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195 nations unite in global

agreement on climate change
PARIS (Dow Jones/AFP) More than 190 nations have
agreed on a plan to limit climate change, ending a decadeslong search for an accord requiring the worlds economies to
regulate the emission of gases that scientists say are causing
the earth to warm.
After two weeks of negotiations here,
195 countries united Saturday around a
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TRIUMPH FOR MOTHER EARTH Moments after announcing the finalization of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) final agreement, French President Francois Hollande (right) and United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (center) lead other conference leaders in hailing the landmark Paris agreement that would try to stop global warming and avert catastrophic climate change. The new accord was
reached in Le Bourget, north of Paris, France, December 12 after a grueling, tension-filled 13-day conference. (EPA)
Visayas
Luzon
WEATHER
Mindanao
partly cloudy to cloudy w/ isolated

rainshowers and/or thunderstorms
partly cloudy to at times cloudy

w/ rainshowers
partly cloudy to cloudy w/ isolated

rainshowers and/or thunderstorms
Manila
partly cloudy to at times cloudy

w/ rainshowers
Temperature Range:
23C-31C
Tides: High: 10:47 p.m. 1.11m

Low: 2:30 p.m. 0.28m
Sunrise: 6:12 a.m.

Sunset: 5:28 p.m.
Nona landfall seen today

buSiNESS
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bSP says iRC grounded on
global market developments
PH govt still undecided on
Aiib membership
John Gokongwei: Were
ahead in ASEAN integration
LiFESTyLE
The Force Creates
US and London-based
designers create Star
Wars looks for charity;
Global auction already
open
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ENTERTAiNMENT
NMENT
Two Js that jive
Featuring music icons
Jose Mari Chan and
Jack Jones in one
concert may not be
unexpected but its
bound to be fascinating just the same
given that theyve
known each other for
a long time.
Disaster-prone Eastern Visayas, Bicol brace for worst

By ELLALYN B. DE VERA,
NIO N. LUCES, and AFP
ona (inter national

name: Melor ) intensified into a severe
tropical storm and barreled toward the country yesterday, raising storm signals in Eastern
Visayas and Southern Luzon and
threatening disaster-prone areas in the
east coast with giant waves, flooding
and landslides as it is expected to make
landfall this afternoon, civil defense and
weather officials warned.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services
Administration (PAGASA) said the
Philippine Sea has further fueled the
storm, now packing maximum winds of
140 kilometers per hour (kph) and gusts
of up to 170 kph.
PAGASA charted Nona at 440 kilometers (km) east of Catarman, Northern Samar at 4 p.m. Sunday and said it
was moving west at 19 kph.
It may make landfall either in Bicol
region or Samar province in Eastern
Visayas this afternoon, alerting local disaster units to
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Palace supports CHR in

probing Duterte killings
By GENALYN D. KABILING
Nobody is above the law.

Malacaang has rallied behind the
planned inquiry by the Commission on
Human Rights (CHR) into the alleged
involvement of Davao City Mayor
Rodrigo Duterte in some extrajudicial
BARRELING TOWARDS PH A weather forecaster points at tropical storm Nona, which is seen heading straight for the Bicol and
Samar regions of the country. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)
expects Nona to make landfall this afternoon. (Kevin Dela Cruz)
Comelec en banc tackles Grace, Digong cases today
killings.
Presidential Communications Operations Secretary Herminio Coloma
Jr. insisted that the rule of law must
prevail no matter how powerful or
influential the person involved in the
alleged crime is.
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By LESLIE ANN G. AQUINO
The Commission on Elections

(Comelec) en banc is expected to meet
Monday to discuss the disqualification
cases against presidential hopefuls,
Senator Grace Poe and Davao City
Mayor Rodrigo Digong Duterte,
among others.
Earlier, the Comelec First and
Second Divisions in separate rulings
cancelled Poes the certificate of candidacy (COC) for president for material
misrepresentation. A motion for reconsideration has already been filed by the
camp of Poe before the en banc.
A petition to disqualify Duterte is

also pending at the Comelec First Division with a hearing set on December
16.
Petitioner Ruben Castor claimed
that there is clearly no candidate for
president who is withdrawing
his candidacy for the same
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MILF brokers MNLF unity moves

to help push BBL in Congress
By ALI G. MACABALANG, EDD K. USMAN, and FRANCIS T. WAKEFIELD
SULTAN KUDARAT,
Maguindanao The Moro
Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF) started last Saturday brokering initiatives to
reunite the divided forces of the Moro

National Liberation Front (MNLF),
its former mother unit, in an apparent
move to muster greater pressure on the
national government for the creation of
a Bangsamoro autonomous entity.

MILF First Vice Chairman Ghazali Jaafar presided over a meeting at
his family farm in a village
here where he and dozens of
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Shooting stars galore tonight

By ELLALYN B. DE VERA
RED CROSS RUN Runners answer the starting gun in the Red Cross Million Volunteer Run in
Dagupan City Sunday, one of several venues all over the country where Red Cross Philippines
held simultaneous runs aimed at getting one million volunteers to participate in the effort to
meet the challenge of life-threatening disasters. (Jojo Rioza)
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Head outside for a dazzling meteor show tonight.

Shooting stars, radiating from the constellation of Gemini,
which began last December 4 and will end on December 17 can
be observed, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said.
On average, 40 meteors per hour can be seen during its peak activity from the evening of December
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Monday, December 14, 2015
Private sector funding eyed for govt housing projects

By Ben R. RosaRio
he on-going Housing Summit has

strongly recommended the tapping
of the private sector to finance the
construction of four- to five-story
housing buildings as part of addressing the
rising housing backlog in Metro Manila.
Negros Occidental Rep. Alfredo Albee
Benitez, chairman of the House Committee
on Housing and Urban Development, disclosed yesterday that the proposal bats for
the biggest public-private partnership (PPP)
for housing that will also require the strong
cooperation of government agencies and instrumentalities, including local government
units (LGUs).
Benitez said that as part of the innovative
housing program, Malacaang issued Memorandum Circular 87 directing all national agencies and state-owned corporations, together
with LGUs, to submit a list of idle lands that
may be targeted as project sites.
The Malacaang directive gave agency
heads until the end of the year to submit the
list.
A brainchild of Benitez, the Housing summit has tapped the House and Senate housing
and urban development panels, and government housing agencies to put their heads
together to determine surefire solutions that
would drastically reduce, if not totally end, the
countrys housing woes.
150,000 housing units
Benitez said the PPP for housing will involve the construction of 4- to 5-story buildings
in 15 areas in Metro Manila.
Because of lack of space in Metro Manila,
we are proposing the construction of medium
rise buildings with 100,000 to 150,000 units.
However, to do this, we need government
lands, thats why the Palace is directing government agencies to submit an inventory of
their respective idle lands, he said.
According to Benitez, several families
from low- and middle-income earners will
benefit from the governments biggest housing project.
The PPP plan is the initial result of the
ongoing National Housing Summit conducted
this year by Benitezs committee in partnership with the Senate Committee on Urban
Planning and Shelter and Resettlement.

Inventory of idle lands
Malacaangs issuance of MC 87 was also
prompted by the findings made during the
summit, which seeks to identify immediate
solutions to the increasing number of informal
settlers in urban centers, and to ensure the
availability of lands for socialized housing.
Under the MC, the Department of the
Interior and Local Government, through the
LGUs, shall conduct an inventory of government-owned idle lands in urban centers in
their respective territories.
House compelled
to release
SAF 44 report
Congressmen who were former police and
military officials issued an ultimatum to leaders of the House of Representatives to come
up with its report of the joint congressional
investigation into the
Mamasapano incident that resulted in
the massacre of 44
members of an elite
Philippine National
Police (PNP) unit.
They stressed
that delay in the
release of the investigation results
is tantamount to a
whitewash.
This developed
as the House leadership moved to
pursue plenary voting on the proposed
Bangsamoro Basic
Law (BBL) even before a report on the
joint congressional
probe on the Mamasapano incident
could be submitted.
The House deliberation on the
BBL was halted for
weeks as congressmen joined ordinary
citizens in condemning the Mamasapano, Maguindanao
encounter last January 25 which led to
the death of 44 PNPSpecial Action Force
(SAF) troopers.
Certain quarters blamed the
Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a major advocate of the
BBL measure, for
the Mamasapano
deaths.
Magdalo Partylist Rep. Gary Alejano warned the
House leadership
that former military
and police officers
who are now congressmen will come
up with their own
report on the probe
unless the chamber releases its own
conclusion of the
joint congressional
investigation. (Ben
R. Rosario)
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12 agri-biotech
scholars tapped
Twelve students from two state
universities were chosen as this years
beneficiaries of the scholarship program supported by the Department
of Agriculture's (DA) Biotechnology

Program. Seven students from the
University of the Philippines-Visayas
are now beneficiaries of the
program, along with five
students from the University of Southern Mindanao
(USM). DA Biotechnology
Program's Annalyn Lopez
and Bureau of Agricultural Research's

Joell Lales led the awarding of the scholarships as part of the celebration of the
2015 National Biotechnology Week. DA

Biotechnology Scholarship Program
gives priority to students taking up
agricultural biotechnology and related

fields. (Ellayn B. De Vera)
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National News
How to read Project NOAHs hazard maps
Get out of red, orange, yellow areas
Newsbits
By EDD K. USMAN
Intramuros not
selling its plaza
The Intramuros Administration
(IA) warned the public against
erring individuals, who are trying
to illegally sell plots of land inside
Intramuros. The attached agency of
the Department of Tourism (DOT),
which manages the historic Walled
City of Manila, disclosed it has
received reports that there have
been attempts to sell Maestranza
Compound without its permission.
Its been brought to our attention
that some people are trying to sell the
1-hectare Maestranza compound. It
is a plaza; its not for sale, IA clarified
in its official Twitter account. Located
near Fort Santiago, Maestranza
used to be the location of a wall
built during the Spanish times near
the Pasig River. The wall, which was
demolished by the Americans, is now
being restored through local and
foreign funding. (Samuel Medenilla)
CTA dismisses
R136-M tax case
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has
dismissed the R136-million tax evasion
case filed by the Bureau of Internal
Revenue (BIR) and the Department
of Justice (DOJ) against a Manila rice
importer for their failure to mention in
the complaint the amount of tax to be
collected. In a 19-page resolution, the
court stated that it has not acquired
jurisdiction over the tax evasion case
filed against Gerardo C. Teves, operator
of the GT Tradings Rice Importation of
BF Condominium, Intramuros, Manila,
because the complainants did not
mention the amount of the alleged tax
liabilities in the information. For 2009,
Teves was slapped with deficiency
income tax assessment of R129.9
million and deficiency VAT of P6.1
million, both inclusive of surcharges
and interests, the BIR said in a press
statement over the case it filed in
October, 2011. (Jun Ramirez)
et out of the areas colored red, orange, or

yellow in case there is
imminent danger.
The Department of Science and

Technology (DOST) gave this life-anddeath advice as it launched on Friday
a new platform of its Project NOAH
(Nationwide Operational Assessment
of Hazards).
Dr. Mahar Lagmay, executive

director of DOST-Project NOAH, arguably the Philippines primary disaster risk reduction and management
(DRRM) program, told members of
the media the colored areas on the
Laguna beauty eyes world title

By ROBERT R. REQUINTINA
Leren Mae Bautista hopes to bring

home the fifth international beauty
pageant title for the Philippines this
year as she competes in the Miss
Tourism Queen of the Year which will
be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on
New Years Eve, Dec. 31, 2015.
During a press send-off held at
Midas Hotel and Casino in Pasay City
recently, Bautista said that she will
also promote the beauty of Laguna
when she competes abroad.
Sa Laguna kasi doon ako lumaki
at doon ko natutunan kung paano
maging isang tunay na tao, which is

to be responsible and how to respect
the people, Bautista said.
The beauty queen said that she
would like to invite her co-candidates
in Los Baos, particularly in Mount
Makiling, her hometown.
Gusto ko i-share sa kanila kung
gaano ka-majestic ang Mt. Makiling at
maraming maibibigay ang Mt. Makiling sa kanila, Bautista also said.
Bautista, 22, is a part-time model
who is a marketing management
graduate of Colegio de San Juan de
Letran. The 59 beauty loves to read,
travels a lot, and plays volleyball.
Leren Mae Bautista
COA uncovers violations in PCSO office transfer

By BEN R. ROSARIO
The Commission on Audit (COA) has

noted gross violations of the procurement and tax laws allegedly committed
by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes
Office (PCSO) in its transfer of office
and small town lottery operations.
In the recently released 2014 annual
audit report for the state lottery agency,
COA also chided the PCSO management for the improper allocation of
R805 million in forfeited lottery prizes
to high yielding savings account.
Auditors said the transfer of the unclaimed lotto prizes may have deprived
potential beneficiaries of additional
funds for their health and medical assistance services.
The inadequacy of PCSOs prepa-
ration for the relocation of its Head

Office upon the expiration of the lease
contract with PICC Inc. resulted in the
inappropriate application of the Negotiated Procurement for the subsequent
lease of the Sun Plaza Shaw Boulevard
Property, the COA said.
The audit observation upheld the
protests aired by PCSO employees
against the transfer of PCSO offices
from PICC to Sun Plaza, with the latter
airing suspicions of irregularities in the
lease contract.
COA countered: However, audit
team determined that the agencys overall planning with regards to the relocation
of its head office upon expiration of PICC
contract was inadequate to substantially
satisfy the requirements of existing government procurement laws.
Tell-tale signs
State auditors questioned the failure
of the PCSO Bids and Awards Committee to adhere to the provisions of
Republic Act 9184 or the government
procurement law that require competitive public bidding.
They also noted that out of the 26 proposed transfer sites, only two, the GSIS
and the PDIC, were government owned.
Resolutions adopted by the PCSO
board granting the general manager the
authority to negotiate office lease with
the Go Soc and Sons, Sy Gi Huat, Inc.
and Sun Plaza Development Corporation also bolstered auditors suspicions
that the PCSO management had prior
intentions not to conduct public bidding
for the rental of offices.
NOAH 3D maps should be avoided.

T h e a r e a s c o l o r e d r e d , o range, or yellow are the hazardous
areas; these are the places which
you should avoid in case there is
imminent danger, he said at the
University of the Philippines (UP),
Diliman, Quezon City.
Lagmay, who won recently won
the European Plinius medal award for
his scientific work, said in the NOAH
maps there are also areas that are not
colored, the grey ones.
He said the grey areas are the
safe places; they are the areas which
local government units (LGUs) and
communities should develop.
If people are out of harms way,
then we are not going to talk about
disasters, the Filipino scientist
said.
At the media briefing, Lagmay
announced the completion of various hazard maps, including detailed,
barangay-level flood hazard maps,
storm surge hazard maps for all
coastal municipalities, landslide hazard maps for the whole Philippines,
and, the latest, debris flow hazard
maps.
Although relatively unknown to
many Filipinos, debris flow is just as
extremenly dangerous, NOAH pointed
out.
Lagmay acknowledged that not
all Filipinos have accessed to the
Internet, so we also make maps like
these, referring to the 3D Hazards
Maps produced by one of NOAHs
components, the Disaster Risk Assessment and Evaluation for Mitigation (DREAM).
It can be recalled that DREAM
headed by another UP scientist,
Dr. Enrico Paringit, has been 3Dmapping the countrys 18 major river
basins and around 300 minor river
basins.
The topographic and bathemetric
data collected through the DREAMs
Light Ranging and Detection (LIDAR) equipment are being turned
into barangay level hazard maps and
being distributed to LGUs.
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Feast of
San Juan
de la Cruz
National News
Monday, December 14, 2015 5
he Catholic Church
honors
today the
memor y of Saint
John of the Cross
(San Juan de la
Cruz), a Doctor
of the Universal
Church and cofounder, with Saint
Teresa of Avila, of
the Discalced Carmelites.
S e v e r a l p a rishes in the country, such as the St.
John of the Cross
Parish in Pembo,
Makati City, will
hold commemorati v e m a s s e s a n d
processions in his
honor.
Considered as a
major figure in the
Catholic reformation, St. John was a
well-loved Carmelite friar and Spanish mystic. (Christina I. Hermoso)
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Ginebra team exec scored

for game-time smoking
By CHARINA CLARISSE L. ECHALUCE
he Department of Health
(DOH) yesterday expressed
its consternation over a
Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) team official who
was seen on the television smoking
an e-cigarette during a recent game
in Angeles City, Pampnga.
It is really parang encouraging
yung act of smoking, regardless
if e-cigarette or actual cigarette.
So paano mo mape-prevent 'yong
mga bata from actual smoking (It's
really as if he is encouraging the
act of smoking, regardless if its an
e-cigarette or an actual cigarette.
So how will you be able to prevent
the youth from actual smoking)?"
Health Spokesperson Lyndon Lee
Suy pointed out.
Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings
team governor Alfrancis Chua was
seen on national television during

a timeout huddle smoking his ecigarette at the Angeles University
Foundation gymnasium last week.
Netizens who watched the game
likewise issued negative comments
and reactions on social networking
sites.
Lee Suy said sporting events
like PBA games are supposed to
promote healthy living.
E-cigarette is a battery-powered
vaporizer that simulates the feeling
of smoking.
Without the use of burning tobacco, an e-cigarette has a liquid
solution which is composed of propylene glycol, flavors and nicotine,
the same addictive ingredient in
traditional cigarettes.
Despite the agency's disappointment, Lee Suy admitted that there
are no existing DOH r ules yet
on e-cigarette smoking in public
places.
Hindi pa sakop ang e-cigarettes
sa laws natin e. But nevertheless,
hindi pa rin dapat. Hanggat maari
naman talaga dapat healthy lifestyle
(Our laws do not cover e-cigarettes
as of now. But nevertheless, it's still
wrong. As much as a possible, we
should have healthy lifestyle), he
pointed out.
Meanwhile, the Food and Drug
Administration previously noted in
an advisory that second-hand exposure to e-cigarette emission could
bring adverse health effects.
The levels of most har mful
substances are lower in the ecigarettes than in conventional
cigarette smoke, but they do accumulate in indoor air. The substances emitted by e-cigarets may
be inhaled by non-users when used
indoor, the FDA Advisory No. 2013015 stated.
Ex-INC ministers camp to appeal DOJ ruling

By LEONARD D. POSTRADO
The camp of expelled Iglesia ni

Cristo (INC) minister Isaias Samson
Jr. is set to appeal the decision of the
Department of Justice (DOJ) which
junked the harassment, illegal detention, threats and coercion case he and
his family filed against the members
of the Sanggunian of the influential
religious group.
Lawyer Trixie Cruz-Angeles said
they will ask the panel of prosecu-
tors headed by Senior Deputy State

Prosecutor Theodore Villanueva to
reconsider its decision to dismiss the
complaint that her client filed against
the eight members of the INC's Sanggunian or council.
The other members of the prosecution
panel, who handled the preliminary investigation hearing of Samson's complaint,
were Asst. State Prosecutors Olivia Torevillas and Mark Roland Estepa.
We will be filing a motion for reconsideration before the Department
of Justice on Monday and insist that

there's a probable cause to indict the
respondents, Atty. Angeles told the
Manila Bulletin.
Complainant Isaias failed to offer proof that he was compelled to do
something against his will when he was
allegedly forced by respondent to execute
a written statement admitting his culpability and complicity in the Ebanghelista
blog. The record is bereft of any proof that
indeed the subject statement exists, the
DOJ explained.
STAR WARS MANIA A life-sized Darth Vader figure gets polished at a shop in Sampaloc,
Manila, ahead of the eagerly-anticipated showing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on
December 17. (Camille Ante)
Celebrity couples appeal for

protection from Tulfos junked
By CHITO A. CHAVEz
The Supreme Court (SC) First

Division has dismissed the petition filed by estranged celebrity
couple actor Raymart Santiago
and actress Claudine Barretto
that sought the reversal of a
Quezon City court order junking
their prayer for protection from
broadcast journalists Erwin,
Raffy and Ben Tulfo.
In a seven-page decision,
the High Court has denied the
petition for certiorari filed by the
couple due to lack of merit.
The decision was penned by
Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe.

Consequently, the high-tribunal dismissed
the petition for writ of amparo filed by the
petitioners before the Quezon City Regional
Trial Court (QCRTC).
Atty. Nelson Borja counsel of Erwin said
the couple filed the petition for certiorari before the SC questioning the dismissal of their
petition for writ of amparo before the sala of
then QCRTC Judge and now Court of Appeals
Associate Justice Maria Filomena Singh.
He explained the writ of amparo, which
literally means protection, is a remedy available to any person whose right to life, liberty,
and security is violated or threatened with
violation by an unlawful act or omission of
a public official or employee, or of private
individual or entity.
It also covers extralegal killings and enforced disappearances or threats.
The couple sought protection from the
court in view of the comments and expletives
against them by Raffy, Ben and Erwin Tulfo
aired on their TV program "T3" in May 2012.
The comments of the Tulfo brothers
stemmed from the brawl between their older
brother Mon and the couple at the Ninoy
Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 in
the morning of May 6, 2012.
In their TV program, the Tulfo brothers
threatened to retaliate.
Terrified by the gravity of the threats
hurled, the couple filed a petition for the issuance of a writ of amparo and a temporary
protection order (TPO) against the Tulfo
brothers before the QCRTC.
Erwin, through Atty. Borja filed a manifestation and motion to deny issuance of protection order and/or dismissal of the petition
motu propio.
However, then Presiding Judge Bayani
Vargas granted the petition of the couple for
the issuance of TPO and directed the respondents to file their answers.
Tech assistance
programs role
in MSMEs growth
underscored
By EDD K. USMAN
The Department of Science and Technologys (DOST) Small Enterprise Technology

Upgrading Program, or SETUPs role in
the success, growth and expansion of micro,
small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) was
underscored during a recent road show.
DOST Secretary Mario Go Montejo led a
media tour of eight MSMEs which benefitted
from the SETUP program.
Around 3,000 MSMEs benefit annually
from SETUP, which spurred calls for an increase in DOSTs budget for 2016.
Introduced in 2002, SETUP brings new
technologies and innovations to MSMEs to
enhance its operations and expand business
reach and boost competitiveness.
The DOST said that in the last five years,
SETUP has generated some 115,000 new job
opportunities.
Primed for innovation
Montejo and members of the media first
visited Primark Tooling Industries Corp. in
Barangay Dela Paz, Pasig City, a company
started in 2008 by Christopher Arzadon and
his wife engaged in the then relatively new
industry of engraving using computerized
numerical control router.
The Arzadon couple nurtured their
company into one of the country's leading
manufacturers of CNC machines. They
were later faced with the need to upgrade
their equipment and capabilities to remain
competitive.
Having learned about SETUP, they sought
assistance from the DOST-NCR in 2010, and
they soon acquired CNC lathe machine, turret milling machine, hydraulic box bending
machine, and cast iron welding jig.
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Red Cross, PMA ink joint

disaster response pact
By Betheena Kae Unite
The cooperation agreement signing was led by Gordon and other officials of the PRC and Dr. Maria Minerva
Calimag, PMA president and other officials and members

of the PMA.
together, committed to the upliftment of devastated and affected people, Gordon said.
he Philippine Red Cross (PRC)

inked a partnership agreement with
the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) that will synergize the
two institutions efforts and services when
responding to emergencies, calamities and
disasters.
The agreement was finalized yesterday
in Mandaluyong City.
This partnership will enable PRC to be a
unique national society among others in the
world as we are the only Red Cross national
society with cooperation agreements with
numerous medical organizations in the country, said PRC chairman Richard Gordon.
Gordon said the agreement aims to
strengthen ties between the two parties
and will enable the PRC to tap the services
of PMA members in cases of mass casualty
incidents, emergencies, disasters and emergency field hospital (EFH) deployment.
PRC and PMA will likewise provide
training for their personnel in emergency
response, triage, trauma, and EFH concept
of operations.
The logistics of the PRC and the manpower of the PMA will enable both organizations to help anyone, anywhere, and anytime,
Gordon pointed out.
We are all together in the effort of alleviating human suffering. This agreement
puts us a step closer in facing the evolving
challenges of disasters we hold hands
Ambassador
Willy Gaa, 69
Filipino- Americans have expressed their
grief over the passing of Ambassador Willy C.
Gaa, described as a consummate diplomat
whose actions more than his words helped
make a difference in the Filipino-American
communitys aspirations for empowerment.
Ambassador Gaa died in Manila from a
lingering illness at the age of 69.
National Association of Filipino American
Associations JT Mallonga said as the top
Philippine diplomat in the United States from
2006-2011, Ambassador Gaa deeply cared for
the communitys issues and concerns, notably
the struggle of Filipino World War II Veterans
for justice and equity.
According to Mallonga, Gaa championed
this cause with determination and delight,
walking the halls of US Congress and meeting
with US government leaders to speak for the
thousands of veterans who needed a voice.
He was there when the House finally
voted for the Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund on February 2007, staying late
into the night to savor a measure of justice
that had long been denied from our brave heroes, the NaFFAA official said. Thank you,
Ambassador Gaa, for standing with us during
our communitys most critical hours.
Prominent New York-based Filipino
American industrialist and philanthropist,
Loida Nicolas-Lewis, meanwhile, commended Ambassador Gaas diligent efforts
to motivate Filipinos and Filipino Americans
to give back to their mother country.
According to Nicolas-Lewis, who is herself
a long-time advocate for the suffrage rights of
overseas Filipinos, Ambassador Gaa instilled
a sense of devotion and duty to the Philippines
by encouraging his countrymen to become
dual citizens, and be involved in the countrys
governance as overseas voters and citizens.
Ambassador Gaa rose through the ranks
and has been assigned in various foreign
posting as ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to China (from November
2003 to November 2006); Australia (January
2002 to November 2003), Libya (1992-1997),
among others. Interment is on Dec. 15. (Roy
C. Mabasa)
K-9 handlers
training for
PDEA agents
Sixteen members of the Philippine
Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Class
SangKalasag recently underwent a one
month K-9 unit basic handlers course as
part of the intensified drive against illegal
drugs.
Undersecretary Arturo G. Cacdac Jr.,
PDEA Director General, said the course
enabled the participants to appreciate and
understand how a K-9 unit team functions
effectively and efficiently as front liners
during anti-drug operations.
He added that the course will help enhance the handlers connection with their
respective working narcotic dogs as future
K-9 team supervisors.
The graduation ceremony was held earlier this month at the PDEA K9-Unit Compound, Brgy. Sto. Cristo, Sitio Lambakin,
City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan.
Cacdac encouraged the graduates to
continue enhancing their skills to become
experts in their field of specialization as
drug busters. (Francis T. Wakefield)
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MEMBERS
The Pag-IBIG Fund has been a vital partner in providing assistance to our
citizenry, and the Filipino people join them in thanksgiving as they celebrate their
35th anniversary.
The Home Development Mutual Fund has transformed the lives of many
individuals, giving them opportunities to establish homes and provide for their
loved ones. In helping our countrymen achieve their aspirations, you have fortified
our endeavors on the Daang Matuwid - empowering families to pursue their
personal development and accelerating our collective journey towards equitable
progress. May this event inspire you to innovate systems that are responsive and
adaptive to the needs of our countrymen.
This administration has worked tirelessly to ensure that our inclusive growth
agenda cascades to the broad spectrum of society, bolstering the capacity of our
entrepreneurs, employees, and industries to generate opportunities for
advancement. May you remain our partners in this endeavor and help us build a
peaceful and prosperous future for our nation.
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OCTOBER 2015
OCTOBER 2015
Message from the Vice President of the Republic
Congratulations to Pag-IBIG Fund on your 35th anniversary. I am honored to have

been a part of this esteemed organization and to have served the Filipino people
through Pag-IBIG Fund. It has been a profound experience to me as a public
servant.
When I assumed the chairmanship of the Fund, the organization was reeling from
the Globe Asiatique controversy. Despite the low morale that the scandal brought, I
saw the management and employees' professionalism and willingness to move
past this major setback. What I saw among the Pag-IBIG employees that I could
easily sympathize was their tenacity amid trying situations. With our shared vision
to make housing affordable to a larger number of Filipinos, we tackled the
problems head on by implementing structural reforms to ensure the prevention of a
crisis on a similar scale.
First on the agenda was to appoint a President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
with a no-nonsense attitude and who could get things done excellently. I found that
in Atty. Darlene Marie Berberabe, and I am grateful that she acceded to my
insistence to partner with me in providing Filipinos with viable and affordable
options for housing. Fast-forvvard to 2015, Atty. Berberabe would prove to be the
best woman on the job. She exceeded my expectations in making my vision and
plans for the organization a reality.
When we needed to increase our revenue, a proposal to increase the minimum
monthly member's contribution of P1 00 was put forth. It was not only the most
viable but also the easiest solution. This might have easily burdened the members
with another deduction from their hard-earned money. But because this will still
benefit them in the long-term, I raised the idea of widening the Pag-IBIG
membership base. From July 2010, we were able to increase membership by more
than 7 million, creating a total of 15.8 million five years later. We did it primarily by
informing our countrymen of the various benefits they can avail of and by helping
them acquire homes at affordable loan rates.
I am proud that the whole organization has been eager to reach our objective to
implement structural reforms, making Pag-IBIG Fund one of the best-run
government corporations in the country. While we put in place reforms to ensure
that all transactions are transparent and not marred by corruption , these measures
would not have been successful without the cooperation of Pag-IBIG's greatest
assets, its employees. Having been able to instill a professional, yet
compassionate mindset in the people and processes of the organization,
challenges were met and our objectives were attained, if not surpassed. I hope that
you will continue to explore more partnerships with the private sector and local
government units to find more creative ways to make amortization more flexible so
that more Filipinos can avail of housing loans. As an overarching objective,
government, on the other hand, should focus on job-generating sectors so that our
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mmigration officers at the Ninoy

Aquino International Airport
(NAIA) foiled an attempt by a
human trafficking syndicate last
Tuesday to facilitate the departure of 11
undocumented Filipino domestic helpers, disguised as religious missionaries,
to the Middle East.
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Associate Commissioner Gilbert Repizo
disclosed yesterday that the trafficking
attempt was thwarted after alert immigration officers prevented the women
from boarding their flight to Hong Kong
at the NAIA Terminal 3.
Repizo, who is in-charge of the BIs
border control operations, said the passengers initially introduced themselves
as born again Christians, who were
supposed to go on a mission to preach

their faith.
But they later admitted that their
final destination was Dubai where they
have been recruited to work as domestic helpers, Repizo added.
A man suspected of being a courier
of the syndicate was also offloaded from
the flight after he was identified as the
one escorting the women out of the
country.
Theodore Pascual, BI port operations division chief, said the women and
the alleged courier were turned over to
the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) for further investigation
and filing of the proper charges against
the recruiters.
Pascual declined to divulge the passengers names as the anti-trafficking
law prohibits the public disclosure of
trafficking victims.
It was learned that during questioning by members of the BI travel control
and enforcement unit, the passengers
confessed that they were briefed by
their recruiters to pretend that they
are born again Christians, who were to
spread the word of God overseas.
One of the victims admitted that she
had worked in Lebanon for two years
despite the existing ban of workers
deployment there.
Another recounted how she had
previously worked as a maid in Malaysia but was denied entry there
last October when she returned from
vacation.
Also interviewed was a woman who
said she worked as an entertainer in
Korea and that she did not have any
money to support her stay abroad.
ATM SKIMMERS Romanian Gabriel Varga is being led into a detention cell at the Quezon
City Police Station 10 after an entrapment operation at the Bank of Commerce at the
corner of Scout Lozano and Tomas Morato Ave. in Quezon City. Varga and Indonesian
accomplice Milna Kamila were caught with an ATM skimming device (inset) when they
were arrested. (Kevin dela Cruz)
9 drug users collared by QCPD ops

130 OFWs return to
teach in public schools
By VAnnE ELAInE P. TERRAzOLA
By SAMuEL P. MEDEnILLA
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has reported that it

was able to convince more than 130 former household service workers (HSW)
to return home and, instead, teach in
public schools.
DOLE's National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO) chief labor and employment officer Roel Martin said these
were the successful applicants of their
"Sa Pinas, Ikaw ang Maam/Sir program
from 2014 to December this year.
"Out of the 750 who signed up for the
program, 136 have passed the requirements to qualify for the program," Martin
told reporters in an interview.
These conditions include passing
the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) and taking the necessary
refresher course if they have not taught
students for a long time.
"Fifty of them are already teaching in

public schools. The rest are still waiting
for their appointed teaching positions
from the Department of Education
(DepEd)," Martin said.
Most of the beneficiaries come from
Hong Kong, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, while remaining others used to
work in other countries, which have high
concentration of Filipino HSWs.
Martin admitted the number of
HSWs, who qualified for the teaching
posts, was still less than half of their annual 300 quota from DepEd.
He, however, said they expect this
to increase by next year as the program
becomes more popular.
"Since we launched the program
2014, we used to have only 20 to 30 applicants for each month. Now, we have
as much 50 to 80 per month since the
program getting attention in social media," Martin said.
Nine persons were arrested after

being caught in possession of illegal
drugs in separate police operations
conducted by Quezon City Police District (QCPD) operatives in Quezon City
Thursday and Friday last week.
According to the police, among
those arrested was Edilberto Sigua, 26,
of Cuatro De Julio St. in Brgy. Sto. Nio,
here, who was collared after a drug buybust operation Friday evening.
Around 9:30 p.m., operatives from

the Galas Police Station acted to
transact with Sigua at the Galas Public
Market in Brgy. Sto. Nio.
This operation set off a series of
drug apprehensions that had Elmejun
Caayaman of Barangay Batasan Hills
being nabbed at a checkpoint along
Payatas Road in Barangay Payatas.
A sachet of shabu was found in his
possession after he was stopped at a
checkpoint for driving his motorcycle
without a helmet on.
This was also the fate of the three

persons arrested during a "one time, big
time" operation by Project 4 police.
Police said Joven de Jose, Jay R
Cunanan, both of Brgy. Bagumbuhay,
Project 4; and April Ann Abella of
Brgy. Escopa 4 were arrested after
a sachet of shabu was found from
them during the operation in Brgy.
Bagumbuhay.
Three persons were also arrested
Thursday after being caught possessing
illegal drugs.
11 wounded in grenade-throwing incident

At least 11 persons, including an
11-year-old boy, were hurt when a man,
who was hot under the collar after he
was mauled by another group, hurled a
grenade inside a billiard hall in Camarin, Caloocan City yesterday.
Police said the victims were playing billiards on Sampaloc St., Basilio 5
when a person only known by his alias

"Kabeb" reportedly arrived at the area
past 1 a.m.
Witnesses claim the Kabeb suddenly disappeared.
After a few minutes, a certain
Kokoy entered the billiard hall,
looking for Kabeb whom he accused
of being among those who had earlier

mauled him.
Failing to find Kabeb, Kokoy reportedly vented his ire on the billiardplaying group and hurled a grenade
at them.
Among those injured in the explosion
was an 11-year-old boy. (Ed Mahilum)
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By Melito Salazar Jr.
he announcement I received from

the Management Association of
the Philippines secretariat was
brief, It is with deep sadness that
we inform you about the passing of M.A.P.
National Competitiveness Chair, Amb.
Cesar B. Bautista who has been serving
recently as Chair of CIBI Information, Inc.
This was followed by, According to his son
and M.A.P. Member Noel Bautista, there
will be no wake proper for Ambassador
Bautista in accordance with his wish.
I had worked with Cesar when he was
Undersecretary of the Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI) and later Secretary during the term of President Fidel
V. Ramos. He was not only the compleat
professional; he was a model public servant
in his humility. He left the world, the way
he lived it not interested in the trappings
of power but focused on the job to be done;
doing the work well and fast so he could
move to the next task.
After earning his Bachelor of Science in
Chemical Engineering from the University
of the Philippines, Cesar finished a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from
Black
inally, after so many denials and so

many official efforts to minimize the
gravity of the tanim-bala incidents
at the ninoy aquino international
airport (naia), the national Bureau of investigation (nBi) has come out with the results
of its investigation.
There was indeed an extortion racket victimizing departing passengers through the surreptitious planting of bullets in their luggage,
then extorting money from them in exchange for
getting the charges set aside. The NBI, however,
said it was done by corrupt opportunists rather
than a syndicate.
The NBI filed charges against two personnel
of the Office of Transportation Security (OTS) and
four officers of the Aviation Security Group of the
Philippine National Police. They were charged in
connection with the case of an American visitor,
the son of a missionary, and his Filipina stepmother, who were on their way to Palawan to scout
for land on which to build a church. They said they
were asked for P30,000 for the case to be dropped
but they chose to go to court.
There were other cases that reached the front
pages of newspapers and the newsrooms of tele-
vision and radio stations, not only in our country

but also in the United States, England, Japan,
and other countries. The tanim-balaracket
brought international shame to the country, as
passengers, both Filipino and foreign, wrapped
their luggage in plastic to prevent any attempt
to plant bullets in them.
It is unfortunate that our own officials sought
to minimize the airport incidents as isolated
cases, then as constituting less than .004 percent
of the 34 million passengers passing through
NAIA in a year. This only served to embolden the
perpetrators and it raised suspicions that a syndicate involving the highest levels at the airport
was involved.
The NBI said it found no evidence of a syndicate in its investigation, thus clearing the top
officials at the airport. But it is enough that the
tanim-bala incidents have been confirmed and
charges have been filed in court.
It will take time before the airline passengers
passing through NAIA overcome their fear of
getting victimized. But the no-nonsense NBI
investigation and its filing of charges should put
a stop to a racket that created so much negative
international publicity for the country.
reflections today
The authority
of Jesus questioned
Matthew 21:23-27
hen Jesus had come into the temple

area, the chief priests and the elders of
the people approached Him as He was
teaching and said, By what authority are
you doing these things? And who gave you this authority? Jesus said to them in reply, I shall ask you one
question, and if you answer it for me, then I shall tell
you by what authority I do these things. Where was
Johns baptism from? Was it of heavenly or of human
origin? They discussed this among themselves and
said, If we say Of heavenly origin, he will say to us,
Then why did you not believe him? But if we say, Of
human origin, we fear the crowd, for they all regard
John as a prophet. So they said to Jesus in reply, We
do not know. He Himself said to them, Neither shall
I tell you by what authority I do these things.
temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people

question His authority. Jesus replies, in a typical rabbinic way, with a counterquestion on the authority
of John the Baptist. The chief priests and the elders
cannot answer because if they confess Johns divine
authority, Jesus will question why they did not believe
him. If they deny it, the crowd will revolt against them
because the people believe that John the Baptist was
sent by God. Their response, We do not know, is a
way to hide their unwillingness to decide and act upon
Johns preaching. We may be hiding behind our insecurities when we question others about their status.
The best way to deal with our insecurities is to humbly
accept that others are better than ourselves. We are
not always the best.
Honesty is the best policy.
ReFleCTiOn
By WhaT aUThORiTy aRe yOU DOinG
TheSe ThinGS? While Jesus is teaching in the
SOURCe: 365 Days with the lord 2015, ST.

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City (Phils.); Tel.: 895-9701; Fax 895-7328; e-mail:
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represent exports and industry/investments the key

modes that would propel the country towards economic
successThe destination set by the Ramos administration is towards a balanced agro-industrial development,
as well as NIC-hood status for the country by the year
2000 through people empowerment and global competitiveness. The DTI has set these wheels in motion towards
that direction.
DTI focused on four major areas: export development, industry development and investments promotion, countrywide development and improved consumer
awareness and activism. A strong and definite bias was
given to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in all of
DTIs activities. Notable among the strategies are the
Philippine Winners in exports, an area-based clustering
approach to industrial development, the think global and
act local mindset for SMEs and the consumer advocacy
educational and training programs. The results showed
20-25 percent export growth, total investments increase
which is bigger than the sum of the total investments in
the country from the beginning of the republic up to 1992,
steady and remarkable increase in the growth of industry
and services and more employment with growth higher
than the population growth.

A conducive business environment was fostered
through partnering with the private sector in the
Export Development Council, Industry Development
Council, the Small and Medium Business Development Council and the Electronic Commerce Council.
The consumer protection was enhanced with the
establishment of 1,266 Consumer Welfare Desks in
business establishments nationwide.
Despite these achievements, Sec. Bautista knew
much more what had to be done. He identified the
challenges that will continue in the future hasten infrastructure development, maintenance of a
business-friendly environment, continuation of the
policy of openness, market-orientation and reward
via performance, under the aegis of transparency in
a democratic regime. Up to his death, Cesar worked
to meet these challenges in his advocacies in the
private sector.
The country has lost a champion for national
competitiveness. May we be inspired to continue
the challenging task and in doing, honor the legacy
of Amb. Cesar B. Bautista.
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Ohio State University. He attended many

post-graduate courses on specialized and
general management fields within the Unilever University System. He started his
career with Caltex (Philippines), Inc. as a
refinery engineer. He moved on to the Philippine Refining Company-Unilever where
he rose from the ranks to become President
and Chairman in 1986. He had twice been
named the Outstanding Chemical Engineer
in the Philippines by the Institute of Chemical Engineers, and installed into the Hall of
Fame. As Secretary of Trade and Industry,
he played a key role in the development
of trade and foreign investment. After his
DTI stint, he continued to be active in improving the countrys competitive position
in the National Competitiveness Council
and in the Management Association of the
Philippines.
Chapter 10 of The RAMOS Presidency
and Administration, Record and Legacy
(1992-1998) captures the objectives, programs and accomplishments of DTI under
the leadership of Sec. Bautista. The DTI
used the bicycle to symbolize its responsibilities in the attainment of economic
prosperity for the country and a better life
for the Filipino people. The two wheels
NBI finally confirms

tanim-bala extortion
racket at airport
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BeloW tHe line
speaking out
Dahan-daan to
Malacaang?
Demonetizing Ninoy
By ignacio r. Bunye
n case you have forgotten, you

can use the Ninoy P500 bill
for your purchases and other
transactions only until the end
of this year.
Starting January 1, 2016, if you still
have them, you can only exchange the
Ninoy bill with the Bangko Sentral
or regular banks for a Ninoy-Cory
P500 bill or its monetary equivalent.
Starting January 1, 2017, all Ninoy bills will cease to have value,
except perhaps as a souvenir item.
The Ninoy bill is one of 8 bills
that have been scheduled by the
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for demonetization. They will cease to be
legal tender. The others include the
P5 Aguinaldo bill (first issued in
1985) and the P10 Bonifacio-Mabini
bill (first issued in 1997).
Also for demonetization are the
older series of the P20 (Quezon),
P50 (Osmena), P100 (Roxas),
P200 (Macapagal), and P1000
(Abad Santos-Lim-Escoda). This
set of bills was first issued in 1995.
The Bangko Sentral has long
stopped printing the P5 and P10 bills.
But some may be still lying around,
forgotten among the valuables of the
Lolos and the Lolas. Time to flush
them out and at least be able to exchange them at par.
Here are some distinguishing features by which the old bills, scheduled
for demonetization, may be readily
recognized.
For one, the denomination in the
old bill is printed in smaller type. Two,
in the case of the Quezon and Osmea
bills, the photos show an older like-
ness of Quezon and Osmea. Finally,

the reverse side of the bills (except
the P1,000 which shows the Banawe
Rice Terraces) feature either Philippine historical scenes or historical
buildings.
Thus, a bill showing on its reverse
side either the Malacaang Palace, or
The Old Legislative Building or the
Bangko Sentral Building, is definitely
among those to be demonetized.
In contrast, the reverse side of the
new series of Philippines bills (first issued in 2010) feature the Philippines
natural wonders as well as Philippine fauna. These are the Banawe
Rice Terraces/Philippine palm civet
(P20), Taal Lake/ maliputo fish (P50),
Mayon Volcano /whale shark (P100),
Chocolate Hills/ tarsier ( P200) Puerto
Princesa Subterranean River/bluenaped parrot (P500), and Tubbataha
Reef National Park/ South Sea pearl
(P1000).
Why are bills demonetized? The
short answer is: To give way to a
new set of bills. And the new set of
bills is necessary in order to upgrade
the bills security features and deter
counterfeiting. To be sure, some
counterfeiters will still persist in their
trade. The only difference is it is now
easier to detect their work as fake.
Two easy tests may be used to spot
a fake bill the feel test and the
sight test. The paper of a genuine
bill is usually rougher to the touch.
And when held against the light, a
genuine bill will display invisible
images and figures.
***
Very few may be aware that the
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas also
printed P2,000 bills. The bills numbering 5 million, were nicknamed

the Erap Notes, so-called because
the obverse side featured the inauguration of President Joseph Estrada
in 1998. The reverse side featured
President Emilio Aguinaldo waving
the Philippine flag at his balcony in
Kawit, Cavite.
The Erap Notes, however, never
made it to circulation as a result of
Edsa II which occurred at around
the time the notes were supposed to
be released. Years later, the Bangko
Sentral decided to sell 50,000 pieces
of these notes merely as commemorative pieces and not as legal tender.
The bulk of the Erap notes were
shredded.
***
Flashback to 1989. The then Central Bank of the Philippines decided
to destroy approximately P27 million
worth of P1,000 bills intercepted by US
customs authorities in Hawaii.
The freshly printed bills were
among the personal effects of President Ferdinand Marcos and his
party who fled to Hawaii three years
earlier.
The court in Hawaii ordered the
cash turned over to the Philippine
government which had successfully
sued the Marcoses for illegal exportation of Philippine currency.
A senior Central Banker explained
that, at that time, it was deemed more
expedient to destroy the cash in situ
rather than to transport it back to the
Philippines.
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How politicians justify

what they say and do
By leandro dd coronel
OliTiCianS are a smart

breed. They can rationalize
anything under the sun.
Look at the people running for the two highest offices of the
land. Under normal circumstances the
pairings would be seen as either ludicrous, impossible, or plain silly. Under
normal circumstances, the players
themselves wouldnt team up with
whom theyve ended teaming up.
Especially Binay-Honasan, Miriam-Bongbong, and Duterte-Cayetano.
Jojo Binay was a Cory Aquino
stalwart before and after the collapse
of the Marcos dictatorship. He was
one of the many activists who fought
the tyranny of Ferdinand Marcos.
Cory Aquino appointed him officer-incharge of Makati City in 1986 (with him
and his family staying in power there
up to this day).
Gringo Honasan, on the other
hand, was an inveterate coup plotter
and was a thorn in the side of Cory
Aquino. Today Honasan rationalizes
his coup detat escapades as fighting
for the people.
Miriam Santiago, too, was an activist during the martial law years. And
yet for some reason she has chosen
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as her running
mate. For any rational person, that
choice would be a major brain chal-
lenge. A foe of martial law and the son

of a dictator. Crazy.
Rodrigo Duterte, controversial
mayor of Davao City, has chosen, almost by default, Alan Peter Cayetano
as his vice-presidential teammate.
Inexplicably Duterte labels himself
a leftist but hes really a fascist. Anybody who says he has killed people
and threatens to kill more people, and
whos alleged to have a hit squad at his
command, is a fascist.
And yet Cayetano, who fought the
imperious and fascistic Gloria Arroyo,
has pursued Duterte for them to run
as a tandem. Under normal circumstances, I would bet that Cayetano
wouldnt allow himself to even be associated with Duterte. And yet, he was
the one who avidly ran after Duterte.
And so Duterte exasperatedly accepted Cayetano because he was palaging
nandyan, buntot ng buntot.
And so today Cayetano goes
around as Dutertes apologist for the
rough mans cursing and generally
crass language. How could Cayetano
allow himself to be a water-carrier for
a gruff, unpolished person?
Koko Pimentel, an other wise
commendable politician, has also
been apologizing for Duterte, proudly
announcing therell be a new, sanitized Duterte. People can change their
stances on issues and principles with
ease depending on their interests.
Regarding Grace Poe and Francis
Escudero, one would think that the

pairing would be the other way around.
Escudero is the senior senator of the
two and indeed is said to be Poes
mentor in the Senate. Poe, on the
other hand, is an ambitious neophyte
who hardly has any track record in
governance.
But Escudero is a pragmatic person. He knows Poe is the darling of
the people at the moment, the flavor
of the times. So why not bide his time
and wait until 2022 for his own run for
the presidency?
And Roxas-Robredo? President
Aquino pursued Poe offering the VP
slot under a Roxas campaign. Poe,
who had other plans, spurned a sitting
president and said No.
Good thing she did because, as it
turned out, Roxas ended up pairing
with a clean, simple, and seemingly
honest teammate in Robredo. Their
winning chances are up in the air
at the moment although Mr. Aquino
thinks that once the people get to know
both Roxas and Robredo, they may
decide to vote for them.
A Roxas-Poe tandem? That would
have been disastrous for Roxas and
the Liberal Party. Poe is too ambitious.
The lesson to learn from this elections pairings is that politicians can
justify everything under the sun to
explain the inconsistent things they
say and do.
Merry-go-round
Too many hands

By Floro Mercene
ThiRD suspect in the

tanim-bala extortion racket
is the MIAA service provider
personnel, which includes
porters, wheelchair attendants, and
janitorial personnel.
Fourth is the Security Screening
Officers (SSO). These are employees
of the Office of Transportation Security
(OTS) manning the initial, final, and
build-up security screening checkpoint. They are the main suspects in
this unscrupulous shakedown and
several of them have been terminated
or dismissed from the service.
Next are the Armed Security,
PNP-ASG personnel assigned at the
initial, final checkpoint, and baggage
build-up area. These personnel are the
subalterns of Chief Supt. Balagtas and

he said several of them have already
been dismissed.
Sixth on our list is the Security
Screening Checkpoint. This is the area
where screening of passenger and
luggage is done, manned by an X-ray
operator, a baggage inspector, and a
body-frisker.
The seventh in the list of suspects
are the airport personnel themselves.
They include MIAA security service
providers, airport action officers, airline crew and staff, and airport police
assigned at the various terminals.
Based on this list, Director Balagtas said it is important to understand
the extent of contact between the
passenger and succeeding airport
personnel from the time he arrives at
the airport premises, and disembarks
in front of the terminal building.

By the time the fact-finding report
came out, the Department of Justice
(DOJ) had assigned special prosecutors at the Ninoy Aquino International
Airport (NAIA) to conduct on-the-spot
inquest proceedings, particularly in
cases of alleged illegal possession of
ammunition by travelers transiting the
countrys premier gateway.
The DOJ said at least one prosecutor has been assigned since last week
at the NAIA as part of measures put
in place, with the cooperation of the
Manila International Airport Authority
(MIAA). The aim is to curb the alleged
bullet-planting extortion scheme at
the airport.
The assignment of special prosecutors followed a move by the Public
Attorneys Office, which offered im-
By JoS aBeto zaide
WO Lacsons missed their way

to Malacaang.
Manilas iconic Mayor
Arsenio Lacson declined the
invitation to be vice-presidential partner in 1953 when Ramon The Guy
Magsaysay made a run for president
in 1953. Arsenic didnt want to be a
spare tire to a President who was
malakas pa sa kalabaw (stronger
than a carabao). President Magsaysay crashed at Mount Pinatubo on
March 17, 1957, and was succeeded by
his Vice President, Carlos P. Garcia.
Senator Panfilo Lacson turned
down the invitation to be the vice president running mate of Fernando Poe, Jr.
In the 2014 presidential contest among
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Poe and Lacson, GMA emerged controversial winner in the three-way fight. Poe would
most likely have won a one-to-one
contest; he passed away soon after the
elections, which theoretically would
have given the keys to Malacaang
to (had he accepted) a Vice President
Panfilo Lacson.
Now, we have five aspirants vying
for the presidency. Nothing in life is
certain, least of all in winner-take-all
elections. The Cinderella erstwhile
front-runner Senator Grace Poe is not
yet out of the woods and the sword of a
DQ still hangs over her candidacy.
Vice President Jejomar Binay
is threatened by graft and plunder
charges.
Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago refuses to reveal her medical
records.
Duterte Harry, a Johnny-comelately front runner, is a self-declared
womanizer, terminator, and master of
colorful language (Imagine an inaugural speech with multiple bleeps?)
The only one without baggage is the
administrations bet, Mar Roxas, who
repeats the mantra of Daang Matuwid.
But the bookies are not betting on his
tail-end showing to sprint at the polls.
When the field is bumpy for so
many probables, is it a wonder that the
Vice-Presidential race is overheating
with all drivers having one eye cocked
to Malacaang?
OVeRheaRD. When President

aquino met our OFWs in italy, he
plugged his partys presidential
bet Mar Roxas while pooh-poohing
all others. Pnoy belittled Senator Grace Poe as an over-reacher:
Walang konteksto, walang plano,
panay batikos at hilaw na pangako.
akala po yata niya, pag nahalal siya,
gigising siya kinabukasan sa isang
bagong umaga nang may solusyon
na sa lahat ng mga binanggit niyang
problema. (no substance, no plans,
all criticizing and empty promises.
She thinks if elected she will wake
up to a new morning with solutions
to all problems she cited).
Grace Poes camp cites her sterling record at the Senate, including
chairing the Mamasapano investigation which led to the retirement of
PnP chief Gen. alan Purisima. BTW,
Ferdinand Marcos belittled Cory
aquino as a walang alam housewife
but we remember her as a latter-day
Joan of arc. and wasnt a Senator
Benigno aquino iii just hiding in
the woodwork, before he was kicked
upstairs after Corys demise?
ADVISORY. My wife Victoria and I
exited NAIA 3 last Friday to catch the
2015 Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale on
Urbanism/Architecture curated by a
London team led by Christine Hawley,
professor of Architectural Design at
the Bartlett University College, and international curators Sarah Lee, Roger
Wu, Yutaka Yano, and our son Renato
Paolo Zaide. On my Boy Scouts word
of honor, peks man, we did not have a
bullet of any caliber in our suitcase, nor
will we bring a life-threatening amulet
on our return this evening.
aDieU. Veteran diplomat Willy

C. Gaa, who served as Philippine
ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China (2003-06) and to the USa
(2006-10), lies in state at Funeraria
Paz, Manila Memorial Park, Paraaque. eulogies at 7:00 p.m. this
evening, internment after 2:00 p.m.
memorial services on Tuesday, Dec.
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if syMptoMs persist
Food pipe cancer
heRe are at least four alcoholic writers, (Poe, F. Scott

Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Alan
Watts) that I admire. The fifth
is Christopher Hitchens who died of
esopagheal cancer in 2011. It may not
be difficult to link alcohol abuse and
esophageal cancer because one type,
squamous cell carcinoma, specifies
alcohol as an irritant that repeatedly
damages the food pipe lining. Another
irritant is [from the chemicals of tobacco] smoking. Usually armed with
a glass of Scotch and an untipped
Rothmans cigarette, was how the
Sunday Times described the man. And
Hitchens himself admitted in 2003 that
his daily intake of alcohol was enough
to kill or stun the average mule.
Risk Factors. Aside from alcohol
and smoking, other risk factors are:
male gender, obesity, drinking very hot
liquids (us Asians: hot noodles! and
ubiquitous tea), and GERD (gastroesophageal reflux). One thing about
GERD is that constant irritation of the
esophageal lining leads to a precancerous stage called Barretts esophagus.
This may eventually lead to the other
type of esophageal cancer: adenocarcinoma.
Signs and Symptoms. The US
National Institutes of Health lists six
warning signs and symptoms: chest
pain unrelated to eating, weight loss
(without trying), vomiting blood, difficulty swallowing liquids or solids,
heartburn, and regurgitation, or the
backward movement of food from the
esophagus up the mouth.
Diagnosis. The tests that reveal
esophageal cancer start with barium

swallow. A thick liquid is taken which
coats the esophagus. Xrays are then
taken that allow scrutiny of the esophageal lining. In endoscopy, a fiberoptic
tube with lens is slid down the throat
and the esophagus is examined on
video. Suspicious tissue can then be
snipped for biopsy.
Staging esophageal Cancer.
Aside from cancer cell type, the other
basis for treatment is the extent to
which the cancer has spread. In Stage
I, only the top layer of cells are involved. In Stage II, deep layers are now
affected and may even include lymph
nodes. In Stage III, the deepest layer of
the esophageal wall has been invaded,
including adjacent tissues and lymph
nodes. In Stage IV, the cancer has
spread to other parts of the body. There
is no Stage V as Hitchens said.
Treatment. Stage I tumors have
the best prognosis and these very
small areas of the most superficial
layer of the esophagus can be taken out
endoscopically. For later stages, surgery may mean removing a portion of
the esophagus (esophagectomy), and
more radically, esophagogastrectomy
(part of the food pipe plus the upper
portion of the stomach). Interestingly,
surgeons may patch missing sections
with portions of the patients colon.
Chemotherapy and radiation therapy
may be combined with surgery for
best results. Still, this is the cancer
youd wish on your worst enemies
because by the time they find it hard
to swallow, the cancer has pretty much
gone to town. Hitchens himself wrote
in 2010, while undergoing treatment,
that he would be a very lucky person
to live another five years. The overall 5-year survival rate is indeed 15%.
Most people die within the first year of
diagnosis. Hitchens had a bit more but
called it his year of living dyingly.
Dr. Pujalte is an orthopaedic surgeon. e-mail jspujalte@yahoo.com
mediate legal assistance to victims of the

alleged extortion scheme.
The purpose of the on-the-spot inquest
was not to determine probable cause but
merely to make an initial assessment

of the case. After the assessment, the
traveler could be released and allowed
to board his or her flight.
By JoSe PuJalte Jr.
My two assets my pen

and my voice and it had
to be the esophagus.
Christopher hitchens
(1949-2011), anglo-american writer
and journalist Mortality (2012)
Yellow Magenta Cyan
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China navy carries out more drills

in disputed South China Sea
Newsbits
21 killed in mental
hospital fire in Russia
MOSCOW (PNA/Xinhua) A deadly
blaze at a psychiatric hospital in the
Russian southwestern Voronezh region
killed at least 21 people on Sunday,
local media reported, quoting a source
in the Russian Emergencies Ministrys
regional center. Nineteen dead bodies
were recovered at the fire scene, two
died in a hospital. Two others are
missing, the source told RIA Novosti.
Blast injures 10
security men in
Egypts Sinai
CAIRO (PNA/Xinhua) At least 10 security
men, including an officer and nine recruits,
were wounded on Saturday when a blast
targeted their two armored vehicles in
south of Arish city of restive North Sinai
province, state-run Al-Ahram news website
reported. According to security sources
and eyewitnesses, the two armored
vehicles were moving in a highway in
Arish when they were targeted by an
improvised explosive device planted at
the side of the road. In November, at least
seven people were killed, including four
policemen, two judges and a civilian, as a
car bomb targeted a hotel in Arish hosting
judges monitoring the recently-concluded
parliamentary elections. Egypt has been
suffering anti-government terrorist attacks
that have left hundreds of police and army
personnel dead since the military ousted
former Islamist president Mohammed
Morsi in July 2013 in response to mass
protests. Meanwhile, the security forces
have been launching massive antiterror operations in North Sinai that left
hundreds of militants killed and a similar
number of suspects arrested.
EIJING (Reuters) Chinas

navy has in recent days carried out more exercises in the
disputed South China Sea,
the Defense Ministry said on Sunday,
calling them routine drills.
China claims almost all of the energy-rich waters of the South China Sea,
through which more than $5 trillion of
maritime trade passes each year. The
Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia

and Taiwan have overlapping claims.
The Peoples Liberation Army
Navy in recent days organized a fleet to
go to relevant seas in the South China
Sea, by way of the Western Pacific, to
carry out exercises, Chinas Defence
Ministry said in a brief statement.
This action is a routine arrangement made in accordance with this
years naval training plan, it added,

without elaborating.
Pictures on social media accounts
of Chinese state media have in recent
days shown pictures of Chinese navy
ships engaged in live-fire exercises in
the South China Sea, without saying
where exactly they took place.
China periodically announces such
exercises in the South China Sea, as it
tries to demonstrate it is being transparent about its military deployments.

China has been at odds with the
United States of late over the strategic
waterway.
Washington has criticized Beijings
building of artificial islands in the South
China Seas disputed Spratly archipelago, and has conducted sea and air
patrols near them.
Alleged UK heist Hundreds in costumes revel at festive SantaCon

out for your elves, organizers advised
gang far from
the crowd as Saturdays festivities began with a mix of safety messages and
silver-screen glitz
psyching-up: Can I get a ho?!
LONDON (AFP) The press has
compared the gang alleged to be behind
one of Britains most audacious jewelry
heists to the glamorous thieves of Hollywood movie Oceans Eleven, but the
reality is much less sexy.
Rather than George Clooney and
Brad Pitt, the group believed to be
behind Aprils daring raid on a London safe-deposit facility includes two
geriatrics and a man suffering from
incontinence.
A red-haired man known as Basil,
who allegedly let the men into the jewelry
vault through a fire escape, has not yet
been identified, adding an air of mystery
to a story begging for a film adaptation.
The burglary at Hatton Garden,
long known as Londons jewelry quarter, was the largest burglary in English legal history prosecutor Philip
Evans said.
Four of the defendants, including
the 76-year-old mastermind, have
already pleaded guilty, while several
others still face trial.
Taking advantage of a long Easter
Joggers dressed as Saint Nicholas run the course during the traditional St. Nicholas
Day run in Michendorf, Germany, December 06, 2015. The competition will determine
the fastest runner wearing a Santa Claus costume in Berlin and Brandenburg. (EPA)
NEW YORK (AP) Santas came

by the hundreds, reindeer formed a
kick line and oversized elves cavorted
with saucy Mrs. Clauses as a police
helicopter circled overhead.
Welcome to SantaCon, the annual Christmastime costume-parade-meets-pub-crawl

that was hoping this year would persuade
New York its more nice than naughty.
Look out for your reindeer. Look
weekend in early April, prosecutors told

Londons Old Bailey court that the gang
broke into the vault of central Londons
Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company.
Disguised as gas workers and fit-
ted with hard hats, it is claimed they

rappelled down an elevator shaft then
used a diamond-tipped industrial drill
to bore three large holes in a concrete
wall 50 centimeters thick.
Before long, over a thousand costumed

revelers were headed off to bar-hop and make
merry through Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Jessica Carr and Victoria Pirolli had
turned themselves into snow globes,
each encasing her head and torso in
bubble-umbrella-like plastic, with a
foam rubber base around the hips. The
two science teachers and friends from
New Jersey said they were at their
fifth SantaCon for the creativity, not the
carousing that earned the event an outof-control reputation in recent years.
We have fun, Pirolli said. We dont
pee in bushes or anything.
Tracing its origins to a prankish, anticonsumerist gathering in San Francisco in
1994, SantaCon has mushroomed into events
in hundreds of cities. New Yorks is generally
the biggest, drawing thousands of people.
Its also drawn criticism, particularly after the 2012 and 2013 celebrations
generated two arrests, 85 summonses
for disorderly conduct and other offenses, and online videos of brawling
St. Nicks. Organizers say there were no
arrests or summonses last year.
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At least 848
Afghan civilian
casualties in
Kunduz
KABUL (Reuters) At least 848
Afghan civilians were killed or wounded
following a Taliban attack on the northern city of Kunduz in September, according to a UN report that detailed the
grim conditions endured by residents
during two weeks of fighting.
The 289 dead and 559 injured included at least 30 killed and 37 injured
in a US air strike on a hospital run by
Medecins Sans Frontieres, the United
Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a report.
It said the figures were likely to rise
as further information became available,
noting that unstable security meant its
officials had been unable to conduct
detailed investigations in Kunduz.
Medecins Sans Frontieres said on
Saturday that its own count of the death toll
from the Kunduz hospital attack had risen to
42, a figure UNAMA said it was verifying.
Apart from the losses in the air
strike on Oct. 3, it said most casualties
had been caused from small arms fire
or explosives during heavy fighting in
residential areas.
In most of these cases, UNAMA
could not attribute the casualties to a specific party to the conflict, it said, although
it also detailed reports of deliberate killings by the Taliban of civilians including
people associated with the government.
It also joined calls for an independent investigation into the attack on
the hospital, which it said may amount
to a war crime if it were proved to be
deliberate.
An estimated 150,000 people were
trapped in the city by the most prolonged period of urban fighting in Afghanistan since the US-led campaign
against the Taliban in 2001.
Some 13,000 families fled, adding to the
hundreds of thousands already displaced by
violence and lack of security, UNAMA said.
The report detailed food shortages,
lack of electricity, looting and allegations of human rights abuses by fighters
on both sides as well as by other armed
men who took advantage of the chaos.
The insecurity, absence of governance and the breakdown of rule of law
during this period resulted in a loss of
protection of the most basic human
rights, including the rights to life and
security of person, it said.
This chaos enabled an environment
in which arbitrary killings, and other
forms of violence against civilians and
civilian objects, criminality and destruction of civilian property took place.
It said the Taliban had created a climate of fear with systematic searches
for womens rights activists and civilians
working for human rights organizations
which prompted many to flee the city.
However, it did not find evidence of
any large scale or systematic violence
against women and girls by the hardline
Islamist movement, which has strongly
denied harming women deliberately.
Key points of the landmark Paris climate agreement

LE BOURGET, France (AP)
United Nations (UN) climate talks
reached a milestone Saturday when
more than 190 countries adopted the
first accord asking all countries to join
the fight against global warming.
Here are some of the key elements
of the deal:
LONG-TERM GOAL: The longterm objective of the agreement is
to make sure global warming stays
well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6
degrees Fahrenheit) and to pursue
efforts to limit the temperature rise
to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees
Fahrenheit). Temperatures have
already increased by about 1 degree
Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since
pre-industrial times. To achieve that
goal, governments pledged to stop the
rise of heat-trapping greenhouse gas
emissions as soon as possible. By
some point after 2050, the agreement
says, man-made emissions should be
reduced to a level that forests and

oceans can absorb.
EMISSIONS TARGETS: In order
to reach the long-term goal, countries
agreed to set national targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions every
five years. More than 180 countries have
already submitted targets for the first
cycle beginning in 2020. Only developed
countries are expected to slash their
emissions in absolute terms; developing nations are encouraged to do so
as their capabilities evolve over time.
Until then, they are expected only to
rein in the growth of emissions as their
economies develop.
REVIEWING TARGETS: The
initial targets wont be enough to
put the world on a path to meet the
long-term temperature goal. So the
agreement asks gover nments to
review their targets in the next four
years and see if they can update
them. That doesnt require govern-
ments to deepen their cuts. But the

hope is that it will be possible for
them to do so if renewable energy
sources become more affordable and
effective.
TRANSPARENCY: There is no
penalty for countries that miss their
emissions targets. But the agreement
has transparency rules to help encourage countries to actually do what they
say they will do. That was one of the
most difficult pieces to agree on, with
China asking for softer requirements
for developing countries. The agreement says all countries must report on
their emissions and their efforts the
reduce them. But it allows for some
flexibility for developing countries
that need it.
MONEY: The agreement says
wealthy countries should continue
to offer financial support to help poor
countries reduce their emissions and
adapt to climate change. It also en-
courages other countries to pitch in

on a voluntary basis. That paves the
way for emerging economies such
as China to contribute, even though
it doesnt require them to do so. Actual dollar amounts were kept out
of the agreement itself, but wealthy
nations had previously pledged to
provide $100 billion in climate finance
by 2020.
LOSS AND DAMAGE: In a victory
for small island nations threatened by
rising seas, the agreement includes
a section recognizing loss and damage associated with climate-related
disasters. The US long objected to addressing the issue in the agreement,
worried that it would lead to claims
of compensation for damage caused
by extreme weather events. In the
end, the issue was included, but a
footnote specifically stated that loss
and damage does not involve liability
or compensation.
Band favored by
North Korean
leader cancels
Beijing concerts
BEIJING (AP) An all-female
band formed by North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un cancelled its concerts in
Beijing and abruptly left the Chinese
capital due to unspecified communication issues, possibly further cooling relations between the traditional allies.
The Moranbong Band had been
scheduled to hold three concerts in
Beijing beginning Saturday night in
what was viewed as a visit to cultivate
ties between the countries.
The performance cannot be staged
as scheduled due to communication issues at the working level, the official
Xinhua News Agency said, citing a
news release from unnamed relevant
departments.
Band members arrived at Beijings airport in North Korean Embassy vehicles on
Saturday afternoon, and departed aboard
a North Korean Air Koryo jet shortly after
4 p.m. following a lengthy delay, Chinese
news website sina.com reported.
A staff member at the National
Theater, where the band was to give the
invitation-only performances, said the
concerts had been canceled, but did not
give a reason. An accompanying North
Korean musical troupe, the State Merited
Chorus, also pulled put because of the
communication issues, Xinhua said.
Although North Korea is well known
for its unpredictability, the sudden cancellation of the concerts could hurt relations
between Beijing and Pyongyang. Ties
between the sides have been noticeably
cooler since Kim assumed power in 2011.
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PNP reports spike in

harassment raps vs cops
By AARON B. RECUENCO and ANNA LIZA VILLAS-ALAVAREN
g g r e ssive a n t i- c r ime operations by the Philippine

National Police (PNP), particularly in Metro Manila,
have spiked the number of administrative cases filed against lawmen,
it was learned yesterday.
Supt. Lyra Stella Valera, PNP
Legal Service spokesperson, said
that since the implementation of
Oplan Lambat-Sibat in January,
the number of policemen charged
with what is described as harassment charges has ballooned to
426.
This figure is way higher than
the 82 cases recorded last year and
the 24 in 2013. Among the cases filed
against policemen were robbery,
trespassing, and extortion.

More policemen are now vulnerable to administrative cases
because they are now more active
in anti-crime operations, said
Valera.
Criminality alarming
Vice President Jejomar C. Binay,
on the other hand, has expressed
alarm over the increasing criminality in the country, which must be
given focus to make Filipinos safe
and secure.
Binay cited the data from the
PNP which showed that there were
885,445 crimes reported from January to June, higher than the 603,085
incidents during the same period
last year.
He said economic growth is

senseless if people dont feel safe
and secured.
Adding to the statistics, he said
attacks on media practitioners,
curtailing the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press is also
increasing.
Binay said the attempted takeover of a radio station in Iloilo is
another proof of the unsafe environment for the media, who, while
per for ming their jobs are either
pressured or killed. There were
three mediamen killed in August
alone.
Binay said that not one conviction in media killing cases was obtained in the past 13 years.
DPWH, MMDA halt road

projects obstructing traffic
By RAYMUND F. ANTONIO and ANNA LIZA VILLAS-ALAVAREN
The riding public can have some

relief starting today, December 14, as
the Department of Public Works and
Highways (DPWH) and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
(MMDA) agreed to stop road works
in Metro Manila with the moratorium
on road diggings and excavations
this Yuletide season.
The stoppage on various road
projects will last until the midnight of
Jan. 3, 2016.
Our objective is to make all available lanes active, hence, passable to
traffic, Melvin Navarro, director of
DPWH office in the National Capital
Region, told the Manila Bulletin.
Neomie Recio, MMDA Traffic Engineering Center head, Recio, over the
agencys radio program over DZBB

also said it is the responsibility of
the contractors to temporarily cover,
like for example steel plates, dug up
unfinished repair projects, to allow
motorists to freely use the road.
The moratorium includes any
digging in the road right-of-way, including passageways and sidewalks,
within the cities or municipalities of
Metro Manila for the installation, repair, or improvement of water pipes,
telephone or telegraph wires or cable
conduits, sewers and drainage systems, communication and power line
improvements being undertaken by
any government agency, public and
private contractors.
The moratorium, however, does
not apply to emergency repairs of

leaking water lines of Manila Water
and Maynilad
Exempted from the moratorium
are the flagship projects of the national government such as the Ninoy
Aquino International Airport (NAIA)
Elevated expressway, Skyway Stage
3 project, Blumentritt Interceptor
project and road works that do not
obstruct or block vehicular traffic.
We exempt those ongoing flood
control and bridge projects because
stopping them will not help anyway
but will only lengthen their completion time, Navarro said.
The agency said there are some
146 road projects of DPWH that are
covered by the moratorium.
Shooting stars galore...

14 to early morning of December 15,
PAGASA said.
Under a dark and cloudless sky and
just after midnight of its peak activity,
meteors or falling stars can be seen at
an average rate of 40 meteors per hour,
making Geminids shower one of the
most prolific meteor shows of the year.
PAGASA explained that the Geminids shower is different from other
meteor showers as it does not originate
from a comet but from an asteroid, the
3200 Phaethon.
It noted that meteors from this
shower are very rocky and gritty and

slightly easier to see compared to other
showers.
These slow-moving meteors were
first observed in 1862, much more recently than other showers.
It is thought that the showers have
been intensifying every year and recent
showers have seen 120-160 meteors per
hour under optimal conditions, generally
around 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.
PAGASA said there will be shooting
stars that are big enough to be seen
through a naked eye.
Comelec en banc tackles...

position of president; that there is
none that respondent Duterte may
substitute.
Also expected to be discussed by
the en banc is the final list of candidates for the May 2016 polls.
The Comelec is set to release the
final list of candidates on December
15.
But Comelec Chairman Andres
Bautista said it is possible that they
will release a provisional final list of
candidates on Tuesday.
Its possible that we will already
input whatever names that are already
final and then just add names later... we
are studying that, he said.
He said they may also extend their
self-imposed deadline of December 15
for the final list of candidates.
We are also studying that. Remember, the printing of the ballots
will happen sometime in January,
said Bautista.
Palace supports CHR in...

tikong bansa, tayo ay tumatalima sa
prinsipyo ng rule of law. Kinikilala natin
na ang bawat mamamayan ay may
karapatan na binibigyang proteksyon
ng ating Saligang Batas at iba pang
mga batas, kabilang na ang karapatang
mabuhay at karapatang mabigyan ng
due process sa alinmang aksyong legal
(As a democratic country, we follow the
principle of rule of law. We recognize
the rights of every person protected by
the Constitution and other laws, including the right to live and the right to be
given due process in any legal action),
Coloma said over government radio.
Kayat isinasagawa ng CHR ang
tungkulin nito na alamin kung may katotohanan ang mga umanoy paglabag sa
karapatang pantao. Kahit sino pa man
ang tinutukoy, kailangang patas ang pagpapatupad ng batas (So the CHR is doing
its job to find out the truth behind alleged
violations of human rights. Regardless
of the person involved, the law must be

applied equally), added Coloma.
Earlier, CHR Chairman Chito Gascon said the agency may create a special
team to probe Dutertes recent admission
that he had executed some persons in
the past.
Gascon also encouraged the families
of Dutertes alleged victims to come
forward and file complaints against the
mayor. If the allegations are proven, the
CHR, however, left to the Department of
Justice (DOJ) and its attached agency, the
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), to
build the case and prosecute Duterte.
Duterte earlier candidly admitted that
he has killed many criminals during his
stint as mayor of Davao City. In a recent
interview over DZMM, the tough-talking
openly confessed to killing three criminals,
claiming such action was not a violation of
human rights since the crime was committed in his presence.
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A sequel to Monterror
y column piece on the

controversial SUV entitled Monterror last
November 30 drew a
rejoinder from a Bulletin reader, Dr.
Ricardo S.D. Ledesma of 12 Hanna
Street, Filinvest Homes-2, Quezon
City. Herein reprinted is the physicians letter (with minor editing by
this writer):
This is to inform you that my
wife, Mrs. Avelina G. Ledesma, 74
years old, the same address as that
of the undersigned, was the passenger who sustained the most serious
injury in a major vehicular accident
last August 16, 2015.
Here are the facts of the case as
reported to the Barangay Batasan
Police Security Detachment. Vehicle Involved: Mitsubishi Montero,
Plate No. UDI 912; Model 2012, Color
Solvanna White; Passengers Inside
the Vehicle Mrs. Linda Castaeda,
driver; Mrs. Avelina G. Ledesma,
seated beside the driver; and Mrs.
Gloria Rupido.
The accident report: The date
of accident was August 16, 2015
(Sunday), at around 6:30 p.m. Said
motor vehicle was parked in front
of the residence of the Rivera family

on Glenn street, inside our subdivision.
The three passengers were in
the process of distributing solicitation letters for the renovation of our
parish church building.
While waiting for the occupants
of the Rivera house to come out and
hand back the solicitation letter, the
Montero vehicle whose engine was
running suddenly moved forward
with fast accelerated speed hitting
two other parked cars a Kia K2700
white in color, with plate No. PGO
528, and a Ford Ranger, with plate
No. UQE 796. Both cars are owned
by Mr. EL Santiago of No. 5 Glenn
Street, also in Filinvest Homes-2
subdivision.
The air bag of the Montero
vehicle burst out causing a loud
explosion-like sound that was heard
by adjacent neighbors of the Santiagos.
The accident was immediately
reported to the Barangay Batasan
Security Police Detachment.
Damage: Beside the damage to
the Montero vehicle, the Kia, and
the Ford Ranger, Mrs. Avelina G.
Ledesma, my wife, suffered the most
serious injury, sustaining a closed
Front to back
complete fracture with diminutive
splinter fractures, spiral at proximal
third, right humerous (right arm).
Mrs. Ledesma was first rushed
to the Veterans Memorial Medical
Center, Emergency Department,
where initial work-ups were done.
She was later transferred to the
National Kidney and Transplant
Institute where she underwent a
four-hour operation, open reduction
with internal fixation, titanium plate
done by Dr. Antonio Sison who is an
orthopedic surgeon.
Mrs. Ledesma, while a patient in
the NKTI, suffered severe, excruciating pain, sleepless nights, anxiety
during the period before and weeks
after her operation.
She under went a two -and-ahalf-month physiotherapy at the
Philippine Heart Center after her
discharge from NKTI.
This letter is written with a
strong appeal not only to settle the
expenses of the hospitalization and
post-operative care of Mrs. Ledesma, but also the cost (moral damages) caused by the unpleasantness
and disabilities she sustained now
and the future, in particular, on her
exposure to the risk of life because of
the seriousness of the accident.
read: actS 17:16-34

He is the God who made the world
and everything in it. Since He is
Lord of heaven and earth,
He doesnt live in man made temples (v.24).
T the start of the film Walk

the Line, young Johnny
Cash is talking with his older
brother Jack who is hoping
to become a preacher. Johnny is sad
because he doesnt know the Bible like
his brother, who said, If Im going to
be a preacher one day, I gotta know the
Bible front to back. I mean, you cant
help nobody if you cant tell them the
right story.
Tragically, a sawmill accident
ended the aspiring preachers life.
But what he told his little brother
Johnny who would go on to become
a famous musical artist applies to
us all. We cant help people if we dont
tell them the right story. And the right
story is found in the Bible from front
to back.
The front of the story is where the
apostle Paul began as he preached in
Athens, presenting God as the Creator
and Lord of heaven and earth (Acts
17:24-26). In the beginning God dwelt
with His image-bearers in perfect re-
lationship and they reigned together

over His good creation (Genesis
1:26-31).
The back of the story comes full
circle, with God again reigning supreme over everything everywhere
(1 Corinthians 15:28) and dwelling
among His people in a fully renewed
heaven and earth (Revelation 21:1-3).
Theres also a lot in the middle of the
story. Human rebellion (which left us
separated from God and each other);
Gods gracious promise to rescue us
from the mess of humanitys rebellion
through Abrahams offspring (namely
Jesus Christ); and God now dwelling
in the hearts of those He has rescued,
enabling them to love others and to
take part in advancing Gods kingdom
on earth.
Declaring the story, front to back,
is important. For it awakens us to our
need for Jesus our Savior and King.
Jeff Olson
2015 ODB Ministries, 3000,

Kraft ave Se, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49555-0001, USa. Used by permission. For this and other materials contact ODB Ministries at 322
P. Guevarra, San Juan City (Phils.);
Tel.: 722-2010.
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Reject corruption UN chief;

Roxas, Binay tarry on graft
and rightly understood as
criminal and corrosive, he states.
By Fred loBo
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our daily journey
page tWelVe
By elinando B. cinco
n Secretary General Ban

Ki-moon calls for united
efforts around the world
to firmly reject corrup-
tion.
It is criminal and corrosive, so
lets ban it, Ban says.
***
Likewise, Philippine leaders and
concerned groups urge the people
to continue supporting the anticorruption campaign to promote a
free and fair market and inclusive
growth.
Elect leaders with integrity,
they say.
***
Ban points out that corruption
has a disastrous impact on development because funds that should be
devoted to schools, health clinics,
and other vital public services are
instead diverted into the hands of
dishonest officials or criminals.
Corruption exacerbates vio lence and insecurity. It can lead to
dissatisfaction with public institutions, disillusion with government
in general, and spirals of anger and
unrest, the UN head says.
***
I call for united efforts to deliver
a clear message around the world
that firmly rejects corruption and
embraces instead the principles of
transparency, accountability, and
good governance, Ban says in his
International Anti-Corruption Day
message.
Worldwide accountability and
good governance, he cries.
***
Ban emphasizes that the new
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes the need to
fight corruption in all its aspects
and calls for significant reductions
in illicit financial flows as well as for
the recovery of stolen assets.
Through prevention, criminalization, international cooperation,
and assets recovery, the Convention
advances global progress toward
ending corruption, he stresses.
***
Ban notes though that global
attitudes toward corruption have
changed dramatically in recent
years.
Where once bribery, corruption,
and illicit financial flows were often
considered part of the cost of doing
business, today corruption is widely
***
The UN comprehensive platfor m against cor r uption should
now be followed by governments,
non-governmental organizations,
civil society, and individual citizens,
Ban urges.
Down with corr uption in all
fronts!, the UN chief says.
***
Likewise, concerned leaders ask
the people to elect candidates with
integrity in the coming national
elections.
Time to restore integrity by
electing good leaders, they stress
at the recent Integrity Summit in
Makati City.
***
Meanwhile, administration standard-bearer Mar Roxas and oppositionist Vice President Jejomar Binay tarry on the difference between
graft and corruption.
Now, they are back at hitting
each other as in the 2010 polls for
VP post.
***
Its a good thing that he explained about graft and corruption
because hes the expert, Roxas
comments on reports that Binay
differentiated graft and corruption
before students of Silliman University.
Mar tries swipe strategy.
***
Binay points out in Siliman that
graft involves abuse of power while
corruption is about mishandling of
money, adding that allegations being hurled against him were neither
graft nor corruption.
Jejomar tries double wash
political defense. Lets keep watching!
storMier era
Monster El Nio could usher in

decade of more and stronger events
By luc cohen
eW yORK, United States

(Reuters) In Buffalo,
it hasnt snowed yet this
year. A Duluth, Minnesota, newspaper reported that the
temperature was 40 degrees above
zero, not below. And in Miami,
beachgoers are staying indoors during whats already the third-wettest
December in local history. Whats
going on with the weather?
Its the phenomenon called El
Nio, which is happening now as
ocean water temperatures rise
above normal across the central and
eastern Pacific, near the equator. Its
effects will leave the US Northeast
warmer than usual, the Midwest
drier, and the West and the South
wetter. And scientists have a message for everyone bracing for one
of the strongest El Nio events on
record: get used to it.
While El Nio oscillates on a
more or less yearly cycle, another
dynamic in Pacific Ocean water
temperatures, known as the Pacific

Decadal Oscillation (PDO), has the
potential to accelerate global warming and increase the severity of El
Nio episodes, scientists said. The
last time the PDO was, as it may
be now, in a prolonged positive, or
war m phase, it cor responded
with two of the strongest El Nios
on record.
When you really have a monster
El Nio, it could be enough to flip
the PDO into a new phase for a decade or so, said William Patzert, a
climatologist at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Keep
your eyeballs peeled because maybe
were in for a decadal shift.
Previous warm phases have also
coincided with increased precipitation on the US West Coast, signaling
potential relief for California from a
severe drought.
Before Januar y of 2014, the
world experienced a 15-year period
of mostly negative values for the
Pacific oscillation, according to
data maintained by Nathan Man-
tua, an atmospheric scientist at the

National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administrations (NOAA) Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere
and Oceans.
That period saw only weak or
moderate El Nio events. During
the 21 years before that, the Pacific
oscillation values trended mostly
positive, a period that coincided
with the 1982-83 and 1997-98 El
Nio events, two of the strongest
on record.
Now, scientists are beginning
to wonder if the 15-year period of
relative El Nio calm is coming to a
close, marking the start of a warmer,
stormier era akin to the 1980s and
90s.
The PDO index has been positive for 22 months through October,
the longest such streak since a 26month positive period between 2002
and 2004. Scientists are not sure if
the current streak marks a longerterm turnaround or just a temporary
blip like the 2002-2004 streak.
Its more likely that well have
Climate activists
take tender
approach on meat
ARIS, France (Reuters)
Chances are that you believe
in climate change, but would
be furious if someone tried to
take away your steak.
Thats why activists at this years
UN climate summit in Paris are taking a gentle approach to tackling the
worlds greenhouse gas-intensive
love affair with meat, ranging from
offering lookalike plant burgers to
suggesting a gradual weaning off
animal protein.
This is one of the most delicate issues with climate protection, because
we all have our habits and diet is
something quite holy for some people,
not to be meddled with, said Jo Leinen, an omnivorous German member
of the European Parliament.
Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are focusing mainly on reducing
carbon dioxide output from industry in
order to limit global warming, rather
than on diet.
But the livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent of global
greenhouse gas emissions, through
cows producing methane and production processes comparable to all the
direct emissions from cars, planes,
ships, and other transport.
On the sidelines of the summit, one
American firm this week proposed one
answer in the form of its Impossible
Burger. Made entirely from plants,
the patty is intended to look and taste
identical to beef, and produces a similar smell when grilled.
Impossible Foods founder Pat
Brown said the burger, which costs
about $5 a pound ($11/kg) to produce
but should become cheaper, would
help many Americans to give up
meat.
The company is partly funded
by Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates and
Google Ventures. Google co-founder
Sergey Brin previously helped fund a
$300,000 beefburger created in a testtube at Maastricht University in the

Netherlands in 2013.
Elsewhere, a delegation from the
Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation was attempting to promote Jan. 11, 2016, as
a Day of Meatlessness.
It is just one day, but it will help
people think about the environmental, ethical, and health issues around
meat, and maybe it will grow, said
volunteer Lori Chen. We know you
have to move slowly, and be less forceful on issues of diet.
Often, it is a question of social
norms. In France, they take offense
if you dont eat meat, like you are
rejecting their culture, said Chen.
In China, you are emasculated if
you only eat plants, added Hanford
Lin, who works for the foundations
fundraising arm.
One person at the conference who
is decidedly not emasculated actor,
bodybuilder, and former California
governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
told reporters on Monday there was
no reason why vegetarians could not
achieve a muscular physique.
I have seen many bodybuilders
and lifters who are vegetarians and
get strong and healthy, he said.
I think it is a good idea, but... you
have to start slowly, you cant just
convince people to stop eating meat
altogether.
For now, though, meat consumption
is rising in the United States, China,
and elsewhere despite health warnings, most recently a World Health
Organization report that found eating
processed or red meat increased the
risk of developing cancer.
The British think tank Chatham
House says that merely applying
existing recommendations from
health bodies to limit meat consumption would generate a quarter of
the remaining emissions reductions
needed to keep global warming below
2 degrees Celsius, a key target of the
Paris talks.
a change in phase and well remain in

positive territory, said Kevin Trenberth
of the National Center for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder, Colorado, noting
that while a decadal shift was far from
a guarantee, the odds in favor are approximately 2-to-1.
In many ways, the weather of the 15
years before 2014 has resembled that
of the mid-1940s to mid-1970s, the last
prolonged period of a negative Pacific
oscillation cycle, with drought in the
American West and very few El Nios,
Patzert said.
The recent period saw several moderate La Nia events, a counterpart to El
Nio defined as cooler than normal sea
surface temperatures in the eastern and
central tropical Pacific that dumps rain
on Australia and Indonesia but leaves the
Southwest United States dry, including
episodes in 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2007-08
and 2010-11.
The warmer sea surface temperatures
in the northern Pacific during the

positive PDO phase tend to amplify El
Nios effects, Trenbirth said.
Several scientists said the current
El Nio could contribute to more
positive PDO conditions at the moment and in the future.
The key ingredient is the strong
El Nio, said NA SAs Veronica
Nieves, noting that strong episodes
have historically triggered decadal
shifts. She has submitted a paper to
an academic journal noting arguing
that the Pacific may be in store for
another 20 years or more of warmer
sea surface temperatures.
To be sure, the two-year period of
positive Pacific oscillation values that
happened from 2002 to 2004, which
saw weak and moderate El Nios,
is still fresh in scientists minds,
preventing them from being certain
that the world is truly on the cusp of
a decadal shift.
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and richard ValdManiS
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DoE 43rd Anniversary Special Supplement
Energy Center, Rizal Drive cor. 341h Street, Bonifacio Global

_ _ _ City, Taguig
Towards an Energy-Resilient Philippines

he Philippines ranks as one of the most vulnerable countries around the world
when it comes to natural and human-induced disasters. In terms of vulnerability
to climate change, the Philippines is on the 3rd spot according to a UN agency
study. There are about 19 typhoons visiting the country each year that bring about
multitude of other calamities, such as, flash floods, storm surges, and landslides.
Being located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, the country is also susceptible to the dangers
of strong and devastative earthquakes prompting a nationwide campaign, especially
in Manila and nearby provinces, to prepare for the so-called "the Big One."
llOW me to extend my sincerest

congratulations and support to our dynamic
officials and dedicated employees in the
Department of Energy (DOE), as well as our
attached agencies , as we celebrate our 43,d
Anniversary and observe the National Energy
Consciousness Month (NECM) with the theme:
Energy Resiliency for Sustainable Growth in
- ""--_............. advancing our mission towards "Energy Access
for More. "
Our goal of securing energy is now beyond discovering and
developing new and alternative sources . Recognizing this as a
formidable challenge, the earnestness to achieve this objective
of bringing continuous supply to our people needs a further step
by establishing an aegis to both existing and in coming energy
infrastructures and facilities through effective disaster risk-reduction
and response rules and regulations within the sector. The DOE
believes that this is a timely effort amidst the aftermath of several
natural disasters that hit the country in the past years.
Now more than ever, we vouch for stronger collaboration among
all energy stakeholders for faster recovery and rehabilitation of all
energy systems to sustain the progress of our country. I would also
like to commend the DOE officials and employees for upholding their
responsibilities to execute all programs and projects benefitting the
Filipino people. I am certain that your relentless hard work , which never
faltered for four decades now, will continue to bear future successes
for the Department exceeding across the entire energy sector.
Finally, let us assure our people that the DOE remains resolute and
united for the realization of our common goals by remembering every
time the noble job we shall always perform , as we jointly advance to
build a better nation.
Thank you and I wish you all Happiest 43,d Anniversary!
These unwarranted calamities certainly should not be aggregate energy intensity by 45% by 2035 from 2005 level.
taken for granted by anyone, as these do not only impede
In promoting clean energy use in energy poverty-stricken
continuous flow of energy supply, but have greater impact areas, the DOE is undertaking local energy planning within
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on economic growth and stability. Thus; the Department of the framework of the Philippine Energy Plan (PEP) to
Energy (DOE) has timely anchored its 43 rd Anniversary and address the unique requirements of these communities
observance of the 2015 National Energy Consciousness by taking into consideration the potential availability and
Republic of the Philippines
Month (NECM) on the theme "Energy Resiliency for supply of indigenous energy resources to meet their energy
t """', DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Center, Rizal Drive cor. 341h Street, Bonifacio Global
Sustained Growth."
requirements and concerns. Significant energy potential
City, Taguig
For 2015 alone, the government, through the DOE, exists to provide energy access to these communities
has been aggressive in calling out for resiliency of energy through the uptake of micro-grids, energy storage and their
t is my great honor to extend greetings to the
infrastructure and systems to all its local and foreign integration with renewable energy sources.
whole Department of Energy (DOE) family, its
attached agencies , industry stakeholders and
stakeholders. Energy resiliency as defined is the ability and
Complementing this initiative is the DOE's National
energy
consumers, as we observe the 2015
quality of energy systems and infrastructures to withstand Renewable Energy Program (NREP) which aims to
National Energy Consciousness Month and
extreme natural and man-made disasters, to recover and increase the share of renewable energy by threefold from
celebrate the 43,d DOE Anniversary.
return to normal conditions in a timely and efficient manner the 2010 level of about 5,000 megawatts (MW) to around
The DOE takes this opportunity to
and most specially, to build back better.
15,000 MW by 2030, which is given a stronger push with
reinforce the call for stronger policies, strategic
infrastructure development, and stringent
This advocacy was also strongly sounded off by the the recent issuance of Department Circular No. DC2015measures towards reaching "Energy Resiliency for Sustainable
DOE in international events, such as, the ASEAN Ministers 07-0014 on the policy of maintaining the 30% share of
Growth," as an inclusive mechanism that can be felt by the people
Energy Meeting in Malaysia, Singapore International renewable energy in the installed power generation mix.
from all walks of life. Let the government and its people strengthen
Energy Week, and the recently held 21 st Conference of The Household Electrification Project is one of the concrete
their partnership in protecting the country's energy resources for our
common interest to ensure their availability, security and prices are
the Parties in Paris. The biggest and most relevant call programs of the DOE using indigenous resources, such as
reasonable.
to action made by the DOE was during its hosting of the solar, micro-hydro and biomass to provide access, reliable,
Looking forward, I hope that we stride beyond what we have
12th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Energy Ministers' and sustainable clean energy in the hinterlands, far-flung,
already achieved , and continue to do so at the best of our abilities for
Meeting (APEC EMM 12) held last October 12-14 in Lapu- and off-grid areas.
the furtherance of both the sector and the people we serve. May this
celebration also bring fruition to our visions for the future generations.
Lapu City, Cebu. The Energy Ministers of the 21-Member
The Philippine energy sector is also one with the
Wishing you all a triumphant anniversary!
Economies, led by Philippine Energy Secretary Zenaida Y. international community in acknowledging the importance
Mabuhay!
Monsada, discussed the importance of energy resiliency in of public-private partnership. To promote ease in doing
business in the Philippines, the DOE has instituted
promoting energy security and sustainable development.
OIe-ASE .
The disaster scenarios have always been alarming. measures to streamline application and regulatory
In addressing these concerns, the DOE, through APEC, procedures, since administrative and permitting costs form
committed itself on four strategic goals to achieve energy- major part, and most of the time determines the execution
resiliency: Climate proofing of energy infrastructure; of these private-driven energy investments and projects. Round for upstream oil and gas industry.
Advancing emerging and cutting-edge energy efficient The latest initiative introduced by the DOE to facilitate the
Holistically, the DOE recognizes that achieving
technologies; Promoting clean energy use in energy processing of energy application is the Energy Virtual One energy-resiliency necessitates strengthened research
poverty-stricken areas; and Improving energy trade and Shared System (EVOSS). This is a web-based monitoring and development in the sector, wherein the government,
investment.
system that will be established among agencies involved in industry participants, and the academe have the opportunity
Climate-proofing of energy infrastructure entails the approval process of energy projects. It will also include to collaborate in searching for a firm approach towards this
vulnerability assessment of current infrastructure a database of the existing processes, forms and fees and goal. It is also imperative for the government to develop
standards, retrofitting of energy systems and facilities and other references that could be downloaded by the various and enforce new standards and specifications involving its
aspiration towards energy-resiliency.
installation of heightened security measures. As carbon stakeholders.
Likewise, all energy consumers must be engaged at all
emissions directly contribute to climate-change, one
The DOE likewise encourages investors to develop the
concrete program under this is APEC's Low Carbon Model untapped potentials of the country through the conduct times through the conduct of information, education and
of various investment fora, and providing avenues for communication campaigns to make them conscious on
Town (LCMT) Program.
During the last EMM 12, Mandaue City was declared investors to have an equal playing field by holding prudent and judicious use of energy. After all , consumers
as the chosen area for LCMT Phase 6. This entitles the transparent Competitive Selection Process on renewable are pivotal factor in finding and realizing the solutions for
city to a feasibility study grant to that will determine policy energy service contracts and Philippine Energy Contracting the country's energy challenges.
and program measures in realizing
its targets for green technology
opportunities particularly in buildings,
NATIONAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION
urban planning and transport sector.
Through the 46 years of the Rural Electrification Program (REP), NEA and its
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The results of the study can be
partner electric cooperatives (ECs) nationwide have made their strong influence
replicated in other cities of the country
on the socio-economic landscape of the Philippine countryside.
with the end goal of promoting lowSince its restructuring in 2004, NEA has instituted key measures and reforms
carbon communities.
and
undertaken major strides in ensuring good corporate governance,
Another was the implementation
guaranteeing
sound fiscal management and making sure of effectively
of cleaner and efficient fuels with
its
mandate
of totally electrifying the rural communities on an area
delivering
the mandatory implementation of
coverage basis.
Euro-IV/4 standards to petroleum
Below are some of the milestone achievements which the state-run
products sold in the market, which will
agency has reached in its history:
significantly reduce sulfur content and
emissions that contribute to climate
11.076 million consumer-connections are being served
change.
99.99% of the barangays have been electrified
To advance emerging and cutting 98% of the sitios have been energized (under the Aquino Administration's
edge energy efficient technologies ,
Sitio Electrification Program)
the DOE continues to lobby for the
Php33.205 billion loans have been extended to the ECs
passage of the Energy Efficiency and
1st government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) to be named
Conservation Bill, which provides
"Island of Good Governance" (2015)
ISO 9001 :2008 Certified (2015)
for fiscal and non-fiscal incentives
Commended by the House of Representatives through Resolution No.
for energy efficiency programs. The
157 adopted on December 2, 2014 for the mobilization of Task Force
agency will also be conducting public
Kapatid for Immediate Power Restoration and Rehabilitation Program
consultations for a comprehensive
Unqualified COA Opinion (2007-2014)
issuance
of
minimum
energy
Positive Net Margin (2004-2014)

performance standards (MEPS) to
100% Debt Servicing (2007-2014)

be issued by first quarter of 2016.
Environmental
Excellence Award ( 2013 & 2004)
The MEPS will be used to support
Most Outstanding Accounting Office (2014 & 2013)
the National Energy Efficiency and
Two-time Finalist in the United Nations Public Service Awards (2013 &
Conservation
Roadmap
20152012)
2030 (NEECAP). The forthcoming
1st GOCC/National Government Agency to be conferred as
publication of the NEECAP will guide
Performance Governance System - Institutionalized (2010)
cross-sectoral efforts in making the
Five Star Rating in Government Management Program (2008 & 2006)
whole economy energy efficient with
Recognized as NO.9 in Corporate Governance (2006)
related programs for the transport,
1st GOCC to implement e-NGAS (2005)
industry and building sectors; and
Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines Award (2010)
will definitely support the APEC
UP-NEC Best Customer Award (2007)
aspirational
target
of reducing
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The Philippines, through the Department of Energy, takes pride in hosting the 2015 AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial , Experts' Groups and related meetings on
energy.
Following the recently concluded 12th Energy Ministers' Meeting (EMM12) in Cebu with
the theme , "Towards an Energy Resilient APEC Community," the country is set to co-chair the
APEC-Task Force on Energy Resiliency with the United States.
The Task Force shall serve as a venue for sharing information, and capacity building ,
among others, to ensure energy resilient infrastructures and systems. Resiliency is the ability
to recover from natural and human-induced disasters, return to normalcy in the most efficient
manner and to build back better. The first meeting of the Task Force to be organized by the
US Department of Energy will coincide with the 50th APEC Energy Working Group (EWG)
Meeting this December in Hawaii .
On the same month, the DOE will spearhead a "Fossil Fuel Subsidy Peer Review" to
share its experience on removing inefficient fuel subsidies. Member Economies, like Chinese
Taipei, New Zealand, and the U.S ., have already signified their interest to attend this initiative.
The DOE , in cooperation with the Asia-Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC), will also
hold an Oil and Gas Security Exercise among APEC member economies to tackle measures
on how to improve responsiveness on emergency situations, such as oil supply disruptions.
Furthermore, the DOE has been granted with a US$100,070.00 by the APEC Budget
and Management Committee to conduct the "Workshop on Improving Energy Resiliency in
Off-Grid Areas" set before end of March 2016 to be implemented by DOE-Energy Policy and
Planning Bureau among APEC Member Economies . The Philippines proposed the project, in
which Australia , Chinese Taipei , Japan , Thailand , and the US have co-sponsored the project.
The project will result in a publication containing a set of guidelines, lessons learned , and best
practices in promoting resiliency in off-grid areas.
During the EMM12, the Ministers also issued the "Cebu Ministerial Declaration and
Instructions," in which the energy Ministers came up with a framework on energy resiliency
and directives to the APEC-Energy Working Group to formulate action plans that will
concretize the energy-resiliency vision .
The 21-Member Economies of APEC include Australia, Brunei Darussalam , Canada ,
Chile, People's Republic of China, Hong Kong , China; Indonesia, Japan , Republic of
Korea , Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand , Papua New Guinea , Peru , The Philippines, Russia ,
Singapore, Chinese Taipei , Thailand , The United States, and Vietnam.
APEC is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to leverage the growing
interdependence of the Asia-Pacific.
30 thousandth sitio and 11 millionth

household energized
With only a few months before the target completion of the government's Sitio
Electrification Program (SEP) , the National Electrification Administration (NEA)
has reported accomplishing the 30 thousandth energized sitio and the 11 millionth
household connection together with its partner-electric cooperatives nationwide.
NEAAdministrator Edita S . Bueno said these milestones reflect the "strengthened
partnership of the Agency and the electric cooperatives (ECs) in bringing power to a
majority of underserved sitios in the country and helping people in these communities
gain access to basic social services and enjoy livelihood opportunities."
The 30 thousandth sitio energized under the SEP is Sitio Malipayon in Sagay
City located within the coverage area of Northern Negros Electric Cooperative
(Noneco), while consumer Ms. Luisa Laguyo of Sitio Nompolia, Hungduan, Ifugao
was identified as the beneficiary of the 11 millionth household connection under the
coverage area of the Ifugao Electric Cooperative , Inc. (Ifelco).
SEP, which has a goal of electrifying 32,441 sitios by the first quarter of 2016,
is part of President Benigno S. Aquino Ill's Social Contract with the Filipino People,
and is included in the Social Reform Agenda of his administration.
The overall electrification target is to attain 90% electrification of households by
2017 , anchored on the Household Electrification Plan of the Department of Energy
(DOE).
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Party-lists order in ballots known today

P
By LESLIE ANN G. AQUINO
arty-list organizations will

know today their order of listing in the official ballots in the
May, 2016 polls.
This in view of the raffle that the
Commission on Elections (Comelec)
is set to hold for the order of listing of
party-list groups.
In Resolution No. 10025, Comelec
Chairman Andres Bautista said that a total of 185 party-list groups, including those
that have been approved by the commission; as well as those that were denied by
a Division but have pending appeals at the
en banc, will be included in the raffle.
The 101 party-list groups that were
already approved by the Comelec and
will be included in the raffle are: 1st
Consumers Alliance for Rural Energy
Inc. (1-CARE); Aagapay sa Matatanda
(AMA); Aangat Tayo (AANGAT TAYO);
Abakada-Guro (ABAKADA); Abang
Lingkod, Inc. (ABANG LINGKOD);
Abante Mindanao (ABAMIN); Abante Retirees Party-List Organization
(ABANTE RETIREES); Abono PartyList (ABONO); Abyan Ilonggo (AI);
Academicians, Students, and Educators
Alliance, Inc. (ASEAN); Act Teachers
Party-List (ACT TEACHERS); Acts
Overseas Filipino Workers Coalition of
Organization (ACTS-OFW); Adhikaing
Tinataguyod ng Kooperatiba (ATING

KOOP); Advocacy for Teacher Empowerment Through Action Cooperation
and Harmony Towards Educational
Reforms (A TEACHER); Agbiag! Timpuyog Ilocano, Inc. (Agbiag); Agri-Agra
Na Reforma Para Sa Magsasaka Ng
Pilipinas Movement (AGRI); Agricultural Sector Alliance Of The Philippines
(AGAP); Akbay Kalusugan, Inc. (AKIN);
Akbayan Citizens Action Party (AKBAYAN); Ako An Bisaya (AAB).
Ako Bicol Political Party (AKB); Alagaan Natin Ating Kalusugan (ANAKALUSUGAN); Alay Buhay Community
Development Foundation, Inc. (ALAY
BUHAY); Alliance of National Urban
Poor Assembly, Inc. (ANUPA); Alliance
of Organizations, Networks, and Associations of the Philippines (ALONA);
Alliance Of Volunteer Educators (AVE);
Alyansa Ng Mga Grupong Haligi Ng
Agham At Teknolohiya Para Sa Mamamayan, Inc. (AGHAM); Amepa OFW
Access Center Inc (AMEPA OFW); An
Waray (AN WARAY); Anak Mindanao
Party-List (AMIN); Anakpawis (ANAKPAWIS); Ang Asosasyon Sang Mangunguma Nga Bisaya-Owa Mangunguma,
Inc. (AAMBIS-OWA); Ang Kabuhayan
(ANG KABUHAYAN); Ang Matay
Alagaan (AMA); Ang Nars, Inc. (ANG
NARS); Ang National Coalition of Indigenous Peoples Action Na (ANAC-IP);
Ang Prolife (ANG PROLIFE); Ang Tao

Muna at Bayan (A TAMBAY); Angkla:
Ang Partido Ng Mga Pilipinong Marino,
Inc (ANGKLA); Anti-Crime And Terrorism Community Involvement And
Support, Inc. (ACT-CIS).
Anti-War/Anti-Terror Mindanao
Peace Movement (AWAT MINDANAO);
Append, Inc. (APPEND); Arts Business
And Science Professionals (ABS); Association for Development Dedicated to
Agriculture and Fisheries, Inc. (ADDA);
Association of Laborers and Employees
(ALE); Association Of Marine Officer &
Ratings, Inc (AMOR SEAMAN); Ating
Agapay Sentrong Samahan Ng Mga
Obrero, Inc. (AASENSO); Ating Guro
(ATING GURO); Bagong Henerasyon
(BH); Bayan Muna (BAYAN MUNA);
Buhay Hayaan Yumabong (BUHAY);
Butil Farmers Party (BUTIL); Cancer
Alleviation Network on Care, Education,
and Rehabilitation, Inc. (CANCER);
Central Luzon Alliance for Socialized
Education (CLASE); Citizens Battle
Against Corruption (CIBAC); Coalition
Of Association Of Senior Citizens In
The Philippines (SENIOR CITIZENS);
Confederation of Non-Stock Savings
and Loan Associations (CONSLA);
Construction Workers Solidarity (CWS);
Cooperative Natcco Network Party
(COOP-NATCCO); Democratic Independent Workers Association, Inc. (DIWA).
Dumper Philippines Taxi Drivers

Association (DUMPER PTDA); Federation of International Cable TV and
Telecommunications Associations of
the Philippines (FICTAP); Gabriela
Womens Party (GABRIELA); Global Workers and Family Federatrion
(GLOBAL); Isang Alyansang Aalalay
Sa Pinoy Skilled Workers (1-AALALAY);
Isang Pangarap Ng Bahay Sa Bagong
Buhay Ng Maralitang Kababayan, Inc.
(1-PABAHAY); Kabalikat ng Mamamayan (KABAYAN); Kabataan Party-List
(KABATAAN); Kabuhayan at Kabahayan ng mga Magsasaka (KAKASA
KA); Kaisahan ng mga Maliliit na
Magsasaka (KMM); Kalinga-Advocacy
For Social Empowerment And NationBuilding Through Easing Poverty, Inc.
(KALINGA); Kasangga Sa Kaunlaran,
Inc. (ANG KASANGGA); Katipunan ng
mga Guardians Brotherhood Inc (KGB);
Kusug Tausug (KUSUG TAUSUG);
Piston Land Transport Coalition, Inc
(PISTON); Lpg Marketers Association, Inc (LPGMA); Magdalo Para Sa
Pilipino (MAGDALO); Mamamayan
Tungo sa Maunlad na Pilipinas (MTM
PHILS); Manila Teachers Savings and
Loan Association (MANILA TEACHERS); Migrante Sectoral Party Of
Overseas Filipinos And Their Families
(MIGRANTE).
Movement for Economic Transfor-
Mar rejects revival of death penalty

By AARON B. RECUENCO
Presidential candidate Mar Roxas

has rejected the proposal to revive the
death penalty in the country, stressing that it is not a proven deterrent to
crime.
Instead, Roxas said the focus is
on ensuring that criminals are not
only arrested but are also being
convicted if they are found guilty of
committing the crime they are being
accused of.
The restoration of death penalty is
not the key to a successful anti-crime
campaign, said Roxas during the recent turnover of housing units in San
Juan City.
You may have the death penalty
law but if you cant catch criminals and
even if you arrest them and you fail to
present proofs because of lousy investigation, then thats useless, he added.
Roxas was reacting to the position

taken by his rival Davao City Mayor
Rodrigo Duterte who said that he was
inclined to restore the death penalty if
elected.
The tough-talking Davao City mayor
was also quoted as saying that he wants
a regular execution of criminals, especially those engaged in illegal drugs.
But Roxas has a different view
of addressing the countrys crime
problem. It is not the penalty, it is
the certainty of arrest and conviction
that is a sure deterrent to criminality, he said.
Roxas, during his term as Interior
and Local Governments secretary,
was the one who conceptualized the
Oplan Lambat-Sibat operations which
the Philippine National Police said
resulted in the reduction of the weekly
crime rate in Metro Manila by at least
60 percent.
Binay lashes back at Roxas

By ELLSON A. QUISMORIO
Vice President Jejomar Binay has

lashed back at Liberal Party (LP)
presidential candidate Mar Roxas following the latters insinuation that the
former was an expert in graft and
corruption.
According to the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) standard-bearer,
it would better serve Roxas to simply
explain his failures as an Aquino
Cabinet member than launch verbal
attacks.
Sagutin muna ang sinasabi naming pagkukulang niya. Binabaling niya
sa pagbintang (He should answer the
failures that we have pointed out. He
should not make accusations), Binay
told reporters at the sidelines of the
Galing Pook Forum at Ateneo de Manila
University (ADMU).
The past few weeks, the Binay camp

has highlighted Roxas faults as an
executive, particularly in his 16-month
tenure as Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC)
secretary.
The opposition faction has gone
so far as to blame Roxas for the current woeful state of the glitch-ridden
Metro Rail Transit (MRT)-3, saying
the Palace bet didnt lift a finger
to address the train lines brewing
problems.
Roxas also served for three years
as Department of the Interior and
Local Government (DILG) chief before President Benigno S. Aquino III
anointed him as his preferred successor
last July 31.
On Thursday, Roxas described
Binay as an expert in graft and corruption. The LP candidate added that
He also opposes the execution

of criminals which Duterte is openly
espousing. I will not allow summary
justice. What is this? Might is right?
That those who have guns will prevail?

If that is the case, then we should all go
back to the Dark Ages wherein the most
powerful prevails, Roxas added.
Unless the Supreme Court has ruled

with finality, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) must not delete the
name of independent presidential candidate Senator Grace Poe-Llamanzares
from the official ballot for the May, 2016
elections.
Sen. Francis Chiz Escudero,
Poes running mate in the upcoming polls, made the appeal as he
expressed anxiety over the poll
bodys First Divisions decision to
also disqualify the senator from the
presidential race.
Ruling 2-1, the First Division voted
to bar Poe from running for president
by canceling her certificate of candidacy (COC) in response to the separate
petitions of former senator Francisco
Tatad, De La Salle University professor
Antonio Contreras, and former University of the East law dean Amado Valdez
questioning the senators citizenship

and eligibility.
The r uling comes af ter the
Comelecs Second Divisions unanimous decision to cancel Poes COC in
response to the petition filed by lawyer
Estrella Elamparo who also sought to
disqualify her on the grounds that she
allegedly failed to meet the 10-year
residency requirement.
Poes lawyer George Garcia had
said they will file a motion for reconsideration on Dec. 15 or 16 before the
Comelec en banc.
Escudero said that despite the
unfavorable rulings by the Comelecs
two divisions, poll officials should
retain Poes name on the ballot since
she is still officially a candidate for
president.
Para sa akin dapat isama ang
pangalan ni Senator Grace hanggang
hindi nagbibigay ng pinal na desisyon
ang Korte Suprema tungkol sa mga
Surging poll
survey for
Duterte may
clinch for
him NPC
endorsement
By BEN R. ROSARIO
HOUSING FOR SAN JUAN CITYS POOR Liberal Party standard-bearer Manuel Mar
Roxas (2nd from right), Sen. JV Ejercito (left), San Juan Mayor Guia Gomez (2nd from left)
and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council Chairman Chito Cruz lead
the ribbon-cutting for the St. Joseph Ville in San Juan City which has 348 housing units
built for the victims of the Christmas blaze last year that left 2,000 families homeless.
(Kevin dela Cruz)
the 73-year-old former Makati City

mayor had personal experience on
the subject.
Binay explained in the for um
that graft had more to do with procedure while corruption involves
money.
The Vice President was speaking
as a lawyer. The difference between
graft and corruption is something clear
to lawyers and those who understand
and respect the law, Binays spokesman for political affairs, lawyer Rico
Quicho said.
This is something that is lost to
Sec. Roxas and the LP administration,
who do not respect the rule of law and
twist the law to advance their narrow
and selfish political agenda, he said.

Quicho also pointed at the track
record of the administration thats
backing Roxas, saying it doesnt
know how to improve the lives of poor
Filipinos.
(The administration) is not an
expert in improving the lives of 99
percent of Filipinos...Its expertise is
in ruining independent institutions
and misusing the law against political
enemies.
If you look back at the track record
of the administration that Roxas wants
to continue, it has failed to lift the poor
from poverty, provide food and jobs for
majority of Filipinos, Quicho underscored.
Poes name must not be deleted Chiz

By HANNAH L. TORREGOZA
mation and Righteous Opportunities

(METRO); Movement of Women for
Change and Reform (MELCHORA);
National Confederation of Tricycle
Operators and Drivers Association of
the Philippines (NACTODAP); OFW
Family Club Inc (OFW FAMILY); One
Patriotic Coalition of Marginalized
Nationals (1PACMAN); Partido Manggagawa (PM); Pilipinos with Disabilities
(PWD); Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta
(PBA); Sandigan ng mga Manggagawa
sa Konstruksiyon (SAMAKO); Sanlakas
(SANLAKAS); Sinag Tungo sa Kaunlaran (SINAG); Social Amelioration
& Genuine Intervention on Poverty
(1-SAGIP); Tanggol Maralita (TAMA);
Tinderong Pinoy Party (TINDERONG
PINOY); Tingog Sinirangan (TINGOG
SINIRANGAN); Trade Union Congress
Party (TUCP); Tribal Communities Association of the Philippines (TRICAP);
Ugnayan ng Maralita Laban sa Kahirapan (UMALAB KA); Una ang Edukasyon (1-ANG EDUKASYON); Union
of Nationalist Democratic Filipino Organization (UNIDO); and You Against
Corruption and Poverty (YACAP).
The Comelec started doing away
with the traditional alphabetical listing
of the party-list groups during the 2013
polls to stop party-list groups from jockeying for the first letters of the alphabet
or number 1.
petisyon na inihain laban sa kanya,

(For me, Sen. Graces name should
still be there until the SC has given a
final decision on the disqualification
cases filed against her), Escudero
said at the Cauayan City Leadership
Summit held in the province of Isabela.
Inuulit ko po na si Senator Grace
ay kandidato pa rin natin sa pagkapangulo (I repeat Sen. Grace is still
a candidate for president), the vice
presidential candidate said.
Escudero pointed out the four
cases have yet to be elevated before the
Comelec en banc and wont be final and
executory until the high court decides
on the case conclusively.
Apat na kaso yan at ang desisyon
dyan ay aakyat pa sa Comelec en banc.
Magdedesisyon ang en banc at hindi yan
magiging final and executory dahil may
panahon pa iakyat sa Supreme Court,
(Thats four cases and the decision has
to be elevated to the Comelec en banc.

The poll bodys en banc, however, will
not be final and executory because
there is still time to bring the cases
before the SC), said Escudero.
He reiterated, however, his disbelief
on the Comelecs swift move to decide
on Poes cases when it has yet to purge
the official list of names who are obviously nuisance candidates.
Escudero maintained that Poe is
a natural-born citizen and a resident
of the country, and thus, qualified to
run for the highest position on the land
based on facts, previous high court rulings and existing local and international
laws.
Nagtitiwala kami na kakampi
namin ni Senator Grace ang batas at
kakatigan ng Korte Suprema ang katotohanan at hustisya, (We are certain
that the law is on our side and that the
SC will side with truth and justice),
Escudero said.
As his popularity rating in poll

surveys continues to soar, Davao City
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte may still win
the endorsement of the Nationalist
Peoples Coalition (NPC) which had
previously shut its doors to the feisty
local executive.
NPC spokesman and Quezon Rep.
Mark Enverga disclosed that the
partys executive committee and senior
members have agreed to give Duterte
the opportunity to present his platform
and get an even chance for the partys
endorsement.
Appearing at yesterdays Usaping
Balita News Forum, Enverga said Duterte was originally scheduled to meet
partymen on December 16 but their conflicting schedules may not permit it.
Thus, the meeting may be reset after the holidays in January, presumably
as soon as the House session opens.
Envergas disclosure belied previous speculations that the NPC endorsement has been guaranteed to be thrown
to Senator Grace Poe.
Dutertes chances of being adopted
by the NPC were previously deemed
impossible as NPC officials noted that
he is not a serious candidate.
The party had previously met presidential hopefuls Vice President Jejomar Binay, Secretary Mar Roxas and
Poe to present their respective platform
of government and attempt to convince
party leaders to support them.
With many party leaders airing their
support for Poe, the senator appeared
to have the strongest chance of getting
the NPC endorsement.
In fact, Poe named Senator Vicente
Tito Sotto III and Valenzuela City
Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian as members
of her senatorial slate. She also took
Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian
for her spokesman.
Naging malinaw naman sa amin
ang pagsali ni Mayor Duterte sa
eleksyon. Dapat din na mabigyan siya
ng pagkakataon na makapagharap ng
kanyang plataporma sa NPC, Enverga
told reporters. (It became clear to us
that Mayor Duterte will run. It is just
proper to give him a chance to present
his program of government).
Asked if the same opportunity will
be granted to OFW Family Rep. Roy Seneres who is also running for president,
Enverga appeared non-committal.
Maybe we will discuss that after
the substitution deadline, the veteran
lawmaker said.
Enverga said the NPCs choice for
president and vice president will be
known prior to the start of the campaign
period next year.
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MILF UNITING
MNLF Moro
Islamic
Liberation Front
(MILF) Vice
Chair Ghazali
Jaafar (second
from right)
meets with
Moro National
Liberation
Front (MNLF)
founding Vice
Chairman
Abulkhayr
Alonto (second
from left)
and MNLFs
Council of 15
chosen chair,
Romeo Sema in
Sultan Kudarat,
Maguindanao,
last Saturday.
(Ali G.
Macabalang)
MILF brokers MNLF...

pioneers of the original MNLF agreed
that more pressure should be made to
compel the state into implementing the
peace agreements it had earlier forged
with the two revolutionary fronts.
Besides perceived lack of political
will by the government, the disunity
within MNLF ranks could have something to do with the shabby treatment
of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL)
in Congress, Jaafar said. Jaafar was
referring to the divided MNLF forces
of Nur Misuari, Abulkhayr Alonto, and
Muslimin Sema, who now all sit as
chairmen of their groups.
Alonto, MNLF founding vice chairman, had been elevated to the chairmanship by the original central committee, while Sema was installed as
chairman by the fronts Council of 15.
They had earlier made separate manifestations supporting MILF overtures
with the government for the passage of
the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law
(BBL). But the group of MNLF Founding Chairman Misuari has not been
joining their efforts.
Alonto attended the meeting here
with over two dozen members of the
MNLF Top 90 pioneers. Sema group
representatives were led by Romeo
Sema. But Misuari, who has an arrest
warrant in connection with the bloody
2013 Zamboanga City siege, failed to
send an emissary although he reportedly committed earlier to take part in
the meeting.
Jaafar and other speakers at the
meeting expressed doubt that the BBL
will be passed by Congress during the
Aquino administation.but Alonto said
there is still a chance that the bill will
be enacted before the May, 2016, polls if
the MNLF puts up a solid force with
the MILFs peace overtures.
Aziz Malaguiouk, a member of the
MNLF Top 90 pioneers, said they had
heard Senate and House lawmakers
noting the disunity of Moro leaders
on the BBL blaming during congressional sessions.
Jaafar said the MILF leadership
has created a committee with him as
chairman to broker moves to get the
fragmented MNLF groups together
to constitute greater pressure for the
government to carry out the provisions
of the Comprehensive Agreement on
the Bangsamoro (CAB) forged by the

MILF and the Aquino administration
on Mar. 27, 2014.
At a press conference at Saturdays
meeting here, Jaafar said the MILF is
considering other options if the BBL is
not enacted by Congress. One option, he
said, is a petition from both MNLF and
MILF to the United Nations seeking
implementation of the peace agreement. Renewal of armed struggle is a
remote possibility, he said.
OIC statement
In the wake of the moves of MILF
and MNLF leaders, the Organization
of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Friday
voiced grave concern on the fate of
the Mindanao peace process and the
BBL.
Known as the voice of the Muslim
world, the OIC brokered the peace talks
between the Government GPH and the
MNLF years ago and was an observer
in the talks between the Philippine
government and the MILF.
A statement posted on the OIC website said Iyad Ameen Madani, the OIC
secretary general, expressed grave
concern about the latest development
in the Southern Philippines peace
process and the difficulties the BBL is
facing in Congress.
In his statement, Madani said proposed amendments to the BBL would
reduce the Bangsamoro to an entity
similar to an ordinary local government unit.
We urge the government of Philippines and the lawmakers to ensure that
the BBL, which is now pending before
the Congress, will not come out different from the original BBL, he said.
He urged authorities in the Philippines, particularly legislators who
share the common goal at working
for peace and stability, not to let this
historical moment become another lost
opportunity.
On the other hand, we urge the
leaders of both the Moro National
Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to consolidate
their coordination and cooperation
through the Bangsamoro Coordination Forum (BCF) and to engage other
stakeholders in order to close ranks
and strengthen and consolidate their
cooperation and unity and maintain
Nona landfall seen...

prepare for the worst.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has
already ordered ships and the sea-going
public, particularly fishermen, to be barred
from traveling in areas under public storm
warning signals and listed the affected ports
as those in Catanduanes, Camarines Sur,
Albay, Sorsogon and Masbate, all located in
Bicol; Northern and Eastern Samar; Biliran,
Eastern Visayas, and Leyte.
Nona is expected to cut across Samar,
Masbate, Marinduque and Mindoro islands
before heading out to the South China Sea
near Manila early by Wednesday.
We should not underestimate the
dangers posed by this storm, OCD Chief
Alexander Pama told a meeting of rescue
officials.
Storm surges, or giant crashing waves,
were also a risk in some areas said Pama,
executive director of the National Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management Council
(NDRRMC).
Storm signals
PAGASA raised Signal No. 2 in Catanduanes, Albay, and Sorsogon inthe Bicol
Region and Ticao Island, Northern Samar,
and Samar in Eastern Visayas.
Storm Signal No. 1 was raisedin Marinduque, Romblon, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, and Masbate in Luzon; Biliran,
Leyte, Southern Leyte, and Northern
Cebu,including Camotes Island, in the
Visayas; and Dinagatprovince and Siargao
Island in Mindanao.
PAGASA said more areas could be
placed under storm Signal No. 1 by last night,
including Metro Manila.
Earlier, weather forecaster Shelly Ignacio said Nona has started to bring light to
moderate rains over these areas, particularly

Eastern Visayas.
The possibility that Nona will intensify
into a typhoon stays, as the storm continues
to gather strength from the sea, she also
said.
Landfall prediction
Nona could make landfall over the
Samar-Bicol area by this afternoon before
traversing some Visayas and Southern Luzon provinces, Ignacio explained.
Signal No. 1 may be hoisted over Metro
Manila by Monday evening or Tuesday morning as the outer cloud bands of Nona could
also reach the metropolis, she said.
By this morning, Nona will be at 140 km
east of Catarman, Northern Samar, and by
Tuesday morning at 65 km north of Romblon,
Romblon or at 150 km east-southeast of
Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro.
By Wednesday morning, it will be at 140
km west-northwest of Calapan City, and by
Thursday morning at 340 km west-southwest
of Calapan City.
By Friday morning, it is expected at 405
km east of Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.
Ignacio said Nona is expected to leave
the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR)
by Friday.
No sail policy
Yesterday, the PCG ordered that all kinds
of vessels should suspend trips in stormaffected areas while those passing through
places under the storm signal warning have
to discontinue their travel and disembark
their passengers at nearby ports.
The Coast Guard continues to strictly
implement the no sail policy during typhoons to prevent tragic accidents at sea.
Not even the small fishing boats are spared
their peaceful struggle for the common

cause, he added.
The OIC urged the leaders of the
both the MNLF and the MILF to
consolidate their coordination and
cooperation through the Bangsamoro
Coordination Forum (BCF). It asked the
MNLF and the MILF to continue their
struggle for the Bangsamoro through
peaceful means.
Meanwhile, the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission
(TJRC), an independent body created
by the government and MILF peace
panels to undertake a study and make
recommendations to address legitimate grievances of the Bangsamoro,
human rights violations, correct historical injustices and marginalization
through land dispossession, submitted
its report to the two panels. The TJRC
is chaired by Mo Bleeker.
Coronel appeal
The governments chief peace
negotiator Miriam Coronel had
earlier appealed to Filipinos to support passage of the proposed BBL by
exhausting all means to make lawmakers attend Congress plenary sessions
so that deliberations could finish before
Congress takes its Christmas recess.
We hope that you will help us contact all legislators and tell them to go
to the plenary floor and finish the interpellations on this proposed legislation.
Use whatever means you have such as
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, email
blasts, texts, or phone calls to urge your
representatives, Ferrer said during a
recent speaking engagement in Iloilo.
MILF chief negotiator Mohagher
Iqbal emphasized that the BBL is not
an ordinary piece of legislation. This is
based on the Framework Agreement
on the Bangsamoro and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro
which are peace accords signed by the
government and the MILF, he said.
The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) headed by Secretary Bai Yasmin Busran Lao, issued
recently an en banc resolution to reaffirm support for the proposed BBL.
The commission urged the Senate and
the House of Representatives to pass
the legislation before their Christmas
break.
The NCMF is under the Office of the
President like the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process
(OPAPP).
from such prohibition.
With the bad weather, PCG said it is
dangerous for fishermen to sail out to sea
because of the big waves and strong winds.
Stranded at ports
In Sorsogon, there were at least 100
vehicles stranded at Matnog port as of noon
yesterday, after the state weather bureau
raised the public Storm Signal No. 1.
The Office of the Civil Defense Bicol
(OCD) Bicol, headed by Regional Director
Raffy Alejandro, also reported 24 trucks, 13
buses, 8 cars, 600 passengers, and four vessels stranded in various ports in the region.
The Disaster Incident Management
Task Group (DIMTG) of the Sorsogon Police
Provincial Office (PPO) has been activated
and on full alert status.
Sr. Supt. Ronaldo Cabral, officer-incharge (OIC) of the Sorsogon PPO said, this
means all personnel of the police should
report to their respective duties and that all
leaves are cancelled except for sick leaves.
This is a standby for pre-emptive measures in case Nona worsens and directly hits
Bicol region, said Cabral.
Zero-casualty target
The government is eyeing a zero casualty goal amid intensified preparations
to deal with the impact of another tropical
storm in the country.
Presidential Communications Operations Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr.
said President Aquino is closely monitoring
the situation while concerned agencies have
been mobilized to step up storm preparedness measures to ensure the safety of the
people.
Mahalaga yung paghahanda natin
para maibsan yung maaaring pinsala nito
at ang pangunahing layunin pa rin ay yung
pagtatamo ng zero casualty para maging
ganap na ligtas ang buhay ng ating mga
195 nations unite in...
document that is effectively a blueprint

for how the world will tackle global
warming.
Negotiators sealed the deal after
changing provisions that would have
triggered a requirement that the agreement be approved by the US Congress,
where there are many lawmakers skeptical about a climate accord. They won
over developing nations at the last hour
by exempting them from obligations to
help pay the bill for confronting climate
change.
After the deal was approved, Nicaragua said it could not support the
agreement because it was lacking in
ambition. However, it didnt raise a formal objection, so it is still a party to the
Paris deal.
The deal calls for wealthy economies
such as the US and the European Union
to shoulder more of the burden, including
a pledge to channel at least $100 billion
a year to poor countries to help them
respond to climate change.
The deal also requires action for
the first time from developing nations,
including large emitters such as China
and India, to find ways to lower the trajectory of their emissions growth, even as
they attempt to lift hundreds of millions
of people out of poverty.
This is a good agreement, said
Prakash Javadekar, Indias environment
minister. This means that [everyone]
will act to mitigate the challenge presented by climate change.
Governments hope the deal will spur
a tectonic shift in global economic development, pushing countries away from
burning fossil fuels and toward a host of
newer technologies, including solar panels, wind-power turbines, electric cars
and more energy-efficient buildings.
In the coming decades the world will
have to say goodbye to coal, oil and gas,
said German Environment Minister
Barbara Hendricks.
The agreement is also supposed to
help poorer nations build new kinds of
infrastructure, from levees to cycloneresistant homes that will protect them
from rising sea levels, increased storm
intensity and other effects that scientists
link to climate change.
Governments have pledged to limit
the worlds warming from the dawn of
the industrial era to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit)
and to pursue efforts to limit warming
to 1.5 degrees.
Island nations and other countries
most vulnerable to climate change
insisted on mentioning the 1.5 degree
target, arguing that even 2 degrees of
warming would herald disastrous effects
for them.
Whether the agreement will work
fast enough to stave off the most damaging impacts of climate change is far from
certain. The world has already warmed
0.9 degree Celsius since the late 19th
century, the UN said.
The accords weak spot is it allows
nations to determine their own emissions reduction plans, immune from
challenges by other governments. That
was a compromise necessary to bring a
host of governments on board, including
the US, which would have been forced to
ratify an internationally-agreed emissions reduction plan in the US Senate,
where Republicans and a few Democrats
have staunchly opposed climate-change
legislation.
The first batch of those voluntary
plans, which were submitted by more
than 180 governments ahead of the Paris
conference, wont be nearly enough to
meet the 2 degree target, according to
the UN
A coalition of developed countries and
the poorest nations most vulnerable to
climate change insisted the deal require
governments to revisit their emissionreduction plans every five years. The first
review will occur in 2023. Paris is not the
end but the beginning of a path on which
the global community has agreed, said
Germanys Ms. Hendricks.
Joyful ministers
Cheering envoys from 195 nations

approved Saturday a historic accord in
Paris to stop global warming, offering
hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change and usher in an
energy revolution.
French Foreign Minister Laurent
Fabius ended nearly a fortnight of grueling UN negotiations with the bang of
a gavel, marking consensus among the
ministers, who stood for several minutes
to clap and shout their joy, with some
shedding tears of relief.
I see the room, I see the reaction is
positive, I hear no objection. The Paris
climate accord is adopted, declared
Fabius, the president of the talks.
Turning to a little green hammer with
which he formally gave life to the arduously crafted pact, he quipped: It may be
a small gavel but it can do big things.
It is a victory for all of the planet and
for future generations, US Secretary of
State John Kerry told his fellow envoys
in Le Bourget on the northern outskirts
of Paris.
PH hails landmark pact
The Philippines hailed the approval
of a landmark global agreement to
combat climate change, particularly
seeking a temperature limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius and financial support for
vulnerable nations, after nearly weeks
of negotiations in Paris.
Buoyed by the universal climate
rescue accord, the Philippines also expressed its resolve to fulfill its own pledge
to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions
as part of the international agreement.
The Philippines welcomes the Paris
agreement as it responds to President
Aquinos call at the start of COP21 for all
people to act and come to an agreement
that allows all voices to be heard and
takes into consideration the particular
situations of all the nations that have
taken this historic step to end decades
of deadlock and take decisive climate
change action, Presidential Communications Operations Secretary Herminio
Coloma Jr. said.
Coloma said the Philippines would
fulfill its intended nationally determined
contribution (INDC), committing to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions conditionally by 70 percent by 2030.
Climate activists
Over a thousand protesters converged in the Rajah Sulayman Park
in Roxas Boulevard, Manila yesterday
to express dismay over the recently
concluded climate change talks in
Paris.
Coming from different parts of Metro
Manila and nearby provinces, the protesters were led by the advocacy group
AGHAM in voicing their clamors against
the agreement reached in the COP21.
Dr. Giovanni Tapang, AGHAM chairperson, said the advocacy group which
led the protesters, the Paris agreement
reached in the COP21 made no mention
of the mandatory emission cuts on countries they consider as big polluters, such
as the United States.
Tapang said these countries are massive producers of fossil fuels which cause
high amount of pollution harmful to the
environment.
Kalikasan Peoples Network for
the Environment (Kalikasan PNE)
campaign coordinator Leon Dulce said
in a statement that the talks did not
even reach concrete plans to address
the major issues of climate vulnerable
nations such as the Philippines including agriculture, loss and damages, and
human rights.
Kalikasan PNE also lamented that
the debates in Paris became too simplistic, to the point of ignoring more
important issues such as the worsening
impact of climate change.
The global climate crisis is being
reduced to a simplistic debate on fossil
fuels, when the extreme climate impacts
that frontline communities are facing
are already happening, worsening, and
remaining unaddressed, Dulce said.
(With reports from Genalyn D. Kabiling
and Argyll Cyrus B. Geducos)
mamamayan (Our preparations are important to ease the potential storm damage and
our main priority is to attain zero casualty to
ensure the safety of our citizens), Coloma
said over government radio.
He said concerned agencies have already pre-positioned resources, including
food packs and medicines, in areas on the
path of the storm.
Classes suspended
In Albay, the Provincial Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Council
(PDRRMC) has suspended the classes in
all level in all areas of the province today.
Indoor and outdoor activities in connection with the month-long celebration
of Karangahan Festival have also been
suspended, said an advisory issued by Gov.
Joey Salceda.
Excursions, fishing at the seas of pacific are now also prohibited, Salceda said
as these moves are a countermeasure to
achieving zero-casualty.
Mayor John Bongat suspended Classes
in alllevelstoday in Naga City,while Governor
Migs Villafuerte cancelledthe same in the
whole od Camarines Sur.

Relief packs ready
The Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD) has prepositioned
relief packs in its field offices that could be
affected by the severe tropical storm.
As of Saturday, a total of P25,034,400.47
standby funds, 263,223 family food packs and
P185,670,882.86 worth of food and non-food
items are available at the field offices in Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol Region, Western
Visayas, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas,
and at the National Resource Operations
Center in Pasay City.
DSWD said the relief assistance is ready
to be provided as augmentation support to
local government units (LGUs) that will be
affected by the storm.
Metro rains
PAGASA said that Metro Manila could
experience light to moderate rains as early
as Monday afternoon or evening, becoming
moderate to heavy by Tuesday during the
storms closest approach to Metro Manila.
(With reports from Raymund F. Antonio,
Sarah Imperial and Genalyn D. Kabiling)
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Gen. Trias now Cavites 7th city

By ANTHONY GIRON
JUBILEE DOOR Most Rev. Socrates B. Villegas, archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, blesses and opens
the front Jubilee Door of the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag together with the
Dominican community marking the extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy in Manaoag, Pangasinan, yesterday.
(Jojo Rioza)
Bataan needs billions

for massive dredging
By MAR T. SUPNAD
HERMOSA, Bataan Although local

officials in the province have been doing
their best to solve the perennial flooding
problem in northern Bataan, experts said
there is still a need to conduct massive desilting of the Orani Channel an endeavor
that would cost billions.
Jopet Inton, a resident of this town and
staff member of Governor Abet S. Garcia,
said the Capitols efforts to remedy the
problem saw results this past year with
floods minimized.
However, Inton said there is a need
to conduct massive desiltation along the
Almacen River going all the way down to
the Orani Channel, where flashfloods are

blocked from flowing freely to Manila Bay.
Ginagawa na namin ito ni governor
pero ang problema lang ang yong Right of
Way (ROW) at pagbabagsakan ng mahuhukay na putik," (We have been doing this
with the governor and the problems are the
ROW and where to dump the spoillage),
said Inton, who has substituted Lou Narciso in running for mayor of this town.
Director Antonio Molano of the Department of Public Works and Highways
(DPWH) said that P100 million, a fund
secured by Rep Minia Roman, was just
implemented by the Northern builder
along Almacen river. It has however only
minimal impact due to the wide area of the
ENERAL TRIAS, Cavite

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) officially
proclaimed over the weekend this first-class municipality as a
component city and the seventh in this
province.
The proclamation was made at
past 8 p.m. of Saturday, following the
end of the Comelecs canvassing of
votes in the cityhood plebiscite which
resulted in 15,037 yes votes over only
490 no votes.
The city proclamation was made
by local election officer Armando C.
Vencilao, Comelec Provincial Supervisor Juanito V. Ravanzo Jr., Comelec
Region IV-A Director Juanito O. Icaro,
and Deputy Executive Director for Operations Bartolome J. Sinocruz.
In the presence of Mayor Antonio
Ony Ferrer, his younger brother
Sixth District Rep. Luis Jonjon
Ferrer, Vice Mayor Maurito Morit
Centeno Sison, councilors and other
constituents, the Comelec officials
affirmed the results of the plebiscite
making this municipality fondly
called GenTri as the countrys
145th city and this provinces seventh
after the cities of Cavite, Tagaytay,
Trece Martires, Dasmarias, Bacoor,
and the capital, Imus.
As expected, the turnout of voters
was low. Provincial Comelec Chief Ravanzo said that 11 percent of the voting
population had cast the referendum
ballots in 24 polling centers.
There are 132, 121 registered voters
in the municipalitys 33 barangays.Municipal Executive Assistant Romel D.
Olimpo, a voter himself, said that many
voters were in workplaces or schools
during the referendum day.
silted river.
For his part, Mayor Benjie Serrano said the local government
really needs more funds to solve
the flood woes and appealed to the
Department of Public Works and
Highways (DPWH) to coordinate
with them any dredging activities
in their town.
Project Engineer Arnold Ocampo,
designated by Molano to oversee the
P100 million project, voiced out the
same opinion, saying the Orani Channel needs more dredging and funds
to totally declog the heavily silted
waterway.
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New P9.13-B port

to rise in Cebu
EBU CITY (PNA) The construction of the P9.13-billion

Cebu International Containerized Port could start in
August next year and be completed in
the second quarter of 2019, a Regional
Development Council (RDC) 7 official
said.
Emmanuel Rabacal, RDC Infrastructure Development Committee
chair, said the feasibility study conducted by the Korean Export-Import
Bank has identified a 12-hectare site
of the new port in Tayud, Consolacion
town in northern Cebu.
Rabacal said construction of the
new port may be undertaken with the
use official development assistance
(ODA) financing.
The Department of Finance will
decide on the specific foreign funding
facility that will be availed of by the
Government of the Philippines (GPH),
the RDC 7 said.
Under an ODA funding arrangement, the Philippine government would
have to shoulder around P1.27 billion or
13 percent of the total project cost.

The donor, which has yet to be
identified, will shoulder P7.12 billion
or 87 percent of the total project cost,
Rabacal said.
He said the port will be completed
in 35 months.
The new international containerized
port in Tayud, Consolacion is expected
to decongest the existing Cebu International Port (CIP).
Rabacal said the feasibility study
chose Tayud, Consolacion as the most
ideal site for the new port because of its
available area for expansion since there
is no conflicting planned development.
RDC-7 recognized the need to
build a new and modern international
containerized port with bigger berthing
space and container yard.
The Cebu Port Authority has recorded an increase in the volume of
domestic and foreign cargo in recent
years.
From 21.4 million metric tons in
2009, this grew to 30.5 million metric
tons in 2013.
VIEW FROM THE PEAK As the fog clears from Osmea Peak in Barangay Mantalungon in Dalaguete, Cebu, locals
and tourists brave the cold early morning weather in photographing the majestic view that the highest peak in
the island of Cebu offers. Osmea Peak is located 1,000 meters above sea level. (Juan Carlo de Vela)
Disaster resiliency, heritage

preservation intertwined UP
By TARA YAP
ILOILO CITYDisaster risk reduction and management (DRRM)

is integral part of heritage preservation.
This was underscored during the recent 25th Conference on West Visayan
History and Culture that was organized
by the Center for West Visayan Studies
(CWVS), the cultural and historical
research arm of University of the Philippines (UP Visayas).
DRRM is a multi-discipline con-
IDEAL HOLY GIFT A trader fixes the cape of an image of the

Santo Nio at this long line of stalls at the Basilica Minore
del Santo Nio in Cebu. Business is brisk as both locals and
tourists consider the image of the Child Jesus as a fitting
gift for loved ones for Christmas. Sales are expected to rise
further next month as Cebu City and the province stage the
annual Sinulog Festival which is held in honor of the Santo
Nino. (Juan Carlo de Vela)
cern. This definitely applies to heritage

conservation, said Prof. Jorge Ebay,
UPV-CWVS director.
Ebay pointed out that this was what
happened to century-old churches that
were either destroyed or damaged by
the strong quake that hit Bohol and
Cebu in 2013, as well as heritage relics
and structures damaged by supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan) later that
year.
One of the papers presented during the late November conference
was Heritage and Resilience: A Survey of Cultural Heritage
Conser vation in Iloilo
City by Joyce Christine
Colon, a UPV-CWVS researcher. It primarily
discussed conservation
efforts undertaken along
Calle Real, the stretch of
road that symbolized the
rich economy of Iloilo
during the Spanish colonial period and early part
of the American colonial
period.
Colon urged that conservation efforts should not only fix the faade of
heritage structures, but should also
take into consideration the structural
integrity of the buildings, especially
from earthquakes.
For the first time, CWVS went beyond
its role as keeper of cultural and historical
materials in Western Visayas region.
With conference theme Spaces,
Places and Resilience in West Visayan
Culturescape, it answered the need
for more academic literature in understanding how natural disasters such
as Yolanda are becoming part of the
West Visayan way of life. The academic
papers presented tackled resilience as
cultural space; disaster in art space;
indigenous knowledge on resilience;
heritage sites and historic urban centers; and disaster resilience and local
communities.
Meanwhile, UPV-CWVS launched
the Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate
Change Adaptation Resource Hub last
December 3.
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Dark days, nights over

for Zamboanga City
AMBOANGA CITY (PNA) It

will be a bright, brownout-free
Christmas for this city after
all.
This after Omar Sahi, Zamboanga
City Electric Cooperative (Zamcelco)
president, announced Saturday the
approval by the Energy Regulatory
Commission (ERC) of a 10-year Power
Sale Agreement (PSA) entered into by
Zamcelco and the Western Mindanao
Power Corp. (WMPC).
The zero blackout is our Christmas
gift to the Zamboangueos, Sahi said
The PSA, which was approved
Friday, involves the purchase of 50
megawatts (MW) of power by Zamcelco
from WMPC of the Alsons Power Group,
which owns a 100-MW diesel-powered
power plant in Barangay Sangali, 25.34
kilometers east of City Hall.
Edgar Sevilles, Alsons Power Group
vice president and business manager
for diesel operations, said this development allowed Zamcelco to supply
power to the city starting yesterday, or
just hours after WMPCs 18-year PSA
with the National Power Corporation

(Napocor) expired.
Sahi credited Zamboanga Rep. Celso Lobregat as being instrumental in
the approval of the PSA by the ERC.
Sahi said Zamcelco would now have sufficient power to meet its peak load demand
of 85-MW with the approval of the PSA
between the cooperative and WMPC.
He said that, at present, Zamcelco is
being supplied by the Napocor and two
Independent Power Producers (IPPs)
namely Therma Marine, Inc. (TMI) and
Mapalad Power Corporation (MPC).
Despite this, Zamcelco still had a
power deficit of 29-MW since the cooperative was receiving only a total of
56-MW from the three power suppliers,
thus, necessating the seven-hour daily
rotational blackout.
He said Napocor supplies Zamcelco
with 20-MW while TMI provides 18-MW
and MPC also 18-MW.
He said the approval of the PSA
was timely since Zamcelco will have
a projected peak demand of 95.3-MW
in 2016.
ASG member with string

of criminal cases arrested
By NONOY E. LACSON
ZAMBOANGA CITY Police and

military authorities arrested in this city
a member of the notorious Abu Sayyaf
Group (ASG), who is facing a string of
criminal cases for kidnapping and illegal
detention.
Culianan Police Station Chief Sr.
Insp. Elmer P. Solon said a combined
team composed of police and military
personnel swooped down on the suspected hideout of Basir Kadir Juljani,
alias Abu Omar, 37, and arrested him in
a remote area of Barangay Sangali.
Solon said Juljani was arrested about
5:30 p.m. Saturday at his hideout without
the suspect putting up any resistance to
the government group.
The police chief of Culianan said Juljani is facing at least seven cases for kidnapping and serious illegal detention.
The warrant for the arrest of Juljani
was issued by Judge Leo Jay T. Prin-
cepe, presiding judge of Branch 1 of the

Ninth Judicial Branch in Isabela City,
Basilan province on January 28, 2008.
Solon said he and his men had no
idea that the fugitive that they were going to serve the warrant to was on such
a high-profile ASG member.
Juljani was immediately brought to
the police station of Culianan for documentation before turning him over to
the proper court for disposition.
The police in this
city are still on hot trail
of other suspected ASG
member who are said to
have come to the city to
evade arrest in Basilan
and Sulu.
They also strengthensd their intelligence
network to boost their
search for ASG who are
wanted and are in this
city hiding.
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SHOE
CRAFTSMAN
Mang Eddie, as
he is popularly
known in the
community,
goes about
his daily job of
repairing old
shoes at his
usual spot at
the Rizal Park
in Davao City,
right across
the San Pedro
Cathedral
which is
shown in the
background.
(Alexander D.
Lopez)
Cop killed, another wounded

in Bukidnon ambush by NPA
By MIKE U. CRISMUNDO
BUTUAN CITY A policeman was

killed while another was wounded
when they were ambushed Saturday
by an undetermined number of heavily
armed men believed to be communist
New Peoples Army (NPA) rebels at
the outskirts of Pangantucan town in
Bukidnon province, a sketchy report
reaching this city yesterday said.
A flash report said PO3 Gerardo C.
Luceno of the Pangantucan Municipal
Police Station (MPS) was killed on the
spot while his colleague PO2 Gerome
Luzano was wounded.
Luzano was immediately brought
to the Maramag Hospital for medical
treatment.
According to the report, the two
policemen were on board a patrol jeep
and were on their way to Barangay
Eden where they were supposed to
respond and investigate a fire incident
when the ambush was pulled off by the
insurgents.
The Police Regional Office-10 (PRO10) based at Camp Alagar in Cagayan
de Oro City said the assailants imme-
diately fled after the ambush.

As of press time, elements of the
Pangantucan MPS and Bukidnon Police
Provincial Office, supported by the First
Special Forces Battalion of the military,
are now conducting pursuit operations.
Air assets of the Philippine Air
Forces (PAF) Tactical Operations
Group (TOG 10) have also been placed
on standby alert for possible air support
to the pursuing troops in Bukidnon.
Marine, militiaman
nabbed in drug raids
ZAMBOANGA CITY Five
persons, including a Philippine
Marine and a government militiaman, were arrested during
simultaneous raids conducted
by police operatives in suspected drug dens in a village
in Recodo, west of this city,
Friday night.
Policemen, led by Supt. Ariel
Huesca, chief of the Zamboanga
City Public Safety Company,
went on the simultaneous raids
in three areas of Recodo around
11 p.m.
Huesca said they first
swooped down on a suspected
drug den located at Dacon Access Road and arrested Marine
Sgt. Alnadzry Ibnohasim Dacumos, 36, married, of Purok 6 in
the said village.
They also arrested Han Julkanain Albani, a team leader

of the Special Civilian Armed
Auxiliary Unit assigned at Dacon
Outpost in the village.
The three other suspected
drug offenders were collared
in the other raids conducted in
Recodo.
Huesca said his team will
continue to comb the village and
arrest drug dealers and users
in an effort to make the village
drug-free.
He said the confiscated shabu
will be turned over to the police
crime laboratory in this city for
examination and the result will
be used as evidence for the filing
of appropriate charges in court
against the suspects. (Nonoy E.
Lacson)
Lumad youth leaders to hold

peace, development summit
BUTUAN CITY Lumad
youth leaders from various parts
of Northeastern Mindanao (Caraga region) will hold a three-day
Indigenous Peoples (IPs) Youth
Leadership Summit (YLS) from
December 18 to 20 at the Tiberias Retreat House in Carmen
town, Agusan del Norte.
Among the objectives of the
summit is to empower and develop the lumads youth leadership
potential and transform them to
become responsible citizen, productive in their respective highland communities and catalyst
for peace and development.
Participants will include 50
youth leaders from the 23 holders of the Certificate Ancestral
Domain Title (CADT) coming
from the five major ethnic tribes
at various highland communities
in Caraga region.
The event is being initiated
by the Fourth Civil Military Operations (4th CMO) of the AFP
Northeastern and Northern
Mindanao Fourth Infantry (Diamond) Division (4th ID). It is also
fully supported by the Philippine
Information Agency (PIA 13).
Speakers in the event include
top officials from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department
of Trade and Industry (DTI),
National Communities and Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), Department of Education (DepEd),
Department of Environment
Natural Resources (DENR),
top AFP commanders, religious
sector and some from various
line agencies of the government.
(Mike U. Crismundo)
PRO-13 warns against

using police plates
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City The Philippine National Police (PNP)
yesterday issued a stern warning
to all its officials and personnel
and civilian motorists from using
license plates with police emblazoned on them.
This, after the Police Regional
Office 13 (PRO-13) took note of
the rising number of policemen
and civilians who have replaced
their regular license plates with
the police plates as a way to skirt
traffic rules, especially during the
Christmas holiday rush.
It warned that those caught using these plates could be charged
with violation of Article 179 of the

Revised Penal Code or the illegal
use of insignia.
The law penalizes those who
shall publicly and improperly
make use of insignia, uniforms or
dress pertaining to an office not
held by such person or to a class
of persons of which he is not a
member.
It carries with it a penalty of imprisonment of at least six years.
The higher command of the
PNP said the police personnel must take the lead role in
this policy which has also been
abused by criminals. (Mike U.
Crismundo)
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TIP dribblers
make history
ufc
McGregor
KOs Aldo
in 13 secs.
LAS VEGAS (AP) Conor

McGregor backed up every word he
ever said to Jose Aldo with one spectacular punch.
McGregor stopped Aldo with a left
hand to the jaw just 13 seconds into
the first round Saturday night, claiming the undisputed featherweight title
at UFC 194.
McGregor (19-2) finished the fight
with an electrifying exchange shortly
after the opening bell, slipping Aldos
lead right and cracking the champ with
his formidable punching power.
Aldo (25-2) actually finished his
punch and hit McGregor with a left,
but the champ fell senseless to the
ground. McGregor pounced, only to be
pulled off in victory.
Aldo had won 18 consecutive fights
over the last 10 years, but not even
By CHRISTIAN JACINTO
Games today
(faItH Gym, tanauan)
2 p.m. tIp vs uV
4 p.m. Nu vs usc
Conor McGregor lands a crackling left to Jose Aldos jaw to win the main event of UFC 194 in
just 13 seconds. (AP)
the UFCs greatest 145-pound fighter

could survive McGregor.
The loquacious Irish brawler goaded Aldo throughout the promotion of
their delayed bout, only to earn a victory that was even more dramatic than
he predicted. McGregors victory was
the fastest title fight in UFC history,
surpassing Ronda Rouseys 14-second
win over Cat Zingano at UFC 184 in

February.
Precision beats power, and timing
beats speed, McGregor said. Jose
was a phenomenal champion. He deserved to go a little bit longer, but I
still feel at the end of the day, precision
beats power and timing beats speed.
Thats what happened.
echnological Institute of
the Philippines (TIP) continued its amazing run in
the 2015 National Collegiate
Championship as it claimed a spot
in the Elite Eight with a masterful
86-67 victory over Lyceum Northwestern University in the LuzonMetro Manila qualifiers yesterday
at the FAITH Gym in Tanauan City,
Batangas.
After sweeping the Metro Manila eliminations with pulsating wins
over fancied Mapua (70-64) and St.
Clare (62-59), the Engineers had little
trouble dispatching the
winners of the NorthCentral Luzon qualifiers
to move into the stepladder phase of the tournament the first in school
history.
Versatile
forward
Jorey Napoles, who is
slowly rising as one of
the top players to watch
outside of the UAAP and
NCAA, finished with 12
points, eight rebounds
and three assists in another solid outing as the
NCBL runner-up TIP
squad arranged a match
with Visayas-Mindanao
winner University of
the Visayas today at the
same venue to kick off hostilities in the

Elite Eight. Gametime is set at 2 p.m.
National University completed
the Elite Eight cast when it trounced
South Luzon-Bicol winner Olivarez
College, 69-57, in the second game.
Rookie Tzaddy Rangel dominated
the shaded line to finish with 14 points
and five rebounds in limited minutes
to help the Bulldogs reach the next
phase.
NU will take on CESAFI champion
University of San Carlos in the second game of todays doubleheader at
4 p.m.
A stepladder format will be used in
the Elite Eight with the UV-TIP winner
advancing to face NCAA bridesmaid
San Beda tomorrow at The Arena in
San Juan while UAAP runner-up University of Santo Tomas battles either
NU or USC.
UAAP champion Far Eastern University and NCAA titlist Letran are
already assured of slots in the third
phase of the stepladder.
Unlike in their first two wins where
they needed to rally to snatch the win,
the Engineers of Coach Potit de Vera
led from start to finish this time.
After posting their first double-digit
of the game at the break, 42-30, the Engineers came out with more intensity
in the second half behind the exploits
of Napoles, Nino Ibanes and Terrence
Tumalip to scuttle repeated attempts
by Lyceum.
The Engineers continued to attack
mercilessly and force turnovers from
the shocked Dukes as they eventually
took a 20-point lead, 82-62, following a
Napoles jumper with 3:30 remaining.
motorsports
San Andres secures

8th Rider of Year plum
Multi-titled rider Kenneth
San Andres of Kawasaki-JBS
Philippines received his eighth
straight Rider of the Year title
during the 2015 National Motorcycle Sports and Safety Association (NAMSSA) Gala Awards
Night at the Speedworld MX
Circuit, SM Bicutan recently.
After the final leg of the series held under the auspices of
NAMSSA, headed by its president Macky Carapiet, San Andres was crowned overall champion of the Pro Open (MX1) at
Pro 125 (MX2), leading his rivals for the honor by a mile.
Thank God that I am still
the MX Rider of the Year. All my
hard work and sacrifices have
finally paid off. This wouldn't
be possible without the support
of my family, sponsors, and my
girlfriend AJ Victoriano, said
San Andres, who began his

streak of NAMSSA Philippine
National Motocross Rider of the
Year titles in 2008.
The Kawasaki rider is
backed by Foilacar Industries,
KIA Global, Motul Philippines,
Oakley Philippines, Troylee Design, GoPro Philippines, Leatt
Neck Brace, Pro Taper, Bell Helmet, Bridgestone Tires, Polisport, Laus Auto Group, R33 Car
Exchange, Xotics Carwash, Halrey, GCG Pipe, JBS Motorcycle
Parts, JM Stickers and General
Manager Mark Lapid.
An awardee for motocross
of the Philippine Sportswriters
Association (PSA) last year, San
Andres is actually coming off a
sweep of both the Pro Open and
Pro 125 categories of the national series, also at the Speedworld.
Kenneth San Andres (center) receives his eighth straight Rider of the Year
title from NAMSSA President Macky Carapiet. At left is San Andres' girlfriend
AJ Victoriano.
uaap jrs.
NU sweeps 1st round elims

National University used a
strong second half to turn back
defending champion Ateneo, 7360, and complete a first round
sweep in the UAAP juniors basketball tournament last Saturday at the Blue Eagle gym.
Justine Baltazar imposed
his will in the paint with 18
points, 16 rebounds and five
blocks while John Lloyd Clemented also made 18 markers
as the Bullpups improved to a
perfect 7-0 record entering the
midseason break.
NU also held Ateneo star
Jolo Mendoza scoreless in 15
minutes while dealing with a
knee injury to prevail in their
first meeting since the Blue Ea-
glets won the finals last season.

Ateneo dropped to a tie for
second with La Salle-Zobel,
which earlier lost 79-66 to the
Adamson Baby Falcons.
EJ Agbong dominated the
Junior Archers for 20 points and
15 rebounds as the Baby Falcons
stayed tied for fourth with the
Far Eastern University-Diliman
Baby Tamaraws at 4-3.
FEU-Diliman
thrashed
University of Santo Tomas, 6140, while UP Integrated School
overpowered University of the
East, 104-69, for its first win of
the season.
The tournament resumes
on Jan. 9 for the start of the second round.
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Nba
MEGA-BUCKS
End Warriors record start
COMPLETE RESULTS
L.A. Clippers 105, Brooklyn 100
Boston 98, Charlotte 93
Detroit 118, Indiana 96
San Antonio 103, Atlanta 78
Chicago 98, New Orleans 94
Houston 126, L.A. Lakers 97
Washington 114, Dallas 111
Milwaukee 108, Golden State 95
New York 112, Portland 110
A Milwaukee Bucks fan holds a 24-1 shirt after her favorite team dealt the Golden State Warriors their first loss of the NBA season with a
108-95 victory. (AP)
Caida reaches finals

basketball
teNNIs
Villamor tops
Peugeot meet
Alberto Villamor and Edilyn Balanga bested their respective rivals in
contrasting fashion to rule the Nueva
Ecija leg of the Peugeot Philippines
Tennis Open (PPTO) held recently in
Cabanatuan City.
Villamor, a former La Salle standout, recovered from an opening-set loss
and defeated Baguios top player Jet
Tangalin, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, to claim the mens
singles title even as Balanga, ranked
No. 6 in the country, swept Marinel Rudas, 6-3, 6-4, to cop the womens crown.
Villamor managed to keep his composure following a marathon semifinal
match against Vince Salas that lasted
two hours and 40 minutes the day before and engaged Tangalin in long rallies to emerge triumphant.
Balanga and Rudas, meanwhile, set
aside their singles rivalry and teamed
up for a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Hannah
Espinosa and Erika Manduriao for the
doubles crown.
Salas, for his part, partnered with
Al Michael Madrio in beating John
Mari Altiche and Kyle Parpan, 6-3, 6-1,
for the mens doubles title.
The Nueva Ecija leg has been
our most exciting leg yet, with the
participation of some of our countrys
top tennis players who displayed their
skill and talent in the court, said Glen
Dasig, Peugeot Philippines President.
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Lim loses
in doubles
By KRISTEL SATUMBAGA
After his first round exit in singles

competition, top local junior netter AJ
Lim fell short again in his title bid in
doubles as he and Egyptian partner
Youssef Hossam lost to Turkeys Ergi
Kirkin and Australias Alexei Popyrin,
6-7 (6), 6-3, 13-11, in the Metropolia Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships yesterday in Florida.
The Filipino-Egyptian duo appeared
to be on the right track after taking the
fiercely-fought opening set but they lost
steam at crunch time.
Despite the loss, Lim expects his
International Tennis Federation (ITF)
rankings to improve by next week. The
tournament is rated Grade A, which is
similar to the Grand Slams.
Prior to the defeat, Lim and Hossam downed Frances Elliot Benchetrit and United States Alexis Canter,
6-2, 7-5 (5), Russias Alexey Aleschchev
and Romanias Calin Manda, 6-4, 6-3,
and second seed Jurabek Karimov of
Uzbekistan and Stefanos Tsitsipas of
Greece, 7-5, 1-6, 11-9.
Lim lost to Slovenian qualifier Sven
Lah, 7-6 (4), 6-3, in the first round.
The 16-year-old Lim is currently
ranked No. 24 in the world juniors. He
tries to get as many ranking points
as he can as he gears up for the first
Grand Slam of the season the Australian Open slated late next month.
Caida Tiles outlasted Euro-Med in

a fierce shootout, 75-69, and secured
the first finals berth in the PCBL
Founders Cup on Saturday night at the
JCSGO Gym in Cubao.
The Tile Masters leaned on a wellbalanced attack and a sticky defense
on Mar Villahermosa and Paul Zamar
to complete a sweep in their best-ofthree semifinal series.
Villahermosa, Euro-Meds most
consistent player, missed all of his six
attempts from the field and made only
two of four free throws to end up with
just two points.
But the biggest letdown was Zamar, who was held scoreless in 17 minutes of action.
With their defense clicking, the Tile
Masters were able to hold their rivals
to the lowest production in a quarter
three points in the second frame to

pull away for good, 40-25.
Ford Ruaya led Caida with 14
points and seven rebounds while Jiovanni Jalalon added 12 points and four
assists in a fitting follow up game to his
solid performance in Game 1.
Caida Tiles will have to wait for
the winner of the Jumbo Plastic and
Sta. Lucia Realty, whose series is now
down to a no tomorrow encounter after
the Linoleum Giants turned the tables
in Game 2, 72-65.
Ex-pro James Martinez sizzled for
21 points which he highlighted with
three triples and was supported by former Kia swingman Alvin Padilla (12)
and Jaymo Euigilos (11).
Jumbo Plastic also did a great job
shutting down the high-scoring Mac
Montilla, who struggled for six points.
ILWAUKEE (AP) The

Golden State Warriors
walked slowly off the
Bradley Center floor, exchanging handshakes with the victori
victorious Milwaukee Bucks on the way back
to their locker room.
Theyre not used to losing.
The Warriors NBA-record
start ended after 24 wins when
they lost to the Bucks 108-95 on
Saturday night.
We didnt have it tonight,
interim coach Luke Walton said.
Thats why it is so hard to do
what these guys have done so far.
It caught up to us.
Golden State fell to 24-1. Its 28game winning streak, counting the
final four games of last season, came
to a halt. The NBAs longest winning
streak was 33 by the Los Angeles Lak
Lakers in 1971-72 and it was also snapped
by Milwaukee.
Well, we knew the streak had to
end at some point, the Warriors posted on their Twitter account.
It was the way they lost that was a
little surprising. This was no squeaker
at the buzzer, but a Bucks runaway at
the end.
Greg Monroe scored 28 points for
the Bucks, who got the all-around effort needed to beat the defending NBA
champions.
When you talk about the streak,
whats bigger than the streak is theyre
the world champs, coach Jason Kidd
said. And so, for us, we didnt talk
about the streak, it was about playing
the world champs.
It also helped that the Warriors,
perhaps fighting fatigue after needing two overtimes to win at Boston on
Friday, were cold from 3-point range.
They usually make 13 a night, but were
just 6 of 26 from behind the arc playing on the final game of a seven-game
road trip.
Stephen Curry had 28 points on 10of-21 shooting from the field, including
2 of 8 from 3-point territory.
Not good enough to get past the
Bucks, who led by double digits for
much of the night before the Warriors

cut it to a point a couple times.
In each instance, there was a sense
of inevitability that Golden State somehow would go on one of its breakneckspeed runs to put away another opponent.
But the Bucks had an answer each
time.
We never wavered, Monroe said.
He was 11 of 16, including a threepoint play with 2:51 left for a 12-point
lead.
Warriors star Stephen Curry looks down in

disbelief after the loss. (AP)
Michael Carter-Williams strong

drive down the lane and dunk with 42
seconds left put an exclamation point
on Milwaukee's night.
We showed some spurts to get
back into the game. We got some
stops, Curry said. But for 48 minutes, I dont think anybody can say we
played as hard as they did.
Giddy Bucks fans at the packed
Bradley Center erupted with cheers
after the final buzzer. A raucous Bucks
cheering section proved prophetic after wearing green 24-1 shirts to the
game.
basketball
San Beda, CKSC outplay PSSBC rivals

By CHRISTIAN JACINTO
San Beda College launched its title-retention bid on a high note while
Fil-Chinese teams Chiang Kai Shek
College and Xavier School made
strong statements with impressive
wins in the opening of the 4th Philippine Secondary Schools Basketball
Championships (PSSBC) Jumbo Plastic Linoleum Cup last Saturday at the
San Beda Gym in Manila.
Fresh from winning a record 7th
straight and 22nd overall crown in the
NCAA, the Red Cubs leaned on a huge
fourth quarter performance to turn
back Hope Christian High School, 8874, in a win that augured well to their
desire to become the first back-to-back
champions of the tournament.
The CKSC Blue Dragons used the
absence of NCAA MVP Mike Enriquez
to their advantage to crush the Mapua
Red Robins, 77-56, while the Xavier
Stallions drew 33 points from Tyler Tio
to nip the NCAA runners-up Arellano
Braves, 84-81.
Also getting off to a good start was Lyceum which downed Manila Patriotic School,
77-68, in the tournament also sponsored by
Dickies Underwear, Freego, Ironcon Builders, MEC Networks, Hapee Toothpaste,
Blackwater Sports and Rain or Shine with
Molten as official ball.
Prince Etrata and Germy Mahinay
delivered big numbers for the Red Cubs
as the two combined for 12 points in the
final 10 minutes to turn what started a
close contest into a runaway win.
Etrata led San Beda with 14 points
while four other teammates added
9 points or more with Mahinay and
NCAA Finals MVP Evan Nelle contributing 12 and 11 points, respectively.
Andre Oczon fired 13 of his 20
points in the second period as the Blue
Dragons took a 42-27 lead, enough to
unsettle their rivals.
Ryan Quiambao and Harvey Pagsanjan scored 18 and 16 points, respectively, for Hope but their lack of depth
was clearly exposed by an obviously
Jumbo Plastic Linoleum owner Jimmy dela Cruz (center) poses with Mapua and Adamson
players during the opening ceremony of the 4th PSSBC Jumbo Plastic Linoleum Cup yesterday
at the San Beda College gym. Also shown are special guest and FEU coach Nash Racela,
PSSBC Directors Rudy Yu of Dickies Underwear (2nd from right) and Freegos Eduard Tio (far
right), Blackwater Sports representative Welbert Loa (3rd from left) and Hapee Toothpastes
Bernard Yang (4th from left) and Ironcon Builders Robert Sy. (Bob Dungo Jr.)
deeper San Beda squad.

Trailing by seven at the half, the
Junior Pirates went to Ian Salazar
who drained timely threes that helped
them took a 53-50 lead heading into the
final 10 minutes. and take control of

the game for good.
Generoso Cecillo led the Junior
Pirates with 21 markers while Salazar had 18, all coming from threes.
Golf
Katsarugawa rules Southwoods Chairmans Cup

Fil-Japanese Yuto Katsarugawa
fired a three-under 69 to capture the
overall gross crown in the Manila
Southwoods Chairmans Charity Cup
at the Masters course in Carmona,
Cavite over the weekend.
Katsarugawa, one of the members
of Team Southwoods that finished
runner-up in the recent Fil-Am Invitational in Baguio, came through with a
couple of scrambling pars to complete
his bogey-free stint at the hazard-laden layout and edge Brixton Aw by two
softball
Makati raps
Nueva Ecija
Makati City dominated Cabiao,
Nueva Ecija behind its superb hitting
to score a 7-0 win while Pampanga
rebounded from a stinging setback
to Miriam College with a 10-5 victory
for top honors.

Aw, who carded a 71, took the mens
Division I title.
Vic Conanan, a 21-handicapper,
turned in a five-over 77 to snare the
overall net plum with a 56 in the annual staging of Manila Southwoods premier tournament presented by Bangs
Tony & Jackey Salons.
Jayson Yu shot a net seven-under
65 worth 43 points to pocket the mens
Division II diadem while Rick Bernabe
and Francis Puzon bagged the Divi-
sion III and IV titles with 44 and 43,

respectively.
Guillermo Joel Garcia also grabbed
the spotlight as he scored a hole-in-one
on the 188-yard No. 13 and won a Mediterranean Greek Island Cruise for two,
including airfare, courtesy of Royal Caribbean-Baron Travel. It was the lone
ace made in the two-day event sponsored by Mitsubishi Motors, Diamond
Motors, Royal Caribbean/Baron Travel,
Mit Air Sales Center, Southwoods Club
Fitters, San Miguel/Purefoods, Mega-
fiber, Le Chef, Warbird, Go 21, Rizgolf

and Agrexplore Corp. with Garcia using
a 5-iron and a Bridgestone ball No. 1 in
making his first hole-in-one in 38 years.
over Baguio City in the 2015 National

Inter-Secondary Girls Softball Championships at the Sto. Nio Baseball
Field in Marikina yesterday.
With Charlotte Sales at the helm,
the Makati belles got off to a hot start
which the team gallantly protected
with an air-tight defense to hand Cabiao its second straight loss.
The win pushed Makati on top of
Group A lead with San Mateo, Rizal and
Miriam College in the in the tournament
organized and conducted by the Amateur Softball Association of the Philippines (Asaphil) headed by Cebuana Lhuillier president Jean Henri-Lhuillier.
The Pampanga girls, on the other
hand, struck back with five runs in the
sixth inning, turning a two-run deficit
into a resounding 10-5 victory over
a stunned Baguio City side to wheel
back into contention after absorbing a crushing 0-10 loss to Miriam in
Saturdays opener of the tournament
which lured 22 teams from all over the

country.
San Mateo, Rizal matched Miriams impressive start with an 11-0
romp over Cabiao in the event aimed
at discovering and developing young
talents and creating a national pool
for future international competitions.
Lhuillier has cited the participation
of strong teams and players this year,
guaranteeing a spirited chase for the
championship and the top R25,000.
Other winners: Brian Park (Seniors 1), Cesar Igual (Seniors 2), Kim Hee-sun (Ladies 1),
Denzelle Chan (Ladies 2) and Harry Paltongan,
president of Suntrust Properties, in the sponsors
and guests division in the affair honoring club
chair Robert Sobrepena.
Sponsors: Oakley, Air 21, Asia Pacific Golf,
BDO, CJH Coffee Services, CJH Group, CJH Golf
Club, Castillo Laman Tan Pantaleon San Jose Law
Office, Club Leisure, CP Optics, CSL Construction,
Forest Hills Golf Club, Golden Oats, IHEC, Manila
Southwoods Manor, Minerva Sales, Netforce, One
Pharma, RCNA, Sherwood Hills Golf Club and
TheTurf Company.
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Juvic in joint 24th place in Thailand meet

Editor: DING T. MARCELO
Asst. Editor: REY C. LACHICA
E-mail: sports@mb.com.ph
Juvic Pagunsan managed only an evenpar 72 and settled for a six-way tie for 24th
overall in the Thailand Golf Championship
yesterday at the Amata Spring Country Club
in Chonburi.
Pagunsans four birdies, including three
on the backnine were negated by two bogeys
and a double bogey on the 13th hole as he
finished with a 283 total, joining Australian
Terry Pilkadaris, Indians Shiy Kapur and Arjun
Atwal and Dutch Joost Luiten.
They finished 16 shots behind Welsh
Jamie Donaldson, who shot a final round

65 to win the $100 million event with a 267
aggregate.
Donaldson topped the tournament by
posting a three-shot victory over Englands
Lee Westwood and overnight leader Clement
Sordet of France.
Pagunsan birdied the fifth hole but suffered his first bogey on the ninth. He then
started strong on the back nine with back-toback birdies on the 10th and 11th but went for
naught with a double bogey two holes later.
pba
Ginebra rallies to stun NLEX

By WAYLON GALVEZ
Games Wednesday
(smart araneta coliseum)
5:15 p.m. meralco vs rain or shine
7 p.m. san miguel vs alaska
ookie Scottie Thompson hit

two pressure-packed free
throws with 10.4 seconds
left and Barangay Ginebra
erased a 22-point deficit to score a
nail-biting 91-90 victory over NLEX
last night to boost its bid for a twiceto-beat advantage in the playoffs in the
Smart Bro PBA Philippine Cup at the
Smart Araneta Coliseum.
The former University of Perpetual
Help star displayed veteran poise when
he knocked down both foul shots after
being fouled by fellow neophyte Simon
Enciso off a fastbreak to put Ginebra
in front after trailing 75-53 with 3:53 remaining in the third quarter.
I dont feel I deserve to

Thompsons heroics
Team Standings
be here. Our guys just didnt
nearly went to waste as
W
L
9
1
give up on the game, said
NLEX tried to pull off an Y-San Miguel
X-Rain or Shine 7
2
Ginebra coach Tim Cone,
escape act when inbound- X-Alaska
7
2
7
3
who was slumped on the
er Jonas Villanueva found X-Globalport
6
4
bench with his head down
an open Sean Anthony X-Ginebra
X-Talk N Text
5
4
on several occasions when
underneath with still one X-Barako Bull 5
5
X-NLEX
4
6
NLEX were poised to sesecond left on the clock.
Star
3
7
cure a lopsided win in the
But Anthony failed to Blackwater
2
7
2
8
third.
convert the short stab as Mahindra
Meralco
1
9
We had a lot of heJoe Devance contested
Y-clinched outright semis
roes Scottie, Dave (Marthe attempt as time ex- X-clinched playoff berth
celo), Jayjay (Helterbrand).
pired, giving Ginebra and
Its the first time I saw that
its diehard supporters a
never say die thats really created by
dramatic victory.
the fans. We got to give credit to the
Thompson had his best game since
fans, they did the work tonight for us,
being picked sixth in the draft, scorsaid Cone, adding that Thompson will
ing 10 of his 14 points in the fourth as
be evaluated after hurting his right
Ginebra improved to solo fifth with a
shoulder in the waning seconds of the
6-4 record.
The Kings can secure the twice-tothrilling contest.
beat bonus with a victory over the Talk N
Ginebra trimmed the lead to 75-59
Text at the close of the elimination round
at the end of the third with Thompson
on Sunday at the Mall of Asia Arena.
conniving with Marcelo, Helterbrand
and Chris Ellis, setting the stage for

the teams signature comeback.
Earlier, Barako Bull boosted its
own bid for a twice-to-beat edge in the
playoffs after thrashing the Star Hotshots, 101-83.
Josh Urbiztondo, who finished with
a game-high 24 points, ignited a 13-0
run in the fourth quarter as the Energy turned a 67-71 deficit into an 80-71
lead on their way to securing their fifth
win in 10 games.
First Game
BARAKO BULL 101 Urbiztondo 24, Intal
18, Wilson 18, Fortuna 14, Pennisi 14, Brondial 6,
Monfort 5, Lanete 2, Baracael 0, Miranda 0.
STAR 83 Barroca 17, Yap 12, Sangalang
11, Pingris 10, Mallari 9, Taha 7, Cruz 5, Melton
5, Pascual 4, Torres 3, Simon 0.
Quarters: 25-28; 45-45; 67-71; 101-83.
Second Game
GINEBRA 91 Slaughter 18, Thompson
14, Aguilar 12, Ellis 11, Marcelo 10, Tenorio 7,
Devance 6, Helterbrand 5, Caguioa 4, Cruz 4,
Mercado 0, Salva 0.
NLEX 90 Taulava 21, Anthony 16, Villanueva J. 11, Lanete 9, Alas 8, Camson 6,
Enciso 6, Khobuntin 6, Borboran 5, Reyes 2,
Villanueva E. 0.
Quarters: 22-22; 41-49; 75-59; 91-90.
Barako Bulls Michael Miranda and Stars Ian

Sangalang battle for the rebound during their
PBA game yesterday at the Smart Araneta
Coliseum. The Energy won, 101-83. (Ernie
Sarmiento)
Baldwin
must get
permit
DOLE
The Department
of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
will allow Tab Baldwin to coach the
Ateneo Blue Eagles
in next years UAAP
campaign provided
he secures a work
permit required for
foreigners.
DOLE-National
Capital Region Director Alex Avila
said that Baldwin
will only have to file
for an Alien Employment Permit (AEP)
before he formally
assumes the highprofile role.
He
(Baldwin)
should have an AEP
before he starts (with
his new work), Avila
said.
Avila,
however, stressed that
any party can file
a petition to deny
Baldwins application, reacting to the
planned move of the
Basketball Coaches
Association of the
Philippines (BCAP)
to contest the Gilas
Pilipinas mentor's
appointment as Eagles coach.
BCAP
officials
have expressed their
displeasure
over
Ateneos move to tap
Baldwin
stressing
that a foreigner is prohibited from coaching
a local team unless
he is married to a
Filipina or becomes a
naturalized citizen.
It is correct that
one of the requirements (for the AEP)
is that no other Filipino should be able
to perform a job.
But that should be
formalized through
our office. We have
a process for that,
Avila said.
Baldwins
appointment seemed
to have no objection
from the UAAP as
past and present officials said the KiwiAmerican will only
be required to be issued a work permit.
Bo Perasol opted
to leave as Ateneo
coach at the end
of his three-year
contract with the
school, prompting
team management
to name Baldwin
as Perasols successor. Samuel
Medenilla
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Asst. Editor: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT
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Interest rate corridor
BSP says IRC grounded on

global market developments
News In Brief
P/$ rate stands
at P47.235/$1
The peso
exchange
rate stands
at P47.235 to
the US dollar
last Friday at the Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp. (PDEx). The
weighted average rate stands at
P47.229.
Export slump
linked to US market
weakness
The continued weakness in Philippine exports in October down
10.8% on year is consistent with
the recent deterioration in the ISM
Manufacturing Index, Barclays Bank
said in a research note. The index,
which tracks employment, inventories, new orders and supplier
deliveries among US manufacturers, dipped to its lowest level since
2012. This bodes poorly for Philippine exporters, which are highly dependent on the US market. In the
absence of a meaningful pickup in
external demand, exports are likely
to remain subdued, in our view.
Growth momentum has been holding up well, but it is likely to moderate in the coming quarters given
poor weather and weak consumption, said Barclays. The bank sticks
to its forecast of 5.5% GDP growth
for the Philippines in 2015 the
Philippine economy rose 6.0% in
the third quarter. Barclays expects
the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to
keep its rates on hold at its policy
meeting next week despite a surge
in November inflation to 1.1% from
0.4% in October and September.
(WSJ)
UN: World economy

stumbles in 2015
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The
United Nations (UN) says the
world economy stumbled in 2015,
with growth estimated at just 2.4
percent and developing countries
and the former Soviet bloc among
the regions hardest hit. The report
on the World Economic Situation
and Prospects cited a nearly 60
percent drop in oil prices and over
20 percent fall in global commodity prices in the last 18 months.
The report launched Thursday
does cite one positive statistic with
potential implications for efforts
to combat climate change: There
was no growth in energy-related
carbon emissions in 2014 for the
first time in 20 years, with the exception of 2009 when the global
economy contracted.
By LEE C. CHIPONGIAN
he Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

(BSP) stronger signaling effect
of benchmark rate is firmly
rooted in global market developments and any divergence in monetary
policy.
The IRC [interest rate corridor]
is grounded on global market developments [as well as] domestic price, rice
output and liquidity conditions, said BSP
Deputy Governor Diwa C. Guinigundo in
an interview. (We) want to make sure
that there will be sufficient liquidity in the
market to support economic activity.
The BSP is expected to implement
the IRC in mid 2016 and it is viewed as
an important shift in the central banks
open market operations.
As explained by BSP, the IRC will
strengthen the signaling effect of policy
rate and provide a system to allow easier
price discovery in the money market. It
will also reduce the reliance on blunt
policy tools such as the reserve requirement for sterilization.
Guinigundo said in crafting the IRC,

which took some time due to market
consultations, they have taken into consideration possible US Federal Reserve
moves going forward, and towards policy
normalization.
As far as the BSP market forecasting
methods of which there are several is
concerned, they are looking at a strong
probability that the US Federal Reserve
will raise rates this month.
Thats on the table, said Guinigundo. [Based on] the monitoring of probabilities for a December versus March,
and versus June 2016 rates increase,
it has gone up [in favor of a December
move]. So it cannot be ignored, and we
cannot rule it out.
Guinigundo also disclosed that to give
way to the term deposit auction facility
(TDF) which is part of the IRC, the BSP is
removing special deposit account tenors
of 1 week, 2 weeks and 1 month. The SDA
will be purely overnight.
The BSP, in the meantime, had set
two tenors for the term de
posits which are 7 days and
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More URC expansion planned

John Gokongwei: Were
ahead in ASEAN integration
By JAMES A. LOYOLA
While it may forge some deals outside of the region, the Gokongwei group,
mainly through Universal Robina Corporation (URC), sees the ASEAN as a
large enough playing field for it to focus
its expansion efforts on.
ASEAN is big enough. We are not
eyeing other countries, said JG Summit Holdings, Inc. founder and chairman
emeritus John Gokongwei Jr. in an interview during the opening of Robinsons
Galleria in his hometown Cebu.
With the coming integration of ASEAN economies, Gokongwei noted that I
saw this 20 years ago so I went in 10 years
ago. Weve been there 10 years and weve
been quite successful because we came
in at the right time.
In the coming years, Gokongwei said
we are going to expand our factories. We
are now in several countries: Thailand,
Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia,
Burma.
Gokongwei said they have been most
successful on Vietnam and Thailand
although their business in Indonesia will
eventually be the biggest because of the
size of the country and its population.
He added that URC also has operations in Cambodia and Laos.
We are there, but smallno manufacturing, Gokongwei explained.
For their local businesses, Gokongwei
also remains optimistic. The country is
progressing well... we are doing well. The
last six years we were doing well.
He cited that the countrys future
PH govt still undecided

on AIIB membership
By CHINO S. LEYCO
The Philippines is still undecided

whether it will join the Beijing-led Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
despite being the last remaining prospective member that has yet to sign the
articles of agreement.
On the sidelines of a recent integrity summit, Finance Secretary Cesar
V. Purisima said the government has
until the end of the month to decide on
the regional infrastructure bank in Asia
being initiative by the Peoples Republic
of China.
We have until December 31, Purisima told reporters. This is like marriage,
you have to be prudent. But at the end of
the day, President [Benigno S. Aquino III]
will be the one who will decide on it.
I always tell the President the pros
and the cons, so its up to him to make
the decision, he added.
Last December 4, Kuwait's sovereign
wealth fund signed the articles of agreement of AIIB in Beijing. The oil-rich nation is the 56th signatory of the regional
infrastructure bank.
AIIB has 57 prospective founding
members, which include the Philippines.
But despite being the last remaining
prospective member, Purisima said the
CESAR V. PURISIMA
government is not pressured to immediately sign the articles.
For her part, International Revenue
Commissioner Kim S. Jacinto-Henares
said the Philippine government needs
more time to study articles of agreement.
Why we have to sign because everyone signed? Jacinto-Henares insisted.
Last June, Purisima said the Philippines was still interested
to be one of the founding
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Container terminal unnecessary
Davao companies
buck P19-B Sasa Port
modernization
JOHN GOkONGWEI JR.
will be good unless there is a big global
recession.
Gokongwei pointed out though that
the Philippines has been resilient and
has largely been unaffected by the recent
global economic downturn.
We were not affected this time, he
said.
Meanwhile, Gokongwei said the conglomerate is in good hands after he turned
over the helm to his son Lance.
Lance is doing a good job, he said.
As president of URC, Lance has made
major investments overseas, including
recent acquisitions, which are expected to
be profitable in three to five years.
Were clearly in the
investment stage, he said
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Davao businessmen are questioning

what they perceive as a rush to bid out
the P19-billion modernization project
for the Sasa Port under a public-private
partnership (PPP) scheme despite some
issues raised against it.
There is no need to convert Sasa Port
to a container port. The container shipping requirements are already met by
the existing private ports, said Anflocor
Management and Investment Corporation President Alexander Valoria.
This private ports include Davao International Container Terminal (DICT),
Terminal Facilities and Services Corp.
(Tefasco), Sumifru, Unifrutti, Dole/Pacinter and the planned Hijo International
Port Services, Inc. (HIPS).
Valoria said 75 percent of foreign
containers totaling 358,312, twenty-foot
equivalent units (TEUs) are already using these private ports and the activity
in Sasa Port is currently more for the
local trade.
The government-hired Hamburg Port
Consultants (HPC) conducted an earlier study which assumed that container
volume in Davao region will grow at an
average of 6.1 percent per year up to 2040
with a high growth rate of more than 20
percent a year (27 percent in 2020) that
was frontloaded in the initial years.
The PPP Project is based on unrealistic projections. The growth assumptions are extremely unrealistic, Valoria
claimed.
From 2013 to 2014, Sasa port container volume declined by 134,504 TEUs
(33 percent) and is expected to decline
further in 2015.
Davao Integrated Port and Stevedoring Services Corp. (DIPSSCOR), an
operator at the Sasa port, said that the
current capacity of Sasa stands at 700,000
TEUs.
The yearly volume han-
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NEDA urges private sector to help exporters
By CHINO S. LEYCO
he National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) is

joining the Department of Finance (DOF) in calling out the
private sector to help export-oriented
firms in marketing their products for
local consumers.
In a statement, Socio-economic
Planning Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan stressed the need to collaborate with
the private sector in order to facilitate
marketing export products to the domestic market.
As the global economy remains
fragile, export-oriented firms in the
Philippines should recalibrate its production and marketing processes to

serve the domestic market instead,
Balisacan said.
Earlier, DOF urged Filipino consumers to buy locally made products to
help exporters compensate the possible
losses due to continued weak global
demand.
The country needs to boost domestic consumption to compensate the
possible losses as the export market
continues to decline due to slumping
foreign demand. Product fairs may need
to be put up to entice Filipino consumers
to buy exportables, the agency said.
In October, Philippine exports fell
anew by 10.8 percent to $4.6 billion from

$5.1 billion a year ago due to continued
sluggish external demand.
The lingering sluggish global demand, as well as the slack in industrial
activity in the United States and the
recent economic adjustments in China,
brought down the countrys exports,
Balisacan said.
Exports performance in the succeeding months is also anticipated to
remain weak given the slowdown in
economic growth of the countrys major
trading partners, he added.
However, Balisacan said the government remains positive as substantial
improvement in Japans industrial sector may partially offset the downward
pull from weakness in US and China in
the coming months.
There is strong international demand for Japanese products and this
will be a major factor in sustaining

robust industrial growth, Balisacan said.
Meanwhile, Balisacan underscored the need to tap the potential
of the services sector specifically
tourism, indicating an expected
surge of demand for services related to recreation and travel.
Several manufacturing firms
are also considering relocating to
emerging economies. The country
should thus take advantage of
this opportunity by improving its
competitiveness as an investment
destination, Balisacan said.
All key commodities registered
drops in exports for October,
particularly manufactured goods, agrobased products, mineral products, and
petroleum products.
Manufactured goods, which make
up 88.5 percent of the countrys total

merchandise exports for October 2015,
declined by 5.1 percent. It fell to $4.1 billion from $4.3 billion in October 2014.
SUA complainants threaten class

action suit if DTI orders no recall
By BERNIE CAHILES-MAGkILAT
Complainants of sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) of the Montero

Sport (automatic) model have urged
the Department of Trade and Industry
(DTI) to issue a product recall saying
that failure to do so will force them
to file a class action suit against Mitsubishi Motors Corp. of the Philippines
(MMPC).
In a position paper submitted to
the DTI, a group of SUA complainants led by Atty. Charlie V. Tumaru has
urged DTI to initiate a product recall
saying it is better to err on the side of
the consumer because public safety is
foremost in this situation.
It is in the interest of public safety
and welfare that the Department of
Trade and Industry immediately orders
the recall of all Montero Sports automatic vehicles, the petition said.
The group also urged DTI to order
the prosecution of the officers of MMPC
for violation of the Penal Provision of
the Consumer Protection Law, and that
the agency should also order the banning of the same model in the market
until after a definite and conclusive finding establishing the cause or error on
the Montero Sport is established.
Tumaru said the Consumer Act has
a penal provision for officers of a corporation that introduced to the market
dangerous or injurious product.
The DTI must also stop MMPC
from making public announcements
that their Montero Sports vehicles do
not have defects and is safe to use on
the roads as this gives a false sense of
security and safety to Montero owners/
users thereby unduly exposing them to
the SUA danger.
Failure to order a product recall
would force the group to go to court for
a class action suit against MMPC.
The group did not buy the claims of
MMPC that their testing and scanning
do not reveal any error or defect in the
vehicle does not mean there is no defect. The computer principle DATA IN
DATA OUT find relevance in putting in
issue the logic of the MMPC, because a
computer which is not programmed to

detect a particular error, defect or glitz
cannot read or register such error in its
database when the same occurs DATA
IN DATA OUT.
The complainants discounted the
Mitsubishis experts finding that they
did not discover any defect in the
Montero.
Their argument is simple No defect has been discovered ergo, the fault
is on the driver, the statement said.
MMPC has attributed all the 97 SUA
incidents to human error.
Mitsubishi relies on its own company-paid experts probably the same
persons who designed the Montero and
whose independent assessment must
be put in question. There are simply no
independent tests conducted by thirdparties or independent experts who are
not company affiliated. The problem
presents questions of integrity, reliability, product bias (tending to achieve
a finding in favor of the product); and
tendency to rely on expert knowledge
as absolute truth, the group said.
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Improved
corn, palay
output
seen in
Q1 2016
By MADELAINE B. MIRAFLOR
he agriculture sector may see

improved output in the Philippines two biggest crops, corn
and palay, during the first quarter of next year because several regions
in the country are expected to beef up
production.
A data from the Department of Agriculture showed that based on farmers
planting intentions, corn production in
the first quarter of 2016 may increase by
0.48 percent.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala
said from 2.37 million metric tons (MT)
from January to March of 2015, production of what is dubbed as the Philippines
champion crop may grow to 2.38 million
MT in the first three months of 2016.
Almost all regions expect increases in
production with probable higher outputs
noted in Soccsksargen, Ilocos Region,
Davao Region and Northern Mindanao,
Alcala said.
He added that in Soccsksargen, more
farmers intend to plant earlier due to
pronouncement of stronger El Nio in
the succeeding quarter.
Central Mindanao, which is now formally called Soccsksargen, is composed
of the cities of South Cotobato, Cotobato,
Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, and General
Santos.
In the Ilocos Region, shifting from
palay to corn, utilization of fallow areas
due to availability of seeds, movement of
cropping from the fourth quarter, and usage of high quality seeds may contribute
to increase in production.
In the Davao Region, shifting from
banana and rain-fed palay to corn and
availability of seed assistance from local government units may boost this
quarters production, while in Northern
Mindanao, movement of planting from
fourth quarter to first quarter, seed
subsidy from local government units
through plant-now-pay-later program
and shifting from cassava to corn may
bring about higher production.
Palay production in the first quarter of
the coming year is also expected to grow
by 0.31 percent from 4.37 million MT in
2015 to 4.38 million MT in 2016.
Alcala said the increment may come
from the expansion in harvest area by
1.15 percent.
Yield per hectare, however, may decrease from 3.80 MT in 2015 to 3.77 MT
in anticipation of the adverse effects of
El Nio phenomenon.
During the first half of this year, the
production of palay and corn fell after five
consecutive years of record growth.
Palay and corn production for January to June, 2015 were lower than their
respective 2014 levels by 0.7 percent and
2.8 percent, The Philippine Statistics
Authority-Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (PAS-BAS) said in a report.
This was attributed to contraction in
harvest areas as a result of insufficient
water supply and intense heat due to the
dry spell, it added.
The PSA-BAS even said that probable
production of both staples in this semester may similarly suffer setbacks of 0.5
percent and 0.6 percent, respectively.
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PHILIPPINE STOCK EXCHANGE

DECEMBER 11, 2015
52 Weeks
HIGH LOW
STOCKS
PAR
VALUE
2012 PREV
EPS CLOSE
OPEN
HIGH
LOW CLOSE
VOLUME
VALUE
World
December 11, 2015 closings
PE
RATIO
FRANKFURT
****BANKS****
74.8
124.4
107
48.45
27.5
100
20.8
36.35
87.5
175
50
180
72
44.1
90.5
80
38
18.02
75
14
22.45
49.5
82.5
29.25
119.5
49.8
ASIA UNITED
BDO UNIBANK
BANK PH ISLANDS
CHINABANK
EAST WEST BANK
METROBANK
PB BANK
PBCOM
PHIL NATL BANK
PHILTRUST
RCBC
SECURITY BANK
UNION BANK
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
20.00
10.00
100.00
40.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
5.2
6.27
4.62
3.08
1.84
7.15
1.1
0.37
4.6
1.01
3.11
11.88
7.94
46
100.7
82.75
38
18.4
79
16.5
23
51.9
122
31.65
138
57
46.1
101
82.55
38
18.38
79
16.4
23
51.8
31.7
138.5
57
46.15
101
83.2
38.15
18.38
79.9
16.6
23
51.8
33.5
140
57
45.95
99.1
82
37.9
18.06
77.2
16.4
22.45
50.8
31.7
136
57
46.15
100.2
82.35
38.1
18.2
77.2
16.6
22.45
50.85
33
136.2
57
10,600
2,476,820
1,046,440
150,700
38,400
1,646,640
10,300
32,900
267,930
0
18,300
390,630
10,360
487,900
247,625,832.50
86,210,224.50
5,729,245
697,890
127,988,079
170,920
749,280
13,664,073
0
584,020
53,923,830
590,520
8.88
15.98
17.82
12.37
9.89
10.80
15.09
60.68
11.05
120.79
10.61
11.55
7.18
8.9
3.42
2.55
17
2.95
0.88
1,580.00
3.4
2.2
1.2
2.11
13.4
1.02
0.35
1,000.00
2.85
**** OTHER
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION ****
**** OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
****
1.00
0.13
2.78
2.61
2.75
2.61
2.75
AG FINANCE
0.55 -0.00009
1.3
1.29
1.29
1.29
1.29
BRIGHT KINDLE
1.00
0.23
2.49
2.46
2.51
2.46
2.51
BDO LEASING
1.00
0.56
15
15
15
14.9
15
COL FINANCIAL
1.00
0.02
1.7
1.78
1.8
1.78
1.8
IREMIT
1.00
-0.01
0.55
0.54
0.55
0.51
0.51
MEDCO HLDG
0.00
115.81 1,460.00
1,490
1,490
1,480
1,480
SUN LIFE
1.00
0.26
3
3
3
3
3
VANTAGE
31,000
20,000
21,000
129,600
10,000
1,339,000
185
1,000
81,600
25,800
52,410
1,943,600
17,890
702,900
274,550
3,000
20.38
-14349.28
10.87
26.79
85.00
-52.00
12.78
11.54
2.36
47
9.13
31.8
109
343.8
33.9
10.94
4.4
2.58
1.41
39.8
5.14
21.3
65.3
250.2
20
6.75
2.95
1.65
**** ELECTRICITY, ENERGY,

POWER & WATER **** ENERGY, POWER
**** ELECTRICITY,
1.00
0.06
1.48
1.43
1.45
ALSONS CONS
1.00
2.27
40.1
40.1
40.3
ABOITIZ POWER
1.00
0.62
5.9
5.91
5.97
ENERGY DEVT
1.00
0.05
23.1
23.2
23.4
FIRST GEN
10.00
10.1
66.6
66.6
66.75
FIRST PHIL HLDG
10.00
16.02
320.6
321
323
MERALCO
1.00
2.36
25
24.7
25
MANILA WATER
1.00
-0.15
7.15
7.15
7.15
PETRON
1.00
0.4
3.8
3.8
3.8
PHX PETROLEUM
1.00
0.04
2.19
2.19
2.19
TA OIL
1.45
40
5.7
22
66.6
318
24.9
7.02
3.76
2.18
209,000
4,703,700
20,550,000
4,366,600
267,820
311,630
11,811,100
630,400
10,000
1,115,000
297,370
188,139,905
118,119,851
96,857,340
17,825,445
99,287,588
292,913,435
4,460,902
36,800
2,423,640
24.00
17.62
9.27
9.59
6.59
19.89
10.49
-47.40
9.45
54.50
5.2
109.9
20.6
17.26
23.15
11.9
1.33
241
70.5
35.5
220
5
6.09
7.1
0.237
234
0.9
4.85
1.11
71.55
15.98
9.48
8.55
6.8
0.61
175.5
27
17.3
124.9
3.6
3.9
2.88
0.128
173
0.6
4.1
**** FOOD, BEVERAGE & TOBACCO

**** ****
FOOD,
1.00
-2.01
AGRINURTURE
10.00
4.29
CNTRL AZUCARERA
1.00
0.76
CENTURY FOOD
0.01
1.24
DEL MONTE
1.00
0.76
DNL INDUS
1.00
0.41
EMPERADOR
1.00
-0.01
ALLIANCE SELECT
1.00
5.08
JOLLIBEE
10.00
7.46
LIBERTY FLOUR
1.00
-0.05
MAXS GROUP
10.00
16.11
PUREFOODS
0.15
0.22
PEPSI COLA
1.00
0.25
RFM CORP
1.00
0.67
ROXAS HLDG
1.00
-0.003
SWIFT FOODS
1.00
5.3
UNIV ROBINA
1.00
0.21
VITARICH
1.00
0.4
VICTORIAS
4.9
91
16.78
12.38
7.98
9
0.76
209
27
21.2
126.1
3.69
4.01
4.6
0.144
181
0.64
4.72
686,000
400
96,300
219,200
24,920,900
343,100
3,013,000
832,970
1,000
56,900
280,270
284,000
120,000
2,000
60,790,000
4,047,990
1,971,000
4,000
3,369,720
36,400
1,615,620
2,679,166
203,870,097
3,068,024
2,169,600
174,117,478
27,825
1,205,440
35,328,848
1,049,400
481,360
9,200
8,800,290
734,827,194
1,202,250
18,370
-2.45
21.21
22.08
0.24
10.53
21.63
-1.33
41.06
3.62
-422.00
7.83
16.82
16.04
6.87
-48.33
33.98
2.90
11.38
15.3
2.74
11.22
15.3
27.55
8.89
15
2.2
1.77
7.92
1.15
4.54
12
11.32
5.1
10.04
0.8
0.9
**** CONSTRUCTION,
INFRASTRUCTURE
& ALLIED
**** CONSTRUCTION,
INFRASTRUCTURE & ALLIED
SERVICES ****
1.00
-0.01
10.58
10.6
10.6
10.48
ASIABEST GROUP
0.02
-0.002
1.53
1.55
1.62
1.52
DAVINCI CAPITAL
1.00
0.89
5.17
5.17
5.27
5.14
EEI CORP
1.00
0.8
14.5
14.48
14.5
14.4
HOLCIM
1.00
-0.38
12.46
12.48
12.48
12.46
LBC EXPRESS
1.00
0.34
5.88
5.53
5.92
5.5
MEGAWIDE
11.5
11.32
10.00
0.95
11.5
11.32
PHINMA
1.00
-0.23
1.07
1.13
1.15
1.05
TKC STEEL
1.00
-0.01
1.12
1.11
1.11
1.1
VULCAN INDL
300
3.33
2.89
6.94
4.5
75.1
1.5
1.06
1.52
1
**** CHEMICALS ****

CHEMPHIL
CROWN ASIA
EUROMED
MABUHAY VINYL
PRYCE CORP
65.8
7.29
4.18
4.47
3.1
36
2.95
& WATER ****

1.4
39.9
5.7
22
66.45
317.4
24.7
7.02
3.61
2.16
4.81
91
16.8
11.8
8.55
8.94
0.73
209.6
28.05
21.3
125.9
3.96
4.02
4.6
0.144
184.5
0.64
4.55
5.03
91
16.8
12.48
8.57
9.2
0.77
210.6
28.05
21.3
127
3.96
4.02
4.6
0.156
185.4
0.64
4.72
4.8
91
16.74
11.8
7.9
8.87
0.72
208
27
21.05
125.9
3.69
4.01
4.6
0.143
179.6
0.59
4.55
300
5,669,000
360,400
33,000
7,700
2,299,200
200
190,000
95,000
3,158
8,955,440
1,862,924
476,180
95,982
12,655,629
2,282
201,140
105,050
-1048.00
-780.00
5.88
18.10
-32.84
17.29
12.11
-4.61
-111.00
100
2.3
1.67
3.2
2.26
20
572,000
6,000
3,000
309,000
1,950
1,296,730
10,020
9,450
682,860
-9.60
0.00
33.40
27.50
14.67
39.8
5.01
0.43
3.5
1.65
16
**** ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS

& EQUIPMENT ****
**** ELECTRICAL
COMPONENTS & EQUIPMENT ****
CONCEPCION
1.00
1.88
43.5
43.2
45.5
43.2
44
16,700
INTEGRATED MICR
1.00
0.75
5.87
5.87
5.87
5.75
5.75
114,700
IONICS
1.00
0.05
2.17
2.18
2.18
2.12
2.15
903,000
PANASONIC
1.00
0.39
4.37
3.91
3.93
3.91
3.93
11,000
PHX SEMICNDCTR
1.00
0.39
1.68
1.65
1.65
1.64
1.65
157,000
CIRTEK HLDG
1.00
0.89
21.5
21.5
21.5
21.05
21.35
1,947,900
728,490
661,086
1,940,390
43,030
259,000
41,530,565
24.20
7.69
43.00
10.08
4.23
23.82
1.55
**** OTHER INDUSTRIALS ****

SPLASH CORP
1.00
0.5
823.5
59.2
27.95
1.72
3.13
9.78
16.06
7.7
0.48
1,455.00
7.5
76
0.91
9.25
16.98
0.7
9.96
5.58
0.058
2.54
1.68
974
81
1.11
3.2
127.9
0.71
0.31
0.375
0.385
648.5
48.1
15.16
1
0.22
6.35
10.4
2.73
0.173
1,032.00
5.3
61
0.53
5.14
9.79
0.47
4.9
4.2
0.028
0.62
1.08
766.5
43.5
0.61
2.07
63
0.26
0.161
0.2
* *** HOLDING FIRMS ****

ABACORE CAPITAL
AYALA CORP
ABOITIZ EQUITY
ALLIANCE GLOBAL
ANGLO PHIL HLDG
ATN HLDG A
COSCO CAPITAL
DMCI HLDG
FJ PRINCE A
FORUM PACIFIC
GT CAPITAL
HOUSE OF INV
JG SUMMIT
LODESTAR
LOPEZ HLDG
LT GROUP
MABUHAY HLDG
MINERALES IND
METRO PAC INV
PACIFICA
PRIME ORION
PRIME MEDIA
SM INVESTMENTS
SAN MIGUEL CORP
SOC RESOURCES
SEAFRONT RES
TOP FRONTIER
UNIOIL HLDG
WELLEX INDUS
ZEUS HLDG
0.31
12.16
41.4
1.51
5.04
1.21
0.166
5.59
1.04
6.6
0.66
25.9
1.02
0.24
2.1
1.83
10.5
1.6
1.62
5.94
0.147
9.44
33.25
0.64
1.95
4.9
1.02
23.2
1.75
8.59
0.18
5.72
32.4
1.03
2.92
0.55
0.098
4.2
0.55
5.41
0.38
7.2
0.73
0.159
1.42
1
6
1.1
0.81
3.76
0.076
3.75
25
0.37
1.4
3.02
0.64
15.8
0.65
4.89
68.1
7.6
0.79
95.5
2.22%
FTSE
5,952.78
(-135.27)
NEW YORK
PARIS
1.76%
Dow Jones
17,265.21
(-309.54)
1.84%
CAC40
4,549.56
(-85.50)
Asia-Pacific
December 11, 2015 closings
BANGKOK
hONG KONG
1.24%
SET
1,281.67
(-16.15)
1.11%
Hang Seng
21,464.05
(-240.56)
KUALA LUMPUR
MANILA
1.26%
Phisix
6,735.01
(-85.59)
0.10%
KLCI
1,647.06
(-1.59)
SERVICES ****
10.48
1.59
5.2
14.4
12.46
5.65
11.5
1.09
1.1
LONDON
2.44%
DAX
10,340.06
(-258.87)
BEVERAGE & TOBACCO ****

4.8
100
16.64
11.7
8.6
8.98
0.71
209.6
30
21.5
125.9
3.69
4.02
4.6
0.144
184.6
0.64
4.55
SEOUL
ShANGhAI
0.61%
Composite
3,434.58
(-20.91)
0.18%
Kospi
1,948.62
(-3.45)
**** CHEMICALS ****

10.00
0.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
-9.9
1
0.05
0.12
0.15
95
2.31
1.67
3.3
2.21
95
2.25
1.67
3.05
2.28
100
2.32
1.67
3.2
2.28
95
2.23
1.67
3.05
2.2
SINGAPORE
0.28%
Straits T
2,840.49
(-7.97)
**** OTHER INDUSTRIALS ****

0.02
2.52
2.52
2.55
2.45
2.54
178,000
444,230
122.50
0.38
724.5
54.9
15.6
1
0.223
7.7
13.3
5.69
0.238
1,220
5.5
66.8
0.7
6.92
13.8
0.5
9.43
5.04
0.031
1.77
1.16
814
46.1
0.72
2.4
71.65
0.295
0.195
0.26
0.385
725
54.9
15.6
1.1
0.223
7.78
13.3
5.69
0.238
1,223
5.5
72
0.7
7.03
13.8
0.5
9.43
5.05
0.031
1.81
1.16
820
46.55
0.72
2.4
74
0.295
0.195
0.26
200,000
293,650
2,299,780
9,401,900
117,000
650,000
2,448,900
3,482,300
13,000
650,000
69,595
35,000
3,613,220
58,000
2,048,300
1,064,600
650,000
782,500
33,977,700
19,300,000
709,000
124,000
403,540
232,900
70,000
70,000
182,550
1,000,000
720,000
1,230,000
76,500
213,309,060
128,250,226
151,971,494
118,880
145,480
19,058,693
46,582,726
74,260
157,060
85,136,870
192,500
249,299,284
40,610
14,427,035
14,856,354
325,000
7,386,589
172,792,825
605,800
1,270,000
149,170
331,240,175
10,833,405
50,400
168,000
13,687,707.50
295,900
144,010
321,450
7.70
24.49
16.85
12.41
3.55
0.22
14.41
16.57
28.95
-12.10
23.27
2.74
26.15
-233.33
8.01
34.63
10.00
106.78
16.52
-1066.67
20.00
-125.00
22.91
12.84
-18.00
120.00
7.37
-144.26
-20.00
-928.57
0.22
7.2
34.25
1.07
3.03
0.82
0.121
4.2
0.56
5.01
0.455
23.8
0.83
0.157
1.78
1.02
6.95
1.13
0.98
4.18
0.078
8.55
25.75
0.41
1.41
3.21
0.73
20.8
0.88
5.05
0.22
7.2
35.5
1.07
3.04
0.83
0.121
5.12
0.57
5.01
0.455
24.75
0.83
0.157
1.83
1.02
6.99
1.18
0.98
4.2
0.078
8.67
25.75
0.41
1.41
3.21
0.73
21.2
0.88
5.15
50,000
200
19,140,500
9,000
2,326,000
3,245,000
1,780,000
2,700
520,000
6,900
1,090,000
814,300
238,000
1,860,000
19,648,000
1,121,000
54,200
129,000
1,000
29,598,000
850,000
98,300
4,374,600
60,000
56,000
1,000
499,000
4,607,500
863,000
6,426,300
11,000
1,440
668,322,235
9,630
7,078,120
2,745,500
216,130
13,640
292,600
34,569
499,650
20,096,810
197,540
294,870
35,341,510
1,145,320
381,080
149,120
980
125,074,870
67,190
840,657
114,078,475
24,600
79,420
3,210
364,770
97,602,950
767,200
32,748,926
5.50
11.80
33.00
26.75
13.77
643.94
87.05
15.00
2.95
36.56
-11.50
87.50
27.67
5.33
9.42
14.57
11.21
23.60
10.00
6.25
-7.90
855.00
22.37
20.50
5.42
5.65
10.43
32.20
88.00
7.58
63.5
6.9
0.56
28.9
63.7
7
0.56
28.9
3,280
31,400
185,000
200
209,167
219,615
103,600
5,780
22.23
32.95
18.67
87.88
1,790
4.2
1,972
123,370
568,000
187,845
223,976,885
2,360,530
377,464,365
18.09
-29.86
12.80
SYDNEY
0.16%
S&P
5,029.50
(-8.20)
TOKYO
TAIPEI
**** HOLDING FIRMS ****

1.00
50.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
10.00
1.50
1.00
0.10
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.01
1.00
1.00
10.00
5.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.05
29.83
3.32
1.31
0.31
1.03
0.54
0.81
0.2
-0.02
52.51
2.01
2.6
-0.003
0.88
0.41
0.05
0.09
0.31
-0.00003
0.09
0.01
35.66
3.61
-0.04
0.02
10.17
-0.002
-0.01
-0.0003
0.385
728
57.6
16.22
1.02
0.229
7.7
13.54
5.79
0.255
1,224.00
5.5
70.45
0.71
7.06
14.26
0.5
9.86
5.2
0.031
1.76
1.27
840
47.5
0.71
2.69
72
0.295
0.205
0.29
0.385
728
57
16.22
1.04
0.224
7.7
13.54
5.79
0.255
1,225
5.5
71
0.71
6.92
14.28
0.5
9.66
5.19
0.031
1.77
1.26
841
47.5
0.72
2.4
71.85
0.295
0.2
0.265
0.385
732
57.15
16.5
1.1
0.226
7.88
13.54
5.79
0.255
1,244
5.5
72
0.71
7.1
14.28
0.5
9.66
5.19
0.033
1.81
1.3
848
47.5
0.72
2.4
75
0.3
0.206
0.28
**** PROPERTY ****

ARTHALAND CORP
ANCHOR LAND
AYALA LAND
ARANETA PROP
BELLE CORP
A BROWN
CROWN EQUITIES
CEBU HLDG
CENTURY PROP
CEBU PROP A
CYBER BAY
DOUBLEDRAGON
EMPIRE EAST
EVER GOTESCO
FILINVEST LAND
GLOBAL ESTATE
8990 HLDG
IRC PROP
CITY AND LAND
MEGAWORLD
MRC ALLIED
PRIMEX CORP
ROBINSONS LAND
PHIL REALTY
ROCKWELL
SHANG PROP
STA LUCIA LAND
SM PRIME HLDG
SUNTRUST HOME
VISTA LAND
0.18
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.10
1.00
0.53
1.00
1.00
0.10
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.50
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.20
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.04
0.61
1.05
0.04
0.22
0.001
0.001
0.28
0.19
0.16
-0.04
0.28
0.03
0.03
0.19
0.07
0.62
0.05
0.09
0.67
-0.01
0.01
1.16
0.02
0.26
0.57
0.07
0.66
0.01
0.67
45
5.95
0.55
3.1
**** MEDIA ****

ABS CBN
GMA NETWORK
MANILA BULLETIN
MLA BRDCASTING
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
2.87
0.21
0.03
0.33
2,720.00
5
3,214.00
1,644.00
1.91
1,959.00
**** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ****

50.00
GLOBE TELECOM
1.00
LIBERTY TELECOM
5.00
PLDT
7.4
0.52
2.28
4.49
0.405
1.29
2.3
22.9
5.2
4
0.138
1.2
1.98
0.25
0.4
1.4
5.93
1.19
**** INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

**** INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ****
****
1.00
-0.74
5.37
5.38
5.4
5.29
DFNN INC
0.01 0.00001
0.167
0.167
0.167
0.16
ISLAND INFO
1.00
-0.31
1.42
1.39
1.39
1.38
ISM COMM
1.00
-0.02
2.25
1.96
2.05
1.96
JACKSTONES
1.00
-0.004
0.255
0.255
0.255
0.255
MG HLDG
1.00
0.03
0.85
0.86
0.9
0.83
NOW CORP
1.00
-0.03
1.51
1.53
1.53
1.51
TRANSPACIFIC BR
1.00
0.77
21
21
21
20.75
PHILWEB
1.00
0.01
4.1
4.09
4.2
4.09
YEHEY CORP
5.34
0.164
1.38
2.05
0.255
0.85
1.51
20.9
4.2
205,200
930,000
678,000
52,000
650,000
22,334,000
110,000
8,500
58,000
1,096,423
151,460
936,340
104,010
165,750
19,427,750
166,150
177,800
241,880
-7.22
13533.67
-4.48
-108.00
-68.77
29.67
-50.33
27.14
411.00
11.6
14.88
99.5
118.5
2.53
6.21
1.97
3.31
11
79.1
66.95
0.77
3
1.1
****
**** TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
****TRANSPORTATION
1.00
0.34
7.15
7.15
2GO GROUP
1.00
0.95
11.28
11.54
ASIAN TERMINALS
1.00
1.41
82.85
82.85
CEBU AIR
1.00
0.08
71.4
71.4
INTL CONTAINER
1.00
0.08
1.26
1.21
LORENZO SHIPPNG
1.00
0.01
4.5
4.51
PAL HLDG
1.00
0.21
1.22
1.23
HARBOR STAR
7.12
11.54
81.8
69
1.21
4.51
1.23
7.15
11.56
82.4
70.05
1.24
4.67
1.23
68,900
2,000
325,790
894,940
2,000
3,000
16,000
493,022
23,088
26,771,376.50
62,527,800
2,450
13,690
19,680
21.06
11.94
58.30
21.04
15.63
490.00
5.67
1.36
0.121
0.43
1
0.042
0.165
* *** HOTEL & LEISURE ****

ACESITE HOTEL
BOULEVARD HLDG
WATERFRONT
1.15
0.043
0.33
1.15
0.043
0.33
25,000
22,900,000
130,000
28,750
989,900
44,250
8.85
-36.67
87.50
12
1,200.00
0.76
8
830
0.39
**** EDUCATION ****

CENTRO ESCOLAR
FAR EASTERN U
STI HLDG
955
0.46
955
0.465
0
10
1,580,000
0
9,550
731,350
12.35
15.34
6.57
**** PROPERTY ****

0.235
7
34.6
1.1
3.08
0.86
0.121
5.12
0.57
5.85
0.455
25
0.83
0.16
1.8
1.03
7.13
1.19
0.9
4.34
0.082
8.6
27
0.41
1.43
3.22
0.74
21.15
0.9
5.18
0.22
7.2
34.65
1.07
3.06
0.87
0.124
4.2
0.57
5.01
0.46
25
0.83
0.159
1.8
1.05
7
1.17
0.98
4.37
0.079
8.57
27
0.41
1.43
3.21
0.74
21.25
0.9
5.18
0.22
7.2
35.5
1.07
3.08
0.88
0.124
5.12
0.57
5.01
0.46
25.25
0.83
0.16
1.83
1.05
7.1
1.18
0.98
4.41
0.08
8.67
27
0.41
1.43
3.21
0.74
21.5
0.92
5.24
**** MEDIA ****

63.85
7
0.56
29
63.85
7
0.56
28.9
63.85
7.1
0.56
28.9
**** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ****

100.6
-0.14
157.51
1,841.00
4.1
2,054.00
1,841
4.1
2,062
1,858
4.25
2,088
1,790
4.09
1,972
7.34
11.56
82.85
71.4
1.24
4.67
1.23
0.13
-0.001
0.004
1.00
100.00
0.50
0.81
62.27
0.07
1.15
0.044
0.35
1.15
0.044
0.34
1.15
0.045
0.35
**** EDUCATION ****

10
955
0.46
955
0.46
955
0.465
0.97%
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28.90
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27.00
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91.00
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UNIVERSAL ROBINA CORPORATION

AYALA LAND, INC.
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SM INVESTMENTS CORPORATION
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BDO UNIBANK, INC.
GLOBE TELECOM, INC.
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D&L INDUSTRIES, INC.
4,047,990
19,140,500
187,845
402,960
11,811,100
3,613,220
2,476,820
123,370
293,580
24,909,400
734,827,194.00
668,322,235.00
377,464,365.00
330,764,575.00
292,913,435.00
249,299,284.00
247,625,832.50
223,976,885.00
213,258,100.00
203,815,162.00
Dividends
SERVICES ****
*** HOTEL & LEISURE ****

1.00
0.10
1.00
1.22%
W Index
8,115.89
(-100.28)
SYM
SECB
PFP2
LRI
MFC
LFM
CPVB
CHIB
SMCP1
TYPE
Cash
Cash
Cash
Cash
Stock
Cash
Cash
Cash
**PS - per share

**PCS - per common share
**PPS - per preferredshare
**PSR - per share (regular)
VALUE
0.50
P14.14225 PS
PhP0.86 POCS
C$0.17
71.4286%
PhP0.12
PhP0.12
P1.0565625
EX-DIV
DATE
Nov 24, 2015
Nov 17, 2015
Nov 26, 2015
Nov 17, 2015
Dec 03, 2015
Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015
Dec 14, 2015
**RPA - rate per annum

**DRPA - dividend rate per annum
**PDPS- per day per share
**PDPOS- per day per share
RECORD
DATE
Nov 27, 2015
Nov 24, 2015
Dec 2, 2015
Nov 24, 2015
Dec 8, 2015
Dec 16, 2015
Dec 16, 2015
Dec 17, 2015
DATE
PAYABLE
Dec 10, 2015
Dec 12, 2015
Dec 18, 2015
Dec 21, 2015
Dec 21, 2015
Dec 23, 2015
Dec 23, 2015
Dec 29, 2015
**POS - per outstanding share

**POCSS - per outstanding share (special)
**POCSR - per outstanding share (regular)
**STA - subject to approval
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DECEMBER 11, 2015
52 Weeks
HIGH LOW
PAR
VALUE
STOCKS
2012
EPS
PREV
CLOSE
4.39
0.01
7.1
2.35
0.69
3.18
**** CASINOS & GAMING ****

1.00
BLOOMBERRY
0.01
IP EGAME
1.00
LEISURE AND RES
1.00
MELCO CROWN
0.25
PREMIUM LEISURE
0.10
TRAVELLERS
5.06
4.49
43.95
90.1
11.6
2.95
3.8
29.8
63.8
3.36
* *** RETAIL ****

CALATA CORP
METRO RETAIL
PUREGOLD
ROBINSONS RTL
SSI GROUP
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.35
0
1.63
2.6
0
0.88
4
0.76
7.63
0.49
2.52
0.43
4.12
**** OTHER SERVICES ****

APC GROUP
PAXYS
PRMIERE HORIZON
SBS PHIL CORP
1.00
1.00
0.25
1.00
0.02
-0.03
0.08
0
0.0074
10.8
1.03
1.19
9.65
3.68
0.48
0.315
0.325
0.019
0.019
7.09
4.27
49.2
2.65
9.72
169.6
0.0046
4.14
0.6
0.56
5.28
0.72
0.27
0.177
0.182
0 0.095
0.01
1.88
2.11
6.32
1.18
4.64
110.8
**** MINING ****

ABRA MINING
ATLAS MINING
COAL ASIA HLDG
CENTURY PEAK
DIZON MINES
FERRONICKEL
GEOGRACE
LEPANTO A
LEPANTO B
MANILA MINING A
MANILA MINING B
MARCVENTURES
NIHAO
NICKEL ASIA
ORNTL PENINSULA
PX MINING
SEMIRARA MINING
0.01
8.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.10
0.10
0.01
0.01
1.00
1.00
0.50
1.00
1.00
1.00
-0.00005
0.92
-0.002
0.12
-0.09
0.24
-0.09
-0.02
-0.02
-0.0001
-0.0001
0.46
-0.05
2.26
0.9
0.2
6.42
0.0048
4.2
0.63
0.63
7.36
0.75
0.285
0.19
0.2
0.012
0.011
2.03
2.78
6.38
1.31
4.89
136.3
0.016
0.022
6.3
6.4
12.8
0.008
0.0085
3.03
1.15
2
*** OIL ****

ORNTL PETROL A
PHILODRILL
PETROENERGY
PX PETROLEUM
TA PETROLEUM
0.01
0.01
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.00002
0.002
0.03
-0.13
-0.05
0.001
0.011
3.54
1.35
2.22
532
548.5
535
1.62
1,064.00
1,180.00
89.5
90
80.1
80.9
490
500
494
1
1,002.00
1,012.00
76
77
76.5
77.1
PREFERRED
AC PREF B1
AC PREF B2
GLO PREF P
LR PREF
PF PREF 2
PCOR PREF 2B
SMC PREF 2B
SMC PREF 2C
SMC PREF 2E
SMC PREF 2F
100.00
100.00
50.00
1.00
10.00
1.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
70
45
PHIL
ABS HLDG PDR
2.45
WARRANTS
LR WARRANT
106
5.4
17.46
3.01
3.57
8.14
SMALL
ALTERRA CAPITAL
ITALPINAS
XURPAS
0.05
0.50
0.10
132.2
107.6
EXCHANG
FIRST METRO ETF
0.60
SECTORIAL SUMMARY Open

FInAnCIALS
InDUSTRIALS
HOLDIng FIRMS
PROPERTY
SERVICES
MInIng & OIL
SME
ETF
PSEI
ALL SHARES
gRAnD TOTAL
HIGH
LOW
CLOSE
VOLUME
VALUE
PE
RATIO
**** CASINOS & GAMING ****
13.46
0.017
12.2
13.7
2.13
8.25
5.99
OPEN
0.38
-0.001
0.52
-1.35
0.09
0.35
4.56
0.011
8.44
2.5
0.8
3.69
4.56
0.01
8.44
2.48
0.8
3.54
4.76
0.01
8.44
2.61
0.82
3.69
4.38
0.01
8.18
2.35
0.69
3.54
4.41
0.01
8.18
2.43
0.74
3.69
8,814,000
5,000,000
409,400
14,894,000
40,285,000
109,000
39,187,240
50,000
3,383,394
36,597,280
29,953,020
388,710
11.58
-11.00
15.73
-1.76
8.00
10.14
3.4
3.85
34.1
67.9
3.89
3.33
3.8
33.6
65.8
3.71
3.33
3.84
33.75
66.3
3.72
9,000
10,357,000
150,900
821,560
3,269,000
30,170
39,612,030
5,105,465
54,959,373
12,342,490
9.51
0.00
20.77
25.38
0.00
0.5
2.7
0.44
6.12
0.49
2.65
0.435
6
0.49
2.7
0.435
6
1,215,000
2,000
300,000
1,854,100
595,765
5,350
131,300
11,148,327
24.50
-93.33
5.44
0.00
0.0049
4.21
0.62
0.64
7.42
0.75
0.29
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Top stocks for the week

More volatility seen
Consumer, property
sectors still favored
By MADELAINE B. MIRAFLOR
ome of the favored

stocks for this weeks
surely volatile trade are
consumer and property
companies, with positive outlook
towards these sectors expected
to carry on until next year or at
least before the election month.
Lexter Azurin, head of research at Unicapital Securities,
Inc., said the market will experience more volatility in the next
few days as the market waits for
the Federal Reserve meeting on
December 15 to 16.
Fed Reserve officials are
scheduled to gather within the
week for the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) where
the much anticipated interest
rate hike could be finally announced.
Since their last policy meeting
in October, Federal Reserve chair
Janet Yellen already hinted that
the committee may finally raise
the rates this month after keeping
it at zero level for seven years.
Despite uncertainties, Azurin
said local consumer and property
stocks will still do well in the next
few days.
I think the consumers will
still do well. On the domestic side,
consumption is still stable and

companies are growing healthily, he said.
In the consumer sector, Azurin highlighted stocks of Jollibee
Foods Corp., Universal Robina
Corp., and D&L Industries, Inc.
Meanwhile, he favored real
estate firms that have significantly grown their recurring
business like Megaworld Corp.,
Ayala Land, Inc., and Filinvest
Land, Inc.
We will see these companies
venturing already on the rental.
For residential, theres mainly a
slowdown, Azurin said.
Anxiety towards a global economic slowdown overshadowed
trading last week, sending the
local stock market to another
correction as it closed for the
weekend.
On Friday, Philippine Stock
Exchange index (PSEi) fell sharply by 85.59 points, or 1.26 percent
to end at 6,735.01, while the wider
all shares erased 38.17 points, or
0.97 percent to 3,894.86.
Astro Del Castillo, managing
director at First Grade Finance
Inc. said there was a continuous
sell-off among investors because
of fears that the global economy
in general is heading towards
another slowdown.
nO. OF ADVAnCES: 49
nO. OF DECLInES: 111
nO. OF UnCHAngED: 50
nO. OF TRADED ISSUES: 210
A rout in crude oil prices

hammers stock market
FOREIGN BUYING
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NEW YORK (AP) - A slump in

oil prices sparked a global sell-off
in financial markets on Friday
with losses spreading from Asia
to Europe to the US, where stocks
fell sharply to cap their worst
week since the summer.
The Dow Jones industrial
average lost 309.54 points, or 1.8
percent, to 17,265.21. The Nasdaq
composite declined 111.71 points,
or 2.2 percent, to 4,933.47.
In Europe, Germanys DAX
lost 2.4 percent, Britains FTSE
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RLC allots up to P17-B

capex budget for 2016
By JAMES A. LOYOLA
obinsons Land Corporation

(RCL) is allotting up to P17
billion for capital expenditures (Capex) in 2016, up
from the P15 billion it spend this year,
as it continues to build up its leasing
portfolio and launch residential projects.
In an interview during the opening
of Robinsons Galleria Cebu, RLC president Frederick Go said the capex [of
the company] will be funded partly with
debt as well as by our healthy internally
generated cash flow.
Go said the nationwide expansion of
the firms mall chain and its hotel network under the Summit and Go Hotel
brands, coupled with the construction
of new office buildings is seen to keep
RLCs recurring income level at 85
percent of the total next year.
Next year, Go said RLC plans to
open new malls in Tagum (March),
Gen. Trias in Cavite (April), and Jaro
in Iloilo (June). It is also opening new
office space in Bridgetown in Quezon
City as well as on top of Robinsons
Galleria Cebu.
RLCs hotel business, which now
has 2,200 rooms under four brands, will
continue to expand with the latest Go
Hotel expected to open in Paraaque
near terminal one of the Ninoy Aquino
International Airport. This will be built
by the Roxaco Land under a franchising agreement.
But of course we also continue to
sell our residential project to generate
non-recurring gains. Because of this,
we dont have to sell any office space
since the residential business allows us
to meet our quota for one-time gains,
Go said.
Meanwhile, Go said they continue
to develop the master plan for the
8.5 hectare property they acquired in
Chengdu, China which will mainly be
a residential development.
Go said the property was bought
at a good price, well below the peak
real estate price in China. He added
that about 90 percent of the lot will
be for the development of residential
projects while there will be a minor
commercial component on the remaining 10 percent.
PSE maintains P200-B

IPO target for 2016
The Philippine Stock Exchange
(PSE) is still targeting to get the firms
to list at least P200 billion worth of stocks
in the bourse in 2016 even though it will
not be able to reach the same goal in
this year.
PSE president Hans B. Sicat said
they expect to close 2015 with a combined P185-billion funds raised even
though several initial public offerings
(IPOs) were shelved due to the current
weakness in the stock market.
The higher listing activity is expected to be propelled by the momentum
provided the upcoming national election
which is seen to perk up investor appetite as well as corporate confidence
in tapping the capital market for their
funding needs.
"I think with 2016, election is actually
good for consumer spending. The current increase of government spending
and the private sector spending means
you're going to have a lot of positive
multiplier effect for the economy," said
Sicat.
He explained that we think that
will be good for the market. Despite the
external volatility, we are hoping that
the level of local activity will more than
compensate for a lot of market volatility

that could happen."
Sicat said the PSE expects about 8
to 10 listings to materialize next year, including those companies that have opted
to suspend listing plans due to bearish
market conditions such as Datem, Inc.,
and DM Wenceslao.
Global markets took a dive after the
US Federal Reserve indicated that it
will be raising interest rates after the
US economy has finally showed signs
of improvement.
"It's been a weird 2015. Because, remember we're already saying, or at least
we thought, that given that everybody
has already priced in the rate increase,
it would already be recovering. But when
China did their surprise rate increase,
foreign selling increased more than
expected," Sicat said.
This year, only four companies managed to launch their maiden stock offerings: Crown Asia Chemicals Corporation
which raised P222.78 million, SBS Philippines Corporation's P1.16-billion IPO,
Metro Retail Stores Group Inc. with the
biggest IPO at P3.97 billion, and Italpinas
Development Corporation which sold
P207 million worth of shares. (JAL)
Palawan as a mini-Thailand
BuSINESS AND
SOcIEty
BERNARDO M.
VILLEGAS
oday, Thailand may have lost

some of its economic luster
because of political and demographic problems. It has
reverted to military rule and is already
facing, very early in its development
process, a demographic crisis. These
challenges, however, do not take anything away from its outstanding success in tourism and agribusiness. More
than 20 years ago, Thailand surpassed
the Philippines in per capita income
because of the way its leaders focused
on building first-class infrastructures
for its countryside and agricultural
sector. Already in the 1980s, there was
not a single small farm in the remotest
parts of Thailand that was not within
one kilometer from a good road. The
admirable focus on farm-to-market
roads, irrigation systems, post-harvest
facilities and other rural infrastructures (including regional airports)
killed two birds with one stone. It made
the small farmers rich by helping them
improve productivity and transport
their produce to the markets cost effectively. At the same time, it opened up
its tourism destinations to millions of
tourists who used the same roads and
other rural infrastructures as the farmers did. Furthermore, the rich farmers
led to a boom in the domestic market
for cars and other manufactured goods,
enabling Thailand to develop its industries ahead of the Philippines.
Among the provinces of the Philippines, Palawan can become a mini
Thailand under the leadership of its
present Governor, Jose Ch. Alvarez.
This was in my mind as I listened to
the Governor present his long-term
vision for his province in a recent investment forum. It was music to my
ear to hear that his local government is
fast-tracking the completion of airports
that can accommodate direct flights
to Palawan. In contrast with the very
slow implementation of infrastructure
projects at the national level, three
major airport development projects
are already underway (not Power
Point Presentations!). They are: 1) The
Puerto International Airport worth

P4.5 billion; 2) The San Vicente airport
which will be operational soon with the
completion of its Terminal Building;
and 3) The Busuanga Airport worth
P4 billion. To complement these major
airports, the provincial government
is developing 22 smaller municipal
landing strips that will comprise the
network of mosquito airports where
small planes can operate to facilitate
the faster movement and transport
of people to tourist destination sites.
These mini airports can also facilitate
the transport of high-value agricultural
and aquacultural products, among
them seaweeds in which Palawan is
becoming the biggest producer.
The program for road construction
is equally impressive. Over the last
three years, a total of P4.5 billion has
been invested for the construction of
more than 300 kilometers of national
and local roads in support of tourism
under the tourism Road Infrastructure
Convergence Program of the Department of Public Works and Highways
and the Department of Tourism. These
new roads are over and above the
existing 1,000 kilometers of roads. In
addition, local roads leading to airports
and seaports are being built with a
budget of more than P1.2 billion. As
of August 2015, a total of 600 kilometers
of road projects have been initiated
and/or completed. I have personally
experienced the dramatic improvement of the road network in Palawan.
More than twenty years ago, I had to
take a helicopter to go to the famous
underground river of Puerto Princesa
because it would have taken more than
three hours in bad roads to get there.
Today, it takes only an hour to reach
this same destination from Puerto
Princesa on beautifully paved road.
Maritime transport is also experiencing major improvements. The
provincial government of Palawan is
partnering with the Philippine Ports
Authority for the development of ports
in Coron in the north (to connect Palawan to Mindoro, another island with
very attractive tourism destinations)
and Buliluyan in the south (to connect
the province with Kudat, Sabah as part
of the ASEAN roll-on/roll-off or RORO
Shipping Network). This will facilitate
land and sea travel to the equator
covering a total stretch of 1,500 kilometers. The local government of Kudat
is investing roughly 8.5 million Ringgit for the development of the RORO
port in Kudat. Archipelago Shipping,
whose owners were among those who
attended the investment forum, has
just acquired RORO ships costing
P500 million that will be deployed in

these north and south RORO routes.
Investors are becoming more bullish
about Palawan because of the many
infrastructures projects that they
see are being aggressively pushed
by the provincial government. For
example, Kennemer Foods, Inc.
will develop 6,000 hectares of cacao
plantation in six southern municipalities of Palawan. The next phase
calls for the development of another
6,000 hectares. All these will generate 6,000 jobs. Del Monte Fresh
Produce, Inc. is investing about
$250 million for the development of
a 6,000 hectare banana plantation
under a 25-year lease program. This
venture is expected to generate 8,000
jobs. DOLE, the other big producer
of bananas and pineapples, is now
also seriously considering investing
in Palawan, which is fast becoming
an alternative to Mindanao for large
agribusiness investments.
In addition to farm-to-market
roads and other rural infrastructures directed to the small farmers,
another very critical factor for reducing poverty and attaining inclusive
growth is potable water. When
Governor Alvarez was elected for the
first time two years ago, 39 percent
of the 366 Barangays had no access
to safe and potable water. Literally
hitting the ground running, newly
elected Governor launched the P3.6
billion Water Infrastructure Program
consisting of 183 levels 2 and 3 water
projects using the gravity-driven
water system and solar-powered
water systems in upland areas. As
a support to the tourism industry,
DPWH through its Tourism Water
Program (or TouWA) is rolling out
water projects in the municipalities
of Roxas and El Nido, with budget
allocation of P89 million and P80
million, respectively.
Eradicating poverty is the most
important goal of the province of
Palawan. Thailand was able to bring
down its poverty incidence from
more than 50 percent in the 1980s
to less than 10 percent today by
doing exactly what Governor Alvarez outlined for his province for the
next six years or so, the remaining
years when he can still be Governor.
Because Palawan consciously or unconsciously is following the footsteps
of Thailand, I am sure that the next
six years will see a dramatic decline
in poverty, thanks to the growth of
tourism and agribusiness.
For comments, my email address
is bernardo.villegas@uap.asia.
DuPont, Dow Chemical seek

PH brands poised to enter merger, then split into 3 firms
ME consumer market
By RANDALL CHASE
At least five Philippine brands are

about to clinch franchise deals that will
make them highly visible in the large
Middle East (ME) consumer market.
Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM) said in
a statement that franchise negotiations,
largely involving distributorship, have
begun during and after the Philippine
participation in the recently-concluded
Dubai International Brand Licensing
Fair.
CITEM is the Philippine Department
of Trade and Industrys export promotions arm.
CITEM brought the brands to the fair
in cooperation with the Philippine Franchise Association (PFA) and showcased
them in an eye-catching BrandPhilippines pavilion, whose design impressed
both visitors and fellow exhibitors.
Prominently exhibited by CITEM
and PFA were eleven of the countrys
top homegrown brands Anemone
Swim, Karimadon, Onsimus, Shirt Bar
by Onsimus, and Periwinkle for fashion;
Bibingkinitan!, Chef Tonys, Holy Kettle
by Chef Tony, Fruit Magic, and Goldilocks
for food; and Oryspa for personal care
solutions.
The brands immediately drew interest from visitors seeking investment
opportunities, with Bibingkinitan now in
serious negotiation with one locator and
3 master franchisees, Karimadon being
eyed by Francorp Middle East for all the
member-countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Goldilocks in talks with five
business entities for franchising and
distributorship in supermarkets, Onesimus for its shoes and another for brand
franchising, and Oryspa for distributorship, said CITEM Executive Director
Rosvi C. Gaetos.
Citing a report from CITEM project
manager Romleah P. Ocampo in Dubai,
Gaetos also thanked PFA chairman
Sammy Lim and executive director Chit
Estrada for their presence at the exhibits, providing professional, technical and
moral support to the exhibitors.
Also present at the exhibits during
the opening rites were Philippine Commercial Counsellor Paisal D. Abdullah
and Attache Eric C. Elnar for Middle
East and Africa.
The Philippine exhibits, according to
Gaetos, were specifically targeted at the
fairs over 4,000 trade buyers and visitors
from the Middle East and North Africa
(MENA), having an aggregate consumer
population of 357.3 million and regional
gross domestic product of $1.523 trillion
as of 2014.
MENA also has a US$30-billion
franchise economy and a flourishing
retail industry, making it a perfect regional target for CITEMs Philippines:
Brands in Motion initiative, which grooms
homegrown companies and their product
brands for the world market, Gaetos
pointed out.
Expanding the home-grown industries to foreign markets via franchising
can open up vast opportunities for Philippine exports, especially in the food,
garments and fashion sector, Gaetos
added.
PH govt still...
members of AIIB, but the government
was prudently studying its membership.
The AIIB is an initiative by China
intended to help fund Asias massive
infrastructure needs, which the Asian
B-1
Development Bank (ADB) estimates will

reach $8 trillion by 2020.
President Aquino had also said the
Philippines was still studying the proposal to join the China-led AIIB.
We have not joined the AIIB. We
DOVER, Del. (AP) Dow Chemical

and DuPont are merging to form a company valued at about $130 billion as they
try to counter falling commodities prices
and weakness in some key markets that
have pressured their giant agriculture
and chemicals businesses.
The two companies, whose research
has brought the world products ranging
from Ziploc bags and Saran wrap developed by Dow to DuPont's Teflon coatings
and Nylon and Kevlar fibers, will first
form DowDuPont, then separate into
three independent publicly traded companies focused on agriculture, material
science and specialty products.
The proposed merger, announced
Friday, would temporarily create the
world's second-largest chemical company, behind BASF. It comes as both
Dow and DuPont Co. have seen recent
declines in agricultural performance and
been pressured by activist shareholders
to control spending and shift away from
commodities to faster-growing parts of
their businesses.
Overall, this transaction represents
a tectonic shift in an industry that has
been evolving over the last many years,
said Dow chairman and CEO Andrew
Liveris, calling the merger a seminal
event for employees and customers of
the two companies, which have a combined workforce of more than 110,000
people.
DuPont chairman and CEO Edward
Breen said the industrial logic behind
the deal was compelling. When I look at
DuPont and Dow, I see businesses that
fit together like hand and glove, Breen
said. DuPont shares fell 5.4 percent to
$70.56 in midday trading. Dow Chemical
shares were down 3 percent at $53.27.
Breen took over as DuPont CEO following the abrupt resignation in October
of Ellen Kullman, who just a few months
earlier fended off a proxy challenge by
Trian Fund Management, a hedge fund
led by activist investor Nelson Peltz.
Peltz has called for DuPont's agriculture,
nutrition and health and industrial biosciences units to be combined into a single
Davao companies...
growth company, separate from the

more cyclical businesses of performance
materials, safety and protection, and
electronics and communication.
Similarly, Dow has been pressured
by hedge fund Third Point LLC, led by
activist investor Dan Loeb, to split its
specialty chemical and petrochemical
businesses. Dow avoided a proxy fight
last year by adding four independent
directors, giving board seats to two Loeb
nominees.
Both Dow and DuPont had activist
shareholders who had sought breakups
of these companies, so ultimately the
visions of these activists are being realized, said James Sheehan, an analyst for
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
Sheehan said the deal also could
spark other mergers in the ag-chemical
industry. Earlier this year, Missouribased Monsanto, the world's largest
seed company, abandoned a $46.5-billion
hostile bid for Swiss rival Syngenta. Last
month, Syngenta rejected a $42-billion
offer from state-owned China National
Chemical Corp.
dled by DIPSSCOR, a subsidiary of the

International Container Terminal, Inc.
(ICTSI), is only 300,000 TEUs.
At the DOTC and PPP Center projected growth rate of 6 percent we will
take 15 years to bring it to 700,000 TEUs.
So why the rush? asked DIPSSCOR
president Jose Manuel M. De Jesus.
Surprised with the PPPs urgency,
De Jesus added that the port can be

constructed in 24 months so why do we
have to construct now when we still have
excess capacity?
Meanwhile former Davao City councilor Danilo Dayanghirang noted that
this PPP project does not have the
approval of the Davao City Council.
Sec. 27 of the Local Government Code
of the Philippines requires the prior

approval of the City Council for all government projects that falls within its
jurisdiction.
In a Seante hearing last Tuesday,
Senate Public Service Committee chair
Sergio Osmea III urged the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the Public-Private
Partnership (PPP) Center to come up
with a cheaper option to modernize the
Davao Sasa Port. (JAL)
have not indicated that we are ready to

join also. We are actually at the stage of
studying the proposal to join this particular new entity, President Aquino said.
In November 2014, Finance Undersecretary Gil S. Beltran, on behalf of
the Philippine government, signed a
memorandum of understanding of AIIB
in Beijing.
Earlier, Assistant Secretary of State

for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel
R. Russel, said it is better off waiting
for the AIIB to takeoff first before nations, like the US and its allied countries,
would join.
For our part, Japan and other countries, we have taken a view that [AIIB]
its looking better, good progress but the
proof is in the pudding. Once you see one

or two projects, and how they operate
then you will know if it's better off waiting, Ruseel said.
Russell explained many countries,
including the Philippines, were hesitant
to join the AIIB as information about
the Beijing-led funding agency is still
limited.
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318-5000
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403-0808
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Makati City
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Luneta, Manila
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415-9385
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716-8266
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722-7411
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570-7777
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446-0700
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817-0888
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426-0567
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Subic Bay Hotel Venezia
Zambales
Subic International
Hotel Zambales
Torre Venezia Suites

Quezon City
(632)
4702306-08
Fax: 4702314
(632)
726-6712
726-6713
(632)
926-8985
421-1398
(049)
502-8123 to 27
(02)3105603
to 04
(048)723-1356 to 59
09989753768
(02)744-7979 to 82
0917-8739974
(074) 611-0202
(02)376-5059
09175267049
(054) 472-257
4228-065 7
09258020706
828-4774
(02)
332-1658
to 60
(632)
866-0888
726-2911
726-2916
(02)372-0311
(074)
442-4028
(077)
770-5996
(02)246-1010
(046)
489-8581
489-8582
(045)
611-2053 to
611-2055
SKYLIGHTHO TEL
Puerto Princesa
Palawan
Skyrise Hotel
Apartelle & Restaurant
Baguio City
The Picasso Boutique

Serviced Residences
Makati City
Taal Vista Hotel

Tagaytay City
Tam-awan Village
Baguio City
Terrace Hotel
Subic Bay
(042)
373-7171 to 73
373-4889
Fax: 373-7604
373-6218
The ADC Hotel

Naga City
The Lake Hotel

Tagaytay
(047)
252-9996 to
252-9998
The Lighthouse Marina Resort

Moonbay Marina Complex
(048)
434-7172
to 76
(074)
445-6834 to
445-6836
The Montevista Villas, Academy Lane,

Mimosa Leisure Estate
Pampanga, Philippines
The Starmark Hotel
Peafrancia Ave., Naga City
(075)
523-4888
515-2276
523-4111
Tune Hotel
Angeles City
Villa Caceres Hotel

Naga City
(054)
472-6892
(047)
252-1888
(047)
252-2222
(047)
250-2630
250-7274
Vista Marina
Hotel & Resort
Zambales
(6348) 434-2334
Fax (6348) 434-2003
(632) 242-6638
loc. 175
(02)783-8355
788-8350
(074)
446-5400 to 01
(632) 917-8225
(6346) 413-1000
(63)9178091254
(074)
446-2949
442-5551
(047)
250-2730
to 32
(054)
472-2328 or 26
09052019225
09493617784
(02)584-4470
(046)
413-4680 to 81
(047)
252-5000
(6345)
599-7000
(632) 584-4047
584-4007
(054)
205-0051
(045)
459-0888
(054)
473-6530
(047)
252-3373
(02) 844-5777
(047) 252-5211
Subic Grand Seas Resort

Olongapo
(047)
222-8541
09178447327
Rajah Park Hotel

Cebu City
(032)
412-3337
isayas
Iloilo Midtown Hotel

Iloilo City
+63(34)
441-0506
+63(932)
852-9362
525-9065
899-7888
798-0798
Hotel Tavern
Surigao City
Ice Castle
Experience Hotel
General Santos City
Infinity Suites
Bo. Obrero, Davao City
Innside Room Hotel
Tagum City,
Davao Del Norte
Isla Jardin Del Mar
Gumasa,
Sarangani Province
Iyle Londoners Inn
Province of Davao Oriental
Jade Dragon's Suites
Aurora Jacinto Street,
Davao City
Jovinaj
Traveler's Inn
General Santos City
Jazzy James Country Hotel
Davao City
Jienos Garden Beach Resort
Pantukan, Compostela
Valley
Magnaga Waters
Beach Resort
Compostela Valley
Mallberry Suites
Business Hotel
Cagayan de Oro
Marco Hotel
Cagayan De Oro City
Mergrande Ocean Resort
Davao City
Microtel Inn and
Suites Davao
Davao City
Molave Hotel
Tagum City
My Hotel
Davao City
Maxze Bed & Breakfast
Davao City
(033)
336-6888
(0928)
985-0999
Salamangka Beach and Dive Resort

San Juan, Siquijor
(033)
330-7100
(036)
621-7718
(034)
434-4500
The Bellevue Resort

Panglao Island, Bohol
The Orchard Cebu
Hotel, Cebu City
(036)
621-6255
0917-3121-720
0998-9753-612
Tune Hotel - Cebu City
(032)
233-5695
Yoyongs Travellers Inn

Negros Occidental
(035)
422-8200
(032)
231-3681
(082)
224-1390
224-1391
(083)
303-5314
0923717 0389
(082)
227-0788
305-1847
(0929)
969-0806
(084)2166379
(0917)7191956
(0923)2802018
(088)
855-7999
855-5959
09177027002
(+63-82)
298-4100
(+63-82)
298-4101
(082)
233-2333
(084)
655-6938
655-6939
655-9379
(082)
300-4040
222-2021
(082)
233 0071
09998863306
Boracay
Beach Club
BoracayRegencyBeach
Boracay
Island
(036)2886111/2886777
Boracay Haven Resort

Boracay Island

BoracayHills Hills
Boracay
(036)2883315
Boracay
(036)2883764
Island
Boracay Mandarin
Island Hotel
RedCoconut
Malay,
Aklan
BeachResort
TheBoracayBeachResort
Sitio Bolabog, Boracay Island
Boracay Tropics
Boracay Island
WillysBeachClubHotel
Villas
Cohiba
Boracay Island
(036)2883208
(036)2884288
(036)2883794to97
http://www.cohibavillas.com
sales@cohibaboracay.com
cohiba.villas-boracay
skype:
Tel. Fax: +63 36 288 4792
Mobile No.:+63 9177230649

RegencyLagoonResort
(036)2882828
New Dawn
Pensionne
Cagayan De Oro City

Le Grand Suites
City Heights, General
Santos City
Le Reve Resort
North Cotabato
Marex Beach Resort
Island Garden City Of Samal
(082)
553-5473
553-5970
(087)
388-4615
09267921478
(088)
828 4482
09156189085
(036) 288-3507
Boracay(036)
Ocean
288-3758 Bay Resort
Boracay Island
(064) 229-9436
521-4090
09461911409
09205555049
(083)
893 0032
09197687544
09067652174
BeachHotel
0999 880 4526

0948 788 4255
(084)
216 4553
09228625339
Red Coconut
(064)
229 8550
229 6018
0917721 2813
(082)
285-0001
285-0002
285-0005
(032)
402-9900
(083)
554-4423
826-9026
(63)32
505-9800
(086)
826-3280
(0922)
849-6443
7 Stones Boracay Suites

Malay Aklan
Vista de Boracay
Alta
BoracayGardenResort
(036)2886633
Boracay
Island
ResortandConventionCenter
433-3377
(034)
434-7065
(083)
301-1818
09228217332
(088 )
852-0383
(02) 401-9285
(082)
282-1111
09255111011
(036)
621-2956
621-1216
(035)
422-4000
(034)
433-7401
708-8889
(082)
227-3773
295-3485
09227152573
+63 32
492-7777
+63 02
799-1111
(082)
233-1941
Boracay
(632) 417-5751
(6332)
492-0100
Marianne Suites
A. Luna Streets,
Cagayan De Oro City
NEW ESTRELLA TOWNHOUSE
JulioPacanaSt.Licoan,CagayandeOroCity
Mis.Or.Philippines
New Estrella
Townhouse
Cagayan De Oro City
Orchard Hotel
Bajada, Davao City
Tel.#(08822)745126/(088)8521441
Limketkai Luxe Hotel

Cagayan De Oro City
Palm Residence Inn
Davao City
Paras Beach Resort
Yumbing, Camiguin
Paseo De San Francisco Suites
Agusan Del Sur
Paradise Island
Park & Beach Resort
Samal Island Davao
Park Inn
By Radisson Davao
Davao City
Parkway Hotel
Surigao City
Paulas Hotel
Misamis Oriental
Pearl Farm Beach Resort
Davao City
Pearl Suites
Davao City
Pearlmont Inn
Cagayan de Oro City
Ponce Suites Hotel
Bajada, Davao City
Pryce Plaza Hotel
Cagayan De Oro City
Precious Garden Of Samal
www.precious-garden-samal.com
PTCHostel
Agusan Del Sur
Rhapsody Suites
Cagayan De Oro City
Roadhaus Hotel
Dadiangas City Heights,
General Santos City
Secret Cove Beach Resort
Camiguin Island
Sequoia Inn
Davao City
Seda Abreeza
Davao City
Sonreir Apartelle
Calinan, Davao City
Jony's Beach Resort

Malay, Aklan
La Esperanza Hotel
Kalibo, Aklan
09175886873
(632) 771-8181
(6338)
422-2222
422-2202
(032)
344-1322
(032)
232-0888
(034)
729-3835
09273032166
(036)
288-9888
(036)
288-4853
(036)
288-5729
(036)
288-3315
288-3764
(036)
288-3444
(02)567-1672
(036)
288-1759
(02)
887-0581
812-5821
(036)2883457
(036)2885190
(036)288372830
(02)634358183
(036)2885222
BoracayGardenResort
Lingganay
Boracay
Hotel
(036)2886633
Resort
Malay, Aklan
Nigi-Nigi
Too
Beach Resort
BoracayRegencyBeach
Boracay Island
BoracayGardenResort
(036)2886633
One
Boracay Resort
OneMGMBoracayResort
MGM
(036)2886111/2886777
andConventionCenter
and Convention Center
Boracay Island
BoracayRegencyBeach

Marzon
Hotel
(036)2886111/2886777
BoracayHills
Aklan
TonglenBeachResort
Kalibo,
(036)2883315
(036)
288-1601
Eurotel
Boracay Island
Boracay Island
(036)2883764
Marzon
Beach
Resort
BoracayHills
(036)2883315
Malay,
Aklan
(036)2883764
Red
Coconut
Beach
Red Coconut
RedCoconut
Resort
BoracayGardenResort
Boracay
Island
Red CoconutBeachHotel RedCoconut
BeachResort
(036) 288-3507
BeachHotel
BeachResort
288-3758
Sea(036)
Wind
Boracay
(036)2886633
BoracayRegencyBeach
(036) 288-3507
(036)
(036)2886111/2886777
288-3758
The
(036)2883208
BoracayHills
Boracay
(036)2883208 Beach Resort
(036)2884288
(036)2884288
(036)2883315
Boracay
Island
(036)2883764

Red
Coconut
RedCoconut
BeachHotel
BeachResort
(036)2883794to97
(036) 288-3507
(036)
(036)2883794to97
288-3758
Water Colors Boracay

(036)2883208Dive Resorts
(036)2884288

Boracay Island,
The District Boracay

Malay, Aklan
RegencyLagoonResort
(036)2883794to97
Willy's
Beach Club Hotel

(036)2882828
Boracay Island
RegencyLagoonResort
(036)2882828
RegencyLagoonResort
355-0000
861-8658
(63) 36 2886119
/ 2886274-75
Fax No
(63) 36 2883119
(036)
262-3989
268-9254
(036)
288-5734
(036)
351-4017
994-1145
(036)
288-3728 to 30
(02)634-3581
to 83
(036)
268-2188
268-2184
to 86
(036)
288-3131
09218104433
09159367222
(036)
288-3507
288-3758
416-4010
415-1285
(036)
288-3208
288-4288
(63 36)
288-2324 - 27
288-1448
(063)
288 -6745
to 6746
(036)
288-3794
to 97
(036)2882828
(036)
288-4792
857-1776
09229192806
(083)
301-2289
09173313800
09399062218
09399052343
(0928)
732-1893
302-1460
(088)
880-2123
(08822)
745-126
(088) 852-1441
(082)
300-8855
(88) 880-0000
(02) 779-5240
(082)
305-0505
222-5225
09175684720
(088)
387-9117
09177152285
(+6385)
343-8048
(+63999)
309-1065
(082)
233-0251
(082)
272-7600
272-7601
(086) 231
5116 / 231
5141 to 46
567-1135
09174308131
(082)
221-9970
(082)
282-1294
09301269185
(088)
856-2653
to 55
(082)
227-8161
227-9070
(08822)
726-464
(088) 858-3131
(082)
303-2818
09176347037
09179111252
(088)
857-1101
09328469358
(083) 553-8888
553-5335
Telefax No.
553-1771
(088)
387 9084
387 9184
(082)
300-3636
Southern Tourist Inn

Davao City
Sunflower Hotel
Davao City
Sydney Hotel
General Santos City
Square Suites
General Santos City
T'boli Hotel
and Restaurant
General Santos City
TCC Condo Hostel

Toril, Davao City
The Dynasty Court

Hotel
Cagayan de Oro City
The Farm @ Carpenter Hill
Koronadal City, South
Cotabato
(082)
221-7431
(082)
221-5011
305-3531
(083)
552-5479
552-5480
552-5481
(083) 552-5127
09228362516
09126007323
(083)
302-2648
553-7586
302-6652
(082)
291-3800
(08822)
72-4516
72-7825
(083)
228 1888
228 9010
09189210425
The Manor Hotel

Davao City
(063) (82)
221-2511
to 13
The Metropolis Suites

Davao City
(082)
282-8000
321-2874
The Margarette
Business Hotel
Maramag, Bukidnon
The Old Barracks Suites

Kidapawan City
The Peridot Suites
Davao City
The Pinnacle
Hotel And Suites
Davao City
The Ritz Hotel
at Garden Oases
Davao City
The Vip Hotel
Cagayan De Oro City
Tierra Montana Hotel
General Santos City
Tune Hotel
Cagayan De Oro
Tune Hotel - Davao City
Uptown Condotel
Xavier Estates, Cagayan
De Oro City
Victoria Suites Hotel

Cagayan De Oro
Villa Paraiso Resort

and Apartelle
Mambajao, Camiguin
Uno Business Hotel & Cafe

Hagkol, Valencia City
We R Inn Hotel
City Center, Davao City
Willshire Inn / Will's Place

Cagayan De Oro City
Woodland Tourist Inn
Alunan Highway,
Tacurong City
(088) 238-5236
09066437648
09175498841
09268446952
(064)
288-1299
(082)
305-6530
305-3812
(+6382)
300-1881
300-5885
221-3025
(082)
228-6885
to 87
(0882)
727-360
726-080
(083)
554-7733
553-0553
(088)
880-0888
09178514308
(082)
224-0577 to 78
0916 550 8863
(088)
851-1800
09088881800
(088)
857-4447
(08822)
72-2222
(088) 387-0419
387-0420
09173089293
09999906543
(088)
828-3544
09175395678
(082)
227-9328
09199252808
09228418102
09176320635
09176320650
(064)
477-0488
09429243041
(6382)
322-8888
09477910147
09233327698
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S&P warns UKs AAA rating

threatened by EU exit risk
STOP ILLICIT TRADE In line with its strong
commitment to curb illicit trade, Mighty
Corporation initiated the destruction and
disposal of fake Mighty cigarettes seized by
authorities from unscrupulous traders and
retailers. The efforts run jointly with forces from
the Bureau of Customs (BoC), National Bureau
of Investigation (NBI), Philippine National
Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection
Group (PNP-CIDG) and the Bureau of Internal
Revenue (BIR) as fake cigarettes have circulated
in various parts of the country. Left photo
shows Atty. Alex Dalino Calderon witnessing
the condemnation and disposal of fake Mighty
cigarettes; right photo shows the actual
shredding of fake Mighty cigarettes.
LONDON (AFP)
Ratings agency Standard
& Poors warned Friday
that the risk of Britain
leaving the European Union could affect
its triple-A ranking.
S&P, the only major ratings agency
to rate Britain as AAA, maintained the
ranking with a negative outlook due to
uncertainties over a coming referendum
on Britains EU membership.
It came shortly after the International
Monetary Fund warned that uncertainty
over a so-called Brexit could hurt its
economy. In our opinion, the possibility that the UK could leave the European Union (EU) as a consequence of a
planned 'leave or remain' referendum...
represents a risk to the UK economy,''
S&P said in a statement.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to hold a referendum

before the end of 2017, while renegotiating
the terms of Britain's membership in the
meantime.
Most opinion polls show greater support for remaining within the 28-member
bloc among the British public, though the
pro-EU lead has been narrowing.
If Britain were to leave the EU, S&P
warned that London would lose its ability to influence EU policies on financial
services, put at risk financing services
for its public deficit, and in a worse case
scenario harm sterling's role as a global
reserve currency.
Nevertheless, the ratings agency
noted that it believed the most likely outcome would be that Britain would vote to
remain within the EU.
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BSP says...
28-days. Guinigundo said
since market feedback is
batting for longer-term
tenor or 56 days, they
could also consider this
rate but has to compare
it with the 91-day Trea-
John Gokongwei:...
adding that we will reach our goal of
turning our Company into the leading
ASEAN and New Zealand snack foods
and beverage player.
URC recently formed joint ventures
with Calbee and Danone while acquiring Snack Foods Limited which owns
Griffins Foods, the largest snack foods
company in New Zealand.
The younger Gokongwei said URC
also continues to be open to new acquisitions or joint ventures.
B-1
Our philosophy really is: the middle

class is growing, theyre developing an
appetite for more affordable indulgences
for healthier food, he said.
So if we can find partners who can
offer us this brand and this technology,
then were going to use URCs expertise
and footprint throughout the Philippines
and ASEAN to help them achieve their
growth, he added.
URC is investing $30 million in
Myanmar for production facilities for
its biscuits, wafer and snack products

and Gokongwei said they hope to have
the plant operating before the end of
the year.
Just recently, URC came out on
top among 41 companies in the region
nominated for the Marketing Company
of the Year by Asia Marketing Federation
(AMF). AMF is a group of marketing
associations in 11 countries in Asia and
in the Chinese territories of Hong Kong
and Taiwan.
URC was recognized for showcasing outstanding and innovative efforts,
tactics, and values that resulted in
significant sales growth, market share
growth, and net income growth in the
past three years.
This award represents the culmina-
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sury note.
The TDF where the term deposits
will be auctioned is a common tool intended for liquidity management and
suitable for shorter maturities. Auction
results of the TDF could provide indicative short-term benchmark for the
money market and will be invaluable in
price discovery in the market.

Guinigundo said that a purely overnight SDA should give investors more
flexibility in terms placements with the
BSP. Overnight terms also allow investors sufficient flexibility or effective management of their liquidity, he added.
SDAs are fixed-term deposits by
banks and trust entities of BSP-supervised financial institutions with the
BSP. Both the SDAs and the reverse
repurchase (RRP) are open market operations. The IRC will influence money
market rates to closely follow the BSP
rate which is the RRP rate.
tion of years of hard work and sacrifice

that are setting URC on a path to becoming a regional juggernaut, URC vice
president and group head for marketing
Edwin Totanes said at the recent AMF
awarding ceremony in Jakarta.
URC the company behind market
leading brands Jack n Jill, Great Taste,
and C2 is building on robust growth
in sales in key markets to be a leading

player in Asia.
Combined sales of its branded products in the Philippines and abroad grew
78 percent from P44.3 billion to P77.2
billion from 2010 to 2014, while its international sales have been growing at 13
percent, at pace with domestic growth
of 17 percent.
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Asia-N. Europe freight

rates climb 156%
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) Shipping freight
rates for transporting containers from ports
in Asia to Northern Europe jumped 156 percent to $703 per 20-foot container (TEU) in
the week ended on Friday, one source with
access to data from the Shanghai Shipping
Exchange told Reuters. The rise came after
shipping companies implemented scheduled rate hikes on the worlds busiest route
and after rates dropped 50 percent last
week.
Air
Sea
Land
Shipping Bulletin
Firefighters spray wrong

plane at Chinese airport
BEIJING (AP) When crew members of a passenger plane reported sparks coming from an
engine while taxiing at an airport in southern
China, eight fire trucks responded within minutes. Then they covered the wrong plane with
white foam. The mistake at the Fuzhou city
airport Thursday was quickly amended and
the firefighters turned their attention to the
correct plane, but the other one - with passengers aboard was delayed 10 hours and the
entire incident delayed 30 flights.
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UPS struggles to keep up

with surge in web orders
By LAURA STEVENS
The Wall Street Journal
nited Parcel Service, Inc. is

straining to handle a surge in
online sales that has resulted
in more holiday volume than
it had expected, causing a wave of disruptions that could spell trouble for the
holiday season.
On-time delivery rates for UPS
ground packages based on their normal
shipping transit times last week fell to
91%, according to an analysis of millions of packages by software developer
ShipMatrix, Inc. During the same week
last year, the on-time rate was 97%,
which is UPSs usual average during
non-peak months. FedEx Corp.s early
numbers were also lower than usual at
an estimated 95%.
UPS has been slammed with unexpectedly high volumes, extra pickups
and not enough staff and equipment
to handle all of the packages in some
locations, according to people familiar
with the matter.
Volumes are coming in much

higher than planned, said John Haber,
CEO of Spend Management Experts,
who advises retailers on shipping matters. You can only process so much
volume so quickly.
UPS this week assigned managers
from corporate headquarters in Atlanta
and elsewhere to work at delivery centers in Austin, Texas, Latham, N.Y., and
other locations to handle the additional
packages.
A UPS spokesman said that UPS
did experience some high impact areas driven by volume in some places
that came in at levels greater than
the original peak plan for those locations. He added that it is typical that
retailers may have more volume than
they expected, and UPS sends management teams each year to those sites
affected.
Online sales surged more than expected over the Thanksgiving holiday
weekend and into last week. Consumers
spent an estimated $4.45 billion online
on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, with
Black Friday sales rising 14% from a

year ago, according to Adobe Systems
Inc., which tracks purchases across
4,500 US sites. It estimated that more
than half of Black Friday shopping came
from mobile devices.
Most of the problems surfacing
so far involve UPS, which does more
residential deliveries than FedEx and
has been trying to contain costs. It is
unclear how much difficulty FedEx
and the US Postal Service are having
handling the loads. All combined, the
three carriers have been expecting
to ship more than 1.5 billion packages
over the holidays, an increase of more
than 10%.
FedEx said that a record number
of holiday shipments fueled by e-commerce are flowing through the companys network, and that its employees
are delivering outstanding service to
its customers. The US Postal Service
said it has invested in its infrastructure, expanded delivery times and is
delivering on Sunday to keep packages
moving.
Hartmann Crew Philippines launched

Hartmann Crew Philippines (HCP),
a sea-based human resource company,
has officially launched its operations
here.
Prior to the launch, HCP was earlier
known as Associated Ship Management
(ASM), a name it has carried for the last
thirteen years.
The change in name is an initiative to
align the local company with its principal
partner in Germany: Hartmann AG and
to reaffirm its membership to the Hartmann Group; one of Germany's largest
privately-owned shipping companies.
Since 2002, ASM now known Hartmann Crew Philippines has been the
official and sole crewing partner of Hartmann AG in the Philippines with earlier
relations dating as far back as 1989.
Hartmann Crew Philippines CEO
and President Alberto L. Gomez confirms that there has been no change in
the composition of the management or in
the companys policies and values.
Gomez states that The shipping
industry has evolved and its changes are
the new normal. We are re-orienting our
strategies in order to innovate alongside
these current realities and we begin by
branding. We assure all our stakeholders that they can expect the same, if not
better service from Hartmann Crew
Philippines. We will, as always, be devoted to caring for all our crew and their
HCP NEW NAME, SAME MANAGEMENT Photo shows Hartmann Crew Philippines
management committee (seated): Alberto Gomez, President and CEO, and Ma.
Nenelita Gomez, Vice President. With them are (from left) are: Captain Rommel
Salinas, Crew Operations and Recruitment Manager; Oliver Aborque, Head of
HR, Safety, Admin and Quality; Rodelita Homecillo, Processing Supervisor;
Jeffrex Calambuhay, Career Development Head; Henrich Salarzon, Assistant
Crew Operations and Recruitment Manager; Julie Mallari, Business Support
Department Head; and Divina Repedro, Accounting Head.
dependents as well.
The new name is effective immedi-
ately with the entire company moving in

transition until the end of 2016.
HUNGARY CHRISTMAS TRAM (EPA) A tram decorated with Christmas lights

drives in front of the towns landmark Calvinist Great Church in Debrecen, 226
km east of Budapest, Hungary, December 1, 2015. The Christmas light trams
are due to run till Epiphany on January 6.
VLCC rates set to slide as

owners await Jan. charters
SINGAPORE (Reuters) Freight
rates in Asian trades for very large
crude carriers (VLCCs) are likely to
slide, before firming up again towards
the end of next week when charterers
are expected to release January's
fixture program from the Middle East,
ship brokers said on Friday.
"Rates will continue to come off a
point or two a day until the end of next
week when we could see the market
firming again," said a Singapore-based
VLCC broker.
"There will be a bit more dramatic
action."
"Owners think it's going to be a
pretty decent January (in terms of
freight rates and cargo volumes)," the
broker said.
That came after supertanker rates
from the Middle East and West Africa
to Asia started to fall on Monday but
were still buoyant on Friday.
Earnings for a voyage from the
Middle East to Japan were around
$107,355 a day on Thursday, down from
$111,359 a day on Dec. 3, the highest
since June 23, 2010, according to Reuters freight data.
Daily earnings for a West AfricaChina voyage were about $86,000
on Thursday, compared with about
$98,000 a day on Monday, the highest
since Oct. 13, according to brokers and
Reuters data.
With most of December's fixture
programme from the Middle East
completed, brokers said the market
was quiet on Friday as owners waited

for charterers to release January
fixtures.
I dont see a lot of December
fixtures left maybe two or three.
We're all waiting for next week, said a
second Singapore-based supertanker
broker.
Around 120-125 charters had been
fixed for December loading from the
Middle East, according to brokers and
Reuters freight data.
"West Africa to the East remains
steady with rates holding (up) well,
despite a slower period," Norwegian
shipbroker Fearnley said in a note on
Wednesday.
Freight rates for the Middle East
to Japan benchmark route dropped
to 87 on the Worldscale measure on
Thursday, down from around W91 a
week earlier.
VLCC rates from West Africa to
China slipped to W77.50 on Thursday,
against W80 the same day last week.
Rates for an 80,000-dwt Aframax tanker from Southeast Asia to
East Coast Australia fell to W125 on
Thursday, compared with W127.50
last week, in what brokers said was a
quiet market.
Rates hit W130 on Dec. 7, the
highest since July on strong cargo
volumes, broker said.
Clean tanker rates from Singapore
to Japan rose to W109 on Thursday, up
from W107.75 last week, although rates
were generally steady, brokers said.
At Heathrow
China Cosco-China Shipping merger OKd Cameron delays decision

China's policy-making State Council
has approved a restructuring of the
country's two biggest shipping companies, as the nation seeks to create a
stronger competitor in the world shipping industry that has been battered by
weak demand and oversupply of shipping capacity.
China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission,
which controls some of the country's big-
gest and most powerful government-run

companies, said in a statement posted
on its website Friday that China Ocean
Shipping (Group) Co., or Cosco Group,
and China Shipping (Group) Co. will
carry out a restructuring. It didn't give
further details.
The planned asset restructuring
comes as the nation attempts to reform
its state-owned businesses, in hopes of
creating bigger and stronger national
champions that can better compete

abroad.
The listed units of both shipping
groups, which include China Cosco Holdings Co. and China Shipping Container
Lines Co., have halted share trading
since August. The companies have said
their controlling shareholders are considering a significant matter that may
involve "relatively complicated" asset
restructuring of the two groups. (WSJ)
on new airport runway

LONDON (AP) Prime Minister
David Camerons government delayed a
decision on whether to build a new runway at Heathrow Airport on Thursday,
arguing that it needs more time to study
the impact on air quality, noise, and other
environmental concerns.
Cameron had promised a firm decision by the end of this year on whether to
choose Heathrow or Gatwick for airport
expansion. Business leaders in Britain
argue that the country needs more airport capacity in southeastern England
to keep the country growing.
Heathrow had been selected by an
independent panel over rival Gatwick,
but in recent weeks, speculation has
been building from Cameron's office
that a decision would be delayed, in part
because of environmental issues raised
in a Parliamentary report earlier this
month. Cameron's critics also suggested
he wanted to delay the fiercely unpopular decision to boost the chances of the
Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith
in London's mayoral race in May.
The case for aviation expansion is
clear but it's vitally important we get
the decision right so that it will benefit
generations to come, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said Thursday.
We will undertake more work on environmental impacts, including air quality,
noise and carbon.
Further complicating the Heathrow

decision for Cameron is a pledge _ made
when running for election in 2010 _
that there would be no third runway at
Heathrow no ifs, no buts. A decision
by his Conservative government in favor
of the new runway would be seen as an
embarrassing reversal.
The move is expected to push back
a decision until summer 2016.
The decision comes despite a report
from the independent Airports Commission, which concluded in July that
expanding Heathrow already Europe's
busiest airport was the best choice to
meet the growing demands of business
travelers and tourists. Heathrow and
Gatwick, 30 miles (50 kilometers) south
of central London, have offered competing projects to build a new runway that
will cost as much as 18.6 billion pounds
($29.1 billion).
Business leaders reacted with dismay Thursday to yet another delay on
the issue of expansion, which has been
discussed, shelved and discussed again
for decades. Simon Walker, the directorgeneral of the Institute of Directors, said
business leaders will be tearing their
hair out at the news of a delay.
At this stage, (our) members care
much more about a decision being made
than whether the new runway is built at
Heathrow or Gatwick, he said.
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Second chance
for bad credit cardholders
By LEE C. CHIPONGIAN
redit cardholders who made

wrong budgeting moves or were
indiscriminate in their spending
habits to begin with either way
ended up marked with bad credit history.
If this happened over 10 years ago, one
would assume the debts have been written
off. But this seems not to be the case. Based
on complaints filed with the Bangko Sentral
ng Pilipinas (BSP), these complaints are
not just credit card loans, but are lumped
with all other types of bank loans.
But dont fret, those with negative credit
history can still redeem themselves.
Alex Ilagan, Executive Director of the
Credit Card Association of the Philippines,
said a borrower or credit card applicant
with a negative credit history could still
apply for a card.
Anyone can still apply for a credit card
despite a negative credit history, said Ilagan
even as he said there is no guarantee the
application will be approved.
Some banks give some consideration
to old negative records for example five
to 10 years -- and assume that the financial
situation of the applicant has improved
over time.
In fact, he said, banks intending to grow
its consumer loans portfolio have turned
to these new credit cardholders who
have been effectively recycled back to the
credit world despite their background of
bad credit use.
They (banks) may issue a credit card
to an applicant with an old negative record
but with a more conservative amount of
credit limit, added Ilagan.
The approving method is not specific
for these types of borrowers, but there is
no special set of categories that they had
to go through to get a credit card.
According to Citi Philippines consumer
banking head, Bea Tan, they subject all
submissions under the same screening
process.
In that process, a poor credit history
will impact their application, though we
also look at other factors. One of those
factors is whether they have closed the
previous issue, say by paying off the debt
with a utility company or the mortgage
with another bank which resulted in that
negative record, said Tan.
This is why we encourage customers
with negative credit history to try and settle
their debt/s and work towards cleaning up
their credit record over time,
she added.
ALEX ILAGAN
How to deal (or not) with

third-party collectors
As much as possible, you do not
have to deal with third-party loan
collectors. But, it is unavoidable
if you missed paying past dues.
If it is more than 30 days late,
this is already considered as nonperforming loans or soured loans.
You will be referred to a third-party
collector, who will exert efforts,
including harassments, to collect
their dues.
In the case of credit card and
other consumer loans (auto and
salary-based general consumption
loans), third-party collectors have
been corralled by the Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and
slapped with rules and restrictions
that they shouldnt pose much of a
problem anymore. Unfortunately,
this is not so as evidenced by the
daily complaints filed with the BSP.
This year, the central bank
has issued another important
guidance and advisory that deal
with third-party collectors that
in restructuring debt payments,
credit cardholders are not required
to pay an initial amount to third
party collection agents to enforce
the repayment plans.
Code of ethics
Credit Card Association of
the Philippines president
Alex Ilagan said banks are
required to ensure thirdparty credit card collection
agencies follow a code of
ethics.
(These code of ethics)
mirror most of the provisions
found in BSP (circulars)
governing this aspect of
credit card operations, said
Ilagan. He said violations or
consistent failure to meet
certain performance standards
will result in the termination of
services.
CCAP shares
its list of
BEA TAN
disaffiliated collection agencies/

agents among member banks and
part of the due diligence process in
accrediting new agencies include
screening against this list, said
Ilagan.
The last time the BSP
implemented revisions to credit
card policies was five years ago
when it not only issued a prohibition
on the issuance of pre-approved
credit cards but amended credit
card collection practices.
An important feature of the
revisions was that credit card
issuers are now required to disclose
not only the name of the collection
agency, but cardholders will be given
the name of the agent assigned to
his/her account once the bank
or the card-issuing firm has
endorsed an account to a
third-party collector.
As part of consumer
protection, the
cardholder should
also be informed with
whom arrangements
for the payment of
his/her account
may be discussed.
This eliminates the
chances of confusing
the cardholder as
to the terms of
the arrangement
and will not put
him/her at a
disadvantaged
of not knowing
the true identity
of the collection
agent when he needs
to be further clarified of
these terms.
Third-party
collection agents/
agencies are closely
monitored for compliance to both
local regulations and Citi standards,
said Bea Tan, Citi Philippines head
of consumer banking.
We a s s u r e y o u t h a t a n y
violation to these is dealt strictly
and appropriately. We also ensure
that customer complaints, if any,
are attended to and addressed,
said Tan.
Credit Information Corp.
(CIC) president and CEO Jaime P.
Garchitorena said that while policy
on third-party credit/loan collectors
is not part of CIC's mandate in as
much as it merely collects and
aggregates credit information
of the creditors' bor rowers
(but) the availability of said
information is a tool for
the creditors to assess the
underlying risk, if any, of the
potential borrower thereby
reducing, if not eliminating,
the odds of the creditors
hiring a third-party credit/
loan collectors to collect
unpaid loans.
Not all third-party
collectors are deficient when
it comes to BSP-sanctioned
ethics. And, these companies
have their uses.
Third-party collectors
are effective in reducing any
reputational risk for the lenders
because in engaging their
collection services, bad loans
portfolio will then be assigned
to the third-party collectors,
explained Garchitorena.
Bad credit record

lingers
A negative credit history does
not go away in an instant even after
recovering the past debts. While
this is another source of frustration
for the borrower, the reality is bad
credit haunts the borrower for some
time despite settlement.
In so far as CIC is concerned,
regardless of the assignment, the
bad loan portfolio (or negative
credit information) will remain in
the database of CIC within three
years after payment or settlement,
whether such was made directly to
the creditor or to the third party
collector, clarified Garchitorena.
A l s o , n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g t h e
engagement of third-party collectors,
the lenders themselves still have the
obligation to report to the CIC any
payment or non-payment of the
outstanding loan of their respective
borrowers.
JAIME P. GARCHITORENA
Settlement or repayment
schemes
Only the issuing banks or the
credit card issuer can approve
the repayment schemes agreed
between the credit cardholder and
the authorized collection agents but
that it is not necessary for the credit
cardholder to pay an amount prior to
the approval of the repayment plans.
As it is, the BSP authorizes
only the credit card issuers to give
the final approval of any type of
repayment scheme and that this
should be supported by a conforme
letter and/or a romissory note,
signed by both the credit card issuer
and the cardholder.
Based on complaints filed with
the BSP s Financial Consumer
Protection Department involving
credit card debt restr ucturing,
the BSP noted a common practice
among external collection agencies
to pressure credit cardholders to
pay any amount, just to enforce
collection, notwithstanding the
amount has not yet been approved
by the credit card issuer.
While a collection agent
is authorized to negotiate for
repayment schemes, these are
strictly guided by r ules set by
the credit card issuer and it is
the responsibility of the credit
cardholder to know these guidelines,
said the BSP.
Credit card issuers, in the course
of their business, refer problem
credit card accounts to accredited
external agencies for collection,
e x p l a i n e d t h e B S P. H o w e v e r,
accounts refer red to collection
agents which are restr uctured
often result in complaints on unfair
collection practices due to lack of
awareness of credit cardholders
on the extent of the authority of
the external collection agencies to
negotiate for debt restructuring.
The BSPs Financial Consumer
Affairs Group, which handles more
than 200 complaints every month
mostly from credit cardholders, have
been closely monitoring the practices
of collection agencies since 2010.
Based on the complaints filed
with the BSP, despite existing
rules prohibiting unfair collection
practices, agents still use aliases
or pseudonyms and persist on
unscrupulous collection practices
such as unauthorized disclosure
of the details of the credit card
account to other parties not directly
involved.
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Volks PH partners with MMDA

for child safety program
olkswagen Philippines has

recently partnered with
the Metropolitan Manila
Development Authority
(MMDA) to further enhance the
German automaker's Child Safety
Initiative (CSI) in the Philippines.
With the partnership, the MMDA,
specifically its Institute of Traffic
Management (ITM) headed by project
partners General Manager Corazon
Jimenez and her deputy Antonio
Pagulayan, will provide actual traffic
enforcers who will orient the kids and
parents at the CSI's Junior Driving Course
for children. The MMDA traffic enforcers
will also act as "traffic aides" along with
members of CSI partner Philippine
Global Road Safety Partnership (PGRSP)
at the driving course.
Both Volkswagen Philippines' CSI
and MMDA's ITM were launched
April this year. The CSI is aimed at
introducing early childhood safety
awareness to children 4-8 years of
age, while imparting important road
safety habits to their parents. The
Philippine campaign is part of the
global CSI strategy of Volkswagen that
already rolled out in various countries.
The CSI is based on two pillars: The
prevention of accidents by teaching
and educating parents and kids about
possible dangers on the roads, and to
emphasize the passive safety devices
of modern-day passenger vehicles
with special focus on the use of ageappropriate child safety seats. The
on-going CSI campaign has, as of
November 8, 2015, had 3,878 children

and 3,199 adults participate in different
Volkswagen dealers, malls, industry
shows, and school tours.
The ITM is MMDA's educational
institution for training and continuing
education of all traffic management
personnel, law enforcers and accident
investigators of both local and national
government agencies. The institute
is also given the authority to grant
degrees and issue certificates of
training competency to government and
non-government personnel involved in
traffic management, law enforcement,
and accident investigations who
have successfully completed training
programs and courses.
CSI efforts shift to schools
Meanwhile, after the successful
activations in malls, Volkswagen

dealerships and industry tradeshows,
the CSI gets much closer to kids with
its school tours beginning with Manresa
Paraaque last October. The school
tours are arranged with the assistance
of Ayala sister company Integrated
Microelectronics, Inc. (IMI).
More school tours, mall shows and
tradeshow exhibits are lined up for
2016.
Volkswagen Philippines' CSI has
also been recently recognized by
local motoring media for its efforts
to raise public awareness on road
safety, especially among children and
their parents. Top Gear Philippines
awarded Volkswagen Philippines' CSI
last November 26 as Best Practice in
Road Safety Advocacy in its first-ever
Stig Awards.
etSuite OneWorld, winner

of the 2015 Sof tware &
Information Industry
Association (SIIA) CODiE
Award for Best Financial Management
Solution and the 2015 UK Cloud award
for ERP Product of the Year, provides
a unified and cloud-based suite of
software that is flexible enough to meet
the needs of diverse business models,
legal structures and geographies.
Craig Sullivan, Senior VP of
Enterprise and International Products
for NetSuite cited new customers like
Misys, HP Software and American
Express Global Business Travel
are turning to NetSuite OneWorld
for advanced capabilities to manage
subsidiaries, tax compliance and multicurrency globally, while fast-growing
food delivery pioneer Deliveroo is using
NetSuite OneWorld to manage inventory
across multiple locations, having rapidly
expanded from just one country 12
months ago to six countries today.
While other software vendors are
struggling to move software architected
before the Internet existed to the cloud
or build out the rich global functionality
NetSuite has pioneered, were
continuing to innovate and expand
the reach of our customers with new
features that allow global businesses
to expand their operations and adapt
rapidly on a business platform for the
future, said Sullivan.
NetSuites momentum in helping
customers like Misys, HP Software and
American Express Global Business
Travel each to manage dozens of
subsidiaries across the globe is a
clear indication of the comprehensive
functionality of OneWorld.
As a result of advancements in
2015, Sullivan said the latest release of
NetSuite OneWorld brings enterpriseready capabilities to meet the challenges

faced by global businesses of all sizes.
For instance, its omni-business
model is able to support B2B, B2C and
B2Anything across ecommerce, in-store,
telesales, social channels and more,
NetSuite OneWorld, in conjunction
with SuiteCommerce Advanced, gives
businesses flexibility and agility to adapt
to the speed of modern business while
operating on a global scale.
NetSuite OneWorlds global tax engine
now supports more than 100 countries with
simple-to-deploy indirect tax calculation
and reporting capabilities, materially
simplifying tax management, tax
compliance, filing and audit accountability.
By also providing Tax Audit File generation
in various formats, including SAF-T,
NetSuite OneWorld bridges the gap
between traditional ERP and external
tax engines and provides seamless access
to the key data required to satisfy those
tax authorities that are increasingly
adopting standards-based eGovernment
and audit methodologies. NetSuite
OneWorlds Global Tax is a key capability
for supporting omnichannel, omni-country
business operations, taking into account
where businesses are shipping from and
where they are shipping to in order to
calculate the correct tax for the correct
jurisdiction for a given transaction. Within
the EU, NetSuite Global Tax also handles
triangulation reporting requirements for
business engagements that span three
countries or more in addition to MiniOne-Stop-Shop (MOSS) tax calculation
and reporting obligations for companies
delivering electronic services to European
customers.
With support for an arbitrary
number of subsidiaries and multi-level
hierarchies, NetSuite OneWorlds multisubsidiary management capabilities
provide the foundation for the deployment
of a legal business structure on a global

basis. Coupled with real-time financial
consolidation at every level and the
ability to view local reports in local
currency or regional/global HQ currency,
NetSuite OneWorld provides not only key
business intelligence to support decision
making, but also aids business leaders
in efficiently communicating with their
overseas teams by enabling them to look
at identical reports and key business
data at the same time.
Whether businesses have one
retail store with multiple sub-locations
or hundreds of stores and regional
distribution centers, multi-location
inventory enables them to keep track
of and optimize the physical location
of goods to meet the evolving needs of
their customers.
NetSuite OneWorld now supports
automated exchange rate updates for all
190+ ISO currencies and, in conjunction
with global order management, enables
businesses to transact with any
customer, anywhere.
NetSuite OneWorlds multi-book
capabilities automate the manual effort
of ensuring accounting transactions
meet local standards as well as global
reporting requirements and empower
controllers to manage their local period
close reporting requirements with per
book period end close.
Global companies can communicate
with customers and employees in the
language of their choice by: creating
localized forms to communicate order
status, shipment notification, and invoice
details, and match them to the language
of the customer; issuing purchase
orders to vendors in the preferred
language of the business relationship;
and representing the business to
customers as a local business with
translated websites and web stores and
email communications.
Starcom ties up with Propel for digital business
tarcom MediaVest Group

(SMG) Philippines has
partnered with Propel
Manila and Rich Media
Manila to strengthen digital and
content capabilities, moving closer
to consumer habits in the evolving
media landscape.
Propel Manila is a digital
creative agency that is addicted
to everyday human behaviors
that enable the birth of strategy,
conversations, and innovation
at the most exciting consumer
touch-points. Its clients include
Samsung, Dole Asia, Astring-o-Sol,
Sensodyne, 2Go Group, Rimowa,
among others. Its sister company,
Rich Media Manila, provides web
application, mobile application and
rich media production as business
solutions to brands business
challenges.
SMGs partnership with
Propel Manila and Rich Media
Manila is the first in a series of
alliances we are undertaking to
bring transformative change to the
Leo Burnett Manila named

PH Creative Agency of the Year
NetSuite OneWorld is the choice

of global companies of all sizes
By BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT
Receiving the Campaign Asia-Pacific Philippines Agency of the Year Award

are Leo Burnett Manila executives: (from left) Raymond Arrastia, Managing
Director; Joy Santos, Head of Strategy; Gela Pena, Senior Account Executive
for New Business; and Abraham Alvero, Chief Finance Officer.
SMG Chief Executive Officer Leah Besa-Jimenez

and Propel Manilas Founder & Chief Executive
Officer JC Valenzuela, seals the alliance at
SMGs Manila Headquarters.
brands we work with at the speed

of conversations, said Leah Besa
Jimenez, CEO Starcom Mediavest
Group Philippines.Disruption
lives in digital, content and the
speed at which people can move
with their multiple devices at
a pace never seen before. The
partnership between SMG, Propel
Manila and Rich Media Manila is
one that ignites opportunity in the
disruptive marketing world, said
Jeffrey Seah Country Chair VivaKi,
CEO for Starcom Mediavest Group
Southeast Asia.
JC Valenzuela, Founder & CEO
of Propel Manila adds, "Alliances
with SMG, enable Propel Manila &
Rich Media Manila to continue to be
agile and responsive to consumer
shifts as smart devices continue to
explode, and content progressively
becomes 'lean-forward' in nature.
This convergence in expertise will
ultimately benefit our clients in
steering conversations with brands
and the public more organically, and
help shape today's culture."
eo Burnett Manila won

the much-coveted Gold for
Philippine Creative Agency
of the Year at Campaign AsiaPacifics Agency of the Year awards
during a ceremony in Singapore last
December 10.
Campaign Asia-Pacifics Agency of
the Year awards recognizes inspired
leadership, management excellence,
outstanding business performance,
and overall achievement in advertising
and communications industry across
Asia-Pacific.
Aside from being declared as the
Philippine Creative Agency of the
Year, the agency was also recognized
for its digital expertise, being named
a finalist for the Philippine Digital
Agency of the Year category.
Strategic thinking is also highly
valued at Leo Burnett Manila. This
was strongly affir med when Joy
Santos, Leo Burnett Manilas Head of
Strategy, bested the field as Southeast
Asias Strategic/Brand Planner of the
Year.
Campaign Asia-Pacifics is the
regions most prestigious Agency
of the Year awards with judges
comprising client marketers from
all over the region. It is also the only
awards program that honors agency
performance at both the local and
regional level.
Commenting on the wins, Raymond

Arrastia, Managing Director of Leo
Burnett Group Manila said: We are
extremely honored by the recognition.
These awards are the validation
of all the hard work, passion, and
commitment of ever yone in the
agency. We are extremely inspired to
work even harder and deliver better
work for our clients.
He continued, Joys recognition is
truly well-deserved. She is not only a
valued member in the agency but also
an incredible strategic leader for the
brands she works on. Joy is a terrific
creative partner steering effective
award-winning works, which helped
boost growth for our clients.
These awards cap a year of
multiple recognition for Leo Burnett
Manila. Previously, it clinched The
Boomerangs Digital Marketer
of the Year for having the most
number of awards in the biggest
show organized by the Internet and
Mobile Marketing Association of the
Philippines (IMMAP). Leo Burnett
Manila also took home a haul at the
4As-Philippines Agency of the Year
awards that included the following:
Best in Market Performance, Digital
Excellence Best in Creative and
Effectiveness, and the Activation
Excellence Best in Creative and
Effectiveness.
OUTSTANDING FILIPINO CONSUL LAUDED The FICAC (Fdration

Internationale des Corps et Associations Consulaires a.i.s.b.l)-World
Federation of Consuls honored recently Timor Leste Honorary Consul General
Lito Jimenez during the 11th World Congress of Consuls held in Istanbul,
Turkey. Jimenez was cited for his exemplary work and other meritorious
efforts in promoting and strengthening diplomatic relationship between the
Philippines and Timor Leste, one of the worlds youngest nations. Photo shows
Honorary Consul General Jimenez (left) receiving the FICAC Medal of Honor
from Aykut Eken, FICAC President and Chairman of the 11th World Congress
of Consuls. The FICAC-World Federation of Consuls, a global organization
composed of Honorary Consuls and Consuls General, organized the annual
FICAC World Congress of Consuls. The congress carried the Bridging the
World theme to emphasize the importance to overcome the political, social,
and economic challenges that countries from around the world face today.
Apples, pears are only

fruits allowed for imports
from Japan to PH
ustans marketplace in Metro

Manila have started the
retailing of apples and pears
from Yamagata Prefecture
until January, 2016. Shoppers can see
and buy the Japanese apple varieties of
Sinano-Gold and Sinano-Sweat and
the popular pear variety La-France
at the Rustans Marketplace outlets.
A Japanese apple variety Fuji is also

sold from the start of January.
In a statement, the Japanese
embassy said that apples and pears are
the only fruits, which are permitted for
exports from Japan to the Philippines,
in accordance with the agreement
on plant quarantine between the two
countries.
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The amazing Rody Duterte

and the price of change
A
week after officially announcing

his candidacy, Mayor Rody
Duterte is at the top of
presidential surveys with a
38 percent share of would-be votes.
This is according to the Social Weather
Station survey conducted between Nov.
26 and 28. Vice President Jejomar Binay
and Senator Grace Poe are tied with 21
percent while administration candidate
Mar Roxas is at fourth place with a 15
percent share.
Dutertes meteoric rise in voter
preference is nothing short of
spectacular. After all, this is a man
without a formidable political machine
nor a cache of funds to back him
up. His explosion in popularity is a
result of his persona, his messaging
strategy and flair for delivering his
messages in a manner that appeals
to Juan dela Cruz. His performance
record in Davao strengthens his value
proposition, too.
Duterte is perceived to be the antithesis of this administration in style,
policy and background and this has
been a boon to him. A vote for Duterte
is a vote against the status quo. He
represents the ultimate revenge of
every Filipino who feels dissatisfied,
disenfranchised or left out in the
supposed new prosperity of the country.
It is unfortunate that more than a third
of the voting public feel negatively
about the state of the nation especially
since this administration has done
more than any other before it, at least
economically. That said, the people
feel how they feel. They are making
their sentiments clear by putting Rody
Duterte at the top of the polls.
Adding to Dutertes appeal is
his proclivity for providing simplistic

solutions to otherwise complicated
problems. This is a stark contrast
to this administrations waterloo of
paralysis by analysis. For instance, to
solve festering corruption within the
legislative branch, his solution is to
abolish both Congress and the Senate
en banc! Simple. To solve the rise in
criminality, his solution is to eliminate
(kill) all known criminals! No legal
process to bother with. To solve port
congestion and traffic in Metro Manila,
his solution is to build a new port south
of Manila and a new train line that
traverses the Pasig River! Easy.
To those unable or unwilling to
understand the complexities of these
issues, Duterte comes across as a
genius the man with all the right
solutions. Never mind if these solutions
cant be done as easily as he would
make us believe or if it is even possible
within the framework of the law.
He is also a man of absolutes. As a
friend of mine said, there are no grey
areas with him. Case in point, to all
those who condemn his Pope cussing
shenanigan, he says, he will withdraw his
candidacy if the Pope so asks him to. To
all those who arent comfortable with his
style of governance, he says, dont vote
for me. To those who dont approve of his
cussing and womanizing, he tells them
to go support another candidate. There
are no compromises. Never before has
the electorate seen this kind of takeme-or-leave-me attitude in a politician.
Most will pander even to the devil for
their votes. To the majority, he is seen
as honest, authentic and trustworthy.
He stands out among most two-faced
politicos who have burned the public
with false promises time and again.
The blunt and acerbic manner
by which he delivers his message,
invectives and all, only parrots what
every fed-up Filipino really wants to say.

He has become their mouthpiece and
consequently, their champion.
To top it all, he has a way with words.
One liners like I will donate R1,000
to Caritas every time I say 'put___na'
or yung dalawang girlfriends ko di
ko binanabahay sa Greenhills sa
boarding house lang sila at R1,500 a
month make him both entertaining and
human. He is similar to Willie Revillame
in that, while crass, people lap it up. But
the brilliance of it is that his sound-bites
land him in the headlines and causes
him to trend in every major social media
network. He has realized more media
millage than his opponents at no cost.
There are more attributes
working to Dutertes favor. His being
a simpleprovinciano makes him
relatable the opposite of his pedigreed
opponents with foreign diplomas. He
is the man of the masses, a proud son
of Mindanao who broke out to national
fame. Mindanaoans will do all they can
to see one of their own in Malacaang
for the first time.
In an interview last week, Jaime
Zobel de Ayala said the leader of the
country has to make people hope and
feel good about the future... leadership
is more psychological than it is
managerial. If these words are true,
could Rody Duterte be our next Chief
Executive?
It seems the stars are aligning to
his favor.
The price of change

Duterte offers sensible solutions
to many of the countrys problems.
He has been especially vocal about
how he intends to solve criminality,
corruption and the infrastructure
backlog with a swift, decisive hand,
free from the formalities of the law and
the inefficiency of the bureaucracy. If
successful, he could very well rid the

nation of everything that has held it
back for decades. To many, this is a
tempting proposition. However, we
must be aware of what it will cost us.
He has been very clear about his
game plan from the beginning. If
elected, he said, expect a dictatorship.
Expect regular killing of criminals
without the benefit of trial. Expect the
dissolution of congress and the senate.
Expect a strict totalitarian state.
Let me spell out what living under
a dictatorship means. It means giving
up our rights to the due process of law;
to freedom of speech and expression;
to freedom of assembly; to our right to
petition; to our right to representation
in public policy; to our rights for
independent thought and movement.
Further, it relieves government from
the liability resulting from unreasonable
search and seizure of property and from
cruel/unusual punishment, torture and
compelled self-incrimination.
A Duterte presidency can go both
ways. True, he can very well be our
equivalent to Lee Kwan Yew. On the
flip side, he can also turn out to be a
Ferdinand Marcos. After all, who can
tell what the future holds? Didnt Marcos
start with the best intentions too? I
make no judgments on Rody Duterte
nor his motives all I am saying is that a
dictatorship can work for or against us.
The stakes are higher than most
may appreciate. Those born after
the late seventies may not realize
how it was to live under a dictator
gone amuck. Outside the Japanese
occupation, the Marcos era was the
most repressive period in the nations
modern history. Those who lived
through it will never forget how our
free market system was abandoned
in favor cronyism; how the filthy rich
shamelessly lived alongside poverty
and squalor; how travelling abroad

required government permission; how
journalists like myself where gagged;
how human right violations were a
way of life, and how the less fortunate
had no other option but to find solace
in the arms of the communist party. I
can go on.
It took four decades to recover
from the wreckage of the Marcos
dictatorship and yet, here we are, still
not completely healed.
The question is, are we willing
to put our democratic, law-based,
capitalist system on the line for the
off-chance that Rody Duterte will do
to the Philippines what Lee Kwan
Yew did for Singapore? Remember,
going down this road does not mean
we revert back to a democratic system
once Dutertes term is over. By 2022,
we may be left with no more to show
than broken democratic institutions
that will take another forty years
to repair. It will be the burden our
children must bear.
A one-man-fix-all is a tempting
proposition and I can understand
how the romantics among us can
believe that Rody Duterte can be the
benevolent dictator we all pined for.
He can indeed be the savior of the
nation who knows? I would like to
think so. But what happens if he isnt?
As we cast our votes this May, let us
weigh the odds very carefully and take
every risk into consideration.
Andrew is an economist, political
analyst and businessman. He is a
20-year veteran in the hospitality and
tourism industry. For comments and
reactions, e-mail andrew_rs6@yahoo.
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on Twitter @aj_masigan.
ADP expands PH footprint

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By ARMIN A. AMIO
ts been nearly five years since

ADP inaugurated its first office
in Makati. The global computing
service solutions powerhouse has
since expanded its operations, with
the latest one located in Alabang.
When asked why the company
decided to expand its Philippine
operations in such a short period of
time, Debbie Dyson, ADP corporate
vice president for client experience
and continuous improvement, quipped:
Why not?
It has been an interesting journey.
Our previous CEO, Gary Butler, was
the one who initially brought the
Philippines to ADP. He loved it here
the culture, the environment and
the youthfulness. He wanted us to set
up shop here, said Dyson.
The first office of ADP Philippines,
Inc., located on the 39th floor of the
RCBC Plaza Tower 2 in Makati, was
inaugurated on December 3, 2010. Two
years after, the company moved to the
office in Glorietta 2 (also in Makati),
was opened with 2,500 seats.
We d o n t c o n s i d e r g r o w i n g
unless we saw success. But we liked
immensely what we saw (in Makati)
and what was delivered it all
matched up, Dyson said.
The ADP executive was in the
country in September to inaugurate
the newest office in Alabang, with
1,200 seats.
The Makati office, said Dyson, had
the perfect location, but there was
no continuity setup; we had no backup
plan.
The devastation brought by supertyphoon Yolanda was an eye opener
for the US-based knowledge process
outsourcing firm. We felt helpless. We
know we have to be prepared for any
eventuality. There was a compelling
reason for us to develop a new site,
she said.
The ADP executive admitted that
the company visited nine other areas
before finally deciding on expanding
here.
We had a whole list of musthaves security, English speaking
workforce, transportation,
infrastructure. One area would have
a better rank compared with others
in the list, said Dyson.
The Filipinos fluency in the English
language became the main decision
maker. English in the Philippines
is top class compared with the other
Debbie Dyson, ADP corporate vice

president for client experience and
continuous improvement.
ADP Philippines associates and leaders celebrate the inauguration of the companys expansion in Aeon Centre, Alabang.
areas we are located. The ability to

speak English is our primary concern
because we want our clients to feel
that were giving a different type of
service even if the offices are outside
the US. When we were finally deciding
on the location, everything pointed to
the Philippines, said Dyson. Why not
continue where we saw success?
Although Alabang and Makati
are just one hour apart, we observed
that we are attracting a distinctive
set of associates and we like that,
said Dyson, who revealed that they
were initially apprehensive about the
kind of employees they can get south
of Metro Manila. But theyve been
proven wrong.
Where can you get a whole group
of associates of 3,500, aged 23 to 34,
and who can give us the direction to
where the market is headed? We may
be present in 39 other locations, but
only the Philippines can give us what
we wanted, she pointed out.
Were tapping into a different
skill set and youthfulness that can be
as large as in the US. We need this
type of young associates so we can
understand where the next generation
is going, noted Dyson.
Their inexperience is actually a
gift. They look at things with a fresh
set of eyes, and we love it. But Dyson
said shee would like to have more
conversations with the Filipino staff to
get an idea how to improve processes.
If I had one desire that is for the
associates to get a louder/bigger voice.

I want them to know they are part of a
larger ADP family.
Just like any outsourcing firm,
employee retention is a concern for
ADP. Success is dependent on client
satisfaction and client retention
then it allows us to expand and invest
in technology. The associates are
the backbone of what we do. If the
associates are unhappy, this reflects
on our service to clients.
Dyson who has been with ADP
for 27 years since joining the company
straight out of college understands
that it is typical for the younger
generation to easily move jobs. We
can get young people to stay by
creating new opportunities for them
to grow in the company. Youthfulness,
enthusiasm, constant movement
these are important for us to attract
and retain talent.
The ADP executive also said the
company provides top-notch facilities
for their associates here in the country.
Our offices here are 10-times better
than anything we have in the US. The
equipment, ping pong and pool tables,
video games, snack and cafeteria
food for employee engagement are
all top notch. These are things that
are important and necessary for our
associates. If we dont put the right
tools and celebrate successes then we
are not doing our job.
ADP s new Alabang offices
will bring the knowledge process
outsourcing firms combined seats

from its two Philippine sites close to
4,000, with the 2,450-seat capacity of
its first site situated at the Glorietta
2 site.
This expansion, said Dyson,
now allows ADP the ability to shift
calls, depending on the service and
requirement of the client 24/7. We
can do processes overnight, keeping
us very fluid. The client needs to rely
on ADP to be there for them because
of the services we offer like payroll or
human resources.
This global footprint allows us
to provide these kinds of services.
We should not be a disr uption;
our services should be flawless or
seamless.
Dyson, a Finance graduate of the
University of Sta. Clara in California,
said she never dreamt of being a
top executive for a global company
when she joined ADP in 1988. I am
anti-executive; I prefer not to have
assistant and I even answer my
phone.
The ADP executive is never the
bossy kind. I dont believe in hierarchy.
Im not flippant, if an associate or client
needs me, I will help them the best way
I can. Hopefully Ive added value to
someone at the end of the day.
US Embassy partners with

Go Negosyo to empower
young entrepreneurs
he US Embassy in Manila
and the Philippine Center
for Entrepreneurship Go
Negosyo have hosted the
culminating Youth Entrepreneurship
Development Workshop (YEDW)
recently following the successful
YEDW series held in Manila, Batangas,
Iloilo, and Zamboanga.
US Ambassador Philip S. Goldberg
and Go Negosyos Founding Trustee
Joey Concepcion opened the three-day
workshop,
YEDW, which was launched in July
2015, is a collaboration of US Embassy

Manila and Go Negosyo that empowers
young aspiring Filipino entrepreneurs
with the tools they need to develop and
build innovative business ideas.
The initial workshops included
training, networking, and mentorship
opportunities with US exchange
program alumni and Go Negosyo
angelpreneurs, who are established
entrepreneurs and business
professors. At the conclusion of each
area workshop, small grants were
awarded to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Luenthais 'iServe.iGive Back'

wins 2015 CSR Excellence Award
or developing an innovative
approach to providing
livelihood and community
service in Clark contiguous
areas, the biggest employer here has
been recognized by the countrys
largest and most reputable human
resource association.
Luenthai Philippines' iSer ve.
iGive Back Program has won the
2015 CSR Excellence Award by the
People Management Association of
the Philippines HRM Foundation
(PMAP).
Besting other entries in this nationwide search under the Livelihood
Category, the program was rated
high on innovation, sustainability,
replication, scalability, social and
business impact.
The iSer ve.iGive Back is a
community service and transformational
program that marries the Luenthais

long running community outreach
activities with its culture building
initiative. As such, it promotes giving
back as an inside out motivation, a
commitment and a habit.
Born as a corporate initiative in
2009, Verte Philippines has adopted
this program in 2012 and since then
has been reaching out and touching
lives; and been creating awareness and
meaningful partnership with various
stakeholders who share the same
aspirations of taking responsibility for
others.
To date, the program has generated
over R880,000 employee donation
benefiting 11 charitable institutions in
Pampanga; with seven well established
schools spread across Angeles City,
Mabalacat, Porac, Clark and Bataan
with over 1,500 graduates, more than
half of which are hired by Luenthai
and others gainly employed in other
factories in the province.

Luenthai has also hired over 20
dressmaking graduates from Tuloy
sa Don Bosco in Alabang through the
Preferential Hiring Program. Under
the Football program, the free academy
currently caters to over 160 kids of
Luenthai employees, Air Force and of
the poor community, plus hundreds
more in Tuloy sa Don Bosco.
The iServe.iGive Back
addresses social issues like poverty,
discrimination and hopelessness with
three intertwined helping schemes.
Community Outreach helping partner
organizations to continue to help and
care for the less fortunate members of
the community; Skills and Employment
helping marginalized members of the
community be able to have a fair chance
for employment and provide for their
family; and Sports & Youth giving
equal opportunities for poor kids to
learn life lessons through Football
Frank Sauceda, Luenthai Executive

Vice President, accepted the award
on November 27, 2015 during PMAPs
Corporate Social Responsibility Summit
held at SGV Conference Hall in Makati
City.
In a statement Sauceda thanked
PMAP for the confidence entrusted to
Luenthai through the award.
This recognition further
strengthens our belief that a caring
spirit for the employees and the
community is a manifestation of good
corporate citizenship, he said.
The award further boosts the
companys desire to continue on with
the journey in effecting positive change
not just by providing skills training and
livelihood but also in improving the
wellbeing of many orphaned, neglected
and underprivileged members of the
society through various community
outreach programs, Sauceda added.
Sauceda humbly dedicated and
expressed gratitude to the program

partners namely: Tuloy Foundation,
Inc. headed by Fr. Rocky Evangelista;
Clark Development Corp. through Atty.
Art Tugade; and other LGU and NGO
partners.
CDC officials led by Atty. Arthur
P. Tugade conveyed congratulations
and commendations to the company,
emphasizing the importance of CSR
programs of Clark locators in community
development and nation building.
Other category winners presented
with ingenuinely-crafted kamagong
based trophy were: AES Philippines
(Corporate Governance); Johnson
& Johnson Philippines (Health &
Wellness Categry); SM Supermalls
(People with Disabilities); Sunpower
Philippines (Community Service);
San Roque Power Corporation
(Education) and Trans-Asia Oil &
Energy Development Corporation
(Environment).
PWDs get early Christmas gifts
By CHINO S. LEYCO
lose to 200 persons with

disabilities (PWDs) in Makati
City received early Christmas
gifts from the Philippine
Amusement and Gaming Corporation
(PAGCOR) during the series of the
agencys Pamaskong Handog project.
PAGCOR treated the PWDs of the
Handicapped Care Association, Inc.
(Handicare, Inc.) to a festive party and
gave each of them a noche buena pack
containing Christmas goodies like ham,
cheese, pasta, chocolates and other
grocery items. Apart from the gift packs,
the state-run gaming firm also donated
15 wheelchairs to the institution.
Handicare, a non-profit, nongovernment institution, caters to PWDs
and their families. Established in the
mid-80s, the organization provides
free programs and services such as
livelihood trainings, and other incomegenerating projects.
The organization is also conducting
feeding programs, treatment and
rehabilitation for the mentally or
physically-impaired individuals,
educational assistance, health care
and other forms of assistance such
as provision of wheelchair, crutches,

walkers, among others.
Enriquito Nuguid, PAGCOR director,
who spearheaded the gift-giving event,
stressed the importance of sharing
ones blessings to the less fortunate,
especially during this Yuletide season.
This is our way of sharing the
blessings weve received.On behalf
of the PAGCOR Board headed by
Chairman Cristino Naguiat and COO
Jorge Sarmiento, were happy to be
here with you to give simple gifs to our
Handcare members, Nuguid said.
Edgardo Castro, Handcar president,
meanwhile cited that PAGCORs
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
projects, such as the Pamaskong
Handog is very similar to their mission
of providing assistance to marginalized
sectors such as the PWDs.
PAGCORs CSR programs show
the agency s commitment to the
governments Tuwid na Daan principle
because no Filipino is left behind,
Castro said.
As a socio-civic organization, we
are so grateful to have found dedicated
partners like PAGCOR who play an
important role in building an equitably
progressive Philippines. May you
continue to spread optimism and

hope to PWDs and may you always
remember us in all your endeavors,
he added.
Apart from Castro, 53-year-old
Shirley Labini, a member of Handicare,
Inc. since 2002, is thankful to PAGCOR
for reaching out to PWDs like her. She
was afflicted with polio when she was
seven months old.
She can only walk through the help
of crutches. Malaking bagay po eto
sa amin dahil mula po sa puso ninyo
ang pagbibigay sa amin ng ganitong
Pamasko, said the mother of two who
helps augment her husbands income
as a construction worker by selling
towels and rags.
Because of the early Christmas
treat from PAGCOR, they can at least
have a decent Christmas noche buena
despite financial difficulties. Eto pong
inyong Pamasko ay nagbibigay po sa
amin ng pag-asa na sa kabila po ng
mga pagsubok sa buhay ay may mga
tulad ninyo na handang magbigay ng
tulong sa tulad po naming PWDs, she
emotionally added.
Meanwhile, 48-year-old Sani Lanzon
expressed deep gratitude for the new
wheelchair given to him during the
PAGCOR Assistant Vice President for Corporate Communications and

Services Maricar Bautista (left) assists one of the PWD beneficiaries of
the Handicapped Care Association, Inc. during the agency's Pamaskong
Handog 2015 held in Brgy. La Paz, Makati City. Also in photo is PAGCOR
Director Enriquito Nuguid.
state-run firm's gift-giving event. He was

among the 15 Handicare beneficiaries
who received the wheelchairs.
Actor-singer DJ Durano and
PAGCOR's homegrown talents Joyce
Taaa and PAGCOR Voice Symphony
entertained the crowd during the
event.
Apart from the PWDs of Handicare,
PAGCORs Pamaskong Handog 2015
PLDT ComRel reaches out to Zamboanga
LDT Community Relations

Division has reached out
to poor communities in
Zamboanga by conducting
medical and dental missions as well
a feeding program in barangays Muti,
Tagasilay, Tigbalabag, Mangusu,
andTictapul in Zamboanga City.
PLDTComRel and its Manila
volunteer-doctors recently partnered
with the local governmentof Zamboanga
City and the City Health Office to bring
help to thesecommunities. ComRel head
Evelyn M. del Rosario said the event
was overflowingwith love and support
as PLDT served 810 medical and dental
patients composed of both adults and
children while simultaneously feeding
a total of 596 children.
Del Rosario cited the team behind
the medical and dental mission and
feeding program and the support of
Zamboanga City Mayor Beng Climaco.
Evelyn Del Rosario distributes the slippers donated by PLDT VisayasMindanao Customer Service Operations District, Regional Access &
Transport Operations and RegFxATOp.
"While it may have taken some time

to reach the far-flung areas,nothing is
more precious than seeing the genuine

smiles of the people of Zamboanga as
they burst with joy," Del Rosario said.

The event was also an opprtunity for
PLDT to make a presentation on the
fiber optic cables and also discussed
ways to safeguard and protect such
cables. PLDT distributed patrol kits to
baranagay officials to protect its fiber
optic cables.
The kit includes caps,raincoats,
I-protect shirts, night sticks and
search lights which they can use while
patrolling.
The PLDT VisMin Customer
Service Operations District, Regional
Access &Transport Operations and
RegFxATOp executives and staff also
donated 550 sets of slippers to the poor
children in the said barangays. The
employees themselves volunteered to
share some of their resources to bring
smiles to the children in the far-flung
barangays.
PLDT ComRels CSR efforts extend
will also bring joy to indigent and

homeless families; orphaned and
abandoned children; underprivileged
kids with congenital heart disease;
children with mental retardation,
autism and multiple disabilities; the
elderly; cultural minorities; abused and
disadvantaged women; barangay health
workers; disaster volunteers and street
sweepers.
beyond just donating and giving alms to
the needy but also to support PLDTs
network operations, marketing efforts
and the company as a whole in order to
maintain PLDTs image as a company
who does business with a good heart
to the poor and to the needy," said Del
Rosario.
In the souvenir shot during the
medical and dental missions in
Zamboanga are PLDT ComRel Head
Evelyn M. Del Rosario, Zamboanga
City Mayor Beng Climaco, PLDT
Zamboanga CSOZ Head Amante De
Guzman, PLDT Clinical Services Head
Dr. Jun Limjoco , PLDT volunteerdoctors and employees with the
beneficiaries and Zamboanga local
government volunteers.
PLDT volunteer-doctors Jun
Limjoco and Rey Bitantes attentively
examine the patients.
Del Rosario distributes the slippers
donated by the PLDT Visayas-Mindanao
Customer Service Operations District,
Regional Access & Transport Operations
and RegFxATOp.
Primer Group wins awards for outdoor sports advocacy
rimer Group of Companies,

a company engaged in the
retail and distribution of
premium consumer brands
in outdoor, urban lifestyle and travel,
recently received two special awards
during the Asia Sports Industry
Awards and C onference for its
advocacy on outdoor sports.
The SPIA Asia awards
was created to recognize and
celebrate the outstanding business
leaders, organizations, facilities,
and campaigns that made a
groundbreaking contribution to the
growth and development of Southeast
Asias sporting industry.
Among the 168 entries submitted
by different organizations from 12
countries, Primer Group took home
the Best Sports CSR Campaign gold
award for its Bike Doctors initiative,
and a Best Sports Digital Platform
silver award for one of its brands,
Columbia Sportswear.
According Roel Chan, head
of Primer Groups advocacy arm

Center for Outdoor Recreation
and Expedition (C.O.R.E.), both
the awards signify the companys
commitment to utilize outdoor
sports as a medium to advocate
nation-building and solidarity
while supporting environmental
endeavors.
Through the years, Primer Group
has been embarking on extraordinary
adventures that transform the way
we explore the outdoors, Chan said.
Now, with the awards in place, we
are given more reasons to continue
what we do best: that is, to advocate
outdoor sports while protecting our
people and the environment.
A holistic view
for the outdoors
Primer Group distributes
Columbia Sportswear products in
the Philippines, providing outdoor
apparel and other products like
jackets, pants, fleece, boots and shoes
to both the Philippine and global

markets. With their commitment
to provide high-quality apparel to
outdoor enthusiasts, Columbias
team submitted its Tr ying Stuff
Campaign under the Retail Sports
Marketing Category.
During the Trying Stuff Campaign,
Columbia Sportswear took into
consideration three important
aspects: Merchandise, Operations
and Marketing. For the merchandise,
the company adjusted its purchases or
inventory based on the requirements
of the travelers. Instead of competing
with other international brands,
the company focused technical
mid-to high-tier products that
communicated its brand strength,
which is innovation.
For the operations, Columbias
team amped up its training both in
experiential and visual merchandising
to ensure that sales associates can
competently explain the technologies
displayed in all Columbia stores.
Lastly, the company engaged its

customers in experiential activities,
giving them firsthand experiences of
Columbias technologies.
The two -year campaign was
developed to boost awareness on
having a positive attitude towards
outdoor adventures and in life itself.
Its team used business strategies
that helped grow not only the brand
and its products, but also the people
who helped make the campaign
successful.
According to Columbia brand
manager Tiffany Batungbacal,
the campaign became successful
primarily because the whole team
dedicated years of hard work to
attract more customers.
We are really thankful for our
team; we thank all other Primer
affiliates and other business units
down to the brand ambassadors we
support. Its impossible not to be
inspired and stay passionate when
youre surrounded by these people,
Batungbacal said.
Its really about the timing. Now,
were glad to have everything in the
right place at the right time.
Moving towards a
competitive year
With the recognitions that Primer
Group received this year, Chan said
that the company will continue to
support outdoor athletes, scientists,
writers, artists, government agencies
and other private organizations to
help them find their own fruitful
exploration.
Chan concluded, With the right
attitude from like-minded people,
we will be able to develop selfreliance and sustainability that
empower communities and protect
the environment. Moving forward,
we will dedicate our work and
ourselves to tourism promotion,
environmental conser vation and
expedition management to help
Filipinos live the most out of life.
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High-rolling Microsoft
Surface Pro 4
By JONATHAN CASTILLO
ts been a while since Microsoft

steered the hornets nest that
is the mobile devices market in
2012, with the celebrated Microsoft Surface.
But before 2015 ends, Microsoft
raised the stakes for the most exciting
mobile device with the Microsoft Surface Pro 4.
Shortly after we unboxed our own
unit (purchased at TechNews own expense, as usual) we were greeted with
quite an interesting list of features: A
rich and bright display, powerful specs
sheets, a nice keyboard, and an improved Surface Pen.
The 12.3-inch display has a resolution of 2736x1824. Images are sharp,
bright, and overall impressive. It is re-
sponsive to touch, and along with

the Surface Pen actually makes navigation a little bit easier by tapping on
small icon apps. Though, the screen
suffers from a bad case of sunlight
glare.
Armed with a 6th generation Intel
Core i5 with 8GB RAM, the Surface
Pro 4 manages to deliver a solid burst
fire performance. Its fast and managed to run all sorts of apps without
having any coughing fit. Other configurations are available, with m3 and
i7 Intel Cores, and a 4GB and a 16GB
RAM.
Internal memory ranges from
128GB SSD all the way up to 1TB. If
those arent enough with you, unlike
other tablets, the Surface Pro 4 comes
out with a full-sized USB 3.0 port,
which makes data transfers an ease.
Microsofts stylus, the

Surface Pen is impressive. It features 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity,
which gives the Pen its accuracy. Its built
with a strip of magnet, which allows it to
be attached on the Surface Pro 4s side.
And Microsoft did their best to design the
Surface Pen to feel more like a pen than
just another stylus. If you take a look at
it closely, it might even look like a silver
ballpoint pen or pencil. The soft tip feels
a little awkward at first, but after a few
strokes with it, the Surface Pen is the
most flexible and accurate stylus Microsoft has ever put together.
This goes hand-in-hand with Microsofts PixelSense display, which increases the screens sensitivity, which really gives
another layer of depth
for user experience.
The Type Cover keyboard is comfortable to
type with. It attaches via
magnet and remains a
strong, solid grip to the
tablet. The backlit is a
nice touch, which should
make typing in the dark
an ease. While the kick
stand is sturdy, giving a
solid feel, and is able to
tilt in various degrees.
The front 5MP camera is excellent, which
Nexus 6P here to try and rule em all
uawei and Google have recently unveiled their newest device, placing a huge
bet that the Nexus 6P gets
to crowd the A-list of must-haves before tech 2015 ends.
Looks like they have more than a
contender as the Nexus 6P brings together the expertise of Huawei in creating flagship devices and the continuous efforts of Google in improving its
Android Operating System for mobile
devices.
Huawei has been looking forward
to working with Google to deliver the
most premium Nexus experience to
the Philippine market, said Corinne
Bacani.
We value the way consumers embrace mobile technology in all parts of
their lives and have created a smartphone with great design, performance
and seamless integration of Android
6.0 Marshmallow, the latest Android
release,
The Nexus has always been one
of the most anticipated smartphones
every year and Huawei is very proud
to further our relationship with
Google and put our mark of premium
elegance on the Huawei Nexus 6P.
Were excited to partner with
Huawei to introduce customers to

Nexus 6P, our most premium phone
yet and Android 6.0, Marshmallow, our
most polished and highest-performing
OS ever, said Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP
Android, Chromecast and Chrome OS
at Google.
The Nexus 6P is the first one in the
series to feature an all-metal unibody.
Crafted from aeronautical-grade anodized aluminum with diamond chamfers
encircling its edges, the sculpted back
of the phone accents the low-light-loving, fast-movement-capturing camera.
The Huawei Nexus 6P is powered
by the latest version of the octa-core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2.1, 3GB
of RAM and Adreno 430 graphics that
gives it a fiery performance. With its
huge 3450mAh battery, the Nexus 6P
can easily last a day with general use.
The Nexus 6P features a 5.7
WQHD 518ppi AMOLED display perfect for playing games, watching movies and getting work done in stunning
clarity, and front-facing stereo speakers for crisp, clear sound.
With the reversible USB Type-C
port, theres no more guessing which
way is up. The included Type-C fast
charger gives up to seven hours of battery life from a 10-minute charge.
Huawei Nexus 6P has the best
all-around camera. The Nexus cam
cam-
era is great for outdoor photography,

but where it really shines is in conditions with less-than-ideal lighting. The
larger 1.55um pixels capture more
light even in the dimmest conditions
to produce stunning details and sharp
images. Nexus 6P is also capable of
recording 4K and high-frame-rate
slow-motion videos. With a faster
Google Camera app, you never miss
a moment, and with the smart Google
Photos app, your memories are easy
to relive and always at your fingertips.
The 8MP front facing camera utilizes
Googles innovative HDR+ technology, making it one of the best selfie
cameras in the market.
Built from the inside out to make
the most of the worlds most popular
OS, Nexus is the ultimate Android experience. The new update introduces
a refreshed interface, performance
improvements, increased Google Now
integration and other new features.
With the Huawei Nexus 6P you will
always be among the first to receive
software updates and the freshest,
fastest version.
The Nexus is quicker and more
secure with Nexus Imprint. Placed on
the back of the device to complement
the way you naturally hold it, one touch
will turn on the phone and unlock apps
for smooth, easy access. The best
part? Registering a new fingerprint
takes no longer than eight seconds.
Specifications
Size: 159.3 x 77.8 x 7.3 mm
Display: 5.7 inches WQHD (2560 x 1440)
AMOLED 518 ppi
CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2.1,
2.0 GHz octa-core 64-bit
OS: Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Memory: 3GB RAM + 32/64/128GB ROM
Connection: Reversible USB Type-C
for faster charging
Camera: 12.3MP rear camera (1.55m)
8MP front camera (1.4m)
Fingerprint: Touch, 360, rear-mounted
Battery: 3450mAh
Specifications
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro
Storage: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB SSD
Display: 12.3-inch PixelSense
Resolution: 2736x1824
PPI: 267
Battery: 9 hours of video playback
Processor: 6th Gen Intel Core m3, i5, or i7
Graphics: m3 Intel HD graphics 515, i5 Intel HD graphics 520,
or i7 Intel Iris graphics
RAM: 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB
Rear camera: 8MP
Front camera: 5MP
Other features: Bluetooth 4 and Surface Pen
puts the best up for video chats. The
8MP camera is a decent snapper at
most, and should serve its function
well when taking pictures. The battery life managed to stand up for several solid hours.
Its a tablet that isnt trying to
act like a laptop. It knows what it
is designed for and doesnt over
promise. Its a device youd want to
carry around for work purposes that
doesnt weigh as heavy as any laptop
out there.
At the same time, its a fine device to kill some time with, through
watching movies or playing some
games. Despite having a top end
specs sheet, dont expect to play

games like Fallout 4 or Witcher 3 set
at its highest settings. Being a Windows 10 Pro device, youd be able to
play some Xbox One games without
any hindrance.
Of all the things Microsoft has
put together, the Surface Pro 4 has
all the cool things wed want in a
tablet. The Type Cover is a must if
youll be using the device for productive purposes. Its a great effort
on Microsofts part.
Now its up to you to decide if you
wanted one, at a steep price.
Energea ALUPAC5000
is power in your hands
hone makers continue

their effort in developing
longer, lasting batteries.
But as they ship out devices with stronger processors, bigger
displays, the race to bringing out an
ever lasting battery remains a big
challenge. And its because of this
reason, we can never run short on
powerbank supplies. They really do
wonders in keeping devices engines
running. We at the Manila Bulletin
TechLab, have scoured different
markets to check out some of the
more interesting powerbanks. And
what we have found is the Energea
ALUPAC5000. Its got a nice charge
time, its light, and it looks classy.
The Energea ALUPAC5000
Power Pack offers up to 50% faster
charge and recharge time compared
to any power banks in the market.
It has an sturdy Aluminum casing
which comes in two colors: Gold or
Silver, the casing will provide sufficient protection for the interior part
of the power bank. It also has a 9.33
slim body, which is a good size for

you to be able to fit the power pack
in your pocket or bag. It also weighs
for about 136.5g, which is the average weight for high-end power
banks. The ALUPAC5000 features
a 5000mAh High Capacity Lithium
Polymer Battery which is a type of
battery used for safe charging, once
charged to 100%, it will be able to
power up at least one fully drained
smartphone or tablet. Considering
that some devices have 3000mAh,
the Energea is more than enough
to bring back the phones full power
in no time.
The power pack comes with 3
LED indicator lights that lets you
know how many charge the ALUPAC5000 still has. Three lights on
means it is fully charged, 1 light on
indicates that the charge is low).
The ALUPAC5000 also highlights
its Smart Temperature Management technology, which constantly
monitors the power banks heat,
consequently preventing it from
overheating, and also with its Safe
Safety Circuit Protection feature, your
charged devices will be safe and
protected from short circuits and
battery self-discharges. This es
essentially means, powerbanks loses
power over time while idle, and
while some people realize that,
they then constantly make sure
the pack is always charged be
before taking off. The Safety Circuit
Protection will prevent the Ener
Energea from losing power for longer
days, and it will also prevent the
powerbank from overcharging
when plugged in for a long time.
When it all comes down to
de
it, the Energeas look and decent mAh puts it on our book of
must-have devices. But dont
just take it from us, if you happen to see it, check it out for
yourself. (CA Garcia)
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Monday December 14, 2015
PLDT HOME and Microsoft

partner to boost TVolution Stick
A
fter forging breakthrough

partnerships with global
entertainment leaders Fox
International Channels and
iflix, broadband and digital services

leader PLDT HOME breaks new
ground yet again as it brings to the
Philippines another game-changing
innovation on the TVolution Stick in
partnership with global technology
giant Microsoft.
Mi
The TVolution Stick by Microsoft is the next level in PLDT
HOMEs pioneering portfolio of
over-the-top (OTT) devices which
started with the TVolutionthe
Philippines first OTT device which
turns an ordinary TV into an Inter
Internet TV.
Following the success of TVolu
TVolution, PLDT HOME raised the bar
with the recent launch of TVolution
Sticka dongle-sized device which
transforms any HDMI-ready TV
into a fully functional PC. It is based
on the Intel Compute Stick and
runs on Windows OS 8.1, letting us
us-
Transcend StoreJet 300 tilts

storage and style in your favor
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the beginning of a partnership between two industry leaders which is

expected to level up the digital experience for millions of digitally active
Filipinos.
The TVolution Stick by Microsoft
is portable, plug-and-play simple and
productive. Unlike other similarly designed sticks which primarily functions as a casting & streaming device,
it transforms an HDMI-capable TV
into a fully functional PC running the
latest Windows 10 operating system.
It enables subscribers to surf with the
all-new Microsoft Edge browser and
run the built-in and complete Office
365 suite, including MS Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, OneNote, One Drive, and
Skype among other commonly used
applications, for productivity.
Users can also find loads of entertainment options in the Windows Store
and the Xbox PC Games application,
access as much as 15 GB of files for
free via the OneDrive cloud storage,
and chat and video call via Skype.
With this powerful stick, users
can watch YouTube videos on the big
screen while lounging in the bedroom
or browse the web and check social
media accounts during commercial
LG V10 offers manual video

recordings for enthusiasts
s technology grows, so
do the digital paraphernalia
we
would need to
be as productive as much
as we can. Thanks to the
age of portable storage device, anyone can easily plug
in (or out), store and go as they
wish.
Ideally, that would be a simple
case for PC or laptop users but Macs
are surely offering their fair share
as we speak. Transcend has been
on the offensive and they are doing
it with style. And on that note, considering the Transcent Storejet 300
should be something worth having
to provide folks with a productive
outlook.
Now storage will most likely be
the first thing that comes into mind
though there seems to be more to
the StoreJet 300. The transfer rate
of data is equally important and normally the waiting time is a killer.
Transcend ups the stakes a bit
by arming the StoreJet 200 with two
options a single Micro-USB 3.0
port that allows users to easily connect it to a Mac or a PC as well as an
alternative Thunderbolt (Mk1) port
which should come in handy for the
Mac users.
With the Thunderbolt port
seemingly a big advantage for faster
transfers, do bear in mind that the
performance still lies on the actual
hard disk in use.
Other than that, this is another
potential and portable device to
ers stream movies and videos, search

the web, send and receive emails and
do other activities that are normally
done on a PC.
According to PLDT VP and HOME
Marketing Director Gary Dujali, the
overwhelming consumer response
from the introduction of TVolution
Stick by Intel last October inspired
the powerhouse partnership with another market leader as PLDT HOME
continuously innovate the product
providing a powerful suite of connected home services.
The TVolution Stick is compact
and extremely efficienttwo characteristics that todays upwardly mobile users look for in their gadgets,
he said. Were honored to work with
a globally renowned brand like Microsoft to continuously innovate this
small but powerful device running on
PLDT HOMEs most robust and powerful broadband connection of up to 1
Gbps. Together, we are confident that
we can truly help create the strongest
connections at home.
Coming from a successful launch
in the US and in India, the Southeast
Asian debut of the TVolution Stick by
Microsoft in the Philippines will see
check out
that comes in
a trendy design
that was obviously
meant to try and blend in
well with your Mac device.
It comes in a sturdy metallic design as well as a travel pouch to make
sure that you take good care of its external shell and avoid the accidental
scratches that could tarnish its simple yet elegant looking mold.
With the Transcent StoreJet 300
for Macs, your storage space can be
expanded up to 2TB upon connectivity. So assuming you are among
the video buffs, you stand to save
up to 512 hours of Full HD video or
probably over 32,000 hours of digital
music on it.
If not videos, happy snapping
photographers could benefit from it
a swell with close to 960,000+ of high
resolution digital images that can be
potentially stored on it.
With such a massive portable
storage solution right at the palm
of your hands, consider the possibilities ranging from work and a bit
of the media entertainment possibilities as well with the Transcend
StoreJet 300.
breaks. Those who bring their bulky

laptops at home to finish up work can
use the Microsoft Stick instead to reply to e-mails and do light document
editing. It is also ideal for laptop-free
business trips.
Its a full PC on a stick, so you
can turn any HDMI screen into a getit-done machine, said Carlos Lopes,
Microsoft Consumer and Channels
Group General Manager for Asia Pacific. Filipinos are among the worlds
heaviest Internet users with a huge
appetite for various forms of multimedia content, which is why the TVolution Stick by Microsoft is a perfect fit.
This powerful device definitely needs
the powerful connection of PLDT
HOME to fully deliver the devices
exceptional performance to more Filipino homes.
Lopes added, We live in what we
call a mobile-first, cloud-first world
where people are always on the go
and are using devices that are getting better and smarter. This is what
makes this partnership with PLDT
crucial to our mission of empowering
every individual in the world we are
bringing the convenience and innovation of Microsoft technology straight
to the homes of our customers.
The TVolution Stick by Microsoft
is available to new PLDT HOME subscribers or existing subscribers who
upgrade to high-speed plans 999 and
up. All new PLDT HOME Fibr and
DSL Plan 999 subscribers also get the
stick for free, complete with iflix and
Fox, until December 31, 2015. Visit
pldthome.com for more details.
G Electronics has
recently took the
wraps off its newest
smartphone
capafeaturing multimedia capabilities never before seen in a
mobile device. The first of its V
de
Series phones, the LG V10 was demultime
signed to provide a rich multimedia experience both consumption
and creation for todays social
Distinc
network savvy consumers. Distinctive new features such as a Second
Screen, Dual Front Cameras and
Manual Video Mode differentiate the
LG V10 from the competition.
All this comes wrapped in a design
that utilizes high-grade stainless steel
and a durable silicone skin to make
the V10 one of the rare smartphones
to pass drop tests for shock conducted
by an independent third party.
Launched only recently, LG collaborated with award-winning Filipino
film director, writer, and editor Charliebebs Gohetia who shared his personal encounter with the versatile and
visionary smartphone producing and
shooting a short film that was shown
during the V10 launch.
Dual Front Cameras
and Multi-view Mode
Wide angle images usually require
a large, heavy lens which can distort
the corners of photographs. The LG
V10 features 5MP Dual Front Cameras with two separate lenses to capture
standard 80 degree selfies or perfect
wide angle selfies of 120 degrees, without the need to pan the smartphone
which increases the likelihood of camera shake. The ability to take groufies
rate, ISO, white balance and focus while recording. Videos can
be recorded in three resolutions
HD, FHD or UHD and two
aspect ratios 16:9 standard or
21:9 cinematic.
In addition to its impressive
professional-level video and audio
capabilities, the LG V10 offers these
additional features that video content
look and sound their best:
without a selfie-stick has never been

easier. Multi-view Mode can utilize all
the cameras the two in front and
the one on the back to capture up to
four different angles.
Video and Audio Capture
Capabilities
As the LG G4 did with photography,
the LG V10 offers users the ultimate
in video capturing, editing and sharing. The V10 is the first smartphone to
offer manual mode for video.
First introduced for still photographs on the G4, the technology has
been enhanced to handle video recordings as well. With Manual Video
Mode, budding directors can easily
create professional-quality videos by
adjusting options such as
shutter speed, frame
Steady Record uses an electronic image stabilization (EIS) optimized for recording video to neutralize shake, helping to capture sharper
video footage even when youre on the
move
Snap Video Mode: create one
video by combining many shorter videos
15-Sec. Auto Edit: create a short
video highlight clip by automatically
eliminating blurred frames and static
scenes
Quick Video Editor: easily trim
or change the frame rate and add
after-effects, such as colors and background music
Quick Share: when finished recording, a pop-up appears on the display showing options of popular social
networks to make video sharing even
easier and faster
Audio Monitoring: adjust the
sensitivity of the three microphones
more accurately during video recording and directly monitor and control
audio inputs
Wind Noise Filter: eliminate
external wind noise for high-quality
sound when shooting video outdoors.
(Carl Rogel Inocentes)
Belkin takes the runway with

fashionable cable collection
elkin has recently announced

a new line of fashion-inspired
charging cables. MFi certified to ensure iOS compatibility, these Lightning to USB cables
are designed to conveniently clip on/
off to any bag, purse or keychain, so
that users are never without a cable
to charge their iPhone, iPod or iPad.
The new fashion cables are available
in three design options: a leather tassel, a braided USB clip and a metallic
keychain are available today just in
time for back to school.
Cables have become the new
must have accessory and we want to
make it easy, fun and fashionable for
people to charge anywhere, said Melody Saffery, director product management, Belkin. The merging of fashion
and tech results in beautifully crafted
accessories that consumers want to
use in their everyday lives. We are

extremely proud of this collection of
fashion charging accessories and are
delighted to launch them with retail
partners that share this same vision.
Functional and stylish, the new
collection includes a leather tassel, a
braided USB clip and a metallic keychain, all of which are designed to elegantly attach to virtually any style of
bag, purse or backpack.
Made from natural leather, the
MIXIT Lightning to USB Tassel disguises itself as a purse accessory
while cleverly hiding the premium
metallic charging cable to enhance
the elegance of an iPhone and ensure
safe and rapid charging.
Its fringe design takes a purse from
bleak to chic, keeps the cable tidy and
prevents it from getting tangled. Available in fog, camel, coral and black, the
MIXIT Lightning to USB tassel effortlessly matches any purse or bag.

The MIXIT Lightning to USB Keychain has a sleek, structured aluminum body and can easily be slipped
onto a keychain, so that its always
there when users need to charge. It
conveniently rotates at 360 degrees
for effortless charging.
The aluminum body also protects
the Lightning connector from damage
when not in use.
Boldly and functionally designed,
the MIXIT Lightning to USB Clip is
the perfect companion for attaching
to a backpack or everyday bag without
compromising individual style. The
braided multicolor cable comes in fun
color combinations including cool blue
and mint, feisty pink and peach, fresh
purple and mint, or minimal black and
white. (Carl Rogel Inocentes)
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9 things to know about Chromecast
And cast your favorite entertainment from your phone or tablet straight to the TV
Content you love,

with even more to follow
Chromecast works with a growing number of apps including YouTube,
Google Play, Spotify, Hooq, NBA and
Just Dance Now. Find your favorite
apps and discover more at chromecast.com/apps.
Use your device as your remote

With Chromecast, your phone is
your personalized remote control.
Use the apps you know and love on
your phone to search and browse, play,
pause, rewind, control the volume and
even make playlists.
for Windows, Chrome for Mac and

Chromebooks.
dows, Mac or Chromebook to your TV.
Cast your Android phone and

tablet screen to the TV (beta)
Whether youre watching a video,
doing a little online shopping, or sharing your vacation photos, you can mirror everything you see on your Android
phone or tablet* to the big screen.
Multitask without interruption

Switch to another app, open a new
browser tab, or let your device go
into sleep mode while you continue to
watch your favorites on the TV, all without draining the battery on your smartphone, tablet or laptop.
Cast the web to your TV (beta)

With Chromecast, cast a Chrome
browser tab with anything from
photos to music to video from your Win-
Works across
platforms
Chromecast
works with iPhone
and iPad, Android
smartphones
and
tablets,
Chrome
6
7
Turn your TV screen into a

beautiful backdrop
When youre not casting anything,
fill your TV screen with artwork, personal photos, satellite imagery and
more. Open the Google app and ask
Ok, Google. Whats on my Chromecast? to learn more about any image
on your TV.
Plug in and play

Get started in 3 easy steps: plug
Chromecast into your TV, connect it to WiFi, then send Google Cast
Ready apps like YouTube, Twitch and
more from your smartphone, tablet or laptop to your TV.
For everyone
Friends and family can use
your Chromecast with their
phones and tablets without having to set up anything, as long as
Lenovo shows off its line of productive

devices as helpful gift guide
oliday gifting is made easier and more joyful with the

cutting-edge multifunction
device offerings from Lenovo Philippines. Designed for ultimate
portability, optimal entertainment,
and premium performance, these devices will give the gift recipient a great
head start for a fun and organized
New Year!
Lenovo PhAB Plus and yoGA 900:
on-the-go hybrid Powerhouses
These days, mobile computing is
the only way to go, whether for business or for pleasure. The Lenovo
PHAB Plus and YOGA 900 are the ideal
next-level mobile devices for people
who demand their tech to be perfectly
portable without compromising style
and performance.
The PHAB Plus boasts of all the
amazing features of a Lenovo smartphone in a bigger yet definitely handy
packagethe perfect combination
of phone + tablet. Dont let their big
screens, which are relatively larger
than other smartphones in the market,
intimidate you; these beauties are optimized for one-handed usage and made
with premium craftsmanship to ensure
a slim profile and light body.
The PHAB Plus ensures that users have all they need for all they do in
a single hybrid device. With a 6.80inch
1080p HD display, Octa-core 64-bit
Snapdragon 615 processor, Android
5.0 Lollipop OS, and 2GB RAM, the
PHAB Plus delivers a truly fabulous
performance. Ultra-fast and responsive, it elevates users multimedia experience with a 326 ppi resolution display for crisp, larger-than-life viewing
along with Dolby Atmos for immersive
sound. With a 3500mAh battery that
can last up to 24 hours on a single
charge, users can enjoy games, apps,

and movies all day.
Hailed as the thinnest convertible laptop with a powerful Intel Core
i Processor in the world, the YOGA 900
boasts of multiple modes primed for
portability. The very lucky gift receivers can enjoy the Yoga 900
in laptop, tent, stand,
and tablet modes to fit
whatever purpose they
require at any moment. This
multimode feature is enabled with a
revolutionary watchband hinge for a
smooth and sturdy transition between
multiple modes.
This laptop-tablet also boasts
of a 13.0-inch QHD screen with InPlane Switching, JBL speakers and
Dolby Home Theater for an impressive sound experience through headphones and speakers, and a Samsung
SSD for improved memory capacity
and higher reliability. The YOGA 900 is
a convertible that users will never tire
of; good thing it has an improved
cooling system with a unique
vent structure that allows
for quieter, cleaner, and
more efficient cooling
no matter how long
you use it.
ideapad 100 and
ideapad 500: Far
from your ordinary
laptops
Far from being
just an ordinary entrylevel laptop, the Lenovo ideapad 100 is packed
with the most essential features
for playing games, surfing the web and
creating content. It features an Intel
Pentium 3528u processor, 500 GB HDD
storage and dedicated Nvidia Geforce
Graphics, giving users a fast processor, ample storage, and solid display.
The Lenovo ideapad 100 runs up to 4
hours without plugging in so users
can work, browse online, watch videos, and do more with minimal interruption. Measuring at just 20.2
mm for the 14-inch variant, the
thin and sleek Lenovo IdeaPad
100 ups the standard in entrylevel laptops, with its classic
ebony black finish.
The Lenovo ideapad 500
has more than what meets the
eye. It is powered by Intels 6th Generation Intel Core i-series CPU for seri-
ous horsepower that makes switching

to any task faster and efficient. Video
chatting will be a breeze and one of a
kind with its JBL Speakers with Dolby
Advanced Audio certification and Intel
RealSense 3D Camera that sees more,
understands, and responds to natural
movement in three dimensions making
it the next-generation video chat. Make
the most out of the Lenovo ideapad 500
with its dedicated graphics
card to edit photos,
render home movies, or play games.
yoGA Tab 3
Pro: Mobile
Entertainment 24/7
Staying connected
24/7 isnt the only task
for mobile devices
nowadays, as users
demand 24/7 entertainment. Enter the
Yoga Tab 3 Pro, a
highly
innovative
tablet with built-in
entertainment
fea
features that will blow us
users away.
The Yoga Tab 3 Pro takes all the
wonderful features of the Yoga Tab
3 and amps them up. Powered by a
Quad-core Intel Atom X5-Z8500 1.44
to 2.24 GHz processor, 2GB RAM, and
Android 5.1, this ultimate video tablet delivers superb performance and
more. It boasts a revolutionary built-in
70 projectorthats like having a theater system you can set up anywhere,
anytime. It also boasts four front-facing JBL speakers that produce highoctane sound. Completing the bestin-class multimedia experience is the
powerfully immersive sound from the
Dolby Atmos audio system.The Yoga
Tab 3 Pro is available in all Lenovo
stores and resellers nationwide.
theyre connected to the WiFi network

at your house.
5 ThINGS To TRy WITh

ChRoMECAST
Cast a movie, TV show, or music
from your phone or tablet
1. Open a Google Cast Ready app,
YouTube on your mobile device, then
select a video youd like to watch.
2. Press the cast button, and select
your Chromecast.
3. Turn up the volume, hit pause or
search for something new to watch -all from your phone.
Create a playlist on youTube
1. Open YouTube on your smartphone or tablet, and cast a video.
2. Browse for another video and
press Add to TV Queue.
3. Continue to add more videos to
the TV queue. When a video ends, the
next video in the queue will start automatically. Your friends can add videos
to the same queue from their personal
phones or tablets, too.
Cast anything from the web using
Chrome to the TV (beta)
1. Open a tab in Chrome.
2. Click the cast button in the top

right of your browser window, and select your Chromecast.
3. Open a new tab and browse the
web without interrupting whats playing on your TV.
Mirror anything from your Android
device to the TV (beta)
1. Open the Chromecast app on
your Android phone or tablet.
2. From the navigation drawer
select Cast Screen and select your
Chromecast.
3. Open any app or pictures from
your photo gallery to see exactly
whats on your phone or tablet on the
big screen.
Turn your TV screen into a beautiful
backdrop when youre not casting
1. From the Chromecast app on
your phone or tablet, open the left hand
navigation drawer and select Backdrop.
2. Select topics youd like to appear
on your TV screen including famous
artwork, satellite imagery, news, personal photos and more.
3. To learn more about any image
on the TV screen, open the Google
app and ask Ok Google, whats on my
Chromecast?
Smart Bro Christmas deals
hether you want to upgrade your mobile lifestyle with a new device
or looking for an awesome gadget to give to your kids this
season, you can rely on Smart Bros
awesome deals for the perfect Christmas gift.
The unrivaled mobile broadband
brand in the country, Smart Bro offers
the coolest gadgets that are bundled
with the biggest data so you can experience the Smart Life and enjoy all
your favorite apps on the go. Smart
Bros fast and reliable connection
also lets you share the Smart Life
with friends and loved ones anytime
and anywhere, so youll never miss
out on the most important things that
life has to offer.
As an extra treat, Smart Bros
awesome gadget deals this Christmas come with FREE 30-day subscription and FREE 1.1 GB data for
top entertainment apps like iFlix,
FOX via Viewstream, and Spinnr!
This is perfect if you whether you
are a film buff whos into binge-watching blockbusters on the go, a music
junkie who streams the latest hits on
the road, or a gamer who immerses
in action-packed mobile games while
waiting in line at the mall, Smart Bro
has the perfect plan to match your
lifestyle and passions.
Even better, when you avail of
Smart Bros awesome gadget deals
for you or you kids this season, you
get a chance to take home a brand

new gadget instantly and be among
the lucky winners of the Smart Share
the Joy Gadget Giveaway Promo!
You are sure to find the perfect
Smart Bro gadget deal that you need,
because we have designed our plans
to suit a wide range of lifestyles from
the kids who are into educational apps
and exciting games, to the techies
who connect to multiple gadgets and
consume a lot of data for work and
leisure, said Michele Curran, head
of Data and International Services at
Smart.
But beyond offering the coolest
gadget plans, Smart Bro provides you
with fast and reliable mobile Internet powered by the countrys largest
broadband network, as well as the latest meaningful innovations that make
your life a lot more fun and convenient. This Smart Life experience is
the best gift that you can give yourself
and your kids this Christmas.
Signing up with a new Smart Bro
plan has never been easier: simply
head to the nearest Smart Store with
a valid ID, a proof of address and
proof of income and accomplish a
form indicating your choice of gadget
and plan.
You can also opt to sign up online
with free nationwide delivery via the
Smart Online Store at store.smart.
com.ph. So hurry and avail of these
awesome gadget deals from Smart
Bro now! (Carl Rogel Inocentes)
Protective eyewear vs
digital strain
now in PH
ay goodbye to digital eye

strain as Energeyes Digi-tal Lenses has finally ar
arrived in the Philippines. En-ergeyes, a protective eyewear from
Singapore, alleviates the symptoms
of digital eye strain by blocking over
50% of harmful blue light emitted by
digital screens. Digital eye strain,
a condition caused by prolonged
exposure to harmful blue light, is
emitted from the excessive use of
digital devices. Through the synergistic action of a reflective front
surface treatment on its lens and an
absorptive lens material, Energeyes

reduces harmful blue light and improves visual performance by eliminating glare from digital screens.
Energeyes is now available at participating Ekotek branches and select Apple Stores such as iStudio
Shangri-La and iStudio Gateway.
To know more about Energeyes
Digital Lenses, log on to http://www.
energeyes-eyewear.com/.
ViewSonic VP2780-4K 27-inch Ultra HD LED

monitor bags a prestigous award
iewSonic has announced that

its VP2780-4K 27-inch Ultra
HD LED Monitor was named
one of the industrys Most Innovative Products of 2015 by Sound &
Video Contractor magazine. The 4th
annual 2015 Sound & Video Contractor Innovative Products Awards honor
electronic and mechanical innovation
across the full range of ProAV products. Delivering stunning image quality for multimedia content from gaming
to action-packed movies, ViewSonics
VP2780-4K meets the needs of demanding gaming enthusiasts to color-critical
design professionals.
It is a 27 Professional Ultra HD
LED monitor that delivers stunning
definition for color-critical applications.

With 3840x2160 resolution, and AH-IPS
technology for wide-angle viewing, this
10-bit monitor can display up to 1.07
billion colors with pre-calibrated Delta
E2. This provides superior color accuracy and performance for content
creation, graphic design, print, and
other professional applications.
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SanDisk solutions for the most

wonderful time of the year
his season offers everyoneespecially Filipinos

with a long list of opportunities to create great memories. After all, the Philippines has one
of the longest Christmas celebrations
in the world, filled with traditions,
rituals and customs.
From the start of the
Simbang Gabi (9-day novena of dawn masses)
on December 16 to
the celebration of the
Feast of the Three
Kings on January 6,
youll be filling your gadgets with files youd like
to keep for many holidays to
comephotos, videos, music,
and more. Tis the season to keep
your memories safe, and you can
count on SanDisks new memory solution lineup to help you store your
files. The flash storage solutions pioneer, SanDisk offers Mobile Memory
Solutions for a safe, easy, and delightful way to seamlessly transfer, manage, and store multimedia content.
SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable
SSD and Extreme PRo SSD:
Working smart over the break
You can always use some file
management assistance, whether
youre a student or professional on
a working holiday break this season,
or a busy-bee alumnus in charge of
organizing the schools grand homecoming reunion. SanDisk has two
new SSDs - SanDisk Extreme 500
Portable SSD and Extreme PRO
SSD- to help you become more organized. SanDisk Extreme 500 portable
SSD, which is smaller than half the
size of a smartphone and delivers
up to 4x the speed of an external
hard drive, allows users to transfer
big files such as tutorial videos and
company photos at up to 415MB/s
(for 120GB and 240GB) and up to
430MB/s (for 480GB). You wont need
to worry about breaking moving parts
or overheating with the SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSDs solid state
technology. And with its encryption

feature, you wont have to worry too
much about file security too.
Similarly, Extreme PRO SSD,
which runs on SanDisks innovative nCacheTM Pro Technology,
packs in an optimal read and
write speed, high endurance,
and data safety features.
Engineered for efficient
multi-tasking
and
workload management, Extreme PRO
SSD is easy to install
and energy efficient.
With its huge storage
capacities and consistent
24/7 performance, you can
relax a bit this Christmas, even
when youre on a working break.
iXpand Flash Drive and Ultra
Dual USB: Easy photo dumping
after the Noche Buena dinner
Spending Noche Buena with your
extended family means having to
brace yourself up for a major photo
dump session. Fortunately for you
and your loved ones, SanDisk is offering the iXpand and Ultra Dual USB
Drive 3.0, which provide a seamless
and foolproof way to move countless
family groufies and Christmas videos
between iPhone, iPad, PCs and Mac
computers.
Preparing an AVP full of special effects to accompany your office Christmas party presentation?
iXpand allows high-speed transfer
from iPhone and iPad to the Flash
Drive and can instantly expand by up
to 128GB. You can also offload new
photos and videos from the iPhone
or iPad to the drive whenever its
connected without having to rely on
Internet or cables.
Ultra Dual USB 3.0 Drive allows
users to easily transfer up to 64 GB
worth of files between smartphones,
tablets, PC and Mac computers by
simply connecting the SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0 to the micro-USB port of an Android smartphone or tablet.
Phonedrone Ethos turns

your phone into a drone
rones
are
becoming
very popular nowadays.
I guess its because, like
smartphones, they also
have a variety of interesting uses.
While some drones could be used
to take photos and videos from up in
the air, other drones are being used
to do more complicated things. For
example, drones are being used by
farmers abroad to collect useful data
about their crops like which ones
need more water or fertilizer.
Even without those more advanced features, drones can still have
useful applications for both business
and pleasure. Not surprisingly, some
of these drones are even controlled
by your smartphone using an app.
Heres an interesting thought. Photos and videos taken by the drones
often end up in the phone anyway
to share with other people on social
media or messaging apps. What if
your smartphone itself can become
the drone?
When you think about it, the
smartphone makes a lot of sense for
a drone because its a smart device
with wireless capabilities. It has a
camera and access to the cloud as
well.
Thats actually basically what

the fully funded Kickstarter project
called Phonedrone Ethos can do. Its
a protective case compatible with
iPhone or Android phones that has
propellers, turning the devices into a
drone. The case is necessary to protect your device just in case it takes
a nasty hit while its up in the air or
even on the way down.
Using an app the phone can be
programmed with its own agenda
so that it can fly on its own taking
whatever pictures or video you need
along the way. The app can also be
used to tether the phone to another
device so that you can control it. The
Phonedrone Ethos also comes with a
camera mirror so that you can also
shoot footage down, side, and front.
The Phonedrone Ethos is compatible with some pretty old smartphone models (iPhone 4S and
newer, Samsung Galaxy S2
and newer and other similar
smartphones). This means
that you can actually use
these older phones as your
drone instead if you happen to
have them lying around. Thats one
exciting way to give old phones new
life! (Angelo Fernandez)
Globe Telecom brings countrys

biggest Star Wars play hub to BGC
lobe Telecom is bringing

surprises in galactic proportions as it sets up the
countrys biggest Star Wars
play hub at the Bonifacio Global City
in Taguig, taking the Star Wars experience beyond the cinema as Filipinos
gear up for the much-awaited international release of Star Wars: The Force
Awakens on December 17, 2015.
With its comprehensive and multiyear collaboration with The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia whose
brands include Star Wars, the GlobeStar Wars Galactic Celebration, which
transforms the Bonifacio High Street
Central amphitheater into a big Star
Wars playground, was kicked off recently.
Open to the public for free, the
Globe-Star Wars Galactic Celebration
allow Star Wars fans and onlookers
alike to spend the weekend playing at
the game booths, taking photos of famous Star Wars icons and characters,
purchasing retail collectibles from
participating fashion brands, and enjoying the different treats and offers of
Globe brands.
The Globe-Star Wars Galactic
Celebration will be one of the biggest
weekends for all Star Wars fanatics
in the Philippines. This is our way of
bringing the Star Wars experience outside the cinema to get all fans of the
movie franchise excited about the release of the latest Star Wars movie.
The Galactic Celebration will be
a wonderful bonding activity not only
for fans but for the entire family as well
with all the games, interactive activities and booths, photo-worthy installations, exciting prizes and treats, and
retail collectibles. We would like to invite everyone to spend their weekend
with us as we experience a wonderful
galactic celebration only from Globe,
shares Globe Senior Advisor for Consumer Business Dan Horan.
The two-day galactic fair will
highlight one of its major activities,
Riding the bus with the Stormtroopers of the 501st Legion on the way to the Star Wars
Park are Globe President and CEO Ernest Cu, Senior Advisor for Consumer Business
Dan Horan and The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asias General Manager for Studio
Entertainment and International Distribution, Amit Maholtra
the Galactic Challenge, a speciallydesigned obstacle course where ones

skill, insight and courage will be tested
through a series of challenges.
Anyone can join the Galactic Challenge with two categories to choose
from Light Side or Dark Side. Every
hour, Globe will be awarding those with
the best finish time. The participant
with the fastest time after the 2-day
event will win the coveted Sphero BB8
droid which is offered by Globe in its
GEN3 Stores as Spheros exclusive
telco partner.
The Star Wars Game Hub will also
keep everyone on their toes as they
enjoy various video games together
with the exclusive Star Wars Battlepod arcade game. Kids will surely enjoy the Sphero Challenge where they
can navigate the BB8 Droid through a
maze for a chance to win prizes. Exclusive Star Wars merchandise is also on
display from participating merchants
and retail brands such as Havaianas,
Folded & Hung, HP, FilBars, Toys R
Us and Hobbes and Landes.

In keeping with its commitment to
providing learning opportunities for
the youth in the public school sector,
Globe, in partnership with The Mind
Museum and Teach for the Philippines, is also implementing corporate
social responsibility efforts during the
Galactic Celebration weekend that
lets more people enjoy the Star Wars
activities while making a change in the
lives of others.
Alongside Teach for The Philippines, volunteers will be selected to be
big brothers and sisters to 100 public
school kids as they tour the museum
and join the Read-Along activities.
Through these efforts, Globe is
able to engage student beneficiaries
and enable them to have an unforgettable Star Wars experience, while
increasing their appreciation and understanding of science and technology, ensuring that the entire Star Wars
experience is enjoyed by the greater
majority.
Dyson Christmas Gift ideas
yson engineers solve the

everyday problems that
others ignore. It began
over twenty years ago.
Frustrated by his vacuum cleaners
performance, James Dyson ripped
it to pieces to find the prob
problem. The bag was clogging,
causing the machine to lose
suction and leave dirt be
behind.
After 5,127 prototypes,
five years and numerous
setbacks, James Dyson de
developed the worlds first cy
cyclonic vacuum cleaner with
no loss of suction.
Now, supported by over
3,000 engineers, British tech
technology firm Dyson is about
more than just vacuum
cleaners. It has invented bl
bladeless fans, air purifiers
and cordless vacuum clean
cleaners that perform like
corded ones.
Below are a few
Christmas gift ideas
from Dyson.
Dyson Fluffy Make light work of

the Christmas cleanup.
Forget about annoying wires and
bulky vacuum cleaners. The latest Dyson cordless vacuum is lightweight,
cordless and has as much power as
a corded vacuum cleaner. With
a weight of two kilograms, it is
lightweight and easy to maneuver around high, low, and difficult places. Deal with cobwebs
on the ceiling or food crumbs
under the sofa without any
fuss.
Dyson DC34
While you lie in bed snug as a bug
youre closer to the truth than you
might think. Warm, humid conditions
make the perfect breeding ground for
dust mites and as you shed skin cells
on your bedsheets, youre providing
lots of food for the little critters. Introducing the Dyson DC34, a handheld
vacuum powered by the Dyson digital motor which spins at 110,000rpm
5 times faster than an F1 engine.
It uses powerful suction to get rid of
those nasty mites. Sleep tight. Dont
let the bed bugs bite.
Dyson Cool The coolest gift

Cooking up a feast in the
kitchen? Keep cool with a Dyson Cool. Dyson Air Multiplier
fans accelerate air through an
annular aperture to create a
jet of air, which passes over an
airfoil shaped ramp. The surrounding air is drawn into the
airflow for a quick and even
cooling of the room. It
delivers a powerful and
continuous airflow without a blade in sight.
A bright, clear Christmas with Sharp AQUOS
Samsung recognized by World Wildlife Fund Philippines at 2015 Environmental

Leadership Awards. Samsung Electronics Philippines was recognized by World Wildlife
Fund-Philippines for its environment conservation programs at the 2015 Environmental
Leadership Awards held last November 3. Samsung was lauded for its efforts to help
communities in Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, and Cagayan. They provided provide solar lamps to
schoolchildren who live in homes that do not have access to electricity. These solar lamps
enable the students to study when they get home at night, helping them improve their
academic performance. Samsung was also recognized for its coastal rehabilitation efforts,
which mirror the companys commitment to support initiatives that promote sustainability
and environmental conservation.
hristmas is just around the

corner, and the most coveted
gifts of the season come in
amazing,
larger-than-life
packages. Sharp Philippines offers
holiday gifts that you and your whole
family can enjoy with its premium lineup of AQUOS TVs. Brighter, sharper,
and better than ever, Sharp redefines
the world of entertainment by utilizing
and introducing next-generation technologies that go above and beyond
whats expected. The result: stunning
features, fantastic detail, and amazing
entertainment.
Its the era of tailor-fit entertainment and 4K Ultra HD TV. With the
popularity of on-demand services,
Sharp customizes the viewing experience in an ultra-vivid way with the
new Sharp 4K TV Powered by Android
TV (UE630X).
The UE630X is Google-certified.
This allows you to search thousands
and thousands of movies, TV shows,
and YouTube videos in the easiest and
most convenient manner possible.
Theres no need to sift through hours
and hours of content simply push

a button, tell the TV what you want
through the voice control on your
remote, and enjoy! You can even get
recommendations if youre feeling adventurous.
You can also easily access all their
favorite Android apps and games on
their television from the Google Play
Store. Immersing in a wide variety
of Android games through the new
UE630X is easy; unlike Android TVs,

this new Sharp 4K TV comes with its
own gamepad for better controls.
With its 4K Ultra HD resolution,
the UE630X allows you to enjoy all
these fantastic features in largerthan-life detail. The UE630X also
has a built-in 4K Master Engine Pro,
Sharps unique processing engine that
up-converts any Full HD content for a
hyper-realistic viewing experience.
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@mblifestyle
MB Lifestyle
@manilabulletinlifestyle
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mblifestyle@gmail.com
Sketch by
Preen by
Thornton
Bregazzi
The
Force
Creates
US and London-based designers
create Star Wars looks for charity;
Global auction already open
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The Force Creates

T
o celebrate the renewal of

Star Wars, one of contemporary cultures most enduring creative influences,
US and London-based designers, including Cynthia Rowley and Diane
von Furstenberg, created one-of-akind looks inspired by the costumes
and characters in the latest installment of the movie franchise, Star
Wars: The Force Awakens. The designs will be auctioned off for charity,
online, to benefit children on behalf
of the Star Wars: Force for Change
initiative, a charitable initiative that
empowers people to make a positive
impact on the world around them.
Other designers who answered the
challenge were US designers Giles
Deacon, Halston, Ovadia & Sons,
Parker, Rag & Bone, Timo Weiland, and Todd Snyder and Londons Agi & Sam, Bobby Abley,
Christopher Raeburn, Claire Barrow, J.W. Anderson, Nasir Mazhar,
Peter Pilotto, Phoebe English, and
Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, and
Thomas Tait.
This collaboration celebrates
the distinctive synergy between
film and fashion in the run up to an
exceptional moment in the history
of pop culture. Were excited to see
how this incredible lineup of designers interpret Star Wars characters
in unique ways, as well as to raise
money for a great cause, said Leslie Ferraro, co-chair, Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media and president, Disney Consumer
Products.
The auctions have already started at www.starwarsfashion.london
and www.CharityBuzz.com. Bid for
your favorite piece and help create
a positive force in the world.
Sketch by
Phoebe English
Claire
Barrow
Bobby Abley
Sketch
by J.W.
Anderson
Opening Ceremony
Peter Pilotto
Sketch by
Diane von Furstenberg
Preen by
Thornton
Bregazzi
Rag & Bone
Thomas Tait
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Looking oLd
But BeautifuL
fter a special 5 p.m. mass on Dec. 2,

Columban Fathers John Leydon
and Leo Distor, and Parish Pastoral Council coordinator George
Gueco pulled a switch and lights blazed
on the MuslimBaroque faade
of Malate Church.
Meralco
had
an expert team
quickly mobilized
to mark the completion of a fiveyear struggle to
preserve one of
Manilas architecWALA LANG
tural treasures.
DR. JAIME C. LAYA
The parish was
established by the
Augustinians in
1581. The church was one of the first stone
structures along Manila Bay. Built without
rebars and concrete, the solid-looking walls
were of soft adobe stone blocks, kept upright mainly by gravity and protected from
the elements by lime-based mortar.
The weak material used, the construction technique, and the many natural and
manmade calamities over its 434-odd
years of existence have taken their toll
typhoons, earthquakes, war, traffic. Good
intentions, too, sometimes have regrettable consequences. Reconstructions tend
to be ambitious and in 1898, the church was
enlarged and heightened.
The original church was demolished in
1667 as defense against the invading Chinese commander Koxinga. Rebuilt, it was
heavily damaged in two later warsfirst
in 1762, when the British invaded Manila
during the Seven Years War and. in 1945,
when the Battle of Manila left it standing
roofless.
With all the damage, repair, and rebuilding, constant vibration from passing jeepneys and buses, air pollution, ground subsidence, and make-do construction, a large
stone fragment broke off from an exterior
molding on the roofline of the churchs Remedios Street side. Fortunately, no one was
killed. Anxious to prevent further accidents
and to preserve the important part of Manilas heritage, the church custodians, the
Missionary Society of St. Columban, decided to investigate and do the necessary.
Findings were alarming and the parish
decided on a full-fledged restoration and
fund-raising program.
When no ones looking, contractors
sometimes take the easy way outprop
up falling stones and cement them over, reproduce carvings in Styrofoam and conceal
the crime with a cement veneer. Structural
defects like separating walls are hidden
from sight with smooth cement. It turned
out, incidentally, that the Malate choir loft
was resting on beams that were partly just
stuck on the side walls. It has now been
taken down and will be properly rebuilt.
The Columbans contacted Escuela Taller, the Intramuros technical school where
specialist heritage conservators train outof-school youth in the traditional methods
of masonry, woodworking and carpentry,
metalwork, and wall finishing. For Malate
Church, Escuela Taller graduates and students on on-the-job training chipped away
cement plaster that had been damaging the
adobe, realigned falling stones, repaired or
recarved elaborate details eroded by the
elements and pollution, replastered outside walls with the appropriate lime-based
mortar, dug proper drainage, repaired the
massive wooden doors, etc.

The Parish Pastoral Council led a fundraising campaign to cover costs and conducted consultations on how Malate Church
should look after restoration. The effort has
not been easy, but everyone is justifiably
proud that they have helped ensure that
their beloved gem looks great and will be
around for many more years.
Note: The restoration of Malate Church
was recognized by the Cultural Center of
the Philippines. It awarded the Missionary
Society of St. Columban the coveted Gawad
CCP Para sa Sining (2015).

Comments are cordially invited, addressed to walangwala888@gmail.com
The restored Malate Church

faade, lit by Meralco to mark
the completion of a five-year
restoration program initiated by the
Missionary Order of St. Columban
and funded by parishioners and
friends of the Malate parish
Dance to InspIre
hen you dance, its not just about

the movement, the music, or the
steps, but also the story you are
bringing your audience. Do you bring
them to a dark place where their nightmares come true? Or do you give them
steps that will motivate and inspire them
in their lives?
Dont Think is a dance-theater performance that talks about how we can free ourselves from our limiting self-beliefs by turning inward and connecting to the source.
It will also include a sharing of how to declutter the mind by British lecturer and life
coach Denise Lawrence.
Staged in cooperation with Ayala Land
Inc, Dont Think will be held on
Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m. at the Power
Mac
Center
Spotlight
T h e a t e r,
The Circuit
Makati
(formerly
Sta. Ana
R a c e
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CHAIRS FOR
CHEERS
Kenneth Cobonpue auctions off his special APEC chairs for a cause
Text and Images by Art StA. AnA
enneth sat in his office, his

sleeves rolled up to the elbows as his hands went
through his hair. He was contemplating the offers that were coming.
Surprisingly, his special edition Yoda
chairsno relation to the namesake
character in Star Warsthat were
used by the heads of state who were
here for the recently concluded Asia

Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Leaders Summit were getting so many
offers. So many wanted a piece of this
particular history. He thought it would
be difficult, but the chairs were practically selling themselves. Kenneth Cobonpue wanted to do much more with
his creations. And so he picked up his
phone, searched his contact list, and
dialled a good friend.
Daphne, he opened, do you think

my chairs can help you out with your
work with UNICEF?
Daphne, of course, is Daphne Osea-Paez, popular TV host and Special
Advocate for Children of the United
Nations Childrens Fund, or UNICEF,
since 2010. A designer herself, she has
always been into design and fashion
and has always had a soft spot for children, delightfully marrying these two
passions of hers through her work with

the organization. She was obviously
delighted with the idea of auctioning
off these chairs used at the APEC welcome dinner to help with this advocacy
of hers. She got in touch with UNICEF,
and an auction was born.
the YodA ChAirS
Modern, handmade, made of natural materials, organic in shape. This is
how one can characterize the work of worldrenowned, multi-awarded, designer Kenneth
Cobonpue. So when he
was tasked to be the
creative director of the
welcome dinner at the
Mall of Asia Arena, he
found inspiration in nature.
It was a big task,
Kenneth
recalled.
There were a lot of
things you couldnt do, a
lot of restrictions. What
I wanted to do was make
it warmer. I thought of
a garden setting, and
I then I thought of the
rice terraces, our heritage.
He realized then
that his signature Yoda
chairs, very natural
in look and material,
would be perfect. He
needed to do special
versions, though, for it
to be as functional as it
was aesthetically pleasing. He made these special edition cantilevered
structured works of art
wider, with swivel legs,
and added arm rests.
The tops were shorter
for an unobstructed
view of the action that
was
happening
all
around the event. They
are gorgeous, every bit
Cobonpue in form, every bit stately in beauty.
And now, six of them are
up for auction. The ones
used by United States
President
Barack
Obama, Philippine President Benigno

Simeon Aquino III, Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe, Singapore Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and the socalled APEC hotties Canadian Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican
President Enrique Pea Nieto. The
auction will be held at the Kenneth Cobonpue showroom at The Residences
in Greenbelt, Makati on Dec. 16. Bidders will get a chance to own a piece
of history after pre-registration both
online or on-site, where bidding starts
at R75,000, live or through SMS.
1,000 dAYS CAmpAign
We did not plan this way in advance, Daphne said. But this is
something that would really make a
difference in the lives of children.
The proceeds would go to UNICEFs 1,000 Days Campaign, which
aims to bring focus to the first thousand days of a child from conception
up to the childs second birthday.
At least 3.4 million children are
malnourished. Every day, 95 children
die before they reach the age of five,
half of whom die because of malnutrition, said Lotta Sylwander, UNICEFPhilippines country representative,
at the special media preview of the
items to be auctioned off. If they are
malnourished on their second birthday, they will be forever malnourished.
They will be smaller, less developed,
and will have less cognitive ability.
The campaign then aims to provide
funds for educating mothers all over
the country regarding the proper nutrition a child needs and health care
assistance to those who desperately
need them.
I am so grateful to Kenneth and
Daphne for making this happen, Lotta
said, adding this auction will go a long
way in helping a lot of children in the
Philippines.
It is quite a journey for these Yoda
chairs then, from serving the highest
leaders of the world to the smallest
children of this developing country.
Kenneth wouldnt have it any other way
though, and while his name is already
big, his heart apparently is bigger.
For more information on the auction, visit www.unicef.ph, or call 02
758 1000.
Designer
Kenneth
Cobonpue
with
UNICEF
Philippines'
Lotta
Sylwander
and
Daphne
Osea-Paez
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Ye ole rock n roll: Blanco back to basics

By Paulyn abando
nnovative singer-songwriter
Rico Blanco, who performed
with painted face and a headdress some reinventions ago,
will surprise fans with music that
returns to roots in his latest album
aptly titled Dating Gawi.
Unlike the predecessor Galactik
Fiestamatik featuring some tracks
musically arranged using cardboard

and scraps salvaged from some
neighbors backyard, the new opus is
as straightforward as, well, a librarian: Pinoy rock and roll sound most
of which were written using just
three chords, usually G, D and A.
In an interview, the artist said
he adhered to self-imposed rules
in crafting the songs fit for his vocal
range and, more importantly, his
state of mind. It meant sticking to

the power trio of guitar, bass and
drums, thank you.
Minsan I go, Teka lang, no you
cant do that. You have to make it
work. Find the right lyric, guitar
tone... he recalled thinking whenever he would stray from the path
he set for himself. Its hard doing
conventional stuff and not being
able to rely on fancy tricks. You got
to have the right notes playing there.

The tone coming from the guitar has
to be right.
His third solo album after Galactic Fiestamatik and Your Universe, Rico said his latest opus
is not a product of whim, but one
driven by passion to share stories
in more accessible fashion. It is said
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Gaga, Missy Elliott
in tears after getting Billboard honors
EW YORK
Lady Gaga and
Missy Elliott
we re in t e ars
Friday as they discussed
the struggles they faced
in their careers at an event
honoring women in the
music industry.
Gaga was named Billboard's woman of the year,
while Elliott who has
largely stayed out of the
spotlight in recent years,
save for a surprise Super
Bowl appearance, but
returned
l a s t
month
with a
n e w
single
McBride and Jussie Smollett from

Empire, will air Dec. 18 on Lifetime.
TEARS OF JOY
Gaga who earned a Grammy
nomination Monday and a Golden
Globe nod on Thursday grew
emotional onstage when she spoke
about her struggles to find her voice
in the industry.
It's really hard sometimes for
women in music. It's like a (expletive) boys club we can't get into.
Sorry grandma, she said. I've
tried for so long.
I just wanted
to be taken
seriously as a
musician.
Gaga was
introduced to the
stage by her mother,
Cynthia Germanotta, who
said piano lessons as a
child helped the pop
star discover her
gift for music.
The singer end
ended her speech
with strong
words for
those who
doubted
her in the
missy Elliot (aP/Photo/Joel Ryan/File)
lady GaGa (Photo by Evan

agostini/invision/aP)
the sexual assault documentary
The Hunting Ground she was
also rejoicing because of her Golden
Globe nomination for acting.
FiFtH HaRmony (Photo by Evan agostini/invision/aP)
was dubbed innovator

of the year.
Loretta Lynn, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Brittany Howard of Alabama
Shakes, Lana Del Rey, girl
group Fifth Harmony, pop
singer Tori Kelly and country singer Kelsea Ballerini
were also honored at the
event, along with 50 female
music executives.
The Billboard Women In Music event,
w h i c h
included
guests
like Alicia
Keys, Paul
Rudd, Mart i n a
past: But I can write songs and I

It feels great because I really
can sing.
care about my work as an actress
Elliott, too, was emotional in
and I spend a lot of time on it
a 6-minute speech that earned a
and you never know if
standing ovation louder than any
people can see that
other Friday afternoon. The rapor if they just think,
per, who recently returned with
'You're a musician
the single WTF (Where They
who wants to do
From) after years away from
everything,' and
the spotlight, cried throughout
that's not me at
her speech.
all, said Gaga,
I was that kid that used to write
whose role on
on my mother's walls ... I just had
Ameri
FX's Amerisongs written all over the walls ...
can Horror
(and) as time went on I realized I
Story: Hotel
was different and unique and not
earned her a
a follower, she said. I've had my
nomination
ups and downs, there's times I've
ac
for best acwanted to give up, but God had
tress in a
another plan for me and if it had
miniseries
not been for him, I would not be
or motion
standing here.
picture
She went on to thank
made for
Janet Jackson for be
betelevision.
ing a dependable
act
I love actfriend and also paid
ing and I
ciaRa (PHoto by Evan
tribute to her late
put so much
friend, R&B singer
of myself
Aaliyah.
into it when
And Aaliyah I hope
I'm working, so to be recognized is
you're looking down and
so amazing.
proud of me, she said.
Alabama Shakes earned four
Grammy nominations, including alAnd the nominees are...
bum of the year and best alternative
Billboard's event also
music album for Sound & Color as
gave the leading ladies a
well as best rock performance and
chance to celebrate their
rock song for Don't Wanna Fight.
Grammy nominations,
I hope I can be like Adele, band
which were announced
leader Howard said, holding her
Monday.
arms like Adele did when she won
And while Gaga
six Grammys in 2012. Cradle all
earned a Grammy nod
my babies.
dEmi lovato (Photo by Evan
for best song written for
Kelly, who released her debut
visual media for Til It
album this year, is competing for
Happens To You from
best new artist.
It's honestly the craziest thing
to me. This is by far the craziest year
of my life, she said.
Sisters with voices
Lovato, who earned Billboard's
rulebreaker award, hit a high note
so perfectly that the audience applauded loudly before she could even
finish her song.
The singer sang the tune Stone
Cold with emotion and passion that
filled the entire room much like
her peers.
Kelly was on guitar as she belted
Hollow in strong form, and Howard was top notch when she sang
Joe. And Gaga closed the event
with a performance of Til It Happens to You on piano.
Fifth Harmony was in sync as
they performed a stripped down
version of their hit Worth It. It
was followed by a cover of Destiny's
Child's Independent Woman fitting for Friday's event. (AP)
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Hale.
The little secret
I had that I didnt tell
them was, while I was
writing the songs, I was
thinking of them playing
the songs. Yun din ang
nag-inspire sakin, he
said, laughing. When
youre working with
these guys, you can
come up with one album a month. Feeling
ko pag
sila
Rico PERFoRms with his band

weeks.
When
I have an
idea that I
get excited
about and
songs that
I wanted to
share, thats what pushes me to
record an album, the artist said.
Nung nagsusulat ako (para dito),
kung san lang mapunta yung
kanta. Minsan I start with the first
For this album, gusto ko para rito (sa Pilipinas) to

eh. Wala akong iniisip na international release,
yung ma-pick up (yung album) sa ibang bansa.
verse and I dont know what the song
is going to be about
He added that many of the songs
were written while he was holed up
in his attic where a small recording
cHRistmas WitH JEssica
essica Sanchez gets into

the holiday spirit with the
release of her first ever
Christmas EP, Christmas
With Jessica.
The former American Idol
had hinted at it to her followers
last week, tweeting, Christmas
EP & merch coming soon my
loves, I seriously cannot wait for
y'all to see it.
Already available for download, the six song EP kicks off
with Santa Baby, one of Jessica's personal favorites followed
by a festive version of Jingle
Bells and Joy to the World,
both showcasing Jessicas powerful vocals.
Other tracks in the collection
are Silent Night, O Come All Ye
Faithful and Ave Maria.
Produced byJames Daniels
and Executive Produced by LA
Mic Studios & Wise owl Media
Group, the luanch of the EP coincides with the opening of the
singer's first merchandise store.
The collection was picked out
personally by Jessica, who made
sure she was involved, every step
of the way, I loved being able to
choose the styles and put my own
personal touch on everything
Im excited to be sharing this with
my fans, said the pop singer.
The line includes a variety of
sizes and fresh styles including
delicate flowing T-shirts, cute
crop tops, unisex hoodies, and
a Jessica Sanchez snapback hat
with her signature.
Sanchez rose to stardom by
belting out soaring ballads by
the likes of Aretha Franklin and
Whitney Houston.
In 2013 she released her debut
album Me, You, and the Music
and it went #8 on the Billboard
Pop Charts.
Early this year the California
native brought on a new management team, Mayhem Management
Group, and released her latest
ood things come to those

who wait.
Before becoming a journalist, William Thio first
ventured into show business as part of
Star Magics batch of talents launched
in 1997. His contemporaries were John
Lloyd Cruz, Shaina Magdayao, and
Baron Geisler.
His acting career may not have
blossomed but it proved to be a blessing
for William, who is now recognized as
one of the countrys respected broadcasters.
Riding on a career fueled by passion,
William was recognized at the World Association Humanitarian of Doctorss
(WAHOD) Excellence Awards as
Institutional Male Broadcaster for his
UNTV show Spotlight.
The awarding ceremony was held at
studio was set up.

Many of his contemporaries and
good friends got into the game. They
include Raimund Marasigan of Sandwich, Buddy Zabala of Eraserheads,
yung ma-pick up (yung album) sa

ibang bansa.
Another thing that inspired the
singer-actor to come up with a new
album were the bands he has been
inviting to play at The Brewery restaurant, which he runs with business
partners.
I get to watch bands every night
so parang ako, I want to play there
also kaso I dont have new songs,
he said. I dont want to play my old
songs there, everyones playing their
new stuff so parang its time to chip
in.
Indeed, despite not putting out an album for the
longest time, Ricos
thirst for live performance remains
strong. He recently
closed the LubiLubi Festival in
Glan Sarangani
that marked
the towns 101st
founding anniversary.
kasama
Dating Gawi
ko mapafeatures the tracks
pasulat ka
Pa r a n g Wa l a N a ,
nang maRico Blanco as Fiesto
Sorry Naman, Walang
papasulat (ng
Bandido (instagram)
Basagan, Videoke Queen,
kanta) eh.
Wag Mong Aminin, Alaala,
All the songs are
Umuwi Ka Na, and Chess. The
in Filipino because Rico wanted to
album is under Universal Records
reach out to his Pinoy fans instead
and now available in record bars naof the other way around.
tionwide and for download on iTunes,
For this album, gusto ko para
Deezer, and Spotify.(With report
rito (sa Pilipinas) to eh. Wala akong
from Bhenj Agustin)
iniisip na international release,
Idolito dela Cruz returns to concert scene
single This
L o v e ,
which has
more than
1 million
v i e w s
on YouTube.
By rowena tan
JEssica sancHEZ
(Facebook)
From actor to award-winning

newsman and more
By Paulyn abando
the New World Manila Bay Hotel Ballroom, Roxas Boulevard yesterday.
WAHOD is under the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs chaired by Emperor Javier
Gold Ferrari of the Western European
Empire.
Last November, William was acknowledged at the 2015 Gawad Amerika
as Most Promising News Personality.
During the awards ceremony, the
41-year-old anchor also bagged the
Male Star of the Night award.
William admitted the event was
a little surreal for him after he found
himself hobnobbing with US-based
Filipino talents.
Marami rung mga ibang
awardees na parang they had
formed a community wherein they
help each other and also yung mga
homegrown talent natin... it was a
different environment. Nanibago
e gained popularity na
nationwide as April Boy
Reginos sound-alike,
and winning singing
contests on TV shows like Sang
Linggo nAPO Sila and Eat
Bulaga. Idolito dela Cruz had a
streak of good gigs thereafter but,
in 2009, he took a hiatus after his
parents passed away.
Six years later, Idolito is back
and will be staging his first con
concert in years.
Helping him out in the show
is special guest April Boy, with
whom Idolito will be singing
the iconic song Di Ko Kayang
Tanggapin.
Idolito noted, Hindi medley
yung gagawin namin. Basta
sagutan lang kami.
Concert director John Nite is
grateful that April Boy still agreed
to do the concert despite his con
condition. Note that the Pinoy pop
icon was diagnosed with diabetes
in 2014, a condition that rendered
him blind. But now, April Boy
can see bright lights and vague
silhouettes.
Nagpupunta nga siya sa
rehearsals namin maski pwede
namang hindi siya pumunta.
Pwede namang on the day na
magpunta Nite
siya ng concert magpunta,
said.
John said April Boy has been
per
supporting up-and-coming performers ever since. Sinasabi
niya kasi na yung mga naabot
niya as a musician eh,
eh sana
maabot din ng bagong artists.
John explained they invited
several artists to join the con
concert to cater to different ages
of concertgoers. Among the
guest performers are Jonalyn
Viray, Gerard Santos, Hannah
Nolasco, Shermaine Santiago,
ako, he shared.
The actor-turned-newscaster
considers the awards an inspira
inspiration for him to do better in his
field.
5AZ1, RP-Pop-Jewels, Danica Rustia, Kakaboys and Good Vibes.

Gusto namin na merong representation ang bawat generation.
Like si April Boy 80s siya and 90s.
Tapos nandyan yung Good Vibes
na tinitilian at sinisigawan ng fans
nila. Basta we make sure na ma-eentertain sila, he said.
The director aims for a balanced performance from the artists, noting he arranged the order
of the songs for smooth transition.
Madami kasing guests so, ayoko
nung tuloy-tuloy na concert tapos
ang boring na. Kaya tinitingnan
ko kung lalaylay tong kantang to
or kung sino ba ang kasunod na
kakanta.
Still, he says the concert will run
for about two to under three hours.
Hindi niyo mararamdaman yung
oras. Pero kasi kapag dumating na
sa three hours baka boring na ang
dating ng concert, he said.
Prior, John said they had smaller
plans for the show. Actually dapat
parang launching lang talaga siya
(ng album) eh, lumaki na
ng lumaki. So from
Te a t r i n o n a g i n g
Music Museum,
he said of changing to a bigger
venue.
For Idolito,
he is thankful
that all the artists
they invited didnt
think twice when
asked to be the guest
in the show.
Hindi ko po inexpect
na full support sila. Kaya
hindi ako nagdadalawang
isip na sundan tong concert dahil sa kanila, said
Idolito, who added that
the tickets are almost
sold-out.
Meanwhile, if and
when the concert be-
time, he said.
He is also the spokesperson of
the Philippine Red Cross (PRC)
sup
National Blood Services, in support of her grandmother Rosa
Rosal who is a member of the
A man of many hats
PRC Board of Governors.
Life begins at 40 as they
Pag merong out-of-thesay and William has taken
ako
office (work, ako)
Kasi di
this mantra to heart, with
ba shes already old, then she
his schedule filled to the brim
only does office (work)... Pag
with work.
merong corporate (work) sa
Apart from being a news
banko, gobryerno, o sa
anchor, William is also
NGO, ako na ang
a businessman. He
gumagawa he
gumagawa,
owns the construcexplained.
tion firm R&F ReNot everyalty, which speone knows this
cializes in singlebut William
detached houses
has also been
and condominipassionate
ums.
about dogs
Im a consince the age
t r a c t o r n o w.
of 12. In fact,
Ive started ache has won in
cepting projects
inter
several interin Tacloban, Davao,
national dog
and Tagaytay, so that
competi
show competiWilliam tHio (twitter)
takes up a lot of my
tions, including
comes successful, John said that

they might bring the concert to
Idolitos hometown, Pampanga.
Kilala din kasi siya sa province nila so, why not bring him
there and hold a concert sa big
auditorium nila. Maganda magshow sa province kasi talagang
inaabangan ng fans, he said.
John is counting on Idolitos
success, noting, May history
naman siya sa singing. May mga
napanalunan naman na siya.
Hindi mo rin masasabi na hindi
siya gwapo kasi may itsura naman siya at maputi.
Aside from the concert, Idolito
is promoting his eponymous album Ngayong Nandito Ka Na.
Produced by Besfriends Music
Production, the EP has five songs
including the title track along with
Lumaban Ka, All The Time,
Itaga Mo Sa Bato, and Mundo
Ay Nagbago.
Four of the songs in the album
were composed by Idolito himself
based on personal experiences.
Produced by Besfriends Music Production, Tol Idol and
Friends concert will be
on Dec. 16, 8 p.m. at the
Music Museum. (With
report from Jojo P.
Panaligan)
idolito dEla cRUZ

the 2011 European Junior Champion
Thai Silk in Oslo, Norway.
He is also a licensed dog show
judge, particularly in contests involving Pomeranians here and abroad
conducted by the Philippine Canine
Club Inc.
During the time na I was an
exhibitor, maghihintay ka na ikaw
ang ipapanalo, ngayon ikaw na ang
magpapanalo so its a different ball
game, he said.
With a jam-packed schedule, it
sure takes a lot of dedication and
hard work for the bachelor to juggle
his time. But he is not complaining.
Siguro sa edad kong to mas
importante yung you have to make
ends meet, he added.
William anchors the Global News
Network (GNN) show News Force,
which airs every Monday and Saturday at 5 p.m.
He also heads GNNs one-hour
talk show Opinion Leaders every
Saturday at 9 p.m.
Spotlight airs Th ursdays on
UNTV at 4:30 p.m. (With report
from Bhenj Agustin)
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smallest town to the biggest cities in
the Philippines, and in different parts
of the globe.
Aside from that is to be identified
with Christmas because of the success
of my songs. Its a blessing that I have
touched the lives of many people, he
said, referring to Christmas In Our
Hearts and A Perfect Christmas.
Chan is taking extra care of his
voice lately, saying he doesnt know
how much longer he can keep it or
how long people will keep watching
his concerts.
The second is unfounded concern
because he remains and always will
be an icon and a true gentleman to
boot. To say Chan is loved is an understatement.

The first concern, well, Chan can
record anything anytime and his supporters will be there, as his track record
shows.
Christmas comes
The holidays are here and malls are
a-blasting Christmas songs from opening to closing time remind us of that.
One of the inescapable ones if thats
the term to use, is Christmas In Our
Hearts. In 1990, the album became and
remains the best selling album of all time
in the Philippines.
I feel blessed and lucky kasi I never
thought that Pinoys would love my com-
positions, he repeated.
His inspiration in creating beautiful
Christmas songs are his family, friends,
and the books he reads.
The melodies should exude joy
because Christmas is joyful and the message should be Pinoy Christmas and not
snow because we dont have snow in the
country, he said.
His Christmas wish is utter selflessness: the lessening of the gap between
the rich and the poor.
He also prays for his business to
continue doing well so he could further
help his employees.
Now theres a perfect Christmas
right there.
Jack JonEs
JosE maRi cHan

By rowena tan
eaturing music icons Jose Mari

Chan and Jack Jones in one
concert may not be unexpected
but its bound to be fascinating
just the same given that theyve known
each other for a long time.
In an interview, Chan said they
personally picked the songs for their upcoming concert. The repertoire includes
Wives And Lovers, a song that earned
Jones a Grammy Award for Best Pop
Male Vocal Performance.
We will be dancing a bit, too, but not
in a choreographed number because
most of my songs are ballads. And in
ballads, you just stand there and walk
around, smile, he said.
Chan shared Jones will perform his
signature hits, some well-loved cover
tunes and tracks from his latest CD
Seriously Frank, which pays tribute to
what would have been the 100th birthday
of Frank Sinatra.
The Filipino singer-songwriter said
they will perform old songs because
thats what people like to hear from
them. He recalled performing new songs
in one of his concerts but the audience
ended up asking for his classics.
It was heartwarming to know they
like my own songs, he said.
Way before this concert, Chan said
he has watched Jones on stage many
times and he has his albums. They even
e-mail each other.
I follow him, said he. I first met
him some years ago when he went here
for a concert.
Jack Jones Sings Songs From The
Heart on Dec. 29 and 30 at the Kia
Theatre is for the benefit of the Special Action Force (SAF 44) who died in
Mamasapano, Maguindanao early this
year. The concert is presented by ManCo
Productions, Inc. and Royale Chimes
Concerts and Events, Inc.
dreams and achievements

Chan has a song that goes My idea
of a perfect Christmas... With that as
jump off point we asked him if he still
has a dream performance at this point
in his career.
Yes. I want to have a full orchestra
and then nandun lang ako sa audience
watching them perform some of my
songs. Towards the end of the show, they
are going to ask me to come up and sing
with them, he said.
Of all his 48 years in the music business, Chan finds performing concerts
still a thrill. He has held one from the
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Behind the scenes: Golden Globe nominations announced

HoLLywood
BuLLETiN
JANET susAN
NEPALEs
E V E R LY H I L L S We
had to wake up at 3:30
a.m. to be ready for the
73rd Annual Golden Globe
Award nomination announcement
at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which
promptly started at 5:15 a.m.
Publicists, photographers, TV
crews, and reporters swarmed the
hotel at the crack of dawn since
doors closed at 5 a.m.
Miss Golden Globe Corinne Foxx,
the 21-year-old daughter of actor
Jamie Foxx, was one of the first
ones to go up stage and be seated
beside Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) president Lorenzo
Soria. The charming and lovely University of Southern California college senior will be following a grand
tradition assuming a role previously
done by the likes of Dakota Johnson,
Rumer Willis, Laura Dern, Melanie
Griffith, and the like. She wore a
sheer and chic Gauri and Nainika
floral dress that was very feminine
RonniE dEl caRmEn and Pete docter
and fashionable.
Presenters Chlo Grace Moretz,
ficer Rudolf Abel and also got a nod
Angela Bassett, America Ferrera,
the Best Motion Picture-Animated
lisa, The Good Dinosaur, The
or comedy department, on the
for his TV role in Wolf Hall.
and Dennis Quaid followed. The 18category. Pete was in Cuba and so
Peanuts Movie, and Shaun The
other hand, Christian Bale will be
In the Best Motion P ictureyear-old Chlo was also dressed in
we contacted Ronnie and below
Sheep Movie.
competing against his co-star Steve
a dainty flowery dress while Angela
Carell in The Big Short, as well
made her fashion statement in a
as Matt Damon (The Martian), Al
fiery red gown. America, for her
Pacino (Danny Collins) and Mark
part, was more conservative in her
Ruffalo (Infinitely Polar Bear).
close neck green and gold flower
As for the ladies in musical or
printed outfit.
comedy, Melissa McCarthy (Spy)
Dennis Quaid had a little proband Amy Schumer (Trainwreck)
lem pronouncing Saoirse (pro are against Jennifer L awrence
nounced Sur-she) Ronans first
(Joy), Maggie Smith (The Lady
name when the 21-year-old actress
In The Van), and Lily Tomlin
bagged a coveted spot on the
(Grandma).
Foreign Language category,
was his reaction to the nomination
Best Performance by an
In the Best Actor-Drama catWe cant wait to see also what
the Philippines historical
of Inside Out, which has already
Actress in a Motion Picegory, it will be Leonardo DiCaprio
Lady Gaga will be wearing on the
biopic film, Heneral Luna,
won as Best Animated Film in the
ture-Drama category
(The Revenant) against Edred carpet after being
unfortunately did not make
National Board of Review and the
where she competed
die Redmayne (The Dannominated for her
the cut. The foreign films
New York Film Critics Circle:
with Cate Blanchish Girl), Bryan Crsexy, edgy role
that made it were The
Just called my mom and shes
ett (Carol), Brie
anston (Trumbo),
as Countess
Brand New Testament
so up on the news! She already
L arson (Room),
Michael FassbendElizabeth
( B e l g i u m / F r a n c e / Lu x knew! Such an honor for our movie
Rooney Mara (Carer (Steve Jobs)
in Ryan
embourg), The Club
to be nominated for the Golden
ol) and Alicia Viand Will Smith
M u r (Chile), The Fencer
Globes! I am the luckiest man in
kander (The
(Concussion).
phy s
(Finland/Germany/
animation to be Pete Docters CoDanish Girl).
In the musiTV seEstonia), Mustang
director on Inside Out working
Talking about
cal
r i e s
(France), and Son
on such an amazing concept for a
Alicia, the 27AmerOf Saul (Hunfilm. A very special honor beyear-old
i c a n
gary).
cause I was born in the Philtalented
Hor ror
Inside
ippines and my family loves
Swedish
Story:
Out, the
to watch movies growing
actress
Hotel.
Disney/
up so to think that one
was one
L a d y
ani
Pixar aniday I would co-direct a
of three
G a g a
anGEla BassEtt
mated
Pixar movie that gets
n o m i tweeted after
(photo by Ruben v. nepales)
f i l m
nominated for a Goldnees who
learning of her
which
en Globe is out of this
got dounom, I apologize
w a s
world! This concept
ble nomto my neighbors. Im
co -dicould only have been
inations
still screaming in my apt in NY!
rected
made here at Pixar
this year.
Im nominated as an actress for
and cobecause we have John
A s i d e
a Golden Globe. What a dream! Is
written
L asseter at the helm
from her
this real?!
by Pete
making sure that ideas
nom for
With Ricky Gervais back as host
Docter and
like Inside Out flourishes
The Danat the Golden Globes, we expect
miss GoldEn Globe corinne Foxx
F i l -A m R o n and gets made. Mabuhay!
ish Girl,
the party of the year to be much
(photo by Ruben v. nepales)
nie del Carmen,
The other contenders in the
she also got
more fun on Jan. 10 at the Beverly
was nominated in
said category include Anomanominated
Hilton hotel.
for in the
Best Performance by an
Actress in
a Support-ing Role in
Any Motion
Picture for
her performance
in the science fiction thriller ExMachina
a s Av a , a
humanoid robot with artificial intelligence.
The other nominees
who got doubly lucky
were Idris Elba who
was nominated for
Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any
Motion Picture for his
performance as Commandant Abraham Attah in the African war
drama Beasts Of No
Nation and for his TV
role in Luther.
English actor Mark
Rylance, on the other
hand, was both nominated for his supporting role in the historical
drama thriller Bridge Of cHlo GRacE moREtZ
HFPa PREsidEnt lorenzo soria, angela Bassett, chlo Grace moretz, america Ferrera, Executive vice-President of television at dick clark productions Barry
Spies where he portrayed posing for photographers
adelman and dennis Quaid (Photos by sthan lee B. mirador)
of (photo by Ruben v. nepales)
the Soviet intelligence of-
A very special honor because I was born in the Philippines and

my family loves to watch movies growing up so to think that one
day I would co-direct a Pixar movie that gets nominated for a
Golden Globe is out of this world - Ronnie del Carmen, nominee
in Best Motion Picture-Animated category for Inside Out
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2015

Copyright 2015 The New York Times
Americans
Dread
The Next
Shooting
By N. R. KLEINFIELD
The killings are happening too

often. At places you would never
imagine.
As a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, was added to
the long list of mass shootings, a
wide expanse of Americas populace finds itself engulfed in a collective fear, a fear tinged with confusion and exasperation. The fear of
the ordinary. Going to work. Eating
at a restaurant. Sending children to
school. Watching a movie.
Wendy Malloy, 49, of Tampa,
Florida, said she worried about
being in an attack just doing what
anyone does. When my son gets
out of the car in the morning and
walks into his high school, she
said. When I drop him at his parttime job at a supermarket. When
we go to the movies, concerts and
festivals. When I walk into my office. It is a constant, grinding anxiety. And it gets louder every single
day.
After all, a festive gathering of
county health workers in San Bernardino would not seem likely to
make the list of shooting targets. It
was not a symbol of American freedom. It was not a target draped in
ideological conflict.
If you were not safe there, where
were you safe? A common office
party. That was everywhere. That
was everybody.
For some, the shock of repeated
slaughters is leaving them inured
and resigned. With others, there
is bewilderment. And anger. Why
doesnt the government do more?
Why must I feel so helpless? What
world must my children live in?
Jean OSullivan, 54, who lives in
the Los Angeles area, wrote, Just
Continuedo nP age5
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The Path to a Clean Planet

A Groundswell is Developing for More Aggressive Action on Climate Change
By JUSTIN GILLIS
The pledges made by countries

at the climate change conference
in Paris will inevitably fall short
of what is needed.
But many political leaders gathered there governors, mayors,
provincial cabinet secretaries
are committing to faster and
deeper emissions cuts than their
national governments have promised.
We are not moving fast
enough, said Governor Jerry
Brown of California, who is help-
ing to lead the effort. Weve got

to do more.
Which raises a provocative
question: What would a truly
ambitious plan to tackle climate
change look like?
Recent analyses make clear
just how difficult a worldwide
transition to a clean energy system is likely to be.
The arithmetic is really brutal, said Jeffrey D. Sachs, a
prominent economist at Columbia
University in New York. Were
in such a dreadful situation that
every country has to make this

transformation, or else this isnt
going to work.
Dr. Sachs helped start what is
perhaps the most serious effort to
draw up a road map for the energy
transition: the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project, based
in Paris and New York. The effort
has enlisted teams from 16 countries.
The analysts focused on a specific question: Can emissions be
cut enough from now to 2050 to
head off the worst effects of cli-
mate change?
It can still be done barely,
said Guido Schmidt-Traub, the
executive director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which helped organize the
effort.
Technologies Fall Short

The analysis suggests technologies available today are not
good enough to manage the entire
transition, and that many of them,
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All decent people feel sorrow
and righteous fury about the latest
slaughter of innocents, in California. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are searching for
motivations, including the vital
questions about the murderers
connection to international terrorism. That is right and proper.
But motives do not matter to the
dead in California, nor did they in
Colorado, Oregon, South Carolina,
Virginia, Connecticut and far too
many other places. The attention
and anger of Americans should also be directed at the elected leaders whose job is to keep us safe but
who place a higher premium on the
money and political power of an industry dedicated to profiting from
the unfettered spread of ever more
powerful firearms.
E D I TOR I A LS OF T H E T I MES
Americas Gun Epidemic

It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed
specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency. These are
weapons of war, barely modified
and deliberately marketed as tools
of macho vigilantism and even
insurrection. Americas elected
leaders offer prayers for gun victims and then reject the most basic
restrictions on weapons of mass
killing, as they did on December 3.
They distract us with arguments

about the word terrorism. Lets be
clear: These spree killings are all,
in their own ways, acts of terrorism.
Opponents of gun control are
saying, as they do after every killing, that no law can unfailingly
forestall a specific criminal. That is
true. They are talking, many with
sincerity, about the constitutional
challenges to effective gun regulation. Those challenges exist. They
point out that determined killers
obtained weapons illegally in places like France, England and Norway that have strict gun laws. Yes,
they did.
But at least those countries are
trying. The United States is not.
Worse, politicians abet would-be
killers by creating gun markets for
them, and voters allow those politicians to keep their jobs. It is past
time to stop talking about halting
the spread of firearms, and instead
to reduce their number drastically
INTELLIGENCE/MONA ELTAHAWY
According to the Arabic

Network for Human Rights
Information, 62 media workers
in jail in Egypt. A protester
demonstrating in Cairo.
Sisis War on Reporters

These are grim times in Egypt.
The country is still absorbing the
news of the downing of the Russian
airliner that killed 224 people in
October. But to many, the tears of
23-year-old Esraa el-Taweel most
poignantly captured the grinding misery of life under the military-backed regime of President
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Ms. Taweel, a photojournalist
and student, was shot in the back
in 2014 when the police dispersed a
protest to mark the third anniversary of the January 25 revolution,
which she was photographing.
Still partially disabled, she uses a
crutch to get around.
On June 1, after dining out with
friends, she was bundled into a van
and taken to a national security facility. Blindfolded and interrogated
without a lawyer, she was held incommunicado. Repeated detention
orders have now kept her in jail for
more than 170 days on charges
that she belongs to an illegal orgaMona Eltahawy is the author of
Headscarves and Hymens: Why
the Middle East Needs a Sexual
Revolution. Send comments to
intelligence@nytimes.com.
nization, the Muslim Brotherhood,

and spread false information.
She has denied both charges.
The regime has thrown thousands of people from across the
political spectrum into jail. And it
knows that the mere suggestion
that someone belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood means a loss of
public sympathy. But Ms. Taweels
ordeal is different.
On November 2, at a pretrial
hearing, Ms. Taweel begged the
court to allow her to receive medical attention and let her go home.
The judge extended her detention
for 45 days. Ms. Taweel broke down
in court. Pictures of her sobbing
were shared on social media, and
prominent activists and politicians
called for an end to her ordeal.
On November 9, Egypts Homeland Security agency released
what it claimed was her confession,
full of feverish plots, including one
to assassinate an unnamed senior
official with an explosive device
hidden in her camera. Her lawyer
said the testimonies were fabricated to smear Ms. Taweel.
I have been writing a version of
this for years now: While Egypts
regime is brutal and unjust, its
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eliminating some large categories of weapons and ammunition.

It is not necessary to debate the
peculiar wording of the Second
Amendment. No right is unlimited
and immune from reasonable regulation.
Certain kinds of weapons, like
the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain
kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership. It is
possible to define those guns in a
clear and effective way and, yes,
it would require Americans who
own those kinds of weapons to give
them up for the good of their fellow
citizens.
What better time than during
a presidential election to show, at
long last, that our nation has retained its sense of decency?
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ruthlessness is rewarded by other

governments with aid, weapons
and business deals. All in the name
of that euphemism, stability.
Mr. Sisis regime wages war not
just on political opponents but, as
I have reported, against atheists,
gay men, belly dancers, even pop
stars. Ms. Taweel is but one of many young people dragged into jail
by a regime tenacious in its cruelty.
Sometimes, it feels as though
nothing changes; the only details I
have to update are the names of the
new detainees and, every so often,
the name of the dictator du jour.
The hardest part is when one
of the new names is someone I
know like Mostafa Massouny,
a 26-year-old film editor who has
been missing for months. His family and friends believe that he is now
in the custody of the Interior Ministry.
The Egyptian Commission for
Rights and Freedoms has recorded 1,411 cases of forced disappearances so far this year. In one recent
case, in Alexandria, a groom was
arrested at his own wedding. Egypt
now holds an estimated 40,000 political prisoners.
Meanwhile, other countries

have rolled out the red carpet for
Mr. Sisi. In recent weeks, he was
welcomed on state visits to India
and Britain. The parliamentary
elections, whose first round was
held in October, were merely a fig
leaf to placate these global allies
with the comfortable lie that Egypt
is progressing along the path of democracy.
Unchecked, the regime grows
in recklessness. After the Russian
airliner crash, the state-owned
media slavishly imitated the governments refusal to accept that
the crash was caused by a terrorist
bomb, as the Russian authorities
have now determined. Instead,
they accused Egypts foreign allies
of trying to destroy the countrys
economy by scaring away tourists.
Mr. Sisis government says that
it is investigating the disaster, but
do not expect results soon. We were
promised an investigation after an
Egyptian military airstrike in September mistakenly hit a picnic of
Mexican tourists and their guides
in the Western Desert, killing a
dozen people. But prosecutors ordered a media embargo, and noth-
ing more has emerged.

With a regime as paranoid and
brittle as this, it is not hard to anticipate its actions. A recent Sunday was typical: An investigative
journalist was detained and interrogated by military prosecutors,
a businessman and his son were
arrested, and a TV anchorwoman
was suspended from her job.
The investigative journalist,
Hossam Bhagat, was released after an international outcry. The
businessman and his son, Salah
and Tawfik Diab, were released
on bail, pending investigation of
charges that they possessed unlicensed firearms.
The anchorwoman, Azza el-Henawy, dared to suggest on her show
that Mr. Sisi should be held accountable for the governments
failure to help Egyptians affected
by recent flooding in the Alexandria area. This is the third time in
her career she has been suspended
by the state-owned channel she
works for: She was taken off the air
for criticizing corruption under the
Mubarak regime and was pulled
from her show again in 2013, after
she questioned the conduct of a
minister in Mohamed Morsis Muslim Brotherhood administration.
According to the Arabic Network
for Human Rights Information,
there are 62 media workers in Mr.
Sisis jails. Try as it might to silence
its critics, the regime must know
that jailing journalists can muzzle
criticism only for a time. In the end,
such action only amplifies its desperation and fragility.
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WORLD TRENDS
Tibetans Strive to Save Their Words, and Their Culture

By EDWARD WONG
YUSHU, China When officials

forced an informal school run by
monks near here to stop offering
language classes for laypeople,
Tashi Wangchuk looked for a place
where his two teenage nieces could
continue studying Tibetan.
He could not find one, even
though nearly everyone living in
this market town on the Tibetan
plateau is Tibetan. Officials had also ordered other monasteries and
a private school in the area not to
teach the language to laypeople.
And public schools had dropped
true bilingual education in Chinese
and Tibetan, teaching Tibetan only
in a single class, like a foreign language, if they taught it at all.
This directly harms the culture
of Tibetans, said Mr. Tashi, 30, a
shopkeeper who is trying to file a
lawsuit to compel the authorities
to provide more Tibetan education.
Our peoples culture is fading and
being wiped out.
China has sharply scaled back
the teaching of languages spoken
by ethnic minorities in its vast
western regions in recent years,
promoting instruction in Chinese
instead as part of a broad push to
encourage the assimilation of Tibetans, Uighurs and other ethnic
minorities into the dominant ethnic
Han culture.
The Education Ministry says a
goal is to make sure that minority
students master and use the basic common language. And some
parents have welcomed the new
emphasis on teaching Chinese beMia Li, Sarah Li and Jonah Kessel
contributed reporting.
GILLES SABRIE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Beijing has restricted the teaching of languages spoken by minorities. A Tibetan writing class.
cause they believe it will better prepare their children to compete for
jobs and for places at universities.
But the new measures have also
stirred anxiety and fueled resentment, with residents like Mr. Tashi
arguing that they threaten the survival of ethnic identities and traditions already under pressure by
migration, economic change and
the repressive policies of a government fearful of ethnic separatism.
The shift away from teaching Tibetan has been especially contentious. It is most noticeable in places
like Yushu, 675 kilometers northeast of Lhasa, in Qinghai Province.
Many schools in these areas
home to nearly 60 percent of

Chinas Tibetan population had
taught mainly in the Tibetan language for decades, especially in the
countryside. Chinese was taught
too, but sometimes not until later
grades.
This is why almost all innovation in Tibetan literature, film,
poetry and so forth, plus a great
deal of academic writing, since the
1980s has come from Qinghai, said
Robbie J. Barnett, a historian of Tibet at Columbia University in New
York.
But in 2012, officials in Qinghai
and neighboring Gansu Province
introduced a teaching system that
HAENAM JOURNAL
Koreas Fertility Drive Bears Fruit

By CHOE SANG-HUN
HAENAM, South Korea Back

in the 1970s and 80s, when the
South Korean government was focused on alleviating poverty, Kim
Chung-jae and other health officials toured villages to persuade
couples to practice birth control.
They distributed condoms and
birth control pills.
They asked women to have
tubectomies and men to have vasectomies, offering incentives like
sacks of flour for wives and exemptions from army reserve training
for husbands.
In 2015, Mr. Kim and his colleagues are trying to persuade
couples to have more babies. They
hand out monthly cash allowances
and deliver boxes of beef and baby
clothes to families with newborns.

They place newspaper ads welcoming the births. They offer the
service of Confucian scholars to
come up with propitious names for
babies.
And it seems their efforts have
paid off. For three years, Haenam,
a farming county, has had the
highest fertility rate in South Korea, a rare bright spot in a country
some predicted would become
extinct in several centuries if it
did not increase its birth rate, one
of the worlds lowest at 1.2 children
per woman.
Haenams birthrate of 2.4 children per woman is above the replacement level of 2.1 children, a
rate that allows a society to maintain its current population.
On November 4, Haenam
celebrated its unexpected fame
with a parade. Led by the mayor,
hundreds of young women ambled down its main street, some
pregnant, some toting toddlers, all
pushing baby carriages.
Until the fertility drive began
several years ago, Haenam had
followed a typical demographic
path created by the countrys rapid industrialization and vigorous
birth control policies.
In the 1980s, the government
helped push the fertility rate below
two children per woman, warning,
Two are too many.
By the time Haenam, like South
Korea as a whole, realized its birth
control policies had been too effective, the task of reversing the drop
all but eliminated Tibetan as a language of instruction in primary

and secondary schools. They had
backed off a similar plan in 2010
because of protests across Qinghai
and Gansu, and even in Beijing.
In March, high school students
marched in Huangnan Prefecture in Qinghai. The government
accused the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, and
hostile Western forces of tricking students to defy the law. In
November, a petition on WeChat,
the Chinese messaging app, called
on officials to open a Tibetan-language primary school in Qinghais
provincial capital, Xining.
Letting 30,000 Tibetan children

learn their mother tongue so they
can carry on their own traditional
culture is a very important matter,
said the petition, which got more
than 61,000 signatures before censors blocked it.
The government says it supports
bilingual education.
The Chinese Constitution promises autonomy in ethnic regions
and says local governments there
should use the languages in common use. In 1987, the Tibetan Autonomous Region, which encompasses central Tibet, published
more explicit regulations calling
for Tibetan to be the main language
in schools, government offices and
shops.
But those regulations were eliminated in 2002. These days, in Tibetan areas, official affairs are conducted mostly in Chinese, and it is
common to see banners promoting
the use of Chinese. Such efforts are
in part a response to the Tibetan
uprising in 2008, when anti-government rioting broke out in Lhasa
and spread across the plateau.
Monasteries have long served
as educational institutions in Tibetan society, with monks and
nuns among the elite few who could
read and write before Tibet came
under Chinese Communist rule in
1951. Until recently, many monasteries held classes on the written
language for ordinary people. But
over the past two years, officials in
many parts of the plateau have told
monasteries to end the classes.
Mr. Tashi said: My nieces want
to become fluent in Tibetan but
dont know where to go. Our words
will be lost to them.
Cash and gifts

prod people
to have more
babies in
Koreas south.
for singles, and it
offers loans and
other incentives
to attract 800
young families
migrating back
from cities to try
farming.
WOOHAE CHO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
After hitting
a low in 2011, the number of newin fertility proved complex. Haeborns in Haenam climbed to 799 in
nams population has shrunk to
2012, to 808 in 2013 and to 823 last
76,000 from about 235,000 in 1969,
year.
and 28 percent of its residents are
Mr. Kim, the health official, is
65 or older.
optimistic about the prospects of
Haenam is seeking to persuade
Haenam. From the ends of the
private businesses to give emearth, we have become the beginployees longer maternity leaves.
It is also running a camp to teach
ning of hope, as we hope the rest of
men how to be better fathers. The
South Korea will follow our examcounty runs matchmaking groups
ple to have more babies, he said.
MANILA BULLETIN
WORLD TRENDS
U.S. Stands Out in Shooting Deaths

By KEVIN QUEALY
and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
Two campers were sleeping

in Yosemite Valley in California
this August when a tree branch
snapped and fell on their tent,
killing them both. We dont know
what caused the limb to fall, said
the parks spokeswoman, Jodi Bailey. It seems like just a freak accident.
Ms. Bailey was right: Being
killed by a falling object is extremely rare. On average, about 680
Americans each year die this way,
or about two people per million.
Yet in other developed countries,
there is another cause of death that
is just as rare: homicide by gun.
In Germany, for example, about
two out of every million people are
fatally shot by another person each
year making such events as uncommon there as the campers
deaths in Yosemite. Gun homicides
are just as rare in several other
European countries, including the
Netherlands and Austria.
In Poland and England, about
one out of every million people die
in gun homicides each year. In Japan, where gun homicides are even
rarer, the likelihood of dying this
way is roughly one in 10 million.
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Search Upshot gun deaths
In the United States, the death

rate from gun homicides is 31 per
million people. This includes mass
shootings, like those on December
2 in San Bernardino, California,
and on November 27 in Colorado
Springs. And of course, they also
include the countrys vastly more
common single-victim killings.
These comparisons help highlight how exceptional the United
States is. In America, where the
right to bear arms is cherished by
much of the population, gun homicides are a significant public health
concern. For men 15 to 29, they are
the third leading cause of death,
after accidents and suicides. In
other high-income countries, gun
homicides are unusual events. The
recent Paris attacks killed 130 people, which is nearly as many as die
from gun homicides in all of France
in a typical year. But even if France
had a mass shooting as deadly as
the Paris attacks every month, its
annual rate of gun homicide would
be lower than that in the United

States.
The accompanying table shows
the mortality rates for gun homicides in a variety of countries,
along with a correspondingly likely
cause of death in the United States.
Our gun homicide numbers come
from the Small Arms Survey, a
Swiss nonprofit affiliated with the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and
represent the average gun homicide death rates in those countries
between 2007 and 2012. Our United
States death rates come from the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention over those same years.
We focused on the rates of gun homicides; the overall rate of gun
deaths is substantially higher, because suicides make up a majority
of gun deaths in the United States
and are also higher than in other
developed countries.
The table is not meant to make
light of rare causes of death. Instead, we show them as a way to
help think meaningfully about the
differences among gun death rates.
The rate of gun violence in the
United States is not the highest in
the world. In parts of Central America, Africa and the Middle East, the
Death by Gunshot: A Look at the Odds

Being killed by
a gun here:
El Salvador
Mexico
United States
Chile
Israel
Canada
Ireland
Netherlands
Germany
France
Austria
Australia
China
Spain
New Zealand
Poland
England
Norway
Iceland
Scotland
South Korea
Japan
Is as likely as dying of
Gun homicides
in the United States
per million people
446.3
Heart attack
121.7
Pancreatic cancer
31.2
Car accident*
14.3
Motorcycle accident
7.5
Building fire
5.6
Alcohol poisoning
4.8
Drowning in a lake, river or ocean
2.3
Accidental gas poisoning
2.1
Contact with a thrown or falling object
2.0
Hypothermia
1.9
Drowning in a swimming pool
1.7
Falling from, out of or through a building or structure
1.6
Plane crash
1.6
Exposure to excessive natural heat
1.5
Falling from a ladder
1.1
Bicycle-car crash
0.9
Contact with agricultural machinery
0.9
Accidental hanging or strangulation
0.6
Electrocution
0.5
Cataclysmic storms
0.4
Being crushed, jammed or pinched between objects
0.1
Lightning strike
*Includes car occupants only; not van, truck, motorcycle or bus accidents.
Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Small Arms Survey
gun death rates are even higher.

In neighboring Mexico, where a
drug war rages, 122 people per
million die in a gun homicide. But
the countries with those levels of
THE NEW YORK TIMES
gun violence are not like the United

States in many ways, including life
expectancy and education. Among
developed democracies, the United
States is an outlier.
Outlining the Arduous Path to a Planet Powered by Clean Energy

Continuedf romP age1
like electric cars and offshore wind
turbines, have to become cheaper
and better.
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder
and philanthropist, announced in
Paris that a group of billionaires
would invest heavily in developing
new energy technologies. Twenty
countries also pledged to double
their own investment in energy research.
A rapid expansion of clean-energy technologies would help to spur
innovation, and economies of scale
would drive down the costs.
Solar power offers an example,
with costs of the panels plunging
80 percent in the last decade.
Wind turbines have been a big
winner, too. They supply almost 5
percent of the electric power in the
United States, and in a handful of
American states and some smaller
countries, that figure has moved
into double digits.
Mark Z. Jacobson, an engineer at
Stanford University in California,
found that the entire world could
operate on 100 percent renewable
power by 2050.
Coral Davenport contributed
reporting from Paris.
Yet such scenarios would involve

an extraordinary push. Dr. Jacobsons plans would require, among
many other actions, that 156,000
wind turbines be built off American coasts in the next 35 years, and
twice as many on land. In 20 years
of effort, European countries have
managed to build about 3,000 offshore turbines.
Dr. Jacobson cited a scientific paper that calculated the oil and gas
industry has been building 50,000
new wells a year in North America
since 2000. He said building tens of
thousands of turbines a year would
be well within the industrial capability of the United States.
We think its technically and
economically feasible, Dr. Jacobson said. It ultimately does come
down to political will.
Dr. Jacobson has often cited the
United States mobilization during
World War II as an example of what
can be done by a determined society. But to some other experts, that
argument speaks to the political
and economic impracticality of his
plans.
I just dont see a World War IIstyle mobilization happening for
anything other than a world war,
said Jesse Jenkins, an energy analyst at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
The scenarios laid out by the
Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project call for substantial
amounts of renewable power. But
these scenarios also suggest that
the energy transition would be
easier and cheaper with additional
technology options, including some
that are disliked by the environmental movement.
For instance, in some countries
with growing power demands, like
China, the research found that nuclear power would be essential for
staying within a strict emissions
budget.
The research also suggests that,
to meet strict targets, some countries might need to keep burning
coal or natural gas while capturing
the carbon dioxide emerging from
smokestacks, compressing it and
injecting it deep underground.
Governments have discussed the
need for this technology, known as
carbon capture and storage, for
decades. But they have put little
effort into developing it. Germany,
among the most determined countries in battling global warming,
has largely decided not to pursue it.
Perhaps the most compelling
finding of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project is that gov-
ernments could easily mishandle

the energy transition by failing to
plan far enough ahead. Most countries are setting 10- and 15-year
targets that can be met with incremental changes.
Yet that almost ensures that the
toughest problems, like perfecting
the carbon-capturing technology,
will be tackled too late to meet the
long-term goal of zero emissions,
the researchers found.
research suggests, would be an

overreliance on natural gas. Gas is
a lower-carbon fuel than coal, and
switching power plants to run on
gas can achieve big emission reductions in the short run.
But the deep-decarbonization
research suggests that gas has
to go away within a few decades.
Heavy investment in natural gas
now could wind up undermining
the long-term goals.
Shared Themes
What Government Can Do
While the best technology mix

varies by state or country, the researchers found some themes in
common.
To achieve the emissions goals,
the entire economy, including
transportation, needs to be electrified as much as possible. That
might mean cars running on batteries, but it could also mean cars
running on hydrogen.
The implication, either way, is
that the internal-combustion engine that has powered cars since
the 19th century is a technological
dead end in the 21st century.
There is an urgent need to make
electric cars better and cheaper,
and to roll out charging stations by
the millions.
Another potential dead end, the
The California governor, Mr.

Brown, argues that if states and
cities can figure out how to move
first on climate, they can essentially drag their national governments
behind them.
In some countries, state and local
governments control the building
codes, and could toughen energy
rules for new buildings. Governments also buy millions of cars,
and switching fleets to electric cars
would help expand the market and
reduce costs through economies of
scale.
California, doing more than
any other state in America, is setting a pace, and will step it up, Mr.
Brown said. But we have to be part
of a larger movement to really get
global warming under control.
MANILA BULLETIN
WORLD TRENDS
Alone Among
The Billion
JAE C. HONG/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A woman was comforted in California after the recent shooting that left 14 people dead.
Americans Dread the Next Mass Shooting

Continuedf rom Page1
as I naturally consider how I would
survive if there was an earthquake,
now I have added mental contingencies for a shooting and THAT
is a sad state of affairs!
In the aftermath of the San Bernardino shootings, coming on the
heels of recent killings in Colorado
and Paris, The New York Times
invited people to respond online
about their fears.
More than 5,000 wrote in. In
addition, many others were interviewed around the country:
teachers and students and office
workers, even some Army veterans
who confided that they felt safer in
war zones than on the streets of the
United States.
People spoke of being spooked
by gestures once ignored. As one
young woman from Massachusetts
put it: The guy in the corner always
looking at his watch or the woman
reaching into her bag too quickly.
Of course the man is probably
wondering why his date is running
late. Of course the odds are the
woman simply heard her cellphone
vibrate. But is it?
Many Americans remain steadfast that they will not crumple in the
face of terrorists or other strains of
mass murderers, foreign or homebred. Some want to buy their own
gun. Many say they worry more
about a car accident or slip in the
bathtub befalling them, statistically more probable events than gun
atrocities. People work, go out, live.
But still, a creeping fear of being
caught in a mass rampage has unmistakably settled in the American
consciousness.
Andy Newman, Jesse DeConto,
Ryan Schuessler and David
Montgomery contributed reporting.
Any number of people said that

gunmen cross their mind when
someone walks in late to a crowded movie theater. Is he the one? A
64-year-old man in Charlottesville,
Virginia, said he now watched movies only at home.
Others feared that whenever a
colleague was fired, he would return armed and shooting.
Arthur Grupp, 64, a custodian
of an elementary school in New
Hampshire, said, Every time I
lock the doors at school, I think
about it. His school was having a
Homeland Security training session just as the violence in San Bernardino unfolded.
A person in Denver said fear en-
Fear that goes with

heading to work or
eating dinner out.
ters his mind at least once a day: It
could be my little brother at school,
my siblings running errands, my
parents at work.
A 23-year-old in Cleveland, Ohio,
said she hated this world.
Alan Hilfer, a psychologist in
New York, said, Everybody is
filled with what we sometimes
refer to as anticipatory anxiety
worrying about something that
is not currently happening in our
lives but could happen. He added, And they are worrying that
the randomness of it, which on one
hand makes the odds of something
happening to them very small, that
randomness also makes it possible
to happen to them.
People are able to recite how of-
ten they think about a mass shooting touching them. Every day.
Twice a week. Every time theyre
in a crowded space.
Kevin Bloxom, 50, who lives in
Louisiana, wrote: I think where I
would hide my kids from shooters
every time I am in public. No matter where. Not just movies or public
events. I was in the grocery store
last weekend with my four year
old. I found myself scouting places
I could hide my little boy. Its sad.
The fear sneaks up on some people, catches them off guard. Amanda Cusick, 23, a law student in San
Francisco, wrote, I dont wake
up and think, what if Im shot today? But then she will be driving
along and she wonders, what if her
younger sister is shot and she never
sees her again?
In Manhattan, during a spontaneous discussion among workers
at a medical center, the subject was
which room to lock themselves in
should a gunman arrive.
Emily Johnston, 26, a college student in Cincinnati, Ohio, said that a
year ago there was a threat against
her university involving guns and
explosives. Ever since, she worries. The fear infects her sleep. I
have had nightmares in which I am
sitting in class when a gunman enters, she wrote.
How does one navigate this swirl
of emotions?
I think awareness of your own
fears is the only way to go and to
do the things that are soothing and
comforting and distracting to do,
and to do things that bring meaning to your life and bring comfort
to other people, said Dr. Sherry
Katz-Bearnot, assistant clinical
professor at Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
in New York. Its what your grandmother said: Keep busy.
supply and demand: Rich men

The Chinese people get plenty
can afford wives, poor men canof the worlds attention these
not.
days. There are, after all, nearly
But that doesnt mean the
1.4 billion of them. And yet many
market cant be adjusted, he
of them are so very lonely.
wrote on one of his blogs. Having
No brothLENS
several men take a wife together
ers. No
is not just my weird idea. In
sisters. And
some remote, poor places, brothfor many, no
ers already marry the same
wives.
woman, and they have a full and
This is the
happy life.
one-child
Much of the online response to
generation,
his thinking was outrage.
born under
Men are publicly debating
the just-endhow to allocate women, as
ed policy that limited family size.
though women were commodiBy many measures they are
ties like houses or cars, wrote
privileged: doted on, well eduZheng Churan, a womens rights
cated, well provided for. Many
activist. Behind the imbalhave grown up with everything
anced sex ratio of 30 million
a child could want, except a playbachelors lie 30 million baby
mate.
girls who died due to sex disThe Chinese media call it the
crimination. But somehow evloneliest generation.
eryones still crying that some
In 5,000 years of Chinese hismen cant find wives.
tory, we will have been the only
Evidence suggests that China
generation made up of almost all
should listen to such voices as
only children, Wang Yunpeng,
it tries to reverse demographic
a 35-year-old engineer in Xian,
trends. Studies show that prodtold The Times.
ding by the government has less
Now many of those only
influence on healthy birthrates
children are of childbearing
age themselves,
ready to make a
different choice
than their parents
could: two children.
I wanted a sibling so much when
I was a kid, said
Shi Jiandong, 22,
a student at Fudan University in
Shanghai. I dont
want our kids to
CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS
experience the
loneliness that we
Mostly because of sex-selective abortion,
felt.
China will have 30 million bachelors by
But first there
2020. A matchmaking television show.
must be mates,
and because of
than factors like gender equality.
the one-child policy, wives are
A basic element of fertility rein short supply. The limit on chilbound is a society with increasdren and a cultural preference
ing gender equality, Francesco
for boys often led to sex-selective
Billari, a professor of sociology
abortion. For every 100 girls
and demography at Oxford, told
born, there were 117 boys. So
The Times. When women are
now there are bachelors an
in the labor market and social
estimated 30 million of them
policy helps them and men do
by 2020. And after their lonely
more child care in the household,
childhoods, they are facing lonefertility bounces up.
liness as adults.
In Italy, he said, gender equalThat prospect is unacceptable
ity is greater in the richer north,
to Xie Zuoshi, a professor at Zheand women there have more job
jing University of Finance and
opportunities and are having
Economics, who promoted an
more children than before. But
alternative: having men share
women are having fewer chilwives. The Times summed up
dren in the south, where the divihis argument as one of economic
sion of labor is more traditional.
Its more like China, he said.
For comments, write to
ALAN MATTINGLY
nytweekly@nytimes.com.
MANILA BULLETIN
WORLD TRENDS
Protesters
blew up
power
lines
feeding
Crimea,
leaving
cities there
dark for
most of
the night
during a
two-week
span.
Secession Promises
For Crimea Fall Short
By IVAN NECHEPURENKO
SHCHYOLKINO, Crimea
When residents in this typical Soviet factory town voted enthusiastically to secede from Ukraine and
to become Russians, they thought
the chaos and corruption that made
daily life a struggle were a thing of
the past.
Then many of them were forced
to cook and boil drinking water
on open fires, and they began to
reconsider. Electricity was finally
restored on Tuesday, two weeks
Electrical outages,
water woes and gas
lines add to misery.
after protesters in Ukraine blew up
the lines feeding Crimea with most
of its electric power on November
22. The bigger cities had been only
marginally better off.
Yet people here are not sure
whom to blame more for their
predicament: the Crimean Tatar
activists and Ukrainian nationalists who cut off Crimeas link to
the Ukrainian power grid or the
local government officials who had
claimed to have enough power generators stored away to handle such

an emergency.
The circus is gone, but the
clowns stayed, said Leonid
Zakharov, 45. Moscow may have
purged Ukrainian authority, but
many of the same corrupt and incompetent officials remained in
office and life was only slightly less
chaotic than before, he said.
Twenty months after the Kremlin annexed the Black Sea peninsula amid an outpouring of patriotic
fervor by the ethnic Russian population, President Vladimir V. Putins promise in April 2014 to turn
it into a showcase of his rule now
seems as faded as Crimeas aging,
Soviet-era resorts.
Crimea could face years in limbo, no longer part of Ukraine but
not yet fully absorbed by Russia.
Crimeans dreams of becoming the
next Sochi, the $50 billion showcase site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, have crashed along with the
oil prices that have delayed such
projects in Russia.
Shchyolkino, a collection of a few
dozen squat apartment blocks with
no natural gas connection, was
particularly hard hit by the power
failure, having a maximum of four
hours of electricity a day. But life
was difficult throughout Crimea.
Many restaurants and shops ran
PAVEL REBROV/REUTERS
on portable generators, displaying

them at their front doors to demonstrate to customers that it was business as usual. After sundown, the
darkened streets quickly emptied.
Restaurants closed at 8 p.m. and
alcohol sales stopped at 5 p.m. to
encourage people to stay home at
night.
Without traffic lights, major city
intersections were jammed. Highways were dark, too, so only in daylight could travelers see posters
of Mr. Putin with the inscription:
Crimea. Russia. Forever. Gasoline was in scarce supply, producing long lines of angry drivers in
front of the few stations that had it.
The electricity crisis had its roots
in the strained relations between

the Crimean authorities and the
Tatars, who are demanding an end
to discrimination and the release of
jailed activists.
The 277,000 Tatar residents of
Crimea, a Muslim minority, say
they have suffered systemic discrimination under Russian rule,
with their independent news media
and right to assemble blocked.
Mr. Putin promised Tatars complete equality and ordered the government to recognize their forced
deportation from Crimea under
Soviet rule.
Nariman Dzhelalov, 35, one of
the Tatar leaders in Crimea, said
that the promises proved empty.
In February, I spoke with very senior government representatives

who told me that either we must become subordinate to them or they
will make us leave, he said.
Some officials in Crimea, however, have criticized the Tatars.
The Tatars have not accepted
Russian authority here in earnest,
for instance they are very glad that
Turkey downed a Russian bomber
in Syria, said Aleksander A. Formanchuk, a local official. Regardless of what the Russian authorities
did, there would still be discontent
among the Tatars. This energy
blockade was inevitable, but as a
result they have lost Crimea forever.
In Nigerians Daily Struggles, Abundant Fodder for Comic Relief

By NORIMITSU ONISHI
LAGOS, Nigeria The thieves

were having a field day, the comedian Ali Baba told an audience of
lawyers. They stopped and robbed
every passing car until a former
governor came along.
They looked at him, and said
he should drive on, the comedian said. The other armed robber
said: Why? Why did you let that
car go?
Esprit de corps a camaraderie among brothers he said,
unleashing roars of laughter in the
audience.
Forget crooked politicians, daily
blackouts or long lines at gas stations here in Nigeria, Africas most
populous nation. Despite the litany
of social ills and troubles or maybe because of them Nigeria has
never laughed harder.
Sta nd-up comedy, wh ich
emerged with Nigerias return to
democratic rule in 1999, has become the countrys third-biggest
form of entertainment after movies
and music, industry experts say.

Nigerians still go through all
kinds of trauma in their daily lives
because of the comatose nature of
our leadership, said Ezechi Onyerionwu, a literature professor
who has written about comedy. So
people look for areas in life where
they can find succor, and thats why
comedy shows are sold out.
The comedians are challenging
deeply rooted social and political
mores. Socially, Nigeria remains
an extremely hierarchical country.
Basketmouth, another leading
comedian, was fiercely attacked
recently for making jokes about
embezzlement in the previous government. The comedian, whose
real name is Bright Okpocha, was
accused of tarnishing Nigerias
image.
I can stay away from religious
jokes, Mr. Okpocha, 37, said, but
Im not going to stay away from political jokes. Its something that affects the common man and nobody
is speaking on their behalf. Inas-
The comedian known

as Ali Baba was the
pioneer of stand-up in
Nigeria.
He also studied videos of
Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor.
Then, he got help from
an unexpected source:
Olusegun Obasanjo, a former general who became
GLENNA GORDON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Nigerias civilian president
from 1999 to 2007.
much as I definitely have to limit
When Mr. Obasanjo was Nigemyself so that I can live longer, I
rias military ruler between 1976
cant see a truth and not say it.
and 1979, he had shown little tolerAli Baba, whose real name is
ance for criticism. After Fela AniAtunyota Alleluya Akporobomkulapo-Kuti, the Afro-beat musierere, is considered the pioneer
cian and activist, criticized the milof stand-up comedy in Nigeria.
itary in a song called Zombie, Mr.
Now 50, he recalled how, with no
Obasanjos soldiers burned down
Nigerian models to emulate, he rehis house and killed his 77-year-old
searched the distinctly American
mother.
art of stand-up comedy by combing
But under democracy, Mr.
through old copies of Readers DiObasanjo championed comedians
gest and reference materials like
like Mr. Akporobomerere, who
10,000 Jokes, Toasts and Stories.
roasted him regularly.

Still, comics can never be too
careful.
There are certain people in government who do not have a sense of
humor, Mr. Akporobomerere said.
As comedians have become powerful, some politicians have come
to understand the benefits of serving as comic material. Being the
subject of a joke can be proof of the
politicians power or of ties to an influential comic.
Some of them will come up to me
and say, Talk about me, said Julius Agwu, another top comedian.
President Muhammadu Buhari,
a former general, may not be one of
them. Known for his seriousness,
he used his first Independence Day
address, on October 1, to criticize
his countrymen for being unruly.
So far, hes not known as a type
that will host parties, Basketmouth said. Hes a pretty serious
guy, which is what we need for now.
We dont need to party. We need to
fix the country right now.
MANILA BULLETIN
WORLD TRENDS
NEWS ANALYSIS
Amid Crises in Brazil,

Focus Is on Politics
By SIMON ROMERO
RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils

economy has lost more than one
million jobs this year in the most
severe recession in decades.
Families are mourning loved
ones missing in the sludge released when a dam burst, one of
the countrys worst environmendeliberately misled them about
tal disasters. Police officers are
the depth of the nations ecoclashing with students on the
nomic problems during her 2014
streets of So Paulo over school
re-election bid.
closings.
With no testimony surfacing to
Brazils leaders are facing
indicate that Ms. Rousseff took
major crises on multiple fronts.
any bribes herself, Mr. Cunha,
But they are most consumed by
the conservative house speaker,
a power struggle in the capital,
opted to move ahead with the
culminating in the start of imcase involving the use of funds
peachment proceedings against
from state banks.
President Dilma Rousseff.
But critics say Mr. Cunha is
Even for some who support
pushing impeachment to exact
ousting Ms. Rousseff, the way
revenge against the president afin which the impeachment proter legislators in her leftist
cess started and the
Workers Party sought his
possibility that it could
ouster as speaker.
drag on for months
The battle over the
have led to a sentiment
impeachment could last
that Brazils scanmonths, limiting the nadal-plagued political
tions ability to confront
establishment may
the tumbling economy.
have reached a new
Congressional leaders
low.
President
have blocked approval of
Many Brazilians
Dilma
the presidents proposed
were particularly frusRousseff
austerity measures this
trated that the person
year.
who started the imThe start of the impeachment
peachment proceedings, Eduaron the basis of Cunhas persondo Cunha, the speaker of the lowal vengeance crowns a year
er house, is himself fighting calls
marked by the irresponsibility of
to resign over undeclared Swiss
the principal political players,
bank accounts and charges that
said Bernardo Mello Franco, a
he accepted millions of dollars in
columnist for the newspaper Folbribes in connection with Petroha de S. Paulo.
bras, the national oil company.
Joaquim Barbosa, a former
Our politics are a joke, said
chief justice of Brazils highest
Aroldo Casagrande, 60, the owncourt, calls the audit court a
er of a company that sells marplayground of failed politible. The only person who can
cians. Four of the audit courts
oust the president is someone
own members are under invescorrupt with zero credibility.
Critics of Ms. Rousseff contigation.
About 40 percent of the 594
tend that the impeachment case
members of Congress are facing
against her is strong, including
charges of one type or another in
a ruling by an auditing court
a long list of scandals, according
in October that she improperly
to a prominent watchdog group.
used funds from state banks
Every political party that we
to cover budget shortfalls. She
have is despicable, said Moura
faces widespread anger over a
Ferreira, 53, a security guard in
range of issues, including the
a shopping center here in Rio de
fact that she was at the helm of
Janeiro.
the Petrobras board when the
The economy is terrible, and
graft scheme was flourishing.
political instability contributes
Witnesses have testified that the
to that, said Mr. Ferreira, notbribes were used to finance her
presidential campaign, a claim
ing that he disapproved of Ms.
she denies. And voters across
Rousseff but also doubted the
the nation are indignant, with
motives of her opponents. If Dilmany voters contending that she
ma is forced to leave, he added,
referring to the president by her
first name, the instability will
Mariana Simes contributed
continue.
reporting.
Impeachment
distracts from a
failing economy.
ANDREW QUILTY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Zakia and Mohammad Ali and their daughter, Ruqia, stayed in Afghanistan while others left.
Afghans in Danger, Unable to Flee

By ROD NORDLAND
BAMIAN, Afghanistan This

summer a young newlywed couple watched as thousands of their
countrymen made it to Europe in
the hopes of claiming asylum.
Living under the threat of an honor killing for eloping against their
families wishes, the couple, Zakia
and Mohammad Ali, had a better
case than most Afghans, but they
decided to remain here in hiding
rather than face the dangers of the
journey with their young daughter.
Why do we have to risk our
lives? Mohammad Ali asked.
Why cant we just get a visa?
The answer stretches back to the
origins of the worlds asylum system in post-World War II Europe.
In 1951, with millions of Europeans
dislocated from their home countries, the international community
enacted the Geneva Convention
Relating to the Status of Refugees.
Article 1 declared that people were
entitled to international legal protection as refugees, and therefore
asylum, if they had a well-founded
fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality,
political opinion or membership of
a particular social group.
On four out of those five conditions, the Bamian couple would
qualify. But another clause in Article 1 requires that the persecuted
party has to be outside the country
of nationality.
As diplomats and relief officials
told the couple, they could make
their case for asylum only by taking their chances as refugees.
Theres a massive contradiction
in European asylum policy, said

Alexander Betts of Oxford University. You have to arrive spontaneously, by clandestine means,
with irregular routes and smugglers, and thats one of the main
reasons for the tragedy and chaos.
Mr. Betts said that it made more
sense to process asylum claims in
the migrants countries of origin or
in neighboring states, rather than
force them to endure treks that often end in drownings and suffocations by smugglers.
Brazil began such a system for
Syrian migrants in 2013, allowing
A contradiction in
Europes asylum
policy adds to risks.
them to go to the Brazilian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, and apply for
refugee status there. Nearly all of
them received that status. Over
6,000 have arrived in Brazil.
Mr. Betts conceded, however,
that a legal, safer alternative for
asylum seekers might encourage
even larger numbers to apply. Still,
is the cost of a slight additional
pull factor worthwhile if it saves
lives, reduces costs, undercuts
smugglers markets and helps
states meet their international obligations? he asked.
Another potential advantage of
screening refugees closer to their
countries of origin is that it would

help prevent costly deportations
for those whose requests are rejected. Countries on the receiving
end might also be better equipped
to manage the flow of migrants.
And screening would help alleviate
fears in Europe of terrorist infiltration especially after evidence
that at least one of the Paris attackers arrived through the Greek migrant trail.
Afghans are the second-largest
group behind Syrians reaching Europe this year, totaling 142,000 by
October, according to the International Organization for Migration,
yet many are economic migrants,
looking for a better life.
German authorities, facing the
biggest influx of any European
country, have made it clear they
do not believe that most of those
arriving are fleeing persecution.
By some estimates, over half of
Afghan asylum applications are
being rejected in Germany.
Lost in the deluge of economically motivated asylum seekers
are cases like that of Hassina Sarwari, who ran the womens shelter
in Kunduz before it was destroyed
by the Taliban. The Taliban commander there vowed she would be
publicly hanged if they caught her.
She would like to leave Afghanistan, but has not received a visa
despite her pleas to the American
and German Embassies in Kabul.
Instead, she has received the unofficial advice to flee like everyone
else, and then apply. She has an excellent case to make if she survives to present it.
MANILA BULLETIN
WORLD TRENDS
Islamic States Promise of Statehood Falling Far Short

By BEN HUBBARD
SANLIURFA, Turkey After

the Syrian government stopped
paying him, a technician who had
spent two decades pumping the
countrys oil received an enticing
offer: do the same work for the jihadists of the Islamic State starting at three times the salary.
He was soon helping to fill tanker trucks with crude oil to fund the
Islamic State. But frequent executions of those suspected of spying
and deadly airstrikes made life
hard, and he grew angry that the
countrys resources were financing
the jihadists while schools and hospitals were being shut down.
We thought they wanted to get
rid of the regime, but they turned
out to be thieves, the technician
said after fleeing to this city in
southern Turkey.
The Islamic State claims to be
more than a militant group, selling itself as a government for the
worlds Muslims. But that statehood project is in distress, according to interviews with people who
have recently fled.
Under pressure from airstrikes
by several countries and new
ground offensives by Kurdish and
Shiite militias, the jihadists are
showing the strain. Some fighters
have taken pay cuts, while others
have slipped away. Important services have been failing because
of poor maintenance. And as its
smuggling and oil businesses have
faltered, the Islamic State has further squeezed people in the region
Karam Shoumali contributed
reporting.
TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
The oil business that props up ISIS is faltering. A militiaman watched smoke from a Syrian refinery.
for taxes and tolls.
Those stresses do not point to its
imminent collapse.
Ground forces ready to fight the
Islamic State also known as ISIS
or ISIL in its strongholds in Syria
and Iraq are still lacking. And the
group is keeping its profile high
by launching foreign attacks like
those that brought down a Russian
airliner in Egypt and paralyzed
Paris. It is also investing in new
affiliates in countries like Libya,
where it faces little resistance.
But the promise of statehood on
land it controls in Syria and Iraq remains the main factor distinguish-
ing it from Al Qaeda and a powerful

draw for recruits from around the
world.
That call to join the Islamic State
is still going out. But its promises
seem false as residents living in
ISIS-controlled areas flee deprivation, an intensifying barrage of
airstrikes and an organization that
many Sunni Muslims say has acted more like an organized-crime
ring than their defender. Some who
chose to stay when the jihadists
took over are now paying smugglers to get them around checkpoints designed to keep them in.
So many people are migrating,
said a teacher from the Syrian city

of Deir al-Zour who fled to Turkey
last month. ISIS wants to build a
new society, but theyll end up all
alone.
When the schools run by the Syrian government closed, the teacher said she set up an informal one
and kept it going when the jihadists
arrived. But she gave up, she said,
after some activists were executed,
worried she would be next.
The jihadists have long recognized and acted on the need for
skilled professionals to build statelike institutions. The caliphate is
in more need than ever before for
experts, professionals and specialists who can help contribute

to strengthening its structure and
tending to the needs of their Muslim brothers, read an appeal last
year in the groups English-language magazine, Dabiq.
But that call has come up short,
leaving the jihadists struggling to
find people able to run oil equipment, fix electricity networks and
provide medical care, former residents say.
Stories abound of the Islamic
State putting loyal members in
positions they are not qualified for.
The head of medical services in one
town is a former construction worker, residents said. The boss at an oil
field was a merchant, a former employee said.
Fleeing has become increasingly
difficult, as the jihadists try to keep
people in. Unable to get permission
to leave, Naef al-Asaad, 55, paid a
smuggler $150 per person to get
his family from the ISIS-held town
of Shadadi to the Turkish border.
ISIS would not let us leave, Mr.
Asaad said. They said, You are
going to the infidels.
The group still terrifies those
who have lived under it, and many
who have sought refuge in Turkey
fear that ISIS agents there will target them for criticizing the group.
Like many, a technician who
worked in a natural gas field said
that the jihadists promises of
statehood had failed to materialize.
Public support is important, and
they dont have it, he said. People
heard good words from them but
didnt see anything good come out
of it.
In Turkish Case, Gollum Goes on Trial

By KATIE ROGERS
A Turkish mans freedom may

hang on a question put to a panel
of Lord of the Rings experts: Is
Gollum evil?
More significantly, was it an insult to compare Turkeys president
to the slimy, bug-eyed creature
from the films based on J.R.R. Tolkiens trilogy?
A physician, Dr. Bilgin Ciftci, is
accused of sharing a meme that
juxtaposes Gollum, as played by
Andy Serkis (and digital effects),
with Recep Tayyip Erdogan while
laughing, while surprised, while
eating. Insulting the president is a
crime under Turkish law.
The punishments were swift. Dr.
Ciftci lost his job with the Public
Health Institution of Turkey after
sharing the meme, and he faces
a two-year prison sentence, the
Turkish newspaper Todays Zaman
reported. A judge ordered several

experts to conduct an investigation
into Gollums moral character before the next phase of the trial begins in February.
Michael D. C. Drout, an English
professor at Wheaton College in
Illinois, said those experts will be
assessing the most complicated
character in the English writers
already complex world.
I dont think theres any consensus that Gollum is evil, Mr. Drout
said. He is the most tragic character in The Lord of the Rings.
Middle Earth, the place where
Gollum began his life as a creature
named Smagol, is full of complex
characters and allegiances. But
a gold ring, forged with a dark
lords evil powers, has the power
to rule them all. Smagol catches a
glimpse of the ring, murders for it,
and possesses it for centuries until
it is mislaid and found by another

hobbit. Smagol struggles to redeem himself, but his bloodthirst
for the ring wins out. He accidentally destroys himself and the ring,
but also saves Middle Earth in the
process. (It is the hobbit hero Frodo
who gets most of the credit.)
The context is this: Gollum accidentally, not intentionally, saves
the entire world, Mr. Drout said.
In Tolkiens work, Smagol almost succeeds in overcoming his
evil side, but fails. He didnt see
him as irredeemably evil, Mr.
Drout said of Tolkien. He saw
him as someone who had been destroyed by this evil ring.
Peter Jackson, the director of
the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and
two screenwriters, Fran Walsh
and Philippa Boyens, said in a joint
statement that the images the court
will analyze are of the character
FRANCOIS MORI/ASSOCIATED PRESS; WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES AND MGM
A physician in Turkey is accused of comparing President Recep

Tayyip Erdogan to the Tolkien character Gollum.
Smagol, not Gollum.
Smagol would never dream of
wielding power over those weaker
than himself, the statement read.
He is not a bully.
The debate over Gollum might
seem silly if the outcome did not
involve prosecution and possible
jail time.
Elijah Wood, the actor who portrayed the hobbit Frodo in the movie, perhaps offered the bluntest assessment of the situation.
That Bilgin Ciftci faces jail time
for comparing Erdogan to Gollum/
Smagol, regardless of whether
hes good or bad, is horrifying, Mr.
Wood wrote on Twitter.
MANILA BULLETIN
MONEY & BUSINESS
In a Deal Sites Downfall,

A Lesson for Unicorns
By MIKE ISAAC
and KATIE BENNER
WASHINGTON The first

thing you see when walking into
the headquarters of LivingSocial
is row upon row of mostly empty
desks, broken up by small street
signs that employees once needed
to find one another when the office
teemed with people.
One row, BYFAD Lane, was
named after a start-up, BuyYourFriendADrink, which LivingSocial
acquired to get into the daily deals
business. On a recent visit, some
desks were piled high with the detritus left behind after a round of
layoffs that eliminated one-fifth of
the work force.
The street signs are anecdotes
from our past, said Mike Santore,
who was director of content strategy at LivingSocial. Mr. Santore left
the company in November.
The technology industrys boom
over the last few years has been
defined by the rise of unicorns,
start-ups that investors have
valued at $1 billion or more. LivingSocial was among the biggest
unicorns of its day. It now offers a
glimpse of what some of todays
unicorns might look like several
years down the road.
LivingSocial and its larger rival
Groupon grew rapidly on a simple
pitch: The companies would match
customers to local businesses with
a daily deal in users inboxes, like
half off at a local deli. LivingSocial
and Groupon would take a cut of
each transaction.
Venture capitalists anointed
daily deals as the way that the Internet would invade local business,
and by late 2011 LivingSocial had
raised more than $800 million and
reached a valuation of $4.5 billion.
The company counted Amazon
and the mutual fund giant T. Rowe
Price among its investors. LivingSocial spent heavily, blanketing the
airwaves with TV ad campaigns.
Today, LivingSocial is more unicorpse than unicorn. The company never filed for an initial public
offering and consumer fervor for
daily deals has cooled. Amazon
recently shut down its own daily
deals business. And Rich Williams,
the new chief of Groupon, said in
a blog post that it was a myth that
Groupon was an email daily deals
company.
Living Socials work force has
shrunk to around 800 employees from 4,500 at its peak in 2011.
(Groupon is trading at more than
85 percent below its I.P.O. price.)
The company is grappling with employee retention. It has also been
selling the foreign companies it
bought during its boom days.
LivingSocial may soon have
more company. There are now 142

unicorns that are together valued
at around $500 billion, according
to the research firm CB Insights.
Some of those start-ups are starting to show weaknesses.
Snapchat, the messaging company, and Dropbox, the online
storage business, were recently
marked down in value by mutual
fund investors. The payments company Square, which was valued at
$6 billion last year, priced its public
offering at $2.9 billion.
Amazons recent financial filings
show that in 2011, LivingSocial generated $238 million in revenue
but lost $499 million.
About a year after getting into
the business, the company said it
had 10 million subscribers spread
across the United States and Europe. A few months later, it said
it had more than doubled its subscriber base. It pushed into Asia
later that year.
Groupon went public in November 2011 and promptly faced investor skepticism about its sustainability. The suspicions were contagious, infecting LivingSocial and
LivingSocial is far
from its $4.5 billion
valuation in 2011.
halting its chances of going public.
The start-up tried to raise $400
million in late 2011, but managed to
secure only $176 million, according
to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
LivingSocials investors now say
it is easy to see that a growth-at-allcosts strategy created a downward
spiral of overhiring and overexpansion. No one paid much attention to
how the company would ultimately
make money.
Its hard to change a business
at scale overnight, said Jim
Bramson, general counsel for LivingSocial.
LivingSocial is now trying to focus on new experiences, such as
a program that puts cash back on
customers credit cards when they
dine at certain restaurants.
The companys current chief,
Gautam Thakar, joined in August
2014. Our core audience is affluent, educated women 25 to 40.
What can we do to help this woman have a good weekend? he said,
explaining LivingSocials current
strategy. Our job as a marketplace
becomes helping merchants with
data.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SANDY CARSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
IBM Rethinks Design Approach

At IBM, Phil
Gilbert has
instituted an
approach to
business that
identifies users
needs as a
starting point.
An IBM idea
wall.
By STEVE LOHR
Phil Gilbert is a tall man with a

shaved head who wears cowboy
boots and bluejeans to work
hardly unusual these days, except
hes an executive at IBM, a company that still has a suit-and-tie
reputation. Mr. Gilbert, 59, wants
to change the habits of a huge
company as it tries to adjust to a
new era, and that is no small task.
IBM, like many established
companies, is confronting the relentless advance of digital technology. And the question is: Can
you grow in the new businesses
faster than your older, lucrative
businesses decline?
Mr. Gilbert answers that question with something called design
thinking, which flips traditional
technology product development
on its head. Instead of coming
up with a new product idea and
trying to sell it to customers, the
idea is to identify users needs as
a starting point.
Mr. Gilbert and his team talk a
lot about things like iteration cycles, user journeys and empathy maps. Such terms can sound
odd. But in the corporate world,
there is a new enthusiasm for design thinking to develop products
and to guide strategy and shape
decisions of all kinds. Venture
capital firms are hiring design
experts, as are many industries.
IBM is hiring more than 1,000 designers.
The company has more than
370,000 employees, and while its
revenues are huge, its quarterly
reports have shown them declining in the last two years. The falloff in revenue is partly intentional,
as the company sold off less profitable operations, but the sometimes disappointing profits reflect
IBMs struggle with its transition.
In October, the company shaved
its profit target for 2015.

In recent years, the company
has invested heavily in new fields,
including data analytics, cloud
computing, mobile technology, security, social media software for
business and its Watson artificial
intelligence technology. Those
businesses are growing rapidly,
generating revenue of $25 billion
last year.
But IBMs biggest businesses
are still the traditional ones
conventional hardware, software
and services which contribute 60 percent of its revenue and
most of its profit. And these IBM
mainstays are vulnerable, as customers increasingly prefer to buy
software as a service, delivered
over the Internet from remote data centers.
Virginia M. Rometty, IBMs
chief executive, said she is accelerating the pace of change at IBM,
adding, Design thinking is at the
center.
In earlier times, design meant
creating eye-pleasing, functional products. Now, design
thinking has broader aims, as a
faster, more productive way of
organizing work: Look at problems through the prism of users
needs, research those needs with
real people and build prototypes
quickly.
The incubator for the IBM experiment is in a building on a corporate campus in Austin, Texas.
Metal tracks fit movable whiteboard walls, creating temporary
rooms huddle spaces for
teams of workers, rarely more
than a dozen. The walls are covered with drawings, text and Postit notes idea parking lots. If
teams dont meet for a week or
two, the walls are stored, notes
intact.
The space constantly changes,
as teams form or disband, add
people or shed them, according to
the type of work.
If you ask people inside IBM for
a design-thinking success story,
they are likely to mention Bluemix, a software tool kit for making cloud applications. In just one
year, Bluemix went from an idea
to a software platform that has attracted many developers, who are
making apps used in industries as
varied as consumer banking and
wine retailing. In the past, building that kind of ecosystem would
have taken years.
Ms. Rometty said IBM is the
only technology company more
than a century old because it has
reinvented itself repeatedly, and
is doing so again.
This is in our DNA, this ability
to transform, she said.
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MANILA BULLETIN
MONEY & BUSINESS
Best Hackers Are Often Found Among Resourceful Argentines

By NICOLE PERLROTH
BUENOS AIRES Thanks to

the legacy of military rule and
a culture of breaking rules of all
sorts, Argentina has become one
of the best places on earth to find
people who could show you how to
hack.
Cheating the system is part
of the Argentine mentality, said
Cesar Cerrudo, an Argentine security researcher who taught himself to hack as a teenager living in
Paran, a small town in the northeast. Mr. Cerrudo recently gained
attention for hacking into traffic
light systems in cities across the
United States.
Unless you are rich, you grow
up without a computer or reading
books, he said. To access new
software, you have to hack it.
Argentinas hackers have a reputation for creativity. They are
known for their ability to find socalled zero-day flaws, which are
unpatched holes in technology that
can be used to spy on or destroy adversaries computer networks.
A mix of executives from around
the world, government officials,
contractors and so it was rumored spies gathered here in October at the 11th annual EkoParty,
the largest hacking conference in
Latin America.
EkoParty, which drew 1,600 people this year, is widely known as the
best place to find hackers.
Federico Kirschbaum, above left, and

Francisco Amato started a hacking
conference in Buenos Aires for firms
and governments. Left, a city cafe.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEJANDRO KIRCHUK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Argentina put itself on the map

as the country to produce the best
hackers, said Sinan Eren of Avast
Software, a security company
based in Prague, who attended the
conference.
Argentines have a saying, atado con alambre, which translates
roughly as held together with
wire, to describe the inventive nature of so many here who learned to
do much with little.
Those of us who came of age
under a military junta who were
told which books to read, which
movies to watch, which God to worship had to learn to move around

the laws, Norma Morandini, a senator from Crdoba Province, told a
crowd at the conference. For us,
hacking became a way of life.
The country still has one foot in
the tech industrys past because
of stringent import rules. Amazon will not ship to your door here.
BlackBerry has more market share
here than Apple. A new iPhone
costs $2,000 or more on MercadoLibre, an online auction site, but
many iPhone owners said they had
NEWS ANALYSIS
China Faces Choices

As Currency Goes Global
By NEIL IRWIN
Officials at Chinas finance ministry and central bank will now be

the proud guardians of a global
reserve currency, after a decision
last month by the International
Monetary Fund. But they will find
that the step raises more questions
than it answers about Chinas
role among nations and that the
hardest decisions lie ahead. Being
a world financial hegemon comes
with meaningful costs, in addition
to benefits.
The direct implications of the
I.M.F. decision are narrow. The
renminbi (also known as the yuan)
will join the dollar, euro, yen and
pound in an elite group of currencies. But if youre not a reserve
manager for some national treasury, seeking to build emergency
savings to buffer the swings of
global finance, the direct impact is
limited.
The big question is whether this

is akin to what happened about
a century ago, when the United
States dollar was supplanting the
British pound as the predominant
global currency. This development
was crucial to Americas rise to
superpower status. Conversely,
Chinas leaders in the years ahead
could decide that being a world financial hegemon carries too many
costs.
The decision for China is whether it is content to have a global
reserve currency, or if it aspires
for the renminbi to one day be as
important to trade and finance as
the dollar is now. There are both
benefits and costs in being the
leading global reserve currency
the default currency for world
trade and financial transactions,
the most widely used unit for savings, for example. Understanding
these pluses and minuses is essen-
NICKY LOH/REUTERS
China joined an elite club

when the renminbi became a
global reserve currency.
tial to understanding the tensions
China faces as it decides how far it
wishes to go down the road of liberalization and leadership in the
world economy.
The problems in the 2008 global
financial meltdown centered on
the United States housing market
and banking system. That kind of
crisis would prompt a currency
crisis and sharp outflow of capital
in most countries, making a dire
situation worse.
But, in the fall of 2008, the dollar actually soared. The United
States role as the bedrock of the
global system was a crucial reason that a terrible situation didnt
been able to persuade a friend to

sneak one in.
Among EkoPartys panelists
were hackers like Alfredo Ortega,
from rural Patagonia, whose latest
work is an X-ray-emitting device
that can break into systems that
are not even online.
Almost anything you give
him, he will break, said Federico Kirschbaum, who started the
EkoParty conference with a fellow
Argentine, Francisco Amato. They
are also the co-founders of the security company Infobyte.
Sale of a single exploit can make

some hackers rich. Zerodium, a zero-day-exploit broker that sells to
governments, said it paid hackers
$1 million for an Apple exploit in
October.
But Argentinas days as the outsourcing capital for hackers may be
numbered, Mr. Eren said, particularly as the world goes mobile and
governments seek ways to break
into smartphones.
Theres new competition, Mr.
Eren said. China is the country
now making a mark.
become worse; when things went

bad, the United States and especially its government debt were
a beacon of safety.
Even in times of noncrisis, the
country that is the leading global
reserve currency will tend to
have a stronger currency and
lower interest rates than it would
otherwise, thanks to continuing
purchases of its assets.
Then theres geopolitics. Ownership of the premier global reserve
currency gives a country sway in
global politics and security. In the
last few years, the United States
has enforced economic sanctions
on Russia, Iran and North Korea.
In effect, any bank that facilitates
the transfer of money in violation
of those sanctions risks being cut
off from a global transfer of dollars
which means being cut off from
much of the global economy.
Surely China might like to have a
similar scale of influence, but to do
so it would need the renminbi to be
as fundamental to finance as the
dollar. Which raises the reasons
not to do that.
The United States enjoys whats
been called an exorbitant privilege from the dollars central role
in global finance, but researchers
have also taken to calling it an

exorbitant duty. The price the
United States pays for that role is
having fewer tools to manage its
domestic economy.
China has long restricted the
ability of businesses and individuals to transfer funds in and out of
the country. It has made exports
central to its economic development strategy, using market interventions and those capital controls
to keep its currency undervalued,
at least until recently.
Contrast that with the United
States. Pretty much anyone, anywhere can buy a United States
Treasury bond. The dollar rises
or falls based on market forces,
and is probably stronger than it
otherwise would be because of the
reserve currency role. That leaves
American exporters at a perpetual
disadvantage.
The United States government
has control in some areas (economic sanctions for geopolitical
foes, for example) because it gives
up control in many others (exchange rate, capital flows, legal
protections for foreign investors).
The question for Chinas political leaders is whether that tradeoff is worth it.
MANILA BULLETIN
11
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Saving the Penguins,
One Date at a Time

By CHRISTINA COOKE
GREENSBORO, North Carolina When the African penguins

Derek and Geirfugl were given
their own room last spring, keepers at the Greensboro Science
Center questioned whether they
liked each other enough to take
the relationship to the next level.
Derek was more interested in
interacting with her human keepers. And when she did start to flirt
with Geirfugl, the male bird did
not return the sentiment.
By mid-September, though, the
relationship had taken an amorous turn. On a recent afternoon,
they nestled beside each other on
a nest containing two eggs.
Geirfugl is actually a really
good mate, said Shannon Fletcher, a keeper at the science center.
Hes done all of the collecting
for their nest box. Hes been very
protective of her.
In the wild, African penguins,
which inhabit the coast of South
Scientists navigate
an imperiled birds
fickle taste in mates.
Murray, a former senior keeper.

Because penguin preferences
rarely correspond exactly with
species management plans, the
keepers are responsible for managing the penguins love lives, often by gently trying to convince
certain birds that they fancy each
other, while keeping other potential partners distracted.
Penguins at the Greensboro
Science Center have complicated
relationships.
When Geirfugl was bonding
with a bird named Kaapse, for
example, the couple took nesting
too far and began hoarding rocks
in their nesting box, crushing a
couple of eggs. After
the keepers set them
up in a room with a
nesting box and a few
rocks, they turned out
to be wonderful parents.
This season, Kaapse
and Tux, both females,
bonded with each other rather than males,
because their former
mates were both in
keeper-designated reCOLBY KATZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
lationships.
When the female
In captivity, African penguins may
pair began to compete
struggle to bond with their preselected
with Apollo, Tuxs formates, making intervention necessary.
mer mate, and his new
spouse for a nest box,
the keepers gave the females
Africa and Namibia, choose their
their own, praying it would prepartners from a pool of thousands
vent Tux from sabotaging her
and mate for life. In captivity, the
exs current relationship.
limited size of the colonies and
All seven couples designated to
the need to perpetuate a genetimate last year produced healthy
cally diverse species make inchicks. In the wild, however, Aftervention necessary.
rican penguins face continued
The African penguin populathreats, mostly from people. The
tion has declined more than 60
collection of guano for fertilizer
percent over the past 30 years,
has deprived them of the mateand the species is now considered
rial they use to build burrows.
endangered. The Association of
Oil spills in 1994 and 2000 killed
Zoos and Aquariums runs a spe30,000 birds. And commercial
cies survival program among
overfishing has forced the birds
the nearly 50 facilities with Afrito swim much farther for food.
can penguin colonies.
At the science center, two
One of the newer facilities to
chicks born last year, Jordy and
join the program, the Greensboro
Keuchly, stood pressed together
center started its penguin coloon a rock overlooking the pool of
ny just over two years ago. As it
water, grooming each other.
turns out, while the science guidThe yearlings are definitely
ing the plan is straightforward,
practicing, Ms. Fletcher said.
penguin group dynamics are not.
But theyre in that awkward
One day this penguin likes
teen phase. Theyre trying to figthis penguin, and the next day,
ure it all out.
theyre not talking, said Carmen
RYAN STONE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Automated parking garages are successful overseas, but one in Miami Beach smashed cars.
Robotic Parking Baffles in U.S.

By FRANCES ROBLES
MIAMI BEACH It seemed like

the perfect night life accessory for
the South Beach set an automated robotic parking garage where
trendy clubgoers could park their
Porsches with a futuristic touch of
a button.
Instead, cars were smashed, and
faulty machinery fell several stories to the ground. Malfunctions
left vehicles stuck for so long that
garage operators had to pay for
customers taxis.
It was clear that the garage was
not ready to be open to the public,
said Russell Galbut, the managing
principal at Crescent Heights, the
property developer.
While engineers aim to perfect
self-driving cars, they still have a
lot of work to do on another element
of the idealized commute of the
future: robotic parking. Designs
differ, but most consist of a combination of automated ramps, slabs,
lifts and shelves, using a computerized system that parks and delivers
a car like a high-tech vending machine.
But the garage in South Beach
is one of two cutting-edge parking
projects in Florida that ended in
debacles. At a residential high-rise
in downtown Miami, a $16 million
robotic garage plagued with delays finally closed, leaving tenants
paying $28 a day to park elsewhere.
And around the United States, other attempts at self-parking garages
have been caught in embarrassing
software and hardware mishaps.
High-tech parking is common in
Europe, the Middle East and Asia,
where space limitations made it
a priority. In the United States,
though, garage builders tried to duplicate foreign successes without
understanding how differences in

design can make or break a project.
Some smaller garages work fine,
but others designed to whiz automobiles away and return them in
three minutes or less are bringing
back the wrong cars, trapping vehicles, taking an excessively long
time and even damaging automobiles.
In Hoboken, New Jersey, where
the countrys first robotic garage
was built more than a decade ago,
a Cadillac plunged six stories, and
a Jeep dropped four stories a year
later. One of the largest automated parking garages in the United
States, in Maryland, is closed after
an employee fell to his death in an
Despite mishaps,
more automation is
in the works.
accident that led to more than $1
million in required repairs.
For some reason in the U.S., we
dont seem to be able to successfully perform this task, said Ron
Lowy, a Miami lawyer who sued
two parking companies on behalf of
Crescent Heights. Once you start
exceeding 100 cars, it starts being
a major issue with the technology
itself. He said the company has
now spent some $10 million on the
unused South Beach garage.
Ryan Astrup, the director of a robotic parking company, Park Plus,
said some garage designs just cannot handle the traffic. You cant
have automated parking at Yankee
Stadium and expect it to deliver,

he said.
Drivers, he added, generate many of the delays by doing things like
walking away without pushing the
button to park their car, which jams
the system.
Americans are not used to this
method of parking, said Mr. Astrup, who is from South Africa and
has developed successful robotic
parking garages in New York. On
the one hand, it is exciting. On the
other hand, it can be confusing or
overwhelming.
But experts say automated parking is here to stay.
Christopher Alan of Auto Parkit,
which has seven such garages and
20 more under construction, said
his key to success was designing
simpler technology, which allowed
him to park 200 cars where a traditional garage can fit 100.
Another South Florida developer,
Gil Dezer, said his new high-rise in
Sunny Isles, the Porsche Design
Tower, would feature an automated garage that would deliver a car
right to a residents door. He called
it the Dezervator.
Ours is an elevator, Mr. Dezer
said. An elevator goes up and
down. We know how to use an elevator.
Casey Jones, a former chairman
of the International Parking Institute, said the faults will be worked
out.
The technology is there, Mr.
Jones said. We have elevators, and
the concept is the same. Elevators
move people. In robotic parking,
those elevators move cars. Whether its now or two or three decades
from now, we need to continue to
pursue it and hone that innovation.
12
MANILA BULLETIN
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
After Chernobyl,
Life Finds a Way
By GEORGE JOHNSON
Among the empty houses of

Zalesye, the last thing one would
have expected to see was an inhabitant. But suddenly there she was.
Striding from her cottage in heavy
boots, Rosalia showed off her potato patch.
The sole inhabitant of the village,
she is one of about 100 older people,
mostly women, still living in the
Chernobyl exclusion zone 2,600
square kilometers of Ukraine that
were evacuated in 1986 after a catastrophe at a nuclear power plant.
In another village during a tour
last summer, there was Maria,
who was about to turn 86. Come
visit me on the 16th, she said with
a toothless grin. We are going to
dance.
This month in Stockholm, the
Nobel Prize in Literature was just
awarded to Svetlana Alexievich,
best known for Voices From Chernobyl, an oral history of the thousands of families displaced by the
disaster.
But a new documentary, The
Babushkas of Chernobyl, directed

by Holly Morris and Anne Bogart,
tells a different story of the spirited women who insisted on going
back.
They eat vegetables grown in
their gardens and berries and
mushrooms picked in the woods.
Starvation is what scares me,
not radiation, Hanna Zavorotnya, 83, tells the camera. Like many
of the babushkas, she was an infant during Stalins famine and a
schoolgirl during the Nazi march
across Ukraine. They have outlived
their husbands and, in some cases,
endured thyroid cancer. Most die
from the complications of old age.
The exclusion zone is not a prison, Valentyna Ivanivna, 75, says in
the film as she fishes in the Pripyat
River, which flows past the old nuclear plant. She is an expert on the
medicinal herbs her grandmother
taught her to gather in the forest.
Life here, she believes, is healthier
than in the city.
In Kiev, Id have died long ago,
five times over, she says. Every
YULI SOLSKEN; LEFT, SERGIY GASCHAK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two decades after the nuclear accident, women tend gardens and wildlife thrives in Chernobyl.
car releases the whole periodic table into the air, and you inhale that
into your lungs.
Later, she sits in the chair of a radiation spectrometer at a medical
center to have her level of cesium
checked.
Youre fine, the lab technician
assures her. He reminds her of
what she already knows that radiation is dangerous. Mushrooms,
which funnel radionuclides from
the soil, are especially suspect. But
there are other considerations
sociopsychological factors, he
calls them that affect human
health.
He tells of a study that found returnees are outliving the evacuees.
Quite simply, people die from anguish, he says.
As resilient as the babushkas are
the regions wild animals. A study

published in October in Current Biology found that elk, deer, wild boar
and wolves are prospering.
Regardless of potential radiation effects on individual animals,
the researchers concluded, the
Chernobyl exclusion zone supports
an abundant mammal community after nearly three decades of
chronic radiation exposures.
As other research has suggested, the effect of the fallout has been
more than offset by the departure
of tens of thousands of farmers and
hunters who once competed for the
lands resources. When humans
are removed, nature flourishes,
said a 2007 study of Chernobyls
aftermath.
The accident, of course, has had
many harmful effects. Early on,
about 30 firefighters died from intense radiation, and 6,000 people

exposed as children were later
treated for thyroid cancer. The
World Health Organization has
predicted that the radiation might
ultimately cause 4,000 premature
cancer deaths. But no one really
knows.
Epidemiological studies are inherently uncertain, a point that
Mary Mycio, the author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History
of Chernobyl, makes in the documentary.
All of the medical studies are
flawed, and flawed in such a way
that partisans on both sides of the
nuclear debate can argue that the
studies prove their point, she says.
You dont come here for clear answers.
The Moons Orbit, Cosmic Collisions, and Gold in the Earths Crust
By KENNETH CHANG
The moons orbit is askew, and

two planetary scientists believe
that they have come up with a good
reason.
Their idea also explains why
gold and platinum are found in the
Earths crust.
The moon is believed to have
formed out of a giant cataclysmic
collision early in the history of the
solar system when an interplanetary interloper the size of Mars
slammed into Earth and lofted
a ring of debris circling over the
Equator. The debris coalesced into
the moon.
At its birth, the moon was quite
close to the Earth, probably within
about 30,000 kilometers. Because
of the tidal pulls between the Earth

and moon, the moons orbit has
slowly been spiraling outward, and
as it does, Earths pull diminishes,
and the pull of the sun becomes
more dominant.
By now, with the moon 400,000
kilometers from Earth, the suns
gravity should have tipped the
moons orbit. But it has not. The orbit is about 5 degrees askew.
That the lunar inclination is as
small as it is gives us some confidence that the basic idea of lunar
formation from an equatorial disk
of debris orbiting the proto-Earth is
a good one, said Kaveh Pahlevan,
a planetary scientist at the Observatory of the Cte dAzur in Nice,
France. But the story must have
Objects hitting our

planet may have left
metals behind.
a twist.
Writing in the journal Nature,
Dr. Pahlevan and his observatory
colleague Alessandro Morbidelli
propose the twist.
The moon did form in the Earths
equatorial plane, the scientists
said, but then a few large objects
zipping through the inner solar
system repeatedly passed nearby
over millions of years and tipped
the moons orbit.

Eventually the crisscrossing
mini-planets would have been
tossed out of the solar system,
swallowed by the sun, or slammed
into the Earth or the other planets.
Robin M. Canup, a scientist at
the Southwest Research Institute
in Colorado, said the thousands of
close passes that typically occur
before an impact were a really
new realization.
While a single scattering event
will only change the moons tilt
slightly, Dr. Canup said, its the
cumulative effect of these many
passes that can produce this tilt.
The impacts of one or more
moon-size objects hitting Earth
would explain the gold and oth-
er precious metals in the Earths

crust but not on the moon.
Metals on the early Earth should
have sunk to the interior. Thus,
planetary scientists think that
after the moon was created, later
collisions that provided the last 1
percent or so of the Earths mass
added the precious metals.
A dearth of lunar metals argues
for a few large metal-rich objects
hitting the Earth rather than many
small ones.
Scientists including Dr. Canup
had previously proposed other explanations for the tilt. I would say
those relied on certainly more complex processes, Dr. Canup said. I
think where this has really stepped
in is its a very simple mechanism.
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H E A LT H & F I T N E S S
Vital Readings
That Tend to Stray
Measuring blood pressure
seems straightforward. Stick your
arm in a cuff for a few seconds, and
there they are: two numbers, all
the information you need to know
whether you are in
a healthy range or
high enough that
you should be taking drugs that can
ESSAY
bring down your
blood pressure.
But it turns out that blood pressure can jump around a lot, which
raises the question of which reading to trust.
A large United States government study of people at high risk
for a heart attack or stroke found
that bringing blood pressure
well below the current American
guidelines a systolic blood
pressure below 120 millimeters of
mercury instead of 140, or instead
of 150 for people older than 60
significantly reduced the death
rate and the rate of heart attacks,
strokes and heart failure.
A week after that study was published, I decided to check my blood
pressure before a coming physical
examination. The first night, I was
startled to find that my systolic
pressure was a scary 137. The next
night, it was only 117. The next
morning, before I saw my doctor,
it was a terrifying 152. At the doctors office, it was 150. I measured
it again that night, and it had plummeted to 110. And my diastolic
pressure, the lower number, was a
rock-bottom 60 that evening.
It seemed unreal. Did I have hypertension because my pressure
had hit 152 in the morning? If I
took a drug toreduce it, what would
happen if my pressure was trying
to go down to 110 in the evening?
Short answer is, you are normal, said Dr. David McCarron, a
research associate at the University of California, Davis, adding that
anyone whose pressure goes down
to 120 or, in my case 110/60, does
not have hypertension.
Blood pressure measurement
is complicated, said Dr. Suzanne
GINA
KOLATA
JAMES HILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Older women who lift weights were found to have less brain shrinkage. Training in Senegal.
Regimen for Improving Brain Power

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
Exercise is good for the brain.

We know that. But most studies
of exercise and brain health have
focused on the effects of running,
walking or other aerobic activities.
Now a new experiment suggests that light resistance training may also slow the age-related
shrinking of our brains.
Our brains are dynamic organs,
adding and shedding neurons and
connections throughout our lifetimes. They repair themselves
constantly, in fact, in response to
our lifestyles, including whether
and how we exercise.
But they remain, like the rest of
our bodies, vulnerable to the passage of time. Many neurological
studies have found that, by late
middle age, most of us have begun
developing age-related holes or lesions in our brains white matter,
which connects and passes messages between different brain regions. And the lesions can widen
and multiply as the years go by,
shrinking our white matter and
affecting our thinking.
Teresa Liu-Ambrose, a professor of physical therapy at the
University of British Columbia
in Vancouver, wondered whether
other types of exercise would likewise be beneficial for white matter. She was interested in weight
training, because weight training
strengthens and builds muscles.
Our muscles, like our brains,
tend to shrink with age, affecting
how we move. Changes in gait
with aging may indicate and even
contribute to declines in brain
health, scientists think.
But if so, Dr. Liu-Ambrose
Weight
training, which
strengthens
muscle, might
alter the aging
process and
keep brains and
bodies healthier.
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Weight training may

help cognition as our
bodies age.
thought, then weight training,
which strengthens and builds
muscle, might alter that process
and keep aging brains and bodies
healthier.
She and her colleagues turned
to a large group of generally
healthy women between the ages
of 65 and 75 who already were enrolled in a brain health study that
she was leading. The women had
had at least one brain scan.
For the new study, which was
published recently in The Journal
of the American Geriatrics Society, the scientists focused on 54 of
them, whose scans showed existing white matter lesions. The scientists randomly assigned them
to one of three groups.
Some began a once-weekly
program of light upper- and lower-body weight training. A second group trained twice a week.
And the third, acting as a control,
started a twice-weekly regimen
of stretching and balance training. All continued their assigned
exercise routines for a year.
The women in the control group,
who had concentrated on balance
and flexibility, showed progression in the number and size of the
lesions in their white matter and
in the slowing of their gaits. So
did the women who had weight
trained once per week.
But those who had lifted
weights twice per week displayed
significantly less shrinkage and
tattering of their white matter.
Their lesions had grown and multiplied somewhat, but not nearly
as much. They also walked more
quickly and smoothly than the
women in the other two groups.
All exercise clearly has benefit
for the brain, Dr. Liu-Ambrose
said. However, we are just really
now gaining an appreciation for
how impactful exercise can be.
Oparil, the director of preventive

cardiology at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham and an
investigator in the clinical trial,
called Sprint, that found that a
pressure below 120 was preferable
for high-risk patients.
There is a lot of controversy
over when and how to measure it,
Dr. Oparil said. If it remains very
high over time with multiple measurements, there is no mistaking
the diagnosis of hypertension. And
if it is normally very low, daily fluctuations will not generally push it
into a danger zone. The problems
come when blood pressure is in
between.
The patient should rest for five
minutes in a chair. The feet should
be on the floor, the back straight
and supported. The patient should
not have had caffeine or have
smoked in the past half-hour to
an hour. If this procedure is not
followed, she said, the reading is
generally falsely elevated.
Once Dr. Oparil makes a diagnosis of hypertension, she encourages her patients to learn to measure
their own blood pressure correctly
and keep a record of what it is
outside an office setting. She considers their pressure numbers at
home and in the clinic in order to
adjust their medications.
There is another option: a device that automatically measures
blood pressure every 15 to 30 minutes during the day and every 30 to
60 minutes at night. In Britain, Dr.
Oparil said, this sort of ambulatory monitoring is required before
a doctor can diagnose high blood
pressure. But patients in the United States often refuse, saying they
cant sleep with the cuff inflating
through the night.
My doctor suggested the
24-hour test, but if Dr. McCarron
is correct that I do not have hypertension, what is the point? Or
should I do as Dr. Oparil suggested
and measure my pressure twice a
day for several days and send the
readings to my doctor? Oh, for the
simplicity of a cholesterol test!
Reading blood
pressure seems
like a simple
matter, but your
numbers can
change several
times a day.
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H E A LT H & F I T N E S S
Women Talking Openly

About Menstruation
By RONI CARYN RABIN
My 18 -year-old daughter
knows exactly when it will be that
time of the month. Since June,
shes been plugging the dates of
her menstrual cycle into a popular period tracking app called
Clue, and has it programmed to
send her an alert every month,
lots of graphs in muted shades
two days before her next period
of purple. Specialized apps have
is due.
even been developed for niche
Its great because I never
groups like Orthodox Jewish
think about it, and now I never
women who adhere to religious
have to think about it, she said.
family purity laws.
Like a lot of young women, my
When you see a technology
teenager is just too busy. And no,
that someone has developed speshe doesnt mind being quoted,
she said, adding, Mom, Im not
cifically for you as a woman, it
embarrassed about my period.
really legitimizes talking about
Shes not the only one. Girls
your periods and thinking about
and women are openly talking,
them, said Shuangyi E.E. Hou,
tweeting and texting about their
24, a product designer in San
periods. New companies are sellFrancisco for apps and websites.
While the apps also can be used
ing menstrual products using the
to track ovulation, signaling the
P word, and singers and artists
days the user is
weave menstrumore or less likely
ation themes into
to become pregtheir work. Two
nant, most period
New York City high
tracker apps exschool girls develplicitly warn users
oped a video game
not to rely on them
called Tampon
to prevent pregRun the heronancy.
ines mission is to
Even the most
rid the world of the
vigilant ovulation
menstrual taboo.
tracking methods
Add to this mix
have high failure
per iod tracker
rates, according
apps, which have
to the American
helped shift attiCollege of Obstetudes by assigning
tricians and Gycute icons to once
necologists, with
u n ment ionables
Apps like Clue have
up to one in four
like heavy flow,
calendars to track
women becoming
maxi pads and
menstrual cycles.
pregnant over the
period pimples.
course of a year
Most important,
with typical use.
the apps produce
But many users of period
data that can tell a young woman
tracker apps rely on them to help
when her period is late and why
schedule their busy lives or for
she might be feeling so blue.
tracking health conditions that
There are over 200 different pefluctuate with their cycle, rather
riod tracker apps to choose from,
than contraception.
and they are immensely popular:
One concern about the trackers
Consumers have downloaded
is privacy, and the fact that most
Period Tracker (by GP Interyoung users dont read the apps
national) and Period Calendar/
privacy policy. Registered users
Tracker (by Abishkking) more
of Clue agree to let the company
than 10 million times from the
use anonymous cycle data to imAndroid store alone, according
prove the app and for academic
to IMS Institute for Healthcare
and clinical research. Data isnt
Informatics.
collected from unregistered usPeriod tracker apps can track
a range of issues related to the
ers.
menstrual cycle, including emoIda Tin, who founded Clue, said
she wanted to provide women
tions, cramps, weight, sleep, enwith a greater understanding
ergy, food cravings and more.
about a foundational part of
They also can record when you
their lives for 40 years.
had sex or remind you to pack
If you just have the data about
tampons, take your birth control
what is going on in your body,
pill or do a breast exam. Some
Ms. Tin said, its a navigating
apps are pink and girlie; others
tool for your life.
take a more subtle approach with
Using cute icons on

an app to track a
monthly event.
Doing Too Much in Health Care

By PAULA SPAN
Over many years, the 77-year-old

patient has managed to control his
Type 2 diabetes, taking daily doses
of a drug that reduces blood sugar.
Like a lot of older people, he copes
with multiple medical conditions.
But with four prescription drugs,
hes doing reasonably well.
Oh, and hes a hypothetical example, concocted by researchers
at the University of Michigan and
the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor
Healthcare System. They sent
this fictional case study to primary-care professionals at medical
centers specializing in care for
armed service veterans.
The researchers believed their
nearly 600 respondents physicians, nurse practitioners and
physician assistants would recognize that such a patient risked
developing dangerously low blood
sugar, called hypoglycemia. But
no. About half said they wouldnt
worry about harm from the treatment regimen.
Evidence is accumulating that
older adults with diabetes, hypertension and other conditions should
be treated less aggressively. As
this and another recent study have
shown, getting that message out to
physicians has proved difficult.
In our health care system, we
are all more scared of failing to
do something than of doing too
much, said Dr. Jeremy Sussman, a
research scientist at the Ann Arbor
hospital.
Under current guidelines, most
older patients with diabetes dont
have to get their blood sugar to
rock bottom. Blood pressure readings, too, should be allowed to rise
up to 150 millimeters of mercury
for systolic pressure. The previous
goal was to keep it below 140.
A large trial of intensive
blood-pressure control, reported
in The New England Journal of
Medicine, found that patients randomized to an extremely low blood
pressure goal 120 millimeters of
mercury or below in fact did see
lower death rates. The benefit was
seen in patients over age 75.
But the new trial did not include
people with diabetes, who are at
higher risk for cardiovascular
problems. A study in 2008 found
that intensive therapy to reduce
blood glucose actually resulted in
higher mortality.
In older people with diabetes,
for instance, maintaining very low
blood sugar can do more harm than
good. People can feel fatigued and
weak, get cold sweats, feel like
theyre going to pass out, said Dr.
Tanner Caverly, lead author of the
Michigan survey, published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Yet a large study in the United
States by Dr. Sussman and his col-
STUART BRADFORD
leagues, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, reveals how rarely

deintensification occurs among
patients over age 70. Reviewing
data on more than 211,000 patients,
the researchers found that fewer
than 19 percent of those with very
low blood pressure had scaled back
their medications. Only 27 percent
of those with very low blood sugar
had done so.
Theres been a huge effort to ensure that fewer people are undertreated, Dr. Sussman said. Now,
maybe weve crossed the line and
too many people are overtreated.
Many older adults still dont take
advantage of vaccines, among the
simplest of health protections. But
older Americans receive too many
colonoscopies and mammograms.
As you get older, the benefits
go down and the risks go up, said
Dr. Sei Lee, a geriatrician at the
University of California, San Fran-
cisco. What was good for you at 55

might be bad for you at 75.
Sometimes patients themselves
resist. Dr. Sussman recalled a veteran, about 80, who took pride in
the way hed managed his illness,
testing his blood several times a
day, injecting insulin, keeping his
glucose below 7. He had lost weight,
however, so Dr. Sussman suggested he stop insulin shots and begin
taking a pill. The man gave it a try.
But he and his wife never lost their
discomfort with doing less than
they had been, Dr. Sussman said.
The patient went back to injections.
Many doctors, for now, may not
suggest treatment changes.
Its one thing to find out about
something new and exciting and
do it, Dr. Sussman reflected. Its
harder, emotionally, to look at
something youve done for a long
time and think, maybe this isnt so
good. And stop.
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ARTS & DESIGN
A Lord,
A Baron
And Now
A Rocker
By DAVE ITZKOFF
At a rehearsal for his new Broadway musical, School of Rock,

Andrew Lloyd Webber came striding down the aisle of the Winter
Garden Theater in New York and
onto its stage. Surrounded by the
young actors, who earlier were debating the meaning of the pop song
Pumped Up Kicks, Mr. Lloyd
Webber, the composer and musical-theater impresario, began
scat-singing the frantic rhythm of
Prokofievs Piano Sonata Number
7 da-da-da da da then
asked them to guess its time signature. Is that in five? asked Brandon Niederauer, a floppy-haired,
12-year-old guitarist.
In a pedagogical voice, Mr. Lloyd
Webber answered: Seven. He explained that the Prokofiev sonata
was the best work of 7/8 time ever
its pure rock.
Mr. Lloyd Webber, 67, might
seem an unlikely person to produce a musical, an adaptation of
the 2003 Jack Black movie, about
pent-up prep-schoolers who learn
to stick it to the man from an un-
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For Andrew Lloyd Webber,

theater and rock n roll are
indistinguishable. Left, Alex
Brightman, center, in Mr.
Lloyd Webbers new musical,
School of Rock.
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
orthodox substitute teacher. The

composer of Cats, Evita and
The Phantom of the Opera, he
is also, in his native Britain, a lord
and a baron, with an estimated net
worth of nearly $1 billion.
But Mr. Lloyd Webber, who
helped legitimize rock musicals
with Jesus Christ Superstar and
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, is distinctively
qualified to tell a tale of how guitar
riffs and drumbeats can be a language of liberation.
As Mr. Lloyd Webber said of the
$16 million show: I havent written a score thats going to change
the Western world or the musical
as we presently know it. But I just
hope its fun.

His father, William, was the director of the London College of
Music, but he also sneaked young
Andrew into a movie theater to see
Elvis Presleys Jailhouse Rock.
He really did believe there were
only two kinds of music, Mr. Lloyd
Webber said. Good and bad.
Another influence was the British TV series Oh Boy!, where he
watched emerging talents like Cliff
Richard and Brenda Lee perform
at Londons ramshackle Hackney
Empire music hall.
What that did for me, at that
impressionable age, was make
theater and rock n roll indistinguishable, Mr. Lloyd Webber said.
I just thought rock was about theater.

Years later, Mr. Lloyd Webber
and Tim Rice recorded the original 1970 concept album for Jesus
Christ Superstar hailed, in its
time, as revolutionary and denounced as sacrilegious.
The composition of School of
Rock (in which Alex Brightman
plays the Dewey Finn character)
happened quickly, between June
and December of 2014. Auditions
for its school-aged characters
were held at the start of this year.
Mr. Lloyd Webber contributed
songs like Youre in the Band, a
number in which Dewey helps his
formally trained students unlock
their potential.
Glenn Slater, the School of
Rock lyricist, said he thought Mr.
Lloyd Webber had some trouble at
first deciding between writing in
the mode of 1960s classic rock or
1970s heavy metal.
Mr. Slater said he told Mr.
Lloyd Webber, We should think
of it like Meat Loaf or Jim Steinman: huge, operatic, over-the-top
rock. At that point, Mr. Slater
said, He perked up and said, Oh,
Ive worked with Jim Steinman.
(Together they wrote the musical
Whistle Down the Wind.)
He just said, I know where to go
with this, Mr. Slater recalled. I
know what Im doing.
French Films That Tackle Questions Revived by the Paris Attacks

By WESLEY MORRIS
and A. O. SCOTT
The shock of the November 13

attacks in and around Paris refocused attention on debates that
have convulsed French society
for decades about the marginalization of the Muslim population,
about the tensions between Islam
and French Republican ideology,
about the identity of the nation itself.
Is France defined by its language
and traditions, by its geography, or
by its universal ideals of liberty,
brotherhood and equality?
Filmmakers and artists have
taken up these questions, often
with more clarity than politicians
or intellectuals. There are scores of
movies that offer instructive viewing in the wake of the attacks.
Here are six, all French and all
relatively recent, that seem especially relevant to the painful work
of thinking and understanding that
lies ahead.
Cach
The family of a Parisian television intellectual, Georges, begins
receiving mysterious videos surveilling the exterior of its home.
Georgess attempts to figure out
who is doing this and why gives
him nightmares and leads him to a
childhood friend, an Algerian. The
director, Michael Haneke, is an
Austrian often working in France,
and his outsider status affords
him a particularly harsh vantage.
Cach is obliquely about the sins
of French complacency. Its terror
works as an existential mystery
and something more conspiratorial
and timely: Failure to reckon with
the past allows a future generation
to do the reckoning for itself.
Days of Glory (Indignes)

This rousing, conventional World
War II infantry picture is also a
pointed critique of the limits of
French Republican ideology. The
English title invokes La Marseil-
laise, a call to arms for the children of the fatherland. But the
soldiers in this movie are all North
African men, and, as such, colonial
subjects rather than full citizens.
Like African-American soldiers
in the same war, they are expected to risk their lives for a libert
that remains cruelly theoretical. In
insisting that France live up to its
ideals, the film is both an ardent defense of those ideals and a warning
about the consequences of betraying them.
District B13 (Banlieue 13)

Housing project drug lords have
come into possession of a bomb.
And its not theirs. Its the governments. Theres a baldness to this
movie that balances the rampant,
criminalizing stereotypes of Arabs and the African French. These
sorts of action-comedies and sci-fi
extravaganzas from the producer
Luc Besson get at crucial problems
of disenfranchisement among poor,
nonwhite French.
Girlhood (Bande de Filles)

In politics and popular culture,
the French banlieue, like the American urban ghetto, is imagined as a
predominantly male space. Girlhood tilts against this bias, delving into the life of Marieme, a teenager of African descent navigating
the transition to adulthood in very
tough circumstances. Hemmed in
on one side by the indifference of
the state, and on the other by traditional male authority, Marieme
finds a measure of freedom in the
company of her friends and a release in popular music. The film is
vibrant and exuberant, but it also
confronts viewers with the bleak
realities and circumscribed destinies faced by too many of Frances
nonwhite young people.
Of Gods and Men (Des

Hommes et des Dieux)
Based on the true story of a group
of French Trappist monks who

were kidnapped by Islamic militants during the Algerian civil war
of the 1990s, Xavier Beauvoiss Of
Gods and Men links modern terrorism to Frances bloody colonialist legacy. As much about forgiveness as about fanaticism, it insists
on the shared humanity that binds
the perpetrators and the victims of
religiously motivated violence.
A Prophet
Jacques Audiards prison film
and gangster epic manages to
put a petty French-Arab thug
(Tahar Rahim, headed toward
stardom) at the top of a French
organized-crime ring. This movie
almost works as allegory for life
beyond prison, but to Mr. Audiard,
power is power. When he wants to
be, he is Frances most provocative
director: a major film artist who
doesnt care about whats politically correct, only what is just. Insanely, sensationalistically just.
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ARTS & DESIGN
Film Follows Rappers

To Haitis Presidency
By ERIK PARKER
Prakazrel Michel, known as

Pras and a former member of
the disbanded hip-hop group the
Fugees, is an unlikely political
operative. But Mr. Michels new
documentary, Sweet Micky for
President, shows how he helped
nudge a provocative musician
into Haitis presidential palace.
Im pretty good at getting people into positions of power, Mr.
Michel said. But getting them to
listen after they get there, thats
the hard part.
Raised in New Jersey as the
child of Haitians, he originally set
out to make a film about the 2010
earthquake that displaced millions of Haitians and killed many
thousands. Mr. Michel, however,
turned his attention to Haitis
presidential contest.
As the director Ben Patterson
follows along, Mr. Michel hatches a plan to influence the election
by tapping Michel Martelly, also
known as Sweet Micky, an irreverent and popular musician,
known for his bad mouth and ostentatious displays. Sweet Micky
sang protest songs, but he also
had a tendency to prance about
on stages wearing only a diaper.
Mr. Michel saw something
more in the showman: a charismatic figure who could rally
Haitis youth and set a new direction. I basically said, Michel,
you should just run for president,
man, Mr. Michel recalled. I
think he thought it was a joke. But
I flew to his Miami home. And
right there, we started to devise
a plan.
The documentary provides
access to the back rooms of power and freewheeling political
events. When Wyclef Jean, a Haitian and former Fugees member,
makes a surprise run for president, he threatens to smother Mr.
Martellys chances. (Mr. Jean
was later disqualified.) After
further dramatic developments,
including Mr. Martellys elimination from the contest, his rein-
A foul-mouthed
singer in a diaper
wins an election.
statement and civil unrest, Mr.
Martelly triumphs.
Four years removed from Mr.
Martellys 2011 victory, Haiti is in
the midst of choosing his successor. The first round of elections
took place in October, with Mr.
Martellys fellow Tet Kale Party
member, Jovenel Moise, and Jude Clestin advancing to the runoff this month, on December 27.
Term limits prevent Mr. Martelly
from running for re-election.
Throughout his presidency, he
has battled growing dissent. He
has overseen the dissolution of
Haitis Parliament, a move critics say was a power grab. And
like prior administrations, his
has been accused of cronyism
and corruption.
Mr. Michels involvement
ceased after Mr. Martelly took
office. And today, Mr. Michel confesses his disappointment with
his handpicked candidate.
I may not agree with 90 percent of the things hes done, Mr.
Michel said. But Im not his adviser. Im just a great friend of
Sweet Micky, the artist. Michel
Martelly, the president? I dont
really rock with that guy.
For all of its access to the candidate, the film does not include
policy positions. Its a point that
Mr. Michel pushed aside in favor
of the hope Mr. Martellys victory
represented.
The film is not about his politics, Mr. Michel said. Its about
a group of people who feel like we
are going to be heard. We dont
care if hes a clown. As a matter
of fact, we know hes a clown, and
we are going to vote for him anyway. And youre going to respect
our vote.
Prakazrel
Michel,
far right,
convinced
Michel
Martelly,
near right,
to run for
president of
Haiti.
SWEET MICKY LLC
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Eldzier Cortor, who died at 99 in November, lived to see his art shown in the Whitney Museum.
Respect, Finally, for Black Artists

By RANDY KENNEDY
The painter Norman Lewis rarely complained about the singular

struggles of being a black artist in
America. But in 1979, dying of cancer, he made a prediction. He said
to us, I think its going to take about
30 years, maybe 40, before people
stop caring whether Im black and
just pay attention to the work,
Lewiss daughter, Tarin Fuller, recalled recently.
Lewis was just about right. In
the last few years alone, his work
has been acquired by the National
Gallery of Art in Washington; the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and
the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
After decades of spotty acquisitions and token exhibitions, American museums are rewriting the
history of 20th-century art to include black artists in a visible and
meaningful way, and collectors are
rushing to find the most significant
works before they are out of reach.
There was a joke for a long time
that if you went into a museum,
youd think America had only two
black artists Jacob Lawrence
and Romare Bearden and even
then, you wouldnt see very much,
said Lowery Stokes Sims, the first
African-American curator at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York. I think there is a sea
change finally happening.
The shift is part of a broader
revolution underway in museums
and academia to move past a Eurocentric version of Modernism.
But the change is also a result of
efforts over decades by black curators, artist-activists, colleges and
collectors who saw periods during
the 1970s and the 1990s when
heightened awareness of art by
African-Americans failed to gain

widespread traction.
In 2000, when Elliot Bostwick
Davis arrived at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, as chairwoman
of its Art of the Americas department, there were only three oil
paintings by African-American
artists in the wing, she said, and
not many more paintings by African-Americans in the rest of the
collection. I had to deal with a lot
of blank faces on the collections
committee, because they just didnt
know these artists or this work,
Ms. Davis said.
The playing field is becoming
more even for young black artists,
American museums
are filling a big hole
in their collections.
who are gaining museum presence
and market clout. But artists who
began working just a generation
ago and ones in a line stretching
back to the late 19th century are
only now receiving the kind of recognition many felt they deserved.
Like Norman Lewis, most
of these artists now in permanent-collection galleries including the painters Beauford Delaney
and Alma Thomas did not live to
see the change.
But others, like the Los Angeles
assemblage sculptor Betye Saar,
89, are witnessing it firsthand. The
Chicago painter and printmaker
Eldzier Cortor, who died at 99 on
November 26, lived to see his work
featured in the inaugural show of

the new Whitney Museum in downtown New York. Its a little late
now, Id say, he observed dryly a
few weeks before his death. But
better than never.
And while it was bad enough for
male artists, black women faced
even steeper obstacles. We were
invisible to museums and the gallery scene, Ms. Saar said.
As abstraction took hold, black
artists were at a disadvantage because their work was perceived
by the white establishment as too
often figurative and too narrowly
expressive of the black experience.
But even abstract artists like
Lewis were eclipsed in part, paradoxically, because when curators
did seek out black artists work, figuration was the priority. When curators came to us, they were really
only interested in narrative works
that showed the black experience
so they could demonstrate in no uncertain terms to their visitors that
they were committed to representing black America, said the New
York dealer Michael Rosenfeld.
Collectors have begun to realize
that the absence of black artists in
their collections diminishes their
own seriousness. Now, there is a
scramble to find the best works.
The prices are now well beyond
what I could do without major financial sacrifices to buy just a
single painting, said the collector
James Sellman.
Thelma Golden, the director of
the Studio Museum in Harlem,
said, What we need to continue to
understand is that the exhibition
and collection of this work is not
a special initiative, or a fad, but a
fundamental part of museums
missions.
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