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sinabing ika-apat ito (Quezon City, Manila at Zamboanga City) sa pinakamaraming krimen base sa ulat ng pulisya sa crime index nito. Maging ang Wharton degree ni Roxas sa Amerika ay kinuwestiyon rin ni Duterte, ngunit iginiit ni
government forces continue its patrol in areas where the NPA is actively operating. “The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines hereby declares to all commands and units of the New People’s Army and the people’s militias a ceasefire order that will take effect from 23 December 2015 to 03 January 2016.” “This ceasefire order is being issued in solidarity with
the Filipino people’s traditional celebrations of Christmas and New Year holidays. This will also enable the revolutionary forces to carry out mass assemblies and public demonstrations to mark the 47th anniversary of the CPP and celebrate revolutionary victories of the past year,” the rebel’s political wing, National Democratic Front of the Philippines, said. Continue to page 9
Rebels declare truce
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The communist rebel group New People’s Army have declared a 12-day unilateral truce in the Philippines to allow its fighters to be with their family during the Christmas holiday. Rebels have orders to halt attacks on military and police targets, including construction and mining sites, but they still maintain a high level of alertness as
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Roxas na graduate ito doon. Hindi naman nagpatinag si Roxas sa banta ni Duterte. Sinabi ni Roxas na isa siyang alumni
ng Wharton School ng University of Pennsylvania. At sa tweet naman ni Sandra Aguinaldo ng GMA News ay ito ang binitiwan ni Roxas: “Kung hindi totoo
ang Wharton degree ko sampalin mo ako, pero kung totoo ang Wharton degree ko, sasampalin kita.” Continue to page 9
Finally, a clean energy for Zamboanga A 300-megawatt solar energy plant is expected to rise in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines in what local officials said would be the largest in
Southeast Asia. Mayor Beng Climaco on Thursday said a group of French and Filipino investors that is part of Ecoglobal Incorporated will
begin construction of the power plant this month after meeting with the business group headed by Jean-Philippe Henry. Continue to page 9
Security forces hunt down terrorists SECURITY forces continue its hunt for Abu Sayyaf rebels harboring foreign terrorists in the province of Basilan in the troubled Muslim autonomous region following a deadly clash recently that left dozens of casualties in Al-Barka town.
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A Malaysian bomb expert Mohammad Hussein was reportedly among those killed on the side of the Abu Sayyaf in fierce clashes in the village of Macalang. At least a dozen soldiers were killed and injured in a clash with the Abu Sayyaf.
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Security forces hunt down terrorists Continued fr om page 1 from The town is one of known strongholds of the Abu Sayyaf rebels and Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which signed an interim peace deal with Manila last year. No other details were made available by the military in the operation in the restive province of Basilan where Abu Sayyaf rebels are believed to be coddling Malaysian and Indonesian militants linked to ISIS. The military operation in Basilan involved forces from the army’s 104th Infantry Brigade – 3rd Scout Ranger Battalion, 4th Special Forces Battalion, Marine Special Operations Group, and 12th Light Armor Cavalry.
It was unknown if the MILF was actively involved in the clashes, but it previously fought side by side with the Abu Sayyaf against security forces in Basilan, a known bastion of local terrorist groups blamed for deadly bombing in the province and nearby Zamboanga City. The province is also being used by the Abu Sayyaf rebels to hide foreigners and Filipinos they kidnapped from other areas in southern Philippines. Many innocent victims of the Abu Sayyaf had been killed and beheaded in the restive province of Basilan, just several nautical miles south of Zamboanga. The fighting broke out just barely two weeks after the National Intelligence Board warned of potential
attacks by terrorists in Zamboanga City and other areas in the southern region, including resorts frequented by tourists in Aklan in western Visayas, and Palawan province that forced police and military authorities to heighten security alert in those places. Zamboanga police chief Angelito Casimiro said the city is now in red alert status due to high threats of terrorism. He said there are persistent intelligence reports of bombings and kidnappings by terror groups such as the Abu Sayyaf. Mayor Beng Climaco said a team of US-trained Light Reaction Company of the Philippine Army has arrived in Zamboanga to help police beef up security here. (Mindanao Examiner)
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Finally, a clean energy for Zamboanga City Continued fr om page 1 from Henry, the Chief Executive Officer of Ecoglobal Incorporated, said they picked Zamboanga to be the hub of the Philippines’ first ever solar energy plant because of the city’s huge potentials. He said the solar energy plant will have a power generation capacity of up to 300 megawatts at its peak. Climaco – who is a strong advocate of renewable energy - said the solar power plant would be put up at the Zamboanga City Freeport and Economic Zone in the village of Talisayan. “Construction of the solar power facility is expected to begin in a week’s time of two and the target date for completion is on or before March 2016,” she said following a meeting with Henry’s group. During the meeting, Climaco said they discussed and finalized the multimillion solar power farm investments in a bid to end the worsening power outages in Zamboanga that has affected the local economy. She said Ecoglobal Incorporated will finance, manage and operate the solar power plant. Henry said the solar power plant will start with 30 megawatts and gradually increase this to 100 megawatts and furthermore triple this with the combination of wind energy. He said they have conducted wind mapping and it is more than enough source of clean energy for Zamboanga. Aside from solar energy, Ecoglobal Incorporates also offers the following services Battery Recycling, Waste to Energy Plant, Bamboo EcoWastewater Treatment, Air Quality and Climate Change, Mobile Solar Energy, Potable
Water Generator and Vegetal Building Blocks, among others. Ecoglobal Incorporated said solar is the simplest form of alternative energy and is a mature and proven technology. Solar electric products convert the sun’s energy into electricity. Solar panels are made using photovoltaic cells, which convert sunlight into direct current (DC) electricity and then passed this through an inverter which converts it into alternating current electricity. It said from small community-based solar initiatives to major solar projects, Ecoglobal designs, installs and maintains offgrid and tied-grid solar photovoltaic farms and even hybrid power system solutions using a combination of renewable energies such as solar, wind, fuel cells to become an alternative to fuel power generators. No to D ir ty C oal-F ir ed Dir irty Coal-F oal-Fir ired Power P lant Plant Local residents have been protesting the proposed coal-fired power plant by Conal Holdings’ San Ramon Power Incorporated in Zamboanga City due to carbon dioxide emissions and pollutions it would bring here. Conal Holdings has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Zamboanga City Freeport and Economic Zone for the fossil fuel power station. It was also granted a so-called “no-objection” resolution from the Zamboanga City Council even without prior public consultations, although a few council members have rejected the project because of pollution and its effect to the environment. Pro-
environment groups said coal-fired power plants are the single largest stationary source of pollution in any country. The toxins these coal fired power plants produce severely damage both human health and the environment and contribute to a reduced quality of life. Coal-fired power plants are responsible for release over 85% of total global carbon dioxide emissions, a prime contributor to global warming. Emissions from these power plants contain tens of dozens of toxic chemicals and the pollution they release every day are a major threat to human health and environment. Coal-fired units produce electricity by burning coal in a boiler to heat water to produce steam. The steam, at tremendous pressure, flows into a turbine, which spins a generator to produce electricity. The steam is cooled, condensed back into water, and returned to the boiler to start the process over. But environmentalists say the coal-fired power plants will pollute the air and contribute to global warming. “Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel and a main driver of climate change. There are hundreds of examples around the world where communities around coal plants suffer the impacts of environmental damage and health problems,” said Greenpeace Southeast Asia campaigner, Amalie Obusan. Zamboanga’s daily power consumption is about 85 megawatts and the local electric cooperative gets a little over half of its total requirements from the National Power Corporation. And now is suffering from daily power outages lasting as long as 8 hours. (Mindanao Examiner)
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Continued fr om page 1 from The rebels have been fighting for a separate Maoist state for many decades now. Just this year, communist rebels accused presidential peace adviser Teresita Deles of muddling efforts to restart stalled peace negotiations with the Aquino government. Daniel Ibarra, a spokesman for the NPA, said Deles is trying to scuttle the resumption of the talks by peddling lies and black propaganda against the rebel group. He said Deles has strongly accused the NPA of murdering First Lieutenant Ronald Bautista, Private First Class Albert Amor and militiaman Renel Baluca during an ambush in December last year in Compostela Valley’s Mabini
town and breaking a yuletide cease-fire. “She peddled such a falsehood to discredit the revolutionary movement in an attempt to scuttle the resumption of the GPH-NDF peace negotiations and further muddle the substantive issues that should be resolved in the peace talks,” he said. He said the ambush was a legitimate military action in retaliation to the long list of human rights violations by the military. “It is a legitimate politico-military operation by the masses that have long suffered and bore the brunt of fascism and economic dislocation as a result of foreign large-scale mining,” he said. Ibarra warned that NPA
rebels would launch more attacks against government troops who are acting as private armies of foreign and large-scale mining operators in the region. Government peace talks with the NPA collapsed in 2004 after rebels accused then President Gloria Arroyo of reneging on several agreements, among them the release of all political prisoners in the country and the removal of the terrorist tag on the Communist Party of the Philippines and its political wing, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, and the NPA. Manila also suspended the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees after the peace talks failed. (Mindanao Examiner)
Continued fr om page 1 from Sa CNN Philippines naman ay ito ang pahayag ng palaban na si Roxas: "Sampalin niya ako, punta siya dito. Kung hindi, punta ako sa Davao, sampalin niya ako sa airport. Tingnan natin. Ang hirap kay Mayor Digong Duterte, nasanay siya sa one-man rule, na kung hindi niya nakukha yung gusto niya, kung may nagsasabi sa kanya ng katotohanan ay mananampal na lang siya o pagbubuhatan niya ng kamay." "Subukan natin, tignan natin, wala naman akong kilalang malaking tao na sinampal niya at lahat ay maliliit, mga walang
kalaban-laban. Kung hindi man dito doon at punta ako sa Davao." “Lahat itong mga sinasabi mong sampalan, ganoon-ganoon—anong kinalaman niyan sa buhay ng 100 milyong Pilipino? Sa dami ng problema na hinaharap ng ating bansa, ikaw nauuwi ka sa kung ano-anong mga kalokohan.” “Gawin mo na lang kung anong gusto mong gawin. At sampalan? Bakit pa sampalan, pambabae yan, suntukan na lang? Di ba? Simpleng-simple lang ito,” ani Roxas sa huli nitong hamon kay Duterte matapos na makapanayam ng media sa meeting nito sa Liberal
Party headquarters sa Cubao. Hinamon naman ni Duterte si Roxas ng barilan na lamang. Ipinagtanggol rin ni Manila tour guide Carlos Celdran si Roxas at nag-post pa ito ng isang litrato ni Roxas na naka-toga, ngunit hindi naman mabatid kung kuha ito sa Wharton. Ilang beses rin na binansagan ni Celdran na “Dutertards” (Duterte-retard) ang mga supporters ni Duterte na ikinagalit naman ng maraming mga tagasunog ng mayor. Naunang inakusahan ni Duterte ang kampo ni Roxas na siyang nasa likod ng balitang may throat cancer ito. (Mindanao Examiner)
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he Department of Tourism said local and foreign tourists c ontinue to flock in central Visayas as it recorded over 3 million visitors the past 9 months alone. Marlon Barrientos, of the Department of Tourism, said some 3,172,430 million tourists visited the region from January to September compared to 3,034,120 visitors of the same period last year. It grew by 4.56%, he said, adding domestic tourists accounted for 1,808,730 million and foreign visitors reached 1,352,920 million.
He said Cebu province had the largest share of both the local and international tourists with 1,172, 219 million for domestic visitors, accounting for 65% and 1,140,136 million for foreign arrivals or equivalent to over 80%. Negros Oriental province ranked second for the most visited province among local tourists with 384,809 followed by Bohol with 225,344, and Siquijor with 26,358. Bohol, however, was the preferred choice for foreign tourists after Cebu getting 115,330 visitors, with Negros Oriental at third spot with
77,138, and Siquijor with 20, 316 foreign tourists. The top 10 foreign markets for Central Visayas are the following - Korea as the top visitor followed by Japan, United States, China, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, France, and Taiwan. Barrientos said the data for the fourth quarter or from October to December would be released early next year, adding that the ranking would more or less be the same, relative to foreign market share. He said the agency is now busy preparing for the Sinulog Festival 2016. (Fayette C. Riñen)
Overseas remittances reach $22.8 Billion PERSONAL remittances from overseas Filipinos (OFs) $22.8 billion from January to October and according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) this has increased by 3.5%. BSP Governor Amando Tetangco said personal remittances from land-based workers with work contracts of one year or more rose by 3.9% while those from sea-based and landbased workers with work contracts of less than one year grew by 3%. He said the cash remittances from OFs coursed through banks amounted to $2.2 billion in October 2015 and cash remittances for the ten-
month period totalled $20.6 billion, higher by 3.7% from the same period last year. Cash remittances from land-based and sea-based workers also grew by 3.9% - $15.8 billion - and 2.9% $4.8 billion - respectively. The bulk of cash remittances came from the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Hong Kong. Combined remittances from these countries accounted for more than 79% of total cash remittances that were reported by banks. Tetangco said remittance inflows were supported by the steady
deployment of skilled manpower, as well as the continued efforts of banks and non-bank remittance service providers to expand their international and domestic market coverage through tie-ups abroad as well as the introduction of innovations in their remittance products. He said preliminary reports from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration showed that for the period January– October, the total job orders reached 717,182. These job orders were intended mainly for service, production, and professional, technical and related workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Salary Standardization Law, aprubado na sa Kamara APRUBADO na sa ikatulo ug pinal nga pagbasa ang House Bill 6268 o Salary Standardization Law (SSL) 2015 - gipalabang dayon sa unang adlaw pa lamang sa pagdungog human kini giduso mismo ni Presidente Benigno Aquino. Ang 170 ka mga Kongresista ang mibotar pabor sa maong balaodnon, 5 ang mikontra samtang 1 lamang ang nag-abstain. Target sa SSL 2015 nga mahiduol ang
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Deployment og OFWs sa 9 ka nasud, gisuspenso sa POEA EPEKTIBO niadtong Disyembre 12, temporar yo unang hipahunong sa Philippine Overseas E m p l o y m e n t Administration (POEA) ang pagproseso og dokumento sa mga OFWs sa siyam ka noncompliant o dili luwas nga mga nasud. Matud pa ni POEA administrator Hans Cacdac, dili una magdeploy ang nasud og mga OFWs sa Afghanistan, Chad, Cuba, Haiti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia ug Zimbabwe. “All POEA operating units are hereby directed
to temporarily hold the processing of documents of workers bound for the identified noncompliant countries,” matud pa ni Cacdac. Kini base na usab sa rekomendasyon sa Commission on Audit sa POEA nga temporaryong suspensohon ang deployment sa mga nahisgotang nasud. Sa pagkakaron, naa sa 194 ang gi-ilang compliant o luwas nga nasud alang sa mga OFWs base sa Amended Migrant Workers Act. Ubos sa balaod, tugotan lamang sa Department of Labor and
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Tax Incentives Management Act, gilagdaan ni Aquino GILAGDAAN na ni Presidente Benigno Aquino ang Republic Act 10708 o ang Tax Incentive Management and Transparency Act (TIMTA). Tuyo niining iduso ang transparency ug accountability sa paghatag ug pagdumala sa tax incentives sa mga negosyo, indibidwal ug korporasyon. Matud pa ni Sec. Herminio Coloma, makatabang kini aron mapalambo pa ang target
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