence are the monopoly of the Liberal Party. In truth and in fact, they have never been honest and competent.

In televised election debates, unexpected questions or comments from an opponent may “provoke more candid answers than found in heavily scripted spots or speeches. Debates provide extended exposure to candidates.

Debates are longer than most other campaign messages.� Debates usually feature a question and answer format, with candidates alternating answers to each. Some debates permit candidates to make opening statements and/or closing remarks not prompted by questions. Without question, debates merit scholarly attention.

Audiences watching are looking for signs of whether a candidate shares their belief system, watch for body language and determine whether a candidate is authentic or not.

In the era of Duterte, authenticity matters and in political campaigns these days, authenticity rules. And that is what dela Rosa or Bato showed to all. He was talking in Tagalog with a heavy Bisayan accent. He wanted to connect with non-Bisaya. He WAS DIRECT NO lOWERY PROSE NO debater demeanor. In so many subtexts and soundbytes, dela

Rosa showed to all what a man IN UNIFORM IS HOW TO kGHT FOR lAG AND HOW TO DEFEND THIS ADministration. Indeed hitting this administration left and right is not what voters want. Voters are looking at independence and the ability to be constructive.

Offer solutions to the problems of the country and not just hit.

The message of all these surveys are one, be constructive and help the country.

Filipinos see things are becoming better and not just embrace cognitive dissonance, or “the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.� And there are plenty these days. OD and their tribe are never happy with anything from the face, demeanor and attitude of the president. Take a look at the narratives: increase '$0 LOW INlATION INCREASE CREDIT rating, increase OFM remittances, low poverty incidence, low hunger rate, low crime rate, etc. Train is WRONG (OW ARE WE TO kNANCE OUR infrastructure development? Corruption is at higher levels today?

When a president vetoes pork in the amount of P70 billion? Then if everything is bad, let us all be OFWs, right? Let us all be poor and maintain the status quo in the country where the economy is controlled by 40 families. Let

us have runaway inflation and poverty at 30 percent, then OD can crow all they like, right? But who has the mandate? Who was duly elected by Filipinos?

Television is a cruel medium.

Yes, it has changed our lives. It has made attention span quick, as quick as the channel selector.

Television is on 24/7. It is a visual medium. It is also a cool medium, “since many other things may be going on and the viewer has to integrate all of the sounds and sights in the context.� How many times did the viewer stop and drop what he was doing when dela Rosa came into the frame?

Dela Rosa is no seasoned debater. But he did so many things right that Sunday. He painted pictures when he spoke. He used vivid and alive language.

His body language was not an exaggeration. His solutions were QUICK kXES NOT THE POLICY WONK response. He talked about victims of the war on illegal drugs and the men and women in uniform facing the menace daily.

On television we are used to seeing people who are attractive, telegenic (with a lot of makeup and great lighting), who are shot at the right angles and are wearing lATTERING NOT TO MENTION EXPENsive) attire. That means in real life you must be more aware of your appearance, which communicates

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Rescuing The Forgotten: Where to start

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DEALLY, Dr. (Persida) Acosta OF THE 0UBLIC !TTORNEYS /FkCE SHOULD HAVE A 0!/ OFkCE INSIDE the BI, with PAO attorneys specifically assigned to represent detainees on arrest and to provide the normal judicial balance of any prosecution/defense to ensure the arrested person gets due process and a fair hearing before commitment — same as in any City Hall of Justice. As things stand, they do not get a fair hearing, and BI prosecuting attorneys do much as they like and “steamroll� people straight into Bicutan — from which there is no going back! These BIassigned PAO attorneys would then continue to represent their detainee clients to ensure that due process and deportation (if that is appropriate) is implemented in a timely way. Again, as things stand those detainees without representation or the wit to push deportation for themselves languish indefinitely in detention.

What would be really great is if you, Mr. Tulfo, were to team up with Dr. Acosta as you and she would make a formidable TEAM BOTH BENEkTING FROM THE influence of the other, public exposure and the legal knowhow WILL GO WELL TOGETHER DEkNITELY A case of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.

There will of course be a backlog of cases, and it is these that you and Dr. Acosta should start with if you decide to join forces, by exposing and helping — which brings me nicely to the question of who TO TARGET kRST Peter Saunders, British, age 84, detained since Nov. 15, 2018. Delightful man as honest as the day is long — I shared a table with him while there and spoke with him often. Lifetime in motor sport, including F1.

Married to Filipina for many years, Retired with her at 70 to the Philippines. She decided to get rid of him and filed a criminal case against him which was laughed (literally by the judge) out of court because of her lies but not before it had caused Peter to be an overstay so the wife reported him to the BI. She wants him out the way to take his condo, retirement investment/pension income, and apartments from him. He has a civil case run-

a great deal about you. Dela Rosa was in jeans, gray shirt and rubber shoes. No frills. No number on his shirt reminding everyone of his number in the ballot.

Research shows that many PEOPLE FORM THEIR kRST IMPRESsion of someone way before a word is spoken. They do that based on their perception of how you look, the way you stand, the expression on your face, how your hair is combed, what kind of jewelry you are wearing, how long or short your skirt is and countless other factors that make up your appearance. Dela Rosa was himself.

A lot of candidates for national OFkCE ARE WARY ABOUT ATTENDING debates. The conventional wisdom is if a candidate is leading or is at the top, no need to expose yourself to debates, the Erap formula. What dela Rosa did was to place debates on a different level.

That performance showed to all how to convert in the last 15 days of a national campaign. It showed how to master the stage and positioned debates as, “kung wala kang tinatago, huwag kang matakot.� In 2016, authenticity got Duterte to where he is today.

Authenticity holds the needle for him today. Dela Rosa is in the same position. May he learn fast and be a defender for all Filipinos in the Senate.

ning to judicially decide what proportion she should fairly get. Because of this and his age, he does not want to leave the Philippines and hates the thought of spending his last years in cold wet England. He has paid a substantial sum to a ") kXER WHO SAYS SHE CAN HAVE HIM OFF THE BLACKLIST IF HE lIES out as a deportee and back in a few days later. The deal has stalled for at least two months.

-EANWHILE HE CONTRACTED A lU virus in there that developed into pneumonia, and he was hospitalized six weeks ago. He is much better and could be discharged but does not want to come back to Bicutan — sees it as a death sentence.

Juergen Saeger. German, age 80, arrived at the facility the same week I left. Marine biologist. He is incontinent and sometimes incoherent when his mind wanders off subject.

Miserable, arrogant SOB who pisses everybody off, including the German Embassy, but needs help because he will die there very soon if he is not sent back to Germany. Lived here for 30 years with his German wife who died of cancer a couple of years ago. Living beyond the means of his pension and got behind on his rent and his visa, so the landlady dumped him on immigration and sold off the contents of his apartment.

Has a daughter in Spain who does not want to help. Embassy

has had him taken for medical and he has been deemed UNkT TO TRAVEL ALONE AND NEEDS escorting. Nobody willing to COME UP WITH lIGHT AND ESCORT costs, so just waiting to die.

Renny J. Young, Australian, age 43, detained since Nov. 8, 2018. Has been in the Philippines part time since 2007 but working contracts in Australia.

Married a Filipina in 2010 and bought a house in her name.

Has son aged six years. The wife abandoned them when the son was three years old, and she lives with another man and has a baby with him. Wife decided she wanted the property, so reappeared suddenly after three

years, claimed Renny was abusing the boy and reported Renny as an overstay since 2010 and put the house up for sale. Since his arrest, Renny has only been able to see his son once. The boy has been missing school and obviously not fed properly (lost weight). Renny does not mind being deported but wants custody of the boy and to take him to Australia with him.

Benjamin Mason, British, age 70, detained since Sept. 6, 2016.

Serious health issues, recently diagnosed with colon polyps and diverticulosis (caused by poor BI diet), and had two basal cell carcinomas removed in detention which have re-

cently been diagnosed to have recurred. BI case is technical, an undocumented overstay because his adversaries in the cases in Angeles had possession of his and his daughter’s passports (foreign female minor at the time, and passports originally held with an SPA to process residency in BI) and using them to coerce Mason into signing over the shares of minor Filipino shareholders to them so they could take control of the corporation he founded. A clear case of human TRAFkCKING BUT ") CHOSE NOT TO investigate why these people held passports (the $10,000 to Arvin Cesar Santos helped, apparently) and to jail the victim instead. He has applied FOR RELEASE ON BAIL kVE TIMES and was denied three times, the last two (a reconsideration and an appeal) have been approved by legal and the deputy commissioners but blocked

by Morente so I understand. I think the reason for this is that Ben has been rather outspoken in the past concerning the various injustices and dereliction of duty that takes place there, so Morente feels he needs more punishment to teach him a lesson for complaining too much!

There are others needing help but they are hesitating to put their names forward at this time.

N N N Columnist’s note: I came to know of Raymond Smith’s plight when he wrote me a letter which he sent through his lawyer, Jose Angelito Bulao.

The lawyer, whom I didn’t know at the time, had asked a mutual friend, Mats Hillerstam, a Swede, to send me Smith’s letter. Smith was detained at the immigration jail after his wife, Jinky Talon, a former Filipino overseas contract worker, filed charges of concubinage against him. The Briton has two children with Jinky, aged 10 and 8. Raymond and Jinky have been married legally since 2011. Smith told me the concubinage charges we r e f a b r i c a t e d . H e s a i d Jinky wanted to get hold of his property worth P33 million by having him deported.

Smith was released by Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente on my recognizance on Feb. 19, 2019.

China’s Belt and Road: A Japanese role he would very much like to join is Japan.

When Japanese leader Shinzo Abe visited China in October, he was broached the idea of working with China on infrastructure projects. Abe said Japan was bound by international rules such as open BIDDING AND kSCAL SUSTAINABILITY While international attention has focused on China, Japan has actually played a leading ROLE IN PROVIDING kNANCING FOR infrastructure for decades. Indeed, Japanese aid in the 1980s and 1990s helped create much needed infrastructure in China, including airports in Beijing, Shanghai, Lanzhou, Wuhan and Xian as well as railway lines, roads, ports and power stations.

The success of the BRI is largely due to Chinese willingness to grant loans where institutions such as the ADB or the World Bank would balk.

BRI’s success stirred Japanese corporate interest in co-investments with China. This was relECTED IN !BE S VISIT TO #HINA LAST year when agreement was reached on 50 cooperation projects.

However, Japan’s strategic community is looking at BRI differently. The initiative clearly is resulting in a hugely enhanced global role for China at a cost to Japan and its ally, the United States.

In a real sense, Japan is torn between its two most important relationships: China, its most important trading partner, and the United States, on whom it relies for its security.

So, where infrastructural financing is concerned, economically Japan will cooperate with China in joint investments WHERE THERE IS A PROkT TO BE MADE and, strategically, Japan will stand with the United States for A gFREE AND OPEN )NDO 0ACIkC u along with Australia and India.

Not entirely coincidentally, these countries are also exploring ways to COOPERATE IN PROVIDING kNANCING of infrastructure in Asia. From the standpoint of countries in desperate need of such infrastructure, it must be a relief to have more potential funders willing to consider their needs. Thanks, of course, to China and its Belt and Road Initiative.

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Regions ‘Fire Negros, Cotabato PNP chief’ B ˜ The Manila Times

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ACOLOD CITY: The family of the two slain OFkCIALS OF -OISES 0ADILLA TOWN IN .EGROS /CCIDENTAL WANTS THE ENTIRE TOWN POLICE FORCE SACKED SAYING THEY NO LONGER TRUST THE LAW ENFORCERS TO PROTECT THEM

Cotabato City also passed a resolution seeking the relief of its chief of police in the wake of rising crime incidents.

Vice Mayor Ella Celestina Garcia Yulo, whose two family members were killed in an ambush last week, said she no longer trusts the town police, as early as the time she and her husband were arrested more than a year ago at a checkpoint; accusing the police of planting the evidence in their vehicle.

Col. Romeo Baleros, provincial POLICE OFkCER IN CHARGE SAID HE already requested the Regional Joint Security Coordinating Cen-

ter through Chief Supt. John Bulalacao, regional police director of Western Visayas, to replace the entire Moises Padilla Police Station personnel.

This will erase doubts that the police is biased or favoring candidates, he said.

Yulo – whose brother, Mark Garcia, and nephew, reelectionist Moises Padilla Councilor Michael Garcia, were killed in an ambush on April 25 in Barangay Inolingan – said she expected that relief orders would be issued anytime on Monday.

She is running for town mayor against her uncle, incumbent Mayor Magadaleno PeĂąa.

Nationinbriefs 10K JOBS UP FOR GRABS IN CENTRAL LUZON LABOR DAY JOBS FAIR TARLAC: About 10,000 local and overseas careers will be made available during the 2019 Labor Day jobs fair in Central Luzon. With the theme, “Pagpupugay sa Manggagawang Pilipino,� the Mega Job Fair will be held at Kingsborough International Convention Center in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga. Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) Regional Director Zenaida Angara-Campita said about 6,972 local jobs would be availed from 64 participating companies.The vacancies include production operators, customer service representatives, collection specialists, cashiers, retail/sales agents, accounts specialists, service crews, utility staff, baggers and skilled sewers. Meanwhile, DoLE was expecting around 3,597 overseas employment from 16 recruitment agencies as processed by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration for factory workers, carpenters, nurses, machine operators, welders, house workers, waiters/waitresses, masons, bakers and housekeepers.

For efficiency in filling-up the Skills Registration System Forms, jobseekers may pre-register at the nearest Public Employment Service Office in their respective areas before May 1. Aside from Pampanga, similar jobs fair will be held on May 1 at Waltermart in Cabanatuan City, Bulacan Capitol Gym in Malolos City on April 30, and at the municipal covered court of Bocaue, Bulacan on May 2.

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TUESDAY April 30, 2019

The provincial government has offered a P2-million reward for information that would lead to the arrest of the suspects behind the ambush of the Garcias.

Reelectionist Moises Padilla councilor Agustin “Nene� Grande, who was among the two arrested suspects several hours after the ambush, was ordered released by the Negros Occidental Provincial 0ROSECUTOR S /FkCE ON &RIDAY AFTER the charges for two counts of murDER kLED AGAINST HIM WAS DISMISSED FOR INSUFkCIENT EVIDENCE On Saturday, two companies of Army troops, with about 150 soldiers, on top of a mobile police force, were deployed to Moises Padilla on recommendation of the Provincial Joint Security Center of Negros Occidental. A request to place the town under Comission ON %LECTIONS CONTROL HAS BEEN kLED in the wake of the spate of killings and intense political rivalries there.

Baleros said the deployment

of additional military and police personnel aimed to ensure that Moises Padilla would be peaceful and orderly, even after the May 13 polls. He added that security men would be detailed to candidates to ensure free and safe campaign in the barangay (villages).

On March 30, reelectionist Moises Padilla Councilor Jolomar Hilario was also killed by New People’s Army rebels also in Barangay Inolingan.

Meanwhile, Cotabato City suspended budgetary and logistical support to the Cotabato City 0OLICE /FkCE ##0/ AMID THE growing discontent with the police force over the alarming rise in crime incidents and deteriorating peace and order situation. “Although we could say that the City Government somehow decided ‘against its will,’ we are left with no other recourse in view of the growing public discontent and disgust about the performance of

BATAAN PNP READY FOR MAY 13 POLLS BALANGA CITY, Bataan: The Philippine National Police (PNP) provincial command here and other agencies, including the local power provider ,on Monday said they were ready for the May 13 elections in 167 voting centers. Police Col. Villamor Tullao, Bataan police director, said they aimed a zero incident of election violence and had intensified inspections and operations, which resulted in the confiscations of several loose firearms. Meanwhile, the Peninsula Electric Cooperative (Penelco), the power distributor in the province, also expressed readiness to respond to any problem that might cause power outages during and after the elections. Penelco engineering chief Edwin Zaldivar said they were checking the wires and meters in the polling centers and would be on 24/7 to respond to any trouble, particularly during and after elections.

The provincial social welfare and development office, on the other hand, said 30 child development centers within the voting centers and 303 child development workers/teachers were ready to look after children while their mothers are casting their votes. Bataan has 545,507 registered voters in 237 barangay (villages) in 11 towns and one city in two congressional districts.

ERNIE B. ESCONDE

GSIS, ANTIPOLO OPEN SCHOLARSHIP FOR INCOMING COLLEGE FRESHMEN THE local government of Antipolo, in partnership with Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), started accepting application for its scholarship program for dependents of its employees and members. The program is open to children of permanent government employees with at least three years of service and with salary grade 24 or below. Active and regular GSIS members

the police. Complaints have even BEEN lOODING SOCIAL MEDIA u SAID -AYOR &RANCES #YTHIA 'UIANI Sayadi in a letter to Philippine National Police (PNP) Director Gen. Oscar Albayalde.

She said the decision was reached after a thorough consultation with various sectors of the community ,who expressed discontent with the police performance.

The council resolution noted the current situation in the city is the opposite of 2017 and 2018 when there was a 64-percent drop in crime incidence, resulting in the PNP naming Cotabato City as the safest city in Mindanao and the second safest in the entire country.

The Sangguniang Panglungsod (City Council) also issued Resolution 6506, requesting the PNP to immediately relieve Srenior Supt.

Michael Lebanan as CPPO director.

Sayadi and the city council cited the alarming rise in shooting incidents during the past three

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months, which they claimed still unsolved, and Lebanan’s alleged refusal to allow the policemen to join the city’s Ronda Patrol. “It (Ronda Patrol) has been every effective in maintaining law and order and security in the city, resulting in the 63-percent drop in crime,� Sayadi said.

She pointed out that all shooting incidents in the city during the kRST THREE MONTHS WERE PERPETRATED by suspects riding in motorcycles. “The public have long raised the alarm on the proliferation of motorcycles and four-wheeled motor vehicles without license plates.

Until now the CPPO has not acted on this,� she said.

The resolution added that the most bothersome is the low morale of the CCPO because of the “lack of leadership and insufkCIENT MANAGEMENT STYLEu OF THEIR police chief.

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for the last six months, and Permanent Total Disability pensioners below 60. Scholars will be given P3,000 monthly allowance, aside from free tuition. Applicants must submit duly accomplished GSIS Scholarship Application Form, Certificate of Employment, certification from the school that the nominee is accepted as an incoming college freshman in the current academic year, dependent’s birth certificate and GSIS print out of Business Partner Number. Application forms are available at the Public Information Office, Antipolo City Hall. Deadline of submission is on June 24.

GABRIELA BARON

WIRE ROD MANUFACTURING FIRM GROUND BREAKS IN QUEZON CANDELARIA, Quezon: Gov. David Suarez of Quezon province on Monday led the groundbreaking of the first wire rod manufacturing company in the country located in an 30-hectare land in Barangay Malabanban Sur of this town. Suarez said the investment was an outcome of a chance meeting in December 2018 with Ben Yao, chairman and chief executive officer of Steel Asia Manufacturing Corp., whose mother is from Lucban, Quezon. He added the venture is the first in the Philippines , which could herald the start of industrialization in the province, especially since the National Economic Development Authority had recognized Quezon as having the fastest economy growth in Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) Region. Yao said their company would invest P8 billion in the project to be operational in the next two years. The country imports wire rods needed in making paper clips, staple wires and screws. He assured Suarez the company woould prioritize Quezon residents in hiring construction personnel and office staff, generating more than 1,500 job opportunities.

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TUESDAY April 30, 2019

BY DIVINA NOVA JOY DELA CRUZ

ILITANT group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) said an estimated 100,000 workers nationwide would be joining protest actions on Wednesday, Labor Day, to call for wage increase amid rising prices of basic commodities and services and to end contractualization KMU said another 30,000 workers from its own ranks and broad ally organizations would converge at the Liwasang Bonifacio in Manila and

conduct a “Workers Unity March� to Mendiola to air their demands for just labor practices. “Ito po ay lalahukan, dito sa Metro

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Nadine and Sciences (Famas) Awards held on Sunday at the Meralco Theater.

For Best Actor, Eddie Garcia and Victor Neri shared the honors for “ML� and “A Short History Of A Few Bad Things,� respectively.

Adriennce Vergara was named Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Dog Days,� while Joem Bascon won Best Supporting Actor for “Double Twisting Double Back.�

Emotional in her acceptance speech, Lustre unexpectedly opened up about losing her brother Isaiah in 2017, who was found lifeless in their Quezon City home. “Sobrang laki ng damage na ginawa sa buhay ko (It caused much damage to my life). Ilang beses ko rin po gustong umatras (There were times when I wanted to give up). Kahit po nandun ako sa lowest point ng buhay ko, naitawid ko po with flying colors (But even if I hit the lowest point in my life, I got through with flying colors),� she said.

Independent film “Gusto Kita With All My Hypothalamus� was named Best Picture, also winning

Manila, ng iba’t ibang grupo. Magsasama-sama ang buong labor [sector] (It will be participated by different groups here in Metro Manila. The labor sector will be coming together),� KMU Vice President Lito Ustarez said in a press conference on Monday.

Members of labor group Nagkaisa and Church Labor Conference will also join the protest action.

The group will also present the workers’ agenda to Senate bets, who will be asked to respond to labor woes.

KMU Chairman Elmer Labog said workers were primarily demanding for a nationwide wage increase to

Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Dwein Baltazar.

A number of special awards were also given, among them the FPJ Memorial Award to Anne Curtis, the Dolphy Memorial Award to Maricel Soriano, the German Moreno Youth Achievement Award to Maymay Entrata. The Lifetime Achievement Awardees were Marilou Diaz-Abaya (posthumous), Laurice Guillen and Charo Santos-Concio.

The rest of the category winners were as follows: Best Visual Effects, Blackburst Inc., “Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral;� Best Sound, Corinne de San Jose, “Ang Panahon ng Halimaw;� Outstanding Achievement in Editing, Lawrence Ang, “Kung Paano Siya Nawala� and Hiyas Baldemor Bagaboldo, “Pag-ukit sa Paniniwala;� Outstanding Achievement in Production Design, Maolen Fadul, “Oda sa Wala;� Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Neil Daza, “Oda sa Wala;� Best Original Theme Song, Buhay Teatro, “Paglisan;� Best Musical Score, “Never Tear Us Apart aka Fisting;� and Best Adapted Screenplay, “Tanabata’s Wife.�

Finally “Ang Panahon ng Halimaw� and “Never Tear Us Apart aka Fisting� were awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Film.

P750 daily from the existing P537 in the National Capital Region and P250 in the regions, as these were not enough to meet daily needs.

It is also asserting for an end to contractualization in companies to ENSURE TENURE AND BENEkTS OF WORKERS in the country. “Hindi rin talaga nabago kung meron mang mga na-regular, maliit na bahagi lang ng 42 million na kilusang paggawa. Nananatili pa ring malaki ang bilang ng contractual workers, 28 million sa aming pagtataya, at kailangan talagang harapin ito dahil napaka-exploitative nito (There

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led to the 1986 ouster of president Ferdinand Marcos.

Former US president Ronald Reagan was inclined to accept the rigged election that WOULD HAVE KEPT -ARCOS IN OFkCE BUT ,UGAR

who went to the Philippines as an election observer, said Reagan was misinformed.

Lugar’s stand shifted US support to the ultimate winner, Corazon Aquino, bringing down Marcos and his 20-year grip on power.

Lugar also worked to alert Americans about the threat of terrorism years before “weapons of mass destruction� became a common phrase following the September 11 attacks.

The long-time Republican senator from Indiana helped start a program that destroyed thousands of former Soviet nuclear and chemical weapons after the Cold War ended — then warned during a short-lived 1996 run for president about the danger of such devices falling into

had been no change, if there is, only in a small portion of the 42 million workforce. A large portion, in our estimate, 28 million, are still contractual workers. This most be solved because this is exploitative),� Labog said.

The group is also calling for an end to the worsening repression in the labor sector, which is manifested in killings such as the Sagay 9 victims in Negros Occidental on October 2018, alleged illegal detention of its members, and attempts to disband union and workers organizations. Ustarez said they have also received reports of union members in Mindanao

the hands of terrorists.

The soft-spoken and thoughtful former Rhodes scholar was a leading Republican voice on foreign policy matters during his 36 years in the US Senate, but whose reputation of working with Democrats ULTIMATELY COST HIM THE OFkCE IN Lugar served for decades on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, twice as chairman, where he helped steer arms reduction pacts for the presidential administrations of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, supported an expansion of NATO and favored aid to Nicaragua’s Contra rebels. “Lugar was a leader not only in the Senate, but also on the world stage, where he worked tirelessly to bring pressure to end apartheid in South Africa and enforce treaties that destroyed Soviet weapons of mass destruction,�

Vice President Mike Pence, a former governor of Indiana, said in a statement.

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being asked by the management to DISAFkLIATE THEMSELVES WITH THE +-5 by signing waivers.

The KMU said the protest actions would be conducted peacefully, dispelling alleged participation of members of the New People’s Army as claimed by the Philippine National Police (PNP). “Tinitiyak po namin na lahat ng puwersa na lalahok sa Mayo Uno ay masisinop ng bawat organisasyon namin (We ensure that each individual particpating on May 1, will be organized by each organization),�

Ustarez added.

scandal. He ran again two years later and easily unseated three-term Democratic Sen. Vance Hartke, launching a 36-year Capitol Hill career that made him Indiana’s longest-serving senator.

He built a reputation as someone willing to work across the aisle and showed he could buck his party, notably with Reagan.

Lugar sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1996, saying he wanted to see whether “serious talk� on the issues could prevail over “sound bites.�

But the bookish Lugar — as a Rhodes scholar, he earned an honors degree from Oxford in 1954 — wryly acknowledged that charisma was hardly his strong suit and he ultimately withdrew from the 1996 race.

After leaving the Senate, Lugar continued to work on nuclear nonproliferation issues, global hunger and energy conservation.

He is survived by his wife Charlene, whom he married in 1956, and by four sons.

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&P Global Ratings has trimmed its Philippine growth forecast for 2019, citing high interest rates and the delayed approval of the national budget as reasons behind the adjustment.

A report released on Monday showed that the debt watcher has a 6.3-percent GROWTH OUTLOOK FOR THE 0HILIPPINE economy this year, a slight downward adjustment from the previous 6.4 percent.

The projection was higher than last YEAR S ACTUAL GROWTH OF PERCENT AND falls near the lower end of the government’s downwardly revised 6.0-7.0 percent target.

“We expect growth to remain in the low end of the 6.0-6.5 percent range IN AS THE LAGGED EFFECTS OF LAST year’s monetary tightening dampen private investment, and the budget delay affects the government’s Build "UILD "UILD PROGRAM IN THE kRST HALF of the year,� S&P said, referring to the Duterte administration’s ambitious infrastructure program.

The recent passage of the national

budget, it added, “caps the drop in THE kSCAL IMPULSE SOMEWHAT BUT DOES SIGNAL A WEAK PUBLIC INVESTMENT OUTTURN FOR THE kRST HALF OF THE YEAR u The credit ratings agency also noted THE POSSIBILITY THAT ONLY A FEW KEY NATIONAL PROJECTS ARE LIKELY TO BE EXEMPTED from the election spending ban on the government.

4HE BUDGET WAS ONLY SIGNED BY 0RESIDENT 2ODRIGO $UTERTE LAST WEEK after months of delay — caused by a dispute between the Senate and the House of Representatives over alleged insertions that he ultimately vetoed on.

The controversy forced the government to operate on last year’s budget since the start of the year. This meant it sp could only spend for items detailed in

Diokno: Policy rate, RRR cuts ‘inevitable’ 2%$5#4)/.3 IN POLICY RATES AND IN BANKS RESERVE REQUIREMENTS ARE INEVITABLE AND WILL HAPPEN THIS YEAR ACCORDING TO THE "ANGKO 3ENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP). “Those two things are really inevitable,� BSP Governor Benjamin $IOKNO TOLD MEMBERS OF THE &INANCIAL %XECUTIVES )NSTITUTE OF THE Philippines (Finex) and the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) during their joint general membership MEETING IN -AKATI #ITY ON -ONDAY AFTER HE WAS ASKED ON THE TIMING OF MONETARY POLICY EASing and the expected cuts on the reserve REQUIREMENT RATIO 222 OF BANKS “We came from a year

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QBangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin Diokno. PHOTO BY J. GERARD SEGUIA

THE OUTLAY AND NOT ON PROGRAMS and projects supposed to be impleMENTED IN The Finance department has said the budget impasse limited its capacity to SPEND IN THE kRST QUARTER RESULTING IN A LOWER THAN PROGRAMMED BUDGET DEkCIT for the period.

It earlier reported that a P1.01-billion daily underspending for primary expenditures resulted in a lower-than-proGRAMMED STATE SPENDING OF 0 billion in the three months.

4HE kRST QUARTER BUDGET SHORTFALL OF 0 BILLION WAS PERCENT LOWER THAN THE 0 BILLION POSTED IN the same period last year. It was also PERCENT OR 0 BILLION LOWER

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Moody’s gives ‘Baa2’ to govt’s euro bond offer MOODY’S Investors Service on Monday assigned an investment grade score on the ggovernment’s planned euro debt issuance. d In a statement, the debt watcher said it had “assigned wa A " "AA SENIOR UNSECURED RATING to the th euro-denominated global bond offering by the Governbo ment of the Philippines, mam TTURING IN u The rating mirrors the PhilIPPINES ISSUER RATING OF "AA

which Moody’s said was charACTERIZED BY STRONG ECONOMIC A performance, a strengthening perf kSCAL POSITION AND LIMITED VULNERkSCA ABILITY TO EXTERNAL SHOCKS ABILI Also on Monday, the Bureau Al OF THE 4REASURY CONkRMED REPORTS OF TH LAST WEEK THAT SAID THE COUNTRY HAD LAST W BEGUN MARKETING THE BENCHMARK BEGU euro bond issue, which is typically set at a least $500 million.

“Actually, we did not specifically mention an amount in our APPROVALS 7E HAVE lEXIBILITY TO actually go over $500 million if it is advantageous for us,� Deputy Treasurer Erwin Sta. Ana said in an interview. g;7=E HAVE BEEN PLANNING TO GO BACK TO THE EURO MARKET FOR THE longest time. This is part of the DoF (Department of Finance) and Treasury’s strategy to diversify its kNANCING INSTRUMENTS AND DIVERsifying investor base,� he added.

Sta. Ana, however, declined to provide further details on the subject, but said pricing for the planned offer would be decided once his bureau round up the deal ROADSHOW THIS WEEK Moody’s move came after another credit ratings agency, S&P Global Ratings, also assigned an investment grade score of ‘BBB’ to

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PSEi up as ‘PH gaming earnings will still grow’ PH’s old boards come under scrutiny investors T hunt amid ROUGH TRADE Q1 results BEN 4(% STOCK MARKET FINISHED ON a stronger note on Monday as investors were said to be loading portfolios as more companies are RELEASING THEIR kRST QUARTER EARNings results.

4HE BENCHMARK 0HILIPPINE 3TOCK %XCHANGE INDEX 03%I GREW PERCENT OR POINTS TO CLOSE AT 4HE WIDER !LL Shares, meanwhile, rose 0.17 PERCENT OR POINTS TO kNISH AT

Regina Capital Development Corp. head of sales Luis Limlingan SAID MARKET PLAYERS FED ON THE POSITIVE SENTIMENT AS LOCAL kRMS were gradually reporting their kNANCIAL PERFORMANCE )N A SEPARATE COMMENT 0 0 Trade Online sales associate GaBRIEL *OSE 0EREZ SAID THE MARKET was only trading sideways over THE LACK OF MARKET MOVING DEVELopments. “Its still too soon to tell if the MARKET WILL BE MORE ACTIVE TOMORrow (today). Potential month-end window dressing could be tempered by the upcoming holiday on Wednesday,� he added.

Sectoral results were mixed, WITH THE kNANCIALS INDUSTRIAL AND HOLDING kRMS THE ONLY GAINERS UP 0.01 percent, 0.67 percent, and

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THE Philippine gaming industry will sustain its growth momentum despite uncertainty in the regulatory environment, according to Fitch Ratings.

In a report released on Monday, Fitch Ratings said it “expects high single-digit gross gaming revenue (GGR) growth in the Philippines as a result of robust economic expansion.�

Increasing international tourist NUMBERS IT ADDED ARE LIKELY TO BOOST JUNKETS AND ANCILLARY REVenue streams at high-end casinos. &ITCH NOTED THAT /KADA -ANILA

which started its operations in AND IS THE LARGEST INTEGRATED resort (IR) in Entertainment City,

IS WELL POSITIONED TO BENEkT FROM these positive dynamics. )T SAID INITIAL kNANCIAL RESULTS OF THE kRST FOUR CASINOS ‡ /KADA

Resorts World Manila, City of Dreams Manila and Solaire Manila — operating under the licenses granted by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) “are encouraging relative to the investments made.� &ITCH EXPRESSED THE OUTLOOK despite its observation that the 0HILIPPINE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK is less established than other countries in the region, such as Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia.

That said, the credit rater also discounted President Rodrigo

Duterte’s public criticism of gambling, which it pointed out “add an element of uncertainty and may lead to regulatory changes.� “Fitch does not expect such potential changes to be materially harmful to the casino sector, AS THE 0HILIPPINES BENEkTED FROM gambling bans in other Southeast Asian countries, with IRs providing new jobs and generating substantial tourism and tax revenue,� the debt watcher said.

It warned, however, that in the long term, competition from Macau and other Asia-Pacific countries would restrain growth, particularly in the VIP segment,

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Cancellations hound Cebu Pacific ,/7 #/34 CARRIER #EBU 0ACIkC REmains unsure if operations would return to normal next month after CANCELING lIGHTS DUE TO WHAT IT HAD described as an “unprecedented level of disruption.� “We are still assessing May opERATIONS u #EBU 0ACIkC SPOKESMAN Charo Logarta-Lagamon said in A MOBILE MESSAGE WHEN ASKED IF such cancellations would extend for a few more days.

4HIS COMES AFTER THE 'OKONgwei-led airline announced on Sunday the cancellation of several lIGHTS FROM 3UNDAY TO 4UESDAY Canceled on Sunday were eight lIGHTS BETWEEN -ANILA ,EGAZPI

Tacloban, Davao, Bacolod, Zamboanga, Iloilo, Dumaguete and

Cagayan de Oro. Canceled on Monday were nine lIGHTS BETWEEN -ANILA $IPOLOG

Cebu, General Santos and Puerto Princesa.

The Cebu-Zamboanga and Zamboanga-Tawi-Tawi routes were also affected.

Seven flights between Cebu, Iloilo, Tacloban and Dipolog, as WELL AS BETWEEN -ANILA /ZAMIZ

Cebu, Roxas and San Jose on Tuesday are also canceled.

This move was necessary “to create more space in our schedule for operational recovery and MINIMIZE ROLLING DELAYS u #EBU 0ACIkC SAID “These flight cancellations SHOULD HELP STABILIZE lIGHT TIM-

ings, improve on time performance and reduce inconvenience to our passengers,� it added.

4HE AIRLINE ALSO APOLOGIZED FOR THE lIGHT SCHEDULE CHANGES Affected passengers, it said, MAY REBOOK THEIR lIGHTS FOR TRAVEL ravel within 30 days from the original departure date, free of charge; get a full refund; place the FULL COST OF THE TICKET IN A 4RAVEL Fund; or reroute to or from alternate airports for travel within 30 days, subject to the availability of seats. “Furthermore, passengers on the CANCELED lIGHTS WILL RECEIVE ;A= ONE round-trip travel voucher, which THEY CAN USE FOR FUTURE lIGHTS u IT added.

LISBET K. ESMAEL

HE Philippines has a new claim to fame—corporate directors here are apparently the longest-serving in Asia-Pacific, and possibly the world, and have a higher average age than board members elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

According to research by Bloomberg, the average board tenure in Philippine corporations is 10.6 years, compared with an average of 6.5 years in the rest of !SIA 0ACIkC AND THE AVERAGE AGE of board members is 65.4 years, compared with the regional average of 58.7 years.

Moreover, six out of 10 Philippine corporations do not meet the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-mandated minimum of having at least one-third of board seats filled by independent directors, the Bloomberg report said, pointing out that the regulatory prescription is even below the 50-percent level considered best practice.

All of this is considered a bad thing, but in a vague sort of way.

Quoting the head of research at Singapore’s Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., the Bloomberg report explains, “Board independence is even more important IN MARKETS DOMINATED BY FAMILIES in order to strengthen oversight, RISK CONTROL AND COMPANY PERFORmance in the long run.� /VERSIGHT RISK CONTROL AND company performance are vital

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to any business, whether in a FAMILY DOMINATED MARKET OR NOT

so evidently the real problem IS NOT THE LACK OF MUTABILITY OF Philippine boards, but the oligarchical nature of the Philippines’ business landscape. Starting that conversation, however, leads to standing the entire Philippine ECONOMY ON ITS kGURATIVE HEAD

so the safer and more polite approach is to nip around the edges.

It seems to be a Western habit to champion diversity for diverSITY S SAKE &OR EXAMPLE #ALIFORnia passed a law last year that any corporation registered in the state must appoint at least one woman to its board of directors by the end of this year, and must have between one and three women directors, depending on THE SIZE OF THE COMPANY BY Corporations that fail to meet the standard can be hit with a

kNE 4HESE KINDS OF ARBITRARY PREscriptions – X number of independent directors or women on the board, such-and-so percentage of executive positions reserved for minorities — are of

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Agencies divided on P10-B agri fund A

BY EIREENE JAIREE GOMEZ

S farmers anticipate the prompt release of assistance in transition to a new rice regime, misunderstanding hounds government agencies on the proper allocation and utilization of the P10-billion Rice Competitiveness Enhancement &UND 2#%& OF THE 2ICE 4ARIFkCATION ,AW

3PEAKING AT THE 2ICE 4RADERS Forum’s press conference on Monday, National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Assistant Secretary Mercedita Sombilla said a portion of the RCEF amounting to P5 billion has already been released to the Department of Agriculture (DA) in December

last year. “Actually in RCEF, there has been an initial P5 billion released. The P1 billion out of that has already been covered with a memorandum of agreement with the ACPC (Agricultural Credit Policy Council), LandBANK AND $"0 $EVELOPMENT "ANK of the Philippines) so that this could

already be given to the farmers. The rest of the money for that P5 billion, ) THINK $! NOW IS COMING TO ALLOCATE some portions already to the different agencies who are supposed to BE INVOLVED IN THE ;UTILIZATION= OF RCEF,� Sombilla said.

Her statement was a total contrast to what the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the DA accounted the P5 billion for--the National Rice Program, which was considered as a “complementary� fund that will help farmers transition to a new rice regime.

Sombilla, however, said “the P5 BILLION IS ALREADY THERE ;WHILE= THE additional P5 billion will come in THE THIRD QUARTER ;THIS YEAR= u 4HE

P5 billion originally intended for THE 2#%& WAS ALLOCATED IN

Sombilla earlier said. However, the funds were channeled instead to the National Rice Program when THE 2ICE 4ARIFkCATION BILL FAILED TO be enacted last year.

Earlier this month, DA Secretary Emmanuel PiĂąol clarified that the P5 billion channeled to the National Rice Program “could not be part of RCEF as it did not follow RCEF guidelines allocation.â€? “We will insist in getting the whole P10 billion (RCEF). That is the law. There is no way that it will have no funding, that’s part of the law,â€? he said.

However, Sombilla said: “It’s true that’s why we’re already

discussing this with the DA, as MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO kND SOME measures to allocate some money to PhilMech (Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and -ECHANIZATION 0HIL2ICE 0HILIPpine Rice Research Institute) and to the training institutes which should be receiving the money from the P5 billion.� “We’re trying to settle out and hopefully we’ll be able to come up with that. In the meantime, the guidelines in using these funds are now being prepared by the agencies that are supposed to be implementing this so hopefully when the guidelines are completed...the MONEY FOR THE ;2#%&= COMPONENTS will already be available,� Som-

billa added.

With P10 billion, the DA through the PhilMech will provide farmers WITH MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT worth P5 billion, free high-yielding seeds worth P3 billion from PhilRice, P1 billion for credit and P1 billion in training through the Agricultural Training Institute.

4HE 2ICE 4ARIFkCATION ,AW WAS signed and approved by President Duterte last February 14. The new LAW WHICH SEEKS TO LIBERALIZE THE importation of rice, is expected to lower retail prices of rice by up to 0 PER KILO HELP LOWER INlATION by 0.5 to 0.7 percentage points this year, and improve farmers’ incomes, productivity and competitiveness.

20-MMT rice target for 2019 doable – DA THE Department of Agriculture (DA) stayed bullish to achieve its national rice production TARGET OF MILLION METRIC TONS --4 DESPITE the impact of El Niùo, citing latest reports of rice output increases in major rice-producing provinces.

At the Rice Traders Forum’s press conference on Monday, DA Assistant Secretary Andrew Villacorta said the expected damage and losses ON RICE DUE TO %L .IÄO WOULD ONLY BE AT PERCENT OR ABOUT METRIC TONS OF PALAY (unmilled rice). g,AST WEEK WE MET WITH REGIONAL DIRECTORS and surprisingly, there were three regions who reported they increased their rice production. #ENTRAL ,UZON IS FORECASTING A PERCENT INcrease, Ilocos region is forecasting 14 percent and Cagayan Valley at 3 percent,� Villacorta said. g)F WE WILL ;COMPUTE= THEIR FORECAST WE RE EXpecting more than 400,000 metric tons increase in palay output, which will be enough to comPENSATE THE LOSS OF METRIC TONS 4HIS IS WHY WE RE CONkDENT TO MAINTAIN OUR TARGET AT MILLION METRIC TONS THIS YEAR u HE ADDED ,ATEST DATA FROM THE $! S $ISASTER 2ISK 2E-

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Why foreign trips are an excellent employee reward

HY do many companies use foreign trips to motivate their employees? /R TO PUT THE QUESTION IN another way, why don’t orGANIZATIONS SIMPLY GIVE CASH incentives or bonuses to their FAST TRACKERS AND MODEL EMPLOYEES WHICH IS easy to administer? There are three major reasons on top of my head.

One, the cost of foreign trips can be treated as business expense, and therefore could be tax-deductible by companies spending for it. Some people call it tax shield that gives maximum value to both the company and its DESERVING EMPLOYEES )F ORGANIZATIONS OPT TO give cash, it becomes taxable resulting with its net value becoming smaller.

Two, foreign trips can give enough opportunity for employees to meet foreign PROFESSIONALS FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUND

mindset and cultural orientation. This opens the door for business opportunities FOR THE SENDING ORGANIZATIONS "UT THAT S NOT

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duction Operations Center showed El NiĂąo damage to the rice sector was P4.04 billion or

-4 OVER HECTARES OF AGRICULtural land. The drought also affected 140,387 rice farmers nationwide.

Last year, the country’s total rice output REACHED MILLION -4 PERCENT DOWN FROM MILLION -4 IN DUE TO MONTHLY tropical disturbances. The Philippines recorded ITS HIGHEST RICE PRODUCTION IN AT --4 UP PERCENT FROM --4 IN ,AST YEAR TOTAL RICE OUTPUT FELL TO DUE TO THE ONSLAUGHT OF OVER TYPHOONS INCLUDing Super Typhoon Ompong in September.

The national average yield was pegged at 4 MT per hectare.

DA Secretary Emmanuel PiĂąol earlier said INCREASED UTILIZATION OF GOOD QUALITY SEEDS TO 60 percent from 48 percent has helped raise the national rice production in the past years. By

THE $! IS TARGETING TO FURTHER BOOST UTILIZATION OF GOOD SEEDS AT ABOUT TO PERCENT (E ALSO NOTED THAT FREE SEEDS MECHANIZATION

IRRIGATION AND FERTILIZATION WOULD FURTHER BOOST THE COUNTRY S RICE OUTPUT BY EIREENE JAIREE GOMEZ

all. Filipino employees on BEYOND foreign trips can build their MORE BECAUSE OF BUZZWORDS CONkDENCE THEIR %NGLISH SPEAKING ABILITY THAT MAKE THEM CONNECT WITH REY ELBO their Asian, American and European counterparts.

Three, foreign trip incentives give a longlasting positive impression to employees.

Nothing can beat an international trip for its memory value and new cultural perspectives THAT IT OFFERS 5NLIKE CASH REWARD THAT MAY BE spent unnecessarily on things, foreign trips give an unforgettable value to people who enjoy documenting their trips with lots of photos, videos, even inexpensive souvenirs.

Now, answer this simple test. Can you still remember how you spent the bonus you earned last year? How about the year before that? Most LIKELY YOU CANNOT 4HAT S BECAUSE MONEY SPENT carelessly can’t bring you any memory value UNLESS YOU FOCUSED ON A BIG TICKET PURCHASE "UT there’s more to that oft-repeated maxim that

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How to escape mobbing

NE day, in second grade, how long it lasted nor what on a teacher-parent MANAGING drove it, but welcome to the open day, my parents had FOR SOCIETY world of mobbing.

TAKEN A DAY OFF FROM THEIR This is how it happens. You CRAZY BUSY SCHEDULES AND HAD have your job, it doesn’t have GIORGIA NIGRI to be your dream job. It may driven me to school. I had a dress with a huge bow on the be a job that pays the bills, BACK AND WAS READY TO SHOW THEM HOW GREAT that gives you an excuse to leave the house or I was doing.

SOMETHING YOU REALLY LIKE DOING )T STILL EITHER I was part of this Italian-American girls club. way represents ‘what you do’. )T WAS kVE OF US AND WE WERE INSEPARABLE %VERY When companies want to change that and day we used to hang out, attend our secret want you to do something you probably would club activities, write notes and draw pictures not want to do in normal circumstances – leave in our diaries.

THE COMPANY CHANGE JOBS TAKE ON AN EXTRA 4HAT MORNING THOUGH ) WALKED INTO THE TASK TRAIN SOMEBODY m THEY FORCE YOU THROUGH CLASSROOM AND THEY WERE TALKING IN A CIRCLE phases. a closed circle. No one made room for me or Phase 1: The no gain game. If they manage to ANSWERED MY GREETINGS AND QUESTIONS NIENTE pull this off, the junior Human Resource (HR) In one split second, I had lost my position in manager gets the bonus they were willing to THE WORLD ) REALLY DIDN T KNOW WHAT TO DO SINCE give you. Remember, the company always sends that was my ‘identity’. I remember my parents THE JUNIORS kRST SO THAT IF THE PROBLEM SCALES calling me to the side and telling me “ignore up, somebody else can overrule their decision.

THEMu BUT ) WAS SHOCKED )T WAS EMBARRASSING Here are some get up and run examples: “There humiliating. I was in denial.

IS THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY WE WERE THINKING OF This is common in school. It’s not really you for that promotion next year...�. Strangely bullying because ignoring you isn’t a crime. enough, that position has been open for over They are not really doing anything to you, but A YEAR AND NO ONE WANTS TO kLL IT OR YOU DIDN T it undermines your certainty. I can’t remember ³Managing B6

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Gotianun is new Semirara president SEMIRARA Mining and Power Corp. has formally named Ma. Cristina Gotianun to succeed Victor Almeda Consunji, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer in late December, as its chief.

In a disclosure on Monday, the listed mining and oil company said her appointment as its president and chief operATING OFFICER TOOK EFFECT LAST Friday.

Semirara Mining previously appointed Gotianun as officerin-charge of the firm, as well as its subsidiaries SEM-Calaca Power Corp. and Southwest ,UZON 0OWER 'ENERATION #ORP

on Jan. 4.

Prior to her appointment, Gotianun was the company’s executive vice president and chief information officer.

Gotianun is the director and corporate secretary of Dacon Corp.; vice president for finance and administration/chief financial officer of D.M. Consunji

Inc.; and finance director of DMC-Project Developers Inc. She is also director and treasurer of SCPC, SLPGC, Semirara Claystone Inc., Semirara Energy Utilities Inc., St. Raphael Power Generation Corp., SEM- Balayan Power Generation Corp., DMCI Power Corp., DMCI Masbate Power Corp., and SEM-Cal )NDUSTRIAL 0ARK $EVELOPERS )NC Gotianun is also the director of Daveprime Holdings Inc.; assistant treasurer of DMCI Holdings Inc.; and a trustee, CFO, and corporate secretary of Divine Word School of Semirara Island Inc. She graduated with a BS Business Economics degree from the University of the Philippines.

A unit of DMCI Holdings Inc., Semirara Mining owns and mines its own fuel source, enabling it to generate affordable BASELOAD POWER FOR THE ,UZON and Visayas grids.

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Corporate News Meralco income up 7% to P5.67B in Jan-March T TUESDAY April 30, 2019

BY ANGELICA BALLESTEROS

HE Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) saw its net income grow by 7 percent to P5.67 billion IN THE kRST THREE MONTHS OF FROM 0 billion in the same period last year. )N A BRIEkNG ON -ONDAY THE listed power giant said its consolidated core net income increased by 14 percent to P5.6 billion in *ANUARY TO -ARCH FROM 0 BILlion a year ago.

Higher distribution revenue FROM THE PERCENT GROWTH IN ENergy sales volume, coupled with the positive contribution from its 65-percent-owned subsidiary #LARK %LECTRIC $ISTRIBUTION #ORP (CEDC), buoyed the growth.

Consolidated revenues rose by 6.4 percent to P75.4 billion from

Splash eyes double-digit growth for personal care unit SPLASH Corp. sees double-digit growth for its personal care unit, as its market is seen to expand after it was taken over by Indian firm Wipro Enterprise Private Ltd. In a briefing in Taguig City on Monday, Wipro Regional Director Nagender Arya said Splash’s export market was expected to have stronger foothold, given that his company had a presence in 40 countries, including Malaysia, China and Vietnam. “I am very glad that Splash is becoming part of the Wipro Group. This gives us immediate access to resources that will help us fuel faster growth in our business,�

Splash founder Rolando Hortaleza said. Splash will begin exporting its product through Wipro’s network this year, Arya said. “It has delivered double-digit growth in the past years... It has seen innovation come in last year,â€? he added, expressing confidence that Splash would continue to perform well in the coming years.Â

Last year, Splash saw its revenues grow by 10 percent on the back of strong sales from its whitening products, exfoliats and hair care items, Splash Chief Operating Officer Vicci Tomas said. It also introduced a new variant of its exfoliant, MaxiPeel Zero, which was considered the leading product in the line, she added. Arya said that, with Wipro coming in, he would like to “accelerate� the product development of Splash personal care unit through research and development. It currently offers 20 brands.

In February, the Philippine Competition Commission greenlighted Wipro’s acquisition of Splash Corp.’s local and international retail personal care business. The transaction, which was signed on April 14, cost between P9 billion and P12 billion. This is Wipro’s 11th acquisition, cementing its presence in Southeast Asia. TYRONE C. PIAD

P70.8 billion year-on-year. Of the amount, electricity revenues acCOUNTED FOR PERCENT OR 0 BILLION A PERCENT JUMP FROM 0 BILLION IN THE SAME QUARTER LAST YEAR Non-electricity income, meanwhile, dropped by 3 percent to P1.75 bilLION FROM S 0 BILLION Operating expense inched up by 3 percent to P6.3 billion from P6.17 billion.

Consolidated earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and AMORTIZATION STOOD AT 0 BILLION Meralco also said its energy sales

VOLUME GREW IN THE kRST QUARTER

primarily due to the high base effect of the volume attained in AND THE SLIGHTLY COOLER AVERage temperature throughout the period.

Regarding its future plans, Meralco said it would continue to pursue renewable energy opportunities in the country.

Meralco Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan said he was hoping for the Supreme Court’s approval of its seven power-supply agreements UNDER YEAR CONTRACTS TO HELP ADDRESS THE 0HILIPPINES INADEQUATE power supply.

The deals are for Redondo 0ENINSULA %NERGY )NC MEGAwatts), Atimonan One Energy Inc.

-7 3T 2APHAEL 0OWER Generation Corp., (400 MW); #ENTRAL ,UZON 0REMIERE 0OWER

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#ORP -7 -ARIVELES 0OWER 'ENERATION #ORP -7 0ANay Energy Development Corp. (70 -7 AND 'LOBAL ,UZON %NERGY Development Corp. (600 MW). “This power issue is going to be with us in the next two to three YEARS SO ) URGE ;THE= GOVERNMENT TO get the approvals done,� he added.

The group, in partnership with *APANESE kRMS IS SET TO OFkCIALLY SIGN today, April 30, a joint venture agreement with the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) on establishing a P1-billion electricity DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AT .EW #LARK City in Pampanga province. They plan to begin construction by June in time for the Southeast Asian Games later this year.

-ERALCO SHARES SHED 0 OR percent to close at P383 apiece on Monday.

UnionBank profit falls to P2.2B LISTED Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) reported on Monday that its net income dropped to P2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2019.

In a disclosure, the Aboitizled lender said the amount was a 24-percent decrease from the P2.9 billion posted in the same period last year. Operating expenses reached P4.3 billion in January to March, while net revenues rose to P7 billion in the period from P6.9 billion a year ago. Customer loans hit P315 billion, with retail loans accounting for more than a

third of all loans. Total assets jumped to P704.5 billion in the quarter from P608.4 billion in the same period last year. “Asset yields are starting to catch up in the first quarter of 2019 as assets reprice.

With a more stable interest rate and lower inflation environment this year, we expect margins to improve toward the end of the year and recurring income to have an increased contribution to our bottomline,� UnionBank Treasurer and Chief Finance Officer Jose Emmanuel Hilado said.

For his part, UnionBank

President and Chief Executive Officer Edwin Bautista said the company was also working to improve its online services. “On the digital front, we want the market to watch out for the rollout of more Arks, the launch of more functionalities in our UnionBank Online app, and deployment of the 100 cadets from our Blockchain institute to tech-up our customers,� he added.

UnionBank shares increased by 5 centavos or 0.08 percent to close at P60.55 per piece on Monday.

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PREMIUM SOLUTIONS

2GO makes shipping and logistics work for businesses From being solely a carrier of goods and people into a fully integrated logistics company

2

GO is the Philippines’ largest domestic shipping company.

With historic beginnings and a growth path mirroring the development of the Philippine maritime industry, 2GO remains a top player in domestic shipping. Nevertheless, the company has evolved from being solely a carrier of goods and people into a fully integrated logistics company that serves the needs of its clientele.

Businesses these days no longer require a mere transport company to carry their goods from point A to point B. Instead of dealing with several companies to take care of logistics for them, they prefer to entrust it to one entity that has the capability, the experience, and the infrastructure to do it seamlessly.

2GO has grown to become that company: a logistics solutions company that puts a premium on effective supply chain management.

The company’s capabilities are no longer centered just on domestic sea transport but include systems, storage-delivery infrastructure, and local presence to EFkCIENTLY MOVE CARGOES OF CLIENTS FROM ITS SOURCE TO the marketplace, and to some extent, to even to the doorsteps of the clients’ customers.

ership in the domestic shipping business while strengthening our logistics capabilities. Because we believe that the demand for end-to-end logistics solutions across the country will continue to increase over time; 2GO shall continue to optimize and drive synergies among our units while seeking opportunities to work with our partners to drive our expansion,� Dybuncio explained.

2GO’s capability and services

2GO Group has four major business units. These are: 2GO Shipping, 2GO Special Containers, 2GO Logistics, and 2GO Express.

The biggest of the business units is 2GO Shipping further composed of 2GO Travel, 2GO Freight, and Transformation in response 2GO SuperCat. to opportunities '/ 3HIPPING REMAINS AS THE 'ROUP S lAGSHIP BUSINESS UNIT )T HAS A VESSEL lEET THAT HAS A COM2GO self-enabled its transformation by banking bined Gross Registered Tonnage of approximately on its wealth of experience, an excellent network of 128,985 metric tons, total passenger capacity of infrastructure facilities and developing a wide range approximately 7,450,162 passengers and aggregate of logistics services. cargo capacity of approximately 338,305 twenty-foot '/ IS CONkDENT THAT THE COUNTRY S ECONOMIC equivalent units (TEUs).

The company has the highest frequency of voygrowth spurred by the various sectors of the economy will open up new avenues to further respond to ages from Manila to major ports across the country.

2GO Shipping is also working closely with thoucustomer requirements.

2GO Group President Frederic Dybuncio opined: sands of local small and medium-sized enterprises to “With rising income levels and programmed govern- be able to develop the best solutions and ensure ment investments in key areas, we see opportuni- reliability through its 2GO Freight sub-business unit. ties to serve greater numbers of customers across 2GO Freight provides cargo handling services for many regional destinations.� various types of goods and shipments, including full g)T IS OUR kRM COMMITMENT TO MAINTAIN OUR LEAD- container load (FCL) and LCL, loose cargo, roll-on/

roll-off, and rolling cargo.

Local entrepreneurs and 2GO clients can attest that 2GO Freight provides them with a cheaper and faster transport of goods and commodities.

Its service reliability is increasingly important as companies move toward Just-In-Time processes, which is particularly crucial for perishable and timesensitive cargo.

2GO Logistics business unit meanwhile provides clients with warehousing, inventory management, and domestic freight handling services for FCL and LCL shipments.

2GO has seen that the growth in local consumption has brought changes in the demands of manufacturers and retailers, thus providing both opportunities and challenges in supply chain management.

The growth in modern retail outside of traditional geographical markets, characterized by smaller and

farther retail formats has put a strain on both the COST TO SERVE STORES EFkCIENTLY AND REPLENISH PRODucts effectively. 2GO Logistics continues to string together various solution sets designed to address these concerns and enable the opening of stores in new markets while replenishing products at the fastest possible time that ensure availability of the products at store shelves. This is being referred to by the company as Forward Stocks Logistics.

There is also the 2GO Special Containers and Value Added Services (SCVASI) business unit where special containers and special projects are bracketed under. The particular business unit takes care of refrigerated container (reefer) transport, lease, and maintenance, as well as provide cold storage services. It also offers expertise in liquid bulk transport through ISO tanks and Flexibags and also handles the repair and maintenance of ISO tanks and Flexibags. 2GO SCVASI also offers container yard services, crafting and packaging services as well as quick moves of household items among others.

2GO Express, on the other hand, offers e-commerce services, domestic and international express mail and courier services and is now rivaling the big names in the business. The business unit is capitalizing on the company’s inherent strength and expertise in moving cargoes by sea. Apart from moving balikbayan boxes from international forwarders, 2GO Express has also started moving automotive and motorcycle parts as the country’s vehicle business continue to generate consistent double-digit growth, especially in the Visayas and Mindanao.

The company shall continue to develop innovative solutions in order to add more value offerings TO ITS CLIENTS FROM ALL ITS kVE KEY BUSINESS UNITS With its vision of being the largest integrated supply chain enterprise in the Philippines clearly within arms’ reach, 2GO is not just blazing paths of successes in shipping, logistics, distribution, and other ancillary but equally important services, it is clearly making shipping and logistics work for local businesses.

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ASHINGTON, D.C.: As they continue to feel the impact of US trade wars AND STRUGGLE TO kND WORKERS !MERICAN COMPANIES HAVE ROLLED BACK THEIR GROWTH estimates for this year, according to a survey released on Monday.

The US economy will continue to grow, but “barely half� of the business economists surveyed now forecast the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) to expand by more than 2 percent this year, “compared to 67 percent of respondents in the January survey,� the semi-annual survey by the National Association

for Business Economics (NABE) said.

Most of the rest expect the economy to grow by 2 percent or less, the survey showed. The government on Friday reported that the US economy EXPANDED BY PERCENT IN THE kRST three months of the year, but many economists say that pace cannot be

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Q ELBO FROM B2

How to escape even get a bonus this year and your boss probably will not get renewed.

Hints and cheats: If they are trying too hard, drop them.

Phase 2: The barter. This time around, the HR manager puts something on the table: “There is this new MBA program‌we are launching a new project‌â€?.

The proposal can vary depending on what they need you to do in exchange. For example, you can get your master’s degree if you change positions and work with X (since no one wants to work with him). We will get you a new iPhone if you teach person Y how to use the system (under your responsibility).

Hints and cheats: Don’t accept a Blackberry when you can get a Land Rover. What you settle for is what you become worth to them.

Phase 3: Coercion. At this stage, since they weren’t able to bargain with you, they try to force it upon you by convincing you that everyone around you doesn’t like you and that it’s you, something is wrong with you. “Since you are not happy here, we were thinking of moving you‌â€?. Wait, when did I ever say I wasn’t happy? “The feedback we received on you is average, your work is not up to par‌â€?. Whom did they ask? “You have been starting to go to the gym more often, it looks like you are not interested in what you are doing anymore‌â€?. Okay scary stalker, stop following me. “You look tired‌â€?. But I was at the spa this weekend.

Hints and cheats: Take time.

They want to put you under pressure so you take a (wrong) impulsive decision.

Phase 4: Crash Test. You didn’t fall for it. At this point, HR goes through 5 revisited phases of grief.

First, they can’t believe their method wasn’t perfect. It works all the time, what happened (denial)? Second, they hate you, you just ruined their bonus, career, promotion (anger).

Third, they make sure it is clear for you that your life is done from this point on (threatening). Fourth, they make sure everybody else knows, too (isolating). Finally, they are forced to scale up the problem (scaling).

Hang in there. The company behaves with everyone the same way so if they can’t force it on you, they will play that game opposite ways.

Sometimes the only person that can help the manager is the second grader.

Dr. Giorgia Nigri is a practitioner AND ACTIVE RESEARCHER IN THE kELD of management studies. She works for Italy’s export credit agency AND IS A CERTIkED BENEkT IMPACT manager. She collaborates with researchers through academic networks such as the International Humanistic Management Association and the Responsible Research in Business Management network. De La Salle University is part of these networks.

Why foreign “money is not everything.�

Geoffrey James in Inc.com says: “Stop paying bonuses. Money doesn’t motivate employees. Paying bonuses and high salaries only makes things worse.�

Rob Danna, a member of Forbes Community Council, citing the 2016 Incentive Research Foundation report, supports James’ contention about non-cash employee reward: “The vast majority of top performing companies (93%) reported their executives are not just willing to carry out rewards and recognition to remain competitive, but are strong supporters of non-cash rewards and recognition as a competitive advantage for the organization.�

There’s no question that organizations must motivate employees.

The question is to choose between cash and non-cash rewards. Social scientist and New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely found that lack of acknowledgment of a job well done, and more importantly, downright dismissing a person’s work, have a crushing effect on workers. His study concluded that “When we are acknowledged

Q KRITZ FROM B1

PH’s old boards limited value, particularly here.

Business growth here is very organic; something more than 99.9 percent of Philippine companies ARE CLASSIkED AS SMALL OR MEDIUM enterprises, and the tiny fraction of a percent that are not used to be.

They are still run as family businesses, and their stock is closely controlled by family members and connections to keep it that way.

Is that the way things ought to

sustained.

At the same time, companies in the NABE survey continue to try to adjust to the impact of retaliatory tariffs on American goods and to US tariffs on imports that have raised costs. g! YEAR AFTER THE 53 kRST IMPOSED new tariffs on its trading partners in 2018, the recent tariffs have negatively affected more than one-fourth of RESPONDENTS kRMS u .!"% 0RESIDENT Kevin Swift said in a statement.

But three-quarters of goodsPRODUCING kRMS REPORTED A NEGATIVE impact, with 67 percent of manufacturers indicating they had faced higher materials costs and half have

raised prices of their products, the survey showed.

In addition, 42 percent reported negative sales and a third said they had delayed planned investments.

With the US unemployment rate at historic lows, labor shortages continue to dog the companies surveyed, prompting nearly half to raise wages or take other steps to adjust. .EARLY PERCENT OF kRMS SAID THEY WERE HAVING DIFkCULTY kNDING high-skilled workers, while half face shortages of mid-skill workers.

In the manufacturing sector, 60 PERCENT OF kRMS HAVE RAISED WAGES

while half have lowered requirements for new hires.

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for our work, we are willing to work harder for less pay, and when we are not acknowledged, we lose much of our motivation.�

And going back to our main topic, I’d like to doubly emphasize that foreign trip incentives are good examples of non-cash employee rewards. I’ve enjoyed them several times decades back when I was active in the corporate world, and of late when my clients would routinely send their managers to join my study missions to Japan, not only to learn about Kaizen and the Toyota Production System, but for their cultural immersion as well.

It’s a small investment to pay compared to what their managers have done in identifying and solving their operational costs that run in several million pesos. Last year alone, my several engagements with eight companies yielded more than one billion pesos of savings. They come from both service and manufacturing sectors that followed strictly the PDCA (plan, do, check, act) approach and its expanded 8-step problem solving process similar to what Toyota is doing.

Learning is doing. And doing it without delay. If people attend seminars daily but don’t immediately revalidate and implement what they’ve learned, all their efforts would go to waste.

The return on investment of people and organizations attending my Kaizen Blitz program is immediate as soon as they have received final facts and figures validated by their respective company’s accounting departments.

With millions of actual savings realized, spending around P120,000 for each person who made the savings is a pittance.

This is not to do a hard sell of my Kaizen Blitz program. Ignore it if you want.

Indeed, foreign travel is a noncash reward. But what if an employee, no matter how unreasonable it is, SAYS HE S AFRAID OF lYING 7HAT COULD be your alternative? Well, there are many options other than foreign travel. The employee may choose to use the travel budget to buy home appliances, wristwatch or use it for home repair or anything that can remind him every time he sees it.

The list can be endless.

In conclusion, you have to collect memories, not material things because money often costs too much you can’t afford it at a certain period of your life.

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

be, and if not, according to what standard should they be modikED 4HERE IS CERTAINLY NOT A BUSIness case for specifying a certain composition of boards based on very general characteristics such as gender, ethnicity or independence; the robust health of most large Philippine companies does NOT SUGGEST THERE IS A SIGNIkCANT lack of ability to succeed in the present business environment.

There is nothing about any single demographic generality that is a clear positive indicator for business. While a social utility debate – although not a very good one – may be made in the context of “equality� or “diversity� when it

comes to women and minorities, there is no identifiable public good or detriment that stems from the presence or absence of independent directors. The only way possible is if those directors represent specific interests or advocacies outside the company, in which case they are not really independent after all.

The notion that Philippine corporations need more independent directors is another example of the application, or at least suggestion, of social engineering in business in lieu of structural reform in the business environment. The Philippines is already conducive to business growth, but needs

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Volatile politics, oil prices burden Middle East – IMF DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Political uncertainty and volatile oil prices are weighing heavily on economic growth in the Middle East this year, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday.

The report, which looks at the economies of 23 countries spanning not only North Africa, the Levant and the Persian Gulf, but also Djibouti, Somalia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, predicts that overall growth across these nations is expected to slowdown from close to 2 percent last year to about 1.5 percent in 2019. )NlATION IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN unchanged at close to 10 percent.

A closer look, however, shows sharp variations from country to country.

Iran, for example, is expected to be among the hardest hit this year. The IMF expects a 6-percent retraction in economic growth in 2019 — and that does not factor in the recent announcement by the US that waivers on Iranian oil exports will expire next week, further deepening Iran’s economic recession. Last year, Iran’s economy retracted

BY NEARLY PERCENT AND INlATION remains high. “The removal of waiver will affect more the recession,� said Jihad Azour, the IMF’s Mideast and Central Asia department director. “A negative growth of 6 percent has an impact on poverty, social protection and jobs.�

Azour said one of the most pressing issues facing Iran with the impact of US sanctions was THE NEED TO ALIGN THE OFkCIAL CURrency exchange rates for the Iranian rial with black market rates.

Wealthy Gulf Arab oil exporters face their own sets of challenges, namely diversifying their economies away from reliance on oil exports for revenue in the face OF SHARP EBBS AND lOWS IN PRICES over the past six months.

The international lender said the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar would also need to create 1 million new jobs annually for at least the next kVE YEARS JUST TO KEEP UNEMPLOYreform in terms of competition, CORPORATE kNANCE AND REGULATORY effectiveness – quality, not quantity. Focusing on those things will open the opportunities the subtext of the Bloomberg report says are lacking here. If more independent directors are desired, then the best way to ensure that businesses will appoint more is to create an environment in which that is the most sensible business decision for them. Any other artificial initiative will simply go the route of most other “mandates,� and become another unenforced and unenforceable idea.

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Q RRR FROM B1

Q CUTS FROM B1

Diokno: Policy rate

S&P cuts

Risks

than programmed.

Meanwhile, above-target inflation prompted the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ policymaking Monetary Board to hike key interest rates five consecutive times last year, only pausing after consumer price growth began easing last November.

A third pause resulted from the last policy meeting on March 21, with monetary authorities noting the need for more data. “Despite these headwinds, THEY HAVE A BENEkCIAL IMPACT ON net exports via slower import GROWTH WHILE THE FALL IN INlATION will support an acceleration in consumption,� S&P said.

Latest available data show that imports growth slowed to 2.6 percent in February from 3.6 percent and 13.7 percent from a month and a year earlier.

On the other hand, March’s 3.3-percent inflation — a 15-month low — placed the year-to-date average at 3.8 per-

3 0 HOWEVER lAGGED THE ACcommodative monetary policy in advanced economies, the El NiĂąo phenomenon, and the delayed national budget as risks to growth. “The risk of further disorderly CAPITAL OUTlOWS FROM EMERGING markets continues to narrow as major central banks dial back on language around future tightening,â€? it said.

In the domestic scene, the credit rater said potential reSUMPTION IN INlATION WAS STILL present due to El NiĂąo, but stressed that the recent trajectory suggests that risk was narrowing, as well.

Lastly, it said the delayed passing of the budget coinciding with the preelection ban on public projects “could result in AN EVEN SHARPER DROP IN kSCAL impulse than expected if postelection projects take a while before they break ground.�

[when] we increased interest rates by 175 basis points to address the ELEVATED INlATION SO AS THINGS NORMALize. Naturally, we should move toward normalization,� he said.

On the RRR, Diokno said there was a clear case that the reserve requirement of banks in the country was one of the highest in Southeast Asia.

The RRR is the proportion of deposits that banks need to keep with the central bank against the sum they can loan out to borrowers. It is currently at 18 percent following two cuts last year. “We need to reduce that [for banks] to be more competitive. Before the end of my term, the reserve ratio should be at least single digit,� he added.

Asked for more details, Diokno later told reporters that these reductions “will come this year.� !BOVE TARGET INlATION PROMPTED the Bangko Sentral’s policymaking Monetary Board to hike key interest RATES kVE CONSECUTIVE TIMES LAST YEAR

only pausing after consumer price growth began easing in November.

A third pause resulted from the last policy meeting on March 21, with monetary authorities noting the need for more data.

Last week, Diokno said the country’s monetary policy remains “appropriate,â€? but warned that further risks could emerge from a prolonged El NiĂąo and higher-than-expected increase in global oil and food prices. “[O]ur prevailing monetary policy stance remains appropriate, given the CONlUENCE OF EASING INlATION AND kRM GROWTH DYNAMICS u HE ADDED That said, Diokno stressed that the central bank “will remain data-driven at all times in our policy decisionmaking and our actions will be deTERMINED BY OUR INlATION OUTLOOK u “The BSP remains focused on safeguarding and promoting price stability conducive to a balanced and sustainable economic growth,â€? he added. MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO

cent, within the central bank’s 2.0-4.0 percent target.

ment rates from climbing.

For these countries, overall economic growth is expected to remain basically unchanged at around 2 percent in 2019. Specifically, non-oil growth is projected to pick up slightly from last year at closer to 3 percent in 2019, ALTHOUGH kSCAL DEkCITS WILL ALSO expand somewhat from last year.

-ORE SPECIkCALLY 3AUDI !RAbia’s economic growth is expected to slow down from 2.2 percent in 2018 to 1.8 percent this year.

For oil importing countries like Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and others in the region, inflation overall is expected to remain mostly unchanged at around 10 percent and growth is expected to slow from just over 4 percent last year to 3.6 percent in 2019.

That average is mainly driven

by Pakistan, where economic growth is expected to slow from about 5 percent last year to close to 3 percent this year.

Meanwhile, protests in Algeria AND 3UDAN CONlICTS IN ,IBYA 3YRIA and Yemen; tensions between India and Pakistan; and shaky peace talks in Afghanistan “may increase investors’ perception of risk for the whole region, leading to capital OUTlOWS AND EXCHANGE RATE PRESsure,� the IMF noted. “This may feed back into further oil price volatility and regional uncertainty,� the report said.

Oil prices climbed above $80 a barrel in October, then fell below $50 a barrel in January. The IMF is factoring an average of around $65 a barrel in the medium term.

The organization says swings in oil prices are being impacted by global trade tensions, US sanctions on Iranian oil exports and oil production cuts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other oilproducing nations.

The unrest in countries like Algeria and Sudan is heavily rooted in economic discontent over unemployment, corruption and poor public services.

For oil importing countries, unemployment remains stubbornly high at close to 25 percent among young people, the IMF said.

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Q OFFER FROM B1

Moody’s the planned debt papers.

The planned euro bond is one of the government’s fundraising efforts in offshore markets.

In January, the government raised $1.5 billion through a 10-year global bond issue, which received a tight spread of 110 basis points over the US Treasuries.

Last August, it raised 154.2 billion yen or $1.39 billion from the issuance of three-year yen-denominated samurai bonds.

This came months after the government raised 1.46 billion renminbi or $230 million from its maiden panda bond issuance in March. MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO

Q GAMING FROM B1

PH gaming which accounts for about 28 percent of the private casinos’ GGR. Pagcor earlier reported that casinos’ GGR reached P187.54 billion or $3.58 billion last year, up by 22.9 percent from a year earlier.

Private-sector casino resorts in the Philippines recorded an overall GGR of P151.65 billion in 2018, a 28.3-percent increase from P118.18 billion the year before.

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Q RESULTS FROM B1

PSEi up 0.89 percent, respectively.

More than 1.06 billion issues were traded valued at P5.8 billion.

Losers led winners, 97 to 89, while 52 issues were unchanged.

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SANCTUARY FOR THOSE SEEKING A MORE laid back kind of ambience, and THE MARKET HAS GROWN SIGNIkCANTLY DIVERSE TO INCLUDE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS AND PROFESSIONALS WHO TRAVEL ALL THE WAY DOWN SOUTH JUST

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Q Rodne Galicha (3rd from left) receives The Outstanding Young Men and Women (TOYM) award in environment and climate change education for 2018 from TOYM Search Committee National Chairman Mark Joseph David, TOYM Foundation President Bienvenido Tantoco 3rd, JCI Philippines National President Rey Felix Rafols, TOYM Foundation Vice Chairman Lorenzo Tan and Board of Judges Chairman Department of Science and Technology (DoST) Secretary Fortunato dela Peña.

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TUESDAY B8 APRIL 30, 2019 EDITOR: Mario F. Fetalino Jr. mario.fetalino@manilatimes.net

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Best UAP NatCon ever!

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AST April 11 to 13, 2019 , all roads led to the SMX Convention Center where the Integrated and Accredited Professional Organization of Architects, the United Architects of the Philippines held its 45th national convention (NatCon).

The event was well attended by representatives from chapter members of the 162 chapters of the UAP worldwide — 140 local chapters and 22 foreign chapters from as far as the United States, Canada, Middle East and Asia0ACIkC 2EGION With the theme “The Architect in Focus,� the occassion featured the multi-faceted role of architects in the built environment and showcased their expertises. It was precisely intended to highlight the role of the architect as the master builder and to broaden his function in the professional service.

Our campaign advocacy “For your plans and designs, get an architect� was well highlighted to let architecture be known to the public and unite our community.

This year’s convention was OPENED TO ALL ARCHITECTS 2EGISTRAtion was done online to accommodate as many members as possible.

There was no limit for every chapter.

Two packages were offered durING THE REGISTRATION FOR lEXIBILITY ‡ one for those who just wanted to attend the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) seminars, and the other for those who wanted the customary full board activities and events from Day 1 to Day 3.

There was also the Convention Exhibits of 2019 on the ground lOOR OF THE 3-8 "UILDING )T RAN simultaneously with the UAP National Convention, which was opened to the general public.

The Convention Exhibits or Conex 2019 was a high impact, high profile exhibit of building construction products and services intended for buildings and other vertical structures. It was led by the platinum sponsor and UAP national corporate partner Davies Paints followed by other friends in the industry such as Wilcon Depot, (#' AND "OSTIK AMONG OTHERS Conex is conducted yearly as it is the premier construction exhibit for architects, the general public and friends in the industry covering construction materials from home building, home improvements, building technology and new building products. It also shows modern trends in the vertical structure business.

The recent exhibit had more than 300 exhibitors. It demonstrated several new features of connections and connectivity with architects and their suppliers.

"EST OPTIONS FOR MORE EFFECTIVE marketing of modern products and businesses were also featured.

Part of Conex 2019 was an exhibit of Asean architects’ iconic structures from 10 countries in the region. Gracing the affair were 29 Asean architects who were invited to the 3rd Asean Architects Congress that coincided with the convention and the exhibit.

The convention gave birth to a new Likha awardee in the person OF !RCH 0HILIP 2ECTO &5!0 AND an APEC Architect. The Likha Award is a prestigious recognition

Lopez, South Area Regional Manager Rym Altavas, Administrative Officer Grace Creer, LKY Group Chief Operating Officer Ben Lua, LKY Group President Wilbert T. Lee, Electrical Engineers Ricardo Gutierrez and Rico Orticio, and Senior Project-In-Charge Rodelio Dizon.  Â

PERSPECTIVE ARCH. BENJAMIN PANGANIBAN JR.

bestowed on a UAP member for his invaluable contribution to the profession, showing exceptional honesty, integrity and diligence as the foundation of service in gaining trust and confidence by his peers clients together with his unblemished record and high ethical conduct in the building industry.

During the affair, the UAP College of Fellows elevated four new MEMBERS IN THE kELD OF !RCHITECTURal Private Practice namely Architects Danny Ko, Filna Daphne Espina, Mary Louise Catherine SaldaĂąa and *ENSEN 2ACHO In the same event, the national ELECTIONS OF THE NEW SET OF OFkCERS for UAP was also held. A unanimous support for a second term was given to yours truly (president) and THE OTHER OFkCERS OF THE ORGANIZATION NAMELY !RCH 2ENATO (ERAY

national executive vice president; !RCH 2ONNIE 9UMANG SECRETARY general; Arch. Wilfredo Gacutan, NATIONAL TREASURER AND !RCH 2OLAN Paolo Alberto, national auditor.

We were given a fresh mandate for kSCAL YEAR TO IMPLEMENT programs and reforms in the organization and to continue promoting and protecting the profession. ! kRST IN THE CONVENTION WAS THE INTRODUCTION OF THE 2UNKITEK

A BENEkT RUN OPENED TO THE PUBLIC to promote architects creating people-friendly communities, and healthy and active lifestyle.

During the CPD seminars, speakers for the “The architect as a planner� were Architects Marjorie May Mariano, Jocelyn Dawis-Asuncion and Prof. Danilo Silvestre. Speakers for “The architect as a builder� were Derrick Tan, Eng. Christian Cesar Dimalibot, David Thomas AND $R #HRISTINE "RUCKNER &OR THE g4HE !RCHITECT AS A 6)3)/.!29 u speakers were Johannes. Smarius AND $ANTE DEL 2OSARIO &OR THE g#ITY evolution,� they were architects Felicisimo Tejuco Jr. and Joseph $AVID "LAS The grand event was handled practically well by the Executive Director for Conventions and Assemblies Arch. Antonio Valdez, getting cheers and accolades from peers and friends in the construction industry who laBELLED THE OCCASSION AS g"ETTER THAN THE "EST .ATCON %VER u #REDITS WERE also given to NatCon Director Karen +AY !NG #ONEX $IRECTOR 2OLANDO "ANZON AND THEIR VERY ABLED and dedicated committee heads and members.

The UAP inaugurals for the reELECTED OFkCERS IS SET ON *UNE

*** (The writer is the current National President of the United Architects of the Philippines and the First National President coming from Mindanao. He has been in the Private practice for more than 33 years and is a Fellow of the UAP. (E IS ALSO THE kRST !SEAN !RCHITECT and APEC Architect coming from $AVAO #ITY (E IS A GRADUATE OF " 3 Architecture from the University of Mindanao and is also a Doctor &ELLOW OF THE 2OYAL )NSTITUTE OF !Rchitects Singapore.)

Primark opens 36th town center in Tacloban

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HILIPPINE Primark Properties Inc. (Primark), the country’s leading developer of community malls called “town center,� recently soft opened its 36th branch in Caibaan, Tacloban City.

The activity was part of its expansion in the countryside.

With a floor area of 6, 244 square meters (sqm), the Caibaan Town Center carries SM supermar-

ket Save More as anchor tenant.

With Save More are popular brands such as McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts, Generika, Watson’s Pharmacy, Shawarma Shack,

and Cebuana Lhuillier, as well as homegrown enterprises like Danny’s Delicacies.

Also included in the list are Siomai Chino, Cellcom, Fon Plus, 1UALITY "READSHOP %L 4OROGI +ID S Paradise, Cellcom Telecom, Leyte 0APERWORLD #HINGO "UKO (OUSE

"OCHOK 2ICE -EAL 2 !GRIPET Center, May Abohan and more. ! PART OF THE ,+9 'ROUP of Companies, Primark cur-

rently operates in more than 40 key cities and urban centers across the country with not a b l e e c o n o m i c g r ow t h a s manifested in high consumer consumption patterns.

The town centers offer shopping convenience to communities it caters through welldesigned facilities. They provide venues for local entrepreneurs to grow their businesses.

NorthPine Land aims for greater milestones AS one of the country’s trusted developers of lifestyle communities, the only direction for NorthPine Land Inc. (NLI) this 2019 is to go an extra mile both for its North and South projects.

NLI started the year strong with several aggressive development plans lined up to create another remarkable real estate footprint in Luzon areas.

To hype up everyone in the NLI team, the company set up a talk featuring Lloyd Luna, an international Filipino motivational speaker on success, career, business and personal development.

In his “Why Am I Working?� lecture during NLI Employees’ Kickoff at Ortigas, Pasig City, Luna reinforced the commitment of the company’s manpower to its 2019 mission by focusing on the importance of understanding the value of what the company does and the power of working with passion.

Luna stressed that no challenge will stop someone who loves his mission. Luna also reminded the .ORTH0INE 4EAM ABOUT THE SIGNIkcance of individual commitment and collaborative efforts in accomplishing the company’s goals. All these were in line with NLI’s 2019 mantra: “Commit 2019: Unleash the Power as One NorthPine.�

In the same occasion, NLI General Manager Ferdinand Macabanti proudly reviewed NorthPine Land’s consistent evolution

Q Rushmore project

over the years. Data and statistics showed how the company has grown in terms of net reservation sales, net income and size. “NLI has come a long way since it started its endeavor more than 20 years ago. The demand for our stunning communities constantly increases. We commit to make more and greater milestones this year and forward,� Macabanti said.

Macabanti also shared details of the ongoing property expansions

FOR .,) S kRST AND ONLY TOWNHOUSE development in DasmariĂąas City-Kahaya Place.

Likewise, the company looks forward to further develop Kohana Grove, its modern Asian-themed community in Silang, Cavite, which is happening later this year.

Futher, the group unveiled its new model units which promise pioneering designs and functionality for homebuyers.

The newest additions to Mon-

tana Strands and Montana Views, two stunning projects in PamPANGA ARE .ANCY AND 2USHMORE

respectively.

With the fast-selling inventories in Montana Strands, Nancy will surely help meet the housing needs of the cabalen while 2USHMORE WILL BE THE ANSWER to the large space requirements of big families being the first house offered by NLI with five bedrooms.

Elevator technology supports sustainability

Q From left: Enrico Morales, Jardine Schindler Elevator Corporation (JSEC) national key account and marketing manager); Rey Macaraig, JSEC new installation (NI) sales head; Akash Srivastava, JSEC NI director; Peter Schwarer, managing director; architect Rey Fuentez, Daiichi vice president for project management group; engineer Bernard Parajado, Daiichi project director; and engineer Noel Villena, Daiichi – project director MEP.

JARDINE Schindler Philippines officially launched its latest Technology-enabled destination elevator installation at Daiichi Properties’ The Finance Centre in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) recently Schindler Philippines has 25 years of technical expertise in the local industry.

It has strategic offices located in Metro Manila, Baguio, Cebu, Davao, Angeles and Iloilo, serving the needs of Philippine companies for world-class elevators and escalators. It prides itself with its Personal Occupant Requirement Terminal (PORT) technology which helps provide tenants with a new and enhanced elevator and escalator service experience.

The PORT technology only requires the identity or destination of a passenger to access a PORT elevator. It takes care of planning and executing a seamless journey using an optimal route designed to take the shortest possible time to complete. Through this process, not only does it provide an innovative elevator experience but is also raising the security level of an establishment by limiting access to other floors or destinations.

Schindler Philippines continued its partnership with Daiichi Properties in providing its PORT technology elevator service to the award-winning building, The Finance Centre. This premium-grade office tower is the second of the leading

developer’s building to be installed with the PORT technology elevator system.

Prior to The Finance Centre, Schindler also provided its elevator service to another Daiichi Properties award-winning building, World Plaza, which is also in Bonifacio Global City in 2017.

Raising the benchmark for Philippine real estate, Daiichi Properties has been creating innovative office and residential buildings in Ortigas and BGC. The firm is committed to developing buildings that are sustainable and environmentally-friendly, and are ensured to be earthquake and typhoon-ready. It also uses state-of-the-art technologies and innovations to reduce energy consumption

and boost savings.

With Daiichi Properties’ strong commitment to develop green and sustainable buildings, Schindler’s PORT technology meets today’s environmental challenges by managing the trips made by the 42-story building’s elevators so that passengers are transported in the most efficient manner possible. Further, the equipment has been designed to use a reduced level of power consistent with the many features it provides. Schindler is committed to advance PORT technology to minimize total building energy consumption while ensuring that the energy used provides the optimum environment for their tenants.

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Sri Lanka eyes banning face cover for Muslim women AMPARA, Sri Lanka: Muslim women in Sri Lanka will no longer be able to veil their faces under an emergency law ordered by President Maithripala Sirisena that bans all kinds of face coverings that may conceal people’s identities.

The law takes effect Monday, eight days after the Easter bombings of churches and hotels that killed more the 250 people in Sri Lanka.

Dozens of suspects have been arrested but local officials and the US embassy in Colombo have warned that more militants remained on the loose with explosives. Life on the south Asian island nation has been tense since the bombings.

The decision came after the Cabinet had proposed laws on face veils at a recent meeting. It had deferred the matter until talks with Islamic clerics could be held,

on the advice of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Sri Lankan police said a woman and a four-year-old child found wounded after a deadly gunbattle between police and militants had BEEN IDENTIkED AS THE WIFE AND daughter of the alleged mastermind of the Easter bombings.

Sri Lanka’s military says the GUNkGHT &RIDAY NIGHT IN !MPARA District in the country’s east left 15 dead, including six children.

The Islamic State group has claimed three of the militants killed in the shootout. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said the two wounded were idenTIkED AS THE WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF Mohammed Zahran.

Police also said that 48 suspects were arrested over the past 24 hours in connection with the Easter bombings that killed 250 people.

AP

TUESDAY April 30, 2019

Court orders resumption of ex-PM Razak’s graft trial

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UALA Lumpur, Malaysia: Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak has failed in his bid to have seven corruption charges against him dismissed as his trial entered the third week Monday.

At the start of his trial on April

.AJIB CHALLENGED THE CRIMINAL breach of trust, abuse of power and money laundering charges against him on grounds that they lacked clarity and impeded the preparation of his defense. *UDGE -OHAMAD .AZLAN -Ohamad Ghazali ruled Monday THAT .AJIB HADN T BEEN PREJUDICED as his lawyers had extensively

cross-examined 21 witnesses who TESTIkED SO FAR 4HE JUDGE RULED THE charges would stand.

4HE TRIAL IS THE kRST OF SEVERAL AGAINST .AJIB WHO FACES GRAFT charges in one of the country’s biggest criminal proceedings.

4HE kRST SEVEN CHARGES SPECIkCALly relate to the suspicious transfer of 42 million ringgit

($10.2 million) from SRC InternaTIONAL INTO .AJIB S BANK ACCOUNTS via intermediary companies between 2011 and 2015.

SRC is a former unit of the 1MDB state investment fund, which US investigators say was PILFERED OF BILLIONS BY .AJIB S associates. The scandal helped LEAD TO .AJIB S ELECTORAL DEFEAT last May. .AJIB IS ACCUSED OF USING HIS position to receive the money for approving a government guarantee for a government loan to SRC, committing criminal breach of trust and accepting proceeds from unlawful activities.

(IS LAWYERS SAY .AJIB WAS THE victim of conspiracy by rogue BANKERS INCLUDING ONE IDENTIkED

by US investigators as the masTERMIND BEHIND THE -$" kASCO 0ROSECUTORS SAY .AJIB WHO SET up 1MDB in 2009, was the real power behind the fund and SRC. Evidence so far has shown a complex trail of money in and out OF .AJIB S BANK ACCOUNTS SOME OF which had been used to pay for his home renovation, some disbursed to political parties in his then ruling coalition, some for charity and some to manage his Chinese &ACEBOOK ACCOUNT AND MONITOR six Chinese-language dailies. AP

Indonesia floodings death toll rises to 31

Biden strong candidate; Trump: He is very weak WASHINGTON, D.C: US President Donald Trump called Joe Biden “very weak,� but a Trump ally said the former Democratic vice president was “a good man� who would be “a strong candidate� for the White House.

The 76-year-old Biden entered the 2020 race last week and quickly claimed front-runner status in the CROWDED kELD Biden was the 21st personality from the Democratic Party who sigNIkED INTENTION TO RUN FOR THE US presidential elections.

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TOLD &OX .EWS #HANNEL S g3UNDAY -ORNING &UTURESu that he did not know “what the hell happened to Biden. ... It just doesn’t look like the same Biden.�

But Sen. Lindsey Graham said he likes the former Delaware senator “a lot.� Still, the South Carolina 2EPUBLICAN TELLS #"3 g&ACE THE .Ation� he doesn’t know how Biden

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gkTS INTO THE $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY OF 2020.�

Graham also said, “If you travel with Joe Biden, you won’t think he’s too old.�

Biden is signaling he hopes to own what may be the 2020 election’s toughest battleground.

Planting a flag in Pennsylvania makes sense for the longtime former senator from Delaware: He was born in Pennsylvania, has numerous ties to it and is using his deep inroads with INlUENTIAL STATE PARTY kGURES TO HIS advantage in the primary. &OR $EMOCRATS IT S A LATE PRIMARY state that may have little value in the nomination. But Donald Trump’s campaign is already mapping out a strategy to win Pennsylvania a second time, and the Republican won’t easily cede a state that forms the core of his likeliest path back to 270 electoral votes.

AP

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Globes of different sizes and colors are seen at the book fair in Frankfurt, Germany.

Scientists and diplomats from 130 countries are currently meeting in Paris to adopt the first global assessment of ecosystems for nearly 15 years. AFP photo

BENGKULU, Indonesia: Floods sparked by torrential rains had killed 31 people in Indonesia, with a dozen more still missing, officials said Monday, marking the latest calamity for a disaster-prone nation.

Landslides and floods are common, especially during the monsoon season between October and April, when rains lash the vast Southeast Asian archipelago.

On Monday, Indonesia’s disaster agency confirmed 31 deaths and said at least 13 more people were missing after days of pounding storms on the island of Sumatra.

Thousands of people are involved in the search and rescue effort, it said, but distribution of aid had been hampered by power cuts, inaccessible roads and large distances between various disaster-hit areas.

The highest number of deaths was in central Bengkulu where a landslide killed nearly two dozen people.

Deforestation, reduced water catchment areas and inappropriate land use in high-risk areas have increased vulnerability to floods, according to the disaster agency. AFP/AP

1 killed, 7 injured in Baltimore shooting

VOTING TIME

Indian tribal voters line up at a polling station in the fourth phase of general elections in Ilambazar, in the Indian state of West Bengal. India’s six-week elections have entered the fourth phase. AFP PHOTO

BALTIMORE: A gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd that had gathered for Sunday (Monday in Manila) afternoon cookouts along a west Baltimore street, killing a man and wounding seven other people, authorities and reports said.

Police Commissioner Michael (ARRISON SAID THE GUNkRE ERUPTED after 5 p.m. on a block in the city’s western district of brick row homes. Harrison said a man approached a crowd on foot and beGAN kRING IN WHAT HE CALLED gA VERY tragic, very cowardly shooting.�

Speaking at the scene afterward,

Harrison said the shooting appeared “extremely targeted,� but he didn’t provide a possible motive.

The shooting comes roughly six weeks after Harrison’s swearing-in last month as Baltimore police commissioner, when he promised to make the city safer and lead the department through sweeping reforms required by a federal consent decree. It’s a daunting task in one of the country’s poorest major cities where there were more than 300 homicides in each of the past two years. Harrison is the city’s 14th police leader since the

mid-1990s.

The commissioner said there were two cookouts taking place on opposite sides of the street Sunday, and that shell casings were found in two different locations, indicating that there may have been a SECOND GUNMAN OR SOMEONE kRING BACK AT THE kRST SHOOTER WHO lED on foot. It was unclear whether the cookouts were related, Harrison said.

One man who was shot collapsed behind a Baptist church nearby and was pronounced dead at the scene. Harrison said initially

that six others had been wounded and were taken to hospitals, but he didn’t release their names or their conditions. A police statement later said a man was killed, BUT DIDN T GIVE HIS AGE )T SAID kVE of the survivors were men ranging in ages from 27 to 58, as well as a 30-year-old woman.

A police spokesman later Sunday evening was cited by The Baltimore Sun as saying an eighth victim, a man with a gunshot wound to the leg, went to a hospital.

The report did not elaborate.

AP

RULING SOCIALIST PARTY WINS IN SPAIN ELECTION MADRID: Spain’s governing Socialist Party has won the country’s parliamentary election, but will need backing from smaller PARTIES TO STAY IN POWER !ND FOR THE kRST time since the 1970s, a far-right party will have members in Spain’s lower house of parliament.

With nearly all ballots counted from Sunday election, the Socialists headed by Prime Minister Pedro SĂĄnchez won nearly 29 percent of the votes. They captured 122 seats in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies.

The new far-right Vox party won 10

percent of the vote and will have 24 seats.

Its success came at the expense of the oncedominant conservative Popular Party, which fell to 66 seats The Popular Party lost votes both to Vox and to the center-right Citizens party, which will increase its number of seats from 32 to 57.

Spain’s socialist prime minister says he would consider talks to form a new government only with parties that respect the constitution and promote social justice.

SĂĄnchez declared his party the winner in

Worldinbriefs HK FOLK BUCK NEW EXTRADITION LAW HONG KONG : Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Hong Kong in opposition to changes to an extradition law widely seen as eroding the territory’s independent legal system. Many of those taking part carried yellow umbrellas, recalling Hong Kong’s massive 2014 pro-democracy protests, the leaders of whom have been sentenced to up to 16 months in prison. Hong Kong police said around 22,800 people took part in Sunday’s protest at its peak period.

AP

LABOR PARTY TO WIN IN AUSTRALIA POLLS SYDNEY: A fresh opinion poll showed Australia’s bare-knuckle election campaign tightening significantly, but the center-left opposition Labor party maintaining a narrow lead ahead of a first televised leaders’ debate Monday.

The Newspoll survey showed Labor’s edge over the conservative governing coalition narrowed to two percentage points, well within the margin of error.

For months the polls had shown the opposition headed for a landslide victory at the May 18 vote.

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Sunday’s general election, a ballot in which THE FAR RIGHT MADE INROADS FOR THE kRST TIME since Spain returned to democratic rule.

Sånchez hinted at a preference for a left-wing governing alliance, but his stress on the constitution also sent a warning to Catalan separatists even though he may need their support to be elected by Parliament’s lower house to a new term as prime minister.

Spain’s constitution says regions had no right to secede and sovereignty must be decided by all Spaniards, not just

by inhabitants of a particular region. #ATALAN SEPARATISTS DEkED 3PAIN IN with a referendum and subsequent independence declaration. They won 22 seats Sunday.

The leader of Spain’s conservatives is acknowledging that Sunday’s election results for his Popular Party are “very bad� — its worst showing ever in a national vote.

Pablo Casado also told his Popular Party members Sunday night that “we have been losing our electoral support for several elections.�

According to provisional results, the Popular Party will see its number of seats in Parliament shrink to 66 from the 137 it won in the 2016 elections.

Casado blames the debacle on the splitting of voters on the right, with many being lured away by the centerRIGHT #ITIZENS PARTY AND THE NEW FAR kGHT Vox party.

The Socialist Party of Prime Minister Pedro SĂĄnchez replaced the Popular Party as the biggest vote getter and is poised to stay in power.

AP

THOUSANDS ATTEND AFGHAN PEACE MEET

INDONESIA JAILS 12 VIETNAMESE FISHERS

KABUL: Thousands of politicians and officials from across Afghanistan gathered amid tight security in Kabul on Monday to discuss the war and US efforts to forge a peace deal with the Taliban. More than 3,000 people have been invited to the rare “loya jirga�, which is being billed as the largest in modern Afghan history, in a bid to set possible conditions under which they might accept a peace settlement. The loya jirga — literally “grand assembly� in Pashto — is being held as the US and Taliban are discussing a possible foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in exchange for a permanent ceasefire and various Taliban pledges.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia: Indonesia’s navy said Monday that one of its patrol vessels was rammed by two Vietnamese coast guard ships after intercepting a boat it says was fishing illegally in its waters. Indonesia detained 12 Vietnamese fishers from the boat, which sank in Saturday’s clash, and they are being held at a naval base “for further legal proceedings,� said Rear Adm. Yudo Margono, the commander of Indonesia’s Western Fleet. Two others were rescued by Vietnam’s coast guard. The Vietnamese fishing vessel was intercepted in waters off Indonesia’s Natuna island chain, which is in the southernmost reaches of the South China Sea, Margono said in a statement Monday. Indonesia calls the waters the North Natuna Sea. AP

IRAN TO HIT BACK FOR US SANCTIONS Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that his country is considering a number of options in response to the reimposition of US sanctions against the Islamic republic, state IRIB TV reported. “There are many options available to the Islamic republic, and the country’s officials are considering them,� Zarif told IRIB. “Leaving the Non-Proliferation Treaty is one of the options,� he said. Since the exit from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive plan of Action, in May last year, the US government under President Donald Trump has been piling up pressure on Iran through a series of sanctions.

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SINGAPORE FINES ACTIVIST OVER FB POST SINGAPORE: A Singaporean activist was Monday fined for questioning the independence of the judiciary on Facebook (FB), the latest case to highlight what critics say is the country’s heavy-handed approach towards dissent.While it is wealthy and modern in many ways, tightly-controlled Singapore is regularly criticised by rights groups for restricting freedom of expression with tough laws. In the latest case, activist Jolovan Wham was found guilty in October of contempt of court for posting on Facebook that Singapore’s judiciary lacked integrity and independence in cases involving the government or politicians.

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BY MAYLENE STEPHANIE S. VIRAY

HE Philippine legal landscape has changed remarkably from t he tr a di t i o n a l sys t e m t o tech-driven method of law practice.

L aw ye r s, b o t h yo u n g a n d o l d , have recognized the need to adopt modern ways to allow the country to be at par with its regional and international counterparts.

In the age where disruption and innovation prevail, concepts such as globalization and digitization, among other factors, are said to have influenced the industry as much as it has advanced other key industries like business, technology and the economy. “With the advent of globalization and technology, people all over the globe want to conform with the trends in the community — social media is one of the ways to go with this,� Kristjan Vicente

Gargantiel, one of the partner lawyers at the Gargantiel, Ilagan and Atanante Law (GIA Law) Firm, told The Manila Times in an exclusive interview. “Since almost every person has an access to even the most archaic form of social media, such digitization is salutary for a law firm to bring its services closer to its clients,� he added.

H o w e v e r, w i t h t h e s e n e w schemes come new challenges as well.

GIA Law’s Managing Partner Rowell Ilagan cited media law, cross-border transactions, data privacy and competition laws as some of the new challenges facing the legal profession today. “These would necessitate the involvement of lawyers not only in the territorial jurisdiction of the Philippines, but also other jurisdictions,� he said. “These are just some of the challenges or issues that are confronting not only the legal profession, but also as an industry.�

On a lighter note, Ilagan said despite these challenges, the country’s legal industry is doing its best to adapt to these changes. “The law practice in the Philippines has evolved and improved over the years,� he said. “That is one of the accomplishments of our legal system. Even our laws, jurisprudence, rules of procedure and legal writings are constantly restructured to be at parity with the international standards for legal practice.�

Aside from the practice, clients seeking legal services had also changed their behavior over the years, with their request becoming more urgent and the clients becoming more demanding than ever owing to population increase, Gargantiel said. “With the population increasing, the law of supply and demand takes place as contracts and transactions are increasing as well,� he explained. “With the increasing demands and little supply, it affects the practice. You have to be fast-paced in order to satisfy the client’s needs.�

Moreover, the liberalization of legal services has also been a talked about subject that is deemed necessary for the country’s legal industry to continuously be at par with the region and the international community.

Since the practice of law in the country is exclusive for Filipinos, which is stated under the Constitution’s article XII, section 14, the liberalization would allow foreign lawyers to render legal services in the country; however, subjected to regulations by the Supreme Court and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines.

The liberalization would also help Filipino law practitioners keep up with the current market and policies included in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) integration.

During the Asean Law Association Assembly in 2015, former Senate President Franklin Drilon told Asean justices, judges and other leading

law practitioners present before him that the Asean Integration poses a challenge to the members of the legal profession. “As the integration calls for a free exchange of resources, we must ask ourselves: What does integration mean to the legal profession? What is its impact to the practice of law? In this era of integration, the Asean lawyer must learn to navigate multiple legal jurisdictions,� Drilon said. “It is predicted that the Asean would become the fourth largest market, after the EU (European Union), US and China by 2030. However, full Asean integration poses a challenge to every Asean member country. The existing legal framework may not be sufficient for the region to achieve a completely free exchange of goods and services.�

The Asean Economic Community (AEC) initiative was created in 2015, when it also began its initial implementation, with the goal of economic integration by transforming the region into a single market and production base, a highly competitive region with equitable economic development and fully integrated into the global economy.

This integration, according to Drilon, would allow a stronger and more efficient legal apparatus that would help the country capitalize on all the economic and development opportunities it provides. “This proposal for liberalization allows for collaborative work between Filipino and foreign lawyers where the matter o r t r a n s a c t i o n i n vo l ve s b o t h domestic and foreign law,� he said. “The liberalization of law practice will help strengthen the country’s legal profession and will help the country face the many challenges in the political and business sector being created due to the Asean Integration starting this year.�

Upon the full implementation of the AEC, the Asean region will be characterized by free movement of goods, services and investments, as well as a freer flow of capital and skills.

And with harmonized trade and investment laws, Asean will be strengthened and become more interesting as a single investment destination.

Role of the two schemes The Yale Tribune , the newspap e r o r g a n i z a t i o n o f t h e Ya l e University in the US, said that globalization has impacted the legal field in many ways as it boosts international trade and commerce by facilitating the easy movement of capital, labor, goods and services across borders. With this fast-paced drive for economic growth, globalization needed a new kind of legal practitioner.

The paper describes this “new kind of lawyer� as an industry expert or an authority on the law as specialized domains — such as project finance, mergers and

acquisitions as well as arbitrations — are more industry-specific and less about local regulations. “Industry experts are increasingly driving transactions and reducing the local, non specialist lawyers to supporting and advisory roles,� the paper said. “The legal professionals who work for global clients must be able to conduct themselves in a foreign language and be well-versed with international norms and usages as the interface lawyers that were found in foreign desks of INTERNATIONAL LAW kRMS HAVE BECOME A relic of the past.�

Moreover, globalization has also affected client expectations by becoming more demanding, forcing law firms to revise its ways of functioning. As a result, the Tribune said the balance of power was shifting into the hands of clients. “Globalization has resulted in the adoption of global norms in professional liability, ethics and non discrimination policies,� it ADDED g,EGAL kRMS ARE INCREASINGly attuning themselves to global practices to meet the requirements of worldwide clients and remain relevant in the global marketplace.�

On the other hand, in 2017, Forbes declared that the legal industry was becoming digitized with access to legal resources readily available to anyone with a computer.

It added that law firms nowadays were operating in a marketplace where legal practice, technology and process are integral delivery components. “This early stage of legal digitization convinced clients that not all legal functions must be delivered by law firms,� Forbes said. “The pace of that change is accelerating and legal delivery is undergoing a radical makeover.�

Leading firms To c o p e w i t h t h e s e c h a n g e s, leading firms in the country have been making changes on how they deliver their services. !T $IVINA ,AW THE kRM HAS PARTNERED WITH LOCAL LAW kRMS WHO REPRESENT CLIENTS FOR THE kRM ALL OVER the Philippines in its aim to reach a wider range of clients and complete its corporate, commercial and arbitration-related services.

Moreover, the firm has also been holding or taking part in national and international forums that gather law practitioners, as well as other leaders from different industries.

Established in 2006 by founder Nilo Divina, who also sits as its managing partner, Divina Law has evolved into one of the country’s LEADING FULL SERVICE LAW kRMS WITH a roster of 65 lawyers and counting.

Meanwhile, Gargantiel, Ilagan and Atanante Law Firm has been embracing these changes instead of avoiding them, with projects leveraged on technology.

Recently established in 2016, the young firm takes pride in its young, vibrant, millennial lawyers, relying on them to bring success even in the most challenging cases.

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HIMLAYANG PILIPINO, INC.

Republic of the Philippines National Capital Judicial Region REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Branch 62 Makati City

Announcement Please be informed that the Board of Directors of Himlayang Pilipino, Inc. held a Meeting on 22 January 2018 and approved the following resolutions:

BDO UNIBANK, INC., Petitioner, CASE NO. R-MKT-18-01203-LR

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“WHEREAS, Himlayang Pilipino, Inc. (“HPIâ€? ) has an authorized capital stock RI )LIW\ 0LOOLRQ 3HVRV 3KS GLYLGHG LQWR ÂżYH KXQGUHG WKRXVDQG (500,000) common shares with par value of One Hundred Pesos (Php100.00) per share.

SPOUSES ASHOK K. KARAMCHANDANI and JYOTI A. KARAMCHANDANI AND THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF MAKATI CITY, Respondents, x-----------------------------------x DECISION BDO UNIBANK, INC.,1 KDV ¿OHG WKH 3HWLWLRQ EHIRUH WKLV &RXUW VHHNLQJ D MXGJPHQW RUGHULQJ SPOUSES ASHOK K. KARAMCHANDANI and JYOTI A. KARAMCHANDANI2 to turn over the Owners’ Duplicate Copy of Condominium &HUWL¿FDWHV RI 7LWOH &&7 1R WR WKH 5HJLVWHU RI 'HHGV RI 0DNDWL IRU SXUSRVHV RI LWV FDQFHOODWLRQ and the issuance of a new title in the name of petitioner. Alternatively, petitioner prayed that in case Respondents failed to surrender the said CCTs upon orders, the Registrar of Deeds to annul the same and issue a new title in favor of the petitioner pursuant to Section 107, P.D. 1529.

On July 12, 2018, the summons, as well as copies of the petition and annexes were published in People’s Balita, a newspaper of general circulation.

To prove the jurisdictional facts, petitioner presented the following documents, to wit:

“WHEREAS, out of the authorized capital stock, the amount of Seventeen Million Seven Hundred Forty-Eight Thousand Pesos (Php17,748,000.00), divided into one hundred seventy-seven thousand seven hundred forty-eight (177,748) common shares has been subscribed, and Thirty-Two Million Two Hundred Fifty Two Thousand Pesos (Php32,252,000.00) divided into three hundred twenty-two WKRXVDQG ÂżYH KXQGUHG WZHQW\ FRPPRQ VKDUHV UHPDLQ XQLVVXHG “WHEREAS, HPI Libingan ng mga Bayaning Pilipino, Inc. has expressed interest to invest in HPI. “RESOLVED, that HPI approve the issuance of eighty thousand (80,000) shares with par value of One Hundred Pesos (Php100.00) per share, amounting to Eight Million Pesos (Php8,000,000.00) from its unissued capital stock.

Exhibit “Aâ€? – Petition dated February 27, 2018 Exhibit “Bâ€? – Order dated April 30, 2018 Exhibit “Câ€? – Proof of Receipt from RD Exhibit “Dâ€? – Return card dated May 16, 2018 ([KLELW Âł(´ Âą &HUWLÂżFDWH RI 3RVWLQJ GDWHG 0D\ Exhibit “Fâ€? – Order dated June 18, 2018 ([KLELW Âł*´ Âą $IÂżGDYLW RI 3XEOLFDWLRQ GDWHG -XO\ ([KLELW Âł+´ Âą $IÂżGDYLW RI 6HUYLFH GDWHG -XO\ Exhibit “Iâ€? – Registry Return Receipt 905 316 001 ZZ

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by Regional Trial Court, Branch 133, Makati City, CCTs Nos. 49879, 49880, 49886 were sold on execution to satisfy WKH MXGJPHQW DZDUGHG LQ WKH VDLG FDVH 7KH FRUUHVSRQGLQJ &HUWLÂżFDWH RI 6DOH ZDV LVVXHG RQ $SULO LQ IDYRU of the petitioner being the winning bidder. On July 20, 2015, the sale was registered under Entry No. 2015007220.

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“RESOLVED, FURTHER, that Notice be given to all stockholders on record as of 22 January 2018, in writing or in lieu thereof, through publication in a newspaper of general circulation, for the exercise or waiver of their pre-emptive rights. “RESOLVED, FURTHER, to allow the stockholders on record to signify their LQWHQWLRQ WR VXEVFULEH WR WKH DGGLWLRQDO LVVXDQFH RI VKDUHV ZLWKLQ ÂżIWHHQ

days from publication hereof; otherwise, upon the lapse of thirt y (30) days, the stockholder is deemed to have waived his right to subscription thereof. �RESOLVED, FINALLY, that should there be no subscribers from the current stockholders, or only a number of the current stockholders elect to subscribe to the additional issuance of shares, the Corporation is authorized to allow HPI Libingan ng mga Bayaning Pilipino, Inc. to subscribe to all eighty thousand (80,000) common shares, or the balance thereof.

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On the basis of the foregoing assertions, duly supported by both testimonial and documentary evidence, petitioner was able to convince this Court that the relief demanded must be favorably acted upon. From the uncontroverted evidence, it appeared that petitioner is the new owner of the subject property by reason of the auction sale conducted by the executing sheriff pursuant to a writ of execution. The non-redemption by the previous owners or any persons acting in the latter’s behalf exercising redemption right, coupled further by the refusal of the previous owners to surrender the same upon demand by the petitioner warrant the issuance of the order for the surrender of the subject title.

WHEREFORE, the Court hereby adjudged the following:

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Contract ID: 19JB0055 & 19JB0067 Contract Name: 1.) Concreting of Road, Sitio Dagum, Brgy. Nato, Sindangan, Zamboanga Del Norte.

2.) Construction of Multi – Purpose Building (Home Economics Building), Sitio Dicoyong Diot – Dicoyong Elementary School Extension, Brgy. Dicoyong, Sindangan, Zamboanga Del Norte.

Location of the Contract: Zamboanga Del Norte -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Republic of the Philippines DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE 1ST DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE REGIONAL OFFICE IX Sta. Isabel, Dipolog City BID BULLETIN NO. 11 SUBJECT : Resetting of the Dropping /Opening of Bids

(SGD.) SELMA PALACIO ALARAS Judge

MT - April 30, 2019

This Bid Bulletin No. 11 is issued to amend provisions in the Bidding Documents (BDs) for the above stated Contract, as follows: Current Provision of BDs (including Amended Provision of BDs under this Previous Amendments) BID Bulletin Schedule of Dropping of Bids April 30, 2019 (10 A.M.) Schedule of Opening of Bids April 30, 2019 (10:00 A.M.)

Republic of the Philippines DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PHILIPPINE FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BIDS AND AWARDS COMMITTEE PCA Annex Building, Elliptical Road Diliman, Quezon City Tel. No. 925-61- 38 Fax No. 925-61-46 Email: pfdabacsecretariat@yahoo.com.ph Website Address: www.pfda.da.gov.ph

The Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) invites contractors registered with the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board (PCAB) and Refrigeration Suppliers/Manufacturers to bid for the hereunder contracts:

Contract Duration: 360 Calendar Days Approved Budget for the Contract: P 27,489,539.43 Source of Fund: %)$5 5HJLRQDO 2IÂżFH Funds

The project includes Site Development and Utilities Works, such as: Construction of Powerhouse; Construction of Seaweed Land Base Nursery; Improvement of Blue Swimming Crab Hatchery; Rehabilitation of GMFDC Giant Clam, Scallops & Oyster Hatchery & Laboratory Building; Construction of GMFDC Library; Construction of GMFDC Cafeteria Building; Construction of GMFDC Training Hall; Rehabilitation of two (2) Storey GMFDC Administration Building; Construction of GMFDC Staff House; Construction of two (2) Storey Pearl Island Giant Clam Nursery Building; Construction of GMFDC Warehouse; Rehabilitation of GMFDC Seawater Reservoir and PreFilter Tank; Rehabilitation of two (2) Storey GMFDC Dormitory Building; and Rehabilitation of GMFDC Abalone and Sea Cucumber Hatchery and Laboratory Building.

RENE MARKUS SIEBER AND THE CIVIL REGISTRAR GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINES STATISTICS OFFICE Respondents x ————————x ORDER Filed with this Court is a verified petition for Judicial Recognition of Foreign Divorce Decree by petitioner, Faith Gellangarin Sieber, through counsel, Atty. Domingo Diamante.

The petitioner alleges that she is a Filipino citizen, divorced and a resident of Torreblanca Street, Guimbal, Iloilo while respondent Rene Markus Sieber is a citizen of Switzerland and a resident of Kuttigkofen, Canton of Solothorn, Rossiweg 8,3250, Lyss, Switzerland.

That she and respondent got married on August 28, 1998 in Lyss, Canton of Berne, Switzerland and registered in the Philippines Embassy under No. 130/98 at Civil Registry Record Book.

They lived together as husband and wife but they have no children. That she and respondent filed for divorce at the District Court III AarbergBuren-Erlach, Switzerland and a Decree of Divorce was certified to have come into force on October 6, 2008. That Swiss law allows

Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, the same is set for hearing on July 10, 2019 at 8:30 in the morning. Any person having objections to the Petition may file his opposition on or before the said scheduled date of hearing and may personally appear in court during the said hearing.

Let this Order be published at the expense of the petitioner once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of national circulation and be posted in three (3) conspicuous public places before the date of hearing.

Send notice of hearing to the respondents named in the petition.

Furnish copy of this Order, the Office of the Solicitor General, Philippine Statistics Authority, Atty. Domingo Diamante, petitioner and respondent.

SO ORDERED. April 24, 2019 Guimbal, Iloilo, Philippines.

(SGD.) NELITA JESUSA A. BACALING Acting Presiding Judge MT - Apr. 30, May 7 & 14, 2019

Republic of the Philippines Department of Transportation MARITIME INDUSTRY AUTHORITY FRANCHISING SERVICE, CENTRAL OFFICE A. Bonifacio Avenue corner 20th Avenue corner Railroad Street, South Harbor, Port Area, Manila Re: Application for First Amendment of

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Republic of the Philippines 2I¿FH RI WKH 3UHVLGHQW Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council HOUSING AND LAND USE REGULATORY BOARD SOUTHERN TAGALOG REGION – (STR) NOTICE MB PRIME LANDHOLDINGS AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 2ZQHU 'HYHORSHU KDV ¿OHG ZLWK WKLV 2I¿FH D VZRUQ UHJLVWUDWLRQ VWDWHPHQW for the sale of subdivision house & lot in EMMANUEL VILLE located at Brgy. Malagasang II-D, Imus City, Cavite and more particularly described as Lot 1823-A-2, Psd-04251425 and covered TCT No. T-0572018056095. The project is under BP 220. (Socialized Housing).

The foregoing project is being utilized as compliance for EMMANUEL VILLE (Economic Housing) located at Brgy.

Malagasang II-D, Imus City, Cavite, in accordance with Section 18 of Republic Act No. 7279 as amended by RA 10884 subject to the accreditation approval of the CEO. All papers relative thereto shall, upon UHTXHVW DQG SD\PHQW RI SURFHVVLQJ fee is available for inspection during business hours by any person having legal interest thereon.

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days from the last day of publication.

Calamba City, Laguna, 31st day of January 2019.

Recommending Approval: (SGD.) ENGR. EMMANUEL G. GLIPO Head-Planning Registration and Licensing Division (PRLD) (SGD.) ATTY. RICHARD L. MANILA 5HJLRQDO 2I¿FHU MT – April 30, 2019

CASE NO. MNL-2017-013-FS Amendment No. 1

ERRORS & OMISSIONS

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: LCT “AROWANA X�

: Cargo : 292.00 : Steel : 2019 : Legaspi City : 21 February 2019

Notice is hereby given that the said Application will be heard by this Authority on 06 May 2019 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning, at the 3rd Floor, Franchising Service Hearing Room, at the above address.

The Applicant shall publish this Order once in a newspaper of general FLUFXODWLRQ DW OHDVW ÂżYH GD\V SULRU WR WKH VFKHGXOHG GDWH RI KHDULQJ

WITNESS, WKH 2IÂżFHU LQ &KDUJH RI WKH 2IÂżFH RI WKH $GPLQLVWUDWRU VADM NARCISO A. VINGSON JR., this 25th day of April 2019 at Manila, Philippines.

(SGD.) MA. CONCEPCION C. ARBOLARIO OIC-Director Franchising Service

* NOTE: Adjustment of Program of Works (POW) are still on Process.

MT – April 23, 30 & May 7, 2019

Approved by:

BY AUTHORITY OF THE MARINA ADMINISTRATOR: (Pursuant to Administrative Order No. 11-14 dated 22 August 2014)

MT – April 30, 2019

This Bid Bulletin shall form an integral part of the said Bidding Documents.

RAY S. CADAVEDO Chief, Construction Section BAC Vice Chairperson

INVITATION TO APPLY FOR ELIGIBILITY AND TO BID The Philippine Sports Commission, through its Bids & Awards Committee, invites interested eligible & accredited supplier/manufacturer/service providers to apply for eligibility and to bid as follows: “Small B� for Buildings

,QWHUHVWHG ELGGHUV PD\ VXEPLW WKHLU /HWWHU RI ,QWHQW /2, DW WKH 2I¿FH RI WKH %LGV DQG $ZDUGV Committee upon presentation of the original or authenticated renewal of contractor’s license on WKH GDWHV VSHFL¿HG EHORZ 3URVSHFWLYH ELGGHUV VKRXOG KDYH NH\ SHUVRQQHO DQG HTXLSPHQW OLVWHG LQ WKH SHUVRQQHO DQG HTXLSPHQW UHTXLUHPHQWV DYDLODEOH IRU WKH SURVHFXWLRQ RI WKH FRQWUDFW DQG must have an experience or completed a contract that is similar to the contract to be bid of at least 50% of the ABC. All particulars relative to bid security, performance security, pre-bidding conference, HYDOXDWLRQ RI ELGV SRVW TXDOL¿FDWLRQ DQG DZDUG RI FRQWUDFW VKDOO EH JRYHUQHG E\ WKH SHUWLQHQW provisions of R.A. 9184 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations.

The schedule of BAC activities is as follows:

Any incorrect advertisement published in The Manila Times Classified Ads must be brought to our attention on the same day the advertisement came out. We will not be held liable for any incorrect ads not reported to us immediately.

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Bid Document Place of Delivery Amount Rehabilitation of Rizal Php 99,121,907.14 Php 50,000.00 RMSC, P. Ocampo Memorial Badminton Hall Sr. Street, Malate, (RMSC) Manila Rehabilitation of Rizal Php 250,169,470.88 Php 50,000.00 RMSC, P. Ocampo Memorial Coliseum (RMSC) Sr. Street, Malate, Manila Upgrading of Rizal Memorial Php 47,715,245.55 Php 25,000.00 RMSC, P. Ocampo Sports Complex Track Oval Sr. Street, Malate, (RMSC) Manila Upgrading of Swimming Pool, Php 233,388,842.19 Php 50,000.00 RMSC, P. Ocampo Diving Pool and Construction Sr. Street, Malate, of New Bleacher, Warm Up Manila Pool and Jacuzzi (RMSC) 5HKDELOLWDWLRQ 5HWURÂżWWLQJ RI Php 62,585,919.52 Php 50,000.00 Ultra, Philsports Philsports Complex Open Complex, Pasig Bleachers at Pasig City City Upgrading of Swimming Pool, Php 119,739,895.84 Php 50,000.00 Ultra, Philsports Diving Pool and Construction Complex, Pasig of New Bleacher, Warm Up City Pool and Jacuzzi (Ultra, Philsports) 3URVSHFWLYH ELGGHUV VKDOO SRVVHV D VLPLODU FRQWUDFW ZLWK YDOXH RI ÂżIW\ SHUFHQW RI the Approved Budget for Contract (ABC). Bidding shall be conducted through open FRPSHWLWLYH ELGGLQJ SURFHGXUHV XVLQJ QRQ GLVFUHWLRQDU\ SDVV IDLO FULWHULRQ DV VSHFLÂżHG LQ the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR of Republic Act 9184, otherwise known as the “Government Procurement Reform Act:

Republic of the Philippines 2I¿FH RI WKH 3UHVLGHQW Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council HOUSING AND LAND USE REGULATORY BOARD SOUTHERN TAGALOG REGION – (STR)

Republic of the Philippines 2I¿FH RI WKH 3UHVLGHQW Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council HOUSING AND LAND USE REGULATORY BOARD SOUTHERN TAGALOG REGION – (STR)

Republic of the Philippines 2I¿FH RI WKH 3UHVLGHQW Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council HOUSING AND LAND USE REGULATORY BOARD SOUTHERN TAGALOG REGION – (STR)

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MB PRIME LANDHOLDINGS AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 2ZQHU 'HYHORSHU KDV ÂżOHG ZLWK WKLV 2IÂżFH D VZRUQ UHJLVWUDWLRQ VWDWHPHQW for the sale of subdivision house & lot in EMMANUEL VILLE located at Brgy. Malagasang II-D, Imus City, Cavite and more particularly described as Lot 1823-A-2, Psd-04251425 and covered TCT No. T-0572018056095. The project is under BP 220. (Economic Housing).

WOODENDRAGON, INC. (Owner/ 'HYHORSHU KDV ÂżOHG ZLWK WKLV 2IÂżFH a sworn registration statement for the sale of subdivision house & lot in NUEVA ESPERANZA PUEBLO located at Brgy. Molino, Naic, Cavite and more particularly described as Lot 27, Block No. 1, Pcs-04030298 and covered TCT No. T-0572018046088. The project is under BP 220. (Economic Housing)

WOODENDRAGON, INC. (Owner/ 'HYHORSHU KDV ÂżOHG ZLWK WKLV 2IÂżFH a sworn registration statement for the sale of subdivision house & lot in NUEVA ESPERANZA PUEBLO located at Brgy. Molino, Naic, Cavite and more particularly described as Lot 27, Block No. 1, Pcs-04030298 and covered TCT No. T-0572018046088. The project is under BP 220. (Sozialized Housing)

The foregoing project is utilizing NUEVA ESPERANZA PUEBLO (Socialized Housing) located at Brgy.

Molino, Naic, Cavite as its compliance pursuant to Section 18 of Republic Act No. 7279 as amended by RA 10884 subject to the accreditation approval of the CEO.

The foregoing project is utilizing NUEVA ESPERANZA PUEBLO (Economic Housing) located at Brgy.

Molino, Naic, Cavite as its compliance pursuant to Section 18 of Republic Act No. 7279 as amended by RA 10884 subject to the accreditation approval of the CEO.

All papers relative thereto shall upon UHTXHVW DQG SD\PHQW RI SURFHVVLQJ fee, be available for inspection during business hours by any person having legal interest thereon.

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days from the last day of publication.

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days from the last day of publication.

Calamba City, Laguna, 16th day of April 2019.

Calamba City, Laguna, 16th day of April 2019.

Recommending Approval:

Recommending Approval:

(SGD.) ENGR. EMMANUEL G. GLIPO Head-Planning Registration and Licensing Unit

(SGD.) ENGR. EMMANUEL G. GLIPO Head-Planning Registration and Licensing Unit

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The foregoing project is being utilized as compliance for EMMANUEL VILLE (Socialized Housing) located at Brgy.

Malagasang II-D, Imus City, Cavite, in accordance with Section 18 of Republic Act No. 7279 as amended by RA 10884 subject to the accreditation approval of the CEO. All papers relative thereto shall, upon UHTXHVW DQG SD\PHQW RI SURFHVVLQJ fee is available for inspection during business hours by any person having legal interest thereon.

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days from the last day of publication.

Calamba City, Laguna, 31st day of January 2019.

Recommending Approval: (SGD.) ENGR. EMMANUEL G. GLIPO Head-Planning Registration and Licensing Division (PRLD) Approved by: (SGD.) ATTY. RICHARD L. MANILA 5HJLRQDO 2I¿FHU MT – April 30, 2019

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The schedule of BAC Activities is as follows:

VENUE PhilGeps and PFDA Websites

2I¿FH RI %$& 6HFUHWDULDW April 30 – May 23, 2019 Rm. No. 304, 2/F PCA Annex I Bldg., PCA Compound, Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City May 10, 2019; Friday; PFDA Conference Room 10:00 am Rm. No. 205, 2/F PCA Annex I Bldg., PCA Compound, Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City May 23, 2019; Thursday; PFDA Conference Room 12:00 nn Rm. No. 304, 2/F PCA Annex I Bldg., PCA Compound, Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City 5. Opening of Bids May 23, 2019; Thursday; PFDA Conference Room Projects 1 2:00 pm Rm. No. 205, 2/F PCA Annex I Bldg., PCA Compound, Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City

A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased from the BAC Secretariat at the address above upon payment of a non-refundable fee of P25,000.00/set for Project 1. It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government & Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the bidding documents on or before the submission of bids.

The PFDA reserves the right to reject any bid, accept the offer most advantageous to the government, to annul the bidding process, to waive any formalities and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.

BAC Activities 1. Payment and Issuance of Bid Documents 2. Pre-Bid Conference 3. Submission and Opening of Bids 4. Approval, Notices and Issuance of Resolution, Award, Contract and Proceed

(SGD.) ATTY. LORALIE C. DATAHAN Chairman, Bids and Awards Committee

Schedule April 30, 2019 – May 21, 2019 May 09, 2019 – 10:00 A.M. May 21, 2019 – 10:00 A.M. Subject to usual guidelines as stated in RA 9184 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations

A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by Interested Bidders upon SD\PHQW RI QRQ UHIXQGDEOH ELG IHH DV VWDWHG DERYH WR WKH &DVKLHUÂśV 2IÂżFH ORFDWHG DW the 2nd Floor, Administration Building, RMSC, P. Ocampo Sr., St., Malate, Manila during business hours from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

The Philippine Sports Commission will hold a Pre-Bid Conference at the BAC Bidding Room located at the Ground Floor of Administrative Building, Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, P. Ocampo Sr., St., Malate, Manila. Bids must be delivered to the address above. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms in the amount stated in the ITB Clause.

Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders’ representatives who choose to attend at the address above. Late bids shall not be accepted.

The Commission reserves the right to reject any and all bids, declare a failure of bidding or not to award the contract on the following ground: • • •

For further information, please refer to: Mr. Jose Abrenio Acting Head, BAC Secretariat Rm. 305, 3/F PCA Annex I Bldg.

Elliptical Rd., Diliman, Q.C.

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Schedule of Opening of Bids May 7, 2019 (10:00 A.M.)

Republic of the Philippines 2IÂżFH RI WKH 3UHVLGHQW Philippine Sports Commission

Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using nonGLVFUHWLRQDU\ SDVV IDLO FULWHULRQ DV VSHFLÂżHG LQ WKH ,PSOHPHQWLQJ 5XOHV DQG 5HJXODWLRQV RI 5 $ 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid.

SCHEDULE April 30 – May 7, 2019

SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS 752 FOR: Judicial Declaration of Foreign Divorce Decree FAITH GELLANGARIN SIEBER Petitioner

divorce to be secured by spouse as indicated in Swiss Civil Code and the Decree of Divorce obtained by the parties pursuant to the law of Switzerland capacitiates respondent Rene Markus to re marry. That it is but just and fair for the Philippine Government to recognize and enforce the divorce secured by the respondent so as not to create a legal anomaly and protect the interest of a Filipino citizen and so that she will not be discriminated.

The Applicant shall submit written Formal Offer of Evidence during the KHDULQJ RU ÂżYH GD\V WKHUHDIWHU

REQUIRED PCAB LICENSE/ LICENSE

Backhoe, 1.0 cu.m. (2 units); Dump Trucks, 10 cu.m (2 units); Transit Mixer, 6 cu.m. (1 unit); Concrete Mixer, 1-2 bagger (4 units); Plate Compactor (3 units), Bar Cutter (3 units), Concrete Vibrator (3 units), Jackhammer with Compressor, (3 units) and Welding Machine (3 units).

ACTIVITIES 1. Publication/ Posting of Invitation to Bid 2. Issuance of Bid Documents Project 1 3. Pre-bid Conference Project 1 4. Submission of Bids Projects 1

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES REGIONAL TRIAL COURT SIXTH JUDICIAL REGION BRANCH 67 GUIMBAL, ILOILO

Schedule of Dropping of Bids On or before May 7, 2019 (10:00 A.M.)

MT – Apr. 30, 2019 PROJECT DESCRIPTION/ EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENT

VERMAN D. DIEGO President

MT – April 30, May 7 & 14, 2019

Formal notice is hereby given to the Public that INTELLIGENT P R O F I L E GENERATION CORP., a duly organized corporation in the Philippines, officially closed and ceased commercial operations in the Philippines as of 16 September 2016. It is currently in the process of amending its articles of incorporation to shorten its corporate term effective 16 September 2016, and file the necessary application for dissolution of the corporation.

For guidance and information of all concerned.

INVITATION TO BID

PROJECT/LOCATION; CONTRACT DURATION; APPROVED BUDGET FOR THE CONTRACT/SOURCE OF FUND Project 1: Rehabilitation/ Improvement of Fisheries Support Facilities in Guiuan, Eastern Samar

The announcement will serve as a notice to all concerned of the legal dissolution of the Corporaiton.

Department of Public Works and Highways

SO ORDERED. At the City of Makati, December 27, 2018.

______ 1 Hereafter, “Petitioner�

2 Hereafter, “Respondents�

3 %DQN 2IÂżFHU 4 %DQNÂśV 3DUDOHJDO 2IÂżFHU 5 Under Section 9 of Rule 13 of the Revised Rules of Court it is provided that where the defendant was summoned through publication, the copy of the decision must also be served upon him also by publication at the expense of the plaintiff.

6 “Revised and Consolidating All Laws and Decrees Regulating Publication of Judicial Notices, Advertisements for Public Biddings, Notices of Auction Sales and Other Similar Notices,

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors and stockholders of SKDP PHILIPPINES INC., (‘the corporation) dated March 13, 2019 approved the dissolution of the Corporation. The appropriate application of dissolution will be ÂżOHG LQ GXH FRXUVH ZLWK WKH 6HFXULW\ DQG ([FKDQJH &RPPLVVLRQ $OO SHUVRQV KDYLQJ FODLPV DJDLQVW WKH FRUSRUDWLRQ DUH UHTXHVWHG to present the same at 700-A 7th Floor Ortigas Building, Brgy.

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(Sgd.) ATTY. GUILLERMO B. IROY, JR. BAC Chair MT - Apr. 30, 2019

REPORTERS Competencies • Excellent command of written and spoken English • Degree holder preferably in journalism, communications, or related discipline • Ability to establish and maintain a network of contacts in government and the private sector as source of information and analysis • Ability to identify the angle of news from a raft of available information or seek out information to build a solid news story • Familiarity with local issues and an understanding of relevant world affairs • $ VHQVH RI VSHHG DQG DFFXUDF\ LQ ZULWLQJ DQG ¿OOLQJ UHDO WLPH VWRULHV WR WKH QHZV GHVN WR meet tight deadlines • Knows Microsoft Office, social media and search engines • A good team player, but is able to work independently within the perimeters of a given assignment • Good attitude, willingness to adjust to new systems and ability to respect authority within the organization Interested applicants, please send a full resume, specifying your subject of expertise, with links to samples of online work or appropriate attachments.

Please email your resumĂŠ at: hrd@manilatimes.net, or you may apply personally at 2/F Sitio Grande Bldg., 409 A. Soriano Avenue, Intramuros, Manila (Formerly TRB Bldg.), or you may call Irish de Guzman at local 122.

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Philippine Rallycross Series kicks up dirt in Pradera

FTER months of anticipation, dirt racing is back as the Philippine Rallycross Series recently opened its 2019 season. Now in its fourth successful year, the Philippine Rallycross Series’ kicked off last month at the country’s emerging leisure destination, the Pradera Verde in Lubao, Pampanga.

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Hyundai blends art and design to launch N-Line

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FORD Philippines received Gold and Silver citations from the 3rd Driven to Serve Awards of the Society of Philippine Motoring Journalists (SPMJ) for its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs in the areas of road safety, education and training, and community development.

For the third year in a row, Ford’s Driving Skills for Life (DSFL) and Operation Better World (OBW) were recognized by the award-giving body for their contributions to improving road safety and driving community development.

Ford took home a Gold award for its DSFL program under the road safety category. In 2018, DSFL trained over 3,000 drivers from Metro Manila, Pampanga, Cebu, Iloilo, Bacolod and Davao with more hands-on driving sessions and increased focus on anti-distracted driving, driving under special conditions, and fuel-efficient driving.

Ford also received a Gold award for its Automotive Technician Scholarship Program under the education and training category. The program awards grants to underprivileged but deserving students for a 15-month Automotive Mechanic vocational course at Don Bosco Technical InstituteTechnical Vocational and Education Center. Eighty percentof the two batches of graduates are currently employed at Ford dealerships and with other automotive brands.

Lastly, Ford garnered a Silver award for OBW under the community development category. OBW is Ford’s umbrella program for its CSR projects around the world. In the Philippines, Ford focuses on providing access to clean water and community building initiatives in several Gawad Kalinga areas. In 2017 and 2018, six water facilities were built to serve close to 300 families, bringing up beneficiaries to over 1,400 families with 14 communal water facilities built since 2014. In 2018, Ford also mapped out nine community medical outreach projects, benefitting over 3,100 patients. Twelve houses were also built and painted in Dasmarinas, Cavite.

Ford Philippines partnered with AmCham Foundation to manage and implement the Automotive Technician Scholarship Program as well as

Q From left: Receiving the awards were Ford Philippines Assistant Vice President (AVP) for Communications EJ Francisco (program head for Driving Skills for Life), AVP for Government and Corporate Affairs Josephine Gonzalez (program head for Operation Better World and Automotive Technician Scholarship Program), and Managing Director Bert Lessard. select projects under Operation Better World. “Corporate social responsibility is definitely an important part of our business. Our CSR programs bring to life our commitment to make a positive impact and drive change in the society,� said Bert Lessard, managing director, Ford Philippines. “We thank SPMJ and the board of judges for recognizing our efforts in helping address the needs of the communities we serve, especially in the areas of road safety, community development, and education.

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Q HCPI President Noriyuki Takakura stands proudly beside the new Brio RS.

Honda PH launches new Brio with new RS variant Q The Brio also looks striking in Carnival Yellow.

Q Orange accents line the Brio RS’s interior.

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TEXT AND PHOTOS BY ALAIN GERONIMO

N its bid to capture a larger pie of the small car segment, Honda Cars Philippines Inc. (HCPI) launched its second generation Brio, along with its RS model on April 23 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.

Brio project leader Tsutomu Harano said that the new Brio’s design has been improved to address the weaknesses of the old model.

“The development concept for the new Brio revolves around the ‘Proud Over Class’ concept. We have expanded further the aspects of the vehicle that we saw as a weakness from the old car,” Harano added.

Much of the design has been carried over from the Small RS Concept, which was shown at the Philippines International Motor Show last year as a design study for the Southeast Asian market, from the sharp looking headlights to the honeycomb grille, with a wider, more imposing stance. The design follows that from the current generation Mobilio, which has a similar front fascia. A rear tailgate has replaced the glass rear hatch, for easier trunk access. The Brio RS features sportier cosmetic garnishes, and owes much more from the original RS concept, from the small rear wing to the piano black grille with RD badging, as well as the blacked out roof, RS side sill garnish and rear bumper garnish. While the regular Brio sits on 14-inch alloy wheels, the RS features a sportier looking 15-inch alloy wheels.

The car dons a more elegant interior, with a dashboard design that has a more mature look and feel. To accent its sporty nature, the RS trim gets orange accents and stitching instead of silver. A 7-inch touchscreen infotainment system comes as standard for CVT (continuously variable transmission) models (1-DIN audio head unit only for the manual), with Bluetooth and USB connectivity. A six-speaker set up with two tweeters are included on the RS trim only, for an better audio experience.

Although it still uses the same platform as its predecessor, the interior has been given more space, especially the legroom, with a 60-millimeter (mm)

Q You can fit two medium sized luggages with this cargo space.

longer wheelbase and 90 mm of additional cargo space, enough for two medium-sized luggages. Compared to its predecessor, the interior space has been largely improved, especially the spacious legroom at the front and rear. Front airbags, anti lock brakes, security alarm, and immobilizer come as standard on the safety side.

No longer utilizing a 1.3-liter four-cylinder, the new Brio is powered by a 1.2-liter SOHC four-cylinder unit with i-VTEC, producing 89 hp at 6,000 rpm and 110 Nm of torque at 4,800 rpm, matesd to a choice of a five-speed manual transmission (MT) or a CVT. A special introductory price has been announced for the Brio until June 30 this year, with P585,000 for the 1.2 S MT, P646,000 for the 1.2 V CVT, P727,000 for the 1.2 RS CVT, and P732,000 for the 1.2 RS CVT with Black Top. The new Brio is assembled in Karawang, Indonesia, and is available in five colors: Phoenix Orange Pearl (exclusive for the RS Black Top), Carnival Yellow, Rallye Red, Modern Steel Metallic and Taffeta White.

Q Much of the design borrows heavily from the Small RS concept that wa shown during last year’s PIMS.

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TUESDAY, April 30, 2019

Driven

Subaru’s got its eyes on you P

TEXT AND PHOTOS BY MATTHEW EMMANUEL BUHION

OTATO or “Potah-tow,” Tomato or “tow-mah-tow” both mean the same thing, no matter how you pronounce it. For the 2019 Subaru Levorg 2.0 GT-S with EyeSight, it’s pronounced as “Le-vor-g” like it rhymed with cyborg. The pronunciation isn’t the only interesting thing about it, but the way the model name was derived, LE from Legacy (Subaru Legacy), VO from eVOlution, and the R and G from touRinG. Don’t worry about the name, because when you start driving the 2019 Levorg, life becomes much more enjoyable.

Styling

4HE ,EVORG HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HANDSOME VEHICLE SINCE ITS DEBUT AT THE 4OKYO -OTOR 3HOW 3HARING STYLING CUES WITH ITS SIBLING THE 3UBARU ,EGACY THIS VEHICLE BOASTS THE REPUTATION OF ALL STATION WAGONS FROM DATED DESIGN TO MODERN SPORTS WAGON 4HE STANCE AND FRONT FASCIA DOESN T EVEN HINT THAT THIS IS A WAGON BECAUSE OF ITS AGGRESSIVE LOOKS 4HE GRILLE IS A CHROME ACCENTED HEXAGONAL DESIGN INCORPORATING ITSELF WITH THE SHARP MUSCULAR PROkLE OF THE BUMPER 2IGHT ABOVE IT A FUNCTIONAL HOOD SCOOP GIVING THE NO NONSENSE PERFORMANCE VEHICLE APPEARANCE 4HE SIDE PROkLE SHOWS JUST HOW LONG THE 3UBARU ,EVORG IS COMING IN AT MILLIMETERS OR ALMOST FEET FROM END TO END 4HE REAR TAILGATE IS TAMED COMPARED TO THE FRONT FASCIA GIVING AN ODE TO ITS PREDECESSOR THE ,EGACY -ATTE ALUMINUM LIKE kNISH OF THE POWER FOLDING SIDE MIRRORS AND CHROME DUAL EXHAUST TIPS GIVE THE 3UBARU ,EVORG '4 3 WITH %YE3IGHT A %UROPEAN UPPER VEHICLE CLASS FEEL 4HE INTERIOR OF THE ,EVORG IS JUST AS BEAUTIFUL TO THE TOUCH AS THE EXTERIOR ,EATHER WRAPS THE SEATS WHILE THE DASHBOARD HAS A SOFT TOUCH MATERIAL WITH A SILVER ACCENT ACROSS IT 4HE STEERING WHEEL IS A TREAT FOR YOUR HANDS WITH THE SAME SUPPLE LEATHER WRAPPING THE MULTIFUNCTION lAT BOTTOM WHEEL 4HE lAT BOTTOM GIVES YOU A HINT OF THE SPORTING CAPABILITIES OF THE 3UBARU ,EVORG IN THIS '4 3 TRIM ! CLEAN LAYOUT DOMINATES THE CENTER WHERE THE SEVEN INCH TOUCH SCREEN INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM SITS 3TACKED WITH FUNCTION IN MIND A MULTI FUNCTION DISPLAY RESTS ABOVE THE AIR VENTS FOLLOWED BY THE INFORAMENT SCREEN THEN THE CONTROLS TO THE AUTOMATIC CLIMATE SETTINGS 3LIGHTLY CONFUSING AT kRST BUT THE INFORMATION OF THE MULTI FUNCTION DISPLAY AND INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM CAN SOMETIMES BE INTERCHANGED !

SIMPLE REMINDER ALL THINGS VEHICLE RELATED IS ATOP IN THE MULTI FUNCTION DISPLAY AND ALL THINGS ENTERTAINMENT RELATED ARE BELOW IN TOUCH SCREEN "EING THAT THIS IS A SPORTS WAGON THERE IS A TON OF SPACE IN THE REAR 3O MUCH SO IT COULD MOST LIKELY PAY HOMAGE TO EARLIER STATION WAGONS AND HAVE A REAR FACING THIRD ROW SEATS )NSTEAD THE CARGO SPACE IS A MASSIVE LITERS WITH COMPARTMENTS INCORPORATED ON THE CARGO lOOR 2EAR SEATS FOLD DOWN GIVING YOU EVEN MORE CARGO SPACE AND A lAT lOOR TO LOAD ONTO

Performance

4HE 3UBARU ,EVORG , '4 3 WITH %YESIGHT PUTS MORE EMPHASIS ON THE WORD SPORT RATHER THAN WAGON 0OWERING THIS FAMILY VEHICLE IS A LITER DIRECT FUEL INJECTED lAT FOUR VALVE $/(# 4URBOCHARGED "OXER %NGINE PRODUCING 03 OF POWER AND .M OF TORQUE 4HIS IS MATED TO A (IGH 4ORQUE ,INEATRONIC #64 CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION AND

POWER IS DISTRIBUTED TO ALL FOUR WHEELS BY 3UBARU S WORLD FAMOUS 3YMMETRICAL !LL 7HEEL $RIVE !7$

FOR FUN ON ANY SURFACE !LL THIS PERFORMANCE ALSO PRODUCES FUEL ECONOMY kGURES OF LITERS PER KILOMETERS OF SPIRITED DRIVING BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO DRIVE THE 3UBARU ,EVORG , '4 3 4HE !UTOMOBILE !SSOCIATION OF THE 0HILIPPINES -OTORSPORTS $EVELOPMENT 0ROGRAM WAS THE PERFECT TIME TO TEST THE TOP DRIVING MODE ESPECIALLY IN AN ENCLOSED AND SAFE DRIVING AREA !CTIVATE 3Û OR 3PORT 3HARP AND YOU INSTANTLY NOTICE THE SHARPER THROTTLE RESPONSE AND SHARPER STEERING 4HE gGEARSu OR THE RATIOS ARE HELD LONGER TO REALLY GET THE ,EVORG , '4 3 lYING !S WITH MOST !7$ VEHICLES SET IT UP IN A CORNER INCORRECTLY AND ALL IT GIVES IS UNDERSTEER ) M A BUTTERkNGERED DRIVER WITH MINIMAL SEAT TIME IN THIS SPECIkC 3UBARU ,EVORG SO MOST OF THE TIME ) WAS WASHING OUT WIDE OF MY TURNS BUT GET IT IN PERFECTLY AND THE ,EVORG REWARDS YOU WITH LOADS OF GRIP AND SHOOTS YOU OUT THE CORNER IN TRUE 3UBARU STYLE 4HE #64 ISN T IDEAL FOR PERFORMANCE DRIVING BECAUSE IT SEARCHES FOR THE PERFECT RATIO SO WHEN YOU NEED THAT INSTANT BOOST IT DELIVERS A LITTLE TOO LATE (OWEVER TAKE THE #64 OUT ON THE ROAD WHERE ALMOST ALL ,EVORGS WILL LIVE PROGRAM THE VEHICLE DRIVE MODE INTO ) )NTELLIGENT AND IT BECOMES THE SMOOTHEST MOST ECONOMICAL AND LOGICAL CHOICE 3UBARU MADE TO MATCH WITH THE ENGINE

The party trick

%QUIPPED ACROSS THE HIGHER VARIANTS OF 3UBARU VEHICLES %YE3IGHT IS AN INTELLIGENT DRIVER AID THAT CAN BE ACTIVATED TO FURTHER INCREASE THE SAFETY OF THE VEHICLE %YE3IGHT FOR THE LACK OF A BETTER TERM IS ANOTHER SET OF EYES ON THE ROAD &OR THE MOST PART THE %YE3IGHT SYSTEM IS AN ADVANCED RADAR GUIDED CRUISE CONTROL

WHICH DETECTS TRAFkC MOVEMENTS AROUND THE CAR 4HE SYSTEM IS SO INTELLIGENT IT CAN BE USED IN START STOP TRAFkC WHILE MAINTAINING A SAFE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE VEHICLE AHEAD WHICH MAKES IT IDEAL FOR CARMAGEDDON %DSA DAYS )T IS NOT AUTONOMOUS DRIVING BECAUSE YOU WILL STILL NEED TO KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE WHEEL TO STEER BUT IT WILL KEEP YOU AND YOUR PASSENGERS SAFE NO MATTER WHAT SURPRISES LAY AHEAD

All in all

4HE 3UBARU ,EVORG , '4 3 WITH %YE3IGHT IS A CAPABLE SAFE AND STYLISH SPORTS WAGON 7ITH THE MARKET LEANING TOWARDS THE SUB COMPACT AND MID SIZED 356 MARKET WHO SAYS YOU HAVE TO GIVE UP STYLING FOR THE SPACE 4HIS WOULD BE IDEAL FOR kRST TIME FAMILIES WHICH JUST DOESN T WANT TO GIVE UP THE SPORTS CAR #OMING IN AT 0 MILLION THE 3UBARU ,EVORG , '4 3 WITH %YE3IGHT IS PERFECT 3UBARU FUN WHILE GIVING YOU THE OPTION OF SPACE AND SAFETY FOR YOUR STUFF AND PASSENGERS

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TUESDAY April 30, 2019

THE MOTORING SECTION OF

Q The PGA BGC facility showcases four brands under one roof.

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PGA Cars sets global showroom standards

GA Cars, the exclusive importer and distributor of Porsche, Audi, Lamborghini, and Bentley, has recently opened a four-brand showroom located at the heart of the bustling metropolis of Bonifacio Global City. This gallery of premium car MODELS RElECTS EACH BRAND S GLOBAL CORPORATE identity, taking inspiration from their RESPECTIVE COMPANY S RICH HISTORY The Porsche showroom is in full compliance with the strict corporate identity guidelines of Dr. Ing.h.c.

F. Porsche AG. It fully communicates the brand values of Porsche, aimed at providing customers with comfortable experience. A remarkable vehicle customization area is designed to meet the various needs of customers, offering personalized services to create their customized dream car. It also offers the latest Porsche 911, Macan, and Cayenne models as well as a Lifestyle corner featuring the most current Driver’s Selection by Porsche Design items. The home of Porsche in Global City also proudly showcases an impressive Porsche heritage wall which tells the story of Porsche through the years.

The Audi showroom features the brand’s international city showroom concept with a space that puts on display the latest model range from the brand with Four Rings. Featured in this showroom is the all-new Audi Q8, the addition to Audi’s SUV family, which has just recently made its debut in the Philippines early this year. Among its amenities is the Audi exclusive corner where customers can customize their car according to their preferences.

Meanwhile, the new Lamborghini showroom which incorporates Lamborghini’s revamped corporate design that is characterized by polygons, sharp

forms, raw surfaces and a diffusion of LIGHT AND COLOR 4HIS RElECTS THE NEED FOR increased space as the brand expands its model line-up with the recent launch of its new Super Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), the Urus, in the Philippines last November 2018. Opportunities for customers to literally ‘touch and feel’ the world of Lamborghini with a client LOUNGE THAT INCLUDES A CAR CONkGURATION system to guide the customers through specifying their Lamborghini and Ad Personam areas that provide samples OF EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR kNISHES ALLOWing customers to physically touch and play with combinations of colors and materials, such as soft leathers or the apPEARANCE OF CARBON kBER 4HE SHOWROOM also features the Collezione Automobili which offers a wide range of luxurious lifestyle pieces from Lamborghini.

The new Bentley showroom combines its company’s rich heritage with modern-day luxury retailing. It features a private personalisation area where customers can choose from the brand’s extensive palette of exterior paints and leather options to commission a truly bespoke car. The showroom also features a three-car display area, showcasing the latest Bentley models including the Mulsanne, the Bentayga and the new Continental GT,

Q The Audi lifestyle at its best.

Bentley’s renowned Grand Tourer. An elegant boutique lounge and a fullyequipped bar await a Bentley customer as they enter the showroom.

For more information, visit any of the PGA Cars showroom located in 28th Street corner 11th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig or contact:

Q Even the furnitures at the Bentley display room are all imported.

Porsche: 0917 555 8874 Audi: 0917 813 9064 Lamborghini: 0917 555 3771 Bentley: 0917 837 0527

Q You can personalize your Porsche supercar.

Q Feel the Italian rush at the Lamborghini room.

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TUESDAY April 30, 2019

Q Volkswagen PH President Felipe Estrella strikes a pose with the Volkswagen T-Cross.

Volkswagen group unveils SUV for global market

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TEXT AND PHOTOS BY DINO RAY V. DIRECTO 3RD

HANGHAI, China: Amid the excitement of an estimated 700 journalists from all over the world, automotive giant Volkswagen AG unveiled four new vehicles last April 16 at the 18th staging of the Auto Shanghai International Motor Show.

Q The dash layout of the T-Cross is well laid out with controls within easy reach of the driver.

Q The concept ID. ROOMZZ is Volkswagen’s playful concept of an electric people mover.

Q Volkswagen launched four new models at the Shanghai Auto Show.

“Volkswagen introduced four world premieres with one SUV intended for the global market,� said Felipe Estrella, president of Volkswagen Philippines.

Taking center stage is the I.D. ROOMZZ which is the GROUP S lAGSHIP ELECTRIC 356 “This concept offers a completely new interior space concept and an electric all-wheel drive,� explained Estrella. The design

combines the future of the brand’s IQ.DRIVE system, which contains all intelligent assistance systems currently in use for driving, parking and safety systems as well as innovations being developed by Volkswagen. Looking at the cabin, the ID. ROOMZZ has hovering gauge clusters and ergonomically contoured seats that can be turned by 25 degrees. This car of the future can also be driven autonomously and without a driver by engaging the “ID. Pilot� mode. In this mode, the car’s interior can be converted into a lounge, while its driver and passengers can literally sit back and relax as the car does all the driving.

According to Jurgen Stackmann, marketing chief of Volkswagen AG, the 150-kilowatt direct current motor with rapid charging system, enables the ID. ROOMZZ to have an electric range of 450 kilometers. Volkswagen engineers said that the production version of this SUV is expected to roll off the ASSEMBLY LINE IN AND #HINA WILL BE ITS kRST MARKET “This is expected because China is the world’s biggest automotive market, and the only large economy in the world with a clear plan to establish electro-mobility as the new standard,� explained Estrella.

This car will be a huge success and we are positive of this

prediction. It is the peak of the iceberg for the automotive future as it combines two mega trends in one car, by having an electric drive in an SUV platform,� added Stackmann.

Coupe for the global market Situated at an elevated stage

at the right side of the ID.ROOMZ display sits the SUV Coupe concept that Volkswagen revealed is their bet for the global market and might possibly be introduced in the PH market With an SUV design concept that blends the stance of an SUV and an exterior shell with a coupe-like design, the T-Cross also utilizes Volkswagen’s transverse platform technology. This allows the concept SUV to be equipped with an all-wheel drive layout underneath. “ The T-Cross will share the same engine found in the current generation Audi Q5 along with the drivetrain. However, it is likely that the T-Cross will debut in China, as the German giant is hinting of a European launch. “The company’s goal is to double our SUV family from six to 12 variants by 2020,� said Stackmann.

The T-Cross is Volkswagen’s smallest SUV and is based on the MQB 40 platform. The styling is inspired by the slightly larger T-Roc and its design appeals to a much younger SUV market. The design characteristics of the T-Cross is similar to that of the new generation SUV’s in the Volkswagen stable, which includes Porsches and Audis.

Tuned

TUESDAY April 30, 2019

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Huracans counquer

Count Dracula’s domain Q The hills are alive with the sound of the raging bulls.

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IX Lamborghini Huracáns (alland rear-wheeldrive Coupés and Spyders), including the Performante, challenged the steep hairpin turns and switchbacks of one of the most spectacular and demanding roads in the world, the Transfăgără‫܈‬an.

The Transfăgără‫܈‬an passes through the land of Dracula in the Transylvania region of Romania, winding for 90 kilometers.

Open only from July to September, the road was built between 1970 and 1974 by order of dictator Nicolae Ceauúescu – it is also called Ceauúescu’s Folly – to allow Romanian troops to cross the Carpathian Mountains quickly in the event of a Soviet invasion.

The goal was to have quick passage through the Fagaras, the highest mountains in the Southern Carpathians, in the event the Soviets attacked Romania. The road is usually only open from June to September, as the weather is harsh for the remainder of the year. Jeremy Clarkson once called the Transfaragan “the best road in the world,” a testament to its many dramatic turns.

The route climbs through the highest mountains of Romania, providing breathtaking views and rapid changes of landscape, passing from arid lands to verdant valleys.

The convoy departed from the city of Sibiu, passed through the village of Cartisoara and then twisted and turned rapidly on the numerous hairpin turns that cut through the Fagaras Mountains. The group of Lamborghinis THEN ARRIVED AT THE HIGHEST POINT AT ,AKE "ALEA AND kNALLY descended towards the impressive Vidraru dam, above which rise the ruins of the castle of Vlad 3rd of Wallachia, who was the inspiration for author Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula character.

ŌĞƌŵĂƌŬĞƚ Blade ushers in Summer season with music festival BLADE Autocenter, the country’s largest automotive accessories and service lifestyle store, will write another chapter in musical history anew with the this year’s staging of Bandang Blade on May 4 and 5.

Now on its third year, Bandang Blade is a two-day music festival and car show geared towards music and automotive enthusiasts. The venue for this year’s hottest music festival is at

the sprawling grounds of the Metrowalk, Metrotent in Pasig City. The car show component would be held in conjunction with B2B-Hot Import Nights, which would be presented by Blade and FUBU. Aside from the day-long activities, patrons of the event had a blast shopping for car accessories and other event-related merchandise at discounted prices.

The highlight of the two-day music extravaganza is the concert to be held at the Metrotent. This year’s Bandang Blade features popular band Parokya ni Edgar and Rock icon Arnel Pineda.

“We promise that this year will be bigger and better and our aim is to keep on improving every year,” said Robertson Sy Tan, founder and chief executive officer of Blade

Autocenter. Participating brands this year are: Pioneer, Little Tree, Armor All, Sparco, Goodyear, DUB, MicroMagic, Chupa Chups air freshener, California Scents, Sony Xplod, Sticky PH, Clipper Giftshops, Blade Racing Seats, Blade Rims, Carlas Rubber Spray Paint, MOMO, Alpine, ABS-CBN TV Plus, Mothers, Pertua, Air Spencer, 3M Autocare, AVT, Nakamichi and Stebel.

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Heavy Duty

TUESDAY

April 30, 2019

UTRIP seeks govt review of importation requirements

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HE Used Trucks Rebuilders and Importers Associationof the Philippines (UTRIP) fears that the operations of their members in rebuilding used trucks may have only up to June 30, 2019 to conduct their business, given new imposition by the government that are in virtually impossible to comply with.

UTRIP, an association of 25 companies that operate used truck rebuilding centers within Metro Manila under the umbrella of the Confederation of Truck Rebuilders and Importers Association of the Philippines (CTRIP), which in turn is composed of close to 300 truck rebuilders nationwide. Including UTRIP, CTRIP employs about 50,000 highly-skilled production line workers.

The truck rebuilding industry was conceptualized by the government in 2003 through Department Order 08-03, which was issued by the Bureau of Import Services of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

UTRIP President Jaime Vicente said: “It is the kind of industry where we were vigorously encouraged to invest into by the government shortly after its introduction17 years ago, and for which our pioneering members obliged in the advent of the implementation of Executive Order No. 156, better known as the ‘Comprehensive Industrial Policy and Directions for the Motor Vehicle Development Program’ issued in the year 2002.�

Over those years, UTRIP has played a vital and principal role in transforming the truck rebuilding industry from a collection of small scale backyard operations to a full blown 100-percent Filipino-owned and controlled sector within the automotive industry in the country, which has generated multi-billion pesos in investments, provided employment for tens of thousands of direct-hire workers who, in turn, have acquired and spread technical skills related to automotive production, assembly, maintenance and trouble shooting. “Used trucks rebuilding industry is an offspring conceptualize by the government itself in 2003, nourished and reared within the parameters set forth by a program it conceived and propagated. We have since not sought nor given incentives other than what was originally offered to as,� said Vicente.

UTRIP thrived and silently grew to what it is now—a major industry--without any fanfare and it has become a major player and partner of the Government in the larger arena of nation building.

Emission tests and other issues

In July 2018, the DTI-Fair Trade Enforcement Bureau required the submission of emission test results of rebuilt/imported used trucks from the countries of their origin that they have passed the %URO STANDARD BEFORE A CERTIkCATE OF AUTHORITY to import (CAI) covering an imported used truck can be issued.

In response to the new requirement, a series of dialogues were held between CTRIP and Board of Investments/DTI-FTEB and it was determined that obtaining emission test from their country of origin, especially those in completely-knockedDOWN #+$ FORM IS AN EXTREMELY DIFkCULT IF not impossible undertaking. In lieu of that, DTIFTEB said that the only alternative is to accept an emission test conducted by a domestic testing center duly accredited by the Land TransportaTION /FkCE This alternative, however, can only be availed of by truck rebuilders operating inside freeport zones since their CKD trucks can be unloaded therein even without a CAI, because a freeport zone is still considered foreign territory.

This is because truck rebuilders operating outside of freeport zones, as do UTRIP members, cannot avail of the services of a domestic testing center because,in accordance to Bureau of Customs Regulations, imported used CKD trucks that do not have CAIs upon discharge from a carrying vessel are subject to immediate seizure. “The requisite submission of emission test results before the issuance of CAIs puts the rebuilding program of the Government in a curious quandary: If rebuilders are required to import only CKD trucks that have passed government standards, then what is there for us to rebuild?� asked Vicente. “Isn’t this imposition utterly inconsistent with the very provision of Section 2a of DAO (Department Administrative Order) 08-03, which capsulizes the program in this manner to read, To assure the public that all rebuilt trucks are safe and roadworthy and meet the standards of exhaust emission’’ and Section 2b ‘’to develop technical and management expertise in truck rebuilding to pave the way for rebuilding programs covering other types of vehicles’’?� he asked.

Members of UTRIP would like to reiterate that they are responsible and safety-conscious used truck rebuilders. As such, they import CKD trucks from Japan, Europe and the US, and transform them into completely-builtunits (CBUs). In the process, truck parts and components that require replacing in the engine, transmission, suspension, brakes, as well as electrically-controlled components such as headlights, signal lights, tail lights, wipers, horns, GPS, among others, are replaced with new parts and components. Tires are also replaced with new ones whenever necessary. The resulting vehicle would then approximate the condition of a brand new unit.

So, it is UTRIP’s hope that the government will consider bestowing upon rebuilt trucks their OWN CLASSIkCATION WHICH IS DISTINCT FROM EITHER A brand new or used units, and that it would give this due consideration in every policy decision made in the future.

The group also requests that, until such time that a judicious resolution of this matter is reached, the DTI-FTEB resume the issuance of CAIs applied for by duly accredited rebuilders, regardless of whether their rebuilding sites are inside or outside of freeport zones.

UTRIP will showcase its rebuilt trucks on May 17 to 18 at the Metrotent at Metrowalk in Ortigas Center. It is open to the public and entrance is free.

Sports ANTITHESIS CONRAD M. CARIĂ‘O

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NE of the worst nightmares a boxer can encounter in the ring is facing a taller opponent with a good left hook. And unless you are as good as southpaw Manny Pacquiao, facing “left hookers� could end up as picnics.

In the heavyweight division, the left hook has EXCELLENTLY SERVED SMALLER kGHTERS LIKE 2OCKY -ARciano, Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier, who all stand BELOW FEET 3O WHAT IF A TALLER kGHTER FOR A DIVISION is a master of the left hook?

Over the weekend, Nonito Donaire proved that his deadly left hook was still there by knocking out Stephon Young (18-2-3 with 7 knockouts) DURING THE BANTAMWEIGHT POUNDS SEMIknals of the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) held over the weekend.

Donaire (39-5 with 26 KOs) was supposed to face Zolani Tete (28-3 with 21 KOs) for the WBSS BANTAMWEIGHT SEMIkNAL SERIES BUT THE 3OUTH African pulled out because of an injury. Tete from South Africa is the World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight champion, while Donaire holds the World Boxing Association (WBA) Super World Bantamweight and the World Boxing Council Diamond Bantamweight titles.

With Donaire entering the WBSS bantamWEIGHT kNALS FAN INTEREST IS STARTING TO BUILD ON the Filipino possibly facing Japanese knockout artist Naoya Inoue (17-0 with 15 KOs), who is the WBA world bantamweight titlist. Inoue would be FACING 0UERTO 2ICAN %MMANUEL 2ODRIQUEZ with 12 KOs), the International Boxing Federation world bantamweight champion, in the other 7"33 SEMIkNALS FOR THE DIVISION .OW THE MORE SALIVATING kGHT FOR THE 7"33 bantamweight finals would definitely be Donaire vs Inoue, as the Japanese has a more fearsome persona, taking into account his knockout power.

But at 5’4�, Inoue must deal with the height advantage of Donaire and the Filipino’s left hook.

And that is where things could get interesting.

Donaire is usually listed at 5’7.5� but still LOOKS TALLER THAN THAT JUDGING FROM HIS kGHT AGAINST THE u 9OUNG AND THE u 2YAN Burnett of the UK (19-1 with 9 KOs), whom the Filipino beat by a strange stoppage in the 7"33 BANTAMWEIGHT SEMIkNALS And while Inoue may be able to stop or mow down bantamweights, Donaire is not really a bantamweight, having fought as high as featherweight (126 pounds). The Filipino even looked like a full-blown featherweight in his fights against Young and Burnett, which should not be surprising given today’s weigh in rules. Fighters are usually weighed 48 hours before a bout, giving them enough time to rehydrate and gain weight BEFORE THE ACTUAL kGHT !ND UNDER THAT PROTOCOL

THE BIGGER kGHTER COULD PACK MORE WEIGHT OVER hours to tip the scales one to two weight divisions HIGHER FOR THE ACTUAL kGHT 3MALLER kGHTERS WHO COULD NOT ADD MORE weight are usually at a disadvantage under the present weigh in rules, unless you are Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather Jr. But Inoue is not Pacquiao or Mayweather.

3O IF THE $ONAIRE )NOUE kGHT MATERIALIZES THE Filipino could have the weight and size advantage ON kGHT NIGHT !ND IF $ONAIRE S LEFT HOOKS kND their range, Inoue could be in trouble. Donaire could also be very good in employing the “check hook,� or a left hook thrown against a charging opponent. And the check hook is among the best WEAPONS OF TALLER kGHTERS AGAINST SMALLER OPPOnents. And one of the maestros of the check hook is Mayweather, who used it excellently against kGHTERS WHO WERE LESS TALLER THAN HIM So what am I batting at?

This early, Inoue, with his impressive knockout power and streak, and his being about a decade younger than Donaire, has been tipped by some kGHT OBSERVERS TO DEFEAT THE &ILIPINO IF THEY MEET IN THE 7"33 kNALS FOR POUNDS 4HIS WAS ALSO my belief months back when the bantamweight WBSS series kicked off.

"UT AFTER CLOSELY WATCHING HIS LAST TWO kGHTS

it may be even unfair that Donaire was asked to take part in the WBSS bantamweight tournament, as his loss against Carl Frampton (26-2 with 15 KOs) for the WBO world bantamweight title showed he can take the best shots from a champion in the 126-pound ranks. And while he lost to Frampton, Donaire was able to rock his opponent on a few occasions, also with left hooks.

There are criticisms Young was a no-name opponent while Burnett was still too raw. But LET US NOT DISCOUNT THE FACT THAT THOSE TWO kGHTS acclimatized Donaire anew at bantamweight and did drain him, giving him a chance to train MORE INTENSELY FOR A POSSIBLE kGHT AGAINST )NOUE Also, the left hook Donaire landed on Young in the sixth round was very vicious, knocking out his opponent cold. It also proved that the left hook is THE NIGHTMARE OF kGHTERS FACING TALLER OPPONENTS So imagine the result if the left hook of Donaire, which carries the power of a featherweight, lands consistently on the smaller Inoue?

4HINGS ARE DEkNITELY GETTING VERY INTERESTing from here.

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Warriors edge Rockets, Celtics baffle Bucks in playoffs W ASHINGTON: Kevin Durant scored 35 points to lead the defending champion Golden State Warriors over Houston, 104-100, on Sunday (Monday in Manila), while Boston ripped Milwaukee in the openers of their NBA second-round playoff matchups.

Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, each playing despite right ankle injuries, scored 18 and 13 points, respectively, while Andre Iguodala and Draymond Green each added 14 as the Warriors jumped ahead in the best-of-seven Western Conference playoff series.

James Harden led Houston with 35 points, while Eric Gordon added 27 and Chris Paul contributed 17 in a losing CAUSE THE 2OCKETS HITTING ONLY PERCENT FROM THE lOOR “We just made them shoot tough shots,� Durant said. “I think our defense won this game.�

At Milwaukee, Kyrie Irving and Al Horford sparked the Boston Celtics to a 112-90 victory. Irving had game highs of 26 points and 11 assists while Horford scored 20 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and blocked three shots.

The Warriors had lost their two prior playoff home games to the Los Angeles #LIPPERS BEFORE ESCAPING THE kRST ROUND

but hung on down the stretch to halt that unwanted streak.

Curry sank a 3-pointer to give the WarRIORS A kVE POINT LEAD WITH SECONDS remaining, but Harden answered with a DUNK WITH LIFT THE 2OCKETS WITHIN with 21 seconds remaining.

Houston forced a turnover but Harden

missed a 3-pointer and Paul got the rebound but then made a turnover and was ejected after a technical foul with four seconds remaining, Curry sinking a free throw TO CREATE THE kNAL VICTORY MARGIN “Just getting more opportunities,�

Durant said of his performance. “We’ve got to win every matchup. We’ll bring the focus again Tuesday (for game two).�

Horford quiets Giannis Boston’s Horford led a solid Celtics defensive effort that shut down Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo. “We came out and made a statement,�

Irving said. “We guarded Giannis really tough. We stayed very physical with him.

He’s so good around the rim, that midrange area, we had to keep him out of there.

I think we did a great job.�

Antetokounmpo led the Bucks with 22 points and grabbed eight rebounds, but much of his production came late when Milwaukee was already in a 20-point hole.

The Celtics, seeded fourth in the Eastern Conference against the club with the NBA’s best record at 60-22, shot 54 percent against the league’s toughest defensive squad.

Boston unleashed a 32-9 run in the

third quarter, Horford scoring 11 in the spurt, to seize an 86-65 lead.

While the host Bucks made one unsuccessful run early in the fourth q u a r t e r, t h e y never threatened to erase that lead as they had done with a 15-point DEkCIT IN THE kRST half.

The Bucks, the NBA’s thirdb e s t s c o r i n g c l u b , shot only 34.8 percent for the game.

Antetokounmpo went 7-for21 from the floor but was denied inside position by Boston’s varied defensive schemes.

The Greek star’s teammates could not step up and offset his lost production

Q Kevin Durant (No. 35) of the Golden State Warriors drives towards the basket and gets fouled by James Harden of the Houston Rockets during Game One of the Second Round of the 2019 NBA Western Conference Playoffs at ORACLE Arena in Oakland, California. AFP PHOTO

when asked by the Celtics, who dropped two of three regular-season meetings with AFP Milwaukee.

GREEN SAYS OFFICIATING ‘ISN’T AN EXACT SCIENCE’

Q Draymond Green AFP PHOTO

LOS ANGELES: Golden State Wariors forward Draymond Green says referees are human and that James Harden should look in the mirror before criticizing the playoff officiating. “I have been fouled by James on a James’ three pointer before,� Green said. “I think we can all sit here and complain about calls every game.�

Green said when it comes to close contests, both teams can usually make the case that they GOT A RAW DEAL AT SOME TIME FROM THE OFkCIALS g)T IS THE NATURE OF THE GAME WE PLAY 2EFereeing isn’t an exact science,� Green said.

Harden, who has been a vocal critic of the officiating all season, asked for a “fair chance� from the refs after Houston lost 104-100 in game one of the West semi-finals on Sunday.

(ARDEN AND THE 2OCKETS WERE SPECIFIcally upset about what they believed were several non-calls on his three-point attempts. “I mean, I just want a fair chance, man,� said Harden, who scored 35 points but was four-of-16 from beyond the arc. “Call the game how it’s supposed to be called, and that’s it. And I’ll live with the results.�

Harden figured he got fouled on a pair of three-point attempts in the second half, including by Green on a potential game-tying attempt with seven seconds left.

Green said the Warriors could make the same case. g4HEY 2OCKETS ALSO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY SHOT 20 less free throws. But if that is the case then we could have shot 20 more free throws,� Green said.

Houston coach Mike D’Antoni backed up Harden’s criticism on Sunday but didn’t go into detail because he feared a slap on the wrist. “I’m going to try to be a nice guy because I really don’t want to give the charity to them.

I’d rather have my charity have the money,�

D’Antoni said, referring to a potential fine for criticizing officiating.�

Second guessing the referees has been a hot topic among the players ever since the NBA inTRODUCED THE g,AST 4WO -INUTE 2EPORTu WHERE they publicly evaluate the performance of their officials in games within five points in the final two minutes. The league initiated the report to try and be more transparent.

Kendrick Perkins, a 14-year NBA veteran, wonders what all the fuss is about. “Everybody is so busy worried about getting fouls called, forget about trying to win the game,� Perkins posted on his Twitter account AFP on Sunday.

PH bets continue to shine in 2019 Arafura Games JOHN Lloyd Cabalo and Lora Micah Amogius became multiple gold medalists for their respective sports after ruling their third event in the 2019 Arafura Games in Darwin, Australia.

Cabalo captured the 13-14 men’s 4x400m gold Monday along with Joviane Calixto, Romel Bautista, and Reymark Godoy with a time of three minutes, 29.11 seconds, to win over their teammates Al-Nhaquiev Sappari, Nicko Caparoso, Jason Buenacosa, and Norman Carl Luardo (3:32.12).

Amogius also won her third gold Sunday night when she teamed up with Erika Lois

Suelan, Zoemarie Hilario, and Krisha Joanna Apin in the 400m individual medley with a time of 4:42.42, nearly nine seconds ahead of silver medalist Northern Territory. The 18-year-old Cabalo of Puerto Princesa won the 400m and 4x100m relay, while the 13-year-old Amogius of Davao City took the 100m backstroke and the 200m individual medley golds Saturday to give the Philippines a rousing start to its campaign.

Monday’s morning session in athletics also saw Romel Bautista winning the gold in the men’s 400m hurdles with a time of 1:03.16. The

Philippines also made it a sweep in the 4x400m when the women’s team of May Therese Gula, Abegail Manzano, Jessel Lumapas, and Ara Delotavo captured the gold with a time of 4:37.10.  Swimming bagged five gold medals Sunday with John Paul Elises notching a new Arafura Games record in the 15-16 men’s 100m butterfly with a time of 1:00.11. He broke the previous mark of 1:00.33 set by Ross Pearce in 2001.

Joshua Del Rio (men’s 15-16 200m breaststroke), Fritz Jun Rodriguez (men’s 17 and over 100m butterfly), and Apin (800m freestyle) also won golds in swimming.

Mark Anthony Casenas won his second gold Sunday when he topped the men’s long jump, as Franz Gala Bintad and Eliza Coyum claimed the men’s javelin throw and women’s 100m hurdles respectively.  In muay, Jenelyn Olsim lost in her semifinal bout against Y.S. of Australia to settle for bronze in the women’s female elite -54kg.  The Arafura Games continues with the Philippine men’s basketball team opening its campaign against Torres Strait Tuesday. The final day of swimming and the continuation of muay will also happen on Tuesday.

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Bicol bet bags first gold in Palaro D

BY JEAN RUSSEL V. DAVID

AVAO CITY: Bicol Region trackster ,ESLIE $E ,IMA STRUCK THE kRST GOLD MEDAL IN THE 0ALARONG 0AMBANSA

BY RULING THE SECONDARY GIRLS M EVENT ON -ONDAY AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF -INDANAO 3PORTS #OMPLEX HERE

Q Leslie De Lima (No. 170) clinches the Palarong Pambansa first gold medal by ruling the secondary girls 3,000m event on Monday at the University of Mindanao Sports Complex in Davao City.

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The shoeless De Lima clocked in 10 minutes and 22.42 seconds to defend her title anew.

De Lima was 10 seconds ahead OF SILVER kNISHER #AMILA 4UBIANO OF Northern Mindanao (10:32.32), followed by bronze medalist Lovely Cordovilla of Central Luzon (10:38.82). “I got nervous because I did not know if I would win, but thank God I was able to breakaway in the last 250 meters,� said the incoming ninthgrader of Baao National High School in Camarines Sur. De Lima is eyeing to defend her crown in the 1,500m on Wednesday AND IMPROVE HER SILVER PLACE kNISH IN the 800m for a sweep.

The 14-year old athlete will receive P20,000 as a cash incentive for her gold medal courtesy of her local government unit.

SMB, MAGNOLIA BRACE FOR PH CUP FINALS DEFENDING champion San Miguel Beer expects a better Magnolia squad when the Season 44 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup best-of-seven championship series begins on May 1.

Compared to their last meeting where the "EERMEN OUTLASTED THE (OTSHOTS IN kVE GAMES to win the Philippine Cup crown last season, San Miguel Beer coach Leo Austria believes that Magnolia has matured a lot since last season. “I believe coach Chito [Victolero] that they gained a lot of experience last season and become a better team. They are very competitive.

In the championship round, there’s no strong or weak, so I think we will have a good series,�

Austria told reporters.

But Austria is determined to send the BeerMEN TO A kFTH CONSECUTIVE 0HILIPPINE #UP TITLE and 26th overall crown since joining the league as one of the founding members in 1975. “For us, winning is a habit, it’s a lifestyle, it is

a pride. Ever since we won a championship, we don’t want to lose it anymore,� added Austria, who is gunning for his seven PBA titles in eighth championship appearance. “They are hungrier than us, but it’s our pride.

Besides parading new faces Christian Standhardinger and Terrence Romeo, Marcio Lassiter SAID HE WOULD BE COMING BACK IN THE kNALS percent healthy after dealing with back spasm DURING THE SEMIkNALS For coach Victolero, revenge or payback is not -AGNOLIA S MOTIVATION IN THE kNALS “We are not thinking about it (payback) but our goal is to win the championship,� said Victolero, noting that they are ready to challenge the Beermen anew in the series after winning last Governors’ Cup crown. “We matured a lot from the last Philippine Cup and we gained a lot of experience when we won a championship so I think that’s huge for us.�

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Meanwhile, Algin Gomez of Cagayan Valley soared through the air and landed 7.55 meters from the jump off point to clinch the gold medal in the secondary boy’s long jump competition.

Gomez was followed by Northern Mindanao bet John Mike Lera, who leaped 7.39m to erase a seven-year old Palaro record (7.26m) set by Julian Reem Fuentes in 2012 in Lingayen, Pangasinan.

Lera had a wind reading of 1.7 meters per second (mps) that is below the 2mps required to register a record unlike Gomez, who registered a wind assistance of 2.8mps, as of their playing time.

Besides the Palaro record, Gomez would have also surpassed the 7.43m junior national record owned by Jerry Belibestre, which he set in Isabela in 2017.

Over at the Davao Chong Hua High

School, Daniel Quizon of Calabarzon and Cemberain Muanag of Caraga topped the secondary and elementary boy’s blitz competition, respectively.

Jersey Marticio of Calabarzon won the elementary girls blitz with Central Visayas bet Sara Francine Olendo taking away the gold in the secondary division.

Meanwhile, the medal-rich swimming will unfurl today at the Davao City-University of the Philippines Mindanao Sports Complex.

The 62nd Palarong Pambansa, with official theme “Shaping the Future THROUGH 3PORTS u WAS OFkCIALLY OPENED on Sunday by President Rodrigo Duterte, where he welcomed 18,000 student-athletes across 17 regions in his hometown.

During his speech, Duterte urged the student-athletes to veer away from drugs.

He also encouraged the youth to actively participate in sport as it is an essential characteristic in nation building.

The Chief Executive also reassured that the government will continue promoting physical education and other sports program vital for the youth in achieving their dreams.

At stake at the weeklong multi-sport event are 394 gold, 394 silver and 506 bronze medals.

Tigers vent ire on McDavid, nail fifth win LEANING on Soulemane Chabi Yo’s solid effort, IronconUniversity of Santo Tomas (UST) posted an emphatic bounceback win at the expense of McDavid, 111-90, in the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association Developmental League (PBA D-League) on Monday at the JCSGO Gym in Cubao, Quezon City.

Beninese big man Chabi Yo erupted for a double-double 25 points and 15 rebounds, as the Growling Tigers rebounded from a 101-114 loss to Petron-Colegio de San Juan de Letran last April 11. “He (Chabi Yo) is consistent,� said UST head coach Aldin Ayo of his prized recruit. “Although he still needs to improve his skills and execution, he’s talented and athletic.�

Ironcon-UST ascended to solo second in the Aspirants Group with kVE WINS AGAINST A LONE DEFEAT More than their record, though, Ayo wanted his Tigers to learn his system. “What’s important is for our players to execute our system. That’s our priority,� he said.

Veteran guard Marvin Lee chipped IN POINTS HIGHLIGHTED BY kVE TRIPLES while Rhenz Abando and Brent Paraiso added 13 and 12 markers, respectively, in the victory.

Ironcon-UST hauled down 23 offensive rebounds (58 boards in total) that turned into 26 second chance points while also hitting 16 three-pointers.

The Tigers roared to a strong start as Renzo Subido hit a layup to cap a 12-3 run for a 29-19 advantage in the

opening period. #HABI 9O THEN kRED POINTS that sparked the Espaùabased cagers’ 30-point explosion in the breakaway second frame, resulting in a massive 59-41 lead.

With its dominant rebounding and hot shooting from beyond the arc, UST never lost hold of its big buffer and

even enjoyed a 27-point lead late in the game.

Rev Diputado and Jason Melano paced McDavid with 18 points apiece even as Michael Sorela had 13 markers and Janus Lozada had 10 in the loss.

The Allen Ricardo-mentored McDavid bowed out of playoff contention with a 1-6 slate.

JEREMIAH M. SEVILLA

Q Ironcon-UST’s Soulemane Chabi Yo shoots a layup during a game in the 2019 PBA D-League. PBA MEDIA BUREAU PHOTO

FEU’s Guinoo earns UAAP POW plum HEATHER Guinoo still rose to the occasion even if it was a no-bearing game, giving Far Eastern University a huge morale booster before heading into the Final Four.

Already locked at No.4 heading into the Final Four, Guinoo unleashed a career-high 24 points to lift FEU in stunning defending champion De La Salle with a come-from-behind 25-22, 13-25, 15-25, 27-25, 15-8 victory on Sunday to end its elimination round on a high note.

As she saved the best for last this elimination round, the graduating WING SPIKER EARNED THE kNAL #OLlegiate Press Corps Player of the Week in UAAP Season 81 women’s

volleyball tournament. “ Para sa amin hindi siya nobearing,� Guinoo said. “ Malaking tulong nitong game na ito kapag nanalo kami para sa mga next po naming games. Kasi makaka-boost po ito ng morale namin.�

After ending an eight-game skid to La Salle, Guinoo bested candidates Chiara Permentilla of Adamson, Sisi Rondina of University of Santo Tomas, Kat Tolentino of Ateneo and Jolina Dela Cruz of De La Salle for the weekly nod given by beat writers from the broadsheets, tabloids and sports websites.

T h e s p i k e r, w h o h a i l s f r o m C av i t e, e m e r g e d a s F E U ’s t o p

scorer — No.7 in the league — as she averaged 12.8 points per game in the elimination round.

Playing her best in her final playing year, Guinoo just wanted to do everything she can to win games for FEU and be a great example to her teammates.

The bigger challenge is now ahead of FEU, as it will take on the league leading Ateneo in the Final Four for the third straight year.

Even the tables have turned with the Lady Eagles holding a twice-to-beat incentive, the graduating Lady Tamaraw believes that it just made them more eager to win for them to reach their goal in returning to the Finals.

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Rahm, Palmer team up to win PGA Zurich Classic N EW ORLEANS: Spain’s Jon Rahm and American Ryan Palmer partnered for a three-under par 69 on Sunday (Monday in Manila) to win the US PGA Zurich Classic pairs event by three strokes.

0ALMER AND 2AHM kNISHED HOLES AT THE 40# OF ,OUISIANA COURSE NEAR .EW /RLEANS ON UNDER PAR IN THE UNIQUE TOURNAMENT WITH FOUR BALL BEST BALL kRST AND THIRD ROUNDS AND FOURSOMES ALTERNATE SHOT IN THE SECOND AND kNAL ROUNDS 3PAIN S 3ERGIO 'ARCIA AND %NGLAND S 4OMMY &LEETWOOD WERE SECOND ON WITH 3OUTH +OREAN ,EE +YOUNG HOON AND !MERICAN -ATT %VERY SHARING THIRD ON WITH 3LOVAKIAN 2ORY 3ABBATINI AND

!MERICAN "RIAN 'AY 0ALMER

CAPTURED HIS FOURTH 53 0'! TITLE BUT HIS kRST SINCE THE 3ONY /PEN IN (AWAII (E HAD LOST THREE TOUR PLAYOFFS SINCE THEN

INCLUDING LAST YEAR AT 4ORREY 0INES TO !USTRALIA S *ASON $AY g.INE YEARS SINCE ) LAST WON u SAID A TEARFUL 0ALMER SAID g2EALLY SPECIAL u 0ALMER S OTHER WINS CAME AT DEFUNCT EVENTS THE $ISNEY 7ORLD #LASSIC AND 'INN SUR -ER #LASSIC

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TOOK HIS THIRD CAREER 53 0'! TITLE AND kRST WIN OF THE YEAR AFTER CROWNS LAST YEAR AT 0ALM 3PRINGS THE %UROPEAN 4OUR S 3PANish Open and the Hero World #HALLENGE IN THE "AHAMAS g4HIS IS A VERY SPECIAL ONE u 2AHM

SAID g)T S SPECIAL FOR 2YAN AND ) M EXCITED TO SHARE IT WITH HIM (E EARNED IT WITH ALL THE PUTTS HE MADE (E PLAYED A LOT OF GOOD GOLF u 0ALMER BLASTED A SECOND SHOT ON THE PAR SECOND HOLE TO THE FRINGE AND TAPPED IN FOR BIRDIE AFTER 2AHM

Petron, F2 clash in PSL finals opener ).4%.3% VOLLEYBALL ACTION GOES FULL BLAST AS THE BEST CLUB TEAMS IN THE COUNTRY ‡ 0ETRON AND & ,OGISTICS ‡ ESSAY ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THEIR STORIED RIVALRY WHEN THEY CLASH IN THE 0HILIPPINE 3UPERLIGA 'RAND 0RIX BEST OF THREE kNALS TODAY AT THE &ILOIL &LYING 6 #ENTRE IN 3AN *UAN 'AME IS SET AT P M WITH THE "LAZE 3PIKERS AND THE #ARGO -OVERS CLASHING FOR THE SIXTH STRAIGHT TIME IN THE kNALS 0RIOR TO THAT #IGNAL AND 0,$4 (OME &IBR SEEK TO END THEIR CAMpaign on a high note when they COLLIDE IN THE BRONZE MEDAL MATCH AT P M "ANNERED BY THE BEST IMPORTS AND MOST RELIABLE LOCAL PLAYERS

BOTH THE "LAZE 3PIKERS

AND THE #ARGO -OVERS WERE HEAVILY TIPPED TO DISPUTE THE CROWN 0ETRON SOARED TO STRAIGHT WINS IN THE CLASSIkCATION BEFORE CREAMING 3TA ,UCIA IN THE QUARTERkNALS AND #IGNAL IN THE SEMIknals to move two wins away from sweeping the tournament, a feat IT kRST ACHIEVED IN THE !LL &ILIPINO #ONFERENCE IN & ,OGISTICS ON THE OTHER HAND

BLEW HOT AND COLD AS IT LOST STAR SETTER Kim Fajardo to injury, prompting IT TO kNISH THE CLASSIkCATION WITH AN MARK 4HE #ARGO -OVERS SURVIVED A SCARE FROM A GAME against the Foton

SQUAD IN THE QUARTERkNALS BEFORE REstoring order when they dominated THE 0OWER (ITTERS IN THE SEMIkNALS .OW & ,OGISTICS IS BACK IN THE kNALS CARRYING AN UNDERDOG STATUS against a team who last tasted a SETBACK DURING 'AME OF THE !LL &ILIPINO kNALS ON $ECEMBER OF LAST YEAR "UT FOR HEAD COACH 3HAQ $ELOS 3ANTOS PREVIOUS RECORD AND STATISTICS SHOULD B E F L U S H E D down the drain as this finals series is an entirely different BALLGAME

g4HE SWEEP IN THE PRELIMINARIES IS OVER 4HIS IS NOW A BRAND NEW CHALLENGE FOR US u SAID $ELOS 3ANtos, who is no stranger to sweepING THE CONFERENCE AS HE SERVED AS ASSISTANT TO 'EORGE 0ASCUA DURING THAT HISTORIC RUN IN g7E HAVE TO DOUBLE OUR EFFORT IF WE WANT TO BE BACK TO BACK CHAMPIONS 7E KNOW FOR SURE THAT THEY WILL TRY THEIR BEST TO WIN 'AME TO GAIN MOMENTUM AND DICTATE THE TEMPO OF THIS SERIES u Delos Santos, however, admitted that they are wary of their FORMER IMPORT ‡ REIGNING -OST 6ALUABLE 0LAYER ,INDSAY 3TALZER ‡ WHO CROSSED THE ENEMY LINES AND WILL BE POWERING & ,OGISTICS IN SPOILING THEIR CHAMPIONSHIP PARADE

Q Petron import Katherine Bell avoids three blockers of Cignal during the semifinals of the Philippine Superliga Grand Prix at The Arena in San Juan City.

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Thiem captures Barcelona crown B A R C E L O N A : $ O M I N I C 4HIEM OVERPOWERED $ANIIL -EDVEDEV ON 3UNDAY -ONDAY IN -ANILA TO WIN THE "ARCELONA /PEN TITLE BOOSTING HIS CREDENTIALS as a potential Roland Garros CHAMPION ! DAY AFTER KNOCKING OUT TIME "ARCELONA WINNER 2AFAEL .ADAL IN THE SEMI kNALS THE THIRD SEEDED !USTRIAN CLAIMED HIS SECOND TITLE IN FOUR EVENTS AFTER BEATING 2OGER &EDERER AT )NDIAN 7ELLS LAST MONTH He is also the first AusTRIAN TO TAKE THE "ARCELONA TITLE SINCE 4HOMAS -USTER IN g)T S SUCH AN HONOR TO WIN HERE ONLY THE BIGGEST CHAMpions have done it,� said YEAR OLD 4HIEM g) M SO HAPPY AND PROUD TO JOIN -USTER HERE NOW MY NAME IS ON THE TROPHY u 4HIEM HOISTED THE WEIGHTY KILOGRAM GOLDEN TROPHY in triumph in front of a full STADIUM ON A CLOUDY CHILLY day at a venue named for

.ADAL (E HAS NOW REINFORCED HIS CLAIM FOR A POSSIBLE &RENCH Open title after losing the 0ARIS FINAL A YEAR AGO TO .ADAL 4HIEM NEEDED JUST MINUTES TO EARN VICTORY OVER his seventh-seeded Russian opponent, who needed treatment on his shoulder LATE IN THE kRST SET 4HE !USTRIAN GOT OFF TO A slow start, losing his first SERVE BUT MADE UP FOR LOST TIME BY BREAKING -EDVEDEV TWICE IN THE kRST SET BEFORE COMPLETELY DOMINATING THE SECOND g) HAD TROUBLES AT THE START u 4HIEM SAID g-Y SLICE WAS NOT WORKING AND HE DOES NOT MISS g-Y SLICE GOT BETTER BUT ) HAD TO TURN DEFENCE INTO OFFENCE THAT WAS MY ONLY CHANCE (E S DIFkCULT TO PLAY

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Lee roars to victory at 2019 LA Open LOS ANGELES: Australia’s Minjee Lee pulled away from the field with a closing round of three-under 68 to capture the LA Open by four strokes and earn her fifth career USLPGA Tour title.

The 22-year-old from Perth finished at 14-under 270, four strokes ahead of runner-up Kim Sei-young of South Korea.

Lee collected $225,000 in first place prize money and boosted her career earnings to $5.32 million, making her the third highest winning Australian overall in purse money.

In terms of victories only Karrie Webb, with 41, Jan Stephenson (16) and Rachel Hetherington (8) have more titles by an Aussie.

Lee started her fourth round on Sunday with a one-stroke lead over Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen who stumbled to a five-over 76. “I was just going to carry on playing my game,� said Lee. “I had a couple of birdies opportunities coming in so I didn’t get riled up.�

Kim had one of the best rounds of the day with a

66, but it wasn’t enough to catch Lee. Americans Annie Park, with a 67, and Morgan Pressel tied for third at nine-under, five shots adrift of Lee. Madsen, who was seeking to become the first from Denmark to win on the Tour, finished in a tie for 13th.

Lee, who was the only player to shoot all four rounds in the 60s, made two birdies on a bogeyfree front nine. She rebounded from a bogey at No. 11 with birdies at the 13th and 18th.

The win comes at a time when she is playing some of her best golf. Lee tied for third in Hawaii last week after consecutive second-place finishes in February. She hadn’t won since May of 2018 at the Volvik Championship.

South Korea’s Amy Yang fired the low round of the day and equalled the low round of the tournament, shooting a bogey-free 64 to finish tied for fifth along with four others, including Park In-bee and world No. 1 Ko Jin-young of South Korea (69).

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Football

TUESDAY APRIL 30, 2019

Messi steers Barcelona to La Liga crown M ADRID: Lionel Messi clinched an eighth La Liga title for Barcelona in 11 seasons as he scored the only goal in a 1-0 win at home to Levante.

The Argentine star struck his league-leading 34th goal of the campaign after coming off the bench for the second half to help Barca wrap up the title with three games remaining.

Barca hold a nine-point lead over second-placed Atletico Madrid, but the Catalans cannot be overtaken thanks to their superior head-to-head record.

It is Barca’s 26th league title

and nudges them closer to Real Madrid’s record of 33 in Spain.

“To win the title with a distance AND GAP IS DIFkCULT WITH THE RIVALS we have. We’ve done it two years in a row,” Barca coach Ernesto Valverde told Movistar.

“We’re happy and to see people enjoying it makes us proud. But we still have challenges ahead.”

Valverde initially left Messi on the bench with Wednesday’s

#HAMPIONS ,EAGUE SEMI kNAL kRST leg against Liverpool in mind, but he replaced Philippe Coutinho at the break at the Camp Nou. Coutinho and Luis Suarez pressed Levante goalkeeper Aitor Fernandez into action early on, the Brazilian coming closest to breaking the deadlock when his free-kick rattled the crossbar shortly before half-time.

He was sacrificed for Messi though, and it proved an inspired decision as the Argentine swept in the winner on 62 minutes following a frantic scramble inside the Levante area.

The visitors, not yet safe from

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“In the end he scored the goal.

He always scores goals everywhere,” Valverde said of Messi, who celebrated winning his 10th league crown.

Atletico had delayed Barca’s title party earlier in the day as they scraped past strugglers Real Valladolid 1-0 after surviving late VAR penalty drama.

Joaquin Fernandez’s own goal put Atletico ahead midway through the

second half, but they had to endure A NERVY kNAL FEW MINUTES IN WHICH Jan Oblak had to be at his best and they survived a late VAR check over what looked like a clear Santiago Arias handball in the area.

“It’s controversial, a ball that hits the hand and the referee’s decision is to see if it’s voluntary or not,” said Saul Niguez, whose cross led to their fortunate winner.

Diego Simeone’s side are nine points ahead of local rivals and reigning European champions Real Madrid, who travel to Rayo Vallecano on Sunday amid increasing speculation they will respond to a disappointing season by swooping

for Eden Hazard and Neymar.

Valladolid stays 17th, just 1 point and a place away from the relegation zone after a match they will feel they were unlucky to lose.

Meanwhile, Athletic Bilbao and Alaves did their chances of European football next season no favors with a 1-1 draw in the Basque Country.

3EVENTH PLACED "ILBAO ARE kVE points away from the Champions league places — with Alaves a further three points back — and could also see Valencia and Sevilla take the Europa league further away from them when they take on Eibar and Girona.

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ATENEO BLANKS UE, EARNS F4 SLOT

ATENEO de Manila University seized a Final Four berth with a 3-0 romp over University of the East (UE) in Season 81 University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) men’s football on Sunday at the Far Eastern University (FEU)-Diliman Football Field in Quezon City.

Mark Nacional, Javier Gayoso and Iñigo Herrera fired a goal apiece as the Blue Booters bagged a semifinal spot with 26 points on an 8-2-4 win-draw-loss record.

Ateneo also gained the top spot and ended

the eliminations on a winning note as it rebounded from a 1-2 defeat to University of Santo Tomas last Thursday.

Third-year midfielder Nacional handed the Katipunan-based squad the opening lead just four minutes into the match.

Star striker Gayoso then struck in the 68th before midfielder Iñigo Herrera closed out the rout with an 86th minute strike.

The also-ran Red Warriors stayed stuck at the cellar with nine markers on a 2-3-8 slate.

Meanwhile, defending champion University of the Philippines (UP) strengthened its Final Four bid with a comeback 2-1 victory against FEU. Jeremiah Borlongan and King Miyagi scored in the second half as the Maroon Booters erased a one-goal deficit to move a win away from a semifinal slot.

UP overtook La Salle at No. 3 with 23 points on a 7-2-4 card and could seal a semis seat should it win its final fixture against the skidding UE on Thursday.

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Q Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian forward Neymar (white) fights for the ball against Rennes’ French midfielder Benjamin Andre during the French Cup final football match at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France. AFP PHOTO

Neymar says he was wrong to hit fan after cup-final defeat PARIS: Brazilian superstar Neymar accepted on Sunday (Monday in Manila) that he had made a mistake striking a fan who insulted Paris 3AINT 'ERMAIN PLAYERS AS THEY kLED UP TO COLlect their French Cup losers’ medals.

Neymar scored to put PSG 2-0 up after 21 minutes at the Stade de France on Saturday, but Rennes fought back to tie the game at 2-2 and win the penalty shootout 6-5 after extra time.

As the players climbed the steps to receive their medals, shaking the hands of those nearby, Neymar, one of the last in line, struck one of the fans in the face. The blow was caught on numerous mobile phones, including that of the victim, Edouard, a 28-year-old delivery driver from Nantes.

“Did I act badly?” Neymar asked in an Instagram comment. “Yes. But no one can stay indifferent.”

A Brazilian friend of Neymar’s, Alex Bernardo, posted on Instagram a transcript of the comments audible on Edouard’s video starting with unused reserves goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and defender Layvin Kurzawa.

“Oh, Buffon, dirty Bouffon! Oh, Kurzawa, keep your hand to yourself!”

Then to Marco Verratti: “Oh, racist!” and to Neymar: “Oh, go and learn to play football.”

The Brazilian striker reacted by pushing down the phone to hit Edouard in the face.

“Who will defend me from going in defence of my teammates?” Neymar wrote in a comment on Bernardo’s post.

PSG quickly responded with a statement that said that a “friend of a Rennes player had insulted all the players” to “create a buzz” on social media.

“I did not insult him,” Edouard told French sports daily L’Equipe. “I told him that they had been useless.”

“When the players passed, Verratti, Buffon, I mocked them: ‘You are worthless.

Allez Rennes!’”

Edouard said he had contemplated bringing charges against Neymar who left him with “a cut lip and bloody nose.”

The blow continued a bad-tempered end to the evening for PSG. Neymar’s strike partner Kylian Mbappe was sent off for a dreadful tackle with two minutes left in extra time.

The defeat ended PSG’s four-year reign in the French Cup and means that, while they have retained the French league, they have won none of the cups they entered this season, with the most painful their exit at the last 16 stage of the Champions League to Manchester United. AFP

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Entertainment

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The beauty queen and the possibility of making movies W

HAT do Gloria Diaz, Margie Moran-Floriendo and Pia Wurtzbach have in common besides winning the Miss Universe crown for the Philippines? They all became actresses following their reigns.

Miss Universe 1969 Diaz enjoyed a successful acting career, both on the small and the big screens, most notably the criticallyacclaimed movies “Ang Pinakamagandang Hayos sa Balat ng Lupa� and “Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon?�

Miss Universe 2015 Wurtzbach who started out as a teen actress before joining pageants, meanwhile, made a successful comeback in the movies via “My Perfect 9OU u WHERE SHE HAD HER kRST LEAD ROLE Even Moran-Floriendo, who became more active behind the scenes as producer has a MOVIE TO HER NAME In 1974, a year after she bagged the crown, she starred opposite Cocoy Laurel in “Oh, -ARGIE /HĂœu A ROMANTIC COMEDY MUSICAL These in mind, it was only a matter of time before current title holder Catriona Gray was asked if she would be following the footsteps OF HER -ISS 5NIVERSE PREDECESSORS “Am I open to acting? Yes I am open to every opportunity that may come my way,â€? Gray answered during a press conference for her NEW ENDORSEMENT FOR *OLLIBEE 4WIRL The humble queen, however, admitted that she has yet to experience portraying a CHARACTER FOR THE CAMERA g!CTING IS A kELD THAT ) HAVE not yet experienced but I AM A VERY EAGER LEARNER u Moreover, Gray was

also among the names that popped up when actress Liza Soberano bowed out of playING THE &ILIPINA SUPERHERO $ARNA “If there’s an opportunity to audition for a certain role, I would very much be open to it,� Gray simply SAID AGAIN For now, the 25-year-old, is looking forward to crowning her Miss 5NIVERSE 0HILIPPINES SUCCESSOR “I will be here of course to pass on the title of Miss Univese Philippines to the next deserving Filipina who will represent our country in Miss 5NIVERSE "I am very excited and I think we have such an amazing batch of girls,� she kNALLY NOTED The Binibining Pilipinas 2019 will hold its coronation on night *UNE

Finally an open ‘Vice Ganda Lover’ T

HERE has never been a “dry spell� in the COLORFUL LOVE LIFE OF 6ICE 'ANDA SINCE #ONkRMED REPORTS HAVE IT THAT THE 5NKaboggable Star is finally settled with Ion Perez, also KNOWN AS +UYA %SCORT )ON

a self-confessed father to a kVE YEAR OLD CHILD WAS 6ICE Ganda’s special guest at his RD BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Of the men in the TV hostcomedian’s life — believe it or not — only Ion PROVED TO BE THE MOST REAL OTHERS RUMORED Here’s Vice Ganda’s table of contents of his gROMANCE BOOK u In 2011, Vice Ganda was linked to actor Jon !VILA g(ONESTLY WE WERE NOT A COUPLE 7E VE BEEN FRIENDS A LONG TIME AGO )N FACT ) WAS PRIVY TO HIS LOVE LIFE AND SO WAS HE TO MINE u Vice Ganda hummed the same tune when

a year later he got associated with UAAP basKETBALL PLAYER 22 'ARCIA Yet another cager in 2014 had been linked to the “It’s Showtime� host, UAAP-turnedPBA player Terrence RoMEO IN 6ICE 'ANDA

however, neither denied NOR CONFIRMED IT While Terrence repeatedly brushed off the issue, it seemed homophobic of him to describe the rumored affair as “multo yun sa image ko na

VIGNETTES RONNIE CARRASCO 3RD

GUSTO KONG MABURA u Some other guys followed, G-Force dancer Stephen Noval, PBA player Kevin Alas and a Chinese model and winner of a male pagEANT "UT 6ICE 'ANDA CONFESSED TO JUST BEING FRIENDS WITH THEM Last year saw an almost real romance brewing between the host-comedian and another PBA player, Calvin Abueva (his kumpare 7HILE Vice Ganda, as usual, concealed the truth he proudly announced HOW HAPPY HE WAS Things eventually turned sour when Calvin and his thenestranged wife had gotten back TOGETHER EARLY THIS YEAR For Vice Ganda, the search IS OVER NOW (E HAS FOUND )ON who calls himself “Vice Ganda's Lover� who seems to have won HIS FAMILY S NOD OF APPROVAL

Q Vice Ganda has had many rumored affairs with basketball ketb ket ke tbbal all stars but this current flame seems serious.

Q Ion Perez calls himself ‘Vice Ganda's Lover.’

COCO MARTIN is inarguably one of the most popular and bankable actors in local showbiz today, but what people usually say about him is that he hasn’t allowed his success to go to his head.

For one thing, Martin has always been proud of his roots — his beginnings as a tricycle driver and a dutiful son of a tireless jeepney driver.

Yes, Martin comes from a family of jeepney drivers and he’s not one to hide this fact. His grandfather made a living driving a jeepney and was able to provide for his family and meet the needed expenses in raising his children. Coco’s father continued this particular family legacy and provided for the family by driving a jeepney as well.

enough from doing indie movies, the dutiful son bought his father three tricycles as well as a brand-new jeepney, which the senior Nacianceno still uses to ply the same route he has driven for the past 30 years.

Martin now says he has not forgotten the jeepney driver friends his father made all these years and applies the same friendship to his tricycle drivers now that he, too, is a tricycle operator.

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Coco Martin—proud of jeepney driver dad

Q Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray says she is open to acting opportunities and open to audition, even for the coveted ‘Darna’ role.

Humble beginnings At an early age, the young Rodel Luis Pacheco Nacianceno learned to drive a tricycle and took passengers so he could earn enough for his school baon.

His father was also the one who taught him to drive a four-wheeled vehicle and would tag him along as his back ride. He would also almost always be asked to wash and sometimes even fix the engine of the jeepney his father drove.

He saw how his father took very good care of their jeepney and would not scrimp on fuel and high-quality engine oil. Martin even remembers his father telling him that the engine oil is the lifeblood of any vehicle and that what is put inside the engine should be of good quality. “Using high-quality oil is critical when driving and maintaining a jeepney,� his father used to say.

This in mind, Martin, who excitedly accepted an offer to be endorser for motor oil product Shell Rimula, recalls that his father precisely used the very brand because he wanted to achieve a cleaner and crisper engine sound.

Pride in one’s roots Considering his roots as the son of a jeepney driver, Martin has always had high reverence for hardworking public utility drivers who brave the elements and the traffic gridlocks just to earn a decent living for their families.

And like these “tsuperstars� as he fondly refers to them, Martin considers his father as the tsuperstar of their family who provided for them despite the laborious job he had to take on every single day for decades. “All drivers are deserving to be considered tsuperstars because it is not easy to drive all day under any road condition and in any kind of weather,� the much-loved and idolized actor said.

“Napakalaki po ng tulong sa atin ng mga jeepney drivers, lalong-lalo na po yung mga padre de pamilya na naghihirap araw-araw para sa

“Naaalala ko na inaalagaan namin nang mabuti ang sasakyan na pinapasada niya noon, kaya yung tatay ko Rimula talaga ang ginagamit at wala nang iba,� the actor shared. “Iba kasi ang takbo ng jeep na gamit ng tatay ko noon pag yun ang gamit eh. Damang-dama mo ang hatak at ang lakas ng makina.�

Martin’s father did not own the jeepney he was driving and was just paying the operator the daily “boundary� so he could use it to ply his route. So, when he was already earning

kinabukasan ng kanyang mga anak. Kaya sa pamilya namin po, ang tunay na tsuperstar ay ang aking ama,� he ended.

Lifestyle How to treat your newborn like royalty N F2

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JUST LIKE ‘MUMMY MEGHAN TO-BE’

BY LEANNE ITALIE

EW YORK: Your sister, best friend or BELOVED COUSIN JUST HAD HER kRST BABY AND YOU D LIKE TO TREAT YOUR FAVORED NEWBORN TO SOME LUXURY "UT WHERE TO BEGIN

Where you live and how you shop — online only, swanky department stores or exclusive boutiques — will help determine your options, along with the fastmoving local trends where your little “royal� resides.

The mindset of baby’s parents also matters. Do they have traditional taste? Are they modernists?

Is laid-back chic, chemical free or New Age more their style?

In celebration of the upcoming

BIRTH OF THE kRST BABY FOR 0RINCE Harry and Meghan Markle, here are some gear and gift ideas to get you started:

Pram or stroller What does actual royalty use? In Britain, it is usually Silver Cross.

Founded in 1877, the company has been bouncing royal babies in their fancy prams since the birth of +ING 'EORGE TH 0RINCE #HARLES

Q Fancy prams are a staple in the British family.

got around in one when he was born and now the three children OF 0RINCE 7ILLIAM AND THE $UCHESS of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, have shared their Silver Cross ride.

The company has a plethora of options including the more competitive ones like the hand-built Silver Cross Surf Aston Martin, for example. It is available at Harrods for about $4,000, as is the MarieChantal Kensington for nearly $2,000. They convert from carry pram to stroller.

Q With Royal lineage or none, anyone can treat their cute little ones like true loyalty. AP FILE PHOTOS

Royal duds While thoroughly modern Markle may choose less traditional looks for her No. 7 in line for the throne, sister-in-law Middleton has some favorite British brands for her BROOD INCLUDING .O 0RINCE George and little sis Charlotte.

The bite-size princess is quite THE FASHION INlUENCER WITH SOME of her smock dresses selling out in just a few hours.

Some of Kate’s brands include Amaia (Charlotte’s $184 burgundy coat for her first day of SCHOOL 0EPA #O 'EORGE S whale jumper — think sweater — when he was 3) and My 1st Years, because who can forget that adorable monogrammed robe George SPORTED TO MEET THEN 0RESIDENT Barack Obama?

The Duchess of Cambridge’s choices aren’t always hugely

Q Dress her like Princess Charlotte who is every bit a fashion influencer with some of her smock dresses selling out in just a few hours. pricey, however.

And for Markle’s royal bundle?

Tresor has all manner of gear, nursery furniture and baby blankets, including monogrammed cashmere blankets with crochet trim.

Elegant Child of Beverly Hills has a selection of Charlotte-worthy party dresses in the $380 to $480 range. &OR THE FEET 0ERHAPS THE $UCHess of Sussex will hop on the FreshLY 0ICKED BANDWAGON AND OUTkT her baby in a pair of “it� fringe moccasin-style soft shoes. There’s a wide range to choose from.

Silver spoons and such

Q For the little boys, Prince George’s dapper fashion has been duplicated by toddlers and kids since his birth.

There’s always that gift option of a KEEPSAKE 4AKE YOUR PICK AT 4IFFANY Co. for silver spoons, cups and baby brushes but don’t miss the company’s earthenware banks that includes elephants, pigs and bunnies.

Queen Elizabeth 2nd, the Duchess of Cambridge and various other royals and celebrities have

been spotted at London’s highEND &ORTNUM -ASON DEPARTMENT store. Online, you can find the timeless Harmony Barbell Rattle.

It is hand-tuned with 16 tones. It’s crafted from German silver with an ample covering of sterling for added strength.

How about you hunt down a rare edition of a children’s classic book? Let Abebooks.com drop some knowledge on that. Search the site for the world’s most valuable editions.

That California vibe Markle has embraced mindfulness as her pregnancy has progressed.

Jerico Mandybur is fresh out with “Neo Tarot: A Fresh Approach to Self-Care, Healing and Empowerment,� a beautiful deck of illustrated tarot cards published

by Hardie Grant and available on Amazon. Mandybur shows how to use the ancient cards and practices

AS HEALING TOOLS kRST AND FOREMOST Just how Southern California the Duchess of Sussex will get when it comes to her baby is unknown. The nursery at Frogmore Cottage, on the grounds of Windsor Castle, will reportedly be eco-friendly and genderneutral in design touches heavy on gray and white.

Will that color scheme take off in baby gifts? Saks Fifth Avenue online sells an Aden (plus) Anais 100 percent cotton baby blanket, the Dream Serengeti, in a gray print with rhinos.

Stella McCartney isn’t a Californian, but she’s feeling “cool California vibes� in the latest from her children’s collection. That includes an adorable gray baby jumpsuit (for any gender) with a green and blue snake wending through, done in 100 percent organic cotton.

There’s also a palm tree print in blue, yellow and green on a gray T-shirt for $58.

AP

Monique Lhuillier creates blooming scents for home SAN FRANCISCO: Pottery Barn unveiled a new home fragrance collection as part of their ongoing collaboration with internationally recognized bridal, ready-to-wear and accessories designer, Monique Lhuillier.

Inspired by Lhuillier’s love of summer flowers and her extensive travels, the Monique Lhuillier and Pottery Barn home fragrance collection features two captivating scents – Garden Rose and White Jasmine – both impeccably mastered to emulate the rich aroma of a blooming bouquet.

Perfect for gifting and decorating, the home fragrance line includes diffusers, lidded candle pots and lidded votives in Lhuillier’s signature blush, rose gold and warm gray palette. Each item is beautifully packaged and ready for gifting occasions, from Mother’s Day to summer wedding season. “I am thrilled to announce the launch of my new Monique Lhuillier & Pottery Barn home fragrance

collection. The two scents, Garden Rose and White Jasmine, capture what I love the most about fragrance - its ability to transport and transform a space,� said Monique Lhuillier. “Garden Rose is a fresh, elegant take on my garden at home in Southern California while White Jasmine’s more sophisticated, captivating scent was inspired by some of my favorite exotic escapes,� the designer added. “The layered aromas of the new home fragrances perfectly complement our existing Monique Lhuillier & Pottery Barn collections,� said Monica Bhargava, executive vice president of Product Development and Design, Pottery Barn. “The sweet yet subtle bouquets of Garden Rose and White Jasmine are timeless fragrances that evoke a sense of romance in the home.�

The new Monique Lhuillier & Pottery Barn home fragrance collection is now available online at PotteryBarn.com.

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Q The home fragrance line includes diffusers, lidded candle pots and lidded votives in the Filipina designer’s signature blush, rose gold and warm gray palette.

Q Gucci DĂŠcor is designed to bring the eclectic, romantic aesthetic of the home.

Gucci Decor’s new home app helps create fashionable spaces IN time for Milan’s international furniture fair Salone del Mobile, Gucci DÊcor opens at it’s temporary home in 19 Via Santo Spirito. !RRANGED OVER TWO lOORS THE store will remain open through June and is entirely dedicated to the Gucci DÊcor collection, the playful range of furniture, furnishings and decorative items from the House, which displays A kRM COMMITMENT TO CRAFT AND artisanal skills.

Gucci DĂŠcor is designed to bring the eclectic, romantic aesthetic of the House to life in a way that enables customers to creatively dress their own spaces. The temporary store will showcase both new releases and the established pieces that are always on offer.

On sale will be porcelains, furniture and furnishings, all decorated with patterns and symbols from the House lexicon of motifs, which celebrate, among other things, the natural world, through referencing lORA AND FAUNA The store features walls decorated with Gucci patterned wallpa-

Q The brand’s playful range of furniture and decorative items displays a firm commitment to craft and artisanal skills. per and hanging blankets on sale, resembling tapestries. Furniture is a combination of pieces from the collection, restored antiques and purpose-built display units.

The building’s original architectural details were also enhanced, thanks to the decorated, panelled doors, the coffered ceiling over the kRST lOOR AND THE MARBLE kREPLACE

lending it the feel of a grand home.

To coincide with Milan’s Salone del Mobile 2019 and the opening of the Gucci DÊcor temporary store, the Gucci App’s new func-

tion for Apple devices directs users to discover evocative, historic places of Milan where a Gucci DĂŠcor product will appear as a virtual oversized sculpture on screen, together with information on the piece and the place.

The 16 locations are also featured on an underground style map printed on a leaflet, available in the Gucci stores in Milan, AND INCLUDE 0IAZZA DEL $UOMO

"IBLIOTECA 0INACOTECA !CCADEMIA !MBROSIANA AND 0IAZZA !FFARI The Gucci App’s augmented

reality technology allowing customers to see what pieces from the Gucci DĂŠcor collection will look like in their own spaces has also been updated to feature new products.

Users can select from a range of featured items on the Gucci DĂŠcor section of the App and then virtually place these products into their own personal environments in real time, bringing up the image on the screens of their mobile devices, and saving and sharing the image.

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TUESDAY April 30, 2019

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Solution to Mega Maze

» CROSSWORD

BY EUGENE SHEFFER

»HOROSCOPE Today’s Birthday (04/30/19). Good fortune blesses your family accounts this year. Dedication with homework and studies provides satisfying results. Discover new personal passion. Create a masterwork this summer, inspiring a shift in destinations. Your education blossoms next winter, illuminating changing creative directions. Share your unique perspective.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) -- Today is a 5 -- Prepare for a test, and play by the book. Review career goals over three months, with Saturn retrograde. Disciplined efforts behind the scenes earn longterm rewards.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Plan adventures, travels and educational exploration, with Capricorn Saturn retrograde over the next three months. Create itineraries and reserve tickets for a trip next quarter.

BY NANCY BLACK new romance by remembering classics. Get nostalgic and retrospective.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- For about three months, with Saturn retrograde, revisit plans for home infrastructure.

Finish up old projects. Refine and polish. Upgrade a classic idea.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Review for style and grammar. Write, edit and revise, with Saturn retrograde this quarter. Indulge nostalgic retrospection. Assess what worked before and adapt for new circumstances.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Return to basic financial priorities. Exert budgetary discipline over the next three months, with Saturn retrograde. Plan for upcoming expenses and wait to implement. Stay frugal.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Learn from the past without repeating it. Personal self-discipline produces results, with Saturn retrograde in your sign. Take charge backstage for results next quarter.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Follow your budgets closely. Prioritize basics. With Saturn retrograde in Capricorn this quarter, financial discipline pays extra dividends. Keep and exceed shared financial goals.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Consider dreams and visions, with Saturn retrograde. Measure the ground taken and still ahead. Contribute to savings. Make long-term plans over three months. Old passions rekindle.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Go back to what worked before. For the next three months, with Saturn retrograde, strengthen bonds between partners. Collaborative projects undergo revision. Resolve old misunderstandings.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Schedule social events and gatherings, with Capricorn Saturn retrograde. Lay the groundwork for friends and family to come together this autumn. Revise social plans.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Revise your health and fitness practices this quarter, with Capricorn Saturn retrograde. Plan and schedule your next big project or goal. Practice your performance.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Follow rules closely to win this quarter, with Saturn retrograde. Renew a fun old game. Invent

» SUDOKU

(Astrologer Nancy Black continues her mother Linda Black’s legacy horoscopes column. She welcomes comments and questions on Twitter, @LindaCBlack. For more astrological interpretations like today’s Gemini horoscope, visit Linda Black Astrology by clicking daily horoscopes, or go to www.nancyblack.com.)

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