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LP junks
party origs
in favor of
winnables
UNA: Big
business
preferred
unity ticket
House okays budget
in its original version
PLDT loses shares issue
Two more party-lists disqualified
Misuari calls accord
fake, a slap to MNLF
Cheers, tears
greet peace
deal signing
Senator hurt by bribery
insinuation, criticisms
Recto drops sin tax bill
Real work for peace begins
Record jump. This image provided by Red Bull Stratos shows pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria as he jumps
out of the capsule during the nal manned ight for Red Bull Stratos on Sunday. In a giant leap from more
than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier while making the highest jump evera tum-
bling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert. (Story on B4) AP
Sin tax detractors. People against the bill seeking to increase the taxes on tobacco and alcohol products
protest on the Senate grounds. EY ACASIO
Landmark deal. President Benigno Aquino III, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdul Razak and other ofcials witness the signing of framework peace
agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Non-believer. Former MNLF chairman Nur Misuari on Monday
slammed the peace agreement between the government and the MILF
at a press conference in Makati. DANNY PATA
Two cases. eb. 23, 2012 photo, former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (top) arrives in a Pasay City court for her ar-
raignment on election rigging charges. At left, Former Isabela Gov. Grace Padaca leaves after posting bail at the Sandiganbayan in connection with
the P70-million graft case against her. AP AND MANNY PALMERO
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TODAY
Standard
Manila
Vol. XXVI No. 207 16 Pages, 3 Sections
P18.00 Tuesday, October 16, 2012
By Joyce Pangco Paares
THE government and the Moro Islamic Libera-
tion Front signed a framework agreement Mon-
day, but both sides face more difcult challenges
as they seek to create the Bangsamoro political
entity that will replace the Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao.
Internal and external problems abound, includ-
ing the opposition raised by a faction of the older
Moro National Liberation Front led by Nur Misuari,
and the lukewarm response of MILF rebels to sur-
rendering their weapons. There is also uncertainty
about the nal composition of the Bangsamro terri-
tory, which is still subject to a plebiscite.
This is not an endpoint, but a beginning.
In resigning, Recto withdrew his com-
mittee report supporting a bill that reduced
the amount of revenue that would have
been raised from the new taxes on ciga-
rettes and alcohol to P15 billion a year,
down from the Finance Departments
original target of P60 billion, or the House
of Representatives P30-billion estimate.
Recto admitted he was hurt by a
statement from the Palace that the sena-
tors who did not support the administra-
tions version of the sin tax bill might
have been bribed by the tobacco and
alcohol companies.
I would be lying if I will said that
By Maricel V. Cruz
THE House of Representatives
will transmit to the Senate today
the Palace-backed P2.006 tril-
lion national budget for 2013 af-
ter the House of Representatives
on Monday voted 195-6 to pass
on third and nal reading House
Bill 6455.
Cavite Rep. and concur-
rent Transportation and Com-
munications Secretary Joseph
Emilio Aguinaldo Abaya Jr.
said that the House-approved
version of the budget bill was
almost as it is from the origi-
nal version submitted by the
Palace to Congress.
House Speaker Feliciano
Belmonte Jr. reiterated that the
2013 budget would ensure
sustained services to the people
and accountability of govern-
ment agencies.
We strongly believe this
spending bill will ensure sustained
By Rey E. Requejo
THE Supreme Court on Monday
ruled with nality in afrming its
decision last year imposing a 40-
percent limit to foreign owner-
ship in Philippine Long Distance
Telephone Co.
The high court, however, gave
PLDT time to comply with the
constitutional requirement for
Filipino majority ownership in
the countrys biggest telecom
company headed by business ty-
coon Manuel V. Pangilinan.
In a 51-page decision, a copy
of which was ofcially released
Monday, 10 justices, including
Senior Associate Justice Anto-
nio Carpio, stood by their ruling
that the limit to foreign owner-
ship under Section 11, Article
XII of the Constitution covered
By Christine F. Herrera
THE ruling Liberal Partys dump-
ing of members in favor of guest
candidates that it feels have a real
chance of winning next year is
alienating many of its own and
threatening to break its unity.
On Monday, a veteran poli-
tician who has been with the
party for the past 40 years, and
whose family had been afliated
for three generations, declared
he would openly campaign for
the rival United Nationalist Al-
liances senatorial candidates
to protest the LP leaderships
crooked policy.
Former Senator Victor Ziga,
a member of the LP national
executive committee, brought
his son Ricky to Vice President
Jejomar Binay and former Pres-
ident Joseph Estradas UNA for
endorsement.
THE United Nationalist Alli-
ance on Monday claimed that
big business preferred a Unity
Ticket because disunity was bad
for business, but was dismayed
that the ruling Liberal Party re-
jected the idea outright.
Former President Joseph Es-
trada explained that political
tensions and speculations such
as the ouster of UNAs Senate
President Juan Ponce Enrile
could have been avoided had the
Liberals accepted the proposal
to coalesce and join forces.
Estrada added that with a
unity ticket, political brickbats
and personal negative attacks
could also be avoided.
The UNA proposed a 6-6
Unity Ticket or six senatorial
By Joel Zurbano
and Maricel Cruz
THE Commission on Elections
(Comelec) withdrew accredita-
tion of two more party-list groups
on Monday, bringing to a total of
16including four groups with
incumbent represntativesit
disqualied to occupy seats in
the House of Representatives,
ofcials said.
Comelec Chairman Sixto Bril-
lantes, Jr. said the latest groups
disqualied to eld candidates in
the May 13 elections next year for
representing non-existing sectors
were Association of Philippine
Electric Cooperatives (APEC) and
1st Consumers Alliance for Rural
Concerns (1-Care).
We are cancelling their ac-
creditations as party-lists. They
have similarities. They represent
electronic consumers, but there
is no sector for electronic con-
sumers, Brillantes said.
In the 2010 elections, the
Comelec accredited 115 party-lists,
THE Moro National Liberation
Front on Monday opposed the
signing of the framework agree-
ment, which it said was fake,
even as some 6,000 MILF mem-
bers signied their intention to
get back to MNLF control.
The MNLF is not threatening
in any sort because you cannot in-
timidate the government, but we
are just telling the truth, MNLF
spokesman Emmanuel Fontanilla
said.
He said the governments sign-
ing of the framework agreement
with the MILF was an insult to the
peace agreement that it signed with
By Sara Susanne
D. Fabunan
LEAVING their guns and uni-
forms behind, hundreds of
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
ghters on Monday sang the na-
tional anthem and witnessed the
signing of the historic frame-
work agreement that will cre-
ate a new judicial entity called
Bangsamoro in Mindanao.
MILF chairman Ebrahim
Murad said never in his wildest
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Recto
By Macon Ramos-Araneta
SENATOR Ralph Recto resigned as chair-
man of the Senate ways and means com-
mittee Monday after drawing re from the
Palace for watering down the sin tax bill,
but his colleagues set a caucus today to
decide whether they would accept it.
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House...
service to our people and maxi-
mize the developmental use of
the peoples money by improv-
ing accountability in the budg-
et process, Belmonte earlier
said in a speech in support of
the passage of the House Bill
6455 or the General Appropri-
ations Bill of 2013.
The six lawmakers who
voted no to the approval of
the budget bill were Siquijor
Rep. Orlando Fua, an opposi-
tion, Gabriela Reps. Emmi de
Jesus and Luz Ilagan, Bayan
Muna Rep. Teddy Casino,
Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mari-
ano and Act Teachers party-list
Rep. Antonio Tinio.
House Minority Leader
Danilo Suarez, who had earlier
said that minority members
wanted to re-align P5 billion
of the P317 billion pork barrel
fund of the president known as
the Special Purpose Fund, also
voted to transmit the bill to the
Senate.
The proposed P2-trillion na-
tional budget for 2013 is 10.5
percent higher than the P1.816-
trillion budget for the current
fiscal year.
The House leadership said
that the Lower House was very
much ahead of schedule on the
budget bill, whose significant
features include P1.2 trillion
in unprogrammed funds and a
hefty increase in the state-man-
aged dole program or condition-
al cash transfers.
The Budget department had
earlier said that the national
budget for next year would still
be funded largely through rev-
enues.
The 2013 budget would in-
clude the governments increased
allocation for the conditional cash
transfer program by almost 20
percent, from this years P39 bil-
lion to roughly P45 billion.
Out of the combined budg-
etary allocations of the social
services and economic serv-
ices sector of P1.210 trillion
for 2013 60.3 percent of the
P2-trillion budget supports the
achievement of the targets.
The budget also consists of
P1.2 trillion in programmed
new appropriations for na-
tional government operations,
programs and projects; and
P755.2 billion in automatic
appropriations for debt serv-
icing, local government alloca-
tions and others.
PLDT...
only the shares of stock which
gives stockholders the right to
vote in the election of directors
not the entire outstanding,
capital stock.
With the ruling, the 60-40
participation of Filipinos and
foreigners, respectively, in pub-
lic utility firms should be reck-
oned only on the basis of their
common shares holdings.
The term capital in Section
11, Article XII of the 1987 Con-
stitution refers to shares with
voting rights, as well as with
full beneficial ownership. This
is precisely because the right
to vote in the election of direc-
tors, coupled with full beneficial
ownership of stocks, translates
to effective control of a corpora-
tion, the SC explained.
Section 11, Article XII of
the 1987 Constitution provides
that no franchise, certificate,
or any other form of authori-
zation for the operation of a
public utility shall be granted
except to citizens of the Philip-
pines or to corporations or as-
sociations organized under the
laws of the Philippines, at least
sixty per centum of whose cap-
ital is owned by such citizens.
Although the SC ordered the
Securities and Exchange Com-
mission to investigate the foreign
ownership in PLDT and impose
sanction for possible violation of
the rule, it gave the public utility
time to comply with the constitu-
tional requirement.
The high bench pointed out
that its ruling was already final
so it will no longer entertain
further pleadings.
Three justices dissented and
voted to grant the motion for
reconsideration of Pangilinan:
Associate Justices Presbitero Ve-
lasco Jr., Roberto Abad and Bien-
venido Reyes. Associate Justice
Estela Perlas-Bernabe inhibited
from the case since she handled a
related case earlier when she was
still judge in Makati court.

Two...
cancelled 16 and 99 more were
still being reviewed. For the
elections next year, 165 groups
applied for accreditation, 20
were rejected and 145 applica-
tions remain under review.
At least four groups with
incumbent representatives
have been disqualifed: APEC,
1-Care, Ako Bicol, and Ang
Galing Pinoy. Final announce-
ment on the fate of the others
will be announced on Novem-
ber 15.
Anakbayan, a leftist group,
accused the Comelec of favor-
ing party-lists supported by the
Aquino Administration such
as Akbayan, Black and White
Movement, and Abante Reti-
rees.
Vencer Crisostomo, Anak-
bayan chairman, accused the
Comelec of double standard in
its treatment of party-lists for
its failure to disqualify Ak-
bayan and the others.
Akbayan cannot claim to be
marginalized because Aquino
appointed some of its members
to government positions, in-
cluding Cabinet members and
undersecretaries, Crisostomo
said.
He identified the Akbayan
officials as Ronald Llamas,
presidential political adviser;
Etta Rosales, head of the Com-
mission on Human Rights; Joel
Rocamora, head of the Nation-
al Anti-Poverty Commission;
and Percival Cendana, head of
the National Youth Commis-
sion.
Another Akbayan member,
Risa Hontiveros, is running for
senator under President Aqui-
nos Liberal Party, Crisostomo
said.
Ako-Bicol Rep. Rodel Ba-
tocabe denounced Comelecs
withdrawal of his groups ac-
creditation, which he described
as a betrayal of public trust
and he threatened to file an im-
peachment case against Bril-
lantes and the members of the
electoral Commission.
He said the Comelecs piece-
meal decision treated them
like pigs in the sty waiting to
be slaughtered.
We can no longer properly
function in our jobs as party-
list representatives. Party-list
members suffer mental torture
thinking they will be the next
victims of disqualification,
Batocabe said.
Cheers...
dreams would he see himself
one day stepping inside Ma-
lacaang to sign a historic deal
with the President.
I must confess it is the first
time in my life to step on the
grounds of Malacaang, Murad
said as he witnessed the signing
of the peace deal to end the dec-
ades-old conflict in Mindanao.
Never in my wildest dreams
since I was a child, or when I joined
my Bangsamoro brothers more than
40 years ago, that one day I will see
the interior of this building.
Murad made his statement
even as outside the Palace, in
the historic Mendiola Bridge,
hundreds of Muslim men and
women in colorful tunics, head
scarves and robes joined police-
men and soldiers to show their
support for the peace agreement.
Some shed tears as they knew
that a landmark deal would be
signed that day as they kept their
vigil after arriving in Manila on
Sunday afternoon from Mindanao
for Mondays event, waving Phil-
ippine flags and MILF banners.
This gathering of Muslims
and Christians show that our na-
tion is committed to peace, and
that we Filipinos do not want
war. We are brothers and sisters,
said man who gave his name as
Usman Ali.
The ceremony at the Palace
was attended by more than 600
guests from Mindanao, the for-
eign embassies, Congress and
the Senate. The Rizal Hall was
filled with people wearing black
suits, Barong Tagalog and tradi-
tional Muslim clothes.
Murad said that, for the first
time in almost 40 years, officials
of the Philippine government sat
side by side with the MILF to
witness the signing of an agree-
ment that people hoped would
bring lasting peace to Mindanao.
He said the creation of the
Bangsamoro restored the Bang-
samoro identity and gave the
Bangsamoro people the right to
govern themselves.
I come in peace and to forge a
partnership of peace on the basis
of the framework agreement be-
tween the MILF and the Philip-
pine government, Murad said.
We extend the hand of friend-
ship and partnership to the Presi-
dent and Filipino people.
Presidential Adviser on the
Peace Process Teresita Deles
said thousands of children would
not anymore have the same
nightmare that other children felt
years ago. She cited the experi-
ence of a little girl named Salama
in Mindanao during her visit in
the province.
I was so scared that I cried,
Deles quoted Salama as saying.
Our teacher yelled at us,
telling us to take cover, but we
wanted to go home because we
were worried about our parents
and siblings. I was a grade-three
pupil then, and I had to stop my
schooling because of the war.
These stories tell us how
beautiful morning has dawned
after Salamas nightmare, and
I am in awe of how many more
mornings like this we all can
wake up to, Deles said in an
emotional voice.
Reina Marie Doria, 13, of
Koronadal City, said: I re-
ceived this news with joy, es-
pecially for us who may be the
ones to experience the fruits of
the peace process. M a -
laysian Prime Minister Ab-
dul Razak said the agreement
would not resolve the conflict
in Mindanao, but it would set
a parameter for both parties to
work together to achieve the fi-
nal peace agreement.
With Vito Barcelo and
Macon Ramos-Araneta
Real...
Theres still much more to be
done, said Malaysian Prime
Minister Najib Razak as he chal-
lenged the government and the
MILF to ensure that there are
no more lost generations in the
countrys troubled south.
We must not forget the chal-
lenges ahead. The ink in this pa-
per must match the commitment
to peace, Najib added.
MILF chairman Murad Ebra-
him did not shy away from ad-
dressing Misuaris opposition to
the framework agreement as he
urged the MNLF to support the
creation of the Bangsamoro en-
tity.
We appeal to our MNLF brea-
thren to support the framework
agreement and take this historic
journey with us, Murad said in
his speech on Monday before the
deal was signed.
This is not the time for re-
crimination but the time for uni-
ty, he said.
Murad said the MNLF and
the MILF must act, think, and
speak as one Bangsamoro.
A delegation of the MNLF,
led by Cotabato Vice Gov.
Muslimin Sema and ARMM
caretaker vice governor Bain-
on Karon, attended Mondays
signing ceremony.
Misuari earlier said the frame-
workagreement was an insult to
the 1996 final peace agreement
that resulted in the creation of
the ARMM.
MILF chief negotiator Mo-
hagher Iqbal, however, minced
no words in questioning Mis-
uaris ability to muster enough
support.
The day of reckoning for him
is near. He has filed his candi-
dacy for ARMM governor for
the 2013 polls. If he wins, then it
means he still has the support of
the people, Iqbal said.
Iqbals statement was sup-
ported by government chief ne-
gotiator Marvic Leonen, who
questioned Misuaris claim that
he has over 1 million armed sup-
porters, and that about 17,000
fighters of the MILF have de-
fected to the MNLF because of
the signing of the framework
agreement.
If Misuari has a million fight-
ers, that would mean he has
a force bigger than our entire
Armed Forces. And according to
Iqbal, the MILF only has 11,000
fighters, so where did Misuari
get the 17,000? Leonen said.
Leonen said majority of the
MNLF commanders, as well as
the Sema-led Council of the 15,
support the framework agree-
ment.
The MNLF will not be mar-
ginalized. That (opposition by
Misuari) is a comment made by
one leader, he said.
It is not something that we
are too bothered about, although
we are addressing Misuaris con-
cerns squarely and pointblank,
Leonen said.
Iqbal said the MILF would
leave it up to the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation, which was
represented Monday by its sec-
retary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsa-
noglu, to schedule the next round
of unity talks with the MNLF.
While the MNLF is the only
group granted observer status by
the OIC, Ihsanoglus presence at
the Palace gave credibility to the
framework deal among Islamic
countries.
Aside from Misuaris rantings,
Iqbal admitted that the MILF
would have to hurdle the internal
challenge of decommissioning
its fighters.
The MILF negotiator said it
was a topic that almost caused
a stalemate in the peace talks in
Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 6, a day
before deal was forged.
Thats the hardest thing, he
said. With Ronald O. Reyes, AP
and Bloomberg
LP...
I am protesting the LPs
distorted principle of junking
the LP originals and tapping
last-minute turncoats as of-
ficial candidates nationwide,
Ziga told the Manila Standard.
There are about 30 LP orig-
inals who, like me, have been
shabbily treated, insulted and
tossed aside just like that and
junked by the LP leadership in
favor of the new recruits and
last-minute turncoats.
Ziga claimed he arrived at his
principled decision after LP
president-on-leave and Interior
Secretary Mar Roxas II, Budget
Secretary Florencio Abad, and
acting LP president and con-
current Transport Secretary
and Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio
Abaya chose to declare at the
last minute former Quezon City
Councilor Edcel Greco Lagman
Jr., the son and namesake of Al-
bay Rep. Edcel Lagman Sr., as
the partys official candidate for
congressman of Albay.
Ziga accused Roxas, Abad,
Abaya and House Speaker Fe-
liciano Belmonte Jr. of mak-
ing President Benigno Aquino
IIIs straight path as crooked
as it looks and sounds.
It was Belmonte who
brought Greco with him into
the Liberal Party two weeks
before the presidential elec-
tions in May 2010, but Greco
had to resign as Quezon City
councilor in March to estab-
lish and meet the one-year
residency requirement in Al-
bay. Greco was replaced by his
wife as councilor.
Ziga said Greco could not
even speak fluent Bicolano.
The Lagmans are last-
minute turncoats, he said.
For nine years under the
Arroyo administration we,
the LP originals, fought hard
to push for party reforms. We
campaigned hard for Noynoy
[President Aquino] in Bicol.
Where were the Lagmans?
They were with the Arroyos
for the longest time.
Ziga said Lagman Sr. only
changed allegiances when he
was ousted as minority leader
and was replaced by his depu-
ty, then House Deputy Minor-
ity Leader Danilo Suarez.
Ziga said he would not bolt
the LP, but he would be em-
bracing UNAs platform of
government.
It will take more than Mar,
Butch and Abaya to make me
bolt and leave the party. I was
with the party long before they
came, Ziga said.
UNA...
bets from the LP coalition and
six from UNA. We were ready to
even make it 7-5 in favor of LP
since we believe we can be allies
anyway, Estrada told the Manila
Standard in an interview.
But even before I could ex-
pound on the issue, the LP already
rejected it. Sayang. That could have
been a dream ticket, Estrada said.
Look at them now, they could
not stop explaining that the LP
and President Aquino did not have
problems with the leadership of
JPE (Enrile). The ouster or coup
plot talks could not have gone
wild had the LP from the start
proved and showed they were re-
ally good allies, Estrada said.
I am not saying they are not
good allies. I am saying these
wild speculations could easily
have been avoided.
Estrada added that it was the LP
that was having problems with its
slate. since it even included Cyn-
thia Villar in the line-up, despite the
LPs bitter rivalry against then pres-
idential candidate Senator Manuel
Villar, who is also the president of
the Nacionalista Party.
Villar emerged a far third in the
2010 presidential elections.
UNA secretary general Navotas
Rep. Tobias Tiangco said the pro-
posal was put forward to Estrada
by the big business.
The big business did not
want disunity and political ten-
sions come mid-term polls. It is
bad for their business. So in one
social function, the business-
men expressed their proposal to
President Erap (Estrada) and Erap
agreed, Tiangco explained.
But even before the two camps
could sit down and discuss the
proposal, Tiangco said the Palace
and the LP immediately rejected
the proposal and even belittled
Estrada for even making the sug-
gestion.
We heard (Presidential spokes-
man Edwin) Lacierda belittling
UNA by saying, Akala namin
malakas ang mga kandidato niyo?
Bakit ngayon makiki-coalesce
kayo? Tiangco said.
(We thought you had strong
candidates? Then why are you
coalescing with us?)
Had they listened to Erap first,
they would have understood the
wisdom behind the big business-
mens proposal that it is for the
interest of the country that every-
body is united, Tiangco said.
Estrada said he would campaign
hard for the UNA ticket before he
would focus on his own campaign
in Manila, where he would slug it
out with Manila City Mayor Al-
fredo Lim of the LP.
Misuari...
the MNLF in 1996 that the Or-
ganization of Islamic Confer-
ence recognized.
Hours before the formal
signing of the deal, former
MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari,
who supposedly held a meet-
ing with the head of the Organ-
ization of Islamic Conference
in Makati on Monday morn-
ing, submitted his report on the
draft agreement forged by the
government with the MILF.
He held a press conference
in Makati but invited only the
representatives from three me-
dia organizations.
Misuari did not reveal what
his report contained, but he
said he and his group would
not initiate violence in Mind-
anao as a result of the deal that
eventually will create a Bang-
samoro region.
He urged his followers not to
initiate any moves that would
result in violence, but he was
quick to remind the govern-
ment that he could not control
the people under him.
Misuari said the deal was an
insult to the MNLF because the
group was not consulted.
This is a direct slap to the
MNLF and to the other Muslim
people who were not even con-
sulted before the framework
was drafted, Misuari said.
The MILF has 10,000 armed
followers stationed in differ-
ent parts in Mindanao, but the
impending return of the 6,000
MILF to the group will dra-
matically change the security
landscape in Mindanao, par-
ticularly in Maguindanao, the
home of many of the MILFs
members.
The MNLF will hold a sum-
mit in Davao city on Oct. 21 to
thresh out its possible options
to the framework, but Fontanil-
la said the convergence would
not ignite trouble.
Francisco Tuyay
Recto...
I am not affected by the un-
founded criticisms of my friends
in the Executive, said Recto,
who claimed he had become the
national punching bag of the
week.
He said withdrawing his com-
mittee report would give the new
chairman of the ways and means
committee a free hand in drafting
a new one.
The committee records, data,
the transcript are all available,
and these are the threads that will
form the new fabric of the excise
tax bill. They can be easily wo-
ven into a new one, Recto said.
He said the House-proposed
version can be adopted as the
discussion document from which
amendments could be made.
Or we can ask the DoF to
send its own bill, he said.
Senate President Juan Ponce
Enrile said the caucus today
would also discuss what the Sen-
ate would do with Rectos com-
mittee report.
Earlier, Senators Joker Ar-
royo and Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
objected when Senate Majority
Floor Leader Vicente Sotto III
accepted Rectos resignation,
saying this would unduly delay
the sin tax bill.
If we accept Senator Rectos
resignation, then there is no more
sin tax bill if nobody assumes his
post, Arroyo said.
Senator Edgardo Angara then
recommended that the resigna-
tion be discussed at a caucus
today, a suggestion that Enrile
supported.
Recto, who has come under
attack from various Executive
department agencies, said there
was no quarrel over the urgent
need to legislate higher sin taxes.
There is only a divergence of
views on how to achieve it, he
said.
Over the weekend, Secretary
Manuel Mamba, head of the
Presidential Legislative Liaison
Office said any senator who did
not support the government ver-
sion of the sin tax bill could be
suspected of having been bribed.
Enrile on Monday demanded
an apology from Mamba if he
could not substantiate his ac-
cusaations. He added that if he
were President, he would have
fired Mamba on the spot.
Recto said he was tired.
Personally, Mr. Senate Presi-
dent, I believe it is curtain time
for me in this assignment. I am
suffering from what I would call
ways and means fatigue. Hav-
ing been doing this for almost a
decade, there is taxing exhaus-
tion on my part, Recto said.
Because I am now seen as an
obstruction and viewed with sus-
picion, then I have to take myself
out of the equation, he added.
He also said he was being crit-
icized from all sides, by groups
who wanted even lower taxes,
and others that wanted higher
taxes on cigarettes and alcohol.
Recto said his role as chairman
of the ways and means commit-
tee was a thankless job.
It is akin to living in an apart-
ment row and waking up one
morning to see your building
surrounded by fire. So you pro-
ceed to collect money from other
residents to buy a water hose. All
the apartments were saved. But
you will not be remembered as
the guy who saved the houses.
You will simply be remembered
as the one who collected the
money to buy the water hose,
Recto said.
If my resignation is what is
required to expedite the passage
of this very important bill, then
so be it, Recto said.
Let me reiterate that I support
President Aquino in his effort to
reform the sin taxes. It is out of
my loyalty to him that I am step-
ping aside to speed up the pas-
sage of this very important meas-
ure, he said.
He said his resignation would
also spare his friends in the
Finance Department the trouble
of trying to convince the senators
that their version of the bill was
superior to the one approved by
his commission.
Earlier, Internal Revenue
Commissioner Kim Henares said
she and others in the government
felt betrayed by Rectos sin tax
proposal after cooperating with
his committee.
Sin tax reform advocates said
Recto was swayed by the pres-
ence of a large Philip Morris fac-
tory in Tanuan, Batangas City.
Doctors led by former Health
Secretary Esperanza Cabral held
a dialogue with Recto Monday to
lobby for the passage of the gov-
ernment proposed sin tax version.
Asked if she believed Rectos
repeated pronouncement that
there was no lobby money in-
volved in his proposal, Cabral
answered: No.

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Corona, kin: Due process ignored
Crunch
tells on
nuptials
Qualifying
program for
students
put in place
Calungsod as migrant workers patron saint
Upang matupad ang pambansang hangarin na
magkaroon ng sapat na pagkain, mahal agang
magkaroon ng sama-samang pagkilos tungo sa
pagpapataas ng produksyon ng mga sakahan at
pangisdaan.
Di to pumapasok ang kahal agahan ng mga
samahan. Sa pagbuo ng mga asosasyon,
napapadal i ang mga gawai n sa buki d at
napapababa ang gastusin sa produksyon.
Ang mga kontri busyong i to ang binibigyang
pansin natin ngayon sa pagdiriwang ng World Food
Day 2012. Akmang-akma ang temang Agricultural
cooperatives: Key to feeding the world, sa pagkilala
natin sa mga organisasyon, samahan at kooperatiba
ng mga magsasaka at mangingisda, sa kanilang kontribusyon sa pagpapalaki
ng produksyon ng pagkain sa buong bansa. Kaagapay din sila ng Kagawaran
ng Pagsasaka, pati na ang pamahalaang lokal at pribadong sektor, sa paglilikha
ng karagdagang hanapbuhay sa kanayunan.
Kaya, sa ating pagdiriwang ngayon, hinihimok nating panatilihin ang kultura
ng pagtutulungan at pagbibigay sa kapwa -- kasama sa mga susi para magkaroon
ng sapat na pagkai n at mabawasan ang gutom at kahirapan, l alo na sa
kanayunan.
Asahan ninyo ang patuloy na suporta ng Kagawaran ng Pagsasaka sa
pagl alagay ng kinakailangang infrastructure at pagbibigay ng techni cal at
marketing assistance para masigurong mataas ang produksyon at kita ng
magsasaka.
Magkasama tayo sa pagbibigay ng sapat na pagkain at mas magandang
hanap-buhay sa ating mga magsasaka at mangingisda.
Benigno S. Aquino III
President, Republic of the Philippines
The Phi l i ppi nes j oi ns the Food and
Agriculture Organization and other member-
countries of the United Nations in observing
World Food Day.
We have planted the seeds of reform, and
the Filipino people are beginning to enjoy the
fruits of our unity, hard work, and determination:
the sustained confidence of our countrymen,
and the reclamation of our nations distinction
in the international community.
The agriculture and fishery sector is among
the greatest contributors to our economi c
upsurge, and we in government stand by our
pledge to empower this industry so that it may optimize its great potential, help
modernize the countryside, and allow our people to stand at par with others in this
competitive globalized milieu.
The Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with local government units and
our stakeholders, has undertaken steps to tap our countrys vital assets---fertile
l ands, rich waters, and industri ous workers--to address the needs of our
countrymen. Guided by the spirit of innovation and solidarity, we can surmount the
challenges of sustainability and move closer to our goal of food security.
May our bonds be strengthened and may our social gaps be bridged, as we all
emerge with a firmer resolve to win the fight against hunger. Together with our
countrymen, the Department of Agriculture, and the tens of thousands of farmers
and fisherfolks groups and cooperatives nationwide and the rest of the world, let
us sustain our momentum as we traverse the straight and righteous path towards
inclusive and equitable progress.
I wish you a happy and meaningful event.
Proceso J. Alcala
Kalihim, Kagawaran ng Pagsasaka
Messages
The Depart ment of
Agriculture (DA) once again
spearheads the celebration of
World Food Day in t he
Philippines in partnership with
t he Food and Agriculture
Organization of the Unit ed
Nations (FAO).
This years t heme
Agricultural cooperatives: key
to feeding the world was
chosen by t he FAO t o
recognize t he role of
cooperatives in improving food
security and their contribution
in eradicat ing hunger
worldwide.
World Food Day is
observed annually on October
16, in commemoration of the
founding anniversary of the
FAO, which was organized in
67 years ago in 1945.
However, it was only in
1981 when t he FAO
inst it utionalized t he yearly
observance of World Food
Day t o height en public
awareness of the predicament
of t he hungry and
malnourished, and t o
encourage respect ive
countries and governments to
invest and vigorously pursue
long-t erm programs t o
eradicate hunger and poverty.
In the Philippines, the DA
through the years has been
partnering with farmers and
f isherf olks groups and
cooperatives along with
local government units and the
private sector to increase
farm and fishery productivity
and incomes, and provision of
sufficient, aff ordable and
nutritious basic food.
In part icular, t he DA
counterparts or channels its
t echnical, f inancial and
marketing assistance through
organized farmers or fishers
groups and cooperat ives,
irrigators associations, rural
improvement clubs, and rural
youth organizations like 4-H
Clubs, among ot her rural-
based organizations.
Agriculture Secretary
Proceso J. Alcala always
makes a special pitch during
provincial sorties, encouraging
small farmers and fishers to
organize t hemselves int o
cooperatives so they could
benefit from economies of
scale.
DA leads World Food Day celeb,
highlights role of farmers cooperatives
WORLD FOOD DAY 2012
He said f armers
cooperatives can buy their
f arm input s in bulk at a
discount, given concessions
when buying farm machinery
and equipment , can link
directly with buyers and thus
enjoy higher prices and forge
long-t erm market ing
contracts. All this, the DA chief
said, redounds t o more
income, and more money in
their pockets.
He said f armers
cooperatives will continue to
play a maj or role and
contribution in attaining the
Aquino administrations goal
of attaining sufficiency in rice
and major staples by end of
2013.
As part of the World Food
Day celebration, the DA has
invited several of its partner-
f armers cooperat ives t o
showcase and sell t heir
respect ive product s at a
tiangge or product exhibits at
the agencys central office in
Diliman, Quezon City. The
tiangge started October 15
and runs t ill Oct ober 19,
Friday.
Also featured at the DA-
OSEC lobby is a photo essay
exhibit of DA-assisted farmers
groups and cooperatives, and
national commodity programs.
Secretary Alcala will lead a
2012 World Food Day
culminat ing program on
October 18, Thursday, 4 pm to
6 pm, at the Liwasang Aurora,
Quezon Memorial Circle, in
Quezon City.
The DA chief will be joined
by Kazuyuki Tsurumi, FAO
Represent at ive in t he
Philippines, and Ms Luiza
Carvalho, UN Resident
Coordinat or and UNDP
Resident Representative in
the Philippines.
Ms. KC Concepcion is also
invited to give an inspirational
message. She is the UN World
Food Programme Philippines
Ambassador against hunger.
Also invited is QC Mayor
Herbert Baut ista who will
welcome the participants and
guest s, while composer-
singer Noel Cabangon will
entert ain t he guest s anf
participants .
During the program, the five
national winners of the 2012
WFD on-t he-spot poster-
making cont est , and this
year s Out st anding Rural
Women will be honored.
The program will be capped
wit h a candle light ing
ceremony, and mass recitation
of the 2012 World Food Day
Pledge.
Agricultural cooperatives: key to feeding the world
Agricultural cooperatives: key to feeding the world
Agricultural cooperatives: key to feeding the world Agricultural cooperatives: key to feeding the world
The Department of Agriculture continues to partner with various agricultural cooperatives, including
irrigators associations and local government units, to increase farm productivity and incomes, and attain
the countrys major goal of rice and food sufficiency. Above, Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala (at
rostrum) assures farmers, fishers and local officials at a forum in Palawan of the Aquino governments
continued support to sustain the provinces distinction as a major and surplus producer of rice, fish and
other major commodities.
Below, farmer-members of the Calamba Rice Growers Multi-Purpose Cooperative thresh
palay at a field in Laguna, where the group is also into rice trading, providing them comfort-
able income, and boosting the provinces rice production.
This years World Food Day
theme Agricultural
Cooperatives: Key to Feeding
the World is very timely to
recognize the significant role
of organized farmers and
fishers groups in agricultural
development, particularly in
attaining food security, and
their contributi on in
eradicating hunger and
poverty.
As a voluntary organization
of people who have agreed to
pool their talents, time and
resources, cooperatives help
their respective members
small farmers, fisherfolk,
livestock raisers, and other
producers engage in viable
food and agribusiness
enterprises. Hence, they take
advantage of market
opportunities, deal with
institutional buyers as well as
input providers. They also
serve as a potent force to
voice their concerns and
interests, boosting their
power to negotiate and
influence policy-making,
particularly regarding
agriculture and fishery
policies, laws and regulations.
To date, there are about
3,146 cooperatives with
agricultural and fishery
activities registered under the
Cooperatives Development
Authority. Mindanao has the
most number, with 1,719;
followed by Luzon, 953; and
Visayas with 474
cooperatives.
The Department of
Agriculturein coordination
with its bureaus, agencies and
corporations, and regional field
unitshas supported various
agricultural cooperatives, that
also include irrigators
associations, farmers and
fishers groups, Rural
Improvement Clubs, 4-H clubs,
and other institutions, which
share a mutual vision of a
modernized, competitive and
sustainable farm and fishery
sector.
Kazuyuki Tsurumi
FAO Representative in the Philippines
Every year, on 16
th
of October, we celebrate the World
Food Day to encourage attention to agricultural food
production and to heighten public awareness on the
problem of hunger in the world.
The theme of this years World Food Day is Agricultural
cooperatives: key to feeding the world. This theme was
chosen to highlight the many concrete ways in which
agricultural cooperatives and producer organizations help
to provide food security, generate employment, and lift
people out of poverty. For FAO and its partners, agricultural
cooperatives are natural allies in the fight against hunger and extreme poverty.
Their importance has also been acknowledged through the United Nations
declaration of 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives.
It has been said repeatedly that we have the means to eliminate hunger and
malnutrition. What is needed is the establishment of an enabling environment
that allows small producers to take full advantage of available opportunities. Strong
cooperatives and producer organizations are an essential part of that enabling
environment. There are numerous examples of strong and inclusive organizations
that foster collective action among people who depend on farming, fishing, forestry,
livestock and related employment for their livelihood.
FAO supports member governments in helping cooperatives and producer
organizations to thrive, by developing adequate policies, legal frameworks,
economic incentives, and forums for dialogue on policy making. In addition, FAO
generates evidence, knowledge and good practice that supports the emergence
of more self reliant, inclusive, gender- equitable, and market oriented producer
organizations and cooperatives.
For this World Food Day 2012, I would like to congratulates and express my
utmost appreciation to the Department of Agriculture and to all other organizations
in the Philippines for joining the rest of the world in the observance of World Food
Day.
The former magistrate did not at-
tend the hearing and sent his lawyers
to ask for an extension, citing the
voluminous records in the case they
needed to go through.
Carla and Constantino Castillo
led separate counter-afdavits,
but both denied the charges that
they violated the National Internal
Revenue Code by not ling their
respective income tax returns for
several years.
The BIR had accused Carla
of evading taxes amounting
to P9.93 million in 2010, but
she, like her father, denied the
charges as harassment.
All these circumstances, it is
respectfully submitted, plainly
show that the present criminal ac-
tion is being used by the BIR as a
tool of harassment and oppression
against me, she said.
She added that she was deprived
of due process because the BIR did
not allow her to participate in its
preliminary investigation in August
before ling the case with the DOJ.
The fact that the joint com-
plaint-afdavit does not and can-
not refer to any docket number of
the required preliminary investi-
By Gigi Muoz David

PRESIDENT Aquino has signed
an executive order that will put
in place a system to address the
mismatch in job skills.
Under EO 83, Aquino has
made the Philippine Quali-
cations Framework into a na-
tional policy that has woven
together basic education, tech-
nical-vocational and higher
education into one instrument
for classifying qualications.
Major players in the imple-
mentation of the new policy are
the Technical Education and
Skills Development Authority,
Department of Education and
the Commission on Higher Ed-
ucation, which were tasked to
craft a detailed description of
each of the qualication level.
The Department of Labor
and Employment and the Pro-
fessional Regulations Comis-
sion are also part of the techni-
cal working group that worked
together to dene the PQF.
The 8-Level Qualications
Descriptions will give the stu-
dents the option to nish cours-
es with a National Certicate I
(NCI), NC II, NC III, NC IV
or graduate with a diploma
degree, baccalaureate degree,
post-baccalaureate degree or a
doctoral degree.
The agencies will jointly
implement national pilot pro-
grams to determine the PQFs
relevance and applicability in
all levels of education.
By Rey E. Requejo
THE daughter of former Chief Justice Re-
nato Corona and her husband on Monday
asked the Justice Department to dismiss the
P150-million tax evasion case led against
them by the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
By Eric Apolonio
VICE President Jejomar C. Bi-
nay on Monday embarked on a
three-nation swing including the
Vatican, where he was to attend
the canonization of Blessed Pe-
dro Calungsod, the Philippines
second saint.
With a lean entourage of ve
people, Binay spoke at the pre-
departure area and expressed
hope that the Blessed Calung-
sod would become the patron
saint of all Filipino migrant
workers.
Binay, the Presidential Advis-
er on Overseas Filipino Work-
ers Concerns said Calungsods
heroism could serve as a great
inspiration to millions of our
migrant Filipinos who face dai-
ly challenges in their places of
work abroad.
Like the Philippines st
saint, St. Lorenzo Ruiz, Blessed
Calungsod met his martyrdom as
a migrant.
Binay said that Calungsods
canonization will be his second
meeting with Pope Benedict
XVI in less than ve months.
Last June 27, on the occasion
of our 40th wedding anniversary,
my wife and I were privileged to
receive his apostolic blessings at
the Vatican, he said.
The Vice President will also
represent President Aquino at
the 2012 European Development
Days in Brussels, Belgium.
He will present the agreement
between the Philippine govern-
ment and the Moro Islamic Lib-
eration at the EDD, marking the
rst time that the peace pact will
be presented in a global forum.
Meanwhile, the ofcial wood-
en statue of Blessed Calungsod
will be one of the passengers
of a Cathay Pacic ight when
it leaves from Cebu to Rome.
Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma,
president of the Catholic Bish-
ops Conference of the Philip-
pines, desginated Fr. Charles
Jayme as the ofcial custodian
of Calungsods statue.
I really take it as a blessing and
gift from God being chosen for
this event. I did not expect this
so it challenges me more to live
up to the virtues of the Blessed
Calungsod, Jayme said.
A motorcade will be held
today from the Cebu cathe-
dral to the Mactan Interna-
tional Airport.
By Maricel Cruz

THERE are fewer
church weddings now-
adays and lawmakers
wonder whether the
cost of holding a cer-
emony other than the
civil rites is becoming
prohibitive.
Gabriela Rep. Luz
Ilagan, vice chairwoman
of the House Committee
on Women and Gender
Equality, said the eco-
nomic crunch has taken
its toll on holding nup-
tials believed to go more
than P100,000.
People are prac-
tical now, she said
citing a Veritas Truth
Survey that noted a
growing trend to set
the money for house-
hold needs instead.
But opposition stal-
warts, Zambales Rep.
Milagros Magsaysay
and Siquijor Rep. Or-
lando Fua saw no rea-
son to make a big fuss
over the survey that
found one of every
two married Filipinos
have forgone the mat-
rimonial sacrament.
I dont think it is
economic. It may be
religious afliation,
Magsaysay said, with-
out elaborating on any
group.
Other couples inter-
viewed earlier by the
Manila Standard even
complained that some
dioceses in Metro Ma-
nila have asked couples
for additional charge for
the use of church veran-
da and any other scenic
views within the com-
pound for pictorials.
But Fua said there
was nothing wrong
about the religious
rites and traditional
ceremonies.
Church weddings
are not expensive.
It is just a matter of
budgetting, he said.
According to Ilagan
a civil wedding would
be more appropriate in
interracial and inter-
religious unions, even
as she underscored -
nancial exigencies as
signicant.
gation inescapably shows that no
such investigation was conducted
at all, she said.
As proof, she said, the complain-
antsSocrates Regala, Josephine
Duran and Cristina Kahulugan
afxed their signatures in the joint-
complaint afdavit on August 30,
but the referral letter of BIR com-
missioner Kim Henares to Justice
Secretary Leila de Lima was dated a
day before, on Aug. 29.
The referral letter is an endorse-
ment to have the complaint subject-
ed to preliminary investigation.
Carla also contested BIRs claim
that she bought a 1,200 square-me-
ter lot in La Vista using only her
income in 2010. She said that she
did not have any income in 2010
because the food business she ven-
tured into had ceased to operate as
early as 2009.
She also explained that she
bought the La Vista property from
her parents who purchased it in
2003 for P16 million.
She added that the BIR also
made it appear that she had no in-
come prior to 2008 when a curso-
ry inquiry would have shown that
she earned $265,000 as a physical
therapist in the United States from
1996-2002. This enabled her to
purchase the La Vista property.
I could have easily explained
the difference between my report-
ed income and my expenditure by
the fact that I had substantial sav-
ings abroad and I set aside the cash
gifts that I received in the United
States during special occasions,
Carla explained.
Constantino, on the other hand,
was charged of not paying his tax-
es amounting to P20.25 million for
2010 and 2003.
Like his wife, he said his right to due
process was violated since he was also
not informed of the BIR probe.
He explained that he could
have shown that he bought a P10-
million property in Quezon City
in 2003 and another P15-million
property in Kalayaan in 2009 us-
ing borrowed funds and not from
his income alone.
Meanwhile, the former chief
justice Corona and lawyers led by
Anacleto Diaz asked for another
extension from the panel to submit
their counter-afdavit.
Diaz initially asked for an exten-
sion until December 5, but the panel
chaired by Senior State Prosecutor
Rosanne Balauag gave him only 10
days or until Oct. 25 to comply.
The scal warned that the third
extension would be nal and fail-
ure to comply would cost Corona
his chance to answer the charges.
We have been very lenient to
the CJ. They have to understand
that we are giving them all chances
to le an answer even if we have
to work within a prescribed period
for our preliminary investigation,
Balauag said in an interview.
Vice President Jejomar Binay during
the pre-departure brieng.
Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
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A4
THE Philippine government
and the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front have taken a solid rst step
in working for peace in violence-
torn Mindanao. The framework
agreement, signed Monday in
Malacaang, contemplates the
establishment of a new political
entity that will be called the
Bangsamoro. This will replace
the current Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao.
Mondays signing ceremony
was marked by optimism and
hope. Both parties viewed the
agreement as the dawn of an era
quite unlike the decades before.
President Benigno Aquino
IIIs speech during the ceremony
emphasized that the framework
was only the rst step in the
journey towards peace. He
expressed empathy with the
Muslim Filipinos and vowed to
work hard to ensure that the culture
of impunity was dismantled.
He described his meeting with
MILF chairman Murad in August
2011 as a meeting between
Filipinosfellow victims of a
non-responsive system.
Presidential peace adviser
Teresita Deles, at one point in her
speech, became emotional as she
remembered the innocent victims
of the violence that has gripped
Mindanao for years. With the new
agreement, widespread loss and
devastation may be relegated to
memory.
The profound and positive
atmosphere was not only in
Malacaang; in Maguindanao
and Mendiola, Manila, members
of the MILF gathered and praised
President Aquino for being the
only president to have given
genuine peace a chance.
The most important message in
Mondays ceremony, however, was
that all the work had just begun.
The agreement has not yet been
fully threshed out. The President
himself acknowledged that the
details still had to be hammered
out. It is in the efforts to work out
these details that opportunities
for discord and disagreement are
likely to arise.
Negotiators and advisers from
both sides must remain true to
their promise of consulting with
stakeholders every step of the
way. They must do so in utter
transparency and sincerity.
Neither the negotiators nor
the administration, too, must be
distracted by elections, a change
in leadership, and other equally
pressing problems hounding the
nation. The peace process is a
continuing effort. It is not just
another political issueit is the
essence of how our Muslim and
Christian brothers and sisters in
Mindanao live.
Already, there is opposition
and intrigue. How should,
for instance, former ARMM
governor and MNLF chairman
Nur Misuaris wordsthat the
agreement is a death sentence
for the MILFbe taken? How
should the representation of
stakeholders be ensured? How
will the provisions of the nal
agreement be made compatible
with existing laws? How will
disruption from breakaway
groupswho have their personal
interests in mindbe prevented?
All these remind us that peace
is still distant and difcult to
achieve.
Mindanao reels from
other issues of clan wars,
poverty, inequality and under-
development. Parallel efforts
to address these must be made
to match all the lofty talk that
made everybody feel good in
Malacaang.
Otherwise, Mondays
ceremony would have been all
for show.
Committing to peace
EDITORIAL
Peace in our time
YESTERDAY marked the signing of a
framework agreement to cease hos-
tilities and seek a lasting peace, be-
tween the Philippine government and
the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Its
a diplomatic breakthrough that comes
not a moment too soon, after the Aquino
governments latest gaffesthe un-
popular cybercrime law, the bungled
back-channeling of Senator Trillanes,
the unsavory escapades of presidential
shooting buddy Rico Puno.
The Aquino framework agreement,
once signed, still has to be converted
into a comprehensive peace agree-
ment by year-end. Then a new basic
law for the new Bangsamoro (Moro
Nation) will have to be approved by
Congress and ratied in a plebiscite
before elections are held for the po-
litical leadership of the new nation.
Concurrently, the MILF rebel forces
will undergo a graduated program
of eventual dissolution.
The yellow media have predictably
fallen all over themselves in hailing this
historic breakthrough. However, after
a cursory review of the new agreement
compared to the stillborn Memorandum
of Agreement on Ancestral Domain in
the last years of the Arroyo adminis-
tration, I still dont see how the former
substantively improves on the latter. For
example:
Both of them carve out a new po-
litical entity whose relationship to the
Manila government is asymmetric.
The MOA-AD called it Bangsamoro
juridical entity, the Aquino agreement
calls it new autonomous political en-
tity. The powers enjoyed by the entity
are substantially the same in either doc-
ument. So whats the diff?
Apparently to sidestep the above
issue, the Aquino agreement cleverly
brings up the proposal of a ministe-
rial government for the Bangsamoro
as a way of drawing re from the con-
stitutionalists. Meanwhile, whos com-
plaining about the constitutionality of a
sub-state within the Philippine state
the very issue on which the High Court
struck down the MOA-AD in 2008?
Department of the Interior and Lo-
cal Government Secretary Mar Roxas
boasted that the Aquino agreement
cedes a smaller territory to the MILF
than the MOA-AD. But the new agree-
ment will allow the Bangsamoro to add
to its territory all contiguous areas with
a resolution from the local government
or a petition by at least 10% of the quali-
ed voters. Again, whats the diff?
The differences Im willing to con-
cede are the relatively greater transpar-
ency in the process leading up to the
Aquino agreement (evidently the painful
lessons from the fate of the MOA-AD
were heeded) and, more importantly, the
Presidents continuing popularity. This
is a reservoir of political capital upon
which he has drawn in order to sell his
new peace deal to the Christian major-
ity, many of whom remain distrustful of
our Muslim minority.
* * *
The lack of distinction between the
2008 and 2012 peace documents has
got to be the reason that the President
has chosen to campaign against the
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mind-
anao generally conceded to be a failed
experimentrather than the earlier
MOA-AD, in rallying support for his
framework agreement. And for once
after all, even he cant be wrong all the
timeIm happy to put in my two cents
worth plugging for his success.
At the end of the day, peace in our
country is too important to be held hos-
tage, especially by secondary consider-
ations like partisanship. Too much blood
has been shed (120,000 lives, by one
count), too many opportunities wasted.
My father belonged to a Christian fam-
ily outside Iligan City, and he used to
tell his children hair-raising stories
about the violence he saw while grow-
ing up. I am certain that he too would
have been delighted by the prospects to-
day of a real peace among the different
ethnic and religious communities whom
he counted as his neighbors.
Regardless of its authorship, any
breakthrough towards peace in Mindan-
ao must be carefully tended, shepherded
through the formidable challenges that
still lie ahead. Constitutional questions
must be addressed creativelythe issue
of a sub-state might be more produc-
tively addressed within a wider discus-
sion of federalism. The opposition must
be won overinterestingly, the loud-
est objections have been coming from
within the Muslim community, from
the Moro National Liberation Front
and the ARMM political establishment.
With them as with Christians, common
ground must be re-established.
There is also a larger history in
the making here, and that is the op-
portunity to create over time, within
this secular though Christian country
of ours, a self-reliant, growing Mus-
lim community that will share with
their Filipino countrymen the com-
mon values of pluralism, tolerance,
and peaceability. Once the growing
pains of autonomy have been worked
out, there is no reason at all why the
deadly disputes that wrack other parts
of the Islamic worldgeographically
and culturally so distant from us
should be made ours as well.
By their own actions today, and by
their prosperity tomorrow, we must
pray that our brothers in Bangsamoro
will succeed in raising up an alterna-
tive vision to the fundamentalists and
jihadists. And that can be nothing less
than a plan of society that properly lives
out, for the modern world, the spiritual
vision of none other than Prophet Mu-
hammad himself.
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Bangsamoro
as Kosovo
WHO doesnt want peace in Muslim
Mindanao, now rechristened
Bangsamoro by virtue of a framework
agreement signed yesterday between the
Philippine government and the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front, with the backing
of Malaysia? But will peace truly follow
now that President Noynoy Aquino has
imposed his own version of Muslim
autonomy in the region, or will the
agreement eventually lead to the creation
of a separate state in Mindanao, like
strife-torn Kosovo
was in the former
Yugoslavia?
The Kosovo
template of ethnic
tension leading
to autonomy and,
eventually, bloody
independence backed
by foreign powers is
not idle speculation.
The long-standing
Balkan trouble spot
of Kosovo, after
all, shares a war-
ravaged history,
ethnic differentiation
and international
intervention with Muslim Mindanao.
In Kosovo, the trouble began after
Yugoslavia decided to give its troubled
province autonomy. When the pro-
independence Kosovo Liberation Army
started attacking government forces,
the Yugoslav government fought back,
eventually starting the 1998-1999
Kosovo War, which was settled by
the intervention of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization and United Nations
peacekeeping forces.
An exodus of Kosovo residents
eeing the warreminiscent of the
Muslim Filipino exodus to Malaysia
plagued Serbia and Montenegro.
Eventually, Kosovo declared
independence, backed by the guns of
both NATO and the UN.
Kosovo remains an international
poster child of strife, despite the best
intentions and the repower of the
people who would want to see it become
a separate state. But perhaps eternal
turmoil is what the big powers want in
Kosovoand in the new Bangsamoro.
* * *
If the Aquino administration and its
allies in the health sector truly want to
see the health of Filipinos improve, why
dont they ban cigarettes and alcohol
altogether? But they cant do that because,
just as President Noynoy Aquino is, by his
own admission, addicted to nicotine, his
government is a slave of the taxes that the
so-called sin products bring in.
This policy incoherence, as the
much-maligned Senator Ralph Recto
calls it, lies at the heart of the controversy
to raise taxes on alcohol and tobacco.
And just as the government cannot live
without the expanded value-added tax
that Recto once backed, it seems it cannot
let go of its addiction to sin taxes despite
its supposed altruistic aim of improving
every Filipinos health.
Nowhere is this governments
hypocrisy clearer than in its desire to price
cigarettes and liquor beyond the reach
of the ordinary Filipino consumer, to
discourage the population from smoking
and drinking. And yet it wants to generate
more revenues from the taxes imposed on
the sales of tobacco and alcohol products
to fund healthcare programs.
If the social injury these products
cause is greater than the taxes they
contribute, then government should
stop asking money from those who pack
cigarettes and bottle alcohol and should
instead tell them to pack up and go,
said Recto in his sponsorship speech
on the proposal to increase excise taxes
on sin products. Recto says he actually
agrees with the anti-tobacco groups that
are now bashing him for coming up
an excise tax measure supposedly far
weaker than what they had demanded.
But if the
government truly
wants to ban smoking
and drinking, it has to
let go of its addiction
to the taxes collected
from alcohol and
tobacco companies.
Only, if cigarettes
and alcohol were
suddenly made
illegal, Recto
explained, the
government would
go into scal shock
like a nicotine or
alcohol addict gone
cold turkey.
The Department of Finance claims
it needs the additional P60 billion it
expects from imposing excise tax hikes
of up to 1,000 percent on cigarettes and
distilled spirits to fund health care. But
it does not bother to explain how it came
up with this fantastic gure, or whether
this revenue goal is actually attainable.
Recto insists the P60-billion target is
way below the different estimates made
by government tax experts themselves.
In one revenue scenario, the tax yield
would actually be P23 billion, or only
38 percent of the DOF goal.
The senator, who chairs the ways and
means committee, conducted several
hearings on the proposed excise tax
hike. It heard the positions presented by
experts, stakeholders and government
ofcials and other affected sectors on
the proposal.
But anti-tobacco advocates want
Recto to listen only to them and to
ignore all the other ndings of the
committee. They are now angry and are
branding Rectos committee report as a
sellout to Big Tobacco after the senator
came out with a proposal that balanced
the interests of all the sectors involved,
including the government.
As correctly pointed out by Recto,
haphazardly and abruptly raising tobacco
taxes like anti-tobacco groups want is
counterproductive. They want a tax
policy that would discourage smoking
and alcohol drinking, which requires a
careful calibration of rates, and not
a radical measure that would lead to
diminishing tax returns, Recto points out.
And this is what the government
and its allies have either conveniently
forgotten or ignored totally in their
futile, incoherent quest to twist and
mangle sin taxation into becoming
both a health and a revenue measure. As
any smoker or alcoholic will tell you,
you cant have it both waysindulging
in sin and not indulging at all.
Perhaps eternal
turmoil is what
the big powers
want in Kosovo
and in the new
Bangsamoro.
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OCTOBER 16, 2012 TUESDAY
A5 Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
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EVERYTIME I hear and read about
Muslim Mindanao, I am reminded of
Cotabato before it became a city.
It was in Cotabato where I got my
feet wet in the eld of journalism.
My best friend and former classmate,
Rudy Tupas, and I volunteered to go
there at the the invitation of the Ob-
late Fathers of Cotabato. We were
there to help with The Mindanao
Cross a weekly publication. It was
then headed by the late Father Cuth-
bert Billman, a hard-drinking, and
fast-talking Oblate.
That was after my graduation I
belonged to Class 50, Bachelor of
Arts, Ateneo de Manila. I was then 23
years old and felt that I was embark-
ing on an adventure. People from
Luzon, at that time, believed that
Mindanao was a land of juramenta-
dos gun-wielding
Moros.
When Rudy and
I landed in Cotabato
City after a bumpy
ride in a Feati plane
with bucket seats, we
discovered that Co-
tabato was not at all
what we had imag-
ined. We found out
that it was dominated
by Christians and
was generally peaceful. I could walk
around the town plaza and roam the
streets even at night.
Sure, there were occasional peace-
and-order problems, but nothing that
the police could not handle. For ex-
ample, I witnessed a juramentado
brandishing a kris and slashing his
way across a street. Soon enough,
though, the police killed him with a
shotgun.
During my stint as a co-editor,
The Mindanao Cross had an audited
circulation of 78,000. It was read in
all Notre Dame schools in Cotabato
then a province undivided -- and
in Jolo and Tawi-Tawi. These were
places where the Oblates then held
sway.
I soon found out that Cotabato
was in fact a town lively with beauti-
ful girls. There were parties almost
every week. When I telegraphed my
mother that I needed a black-and-
white attire with a black necktie for
an occasion, she could not believe
that I had to wear formal clothing in
that Godforsaken place!
Indeed, I can never forget Co-
tabato. This is why I am saddened
when I hear that it has now become
populated with bandits who make
kindnapping-for-ransom a sunshine
industry. I also hear that old Filipino-
Chinese families and long-standing
immigrants from Luzon have either
left for Davao City or gone back to
where they came from.
This place changed my life. It was
in Cotabato when I rst met my wife.
She was then 18, on vacation from
the Philippine Womens University. I
started visiting her every day, bring-
ing her sampaguitas. When I left
Cotabato in 1952 to pursue my law
studies, I never saw her again until I
learned that she had transferred to the
University of the Philippines. I was
then also teaching at the new Ateneo
in Loyola.
Believe it or not, it was through a
blind date that I met her again. Since
then, I never let her out of my sight
until I eventually married her, after I
passed the Bar and after I got to work
as business editor of the defunct Phil-
ippines Herald.
Cotabato was where we got mar-
ried 57 years ago. My wife and I
have gone back there occasionally to
reconnect with our friends. The prob-
lem is that the peace-and-order situa-
tion has worsened.
I have seen most parts of Cotaba-
to then, from North to South, when
Dadiangas was still a small fishing
port and not the General Santos it is
now. I have also gone to Jolo and
Tawi-Tawi. I have
witnessed clan
wars the Sinsuats
held sway in Cota-
bato town. In fact,
it was in Cotabato
when I first found
myself behind
bars. Somebody
sued me for libel
until I was bailed
out by a Spaniard,
Don Paco Blanco,
a good friend of the Oblates.
I can never forget Cotabato, its po-
tential and those who believe in it.
I am glad there is so much hope
that the framework for peace, signed
yesterday, can work that is, if both
sides are sincere. And so long as
the Muslims themselves nd peace
among each other.
The government must realize,
however, that the Muslim problem
is not only a peace-and-order issue.
It is, in fact, multi-faceted: histori-
cal, cultural, social, economic and
political. Many Muslims, espe-
cially among the rank and file, have
never seen themselves as Filipinos
but Moros. This is the reason that
their communities are called Bang-
samoro, named after the Moors of
Spain by our colonizers.
You have the breakaway factions
of the MILF, brigands and bandits.
You have the problem of disarming
the MILF a joke, really, since a
Moro would rather sleep with his rie
than with his wife. There is also the
question of the Nur Misuari-led Moro
National Liberation Front.
We must remember that the
Christian-Muslim conict has been
there for the past 2,000 years. Here
at home, the Moros were never colo-
nized by the Spaniards, Americans
and the Japanese.
It is really possible to have peace
in Mindanao? Sure. We have to re-
member, though, that the road to
final and lasting peace is long and
arduous.
The Cotabato
I knew
The name Bangsamoro
MANY have asked why the new auton-
omous political entity that will replace
the Autonomous Region of Muslim
Mindanao will be called The Bangsam-
oro. The answer lies in history and the
need for historical justice. As President
Aquino said in his speech announcing
the agreement, This agreement creates
a new political entity, and it deserves a
name that symbolizes and honors the
struggles of our forebears in Mindanao,
and celebrates the history and character
of that part of our nation. That name
will be Bangsamoro.
The Bangsamoro is a combina-
tion of two wordsBangsaand Moro.
Bangsais a Malay term for people or
nation and Moro, Spanish term after
the Afro-Berber Moors which were ex-
pelled during the Reconquista from the
Iberian Peninsula in 1492. The contem-
porary Bangsamoro is of recent vintage,
having been rst used in the early 70s
when the Top 90 Muslim youth who
underwent military training in West
Malaysia formed a secessionist orga-
nization known as the Moro National
Liberation Front with a standing army
called the Bangsa Moro Army.
While the term Moro was originally
a pejorative term borne out of racial and
religious prejudice it came to refer rst
to the people mainly from Sulu, certain
parts of Mindanao and Palawan who
share a common Islamic faith, ethos
and beliefs. The Moro people are dis-
tributed into 13 ethno-linguistic groups,
namely: 1) Maranao(Lanao); 2) Magu-
indanao (Cotabato); 3) Tausug (Sulu); 4)
Samal (Tawi-tawi); 5) Yakan (Basilan);
6) Sangil (South Cotabato); 7) Palawani
(Palawan); 8) Badjao (South Sulu); 9)
Kalibugan (Zamboanga); 10) Jama Ma-
pun (Cagayan de Tawi-tawi); 11) Iranun
(Lanao/Cotabato); 12) Kalagan (Davao);
and Molbog (Southern Palawan).
Aside from the peoples of Islamic
faith, Mindanao is also inhabited by in-
digenous peoples known as Lumads,
which, to name a few, include: the Suba-
non (Zamboanga); Manobo (Bukidnon);
Blaan (Cotabato); Tboli (Sultan Ku-
darat); Higaonon (Misamis Oriental);
Tiruray (Maguindanao); and Bagobo
(Davao/Agusan), and Christians who are
either indigenous to the island or those
who migrated from Visayas and Luzon.
The history of the Moros and the
Lumads is that of resistance against the
Spanish colonial government. Indeed,
until the very last years of their colonial
government in the archipelago, the Span-
iards tried and failed in their attempt to
subdue the Muslims in the South. Al-
though the US next became the colonial
power in 1898, its presence was not felt
for many years in Mindanao. It was only
after a decade or so later that Mindanao
was incorporated in the national political
set-up when it was made an administra-
tive region under the suzerainty of the
central government in Manila.
Moroland soon came under the pri-
mary administrative supervision of the
Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes. From the
point of view of the American colonial
administrators, the people of the Islamic
faith were collectively conglomerated
under the term Moros. This the Ameri-
cans did instead of focusing on the tribal
divisions among them. And since most of
the them were lowlanders, as opposed to
the Lumads who were predominantly up-
landers, they were not exempted from the
land registration policies of the colonial
government. The Bureau of Lands started
processing homestead applications. Laws
were passed which provided registration
of land ownership through land titles and
also limiting hectarage for individuals and
corporations. The Moros and the Lumads,
being mostly illiterate and uninitiated in
the intricacies of bureaucratic land regis-
tration, refused or did not bother to reg-
ister their lands. Armed with legal docu-
ments sanctioned by the colonial govern-
ment, Christian settlers and corporations,
at rst mostly American, eventually took
over the lands previously owned by the
Moros and Lumads, resulting in the loss
of their traditional land rights. Vast tracks
of land they traditionally occupied and
cultivated were leased or sold to settlers
and plantation companies.
When the Philippines gained inde-
pendence in 1946, the Filipino govern-
ment encouraged migration to Mind-
anao to ease overcrowding in Luzon
and the Visayas. Voluntary and gov-
ernment-sanctioned migration began in
earnest after the second World War. By
1960, Christian immigrants had vastly
outnumbered the Moros and Lumads
throughout Mindanao, causing inevi-
table dislocation. This does not mean
Christians did not suffer injustice or
oppression from the government, each
other and even from the Moros.
In sum, Bangsamoro is not an ethno-
linguistic but a political and now a legal
term. In fact, it is not limited to those
of Muslim faith but can include Lumads
and Christians as well. It is a reection
of the Moro peoples struggle for equal-
ity and self-determination. The Frame-
work Agreement, which was signed
yesterday, is thus but an attempt to heal
the wounds from centuries of discrimi-
nation, prejudice, bigotry and dispos-
session of a peoples historical birth-
right and restore to them the dignity that
they truly deserve. For this reason, not
only the people of Mindanao should
celebrate but the whole country.
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TO THE POINT

LETS make no bones about this: The
documentary Give Up Tomorrow, which
everyone has been raving about, was
created with a distinct purpose is to
expose what the lmmakers believe was
an injustice. More specically, the lm-
makers want the lm to generate public
support that would hopefully lead to a
review of the case. One of the lmmak-
ers is related by blood to the subject of
the lm. The Web site of the lm is up-
front about its advocacy, which is to free
Francisco Paco Larraaga, convicted of
raping and killing the Chiong sisters
Marijoy and Jacqueline.
All these, however, should not dis-
tract us from the stark naked truth that
leaps out of the screen, which is that a
major injustice has been done in this
country. There is just no way for any
viewer to come out of the screening with
a contrary belief the facts pretty much
speak for themselves, the inescapable
conclusion is arrived at organically.
It is nevertheless important to high-
light the background information be-
cause there really are many people in
this country who judge cases, or other
people, mainly by association, gut feel,
and by perception. I know quite a num-
ber of people who have refused to watch
the lm because they see it as propagan-
da. Many of those who dismissed the
testimony of Larraagas teachers and
classmates, all 35 or so of them who said
the suspect was in Manila at the time of
the murders, did so believing that those
associated with Larraaga could only be
part of a cover-up strategy. Many of us
do tend to see the worse in others and
think that most people would lie for a
loved one, for a friend, or for money.
In fact, the whole travesty that is the
subject of the lm the Kafkaesque train
of events - came to pass largely because
of the stereotype about evil rich kids and
the resulting condemnation over how
the rich in this country supposedly get
away with almost anything, including
committing grisly crimes, because of
their political connections. This melo-
dramatic drivel is the stuff of local soap
operas and movies and built the iconic
status of the likes of deposed President
Joseph Estrada and the late Fernando Poe
Jr. This was the same mob mentality that
convicted Hubert Webb for the Vizconde
murders, a conviction which was thank-
fully eventually reversed. And it is the
same mentality that were seeing in the
rush to crucify Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
and her allies.
I was in Cebu the week the Chiong
murders happened almost two decades
ago. I remember how the murders
electried the city for a few days ev-
ery morning, the city would practically
come to a halt as newscasters and pun-
dits delivered the latest in the develop-
ing saga of the poor versus the rich. The
victims and their families were working
class while the suspects were all scions
of the most powerful clans in the city
(Larraaga is a great grandson of a Phil-
ippine president). Those who expressed
reservations on the guilt of the suspects
were almost always met by hostility by
everyone else who believed the worst
of the suspects because, well, they were
spoiled brats and two, the mother of the
victims said so. Objectivity and fairness
proved to puny against the massive out-
cry for justice and retribution. Thelma
Chiong, the mother of the two sisters,
was formidable she was not averse to
making a scene or giving way to histri-
onics. Media people were more than
happy to sensationalize the whole thing.
The whole rush to justice ended up with
Paco Larraaga and six others thrown in
jail. When Larraaga was transferred to
a jail in San Sebastian, Spain on Octo-
ber 2009 courtesy of a treaty signed by
the Arroyo government, there was once
again a massive outcry in media.
And now, 16 years later, comes
the documentary which has ennobled
people to question the wisdom of jus-
tice derived mainly by popular clamor.
Whether the current outrage will snow-
ball into something more concrete re-
mains to be seen.
But I do nd it disturbing that many
people think that the whole travesty
happened because of other people. For
example, I was particularly amused at
how the likes of Gina Lopez (of ABS-
CBN) wailed about how such an injus-
tice could happen in this country, forget-
ting the immense power of her familys
media network. Oh please, let us stop
looking for other people to blame for
the problems in our justice system. In
a country where cases are tried by me-
dia, where pundits sit omnipotent jury
members, where popularity is every-
thing, where morality is bandied about
as blanket justication, we shouldnt be
surprised that injustice happens.
We all know the justice system in
this country is bad, horribly bad. Hope-
fully we dont have to make as many
documentary lms to jolt us into real-
ization that the system is bad because
we allow it to be.
We allowed it
By Andrew Roberts
IT IS hard to imagine anything more
wrongheaded than last weeks decision
by the Nobel Committee to award its
Peace Prize to the European Union. Un-
til, that is, one is reminded of the frauds,
terrorists, totalitarians and world-class
idiots who have won the award over the
past 20 years.
The fabulous ignorance necessary to
pass over the organization that in real-
ity brought peace to the European conti-
nent for the past six decadesthe North
Atlantic Treaty Organizationand to
reward instead a soulless, corrupt, bul-
lying, gloried customs union with pre-
tensions to superpower, beggars belief.
The Nobel Prize was once a tower-
ing honor, worthy of the highest re-
spect. Just over half a century ago, in
1953, Albert Schweitzer and General
George C. Marshall both received it on
the same day, while Winston Churchill
picked up the prize for literature. But a
rot set in with the political correctness
of the 1990s. The (usually Labor Party-
dominated) Norwegian parliament, the
Storting, chooses the Nobel Commit-
tee, and in that decade the Peace Prize
was won by Rigoberta Menchu Tum,
the Guatemalan activist who fabricated
her autobiography and supported mur-
derous Communist guerrillas, and by
Yasser Arafat.
In the 2000s it went to Jimmy Carter,
Mohammed ElBaradei (the Internation-
al Atomic Energy Agency chairman who
consistently underplayed Iranian nuclear
ambitions), Al Gore and the Intergov-
ernmental Panel on Climate Change,
and Barack Obama, in the very rst year
of his presidency. Recognition of genu-
ine achievement has been replaced by
the worst kind of genuection toward
liberal icons.
Spawning riots
Nothing better represents this degra-
dation of the Nobel Peace Prize than the
ludicrous decision to award it to the EU,
an organization that has done nothing
whatever to bring peace, and is currently
spawning riots and mayhem in many of
its vassal states.
Ask an Athenian shopkeeper, who
during the past two years of civil unrest
has had to board up his shop for weeks
at a time, whether the EU has brought
him peace. Ask the immigrants, who
increasingly are threatened by Europes
resurgent fascist parties, galvanized by
the recessions that were caused in part
by the EUs effort to straitjacket every
economy in Europe into a single cur-
rency, with a single interest rate and
exchange rate. Ask the youth of Eu-
rope whether theyve found peace, as
the unemployment rates for their age
groups rise above 50 percent in Spain,
and only slightly less in Italy, Portugal
and Greece.
Recent recipients of the Peace Prize
have failed utterly to meet the crite-
ria that were set out at its inception, in
1901, and this years choice of the EU
is a classic example. Alfred Nobel said
in his will that the committee should
nd the person who shall have done the
most or the best work for fraternity be-
tween nations, the abolition or reduction
of standing armies and for the holding
and promotion of peace congresses.
Elena Bonner, widow of the 1975
Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov, once la-
mented that, At one time, the Nobel
Peace Prize was the highest moral award
of our civilization. But after December
1994, when Arafat became one of the
three new laureates, its ethical value
was undermined. Yet almost twenty
years after the Nobel Committee start-
ed besmirching the Peace Prize in the
1990s, the world still agrees with Henry
Kissinger, who has said of it, There is
no comparable honor.
Liberal bias
As early as the 1980s, it became all
too clear that there was an unpleasant
whiff of anti-Americanism about the
prize, or at least against conservative
and pro-capitalist Americans. It once
went to Republicans such as Theodore
Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Charles Dawes,
Frank Kellogg and Kissinger. But the
nominees of Norways left-dominated
parliament never awarded the Peace
Prize to President Ronald Reagan, Mar-
garet Thatcher or Pope John Paul II for
their roles in the destruction of Soviet
Communism. In 1987, the Nobel Com-
mittee privately told the Costa Rican
president, Oscar Arias, that they were
giving him the prize as a weapon
against Reagan, according to an ac-
count by Robert Kagan.
Although Kissingerwho had to
share his own 1973 prize with Le Duc
Tho, the foreign minister of totalitarian
North Vietnamwas of course quite
right that there is no comparable hon-
or, there is one that we should take far
more seriously, as the thinking-persons
Nobel Peace Prize.
The US Presidential Medal of Free-
dom has been awarded to such genuinely
deserving people as John Paul II, Irving
Kristol, Neil Armstrong, Vaclav Havel,
Norman Schwarzkopf, Omar Bradley,
Reagan, Paul Johnson, George Schulz,
Stephen Hawking, Aung San Suu Kyi,
Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, Ed Murrow,
Mother Teresa, John Howard and Jimmy
Doolittle. These people have done more
for liberty on our planet than recent No-
bel prizewinners have, let alone the EU.
The winner of the Nobel gets a check
for more than $1 million. One wonders
what the EU will do with this windfall.
They might use it to pay for an inde-
pendent audit of their accounts (it has
been well-over a decade since the EUs
own auditors signed off on the blocs
budget). Or maybe theyll add another
room or two to the enormous, luxury,
high-rise buildings that their bureau-
crats build for themselves in Brussels
vanity projects for whose construc-
tion EU taxpayers money is no object.
Or maybe they should do what they
like doing best: simply wasting money
to no effect.
One question bothers me about all
this, though: If the Norwegians really
admire the EU so much, why havent
they joined it? Bloomberg
BONG C.
AUSTERO
ARE WE THERE YET?
This place
changed my life
in the 1950s.
A Nobel Prize for idiots
DEAN TONY
LA VIA
EAGLE EYES
News
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mst.daydesk@gmail.com OCTOBER 16, 2012 TUESDAY
A6
GMA arraignment deferred

IN BRIEF
Enrile tackles
hunger reports
Republic of the philippines
Department of public Works anD HigHWays
office of tHe secretary
mAnilA
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
notice
10 october 2012
notice is hereby given to all prospective bidders for contract package ii
-Visayas, lot 2. 1a, palo carigara-ormoc Road, leyte, lot 2.1b, Daang
maharlika Road (liloan-naval highway), leyte and lot 2.2, iloilo capiz
Road (old Route), iloilo, under the Road improvement and institutional
Development project (RiiDp), that the following are the changes/revisions
in the hereunder items of works, as a result of the review of the use of
geotextile paving fabric for the said projects and amendment regarding
spl-900, Dayworks for lots 1.1 and 1.2.
i. changes/Revision in the items of Work due to Deletion of Geotextile
paving fabric:
lot 2. 1a, palo carigara - ormoc Road, leyte
item no. Description
Quantity
original Revised
310(1)a
bituminous concrete surface (Wearing)
course, hot laid (50mm. thick)
198,764.00 sq.m. 5,300.50 sq.m.
310(1)c
bituminous concrete surface (Wearing)
course, hot laid (100mm. thick)
- 193,463.50 sq.m.
spl 314
Geotextile paving fabric with Glass
Reinforcements
5,000.00 sq.m. -
lot 2. 1b, Daang maharlika Road (liloan -naval highway), leyte
item no. Description
Quantity
original Revised
310(1)b
bituminous concrete surface (Wearing)
course, hot laid (80mm. thick)
96,087.00 sq.m. -
310(1)c
bituminous concrete surface (Wearing)
course, hot laid (100mm. thick)
- 96,087.00 sq.m.
spl 314
Geotextile paving fabric with Glass
Reinforcements
5,000.00 sq.m. -
lot 2.2, iloilo capiz Road (old Route), iloilo
item no. Description
Quantity
original Revised
310(1)a
bituminous concrete surface (Wearing)
course, hot laid (50mm. thick)
48,508.00 sq.m. 40,401.00 sq.m.
310(1)c
bituminous concrete surface (Wearing)
course, hot laid (100mm. thick)
34,578.00 sq.m. 42,685.00 sq.m.
spl 314
Geotextile paving fabric with Glass
Reinforcements
5,000.00 sq.m. -
302(2)
Bituminous Tack Coat, Emulsifed Asphalt
ss-1
69.00 tonne 121.00 tonne
2. spl-900, Dayworks
no separate payment shall be made in respect of Dayworks as this is
deemed to be included in the pay-item for spl-1000, provisional sums.
however, the bidders are required to accomplish the schedule of Daywork
Rates for labor, materials and equipment under section 4 -bidding forms.
the revised plans, bill of Quantities forms and other documents with
corrections shall be obtained at the Central Procurement Offce (CPO),
5
th
floor, DpWh building, bonifacio Drive, port Area, manila, starting 16
october 2012, which shall form parts of the bidding Documents.
please be guided accordingly.
(sgd.) Jaime a. pacanan, ph.D., ceso i
undersecretary for support services
chairman, bAc for civil Works
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Davao Oriental 2
nd
District Engineering Offce
Region XI Mati, Davao Oriental
I nvI tatI on to BI d
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works
and Highways, invites contractors to bid for the aforementioned projects:
Contract ID : 12LG0046
Contract Name : Concreting of Farm to Market Road, Mapantad-
Tagbobolo-Taguibo Road
Contract Location : Brgy. Sainz, City of Mati, Davao Oriental
Scope of Work : Concreting of 0.15m thk. X 6m width x 1.110 km.
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php 10,900,000.00
Source of Fund : DA 10,000,000.00
: 2012 VIILP 900,000.00
Contract Duration : 56 calendar days
Bid Documents Fee : Php 10,000.00
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with
the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be
automatically rejected at the opening of bid.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI),
purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior
registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership,
corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to
the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at
least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting
Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment at least equal to 10%
of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility
check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for
registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the
receipt of LOI. The DPWH POCW-Central Offce will only process contractors
applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the
Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be
downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents October 10, 2012 to October 30, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference October 18, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
October 25, 2012 @ 12:00 noon
4. Receipt of Bids October 30, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
5. Opening of Bids October 30, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH,
2
nd
District Engineering Office, Mati, Davao Oriental, upon payment of a
nonrefundable fee of (please refer to individual project). Prospective bidders
may also download the BDs from the DPWH web site, if available. Prospective
bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said
fees on or before the submission of their bids Documents. Pre-bid Conference
shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must
accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in
Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed
in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The
frst envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include
a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component
of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid
as determined in the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The Department of Public Works and Highways reserves the right to accept
or reject any bid and to annul the bidding process anytime prior Contract award,
without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) FIDELA M. BISEN
Engineer III
BAC Chairman

Noted:
(Sgd.) CYNTHIA GRACE C. TIU
Assistant District Engineer
Offcer-In-Charge
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORkS AND HIGHWAYS
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
REqUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE CONDUCT OF
TRAFFIC STUDy / TRAFFIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT (TIA) FOR EDSA
AND ADjOININg ROADS (ROxAS BLvD AND NICHOLS INTERCHANgE
ACCESS ROAD) LEADINg TO NAIA TERMINALS, PASAy CITy AND WITHIN
THE vICINTIy OF TANDANg SORA AvE. BETWEEN CAPITOL HILLS DRIvE
AND COMMONWEALTH AvE., qUEON CITy
The Department of Public Works and Highways, through the gAA
Fy 2011 intends to apply the sum of Php 1,931,790.00 being
the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under
the contract for the conduct of Traffc Study/ Traffc Impact
Assessment (TIA) Services for Edsa and adjoining roads (Roxas
Blvd. and Nichols Interchange access road) leading to NAIA
terminals, Pasay City and within the vicinity of Tandang Sora Ave.
between Capitol Hills Drive and Commonwealth Ave.,quezon City .
Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected
at the opening of the fnancial proposals.
1. The Department of Public Works and Highways now calls for the
submission of eligibility documents for Consultancy Services for
the conduct of Traffc Study/Traffc Impact Assessment to evaluate,
determine the present traffc characteristic of the intersections and
adjoining major access roads in the road network and its impact on
the proposed project and improvement covered in the study area.
Interested consultants must submit their eligibility documents on or
before October 22, 2012 10:00 A.M. at Central Procurement Offce
Function Room , 5
th
Floor, DPWH Building, Bonifacio Drive, Port
Area, Manila Applications for eligibility will be evaluated based on a
non-discretionary "pass/fail" criterion.
2. The BAC shall draw up the short list of consultants from those
who have submitted Eligibility documents/Expression of Interest
and have been determined as eligible in accordance with the
provisions of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as
the "government Procurement Reform Act", and its Implementing
Rules and Regulations (IRR). The short list shall consist of minimum
of three (3) prospective bidders who will be entitled to submit bids.
The criteria and rating system for short listing are:
The criteria for the short listing for the Consultancy Service will
be based on the Applicable Experience (35pts), Qualifcation of
personnel (40pts) and Job Capacity (25pts) while the rating system
to be used is point system.
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding
procedures using non-discretionary "pass/fail" criterion as
specifed in the IRR of RA 9184.
(i) Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships,
partnerships, or organizations with at least sixty percent
(60%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to
citizens of the Philippines.
3. The Procuring Entity shall evaluate bids using the, Quality-Cost Based
Evaluation/Selection (QCBE/QCBS), Fixed Budget Selection, or Least-
Cost Selection] procedure.
4. The contract shall be completed within 65 working Days.

5. The Department of Public Works and Highways reserves the right to reject
any and all bids, annul the bidding process, or not award the contract at
any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to
the affected bidder or bidders.

6. For further information, please refer to:

Remedios G. Belleza
DPWH, TEAM-PMO
2
nd
Floor, Focus Building, Motorpool Compound
2
nd
St., Port Area, Manila
bellezaremedios@dpwh.gov.ph
(02)5218203
October 12, 2012
(Sgd.) RAUL C. ASIS
Undersecretary for Technical Services
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
No gasoline needed. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority launched four teams of trafc
constables on electric scooters to direct trafc and assist motorists, pedestrians and tourists in key areas
in the metropolis. Chairman Francis Tolentino said the teams, each composed of four constables, will be
deployed at the Rizal Park and Nagtahan intersection in Manila, the intersection of Epifanio delos Santos
and Ayala Avenues in Makati City and the Old Domestic Road and Roxas Boulevard in Paraaque City.
Lawyer Crisanto Saruca was assigned to supervise the teams which are also tasked to enforce the anti-
jaywalking ordinances and provide trafc assistance to participants and organizers of fun runs, mara-
thons, parades, feasts and other outdoor events. Tolentino said the use of e-wheeled motorized scooters
is part of the effort of the agency to save gas consumption and lessen pollution in the metropolis. The e-
wheel program is similar to the T3 Patroller being used in New York and in France, he said. DANNY PATA
CAGAYAN Rep. Jack Ponce Enrile called on his col-
leagues in Congress and the executive branch to give
serious and prompt attention to an international report
that hunger is becoming more serious in the Philip-
pines despite the governments poverty alleviation
program over the years.
Unless this alarming issue is attended with speed
and the seriousness that it requires then we should
expect a rise in social tension and crime incidents,
said Enrile, one of the leading Senat ecandidates of
the United Nationalist Alliance . After all, a hungry
stomach knows no law.
According to the Global Hunger Index of the
Washington-based International Food Policy Re-
search Institute, the Philippines rose from 11.5 points
in 2011 to 12.2 points this year.
The IFPRI ranked countries on its 100-point GHI
scale where zero is the best score (no hunger) and 100
the worst.
The downgrade in our ranking clearly shows that
something is disturbingly wrong in our current ap-
proach and policies to address poverty, hunger and
more importantly, the issue of food security and food
sovereignty, the congressman said.
It is this disconnect between policy and reality that
I would immediately focus on should I get elected to the
Senate with the support of our people, Enrile said.
Enrile noted that further compounding the hunger
problem is a related report by the United Nations that
some 6 million Filipino children are malnourished
and that majority of them below the age of six do not
have any form of childcare.
The anti-graft courts First Division
granted Arroyos plea to postpone the
proceedings because of the former
leaders faril health as certied by
physician Nona Legaspi of the state-
owned Veterans Memorial Medical
Center in Quezon City.
Legaspi said Arroyo, who is now
congresswoman of Pamapanga, has
been moved out of the hospitals
intensive care unit, but should not
attend the arraignment because the
congresswoman must still undergo an
echocardiogram test at the Philippine
By Merck Maguddayao
THE Sandiganbayan on Monday deferred the
arraignment of former President Gloria Arroyo
on charges that she and several ofcials of
the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Ofce
illegally disbursed some P366 million of the
agencys funds.
Heart Center after showing signs of
ischemia, a heart disease.
One of Arroyos co-accused former
PCSO chairman Manuel Morato
also failed to attend his arraignment
because he also has a heart condition
and is conrned at St. Lukes Medical
Center in Quezon City.
The court reschedule Arroyos and
Moratos arraignment to October 29.
At the same time, former PCSO
chairman Sergio Valencia and ex-
account manager Benigno Aguas
pleaded not guilty on the plunder
case.
The anti-graft court scheduled
the preliminary conference of the
two detained ex-officials at 2 p.m.
on October 29.
Meanwhile, lead prosecutor
Diosdado Calonge of the Office
of the Ombudsman asked the
Sandiganbayan to order the
cancellation of the passports of
former PCSO general manager
Rosario Uriarte and former PCSO
board members Ma. Fatima Valdez
and Jose Taruc V.
The three reportedly left
the country days before the
Sandiganbayan ordered the hold
departure order on all respondents
on July 27.
Former PCSO board member
Raymundo Roquero, former
Commission on Audit chairman
Reynaldo Villar, and former COA
Intelligence Fund Unit auditor Nilda
Plaras remain at large.
Sandiganbayan set the pre-
trial of the PCSO plunder case on
November 22.
Agrarian reform stays
SECRETARY Virgilio de los Reyes
denied that the government is planning
to defang the countrys land reform
program by abolishing the Department
of Agrarian Reform.
There is no plan to abolish DAR.
There is no mass layoff in the depart-
ment, he said, even as employees of
the agency complained that they were
being transferred to other government
agencies.
He claried the budget for the sup-
port services to agrarian reform bene-
ciaries in 2013 stays with the DAR, not
with the Department of Agriculture.
This government is committed to
implementing both the language and
spirit of the Comprehensive Agrarian
Reform Program, and we will continue
to perform the twin tasks of providing
land and appropriate support services to
rightful beneciaries, he said.
Rio N. Ar aja
Network wins labor suit
LABOR Arbiter Gaudencio P. Demaisip
Jr. of the National Labor Relations
Commission favored GMA Network
and its chairman Felipe Gozon in a
labor case led by cameraman Joselito
M. Dela Cruz and assistant cameraman
Edgardo S. Enriquez, former casual
employees of the company.
The case arose when Dela Cruz and
Enriquez joined talents of GMA with
existing Talent Agreements in initially
ling a complaint for regularization
of employment. The two joined in the
complaint although they were relievers,
who were engaged to augment the regu-
lar crew.
Under Article 280 of the Labor Code,
casual employees become regular em-
ployees only when they have rendered
at least one year of service. The com-
plainants total and aggregate number
of days of work as augmentation crew
or relievers has not reached one year.
Further, the complainants, being casual
employees of the Network, are not en-
titled to security of tenure that regular
employees enjoy under Article 279 of
the same law.
The labor arbiter thus found no sub-
stantial cause to support the complain-
ants action for illegal dismissal and
regularization.
OCTOBER 16, 2012 TUESDAY
A7 Sports Riera U. Mallari, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
sports_mstandard@yahoo.com
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
Centro Escolar, La Salle, Rizal Tech retain crowns
Adamson rips Baguio, 29-0
Bernardino, best pitcher and
Most Valuable Player awardee
in the recent Big League World
Series won by Team Manila,
retired the rst three St. Louie
batters she faced and Muyco,
the countrys no. pitcher today,
and Raro duplicated the feat
during their turn as the Lady
Falcons opened their bid for a
three-peat with a bang in this
annual tournament previously
known at the Ateneo Invitation-
al Championship.
Making use of the second
stringers in her star-laden lineup
most of the time, all, except one,
of the Lady Falcons coach Ana
Santiago elded in connected in
a 16-hit attack against greenhorn
CENTRO Escolar University, host De La
Salle Zobel and Rizal Technology retained
their respective titles, while San Beda Col-
lege Alabang and Miriam College plucked
two titles each at the close of the 43rd Wom-
ens National Collegiate Athletic Associa-
tions rst semester over the weekend.
CEU remains senior basketball champion af-
ter beating RTU twice in a row, 79-38 and 78-
48, with Charmaine Natural and Most Valuable
Player Janine Pontejos pouring in a total of 42
and 27 points, respectively, in the back-to-back
wins at the St. Scholastica Manila gym.
DLSZ also kept its midgets title after a 55-36
triumph over Miriam in their winner-take-all finals
duel. Jel Alliah Jajurie topscored for the champions
with 15 markers. Miriam then unseated DLSZ in
the juniors level via a sweep, 55-49 and 57-53.
In volleyball, Miriam repeated as junior
volleyball champions as it bested DLSZ
anew--25-17, 25-19, 27-25 and 25-21, 25-11,
15-25, 30-28. San Beda is the new midgets
champion after surviving DLSZ, 15-25, 25-
23, 25-22 and 25-18, 24-26, 25-15.
CEU swept Miriam for its second seniors
title, 25-12, 25-18, 25-16 and 25-17, 25=17,
25-18, in the tournament supported by
Goody, Mikasa, Molten, Sun Cellular, MJC
Photography, network partner AKTV and ra-
dio partner Monster Radio RX 93.1.
RIZZA Bernardino, Julie Marie Muyco
and Baby Jane Raro combined for a no-hit,
no-run, no-error game as multi-titled Ad-
amson University took only three innings in
a 29-0 massacre of St. Louie University of
Baguio City on opening day of the Cebuana
Lhuilller National Inter-collegiate womens
softball championship at the Rosario Sports
Complex in Pasig City.
Roman, Montano win
underbone, scooter tilts
MARVIN Mangulabnan of HGM
and Paul Mark Doblada wrested
the spotlight in their respective
divisions as Anthony Roman of
Castrol-Dudshop and Miko Erich
Montano of JVT Racing sealed
their title feats recently in the sea-
son nale of the 2012 Philippine
Underbone King Championships
and the 2012 Philippine Scooter
Racing Championships at Clark
International Speedway here.
Mangulabnan, who was 15
points behind in the title race, bare-
ly escaped by just 0.217 of a second
over Nino Fabian of Castrol-Dud-
shop to rule the 150cc Open of the
2012 Philippine Underbone King
Championships, while Doblada
outlasted Montano at the nish
line by just 0.059 of a second in the
180cc Open class of the 2012 Phil-
ippine Scooter Racing Champion-
ships, which are both sanctioned by
the Underbone and Scooters Rac-
ing Association and supported by
FDR as the ofcial tires.
The big win in the championship
leg only steered Mangulabnan for
the overall runner-up crown in the
2012 Philippine Underbone King
Championships with a total of 124
points or two points ahead of over-
all third placer Fabian with 122.
Roman checked in only third in
the nal leg but it was enough to
capture a back-to-back Underbone
King plum with 134 points or 10
points ahead of Mangulabnan.
Bagging the other titles in the
2012 Philippine Underbone King
Championships were Michael Al-
tamira of KSR-Motoworld in the
130cc Open, James Aldrin Mendez
in the 115cc Open and Hajime Ta-
dachi in the 115cc Novice division.
Despite Dobladas victory, Mon-
tano still wrapped up the season
with a double title feat, clinching
the Overall plum in the 2012 Phil-
ippine Scooter Racing Champion-
ships with 136 points over JVT
teammates Arlan de la Cruz and
Ivan Santiago who tallied 120 and
93 points respectively, and also the
160cc Open crown with 135 over
Marvin Marquez and third placer
James Barcial who made it a 1-2
nish for MTRT for the day togeth-
er with Ralph Kenneth Torres.
Elizabeth Taynec, a 16-year-old
engineering freshman at SLU.
Shortstop Queenie Sabobo
went perfect in two trips at the
plate and had a one run-batted-in.
Rookie pinchhitters Lorna Ador-
able and Andrea Mae Gonzales
matched Sabobos 1.000 at bat al-
though the duo did even better by
driving three runs and two runs,
respectively.
Luzviminda Embudo and El-
vie Entrina, two of ve members
of the Philippine Blu Girls in
coach Santiagos roster, singled
and doubled in a combined ve
runs between them to the de-
light of crowd that witnessed the
inaugural rites of this 12-team,
one-round series sponsored by
Cebuana Lhuillier, Cebuana Pera
Padala, Le Soleil de Boracay, Ce-
buana Lhuillier Insurance Solu-
tions, Just Jewels and Phiten.
University of the East lumped
together all of its three runs in the
rst inning in a 3-1 victory over
University of Santo Tomas.
It was a bleak inaugural day
for the provincial campaigners
as University of the Philippines,
a team made up mostly of former
Miriam College sluggers, made
mincemeat of Bulacan State Uni-
versity in another abbreviated
contest, 11-l, that lasted for only
four innings.
The Lady Falcons had the
game under wraps as early as
in the upper half of the opening
frame, where they caught St.
Louies defenses napping with a
three-run binge on a pair of base-
hits courtesy of Abobo and En-
terina aided by a pair of miscues
by their rivals.
IN BRIEF
Paronda, Henares rule shootfest
RANDY Paronda and Daniel Danby Henares ruled the 2012
Philippine National Shooting Association National Open at the
PNSA Marine Shooting Range in Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City.
Paronda shot 745 points to win the PNSA National Open
Championship and shatter his previous record (743) in the heavy
varmint class open.
Henares took the most number of medals with ve including
two gold medals along with a silver medal and two bronzes.
Henares also won the Semi-Auto Shooter of the year award.
Forum tackles NCAA finals, Pinoy Pride
MEMBERS of two-time defending champion San Beda talk
about their bid for a third straight National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association mens basketball title in todays session of
the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum at Shakeys
Malate.
Team manager Jude Roque and some of the Red Lions will be
appearing in the 10:30 a.m. session to give out their thoughts on
the best-of-three championship game that starts on Thursday at
the Mall of Asia Arena.
The winning coach of the playoff between Letran and San
Sebastian has also been invited in the public sports program
aired live over DZSR Sports Radio 918 and presented by
Smart, the Philippine Amusements and Gaming Corpora-
tion, and Shakeys.
The second part of the Forum will have ALA Promotions pre-
senting before the media the foreign ghters seeing action in Sat-
urdays Pinoy Pride XVII: Philippines vs. The World.
Champ. Ateneo recently claimed its rst University Athletic Associa-
tion of the Philippines mens swimming championship, garnering 365
points to edge defending champion La Salle. The Blue Tankers were
composed of (standing, l-4) Aldo Tong, Michael Cocabo, Micco Pesue-
na, Hubert Taguibao, Sherwin dela Paz, Robie Batungbacal, Matteo
Gancayco, Sean Tan, Rynel Mejia, Archie Lim, Max Austria and (sitting
left to right) Benjo Ramos, Islau Dapat, Karlo Lim, Adel Barlisan, Axel
Ngui, David Santos, Gio Palencia and Anjo Querol.
Cage opener. Marikina City Mayor Del De Guzman (middle) performs
the ceremonial toss, ofcially opening the games in the second DELeague
Open Invitational Basketball Cup Sunday at the Marikina Sports Park
Gym. With the Mayor are (from left) Alinko Mbah of PL iTrade, Vice Mayor
Jose Fabian Cadiz, DELeague 2012 Best Muse Sophia Andres of Sta. Lucia
East Grand Mall and John Walker of Hobe Bihon.
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
Quezon II District Engineering Offce
Dalahican Road, Lucena City
October 12, 2012
i nvi tati on to Bi d
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Quezon II District Engineering
Offce through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to bid for the following
contract(s):
1) Contract ID : 12DJ086
Contract Name : CLUSTER-IV
a. Asphalt Overlay of MSR Old Route KO130+615-
KO131+358
b. Asphalt Overlay of MSR Old Route KO129+353-
KO130+615
Contract Location : Lucena City
Scope of Works : Project Signboards, warning signs,barricades,lightnings, Resealing
of Cracks and Joints, safety and health, Mob./Demobilization,
Agg. Surface Course, Bituminous Tack coat, Bituminous
Concrete Surface course, Hot laid, wearing surface, Refectorized
thermoplastic stripping materials (white) edge line, broken line,
Pedestrian Lane, Refectorized thermoplastic stripping materials
(yellow)
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 20,841,500.00
Contract Duration : 130 C.D
2) Contract ID : 12DJ087
Contract Name : CLUSTER-V
a. Asphalt Overlay of Lucena-Tayabas-Mauban Port Road
KO128+(-)972-KO128+000
b. Asphalt Overlay of Lucena-Tayabas-Mauban Port Road
KO128+000-KO129+614
Contract Location : Lucena City
Scope of Works : Project Signboards, warning signs,barricades,lightnings, Resealing
of Cracks and Joints, safety and health, Mob./Demobilization,
Agg. Surface Course, Bituminous Tack coat, Bituminous
Concrete Surface course, Hot laid, wearing surface, Refectorized
thermoplastic stripping materials (white) edge line, broken line,
Pedestrian Lane, Refectorized thermoplastic stripping materials
(yellow)
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 17,860,744.95
Contract Duration : 120 C.D
3) Contract ID : 12DJ088
Contract Name : Asphalt Overlay of Quezon Batangas Road
Contract Location : San Antonio,Quezon KO100+460-KO100+1000
Scope of Works : Project Signboards, warning signs,barricades,lightnings, Resealing
of Cracks and Joints, safety and health, Mob./Demobilization,
Agg. Surface Course, Bituminous Tack coat, Bituminous
Concrete Surface course, Hot laid, wearing surface, Refectorized
thermoplastic stripping materials (white) edge line, broken line,
Refectorized thermoplastic stripping materials (yellow)
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 4,176,979.42
Contract Duration : 30 C.D
4) Contract ID : 12DJ089
Contract Name : Construction of Small Scale Irrigation Project at Brgy.
Tamisian,
Contract Location : Tiaong,Quezon (Re-advertised)
Scope of Works : Mob./Demobilization, Structure Excavation, Embankment, Stone
Masonry, Rubble Concrete, Reinforced Concrete, Rectangular
Slide Gates, Lined Canal, Gravel Blanket, Formworks, Bunkhouse,
Diversion Works, Const. Safety and Health, Project Signboard
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php 9,649,593.37
Contract Duration : 120 C.D
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised IRR of R.A9184.
Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchase bid
documents and must meet the following major criteria : (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b)
Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture with
PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (c) completion of a similar contract
costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of ten (10) years, and (d) Net fnancial Contracting
Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of the ABC. The
BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the
DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline set for the receipt of LOIs. The DPWH
POCW-Central Offce will only process contractors applications for registration with complete
requirements, and the Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC).Registration Forms may
be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below :
1. Receipt of LOIs fromProspective Bidders
Deadline:
Oct. 15-31, 2012 up to 2:00 P.M only
2. Issuance of BiddingDocuments toregisteredcontractors Oct. 15-Nov. 6, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference October 22, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: Nov. 6 , 2012 until 1:00 P.M
5. Opening of Bids Nov. 6, 2012 @ 2:00 P.M
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bid Documents at DPWH, Quezon II DEO, BAC
Secretariat Offce, Dalahican Road, Lucena City upon payment of the following non-refundable
fees :
ABC BID DOCUMENTS :
1 Million up to 5 Million ------ Php 5,000
5 Million up to 20 Million ------- Php 10,000

Prospective Bidders may also download the BDs from the DPWH website, if available.
Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees
on or before the submission of their bid documents. The pre-Bid Conference shall be open only
to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must accompanied by a bid security,
in the amount and acceptable form, stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in the Bidding
Documents (BDs) in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman, DPWH,
Quezon II District Engineering Offce. The frst envelope shall contain the technical component
of the bid, which shall include a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain fnancial
component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as
determined in the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The DPWH, Quezon II District Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or reject any
bid and to annul the bidding process anytime prior contract award, without thereby incurring
any liability to the affected Bidder / Bidders.

(Sgd.) JEREMIAS B. LICAS JR.
Engineer III
BAC Chairman
Tel. No. (042) 373-4252
Noted by :

(Sgd.) CELESTIAL S. FLANCIA
District Engineer
Republika ng Pilipinas
Kagawaran ng Pagawain at Lansangang Pampabayan
Tanggapan ng Distrito Inhenyero
Telefax 221-6444; 226-2035; 226-2112
L. Ma. Guerrero St., Lungsod ng Dabaw, Rehiyon XI
INVITATION TO BID
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
The DPWH, Davao City District Engineering Offce, through the Bids and Awards
Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the following contract(s);
1) Contract I.D. : 12LB-0082
Contract Name : onstruction of MPB @ Brgy. 76-A, Bucana, Davao City
Contract Location : Davao City
Scope of Works : Excavation, backflling, gravel bedding, Reinforced and
structural concrete, Structural steel (furnish, fabricated
and erected), pre-painted metal structures, billboard and
safety and health
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): PhP 980,000.00
Duration : Sixty (60) calendar days
Source of Fund : PDAF FY 2012
SARO No. BMB-A-12-T000002702 dared June 14, 2012

2) Contract I.D. : 12LB-0086
Contract Name : Completion of MPB/2Cl-2 storey for Package P, Davao
City
a. Completion of MPB at Km. 11, Brgy. Sasa, Davao City
b. Completion of 2CL, 2 storey school building at Agdao
E/S, Annex, Brgy. Leon Garcia, Davao City
Contract Location : Second Congressional District, Davao City
Scope of Works : Structure excavation, embankment, reinforced concrete,
wooden ceiling, masonry works, steel casement
window, door frames and accessories, pre-painted
metal structures, structural steel (furnished, fabricated
and erected), Cement plaster finish, installation of
downspout, conduits, boxes and fttings, billboard and
safety and health.
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): PhP 5,880,000.00
Duration : One Hundred Eighty (180) calendar days
Source of Fund : FY 2012, R.A.10151 (Current Appropriations)
SARO No. BMB-A-12-T000002760 dated June 14, 2012

3) Contract I.D. : 12LB-0099
Contract Name : Road Upgrading (Gravel Paved) base on gravel road
strategies, Traffc benchmark for upgrading to paved
standard (HDM-4 Project Analysis) intermittent section,
National Secondary, Davao Cotabato Old Road, Davao
City
Contract Location : Davao City
Scope of Works : Removal of existing asphalt, roadway excavation,
structure excavation, sub grade preparation, pipe and
drain excavation, aggregate base course, grouted riprap
class A, PCC Pavement Plain thk=280mm (7 days),
advance warning, billboard, bollard, survey and staking
and safety and health.
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php 5,391,960.00
Duration : Thirty Two (32) calendar days
Source of Fund : FY 2013 Infra Program

4) Contract I.D. : 12LB-0102
Contract Name : Replacement /Rehab./Strengthening of permanent
bridges, Bolton Bridge along ABS-CBN Quimpo
Boulevard Diversion Road, Davao City
Contract Location : Davao City
Scope of Works : Repair of steel girder, grouted riprap class A, riprap
class B, sealing of cracks, painting, patching, advance
warning, billboard, bollard, survey and staking and safety
and health
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): PhP 5,880,000.00
Duration : Sixty Four (64) calendar days
Source of Fund : FY 2013 Infra Program

5) Contract I.D. : 12LB-0120
Contract Name : Const./Improvement of drainage /Completion of MPB for
Package O, Davao City
a) Const./Improvement of road and drainage at Rafael
Castillo Street, Davao City
b) Comp. of school building 2 storey school building
@ F. Bangoy Central E/S,Brgy. Sasa, Davao City
c) Comp. of school building 2CL 2storey school
building @ Bustamante NHS, Brgy. Tibungco, Davao
City
d) Comp. of MPB at Dona Asuncion, Brgy. Pampanga,
Davao City
Contract Location : Second Congressional District, Davao City
Scope of Works : Removal of exi sti ng l i ned canal , dri veways &
di l api dat ed st ruct ures, Roadway excavat i on,
embankment, backflling, structure excavation, base
course preparation, PCCP, thk.=0.20 m, (fc=3,500 psi,
7 days), reinforced concrete, masonry works, grouted
riprap, cement plaster fnish, billboard, warning sign,
bollard and safety and health
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): PhP 4,965,660.00
Duration : One Hundred Twenty (120) calendar days
Source of Fund : PDAF FY 2012
SARO No. BMB-A-12 T000002767 dated June 21, 2012

Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in accordance
with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations.
To bid for the contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchase bid
documents and must meet the following major criteria; (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b)
Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture
(c) with PCAB License applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion of a
similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (e) Net Financial
Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of
ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary
examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the
DPWH-POCW, Central Offce before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH POCW-
Central Offce will only process contractors applications for the registration with complete
requirements and issue the Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms
may be downloaded at the DPWH website. www.dpwh.gov.ph
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below;
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents From: October 16-Nov. 06, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference Time and Date : 10:00 A.M, October 23, 2012
3. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders @ 12;00 P.M. October 31, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: 2;00 P.M.., November 06, 2012
5. Opening of Bids @ 2:00 PM. November 06, 2012
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH, Davao City
District Engineering Offce, Leon Ma. Guerrero Street, Davao City, upon payment of a
non-refundable fee for Bidding Documents for item no. 1, One Thousand Pesos Only (Php
1,000.00), item no. 2,3 & 4, Ten Thousand Pesos Only (Php 10,000.00) and item no.5 , Five
Thousand Pesos Only ( Php 5,000.00).
Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the DWPH website, if available.
Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees
on or before the submission of their bids documents. Bids must accompanied by a bid security,
in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in the BDs in
two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst envelope shall contain
the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy of the CRC. The second envelope
shall contain the fnancial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the lowest calculated
responsive bid as determined in the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The DPWH, Davao City District Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or reject
any or all bid and to annul the bidding process anytime before contract award, without incurring
any liability to the affected bidders.
Approved:
(Sgd.) GREGORIO C. YEE
Engineer III
Chief, Matls. Testing & Quality Control Sect.
(BAC Chairman)
Noted By:
(Sgd.) LORNA T. RICARDO
District Engineer
n o t i C E
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(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
Notice is hereby given that AXEIA DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATION, with offce address at B4 L87 Phase 1B
Alta Tierra Homes, Brgy. Aldiano Olaes, GMA Cavite, is
applying for registration with the Board of Investments
(BOI) as a New Developer of Low Cost Mass Housing
Project (The Cambria Phase I) with a total capacity of 416
low-cost mass housing units on a non-pioneer status, with
project site located at Brgy. Sto. Domingo, Bay, Laguna.

Any person with valid objection/s on the above-
mentioned project may fle his/her objection in writing,
under oath, with the BOI within three (3) days from the
date of this publication.
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Director
Infrastructure and Service Industries Department
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OCTOBER 16, 2012 TUESDAY
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Floirendo is Driver of the Year, again
VINCENT Floirendo of Fly-
ing V Oil-EnSports-KontakOne
survived a close and pressure-
packed title showdown against
multi-titled Jody Coseteng to
capture a second straight Driver
of the Year plum recently in the
season nale of the2012 Yoko-
hama Philippine GT Champion-
ship Series at the Clark Interna-
tional Speedway.
Coseteng actually ruled the
Main GT race, but Floirendo se-
cured a runner-up nish to cap-
ture the overall Yokohama GT
crown by just two points, 267-
265, in this event sanctioned
by the Automobile Association
Philippines and sponsored by
Ofcial Tires Yokohama, Of-
cial Oil Torco Racing Oil and
Racing Beat@Wave 89.1.
Though the Davao native
made it a 1-2 nish with team-
mate Jojo Silverio in the morn-
ings Sprint race, Coseteng still
had the chance to pull off a title
upset despite ending third, grant-
ing he wins the GT Main Race
and Floirendo only ends up third.
The reversed-grid start of the
nal leg worked to Cosetengs
advantage as he sneaked in at
the innermost left lane to pass
drivers in front and wrest the top
spot, pulling nearly four seconds
ahead of the rest.
Later, the race scenario ap-
peared to favor Cosetengs only
hope for the plum as Silverio
grabbed second place with a
wide distance over then third
placer Floirendo.
The situation went on until
the fth lap when both Silverio
and Floirendo slowed down after
getting caught in a trafc with
a backmarker. Floirendo saw
this as a perfect opportunity to
snatch the No. 2 spot from Silve-
rio at the rst turn and preserved
his post until the end of the 15-
lap race to seal the overall title.
With his win in the nal race,
Coseteng salvaged the GT300
crown by just two points over
Floirendo, 269-267.
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
Sports
Manila Standard TODAY
sports@manilastandardtoday.com sports_mstandard@yahoo.com Riera U. Mallari, Editor
KIAMCO WINS IN GEORGIA
By Peter Atencio
THE Letran Knights are back in the nals.
Jam Cortes only had two points, but his
two free throws off Dexter Maiquezs foul
in the last 9.2 seconds carried the Knights
to a 73-70 win over the San Sebastian Col-
lege Stags in their Final Four rubber match
last night at the Arena in San Juan.
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
The victory put the Knights
into a best-of-three champion-
ship showdown with the de-
fending champion San Beda
College Red Lions in the 88th
National Collegiate
Athletic Associa-
tion mens basket-
ball tournament.
Game 1 of the nals
is set on Thursday.
Calvin Abueva,
who hounded the
prolic Knights ace all through-
out, showed the way for the
Stags with 22 points and tried to
win it for the Recoletos cagers.
But his last eight three-point
attempts missed their mark as
time expired.
Mark Cruz and Kevin Alas
led Letran with 20 and 18
points, respectively.
The Stags are out of the nals
for the rst time in four years.
Alam na nila iyung X and Os
ng laro. Sabi ko sa kanila, its all
about your willing-
ness to compete, its
all about your will-
ingness to win this
game. Hindi na ito
tungkol sa coach-
ing. Grabe na kasi
ang performance
ng mga players, said Knights
coach Louie Alas.
The opportunity to win the
match for Letran came after
Maiquez missed an attempt off
Abuevas pass in the last 15
seconds, with San Sebastian
turning the ball over in the en-
suing play.
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LOTTO RESULTS
MARIETTA, GeorgiaLong-time veteran
Warren Kiamco did what so few players have
ever been able to do, completely dominate
Americas top player Shane Van Boening, 11-3,
in the nals of The Scorpion Cues Johnny Arch-
er Classic. Van Boening, who is so accustomed
to winning on US soil, was completely ham-
mered by the smooth, nesse style of Kiamco.
The Scorpion Cues Johnny Archer Classic is a
Dragon Promotions production and sanctioned
by the Association Of Billiard Professionals as
an ABP International Points Ranking Tourna-
ment and hosted by the Marietta Billiard Club.
Its Knights
vs Lions in
cage finals
THE Philippine Azkals, who
endured a six-hour delay at the
airport in Kuwait, will have the
Younghusband brothers Phil
and James suiting up for the
team in its coming friendlies.
The Younghusbands were
able to hook up with the Az-
kals after leaving Manila last
Friday.
The Azkals will meet the host
team Al-Azraq (The Blues) at 7
p.m. today (Kuwait time).
Reports said the Azkals are
now preparing for their game
after getting held up at the
airport because of the de-
lay in the processing of
their visas.
The last time the two
sides clashed, the Al-Azraq
eliminated the Azkals in last
years third round of the Asian
World Cup home-and-away
qualiers with an aggregate
score of 5-1. The Kuwaitis,
who are ranked No. 115 in the
latest FIFA world ratings, won
the rst game, 3-0, at home,
then subdued the Filipinos,
2-1, at the Rizal Memorial
Football Stadium.
Filipino-British goalkeeper
Neil Etheridge will join the
Azkals for the friendly.
The friendlies will com-
mence at the Kuwaiti Sports
Club Stadium in Kaifan, with
kick-off time set at 6:50 pm.
(10:50 p.m. in Manila).
A big crowd of overseas
Filipino workers are expected
to cheer for the Azkals. Peter
Atencio
FAR Eastern University opened its cam-
paign on a blazing start following a 2-0 up-
set of University Athletic Association of the
Philippines defending champion University
of the Philippines-Eastern Petroleum over
the weekend kicking off hostilities in the
2012 IPPCA Football Pre-Season Cup at the
Nuvali football eld in Sta. Rosa, Laguna.
Defending NCAA titlist San Beda College
also stamped its class at the start of the tour-
nament organized by Filoil Flying V Sports,
blanking guest team University of Makati,
3-0, while the match between longtime rivals
De La Salle University-Filoil and Ateneo-
Flying V ended in a scoreless draw.
Midelder Paolo Bugas broke the ice for
FEU in the eighth minute and seven minutes
later striker Jesus Milleza scored another
goal for a 2-0.
The Tamaraws held on the rest of the match
to post its rst victory in the rst-ever colle-
giate pre-season football league bankrolled by
IPPCA members Chemrez Technologies Inc.,
Eastern Petroleum Corp., Filpride/USA88,
Seaoil Philippines Inc., Flying V, Oilink,
Unioil, International Engineer Phils., Inc.,
Filoil Energy Company, City Oil, Metro Oil
Subic, Liquied Petroleum Gas Marketers As-
sociation, Omni Petroleum Corp, Trans Over-
seas Industrial Corp. and CIIS and sponsored
by Meralco, Nuvali, Natures Spring, Molten,
N20 Gastropub, Boysen Paints, BDO, Top-
coms/StarSports Korea, Bacchus, CDO San
Marino Corned Tuna and Pingping Lechon.
This is a good win for us. This team is
comprised of our top juniors team for the
past two years, kaya they play together
well. So far, maganda naman ang nilalaro
nila, especially sa mga short passes, said
FEU coach Vincent Santos.
The State U-Eastern booters actually
played minus coach Crisanto Gonzales,
who is currently in Bahrain serving as an as-
sistant coach for the Philippine Azkals.
The Red Lions and the UMAK Herons
engaged in a tough defensive match in the
rst half, before David Franz Torneo found
the goal in the 57
th
minute.
Christopher Tedimonte followed suit in the
74th minute, before Neil Dorimon capped
San Bedas scoring spree in the 86th minute.
Magandang start ito para sa amin, said
SBC coach Jeff Limon, whose wards will
next face the Arellano Chiefs on Saturday.
In other seniors results, National Uni-
versity and guest team Philippine Christian
University played to a 2-2 draw, UST-Me-
troil drubs Arellano University, 3-1, and
last years NCAA runner-up College of St.
Benilde tripped Perpetual, 2-1.
FEU booters upset UP Maroons in Pre-Season Cup
SEVEN members of the national wrestling team will leave for
Incheon, South Korea at the end of October to train and prepare for
the Asian Games in 2014.
The wrestlers will be sent there through an invitation of the 2014 Asian
Games organizing committee to the Philippine Olympic Committee.
Jason Balabal, gold medalist in the recent Southeast Asian Games
in Indonesia, heads the list of wrestlers leaving for South Korea.
Wrestling Association of the Philippines secretary general Carlo
Sevilla said Margarito Angana will join Balabal, along with another
veteran Michael Valentin. Angana, MaricelTambora and Rose Jean
Maladja are also joining the group.
Sevilla said the trip will be paid for by the Korean organizers.
Organizers from Korea have made invitations to other countries who
wish to avail of the free use of the games training facilities in Incheon
for a month.
Sevilla said the invitation was Koreas way of establishing a better re-
lationship with other Asian countries through the sports that they excel in.
Korea has been as Asian power in wrestling, particularly in the
Greco Roman style. Peter Atencio
Wrestlers off to Korea
BACOLOD CityEric Pa-
nique and Stephanie Cado-
sale dominated the 21-k track
despite unfavorable weather
conditions at the Bacolod
qualifying leg of the 36th
Milo Marathon Sunday. About
10,300 runners and sports en-
thusiasts braved wind and rain
to take on the premier running
event of the country.
Both Panique and Cadosale
displayed determination and
stamina throughout the difcult
weather and earned themselves
the top ranks in their respective
divisions. Panique stopped the
clock meters ahead of Maclin
Sadia and Rommel Hulleza,
who nished in second and in
third place, respectively.
Expressing excitement over
the upcoming National Finals,
Panique revealed his intent to top
his current best of 2:27 in the full
marathon category. His victory in
the Great Lapu-lapu Run in 2010
served as his ticket to the 2011
Standard Chartered Hong Kong
Race, where he achieved his fast-
est time but nished in16th place.
I believe its time for me to
break my career record again.
I am looking to match or even
surpass the pace of other vet-
eran runners in the National
Finals, said the 26 year-old
Ilonggo Philippine team mara-
thoner. The race requires more
than just adequate training and
mental preparedness. It requires
motivation. This is why athletes
need to be reminded why and
for whom they are running. In
my case, I run for family and for
good health. This is inspiration
enough to keep me going.
Completing the Top 3 cast in
the distaff side behind Cadosale
are Mereeis Ramirez of MDRC-
Dumaguete and Iresh Belleza.
Eighteen year-old Cadosale will
be running her rst 42-k track in
December with other womens
division elite runners.
Panique
soars to
Milo win
By Jeric Lopez
AT rst, Meralco coach Ryan
Gregorio thought that it will take
some time before the Bolts could
fully get accustomed to life with-
out Asi Taulava in the middle.
Three games later, Gregorio
found out that his squad can actu-
ally move on sooner than expected.
The thing for us to do is to
move forward right away be-
cause Asi (Taulava) is not com-
ing back. So far, were able to
do just that, said Gregorio.
Taulava didnt sign an exten-
sion with the Bolts in the off-
season and instead opted to play
for the San Miguel Beermen in
the Asean Basketball League,
leaving a huge hole in Meralcos
middle game.
Most thought that the Bolts,
without him in the paint, will
have a difcult time dealing
with bigger teams inside the
paint. However, that wasnt the
case after three games.
Meralco started its season at
2-1, tied for second place, and its
a surprise that its frontcourt play-
ers are the ones doing more dam-
age thus far to collectively ll the
void left by Taulava upfront.
That was obviously a big con-
cern, but the players are respond-
ing well. Its center by committee.
Were doing lling the hole on a
combined basis, added Gregorio.
One big reason for Meralcos
early success is No. 4 pick Cliff
Hodge, who plays the big for-
ward position really well.
Hodge has been superb in his
three games for the Bolts thus
far, averaging 17.1 points and
8.2 rebounds per outing to lead
the squad in both categories.
After a 2-0 week and his
steady play for Meralco, Hodge
was named as the Philippine
Basketball Association Press
Corps Player of the Week for the
period of Oct. 8 to 14.
There is life after Asi for Meralco
Defender Rainier Perales (left) of De La Salle University disputes ball control with an Ateneo player during
their game Sunday in the 2012 IPPCA Football Pre-Season Cup at the Nuvali football eld. DLSU and
Ateneo played to a scoreless draw.
James,
Phil back
in Azkals
roster
Jody Coseteng (center) ruled the nal race, but Vincent Floirendo
(left), who checked in second, captured the Overall Yokohama GT
Driver of the Year plum for the second straight year. With them at
the podium was Jojo Silverio (right), who took third-place honors.
Games Thursday
(Game 1 at the
SM MOA Arena)
4 p.m. San Sebastian
vs Letran (jrs)
6 p.m. San Beda College
vs Letran (srs)
Business
Manila Standard TODAY
OCTOBER 16, 2012 TUESDAY
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Ray S. Eano, Editor extrastory2000@gmail.com
Roderick T. dela Cruz, Assistant Editor
IN BRIEF
Vitarich, white knight in talks
PLDT, Smart invest in Cebu cable link Sales of car importers
down 9% in September
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P27.20-P31.00
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Hong Kong Dollar 0.129016 5.3511
Switzerland Franc 1.071123 44.4259
Canada Dollar 1.021033 42.3484
Singapore Dollar 0.818398 33.9439
Australia Dollar 1.023856 42.4655
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India Rupee 0.018972 0.7869
Malaysia Ringgit 0.327118 13.5675
NewZealand Dollar 0.819202 33.9772
Taiwan Dollar 0.034252 1.4206
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Remittances increased 7.6% to $1.8b in August
Alcorn
appoints
adviser
By Jenniffer B. Austria
SHAREHOLDERS of
Vitarich Corp. on Monday
approved an increase in the
companys capital stock to
P3.5 billion from P1.5 billion,
a move that will allow the
nancially troubled poultry and
feeds producer to facilitate the
entry of a new investor or retire
some of its debt.
Vitarich, in a disclosure to the stock exchange, said
shareholders approved the issuance of 3.090 billion
common shares that may be used in the conversion
of debt into equity or sold for cash subject to the
terms to be determined by the board.
Vitarich plans to issue the new shares to possible
white knight investors, who may include existing
creditors willing to convert their debt into equity.
As of date, the corporation is still negotiating with
them and at present there is no rm commitment yet
from them, Vitarich said.
Vitarich said such an investment, either in the form
of cash or equity conversion, would improve the
companys operating capital by retiring all or part of
existing loans. In case of a debt-to-equity conversion
by creditors, Vitarich said the company would retire
its debt so that income from operations could be used
for working capital requirements.
The poultry producer in 2006 led for corporate
rehabilitation after experiencing difculties in paying
bank loans and other liabilities, which ballooned
to P3.26 billion from an outstanding loan of P2.6
billion.
Vitarich said it suffered liquidity problems because
of a glut in the supply of poultry in the market,
stiff competition and the removal of quantitative
restrictions on the importation of poultry and poultry
products.
The demand for poultry and poultry products also
declined because of the outbreak of the avian u.
Vitarich earlier proposed various options, including
the sale of non-core assets and conversion of debt
into equity, to reduce debt.
Established in 1950 by brothers Feliciano,
Lorenzo and Pablo Sarmiento, Vitarich is engaged in
the manufacture and distribution of various poultry
products such as live and dressed chicken, day-old
chicks and animal and aqua feeds.
ALCORN Gold Resources
Corp., a listed oil and mineral
company controlled by retailer
Lucio Co, said Monday it hired
Evercore Partners as nancial
adviser to study and explore
capital market and corporate
structure options.
Alcorn said in a disclosure
to the stock exchange Evercore
would submit recommenda-
tions to the companys board
of directors for approval.
Following the disclosure,
share price of Alcorn soared
28 percent to P0.096 from
Fridays close of P0.088 per
share. Alcorn last week gained
63 percent, extending a 155-
percent rally in the previous
week.
The share price of Alcorn
has been going up since
the start of the month
on speculations that the
company could be the
subject of a backdoor listing
by other assets owned by
Co.
Co owns listed supermarket
chain Puregold Price Club Inc.,
the 227-room Midas Hotel &
Casino hotel in Roxas Boulevard
and a liquor business.
Sources said the company
had received proposals from
banks on how Alcorn could
participate in the property and
liquor businesses of the Co
family.
The steep rise in the
companys share price has
prompted the Securities and
Exchange Commission to
look into the recent trading
transactions of the company.
Alcorn issued two disclosures
denying any information that
resulted in the spike of the
companys share price.
Jenniffer B. Austria
By Anna Leah G. Estrada
REMITTANCES sent home by Filipinos
working abroad increased 7.6 percent
year-on-year in August, the fastest
growth recorded this year, supporting
consumer spending and aiding economic
growth.
The Bangko Sentral said Monday
cash remittances coursed through banks
reached $1.8 billion in August, up from
$1.7 billion during the same month last
year. The amount brought the January-
August tally to $13.7 billion, higher by
5.5 percent than $13 billion a year ago.
Money sent home by the more than 9.4
million Filipinos living abroad, which
accounts for about 10 percent of the
countrys gross domestic product, help
support sales of companies, including
fastfood chain Jollibee Foods Corp. The
World Bank last week raised its 2012
growth forecast for the nation to 5 percent
as President Benigno Aquino III boosts
state spending.
It has become a defensive support
for the economy, a stabilizer, Santitarn
Sathirathai, a Singapore-based economist
at Credit Suisse Group AG, said before
the report.
Remittances are the largest source of
foreign exchange after exports in the
Philippines, and the central bank predicts
5-percent growth in funds this year. The
$225-billion economy expanded 6.1
percent in the rst half, heading for its
fastest annual expansion since 2010.
With expectations of sustained
demand for skilled Filipino workers
overseas, remittances are projected to
continue to boost economic activity
and provide a steady supply of foreign
exchange. Moreover, the increasing
use of nancial channels for transfers
and the continued introduction of
innovations in remittance products are
expected to contribute to the steady
ow of remittances into the country,
Bangko Sentral Deputy Governor Juan
de Zuiga Jr. said.
Data from the Bangko Sentral
showed that personal remittances,
which include non-cash items, rose 7.9
percent to $2 billion in August and 5.6
percent to $15.3 billion in the eight-
month period.
Tollway unit to delist
METRO Pacic Tollways Corp. said its
executive committee approved the delisting of
its shares from the Philippine Stock Exchange
before the end of 2012.
MPTC, the publicly listed tollways unit of
conglomerate Metro Pacic Investments Corp.,
said in a disclosure to the stock exchange the move
to delist was in response to the implementation
of the 10-percent minimum public ownership
rule of the PSE.
After due evaluation and study of the
options available to the company, the executive
committee, pursuant to the authority duly
delegated by the board of directors, approved
and authorized on Oct. 15, 2012 the voluntary
delisting of the companys shares from the
exchange, MPTC said.
Parent company MPIC will conduct a tender
offer to acquire all common shares of MPTC
owned by minority shareholders. As of Oct.
15, MPTC had 4.978 billion in total outstanding
shares, of which 4.978 billion or 99.85 percent
was owned by MPIC. This means only 0.15
percent or 7.484 million shares are owned by the
public. The terms and conditions of the tender
offer are being nalized.
Jenniffer B. Austria
PNOC unit seeks partners
STATE-OWNED PNOC Exploration Corp.,
the oil and gas unit of state-owned Philippine
National Oil Co., is looking for partners in its
exploration area in Isabela and Quirino.
PNOC Exploration holds 100 percent of
service contract 37, which covers 360 square
kilometers of the Cagayan Basin between Isabela
and Quirino. The Energy Department awarded
the contract to the company on July 18, 1990.
PNOC Exploration has invited letters of intent
from interested parties to apply for eligibility
and participate in the bidding for a minimum
participating interest of 51 percent to a maximum
of 70 percent in SC 37.
The company invited interested parties to
submit letters of interest on or before Oct. 29. A
pre-bid conference will be held on Oct. 31 while
the submission of bids is set on Dec. 17.
Early this year, the PNOC Exploration board
approved the drilling of the Mangosteen prospect
in SC 37. Target [drilling] is November 2012 to
January 2013, PNOC Exploration vice president
Joseph Omar Castillo said.
PNOC Exploration previously operated the
San Antonio gas eld under SC 37 that produced
3.54 billion cubic feet of gas supplying the
3-megawatt San Antonio gas power plant, which
generated electricity for about 10,000 households
in the municipalities of Echague, Jones, San
Agustin and Santiago City. Alena Mae S. Flores
By Lailany P. Gomez
PHILIPPINE Long Distance
Telephone Co. and mobile
phone subsidiary Smart
Communications Inc. are
investing P856 million for a
ber optic cable route that will
connect Cebu to neighboring
provinces.
The new facility will be
initially equipped with 210
gigabits per second to boost
PLDTs transmission links to
Bohol and the rest of Mindanao.
It is expected to be completed by
September 2013.
We have fast-tracked this
particular project because the
demand for broadband service
both from consumers and
businessesis growing rapidly
in the Visayas and Mindanao
areas, said Rolando Pea, PLDT
and Smart head of network and
IP systems.
This will further strengthen
our ber advantage over other
carriers. At this point, PLDT and
Smart already have over 54,000
kilometers of ber optic cable
assets over the countryseveral
times larger than the resources
available to the competition, he
added.
The project involves laying
down about 450 km of ber optic
cables from Cebu to Cagayan de
Oro City.
Slightly over 300 km of the
cable will be inland while another
150 km will be submarine links
in the sea between Cebu and
Bohol and between Bohol and
Misamis Oriental.
The new ber optic link to
Bohol will provide 20 Gbps of
capacity to the island. The link
to Mindanao will carry 190 Gbps
of capacity.
Bohol has been trying to get
investors to set up call centers in
the province for the past several
years. But the lack of robust
communications infrastructure
has been an obstacle, Pea
said.
The project will also add a
third leg to the two ber optic
highways already connecting
Mindanao to the rest of the
country via PLDTs domestic
ber optic network.
By Julito G. Rada
SALES of car importers in
September declined 9 percent
from a year ago, owing to
supply setbacks in the passenger
car category, the Association
of Vehicle Importers and
Distributors said Monday.
Avid said its members sold
1,887 units in September, down
from 2,066 vehicles in the same
month last year. Avid said
despite the September slump,
sales in the rst nine months
grew 20 percent to 21,762 units
from 18,086 during the same
period last year.
A larger group of car assemblers
and importers, the Chamber of
Automotive Manufacturers of the
Philippines Inc., reported earlier
that its sales increased 2.8 percent
to 12,856 units in September and
6 percent to 111,582 vehicles in
the nine-month period.
Avid president Ma. Fe Perez-
Agudo said she remained
optimistic on the prospects in
the remainder of the year.
We are proud to remain a bright
spot in overall industry performance.
Despite the ups and downs of the
global economy, the local business
and economic environment has kept
a steady, upbeat pace, which augurs
very well for all Avid members,
Agudo said in a statement.
Coastal cleanup. Listed port operator Asian Terminals Inc., the Philippine Ports Authority and their employee volunteers took part in cleaning the shores of Manila
South Harbor after the spate of weather disturbances that hit the metropolis recently. The activity coincided with the celebration of the Philippine Maritime Week,
spearheaded by the Maritime Industry Authority, the governments maritime transport regulator, in partnership with PPA and the Philippine Coast Guard. PPA South
Harbor port manager Francis Mancile, ATI labor and resource manager Gerry Bayna and ATI safety manager Rey Sacdalan led the employee volunteers.
Business
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52 Weeks Previous % Net Foreign (Peso)
High Low STOCKS Close High Low Close Change Volume Trade/Buying
MST BUSINESS DAILY STOCKS REVIEW
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
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FINANCIAL
70.50 46.00 Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. 64.50 64.95 64.00 64.75 0.39 840,810 10,504,849.50
77.45 50.00 Bank of PI 77.60 78.55 77.00 78.55 1.22 2,320,870 49,456,937.00
1.82 0.68 Bankard, Inc. 0.73 0.73 0.73 0.73 0.00 15,000
595.00 370.00 China Bank 53.70 53.80 53.45 53.50 (0.37) 114,140 285,249.00
2.20 1.42 BDO Leasing & Fin. Inc. 2.00 2.00 1.96 2.00 0.00 66,000
23.90 13.80 COL Financial 19.98 19.98 19.88 19.88 (0.50) 39,400 (666,650.00)
20.70 18.50 Eastwest Bank 22.85 22.95 22.75 22.80 (0.22) 395,700 2,080,800.00
22.00 7.95 Filipino Fund Inc. 10.80 10.24 10.22 10.22 (5.37) 1,200
0.95 0.62 First Abacus 0.69 0.76 0.76 0.76 10.14 4,000
89.00 50.00 First Metro Inv. 84.50 88.50 86.55 87.80 3.91 13,240 (21,630.00)
3.26 1.91 I-Remit Inc. 2.78 2.80 2.80 2.80 0.72 3,000
39.20 3.00 Maybank ATR KE 23.95 23.50 23.50 23.50 (1.88) 4,900
102.50 60.00 Metrobank 90.85 92.05 90.75 91.80 1.05 3,426,500 (31,999,256.50)
3.06 1.30 Natl Reinsurance Corp. 1.90 1.91 1.90 1.91 0.53 157,000
77.80 41.00 Phil. National Bank 73.95 73.00 72.50 73.00 (1.28) 442,620 5,264,848.00
95.00 69.00 Phil. Savings Bank 86.90 87.00 87.00 87.00 0.12 20
500.00 210.00 PSE Inc. 370.00 370.00 369.00 370.00 0.00 3,570
45.50 29.45 RCBC `A 45.90 46.10 45.80 46.00 0.22 446,400.00 1,076,180.00
155.20 77.00 Security Bank 162.40 162.00 160.00 161.10 (0.80) 479,670 (17,106,410.00)
1100.00 879.00 Sun Life Financial 940.00 942.00 942.00 942.00 0.21 490
140.00 58.00 Union Bank 106.50 108.50 106.80 106.80 0.28 367,500 3,907,840.00
2.06 1.43 Vantage Equities 2.24 2.27 2.20 2.26 0.89 1,058,000 68,520.00
INDUSTRIAL
35.50 26.50 Aboitiz Power Corp. 33.55 33.90 33.40 33.40 (0.45) 1,259,300 2,820,450.00
13.58 8.00 Agrinurture Inc. 8.30 8.33 8.30 8.33 0.36 115,400
23.95 11.98 Alaska Milk Corp. 17.00 17.00 16.38 16.38 (3.65) 17,500
1.70 0.97 Alliance Tuna Intl Inc. 1.70 1.71 1.68 1.69 (0.59) 813,000 3,380.00
48.00 25.00 Alphaland Corp. 28.90 27.80 26.00 27.80 (3.81) 4,000 5,560.00
1.62 1.08 Alsons Cons. 1.41 1.41 1.40 1.40 (0.71) 1,160,000
Asiabest Group 20.40 21.00 20.10 20.70 1.47 21,500
26.55 12.50 C. Azuc De Tarlac 13.00 13.00 13.00 13.00 0.00 400
2.96 2.12 Calapan Venture 3.00 3.02 3.02 3.02 0.67 5,000
144.00 42.00 Conc. Aggr. `A 63.00 62.00 62.00 62.00 (1.59) 340
2.75 2.30 Chemrez Technologies Inc. 2.85 2.85 0.00 2.85 0.00 419,000 568,000.00
9.74 7.41 Cirtek Holdings (Chips) 11.90 11.92 11.92 11.92 0.17 340
6.41 4.83 Energy Devt. Corp. (EDC) 6.11 6.18 6.11 6.15 0.65 26,044,300 (49,619,761.00)
7.77 2.80 EEI 8.50 8.60 8.47 8.58 0.94 166,300 50,550.00
19.40 12.50 First Gen Corp. 20.05 20.20 19.90 20.00 (0.25) 1,083,100 6,508,180.00
79.30 51.50 First Holdings A 79.95 80.00 79.90 80.00 0.06 354,940 1,119,483.00
27.00 17.50 Ginebra San Miguel Inc. 17.80 17.80 17.60 17.60 (1.12) 2,500
0.02 0.0110 Greenergy 0.0190 0.0220 0.0190 0.0210 10.53 5,958,600,000 3,089,900.00
13.10 7.80 Holcim Philippines Inc. 12.90 13.10 12.90 13.10 1.55 390,700 2,224,060.00
6.00 3.80 Integ. Micro-Electronics 3.97 4.00 3.98 4.00 0.76 47,000
2.35 0.61 Ionics Inc 0.640 0.650 0.620 0.650 1.56 147,000
120.00 80.00 Jollibee Foods Corp. 100.10 100.50 99.90 100.00 (0.10) 637,610 (13,937,835.50)
Lafarge Rep 9.44 9.50 9.40 9.45 0.11 1,693,500 (826,480.00)
8.40 1.04 LMG Chemicals 2.13 2.21 2.12 2.15 0.94 1,968,000
27.45 18.10 Manila Water Co. Inc. 29.05 29.05 28.90 28.90 (0.52) 783,500 588,760.00
18.10 8.12 Megawide 16.520 16.600 16.600 16.600 0.48 22,200 239,040.00
280.60 215.00 Mla. Elect. Co `A 277.00 280.00 276.20 276.20 (0.29) 105,720 4,909,698.00
12.20 7.50 Pancake House Inc. 7.65 8.20 7.46 8.20 7.19 19,600 89,800.00
3.65 1.96 Pepsi-Cola Products Phil. 4.40 4.60 4.46 4.53 2.95 6,295,000 (4,265,070.00)
16.00 9.70 Petron Corporation 10.90 11.10 10.92 10.98 0.73 3,933,000 1,208,600.00
13.70 10.20 Phinma Corporation 10.20 10.20 10.20 10.20 0.00 700
14.94 8.05 Phoenix Petroleum Phils. 8.15 8.10 8.06 8.10 (0.61) 33,500 8,070.00
4.42 1.01 RFM Corporation 4.00 4.11 4.00 4.11 2.75 4,456,000 3,088,440.00
6.50 2.90 Salcon Power Corp. 5.06 5.20 5.20 5.20 2.77 1,500
34.60 26.50 San Miguel Brewery Inc. 34.10 34.10 34.00 34.10 0.00 94,200
129.20 110.20 San Miguel Corp `A 110.00 110.00 109.70 110.00 0.00 138,180 4,348,914.00
2.62 1.25 Seacem 2.49 2.51 2.42 2.51 0.80 5,159,000 241,640.00
2.44 1.73 Splash Corporation 1.85 1.87 1.85 1.86 0.54 40,000
0.196 0.112 Swift Foods, Inc. 0.150 0.165 0.150 0.155 3.33 11,040,000 8,250.00
14.66 3.30 Tanduay Holdings 12.10 12.14 11.96 12.00 (0.83) 1,121,200 1,797,000.00
2.88 1.99 TKC Steel Corp. 2.05 2.07 2.01 2.07 0.98 486,000
1.41 0.90 Trans-Asia Oil 1.21 1.25 1.23 1.25 3.31 5,461,000 62,500.00
69.20 37.00 Universal Robina 70.00 71.80 70.10 71.50 2.14 877,840 42,487,184.50
5.50 1.05 Victorias Milling 1.20 1.22 1.19 1.20 0.00 1,555,000
0.77 0.320 Vitarich Corp. 0.930 0.950 0.910 0.940 1.08 3,126,000 102,460.00
18.00 2.55 Vivant Corp. 9.95 9.80 9.80 9.80 (1.51) 1,000
1.22 0.77 Vulcan Indl. 0.91 0.91 0.91 0.91 0.00 200,000
HOLDING FIRMS
1.18 0.65 Abacus Cons. `A 0.70 0.71 0.69 0.70 0.00 10,671,000 69,000.00
59.90 35.50 Aboitiz Equity 48.30 48.40 48.10 48.30 0.00 302,800 (1,828,235.00)
0.019 0.014 Alcorn Gold Res. 0.0750 0.1010 0.0880 0.0960 28.00 11,051,620,000 13,119,530.00
13.70 8.00 Alliance Global Inc. 15.00 15.24 15.00 15.02 0.13 8,924,100 13,149,758.00
5.02 3.00 Anscor `A 5.22 5.10 4.88 5.00 (4.21) 89,800
6.98 0.260 Asia Amalgamated A 5.10 5.28 5.01 5.19 1.76 496,800 20,910.00
2.98 1.49 ATN Holdings A 1.47 1.47 1.40 1.47 0.00 30,000
4.16 2.30 ATN Holdings B 1.59 1.61 1.61 1.61 1.26 1,000
485.20 272.00 Ayala Corp `A 425.00 425.00 416.80 417.20 (1.84) 1,059,990 (231,894,894.00)
64.80 30.50 DMCI Holdings 58.00 58.10 57.90 58.00 0.00 3,416,770 26,411,342.50
5.20 3.30 Filinvest Dev. Corp. 4.13 4.16 4.12 4.13 0.00 46,000
556.00 455.40 GT Capital 543.50 555.00 543.50 544.50 0.18 33,720 1,686,450.00
36.20 19.00 JG Summit Holdings 34.00 34.10 33.75 34.00 0.00 641,000 (6,313,170.00)
4.19 2.27 Jolliville Holdings 5.10 5.10 5.07 5.07 (0.59) 17,000
6.21 4.00 Lopez Holdings Corp. 5.54 5.54 5.40 5.42 (2.17) 675,100 (403,677.00)
1.54 0.61 Lodestar Invt. Holdg.Corp. 1.26 1.27 1.23 1.24 (1.59) 4,361,000
0.91 0.300 Mabuhay Holdings `A 0.41 0.47 0.43 0.43 4.88 1,360,000 46,000.00
3.82 1.800 Marcventures Hldgs., Inc. 2.09 2.12 2.06 2.08 (0.48) 686,000
4.65 2.56 Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. 4.13 4.15 4.10 4.11 (0.48) 9,478,000 (23,070,360.00)
6.24 3.40 Minerales Industrias Corp. 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 0.00 105,000
9.66 1.22 MJCI Investments Inc. 5.62 5.62 5.61 5.62 0.00 24,200
0.0770 0.045 Pacica `A 0.0490 0.0480 0.0480 0.0480 (2.04) 1,000,000
2.20 1.20 Prime Media Hldg 1.350 1.310 1.300 1.300 (3.70) 129,000
0.82 0.44 Prime Orion 0.510 0.530 0.500 0.530 3.92 1,030,000
0.490 0.285 Sinophil Corp. 0.325 0.335 0.325 0.335 3.08 60,000 (3,350.00)
760.00 450.00 SM Investments Inc. 770.00 800.00 770.00 800.00 3.90 167,730 58,673,450.00
2.71 1.08 Solid Group Inc. 1.97 2.00 1.85 2.00 1.52 1,496,000 69,600.00
1.57 1.14 South China Res. Inc. 1.16 1.17 1.17 1.17 0.86 8,000
0.420 0.101 Unioil Res. & Hldgs 0.2450 0.2600 0.2550 0.2600 6.12 100,000 (2,550.00)
0.620 0.082 Wellex Industries 0.3100 0.3100 0.3000 0.3050 (1.61) 4,500,000
0.980 0.380 Zeus Holdings 0.400 0.395 0.390 0.395 (1.25) 1,530,000
P R O P E R T Y
3.34 1.70 A. Brown Co., Inc. 3.13 3.17 3.00 3.05 (2.56) 2,663,000 (3,005,790.00)
0.83 0.42 Araneta Prop `A 0.520 0.520 0.510 0.510 (1.92) 50,000
0.195 0.150 Arthaland Corp. 0.171 0.173 0.171 0.173 1.17 200,000
24.15 13.36 Ayala Land `B 23.50 23.60 23.35 23.50 0.00 3,734,300 2,698,445.00
5.62 3.08 Belle Corp. `A 5.11 5.19 5.13 5.17 1.17 6,080,700 805,460.00
9.00 2.26 Cebu Holdings 5.01 5.00 4.98 5.00 (0.20) 197,000 750,000.00
5.60 2.00 Cebu Prop. `A 5.00 5.10 5.10 5.10 2.00 20,000
5.20 2.20 Cebu Prop. `B 5.00 5.10 5.10 5.10 2.00 20,000
2.85 1.35 Century Property 1.47 1.48 1.45 1.47 0.00 2,660,000 2,910,460.00
2.91 1.20 City & Land Dev. 2.50 2.55 2.55 2.55 2.00 3,000
1.11 0.67 Cyber Bay Corp. 0.80 0.83 0.80 0.81 1.25 460,000
0.94 0.54 Empire East Land 0.850 0.850 0.840 0.850 0.00 2,999,000
3.80 2.90 Eton Properties 3.70 3.70 3.68 3.70 0.00 94,000
0.310 0.10 Ever Gotesco 0.220 0.232 0.219 0.232 5.45 9,810,000 23,200.00
2.74 1.63 Global-Estate 1.88 1.88 1.84 1.84 (2.13) 2,433,000 533,720.00
1.44 0.98 Filinvest Land,Inc. 1.39 1.39 1.37 1.38 (0.72) 6,731,000 8,707,950.00
3.80 1.21 Highlands Prime 1.90 1.90 1.80 1.90 0.00 35,000
2.14 0.65 Interport `A 1.20 1.49 1.20 1.38 15.00 8,411,000 (198,140.00)
4.50 1.50 Keppel Properties 2.12 2.33 2.33 2.33 9.91 4,000
2.34 1.51 Megaworld Corp. 2.34 2.39 2.33 2.38 1.71 53,652,000 33,913,020.00
0.36 0.150 MRC Allied Ind. 0.1660 0.1690 0.1650 0.1650 (0.60) 8,530,000 33,000.00
0.990 0.089 Phil. Estates Corp. 0.7000 0.7100 0.6800 0.6800 (2.86) 9,546,000 137,080.00
0.67 0.41 Phil. Realty `A 0.460 0.460 0.450 0.450 (2.17) 2,170,000
4.33 2.10 Primex Corp. 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 0.00 1,000
19.94 10.00 Robinsons Land `B 18.68 19.20 18.68 19.06 2.03 1,150,800 623,076.00
7.71 2.51 Rockwell 3.32 3.40 3.34 3.34 0.60 301,000
2.85 1.81 Shang Properties Inc. 2.77 2.79 2.75 2.79 0.72 96,000
8.95 6.00 SM Development `A 6.14 6.11 6.10 6.10 (0.65) 1,333,200 751,010.00
18.20 10.94 SM Prime Holdings 14.30 14.36 14.12 14.26 (0.28) 9,062,200 8,796,584.00
0.91 0.64 Sta. Lucia Land Inc. 0.67 0.69 0.67 0.69 2.99 130,000
4.55 1.80 Starmalls 3.68 3.68 3.57 3.68 0.00 228,000
4.66 2.60 Vista Land & Lifescapes 4.870 4.900 4.770 4.800 (1.44) 4,048,000 (6,550,630.00)
S E R V I C E S
42.00 24.80 ABS-CBN 30.65 31.40 30.60 31.30 2.12 63,900
18.98 1.05 Acesite Hotel 1.30 1.34 1.30 1.32 1.54 544,000 13,000.00
0.78 0.45 APC Group, Inc. 0.610 0.610 0.600 0.610 0.00 683,000
102.80 4.45 Bloomberry 13.20 14.00 13.24 13.80 4.55 16,002,800 (7,795,264.00)
0.5300 0.1010 Boulevard Holdings 0.1450 0.1460 0.1400 0.1440 (0.69) 60,970,000 284,000.00
24.00 5.20 Calata Corp. 5.90 5.95 5.80 5.88 (0.34) 430,100 50,627.00
82.50 60.80 Cebu Air Inc. (5J) 57.10 57.05 56.60 57.00 (0.18) 555,310 (14,345,332.50)
9.70 5.44 DFNN Inc. 5.47 5.46 5.40 5.40 (1.28) 55,100
1750.00 800.00 FEUI 1025.00 1010.00 10005.00 1010.00 (1.46) 130
1270.00 831.00 Globe Telecom 1130.00 1130.00 1125.00 1126.00 (0.35) 69,910 (2,830,755.00)
11.00 6.18 GMA Network Inc. 8.32 8.36 8.28 8.35 0.36 451,300
77.00 43.40 I.C.T.S.I. 72.80 71.45 69.90 69.90 (3.98) 1,036,290 (12,789,294.50)
0.98 0.36 Information Capital Tech. 0.415 0.430 0.430 0.430 3.61 200,000
5.80 4.00 Imperial Res. `B 65.00 65.00 65.00 65.00 0.00 10
6.80 4.30 IPeople Inc. `A 7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 0.00 6,500
4.70 1.75 IP Converge 2.31 2.66 2.23 2.57 11.26 1,128,000 122,020.00
34.50 0.036 IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 0.033 0.049 0.032 0.049 48.48 2,481,000,000 3,103,400.00
3.87 1.00 IPVG Corp. 1.00 1.07 1.00 1.06 6.00 18,481,000 760,800.00
0.0760 0.042 Island Info 0.0470 0.0470 0.0470 0.0470 0.00 100,000
5.1900 2.550 ISM Communications 2.8700 2.8800 2.8000 2.8800 0.35 112,000 172,200.00
10.30 5.90 Leisure & Resorts 8.62 8.93 8.61 8.91 3.36 4,078,100 101,084.00
2.65 1.03 Lorenzo Shipping 1.32 1.40 1.40 1.40 6.06 1,000
3.96 2.70 Macroasia Corp. 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.80 0.00 158,000 168,000.00
0.84 0.57 Manila Bulletin 0.74 0.74 0.70 0.70 (5.41) 32,000
4.08 1.21 Manila Jockey 2.92 2.95 2.91 2.95 1.03 573,000
22.95 13.80 Pacic Online Sys. Corp. 13.98 14.16 14.00 14.16 1.29 9,000
8.58 5.35 PAL Holdings Inc. 5.75 5.80 5.75 5.78 0.52 49,300
3.39 1.05 Paxys Inc. 2.75 2.77 2.77 2.77 0.73 220,000 (83,100.00)
71.00 18.00 Phil. Seven Corp. 73.00 75.00 72.50 72.50 (0.68) 69,230 2,821,870.00
17.88 12.10 Philweb.Com Inc. 17.02 17.02 16.98 17.02 0.00 219,500 1,785,100.00
2886.00 2096.00 PLDT Common 2716.00 2720.00 2680.00 2690.00 (0.96) 130,445 (12,711,480.00)
0.39 0.25 PremiereHorizon 0.325 0.325 0.325 0.325 0.00 200,000
30.15 10.68 Puregold 30.60 30.70 30.50 30.50 (0.33) 5,344,400 23,732,090.00
STI Holdings 1.79 1.84 1.79 1.79 0.00 31,000
4.75 3.30 Touch Solutions 3.94 3.93 3.93 3.93 (0.25) 1,000
3.30 2.42 Transpacic Broadcast 2.57 2.55 2.42 2.55 (0.78) 17,000
0.79 0.34 Waterfront Phils. 0.440 0.445 0.454 0.445 1.14 40,000
MINING & OIL
0.0083 0.0038 Abra Mining 0.0051 0.0052 0.0048 0.0050 (1.96) 347,000,000
6.20 3.01 Apex `A 4.79 4.85 4.60 4.85 1.25 104,000
6.22 3.00 Apex `B 4.82 5.00 4.82 5.00 3.73 683,000 3,387,610.00
20.80 14.50 Atlas Cons. `A 17.80 18.00 17.50 17.74 (0.34) 940,700 (263,500.00)
48.00 20.00 Atok-Big Wedge `A 26.75 26.70 24.50 26.70 (0.19) 3,100 27,550.00
0.345 0.170 Basic Energy Corp. 0.275 0.270 0.260 0.265 (3.64) 24,300,000 318,000.00
34.00 21.20 Benguet Corp `B 23.05 23.05 22.90 22.90 (0.65) 3,200 (73,385.00)
2.23 1.05 Century Peak Metals Hldgs 1.06 1.08 1.06 1.08 1.89 209,000
61.80 6.96 Dizon 20.45 22.00 20.00 20.00 (2.20) 231,400 274,580.00
1.21 0.50 Geograce Res. Phil. Inc. 0.57 0.60 0.56 0.57 0.00 5,049,000 206,500.00
1.81 1.0600 Lepanto `A 1.150 1.150 1.130 1.140 (0.87) 9,652,000
2.070 1.0900 Lepanto `B 1.210 1.210 1.190 1.210 0.00 4,243,000 577,730.00
0.085 0.042 Manila Mining `A 0.0500 0.0510 0.0500 0.0510 2.00 97,620,000
0.840 0.570 Manila Mining `B 0.0500 0.0510 0.0490 0.0510 2.00 13,390,000 (30,000.00)
36.50 15.04 Nickelasia 17.28 17.28 17.12 17.14 (0.81) 498,800 3,140,268.00
12.84 2.91 Nihao Mineral Resources 7.05 7.14 7.00 7.06 0.14 518,200 7,000.00
1.100 0.008 Omico 0.6200 0.6200 0.6200 0.6200 0.00 123,000
8.40 2.99 Oriental Peninsula Res. 4.330 4.400 4.300 4.330 0.00 427,000
0.032 0.014 Oriental Pet. `A 0.0200 0.0200 0.0190 0.0190 (5.00) 47,600,000
0.033 0.014 Oriental Pet. `B 0.0200 0.0200 0.0200 0.0200 0.00 15,400,000
7.05 5.10 Petroenergy Res. Corp. 5.98 5.98 5.90 5.95 (0.50) 383,200
28.25 18.40 Philex `A 15.34 15.58 15.00 15.36 0.13 8,086,500 323,324.00
48.00 3.00 PhilexPetroleum 25.00 25.50 24.00 25.50 2.00 230,200 (679,160.00)
0.062 0.017 Philodrill Corp. `A 0.046 0.046 0.045 0.045 (2.17) 269,700,000 450,000.00
257.80 161.10 Semirara Corp. 224.00 225.00 220.00 224.00 0.00 59,410 462,424.00
0.029 0.015 United Paragon 0.0160 0.0160 0.0150 0.0150 (6.25) 24,100,000
PREFERRED
50.00 23.05 ABS-CBN Holdings Corp. 30.60 31.00 29.95 31.00 1.31 202,700 (4,075,000.00)
580.00 535.00 Ayala Corp. Pref `A 537.00 530.00 530.00 530.00 (1.30) 200
103.50 100.00 First Gen G 104.00 104.00 103.50 103.50 (0.48) 11,000
109.80 101.50 First Phil. Hldgs.-Pref. 102.30 104.00 104.00 104.00 1.66 20
11.02 6.00 GMA Holdings Inc. 8.31 8.35 8.02 8.32 0.12 689,500 36,014.00
116.70 108.90 PCOR-Preferred 107.10 107.50 107.00 107.50 0.37 2,050
SMC Preferred A 75.00 75.00 74.95 75.00 0.00 404,070 (24,374,000.00)
SMC Preferred C 75.20 75.30 75.25 75.25 0.07 10,000
1050.00 1000.00 SMPFC Preferred 1011.00 1011.00 1011.00 1011.00 0.00 200 187,035.00
6.00 0.87 Swift Pref 1.36 1.36 1.36 1.36 0.00 8,000
WARRANTS & BONDS
1.31 0.62 Megaworld Corp. Warrants 1.38 1.38 1.38 1.38 0.00 4,025,000 5,520,000.00
S M E
6.20 4.18 Ripple E-Business Intl 4.50 4.56 4.56 4.56 1.33 1,000
TRADI NG SUMMARY
SHARES VALUE
FINANCIAL 1,0202,069 738,018,855.2
INDUSTRIAL 6,041,009,683 809,555,354.82
HOLDING FIRMS 11,104,317,633 2,247,966,740.841
PROPERTY 170,884,921 485,303,627.63
SERVICES 2,644,690,578 4,587,836,742.21
MINING & OIL 871,588,974 231,411,323.502
GRAND TOTAL 20,812,694,858 9,100,097,204.202
FINANCIAL 1,359.15 (UP) 6.08
INDUSTRIAL 8,310.47 (UP) 34.98
HOLDING FIRMS 4,618.94 (UP) 39.26
PROPERTY 2,078.98 (UP) 4.1
SERVICES 1,768.6 (DOWN) 16.25
MINING & OIL 20,028.86 (DOWN) 29.86
PSEI 5,383.22 (UP) 13.5
All Shares Index 3,576.21 (UP) 8.3
Gainers: 94; Losers: 70; Unchanged:43; Total: 207
STOCKS Close
(P)
Change
(%)
IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 0.049 48.48
Alcorn Gold Res. 0.0960 28.00
Interport `A' 1.38 15.00
IP Converge 2.57 11.26
Greenergy 0.0210 10.53
First Abacus 0.76 10.14
Keppel Properties 2.33 9.91
Pancake House Inc. 8.20 7.19
Unioil Res. & Hldgs 0.2600 6.12
Lorenzo Shipping 1.40 6.06
STOCKS Close
(P)
Change
(%)
United Paragon 0.0150 (6.25)
Manila Bulletin 0.70 (5.41)
Filipino Fund Inc. 10.22 (5.37)
Oriental Pet. `A' 0.0190 (5.00)
Anscor `A' 5.00 (4.21)
I.C.T.S.I. 69.90 (3.98)
Alphaland Corp. 27.80 (3.81)
Prime Media Hldg 1.300 (3.70)
Alaska Milk Corp. 16.38 (3.65)
Basic Energy Corp. 0.265 (3.64)
TOP GAI NERS TOP LOSERS
CHIN WONG
DIGITAL LIFE
TWITTER, the social networking and micro-
blogging service, is a great tool for keeping track
of the news. In my work, I use it to monitor major
news services both domestic and international. I
also use it to stay up-to-date on technology trends.
The 140-character limit on Twitter makes it perfect
for innocuous updates on what a person is doing,
but in the hands of a good comic, its a bit like
stand-up on the Internet. Here are a few of my
favorite one-liners, courtesy of comedian and TV
talk show host Conan OBrien:
I found a huge design aw in my new iPhone.
People get angry when I talk on it during a funeral.
* * *
This laptop is hot on my legs. I shall invent a
space age Kevlar pad that protects my legs from
heat. Or maybe Ill just put on pants.
* * *
Today I got my 1,000,000th Twitter follower! I
am now in the realm of Gods like Ashton, Bieber,
Mariah, and updates on new Dell products.
* * *
Just got the new iPad. This amazing device has
already revolutionized the way I use a calculator.
* * *
sklfjslj;v999[aeae0c (my dogs rst tweet)
* * *
The emoticon just turned 30. I wish there were some
way to express how little I care about this news.
* * *
Twitter is a nonstop series of pointless
arguments by people I dont care about. Its like
Thanksgiving.
* * *
My wife is so cute, always clearing her browser
history and throwing the computer out a window
when I walk in the room.
* * *
Ever get really into playing a video game, only to
discover it was just one of those high-tech Japanese
toilets?
* * *
I found the iPad 3 announcement especially
disappointing because Im still standing in line for
my iPad 2.
* * *
Six years ago Newscorp bought MySpace for
$580 million. Last week they sold it for $35 million.
Today I saw it on eBay for 88 bucks.
* * *
Happy 100th birthday, IBM! Or, should I say, 0
110100001100001011100000111000001111001 0
01000000011000100110000001100000111010001
10100.
* * *
I prefer to have my affairs over Twitter because I
usually cant last more than 140 characters.
* * *
Just learned how to cut and paste! Just learned
how to cut and paste! Just learned how to cut and
paste!
* * *
Today is 1-11-11. In binary code, thats considered
stuttering.
* * *
I love to tweet, but I worry sometimes that Ill
lose count of the words and the Twitter people will
cut me off before Ive had a chance to.
* * *
As prolic as he is, Conan doesnt have a
monopoly on funny tweets. Here are a few more
(courtesy of Oddee.com):
My parents didnt retweet me enough.Larry
Blanken
* * *
To most Christians, the Bible is like a software
license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll
to the bottom and click I agree. almightygod
* * *
Can we go back to using Facebook for what it
was originally forlooking up exes to see how fat
they got?Bill Maher
* * *
And a few more from Megan Amram:
Mark Zuckerberg stole Facebook from my friend,
Craig Facebook.
* * *
If video games have taught me anything, its
that youll automatically get promoted if you kill
your boss.
* * *
HOW DO YOU TURN OFF CAPS LOCK
* * *
Not all comedians get Twitter, though. In his
famous spiel in 2009, David Letterman said, Mark
my words, when they write about this thousands
and thousands and thousands of years from now,
Twitter will be the indicator of the beginning of the
end of civilization. It wont be global warming, it
wont be global conict, its going to be Twitter.
Column archives and blog at:
http://www.chinwong.com
THE stock market rose slightly Monday,
led by blue-chip stocks and speculative
issue Alcorn Gold Resources Corp.,
ignoring the weakness in the region.
The Philippine Stock Exchange
index gained 13.50 points,
or 0.25 percent, to 5,383.22.
Gainers beat losers, 94 to 70,
with 43 issues unchanged.
Alcorn Gold, a local mining
company, jumped 28 percent to
P0.096 on heavy turnover of over
P1 billion. IP-Game Ventures Inc.
soared 48.48 percent to P0.049.
Bloomberry Resorts Corp.,
which is nishing a casino facility
in the reclaimed area of Manila
Bay, rose 4.6 percent to P13.80.
SM Investments Corp., the
holding company of retail
tycoon Henry Sy Sr., advanced
3.9 percent to P800, while
Metropolitan Bank and Trust
Co., the second-biggest bank,
gained 1 percent to P91.80.
Bank of the Philippine Islands,
the third-biggest lender, rose 1.2
percent to P78.55.
Philippine Long Distance
Telephone Co., the largest
telecommunications company,
lost nearly 1 percent to P2,690.
The rest of Asian stock markets,
meanwhile, were mostly lower
Monday as hopes dimmed for
aggressive moves by China to
stimulate its slowing economy.
Chinas consumer price index
for September rose 1.9 percent
from a year earlier, easing from
Augusts 2-percent rise, but
analysts said closer examination
of the gures suggest Chinas
government and central bank will
be cautious about doing more to
boost growth in the worlds no. 2
economy.
Dariusz Kowalczyk at Credit
Agricole CIB in Hong Kong said
non-food ination accelerated to a
seven-month high of 1.7 percent,
an indication of underlying price
pressure that reduces the odds
of further monetary easing.
He said an interest rate cut
by the central bank is unlikely
although a reduction in the
reserve ratio requirementthe
ratio of cash that banks must keep
on handmight be possible later
this year.
Kowalczyk said the producer
prices index, which measures
ination at the wholesale level
and fell 3.6 percent from the year
before, was another negative
signal since it is indicative of a
weak level of economic activity.
A combination of growth
softness and less room to ease
policy stance is a negative and
should weigh on sentiment
today, he said.
Japans Nikkei 225 index
vacillated between positive and
negative territory until moving
0.5 percent higher at 8,579.34 at
mid-day.
Hong Kongs Hang Seng lost
0.1 percent to 21,110.10. South
Koreas Kospi fell 0.6 percent
to 1,921.74. Australias S&P/
ASX 200 dropped 0.1 percent
to 4,482.50. Mainland Chinas
Shanghai Composite Index lost
0.5 percent to 2,094.47 and the
smaller Shenzhen Composite
Index lost 1 percent at 857.16.
Concerns about global economic
growthespecially the direction of
Chinas economyhurt Australian
mining shares since Australia is a
major exporter of iron ore and other
minerals to China. Rio Tinto Ltd.
lost 1.1 percent, Newcrest Mining
fell 2.2 percent and Fortescue
Metals Group tumbled 3.5 percent.
With Bloomberg, AP
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
Region IX
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Zamboanga deI Norte Ist District Engineering Ofce
Sta. Isabel, Dipolog City
The Bids and Award Committee (BAC) of the DPWH ZN Ist District
Engineering Offce, Sta. sabel, Dipolog City, invites contractors to bid for the
following projects :
1. Contract D No. : 12JB0021
Contract Name : Preventive Maint. ( ntermittent Section )
Contract Location : along Dipolog-Sindangan-Liloy Road ( cluster )
1) Km. 1902 + 000 Km. 1904 + 000
2) Km. 1906 + 863 Km. 1908 + 000
Scope of Works : Asphalt Overlay
Approved Budget
for the Contract (ABC) : P 41,010,060.00
Contract Duration : 71 cal. days
Cost of bidding Docs. : P 20,000.00
2. Contract D No. : 12JB0022
Contract Name : Rehab./Reconst./Upgrading of damaged Paved
National Rd. (ntermittent Sect.)
Contract Location : along Dipolog-Sindangan- Liloy Road (Cluster)
1) Km. 1867 + 011 Km. 1868 + 050
2) Km. 1869 + 000 Km. 1869 + 250
3) Km. 1870 + 000 Km. 1870 + 750
Scope of Works : Upgrade to Concrete
Approved Budget
for the Contract (ABC) : P 37,543,900.00
Contract Duration : 118 cal. days
Cost of bidding Docs. : P 20,000.00
3. Contract D No. : 12JB0023
Contract Name : Road mprovement Jct. Turno by Pass Road to
Linabo Peak (3,003 steps)
Contract Location : Dipolog City, Zambo. Del Norte
Scope of Works : Road mprovement
Approved Budget
for the Contract (ABC) : P 49,000,000.00
Contract Duration : 118 cal. days
Cost of bidding Docs. : P 20,000.00
4. Contract D No. : 12JB0024
Contract Name : Road mprovement Jct. Brgy. Cogon Highway
to Sungkilaw Falls
Contract Location : Dipolog City, Zambo. Del Norte
Scope of Works : Road mprovement
Approved Budget
for the Contract (ABC) : P 49,000,000.00
Contract Duration : 118 cal. days
Cost of bidding Docs. : P 20,000.00
5. Contract D No. : 12JB0025
Contract Name : Rehab./Reconst. Of Drainage along National
Road
Contract Location : Zambo. Del Norte, 2
nd
District
Scope of Works : Rehab./Reconst. Of Drainage canal
Approved Budget
for the Contract (ABC) : P 49,000,000.00
Contract Duration : 363 cal. days
Cost of bidding Docs. : P 20,000.00
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with
the Revised RR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be
automatically rejected at the opening of bids .
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of ntent (LO),
purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria : a) prior
registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino Citizen or 75% Filipino owned partnership,
corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to
the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at
least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years ; and (e) Net Financial Contracting
Capacity at least equal to 10% of the ABC . The BAC will use-non discretionary
pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their application for
registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the
receipt of LO. The DPWH-POCW Central Offce will only process contractor's
applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the contractor's
Certifcate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be download at the
DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.

The Signifcant time and deadline of procurement activities are shown below :
1. ssuance of Bidding Documents October 16 , 2012 to Nov. 27, 2012
2. Pre-bid Conference Nov. 15, 2012 at 9:00 A.M.
3. Deadline of Receipt of LO Nov. 20, 2012 until 4:00 P.M.
4. Receipt of Bids ( Technical/ Financial
Proposal)
Nov. 27, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.
5. Opening of Bids Nov. 27, 2012 at 10:30 AM.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BD's) at BAC Offce,
DPWH, ZN st District Engineering Offce, Sta. sabel, Dipolog City, upon
payment of a non-refundable fee as shown above. Prospective bidder's may
also download the BD's from the DPWH website, shall pay the said fees on or
before the submission of their bids Documents. The Pre-bid conference shall
be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BD's . Bids must
accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in
Section 27.2 of the Revised RR.

Prospective bidder's shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in
the BD's in two (2) separate sealed bid envelope to the BAC Chairman . The frst
envelope shall contain the technical components of the bid, which shall include
a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial components
of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as
determined in the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The DPWH ZN 1st District Engineering Offce, Sta. sabel, Dipolog City reserves
the right to accept or reject any bids to annul the bidding process at any time prior
contract award , without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s .
Approved :

(Sgd.) ROY ROGER M. PASTRANO
Engineer III
BAC, Vice Chairman
Noted :

(Sgd.) ALEXANDER G. DUHIG, CSEE
District Engineer
INVITATION TO BID
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
Region VIII
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Samar Second District Engineering Ofce
Catbalogan, Samar
INVITATION TO BID
FOR
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
. Contract D : 12 K 0019
Contract Name : Repair/Rehab. of National Road along Daang Maharlika
Road
Contract Location : KO 862+040-KO 862+155, Brgy. Laygayon, Pinabacdao,
Samar
Brief Description/Scope of Work : 101-Removal/Disposal of Damaged Concrete Pavement
102-Common Borrow
200-Aggregate Sub base Course
201-Aggregate Base Course
311-PCCP (Carriageway)
311-PCCP (Shoulder)
302-Bituminous Tack Coat
310-Bituminous Surface Course, hot laid, Grade D
509-Sheet Piles
613-Conc. Joint Sealant
605-Road sign & Billboard
606-Supply/Appl. Refective Thermoplastic Pavement
Markings
SP. -Conc. Retaining Wall & Railing
SP. -Mobilization/Demobilization
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : P 12,249,976.95
Contract Duration : 120 Calendar days
Cost of Bidding Documents : P 10,000.00
. Contract D : 12 K 0020
Contract Name : Repair/mprovement of Hinabangan Diversion Road
Contract Location : Chainage 0000- Chainage 1033 (w/ exceptions) Pob.
Hinabangan, Hinabangan, Samar
Brief Description/Scope of Work : 301- Bituminous Tack Coat
310- Bituminous Conc. Surface Course Hot Laid, Grade D
605-Road signs
612(1)- Refectorized Thermoplastic Pavement Markings
(white)
612(2)- Refectorized Thermoplastic Pavement Markings
(yellow)
613- DPWH Standard Project Billboard
Sp. - Crack Sealing
Sp. - Const. Safety & Health
Sp. - Provisions for Passage of Traffc & Traffc Control
Sp. V- Mobilization/Demolization
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : P 13,339,641.10
Contract Duration : 20 Calendar days
Cost of Bidding Documents : P 10,000.00
. Contract D : 12 K 0021
Contract Name : Repair/Rehab./mprovement of Daang Maharlika
Contract Location : KO 836+1087-KO 838+109 Hinabangan Section, Pob.
Hinabangan Hinabangan, Samar
Brief Description/Scope of Work : 101- Removal/Disposal of Damaged Conc. Pavement
102- Common Borrow
201- Aggregate Base Course
302- Bituminous Tack Coat
310- Bituminous Surface Course, Hot Laid, Grade D
311- Portland Cement Conc. Pavement
612- Refectorized Thermoplastic Pavement Markings
Sp. - Concrete Cracks/Joint Sealing
Sp. - Const. Safety & Health
Sp. ll- Project Billboard
Sp. V- Mobilization/Demobilization
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : P 11,056,292.10
Contract Duration : 70 Calendar days
Cost of Bidding Documents : P 10,000.00
V. Contract D : 12 K 0022
Contract Name : mprovement/Rehab, of Motiong Old Route
Contract Location : Chainage 0+000-Chainage 1+195 (w/ exceptions),
Motiong, Samar
Brief Description/Scope of Work : 103- Structure Excavation
105- Sub-grade Preparation
200- Aggregate Sub base Course
311- Portland Cement Conc, Pavement
505- Riprap & Grouted Riprap (Trapezoidal Open Lined
Canal)
506- Stone Masonry
Spcl. - DPWH Standard Project. Billboard
Spcl. - Const. Safety & Health
Spcl. ll- Mobilization/Demobilization
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : P 5,519,303.50
Contract Duration : 135 Calendar days
Cost of Bidding Documents : P 10,000.00
1. The DPWH Samar II District Engineering Ofce, CatbaIogan City, through the FY 2013 GAA
intends to apply the sum above stated being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments
under the contract for the above mentioned contracts. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be
automatically rejected at bid opening,
2. The DPWH Samar II District Engineering Ofce, CatbaIogan City now invites bids for the
abovementioned description of works. Completion of the works is required for the above stated
contract duration, Bidders should have completed, within ten (10) years from the date of submission
and receipt of bids, a contract similar to the project. The description of an eligible bidder is contained
in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section instruction to Bidders.
3. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non.discretionary
pass/fall criterion in the eligibility Check and Preliminary examination of Bids as specifed in the
mplementing Rules and Regulations (JRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the
"Government Procurement Reform Act",
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, organizations or joint
venture with at least seventy fve percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to
citizens of the Philippines.
4. nterested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH Samar District Engineering Offce,
Catbalogan City and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 A.M. - 5:00
P.M.
5. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the address
below and upon Payment of a nonrefundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount stated
above. Issuance of Bidding Documents will be on October 11, 2012 to October 31, 2012.
t may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippines Government Electronic
Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall
pay the fee for the Bidding Documents not lated that the submission of their bids.
6. The DPWH Samar II District Engineering Ofce, CatbaIogan City will hold a Pre-Bid Conference
on October 16, 2011 at 9:00 A.M. at the BAC Offce, DPWH, Samar District Engineering Offce,
Catbalogan City which shall be open to interested parties.
7. Bids must be delivers to the address below on or before October 31, 2012 at 9:00 A.M. at
the BAC Offce, DPWH Samar District Engineering Offce, Catbalogan City. All bids must be
accompanied by a bid security in my of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in the 1TB
Clause 18.
Bids will be opened on October 31, 2012 at 2:00 P.M. in the presence of the Bidders' representatives
who choose to attend at the address beiow. Late bids shall not be accepted.
8. To bid for this contract, a contractor must purchased bidding documents and meet the following
major criteria: a) Prior registration with DPWH, BAC-CPO, Manila; b) with PCAB license applicable
to the type and cost of this contract; c) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC
within a period of 10 years, and d) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or Credit
Line Commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. Bidders shall submit their bids through their duly
Authorized Liason Offcers only as specifed in the Contractor's nformation (C). Submission of Letter
of ntent (LO) is no longer requred to participate in the bidding, per D.O. No, 64, series of 2012.
9. The DPWH Samar II District Engineering Ofce, CatbaIogan City reserves the right to accept or
reject any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award,
without thereby incurring any liability or obligation to the affected bidder or bidders.
10. For further information, please refer to;
NESTOR I. MATE, MPM
Engineer - Chief Const. Section
(BAC Chairman)
Attention:
Head, BAC Secretariat
BAC' Offce, DPWH Samar !l District Engineering Offce .
Catbalogan City
(Sgd.) NESTOR I. MATE, MPM
Engineer - Chief Const. Section
(BAC Chairman)
NOTED:
(Sgd.) NESTOR L. PAGASARTONGA
District Engineer
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
Region V
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Bohol 2
nd
Sub-District Engineering Offce
Ubay, Bohol
(MST-Oct. 9 & 16, 2012)
INVITATION TO BID
The Department of Public Works and Highways, Bohol 2
nd
Sub-District Engineering Offce,
Ubay, Bohol, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to
bid for the following contract(s):
Contract D : 12HC0016
Contract Name : Replacement/Rehabilitation/Strengthening of Permanent
Bridges
a) Baboy Bridge along Tagbilaran North Road
(Tagbilaran-Getafe Section), Burgos, Talibon, Bohol
b) Buli Bridge along Tagbilaran North Road
(Tagbilaran-Getafe Section), San Roque, Talibon,
Bohol
c) Tulay Bridge along Tagbilaran North Road
(Tagbilaran-Getafe Section), Poblacion, Trinidad,
Bohol
Contract Location : Talibon and Trinidad, Bohol
Scope of Works :
a) BABOY BRIDGE ALONG TAGBILARAN NORTH ROAD
(TAGBILARAN-GETAFE SECTION), BURGOS, TALIBON, BOHOL
ABC = P 6,276,900.00
A.1 Facilities for the Engineers
tem 101(2) Removal of Concrete Bridge Structure (Superstructures)
tem 101(3) Removal of Existing Pavement
tem 104 Embankment for Detour
tem 200 Aggregate Sub-Base Course
tem 201 Aggregate Base Course
tem 401 Bridge Railings
tem 404 Reinforcing Steel Bar (Major Structure/Superstructure)
tem 405 Structural Concrete Class "A
tem 500(1e) Pipe Culverts, 1220mm dia. (48)
tem 505 Grouted Riprap
tem 603 Metal Guardrails (Metal Beam) including Post
SPL1 Mobilization/Demobilization
SPL2 Provide Project Sign Board
SPL3 Construction Safety and Health
b) BULI BRIDGE ALONG TAGBILARAN NORTH ROAD
(TAGBILARAN-GETAFE SECTION), SAN ROQUE, TALIBON, BOHOL
ABC = P 4,561,900.00
tem 101 Removal of Existing Bridge Structures and Obstructions
tem 101(2) Removal of Existing Concrete Pavement
tem 103(2) Bridge Excavation AOWL
tem 104(1) Embankment for Detour
tem 200 Aggregate Sub-Base Course
tem 311(2) Reinforced Portland Cement Concrete Pavement, .230mmtk
tem 400(4) Precast Concrete Piles Furnished
tem 400(16) Precast Concrete Piles Driven
tem 400(20) Pile Shoes
tem 401 Concrete Railing
tem 404 Reinforcing Steel Bar (Bridge Structures and Other Major Structures
tem 405 Structural Concrete Class "A
tem 500(1e) Pipe Culverts, 1220mm dia. (48)
tem 505 Grouted Riprap
SPL1 Mobilization/Demobilization
SPL2 Provide Project Sign Board
SPL3 Construction Safety and Health
c) TULAY BRIDGE ALONG TAGBILARAN NORTH ROAD
(TAGBILARAN-GETAFE SECTION), POBLACION, TRINIDAD, BOHOL
ABC = P 4,527,600.00
tem 101 Removal of Existing Bridge Structures and Obstructions
tem 101(2) Removal of Existing Concrete Pavement
tem 103(2) Bridge Excavation AOWL
tem 104(1) Embankment for Detour
tem 200 Aggregate Sub-Base Course
tem 311 Portland Cement Concrete Pavement, Plain t=230mm
tem 311(2) Reinforced Portland Cement Concrete Pavement (Link Slab)
tem 400(4) Precast Concrete Piles, Furnished
tem 400(14) Precast Concrete Piles, Driven
tem 400(16) Test Piles, Furnished and Driven
tem 400(20) - Pile Shoes
tem 401 Concrete Railings
tem 404 Reinforcing Steel Bar (Bridge Structures and Other Major Structures
tem 405 Structural Concrete Class "A
tem 500(1e) Pipe Culverts, 1220mm dia. (48)
tem 505 Grouted Riprap
SPL1 Mobilization/Demobilization
SPL2 Provide Project Sign Board
SPL3 Construction Safety and Health
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : P 15,366,400.00
Contract Duration : 220 calendar days
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in
accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of ntent (LO) and must meet
the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen of 75% Filipino-
owned partnership, corporation, cooperative or joint venture with PCAB license applicable to
the type and cost of this contract, (c) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of
ABC within a period of 10 years, and (d) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to
ABC, or credit line commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use nondiscretionary
pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the
DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the receipt of LO. The DPWH POCW-
Central Offce will only process contractor's applications for registration, with complete
requirements, and issue the Contractor's Certifcate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms
may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Receipt of LO from Prospective Bidders October 24, 2012 (deadline)
2. ssuance of Bidding Documents From October 17-29, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference 2:00 P.M. , October 17, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids October 29, 2012
5. Opening of Bids 2:00 P.M. , October 29, 2012
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BD's) at DPWH Bohol 2
nd
Sub-District
Engineering Offce, Bood, Ubay, Bohol, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of Twenty Five
Thousand Pesos Only (P25,000.00). Prospective bidders may also download the BDs, if
available, from the DPWH web site. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the
DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of their bids Documents.
Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in
Section 27.2 of the Revised RR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in the BD's
in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst envelope shall
contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include the eligibility requirements.
The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid. Contract will be
awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and
the post-qualifcation.
The DPWH-Bohol 2
nd
Sub-District Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or reject any
or all bid and to annul the bidding process anytime before Contract award, without incurring
any liability to the affected bidders.
Approved:
(Sgd.) JUNIBEE C. FROILAN
Engineer III
BAC Chairman
Telefax No. (038) 518-8051
DPWH NFRA-07 Standard Advertisement-Revised RR
Business
ManilaStandardToday extrastory2000@gmail.com OCTOBER 16, 2012 TUESDAY
B3
BIR collections up just 6.75%
By Maria Bernadette Lunas
COLLECTIONS of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue in September rose
6.75 percent to P71.04 billion from
P66.55 billion year-on-year, or short of
the months target, the agency said in a
statement Monday.
Calata facility.
Leading agriculture
supply conglomerate
Calata Corp. opened its
rst soil testing facility
for farmers at its Lipa
City branch in Batangas.
The facility helps farmers
select the right inputs for
their farms resulting in
more harvest at less cost.
Calata chief executive
Joseph Calata (extreme
right) said the use of the
facility is free. Calata has
120 outlets across Luzon
and plans to increase
them to 200 in the
medium-term period.
All outlets will have the
soil tester. With Calata
are Lipa City councilors,
Agriculture ofcials and
farmers.
The BIR said it missed the September collection target of
P73.93 billion by 4 percent or P2.89 billion, the third consecutive
month the agencys tax take fell short of the goal and the seventh
time this year.
BIR Commissioner Kim Henares earlier said she expected
lower collections in September compared with those in the
previous months because the month traditionally posts reduced
tax take.
The latest data brought the total tax haul of the BIR from
January to September this year to P772.47 billion, up 12.56
from a year ago.
Collections from non-BIR operations, or revenues generated
mainly from taxes on debt papers issued by the Treasury, reached
P3.33 billion, 7.06
percent or P0.22
billion higher from
a year ago.
Collections from
the regional offices
hit P26.22 billion,
up 17.13 percent or
P3.84 billion from
a year ago.
[The September
collection is]
continuing with the
trend of double-
digit growth being
registered by the
regional offices
this year, Henares
said.
Collections of
the BIR regional
offices exceeded
their September
2012 target by 3.22
percent or P0.82
billion.
The Large Taxpayer Service unit, which accounts for about
65 percent of the BIRs tax-take, contributed P41.49 billion in
September, up 1.06 percent or P4.27 billion from a year ago.
percent or P86.21 billion from
P686.26 billion on year.
The nine-month collection
tally of the bureau, however,
was short by 3.6 percent or
P27.83 billion from the target
of P800.297 billion set by the
inter-agency Development
Budget Coordination
Committee for the period.
The BIR aims to raise
P1.066 trillion in revenues
this year, up from its P940-
billion goal last year. The BIR
data indicated it must collect
at least P294 billion in the last
three months of the year to
meet the target.
Collections from BIR
operations in September
amounted P67.71 billion, up
6.73 percent or P4.27 billion
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
OCTOBER 16, 2012 TUESDAY
B4
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
IN BRIEF
Manila Standard TODAY
WORLD
Scotland to discuss vote for UK split
Pakistan sends girl shot by Taliban to England
Skydiver
breaks
sound
barrier
Japan
shows off
warships
amid tiff
Syria
accused
of cluster
bomb use
Cambodias former king dies at 89
Libyas Congress elects
lawyer as prime minister
ISLAMABADPakistan sent a
14-year-old activist who was shot
and seriously wounded by the
Taliban to the United Kingdom
for treatment Monday, saying she
would require prolonged care to
fully recover from the physical and
psychological effects of the attack.
The shooting of Malala
Yousufzai and two of her
classmates as they were returning
home from school in Pakistans
northwest on Oct. 9 has horried
people inside and outside the
country. Tens of thousands rallied
in Pakistans largest city on
Sunday to support her.
She was shot by the Taliban for
promoting girls education and
criticizing the militant group.
Malala ew out of Pakistan on
Monday morning in a specially
equipped air ambulance provided
by the United Arab Emirates, said
the Pakistani military, which has
been treating the young girl at one
of its hospitals.
A panel of doctors decided
to send Malala to a center in the
United Kingdom which has the
capability to provide integrated
care to children who have sustained
severe injury, said the military in
a statement sent to reporters.
Malala, who was shot in the
head, will need to repair damaged
bones in her skull and will require
intensive neuro rehabilitation,
said the military. The decision to
send the girl abroad was taken in
consultation with her family, and
the Pakistani government will pay
for her treatment.
Pakistani military doctors earlier
removed a bullet from Malalas
body and were able to stabilize
her condition.
The rally in the southern port
city of Karachi on Sunday was
the largest show of support yet
for the girl. Some Pakistanis
have expressed hope that the
government would respond to the
attack against her by intensifying
its ght against the Taliban and
their allies. AP
Supporters of Pakistani political party Muttahida Qaumi Movement attend a rally to condemn the attack on 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala
Yousufzai, who was shot last Tuesday by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women in Karachi, Pakistan Sunday. AP
PHNOM PENHNorodom Siha-
nouk, the revered former king who
was a towering gure in Cambo-
dian politics through a half-century
of war, genocide and upheaval,
died Monday. He was 89.
Sihanouk abdicated the throne
in 2004, citing his poor health. He
had been getting medical treat-
ment in China since January and
had suffered a variety of illnesses,
including colon cancer, diabetes
and hypertension.
Prince Sisowath Thomico, a
royal family member who also
was Sihanouks assistant, said the
former king suffered a heart at-
tack at a Beijing hospital.
His death was a great loss to
Cambodia, Thomico said, add-
ing that Sihanouk had dedicated
his life for the sake of his entire
nation, country and for the Cam-
bodian people.
Sihanouks successor, Noro-
dom Sihamoni, ew with Cam-
bodian Prime Minister Hun Sen
to Beijing on Monday to retrieve
the body, said Col. Chhay Bunna,
a senior police ofcer in charge of
security at Phnom Penhs interna-
tional airport.
State ags ew at half-staff,
and Cambodian government
spokesman Khieu Kanharith
said an ofcial funeral will be
held once the former kings
body is repatriated.
In January, Sihanouk requested
that he be cremated in the Cam-
bodian and Buddhist tradition,
asking that his ashes be put in an
urn, preferably made of gold, and
placed in a stupa at the countrys
Royal Palace. AP
ROSWELL, New MexicoIn
a giant leap from more than 24
miles up, a daredevil skydiver
shattered the sound barrier
while making the highest
jump evera tumbling, death-
defying plunge from a balloon
to a safe landing in the New
Mexico desert.
Felix Baumgartner hit
Mach 1.24, or 833.9 miles per
hour (1,342 kph) on Sunday,
according to preliminary data,
and became the rst man to
reach supersonic speed without
traveling in a jet or a spacecraft
after hopping out of a capsule
that had reached an altitude of
128,100 feet (39,045 meters)
above the Earth.
Landing on his feet in the
desert, the man known as
Fearless Felix lifted his arms
in victory to the cheers of
jubilant friends and spectators
who closely followed his
descent in a live television feed
at the command center.
When I was standing there on
top of the world, you become so
humble, you do not think about
breaking records anymore, you
do not think about gaining
scientic data, he said after the
jump. The only thing you want
is to come back alive.
A worldwide audience
watched live on the Internet via
cameras mounted on his capsule
as Baumgartner, wearing a
pressurized suit, stood in the
doorway of his capsule, gave
a thumbs-up and leapt into the
stratosphere.
Sometimes we have to get
really high to see how small we
are, an exuberant Baumgartner
told reporters outside mission
control after the jump. AP
EDINBURGHIts not a meet-
ing David Cameron is likely to
enjoy.
The British prime minister is
due to visit the leader of Scot-
lands separatist administration
on Monday to agree the terms of
a referendum that could break up
the United Kingdomthe coun-
try Cameron leads.
Cameron does not want to be
the leader who presides over
the demise of the 300-year-old
political union between Eng-
land and its northern neighbor.
But, practically, there is little
he can do to stop politicians in
semiautonomous Scotland ask-
ing voters whether they want to
break free.
With Scotland, like much of
Europe, facing recession and
economic uncertainty, the an-
swer is hard to predict.
I cant nd a job and my
prospects are slim, said Sally
Murray, an unemployed ofce
worker in Edinburgh. Ive got
nothing to lose. Perhaps my
prospects would improve by go-
ing independent.
Ofcials from London and Ed-
inburgh have been meeting for
weeks to hammer out details of
a vote. Sticking points included
the date and the wording of the
question.
On Friday the two sides said
they had reached a deal, which
is expected to be approved Mon-
day by Cameron and Scottish
First Minister Alex Salmond.
It is likely to call for a refer-
endum in October 2014, as Sal-
monds nationalists had desired.
Cameron and other pro-union
politicians had pressed for the vote
to be held earlier, because opinion
polls show that only between a
quarter and a third of Scots favor
splitting the nation. AP
Cambodias former King Norodom Sihanouk (center) speaks during a ceremony to mark the 20th
anniversary of the former monarchs return to his homeland in this Oct. 30, 2011 file photo. Sihanouk, the
former Cambodian king who was never far from the center of his countrys politics through a half-century
of war, genocide and upheaval, has died. He was 89. AP
Ali Zidan, also a former in-
dependent congressman, won
93 votes, securing a majority of
those who voted in a poll to de-
termine the countrys leader for
a transitional period of around
20 months.
Zidans top priority will be
to name a new government that
congress approves. The Cabinet
will be faced with the daunting
task of disarming thousands of
young men who fought in last
years eight-month civil war
that led to the capture and kill-
ing of longtime dictator Moam-
mar Gadha.
The ministers will also be
pressed to provide basic ser-
vices, restore security by creat-
ing a military and police force
capable of asserting authority
over disparate militias left over
from the war, and unifying the
countrys tribes and towns.
One such militia, a radical Is-
lamist group that now claims to
have dissolved, has been linked
to the attack last month on the US
Consulate in the eastern city of
Benghazi that killed the American
ambassador and three others.
Feuds between cities and
towns also are up frequently.
Militias are currently deployed
on the outskirts of the mountain
town of Bani Walid, one of the
few remaining strongholds of
Gadha loyalists. The possibil-
ity of an outbreak of violence
there highlights the highly po-
larized atmosphere.
Any prime minister who wants
to impose his authority on the
militias will need broad national
support for his government but
such support is hard to obtain.
The 200-member congress se-
lected Zidan following last weeks
dismissal of Mustafa Abushagur
after just 25 days in the post for
failing to present a Cabinet list
that satised legislators. AP
TRIPOLILibyas
Congress elected
a human rights
lawyer as interim
prime minister
on Sunday, a
week after his
predecessor was
sacked for failing
to present a Cabinet
lineup that political
factions could
agree on.
Syrian ights barred
ANKARATurkeys foreign
minister says the country has
barred its air space to Syrian
civilian ights.
Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday
that Turkey had made the deci-
sion because the Syrian regime,
which is battling an insurgency,
was abusing civilian ights by
transporting military equipment.
He says Syrias government
was notied of the decision on
Saturday.
Last week, Turkey forced a
Syrian plane to land and cons-
cated what it said was military
equipment on board. Russia said
the plane was carrying spare ra-
dar parts, while Syria accused
Turkey of piracy.
Syria announced Saturday
that it was closing its air space
to Turkish ights. But Davuto-
glu said Sunday: the Syrian
announcement has no value
for us. AP
Police station attacked
ISLAMABADA Pakistani
ofcial says over 100 militants
have attacked a police station
in the northwest, killing six
policemen. Two of the killed
policemen were beheaded.
Police ofcer Ishrat Yar says
the attack near the main north-
west city of Peshawar started
late on Sunday night and trig-
gered a gunbattle that lasted
for several hours. The militants
were armed with heavy machine
guns, rocket-propelled grenades,
hand grenades and assault ries.
Yar also says 12 policemen
were wounded in the attack in
the small town of Matni, some
20 kilometers (12 miles) south
of Peshawar.
One of the beheaded police-
men was a senior ofcial who
commanded several police sta-
tions in the area.
Yar says the militants
burned the police station and
four police vehicles before
they escaped. AP
JAPANS navy marked its 60th
anniversary with a major ex-
ercise intended to show off its
maritime strength. The display
comes amid a tense territorial
dispute with China.
About 40 shipsincluding
state-of-the-art destroyers,
hovercraft able to launch as-
saults on rough coastlines and
new conventionally powered
submarinestook part in Fleet
Review 2012, the maritime
equivalent of a military pa-
rade. About 30 naval aircraft,
mostly helicopters, also par-
ticipated Sunday.
Japans navy was joined
by warships from the United
States, Singapore and Australia.
Representatives from more than
20 countries, including China,
also attended the event staged in
waters south of Tokyo.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko
Noda, who watched aboard the
destroyer JS Kurama, said Ja-
pan faces severe challenges
to its security, though he did not
specically mention the dispute
with Beijing over islands in the
East China Sea.
Noda called on the sailors tak-
ing part in the exercise, which is
held every three years but was
expanded this year because of
the 60th anniversary, to be pre-
pared to face new responsi-
bilities as the security situation
around the country changes.
Japans navyformally
called the Maritime Self-De-
fense Forceis among the best-
equipped and best-trained in the
world. As part of a post-World
War II mutual defense pact, Ja-
pan also hosts the US 7th Fleet,
which includes the USS George
Washington aircraft carrier bat-
tle group. AP
BEIRUTThe Syrian regime was
accused Sunday of dropping cluster
bombsindiscriminate scattershot
munitions banned by most na-
tionsin a new sign of desperation
and disregard for its own people.
The international group Human
Rights Watch cited amateur video
and testimony from the front lines
in making the allegation against
the government of President
Bashar Assad.
Syria and Turkey, meanwhile, de-
clared their skies off-limits to each
other amid mounting cross-border
tensions in Syrias 19-month-old
conict, now a civil war. Turkey is
an outspoken backer of rebels try-
ing to oust Assad.
The weekends mutual ban on
overights is part of Turkeys in-
creasingly assertive stance toward
Syria that has stirred concerns about
a regional conagration. In the past
two weeks, Turkey has retaliated
for stray Syrian shells and mortar
rounds, intercepted a Syrian passen-
ger plane on suspicion it carried mil-
itary equipment, andaccording to
a Turkish newspaper Sundaysent
more warships to naval bases north
of the Syrian coastline. AP
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on the racks
FRANCES Yu is proud to be working for a
company that has been very creative and innovative
when it comes to cooking up retail promos for its
customers.
Rustans Supermarket was rst to introduce many retail
concepts. It was the rst supermarket to bring Kikkoman soy sauce
and Chupa Chups to the Philippines many decades ago. It was
also the rst to have a coffee shop, The Yum Yum Tree, says Yu,
Rustans Supercenters vice president of marketing.
Founded in 1970, Rustans Supermarket is a pioneer in modern
grocery retailing having introduced many innovations from
groundbreaking promotions to sourcing quality products from all over
the world. Among its groundbreaking promotions are the buy-1-take-1
offer and Grocering, the rst ever grocery delivery in the country.
Rustans was also the rst retailer to source quality products from all
over the world in commercial quantities, dening the concept of modern
food retailing in the Philippines.
Rustans always wanted customers to enjoy grocery shopping
as an experience for the whole family instead of just a chore that
needed to be done every week, says Yu.
Family experience
She says it is largely because of Rustans that Filipino families
made grocery shopping during the weekends a tradition. While mom
and the girls were shopping for essentials like coffee, sugar, canned
goods and condiments at the supermarket proper, dad and the boys
would be at The Yum Yum Tree enjoying some snacks.
The Yum Yum Tree is gone at Rustans in Makati (there is one
in Cebu though) and it has been replaced with Bennys, which was
named after Rustans co-founder Bienvenido Tantoco. Some of
the bestsellers include steamed lapu-lapu with chili and lime (Thai
style), binagoongang baboy, crispy pla-pla with mustasa at buro,
ensaladang pako at itlog na maalat dressing, crispy tadyang, Bicols
pinangat, sinigang na bangus sa bayabas, crispy pata with garlic
and chili, tinapa rice and the all-time Yum-Yum Tree favorite
pinakbet rice with chicharon. The signature drinks are chico shake,
guyabano shake and lemon-ginger shake.
At Shopwise Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon City, there is a
Mongolian grill and a sushi and sashimi counter. Shopwise pioneered
the hypermarket concept in the Philippines. The brand is known for
its affordable quality, everyday freshness, budget-friendly variety,
and fast service.
This month, Dove has teamed up with Rustans Supermarket to
launch a fund-raising initiative in line with Breast Cancer Awareness
Month.
The campaign, dubbed In the Pink of Health, will benet the
ICanServe Foundation, Inc., an advocacy group championing early
breast cancer detection. The Dove Pink Kit for the campaign will
be available in Rustans supermarkets and Shopwise throughout the
month.
Retailing at P199, the kit will consist of Dove Straight and Silky
shampoo (90ml), Dove Pink beauty bar (100g) and Dove Original
mini roll-on (25ml).
Aside from the kit, for every purchase of Dove products worth
P199, the brand will donate P5 to the foundation.
Were very attered by the fact that Dove chose us as their
Rustans Supermarket will also offer a Deliciously Pink menu
in Gourmet to Go outlets for a limited time. Club de Sommelier Ros
and Sparkling wines will also be highlighted in the supermarket, with
a portion of each sale donated to the foundation.

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An international affair
IN CELEBRATION of its rst anniversry, Esquire Philippines celebrated with
a grand ball attended by the whos who in the country and an international star
gracing its October cover.
Graced by estemeed guests from the government, business sector, and
showbiz, the night was opened with cocktails at the Rizal Ballroom in
Makati Shagri-la, followed by a warm welcome from this years Esquire
Ball host Edu Manzano.
The staff of Esquire Philippines including editor in chief Erwin Romulo,
Sarge Lacuesta, Raymond Gutierrez, and Erwan Heussaff were called up on
stage to share what a year it has been for the Esquire Philippines editorial team
and why every man should read Esquire.
Esquire Philippines also unveiled its October issue featuring Daniel Craig
as its rst international cover.
The
beneciary and were hoping we can do this every year, said
ICanServes chairman Nikoy de Guzman.
ICanServe advocates early breast cancer detection and she
noted that proceeds of the campaign will serve the groups agship
program, Ating Dibdibin (a.k.a. Take Your Breast Care to Heart), a
comprehensive community-based breast cancer screening program.
Real beauty
Dove stands for real beauty and we believe in the brands
mission to advocate real beauty. Beauty is all about who you are,
we believe in protecting that, said Carl Cruz, Unilevers customer
development director.
Its a great partnership. Rustans and Dove have always been
concerned with the welfare of women and empowering women.
Rustans has been serving women and the family for well over 40
years now... while Doves personal care products empower women,
making them beautiful naturally, says Yu.
To help increase awareness among its shoppers, ICanServe
booths will be set up in select Rustans Supermarket and Shopwise
branches on weekends to promote breast cancer awareness, provide
educational materials, and give shoppers a chance to support the
group through the purchase of ICanServe items.
Frances Yu (right) with Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala of ICanServe
The Dove
Pink Kit
Pink sweet treats
from Gourmet
to Go
Rustans
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By Dinna Chan Vasquez
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ENGAGING kids in sports is
one of the best tools in mold-
ing them into well-rounded
adults. This was evident during
the NCR nals of the 27
th
SBP-
Passerelle, where kids compet-
ed for the chance to win the title
of the countrys most presti-
gious inter-school competition.
Organized by The Best Cen-
ter, the Milo-sponsored SBP-
Passerelle has been providing
kids ages 9 to 11 and 12 to 14
years old a platform to show-
case their basketball skills on a
national level, as well as foster
camaraderie and sportsman-
ship among the participating
schools, players and parents.
SBP-Passerelle believes in
actively engaging the schools
through their instructors and
coaches, and most importantly,
the parents in building dis-
cipline, values and character
among its participants.
Veteran basketball coach
Binky Favis, whose son Vin-
cent Karlo played for the win-
ning De La Salle-Zobel team
during the SBP NCR nals be-
lieves that every parent should
encourage their kids to engage
in at least one sport. My wife
Ella and I insist that each of our
four children take up a sport as
it will teach them a totally dif-
ferent set of values not taught
in the classroom, says coach
Binky.
Also present to support the
games and cheer for his son
Migo is Rodney Santos who
has played for some of the big-
gest teams in the PBA. I al-
ways accompany Migo to all his
games to support and guide him.
I believe that activities like this
where kids can learn values like
teamwork and discipline should
not be relegated to their yayas.
Rodney also advises other par-
ents not to pressure their kids
to win. Just let your kids enjoy
the game. Whats important is to
teach them not to give up.
Vanni and Maricel Jugo are
also among those who saw im-
provement in their son Julian.
Julian developed discipline. He
started taking care of his body by
sleeping early and became more
focused not just in his game, but
in his studies as well, beams
Maricel. Most importantly, Ju-
lian has developed a winning at-
titude, adds Vanni.
Coach Binky, Rodney and
the Jugos admit that a good
foundation is important in their
sons success in the hardcore.
Through the Best Center clinic,
Raising champions through sports
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It also ensures that subscrib-
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other threats.
Coach Binky Favis with wife Ella and kids (from left) Bernice, Kio,
Karlo and Kit
In May, Facebook
launched Promoted Posts,
a program that allows busi-
nesses, through Facebook
Pages, to promote specic
posts to their fans. For a
fee, of course. Reports
indicate that on average,
a Page post
reaches 16 per-
cent of its au-
dience and that
the new pro-
gram increases
that percentage.
Charges vary
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as $5 to a few
thousand dollars depend-
ing on several factors,
including your geographic
location and how many
people you want to reach
according to Facebook's
Help Center.
As if that isn't enough
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the possibility that your
feed will be transformed
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wire, the website is ex-
panding the program to
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Now, you can promote
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Similar programs are
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process and simply appear
before everything else.
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Silverman sums it up by
opining that Facebook
is 'hiding' your updates
from friends, and then
turning around to say,
'Hey, if you want friends
to see your updates, you
could pay us!'
If this scheme gains
traction, Facebook will
become a mere collec-
tion of advertisements
and eventually cease to
be a social network. The
people on it are not us-
ers and friends anymore.
They are one billion
consumers who are also
one billion potential ad-
vertisers. For a free user,
what's the point of post-
ing updates when no one
will actually get to see
them anymore? What's
the point of being on the
site at all?
Facebook
WANTS US TO PAY
TO GET NOTICED
By Ed Biado
IT WAS recently announced that Facebook has reached the one-
billion-user mark, reafrming the social networking giant's posi-
tion as a leading Internet brand. But that's not the only reason that
the company is in the news lately.
Bringing Filipinos to more places here and abroad
Payroll and HR services
made easier their kids learned not only the
fundamentals of basketball, but
also the values of discipline,
teamwork, and perseverance.
The SBP Passerelle Vi-
sayas nals is scheduled at the
Iloilo Sports Complex on Oc-
tober 20-21 to be followed by
the Luzon nals on November
3 and 4 at the University of As-
sumption in Pampanga. The
Mindanao nals is slated on
November 17 and 18 in Davao
with the National Finals hap-
pening on December 1 and 2 at
Capiz Gym in Roxas City.
Now on its 27th season, the
SBPPasserelle is organized
by The Best Center and has
produced the likes of PBA
Philippine Cup finals Most
Valuable Player Larry Fona-
cier, SMART-Gilas Pilipinas
captain Chris Tiu, Powerade
Tigers all-star guard JV Ca-
sio and reigning PBA Com-
missioners Cup Finals MVP
James Yap.
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Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
Sorsogon Second District Engineering Offce
Bagacay, Gubat, Sorsogon
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
Invitation to Bid for 12FL0016 Concreting of Brgy. San
Ramon - Brgy. Butag Brgy. J. Gerona
FMR Bulan, Sorsogon
1. The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) Department of Public Works and
Highways, Sorsogon Second District Engineering Offce, Bagacay, Gubat,
Sorsogon, intends to apply the sum of (P 14,550,000.00) being the Approved
Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for 12FL0016
Concreting of Brgy. San Ramon Brgy. Butag Brgy. J. Gerona FMR,
Bulan, Sorsogon. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically
rejected at bid opening.
2. The BAC of the DPWH Sorsogon Second District Engineering Offce, Bagacay,
Gubat, Sorsogon now invites bids for Concrete paving of 1,410.71m x 0.15m x
5.0m w/ Line Canal. Completion of the Works is required within 145 C.D. Bidders
should have completed, within ten (10) years from the date of submission and
receipt of bids, a contract similar to the Project. The description of an eligible
bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II. Instruction
to Bidders.
3. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using
non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Implementing Rules and
Regulations (IRR) of Republic of Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the
Government Procurement Reform Act.
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizen/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or
organizations with at least seventy fve percent (75%) interest or outstanding
capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
4. Interested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH, Sorsogon Second
District Engineering Offce, Bagacay, Gubat, Sorsogon and inspect the Bidding
Documents at the address given below from Monday to Friday from 8:00 12:00
AM and 1:00 - 5:00 PM.
5. A completed set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders
from the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee for the Bidding
Documents in the amount of P 15,000.00.
It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine
Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the
Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents
not later that the submission of their bids.
6. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Sorsogon Second District
Engineering Offce, Bagacay, Gubat, Sorsogon will hold a Pre-Bid Conference
on October 25, 2012 at the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH,
Sorsogon Second District Engineering Offce, Bagacay, Gubat, Sorsogon which
shall be open to all interested parties.
7. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before November 6, 2012
until 10:00 AM at the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH, Sorsogon
Second District Engineering Offce, Bagacay, Gubat, Sorsogon. All bids must be
accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount
stated in ITB Clause 18.
Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose
to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted.
8.
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents From October 15 to November 6, 2012
2. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders October 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM
3. Opening of Bids November 6, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Date of Publication: October 15 21, 2012
DPWH Website
PhilGEPS
Manila Standard
9. The DPWH, Sorsogon 2
nd
DEO, Bagacay, Gubat, Sorsogon reserves the right
to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids
at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the
affected bidder or bidders.
10. For further information, please refer to:
SOCORRO EDEN D. CHAVEZ
Head, BAC Secretariat
Dept. of Public Works and Highways
Sorsogon 2
nd
District Engineering Offce
056-211-4251
socorroeden.chavez@yahoo.com
(Sgd.) ROMEO F. CIELO
Assistant District Engineer
BAC Chairman
ANNEX A
Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
CATANDUANES ENGINEERING DISTRICT
SAN ISIDRO VILLAGE, VIRAC, CATANDUANES
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
ANNEX A
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works
and Highways, Catanduanes Engineering District, invites contractors to bid for the
aforementioned projects:
Cont r ac t
I D
Cont r ac t Name Cont r ac t
Loc at i on
Sc ope
of Wor k
Appr oved
Budget
For t he
Cont r ac t
(ABC)
Cont r ac t
Dur at i on
Sour c e of Fund
& Year
Amount of Bi d
Doc ument s
12FH0019 2. REPAIR /
REHABILITATION/
IMPROVEMENT OF
SAN MIGUEL-VIGA-
BAGAMANOC ROAD
SECTION, SUMMIT,
VIGA, CATANDUANES
@KM. 35+500 TO
KM. 53+500 WITH
EXCEPTION
VIGA,
CATANDUANES
C O N C R E T E
REBLOCKI NG OF
3 , 9 8 0 . 2 5 SQ. M.
P.C.C.P. (0.23MTHK.)
AS PER PLAN AND
SPECS.(Demolition
& Disposal of Existing
Damaged PCCP,
Subgrade Prep., ABC,
PCCP(0.23mthk.)
P 9,900,000.00 55
CD
SARO-
BMB-A-12-0006924/
SR2012-06-005299
DTD 6/19/12
P 10,000.00
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised
IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected
at the opening of bid.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchase
bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with
DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative,
or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract,
(d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10
years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line
commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/
fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration
to the DPWH Central Procurement Offce (CPO) before the deadline for the receipt
of LOI. The DPWH Central Procurement Offce (CPO) will only process contractors
applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors
Certifcate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the
DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph. Interested contractors shall submit their duly
accomplished Expression of Interest statements upon presentation of their Contractor
Registration Certificate (CRC with the Contractors Information), buy Tender
Documents and drop their bids in person or through their Authorized Representative as
refected in their CRC with the Contractors Information to the Chairman, Bids & Awards
Committee (BAC), DPWH, Catanduanes Engineering District.(Please bring valid I.D.)
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents From: OCTOBER 16-NOVEMBER 8, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference OCTOBER 24, 2012
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders OCTOBER 31, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: UP TO 2:00 P.M., NOVEMBER 8, 2012
5. Opening of Bids 2:00 P.M., NOVEMBER 8, 2012
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH,
Catanduanes Engineering District, Virac, Catanduanes_, upon payment of a non-
refundable fee of (Fee for BDs). Prospective bidders may also download the BDs
from the DPWH web site, if available. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs
from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees at DPWH, Catanduanes Engineering
District, Virac, Catanduanes on or before the submission of their bids Documents.
The Pre-Bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased
the BDs. Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable
form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in
the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst
envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy
of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid.
Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in
the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The Department of Public Works and Highways, Catanduanes Engineering
District reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bid and to annul the bidding
process any time prior contract award, without incurring any liability to the affected
bidder/s.

Approved by:
(Sgd.) NOEL B. BALMADRID
Engineer III
BAC Chairman
RE-I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Rizal II District Engineering Offce
# 16 Westbank Road, Manggahan Floodway,
Brgy. Rosario, Pasig City
I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works
and Highways (DPWH), Rizal II District Engineering Offce, invites contractors to
bid for the aforementioned projects:
1. Contract ID : 12 DO 0086
Contract Name : I. Preventive Maintenance of Pililla Jct. Jalajala
Road
(K0066+000 K0066+530)
II. Preventive Maintenance of Pililla Jct. Jalajala
Road
(K0072+000 K0074+200)
III. Preventive Maintenance of Pililla Jct. Jalajala
Road
(K0075+060 K0075+1,074)
Contract Location : Pililla to Jalajala, Rizal
Scope of Works : Asphalt Overlay, Shouldering &
Pavement Markings
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P 26,184,299.53
Contract Duration : 60 Cal. Days
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised
IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected
at the opening of bid.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchase
bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with
DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative,
or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract,
(d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of
10 years, (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line
commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC and (f) Document Request List (DRL) from
Philgeps. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check
and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to
the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH-
POCW Central Offce will only process contractors applications for registration with
complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC).
Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents From October 15, 2012 to November 6, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference October 25, 2012 (10:00 a.m.)
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI
from Prospective Bidders
October 31, 2012 until 12:00 n.n.
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline: November 6, 2012 (12:00 n.n.)
5. Opening of Bids November 6, 2012 (2:00 p.m.)
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH, Rizal
II District Engineering Offce, BAC Secretariat Offce, # 16 Westbank Road,
Manggahan Floodway, Brgy. Rosario, Pasig City, upon payment of a non-refundable
fee of Twenty Five Thousand Pesos Only (P25,000.00) for Bidding Documents.
Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the DPWH web site, if available.
Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay
the said fees on or before the submission of their bids Documents. The Pre-Bid
Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BDs.
Bids must be accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as
stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in
the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst
envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy
of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid.
Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in
the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The DPWH, Rizal II District Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or
reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at any time prior to contract award, without
thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s.

(Sgd.) ELENITA C. MANUEL
Administrative Offcer III
BAC Chairman
Noted by:
(Sgd.) ERIC A. AYAPANA
OIC-District Engineer
Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
Region XI
DAVAO DEL SUR 1
ST
DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Digos City
DPWH INFRA-07 Standard Advertisement-Revised IRR
RE-I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
The Davao del Sur 1
st
District Engineering Offce, through its Bids
and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the
following contracts:
Contract ID: 12LD0046
Contract Name: Improvement of JNR Mabuhay-Mabunga-Union-
JNR Poblacion Road MMURNEC ARC
Contract Location: Bansalan, Davao del Sur
Scope of Work: Concreting of Roads 5,435.52m x 4m x 0.15m
thick With Vented Spillway/Paved Drift
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P 27,959,544.00
Contract Duration : 130 calendar days
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures
in accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and
Regulations.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent
(LOI) and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with
DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation,
cooperative, or joint venture with PCAB license applicable to the type and
cost of this contract, (c) completion of a similar contract costing at least
50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (d) Net Financial Contracting
Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment for at least 10%
of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility
check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for
registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for
the receipt of LOI. The DPWH POCW-Central Offce will only process
contractors applications for registration, with complete requirements, and
issue the Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC).
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown
below:
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders October 11, 2012 to October 25, 2012
@ 2:00 p.m.
2. Issuance of Bidding Documents October 11, 2012 October 30, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference October 18, 2012 @ 2:00 p.m.
4. Receipt of Bids October 30, 2012 @ 2:00 p.m.
5. Opening of Bids October 30,2012 @ 2:10 p.m.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as
specifed in the Bidding Documents (BDs) in two (2) separate sealed
bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst envelope shall contain the
technical component of the bid, including the eligibility requirements. The
second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid. Contract
will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined
in the bid evaluation and the post-qualifcation.
Prospective bidders may download the Registration from the DPWH
website www.dpwh.gov.ph. The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding
Documents at Davao del Sur 1
st
District Engineering Offce, Digos City,
Davao del Sur, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of P 20,000.00,
Prospective bidders that will download the Bidding Documents shall pay
the same amount upon submission of their Bids. Bids must accompanied
by a bid security in any acceptable form in the amount stated in Section
27.2 of the Revised IRR.
The Davao del Sur 1
st
District Engineering Offce, Digos City, Davao
del Sur reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bid and to annul
the bidding process anytime before Contract award, without incurring any
liability to the affected bidders.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) AMPARO M. CLAR
BAC Chairman
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Public Works and Highways
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Siquijor Engineering District
Larena, Siquijor
I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
(MST-Oct. 16, 2012)
The DPWH-Siquijor District Engineering Offce, Larena, Siquijor, through its Bids
and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the following
contract(s):

1. Contract ID: 12HM-0038
Contract Name: Preventive Maintenance of Arterial Road, Siquijor
Circumferential Road (Intermittent Sections)
at KO051+121KO052+321 and KO053+531-
KO054+000, Lazi San Juan Road Section
Contract Location: Siquijor
Scope of Work: Individual Removal of Trees, small; Removal of
Structures and Obstructions (Removal of Guardrails
and Posts and Electric Post); Surplus Common
Excavation; Foundation Fill; Pipe Culvert & Drain
Excavation; Embankment; Subgrade Preparation
(Common Material); Aggregate Base Course;
Bituminous Prime Coat (MC-Cutback Asphalt);
Bituminous Tack Coat (Emulsified Asphalt);
Bituminous Concrete Surface Course, Hot-Laid
(50mm thk); Reinforcing Steel; Structural Concrete
Class A; RCPC, 910mm; Grouted Riprap; Stone
Masonry; Facilities for the Handicapped and GAD;
Mobilization/Demobilization; Facilities for the
Engineer and Construction Safety and Health
Approved Budget for the Contact (ABC): Php 21,035,420.00
Contract Duration: 200 calendar days
Non-refundable payment for bid forms & plans: Php 20,000.00

Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in
accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) and
must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with DWPH, (b) Filipino
citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture
with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (c) completion of
a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (d)
Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment
for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the
eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration
to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the Deadline for the receipt of LOI.
The DPWH-POCW Central Offce will only process contractors applications for
registration, with complete requirements, and issue the Contractors Certifcate of
Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website
www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders October 26, 2012
2. Issuance of Bidding Documents Oct. 16 Nov. 6, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference Time and Date 10:00 A.M. October 31, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline:10:00 A.M.
November 6, 2012
5. Opening of Bids 10:00 A.M.
November 6, 2012

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH-Siquijor
District Engineering Offce, Larena, Siquijor, upon payment of a non-refundable fee
of Php 20,000.00 for Bidding Documents as stated above. Prospective bidders may
also download the BDs, if available, from the DPWH website. Prospective bidders that
will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before
the submission of their bids Documents. Bids must accompanied by a bid security,
in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in
the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst
envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include the
eligibility requirements. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component
of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as
determined in the bid evaluation and the post-qualifcation.
The DPWH-Siquijor District Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or
reject any or all bid and to annul the bidding process anytime before Contract award,
without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.

Approved by:
(Sgd.) ERMIE P. GONGOB
Engineer III
(Acting BAC-Chairman)
(MST-Oct. 11 & 16, 2012)
Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
Region IV-B, MIMAROPA
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Marinduque Engineering District
Boac, Marinduque
I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
The Bids and Awards Committee ( BAC) of the DPWH Marinduque
Engineering District Offce, Boac, Marinduque, through the SARO No.
(Special Road Support Fund) (Fund 151) invites contractors to bid
aforementioned projects.
Contract ID: 12 EA 0030
Contract Name: Repair/RebabJImprovement of MCR (S00001MO)
(Butansapa-Lamesa Section)
Contract Location: Mogpog, Marinduque
Scope of Work: Reblocking of 230 blocks including slope/erosion
protection and widening
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php 9,899,194.36
Contract Duration: 60 calendar days
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the
Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be
automatically rejected at the opening of bid.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI),
purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a)
prior registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino- owned
partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB
license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion
of a similar contract costing at least 50 % of ABC within a period of 10
years, and (e)Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC,
or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use
non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary
examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for
registration to the DPWH POCW Central Offce before the deadline for
the receipt of LOI. The DPWH Central Offce will only process contractors
applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the
Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be
downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines for procurement are shown below:
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents October 9 - 30, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference October 18, 2012 / 9:00 A.M.
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
October 26, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids October 30, 2012 / 10:00 A.M.
5. Opening of Bids October 30, 2012 / 2:00P.M.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH
Marinduque District Engineering Offce, Boac, Marinduque, upon payment
of a non-refundable fee of P 10,000.00 for (BDs).
Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the DPWH Website.
Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from DPWH Website shall
pay the said fees on or before the submission of their Bid Documents. The
Pre-Bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have
purchased the BDs. Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in the
amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed
in the BDs in two (2) separate bid envelops to the BAC Chairman. The frst
envelop shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include
the eligibility requirements. The second envelop shall contain the fnancial
component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated
Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and post qualifcation.
DPWH, Marinduque Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or reject
any or all bid and to annul the bidding process at any time before Contract
award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) ARISTEO L. LINGA
BAC Chairman
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Manila Standard TODAY
ISAH V.
RED
SIMPLY RED
R E M E M B E R
Ma g p a k a i l a n -
man on GMA7
some years ago?
Well, we thought
it had been buried
deep into the pro-
grams the network
wouldnt want
to revive? Guess
what? Its com-
ing back to your
screens soon.
GMA Network brings back
the award-winning and high-
rating drama anthology Mag-
pakailanman and Mel Tiangco
is in it again as host.
This is a concept and creation
of the GMA Entertainment TV
Group and it ran from 2002 to
2007. It has won Best Drama Se-
ries twice by the Catholic Mass
Media Awards. In its ve-year
run, the program inspired the
lives of many Filipinos and pro-
moted good family values.
Because of the growing
clamor to revive the program,
the network is happy to an-
nounce the return of Magpak-
ailanman with new elements
and more in-depth investiga-
tion and intense dramatization
of real-life inspired stories.
Apart from just narrating the
story, Mel Tiangco takes a more
participative role in shaping
stories to be more inspiring.
Tiangco, a popular news and
TV personality, is still the ideal
host of the drama anthology.
Magpakailanman returns
to the screens in November on
GMA 7.
Susan Bar nett
co-hosts
Anderson Live
Susan Bar nett will be An-
der sons co-host in the shows
Friday episode.
The former Miss Pennsyl-
vania Teen USA is no stranger
in handling hosting chores with
her experience in different
broadcasting networks.
The Oct. 19 episode of
Anderson Live will highlight
amazing stories that have been
caught on tape. The show will
feature an incredible plane
crash survivor, a mom who
dances while sleepwalking, and
a woman who falls asleep while
riding her motorcycle. Hugh
Laur ie plugs the American ro-
mantic comedy directed by Ju-
lian Far ino, The Oranges.
Anderson Live airs Monday
to Friday via Satellite at 9 p.m.
with next day replays at 1 p.m.
on TalkTVCh. 16 on SkyCa-
ble, Ch. 28 on Destiny and Ch.
21 on Cignal.
NBA pre-season
doubleheader
NBA Pre-Season action
heats up with a Tuesday double-
header. The Houston Rockets
will take on the ever-dangerous
Dallas Mavericks, while the
Washington Wizards welcome
the newly established Brooklyn
Nets.
The Houston Rockets are on
a mission to bring back the glo-
ry years, and they are looking
to take the rst step this season.
The acquisition of key play-
ers such as Jeremy Lin could
be a pleasant sign for things to
come, as they try to erase the
stigma of the last few seasons.
The Dallas Mavericks, on
the other hand, have established
a reputation of being one of the
teams to beat in the NBA. Al-
though they may have lost a
key contributor in Jason Kidd,
Rick Car lisles team anchored
by Dir k Nowitzki still have the
experience and depth to go up
against any team in the league.
It is redemption time for
Randy Wittman and the rest
of the Washington Wizards for
the upcoming season. They
are expecting a much-needed
boost with the entry of Emeka
Okafor and Trevor Ar iza that
could work greatly for team
captain John Wall.
But also looking for a fresh
start are the Brooklyn Nets,
who also nished with a lack-
luster performance last year.
But key acquisitions such as
all-star guard Joe Johnson is
expected to bring in some add-
ed repower, with the help of
team skipper Deron Williams.
The game between the
Houston Rockets and the Dal-
las Mavericks will be aired on
today at 8:30 a.m., followed by
the Washington Wizards and
Brooklyn Nets game at 11 a.m.,
live on BTV.
BTV is available on Sky Ca-
ble Ch.33 and Cignal Ch.44.
The Zombies
in concerts
THE legendary rock band The
Zombies, featuring Colin Blunstone
and Rod Ar gent, is coming over for
a series of concerts to be presented
by Steve ONeal Productions and
Redstone Productions.
Their rst concert will be held
tomorrow at the Pacic Ballroom of
Waterfront Cebu; and their second
will be at the PICC, CCP Complex
Pasay City. Tickets are available at
TicketWorld (www.ticketworld.com.
ph) and SM Tickets.
Fans of The Zombies will surely
be delighted to hear Blunstone and
Argent render the groups hit songs,
among them, I Love You, Shes
Not There, Sticks and Stones,
Cant Nobody Love You, You
Really Got a Hold, The Way I
Fell Inside, Going Out Of My
Head, I Remember When I Loved
Her, Nothings Changed, Hold
Your Head Up, I Dont Believe in
Miracles, Summertime, How
We Were Before, and Time of the
Season, among others.
An English rock band, The Zombies
was formed in 1961 in St Albans,
Hertfordshire, England, and led by Rod
Argent (piano, organ and vocals) and
Colin Blunstone (vocals). In 1964, the
group scored a UK and US hit with
Shes Not There. Two other singles,
Tell Her No and Time of the Season,
made it big in the US.
Their album Odessey and Oracle,
which contained 12 songs by the
groups principal songwriters Argent
and Chr is White, is ranked no. 80 on
Rolling Stone Magazines list of 500
Greatest Albums of All Time.
The Zombies was formed when
the members were still in school
in St Alban and gained their initial
reputation playing the Old Verulamians
Rugby Club in that city. Their choice
of name was out of desperation, and
The Zombies won out over Chatterley
and the Gamekeepers, according to
Blunstone and White. After winning a
beat-group competition sponsored by
the London Evening, they signed up
with Deccan and recorded their rst
hit, Shes Not There. Released in
mid-1964, and peaked at no. 12 in the
UK, their only UK Top 40 hit.
Like many British Invasion groups,
The Zombies was sent to the US to tour
behind their new hit single. Among
their early US gigs were Murray The
Ks Christmas shows at the Brooklyn
Theater, where the band played seven
performances a day. In 1965, the band
made their rst in-person appearance
on US television, on the rst episode of
NBCs Hullabaloo. They played Shes
Not There (and their latest single Tell
Her No) to a screaming, hysterical
audience full of teenage girls!
MOVIE lovers have something exciting to
look forward to with the launch of the new
CinemaWorld international movie channel
in the Philippines.
Two years in development, CinemaWorld
is the rst and only pan-Asia international
movie channel. Showcasing top box ofce
hits and award winning lms from around
the world, CinemaWorld will be a cinematic
treat for Philippine cable subscribers.
Offering mainstream programming
that is fresh, unique and differentiated,
CinemaWorld provides movie lovers with
exciting new movie options which they
cannot nd anywhere else.
CinemaWorld was founded and is
managed by three experienced Media and
Entertainment professionals who have a
lengthy history in the Philippine market.
Founders Quek Toi Mien and Suar ina
Chua, along with James Mar tur ano,
were long time colleagues at HBO Asia
and manage the new channel. Each brings
over 20 years of experience in the pay
television industry to the project, as well
as a passion for movies.
We are excited to bring CinemaWorld
to the Philippines, notes James Marturano.
We believe the channel will offer cable
subscribers an exciting new viewing
option to what is currently available in the
marketplace. It will tap into Filipinos love
for movies, community, and even travel.
CinemaWorld spans the globe, with
movies from Europe, Latin America,
Australia, Asia, South Asia, North America
and the Middle East. The channel truly has
something for every movie acionado. A
whole new world of entertainment beyond
Hollywood
All movies on CinemaWorld will be
shown in their original language, with
English subtitles and (most movies)
have release dates from 2005 to present.
CinemaWorld is commercial-free and
available in High Denition. Movies are
exclusive to CinemaWorld and will enjoy
their Asian pay television premier on the
channel.
Weekends will have a thematic focus.
Thriller Fridays at 11 p.m. will showcase
movies that will have you on the edge of
your seat; Saturday Festival Picks at 9
p.m. will highlight the best selections from
international lm festivals; and Sunday
See The World at 9 p.m. offers something
unique from around the world.
October movie highlights include: The
Woman Of My Life, a 2010 Italian Romantic
Comedy starring Luca Ar gentero (Eat
Pray Love), ever-rising star in Italian
cinema; The Matchmakers, a 2010 Israeli
Drama chosen as Best Picture at the Israeli
Academy Awards; Blackthorn, a 2011
US/Spanish Action/Thriller winning four
Goya Awards in Spain; and, Men In The
City, a 2010 German blockbuster Comedy,
starring German megastar Til Schweiger
(Inglorious Bastards, This Means War).
CinemaWorld will be available in Metro
Manila this month on Cable Link, and later
on, the HD Movie Package of SkyCable.
SM Cinema to screen
5CinExclusives
ONLY ve lms will be shown at SM this October. These
include two action-packed lms End of Watch is now
showing and the martial arts lm
Just in time for the coming Halloween season, there will
also be thrills and chills with the horror lms VHS and The
Apparition, which will hit the big screen today and Oct. 17
and 24, respectively. Kids, on the other hand, will love the
heartwarming animation lm Frankenweenie, which will
be released in 3D and Imax 3D.
These CinExclusives also come with exclusive discounts.
SM Cinemas e-PLUS cardholders can enjoy 50 percent
discount on tickets. SM Advantage Card, Prestige Card,
BDO Rewards Card and Global Pinoy Card holders will
be given 20 percent off on tickets for these CinExclusive
movies except for Frankenweenie.
End of Watch stars Academy Award nominee J ake
Gyllenhaal and Michael Pea as young Los Angeles police
ofcers Taylor and Zavala, who patrol the citys meanest
streets in South Central Los Angeles. The lm creates a
riveting portrait of the citys most dangerous corners, the
cops who risk their lives there every day, and the price they
and their families are forced to pay.
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate picks up three years after
the disappearance of the enigmatic innkeeper Jade and the
massive re that consumed the Inn. A new Dragon Inn
has risen from the ashes, staffed by a band of marauders.
Masquerading as law-abiding citizens by day, they use
the cover of night to continue their true calling as fortune
hunters. Now, Ming Dynasty general Chow Wai-On (J et
Li) clashes with nefarious eunuch Yu Hua-Tian (Chen
Kun), but the real action begins when the feuding pair
encounters Lin Yan-Qiu (Zhou Xun) at a secluded desert
outpost known as the Dragon Gate Inn.
Frankeenweenie is the heartwarming tale of a boy and
his dog. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky,
young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his
best friend back to lifewith just a few minor adjustments.
He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky
gets out, Victors fellow students, teachers and the entire
town all learn that getting a new leash on life can be
monstrous.
VHS, a group of criminals scour a secluded country
home for a mysterious videotape, and bear witness to
scenes of unimaginable terror in this found-footage-style
anthology horror lm. It seemed like a simple job; all they
needed to do was enter the home, nd the videotape, and
deliver it to their boss. But from the moment they arrive,
thing become sinister. Gaining access to the house, the
young thugs discover a rotting corpse amidst a collection
of vintage television sets, and stockpiles of VHS tapes.
Somewhere amidst the stacks is the tape they seek, but
with each new video they watch, the dread continues to
build. The sights that they witness are too horrible for
words, but the greatest shock is yet to come.
The Apparition. When frightening events start to occur
in their home, young couple Kelly (Ashley Gr eene) and
Ben (Sebastian Stan) discover they are being haunted by a
presence that was accidentally conjured during a university
parapsychology experiment. The horrifying apparition
feeds on their fear and torments them no matter where they
try to run. Their last hope is an expert in the supernatural
(Tom Felton), but even with his help they may already be
too late to save themselves from this terrifying force.
Magpakailanman
makes a comeback
Doctor Awards
Who were at the recent Doctor Awards?
Dr. Maur ice Navar ro, Jer r ick Navar ro, Salvador De
Ver a, Dr. Jose Navar ro Jr ., were there along with (from
left) Kather ine Mallabo, Nor mitas Cor ado, Dr. Ves
Ramones, Santiago, Isabela Mayor Amelita Navar ro,
Vicky Navar ro, Shar lene Reyes, Dr. Bonaleth De Ver a,
Anastacia Cacacho, and Michele Nazareno.
The were all at the Alyangsang Kabalikat ng mga
Manggamot sa Pilipinas Foundation, Inc (AKMAPIF)s
induction and launching of its DOCTOR awards
2012 at the Centennial Hall of Manila Hotel recently.
(Photo by Mandy Navasero)
Welcome world into your home
PHOTO OP
Mel Tiangcos Magpakailanman returns to TV this November